Recaps

Su Ziyang learned Daoist Jin’s treatment methods and Bigu practices while facing family entanglements and preparing to marry Fairy Li. He treated a series of patients at the clinic, ending with a group of men seeking help for headaches and offering him advice about marriage.

• Su Ziyang practiced pediatric tuina and learned medicinal applications and hot-compress treatments from Daoist Jin, then helped treat Xiaobao’s fever with a mixture applied using his mother’s hair.
• Su Ziyang prepared Foundation Establishment Wine for his family and Su Zang, but Su Zang later blamed him for the poor-quality wine and manipulated him into paying for dinner before Su Ziyang learned the truth about his troubles.
• Su Ziyang soothed Tiantian after she was frightened, then spent New Year’s with his family as villagers came seeking his help, and Fairy Li visited his parents and brought gifts.
• Daoist Jin taught Su Ziyang the Water-Drinking Bigu Method, while Mr. Mengfei demonstrated another grain-abstention technique that burned Su Ziyang in the sun.
• Su Ziyang agreed to marry Fairy Li after her master chose a date, then treated Li Mu’s obesity and later helped Liu Meilan lose weight and began treating Liu Meichen’s vitiligo.
• Su Ziyang treated Han Jinkai’s wife’s infected finger, gave Han a navel-warming ointment for a child with diarrhea, and accepted an invitation to lecture at a medical college.
• Su Ziyang treated a glaucoma patient with plantain seed, whose predicted symptoms and vision changes later led him to return with a silk banner, and he used white radish juice to temporarily stop a young Daoist’s headache.
• Su Ziyang treated several men with headaches after they had slept outdoors or in a garage after drinking, and they advised him to coax his future wife and share the effort in marriage.

Su Ziyang treated a run of patients, said goodbye to Daoist Jin, and taught a broad introduction to traditional Chinese medicine. Mr. Mengfei then took Su Ziyang and Fairy Li to meet an old friend as Su Ziyang approached the completion of his apprenticeship.

• Xie Dong brought Liu Xiaozhe to Su Ziyang, who treated Liu’s eye injury and helped him make peace with Yaya, then prepared eye medicine for Yaya’s mother.
• Su Ziyang diagnosed Xiaobao’s unusual reading problem, cured him with a modified decoction, and later treated toothaches and other complaints that brought him more patients.
• Daoist Jin left to cultivate in the mountains after giving Su Ziyang his courtyard papers and keys, and Su Ziyang later treated a deaf man whose hearing returned.
• Su Ziyang accepted Lu Junnan’s invitation to lecture and taught the audience about traditional Chinese medicine, diagnosis, medicines, treatment methods, and safe ways to study.
• Fairy Li prepared ginseng lamb congee, and Mr. Mengfei arrived and ate several bowls before inviting Fairy Li and Su Ziyang to pack for a trip.
• Mr. Mengfei reassured Su Ziyang that he was taking him to an old friend for one last helping hand before completing his apprenticeship.
• Mr. Mengfei, Su Ziyang, and Fairy Li reached the city, where Mr. Mengfei told Su Ziyang to call his friend Brother Chu.

Su Ziyang joined Qi Chu and the others on a mountain journey, where they encountered strange creatures and found rare medicinal materials. After returning, Qi Chu began teaching Su Ziyang the Five Movements and Six Qi, while the later lessons covered traditional medicine and how to study its classic texts.

• Mr. Mengfei brought Su Ziyang and Fairy Li to meet Qi Chu, who welcomed them and agreed to take Su Ziyang to a mine.
• Su Ziyang broke Qi Chu’s simple formation with a Zhuyou spell, then learned that Qi Chu could not teach him his methods because he belonged to the Heavenly Physician Lineage.
• Qi Chu led the group to an abandoned mine, where he demonstrated his skills and found azure hollow for Su Ziyang.
• Qi Chu traded the azure hollow and a golden dog spine rhizome to Lao Men'er for money and Bones, then led the group south toward the mountains.
• Qi Chu guided the group into the mountains, where Su Ziyang suppressed venomous snakes and the group encountered a Shegong that attacked Bones.
• The group saw a glowing golden dragon called Feifei above their campsite, and Qi Chu drove it away by shouting its name.
• Su Ziyang entered a bear’s den to take rare asafoetida, and Qi Chu treated the bear before the group left with the fungus.
• Qi Chu used the asafoetida to revive an old woman, then began teaching Su Ziyang the Five Movements and Six Qi and explained traditional medicine and study methods through the following lessons.