Five years ago, he was hailed as a demon in the imperial capital. Five years later, he re-emerged in a small town, mastered the six-character magic tactics, opened his supreme war spirit, stepped on the road to the heaven, and became the god of war.
A secret agent from the nobility, he meets her for the first time in the cool canopy of a rain forest. Why does she remind him of someone he used to work with? She’s working multiple jobs to keep her sister by her side and out of foster care. Yet she can’t keep the memory of his eyes from invading her ordinary life. Together, they fight their growing attraction as circumstances around them become more dangerous. Are they willing to die for each other?
Long Chen, a crippled youth who cannot cultivate, is constantly targeted and bullied by his fellow noble heirs. After a particularly vicious beating, he wakes up and realizes a Pill Sovereign's soul has somehow merged with him, giving him some additional memories. Within those memories is the mysterious Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, a cultivation technique that even he can train in, but whose secrets and origin are still a mystery to him. Relying on his improved instincts as he finally begins to cultivate, he realizes a huge conspiracy is underfoot within the Phoenix Cry Empire; a conspiracy involving his father, members of the imperial family, and even the Emperor himself. In order to solve the mysteries around him, he must rely on his new alchemy techniques and the powerful but baffling Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. Countless enemies block him as he attempts to climb to the peak of the cultivation world. Fate destined him to be only a chess piece, but he would not bow to the will of the Heavens.