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Thanks for asking. I'm in the Qin Dynasty, I just met my idol, Brother Zheng, and I'm about to be buried alive for burning books and burying scholars.
Zhu Dan transmigrated for the first time to a world where everyone cultivated their own life-bound alchemy cauldron. After overcoming countless hardships to become the Alchemy Emperor, she shattered the void and thought she could go home. To her surprise, she did make it back, but the timeline had been pulled back two thousand years. She had arrived in the Qin Dynasty, inhabiting the body of a fangshi in Xianyang Palace who disguised herself as a man.
After her master, Lu Sheng, failed to find immortals for Emperor Qin Shi Huang, he fled with the huge fortune meant for the expedition, leaving all the other fangshi to suffer the emperor's wrath. As Lu Sheng's disciple, she was about to be buried alive.
At the crucial moment, she decided to summon her life-bound alchemy cauldron and give Brother Zheng, who longed for eternal life, a real shock.
However, Brother Zheng unified the six states, and humanity flourished. Its fortune overwhelmed the immortal and ghostly paths alike, bringing the world into the Age of the End of Dharma.
Without spiritual qi, she couldn't make pills. She couldn't even summon the cauldron in her soul. Facing the chilling gaze of the greatest emperor in history, Zhu Dan: "..."
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Setting her dignity aside, Zhu Dan somehow convinced Emperor Qin Shi Huang to believe her nonsense about receiving her arts from heaven. He gave her seven days and ordered her to produce a golden pill within that time.
Under extreme pressure, Zhu Dan discovered that she could use humanity's fortune in place of spiritual qi to make pills. Skipping over all the famous historical figures, she precisely picked Hu Hai, whose name would stink for ten thousand years.
Hu Hai: "..."
Well, the pills she made had all sorts of strange side effects that varied from person to person, but as long as they worked, that was good enough.
Years later, Zhu Dan, now the weary Imperial Preceptor of Great Qin, smiled tiredly. "Brother Zheng, although I've made Hu Hai pills, Zhao Gao pills, Xiao He pills, Zhang Liang pills... I really can't make anyone immortal. To live forever, you have to cultivate, and for that, spiritual qi has to return."
Wait, why has spiritual qi actually returned?
Content warnings: 1. Spiritual qi revival happens at the end. Brother Zheng does not cultivate in the main story. It's about the female lead harvesting the fortune of famous historical figures, using all sorts of wild methods to make pills, and building a better Great Qin.
2. Fortune can only be drawn if its owner willingly agrees.
3. The Qin Dynasty is fictionalized, with lots of original details.
Coming soon: Ordinary People After the Spiritual Qi Revival. Please add it to your favorites.
Jian Ning is an ordinary person. Both her parents are alive, and she has a house full of relatives.
One day, she woke up to find that she had switched places with herself in a parallel world. She still had the same parents and the same huge family, with so many relatives that even seven or eight tables weren't enough at New Year.
The difference was that spiritual qi had returned in this parallel world.
But she was still an ordinary person, with no spiritual roots and no way to cultivate.
Fortunately, she'd always been lucky. Even staying at home, good fortune would fall right out of the sky, and when she went out, she was bound to find a bargain. She'd never make a fortune, but she was always coming into a little extra money.
That trait came with her to the parallel world, too.
While others entered secret realms to fight demonic beasts and compete against fellow cultivators, Jian Ning entered secret realms to pick mushrooms and dig up spirit herbs. Treasures that others could only dream of rushed straight into her arms.
Later, someone jealously said, "So what if you're lucky? You're still just an ordinary person."
Jian Ning punched a ninth-rank demon beast that had just emerged from a secret realm and was about to destroy the world, sending it flying.
Well, she'd eaten so many good things that her body had attained sainthood.
Coming soon: [Journey to the West] The Tang Dynasty's One and Only Tavern.
The Tang Emperor and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven both say my wine is the best.
Wei Zi was a peony spirit, but she had no interest in the spiritual dew plants loved. She liked spirit wine and was best at brewing it.
The grandmother who raised her left her a small tavern on her deathbed, so Wei Zi decided to leave Luoyang and head for Chang'an.
But when she arrived, she discovered that the tavern had burned down a year ago. Ever since, strange wailing sounds had come from the site every night, scaring passersby into taking an eight-hundred-meter detour even in broad daylight.
...She had actually transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West!!!
Wei Zi managed to get the tavern running after all. She served the people of Great Tang by day, while some special guests came by at night.
Wine can make you forget your sorrows, and it can ease a thousand worries.
People love Wei Zi's wine, and so do spirits, demons, and ghosts.
Theme: Seeking immortality by taking pills is misguided. We should build a better tomorrow with our own hands.
In the end, I had to add some emotional lines, which was a failure! You have been in the world of cultivation and Great Qin for so many years, and you still care about the relationship between a man and a woman. How can you live well without a Taoist companion?
Read it in one sitting. So well written! [Fireworks]
Hey, so concubines were free labor in ancient times. Maybe wives and concubines can survive by uniting together.
Sometimes I think that the harmony between wives and concubines in ancient times may be due to the mutual help and solidarity of women in order to obtain resources to survive. After all, the living environment for women at that time was too harsh.
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I want to see new elixirs
That's it. The few interesting articles I found today are all very short [laughing and crying]
In the end, I had to add some emotional lines, which was a failure! You have been in the world of cultivation and Great Qin for so many years, and you still care about the relationship between a man and a woman. How can you live well without a Taoist companion?
Read it in one sitting. So well written! [Fireworks]
Hey, so concubines were free labor in ancient times. Maybe wives and concubines can survive by uniting together.
Sometimes I think that the harmony between wives and concubines in ancient times may be due to the mutual help and solidarity of women in order to obtain resources to survive. After all, the living environment for women at that time was too harsh.
Hahaha, come check in at Dahan Entrepreneurship Group
I want to see new elixirs
That's it. The few interesting articles I found today are all very short [laughing and crying]
I finished watching it before I knew it [crying]