The Brothel Alchemy Emperor

The male lead was abandoned at a brothel as a child and raised by its women. Mischievous and clever, he became obsessed with alchemy because he wanted the women to live forever and keep their youthful beauty. But he had no aptitude for cultivation, so he could not practice it and had to improve his cultivation through pills instead. To protect himself, he also learned a great deal of mechanismcraft, making all sorts of underhanded traps that helped him escape danger time and again.

All of the protagonist’s alchemy and mechanismcraft came from the brothel women: they begged their clients for manuals, stole them, or learned from items the clients left as collateral.

By accident, he practiced the “Wedding Dress Divine Art” incorrectly and turned himself into a “wedding dress.” He could retain only a tenth of the medicinal power from each pill he took, but through dual cultivation, he could amplify that power a hundredfold and pass it on to his partner.

The brothel had once belonged to the Hehuan Sect, but after the sect was wiped out by its rivals, the protagonist left the brothel and began his legendary path of cultivation.