Recaps

Su Ziyang advanced from a fledgling clinic physician to Mr. Mengfei’s disciple, learning to cultivate qi and diagnose difficult cases. His trip to Jiangxi to study acupoint striking nearly cost him his life, and Mr. Mengfei began explaining his past connection to the Jiang family as a danger from their history remained unresolved.

• Su Ziyang joined the Daoist medical clinic, treated Liu Li’s cough, and realized he needed to improve his medical skills, especially pulse diagnosis.
• Mr. Mengfei treated Liancui’s ghost intercourse with chloranthus root and challenged Su Ziyang to diagnose Dazhuang, then agreed to teach Su the Midnight-Noon Heaven and Earth Art.
• After a hundred days of practice and study, Su Ziyang successfully built a foundation of qi, became Mr. Mengfei’s disciple, and began assisting with difficult cases such as Xuan Yu’s Ghost Strike and Flying Corpse Disease.
• Su Ziyang treated Li Hui’s focal distention syndrome and suspected Sun Hua had plum-pit qi rather than throat cancer, while Wang Jiahui rejected his diagnosis of a possible uterine fibroid.
• Su Ziyang traveled to Jiangxi to learn acupoint striking, but Jiang Kui discovered that a stranger had sealed Su’s acupoints and nearly killed him, and Jiang Tian had to help treat him.
• Jiang Kui taught Su about the Spiritual Pivot Acupoint Striking Method, while Mr. Mengfei realized Su had been targeted because of his cultivation aura and promised to teach him how to conceal his qi.
• Over dinner, Jiang Kui thanked Mr. Mengfei for saving him years earlier, and Mr. Mengfei told Su how he had drawn strange white hairs from Jiang Kui and awakened him, though the danger had not ended.

Su Ziyang returned home and reunited with his university friends before facing a violent confrontation that drew him deeper into martial arts and traditional medicine. Under Daoist Jin’s instruction, he treated patients and studied, then cured Bai Pengyu’s aunt’s strange affliction with a remedy suggested by Mr. Mengfei.

• Mr. Mengfei dispelled the remaining black Qi around Jiang Kui’s home, explained the family curse, and advanced Su Ziyang’s cultivation before Su returned home.
• Su Ziyang reunited with Ma Jun, Han Peng, and Wang Jinqiu, then walked out of Xing Zhiyu’s reunion after accusing him of pressuring classmates to donate for his career.
• Xing Zhiyu’s associate sent men to attack Su Ziyang and his friends, but Su Ziyang defeated them with acupoint strikes.
• Su Ziyang resumed seeing patients and treated several unusual conditions, including Bao Mingya’s urinary illness, which he cured with a different herbal remedy.
• Daoist Jin attacked Su Ziyang over a misunderstanding, but Mr. Mengfei intervened, and Daoist Jin later apologized and accepted Su Ziyang as his student.
• Daoist Jin taught Su Ziyang martial arts and pediatric medicine, then treated a seriously ill boy whose fever and abdominal lumps eased after the child passed hard stool.
• Bai Pengyu brought his aunt to Su Ziyang because an old woman’s face had grown from her chest, and Mr. Mengfei advised Su to use Sichuan fritillaria bulb with honey.
• Su Ziyang’s medicine made the human-faced sore disappear, and Mr. Mengfei sent him old medical accounts that confirmed fritillaria’s use for the condition.

Su Ziyang returned home for the New Year, treated several neighbors, and traveled to study bonesetting under Lao Pang. After becoming Lao Pang’s apprentice and learning his secret formulas, Su Ziyang left for the Daoist Medicine Clinic and recognized a familiar man on the train.

• Su Ziyang returned home, learned that Su Zang had broken up with Yuyu after catching him cheating, and helped Aunt Tong and Erhei recover from their ailments.
• Su Ziyang treated neighbors with a range of complaints, prescribed medicine for Xiaocai’s rheumatoid arthritis, and celebrated the New Year with his family.
• Mr. Mengfei took Su Ziyang to Lao Pang, who accepted him as a student and put him to work at the barbershop before teaching him how to prepare bone-setting medicine.
• Lao Pang introduced Su Ziyang to bone-setting, let him observe Daqing’s fracture treatment, and formally took him as an apprentice of the Bian Clan Bonesetting art.
• Lao Pang taught Su Ziyang bone-setting methods and secret formulas, while Su Ziyang practiced on animal bones and learned the limits of Beichen’s skills.
• Beichen and Manager Li pressured Lao Pang to sell his secret formulas, and Beichen attacked Lao Pang and dislocated Su Ziyang’s shoulder when Lao Pang refused.
• Su Ziyang gave Beichen the formula at Lao Pang’s instruction and presented Lao Pang with a book of Bian Clan Bonesetting, then prepared to leave.
• Su Ziyang traveled back toward the Daoist Medicine Clinic and recognized a familiar man on the train.

Su Ziyang recovered from his injuries, treated Jin Yizhi, and continued his martial and medical training while confronting Zhang Guozhou and tracing him to Guo Tianren. After arranging a contest with Guo, Su Ziyang returned to the clinic and examined Han Xixi’s unusual skin condition.

• Su Ziyang fought the middle-aged man on the train, then returned home and healed his injuries while Fairy Li cared for him.
• Su Ziyang treated Jin Yizhi’s advanced cancer with successive prescriptions, and Jin Yizhi later reported that only a tiny number of cancer cells remained.
• Daoist Jin trained Su Ziyang in the Golden Bell Shield, while Mr. Mengfei taught him about medicinal treatments and supplied Thief’s Medicine for his recovery.
• Su Ziyang attended Lao Pang’s funeral, received a chicken-blood vine bracelet from Xuhui, and later joined Fairy Li for a meeting with Zhang Guozhou.
• Zhang Guozhou drugged Fairy Li and tried to take her away, but Su Ziyang stopped him and helped bring her home.
• Su Ziyang, Daoist Jin, and Mr. Mengfei found Yang Jinguang, who confirmed that Guo Tianren had once been his disciple and gave them his rope dart as a sign for Guo.
• Su Ziyang diagnosed Ye Yichen with Soul Separation Syndrome, then helped expose Guo Tianren when Fairy Li arranged a meeting with him and Zhang Guozhou.
• Guo Tianren challenged Daoist Jin and Mr. Mengfei to a best-two-out-of-three contest, and Su Ziyang later examined Han Xixi’s scaly shoulder and recognized a type of psoriasis.