Recaps

Zhang Xuezhou helped Zuo Teng evade Mengtesi Badun and outlasted Montes Ganghao in a card contest, then survived surgery for a curse that drew him into the Grand Empress Dowager’s investigation. He stole Spirit Jade from the Yang Mausoleum to heal himself and was left waiting after the Venerable One went there to retrieve it.

• Zhou Xin took control of the freighter, while Zhang Xuezhou advised Zuo Teng to disguise himself and travel as Zuo Denggao to avoid Mengtesi Badun.
• Zhou Xin negotiated with Mengtesi Badun for the return of Scarlet Alliance researchers in exchange for Montes Ganghao, and Ganghao later seized Zuo Teng and demanded jokes.
• Zhang Xuezhou freed Zuo Teng by wagering that he could stay awake longer than Montes Ganghao, then joined the group in playing cards against him.
• Ren Anran and the others won Montes Ganghao’s Soft Hedgehog Armor and belt, and Zhang Xuezhou asked Zhou Xin for tiger or leopard blood serums as his reward.
• Medical Officer Chunyu saved Zhang Xuezhou by opening his skull and dispersing the Severe Witchcraft Gu Incantation, while the Grand Empress Dowager suspected the Exalted One had attacked them both.
• Zhang Xuezhou left the Imperial Medical Hall and returned home, where Medical Officer Chunyu offered to teach him the complete Nine Revolutions Qi Uniting Technique in exchange for his help.
• Zhang Xuezhou forced Jin Chang to reveal Liu An’s search for the Marquis of Sui’s Pearl, then stole Spirit Jade from beneath Emperor Jing’s coffin and used it to heal himself.
• Wei Shao'er gave Zhang Xuezhou Deer Blood Pellets and asked him to reach her before childbirth, while the Venerable One learned Zhang had taken Spirit Jade and went to the Yang Mausoleum with Lu Baibai and Kong Ning.

His Excellency fought to seize the Heaven-Shaking Arrow while Liu Che and the officials reacted to the crisis at Yang Mausoleum, and Zhang Xuezhou’s palace visit ended in a dangerous medical ordeal. Back in the present, Zhang Xuezhou advanced his cultivation, traded access to the Ferocious Beast Belt for blood preparations, and discovered the reach of his suppressive force.

• His Excellency returned to Chang’an wounded, and Lu Baibai gave Zhang Xuezhou his Green Rock Wooden Staff to compensate for losing the spirit jade essence.
• The disguised new emperor visited Zhang Xuezhou’s residence, where the Venerable One advised him on securing the throne and suggested seeking Liu Bang’s Snake-Slaying Sword.
• The Venerable One, Lu Baibai, and Kong Ning raided Yang Mausoleum, while His Excellency entered the imperial mausoleum to pursue the Heaven-Shaking Arrow.
• The Grand Empress Dowager, Liu Che, and Li Guang responded to the fighting as His Excellency resisted the Nine Dragons Cauldron’s dragon souls and subdued the arrow, but an unseen attacker struck him.
• Kong Ning told Zhang Xuezhou that the Venerable One seemed trapped, and Medical Officer Chunyu summoned Zhang to the Palace of Peace and Happiness, where a tonic pill sent his cultivation fluctuating.
• Zhang Xuezhou escaped the palace after his apparent recovery, then collapsed as his life force faded, and the Grand Empress Dowager ordered further observation and increased his treatment allowance.
• Zhang Xuezhou returned to the present, prepared Spirit-Forging Pill liquid, and traded turns borrowing the Ferocious Beast Belt for blood preparations from Zhou Tianhao, Zuo Teng, and others.
• Zhang Xuezhou reached the second revolution of the Nine Revolutions Harmonizing Qi Technique, assessed his suppressive force’s range, and received Professor Zhu Liangping’s question about his disputed paper.

Zhang Xuezhou built a research partnership with Luo Burang while Ren Yisheng’s recovery brought the Mental Strengthening Chapter into negotiations with the Luo Household. Back in the Han world, Zhang Xuezhou worked with Chunyu Tiying and Zheng Wukong to suppress his dangerous Incantation, then helped arrange care for Wei Shao’er’s perilous pregnancy.

• Zhang Xuezhou taught students to communicate with animals, then helped Wang Haoran confront his uncertainty about Ren Yisheng and agreed to teach him Realm Techniques if he made progress.
• Wang Haoran and Ren Yisheng formed an organization, while Zhang Xuezhou refused to spread Realm Techniques widely and recognized Wang Haoran’s connections could help secure research resources and blood serums.
• Luo Burang showed Zhang Xuezhou his life-extension research and the living head in Professor Luo Hui’s laboratory, and Zhang proposed exchanging laboratory resources and building a market for Luo Burang’s blood serums.
• Zhang Xuezhou recruited buyers through Wang Li and encouraged Zhang Manqian to learn from Luo Burang, while he used Ren Yisheng’s research video to draw attention to the Ferocious Beast findings.
• Ren Yisheng regained consciousness, and Zhang Xuezhou helped Ren Anran negotiate with Luo Tianming to exchange the Mental Strengthening Chapter for Professor Luo Hui’s treatment.
• After Ren Yisheng remained paralyzed, Zhang Xuezhou returned to the Han world, where Chunyu Tiying and Zheng Wukong used needles and a Breathing Method to suppress his Yang Corporeal Soul Dharma Form and help him cultivate.
• Zhang Xuezhou introduced Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying to Wei Shao’er, whose borrowed dragon Demon Power threatened her and her child, and persuaded Chunyu to treat her despite the cost and legal risks.

Zhang Xuezhou gained a new post at court, investigated a strange gourd, and used his growing medical knowledge to guide those around him. In the modern world, he helped build a nationwide sales alliance while advancing research with Luo Burang and uncovering more about the Luo Household.

• Zhang Xuezhou investigated the aftermath of the Yang Mausoleum attack, warned Kong Zhong and the other defenders that the Emperor might punish them, and watched them seek the Emperor’s mercy by accusing Zhao Wan and Wang Zang.
• The new emperor questioned Zhang Xuezhou, then appointed him a scholar-in-attendance at the Golden Horse Gate after Zhang proposed that Qin Er Shi could pass off a fake Snake-Slaying Sword as genuine.
• Yi Shuo visited Zhang Xuezhou with her purple-gold gourd, and he discovered that it responded to his Green Rock Wooden Staff and transformed materials placed inside it.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Yi Shuo used the gourd to refine Grain Avoidance Powder into a pill, then realized it had drained the Spirit Jade and that the staff could help locate Spirit Jade underground.
• Zhang Xuezhou studied acupoints with Yi Shuo, Chunyu Tiying, and Zheng Wukong, while Yi Shuo’s Suspended Needle Method helped Rong Tianding advance his cultivation.
• After collapsing from exhaustion, Zhang Xuezhou recovered and caught up on messages, then warned Song Fengying about the dangerous Ferocious Beast bird and gave her materials for the Poison Avoidance Art in exchange for sixty million.
• Zhang Xuezhou brought Song Fengying and Li Yingbo together after discovering Alliance Freight had lost her customers’ packages, and Li Yingbo compensated her while exploring how livestream sales could support a national shopping platform.
• Zhang Xuezhou joined Li Yingbo’s Alliance No. 9 venture, which gathered investors and planned to connect factory sellers with buyers through commission-based salespeople and Alliance Freight.
• Zhang Xuezhou arranged discounted culture media for B13 Laboratory and learned from Luo Burang about his family’s exile of him, his research, and his promise to show Zhang Luo Zhong’s head if his relatives sought help.