Lord of the Myriad-Flame Cauldron

**Introduction to The Venerable Lord of Ten Thousand Flames**

Chen Mo, an outer disciple of the Medicine King Sect, is crippled at controlling fire because his bloodline is sealed, and suffers constant humiliation at the hands of the Situ family's main branch. During an accident that blows up a furnace, his ancestral bronze thumb ring unexpectedly awakens. Its surging Heaven-Burning Strange Flame refines a batch of scrap pills into divine-grade pills, and an ancient, secret manual of artifact forging is engraved in his sea of consciousness. From then on, the boy mocked as a "kitchen genius" uses his left hand to refine pills and summon nine phoenixes paying homage, while his right hand forges artifacts and draws heavenly tribulations to temper his body. Amid furnace explosions and his rise to power, he blasts open a path to immortality.

On the run, he picks up two "troublemakers": the greedy, cowardly, round-faced chubby Qi Xiaopang, who can block blades with an iron wok and bind immortals with his belt, and whose roast chicken drumsticks conceal the Chen family's lost forging techniques; and the sharp-tongued, money-loving ice-cold doctor immortal Su Jiuli, whose silver needles can save lives or seal throats, and whose medicine gourd holds three hundred sleeping mechanical bees. From scheming against each other to entrusting their lives to one another, the trio turns the black-market auction upside down and razes an ancient artifact tomb. But they gradually uncover a shocking conspiracy: for a hundred years, the Situ family has slaughtered the Chen bloodline to suppress the Fallen Immortal sealed inside the Shennong Cauldron!

When Chen Mo melts down the nine great Strange Flames and takes control of the Heaven-Burning Cauldron once more, he discovers his mother's soul weeping blood inside it. The good-for-nothing of old now strides across the heavens with a cauldron in hand, followed by a chubby guy challenging the world with a wok and a doctor immortal commanding bees to smash through enemy ranks. Facing an army of a million cultivators, the head of the Situ family grins viciously and reveals his final trump card: "You thought the Shennong Cauldron was a magical artifact? It's a soul-devouring coffin, meant to sacrifice the entire Chen clan alive!"

(The novel focuses on "technical cultivation": pill refining incorporates chemical purification, artifact forging applies the laws of physics, and scientific thinking is used to solve the dilemmas of the immortal-heroic world. The trio's everyday spell battles are a mix of laughter and tears, and the face-slapping scenes come with their own...