Merle Delu, an orphan who has been cultivating in Eastern countries for ten years, traveled across the ocean and returned home to find that the Western world has been turned upside down. Mermaids and leprechauns demand equality and freedom. Businessmen and scholars want to rely on magic to achieve another century of glory. Only civil servants who earn dead wages have to squeeze into elevators, go on business trips, and work overtime every day. They don't know where they will go in the future.
How to refine the elixir of immortality is the ultimate question pursued by all occult scholars and madmen. Alchemists believe that it is necessary to find the philosopher's stone and extract it; magicians believe that it is related to the ultimate magic spell of life; pharmacists believe that it is necessary to use the power of nature to regulate the human body, while practitioners believe that it is related to inner purity and spiritual realm, and is the key to introspection and reconciliation between soul and body.
Mel hopes he can know how to live his life, his boss Diane hopes to find the lost part of her past; Adam Lillywhite wants to live his life according to his own wishes, and Mr. Bei just wants to write a poem and win the heart of a girl.
There is a mermaid who wants to lead her people to fight for equal rights. Her name Soko means courage in the mermaid language.
After being put together by chance in the same department where people were waiting to die, they believed that before they could find a way to refine the elixir of immortality, the first problem they had to solve was to stay alive.