The Celestial Game of Ruins

The Heavenly Dao sets the order, and all living beings are imprisoned. In the Mortal Ruins, talent and fortune are bestowed by Heaven. Countless cultivators struggle and drift within an unseen game of chess. Xiao Ji, born with severed meridians, is an outcast rejected by heaven and earth. Spiritual energy dissipates at his touch, and he is judged to have no hope of ever attaining the Great Dao. Yet he alone can glimpse the hidden remnants of Dao patterns woven through the world. Struggling to survive at the bottom of the Mortal Ruins, he uses the breath of strange beasts and the blind spots in spiritual energy to search for a counterpath no one else has ever trodden. From a desolate village, he ventures into the perilous wilderness of the Central Continent and becomes embroiled in the turbulent power struggles of the nine great sects, facing one formidable fated enemy after another, each peerless in both intellect and martial prowess. Countless deadly crises await him, every step a carefully laid trap. He crosses ancient secret realms and investigates the age-old mysteries left behind by the Primordial Era. With a body as insignificant as an ant’s, he embarks on a long and solitary journey against the order of heaven and earth that encompasses all creation.