Yu Lin realized it from a young age.
With a talent like his, he was destined to achieve great things in the cultivation world. So he devoted himself to divination and fate calculation.
But when Yu Lin sat for the sect entrance exam, he discovered that the Medicine and Healing Sect, the one he most wanted to join, had changed its admission requirements. It now accepted only all-rounders. One had to master geomancy, medicine, fate calculation, physiognomy, and divination.
The only thing Yu Lin couldn't do was alchemy or medicine.
What was he supposed to do?
No big deal. He'd just learn.
Yu Lin sought out teachers and pursued the Dao everywhere, and finally became an alchemy apprentice at an obscure little wooden sect no one had ever heard of.
One month later.
Yu Lin slung a basket of foul-smelling pills over his back, ready to leave the mountain and put his skills to the test. But before he could even step over the threshold, his mentor, Lin Muyi, grabbed him by the scruff of the neck.
"You mixed cow dung into pills and fed them to the immortals!?"
A shrewd, upright mentor with a smile like a fox
(Lin Muyi)
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A hot-tempered apprentice who lies through his teeth
(Yu Lin)
Note: The pacing is very fast.
Theme: When fortune and misfortune depend on oneself, how can the Netherworld decide the fates of all six realms?
