Chapter Summaries

Jian Mo began teaching his seventeen students and found that answering their questions also exposed gaps in his own medical knowledge. He grew tired from teaching and studying, but Wu Jiong supported him at home; when Jian Mo went to check on Jiujiu and Ying'ao, neither was there.

• Jian Mo planned to train the students through seasonal lessons and practice before sending them back to their tribes to treat patients.
• Jian Mo answered the students' questions about preparing medicinal plants and realized he needed to strengthen his own grasp of the basics.
• Jian Mo returned home tired, where Wu Jiong comforted him and reassured him that he was glad to handle the housework.
• Jiujiu grew close to Jian Mo's students, spending less time with the cubs, while Wu Jiong cared for Jiujiu and Ying'ao during Jian Mo's busy days.
• Jian Mo took the students' day off and went to see Jiujiu, but found both Jiujiu and Ying'ao missing despite their bowls being full.

Jian Mo learned that Jiujiu had been leading his students to food-rich places, and he and Wu Jiong joined them to pick ruby berries in Mengshui Tribe territory. The students enjoyed the outing and fed Jiujiu while gathering berries.

• Jian Mo asked Wu Jiong how the food in Jiujiu’s bowl had been gathered, and Wu Jiong explained that Jian Mo’s students had collected it after Jiujiu led them to places with food.
• Wu Jiong told Jian Mo that Jiujiu had taken people to pick ruby berries in Mengshui Tribe territory, so they went there together.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong found Jiujiu and the students carefully picking ripe berries and feeding some to Jiujiu.
• The students welcomed Jian Mo and Wu Jiong, shared berries with them, and explained that they had happily followed Jiujiu despite having a day off.
• Jian Mo told the students to ignore Jiujiu next time it asked them to go out, but they said they enjoyed the outing, and everyone continued picking berries and feeding Jiujiu.

Jian Mo taught his students to recognize healthy bodily sounds by examining beastmen in their animal forms. The lesson continued as students and onlookers examined the resting giant beasts and recorded what they learned.

• Jian Mo gathered his students and visiting beastmen for a practical lesson on listening to sounds inside the body.
• He led the students from beast to beast, explaining the sounds and asking them to remember what a healthy giant beast sounded like.
• Ban Ming fell asleep while the students examined him, and his tail hooked around A Meng’s wrist when it was A Meng’s turn.
• Jian Mo teased Ban Ming for flirting, and the students laughed when the gray cat straightened his tail.
• Jian Mo told the students to keep examining the giant beasts and recording their characteristics as adults and young ones came to watch.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong traveled to the Yangyao Tribe to examine Bo Ao’s badly injured foot and possibly use it for a practical shamanic medicine lesson. They arrived at Bo Ao’s home, where his reaction to hearing Jian Mo’s name left them about to meet him.

• Jian Mo arranged a short break for his students after Luan Feng told him that Bo Ao, a beastman from the Yangyao Tribe, had a severe foot wound.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong set out that evening with Jiujiu and Ying'ao, stopping overnight in Red Zheng Tribe territory.
• Jiujiu and Ying'ao carried them to the Yangyao Tribe by noon the next day.
• The Yangyao Tribe's chief warned Jian Mo and Wu Jiong that Bo Ao was ill-tempered and led them to his home.
• Jian Mo smelled blood and rot outside Bo Ao’s home, and Bo Ao asked whether their visitor was the famous shamanic doctor.

Jian Mo examined Bo Ao’s badly infected leg and learned that a neighboring tribe’s witch doctor had treated it with fresh Long-Headed Beast dung. He cleaned the wound with warm salt water and left it untreated for observation, reassuring Bo Ao that it could heal.

• Bo Ao initially refused Jian Mo’s help, but agreed after Jian Mo noticed that his leg had been injured twice.
• Jian Mo examined Bo Ao’s leg and learned that Bo Ao had cut away rotten flesh after a witch doctor applied fresh Long-Headed Beast dung to the wound.
• Jian Mo inspected the deep, festering slash in daylight and prepared warm salt water and disinfected instruments to clean it.
• Jian Mo washed the wound with two jars of warm salt water and explained that medicinal powder could hinder healing, so he would observe it for two days.
• Bo Ao accepted Jian Mo’s treatment, and Jian Mo reassured him by describing a badly injured beastman who had recovered.

Jian Mo traveled to the Yangyao Tribe, treated Bo Ao’s leg, and persuaded him to return to the Riverside Tribe as a teaching patient for a demonstration on debridement and suturing. After returning, Jian Mo prepared his lesson, shared a tender moment with Wu Jiong, and later held his students’ first formal examination as winter set in.

• Jian Mo examined Bo Ao’s improving leg and invited him to the Riverside Tribe to help demonstrate wound treatment to his students.
• Bo Ao agreed to travel with Jian Mo, and Wu Jiong accompanied him safely back to the Riverside Tribe on Ying'ao while Jian Mo rode Jiujiu.
• Jian Mo’s students welcomed them, and Jian Mo asked them to settle Bo Ao at the clinic and provide him with plenty of food.
• Jian Mo reviewed his supplies and wrote a lesson plan covering infection prevention, disinfection, and patients’ psychological needs.
• Wu Jiong praised Jian Mo’s dedication, kissed him, and told him they were a perfect match.
• As winter set in, Jian Mo held a midterm examination to assess his students’ progress, focusing mostly on practical tasks.

Jian Mo finished grading his students’ practical exams and gave them five days off before joining Wu Jiong for a meal with Ji Xun and Zhou Zhi. During the meal, Qi Ming said he planned to become Zhou Zhi’s partner and move to the Cypress Branch Tribe, leaving Jian Mo to ask how that would affect Qi Ming’s work in the Rain Rising Tribe.

• Jian Mo agreed to meet Ji Xun, Zhou Zhi, and the others for a meal after his students finished their exams.
• Jian Mo judged that his students had learned well, graded their exams, and gave them five days off to visit their families.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong traveled through the winter cold to Ji Xun’s home, where Zhou Zhi and Qi Ming were waiting.
• Ji Xun welcomed everyone to a hot pot meal, and Jian Mo praised the chilled honey-sweet tea.
• Qi Ming told Jian Mo that he and Zhou Zhi planned to become partners and that he would move to the Cypress Branch Tribe.
• Jian Mo asked Qi Ming whether moving would make it difficult to handle his work in the Rain Rising Tribe.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong discovered the path connecting Jian Mo’s former world to their tribe, but Jian Mo chose to stay with Wu Jiong and return to the Riverside Tribe. The chapter ended with them reaffirming their love, then began a brief summer scene of them gathering in the mountains.

• Qi Ming said he could keep working for his tribe while training a new chief, and the group shared a meal and conversation.
• Jian Mo examined Ji Xun and Zhou Zhi, then walked home with Wu Jiong through the mountains.
• Jian Mo spotted an unfamiliar path, and Wu Jiong recognized it as the path Jian Mo had taken from the modern world.
• Jian Mo refused to return through the path and told Wu Jiong that he was happy with the life they had chosen together.
• Wu Jiong embraced Jian Mo, and they told each other they loved one another.
• The next summer, Jian Mo and Wu Jiong spent the day gathering in the mountains.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong took Jiujiu and Ying'ao to White Sandbar for a swim, picnic, and ice cream. After they returned to the tribe, the little ones told Jian Mo that a visitor who looked like Jiujiu had come looking for him and planned to return tomorrow.

• Jian Mo asked Wu Jiong to gather fruit and ice while he prepared a cold salad for their outing.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong rode Jiujiu and Ying'ao to White Sandbar, where they swam and ate together.
• Ying'ao knocked Jiujiu into the lake, and Jiujiu splashed Jian Mo after he teased it about fighting back.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong returned to the tribe with Jiujiu and Ying'ao after their swim and meal.
• The little ones told Jian Mo that a visitor resembling Jiujiu had come looking for him and would return the next day.

Jian Mo welcomed Lu Wei and his young red-panda-like cub to the Riverside Tribe, where Lu Wei hoped to trade for supplies and his cub joined the local children at play. Lu Wei was impressed by the tribe’s lively community and watched Ying'ao train young Flying-Winged Beasts.

• Lu Wei introduced himself to Jian Mo and explained that he had come from near the Dense Forest Tribe to trade for soap, medicine, and possibly glass.
• Jian Mo agreed to provide external medicine and directed Lu Wei to Qing Kuo for other supplies.
• Jian Mo invited Lu Wei’s cub to play with the Riverside Tribe’s cubs, and Banjiu welcomed him into their game.
• Lu Wei admired the tribe’s warm atmosphere as the cubs played together.
• Ying'ao flew past with young Flying-Winged Beasts he was training, and Lu Wei marvelled at how extraordinary the tribe’s beasts were.

Jian Mo upset Jiujiu by kissing one of the young Flying-Winged Beasts, and Jiujiu refused to accept his apologies. The chapter ended with Jiujiu turning on Ying'ao after Ying'ao tried to help Jian Mo make peace.

• Jian Mo cuddled and kissed one of the three young Flying-Winged Beasts while Jiujiu was away, and Jiujiu returned and caught him.
• Jiujiu ignored Jian Mo and flew off to join the children, who tried to comfort the angry bird.
• Jian Mo told Wu Jiong that Jiujiu was angry because he had kissed another chick, then decided to make special food to apologize.
• Jiujiu returned with Ying'ao that evening and continued to reject Jian Mo's apology and cake.
• Jian Mo asked Ying'ao to put in a good word, but Jiujiu bared teeth at Ying'ao, who recoiled in fright.

Jian Mo reconciled with Jiujiu and learned that Ban Ming planned to ask A Meng to become his partner, with Jiujiu delivering the love token. Ban Ming arranged a surprise proposal outside the Riverside Tribe’s clinic, where he caught the box Jiujiu dropped and knelt before A Meng.

• Jian Mo apologized to Jiujiu and promised to make it up to her with food and outings, though she still refused to let him touch her.
• Ban Ming told Jian Mo that he and A Meng had agreed to become partners and asked Jiujiu to deliver his love token.
• Ban Ming asked Jian Mo to summon A Meng to the Riverside Tribe so he could surprise him with a formal proposal.
• After Jian Mo finished teaching A Meng at the clinic, Jiujiu flew overhead and dropped a wooden box into Ban Ming’s claws.
• Ban Ming caught the box, knelt before A Meng, and addressed him as A Meng realized what was happening.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong welcomed old friends and their young cubs to the Riverside Tribe, where the children quickly bonded with the family. Qi Ming shared news of their successful harvest, including small, sweet watermelons, as the visit began.

• The cubs told Jian Mo and Wu Jiong that Zhou Zhi, Qi Ming, Ji Xun, and Mo A had arrived with their cubs.
• Jian Mo met Di Qiu, a little fat chirp, and Mingyin, a giant panda cub, and picked Mingyin up.
• Di Qiu called Wu Jiong “Brother Wu Jiong,” and Wu Jiong held him with practiced care.
• Jian Mo led the guests home and asked how things had been going.
• Qi Ming said their vegetables were growing well and brought Jian Mo small, sweet watermelons.

Jian Mo welcomed Qi Ming and the others, enjoyed the melons they brought, and arranged for the little fat chirp and the little panda to play with the Riverside Tribe’s cubs. The adults discussed the cubs’ temperaments and agreed to bring them back to play, while Jiujiu happily joined in with its little friends.

• Qi Ming and Mo A brought gifts from the Rain Rising Tribe, and Jian Mo tasted their sweet melons and agreed to trade cheese for more.
• Jian Mo sent Jiujiu to gather Ying Jian and the other cubs so the little fat chirp and the little panda could play with them.
• The four fathers agreed to let the cubs go out under Jiujiu’s watch, and the little fat chirp took the little panda’s paw as they joined the others.
• Ji Xun worried that Mingyin was slow and reserved, and Jian Mo encouraged him to bring Mingyin to play with the Riverside Tribe’s cubs.
• Qi Ming and Zhou Zhi also discussed bringing Di Qiu to play, while Jiujiu happily threw itself into the cubs’ games.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong went swimming at White Sandbar and discovered they had arrived in an unfamiliar version of their world. After trying the lake again, they found themselves back at the same shore, with the strange buildings and man still there.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong swam at White Sandbar after visiting patients at the Yigu Tribe.
• A strange man ordered them out of the water and threatened to fine them for swimming without permission.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong surfaced and found their belongings missing and unfamiliar stone houses across the shore.
• Jian Mo suspected they had transmigrated, and Wu Jiong comforted him before they decided to test whether the lake could take them back.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong dove into the lake, but resurfaced to find the strange houses and man still waiting for them.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong emerged in an unfamiliar, developed town after losing their belongings and met Hu Zhen, who gave them clothes, shoes, and a meal. They learned that this era remembered Jian Mo and his family, then left Hu Zhen’s home at night to explore the town.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong ate wild food, gathered vegetables, and found a road into a town where people traveled in beast forms.
• Jian Mo told Hu Zhen that the river had washed away their clothes and shoes, and Hu Zhen invited them home and gave them clean clothes and shoes.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong bathed and ate with Hu Zhen, who recommended local museums, ancient tribes, Flying Chirp, and a restaurant serving authentic food.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong were surprised when Hu Zhen mentioned Doctor Jian Mo’s family recipe and a memorial hall dedicated to Doctor Jian Mo.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong thanked Hu Zhen and left after dark, discussing how their world had more machinery than the town they had entered.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong explored a modern park and found records of themselves in a self-service book kiosk. They learned that their old territory had eventually become the powerful Riverside City-State, then set out to find a public restroom at dawn.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong visited a lively park and discussed how peaceful and prosperous the modern world seemed.
• They found a sculpture depicting Doctor Jian Mo and Chief Wu Jiong, though its appearance did not match their memories of themselves.
• They searched for books and discovered that modern writers had turned their deeds into romance novels.
• Jian Mo found a history book that described him as a doctor and treated the title as unique to him.
• Wu Jiong read that their territory had become the Riverside Tribe’s center and later grown into the Riverside City-State.
• After staying in the kiosk until dawn, Jian Mo and Wu Jiong went to look for a public restroom.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong explored the future era, visiting a museum and the mountain where Ji Xun’s home had stood. They returned to the lake to wait for the passage home to open.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong ate breakfast at a charity station, then visited a museum displaying objects from their era and a sculpture of their family with Jiujiu and Ying'ao.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong reflected on time and agreed that they could accept any strange experience as long as they were together.
• Wu Jiong carried Jian Mo up the mountain where Ji Xun’s home had stood, and they saw a village with panda, fox, and white wolf cubs who might have been Ji Xun and Mo A’s descendants.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong admired the peaceful land from the mountain before running toward White Sandbar and the lake.
• At dusk, Jian Mo and Wu Jiong sat in the woods by the lake and waited for the passage to open, wondering whether they would ever have another experience like this one.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong crossed the lake’s fleeting shadow channel and found themselves in a different world, where a little gray cat and a little white wolf emerged from their bodies. They discovered they could summon the creatures and feel what happened to them, then set off to explore their surroundings with the two spirits following.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong spotted a round shadow on the lake and swam through it before the patrol could notice.
• They surfaced in a different spacetime, where a little gray cat and a little white wolf jumped into the water beside them.
• The gray cat entered Jian Mo’s body and the white wolf entered Wu Jiong’s, but both men learned to summon them back out.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong discovered they could feel sensations when the other stroked their spirit creature.
• After the lake channel disappeared, Jian Mo and Wu Jiong decided to explore the world with the cat and wolf following them.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong explored the unfamiliar world and were mistaken for guides who could save a sentinel whose Spirit Body was collapsing. Jian Mo and the little gray cat began untangling the sentinel’s octopus-like Spirit Body, stabilizing him as his companions prepared to fetch a Cloud Scorpion for food.

• Wu Jiong enlarged the little white wolf, and Jian Mo and Wu Jiong rode it while the little gray cat settled on its head.
• A group of sentinels asked Jian Mo and Wu Jiong to help their companion, whose Spirit Body was collapsing after a Cloud Scorpion attack.
• Jian Mo agreed to try treating the sentinel, though he and Wu Jiong could not understand the newcomers’ first question and Wu Jiong could not see the Spirit Body.
• The little gray cat loosened the knots in the giant octopus-like Spirit Body’s tentacles, and the sentinel’s breathing and complexion improved.
• The sentinel’s companions thanked Jian Mo and said they would bring back the Cloud Scorpion so the man could eat its breast meat and regain strength.