Xuanhuan: Step Aside, Youngsters. Leave It to This Old Man

Born into a chaotic age, I studied the classics, but war laid low the way of Heaven. I wandered the rivers and lakes, blown about like duckweed, my fate adrift and empty as the sky. In this mortal world, I lament its splendor; across the Nine Provinces, I mourn the dragon's path. Who knows the dreams I've carried all my life? I laugh for all living beings, a fool in my own eyes.

What's worth the least in a chaotic age? Human life! Lives are as worthless as weeds, and famine across the land breeds all manner of ghosts, monsters, and demons.

Others start cultivating as early as they can, but this old man only gets his golden finger on his deathbed at the age of eighty...

"Reverse Disk, I've taken a fancy to a young maiden. Turn back the years for me. I want to feel young and wild again!"

A prodigy cries, "How dare you, demon! Scaring an elderly man in broad daylight!" The old man behind him pats the prodigy on the shoulder. "Young man, step aside. Let this old man handle it!"

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