Recaps

Mr. Mengfei found two separate objects used to harm Jiang Kui’s family, but destroying the objects buried in the ancestral grave did not solve the danger. He uncovered and destroyed a second curse hidden by Jiang Kui’s home, clearing the black Qi over the house.

• Mr. Mengfei revived Jiang Kui and promised to inspect the family’s ancestral graves.
• Mr. Mengfei found a locust tree root and liquor sealed in a box beneath Jiang Kui’s grandfather’s grave and burned them, but warned that the danger remained.
• Mr. Mengfei discovered a bottle buried in the northwest corner of Jiang Kui’s house, containing a black paper figure marked with red symbols and packed with white hairs.
• Mr. Mengfei fried the bottle and its contents in hot rapeseed oil, then had Jiang Kui pour the oil onto the national highway.
• Mr. Mengfei had Jiang Kui and Auntie Jiang scatter mugwort ash around the house, making the remaining black Qi disappear.

Mr. Mengfei told Su Ziyang how he had saved the Jiang family from a powerful curse, then guided him through a breakthrough to Great Heavenly Circulation. Su Ziyang began training in the Jiang family's Spiritual Pivot Acupoint Striking Method and was left practicing its basic exercises.

• Mr. Mengfei explained that the curse on Jiang Kui's family combined several forms of evil art, and that destroying its spirit-infused objects had driven away the practitioner and the Fujian developer.
• Su Ziyang learned that Jiang Kui had agreed to teach his family's skill to Mr. Mengfei's future disciples in gratitude for saving the family.
• Mr. Mengfei guided Su Ziyang through an intense overnight practice and forcibly advanced him to Great Heavenly Circulation.
• Su Ziyang joined Jiang Tian and Uncle Jiang Kui for breakfast, and Jiang Tian and Uncle Jiang Kui noticed that he seemed different.
• Jiang Kui taught Su Ziyang the basics of the Spiritual Pivot Acupoint Striking Method and had him practice jabbing a padded stool cushion.
• Mr. Mengfei and Jiang Tian returned from the mountain, while Su Ziyang continued practicing alone.

After a month of training with Jiang Tian and Mr. Mengfei, Su Ziyang returned home and reunited with his parents and dog, Heizi. Over mutton soup, memories of his first girlfriend resurfaced, while his father encouraged him to pursue Li Zijun.

• Su Ziyang finished learning the Spiritual Pivot Acupoint Striking Method, exchanged contact information with Jiang Tian, and traveled home alone.
• Heizi and Su Ziyang's mother welcomed him home, and he found his parents bickering as usual.
• Su Ziyang's mother tried to feed him river snail rice noodles, so he escaped with his father to eat mutton soup.
• Su Ziyang's father asked whether he was dating, prompting Su Ziyang to remember his first girlfriend, Sixth Brother.
• Su Ziyang's father suggested that Li Zijun liked him and could leave the Daoist life to marry, leaving Su Ziyang helplessly eating his soup.

Su Ziyang returned to his university city for a class reunion and reunited with his four dormmates, though Li Zhi could not attend. At their barbecue, Ma Jun explained that he had lost his job after intervening when a department director assaulted a young intern, only to learn that the intern and her family had accepted the director’s offer of a permanent position.

• Xing Zhiyu invited the former classmates to visit their alma mater and have a meal, while Su Ziyang agreed to go if his dormmates went.
• Ma Jun, Han Peng, Wang Jinqiu, and Su Ziyang arranged a reunion of their own, but Li Zhi said he could not get away from work.
• Su Ziyang returned to his university city, where he met Ma Jun, Han Peng, and Wang Jinqiu at the school hotel.
• The four dormmates gathered at their familiar barbecue restaurant and caught up over food and beer.
• Ma Jun said he lost his job after punching a department director who had pinned down and torn the clothes of a young intern.
• Ma Jun revealed that the director returned to work after the intern and her family accepted his promise to secure her a permanent nursing position.

Su Ziyang reunited with his college friends and attended the class gathering organized by Xing Zhiyu. The reunion ended with Xing Zhiyu soliciting donations from classmates for university statues, while Wang Jiarou declined to join the class contribution and absent classmates began sending money too.

• Ma Jun told Han Peng, Wang Jinqiu, and Su Ziyang how he lost his job after reporting his employer's affair, and the friends drank together while video-calling Li Zhi.
• Su Ziyang helped Wang Jinqiu after he vomited the next morning, and the friends revisited their old university haunts, including the tree where they had buried their hamster.
• Su Ziyang and his friends arrived at Xing Zhiyu's class reunion, where he caught up with Wang Jiarou and other classmates.
• Xing Zhiyu proposed that classmates each donate 2,000 yuan toward campus statues, promising the class donor recognition, and Wang Zhiyong immediately contributed 5,000 yuan.
• Wang Jiarou told Xing Zhiyu she would not join the class donation because her academic lineage had already donated, while many classmates transferred money and Xing Zhiyu posted the appeal in the class group chat.
• Classmates who had skipped the reunion began transferring money after seeing Xing Zhiyu's group-chat notice.

At the class reunion, Xing Zhiyu organized a donation drive for campus sculptures and let the class pressure the five men from Su Ziyang’s dormitory for refusing to contribute. Su Ziyang challenged Xing Zhiyu’s motives and left the reunion with his brothers.

• Xing Zhiyu tallied the donations and revealed that only Su Ziyang, Ma Jun, Han Peng, Li Lizhi, and Wang Jinqiu had not paid.
• Wang Jiarou told Su Ziyang that the school’s fundraising effort was real, but Xing Zhiyu had likely taken charge to improve his chances of promotion.
• A female classmate read the five men’s names aloud, and several classmates criticized them; Xing Zhiyu appeared to soothe the conflict while adding to the pressure on Ma Jun.
• Su Ziyang accused Xing Zhiyu of using moral pressure to advance his own career and condemned the classmates for donating insincerely.
• Su Ziyang said that he and his brothers would leave, then walked out of the reunion with Ma Jun and the others.

After Xing Zhiyu sent a group of tough men to confront Su Ziyang and his friends, Su Ziyang defeated them with the acupoint-striking technique Uncle Jiang Kui had taught him. He left with his injured friends, while the Adidas-tracksuit man cursed Xing Zhiyu.

• After leaving their earlier dispute behind, Su Ziyang and his three friends went back to Good Taste Barbecue to drink.
• A man in an Adidas tracksuit arrived with five or six burly men and lured Su Ziyang and his friends outside, despite the proprietress's warning.
• The Adidas-tracksuit man revealed that he was Xing Zhiyu's associate, and his men surrounded and beat Ma Jun, Wang Jinqiu, and Han Peng.
• Su Ziyang used the Crane-Pecking Acupoint-Striking Hand to knock down one attacker, then struck four more men at their acupoints.
• Su Ziyang dodged the Adidas-tracksuit man's flying kick, sent him sprawling, and walked away with his injured friends.
• The Adidas-tracksuit man found his men unconscious and angrily blamed Xing Zhiyu for sending them after Su Ziyang.

Su Ziyang treated his three injured, drunken brothers after Xing Zhiyu’s men beat them, then learned that the clinic renovations were finished and he could return to work. After the friends went their separate ways, Su Ziyang shared embarrassing photos of them in the dorm group chat as he rode home.

• Su Ziyang bought supplies, checked his brothers for serious injuries, and treated their wounds at the hotel.
• Ma Jun woke first, mistook Su Ziyang’s teasing account of the fight for the truth, and fell back asleep.
• Han Peng and Wang Jinqiu woke later, and Su Ziyang let them believe Ma Jun had taken down their attackers.
• A clinic worker called Su Ziyang to say the renovations were complete and he could resume seeing patients.
• Su Ziyang and his three brothers ate, rested, and parted ways the next day, with Su Ziyang planning to go home before returning to the clinic.
• Su Ziyang sent photos of his drunken brothers to the dorm group chat, where Li Lizhi saved them and threatened to settle things when they met.

Su Ziyang recognized that Yu Dabao and Li Mei had an unusual illness called encountering red, rather than ordinary yin deficiency. After identifying the cause and explaining the condition, he registered them and began writing a prescription.

• Su Ziyang examined Yu Dabao, who rejected another diagnosis of yin deficiency after many treatments had failed.
• Su Ziyang detected cold and wind in Li Mei’s pulse and learned that both spouses’ symptoms had begun around the time she unexpectedly menstruated during intercourse.
• Yu Dabao and Li Mei recalled the incident, and Su Ziyang identified their illness as encountering red.
• Su Ziyang recorded Yu Dabao and Li Mei’s medical histories and wrote them a prescription.

Su Ziyang treated a couple with a traditional remedy, then prescribed Cinnamon Twig and Poria Pill for Wang Jiahui’s uterine fibroids after examining her and explaining dietary restrictions. After Wang Jiahui left with instructions for taking the medicine, Su Ziyang reviewed the formula and began regulating his breathing.

• Su Ziyang prescribed a plantain-and-rice broth for a couple’s zhuanghong and asked them to report back after they recovered.
• Wang Jiahui returned to apologize for doubting Su Ziyang and showed him a hospital report confirming several large uterine fibroids.
• Su Ziyang examined Wang Jiahui, identified signs he associated with cold exposure and heart fire, and told her to avoid cold foods, anger, and seafood.
• Su Ziyang prescribed five boxes of Cinnamon Twig and Poria Pill and explained how Wang Jiahui should increase the dose based on her symptoms.
• After Wang Jiahui left, Su Ziyang reviewed the formula’s traditional use for abdominal masses and began regulating his breathing.

Su Ziyang reunited with his senior Bao Mingya at the clinic and diagnosed the cause of her painful urination after taking her pulse. He prescribed her a three-ingredient formula, leaving Bao Mingya trusting his judgment despite her husband’s unsuccessful treatments.

• Bao Mingya visited Su Ziyang at the clinic and teased him for not keeping in touch after graduation.
• Su Ziyang took Bao Mingya’s pulse, noticed an unusual pattern and black qi around her lower abdomen, and asked about her symptoms.
• Bao Mingya revealed that she had back pain and painful urination diagnosed as urethritis, and showed Su Ziyang two prescriptions that had not helped.
• Su Ziyang determined that Bao Mingya’s condition was not caused by damp-heat or spleen and stomach weakness, and offered to prescribe a different remedy.
• With Bao Mingya’s permission, Su Ziyang prescribed three doses of angelica root, fritillaria bulb, and sophora root.

At dinner with Bao Mingya and her boyfriend Liu Yanzhen, Su Ziyang defended his treatment of Bao Mingya’s urethritis and explained why Liu’s reasoning and prescription had failed. He left Liu stunned after arguing that the infection needed to be treated as an acute manifestation first.

• Bao Mingya met Su Ziyang at the Wind and Waves Pavilion and introduced him to her boyfriend, Liu Yanzhen.
• Bao Mingya thanked Su Ziyang for curing her illness with two doses of his herbal medicine, and Liu Yanzhen challenged him over whose treatment deserved credit.
• Su Ziyang told Liu Yanzhen that he had treated Bao Mingya incorrectly, prompting Liu to demand an explanation and Bao Mingya to watch their argument.
• Liu Yanzhen defended his diagnosis of weak spleen qi, while Su Ziyang questioned why Bao Mingya had not improved after more than ten doses and had needed levofloxacin.
• Su Ziyang explained that Bao Mingya’s weak constitution had compromised her body’s defenses and that he had used the Danggui Beimu Kushen Decoction to clear the infection; Liu Yanzhen and Bao Mingya were stunned.

After an awkward dinner with Liu Yanzhen, Su Ziyang returned to his clinic and treated the injuries he had inflicted on a group of men who had once attacked him. The men left eager to befriend him, while a nearby Daoist and an old patient added to Su Ziyang’s troubles.

• Liu Yanzhen thanked Su Ziyang for his advice, then left with Bao Mingya, who later messaged Su Ziyang to apologize for her brother-in-law’s drunken behavior.
• Su Ziyang meditated at home and continued cultivating his qi before returning to work on Monday.
• The bespectacled leader of the men who had confronted Su Ziyang came to his clinic with four companions and asked him to forgive them.
• Su Ziyang restored the leader’s back and unblocked the others’ acupoints, prompting them to clean his clinic and insist on treating him to a meal.
• Daoist Jin accused Su Ziyang of using crooked tricks, and Su Ziyang stopped the leader from confronting him.
• An old lady asked Su Ziyang for a free massage, then left after he told her to register and pay.

Su Ziyang was taken to a restaurant by Bai Pengyu and his friends, who apologized for their earlier fight and became friendly with him. After they discovered Bai Pengyu’s secret martial arts practice and teased him about it, Su Ziyang demonstrated his own skill by shattering a beer bottle with his fingertips.

• Bai Pengyu and his friends grabbed Su Ziyang after he left the consultation room and took him to the Wind and Waves Pavilion.
• Bai Pengyu introduced his friends, apologized for their earlier attack, and explained that they had acted on Xing Zhiyu’s complaint.
• Su Ziyang and Bai Pengyu discussed their martial arts, and Su Ziyang recognized internal energy when Bai Pengyu shattered a beer bottle.
• Bai Pengyu admitted he practiced the Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic, and Su Ziyang revealed that only a virgin could master it.
• Li Yanji messaged someone about Bai Pengyu’s secret, prompting a phone call and more teasing before Bai Pengyu turned on Su Ziyang.
• Su Ziyang distracted the group by offering a demonstration, then shattered a beer bottle with his fingertips.

Su Ziyang was accused by Daoist Jin of deliberately injuring patients, and their dispute escalated into a fight in which Daoist Jin repeatedly overpowered him. Just as Daoist Jin prepared to cripple him, Mr. Mengfei arrived and confronted Daoist Jin.

• Daoist Jin accused Su Ziyang of using the Blood-Blocking Technique to injure five patients, while Su Ziyang admitted it and explained that the injuries had happened during a conflict before he and Bai Pengyu reconciled.
• Daoist Jin rejected Su Ziyang's account, attacked him, and accused him of striking major acupoints; Su Ziyang's counterattack failed against Daoist Jin's Iron Cloth Shirt.
• Daoist Master Xiao questioned Su Ziyang about his martial arts and the patients, then accepted that he might not have injured them on purpose, but Daoist Jin demanded that Su Ziyang break two fingers.
• Daoist Jin attacked Su Ziyang again and threw him into the courtyard, where he beat him until he could not get up.
• Daoist Jin pinned Su Ziyang's hand and began to cut his tendons, but a loud blast knocked Daoist Jin down and sent his knife flying.
• Mr. Mengfei helped Su Ziyang up and confronted Daoist Jin for threatening to sever his disciple's tendons.

Mr. Mengfei confronted Old Daoist Master Xiao and Daoist Jin after finding Su Ziyang injured, then learned the accusation came from a misunderstanding rooted in Daoist Jin’s past. Su Ziyang persuaded Daoist Jin to stay and treat his patients, and he left with his master after the conflict was resolved.

• Mr. Mengfei used Lion's Roar to defend Su Ziyang and demanded that Old Daoist Master Xiao explain why Daoist Jin had attacked him.
• Old Daoist Master Xiao recounted Daoist Jin’s accusation, and Su Ziyang called Bai Pengyu to confirm what had happened.
• Bai Pengyu and his four companions arrived and nearly attacked Daoist Jin, but Su Ziyang introduced Mr. Mengfei as his master.
• Daoist Jin apologized after realizing he had misunderstood Su Ziyang, and Old Daoist Master Xiao explained that a man who used acupoint strikes had caused Daoist Jin’s son to die.
• Su Ziyang persuaded Daoist Jin to remain for his waiting patients, and Daoist Jin agreed to cover Su Ziyang’s treatment and meals as compensation.
• Su Ziyang left with Mr. Mengfei, who admitted he had deliberately shattered Old Daoist Master Xiao’s teacups because he had once wanted the set.

Mr. Mengfei punished Su Ziyang for using acupoint strikes in a fight by making him copy the Scripture of Purity and Tranquility, and Su Ziyang discovered that copying it calmed his mind and set his Qi circulating. The next morning, Daoist Jin apologized for injuring him and replaced his broken phone with an expensive new one, which Su Ziyang accepted.

• Mr. Mengfei scolded Su Ziyang for fighting and ordered him to copy the scripture ten times daily, threatening to cripple his martial arts if he caused trouble again.
• Su Ziyang researched the scripture and copied it repeatedly, eventually feeling serenity as his Qi began circulating on its own.
• Mr. Mengfei returned to find Su Ziyang had copied the scripture more than thirty times, praised his progress, and announced that he would leave the next morning.
• Su Ziyang stayed home that evening to meditate with Mr. Mengfei, who departed early the following morning.
• Daoist Jin apologized for injuring Su Ziyang and offered him a costly replacement phone, which Su Ziyang accepted.

Su Ziyang welcomed recovered patient Sun Hua back and accepted her peanuts and commendation banner. Daoist Jin offered to teach him pediatric medicine and martial arts, then began training him in Eight Trigrams Swimming Dragon Palm and left him with a daily footwork exercise.

• Sun Hua visited Su Ziyang, thanked him for curing her, and gave him homegrown peanuts and a commendation banner.
• Daoist Jin invited Su Ziyang to eat mutton soup and offered to teach him pediatrics and the kung fu he had used before.
• Su Ziyang accepted Daoist Jin as his teacher and learned the names Eight Trigrams Swimming Dragon Palm and Iron Cloth Shirt.
• Daoist Jin demonstrated his speed and Iron Cloth Shirt, leaving Su Ziyang amazed and sore after his punch struck like iron.
• Daoist Jin drew a nine-palace diagram and taught Su Ziyang to walk its numbered steps for at least an hour every day.

Su Ziyang watched Daoist Jin diagnose and treat a boy whose prolonged high fever was caused by fright, then learned about pediatric finger-vein diagnosis and the medicines used. Daoist Jin ended by assigning Su Ziyang a week to memorize Rhapsody on Medicinal Properties, making his studies and training even busier.

• A worried father brought his five- or six-year-old son, who had suffered a high fever for over two weeks, to Daoist Jin.
• Daoist Jin examined the boy's hand, diagnosed childhood fright, and had Su Ziyang fetch mint and cicada slough for a herbal drink.
• The boy woke and his fever fell after drinking the medicine; Daoist Jin then steeped the father's gold ring in water, and the boy's temperature returned to normal.
• After the father took his son home, Daoist Jin explained pediatric finger-vein diagnosis and the medicinal reasoning behind the treatment to Su Ziyang.
• Daoist Jin ordered Su Ziyang to memorize Rhapsody on Medicinal Properties within a week, and Su Ziyang's days grew busier with practice, study, cultivation, and copying scriptures.

Su Ziyang accompanied Daoist Jin to the city hospital to examine a five-year-old boy whose leukemia had relapsed and whose eyes had developed fleshy growths. After Su Ziyang found a grave black marking on the boy’s finger, Daoist Jin began his own examination, but an angry newcomer interrupted them.

• Su Ziyang experienced a breakthrough while practicing the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Steps, and Daoist Jin taught him to practice facing eight directions and navigating around obstacles.
• Daoist Jin took Su Ziyang to the city hospital for a house call, carrying his huanghuali medical case despite Su Ziyang’s pleas to turn some of it into a bead bracelet.
• Zhenzhen introduced Daoist Jin to her sister and brother-in-law, who explained that their five-year-old son’s leukemia had relapsed and that fleshy growths had appeared in his eyes.
• Su Ziyang examined the boy’s finger and found a black marking that reached toward the nail, then shared his diagnosis with Daoist Jin.
• Daoist Jin crouched to examine the boy, but someone entered the ward and sharply demanded to know who had allowed them to touch the patient.

Su Ziyang and Daoist Jin confronted Associate Chief Physician Liu Yanzhen while examining a child with leukemia at the hospital. After Daoist Jin offered a thirty percent chance of saving the child, Zhenzhen's brother-in-law chose to leave the hospital and pursue treatment at the Daoist Medicine Clinic.

• Liu Yanzhen challenged Su Ziyang for treating a patient at the hospital without permission or the proper practice registration.
• Daoist Jin finished examining the child, while Liu Yanzhen warned the family that private treatment violated hospital rules and would leave the hospital free of liability.
• Zhenzhen's brother-in-law confronted Liu Yanzhen about the child's worsening condition, and Liu said current medicine could not cure the illness.
• Daoist Jin told Zhenzhen's brother-in-law he had a thirty percent chance of saving the child, and the father decided to risk it.
• Liu Yanzhen arranged the child's discharge after the family agreed to sign a liability waiver.
• Su Ziyang and Daoist Jin rode with Zhenzhen's brother-in-law to the Daoist Medicine Clinic, where he thanked Daoist Jin and said he trusted him.

Daoist Jin treated the unconscious child’s rising fever and severe constipation while teaching Su Ziyang pediatric massage and explaining his diagnosis. After the child passed numerous hard pieces of stool, the lumps in his abdomen disappeared, and Daoist Jin left him to rest.

• Su Ziyang found hard, tender lumps in the child’s lower left abdomen, and Zhenzhen’s sister revealed that he had not passed stool for about a month.
• Daoist Jin prescribed Major Order the Qi Decoction and carefully prepared it while the child’s fever rose to 39°C.
• Daoist Jin performed several pediatric massage techniques, temporarily lowering the child’s temperature to 37.6°C.
• When the unconscious child could not drink, Daoist Jin pressed acupoints to open his mouth, and the family slowly administered the decoction.
• The child passed more than a dozen hard pieces of stool, and Daoist Jin found that the abdominal lumps had disappeared before he left the room with Su Ziyang.

Su Ziyang watched Daoist Jin examine the recovering Liu Yuchen and explain how family conflict and overindulgence had contributed to the child’s illness. After prescribing Minor Construct the Middle Decoction, Daoist Jin corrected Su Ziyang’s mistaken reading of the child’s finger vein and punished him for his carelessness, leaving Su Ziyang to flee before another reprimand.

• Su Ziyang examined Liu Yuchen’s finger vein and mistakenly identified its color as pale purple, while Daoist Jin confirmed that the child’s fever and dangerous symptoms had eased.
• Daoist Jin told Liu Yuchen’s parents to stop arguing, avoid spoiling him with snacks, and feed him simple congee while he recovered.
• Daoist Jin wrote a prescription for Minor Construct the Middle Decoction and asked Su Ziyang to identify it.
• Su Ziyang questioned the prescription because he believed the finger vein showed heat, and Daoist Jin explained that he had mistaken red for purple.
• Daoist Jin ordered Su Ziyang to copy The Great Physician's Sincerity ten times and challenged him for neglecting the Secret Manual of Pediatric Tui Na, so Su Ziyang hurried away.

Su Ziyang examined Bai Pengyu’s aunt and discovered a living human face growing from her chest that ate Snickers to relieve her pain. After hearing how it began and how it returned after repeated removals, he was left to figure out how to treat it without Daoist Jin nearby.

• Bai Pengyu brought his mother and aunt to Su Ziyang, asking him to find an expert who could treat a supernatural illness.
• Su Ziyang offered to examine Bai Pengyu’s aunt and was shocked to see an old woman’s face growing from her chest.
• The face opened its mouth and ate a Snickers bar, after which Bai Pengyu’s aunt’s pain and sweating subsided.
• Bai Pengyu’s aunt explained that the growth had appeared after years of intermittent chest pain and had begun eating food after a hospital biopsy.
• Bai Pengyu’s aunt said doctors had removed the face twice, but it grew back even larger each time, leaving Su Ziyang silent.

Su Ziyang used Sichuan fritillaria bulb to cure Bai Pengyu’s younger aunt’s human-faced sore, then discovered that an old account and a medical text explained why the remedy worked. Mr. Mengfei encouraged him to keep studying, leaving Su Ziyang grateful for his master’s guidance.

• Su Ziyang called Mr. Mengfei, who prescribed Sichuan fritillaria bulb to apply with honey and drink as a decoction.
• Su Ziyang prepared the medicine, and Bai Pengyu’s younger aunt’s human-faced sore shrank, drained dark red fluid, and vanished.
• Su Ziyang prescribed another dose for her recovery, and Bai Pengyu took his aunt and mother to rest before inviting Su Ziyang to dinner.
• Unable to understand why the medicine worked, Su Ziyang consulted medical texts and later called Mr. Mengfei for an explanation.
• Mr. Mengfei sent Su Ziyang an old account of a human-faced sore cured by fritillaria and a medical passage listing human-faced sores as an indication for the herb.
• Su Ziyang bought a copy of the medical text and felt grateful to Mr. Mengfei for encouraging him to study.