The Shadow Doctor Between Two Worlds

Shen Du's clinic is tucked deep in an alley in the old part of town. It has no sign, and patients don't use the front door.

Shen Du treats everyone. He has only one rule:

A doctor does not ask where you came from.

But there is one thing he never volunteers: the bottom drawer of his medicine cabinet connects to the cultivation world. Every time he uses it, the "Realm Patrol Mark" on his wrist grows a little deeper. Once the mark is complete, the machine that hunts down travelers between worlds will appear and "repair" the clinic, along with him.

He thought that as long as he controlled how often he used it, he could keep lying low forever.

Until one rainy night, a woman named Qing Luo pushed open the back door. She had been poisoned with Spirit-Devouring Powder, and tucked in her arms was a wanted notice from the cultivation world. The charge on the notice was: "Stealing the key to the fusion of the three realms."

From that day on, the Realm Patrol began closing in, the Pill Hall began investigating, and the rift between the two worlds began to widen faster.

Shen Du had no choice but to do something he had never imagined doing:

Walk a tightrope between one set of rules and another, relying on his medical skills, information, and reputation to survive in the space between two worlds.

This is not a story about fighting monsters and leveling up.

It is a story about "passageways."

A doctor is a passageway.