Immortal Pill God

Immortal Pill God is a xianxia fantasy novel by the web novelist Sheng Ji, serialized on Qidian and completed at roughly 2.76 million Chinese characters. The protagonist, Cheng Gong, was once the pinnacle among the ten great masters of alchemy across the Nine Provinces. While refining the Void Yin-Yang Cauldron, the foremost divine artifact of the Nine Provinces, he is struck down by thirteen Void Yin-Yang tribulations—yet the artifact's true secret brings him back to life. He is reborn as none other than the foremost wastrel of Yunge City, infamous as the head of its "Four Great Scourges." The vast gulf between the insight of a past master of alchemy and a present reputation in ruins sets the stage: drawing on his deep understanding of alchemy, cultivation methods, and the wondrous beings of heaven and earth, Cheng Gong turns his circumstances around step by step, returns to the path of cultivation, and establishes himself amid the feuds of sects, great clans, and empires through his art of pill refinement. The story follows the familiar growth arc of alchemy-driven fantasy: subduing pills and divine artifacts, gathering companions and romantic interests, and steadily "slapping faces" to establish authority through duels and conflicts, until he ascends from alchemy into the Dao and strives for the supreme summit of pill refinement, earning the name Immortal Pill God. The book's style is light and spirited with a comic edge, briskly paced and densely packed with satisfying moments—well suited to readers who enjoy rebirth-and-comeback tales, alchemy settings, and long-form leveling.