The Game of Fate

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.