The Life-Stealing Medical Immortal

The Life-Stealing Medical Immortal is an urban supernatural novel by Xin Yingzi. It was serialized on Qidian from May 2014 to January 29, 2015, runs about 1.8 million Chinese characters, and is categorized as Urban · Supernatural Powers. The story begins at an auto repair shop in Fengcheng County, northern Jiangsu. Zhang Yi, a poor young man, steps in for a coworker and is beaten by local thugs. On the brink of death, his jade pendant transforms, forming a "Spring of Vitality" in his dantian, granting him self-healing and the power to project life force. He first cures serious illnesses among those around him, entering the world of mystical medicine; he then receives martial training at a martial arts hall, obtains techniques such as the Rejuvenation Art, and formally begins cultivating ancient martial arts. As his horizons widen, Zhang Yi's activities expand from the county town to larger cities and the hidden world of cultivation: he hangs his shingle as a physician, develops medicines, founds enterprises, and navigates between ancient martial arts families and various factions, gradually accumulating resources and followers. In the middle and later sections, the thread shifts overseas and to hidden realms; in the South China Sea, the Western Regions, and elsewhere he gains inheritances and fortuitous opportunities, his cultivation rising level by level, and he develops Purgatory Island and the six surrounding islands into his base, assembling a legion of Golden Core and Fusion stage experts. The novel concludes with a "cataclysm": strange phenomena proliferate between heaven and earth, Zhang Yi leads his forces in formation against the enemy, and former rivals and mysterious experts such as Nangong Siyu appear one after another. The story's endpoint is his growth from a lowly youth into a medical powerhouse who commands a region. The book interweaves three threads—healing with medicine, urban power struggles, and cultivation progression—making it a fairly typical urban medical-martial power fantasy of the mid-2010s.