The Cautious Path to Immortality: I Secretly Changed the Past

[You were born into the Ji family of Dayan Valley.]

[Your mother died when you were young, and your father, a live-in son-in-law, was driven out.]

[At age 12, a talisman master surnamed Ming visited Dayan Valley, hoping to take you as his apprentice.]

[With the Ji family’s power looming over you, you politely declined Master Ming’s offer.]

[At age 13, you began learning to make talismans from Ji Hong, a talisman master.]

[Master Ji Hong was hostile toward you at every turn. He never taught you how to draw talismans, treating you like a beast of burden and making you handle odd jobs around the talisman academy.]

[At age 16, the clan’s talisman examination is only seven days away. You haven’t even touched a talisman brush, yet Ji Hong has submitted your name without asking you.]

…

Looking at the record of his life in the Book of Heaven,

the boy picked up the Brush of Karma and rewrote the past.

[At age 12, a talisman master surnamed Ming visited Dayan Valley, hoping to take you as his apprentice.]

[Knowing you were unwelcome in the Ji family, you decisively chose to become Master Ming’s apprentice.]

With a single stroke, everything that followed gradually faded away.

Then the Book of Heaven began simulating the altered course of events.

[Your actions infuriate countless members of the Ji family. An elder declares that you will be expelled from the clan for good.]

[You have made up your mind. No matter how the Ji family threatens or intimidates you, you resolutely leave with Master Ming.]

[At age 13, after a year of learning talisman craft from Master Ming, you become a first-tier, lower-grade talisman master.]

[At age 16, after taking a Breakthrough Pill, you successfully reach the fourth level of Qi Refining.]

[Simulation complete.]

[Choose one of the following options to make reality.]

[1: First-tier, lower-grade talisman master cultivation.]

[2: Fourth-level Qi Refining cultivation.]

…

Ji Cheng: “Wait, I’ve become a talisman master just like that?”