Shen Yan, a young man with awakened chaotic spiritual roots, sneaked into Black Stone Stronghold alone to find Su Qinghe, a genius of the Talisman Sect. Before his eyes was actually a scam demon den disguised in cultivating immortality outerwear: talisman rebate, investment scam, loving-kindness killing game, evil cultivators cast wide fishing nets in the name of the sect, draining cultivators of their spiritual roots and refining them into evil talismans. He lay low to break the game, consecutively smashing spiritual treasuries and killing the third stronghold leader with his own hands, yet unearthing a heaven-shaking dark secret: behind the Eighteen Strongholds Alliance hid the mysterious master born of a righteous path major sect. The inner ghost hid in a famous family, and the inescapable net had already been cast. When the mysterious character token gleamed with cold light, in this righteous and evil extermination, who was the prey, and who was truly the chess player?