I Avoid Bad Luck and Follow the Auspicious Path to Immortality

Ling Lin, hailing from a collateral branch of the Ling Family, believed that entering the main lineage would make his cultivation journey smoother, as he was regarded as the number one genius of his branch. A grave miscalculation. Within the Ling Clan of the capital, his talent was nothing compared to the true prodigies. Fortunately, he obtained a mysterious talisman—one capable of revealing three possible paths in situations governed by cause and effect. At the beginning, after accepting an escort mission to deliver goods to a lower-tier city, he received his first karmic revelation: 【Extremely Fatal Path: Follow the original route and be ambushed and killed by bandits, who were tipped off about the cargo by a mysterious hooded man.】 【Path of Cause and Effect: Change the route and arrive safely at Purple Feather City. In return, you will be targeted by the mysterious man for foiling his plan. At present, he can kill you with a single strike.】 【Auspicious Path Without Danger: Abandon the escort mission, leave it to the next unfortunate soul, and accept the task of hunting blue beetles in the Dragonfang Mountains. Among them is a yellow beetle—consuming it can cleanse your marrow.】 “I choose the third!” This was the only viable option for Ling Lin. As the world churned with conspiracies, killings, battles, the fall of powers, and the rise of new overlords, Ling Lin quietly embarked on an auspicious path toward immortality—watching the world’s bloody turmoil from the sidelines. But could he truly remain hidden for long? And what if those conspiracies began to affect him directly? The answer was simple: Eliminate any variable that threatens his path…