Brutal Alchemist
Dreambound Li
A supreme alchemy sovereign falls when his divine pill explodes in the furnace, only to be reborn in the body of a nameless youth from a remote border city. Carrying the memories and peerless alchemy skills of his past life, he crawls out from a pile of corpses and rises step by step, shaking the world with every move: alchemy, formations, talismans, beast taming, he masters them all. Slaying enemies, seizing treasures, establishing his might and building his own domain, he climbs from a declining small city to the heart of the empire, forging an immortal legend with his own hands. A rapid-release translated xianxia progression series, 10 volumes and ongoing.
Progression: Reincarnation-powered cultivation ladder: a supreme alchemy sovereign reborn with full past-life memories and peerless alchemy skill climbs step by step from corpse-pile nobody in a border city to empire-shaking power. Parallel mastery tracks structure advancement: alchemy, formations, talismans, and beast taming, each with escalating tiers; enemy-slaying and treasure-seizing mark realm breakthroughs; domain-building and the declining-city to empire-heart scope expansion track macro progression. Rapid-release translated xianxia where every volume's arc is explicit power ascent.
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