Super Immortal Doctor

Super Immortal Doctor is a modern cultivation novel by the Yuewen Group author Wu Zhi (real name Xiao Kun). It has been serialized on Qidian since July 18, 2010; the complete work runs to 726 chapters, about 2.25 million characters, and is now finished. The protagonist, Zhang Wenzhong, was originally an immortal doctor whose cultivation was near its peak; after failing his tribulation, his primordial spirit leaves his body and possesses the young school doctor Zhang Wenzhong, who has just died suddenly. Thus the same body houses two sharply contrasting identities: "the rookie school doctor newly hired at Yongcheng University's campus clinic" and "the immortal doctor skilled in both Chinese and Western medicine who has saved countless lives." The story begins when Zhang Wenzhong, on his way to work, encounters a major car accident and uses a lost acupuncture technique to rescue the injured in the street; this earns him the enmity of Chen Jian, director of the emergency department. He then discovers a merchant in the antique street passing off his own old doodles as antique forgeries and deals with it on the spot. From then on, using medical skills such as the Foundation-Enhancing Acupuncture Technique, the Eight Methods of Qi Observation, and the Marrow-Cleansing and Classic-Changing Decoction, he handles one urban case after another—campus medical cases, difficult and severe illnesses, plagues—and combines medicine with cultivation alchemy, talismans, and formations, saving lives while cultivating anew and climbing ever higher in the cultivation world. Several female characters also appear: a female doctor pressured by her mother into blind dates, a knowledgeable and capable female chairman, a vibrant female university student, and a female disciple. The work follows the dual-line wish-fulfillment formula of "medicine plus cultivation," with a fast pace and many standalone cases, and is one of the representative works of the urban miracle-doctor genre around 2010.