The Fate of the Rotten Persimmon Tree

Leaves fall beside the ruined Go board, An old tree stands between two players, but no one is there. A move at the center, played on a whim, And when I look back, mountains and seas stretch into the distance... When Ji Yuan woke up, he had become a half-blind beggar in a dilapidated mountain god temple. A sword in the hands of a true cultivator, a silver tongue in the hands of a charlatan: these were Ji Yuan's only means of making a living in this terrifying world.