Chapter Summaries

Gu Ye accepted Xue Hong’s request to treat injured Spirit Masters at the Suotuo City Great Spirit Arena, hoping to collect their Martial Soul Blood. When Xue Hong passed out drunk, Gu Ye tried to leave Kadan behind, but she stopped him by pleading that her body and heart were growing ill.

• Xue Hong invited Gu Ye to treat injured Spirit Masters at the Suotuo City Great Spirit Arena, and Gu Ye agreed to come when he had spare time.
• Xue Hong became drunk and collapsed across the table, leaving Gu Ye alone with Kadan.
• Kadan looked to Gu Ye for a chance to resume their secret relationship, but Gu Ye praised her and said he had other matters to attend to.
• Kadan grabbed Gu Ye’s hand and asked whether he could bear to let her body and heart’s illness worsen.

Gu Ye refused Kadan’s invitation for the night, while Zhu Zhuqing returned to Shrek Academy and faced questions about her rapid breakthrough and her relationship with Dai Mubai. The chapter left Zhu Zhuqing focused on cultivating and dismissive of her unfaithful fiancé.

• Gu Ye declined Kadan’s invitation but planned to visit the Suotuo City Great Spirit Arena, where she could meet him again.
• Flender questioned Zhu Zhuqing’s rapid breakthrough, and Tang San explained that Gu Ye had helped her using Martial Soul Blood.
• Flender kept Ning Rongrong and Oscar behind for running training while Zhu Zhuqing and the others left.
• Dai Mubai confronted Zhu Zhuqing about Gu Ye, but she dismissed him and mocked him for running away instead of cultivating.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Xiao Wu that she and Dai Mubai had been engaged since childhood, and Xiao Wu revealed that Dai Mubai had once taken twin women to rent a room.

Ning Rongrong pushed through her training at Shrek Academy while Oscar realized he had fallen for her. Gu Ye traveled to the Suotuo City Great Spirit Arena with Kadan after treating her in their carriage, and they planned to meet again in her room before the evening's spirit battles.

• Ning Rongrong kept running after recalling Gu Ye's advice, while Oscar fell for her and tried to talk with her.
• Flender watched Ning Rongrong finish several laps, then returned to prepare for the lesson at the Suotuo City Great Spirit Arena.
• Xue Hong and Kadan arrived at Gu Ye's clinic and took him toward the arena, but Xue Hong left after Qin Xiao told him the Crown Prince would travel in a few days.
• Kadan stayed alone with Gu Ye in the carriage and invited him to treat her; Gu Ye examined her as the carriage jolted along the road.
• Gu Ye and Kadan arrived at the arena, where she invited him to her room before the evening spirit battles began.

Gu Ye became the treatment physician at the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena after Kadan introduced him and spent the day treating her. As Flender brought the Shrek students to the arena for their first practical lesson, Gu Ye met them there and offered to treat their injuries, secretly planning to use the opportunity to harm Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun.

• Kadan introduced Gu Ye to the arena's staff and ordered them to treat him with the same respect they showed her.
• Gu Ye treated Kadan in her VIP room until evening while Flender gathered Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Mubai, and the others for a lesson at the arena.
• Flender explained the spirit-battle rules, and Dai Mubai told the students about his record at the arena.
• Flender led the students into the Great Spirit Arena as Gu Ye finished treating Kadan and began exploring the building.
• Gu Ye ran into the students, offered to treat them if they were injured, and privately considered harming Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun during treatment.

Gu Ye taught Zhu Zhuqing how to identify the body’s vital points and use them in combat before her Spirit Arena match. Zhu Zhuqing left to compete, planning to test the new black flame that had appeared in her Martial Soul.

• Gu Ye left Flender and the students to join their Spirit Arena matches, and Zhu Zhuqing went to find him instead of competing immediately.
• Gu Ye watched two Soul Grandmasters fight and told Zhu Zhuqing their techniques were rigid and ineffective.
• Gu Ye examined Zhu Zhuqing and learned that her Hell Spirit Cat had developed a weak black flame after she returned the previous day.
• Gu Ye led Zhu Zhuqing to a VIP room and told her to test the black flame during her match so she could discover its abilities.
• Gu Ye spent half an hour teaching Zhu Zhuqing the body’s vulnerable points and combat techniques, then sent her to take part in her Soul Battle.

Gu Ye treated injured fighters at the Great Spirit Arena and collected Martial Soul Blood, then watched Ma Hongjun’s match and warned Flender that Ma Hongjun’s flawed Martial Soul could cause trouble. Ma Hongjun’s evil fire erupted during the fight, and Flender called on Gu Ye to treat him.

• Gu Ye operated on an injured Soul Grandmaster, healed him, and collected low-grade Martial Soul Blood from his staff Martial Soul.
• Gu Ye watched Ma Hongjun fight a falcon Martial Soul spirit master and told Flender that Ma Hongjun’s surging blood and qi and flawed Martial Soul could lead to defeat.
• Ma Hongjun’s evil fire erupted during the match, allowing his opponent to wound him and knock him out of the arena.
• Flender tried to suppress Ma Hongjun’s evil fire, then called Gu Ye over to treat him.

Gu Ye suppressed Ma Hongjun’s evil fire with a sedative, then told Flender that castration was the only way to cure it. After Flender chose to postpone telling Ma Hongjun, Gu Ye went to treat a Soul Master injured by Zhu Zhuqing.

• Gu Ye injected Ma Hongjun with a sedative, calming him and stopping his evil fire from erupting.
• Gu Ye examined Ma Hongjun and told Flender that castration could resolve the evil fire, but Flender decided to wait before discussing it with his disciple.
• A staff member summoned Gu Ye to treat a seriously injured Soul Master in the Soul Grandmaster section.
• Gu Ye arrived and found the injured Soul Master was a man Zhu Zhuqing had defeated; Zhu Zhuqing showed a hint of warmth when she saw him.

Zhu Zhuqing tested her newly changed Martial Soul in her first soul battle, and Gu Ye discovered that her black flames could injure a Soul Master's soul. Gu Ye's teasing closeness with Zhu Zhuqing enraged Dai Mubai, and Xiao Wu arrived as the confrontation escalated.

• Zhu Zhuqing defeated a man who had propositioned her, and Gu Ye treated him after discovering her black flames had damaged his soul.
• Gu Ye and Zhu Zhuqing walked together, and he advised her to make the most of her speed.
• Gu Ye teased Zhu Zhuqing about having fallen for her and stroked her cheek as Dai Mubai came looking for her.
• Dai Mubai confronted them, but Gu Ye pulled Zhu Zhuqing into his arms and challenged Dai Mubai over his anger about her being with another man.
• Zhu Zhuqing called Dai Mubai disgusting and leaned against Gu Ye, while Dai Mubai demanded that Gu Ye let her go.
• Xiao Wu arrived and asked what Zhuqing and the Lecherous Tiger were doing.

Gu Ye defended Zhu Zhuqing by exposing Dai Mubai’s promiscuity and his past abandonment of her, then offered Flender a possible treatment for Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul defect. After Gu Ye left, Zhu Zhuqing avoided Dai Mubai, while Dai Mubai privately insisted he would make the same choice to flee if his life were threatened.

• Xiao Wu and the others noticed Gu Ye holding Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu revealed that Zhu Zhuqing was Dai Mubai’s fiancée.
• Gu Ye criticized Dai Mubai’s character, citing his many affairs and his abandonment of Zhu Zhuqing, while Flender and the others listened.
• Gu Ye offered Flender possible progress on treating Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul defect, then left after whispering to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Flender ordered Dai Mubai to write a self-criticism and stop chasing women, while Zhu Zhuqing left the arena and Xiao Wu followed her.
• On the way back to Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai defended his decision to flee when his life was in danger, and Ma Hongjun told Tang San that Flender had gone to collect gambling winnings.

Gu Ye left the Suotuo City Great Spirit Arena with Kadan, who flirted with him during the ride and told him that Xue Qinghe would visit Suotuo City in three days. After they reached the Medical Hall, Gu Ye kissed Kadan and gave her the treatment she wanted.

• Ma Hongjun asked Tang San and Dai Mubai what Gu Ye meant about treating his Martial Soul flaw, but neither knew.
• Kadan offered to take Gu Ye home, then leaned into him in the carriage and pressed him to return her affection.
• Kadan reminded Gu Ye of their past moonlit meeting and explained that her marriage to Xue Hong was political, while Gu Ye tried to console her.
• Kadan told Gu Ye that Xue Qinghe would pass through Suotuo City in three days, prompting Xue Hong to prepare to welcome him and seek his support.
• After arriving at the Medical Hall, Gu Ye kissed Kadan and treated her wounded heart in a room.

Gu Ye continued treating patients while planning to approach Qian Renxue when she arrived in Suotuo City. At Shrek Academy, Oscar reached level thirty, Dai Mubai promised to change his ways, and Flender announced a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest for Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing’s third Soul Rings.

• Gu Ye planned to perform life surgery on Qian Renxue and leave a drop of liquid inside her when she came to Suotuo City.
• Oscar arrived at training and announced that he had reached level thirty, earning congratulations from Flender and the others.
• Dai Mubai apologized to Zhu Zhuqing and promised to end his past relationships, but Zhu Zhuqing remained silent and Ning Rongrong questioned his sincerity.
• Flender announced that Zhao Wuji would lead the students to the Star Dou Great Forest the next day to hunt third Soul Rings for Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Flender asked Ma Hongjun to accompany him to Suotuo City to obtain medicine from Gu Ye for Ma Hongjun’s evil fire.

Flender visited Gu Ye to obtain a tranquilizer for Ma Hongjun’s unstable evil fire and agreed to let Gu Ye collect Ma Hongjun’s martial soul blood in exchange. Gu Ye promised to investigate a cure for Ma Hongjun’s martial soul defect, while Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu decided to visit him in Suotuo City.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong decided to go to Suotuo City together to see Gu Ye before leaving for the Star Dou Great Forest, and Xiao Wu joined them.
• Flender and Ma Hongjun visited Gu Ye’s clinic, where Flender asked for the tranquilizer that suppressed Ma Hongjun’s evil fire.
• Gu Ye asked for Ma Hongjun’s martial soul blood as part of the exchange and said it might help him develop medicine to treat Ma Hongjun’s defect.
• Flender agreed, and Gu Ye used his Martial Soul Surgical Blade to collect a drop of blood from Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul.
• Flender and Ma Hongjun left with the tranquilizer, and Ma Hongjun held onto hope that Gu Ye could find a cure.

Gu Ye examined Ma Hongjun’s mutated Martial Soul Blood and began exploring its unusual evil-fire properties. When Zhu Zhuqing visited ahead of the group’s trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, Gu Ye injected her with a substance meant to strengthen her, and the chapter ended with him biting her arm after she agreed to let him leave a mark.

• Gu Ye discovered that Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul was only peak high-grade, but its lustful evil fire had powerful potential.
• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing visited Gu Ye’s clinic before their planned trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Zhu Zhuqing went with him to the back courtyard.
• Gu Ye explained that Zhu Zhuqing’s changed Netherworld Spirit Cat Martial Soul should not follow the Zhu Clan’s traditional Soul Skill path, then injected her with a beneficial substance.
• Zhu Zhuqing endured the painful injection and accidentally bit Gu Ye’s arm, while Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu overheard her cry and wondered what was happening.
• Gu Ye proposed biting Zhu Zhuqing in return, and she agreed before holding out her arm for him.

Gu Ye encouraged Zhu Zhuqing to aim for a two-thousand-year third soul ring, using his reinforcement potion to prepare her body and advising her on suitable soul beasts. Zhu Zhuqing resolved to become strong on her own and ended the chapter by asking to take Gu Ye as her master.

• Gu Ye bit Zhu Zhuqing's lip in retaliation, then asked how old she wanted her third soul ring to be.
• Gu Ye explained that his cell reinforcement potion could help Zhu Zhuqing absorb a soul ring of around two thousand years, and urged her to become the first to do so.
• Zhu Zhuqing resolved to break free from her family's fate through her own strength and accepted that her body would endure more pain as the potion worked.
• Gu Ye recommended the Nekomata, Black Flame Fox, Nine-Lives Cat Demon, and Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear as possible soul beasts for Zhu Zhuqing's third soul ring.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Gu Ye that she wanted to take him as her master.

Zhu Zhuqing asked Gu Ye to take her as his disciple, and he agreed to decide after her trip to the Star Dou Great Forest. He gave her protective medicine before Ning Rongrong followed him into the Medical Hall, leaving Zhu Zhuqing jealous of Ning Rongrong’s interest in him.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked Gu Ye to teach her so she could grow strong enough to break the shackles of her fate, and he agreed to make her his disciple if her third soul ring met his expectations.
• Gu Ye gave Zhu Zhuqing a neuroparalytic toxin syringe and a Life Capsule to protect her during her trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, and reminded her to use the Anti-Wolf Spray against perverts.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu checked that Zhu Zhuqing was unharmed after she emerged from Gu Ye’s room, and Xiao Wu questioned Gu Ye about what had happened.
• Gu Ye asked Ning Rongrong to come inside with him, and Zhu Zhuqing grew jealous after Ning Rongrong joked that she would accept Gu Ye even if he were a bad person.

Ning Rongrong visited Gu Ye for treatment and received instructions and medicine before she, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing returned to Shrek Academy. As Gu Ye cultivated in preparation for a breakthrough, Dai Mubai grew suspicious of Zhu Zhuqing’s private meeting with him, and Xue Hong anticipated Xue Qinghe’s arrival.

• Zhu Zhuqing decided to keep Ning Rongrong from developing feelings for Gu Ye, then sparred with Xiao Wu while Rongrong met Gu Ye in private.
• Gu Ye advised Ning Rongrong to use his medicinal liquid in the Star Dou Great Forest, examined her, and gave her more medicine; he planned to collect her blood after she returned.
• Gu Ye considered obtaining Martial Soul Blood from the Shrek students, then returned to his room to cultivate at level forty-seven and attempt a breakthrough.
• At Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai and Oscar questioned the girls about their visit, and Xiao Wu revealed that Zhu Zhuqing had spent half an hour alone with Gu Ye.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu returned to rest before the group’s trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Dai Mubai and Oscar also went back to prepare.
• Xue Hong read that Xue Qinghe would arrive in Suotuo City in two days and anticipated that the prince’s support could help him inherit the Balak Kingdom’s throne.

Zhu Zhuqing noticed the effects of Gu Ye’s Cell Reinforcement Potion while traveling with the Shrek Seven Devils toward the Star Dou Great Forest, then endured another painful transformation at their inn. When a fight broke out between Shrek and Blue Sunshine Academy, she began questioning Shrek’s teachings.

• Xue Hong told Qin Xiao to prepare for a guest arriving in two days, then learned his wife had been at the Suotuo Great Soul Arena with Gu Ye and showed no suspicion.
• Zhu Zhuqing ran toward the Star Dou Great Forest without needing Oscar’s Recovery Sausage, surprising her companions with her stamina and speed.
• The Shrek Seven Devils stopped at a town near the forest, where Zhu Zhuqing returned to her room as she sensed another transformation beginning.
• Zhu Zhuqing endured intense pain as her body underwent cellular strengthening, then felt the new power in her body.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the others fought a Soul Master from Blue Sunshine Academy after provoking the academy’s women and escalating the confrontation.
• Zhu Zhuqing learned that Flender’s teachings and Dai Mubai’s arrogance had led to the fight, and she questioned Shrek Academy’s way of teaching its students to conduct themselves.

After reaching level forty-eight, Gu Ye visited Kadan at Suotuo City Great Spirit Arena and learned she had no desire to remain with Xue Hong. He proposed making Kadan ruler of the Balak Kingdom, and she listened as he promised he had a way to put her on the throne.

• Zhao Wuji’s arrival forced the Blue Sunshine Academy teacher to back down, and Zhu Zhuqing returned to cultivating with a renewed belief in the importance of strength.
• Gu Ye sensed his Soul Power had reached level forty-eight, left the Medical Hall, and went to Suotuo City Great Spirit Arena to meet Kadan.
• Kadan welcomed Gu Ye privately and kissed him before he asked what she thought of Xue Hong’s ambition to claim the throne.
• Kadan told Gu Ye she had no feelings for Xue Hong and that she loved him.
• Gu Ye asked whether Kadan wanted to rule the Balak Kingdom and promised he had a way to make her its first female ruler.

Gu Ye and Kadan began plotting to make Kadan queen of the Balak Kingdom as Xue Qinghe arrived in Suotuo City to win Xue Hong’s support and assess his usefulness. After Xue Hong agreed to accept Xue Qinghe’s terms, they headed to the Great Spirit Arena, where Gu Ye and Kadan awaited Xue Qinghe, who was secretly Qian Renxue.

• Gu Ye explained his plan for Kadan to become queen, and the two began plotting for the Balak Kingdom.
• Xue Qinghe arrived in Suotuo City, where Xue Hong rushed to greet him in disheveled clothes.
• Xue Hong asked Xue Qinghe to support his bid for the throne, and Xue Qinghe agreed in exchange for Xue Hong’s cooperation.
• Xue Qinghe assessed Xue Hong as easy to control and suitable to become Balak’s next king.
• Xue Hong invited Xue Qinghe to the Great Spirit Arena to see his wife, and Gu Ye and Kadan learned that they were on their way.

Gu Ye treated injured Soul Masters at the Suotuo City Great Spirit Arena, where Xue Qinghe arrived with Xue Hong and became interested in Gu Ye’s unusual healing Martial Soul. Gu Ye recognized Xue Qinghe’s true identity but concealed his knowledge, and the two ended the chapter having introduced themselves as friends.

• Kadan sat on Gu Ye’s lap, and he kissed her before leaving to treat patients at the Great Spirit Arena.
• Xue Hong brought Xue Qinghe to the arena, where Xue Qinghe noticed Gu Ye healing injured Soul Masters with his Surgical Blade.
• Xue Hong told Xue Qinghe that Gu Ye had saved him from a serious injury and explained why Gu Ye treated patients at the arena.
• Xue Qinghe watched Gu Ye fully heal a patient with a broken leg and burned skin, then asked to see his Martial Soul.
• Gu Ye recognized Xue Qinghe as Qian Renxue but acted as though he was meeting him for the first time, introduced himself, and made an unusual show of friendship.
• Xue Qinghe examined Gu Ye’s Surgical Blade, while Xue Hong revealed that the visitor was the Crown Prince and had taken an interest in Gu Ye.