The First Emperor has been poisoned by an elixir of immortality, and not one court alchemist can cure him!
At the palace at Shaqiu, Ying Zheng, the emperor of the ages, is consumed by his quest for eternal life. He has mistakenly swallowed countless toxic pills containing lead and mercury. The poison has seeped into his bones, and he has only a month to live.
The court alchemists spout nonsense about yin-yang and the Five Elements. Their so-called arts are nothing but fraud: they can only concoct poisonous pills that harm people, drain the emperor’s strength, and throw the court into chaos.
Wang Defa, a modern traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, transmigrates into the Great Qin dynasty and becomes a lowly apprentice alchemist. From the start, he is dragged before the First Emperor and forced to stake his life on detoxifying him within thirty days!
The divine alchemy of Shennong crushes ancient alchemical arts with overwhelming superiority!
You refine nine-turn elixirs of immortality; I make spirit pills that cleanse the marrow and purge poison. You use supernatural signs to deceive the people; I cure chronic ailments by getting to the root of their medicinal properties!
They test their pills in the same furnace. Vinegar exposes the golden elixir, and a whole furnace of deadly mercury is burned out before everyone’s eyes, exposing the alchemists’ thousand-year-old fraud!
His ingredients are cut off, he is framed and thrown into prison. The alchemists’ surviving followers join forces with Zhao Gao and close in at every turn, bent on killing him.
At the brink of death, Wang Defa uses scraps of medicine to refine a miraculous elixir of recovery. In court, he proves his innocence, catches the real culprit, and wipes out the alchemists who threaten Qin!
He purges the poison and heals the emperor, securing Great Qin through medicine.
Ying Zheng is reborn and surveys the world, yet feels a deep wariness and desire for control toward this young alchemist, who can decide whether an emperor lives or dies.
Everyone seeks immortality. I alone hold the emperor’s fate in my hands!
