An Ordinary Man's Bones, a Pill-Maker's Heart: The Tale of Lin Fan

[Mortal’s Journey] [Alchemy] [Body Tempering] [No System] Lin Fan, an orphan from Luoshi Village on the border, has a low-grade aptitude with a mixed five-element spirit root and an innate deficiency of blood and qi. His parents were killed by rogue cultivators while fighting over low-grade spirit medicine, leaving him to scrape by through hunting and gathering herbs. When he is attacked on Blackwind Slope and left on the brink of death, he accidentally activates the True Essence Stone he carries. This weak, wondrous stone can only purify medicinal ingredients twice a day and analyze fragmented texts, but it becomes his sole hope of turning his fate around. From using the True Essence Stone to practice the Shattering Stone Fist and save up his first spirit stones, to joining the Greenwood Sect thanks to his ability to identify herbs, keeping a low profile to avoid trouble in the servant quarters, earning an exceptional promotion in the outer-sect trials, and escaping to Blackstone City after betrayal in a secret realm and the Bloodshadow Cult’s destruction of his sect, Lin Fan never loses sight of his goal: survive first, then grow stronger. He pursues both alchemy and martial cultivation, refining Spirit-Gathering Pills to break through the innate realm, claiming an Earthheart Flame to reach the Pill King realm, and forming a life-and-death squad with Su Qing and Li Rui. He eventually joins the Canglan Alliance, proves his strength at the Alchemy Dao Tournament, leads his team in destroying the Bloodshadow Cult’s headquarters, and kills its Bloodthirsty Cult Master. After discovering the secret of the spirit-realm teleportation array, this cultivator who rose from the bottom will finally take his devotion to alchemy and his sword into the higher stages of the cultivation world.