Chapter Summaries

Ding Ling fought Gan Ning in the river and defeated him despite Gan Ning’s mastery of water combat. Gan Ning left alone after the loss, while Ding Ling returned to his ship and Diao Chan celebrated his victory.

• Ding Ling met Gan Ning’s attacks in the river with the Ju Que Sword and fought him evenly using several martial arts techniques.
• Diao Chan made a banner reading “Ding Ling is invincible!” and waved it from the ship’s bow as Zhao Yun watched.
• After the battle continued for a tea break, Ding Ling broke Gan Ning’s grip on both halberds and knocked one into the river.
• Ding Ling praised Gan Ning and sheathed his sword, while Gan Ning silently walked away alone.
• Ding Ling returned to the ship, where Diao Chan happily congratulated him on winning.

Ding Ling defeated Gan Xingba on the Yangtze, sending the Brocade Sail Pirates fleeing and causing his fame to spread across the river basin. He reached Changsha City, where garrison general Wen Pin welcomed him.

• Ding Ling ordered the eight hundred Brocade Sail Pirates to leave, and they fled after Gan Xingba's defeat.
• Ding Ling returned to the cabin to guide Diao Chan and the others in martial arts training.
• News of Ding Ling's victory spread along both banks of the Yangtze, and water bandits abandoned their plans to claim the Yuan Clan's bounty.
• Ding Ling checked that Zhang Zhongjing remained in Changsha City, then traveled there with his group.
• Wen Pin introduced himself as Changsha's garrison general and exchanged formal greetings with Ding Ling.

Ding Ling won Wen Pin’s admiration through his courtesy, knowledge, and reputation, and Wen Pin guided him to Zhang Zhongjing’s residence. While they waited to meet Zhang Zhongjing, Wen Pin revealed that Liu Biao had sent him to build a connection with Ding Ling.

• Wen Pin offered to lead Ding Ling to Zhang Zhongjing and became increasingly impressed by Ding Ling’s learning and manners.
• Ding Ling asked Wen Pin to spar the next day, and Wen Pin readily agreed.
• At the Zhang Family Residence, the old steward recognized Ding Ling and treated him and his party with greater hospitality.
• Wen Pin explained that Liu Biao had sent him to befriend Ding Ling as prominent figures began seeking his support.
• Ding Ling waited two hours for Zhang Zhongjing and sparred with Wen Pin during the wait.

Ding Ling met Zhang Zhongjing, who gave him the profound Treatise on Cold Damage and challenged him to master it in three months before taking him to Yu Ji to learn the Inner Refining Breathing Method. Ding Ling planned to stay at the Zhang Family Residence for only two days, and Wen Pin waited as he asked.

• Ding Ling's quest progress rose to 17 of 20 plane powerhouses after he defeated Wen Pin.
• Zhang Zhongjing read Hua Tuo's letter and gave Ding Ling the Treatise on Cold Damage, setting a three-month deadline to master its medical knowledge.
• Zhang Zhongjing promised to take Ding Ling to Yu Ji and persuade him to teach the Inner Refining Breathing Method if Ding Ling passed the test.
• Wen Pin invited Ding Ling and his companions to stay at his home, but Ding Ling said they would stay at the Zhang Family Residence for at most two days.
• Ding Ling asked Wen Pin to wait, and Wen Pin remained beside him.

Ding Ling mastered Zhang Zhongjing’s Treatise on Cold Damage in a single reading, gaining the Medical Sage Breathing Technique and a deeper command of medicine. Zhang Zhongjing tested him and, astonished by his answers, soon listened as Ding Ling explained the text to him.

• Ding Ling read the Treatise on Cold Damage once and mastered it, gaining 0.6 Charisma and the Medical Sage Breathing Technique.
• Diao Chan, Zhao Yun, and Du Qingcheng praised Ding Ling’s medical talent, while Wen Pin doubted that he could have learned the text so quickly.
• Ding Ling asked Du Qingcheng to bring Zhang Zhongjing over to test his knowledge.
• Zhang Zhongjing questioned Ding Ling on the Treatise on Cold Damage, and Ding Ling answered every question flawlessly.
• Zhang Zhongjing continued asking questions before the exchange turned into Ding Ling explaining the text as Zhang Zhongjing listened and sought answers.

Ding Ling astonished Zhang Zhongjing by mastering the Treatise on Cold Damage and answering his medical questions, earning his full recognition. Zhang promised to help Ding Ling meet Yu Ji and learn the Inner Refining Breathing Method, and the chapter ended with Zhang calling him the future of medicine.

• Zhang Zhongjing tested Ding Ling on the Treatise on Cold Damage and was shocked that Ding Ling had mastered it beyond his own understanding.
• Wen Pin questioned Ding Ling's achievement, and Zhang Zhongjing confirmed it and praised him as a remarkable genius.
• Zhang Zhongjing promised to help Ding Ling persuade Yu Ji to teach him the Inner Refining Breathing Method.
• Zhang Zhongjing asked Ding Ling to diagnose and treat his most difficult patients, and Ding Ling successfully prescribed treatments and cured those who could be treated on the spot.
• After working through the night with Ding Ling, Zhang Zhongjing fully acknowledged him as a kindred spirit and called him the light and future of medicine.

Zhang Zhongjing urged Ding Ling to devote himself to medicine, but Ding Ling said he would pursue martial arts so he could help bring peace and reduce the people’s suffering. After leaving Changsha, Ding Ling and his companions continued toward Yangzhou to seek Yu Ji and learn the Inner Refining Breathing Method.

• Zhang Zhongjing praised Ding Ling’s medical talent and urged him to give up martial arts to save more people.
• Ding Ling said becoming invincible and helping a great ruler restore peace could reduce war, illness, and poverty.
• Zhang Zhongjing accepted Ding Ling’s reasoning and decided they would travel to Yangzhou after lunch to seek Yu Ji.
• Wen Pin escorted Ding Ling’s group beyond the city, and Ding Ling learned that Huang Zhong had gone to Xiangyang after his reputation rose.
• Ding Ling traveled onward by boat and on foot, using his time in reality to search for knowledge and uncover a hint that the Myth Game’s developer might not be from Blue Star.

Ding Ling hid from powerful figures seeking him in reality while continuing to train Diao Chan, Zhao Yun, and Du Qingcheng in the game world. He traveled with Zhang Zhongjing to meet Yu Ji and, while waiting outside the Taoist temple, encountered Xiao Qiao arriving with a procession.

• Ding Ling decided to move to a remote mountain village to avoid being found by powerful figures who had learned of his achievements.
• Ding Ling continued instructing Diao Chan, Zhao Yun, and Du Qingcheng and preparing medicinal baths for them.
• Ding Ling and his companions reached Yu Ji's Taoist temple with Zhang Zhongjing, who went inside to explain their request.
• Ding Ling waited for several hours as people came and went seeking Yu Ji's medical treatment.
• Xiao Qiao arrived in a carriage with several young men and guards, and Ding Ling recognized her as she lifted the curtain.

Ding Ling encountered Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao as they sought Daoist Yu Ji’s help for Da Qiao, then watched Diao Chan defend his honor in a duel with Ling Cao. Diao Chan defeated Ling Cao, while the young man accompanying the Qiaos remained unidentified.

• Ding Ling recognized Xiao Qiao and realized the sick woman being carried toward Yu Ji was Da Qiao, but chose not to interfere.
• The young man leading the group showed contempt toward Ding Ling, and Diao Chan wanted to challenge him before Ding Ling stopped her.
• A guard boasted that his Young Master came from a powerful family, prompting Diao Chan to defend Ding Ling’s standing.
• Ling Cao challenged Diao Chan, and she fought him with the Yu Chang Sword, knocking his saber from his hand.
• Diao Chan declared that the result proved Ding Ling was stronger than Ling Cao’s Young Master.

After Diao Chan defeated Ling Cao, Ding Ling gained an Achievement Medal and concluded that Zhou Yu had been behind the earlier hostility. Zhang Zhongjing then brought Ding Ling to meet Yu Ji, who would test him before deciding whether to pass on his teachings.

• Diao Chan defeated Ling Cao, and the nearby youths apologized to Ding Ling out of fear of offending him.
• Ding Ling received an Achievement Medal for subduing Ling Cao and considered whether followers could help him earn more achievements.
• Ding Ling guessed that the young man was Zhou Yu and decided he would avoid contending with him unless necessary.
• Zhang Zhongjing arrived and hurried Ding Ling toward a meeting with Yu Ji.
• Zhang Zhongjing warned that Yu Ji would test Ding Ling before sharing his breathing technique and talisman-making methods, and Ding Ling accepted the challenge.

Ding Ling met Daoist Yu Ji, who agreed to teach him his ultimate technique if he passed a medical trial. Ding Ling began treating patients himself, while the chapter ended with the crowd doubting that a man who looked like a general could be a physician.

• Zhou Yu saw Ding Ling enter Yu Ji’s inner courtyard and wrongly accused him of selfishly cutting ahead of the patients.
• Yu Ji met Ding Ling and offered him a chance to learn his method by passing a test.
• Yu Ji required Ding Ling to treat every patient who came to the temple over the next three days without help.
• Ding Ling took over treatment in the front courtyard, but the patients were surprised and skeptical because he looked like a mighty general.

Ding Ling faced protests from Zhou Yu and the patients who doubted his medical abilities, until Daoist Yu Ji confirmed Ding Ling’s credentials and ordered everyone to let him treat them. Zhou Yu still refused to apologize and watched resentfully, hoping Ding Ling would fail the test for the Inner Refining Breathing Method.

• The young Daoist boy vouched for Ding Ling, but Zhou Yu loudly protested that an apparent fierce general could not be trusted to treat Da Qiao, and Xiao Qiao joined him.
• Diao Chan rejected the protests, and Zhou Yu challenged her and questioned Ding Ling’s competence.
• Daoist Yu Ji arrived, confirmed that Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing had recognized Ding Ling’s abilities, and ordered the patients to apologize and line up for treatment.
• The patients and their families apologized to Ding Ling, but Zhou Yu stopped Xiao Qiao from doing so and insisted Ding Ling’s medical skill still needed verification.
• Zhou Yu revealed his jealousy that Ding Ling had been given a chance to earn the Inner Refining Breathing Method and watched, hoping Ding Ling would fail.

Ding Ling treated patients at Yu Ji’s mountain retreat while Zhou Yu recognized him as the famed warrior and worried over their growing feud. When Ding Ling diagnosed Da Qiao with poison and prepared to treat her, Zhou Yu objected, prompting Diao Chan to angrily defend Ding Ling.

• Ding Ling treated the waiting patients with acupuncture and medicine, earning their gratitude as Zhou Yu realized he was the renowned Ding Ling.
• Xiao Qiao asked Ding Ling to cure Da Qiao, and he examined her and identified a colorless, odorless poison.
• Ding Ling prepared to treat Da Qiao in an inner room, but Zhou Yu protested that the treatment was improper.
• Diao Chan pointed her sword at Zhou Yu and condemned him for repeatedly insulting Ding Ling and obstructing the patients.

Diao Chan repeatedly rebuffed Zhou Yu while Ding Ling treated Da Qiao. Da Qiao emerged looking much better, and Zhou Yu asked whether Ding Ling had done anything to her, prompting her to glance toward him.

• Diao Chan stopped Zhou Yu from entering the treatment room and mocked him until he went aside to wait.
• Zhou Yu grew jealous of Diao Chan's loyalty to Ding Ling and doubted Ding Ling could cure Da Qiao.
• After an hour, Xiao Qiao announced her sister, and Da Qiao emerged from the room looking much healthier.
• Ding Ling resumed treating patients while Da Qiao rested nearby.
• Zhou Yu asked Da Qiao how she felt and whether Ding Ling had done anything to her, and Da Qiao looked toward Ding Ling.

Xiao Qiao defended Ding Ling and rebuked Zhou Yu for repeatedly accusing him, while Da Qiao planned to remain at the temple for further treatment. Zhou Yu, overwhelmed by jealousy and humiliation, failed to persuade the sisters to leave and grew more resentful of Ding Ling.

• Da Qiao blushed at Zhou Yu's assumptions, and Xiao Qiao accused Zhou Yu of being jealous and unfair to Ding Ling.
• Xiao Qiao reminded Zhou Yu that Ding Ling had healed her sister despite their earlier rude protests, and Zhou Yu reluctantly promised to avoid another clash with him.
• Embarrassed by the patients' whispered comments and troubled by Ding Ling's martial and medical achievements, Zhou Yu decided he could no longer stay at the temple.
• Da Qiao said she needed further treatment, and Xiao Qiao said the sisters would remain for two more days with Ding Ling and his companions.
• Zhou Yu criticized Ding Ling for traveling with women, prompting Xiao Qiao to call him a man who broke his promise and deepening Zhou Yu's resentment.

Ding Ling’s miraculous treatments earned him growing fame and the approval of Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao. Meanwhile, Yu Ji and Zhang Zhongjing discussed Old Immortal Nanhua’s teachings and doubted that Ding Ling could master inner refinement and talisman crafting as quickly as he mastered medicine.

• Zhou Yu suppressed his jealousy and agreed to stay with Xiao Qiao for two days.
• Ding Ling treated patients with increasing speed, restoring vitality to many and prescribing medicine to others.
• Yu Ji acknowledged Ding Ling’s medical genius but doubted he could master inner refinement and talisman crafting just as easily.
• Zhang Zhongjing and Yu Ji discussed Old Immortal Nanhua’s manuals, including The Essential Arts of Peace and The Supreme Path to Great Peace.
• Ding Ling gained Xiao Qiao’s high approval and Da Qiao’s deep approval after treating her.

Ding Ling earned Da Qiao’s gratitude and the Qiao sisters invited him to visit their family, provoking Zhou Yu’s jealousy. He passed Daoist Yu Ji’s first test and earned Yu Ji’s recognition, though the deeper test remained ahead.

• Da Qiao recovered under Ding Ling’s care and repeatedly invited him to meet her father at the Qiao Family.
• Zhou Yu learned more about Ding Ling’s remarkable talent and grew increasingly wary of him around Xiao Qiao.
• Xiao Qiao persuaded everyone to stay longer, while Zhou Yu insisted he would escort the sisters home himself.
• Ding Ling completed Daoist Yu Ji’s first test and received an E-Rank Achievement Medal for gaining Yu Ji’s recognition.
• Daoist Yu Ji praised Ding Ling’s medical skills, saying that without Talisman Water he was far inferior to him.

Ding Ling passed Daoist Yu Ji’s second trial by perfectly reproducing a talisman, leaving Daoist Yu Ji and the others astonished. Jealous Zhou Yu challenged Ding Ling to a contest in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and Daoist Yu Ji prepared the materials.

• Daoist Yu Ji set Ding Ling’s second trial as perfectly reproducing a talisman, explaining that the skill was necessary before he would teach the Talisman Water method.
• Zhou Yu asked whether passing the trial would exempt him from serving as a young disciple, but Daoist Yu Ji refused because he barely knew him.
• Ding Ling reproduced the talisman in a single stroke, stunning Daoist Yu Ji, Zhang Zhongjing, and Zhou Yu.
• Zhou Yu disputed Ding Ling’s many talents and challenged him to compete in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting; Ding Ling accepted and proposed that the loser hand over his martial arts skills.
• Daoist Yu Ji instructed a young disciple to prepare the supplies and chessboard for the contest.

Ding Ling defeated Zhou Yu in painting, chess, and qin, leaving Zhou Yu humiliated and determined to challenge him again after becoming stronger. Daoist Yu Ji accepted Ding Ling as his successor and led him away to teach the Inner Refining Breathing Method, while Zhang Zhongjing told Ding Ling’s companions they were not yet ready to learn it.

• Ding Ling painted a portrait of Da Qiao that amazed her, Xiao Qiao, and the others, while Zhou Yu’s jealousy caused him to ruin his own painting.
• Zhou Yu challenged Ding Ling to chess and flipped the board when he began losing, then lost the qin contest as well.
• Humiliated, Zhou Yu left the Taoist Temple, vowed to repay Ding Ling, and resolved to train until he could defeat him.
• Ding Ling received an achievement medal for intimidating Zhou Yu, and Daoist Yu Ji praised him and accepted him as a successor.
• Daoist Yu Ji led Ding Ling away, while Zhang Zhongjing stopped Diao Chan, Zhao Yun, and Du Qingcheng from following because they were not yet ready to learn the Inner Refining Breathing Method.

Ding Ling learned the Taiqing Breathing Method from Daoist Yu Ji and instantly mastered it at the Instinctive Realm, bringing his total to three perfected breathing methods. Daoist Yu Ji watched in shock as Ding Ling’s cultivation challenged everything he believed about breathing methods.

• Zhang Zhongjing warned Zhao Yun, Diao Chan, and Du Qingcheng that attempting inner and outer breathing methods without sufficient cultivation could cause severe injury, while the Qiao sisters learned about Ding Ling’s feats.
• Diao Chan, Du Qingcheng, Zhao Yun, and Zhang Zhongjing told the Qiao sisters about Ding Ling, deepening their admiration and leaving them embarrassed about their association with Zhou Yu.
• Daoist Yu Ji asked Ding Ling to demonstrate the Sword God Breathing Method and the Spirit Phoenix Breathing Method, then warned him against attempting a third method.
• Ding Ling listened to Daoist Yu Ji explain the Taiqing Breathing Method and immediately maxed it out, reaching the Instinctive Realm.
• Daoist Yu Ji marveled at Ding Ling’s achievement as the Taiqing Breathing Method transformed his breathing and released concentrated force through his body.