[Cultivation + time reversal + causal mystery + future self]
Gu Chen was just a copyist at the Heavenly Dao Pavilion.
One day, the Heavenly Dao Pavilion collapsed. The mountain gate was gone, the archives were gone, and his colleagues, along with everyone who had ever known the pavilion, had forgotten that it had existed.
Gu Chen, too, began to forget who he was.
Guided by a fragment of a damaged fate, he found the ancient immortal artifact left behind by the Heavenly Dao Pavilion: the Candle Dragon Shuttle. It could send him back in time to repair the fates that had been tampered with.
The price was that each use cost him some of his memories.
The struggle over the Dao began ahead of schedule, secret realms changed hands, and the war between the righteous and demonic factions raged on for a hundred years... Gu Chen traveled back to several pivotal moments in the cultivation world, saving people who were supposed to die, and gradually discovered that this calamity was not meant to destroy the world.
The one behind it all was none other than his future self.
That Gu Chen, who had witnessed the apocalypse with his own eyes, wanted to remake the Heavenly Dao into one without war or suffering.
But in that perfect fate, everyone’s choices, sacrifices, and memories would disappear along with it.
What, exactly, was Gu Chen trying to repair: the Heavenly Dao, or this imperfect human world?
OK [what]