Awakening of the Medical Immortal: A Record of Urban Cultivation
Beneath the white coat of emergency physician Chen Bufan lie two identities: a doctor who saves lives with a scalpel, and the last heir to the secluded medical immortal sect, the Tianshu Pavilion. A portable medicine garden manifested from a bronze-patterned ring and the Spirit Pivot Jade Slip, which records ancient medical texts, allow him to unravel bizarre cultivation mysteries through medical reasoning. Yet haunted by his mother's death from illness when he was young, he has grown used to hiding his devotion to life behind a sharp tongue.
An inexplicable case of “destiny exhaustion” draws him into the city's undercurrents. The “Destiny Bank” run by the hypocritical philanthropist Li Canghai imprisons bodies for slaughter. The capitalist empire of the scheming CEO Pei Shi'an relies on soul contracts to prolong life. And the blood-red Gu worms of the lovesick strategist Shen Huapi devour innocent lives. Then Mo Qingci, an archaeologist returning from abroad, appears. She brings not only the bond of a childhood sweetheart, but also the revelation that she is the reincarnation of the Tianshu Pavilion's Holy Maiden. The medical immortal bloodline sealed within her is the key to breaking the darkness.
As surgical blades clash with talismanic swords, and spirit springs battle Gu poison, Chen Bufan gradually awakens to the truth of “entering the Dao through medicine.” He tames the ancient Gu King Meng Po and researches the “Dual Cultivation Art of the Medical Immortals” with Mo Qingci. Together with Bai Qiuhuang, an heir to the Talisman Venerable, and Leng Wufeng, a martial arts fanatic, he races between the emergency room's life-and-death line and the final battlefield of the spirit realm. From passive defense to taking the initiative, from healing individual injuries to reshaping the laws of the cultivation world, he will use the faint light of the Life-Prolonging Fruit to illuminate the city's skies, twisted by capital and dark sorcery. It turns out a medical immortal is not a god who defies fate, but an ordinary person brave enough to mend hope for all living beings with their own hands.
