Part-Time Alchemist Doctor

Part-Time Alchemist Doctor is an urban supernatural novel by the web writer San Yang Zhu Zhu, first serialized on Qidian and later completed on platforms such as Baidu Novels. The story begins with an accident: Ye Tian, an ordinary college student with no medical knowledge, cuts his finger, and a few drops of blood fall on a wooden object (a wooden seal) on his desk. The object blazes with light, and the legacy left by a top alchemist from another world is unexpectedly unsealed and floods into his mind. This legacy includes the Pure Heart Formula, which can cure a hundred poisons, pill recipes for a thousand elixirs, and the True Tempering Formula for cultivating ten thousand rare spiritual herbs. From then on, Ye Tian's life changes completely. On the surface an unremarkable college student, he is in fact a "alchemist doctor" who can treat stubborn illnesses and neutralize all kinds of rare poisons, while making his way in the urban business world as a wholesale medicinal herb dealer. He refines elixirs rarely seen on the market and cultivates rare herbs long thought extinct, healing people while competing with rivals for business and dealing with forces eyeing his secret recipes; he also attends the world's top auctions, where he calmly watches buyers bid for a thousand-year-extinct Ascension Grass. The work combines the traditional Chinese medicine approach of diagnosing and prescribing with the alchemy system of xianxia fantasy; the main thread is the protagonist using his special skill to establish himself in the city, expand and gradually rise. The book totals more than a million words and is complete, with about 238 chapters and a happy ending. It is a typical urban supernatural power-fantasy, with a brisk pace and an emphasis on familiar tropes and the pleasure of the protagonist's halo.