Recaps

Han Xixi asked Su Ziyang to make a house call for a nine-year-old girl, and he agreed to examine her after work. At Han Xixi’s brother’s villa, Su Ziyang found her family consulting Master Yan, who had not yet noticed him.

• Han Xixi told Su Ziyang that her shoulder condition had healed after seven doses of his medicine and asked him to visit a sick girl.
• Su Ziyang agreed to go after work, and Han Xixi drove him to an upscale villa.
• Han Xixi asked whether Su Ziyang could exorcise spirits or tell fortunes, and he said he could only treat illnesses.
• Su Ziyang entered Han Xixi’s brother’s home and found her brother, sister-in-law, and Master Yan discussing the girl’s condition.
• Han Xixi pointed out that her family had ignored Su Ziyang, and her brother turned around to ask who he was.

Han Jinkai introduced Su Ziyang to Master Yan, the Daoist expert he had invited to help his family, and the two men exchanged tense but courteous remarks. Master Yan read Han Xixi’s fortune and then went upstairs with Han Jinkai and his wife to examine their daughter, while Han Xixi approached Su Ziyang.

• Han Xixi introduced Su Ziyang to her eldest brother, Han Jinkai, and Master Yan.
• Master Yan disparaged Su Ziyang for having no sect, but Su Ziyang calmly explained that he only practiced medicine and did not conflict with Master Yan’s work.
• Han Jinkai asked Master Yan to read Han Xixi’s fortune, and Master Yan predicted success in her career within three years and marriage within one or two years.
• Han Jinkai asked Master Yan to examine his daughter, and Master Yan led Han Jinkai and his wife upstairs while Han Xixi went over to Su Ziyang.

Su Ziyang examined Han Jinkai’s daughter Xuanxuan, whose extreme thinness and extraordinary agility alarmed her family. Master Yan declared that a cat demon possessed her and tried to subdue her with a talisman, but Xuanxuan dodged it and tore it apart, leaving the situation unresolved.

• Han Xixi told Su Ziyang that she thought Master Yan was a swindler and hurried him upstairs to see Xuanxuan.
• Han Jinkai unlocked a heavily secured room, and Xuanxuan rushed out to cling to Han Xixi.
• Xuanxuan displayed astonishing agility by balancing on the stair railing and leaping down to the first floor.
• Han Jinkai asked Master Yan for help, and Master Yan claimed Xuanxuan was possessed by a cat demon.
• Master Yan threw a talisman at Xuanxuan, but she dodged it and tore it in half.
• Han Xixi picked Xuanxuan up before Master Yan could try another talisman.

Su Ziyang challenged Master Yan’s diagnosis of Xuanxuan’s supposed cat demon and insisted that she had hyperactivity. After Han Jinkai reluctantly let him try, Su Ziyang pressed Xuanxuan’s Houxi acupoint, and she immediately fell asleep.

• Xuanxuan tore up Master Yan’s talisman, bounced onto a wine cabinet, and jumped down unharmed after Han Xixi promised to take her to the amusement park.
• Master Yan failed to calm Xuanxuan with his Daoist arts and claimed a cat demon had merged with her three souls and seven spirits.
• Su Ziyang laughed at Master Yan’s claims, clashed with him and Han Jinkai, and said Xuanxuan had hyperactivity rather than a demon attached to her.
• Master Yan wagered that Su Ziyang would have to lick the floor if he could not solve Xuanxuan’s problem, and Su Ziyang accepted.
• With Han Jinkai’s wife’s agreement, Su Ziyang calculated Xuanxuan’s Houxi acupoint and pressed it using the Drilling Force technique, causing her to become quiet and fall asleep.

Su Ziyang calmed Xuanxuan with acupuncture, diagnosed the causes and symptoms of her illness, and prescribed medicine for her. After Han Jinkai and Yan Zhijie recognized his abilities, Su Ziyang left for his clinic with Yan Zhijie following him.

• Han Jinkai accused Su Ziyang of drugging Xuanxuan, but Han Xixi defended him, and Han Jinkai found no sign of an injection.
• Su Ziyang explained Xuanxuan’s symptoms and their likely cause, and Han Jinkai realized he had accurately described her illness without being told.
• Han Jinkai apologized and praised Su Ziyang, while Yan Zhijie admitted he had wrongly looked down on him after Su Ziyang recognized his connection to an immortal spirit.
• Su Ziyang explained that he had used the Eight Methods of Flying and Soaring to make Xuanxuan sleep, then wrote her a prescription for five doses of Bupleurum Decoction with Dragon Bone and Oyster Shell.
• Su Ziyang left for work at his clinic, and Yan Zhijie insisted on accompanying him.

Su Ziyang returned to the clinic with Yan Zhijie and faced Yang Tianzheng after missing their training session. Yang Tianzheng later began daily sparring sessions that left Su Ziyang bruised, but he brought him medicinal wine afterward, leaving Su Ziyang wondering if he had misjudged his master.

• Su Ziyang brought Yan Zhijie to his consultation room, where Yang Tianzheng confronted him for missing their lunch-break lesson.
• Yan Zhijie vouched for Su Ziyang, and Yang Tianzheng left without arguing further.
• Yang Tianzheng tested Su Ziyang’s Baguazhang, knocked him down, and struck his backside three times with a baton.
• Su Ziyang called Mr. Mengfei, who laughed at him and then told Yang Tianzheng he had exposed their plan to make him the training villain.
• Yang Tianzheng brought medicinal wine to Su Ziyang’s home, left it by the door, and told him about it over the phone.
• Su Ziyang retrieved the wine and wondered whether he had misunderstood Yang Tianzheng.

Su Ziyang treated Han Wenxuan and Yu Xiushui, while Yang Tianzheng continued training him in medicine and martial arts. The chapter ended with Yu Xiushui cured by Yang Tianzheng’s Dragon-Tiger Battle acupuncture and Yang Tianzheng asking Su Ziyang about his remark on his hand speed.

• Su Ziyang received Han Xixi and Han Jinkai, examined Han Wenxuan, and prescribed medicine to help her regain her strength.
• Han Xixi insisted that Su Ziyang accept a watch as thanks for treating Han Wenxuan, and he reluctantly let her put it on his wrist.
• Su Ziyang diagnosed Yu Xiushui with lower-back and knee pain along with digestive problems, prescribed medicine, and tried standard acupuncture.
• When Su Ziyang’s acupuncture only eased Yu Xiushui’s pain, Yang Tianzheng demonstrated Dragon-Tiger Battle and made the pain disappear.
• Su Ziyang imitated Yang Tianzheng’s technique to treat Yu Xiushui’s knee, and Yang Tianzheng later asked him what he had said about his hand speed.

Su Ziyang demonstrated acupuncture techniques to Yang Tianzheng, who tested his finger strength and praised his progress. Yang Tianzheng gave him gold and silver needles, and Su Ziyang ended the chapter by proudly sharing photos of them online.

• Yang Tianzheng made Su Ziyang recite and demonstrate acupuncture techniques using a pad of bound xuan paper and silver needles.
• Su Ziyang bent two needles before realizing they were soft silver, then used finger strength to insert one into the pad and demonstrated several techniques.
• Yang Tianzheng approved Su Ziyang's performance, advised him that treating people required more practice, and tested his knowledge of techniques for opening passes and clearing joints.
• Yang Tianzheng gave Su Ziyang a set of gold needles with silver handles and explained the significance of the nineteen gold needles and fourteen silver needles.
• Su Ziyang photographed both sets of needles, posted them on Moments, and happily responded to comments praising them.

Su Ziyang intervened when an elderly patient fainted during Fu Xinyu’s acupuncture, then clashed with Fu over his involvement. At lunch, Yang Tianzheng taught Su traditional acupuncture taboos, while warning that he did not believe they should prevent treatment.

• Su Ziyang removed the needles from an elderly man who had fainted during Fu Xinyu’s acupuncture and helped him recover.
• Fu Xinyu challenged Su Ziyang for interfering, then mocked him again as he left the clinic.
• Yang Tianzheng teased Su Ziyang about Fu Xinyu, and Su explained their argument over lunch.
• Yang Tianzheng taught Su Ziyang the Human Spirit, Sacral Spirit, seasonal, and calendar-day acupuncture taboos.
• Yang Tianzheng said the taboos were likely later traditions and should not stop doctors from treating patients.

Su Ziyang studied Yang Tianzheng’s handwritten Taoist Umbilical Acupuncture booklet and learned its diagnostic methods and needle combinations. When Yu Xiushui brought her friend Li Shuhua to the clinic, Su Ziyang recognized her long-standing bloating and tried the Mountain and Lake Qi Circulation technique on her.

• Yang Tianzheng gave Su Ziyang a booklet on Taoist Umbilical Acupuncture and left him to study it.
• Su Ziyang read about examining navel shapes and positions, needling around the navel, and using trigrams, earthly branches, and hexagrams to guide acupuncture.
• Yu Xiushui visited with her friend Li Shuhua and said her own pain had disappeared after her previous treatment with Su Ziyang and his master.
• Su Ziyang took Li Shuhua’s pulse, noticed a pronounced guan pulse, and asked whether she had bloating.
• Su Ziyang decided to apply the Mountain and Lake Qi Circulation method he had just studied and began needling Li Shuhua’s abdomen.

Su Ziyang used Taoist Umbilical Acupuncture to cure Li Shuhua’s long-standing ailment, then dealt with Fu Xinyu’s attempt to take the technique. A week later, Su Ziyang examined a young man with severe stomach pain and concluded that he was not sick.

• Su Ziyang treated Li Shuhua with two acupuncture needles, and she passed gas until her long-standing ailment was cured.
• Fu Xinyu tried to get Su Ziyang to teach him Taoist Umbilical Acupuncture, but Su refused and put the booklet away.
• Yang Tianzheng told Su Ziyang that Fu Xinyu’s uncle was a powerful backer of the clinic and advised him to avoid Fu.
• Li Shuhua and Yu Xiushui referred many elderly women to Su Ziyang for acupuncture, keeping him busy throughout the week.
• A middle-aged man brought his son to Su Ziyang with worsening stomach pain, but Su found no appendicitis tenderness and felt a healthy pulse.
• Su Ziyang told the anxious father that he thought the young man was not sick.

Su Ziyang and the clinic’s supervisors faced a staged medical complaint, but he exposed the patient’s fake symptoms and the police questioned the complainants. The two fraudsters escaped and revealed they had been paid by Brother Fu to damage Su Ziyang’s reputation, while Su returned to work warned to watch for further trouble.

• A middle-aged man accused Su Ziyang of failing to treat his son and grabbed him while drawing a crowd at the clinic.
• Daoist Master Xiao Yang and Zhao Keqin intervened, and Su Ziyang told them he suspected the son was faking his illness.
• When the young man began convulsing and foaming at the mouth, Su Ziyang found his pulse steady and confirmed privately that he was pretending.
• Zhao Keqin called the police, and two officers questioned the middle-aged man until the young man woke and the pair hurried away.
• Er Biao and the middle-aged man revealed outside the clinic that they had staged the incident for Brother Fu, who paid them to ruin Su Ziyang’s reputation.
• The officers warned Su Ziyang about professional medical troublemakers, and Daoist Master Xiao Yang reassured him before he resumed work.

Su Ziyang heard Wen Hua’s warning about medical-dispute troublemakers while Er Biao and Lao Huang extorted extra compensation from a county hospital by staging a fake medical crisis. Afterward, Er Biao suffered a severe nosebleed and discovered a red line on his arm, then searched online and feared the results before taking anti-inflammatory pills and falling asleep.

• Wen Hua asked Su Ziyang about the medical disturbance, and he explained what had happened; she warned him to watch out for jealous rivals.
• Er Biao and Lao Huang went to a county hospital to demand compensation for Huang Juanjuan and staged a sit-in when the director refused their demands.
• Er Biao pretended to convulse and foam at the mouth when hospital staff tried to move him, prompting the deputy director to negotiate a settlement of about one hundred thousand yuan.
• Er Biao and Lao Huang signed the settlement, split their payment, and then Er Biao developed a heavy nosebleed and noticed a purplish-red line running up his arm.
• Er Biao searched online about the red line and nosebleed, became frightened by what he read, swallowed two anti-inflammatory pills, and fell asleep.

Fu Xinyu visited the ailing Er Biao and suspected Su Ziyang’s acupuncture had caused his strange symptoms. After questioning Old Daoist Master Xiao about Su Ziyang’s martial arts, Fu Xinyu aroused suspicion, and Old Daoist Master Xiao told Daoist Master Xiao Yang to watch him closely.

• Fu Xinyu called Er Biao, who said he had been bleeding from the nose and felt so weak that he thought he had gotten his period.
• Fu Xinyu visited Er Biao and brought Dong'e Ejiao, but Er Biao broke a front tooth by biting a piece before Fu Xinyu steamed it for him.
• Fu Xinyu examined Er Biao’s tongue and purple, swollen arm, and Er Biao suspected Su Ziyang had injured or poisoned him.
• Fu Xinyu returned to the Daoist temple and asked Old Daoist Master Xiao whether Su Ziyang knew kung fu that could make someone swell with a touch.
• Old Daoist Master Xiao questioned Fu Xinyu’s reason for asking, then told Daoist Master Xiao Yang to keep an eye on Fu Xinyu and Su Ziyang.

Su Ziyang used a needling technique Yang Tianzheng taught him to relieve Ma Wansen’s acute back sprain, earning praise and a commendation banner. After Yang Tianzheng teased him about his success, he confronted Su Ziyang about whether he had dealt with the two people who caused trouble at the clinic.

• Su Ziyang struggled to treat Ma Wansen’s acute lumbar sprain, so he asked Yang Tianzheng for a technique and learned Five Tigers Capture the Sheep.
• Su Ziyang needled Ma Wansen and had him cough, which quickly eased most of his pain and let him walk around.
• Yu Xiushui recorded Ma Wansen’s recovery, praised Su Ziyang online, and discussed finding him a partner; Ma Wansen later returned with a commendation banner.
• Yang Tianzheng returned and teased Su Ziyang, who asked him to write down everything he knew; Yang Tianzheng pinned him down and flicked his forehead.
• Yang Tianzheng asked whether Su Ziyang had done something to the two troublemakers, then told him to meet at the square after work and remember their earlier agreement.

Fu Xinyu tried to recruit Er Biao to harass Su Ziyang, but Er Biao refused and returned the money after believing Su had an immortal protecting him. After Yang Tianzheng put Su through an exhausting training session, Er Biao found Su and pleaded for forgiveness, and Su brought him home to talk.

• Daoist Master Xiao Yang told Old Daoist Master Xiao that Fu Xinyu had clashed with Su Ziyang at the consultation room.
• Fu Xinyu asked Er Biao to find people to cause trouble for Su Ziyang, but Er Biao refused, returned the money, and lost contact with Fu Xinyu.
• A patient fled Su Ziyang’s consultation room after seeing him practice, leaving Jingchengdao Medical Clinic with its first canceled appointment.
• Yang Tianzheng caught Su Ziyang trying to avoid training and made him practice the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Steps for nearly an hour and a half.
• Er Biao brought Zhonghua cigarettes and Dong'e Ejiao to Su Ziyang, apologized for offending him, and begged him to ask his immortal for mercy.
• Su Ziyang let Er Biao follow him home while he went to change his sweat-soaked clothes.

Su Ziyang released Er Biao’s sealed acupoints and let him go after he promised not to stir up trouble at medical facilities again. Er Biao then revealed that Fu Xinyu had hired him to target Su Ziyang and began explaining why he hated quacks, leaving Su Ziyang shocked by the cost of an old teacher’s prescription.

• Er Biao swore he would never maliciously cause trouble at a medical facility again, and Su Ziyang unsealed his acupoints and treated his arm.
• Su Ziyang told Er Biao to leave, but Er Biao revealed that Fu Xinyu had paid him to go after Su Ziyang.
• Er Biao said he had attended medical vocational school for two months before being expelled and explained that he hated quacks.
• Er Biao recounted how a teacher at his school prescribed him medicine for a month of diarrhea, and Su Ziyang reacted in disbelief when Er Biao said seven days of medicine had cost two thousand yuan.

Er Biao told Su Ziyang how a fraudulent teacher had cheated him out of his tuition and how he had been expelled after leading a medical-dispute protest against that teacher. Over dinner, the two became friends, and Er Biao warned Su Ziyang that Fu Xinyu had asked him to find people to attack him.

• Er Biao explained that a teacher had forced him to buy an ineffective prescription for two thousand yuan, leaving him struggling to support himself while studying.
• Er Biao said he had earned money by joining medical-dispute protests and had been expelled after leading one against the teacher who had swindled him.
• Su Ziyang invited Er Biao to dinner, returned the gifts Er Biao had brought, and learned that Er Biao planned to open a massage parlor and stop taking protest jobs.
• Er Biao explained that he had targeted Su Ziyang because Fu Xinyu had accused him of stealing patients, prescribing expensive medicine, and bullying him.
• Er Biao told Su Ziyang that Fu Xinyu had asked him to find people to mess him up, and Su Ziyang took the drunken Er Biao home after their meal.

Su Ziyang agreed to help Er Biao learn Old Madam Liu’s massage technique, then traveled with him to her county town. They reached her crowded home and discovered that her patients had to wait outside, leaving Su Ziyang unsure how he could observe her treatment.

• Su Ziyang and Er Biao shared breakfast, and Er Biao asked him to join a trip to learn an old lady’s massage skills; Su Ziyang agreed to go on Saturday.
• Er Biao left cigarettes and donkey-hide gelatin for Su Ziyang, while Yang Tianzheng angrily scolded Su Ziyang for drinking after practicing and avoided him for the next two days.
• Su Ziyang and Er Biao met at the bus station and rode to Er Biao’s hometown, where a taxi driver told them Old Madam Liu treated back pain by massaging around the navel.
• Su Ziyang and Er Biao arrived at Old Madam Liu’s house and received the last patient number, but learned that visitors had to wait outside while she treated patients in private.
• Su Ziyang learned that massage sessions could last from five to thirty minutes and worried that he would not get a chance to study Old Madam Liu’s technique.

Su Ziyang and Er Biao visited Old Madam Liu to learn about her renowned internal-energy massage, and she diagnosed Er Biao with an internal injury. After treating him, she examined Su Ziyang and began a stomach massage, giving him a chance to experience her technique firsthand.

• Su Ziyang and Er Biao waited with other patients, who praised Old Madam Liu's treatments for internal ailments.
• Old Madam Liu examined Er Biao and identified an internal injury that Su Ziyang knew he had caused by striking Er Biao's acupoints.
• Old Madam Liu pressed a spot near Er Biao's navel, prompting him to rush to the toilet as she explained that she was restoring his Qi and expelling congealed blood.
• Old Madam Liu continued treating Er Biao until his pent-up Qi was released, leaving him drained and resting on the bed.
• Old Madam Liu examined Su Ziyang, found him healthy, and offered to massage his stomach; Su Ziyang was eager to experience her technique.

Su Ziyang and Er Biao visited Old Madam Liu to learn her abdominal massage technique, but Su Ziyang could not work out how she did it. They traveled to Er Biao’s grandparents’ home, where Su Ziyang tried the massage on Er Biao and again failed to reproduce it before they went to sleep.

• Old Madam Liu massaged Su Ziyang’s abdomen, sending his True Qi into circulation, while Su Ziyang tried to learn her technique.
• Su Ziyang asked Er Biao about his treatment, and Er Biao described pain near his navel, black stools, and cool-feeling gas.
• Su Ziyang and Er Biao took a bus to Li Family Shed, where Su Ziyang brought food gifts and met Er Biao’s grandparents.
• Er Biao’s grandparents welcomed them and served porridge because the two had been advised to eat lightly after their treatments.
• That night, Su Ziyang practiced Old Madam Liu’s abdominal massage on Er Biao but could not reproduce the technique, and both men fell asleep.

Su Ziyang and Er Biao were ambushed by a gang, but Su Ziyang defeated them and helped Brother Ming arrest a wanted man. After making peace with Yang Tianzheng, Su Ziyang returned to the clinic, where Yu Xiushui offered to arrange a date and agreed to ask around about Old Madam Liu.

• Su Ziyang and Er Biao encountered a gang who demanded that Su Ziyang quit his job, and Su Ziyang defeated all eight attackers.
• Yang Tianzheng appeared, told Su Ziyang to call the police, and learned that Su Ziyang had been trying to message him.
• Brother Ming arrested the attackers and recognized their leader, Chen Yong, as a man wanted for a fight at the Soaring Bull Barbecue Stall.
• Su Ziyang explained his failed message to Yang Tianzheng, who topped up his phone and invited himself along on Su Ziyang's next visit to Old Madam Liu.
• Yu Xiushui visited the clinic to propose a match for Su Ziyang, then agreed to ask around about Old Madam Liu in L County.

Su Ziyang discovered that Liu Jinyu was the niece of Old Madam Liu, whose family massage technique he wanted to learn. Old Madam Liu welcomed him to study it, while declaring that she wanted the skill passed on beyond her family.

• Yu Xiushui introduced Su Ziyang to Liu Jinyu, and they began chatting; Liu Jinyu revealed that her aunt practiced a family massage technique.
• Su Ziyang told Er Biao and Yang Tianzheng about the coincidence, and Yang Tianzheng warned him not to neglect Li Zijun before putting him through harsher training.
• After a week of exhausting practice, Su Ziyang and Er Biao visited Old Madam Liu again and found Liu Jinyu there.
• Liu Jinyu realized Su Ziyang had come to study her aunt's technique and teased him into admitting it.
• Old Madam Liu invited Su Ziyang to watch closely and said she wanted the family skill passed on so it would not die with her.

Su Ziyang learned how Old Madam Liu sensed the jumping lump and what its positions could indicate, then studied her abdominal massage techniques. The chapter ended with Old Madam Liu having him practice the kneading technique on Er Biao.

• Su Ziyang asked Old Madam Liu what she felt for, and she guided his hand to feel the pulsing jumping lump in Er Biao's abdomen.
• Old Madam Liu described how different positions of the jumping lump were associated with various symptoms and illnesses, while Su Ziyang recorded her explanations.
• Old Madam Liu explained that she now focused on hand techniques because patients usually arrived with a hospital diagnosis.
• Old Madam Liu demonstrated stroking, kneading, pulling, lifting, and pushing techniques, and Su Ziyang followed along as she taught him.
• Old Madam Liu gave Su Ziyang a chance to practice on Er Biao, and he began kneading Er Biao's abdomen.

Su Ziyang and Er Biao learned Old Madam Liu’s abdominal massage techniques and thanked her with gifts before leaving. After Su Ziyang returned to Yang Tianzheng, he tried the technique on his master but realized Yang Tianzheng’s internal cultivation meant he had no pulsing lump to treat.

• Su Ziyang practiced Old Madam Liu’s techniques on Er Biao and learned how to move a pulsing lump back toward the navel.
• Old Madam Liu demonstrated three techniques for treating pulsing lumps and maintaining health, then invited Su Ziyang and Er Biao to stay for a meal.
• Su Ziyang and Er Biao returned with a roomful of gifts and nearly kowtowed to Old Madam Liu to thank her for teaching them.
• Su Ziyang and Er Biao followed Old Madam Liu as she saw patients, then left for the city and parted ways after their bus ride.
• After training with Yang Tianzheng, Su Ziyang explained the technique and tried to find a pulsing lump on his master, but remembered Yang Tianzheng practiced internal cultivation.