The game world “Hongyuan Continent” had just gone live in the real world when an unknown error forcibly logged out all players.

But Shen Yan suddenly realized that his body hadn’t fully returned—his right hand had been left behind in Hongyuan Continent. What’s more, his game interface hadn’t shut down. He was still getting system prompts for killing monsters and receiving loot. Thanks to this, his strength kept increasing.

As it turns out, someone picked up his right hand—and was using it to grind monsters!

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My name is Gu Qingli. I’m a demon cultivator, determined to become a powerful and feared Demon Lady.

Unfortunately, I lost my cultivation—and my right arm. Stranded in a foreign land, I happened to come across a severed right arm. To my surprise, it was completely compatible with my body, so I temporarily used it as a prosthetic.

But then I discovered that this arm seemed to have a mind of its own. Sometimes it acted out of line, and it was even… growing stronger on its own.

I began to feel strange emotions toward it—maybe because I’d started to depend on its power…

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 God’s soul has somehow merged with him, giving him additional memories. Among those memories is the mysterious “Nine Star Hegemon Body Art”, a cultivation technique even he can train in, but its 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, one involving his father, the 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.

His destined fate was to only be a chess piece, but he will not bow to the will of the Heavens.