During a desperate experiment, Lin Yanzhou, a doctoral student at Jinghua Medical University, accidentally activates the “Qi Guiding Formula” left behind in 1979, bringing the vital energy of traditional Chinese medicine into the world of centrifuges and fluorescence microscopes. Bathed in vital energy, heart muscle cells regain their ATP, but his grandmother, suffering from a brainstem hemorrhage, becomes the key sought by the mysterious organization Golden Palace. His doctoral advisor Shen Jibai, Su Qingnang, who survived from the Republican era, and Ajiu, a prodigy with flowing fire inside him, force him to choose between SCI papers and Foundation Establishment, between impact factor and ascension. Reading papers, culturing cells, refining vital energy, unlocking jade seals: a defiant path to immortality, tested by P-values, begins. If his paper is rejected, he will keep himself alive with his dantian; if his vital energy flows backward, he will use a scalpel to alter the meridians. A medical student cultivates immortality: saving one person means a medical record, while saving ten thousand is the Way of the Elixir.
