Lin Yi, an ordinary young man, falls off a cliff while gathering medicinal herbs and unexpectedly obtains a mysterious pearl, setting foot on the path of immortal cultivation. Fortunately, he is taken in by the Medicine Peak of the Jiuqing Sect. Starting as a lowly medicine boy, he endures ten years of lonely, bitter cultivation and eventually becomes an alchemist. With a resilient spirit and a talent for alchemy, he struggles to establish his foundation, steadfastly following the grounded path of an ordinary cultivator. Facing the brutal struggle for survival at the bottom of the cultivation world, he writes an epic tale of an ordinary man rising to greatness in a classical immortal-cultivation world.