Cultivation: Starting as a Street Apothecary

Every cultivator is someone everyone wants to harm; there's no kindness around. It's actually quite meaningless, considering how anxious, frustrating, and tiring our real lives are. As long as the logic is sound, that's fine. I don't like pushovers, nor do I like constant fighting. Reasonableness is important.

That's right. Even if life is difficult for a nobody living in a celestial city, it should be relatively stable overall. It shouldn't be like those books where people live right under the sect's gate, yet there's constant fighting day and night, and they don't even have a peaceful day. The protagonist doesn't have any special abilities; it's just a peaceful and steady daily life of a minor cultivator.

Before reading this book, I read comments from fellow readers who said that the protagonist's alchemy in this book was truly authentic, unlike some other books where alchemy is portrayed as assembly-line work. However, after reading over a hundred chapters, I've found that the protagonist's alchemy is pretty much the same as in other cultivation novels. He just throws the herbs into the furnace.

The cultivation progress is too slow. I am an alchemist, but I only reached the fourth level of Qi Refining when the book was published after more than a hundred chapters.

It's very well written, but I'm worried that without an outline, the book might struggle to continue; the current pace is a bit slow.

This book doesn't seem like a cultivation novel. Aside from spirit stones and such, there are no magical spells. The protagonist only knows how to refine pills; he doesn't practice or care about any protective measures or cultivation techniques related to his own safety. I don't know what kind of immortal he's trying to cultivate!

The protagonist survives purely by luck. If he only knew alchemy, he might as well join a sect and start practicing alchemy himself. Sects would fight over a 13-year-old alchemist. The protagonist just keeps practicing alchemy to increase his proficiency; it's not a sure thing.

Does the lack of a skill panel and proficiency level mean you can't write code? Seeing the skill panel makes me sick.

1. Alchemy: If you join a sect, you should focus on cultivation and making money by refining pills. Instead, you run off to solve cases, spending over ten episodes on a single case. Your pretentiousness is annoying.

Alchemy, like traditional Chinese medicine, requires the coordination of herbs and their assistants. It's also like cooking; different herbs require different processing methods depending on their needs. Preparing the ingredients involves following the alchemical formula: which herbs need drying, which need grinding into powder, which should be used in which portions, the order of addition, the…