The Useless One's Rise: The Heaven-Defying Pill Venerable Returns

In the cultivation world known as Xuanhuang, the Heavenly Dao is flawed, and the path to ascension has been cut off for over ten thousand years. The great sects and ancient clans monopolize resources, while low-ranking cultivators struggle to survive. Gu Qingyan is an ordinary outer disciple of the Qingyun Sect, assigned to serve as an alchemy assistant. He bears a deep-seated blood feud but lacks the power to investigate it. His only supports are a mysterious “waste pill” inherited from his family and a damaged alchemy manual no one can understand. He studies them day and night, hoping to forge a new path through alchemy, but his fellow disciples constantly mock and suppress him, treating him as a disgrace to the sect.

Lin Xiaofeng covets Gu Qingyan’s ancestral alchemy manual and is also jealous that he has unexpectedly won the favor of the holy maiden. He repeatedly sets traps to frame him, seeking to steal his opportunities and cut off his path to immortality.