Only by enduring and entering the game, calculating every gain and loss, can one fight for a sliver of hope for immortality in a muddy, dead-end world.
Everyone laughs at him for being cowardly and craven, willing to endure humiliation. No one knows that the moment the young man bowed his head, he had already laid out the entire game.
Lin Yan's Dao heart is supremely rational. He plans every step and leaves no detail unattended.
When he allies with others, he weighs the benefits first and builds genuine trust afterward.
When he breaks a deadlock, he calculates the risks first and leaves himself a way out.
In dealing with people, he keeps a warm heart and firm principles, but never trusts anyone blindly.
Factional struggles within sects, powerful outsiders vying for supremacy, and mighty figures of the immortal path maneuvering against one another: every step is a deadly trap. Countless cultivators are ensnared by grudges, obsessions, and greed. Lin Yan alone makes strategy his Dao and calculation the foundation of his life. From a lowly pawn at the mercy of others, he turns the tables step by step, rises to the top, and shakes the entire immortal world.
But as he advances toward the peak of immortality, a secret buried for a thousand years is suddenly revealed:
The System that has accompanied him all this time was never salvation. It was the culmination of a wager laid a thousand years ago, waiting to seize his perfect Dao fruit.
People cultivate immortality by giving up their humanity for eternal life.
Lin Yan alone holds fast to his true self and guards the warmth within him, using a single game of strategy to suppress the boundless pursuit of immortality.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.