Blue River City, Tier-3 Jiangnan city.
"Xiao Yuan, you don't have to do this… Mom is already used to the pain."
In the dim VIP ward of Blue River First People's Hospital, Lin Yuan's mother, Aunt Zhang, lay pale on the hospital bed like a wilting vegetable.
Stage-four lung cancer.
The doctors had already given up; they said she had at most three months left.
The only reason she was even in this VIP ward was because Jia Wen felt forced to help.
Jia Wen is Lin Yuan's girlfriend.
To her, his mother was surely an inconvenience.
A 22 year old Lin Yuan sat beside the bed in a cheap hoodie and jeans, eyes red from staying up all night scrolling on his phone.
"Mom, just wait a bit. I found a home remedy on Douyin. It's super simple… just some common ingredients. I already bought everything from the supermarket downstairs."
He pulled out a small pot he had borrowed from the hospital cafeteria, a bunch of cheap herbs, rock sugar, and a dusty old jade pendant his mother had given him since he was a child. The pendant looked ordinary, like something from a street stall, but his mother always said it was a family heirloom from their ancestors.
Lin Yuan didn't know that this jade pendant was the final soul fragment of Sacred Lord Tianyuan, the supreme existence who once stood at the pinnacle of the Bright Shining Era ten thousand years ago — the golden age when spiritual qi filled the heavens and nine Sacred Lords ruled supreme.
He also didn't know that the moment he decided to boil this "cough syrup" for his mother with sincere filial piety, the long-dormant Sacred Immortal Body bloodline within him would awaken completely.
And from that moment on… he would become Heaven's Cherished Son!
Everything he did would be thoroughly blessed by the heavens themselves.
Lin Yuan washed the herbs casually, tossed them into the pot with some water, added the rock sugar, and hung the jade pendant on the pot handle "for good luck" just like the pretty girl video said.
He turned on the electric stove he had smuggled in and began to simmer.
The entire process was so ordinary that even the passing nurse laughed.
"Young man, you're still believing in these internet remedies? Better prepare yourself mentally…"
Lin Yuan just scratched his head with a silly smile.
"It's worth a try, right? Mom has suffered enough."
Ten minutes later.
The liquid in the pot began to bubble.
At first it was just normal herbal soup, slightly bitter.
But then—
A faint golden light suddenly flickered inside the pot.
Lin Feng blinked.
"Huh? Must be the reflection from the lights."
He stirred it once with a plastic spoon.
Boom—
An invisible wave of spiritual qi erupted silently!
The entire hospital ward trembled slightly.
The monitoring machines beeped wildly.
The spiritual qi in a radius of several kilometers began to surge toward this ordinary ward like a tidal wave.
In a cultivation mountain hidden in clouds, several Foundation Establishment elders of the Zhao Clan suddenly opened their eyes in shock.
"What?! Such pure primal spiritual qi… who is breaking through to Nascent Soul in our territory?!"
In the Murong Clan's private spiritual mountain villa on the outskirts, a peerless beauty in white cultivation robes, Murong Xue, who was meditating, felt her sword heart tremble.
"So rich… this is at least sacred-grade spiritual energy!"
Lin Yuan noticed nothing unusual.
He simply scooped a bowl of the now-golden, fragrant liquid and carefully blew on it.
"Mom, try this. It should help with the cough."
Aunt Zhang smiled weakly and took a small sip.
The moment the liquid entered her throat—
Golden light exploded silently from her body!
Her pale face instantly regained color. The cancer cells that had ravaged her lungs were annihilated in an instant. Her meridians, which had been blocked for decades due to the low spiritual qi, opened wide. A trace of ancient bloodline power surged within her.
She sat up straight on the bed.
"Eh…?"
Her eyes were wide with disbelief.
"Xiao Yuan… Mom… Mom feels completely fine! The pain is gone! I feel… I feel thirty years younger!"
Lin Yuan grinned foolishly.
"See? I told you the internet remedies do work!"
He had no idea that the "cough syrup" he had just casually brewed was now a Primordial Life-Prolonging Immortal Pill — something that even a dying True Immortal would fight to the death for in the ancient era.
One sip could extend lifespan by a thousand years and awaken latent supreme talent!
Outside the ward, chaos erupted.
Doctors rushed in, checking the machines in shock.
"Impossible! The cancer markers are zero! The tumors have completely disappeared!"
"Her vital signs are those of a healthy 25-year-old!"
The head doctor almost knelt on the spot.
"Miracle! This is a medical miracle!"
But that was only the beginning.
Because Lin Yuan had casually created the first immortal-tier treasure in the Post-Sealing Era.
And Heaven's Cherished Son had officially awakened.
At that moment, in the cultivation forums hidden within normal apps, a message began to spread like wildfire among the upper echelons of Blue River City's hidden world.
[Urgent! Massive spiritual qi anomaly at Blue River First People's Hospital! Suspected birth of a heaven-defying treasure or the awakening of an ancient bloodline!]
Zhao Clan's young master, Zhao Tianhao, was in the middle of dual cultivating with two beautiful female disciples when his communication jade slipped.
He glanced at it and sneered.
"Some trash treasure? Send someone to snatch it."
His face hardened.
"This young master wants it."
He clenched his fists viciously.
Lin Yuan scratched his head again as he looked at the now-empty pot.
"Eh? The soup is finished. Should I make another bowl for Mom tomorrow?"
He casually picked up the jade pendant, wiped it clean and hung it back around his neck.
The jade pendant shone with a faint, satisfied light.
The bloodline had recognized its master.
From now on, Lin Yuan's every action would give birth to immortal fortunes.
A genius of this caliber would surely be hunted down by fairies of the modern cultivation world.
Because Heaven's Cherished Son's yang essence was said to be the ultimate dual cultivation treasure capable of raising a woman's realm by hundreds of years in one night, purifying her dao foundation, and guaranteeing genius offspring that could restart the golden age.
But a clueless Lin Yuan wouldn't know that.
He happily helped his mother pack her things.
"Mom, let's go home."
His boyish face sparkled with a smile.
"I'll cook you something nice tonight."
Tee-hee! He clapped excitedly.
He didn't know that outside the hospital, several luxury cars and chariots were already parked, and beautiful female cultivators from the major clans were rushing over with burning eyes.