A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Finding Treasure in the Discarded-Pill Room

Lin Feng, a menial worker in the ruined-pill workshop, had transmigrated a month ago. Every day, he shoveled, hauled, and burned the waste. Day after day, there was no hope in sight. Until his palm pressed against a cracked fragment of a Marrow-Cleansing Pill. The little bronze cauldron pendant hanging around his neck since the day he transmigrated suddenly grew hot: [Refinable material detected: damaged Marrow-Cleansing Pill. Use this month’s refinement attempt?] Refine a ruined pill into a precious one, a broken artifact into a magical weapon, or a dead tree root into a life-saving spiritual medicine. A fragment of a ruined pill went into the bronze cauldron and came out as a pure white pill. After swallowing it, he broke straight through to the first level of Qi Refining. The supervisor who had once trampled him underfoot was sent sprawling with a single hand. But no opportunity comes without a price. Refinement is limited to three attempts a month, and each attempt can refine only one item. Pills produced this way retain residual fire poison, which must be purged within a month by consuming Heart-Clearing Grass. Otherwise, his meridians will burn and he will be unable to cultivate. The medicinal liquid from refined dead tree roots works as Heart-Clearing Grass only the first time. If the fire poison flares up again, he will have to find genuine Heart-Clearing Grass. To stay alive, he pretends to be dim-witted in the ruined-pill workshop while scouring the scrap section at the bottom of the black market for bargains. “What? That useless guy who sweeps up pill dust secretly reached Foundation Establishment?” “Impossible! He can’t even afford a single low-grade spirit stone!” When the once lofty supervisors and heaven’s favored prodigies knelt at his feet, Lin Feng finally revealed his trump card: “I’m just a guy who sweeps up trash. It just so happens that the trash contains the lives you need.” [Ordinary Mortal Cultivation] [Ruined-Pill Workshop] [Playing the Fool to Outsmart the Wise] [Rise from the Bottom] [Broken Engagement] [Survival Through Caution]