Gu Qing

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Summoning and Settlement Management

Gu Qing emerges from the soil when summoned by Zhao Chi and introduces herself by name. Before returning to the Great World for clothing, he places her in temporary command of the territory and its ten female villagers 16.

Rather than remaining in the Lord’s House as instructed, she takes the women to bathe at the river. She subsequently supervises their improvised clothing work, arranges cooking fuel with three helpers, and provides bamboo cups and hot water. Zhao Chi keeps her at the settlement while he and Tang Ruan bury Goblin corpses, identifying her as their strongest fighter 18 20 24 25 40.

Goblin Camp Raid

During the raid, Gu Qing overtakes Tang Ruan and kills the first Goblin with her cleaver. She breaks the Goblin Chieftain’s leg and attempts to stop the others by threatening his life. When they abandon him, she pursues them and cuts off their escape routes until they are surrounded 32 33.

She returns with nine prisoners, including the injured chief, and offers Zhao Chi the opportunity to execute him for experience. He instead preserves the chief as a laborer and orders her to heal him. The raid ends with eight Goblins killed, twenty-one captured, and no injuries among Zhao Chi’s group 33 34.

Building Peach Spring Village

Zhao Chi leaves Gu Qing in charge of transporting the captured camp’s supplies. She oversees the Goblin laborers, carries a thick log herself, and later receives responsibility for the purchased provisions and cooking seasonings 35 36 38.

After she asks whether her independent decisions have challenged his authority, Zhao Chi gives her performance full marks and invites her to act as his strategist. That night, she helps chop trees while the villagers work in the new workshops until midnight 40 41 44.

The following morning, she helps secure the Goblins for their sale to Wang Lie and prepares bathing supplies for incoming villagers. She escorts the newcomers to the river, then later takes three women out to gather wild vegetables, fruit, and herbs and to hunt 47 48 49.

Appearance

Gu Qing has fair, delicate skin, a voluptuous figure, and a naturally graceful gait 18 36.

• Face: Willow-shaped eyebrows, seductive eyes, naturally red lips, and lightly flushed cheeks; her appearance at the river is explicitly makeup-free 18.
• Hair: Long black hair 20 45.
• Build: A slender waist, full hips, and long legs; her improvised camisole is the largest made for the original group 18 30.
• Feet: High, well-shaped arches, fair skin, and rosy soles 49.

Personality

Gu Qing is openly flirtatious and uninhibited from her first meeting with Zhao Chi. Her listed personality traits are promiscuity and fidelity, and she frequently teases him about looking at her, helping her dress, or bathing together. Zhao Chi nevertheless recognizes that her provocative jokes do not grant unrestricted physical access: at her early loyalty level, intimacy has not been unlocked 16 19 30.

She is protective and attentive beneath the teasing. Seeing blood on Zhao Chi’s clothing prompts an immediate offer to heal him; she also wants to become his personal chef to ensure his meals are safe. When supplies are scarce, she reassures him that the villagers understand the settlement’s limitations 18 25.

Her confidence leads her to act beyond explicit instructions, but she remains conscious of her lord’s authority. She asks whether she has overshadowed him and waits for permission before spending her enhancement points. Zhao Chi interprets her offer to let him finish the Goblin Chieftain as a considerate effort to help him save face 34 40 41.

She treats captured Goblins much more harshly than her fellow residents, using slaps, threats, and work-dependent food allocations to secure obedience. Her fierce manner disappears when she turns back to Zhao Chi, and his acceptance of that side of her raises her loyalty to Sincere Devotion 33 34 40.

Abilities & Skills

Healing Spirit Arts

Gu Qing’s primary role is healing, powered by spiritual power 37 41.

• Heals the Goblin Chieftain’s broken leg after Zhao Chi decides to spare him; pale yellow light gathers around her palm as she begins the treatment 34.
• Promises immediate treatment for Tang Ruan’s injuries while she serves as a frontliner 30.
• Unlike health-restoring medicines, her healing does not accumulate drug resistance and retains full effectiveness while she has spiritual power available 37.
• Increases spiritual power through enhancement points to support additional healing casts 41.

Physical Strength and Combat

Zhao Chi identifies Gu Qing as the settlement’s strongest fighter during its founding stage 25.

• Cleaver combat: Decapitates a Goblin with her opening strike 32.
• Unarmed attacks: Breaks the Goblin Chieftain’s leg with a kick and disciplines prisoners with slaps 32 33.
• Pursuit: Quickly catches fleeing Goblins at full speed and herds them into the other women’s encirclement 32 33.
• Limits: Prolonged full-force tree cutting leaves her arms sore and weak; by midnight, she can no longer swing her axe 44.

Perception and Night Watch

Gu Qing relies on hearing rather than sight when guarding Zhao Chi at the river after dark 45.

• Detects a nearby rabbit that Zhao Chi cannot hear over the river and insects 45.
• Takes over escort and watch duties so Tang Ruan can rest after the day’s work 45.

Leadership and Strategy

Gu Qing combines practical settlement management with battlefield initiative 16 32 41.

• Supervises villagers while Zhao Chi is away and organizes transport, provisions, and work schedules 16 35 38 44.
• Coordinates pursuit and prisoner handling during the Goblin raid 33.
• Recommends spiritual power for herself and defense for Tang Ruan; advises assigning other villagers’ enhancements according to their intended roles 41.
• Subdues the captured camp’s two dogs and enforces obedience among Goblin laborers 34 40.

Domestic Skills and Cooking

Gu Qing handles several household tasks, although she initially has neither cooking experience nor a listed cooking skill 24 25.

• Sorts firewood into long-burning wood, smaller branches, and kindling 24.
• Sews temporary clothing and explains how bamboo joints can be cut into cups 20 25.
• Wants to practice cooking until she can serve as Zhao Chi’s personal chef 25.
• Prepares roasted venison using salt and regular turning; Zhao Chi praises the result 40.
• Enjoys cooking but has no particular interest in forging or sewing 44.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Firewood Cleaver — Used to kill a Goblin and threaten the captured chieftain during the raid 32.
• Axe — Used while clearing trees alongside Zhao Chi 44.
• Improvised shorts, camisole, and cloth shoes — Made from the fabric Zhao Chi supplies; intended only as temporary clothing 20 25 30.
• Planned modified stockings — Zhao Chi obtains stocking-upgrade technology with Gu Qing and the female soldiers in mind, but still needs to purchase and equip the stockings 46 50.

Relationships

• Zhao Chi — Her lord and summoner. She serves as his healer, manager, and strategist while frequently teasing him. His reassurance after she disciplines the dogs raises her loyalty to 6; later, she hugs him in thanks and falls asleep clinging to him after moving into his bed 16 34 41 45 47.
• Tang Ruan — A fellow subordinate who calls her “Sister Gu.” Gu Qing promises to heal her, help share the frontliner’s burden, and protect harmony among the women. She also praises Tang Ruan’s diligence and takes over nighttime escort duties so she can rest 20 30 45 47.
• Female villagers — Residents under her supervision. She organizes their bathing, clothing work, overtime production, and gathering activities, treating the settlement as a home they will build together 18 20 44 48 49.
• Goblin Chieftain — Captured enemy whom she cripples during the raid, then heals on Zhao Chi’s orders so he can work as a laborer 32 34.

Notable Quotes

“My lord, I don't know your personality very well yet, but I'll do my best to assist you.” 40

“How did I do today? Did you feel that I stole your spotlight? Or challenged your authority?” 40

“Everyone really likes it here. We'll all work hard together to build our home.” 44