by macleague
Five years ago, Lu Chen disappeared from the world. Once hailed as the most gifted physician of the mysterious Valley of Nine Medicines, he possessed hands capable of saving lives that even the greatest doctors had abandoned. He was also a cultivator whose talent frightened those who understood what he might one day become. Then, in a single night, everything was taken from him. His sect was destroyed. His master vanished. His cultivation was shattered. And the woman he loved disappeared without leaving behind an explanation. The cultivation world believed Lu Chen was dead. They were wrong. Today, he lives quietly in Jiangzhou City, running a small traditional medicine clinic and raising his four-year-old daughter, Xiaoxiao. To his neighbors, Lu Chen is nothing remarkable—a struggling doctor and an overly devoted single father whose greatest concern seems to be preparing breakfast, paying the rent, and getting his daughter to kindergarten on time. Lu Chen prefers it that way. He has no desire to reclaim his former glory. But when an old man collapses in front of him, Lu Chen uses three acupuncture needles to perform a medical technique that should have vanished centuries ago. The patient survives. Unfortunately, the wrong people notice. Powerful families begin searching for the mysterious physician. Hidden martial artists recognize his techniques. Ancient enemies learn that the man they once tried to erase is still alive. And Lu Chen soon discovers something even more dangerous. His daughter is changing. Medicinal plants flourish in her presence. Spiritual beasts refuse to harm her. Ancient artifacts cannot determine her bloodline, cultivation talent, or destiny. Even Heaven itself seems unable to see her future. For years, Lu Chen believed he had lost everything. Now he realizes the destruction of his sect, the disappearance of Xiaoxiao's mother, and the mystery surrounding his daughter may all be connected. The enemies who once hunted him are returning. This time, however, Lu Chen has something far more precious to protect. He may have abandoned the path of immortality. He may have lost the power he once possessed. But if Heaven has already decided his daughter's fate… then this father will rewrite destiny with his own hands. He will heal those Heaven has condemned. He will destroy anyone who reaches for his child. And if the laws of the world demand her death— Lu Chen will defy Heaven itself.
| # | Title | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapter 1 — Three Needles Against Death | — |
| 2 | Chapter 2 — A Debt the Qin Family Cannot Repay | — |
| 3 | Chapter 3 — The Cold That Came at Midnight | — |
| 4 | Chapter 4 — The Man Who Came to Die | — |
| 5 | Chapter 5 — The Patient Who Brought a Coffin | — |
| 6 | Chapter 6 — The Half-Jade Message | — |
| 7 | Chapter 7 — The Golden Pavilion | — |
| 8 | Chapter 8 — Escape Beneath Golden Pavilion | — |
| 9 | Chapter 9 — The Fifth Life | — |
| 10 | Chapter 20 — The Seal Placed Before She Could Speak | — |
| 11 | Chapter 10 — Breakfast Before Revenge | — |
| 12 | Chapter 11 — The Sword That Burned With the Valley | — |
| 13 | Chapter 12 — The Hospital Beneath the Hospital | — |
| 14 | Chapter 13 — The Enemy on the Operating Table | — |
| 15 | Chapter 14 — The Dead Man in the Family Portrait | — |
| 16 | Chapter 15 — The Archive That Remembers Blood | — |
| 17 | Chapter 16 — The Patient Beneath the Third Bell | — |
| 18 | Chapter 17 — What Sleeps Beneath the Clinic | — |
| 19 | Chapter 18 — When the Third Bell Rings Twice | — |
| 20 | Chapter 19 — The Woman with Nine Frozen Meridians | — |
| 21 | Chapter 20 — The Seal Placed Before She Could Speak | — |
| 22 | Chapter 21 — The Mother in the Burned Photograph | — |
| 23 | Chapter 22 — White Crane Temple at Sunrise | — |
| 24 | Chapter 23 — The Blood That Calls Beyond the Gate | — |
| 25 | Chapter 24 — The First Patient of the Old Clinic | — |
| 26 | Chapter 25 — The Second Pei Mingshan | — |
| 27 | Chapter 26 — What Old Master Qin Forgot | — |
| 28 | Chapter 27 — The Dream in Qin Ruoxi’s Left Hand | — |
| 29 | Chapter 28 — The Blessing That Chose a Successor | — |
| 30 | Chapter 29 — The Physician Who Was Supposed to Be Dead | — |
| 31 | Chapter 30 — The Man Who Walked Away From His Own Death | — |
| 32 | Chapter 31 — Patient MC-09 | — |
| 33 | Chapter 32 — The Boy From Spring Willow House | — |
| 34 | Chapter 33 — The Memory That Never Happened | — |
| 35 | Chapter 34 — Source Seven | — |
| 36 | Chapter 35 — Little Willow | — |
| 37 | Chapter 36 — The Face of a Dead Physician | — |
| 38 | Chapter 37 — The Doctor Old Master Qin Must Not Recognize | — |
| 39 | Chapter 38 — The Consultation of Patient Two | — |
| 40 | Chapter 51 — The Woman with Frozen Meridians | — |
| 41 | Chapter 52 — The First Three Nails | — |
| 42 | Chapter 53 — The Blood That Called Her | — |
| 43 | Chapter 54 — The Resonance That Came From Within | — |
| 44 | Chapter 55 — The Pulse She Chose Herself | — |
| 45 | Chapter 56 — The Sixth Buffer | — |
| 46 | Chapter 57 — The Art of Letting Go | — |
| 47 | Chapter 58 — The Nail That Learned to Sleep | — |
| 48 | Chapter 59 — While She Was Sleeping | — |
| 49 | Chapter 60 — The Five That Still Worked | — |
| 50 | Chapter 61 — When the Winter Gates Fell Quiet | — |
| 51 | Chapter 62 — The Gate That Let Her Pass | — |
| 52 | Chapter 63 — The Heart That Kept Its Own Time | — |
| 53 | Chapter 64 — The Rhythm That Did Not Return | — |
| 54 | Chapter 78 — The Window That Knew How to Close | — |
| 55 | Chapter 79 — The Second Window | — |
| 56 | Chapter 80 — The Window She Chose | — |
| 57 | Chapter 81 — The Person Who Was Only Nearby | — |
| 58 | Chapter 82 — The Signal That Did Not Explain Her | — |
| 59 | Chapter 83 — The Question the Signal Could Not Answer | — |
| 60 | Chapter 84 — The Answer That Was Allowed to Be Uncertain | — |
| 61 | Chapter 85 — The Time She Was Allowed to Take | — |
| 62 | Chapter 86 — The Choice That Could Not Wait Forever | — |
| 63 | Chapter 87 — The Choice She Made Before She Needed It | — |
| 64 | Chapter 88 — The Patient Who Was Still Here | — |
| 65 | Chapter 89 — The Record That Learned to Change | — |
| 66 | Chapter 90 — The People Who Needed to Know | — |
| 67 | Chapter 112 — The Matched Session That Needed Another Witness | — |
| 68 | Chapter 113 — The Decision Not to Provoke without a Verdict | — |
| 69 | Chapter 114 — The First Cooling Pattern after the Third Reading | — |
| 70 | Chapter 115 — What Changed around the Lower-load Route | — |
| 71 | Chapter 116 — The Native Circulation That Did Not Follow | — |
| 72 | Chapter 117 — The Gate One Warning They Chose Not to Force | — |
| 73 | Chapter 118 — The Cost of Misreading the Matched Session | — |
| 74 | Chapter 119 — The Decision Not to Provoke That Pointed Somewhere Else | — |
