Also known as Old Man Shen, a seventy-year-old man who appears as a ragged villager living next to a cattle pen. He is actually the nation's greatest physician and the sage of traditional Chinese medicine. He was labeled a rightist and exiled in the 1950s, and everyone assumed he was long dead. He has long, elegant fingers and nails trimmed clean, indicating he was never a manual laborer. He recognized the Green Turtle Probing the Cave technique and was fascinated by Su Qing's mastery of lost acupuncture methods from ancient texts.
