The Obscure Alchemist
THE PATH OF THE OBSCURE ALCHEMIST. He was pulled from a river with no name and no past. Raised by a poor family who asked nothing of him but honesty, Xu Wei....
THE PATH OF THE OBSCURE ALCHEMIST. He was pulled from a river with no name and no past. Raised by a poor family who asked nothing of him but honesty, Xu Wei grew up mocked for daring to dream of cultivation, four years of failure under a drunkard's reluctant teaching before he ever felt his first breath of qi. He claws his way into a sect that wants nothing to do with farm boys. He chooses the unglamorous path of alchemy over the glory of the sword. And he discovers, slowly, painfully, a truth every ambitious cultivator around him seems to have forgotten: understanding is worth more than power. But some doors, once opened, can't be closed. And the further Xu Wei rises, the more he learns that not everyone chasing immortality has forgotten what it costs to be human, and some of them are watching him. In a cultivation world slowly rotting from ambition and greed, one boy's stubborn humanity might be the rarest power of all.