I woke in a dead alchemist's body just as officials arrived to burn the village's medicine. They wanted my thumbprint. I wanted a sample.
Back on Earth, I ran a pharmacy. Now I'm Lin Wuye, a disgraced cultivator with damaged meridians, empty shelves, and enemies I can't remember making. In Whispering Pines, the wrong seal can get a remedy confiscated. The right seal doesn't guarantee it won't kill you.
A condemned packet gives me somewhere to start. Better extraction. Cheaper ingredients. Seven doses where the approved method produces five. If I can turn chemistry into cultivation, I might repair this body and keep an apothecary open through winter.
Then a wounded swordswoman arrives with three days left, a formation scholar starts asking questions I can't afford to answer, and a fox-clan woman offers me a cure nobody else has managed in fifteen years. Every promise takes ingredients. Every experiment costs qi. And the people who control the medicine supply are beginning to notice that my results don't agree with theirs.
Now officially sealed stock is making patients sick, and refusing to sell it could cost the valley its remaining medicine. To protect the women who have put their trust in me and the workshop we're building together, I'll have to prove what the approved tests keep missing.
Preferably before someone with a sword decides the testing is over.
Pill Emperor Book 1 begins a cultivation adventure of practical alchemy, earned power, dangerous sect politics, and a growing romantic household. A chemist's knowledge can change this world, if he survives long enough to use it.
18+ Contains fantasy violence and explicit scenes.
Genre: Thriller
Back on Earth, I ran a pharmacy. Now I'm Lin Wuye, a disgraced cultivator with damaged meridians, empty shelves, and enemies I can't remember making. In Whispering Pines, the wrong seal can get a remedy confiscated. The right seal doesn't guarantee it won't kill you.
A condemned packet gives me somewhere to start. Better extraction. Cheaper ingredients. Seven doses where the approved method produces five. If I can turn chemistry into cultivation, I might repair this body and keep an apothecary open through winter.
Then a wounded swordswoman arrives with three days left, a formation scholar starts asking questions I can't afford to answer, and a fox-clan woman offers me a cure nobody else has managed in fifteen years. Every promise takes ingredients. Every experiment costs qi. And the people who control the medicine supply are beginning to notice that my results don't agree with theirs.
Now officially sealed stock is making patients sick, and refusing to sell it could cost the valley its remaining medicine. To protect the women who have put their trust in me and the workshop we're building together, I'll have to prove what the approved tests keep missing.
Preferably before someone with a sword decides the testing is over.
Pill Emperor Book 1 begins a cultivation adventure of practical alchemy, earned power, dangerous sect politics, and a growing romantic household. A chemist's knowledge can change this world, if he survives long enough to use it.
18+ Contains fantasy violence and explicit scenes.
Genre: Thriller
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