Bumped Into Them Again

After leaving Gu Ye, Zhu Zhuqing had come here to take part in her first soul battle. Who would have thought she would run into a lecherous man who brazenly claimed he wanted to make her his woman?

Naturally, Zhu Zhuqing would not tolerate that. Using the method Gu Ye had taught her, she swiftly defeated him and scorched him with her black flames. Yet that single burn left him unable to get back up.

"Did you cause his injuries?" Gu Ye asked as he came to Zhu Zhuqing's side.

"Mm." Zhu Zhuqing nodded. "I used the black flames to burn him."

"Is that so? How did he offend you?" Gu Ye glanced at the male Soul Master lying on the ground, clutching his crotch and howling in pain, and the corner of his mouth twitched.

Zhu Zhuqing looked at Gu Ye without saying anything, but Gu Ye understood what she meant.

When the Great Soul Arena staff saw Gu Ye and Zhu Zhuqing chatting away while completely ignoring the badly injured male Soul Master howling on the ground, one of them stepped forward and asked, "Um... Physician Gu... aren't you going to treat this patient and help him recover?"

Gu Ye gestured for him to calm down. "He won't die for now. Don't worry."

"Oh, oh!" With a physician like Gu Ye guaranteeing it, the Great Soul Arena staff member was finally reassured.

"Gu Ye, thank you." Thinking of the changes in her Martial Soul, Zhu Zhuqing thanked him.

Hearing Zhu Zhuqing thank him, Gu Ye chuckled and teased, "That doesn't sound like you, Zhu Zhuqing. At least, in my eyes, you're not someone who says things like that."

Zhu Zhuqing felt a little embarrassed at that.

She might have been aloof and indifferent, but that was only toward strangers. Toward those she considered close to her and those who treated her well, she was still sincere.

Just like Gu Ye—she could see from his eyes that he genuinely treated her well.

Gu Ye chatted with Zhu Zhuqing for a while. Seeing that the Soul Master on the ground was howling so loudly that it was unbearable, he finally had no choice but to treat him.

Yet after examining him, Gu Ye was somewhat surprised.

Zhu Zhuqing's black flames had actually injured the male Soul Master's soul.

In other words, Zhu Zhuqing's black flames could inflict soul damage upon Soul Masters.

One had to know that the soul was the most important thing to a Soul Master, because it was tied to spiritual power.

Now that Zhu Zhuqing's black flames had burned his soul, they had also inflicted mental damage on him.

Gu Ye's treatment could indeed heal him, but it would take a great deal of effort. He simply treated the injured male Soul Master a little, stopping only after he appeared to be recovered.

Then Gu Ye looked at Zhu Zhuqing. "Want to take a walk with me?"

"Mm." Zhu Zhuqing nodded.

The two walked shoulder to shoulder as they chatted, looking perfectly respectful and proper.

As they walked, Gu Ye said, "How did it feel using your new Martial Soul in battle just now?"

"It's stronger than before. My speed has become faster, and my attack power has also increased."

"Mm, both your speed and attack have improved?" Gu Ye pondered for a moment before saying, "Zhuqing, I'm going to tell you something. Remember it well: speed is your greatest trait and also your greatest advantage. Of all martial arts under heaven, nothing is unbreakable; only speed cannot be defeated. If you can reach that realm, your strength will not fall behind anyone at the same level."

"Of all martial arts under heaven, nothing is unbreakable; only speed cannot be defeated." Zhu Zhuqing pondered Gu Ye's words.

She followed the agility-attack path, and both her Martial Soul and soul skills were speed-oriented.

If her speed reached its absolute limit, perhaps she really could attain the realm Gu Ye described. When they reached a corner, Zhu Zhuqing stopped. She looked up at Gu Ye, her eyes carrying a different emotion, something like gratitude.

"Gu Ye, why are you so good to me?" Zhu Zhuqing asked.

Because I want your body was naturally not Gu Ye's real reason. He stopped, placed a hand on Zhu Zhuqing's shoulder, and said seriously, "Because you still owe me a drop of your most precious blood."

"Is that the only reason?" Zhu Zhuqing felt that it was more than that. She felt certain Gu Ye had other reasons.

"What, do you want me to have some other purpose toward you? Or are you hoping I have a deeper purpose—for example... that I've fallen for you, want to get close to you, and then have you?" As Gu Ye spoke, the hand on Zhu Zhuqing's shoulder gently stroked her cheek. He leaned even closer to her ear.

At that moment, their movements and posture appeared intimately close, intensely ambiguous.

Seeing Gu Ye's hand caressing her face and hearing his outlandish words, Zhu Zhuqing realized she did not feel the slightest disgust. Perhaps it was because Gu Ye was only joking with her.

But just then, someone came walking over from not far away, looking around in every direction.

It was none other than Dai Mubai.

After finishing his soul battle, Dai Mubai had wanted to find Flender and the others, but he simply could not locate them.

In the end, he could only look for his fiancée, Zhu Zhuqing. When he could not find her either, he suddenly thought of Gu Ye inside the Great Soul Arena.

The moment he thought of Gu Ye, Dai Mubai recalled the close relationship between Zhu Zhuqing and Gu Ye. Instinctively, he wondered whether Zhu Zhuqing had gone to find Gu Ye. The thought immediately unsettled him, and he hurriedly began searching.

And at that exact moment, Dai Mubai focused his gaze and saw the two people standing intimately by the wall at the corner. Were they not his fiancée, Zhu Zhuqing, and that physician, Gu Ye?

"Zhu Zhuqing, what are you doing with him?" Dai Mubai shouted coldly as he walked over without expression.

Hearing that icy voice, Zhu Zhuqing looked over and discovered that it was Dai Mubai. Then, looking at her posture with Gu Ye, she realized just how intimate they appeared.

From behind, it even looked as if she were leaning in Gu Ye's arms, resting against his shoulder.

No wonder Dai Mubai questioned her.

But the moment Zhu Zhuqing thought of Dai Mubai's disgusting behavior with the twins, she had no desire to pay him much attention.

When Gu Ye heard Dai Mubai's voice from behind him, he turned and saw the Lecherous Tiger striding over in a fury.

"Zhu Zhu... qing..."

Dai Mubai came before Gu Ye and Zhu Zhuqing. Seeing that Gu Ye's hand was still stroking Zhu Zhuqing's face, and that the two of them remained in that intimate pose as though they completely disregarded his arrival, his anger surged.

Upon seeing Dai Mubai, Gu Ye withdrew his hand from Zhu Zhuqing's face and instinctively placed it around her waist, pulling her slender body into his embrace. At the same time, he said, "Dai Mubai, why are you so angry? Is it because I'm holding Zhuqing? But why would that make you angry?"

"Mm, I remember that just a few days ago, you were taking a pair of twin sisters to get a room, one on each arm, weren't you?"

"Oh, right. I also remember that some time ago, you passed by my Medical Hall several times. Back then, you had a good-looking woman in your arms every day, and it was never the same one twice."

"So why are you angry now?"

Gu Ye's seemingly joking question made Zhu Zhuqing's expression turn cold.

"Disgusting!"

She looked at Dai Mubai and gave a cold snort.

She knew everything Gu Ye had said was true. And knowing more of the details herself, she felt not the slightest bit of goodwill toward Dai Mubai.

Dai Mubai could go looking for women—and so many of them at that—so why couldn't she, Zhu Zhuqing, find a man?

Driven by that mindset, Zhu Zhuqing leaned against Gu Ye's chest without the slightest embarrassment. Instead, it gave her a strange sense of security.

Watching Gu Ye hold Zhu Zhuqing while Zhu Zhuqing leaned into his arms, Dai Mubai felt both furious and embarrassed.

But he was Dai Mubai.

Dai Mubai, the aristocratic prince with his male chauvinism.

He could play with women because he was a man. But Zhu Zhuqing finding a man was unacceptable because she was a woman—and his fiancée.

"Gu Ye, let her go." Dai Mubai did not make a move. He merely clenched his fists and glared furiously at Gu Ye.

"And what if I don't?" Gu Ye sneered, casting Dai Mubai a provocative glance as he tightened his hold around Zhu Zhuqing's waist.

"You—"

Seeing Dai Mubai burning with rage, Zhu Zhuqing actually felt somewhat pleased.

"Zhuqing, Lecherous Tiger, what are you doing?"

Just as Dai Mubai's fury reached its peak, Xiao Wu's voice came from not far away.