Returning to his stone house, Luo Chen held the golden pill delicately between his thumb and forefinger, studying it with a thoughtful gaze. Encircling its surface was a faint but unmistakable cloud-like pattern.0

Luo Chen's understanding of pills and their grades had started with the inheritance of his predecessor, an old cultivator who had perished in a mountain cave. That cultivator hadn't been a disciple of any renowned sect. He had come from the Medicine King Domain as a rogue cultivator and had been admitted into the outer sect of the Medicine King Sect only because of his moderately competent alchemy skills. In this regard, his situation was quite similar to Fu Xiuxiu’s. 0

However, he never managed to reach Foundation Establishment and thus never obtained the Yi Wood Medicine King Codex, the Foundation Establishment chapter of the sect’s Eternal Youth Evergreen Sutra. As time wore on, he was relegated to menial duties in the sect until, eventually,...0