Zhang Xiaoshi is a low-ranking outer sect disciple in a cultivation world, cursed with terrible aptitude and treated with contempt by everyone. By chance, he transmigrates with a similarly damaged "alchemy furnace." He discovers that although this world has no spiritual energy, Chinese medicine, chemical compounds, and even all kinds of industrial additives can produce pills with similar, albeit bizarre, effects when processed by the furnace. His main goal is to use this oddball alchemy furnace to develop products with strange effects in a modern city, such as a powerful hair-growth tonic, gum that instantly clears your head, and slimming herbal tea. Starting with a street stall, he solves his problems of survival and eventually builds a revolutionary "life technology" company. Along the way, he also searches for a way to repair the furnace and himself, redefining what it means to be "powerful" and to have "value."
