The Needle God of the Ghost Gate

Lin Mo, an ordinary young man from Bluestone Village, ventures deep into the mountains to make a living. During a torrential downpour, he tumbles into a mysterious cave and encounters Xuan Weizi, a mysterious old man on the verge of death. With his life running out, Xuan Weizi entrusts to this kindhearted village boy the forbidden art known as the Thirteen Ghostgate Needles, a technique capable of shaking the balance of yin and yang and reversing life and death. He also leaves Lin Mo with the weight of the sect's rules and an unfathomable destiny. From then on, Lin Mo's life is turned upside down. A silver needle between his fingers can decide who lives and who dies, restore flesh to bare bones, reach into the netherworld, and invite terrifying backlash! Bearing an earth-shaking inheritance and accompanied by Xiaoyue, a young wolf of mysterious origins, he leaves his isolated village and enters the turbulent worlds of the martial realm and the imperial court. He heals the sick and saves lives, accumulating merit, but this draws the covetous eyes of every faction, eager to seize the Heaven-defying needle technique. As he investigates his origins and searches for his master's whereabouts, he gradually uncovers the ultimate secret behind the Ghostgate: a power that connects yin and yang and can shake the very fabric of time and space. Yet each time he uses the needles, he borrows power from the netherworld, spending his lifespan and triggering a terrifying backlash. The safety of his loved ones, his enemies' schemes, the curse of the needles, and the limits of his own strength all weigh upon the young man as he grows. From a mountain village to the provincial capital, from the Imperial Medical Academy to lost secret realms, and eventually to other planes of existence, Lin Mo takes the needle as his blade and follows the path of medicine. Caught in the maelstrom of saving others and saving himself, power and its price, rules and emotions, can he hold fast to his principles, overcome the backlash, unravel every mystery, and ultimately become the Ghostgate Needle God whose name makes the heavens tremble? This is an epic tale of inheritance and responsibility, life and death, and forbidden arts, following an ordinary boy's transformation one step at a time. When the Ghostgate needle falls, the road to the netherworld opens. His legendary journey begins here!