The Genius Ghost Doctor

The Genius Ghost Doctor is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Qixi, serialized on Heiyan Reading from 2014 and completed on January 8, 2020, totaling roughly 3.78 million Chinese characters. The protagonist, Zhang Haoran, appears to be a young doctor at a small clinic on the city outskirts, treating construction workers who call him a "little miracle doctor"; in truth he carries a ghost general with him and wields the Five Emperor Coins, a cultivator who enters the Dao through medicine—he can diagnose illnesses and even hidden ailments by scenting a person's aura, heal by absorbing and dispelling pathogenic qi into his own body, and handle strange conditions caused by malevolent forces invading the body; ghosts and monsters kneel before him. The novel opens with a bet on a basketball court, where Zhang Haoran instantly exposes a strange woman's hidden ailment and private affairs, drawing him into urban disputes involving campus superpowers, antique appraisal, and struggles for dominance in the ghost realm. As the story advances, his stage expands from a street clinic to the immortal realm, the demon realm, and the ghost realm, through great scenes such as battling heavenly soldiers and contending for the title of Ghost Emperor, until the "ghost doctor" who cures evil ailments ascends to dominate the three realms. Throughout, the book upholds the cultivation philosophy of "Buddha as the heart, Dao as the bones" and "the supreme physician governs the state, the middling physician governs people, the lesser physician treats illness"—a long wish-fulfillment novel blending medical skill, Daoist arts, and tales of the three realms.