Nangong Feiyu was born without meridians and branded a good-for-nothing. His entire clan was reduced to a wager in the grand game for supremacy, then wiped out in a single day.
At the execution ground, he awakened the power to devour all things, a gray thread. A remnant soul from ancient times spoke a shocking secret from within a jade token: the Nine Cauldrons were shackles, and humanity was a flock of lambs kept in a pen.
He swore to overturn the board, not as a piece, but as the one who moves the pieces.
"Even a chess piece can overturn the board. In the end, we alone will master our own fate."
