[Important Notice] The folk remedies in this book are based on ancient texts, but are included solely for the story. Do not try them yourself, or you may harm your health.
During the Jian'an era, in a death-row prison in Xuchang,
Hua Tuo handed a bamboo slip to Fan A before his execution and whispered, “This can save lives.” Fan A fled that very night and disappeared into the remote mountains of western Hunan.
In 1968, when my Lu family moved our ancestral graves, the tomb held only four words: Leave now. Don’t look back.
My father died a gruesome death protecting the secret of the tomb. With his last 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 after accidentally digging up a thousand-year-old tomb, I obtained a fragmentary version of the Ghost Gate Needle Technique. A Miaojiang poison-witch claimed I was bound by a six-hundred-year-old curse. Hong Kong feng shui masters fought over the Celestial Measuring Ruler in my hands. And the thousand-year-old corpse of a woman buried in yin energy, lying in the ancestral hall, quietly moved a finger.
The bloodline of the tomb guardians, the secret scripture of yin burial, the Dragon-Subduing Deadly Formation: villains from every corner came after me, each hoping to seize my fortune.
The world knows only that my silver needles can save lives. It doesn’t know that the Thirteen Ghost Gate Needles can also slay evil spirits and suppress dark forces.
