Huainan Alchemy: I Use Chemistry to Dominate the Western Han

A modern chemistry graduate student transmigrates into the body of a destitute orphan in the Western Han dynasty and is taken as a true disciple by the eight mysterious followers of the Prince of Huainan. While others suffer lead and mercury poisoning from their alchemy, he uses chemical equations to refine the Nine-Turn Restoration Elixir. While others rely on mysticism and intuition to cultivate immortality, he uses the laws of physics to comprehend the path to eternal life. From a poor drifter who can barely survive from one day to the next, to the fabulously wealthy merchant of the South Seas, and finally the peerless Daoist physician, the "True Lord Baopu," it takes him six hundred years. And in all those six hundred years, he makes only one mistake: falling in love with a woman he should never have loved.