Recaps

Su Ziyang treated Xuyang as he battled a mysterious illness, but Xuyang died despite his efforts. Su Ziyang then won a martial arts contest, began studying acupuncture with Yang Tianzheng, and met a boy who believed he had a combat-detecting system.

• Fairy Li told Su Ziyang that Guo Tianren had scheduled a contest, while Mr. Mengfei took him to visit Xuhui’s brother Xuyang, who had advanced lung cancer.
• Su Ziyang diagnosed Xuyang with cold evil affecting the lungs and prescribed medicine, but Xuyang’s condition worsened with fevers, pain, and frightening visions.
• Xuhui’s father-in-law used talismans on Xuyang, and Su Ziyang later gave him mayapple root after a mysterious illness led him to vomit black matter.
• Xuyang died, and Mr. Mengfei comforted Su Ziyang by reminding him that doctors could treat illness but not fate.
• Su Ziyang defeated Wu Yun in the first contest, then restored one goat’s acupoints in a trial that revealed the other side’s lethal attack.
• Yang Tianzheng beat Yang Jinguang as officers arrested the fraud ring, and Yang Tianzheng agreed to teach Su Ziyang acupuncture and moxibustion.
• Yang Tianzheng taught Su Ziyang the Eight Methods of Flying and Soaring, while Mr. Mengfei, Daoist Jin, and Fairy Li left town.
• Jiang Yuhang threw cards and other objects at Su Ziyang, claiming his system detected threats, and Su Ziyang prescribed him Soul-Calming Powder and persuaded him to take it.

Su Ziyang treated patients, exposed Fu Xinyu’s efforts to sabotage him, and befriended Er Biao. He traveled with Er Biao to learn Old Madam Liu’s abdominal massage techniques, then returned to the city and shared what he had learned with Yang Tianzheng.

• Su Ziyang calmed Han Wenxuan with acupuncture and medicine, earning Han Jinkai’s apology after Master Yan’s exorcism failed.
• Yang Tianzheng trained Su Ziyang in acupuncture, and Su Ziyang treated patients while Fu Xinyu arranged a fake medical complaint to damage his reputation.
• Er Biao revealed that Fu Xinyu had hired him to target Su Ziyang, then apologized after Su Ziyang treated the injury caused by his acupoint technique.
• Su Ziyang traveled with Er Biao to visit Old Madam Liu, who treated Er Biao and demonstrated her abdominal massage technique to Su Ziyang.
• After gang members attacked them, Su Ziyang defeated the attackers, and Yang Tianzheng arrived and invited himself on a future visit to Old Madam Liu.
• Su Ziyang returned with Er Biao and Yang Tianzheng after a week of training, and Old Madam Liu taught Su Ziyang how to locate abdominal pulses and use massage techniques.
• Su Ziyang practiced on Er Biao, learned methods for treating pulsing lumps, and followed Old Madam Liu as she treated patients.
• Su Ziyang returned to the city, trained with Yang Tianzheng, and explained Old Madam Liu’s technique before searching unsuccessfully for a pulsing lump on his master.

Su Ziyang treated patients with unconventional methods, clashed with Fu Xinyu, and learned practical skills from Old Madam Liu and Old Master Jiang. The stretch ended with Yang Tianzheng taking charge after Daoist Master Xiao Yang confronted Su Ziyang over a deflated tire.

• Su Ziyang joined Teacher Yi’s Bagua Image-Number Therapy group, tested the practice, then sent number strings that Caicai and Wind Arises, Water Surges reported had helped their patients.
• Su Ziyang treated patients including Meimei, Fang Linjing, Wang Shuo, and Bao Mingya’s father, while advising Rice Steamed Cornbread to seek proper hospital care for his mother.
• Han Jinkai introduced Su Ziyang to his business friends, who asked him to make individualized medicinal paste, and Su prepared their jars after Fu Xinyu taunted him.
• Fu Xinyu challenged Su Ziyang to a fight, but Su threw him down before Bao Mingya took Su to examine her father, whose symptoms Su identified as deficiency taxation.
• Su Ziyang reconciled with Liu Yanzhen, presented Old Madam Liu with a book of her abdominal massage technique, and watched her treat Geda Jia’s grandson with massage and the Yin-Collecting Technique.
• Su Ziyang helped Er Biao open his shop and taught him bonesetting, then treated Hao Kai and Dou Liangtian for hemorrhoids and Zhang Chunyi for light sensitivity after cataract surgery.
• Yang Tianzheng trained Su Ziyang, took him to meet Old Master Jiang, and watched as Jiang’s powder painlessly removed Su’s wisdom tooth and brought down a child’s front teeth.
• Yang Tianzheng rode off with Old Master Jiang’s medicine, while Su Ziyang deflated Daoist Master Xiao Yang’s tire and faced her confrontation before Yang returned and offered to deal with him.

Su Ziyang treated patients, grew closer to Fairy Li, and learned new techniques from his mentors. He then traveled with Mr. Mengfei to study under Master Luo, whose unusual healing methods and lessons in psychological influence left Su Ziyang with more to learn.

• Su Ziyang treated Zhang Yan’s bleeding with an inexpensive motherwort prescription, and she returned to say it had stopped.
• Fairy Li returned, and Su Ziyang began courting her while continuing to treat patients, including Li Weiwei and the boy Xiong Guichen.
• Su Ziyang and Fairy Li became a couple, while Su Ziyang treated Wang Jinghao’s gallstone pain with acupuncture and herbs and prescribed a remedy for a woman’s eczema.
• Er Biao taught Su Ziyang bonesetting and reshaping techniques, and Su Ziyang tried a massage technique on Fairy Li before traveling with her and Mr. Mengfei to visit Master Luo.
• Master Luo stopped a villager’s bleeding with ridged paper and agreed to take Su Ziyang as a student.
• Su Ziyang stayed with Master Luo, cooked for him, and joined him in responding to a villager who had been shot with an arrow.
• Master Luo told Su Ziyang that his apparent control over the strange force came from psychological effects and explained how sound could influence people.