Ling Xuan, the healer immortal, spent his life treating the sick and helping the world. But when he refused to hand over the Immortal Medical Canon, he was hunted down by villains and gave his life for the Way atop Zixia Mountain. When he opened his eyes again, his soul had returned to the modern world, inhabiting the body of Wang Yi, an eighteen-year-old boy from a farming family. His home was bare, his grandmother was gravely ill, and he himself was frail, with a shattered dantian. The healer immortal who once ruled the world of cultivation had become a poor lad who could barely afford three meals a day.
Yet his medical skills remained, and his resolve was unchanged. Drawing on a medical inheritance spanning a thousand years and his deep cultivation knowledge, Wang Yi fights for survival against the odds. He first uses acupuncture to ease his own chronic illness, then discovers a qi cultivation method while searching for herbs in the hills. By curing minor ailments among his neighbors, he earns a good reputation, and he finds his footing by outsmarting village bullies and foiling unscrupulous merchants.
From a humble farmhouse to a county pharmacy, from free clinics in small towns to practicing in the provincial capital, from county-level symposiums to national medical conferences, he uses his extraordinary skills to solve difficult cases and renews traditional Chinese medicine by applying ancient remedies in new ways. Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul... He walks the path of cultivation anew in the modern world, honing his cultivation as he practices medicine and seeking opportunities through adventure. In ancient mountain caves, he finds medical scrolls from antiquity; in underwater ruins, cultivation manuals; in primeval forests, ancient medicinal herbs; and in snowbound secret realms, sacred sites for cultivation.
From a humble farming home to making waves in the medical world, from laying the foundations of cultivation to roaming the world as a Nascent Soul expert, from adventures on Earth to exploring the universe, Wang Yi enters the Way through medicine and uses the Way to prove medicine. Across his journeys through the modern world, the immortal realm, and the myriad Hongmeng worlds, he writes a legend of medicine that can revive the dead and herbs that can restore flesh to bone. In the end, he becomes the supreme master of the medical Way, letting its glory shine across the heavens.
