ALL NOVEL Chapter 26: The Low-Grade Alchemist
[Lin Family Year 212, September 29th: You effortlessly defeated a peer who sought to challenge you. Upon returning to your small courtyard, you obtained a fortuitous opportunity and advanced to the fourth stage of the Prenatal Realm.]
[Lin Family Year 213, December 12th: After exhausting all your spirit stones, your cultivation reached the seventh stage of the Prenatal Realm.]
[Lin Family Year 214, July 28th: You advanced to the eighth stage of the Prenatal Realm. Seven days later, during the family’s coming-of-age ceremony, which invited allied forces from Qingfeng City and nearby areas, you achieved an overwhelming victory without a single battle. Nothing noteworthy occurred during this period.]
[Lin Family Year 214, September 14th: You received a share of 769 lower-grade spirit stones and eagerly retreated into closed cultivation.]
[Lin Family Year 215, March 12th: The Wang family suddenly allied with the Zhao and Huang families, engaging in malicious competition to suppress the Lin family’s elixir trade. This caused the Lin family’s income to plummet. However, with mid-grade spiritual fields as a foundation, the Lin family managed to hold on.]
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As Lin Zichen read on, he noticed that apart from the initial differences, the plotlines in the personal simulation mirrored the Wang family’s targeting of the Lin family seen in the family simulation. The key difference was that the perspective was now centered on him.
Aware that the desperate Wang family might act irrationally, Lin Zichen arranged for his father—who had reached the ninth stage of the Prenatal Realm—to lie in wait. When the assassins from the Dusk organization made their move, his father swiftly intercepted and killed them, narrowly avoiding the exposure of Lin Zichen’s strength.
However, whether due to narrative inertia or the Wang family increasing the bounty, a month later, Dusk dispatched even more powerful assassins. Despite Lin Zichen’s precautions, it was impossible for the Lin family’s late-stage Prenatal Realm warriors to remain by his side constantly.
Ultimately, a significant portion of his strength was exposed, and he was suspected of being at the higher stages of the Prenatal Realm.
Subsequently, with the Dusk organization’s efforts, Lin Zichen once again became a thorn in the Mu family’s side. This time, instead of sending Mu Zhan, the Mu family dispatched an elder to eliminate him directly.
[Simulation ends due to your death.]
Staring at the final line on the light screen, Lin Zichen, though unsurprised, couldn’t help but feel a trace of helplessness.
“Simulations are ultimately just simulations, not reality. They cannot adapt to unforeseen circumstances. As long as the Lin family isn’t destroyed in the simulation, the version of me in the simulation wouldn’t leave the family to train independently.”
Shaking his head, Lin Zichen didn’t dwell on the matter.
The Immortal Clan Simulator, as the name implies, focuses on the family as its core, simulating future scenarios based on the family’s development.
If one could simply leave the family and train independently, it would violate the simulator’s operational rules and reduce many of the challenges it presents.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host! Simulation successful. The following rewards have been generated, and you may choose one.]
Ten lower-grade spirit stones.
Summon 10 Prenatal Realm assassins (summoned characters are 100% loyal).
One hundred acres of low-grade spiritual fields.
Seeing the options this time, Lin Zichen didn’t hesitate and directly chose the third reward.
Soon, one hundred acres of low-grade spiritual fields appeared in the simulator’s inventory.
Encouraged, he conducted several more personal simulations in quick succession.
The processes and outcomes were similar, but he managed to collect several valuable rewards:
First simulation: He chose a Prenatal martial skill.
Second simulation: He chose a mid-grade spiritual field.
Third simulation: He summoned a low-grade alchemist.
Fourth simulation: He chose a middle-grade spiritual herb.
Fifth simulation: The best option was only an upper-level Postnatal martial skill.
At this point, Lin Zichen decided to stop simulating.
“My luck seems to be running out,” he muttered.
With one hundred acres of low-grade spiritual fields and an additional ten acres of mid-grade fields, Lin Zichen felt confident.
“As long as I manage them well, the Lin family now has the resources to nurture its own alchemist.”
Looking at the hundred-plus acres of spiritual fields and the low-grade alchemist summoning card in the system space, Lin Zichen couldn’t help but smile.
The current state of the Lin family?
To put it nicely, they were a family specializing in spiritual herbs.
But bluntly, they were nothing more than a raw material supplier, equivalent to farmers in his previous life. Middlemen earned more than they did, let alone the alchemists who refined these raw materials into precious pills.
On the Tianwu Continent, among the four major auxiliary professions, alchemy was undoubtedly the most lucrative and widespread.
Even a low-grade alchemist earned more in a year than an average third-rate family.
If the Lin family wanted true growth, relying solely on selling spiritual herbs was far from enough. They would need to ascend to become an alchemy-focused family to secure their place at the pinnacle of the world.
“Use the Low-Grade Alchemist Summoning Card.”
With this thought, the card stored in the simulator space vanished instantly.
Moments later, a stream of unfamiliar memories flowed into Lin Zichen’s mind:
Name: Xiao Yi
Rank: Low-Grade Alchemist, Third Stage of the Prenatal Realm
Loyalty: 100
Description: This summoned individual will arrive at the Lin family within one incense stick’s time to seek out the host.
The information was simple but extremely practical.
Ten minutes later.
Lin Zichen received word from a guard: a middle-aged man named Xiao Yi was requesting an audience. With a wave of his hand, Lin Zichen instructed the guard to bring him in.
“Subordinate Xiao Yi greets the master!”
Soon, a middle-aged man in a gray robe was led into the courtyard. The moment he saw Lin Zichen, he dropped to his knees in awe and reverence, startling the guard escorting him.
“Rise.”
“Xiao Yi, follow me.”
Ignoring the guard’s astonishment, Lin Zichen motioned for Xiao Yi to follow him as he headed toward the family’s restricted area in the rear mountains.
Before long, they arrived at the spiritual fields nestled in a valley behind the Lin family estate.
“Xiao Chen, what is this?”
Seeing Lin Zichen and the unfamiliar Xiao Yi, Lin Weiquan’s eyes glimmered with curiosity.
“Grandfather, this is Xiao Yi. He is one of my subordinates and a low-grade alchemist.”
Lin Zichen didn’t bother hiding the truth and stated Xiao Yi’s role directly.
“What? A low-grade alchemist?”
Hearing his grandson’s words, Lin Weiquan’s eyes lit up with excitement.
Though the Lin family prided itself on being a spiritual herb family, and despite now having a Master Realm expert in their ranks, the truth was that the family had never had even a single low-grade alchemist to its name.
Now, with a low-grade alchemist at the Lin family’s disposal—and as a subordinate of Lin Zichen, no less—the implications were monumental.
“Good, very good! Come in and let’s discuss this further.”
Knowing the unique circumstances surrounding his grandson, Lin Weiquan wasn’t surprised by this development.
To the mysterious forces backing Lin Zichen, a mere low-grade alchemist was trivial. Frankly, even if Lin Zichen introduced a High-Grade alchemist one day, Lin Weiquan wouldn’t bat an eye.