A Country Doctor's Cheat-Powered Journey Through the Cosmos

When a drop of blood fell into a jade gourd sealed away for a thousand years, the gears of the universe began turning backward. Chen Xuan, a blind young man, had no idea he was about to become the one who would break the rules.

At first, he was just a crippled young man crushed under the heel of the village bully, fumbling through the wind to pick up scattered medicinal herbs. Even the bowl of food Bai Wan handed him made his hands tremble. Then, one night, a torrential rain exposed a secret hidden in the cliffs. He touched a streak of blue light beneath a crack in fate, and the jade gourd awakened. Spiritual energy flooded into his veins like a tide, and miracles began to grow at his fingertips. Nine-Leaf Resurrection Grass unfurled in his palm, the art of spiritual acupuncture whispered to him in dreams, and while a day passed in the outside world, a year went by inside the gourd. Time became his most loyal ally.

Everything changed with a marriage of convenience. Chu Xuan burst into the countryside with a letter seeking treatment for her gravely ill father, mistook Chen Xuan for a miracle doctor, and ushered him onto the urban stage. A single dose of Purpleheart Spirit Ginseng saved a dying man, but it also thrust Chen Xuan into the eye of the storm. The blood of a God of War came looking for him, while the blades of the Dark Night Fangs flashed in shadowy alleys. He refined pills and saved lives even as he battled the consciousness of a demon king, his soul torn again and again between brilliance and madness. All the while, Bai Wan kept a lamp burning for his return, like a stubborn wildflower kindling a gentle light for him amid the wind and sand.