[Important notice] The folk remedies mentioned in this book are based on ancient texts, but are included solely for the story. Do not try them yourself, as they may harm your health.
During the Jian'an era, in Xuchang's death row prison,
Hua Tuo handed Fan A a bamboo slip before his execution and whispered, “This can save lives.” Fan A fled that very night and eventually disappeared into the remote mountains of western Hunan.
In 1968, my Lu family moved our ancestral graves. Inside one tomb, only four words were carved: Leave now. Don't look back.
My father died a gruesome death trying to protect the tomb's secret. With his dying breath, he told me: “Our bloodline is the lock on the Nine Dragons Swallowing the Pearl formation.”
My name is Lu Jiuzhen. I'm just a barefoot doctor who treats people with silver needles.
But then I accidentally unearthed a thousand-year-old tomb and obtained a fragmentary set of Ghost Gate needles. A Miaojiang gu witch claimed I was bound by a six-hundred-year-old curse. Hong Kong feng shui masters fought over the Black Crow Measuring Ruler in my possession. And the thousand-year-old corpse of a woman buried in the yin chamber, laid to rest in the mourning hall, quietly moved a finger.
The guardian bloodline, the secret manual of yin burial, and the Dragon-Suppressing Death Point: villains from every quarter came one after another, all hoping to seize my fortune.
The world knows that my silver needles can save lives, but no one knows that the Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles can also slay baleful spirits and suppress evil.
