The System Forces Me to Become an Immortal Through Alchemy

Next story: "My Golden Finger Turns Stone into Gold [Quick Transmigration]", no romance

After gaining the ability to transmigrate between different worlds, Lu Yishi decides to stop being human.

The Great World of Five Elements: a fresh, positive, and uplifting atmosphere

Several major sects have joined forces to ensure a healthy, positive cultivation world. Here, you can easily get a variety of standardized cultivation textbooks, personally reviewed by Primordial Spirit Adepts and compiled under the supervision of Celestial Immortals. Their quality is guaranteed for nearly ten thousand years. Your fortune is linked to this world, so there's no risk of hidden tricks, karmic oaths, or tampering. As long as you have a basic spiritual root, anyone can easily embark on the path of cultivation.

Worried you don't have a master to guide you, or that your grasp of the basics might be wrong? Don't fret. The textbooks include demonstrations by Adepts who will teach you to condense spiritual power and transform vital essence step by step, so you don't have to worry about qi deviation.

Advanced courses cover more techniques, spells, alchemy, artifact crafting, talisman drawing, planting, and cultivation. We've even launched a flying-sword correspondence service!

For practical experience, public secret realms such as XX Secret Realm, XXX Secret Realm, and XXX Secret Realm open regularly. Friendly spell battles are encouraged, and you can harvest resources sustainably. Outside the realms, sects large and small provide logistical support. As long as you have spirit stones, you can choose from pills, magical artifacts, talismans, spirit materials, and urgently needed spells after leveling up. Buy and sell as you go, and if all else fails, you can even find work on the spot. Our one-stop service guarantees you maximize your gains in the secret realms.

The Great World of Five Elements: the heart's choice for every cultivator!

The immigration ad for this great world has ended.

…And now for the actual blurb…

Gu Anyi is the youngest apprentice of the Fortune-Bringing Sect.

He has one dream: to become an ordinary cultivator, following a steady, predictable path

At a perfectly average age, he would level up at a perfectly average pace, then, at just about the right time, affiliate himself with a perfectly average second-rate sect, take a few perfectly average disciples, and live a perfectly average life…

Until one day, he discovers that something called a System has appeared on him.

[A bottle of burnt Qi Refining Pills]

The moment Gu Anyi starts seeing all sorts of annotations, he realizes that his perfectly average life plan may never come true…

Years later, when Gu Anyi becomes the youngest Alchemy Grandmaster in the Great World of Five Elements, everyone has their own theories about how he achieved such a feat so quickly and even managed to revive his sect in the process.

As for Gu Anyi, passing by with his dead-fish eyes, he says: “…Heh. I was forced into it.”

Reader's Guide:

① A slice-of-life story about someone focused on alchemy, making money, and leveling up.

② No romance. The protagonist has no romantic storyline, and not even anyone secretly in love with him. Everyone else pairs off, while Master An is doomed to be single.

③ The blurb has changed a little since the pre-release announcement, mainly because Master An's character has changed! That's all I have to say, so I'm just claiming a spot to cheer him on! (Waving .jpg)

Gu Anyi: …Well, thanks, I guess!

Statement:

Someone brought this to my attention, so I want to clarify something here.

The inspiration for writing this story came from the Qidian novel "A Life-Simulation Game".

My intention was simply to write a cultivation-world version, a slice-of-life story more to my personal taste.

A story without any other weird twists, where the protagonist achieves technical progress and success through research.

I liked that idea, but felt it wasn't quite satisfying enough for me, so I decided to write my own.

I don't think there's anything to hide: I was inspired and chose a similar theme.

The story and characters, however, are completely different.

There may still be traces of imitation, but that's due to my lack of skill. If anything is inappropriate, I sincerely apologize.

In short, I'm open to criticism, but please read the story before commenting~

Also, the leveling system in this story draws on the system from "The Record of the Vanishing Realm". 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 partly based on that system. That's why a Creator of Fortune can create a “heaven,” and why those who attain eternal Dao 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, Deification, and so on. So you could also say it's inspired by A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality.

But in practice, this story's leveling system is in a somewhat ambiguous state, even though it uses those terms.

I could come up with a whole new system from scratch, but that would give readers far too much to learn.

Oh, and I deleted the comment from the sweet reader who first brought this up because I felt my reply wasn't adequate. To avoid further misunderstandings, deleting it was all I could do. Still, it's better to explain this sooner rather than later~

Many thanks to the sweet reader Huashu for bringing it to my attention~ Muah~

That's all,

One Cup of Misty Clouds

Pre-release stories below

"My Golden Finger Turns Stone into Gold [Quick Transmigration]":

This isn't a story about a successful person arriving in a small world, using an overpowered golden finger to show off and face-slap everyone, then achieving success all over again.

It's about a person who gets a golden finger, uses it, studies it, and gradually turns into something nonhuman (that's right).

If you can travel between worlds and have several lifetimes to do it, what does it mean to achieve nothing beyond the kind of success ordinary people recognize?

And besides, this golden finger goes far beyond anything you could understand.

After gaining the ability to transmigrate between worlds again and again, Lu Yishi decides to stop being human.

The ultimate limits of civilization, technology, the universe, life, and the mind.

His journey is to the stars and beyond.

Reader's Guide:

The protagonist gradually becomes a monster. He wasn't exactly a good person to begin with, but remember not to judge him by ordinary standards of morality.

The main story moves fast, so be warned: the progress bar races ahead, and before you know it, society's productivity has advanced to universal modification and humanoid weapons.

Written to let loose, with parody and snark throughout, all to satisfy the author's questionable tastes.

No romance, no romantic storyline. No one can feel human affection for a nonhuman being, a demon.

And the demon feels no such affection in return.

He doesn't care.

"God-Tier Dream Architect":

Dream architects are a glamorous profession that Cheng Yu only discovers after transmigrating to another world.

They use empathic reality technology to build dreams that feel completely real.

To him, it's a combination of full-dive games and movies.

Or, to put it another way, a transmigration with a predetermined plot.

At first, he becomes a dream architect just to make money.

Later, he does it for passion, ideals, and… nostalgia.

Is it plagiarism? Maybe. But he's also starting from scratch, piece by piece, to build the worlds he remembers.

Those worlds deserve to be seen by the people of this world.

He doesn't have a golden finger. His experiences and life in his previous existence are his golden finger.

This is a story about creators.

It's their stories, and also the stories they create.

In the end, it's all about the stories themselves…

Reader's Guide:

① Due to the author's personal interests, there will be plenty of technical details delivered with a completely straight face, whether they're accurate or not.

② No romance, just career development.

③ Still in the pre-release stage, so things may change at any time before the story officially begins.

Theme: Stay grounded and work hard to prosper