Mysterious Needles, Life on the Line

Three years ago, Chen Xuan, heir to the Nine Needles of Taisu, used a forbidden technique to save his wife. The backlash drove a silver needle through his left hand, crippling it.

Three years later, on a stormy night in Qingtai County, seven lightning-shaped marks resembling the Big Dipper appeared on the body of a vagrant who had been electrocuted to death.

They were identical to the pattern his late wife had drawn on the window before she died.

A scalpel opened the corpse, revealing artificially induced “qi arrival” crystallized on the surface of the heart muscle.

Under a microscope, spores from the grave-tongue fern extended magnetic hyphae that wrapped around Needle-Soul crystals.

The AI progress bar in every smart therapy pod in the county jumped to 99.9 percent, while the health bureau’s seal flashed across surveillance footage...

When Chen Xuan used a silver needle to pry open the firewall of the Xuanshen Group, he discovered they had used the sewers to simulate the body’s meridians,

infrasound to simulate acupuncture on fainting points, and living people to cultivate a ginseng king that needed “needle-soul” to nourish it.

And every clue pointed to the “accidental” death three years ago...

Was his Lin Wan a victim of medical malpractice, or the first growth medium in this conspiracy?

(As silver needles whistle through the air)

This is a war of silver needles against cyber sorcery.

When the bronze acupuncture mannequin awakens in a flood of data,

see how the last guardian of the acupuncture points pierces through a medical conspiracy that has been spreading for a thousand years.