Recaps

Su Ziyang discovered that Fairy Li owned the apartment he rented from her, and the two joked about raising the rent. After Teacher Yi challenged him to a medical contest in Hunan, Mr. Mengfei announced that he would take Su Ziyang there the following week.

• Su Ziyang realized Fairy Li was his landlord, and she admitted she had rented him the apartment while charging him rent; he embraced her and agreed to wash the dishes.
• Su Ziyang blocked Teacher Yi after receiving messages insulting his medical skills and challenging him to a contest.
• Three days later, Fourth Uncle told Su Ziyang that Teacher Yi had threatened to make Fourth Aunt sick, though Teacher Yi later admitted she only had a stomach flu and he had been bluffing.
• Su Ziyang agreed to compete with Teacher Yi at his traditional Chinese medicine clinic in Hunan, but hesitated about traveling there alone.
• Mr. Mengfei told Su Ziyang the clinic would close for a week because of a religious assembly and said he would take Su Ziyang and Xiao Zijun to Hunan.

Su Ziyang accompanied Mr. Mengfei to visit his dying master, where he fought through a crowd so Mr. Mengfei could enter. After meeting his grandmaster, Su Ziyang returned to the hotel as Mr. Mengfei stayed behind.

• Su Ziyang told Mr. Mengfei on the plane that he had agreed to compete with Teacher Yi, and Mr. Mengfei gave him permission to proceed.
• Mr. Mengfei took Su Ziyang to a village, where Xiao Qi and the others blocked their way to the house.
• At Mr. Mengfei's command, Su Ziyang knocked Xiao Qi down and fought the crowd while Mr. Mengfei slipped into the courtyard.
• Su Ziyang entered the house, knelt before Mr. Mengfei's master, and watched the old man die peacefully after welcoming his grand-disciple.
• Mr. Mengfei sent Su Ziyang back to the hotel, where Fairy Li noticed his injuries and offered him spicy stinky tofu.

Su Ziyang met Zhang Rongyi at his clinic to settle their dispute with a treatment contest. After Su Ziyang relieved one patient's stomachache with acupuncture, Zhang Rongyi treated another similar patient with Bagua Image-Number Therapy, leaving the contest tied.

• Teacher Yi called Su Ziyang and gave him an address in a neighboring city, and Su Ziyang told Mr. Mengfei before setting off with Fairy Li.
• Su Ziyang met Teacher Yi, whose real name was Zhang Rongyi, at his clinic and noticed signs that Zhang Rongyi had trained in Iron Sand Palm.
• Zhang Rongyi proposed that they take turns treating patients who came in before nightfall, and Su Ziyang agreed.
• Su Ziyang diagnosed a patient's stomachache as the result of catching a chill and relieved it with acupuncture using Burning Mountain Fire.
• Zhang Rongyi wrote the number 380 on paper and placed it over a second patient's Guanyuan point, and the patient's stomachache stopped after about five minutes.
• Zhang Rongyi challenged Su Ziyang to admit his therapy worked, but Fairy Li looked concerned as the first stage of the contest ended in a draw.

Zhang Rongyi demonstrated his Bagua Image-Number Therapy, while Su Ziyang treated Zhang Daolin’s chronic back pain with acupuncture and won their contest. Zhang Rongyi invited Su Ziyang and Fairy Li to his solitary home for dinner, where they waited for food over tea.

• Zhang Rongyi used Bagua Image-Number Therapy to make a young basketball player’s swollen ankle shrink and stop hurting.
• Su Ziyang diagnosed Zhang Daolin’s lower back pain, then relieved it with acupuncture despite the shrapnel scars from Zhang Daolin’s battlefield injury.
• Zhang Rongyi conceded that Su Ziyang had won the contest because of his ability and youth.
• Zhang Rongyi invited Su Ziyang and Fairy Li to his home, where he brewed tea and said he had ordered dinner.

Su Ziyang learned that Zhang Rongyi had treated the people who insulted him and discovered that Zhang Rongyi used cultivation power alongside Bagua Image-Number Therapy. After they cleared up their misunderstanding and shared a meal, Zhang Rongyi invited Su Ziyang to compare their skills.

• Su Ziyang reviewed Zhang Rongyi’s private messages and learned that the group members had abused him after he refused their unreasonable demands, despite having helped them with their illnesses.
• Zhang Rongyi showed Su Ziyang old letters about Bagua Image-Number Therapy and explained how he had come to practice it and start his own online group.
• Fairy Li recognized that Zhang Rongyi’s treatment involved cultivation power, and Zhang Rongyi sensed that Su Ziyang had an aura that blocked his attempts to read him.
• Su Ziyang and Zhang Rongyi cleared up their suspicions, shared a meal, and toasted as friends.
• Zhang Rongyi proposed that they compare their backgrounds and test their skills after eating, while Su Ziyang said his master had not taught him such things.

Zhang Rongyi demonstrated his outwardly manifested inner power and taught Su Ziyang the healing skill One-Handed Grab. The next morning, Su Ziyang and Fairy Li bought gifts and headed back to Zhang Rongyi’s home.

• Zhang Rongyi meditated and manifested a golden sphere of inner power above his head, then explained that he had cultivated it for over thirty years using the Tao Te Ching.
• Su Ziyang showed Zhang Rongyi the abundant True Qi he had cultivated, and Zhang Rongyi offered to teach him the healing technique Grab Illness Qi.
• Zhang Rongyi taught Su Ziyang how to channel Qi through his fingers to remove illness Qi, and Su Ziyang successfully produced a mist-like extension from his palm.
• Su Ziyang and Fairy Li declined Zhang Rongyi’s offer to stay, booked a hotel, and Fairy Li scolded Su Ziyang for playing with her hair using the new skill.
• Su Ziyang called Mr. Mengfei, and Fairy Li told him to stop troubling his upset master and to buy Zhang Rongyi a gift.
• The next morning, Su Ziyang and Fairy Li bought a pile of things at a shopping mall and went to Zhang Rongyi’s house.

Zhang Rongyi taught Su Ziyang the family massage technique Eight and a Half Locks after deciding to pass it on during Su Ziyang’s return visit. Su Ziyang experienced the technique’s effects as Zhang demonstrated its preparatory steps and methods for treating the neck, shoulders, arms, armpits, and elbows.

• Su Ziyang and Fairy Li visited Zhang Rongyi, watched him practice, and gave him gifts.
• Zhang Rongyi explained that he had decided to teach Su Ziyang another massage technique if he came back in person, and Su Ziyang eagerly agreed to learn.
• Zhang Rongyi introduced Eight and a Half Locks and demonstrated the preparatory acupoint massage and neck-relaxing techniques.
• Zhang Rongyi taught Su Ziyang how to open the Azure Dragon Lock, work the arm meridians, and treat the three gates of the Soul-Returning Lock.
• Zhang Rongyi demonstrated elbow treatment, finger shaking, and hand movements, leaving Su Ziyang feeling light and relaxed.

Zhang Rongyi taught Su Ziyang a series of massage techniques for opening meridians and easing the flow of qi and blood, demonstrating them on him as he went. After two hours, Su Ziyang offered to massage Zhang Rongyi in return so he could correct his technique.

• Zhang Rongyi continued teaching Su Ziyang by massaging him from head to toe and demonstrating the techniques.
• Fairy Li supported Su Ziyang while Zhang Rongyi pinched and twisted his abdominal muscles, making him wince in pain.
• Zhang Rongyi demonstrated foot meridian massage and toe shaking, explaining their effects and how to perform them.
• Zhang Rongyi taught Su Ziyang a mnemonic verse and explained the conditions in which the manual technique was forbidden.
• After two hours of instruction, Su Ziyang offered to massage Zhang Rongyi while Zhang Rongyi corrected him.

Su Ziyang learned Zhang Rongyi’s Eight and a Half Locks massage technique and joined him and Fairy Li on a trip to the forest park to gather medicinal herbs. Zhang Rongyi showed them how to identify and harvest Solomon’s seal, while Su Ziyang photographed the plants they encountered.

• Su Ziyang practiced the Eight and a Half Locks and learned when to open different locks according to a patient’s symptoms and blocked qi and blood.
• Zhang Rongyi invited Su Ziyang and Fairy Li to gather herbs in the forest park, and they agreed to go with him.
• Zhang Rongyi led them away from the main paths and taught Su Ziyang to recognize fragrant Solomon’s seal and Polygonatum cyrtonema.
• Zhang Rongyi dug up mature Solomon’s seal with a bamboo-and-wood shovel, explained how to preserve it, and left the smaller plants undisturbed.
• As they continued through the forest, Zhang Rongyi identified more medicinal plants, while Su Ziyang took photos of them.

Su Ziyang learned more about identifying and gathering herbs from Zhang Rongyi, then returned with Fairy Li to meet his master’s old acquaintance, Zhenze, who gave them protective bracelets. At a hut behind Zhenze’s temple, Mr. Mengfei knelt before Master Zhenze, leaving the reason for his sudden deference unexplained.

• Zhang Rongyi taught Su Ziyang herb-recognition rhymes and warned him about a venomous hundred-pace viper, but Su Ziyang immobilized the snake and later released it.
• Su Ziyang stayed with Zhang Rongyi while the harvested Solomon's seal dried, then returned with Fairy Li after Mr. Mengfei called him back.
• Mr. Mengfei told Su Ziyang and Fairy Li how he and a martial uncle had accidentally shattered Zhang Rongyi’s protective golden light with Five Hundred Savage Thunders, then proposed visiting the martial uncle.
• Mr. Mengfei brought Su Ziyang and Fairy Li to Zhenze’s Daoist temple, where Zhenze welcomed them and gave each a Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Bracelet made from lightning-struck wood.
• Zhenze led Mr. Mengfei, Su Ziyang, and Fairy Li to the back of the mountain, where Mr. Mengfei knelt before Master Zhenze.

Su Ziyang met Master Luo, the grand martial uncle, who made him drink a bowl of blood-red liquid to test his affinity. Su Ziyang vomited it back up, and after he poured it into a pit and discarded the bowl, an explosion erupted in the bamboo grove as Master Zhenze rushed him away.

• Mr. Mengfei told Master Zhenze that his master had passed away, then brought Su Ziyang to meet Master Luo.
• Master Luo spat a mass of blood-red liquid into a bowl and ordered Su Ziyang to drink it.
• Su Ziyang swallowed the liquid and endured intense burning and turmoil in his body before vomiting it back into the bowl unchanged.
• Master Luo ordered Su Ziyang to pour the liquid into a pit in the bamboo grove and throw the bowl in after it.
• Master Zhenze led Su Ziyang away, and an explosion shattered bamboo behind them.

Su Ziyang survived the grandmaster-uncle’s Flying Sword, learned the old man’s history, and stayed at the Daoist temple to recover and train. After Fairy Li took him down the mountain to visit a doctor who treated patients through conversation, they saw a young woman break down and admit she defied her parents over her boyfriend.

• Su Ziyang learned that the grandmaster-uncle had died and that his Flying Sword inheritance had come from a mysterious expert, though it had not passed to Su Ziyang.
• Master Zhenze explained that the grandmaster-uncle had spent years seeking someone worthy of the inheritance, and that Su Ziyang had been the only visitor to make him speak.
• Su Ziyang recovered at the temple, learned Demon-Subduing Fist from Zhenze, and persuaded him to demonstrate his Thunder Arts by electrifying a wall.
• Fairy Li teased Su Ziyang for flattering Zhenze, then took him down the mountain to meet a doctor who treated patients without medicine.
• Su Ziyang and Fairy Li watched the doctor question a young woman until she confessed that she talked back to her parents because they opposed her relationship with a boy.

Su Ziyang watched Ren Qushun ease a young woman’s headache by confronting her feelings toward her parents, then followed him with Fairy Li to visit a bedridden woman with late-stage liver cancer. Ren Qushun drew the dying woman into speaking about her grudges, and she began by saying she hated her husband because he was good for nothing.

• Ren Qushun spoke to a crying young woman about her relationship with her parents until she said her headache had stopped.
• A man in a gray shirt asked Ren Qushun to visit his wife, who was bedridden with late-stage liver cancer, and Su Ziyang and Fairy Li went along.
• Su Ziyang sensed Illness Qi in the house and recited a protective incantation, while Fairy Li told him to look after himself.
• Ren Qushun told the sick woman plainly that she was near death and asked her to speak about anyone she hated.
• The woman said she hated her husband, the man in the gray shirt, because he was good for nothing.

Ren Qushun persuaded a dying woman to release her resentment over an old dispute, and Su Ziyang witnessed her condition change after she cried and vomited. Ren Qushun then explained how emotions and character could cause illness, while Su Ziyang reflected on his method.

• Ren Qushun asked the dying woman why she resented her husband and learned she blamed him for losing a fight over irrigation water two years earlier.
• Ren Qushun urged the woman to forgive her neighbors, warning that anger would leave her a weak ghost, and she quieted down before grieving for her family.
• The woman confessed her regret and cried, after which Su Ziyang sensed a faint breath of life emerge through her deathly aura.
• The woman vomited foul water and bile as the heavy deathly aura in the room dissipated, and Ren Qushun left after telling Dada to care for her.
• Su Ziyang praised Ren Qushun's method, and Ren Qushun explained how resentment, hatred, vexation, anger, and irritation could lead to illness.

Ren Qushun explained to Su Ziyang how illnesses were connected to emotions, conduct, and spiritual faults, describing causes and remedies for many conditions. The chapter ended with his brief explanation that white hair was related to the nervous system, fire, and blood.

• Ren Qushun welcomed Su Ziyang and Fairy Li into his home, then spoke with Su Ziyang over tea.
• Ren Qushun linked eye diseases to looking for faults in others and urged people to examine themselves and seek the good in others.
• He connected blood and meridian disorders to irritability and anxiety over money, and advised people to calm their tempers.
• Ren Qushun attributed mouth ulcers and nighttime navel pain to harmful speech and resentment, urging sincere repentance.
• He linked facial nerve paralysis, cervical spine disease, and joint pain to resentment, conflict, and fault-finding, and recommended cheerfulness and a change in outlook.
• Ren Qushun said white hair was related to the nervous system, fire, and blood.

Ren Qushun explained his theories linking illnesses and physical traits to emotions, family relationships, and conduct, while Su Ziyang listened and reflected on the ideas. The discussion ended with Ren describing more alleged causes of common ailments, including resentment toward elders and habitual anger.

• Ren Qushun connected premature graying, digestive problems, dizziness, kidney stones, bad breath, hair loss, and ADHD to emotions and family pressures.
• Su Ziyang recalled treating Han Jinkai's child and considered the mental pressure affecting the family.
• Ren Qushun linked head ailments and other symptoms to conflicts with elders, teachers, leaders, and relatives, and Su Ziyang reflected on sincere repentance.
• Ren Qushun described supposed emotional causes of sinusitis, acne, chest tightness, bladder disease, pharyngitis, colitis, and other conditions.
• Ren Qushun concluded that changing one's nature could resolve illnesses such as rhinitis, even when several family members shared them.

Ren Qushun explained how emotions and conduct could contribute to illness, while Su Ziyang listened and recorded his advice. After Ren Qushun shared Buddhist teachings about cause and effect and letting go, Su Ziyang recognized his deeper understanding and offered him tea in respect.

• Ren Qushun described connections between resentment, anger, family conduct, and ailments throughout the body.
• Su Ziyang recalled a case of congenital heart disease that seemed to match Ren Qushun's explanation about family relationships.
• Su Ziyang told Ren Qushun he had noted the advice and would apply it when treating patients.
• Ren Qushun said that personality affected the body and that persuading patients to change could support their treatment.
• Ren Qushun explained illness as cause and effect rooted in the heart, then quoted the Diamond Sutra and a verse attributed to the Sixth Patriarch.
• Su Ziyang recognized Ren Qushun's understanding and offered him a cup of tea, which Ren Qushun accepted.

Ren Qushun explained his methods for treating illnesses through repentance, crying, and laughter, linking physical ailments to anger and failures in family duties. Su Ziyang wondered whether the advice about elders had been aimed at his relationship with Fairy Li, and worried about whether she could get along with his mother.

• Su Ziyang asked Ren Qushun how his ideas about temperament and illness could guide treatment.
• Ren Qushun described using repentance, crying, and laughter to treat headaches and ailments in the shoulders, arms, and legs.
• Ren Qushun said laughter could help with mild cholecystitis and toothache, and urged people to change their nature and practice tolerance.
• Ren Qushun advised younger people to respect their elders, find others' good qualities, and correct their own faults.
• Fairy Li nodded as she listened, while Su Ziyang wondered whether Ren Qushun's advice concerned their relationship and whether she could get along with his mother.

Ren Qushun explained to Su Ziyang and Fairy Li that changing one’s character required correcting bad habits, examining oneself, and sincerely repenting. Su Ziyang agreed with Ren’s advice, but Fairy Li used it to tease him about criticizing her cooking.

• Ren Qushun described how people could improve their character by abandoning harmful habits and reflecting on their conduct.
• Ren Qushun said that illness and misconduct required controlling one’s thoughts, admitting faults, and steadily cultivating a compassionate heart.
• Ren Qushun advised finding the good in others and remaining resolute when faced with trials.
• Su Ziyang nodded in agreement with Ren Qushun’s teachings.
• Fairy Li told Su Ziyang to reflect on how he complained about her cooking instead of being a good boyfriend and husband, and Ren Qushun smiled at their banter.

Su Ziyang learned from Ren Qushun that treating illness through moral guidance required cultivating righteous Qi, and asked him to teach a gradual method. Ren Qushun explained Nurturing Vast Righteous Qi through upright conduct, moderation, meditation, breathing, sleep cultivation, and virtue, leaving Su Ziyang with a path to practice.

• Su Ziyang and Fairy Li joked with Ren Qushun before he explained how moral conduct could help people overcome illness.
• Su Ziyang recognized the practical meaning of Ren Qushun’s advice and asked how he could learn to guide and heal others.
• Ren Qushun said Su Ziyang needed to cultivate righteous Qi and teach himself to stand upright before trying to correct others.
• Su Ziyang inferred that Ren Qushun’s teachings described gradual cultivation and respectfully asked him to teach a gradual method.
• Ren Qushun introduced Nurturing Vast Righteous Qi and explained its principles of proper posture, restraint, breathing, sleep cultivation, and virtue.

Ren Qushun explained the stages of Confucian cultivation to Su Ziyang, who realized the man had reached at least the state of Awakening. After Mr. Mengfei brought Su Ziyang a puppy, he urged his disciple to kowtow to Ren Qushun and ask for instruction.

• Ren Qushun described how rectifying the heart and progressing through stopping, Stability, Stillness, Ease, Contemplation, and Attainment cultivated Qi and wisdom.
• Su Ziyang listened closely and inferred that Ren Qushun had reached at least the state of Awakening.
• Mr. Mengfei returned with a black double-barreled hound puppy for Su Ziyang, and Fairy Li took the puppy into her arms.
• Mr. Mengfei told Su Ziyang to kowtow to Ren Qushun, who hurriedly dodged, then said he had already taught Su Ziyang a gradual method.
• Su Ziyang said he had chosen the gradual method himself, and Mr. Mengfei invited Ren Qushun to the Daoist temple for a meal.
• Ren Qushun declined, and Su Ziyang followed Mr. Mengfei up the mountain, where his master said Ren Qushun likely cultivated both Confucianism and Buddhism.

Mr. Mengfei, Su Ziyang, and Fairy Li left Zhenze’s mountain after sharing a meal and began driving north. On the road, Mr. Mengfei recounted how he first met Zhenze while investigating a plague-stricken village, ending as they confronted a strange owl suspected of stealing villagers’ souls.

• Mr. Mengfei introduced Su Ziyang to Coal Briquette, then he, Su Ziyang, and Fairy Li visited Zhenze and shared a meal before setting off in a Land Rover.
• Mr. Mengfei explained that Qi could take many forms and told Su Ziyang that Thunder Arts were inherited by only one disciple each generation.
• Mr. Mengfei recalled encountering a silent village where many people had died from a contagious illness and seeing a bare-bottomed child disappear into the woods.
• Mr. Mengfei found Zhenze attacking a tree with Thunder Arts while a huge owl watched from its branches.
• Mr. Mengfei identified the owl’s apparent white feathers as menstrual cloth, explaining why Zhenze’s Thunder Arts could not harm it.
• Zhenze said he suspected the owl of snatching souls in the village, and the owl laughed as the two men demanded that it come down.

Mr. Mengfei and Zhenze followed a strange owl to a ruined mountain temple while investigating a fever that spread from child to child whenever a dying child called out a playmate’s name. After learning the temple had once honored a physician who treated a plague, they postponed investigating it until the next day and stayed in the village.

• Mr. Mengfei drew his Ucchusma Vajra, making the laughing owl stop and fly west as if inviting him and Zhenze to follow.
• The owl led Mr. Mengfei and Zhenze to a ruined temple, but they stayed outside and discussed the children’s mysterious illness.
• Zhenze told Mr. Mengfei that each feverish child had called out a playmate’s name before dying, after which that playmate also fell ill.
• Mr. Mengfei described seeing a smiling, bare-bottomed child, and the two men wondered whether another spirit was involved.
• Mr. Mengfei persuaded Zhenze to ask the villagers about the temple before entering it, and the village patriarch said it had been built for a physician who once treated a plague.
• Mr. Mengfei and Zhenze decided to return to the temple the next day and accepted lodging in the village.

Mr. Mengfei and Zhenze treated a convulsing child and followed an omen to a red dandelion that cured the illness. With the child recovered, the village’s outbreak ended, and the two thanked the owl before leaving the mountain.

• Mr. Mengfei stopped a child’s convulsions with acupuncture and mint water, then told the parents to use medicinal herbs and mint water while he and Zhenze investigated the illness.
• Zhenze received an omen at the ruined temple that the cure lay within ten steps, and he and Mr. Mengfei found a red dandelion nearby.
• Mr. Mengfei boiled the whole red dandelion and gave the decoction to the child, whose fever broke about half an hour later.
• The child recovered by the next day, ending the village’s outbreak, and the clan chief thanked Mr. Mengfei and Zhenze.
• Mr. Mengfei and Zhenze brought meat to the owl on the mountain and thanked it before hurrying away from its laughter.

Su Ziyang, Fairy Li, and Mr. Mengfei visited Jiang Kui’s home, where Su Ziyang reunited with Jiang Tian and went out singing with him. After Su Ziyang and Jiang Tian helped Fairy Li defend two women from a group of Japanese men, Jiang Kui and Mr. Mengfei punished the two young men by sending them to kneel before the founding master's statue.

• Fairy Li asked Mr. Mengfei about his past journey with Martial Uncle Zhenze, and he said they had never solved the mystery of the temple.
• Su Ziyang suggested visiting Jiang Kui, and the group went to his home for a meal.
• Jiang Tian invited Su Ziyang, Fairy Li, and two friends to a KTV, where Su Ziyang and Jiang Tian sparred before they sang and talked.
• Fairy Li defended a woman from several Japanese men in the hallway, and Su Ziyang and Jiang Tian joined the fight and knocked the men down.
• Manager Zhang had the men carried away, and the group returned home without continuing their night out.
• Jiang Kui and Mr. Mengfei ordered Su Ziyang and Jiang Tian to kneel before the founding master's statue as punishment.