The Spiritual Pivot's Heavenly Questions Talisman

Amid the bustling urban jungle, Ji Mingyuan, a psychiatrist at a top-tier hospital, faces patients every day with mysterious pain that shows no signs of physical disease, and desperate faces trapped in hallucinations. He believes in the rigorous logic of modern medicine, until one rainy night, a distraught young woman who claims she can “see blockages in the flow of light inside the body” traces before him, with her fingernail, the lost meridian pathways from The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon. In a spontaneous attempt at acupuncture, the silver needle sinks in, and an electric sensation shoots through his body. The mysterious ancient text The Spiritual Pivot’s Questions to Heaven, left behind by his grandfather, suddenly glows hot against his chest. Ji Mingyuan’s quiet life as a doctor is utterly overturned. He is forced to accept an absurd truth: the ancient meridians and mysterious currents of energy are no myth. They are another precise set of cosmic laws hidden within the modern human body: “cultivation.” Guided by Su Banxia, an inheritor of an antique bookstore, Ji Mingyuan embarks on an unprecedented path. His consulting room becomes a laboratory, and the psychiatric ward becomes a cultivation ground. CT scans reveal not just lesions, but the tangible form of “inner demons”; an electroconvulsive therapy machine unexpectedly triggers the nascent form of a heavenly tribulation. He uses psychoanalysis to overcome barriers, observes the “dantian” with MRI, and deduces the recipe for a “Heart-Cleansing Pill” from the ingredients in antidepressants. He even discovers that the brain tumors of late-stage patients have formed bizarre “pseudo-elixirs”…