Arc 47Needles and Alliances

Zhang Xuezhou built a research partnership with Luo Burang while Ren Yisheng’s recovery brought the Mental Strengthening Chapter into negotiations with the Luo Household. Back in the Han world, Zhang Xuezhou worked with Chunyu Tiying and Zheng Wukong to suppress his dangerous Incantation, then helped arrange care for Wei Shao’er’s perilous pregnancy.

  • Zhang Xuezhou taught students to communicate with animals, then helped Wang Haoran confront his uncertainty about Ren Yisheng and agreed to teach him Realm Techniques if he made progress.
  • Wang Haoran and Ren Yisheng formed an organization, while Zhang Xuezhou refused to spread Realm Techniques widely and recognized Wang Haoran’s connections could help secure research resources and blood serums.
  • Luo Burang showed Zhang Xuezhou his life-extension research and the living head in Professor Luo Hui’s laboratory, and Zhang proposed exchanging laboratory resources and building a market for Luo Burang’s blood serums.
  • Zhang Xuezhou recruited buyers through Wang Li and encouraged Zhang Manqian to learn from Luo Burang, while he used Ren Yisheng’s research video to draw attention to the Ferocious Beast findings.
  • Ren Yisheng regained consciousness, and Zhang Xuezhou helped Ren Anran negotiate with Luo Tianming to exchange the Mental Strengthening Chapter for Professor Luo Hui’s treatment.
  • After Ren Yisheng remained paralyzed, Zhang Xuezhou returned to the Han world, where Chunyu Tiying and Zheng Wukong used needles and a Breathing Method to suppress his Yang Corporeal Soul Dharma Form and help him cultivate.
  • Zhang Xuezhou introduced Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying to Wei Shao’er, whose borrowed dragon Demon Power threatened her and her child, and persuaded Chunyu to treat her despite the cost and legal risks.
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Ch. 1187Going Through the Process

Nearly two years after leaving Canglan Academy, Zhang Xuezhou returned as a lecturer and taught a class on his paper about Tuer God and communicating with exotic beasts. His demonstrations impressed the review panel and left the class lively, as he offered to develop exotic beast psychology into a new discipline.

  • Zhang Xuezhou delivered his class from memory while professors evaluated his teaching and struggled to understand his paper.
  • Zhu Liangping and Zhao Yingxing worried that the silent classroom showed the material was either too advanced or unconvincing.
  • Zhang Xuezhou demonstrated his technique on stray cats and dogs, and Wang Haoran and others successfully tamed several.
  • Zhang Xuezhou explained that belief in Tuer God was unnecessary for communicating with small animals, though it might help with exotic beasts.
  • Ren Anran successfully tamed an exotic beast, and Zhang Xuezhou said a future course might teach the skill to the small share of students able to master it.

Ch. 1188Dialectics

Zhang Xuezhou revealed that Ren Yisheng survived as a bodiless presence, forcing Wang Haoran to confront whether this was truly the same friend he had lost. Wang Haoran’s fear eased, but his questions about identity and life led him to take a new interest in Realm Technique.

  • Zhang Xuezhou found Wang Haoran after the review and learned that Wang Haoran’s distress came from seeing Ren Yisheng while believing he could not save him.
  • Zhang Xuezhou told Wang Haoran that Ren Yisheng had left his body through the Mental Strengthening Chapter, then summoned him from the Spirit Jade.
  • Wang Haoran questioned whether Ren Yisheng was the original person or a new life, and challenged Zhang Xuezhou to consider whether a consciousness in another body would still be the same person.
  • Zhang Xuezhou suggested that Wang Haoran pursue the Yin Yang Great Compassion Nine Heavens Incantation or wait until Zhang could create an external incarnation for comparison.
  • Wang Haoran felt less afraid but remained uncertain about accepting Ren Yisheng, while his interest in Realm Technique grew stronger than his interest in Gene Fighting Technique.

Ch. 1189A Group

Wang Haoran proposed forming a sect or alliance with Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng to secure their shared interests and give him access to cultivation methods. Zhang Xuezhou agreed to let Wang Haoran and Ren Yisheng establish a registered group, while promising to teach anyone willing and able to learn.

  • Wang Haoran suggested that Zhang Xuezhou establish a sect and make him an elder so he could learn Realm Techniques.
  • Ren Yisheng explained that Wang Haoran wanted a group bound by shared interests because he feared falling behind and could not offer Zhang Xuezhou what he needed.
  • Ren Yisheng described how political and social conflicts would have prevented him from maintaining power, while Wang Haoran insisted that they still had to move forward.
  • Zhang Xuezhou objected to forming a group, and Wang Haoran admitted his main reason was to learn Realm Techniques from him.
  • Zhang Xuezhou said he would teach Wang Haoran if he worked hard and made progress, and urged him to improve the Poison Avoidance Art before attempting higher realms.
  • Zhang Xuezhou agreed that Wang Haoran and Ren Yisheng could form an alliance themselves, provided they registered it with the authorities.

Ch. 1190The Same Answer

Zhang Xuezhou agreed that Wang Haoran should organize their group, recognizing that Wang’s connections could help them find mutated egret blood serum. He and Ren Yisheng also discussed why they would not spread the Realm Technique widely, and Ren Yisheng returned to the Spirit Jade.

  • Wang Haoran took charge of registering the organization after Zhang Xuezhou agreed to provide the necessary information.
  • Ren Yisheng explained that Wang Haoran’s influence and connections could help the group obtain resources and blood serums.
  • Ren Yisheng suggested that the giant Ferocious Beast bird might spur hunters to catch mutated birds, giving Zhang Xuezhou a chance to buy egret blood serum.
  • Zhang Xuezhou recognized that Wang Haoran could access laboratories and serums that were beyond his own limited connections.
  • Zhang Xuezhou refused to spread the Realm Technique widely, arguing that its resources and methods could not serve everyone in the current era.
  • Ren Yisheng praised Zhang Xuezhou’s matured thinking and returned to the Spirit Jade.

Ch. 1191Luo Burang

After securing his academic appointment and helping establish the Heart Alliance, Zhang Xuezhou returned to the North Rehe Research Institute, where Luo Burang and Luo Gaogao thanked him for arranging Luo Burang’s release. Their conversation revealed more about Luo Burang’s genetic research and the suspected leak that had exposed him to the Aomeijia Alliance.

  • Zhang Xuezhou learned from Zhu Liangping that his associate professorship was secure and attended a presentation and the Heart Alliance’s establishment in Western Capital City.
  • Zhang Xuezhou returned to the North Rehe Research Institute to develop and practice his Body Integration Realm techniques.
  • Luo Burang and Luo Gaogao waited for Zhang Xuezhou and thanked him for securing Luo Burang’s release through the exchange for Montes Ganghao.
  • Luo Burang explained how moose and salamander genes had affected his height, research, and Luo Gaogao’s inherited traits.
  • Zhang Xuezhou learned that Luo Burang worked at the A9 Research Institute and that the leak of his research information was suspected to have passed through communications.

Ch. 1193Loose Lips

Zhang Xuezhou toured the Luo Household’s heavily secured A9 Research Institute and learned that Luo Burang was testing gene-based life extension. Luo Burang accidentally revealed that Professor Luo Hui’s laboratory contained a living head that was a Heavenly God General, confirming Zhang Xuezhou’s suspicion.

  • Luo Burang showed Zhang Xuezhou the A9 Research Institute’s security systems and its isolated laboratories.
  • Luo Burang presented mosquitoes and flies whose lifespans he had extended through genetic modification.
  • Luo Burang said he had tested the life-extension technology on himself and believed it could eventually help ordinary people live longer.
  • Luo Burang explained that his family wanted Sequence Holders to extend their lives through Mental Strengthening instead.
  • Luo Burang revealed that the head in Professor Luo Hui’s laboratory was a Heavenly God General kept thinking by potions and brain stimulation.
  • Zhang Xuezhou connected the revelation to Zhang Manqian’s encounter with the head and became certain it was real.

Ch. 1194Aptitude

Zhang Xuezhou and Luo Burang toured each other’s laboratories and discussed their research, including Heavenly God General Medicine and blood serums. They discovered shared scientific interests, while Luo Burang remained constrained by his Lineage’s lack of funding and control.

  • Zhang Xuezhou wondered if the long-lived head Luo Burang had mentioned belonged to former emperor Luo Zhong, the creator of the Mental Strengthening Chapter, and asked to meet him.
  • Zhang Xuezhou described his experimental vomiting drug, and Luo Burang responded with interest in its potential as a weapon.
  • Luo Burang showed Zhang Xuezhou his extensive blood-serum research, which covered many kinds of animals but remained mostly theoretical because he lacked funding and experimental materials.
  • Luo Burang criticized Zhou Yueyan’s scientific aptitude and praised Zhang Xuezhou’s talent, while Zhang modestly disagreed.
  • Zhang Xuezhou learned that Luo Burang struggled to borrow money, sell his products, or pursue research because his family’s Lineage restricted his resources, leaving much of his hope in Luo Gaogao.

Ch. 1195A Joint Exchange

Zhang Xuezhou recognized the value of Luo Burang’s research and proposed a joint exchange between their laboratories to address Luo Burang’s lack of resources. They agreed to cooperate, leaving the details of compensation open.

  • Luo Burang and Zhang Xuezhou discussed Luo Burang’s research, laboratory shortages, and his disagreements with Professor Luo Hui.
  • Zhang Xuezhou read Luo Burang’s papers and was impressed by their clear reasoning and unusually high projected success rates.
  • Zhang Xuezhou proposed a joint exchange between their laboratories, offering access to resources and a path to sell stable, high-quality blood serums.
  • Luo Burang questioned whether a small laboratory could attract buyers, but Zhang Xuezhou assured him that his contacts could provide a market.
  • Zhang Xuezhou suggested that Luo Burang practice at the B13 Laboratory in exchange for resources, and the two established a cooperative relationship without specifying compensation.

Ch. 1196Breaking the Deadlock

Zhang Xuezhou arranged for Wang Li to gather customers for blood serum made with Luo Burang’s expertise. With more than a hundred potential buyers and materials available on demand, the two men found a way to fund and advance their research.

  • Wang Li told Zhang Xuezhou that his friends needed blood serum, and Zhang offered to arrange orders through a lab contact.
  • Zhang explained that his lab would be qualified to sell research products after his associate professor title and lab verification were complete.
  • Zhang asked Wang Li to collect sequencing reports and money from interested buyers, promising serum at normal market prices in three months.
  • Zhang explained to Luo Burang that he had secured more than a hundred potential customers who could afford serum.
  • Luo Burang realized Zhang’s supply-and-sales network could support his research, and he hoped to use the opportunity to develop Luo Gaogao and escape the lineage’s constraints.

Ch. 1197Cheats

Zhang Xuezhou explained the risks of investing in Luo Burang’s blood-serum research and discussed with Zhang Manqian how they could avoid drawing attention. The chapter left Zhang Xuezhou considering whether greater political chaos might help keep scrutiny away from them.

  • Zhang Xuezhou told Zhang Manqian that funding Luo Burang’s research could cost around two hundred million, but he was willing to take the risk because Luo had extensive research manuscripts.
  • Zhang Xuezhou encouraged Zhang Manqian to learn from Luo Burang, whose main specialty was genetic life extension, and she welcomed the chance to improve her expertise.
  • Zhang Manqian worried that their rapid progress might attract investigations, so Zhang Xuezhou suggested they deliberately appear unremarkable and let others win when the stakes were low.
  • Zhang Xuezhou considered that turmoil between Western Capital City and the local authorities might distract people from him and Zhang Manqian.

Ch. 1199The Imperial Lord's Yang Corporeal Soul Transformation

Zhang Xuezhou amplified a Ferocious Beast research video to stoke public attention, then turned back to cultivation. Ren Anran brought paintings of the Imperial Lord that revealed his Yang Corporeal Soul had become a human-faced monkey, and she and Zhang Xuezhou realized he could control both bodies—a skill Ren Yisheng might need.

  • Zhang Xuezhou posted Ren Yisheng’s Ferocious Beast research video on Flying Entertainment Livestream, boosted its downloads, and erased the records of his actions.
  • Zhang Xuezhou considered the risks of drawing attention from Western Capital City and decided he had to keep fighting for his future while reducing threats early.
  • Zhang Xuezhou finished directing traffic to the video and resumed his daily cultivation exercises.
  • Ren Anran visited Zhang Xuezhou with paintings of the Imperial Lord and explained that the mosasaur blood serum would take another month or two to prepare.
  • Ren Anran imitated the Imperial Lord’s words, and Zhang Xuezhou confirmed that the Imperial Lord’s Yang Corporeal Soul had manifested as a monkey while he remained able to control both bodies.
  • Ren Anran recognized that the Imperial Lord’s ability to control two bodies could be important for Ren Yisheng.

Ch. 1201Ren Yisheng's Deadlock Was Broken

Ren Yisheng regained consciousness after being frozen for more than a year, shocking Western Capital City’s leaders and giving the elderly residents of Twilight Years Mansion hope that his Mental Strengthening knowledge could prolong their lives. The chapter ended with Ren Yisheng’s condition keeping him from being forced into Twilight Years Mansion, as the old power struggle finally eased.

  • Ren Yisheng regained consciousness at Jishi Medical Center, prompting Changkong Yinghao and other Lineage heads to visit him.
  • At Twilight Years Mansion, Luo Tianming and the others concluded Ren Yisheng’s return might be connected to his unusually complete Mental Strengthening knowledge.
  • The elderly Sequence Holders argued over whether to seek Ren Yisheng’s teachings, but many began studying the Mental Strengthening Chapter they already had.
  • Zhang Xuezhou watched the crowds gather around Ren Yisheng and worried about his own future travels between worlds and the possibility of suffering similar bodily damage.
  • After reviewing Ren Yisheng’s physical condition, Changkong Yinghao and the others reassured Ren Anran and did not treat Ren Yisheng as a prospective Twilight Years Mansion resident.

Ch. 1203We Meet Again

Luo Tianming tried to bargain with Ren Anran for the complete Mental Strengthening Chapter in exchange for Professor Luo Hui treating Ren Yisheng. Zhang Xuezhou intervened and warned Luo Tianming that the later chapters might cause dangerous Qi Deviation, leaving the negotiations uncertain.

  • Luo Tianming offered Professor Luo Hui's nerve-surgery treatment for Ren Yisheng in exchange for the complete Mental Strengthening Chapter, but Ren Anran hesitated over the risks of sharing it.
  • Luo Tianming pressed Ren Anran to consider saving her father, while she weighed the chapter's harmful effects against treating Ren Yisheng with Spirit Jade.
  • Ren Wuyang brought Zhang Xuezhou into the negotiation, and Luo Tianming welcomed him as someone easier to deal with.
  • Zhang Xuezhou warned Luo Tianming that Professor Ren's cultivation had caused Qi Deviation and nearly killed him, prompting Luo Tianming to reconsider seeking the later chapters.

Ch. 1204Caught in a Bind

Luo Tianming weighed the risks of exchanging for the Mental Strengthening Chapter after learning about Ren Yisheng’s past medical crises, then agreed to proceed. Zhang Xuezhou proposed agreements to address both sides’ mistrust, but Luo Tianming remained uncertain whether Professor Luo Hui could restore Ren Yisheng’s health.

  • Zhang Xuezhou warned Luo Tianming that Ren Yisheng had suffered Qi Deviation and other serious medical problems while cultivating the Mental Strengthening Chapter.
  • Luo Tianming consulted Changkong Luo, Song Xianzhong, and Zuo Lianguang, and Song Xianzhong urged him to obtain the chapter despite the dangers.
  • Luo Tianming decided to exchange for the chapter, and Zhang Xuezhou suggested that Ren Anran provide its contents before Professor Luo Hui treated Ren Yisheng.
  • Luo Tianming worried that Ren Anran might give him incomplete instructions, and Zhang Xuezhou proposed a liability waiver and a second copy of the chapter from Ren Yisheng after his recovery.
  • Luo Tianming accepted the proposal in principle but worried that Professor Luo Hui might not be able to restore Ren Yisheng, complicating the exchange.

Ch. 1205Taking in Return

Zhang Xuezhou secured Luo Tianming’s agreement to the Mental Strengthening Chapter and learned that the Luo Household might still possess Luo Zhong, a living head with extraordinary mental power. Ren Yisheng decided they needed to investigate the Luo Household, while Zhang Xuezhou hoped its secrets could help them develop further chapters.

  • Zhang Xuezhou guided negotiations with Luo Tianming, who signed the contract, provided his fingerprint, and received the Mental Strengthening Chapter key.
  • Zhang Xuezhou praised Luo Gaogao’s work on communications satellites, pleasing Luo Tianming and earning his trust.
  • Zhang Xuezhou told Ren Yisheng’s dharma body that Luo Burang had described a living head in the Luo Household, likely Luo Zhong, who had survived repeated injections of Heavenly God General Medicine.
  • Ren Yisheng realized Luo Zhong might possess mental power beyond his own and said they needed to investigate the Luo Household.
  • Zhang Xuezhou suggested they could use the opportunity to obtain an outline of the Mental Strengthening Chapter and develop later chapters, but Ren Yisheng doubted they could succeed.

Ch. 1206Quantity and Quality

Ren Yisheng was moved to Professor Luo Hui’s laboratory for treatment, while Ren Anran and Ren Wuyang worried about his recovery and his coming dealings with Luo Zhong. Zhang Xuezhou argued that learning how Luo Hui had controlled Luo Zhong could reduce the danger, and Ren Anran considered how the Mental Strengthening Chapter might complement the Realm Technique.

  • Ren Yisheng briefly regained consciousness after two days of treatment, but his long-frozen body remained almost completely paralyzed and required ongoing treatment and stimulation.
  • Professor Luo Hui took Ren Yisheng to his laboratory, where he had prepared a dedicated treatment room and suspended urgent research to focus on him.
  • Ren Wuyang suggested finding Spirit Jade to heal their father, but Ren Anran pointed out that locating it would be difficult, and Ren Wuyang admitted that finding a Ferocious Beast would be hard.
  • Ren Anran worried about Ren Yisheng confronting Luo Zhong, while Zhang Xuezhou said the danger depended on whether they could learn how Luo Hui had kept Luo Zhong under control and obtain Luo Zhong’s Mental Strengthening Chapter.
  • Ren Anran reflected that Zhang Xuezhou had advanced to seeking the sixth chapter and that mental-strength training might complement the Realm Technique, potentially enabling a Yang Corporeal Soul Dharma Form in the Body Transformation Realm.

Ch. 1207Beyond Treatment

Zhang Xuezhou awoke in the Hall of Mental Cultivation after twelve days of unconsciousness, suffering severe pain from the needles used to keep him alive. His return to consciousness left Medical Officer Chunyu without a reliable treatment for the Grand Empress Dowager, while Grand Princess Dou began weighing how to secure her own future and protect the medical officer.

  • Zhang Xuezhou woke in agony, saw the Life-Prolonging Needles covering his body, and recognized that he was in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.
  • Medical Officer Chunyu removed the needles and warned that Zhang Xuezhou’s condition was incurable without the Nine Revolutions Qi Uniting Technique.
  • Grand Princess Dou realized that the treatment sustaining Zhang Xuezhou might be too painful and uncertain for the Grand Empress Dowager to endure.
  • Grand Princess Dou considered the political risks of succeeding the Grand Empress Dowager and concluded she could no longer support replacing the emperor.
  • Grand Princess Dou decided she might need to protect Medical Officer Chunyu so she would retain a reliable physician during future magical contests.

Ch. 1208Physiognomy with No Bad Reviews

After Zhang Xuezhou survived Chunyu’s dangerous Nine Needles treatment, the Grand Empress Dowager hesitated over whether to risk the same procedure and ordered Tiying punished for failing to treat her. Meanwhile, Zhang reassured the anxious Chunyu by claiming his physiognomy guaranteed she would survive her looming crisis.

  • The Grand Empress Dowager weighed the risks of Chunyu’s treatment, ordered Tiying to treat Zhang Xuezhou further, and accepted Grand Princess Dou’s recommendation to demote Tiying until she had treated a thousand commoners.
  • Zhang Xuezhou recovered consciousness after the needles were removed and teased Chunyu, who feared the Grand Empress Dowager would punish her for ineffective treatment.
  • Zhang offered to read Chunyu’s fortune in exchange for her Tenfold Complete Great Tonic Pill, then used a technique that caused him to suffer a backlash.
  • Zhang told Chunyu she would survive with only a minor calamity, easing her fear as she awaited the Grand Empress Dowager’s decision.

Ch. 1209Lightness and Uncertainty

Chunyu Tiying was stripped of her post and sent home, while Zhang Xuezhou was released from the palace to recuperate at home under medical supervision. As he left, he sought to identify a medicinal pill and asked about the court, while Chunyu weighed the difficulty of eventually returning to service.

  • An old eunuch announced that Chunyu Tiying had to cure a thousand difficult cases before returning to the Imperial Medical Hall, and that Zhang Xuezhou could go home or return to the Hall for treatment.
  • Zhang Xuezhou asked to go home, and the eunuchs carried him toward Sima Gate while Chunyu followed to collect her belongings.
  • Zhang Xuezhou asked whether he could see His Majesty, and the eunuchs told him that the emperor was busy amid the uproar over Zhao Wan and Wang Zang.
  • Zhang Xuezhou asked Chunyu about the ingredients in the Tenfold Complete Great Tonic Pill, and she explained its recipe and the difficulty of refining it.
  • Chunyu parted from Zhang Xuezhou near the Imperial Medical Hall and remembered his reliable Physiognomy Technique.

Ch. 1211The 'Disappearance' of the Yang Corporeal Soul Dharma Form

Zhang Xuezhou learned that Chunyu Tiying and Zheng Wukong could temporarily suppress the Law Power obstructing his cultivation. After the two treated him with needles, the Yang Corporeal Soul Dharma Form began to fade, leaving Zhang Xuezhou able to experience its disappearance for the first time.

  • Zheng Wukong realized Chunyu Tiying and Zhang Xuezhou’s dismissed-and-sent-home arrangement had set a fated calamity in motion, but he believed he could no longer change the outcome.
  • Chunyu Tiying offered to help Zhang Xuezhou cultivate normally by temporarily interrupting the Law Power sealing his body, and Zhang Xuezhou agreed to let her and Zheng Wukong treat him.
  • Chunyu Tiying persuaded Zheng Wukong to help, arguing that Zhang Xuezhou’s Physiognomy Technique could protect them and their students from calamities.
  • Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying inserted needles into Zhang Xuezhou and identified sixty-seven acupoints they could use to counter the Law Power lodged in his body.
  • As the two doctors worked, Zhang Xuezhou felt the Yang Corporeal Soul Dharma Form rapidly fade from his body.

Ch. 1212The Medical School and Suspended Gourd Sect's One Hundred and Eight Thousand Acupoints

Zhang Xuezhou learned that Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying could only temporarily suppress the Yang Corporeal Soul Dharma Form’s Incantation, which grew stronger when he cultivated or took medicine. After his pill broke their barrier, Chunyu Tiying began guiding his cultivation and explained that he would need to control more than twenty thousand minor acupoints to help treat himself.

  • Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying used needles and Law Power to build a temporary barrier that kept Zhang Xuezhou from manifesting his Yang Corporeal Soul Dharma Form.
  • Zhang Xuezhou revealed that he belonged to the Yin-Yang School’s Nine Heavens Sect, and Zheng Wukong warned that pills could strengthen the Incantation and overwhelm their treatment.
  • Zhang Xuezhou accidentally swallowed a Tenfold Complete Great Tonic Pill, which strengthened the Incantation and broke the barrier.
  • Chunyu Tiying used needles and Law Power to speed up Zhang Xuezhou’s Nine Revolutions Qi Uniting Technique, while he admitted that enough pills could help him reach the Body Integration Realm.
  • Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying told Zhang Xuezhou that he would need to guide the power of more than twenty thousand minor acupoints to help suppress the Incantation.

Ch. 1213Pulse Methods and the Pulse Classic

Zhang Xuezhou learned the Medical School’s Pulse Methods and the Suspended Gourd Sect’s Pulse Classic, and used their combined principles to create a Breathing Method that suppressed the Yang Corporeal Soul Dharma Form within him. He mastered the method almost immediately, leaving Chunyu Tiying and Zheng Wukong astonished and prompting him to reconsider the difficulty of techniques involving all 108,000 acupoints.

  • Zheng Wukong shared the Suspended Gourd Sect’s Pulse Classic with Zhang Xuezhou after Chunyu Tiying appealed to him.
  • Chunyu Tiying and Zheng Wukong compared their schools’ teachings and devised a Breathing Method to keep the Incantation inside Zhang Xuezhou from breaking through his defenses.
  • Zhang Xuezhou used the Breathing Method to force the Yang Corporeal Soul Dharma Form into hiding, gaining temporary freedom to improve his physical cultivation.
  • Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying discovered that Zhang Xuezhou had mastered the Breathing Method in a short time and questioned how he had done it.
  • Zhang Xuezhou explained that his experience with the Grain Avoidance Instruction and the nine great Evasion Techniques had prepared him to link the acupoints.
  • Zhang Xuezhou concluded that the Western Sect’s technique using 108,000 acupoints might be a complex Evasion Technique rather than an impossibly difficult cultivation method.

Ch. 1214Three Physicians Gather

Zhang Xuezhou listened as Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying compared medical knowledge, while promising to read their fortunes in exchange for more instruction. When Wei Shao'er arrived to check on him and seek help with her pregnancy, the two physicians assessed her symptoms, and Zhang Xuezhou urged her to let them examine her.

  • Chunyu Tiying questioned how Zhang Xuezhou had mastered the self-treatment technique so quickly, and he asked her to explain more of the Medical School's Pulse Methods.
  • Zheng Wukong asked Zhang Xuezhou to read Yi Shuo's fortune, and Zhang agreed before Zheng began demonstrating the pulse meridians with a wooden figure.
  • Wei Shao'er arrived to make sure Zhang Xuezhou was alive and said she was counting on him to help her through childbirth.
  • Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying assessed Wei Shao'er's condition, suspecting she had a hidden illness and had taken too many tonics.
  • Zhang Xuezhou introduced Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying as physicians and urged Wei Shao'er to let them examine her.

Ch. 1215Seeking Medical Aid

Wei Shao'er sought help for the Demon Power endangering her and her unborn child, and Zhang Xuezhou tried to persuade the physicians Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying to treat her. Zheng agreed for a hundred gold, and Chunyu agreed after Zhang offered her a way to handle a court decree, leaving Wei Shao'er with a chance to receive the help she needed.

  • Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying suspected Zhang Xuezhou had used his Physiognomy Technique to guide Wei Shao'er to them.
  • Wei Shao'er explained that Demon Power threatened her life and her child's, and Zheng Wukong initially refused to treat her over his concerns about fees and officials.
  • Wei Shao'er offered Zheng Wukong a hundred gold, and he agreed to examine her and do his best to protect them both.
  • Chunyu Tiying rejected Wei Shao'er's appeal, so Zhang Xuezhou urged her to take the case and promised advice on dealing with a court decree.
  • Zhang Xuezhou told Chunyu Tiying to treat nine hundred and ninety-nine cases and leave the thousandth unfinished unless she wanted to return to court, and Chunyu agreed to take Wei Shao'er's case.

Ch. 1216Conditions

Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying discovered that Wei Shao’er’s Annihilation Armor and borrowed male dragon Demon Power made her dangerous childbirth difficult to treat. Chunyu offered to help keep Wei Shao’er alive if she could gather rare medicinal ingredients within three days, leaving Wei Shao’er to decide whether to pay the steep price.

  • Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying examined Wei Shao’er and realized her body annihilated Law Power and resisted most healing Techniques.
  • Wei Shao’er revealed that she had borrowed a male dragon’s Demon Power, and Zheng Wukong and Chunyu Tiying warned it could alter her body and make childbirth perilous.
  • Wei Shao’er explained that Zhang Xuezhou’s Supreme Purity True Technique could stop her bleeding, but his illness might keep him from reaching her in time.
  • Zhang Xuezhou asked Chunyu Tiying to help bridge the gap until he could treat Wei Shao’er, and she agreed to intervene.
  • Chunyu Tiying demanded three portions each of ten aged medicines within three days, and Wei Shao’er hesitated over the cost.
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