The Song-Era Physician Knight: Defying Fate with the Nine Yin Manual

At two in the morning, in the emergency department, Qi Gui’s carotid artery was slashed by a patient’s family member.

His last thought before losing consciousness was: If only I knew the martial arts of a great hero.

When he opened his eyes again, it was the fourth year of the Xuanhe era, at Liangshan Marsh.

He had become an orphan of five or six, standing before a burly man with a blue-green face: Yang Zhi.

A modern doctor who knew how to treat patients but not how to fight had landed in the final years of the Northern Song, five years before the Jingkang Catastrophe. The Jin armies were on their way, and the land was about to fall apart. What could he do?

He had no golden finger, only his hands: hands that had stitched up miles of wounds in his previous life, and now gripped the hilt of a sword.

He used his medical knowledge to fathom the principles of martial arts. Yang Zhi taught him combat skills, Huang Shang passed on the Nine Yin Manual, and a chance encounter with a venerable monk brought him the Yi Jin Jing. At Shaolin, he met Xu Zhu and obtained the Xiao Wuxiang Skill and the Beiming Divine Skill. He traveled north to seek Yue Fei and learned the strength of the Dragon-Elephant Prajna. After many twists and turns, he finally mastered the Nine Yang Divine Skill.

The Nine Yin Manual as his guiding principle, the five elements brought to perfection: he united the five inner arts of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, with the Nine Yin Manual governing them all. He lived through the Song, resisted the Jin, and held back the Yuan.

He sought out Yue Fei not to tell him to serve his country with unwavering loyalty, but to make sure he did not die.

Rather than serve a rotten court, he would establish a new world for all under heaven. Between the three powers of Song, Jin, and Yuan, he carved out a haven for ordinary people.

The greatest heroes fight for their country and their people.

In the end, the people gave him their hearts, and all found their way home.

And he retired from the world of martial arts.

Qi Gui: all things return to harmony.