1964, Runan, Henan, on the banks of the Ru River.
The fifth son of the Zhao family, Zhao Tianxing, is born. No one knows that inside this infant’s body dwells the thousand-year-old soul of Yang Dajun, a Daoist physician from the Northern Song dynasty.
Born in troubled times, when Daoist arts cannot be openly practiced and medicine cannot be put to use, he hides his talents among ordinary folk and conceals his powers in the countryside. Though he seems like a silent, strange child, he watches the world with cool detachment and waits for the right moment.
In 1975, the Ru River bursts its banks. The floodwaters rage like beasts, destroying homes, and a plague follows the disaster. At the brink of life and death, he stops lying low. He uses Daoist arts to quell evil spirits and medicinal herbs to save the people, holding up a piece of the sky amid famine and chaos with the skills of a physician reborn.
A lifetime spent healing, a lifetime guarding the river; after two lives, his soul returns to the banks of the Ru. He is destined to become the most mysterious and compassionate Daoist physician on this land.
The content is vivid and the story is compact, worth listening to