The Divine Physician's Thirteen Ghostgate Needles

Medical student Chen Qi discovers the ancestral manual Ghost Gate’s Thirteen Needles in his old family home, stepping into a mysterious realm that modern medicine cannot explain. This ancient acupuncture technique is said to have a thirteenth needle that can bridge yin and yang and reverse life and death, but it comes with a cruel taboo: “Use all thirteen, and you will surely pay with your own life.”

Thinking he had merely learned a lost art, Chen Qi earns fame in the city with the first twelve needles, treating all manner of bizarre illnesses that hospitals have declared incurable. But when he tremulously drives in the forbidden thirteenth needle to save a loved one, he glimpses the uncanny truth beyond the boundary between life and death and shatters the balance between the two worlds.

From then on, the dead, who should have been resting in peace, wander the city. Ancient curses hidden for millennia quietly awaken, and Chen Qi discovers that his family has a blood feud with the very origins of this technique. Forced into a conflict spanning yin and yang and lasting hundreds of years, he saves patient after patient tormented by evil spirits while gradually uncovering the astonishing truth about his own fate and the ultimate secret of Ghost Gate’s Thirteen Needles.

This is not merely the passing down of medical knowledge. It is a life-and-death ledger, a wager of life itself in a struggle with the Heavenly Dao over who gets to decide who lives and dies.