Treasure Restoration Expert

Treasure Restoration Expert is a fantasy cultivation novel by the web author Vast Cloud Sea, serialized on Zongheng Chinese Network. It runs 708 chapters, completed in May 2015, with roughly 1.92 million characters in the online edition. The protagonist, Lin Feng, is a young man from Earth who, while playing a VR game, obtains a secondary-class skill book called Equipment Restoration. An accident sends him across worlds with that skill, and his soul merges with that of a boy of the same name on the Moon Cloud Continent—an orphan rogue cultivator in a small cultivation city whose parents died young and who works at a minor treasure shop. With the memories of two lives combined, Lin Feng can restore all kinds of damaged treasures by consuming only a small amount of materials, from the lowest-grade ritual tools and precious tools up to spirit tools, dao tools, and even legendary immortal tools that no one else can repair. He starts out as a scrap collector: buying damaged treasures others have discarded at low prices, repairing them, and selling them high for his first pot of gold. He also repairs treasures for cultivators and takes commissions, quickly accumulating cultivation resources and rising from Qi Refining onward. Between training sessions, he befriends Zheng Kai, Changgong Xiaojing, and others, and takes in Little Qiu, a mutant beast that resembles Pikachu and can locate spirit veins and heavenly treasures. He deals with families, sects, merchant alliances, and forces such as the Yin Corpse Sect across Green Spring City, Star City, and Zhenhai City, living through events including the Seven Peaks Forest demon hunt, the Green Spring City auction, the great python mountain treasure, the Black Mist Medicine Valley trial, the Demonic Dragon Island in the Starry Sea, the Blue Moon Sect ruins, and the battle at the Mystic Ice Palace, gradually rising to the status of Lord of a Realm and finally ascending through tribulation. The book makes the niche profession of restoration the protagonist's core competitive edge, running battle and business storylines in parallel, and is known for its light, satisfying pace and its face-slapping, hidden-strength tropes. It was one of the more original premises among cultivation power-fantasy novels of its time.