Refining My Heart and Hunting Demons in the City

Novel Synopsis:

I Cultivate My Heart and Hunt Demons in the City

Jia Wenxuan, the thirteenth-generation descendant of the chief imperial physicians of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, has just graduated from the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department of Jinghai University in Taixuan City on Blue Star. His greatest dream is simply to earn his medical license, open a small medicinal cuisine shop, treat people, and live out the rest of his life in peace.

But before the celebrations of his graduation ceremony have even faded, a bizarre murder plunges him into a vortex. His university advisor is found sitting peacefully in a sealed room, dead, his face frozen in an expression of utter terror. Modern technology can find no clues at all.

The female police officer helping with the investigation, Lin Wei, is perceptive yet baffled. What she faces appears to be a perfect case of “unnatural death.”

It is only when Jia Wenxuan’s fingertips touch the cold mark left at the scene that a corner of the truth is revealed to him. His inherited talent for “spiritual resonance pulse diagnosis” lets him glimpse that this was no ordinary death from illness, but the lingering trace of a cold, despairing, and deeply seductive malicious thought: a “heart demon” technique beyond the mortal world!

That touch sends his blood and qi surging as though he has contracted a grave illness, while also opening the door to the other side of the world.

Driven by the need to make a living and by his original aspirations, he opens his Cheng'en Hall Medicinal Cuisine Shop as planned. Angelica and astragalus chicken soup soothes the bodies of ordinary people, while poria calming cakes nourish weary hearts. His customers come from all walks of life: exhausted office workers, martial artists with deficient qi, and even… visitors from the “inner world” whose minds are damaged and auras strange.

He soon discovers that his medicinal cuisine can not only regulate blood and qi, but also subtly soothe minds eroded by uncanny forces and cleanse “spiritual awareness contamination.” His “spiritual resonance pulse diagnosis” can sense emotions, distinguish abnormalities, and glimpse the “karma” that clings to people’s hearts and objects…