The Path of Pillfire, Questioning Heaven

The Path of the Pill: A Question for Heaven, Pillfire Burns the Sky, and Ants Defy the Dao!

His spiritual roots are impure, and the path to immortality is closed. Lin Feng is a freelance herb gatherer in the Blackwind Mountains. On the edge of life and death, he awakens the ability to See the Finest Details, perhaps through a fragment of a damaged ancient mirror. It is no direct road to transcendent power, but it lets him discern the subtlest mysteries of alchemy and magic, revealing the truth in the fundamentals.

In a brutal world where resources are scarce and monopolized by powerful factions, Lin Feng's mastery of the fundamentals lets him refine low-grade pills of extraordinary quality, drawing the attention of Chen Xuanqing, an eccentric elder of the Hundred Herbs Sect. But fortune and misfortune go hand in hand! The secret technique Chen guards, which improves basic pill recipes and could overturn the entire alchemy world, crosses the powerful Zhao family's line, along with that of its prodigy, Zhao Wuya! His mentor is slain, his sect is brought down, and Lin Feng flees for his life, bearing both a blood feud and a legacy.

The Fallen Star Plains are perilous, and the Silent Abyssal Sea is full of strange dangers. Alongside his close friend Su Wanqing and companion Shi Jian, Lin Feng seeks the truth in desperate circumstances, only to uncover a shocking conspiracy behind the ancient Calamity of the Fallen Pills: a catastrophe deliberately engineered to destroy the very foundation of alchemy! The Zhao family are descendants of the culprits! Chen's secret technique is the key to restoring that foundation.

When Lin Feng emerges with improved pill recipes from The First Principles of Origin Spirit, he kindles hope among the lowly cultivators, but also incites the furious slaughter of those whose interests are threatened! In Tianyong City, the trap is already sprung. Using his own body as a furnace, Lin Feng stirs the faint source of alchemy within himself and draws on the ancient mirror's remaining power. Against the towering monopolists, he unleashes the fiercest fury of a mortal ant, one that would burn the heavens!

The path of alchemy begins in the lowliest places, then blazes through the nine heavens. With one pill and one flame, he swears to burn through this rigid sky! And in the land of origin pointed to by the ancient mirror, an even greater secret of the primordial world awaits beyond the sea of clouds.