Lin Jiu was once a street thug. After a deadly yin sha entered his body, he awakened an innate talent for alchemy. In the modern city lie hidden cultivation realms, Three worlds overlap, and a spiritual catastrophe looms near. He walks alone between light and shadow, Only to protect Xiao Man—the fox-girl he once picked up. As Xiao Man’s bloodline awakens, Forces from all sides close in, danger lurks at every step. A pill pattern glows in his palm; By night he enters the Ruins Manor, In dreams he inherits the supreme Dao of Alchemy. With a mortal body he forges immortal pills, One pill pattern, one heavenly realm— Defying fate and turning back the calamity. He is the clear-headed, overprotective guardian in the mortal world, And also the Lord of Ember Fire who burns the heavens and se