On the surface, he is Wei Yuan, a gifted young traditional Chinese doctor at the Hall of Returning Spring. In secret, he is the last heir of an ancient lineage of Daoist healers, able to diagnose illness by reading qi and restore balance with talismans and acupuncture.
Everything is peaceful until a series of cases of “childhood soul loss,” which modern medicine can do nothing about, shatters the calm. Using his family’s Egg Soul-Restoring Technique and the deductions of the Book of Changes, Wei Yuan discovers that these are no accidents, but the beginning of a carefully plotted conspiracy to harvest the essence of life. The trail leads to a mysterious organization hidden beneath the glamour of top-tier capital and technology: the Longevity Pavilion. They manipulate fortune with feng shui formations and imprison living souls with forbidden arts. Their ultimate goal is to realize humanity’s most covetous dream, one pursued since time immemorial: perfect immortality.
From then on, Wei Yuan’s clinic becomes the final stop for urban legends. A tycoon whose fortune has been stolen through feng shui, an office worker whose soul is devoured by an ancient jade, an influencer stricken by a digital curse… Every supernatural case becomes another piece of the puzzle revealing the Longevity Pavilion’s bloody experiments. The acupuncture needles in his hands are both tools for saving lives and sharp blades that pierce the fog. The yellowed fragments of the Green Satchel Classic contain not only the secret arts of bringing the dead back to life, but also the key to breaking evil spells.
This is an uneven war. On one side stand the wisdom and benevolence of a Daoist tradition rooted for millennia; on the other, a monstrous empire of capital combining cutting-edge technology with ancient dark arts. Wei Yuan must navigate the urban maze of human deceit and ghostly schemes, and withstand one life-or-death battle of magic after another, to protect the dignity of life and the laws of nature.
