Lu Zhou’s first problem is simple.
He has no idea why everyone wants his head.
The second problem is even worse.
The body he wakes up in belongs to Ji Tiandao, the Patriarch of Golden Court Mountain and a name that has spent centuries making enemies across the cultivation world. Wherever Lu Zhou looks, people seem convinced that the old patriarch is capable of anything. Some fear him, some hate him, and quite a few appear to be waiting for an opportunity to settle old accounts.
Unfortunately, Lu Zhou inherits this identity at a particularly inconvenient time.
The once-famous patriarch is no longer in his prime, Golden Court Mountain is attracting unwanted attention from every direction, and even the disciples raised under Ji Tiandao’s banner have become difficult to understand. Most of them left the mountain long ago, building their own reputations and gathering influence throughout the world. Some rarely return, some avoid their master altogether, and some still carry complicated feelings about the past.
That would already be enough trouble for one person.
The problem is that everyone expects Lu Zhou to behave exactly like the real Ji Tiandao.
Disciples who have spent years under the old patriarch’s guidance know his habits. Rivals remember his temperament. Allies, if any still exist, have their own expectations as well. A single careless mistake could leave people wondering why their notorious master suddenly feels like a completely different person.
For someone who knows nothing about cultivation, pretending becomes a daily challenge.
At the same time, Lu Zhou discovers that he is not entirely without help. An unusual system follows him into this world, offering a way to gradually recover what the old patriarch once possessed. The process is far from effortless, but it gives him something he desperately needs: time.
Time to understand his disciples.
Time to understand his enemies.
And, perhaps most importantly, time to figure out what kind of person Ji Tiandao really was before everyone else reaches their own conclusions first.
