Otherworldly Medical Immortal

Otherworldly Medical Immortal is an otherworld-continent fantasy novel by web author Han Bao, serialized on Qidian from June 18, 2011, and completed on April 20, 2014. It runs about 3.71 million Chinese characters across more than 1,200 chapters and has not been published in print. At the story's opening, the strongest cultivator in the cultivation world falls amid a siege by thousands of cultivators; his soul is reincarnated into an otherworld continent where battle qi and magic coexist, becoming the youth Fang Yun. Utterly out of place in this world's systems of battle qi and magic, he relies instead on the cultivation foundation accumulated in his previous life: knowledge of alchemy, artifact forging, formations, meridians, and pharmacology. Fang Yun operates by his own rule—"There is no illness that cannot be cured, as long as you can pay the corresponding price." He establishes himself through pills, and the pills he refines once monopolized the market of Mobei; low-grade magical artifacts he casually forges are regarded as divine weapons by the continent's warriors and mages. Great mages come to him for instruction in magic formations, alchemists for the way of artifact forging, pill refiners for the art of alchemy—even exotic beasts come to ask him how to refine themselves into demons over a hundred temperings. The novel follows the main line of "a youth from a fallen family—rise in another world—collisions among multiple factions," interweaving the open and hidden struggles within the Fang family, the conflicts among Mobei's various clans, and adventures in the Light Academy, the Martial Combat Academy, the Canghuang Ancient Road, the Abyssal Royal Tombs, and the Demonic City Imperial Capital, gradually unfolding a vast worldview in which magic formations, artifact forging, alchemy, gods and demons, and ancient secrets coexist. The book is a highly typical "technique-stream leveling" power fantasy: the protagonist breaks through obstacles by knowledge and craft rather than brute force, with a brisk pace and dense chapters; the extras and the final chapter, "Fate," close with a great formation duel, forming a closed-loop ending. It suits readers who enjoy long otherworld cultivation stories and the pleasure of "crushing the field with one specialty."