This was a timeline breakdown and detailed analysis of roughly 6,000 Chinese characters (yes, the analysis alone ran to three chapters).
I originally wanted to arrange it by year, but halfway through, I realized years would not work, so I could only use numbered entries. I hoped this would clear things up for readers who had not quite untangled everything.
1. Around 250 BCE, Xu Fu became Guiguzi's disciple and received the "Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula." This formula could allow its caster to alter portions of history, but the caster would become "Time."
The formula stated that anyone affected by it was called a "Supreme Pivot," and anyone whose existence was affected by a Supreme Pivot was also called a "Supreme Pivot." This sentence had a profound influence on the protagonist's later plan.
2. In 219 BCE, Xu Fu led a group of young boys and girls east across the sea in search of the Elixir of Immortality, but found nothing.
He had intended to give up, but a letter from the First Emperor changed his mind. In the end, he decided to fully comprehend the "Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula" and grant the First Emperor eternal life. Unfortunately, as a mere mortal, he could never perform the secret art within the formula, so he could only entrust the task to the boys and girls.
3. Among those boys and girls, the "Shiranui" branch eventually understood what the formula described. However, they considered its drawbacks too severe and therefore never used it, merely passing it down through the generations.
In one generation, a genius emerged in the Shiranui Household. He created the "Thread-Cutting Art" based on the "Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula." Unfortunately, when he researched the "Thread-Cutting Art," "Time" did not yet exist in the world, so the art was useless as well. Still,