Reborn as a Cannon Fodder, I Win the Emperor's Heart with Cunning

Ye Junxin, a master of both modern strategy and the way of alchemy, had just figured out the mechanisms in an ancient tomb when her teammates betrayed her. When she opened her eyes, she had become a cannon-fodder legitimate daughter in the Xuanling Continent: her spiritual root was useless, her family despised her, and she was made the scapegoat for her cousin's stolen wedding before being thrown off a cliff.

But who could have guessed that everything would change when she woke up? Her useless spiritual root instantly became a Chaos Spiritual Root, her portable space held a thousand-year-old medicinal garden, and an ancient beast-taming legacy unlocked! She fed a drop of her blood to a stray fox, turning it into a mind-reading nine-tailed mystic fox. She hatched a broken egg, and out came a young Golden Crow that could command thunder and fire. She saved a little snake, only to discover it was an ancient Azure Dragon capable of summoning wind and rain.

Her alchemy was even more outrageous: she used seventh-grade pills, the kind others fought desperately to obtain, as practice; she gave the marrow-cleansing pills that sects couldn't get their hands on to divine beasts as snacks; and she could even mass-produce Fate-Reversing Pills that changed one's destiny.

And her strategy? When her family plotted against her, she made her cousin a laughingstock in return. When the sect suppressed her, she sat back and watched her enemies tear each other apart, then reaped the rewards. She had only wanted to keep a low profile and focus on her work, but she caught the attention of Long Yeheng, the Heavenly Derivation Venerable. His looks could outshine the sun and moon, and he could shatter mountains and rivers with a wave of his hand, yet he took a special interest in her: when she dealt with scoundrels, he handed her the knife; when she needed materials, he emptied his treasury for her. He even grinned like a lovesick fool watching her bicker with the divine beasts.

Ye Junxin eyed him warily. “What are you after?”

Long Yeheng twirled a strand of her hair and smiled. “For a thousand years, this emperor has been waiting for you to guard the realm with me.”

From then on, she journeyed with divine beasts, refined divine pills, and wielded her wits. Doted on by the Venerable, she turned the tables on her enemies all the way to the top, becoming the greatest Pill God Empress in the Xuanling Continent!