The System Appeared Only When I Was Nearly Two Hundred and About to Die in Seclusion

I used to be a fat couch potato on Blue Star.

I loved reading cultivation fantasy novels and dreamed every day that if I could cultivate immortality, I would surely make a name for myself. Heaven granted my wish and sent me to the Tianfan Continent, to Nanhua Province. I was born there, into a branch of a cultivation family. When I turned eighteen, convinced that my fate was mine to command, not Heaven's, I resolutely left my family with a cultivation manual. I was sure my talent would let me become an immortal, but fate had other plans. By the time I reached a hundred, I had only barely made it to the second level of Foundation Establishment. Knowing I had no hope of breaking through to the Golden Core realm, I married and had children, settling on a small island. Over the next decade or two, I traveled around, taking in orphans and girls with cultivation potential. Today, I am two hundred years old. Foundation Establishment cultivators only live a little over two centuries, and as I was about to pass away, the System awakened, even though it should have awakened when I turned eighteen. In that moment, I understood: my fate is mine to command, not Heaven's.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.