A thousand years ago, the Ghost Clan was sealed beyond the Three Realms by the cultivators of Jiuzhou, and the Demon Clan vanished soon after. Over the next millennium, the Daoist sects, the Nether Sect, the Radiant Demon Sect, and the Buddhist Sect rose and fell across Jiuzhou. Each pursued ascension through its own path of cultivation. Their entanglements never ceased, and their fortunes waxed and waned. A thousand years later, the Heavenly Dao Sect's “debate on the Dao” in the Purple Bamboo Grove took in two young men. Was that fortune, or misfortune? Would they defy the righteous path of the Nine Heavens, or save all living beings?
The Daoist sects of Jiuzhou have endured for a thousand years. Will they reach their peak, or face decline?
“Luo Ye, if this is a game of chess, then you and I are both pieces. I want to leap off the board, but this world itself is the chessboard.” Beneath Misty Peak, beside the Ink-Scent Pool, they seek only to share life and death...
