The System Forces Me to Become an Immortal Through Alchemy

Next up: The Golden Finger Is Turning Stones into Gold [Quick Transmigration], no romance After gaining the ability to transmigrate between different worlds, Lu Yishi decided to stop being human. Feel free to visit my author page and add it to your reading list~ The Great World of Five Elements: fresh, wholesome, and full of positive energy Several major sects have joined forces to guarantee a healthy, positive atmosphere in the cultivation world. Here, you can easily get all kinds of standardized cultivation textbooks, personally reviewed by Primordial Spirit Adepts and supervised and compiled by Celestial Immortal Lords. They come with nearly ten thousand years of guaranteed quality, and your fortune is linked to this world. There are no hidden schemes, karmic oaths, or chances of anyone tampering with them. As long as you have even the most basic spiritual root, anyone can easily set foot on the path of cultivation. Worried you won't have a renowned teacher to guide you, or that you might misunderstand the fundamentals? Don't worry. The textbooks include demonstrations by real adepts, teaching you step by step how to refine spiritual energy and transform vital essence. No need to fear qi deviation. There are also advanced courses in more techniques and spells, alchemy, artifact crafting, talisman drawing, planting, cultivation, and more. You can even sign up for flying-sword correspondence courses. For the practical side, public secret realms such as XX Secret Realm, XXX Secret Realm, and XXX Secret Realm open on a regular schedule. Friendly spell duels are encouraged inside, and you can harvest resources sustainably. Outside each secret realm, sects of every size provide logistical support. As long as you have spirit stones, you can choose from pills, magical artifacts, talismans, spiritual materials, and the spells you urgently need after leveling up. Buy and sell as you go, and if all else fails, you can even find a local job. It's a complete one-stop service, guaranteed to maximize your profits in the secret realm. The Great World of Five Elements: the ideal choice for every cultivator! End of the immigration ad for our great world ...Now for the actual story... Gu Anyi is the junior disciple of the Wealth-Bringing Sect. He has one dream: to follow a steady, ordinary path as a cultivator. At a perfectly average age, he would level up at a perfectly average pace, then, at just about the right time, attach himself to a perfectly average second-rate sect, take on a few perfectly average disciples, and live a perfectly average life... Until one day, he discovered that something called a System had appeared on him. [A bottle of botched Qi Refining Pills] The moment Gu Anyi started seeing all sorts of item descriptions, he realized that his perfectly average life plan might never come true... Years later, when Gu Anyi became the youngest alchemy grandmaster in the Great World of Five Elements, everyone had their own theory about how he had achieved this so quickly and, along the way, revived his sect. In response, Gu Anyi passed by with his dead-fish eyes and said: ...Heh. I was forced into it. Reader's notes: ① A farming-style story about focusing on alchemy, making money, and leveling up. ② No romance. The protagonist has no romantic plotline, and not even anyone secretly in love with him. Everyone else is paired up, while Master An is destined to be alone. ③ The blurb was a little different from the original teaser, mainly because Master An's characterization changed! So that's all I have to say: I'm just saving a spot to cheer Master An on! (waves.jpg) Gu Anyi: …Well, thank you, I guess! Disclaimer: Someone reminded me, so I want to clarify something here. The inspiration for this story came from the Qidian novel Life-Sim Game. My original intention was to write a cultivation-world version, a farming story more suited to my personal taste. It's a story without any weird twists, where the protagonist makes technical progress and succeeds through research and hard work. I like that aspect, but felt it wasn't quite satisfying enough for me, so I decided to write my own. I don't think this is something I need to hide: I was inspired by another work and chose a similar theme. The story and characters, however, are completely different. There may still be traces of imitation, but that's because of my limited ability. If anything is inappropriate, I sincerely apologize. In short, I'm open to criticism, but please read the story before you comment~ Also, the leveling system in this story uses the one from The Tribulation of Fate. Starting from the Divine Soul stage, cultivators progress through Golden Core, Primordial Spirit, Celestial Immortal, Half-Step Golden Immortal, Golden Immortal Dao Ancestor, and Creator of Fortune. The abilities at each stage are also inspired by that system, which is why Creators of Fortune can create a “heaven,” and why those who attain eternity leave this universe. Of course, I've also mixed in the familiar system where cultivators have spiritual roots and progress through Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, and so on. So you could also say I've taken inspiration from A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality. In practice, though, this story's leveling system is in a state of being neither one thing nor the other, even if it uses these terms. I could invent a whole new system from scratch, but that would leave readers with far too much to learn. Oh, and I deleted the comment from the kind reader who brought this up earlier because I didn't think my reply had explained things properly. To avoid any more misunderstandings, I could only delete the comment. But this is definitely something that should be clarified sooner rather than later~ Thanks to the lovely Huashu for reminding me~ Kisses~ That's all, A Lamp in the Mist Teaser request divider The Golden Finger Is Turning Stones into Gold [Quick Transmigration]: This is not a story about a successful person arriving in a small world, using an overpowered golden finger to show off and slap faces, then achieving success all over again. This is a story about someone who gets a golden finger, learns to use it, studies it, and gradually becomes something nonhuman (yes, really). If you can travel between worlds and have several lifetimes to do it, but all you achieve is success by ordinary people's standards... What would be the point? Besides, this golden finger is beyond comprehension. After gaining the ability to keep transmigrating between worlds, Lu Yishi decided to stop being human. The ultimate limits of civilization, technology, the universe, life, and the mind. His journey is to the stars and the sea. Reader's notes: The protagonist gradually becomes twisted. He wasn't exactly a good person to begin with, but remember not to judge him by normal standards of morality. The main story moves at a breakneck pace. The progress bar goes by incredibly fast, often with a whoosh, and suddenly society has advanced to universal modification and human-shaped weapons. Written to let loose, with parodies and snark throughout, this story indulges all of the author's guilty pleasures. No romance, no romantic plotline. No one could feel human emotions for a nonhuman being, a demon. And the demon feels no such emotions in return. He doesn't care. Dreamweaver Master: Dreamweavers: a glamorous profession that Cheng Yu only learned about after arriving in another world. Using immersive empathy technology, they construct dreams that make people feel as if they're really there. To him, it's a combination of full-dive games and movies. Or perhaps a transmigration into a story with a preset plot. He became a dreamweaver at first just to make money. Later, he did it for passion, ideals, and... nostalgia. Is it plagiarism? Maybe. But he's also starting from scratch, step by step, to build the worlds he remembers. They deserve to be seen by the people of this world. He has no golden finger. His experiences and life in his previous life are his golden finger. This is a story about creators. It's their stories, and the stories they create. In the end, it is all about the stories themselves... Reader's notes: ① Because of the author's personal interests, there will be plenty of technical details that sound perfectly serious but are complete nonsense. ② No romance, purely career-focused. ③ This is currently in the teaser stage, and may be revised at any time before the story officially begins. Theme: Keep your feet on the ground and work hard to get rich.