Qingshan: I Cultivate Immortality in My Dreams at the Mental Hospital

At forty-eight, Chen Mi was a modestly well-known investor in Beining City. But after a sudden stock market crash wiped him out and left him three million yuan in online loans, his creditors hounded him until he was desperate. Then he had a flash of inspiration: pretend to be insane and check himself into Beishan Psychiatric Hospital. Chen Mi thought he only had to hold out for a few months until his creditors gave up, and then he could leave. But on the first full moon night, after falling asleep on a hard bed, he found himself in a bizarre world of immortal cultivation! From then on, he began a strange and unpredictable double life. By day, he was a “severely ill patient” at Beishan Psychiatric Hospital, matching wits with a group of deranged patients and dealing with the hospital’s absurd rules. By night, he was an unaffiliated cultivator in the world of immortals, relying on two jade slips and spirit stones he had picked up to slowly cleanse his marrow, remold his meridians, and sense the workings of heaven and earth. As he ventured deeper into the dream world, he gradually realized that Beishan Psychiatric Hospital itself seemed to conceal a huge secret. Why did the director always disappear on full moon nights? Why was the hospital basement always locked? And why did some patients’ ravings eerily match what he had encountered in the cultivation world? More terrifying still, certain beings from the cultivation world seemed to be seeping into reality through dreams… And Chen Mi, a middle-aged man driven to the brink by reality, would forge an unprecedented path of cultivation between these two worlds, from a psychiatric patient’s daydream to true transcendence beyond the mortal world.