How I Ate Tang Monk’s Flesh and Became Immortal

In the damp, sweltering alleys of an urban village, the sign for "Lu's Massage" was easy to miss. Lu Jiuming, who ran the clinic, was gentle and refined, with expert hands, yet he always seemed to treat "strange" patients: a delivery rider whose tailbone itched and sprouted fuzz, an office worker who heard the sound of running water all day... It was only his nephew, Lu Xiusuo, who gradually realized that his great-uncle's mysterious acupuncture technique, where needles flashed in and out, and the ancient books locked away deep in the medicine cabinet were not meant to treat ordinary ailments, but "tainted qi entering the body and demonic qi thrown into disorder."

A thousand-year-old immortal and a modern medical student: this unusual uncle-and-nephew pair use ancient medical techniques to resolve the "intractable illnesses" caused by supernatural beings in the modern city, all while carefully hiding their identities and dealing with increasingly stringent business license inspections. Behind each seemingly bizarre case, a huge secret about the source of Lu Jiuming's long life is quietly coming to light, one treatment and prescription at a time.