The Celestial Art of Qihuang

Su Banxia, heir to a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners for a hundred years, accidentally uncovers a secret feud spanning a thousand years between her family and Yongchuntang after a medicinal cuisine mishap on the winter solstice. A Tang dynasty manuscript fragment of the Huangdi Neijing hidden in her grandfather’s study, bronze meridians exposed by a collapse on Beishan, and a Northern Dipper star raft atop Mount Everest… When she uses silver needles to pierce a conspiracy wrapped in modern technology, she discovers that the human body’s meridians resonate at the same frequency as the pulse of the Earth.

To stop Yongchuntang from weaponizing the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine, Su Banxia becomes embroiled in a struggle over the core of the Five Phases: a living copy of the Shennong Bencao Jing in the Wood Phase’s Dragon Bone Cavern, a Zhou dynasty bronze bellows in the Water Phase’s Dark Nether Cavern, and quantum dragonfolk in the Fire Phase’s Burning Heavens Abyss… Using Lingshu acupuncture techniques to wield cinnabar keys, she deciphers the genetic code her mother left behind in the Su Medical Records while fighting off swarms of mechanical bees and nanofungal threads, and faces the cruel truth that she herself is a “Heaven-and-Human experimental subject.”

From the star raft of Dunhuang to the bellows of Guixu, from the quantum transformation of the Treatise on Cold Damage to the hidden stars of the Northern Dipper appearing in the world, ancient medical texts become weapons for breaking through impossible odds. As a vast web of meridians envelops the globe, silver needles collide with torrents of data, sparking a light that could preserve civilization. This medical battle spanning time and space finally finds the ultimate balance between technology and humanity in the thousand-year echo of “the great physician’s sincerity and compassion.”