The rogue cultivator Brian Carter unexpectedly reincarnated fifty years into the past, and to his surprise, discovered that he could foresee the opportunities others were about to obtain—and seize them for himself.

Heaven’s secrets are elusive. In his previous life, Brian Carter suffered a miserable existence due to his lack of fortune, but in this life, he can endlessly plunder all kinds of heavenly opportunities.

You possess astonishing luck, able to pick up treasures left behind by battling cultivators just by walking down the street, but Brian Carter can foresee it in advance!

You have heaven-defying fortune, easily obtaining incredible treasures that will let you soar to the top, but as long as Brian Carter kills you ahead of time, he can seize them for himself!

Chapter 1: The Last Glance

"Whoosh~"

In a campus piled high with snow, groups of students laughed as they passed through the stairwells. At the wash area between the first and second floors, a tall figure braced both hands on the edge of the sink, head under the faucet, letting the rushing warm water repeatedly wash over his long hair, which hung down to his ears. Droplets splashed messily onto his neck and sweater.

A full minute passed, the figure remaining motionless in silent stillness, until a sudden slap landed on his right shoulder, accompanied by a loud laugh. Only then did the figure wave his hand backward in response.

"I'm heading off, then."

With the laughter came the sound of footsteps leaving, but the figure leaning over the sink remained in the same posture, unmoving. Several minutes later, as water streamed down his neck and soaked into his clothes, he finally pulled his head back from under the faucet, pushing aside the wet hair hanging over his nose to reveal a pair of reddened eyes.

Tears mingled with tap water flowed quietly. Brian Carter took a deep breath, then slowly lowered his head, bracing himself on the edge of the sink, closed his eyes, and softly murmured, "Thank you."

This word of thanks was spoken in a gentle tone only he could hear, because only he knew that the one he was thanking might not even exist.

He never imagined that at the very end of his life, everything could start over again.

Even with his composure, it took him half a day in a daze to be sure that not only had he not died, but he had bizarrely returned to fifty years ago.

Fifty years ago—youth in full bloom.

He was not yet a humble, anxious rogue cultivator of the Spirit Domain, but the proud young master of the Guo family.

Fifty years ago, his dignified and steady father was still alive, and his doting, loving mother was also well.

Lost in thought, a cell phone ringtone suddenly rang from Brian Carter's body. After casually wiping his hands on his sweater and pulling the phone from his pocket, a strange emotion flashed in his eyes—this phone was a very old model of smartphone.

Of course, only in Brian Carter's eyes could it be called old. In reality, this phone was the most popular model at the time, and in fact, the most popular phone in the world. It had only been released domestically at the end of last year, and to be able to use it in this small inland county high school was truly ahead of the trend, not to mention that this was just a remote, underdeveloped county.

And this phone was a gift from Brian Carter's mother for his eighteenth birthday before the Spring Festival.

In his previous life, even after he left the mundane world to enter the Spirit Domain and embark on the long road of pursuing the Dao, he still kept this phone carefully by his side.

Because it was the last gift his mother ever gave him.

In his memory, his father, who was the county party secretary of Yanhe County, would be promoted to deputy mayor of Mingchuan City a few months later. That period also happened to be when Brian Carter failed his college entrance exam. His father's promotion brought much joy to the family, but unfortunately, while his parents were rushing to the city, they encountered a torrential rainstorm. A truck crossing the bridge, its driver exhausted, was still speeding in the rain. When the tires suddenly slipped, the driver didn't even have time to brake before crashing into his parents' car, breaking through the guardrail, and plunging into the river...

From that day on, Brian Carter was taken in by his grandfather, but he began to give up on himself, living in decadence, until his grandfather, angered, finally kicked him out of the house.

However, he never lacked living expenses. Every month, someone would deposit several thousand yuan into his account. It wasn't enough to squander, but it was enough to keep him fed and clothed, muddling through a few years, until his grandfather passed away from illness. Then, a few years later, his uncle, who was then the executive vice governor of a southern province, was also brought down and imprisoned by political enemies, and the Guo family finally collapsed.

But after the Guo family fell, Brian Carter instead encountered his own opportunity. He happened to meet a cultivator who had escaped from the Spirit Domain, gravely injured and on the verge of death, and inherited a legacy for nothing—cultivation techniques, spiritual artifacts, and, from the cultivator's mouth, knowledge of a vast and magnificent world of immortals and gods.

Unfortunately, the cultivator died too quickly. Though he left behind many things, Brian Carter had no way to start. To decipher the ancient script in those manuals, he spent months researching, and then it took him five whole years to finally understand an introductory cultivation manual and learn how to cultivate. During those five years, he gave up countless times, tried countless times, and by the end, had almost completely lost faith in himself before he finally stumbled into the path.

Cultivation after entry was no easier.

It took him four years just to progress from entry-level to the peak of the Spirit Gathering early stage.

Cultivators draw the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into their bodies to defy fate and change their destiny. The first step is Spirit Gathering, which is divided into four stages: early, middle, late, and great perfection.