Peerless Alchemy God

Peerless Alchemy God is a long Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Ji Xiaoz ei, serialized on 17K.com starting May 24, 2012 and completed around 2016, with a cumulative length of more than six million Chinese characters. The protagonist, Shen Xiang, is the sixteen-year-old grandson of the Shen family patriarch. Despised since childhood because he has no spiritual meridians, he has nevertheless developed a resilience far beyond his years, often going out alone to gather herbs, temper his body, and even fight tigers to the death. During one deep trip into the mountains to gather herbs, he encounters by chance the goddess Su Meiyao and the demoness Bai Youyou, both gravely wounded and sealed by enemies inside a ring. Desperate for help to recover their strength, they enter a blood pact with Shen Xiang and pass on all their teachings—granting him the Yin-Yang Divine Meridians and instruction in peerless martial arts and supreme alchemy. To avoid attracting attention through the anomalies of his cultivation, he retreats into remote mountains under the pretext of gathering herbs and trains hard, step by step shedding the label of “trash.” Thereafter he concocts pills as if they were snacks, toys with martial masters who come begging for pills, and keeps advancing through family infighting, sect wars, and struggles over ancient legacies. He meets and grows close to Xue Xianxian, Su Meiyao, Bai Youyou, and others, founds the Xianglong Sect, and ultimately sweeps away all rivals and saves one era after another—yet refuses to be hailed as a savior, wishing only to be the “Peerless Alchemy God” of his own world. With alchemy, body tempering, and rivalry as its main threads, the book is a typical Eastern fantasy leveling story and has sold game and anime adaptation rights.