A Mortal's Journey to Immortality

As night fell, Shan City was enveloped in a vast darkness. The stars in the sky looked as small and dense as dust, and the light among the lofty mountains shone like rainbows. It was a prosperous scene of flourishing age. In Shan City Medical University. At 18 sharp, Ning Tao discreetly tucked an acceptance letter into his pants pocket and walked out of the entrance guard room. With his back to the magnificent classroom building and facing the street in front of the gate, he stood upright on the duty platform for guards. This was the last time he took over other's shift. "Mom, dad, your son didn't disappoint you. I will go to the Affiliated Hospital of Shan City Medical University tomorrow and start my internship. Are you happy for me?" Ning Tao murmured in his heart as he looked up at the vast sky, as if he had seen the faces of his father and mother who had died in a car accident four years ago. At this time, a

Several hours later, Ning Tao was slowly back to full consciousness. When he opened his eyes, he saw the dense tree canopy and the golden sunlight pouring down from the branches and leaves. Ning Tao rolled out of the ground and looked around. There was no old house or Chen Pingdao around. He was standing on a hillside with trees, thorns and weeds all round but without even a path! However, the medical book and the transfer contract that Chen Pingdao gave him were still in his hands, and they were real, not an illusion. "Oh!" Ning Tao suddenly remembered something. "Chen Pingdao smells exactly like that black dog, and he said he had given me a bit of cultivation. He's the black dog! Have... have I really run into a ghost?" After pausing for a short while, Ning Tao opened the medical book to read it. The content of the medical book was quite concise, with only four chapters, namely, looking, smelling, elixirs and acupuncture. The

It took Ning Tao most of the day to tidy up the Sky Clinic. The jumble of bottles and cans were all arranged in good order. The blood graffiti written by Chen Pingdao on the right wall was also cleaned without leaving a trace. During the cleaning process, Ning Tao had attempted to open the doors on the walls on both sides, but he failed. The clinic's ledger gave him a hint that it took 5,000 points of the merits of good intention and sins of evil intention to open a door. In total, opening two doors would cost 10,000 points, which was more than four years' rent for the clinic. Ning Tao came to the conclusion that this was not the Sky Clinic at all, but a baleful clinic! "No wonder Chen Pingdao has never entered the two stores. How could he have enough good and bad values to open the two doors when the clinic is close to bankruptcy under his management?" Ning Tao thought with a sigh. After cleaning up, Ning Tao started to study the stuff in t

As the door opened, a young woman in a housecoat came into view. "You?" The short-haired woman and Ning Tao almost spoke with one voice. What a coincidence! Ning Tao never imagined that Jiang Hao was the woman who almost fainted and he helped on the street. No wonder he got a sense of deja vu when he looked at the photo. If Jiang Hao had her hair cut short like she did now, he would recognize her at a glance at her photo. "Do you... know each other?" Ge Ming asked, surprised. "We met in the street." Ning Tao smiled and greeted, "Hello, Miss Jiang." Jiang Hao suddenly grabbed Ning Tao by the collar and snapped, "Who the hell are you? How do you know I'm here?" Apparently, the chance encounter on the street and the sudden appearance had touched her sensitive nerve as a policewoman. "We'll talk about it on the road. Now I'll feel your pulse and examine you." Ning Tao said and

Ning Tao yanked the IV needle off the back of Jiang Yilong's hand and pushed his bed through the black hole in the wall. Then he entered the hole as well. During the whole process, Ning Tao felt like he was pushing a hospital bed through a dark tunnel without lights. After a second or two, he saw familiar objects, like the good-evil tripod with a human face, ancient desk and bookshelf, utensils of different materials and sizes, and some other things. He was back at the Sky Clinic. Ning Tao jerked his head back. The black hole had disappeared, and there was a blood lock pattern on the wall. Subconsciously, he glanced at the clinic key in his hand and realized that if he wanted to go back, he would have to insert the key into the blood lock and open the door again. Then the face on the good-evil tripod suddenly opened its eyes which was full of anger. When a kind person came, it smiled; when an evil person came, it