[Mortal Cultivation + Family Feuds + Cast-Off Son's Comeback + Alchemy + Golden Finger + Clever Protagonist + Ruthless + Rise Through Fleeing]
Chen Mu's soul transmigrates to the cultivation world, where he becomes the eighty-seventh son of Zhou Chang Geng, an outsider Golden Core cultivator in the Chen family.
His father relies on a "more children, more blessings" System to father children at a furious pace. With each new child, his cultivation rises another level. Starting as a useless cultivator with four spiritual roots, he climbed all the way to the middle stage of the Golden Core realm. Now a power unto himself in the Chen family, he has over a hundred children and commands troops of his own.
As for Chen Mu, he has four middle-grade spiritual roots, his mother died young, and he has no full siblings. In his father's eyes, he's just another number rewarded by the System. His original host died from cultivation deviation, and Chen Mu was lucky enough to inherit his life.
An antique-style little pagoda he brought from his previous life becomes his only trump card. Spiritual energy is abundant inside, making cultivation twice as effective. In a crisis, he can hide within it, beyond the perception of even the highest-level cultivators.
His status as an alchemy hall apprentice lets him learn the art of alchemy, his only path to advancement in this law-of-the-jungle family.
His father's ambition grows by the day, the Chen family's suspicions tighten around him, and outside forces watch hungrily. When the northern barbarians sweep across the Great Chu Dynasty with the aid of the demon race, all order collapses...
Zhou Mu flees south, going from a cast-off son of the family to the heart of the Tianyan Continent.
He will prove that even a "son" of the more-children-more-blessings creed can forge his own path to the Dao.
