A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Longevity Begins with Salvaging Scrap Pills

Lin Yan transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes the lowest-ranked medicine slave at Hundred Furnace Cliff in the Qinglan Sect.

That is, until he finds a lamp in a pit of corpses.

[Discarded pill: 60% formed, medicinal potency diminished, four years and two months of remaining lifespan.]

[Damaged talisman: runes destroyed, seven years remaining.]

[Withered spirit herb: could have regrown, thirteen years remaining.]

[Exploded pill furnace: could have been passed down for a thousand years...]

Only then does Lin Yan realize:

Anything that could have continued to exist but was damaged, withered, or ruined before its time has “remaining years.”

Draw out the remaining years, and the worthless object crumbles to dust.

Invest those years, and it can follow the course of the future it might once have had!

And so...

He restores the medicinal potency of discarded pills and nurtures them into genuine elixirs.

He brings back the writing on abandoned fragments of manuals and completes the cultivation techniques.

He adds spirit materials to broken weapons thrown onto the scrap pile and reforges them into magical artifacts.

To everyone else, Hundred Furnace Cliff is a dump.

To Lin Yan, it's a treasure mountain that can never be exhausted!

Years later...

The immortal sects fight to the death over a single life-extending pill.

Mighty cultivators shatter mountains and rivers over a thousand-year-old spirit herb.

Lin Yan quietly opens his cave dwelling, piled high with treasures, and looks at the countless years accumulated in his Lamp of Illuminated Years. He can only think that they're rather noisy.