Recaps

Su Ziyang learned Master Luo’s Zhuyou arts before accompanying him back to his village, where Master Luo died at home. After mourning him, Su Ziyang returned to treating patients and took on new training and reading obligations.

• Master Luo taught Su Ziyang Zhuyou rituals, talismans, curses, Qi refinement, visualizations, and hand techniques, while warning him to use his abilities righteously.
• Master Luo left his mountain home with Su Ziyang, Fairy Li, Yang Tianzheng, and Mr. Mengfei and returned to Luo Family Village as Luo Mengyong.
• Master Luo visited his parents’ graves and old family home, then died while Su Ziyang held his hand.
• Su Ziyang mourned Master Luo as his son, and Mr. Mengfei explained that Master Luo had chosen to return home despite the toll on his health.
• Su Ziyang and Fourth Uncle recognized that Teacher Yi was deceiving patients with claims that questioning his spells would prevent recovery.
• Su Ziyang treated Song Huiru’s fish-bone pain with a talisman and accepted her as a future disciple, prompting Mr. Mengfei and Yang Tianzheng to order four years of special training.
• Su Ziyang prescribed remedies for patients including Zhang Cong and Li Tongle, while Li Weiwei’s stretch-mark formula brought more mothers to his clinic.
• Mr. Mengfei and Yang Tianzheng brought Su Ziyang 869 medical books to study over four years, and Fairy Li stopped him from calling the landlady about his rent.

Su Ziyang competed with Zhang Rongyi, learned new healing skills, and studied Ren Qushun’s teachings on character and illness. Meanwhile, Mr. Mengfei and Zhenze solved a village fever outbreak, and Su Ziyang’s night out with Jiang Tian ended in a fight and punishment.

• Su Ziyang traveled with Fairy Li to meet Zhang Rongyi, competed with him in treating patients, and earned his respect.
• Zhang Rongyi befriended Su Ziyang, taught him Grab Illness Qi and Eight and a Half Locks, and took him herb gathering.
• Mr. Mengfei brought Su Ziyang to meet Master Luo, where Su Ziyang endured a strange test, then learned Demon-Subduing Fist from Zhenze.
• Su Ziyang and Fairy Li watched Ren Qushun help a dying woman release her resentment, and Su Ziyang learned Ren’s ideas about temperament, illness, and cultivating righteous Qi.
• Mr. Mengfei gave Su Ziyang a puppy named Coal Briquette, then traveled with Zhenze to investigate a village outbreak linked to a laughing owl and a ruined temple.
• Mr. Mengfei and Zhenze found red dandelion near the ruined temple, and its decoction cured a sick child and ended the outbreak.
• Su Ziyang, Fairy Li, and Jiang Tian went to KTV, where Fairy Li and the men fought several Japanese men before Jiang Kui and Mr. Mengfei ordered Su Ziyang and Jiang Tian to kneel as punishment.

Su Ziyang continued treating patients, deepened his medical knowledge, and reunited with former classmates while building ties with Fairy Li and other practitioners. The arc ended with him treating Zhao Qiangjun’s stomach cancer symptoms and preparing to visit Liuzi again after her mother improved.

• Su Ziyang treated Li Youde’s diabetic foot and an amputee’s phantom pain, then learned Er Biao’s massage technique and taught him new exercises.
• Su Ziyang met Li Zijun’s older brothers, who asked him to treat her well, and later helped Wei Boyan process aconite while learning about medicinal ingredients.
• Su Ziyang returned to his former school for a gathering, where he used the Zhuyou Technique to relieve Liu Hua’s gout and then treated a young man’s severe gout at his clinic.
• Su Ziyang advised Liu Hua on his father’s dry eyes, helped his cousin prepare to guide his wife’s moxibustion work, and explained Chinese medicine to researchers considering his stone-treatment prescriptions.
• Su Ziyang examined Liuzi’s mother, diagnosed her condition as treatable, and prescribed herbs that later reduced her swelling.
• Su Ziyang treated an older woman’s knotted pulse and diagnosed a woman with Behçet’s disease as having Fox-Lily Disease, later learning that she recovered after fourteen days of treatment.
• Su Ziyang diagnosed a man’s cold-triggered attacks as Running Piglet Qi and prescribed a decoction, then gave Zhao Qiangjun Yellow Earth Decoction for bleeding associated with stomach cancer.
• Liuzi invited Su Ziyang to dinner after her mother improved, and he planned to bring Fairy Li along.

Su Ziyang explored moxibustion, learned from Old Feng, and saved a passenger on a train before treating several patients at his clinic. After Daoist Jin emerged from seclusion, he began teaching Su Ziyang pediatric tuina, leaving Su with a wide range of techniques to practice.

• Su Ziyang learned about Doctor Zhou’s unusual bloodletting methods, developed moxibustion materials for his cousin’s wife’s wellness center, and visited Old Feng to study his approach.
• Old Feng tested Su Ziyang’s martial arts, demonstrated Water and Fire Kung Fu, and introduced him to his school, where Su Ziyang intervened when Xu Jialiang attacked Li Chong.
• On a train, Su Ziyang revived an unconscious passenger with CPR and the Eight and a Half Locks, then paid the man compensation for rib fractures before the man was hit by a car outside the hospital.
• Su Ziyang treated patients with tremors, tongue pain, digestive problems, and lingering leg swelling, while Liuzi’s mother and a woman with lily bulb disease improved under his care.
• Daoist Jin emerged from seclusion, resumed seeing patients, and began teaching Su Ziyang pediatric tuina alongside Mr. Mengfei and Yang Tianzheng.
• Daoist Jin taught Su Ziyang numerous pediatric tuina techniques for fever, cold, phlegm, coughs, digestion, and other childhood complaints, while Su practiced on Yang Tianzheng and Mr. Mengfei.