Medical and Martial God

After Ye Xiu and An Dongye finished their meal, An Dongye went back to work.

Ye Xiu glanced at the time. The luxury yacht should be catching up to the vessel Heaven Net was on soon. He went out to the deck and saw Qiuchanyi standing at the railing, her head stretched out over the side as she vomited violently. Next to her was a pool of blood and a sword, but Yuri was nowhere to be seen.

It seems she killed him and threw the body overboard! Not bad, not bad...

Ye Xiu was beginning to appreciate Qiuchanyi. ”This ship will arrive at Biluo Island tomorrow morning,” he reminded her. ”You’d better adapt quickly, or it will be very dangerous for you once we get there.”

”I will!” Qiuchanyi gave him a determined look, suppressed her nausea, and turned to go back to her cabin.

Now, Ye Xiu was the only one left on deck. He quickly took the Huang Quan Suit from his backpack, put it on, and leaped off the deck. Stepping across the surface of the sea, he ran toward the Heaven Net ship several hundred meters away.

***

Aboard the other vessel, the members of Heaven Net were busy moving grills, charcoal, various meats and fish, vegetables, and beer onto the deck.

Yan Long shouted, ”Hurry up, faster! Tonight we’ll have a barbecue and drink beer to celebrate properly.”

”Celebrate what?” Qing Luan asked.

”Celebrate Ye Xiu getting beaten up!” Yan Long was in high spirits, saying with great satisfaction, ”Ye Xiu fell into the hands of those thousands of people in the ’Beat Up Ye Xiu Alliance.’ He’ll definitely be beaten into a pig’s head. Just thinking about it is so satisfying! I’ve always wanted to beat him up myself, but Huang Quan would always beat me up first. Today, that ’Beat Up Ye Xiu Alliance’ gang finally vented my anger for me.”

My master just can’t feel right if he goes a day without getting beaten up. Qing Luan sighed and advised, ”Master, the country needs Ye Xiu, and so does the medical community. We’re injured on Biluo Island and need his help for treatment more than ever. You should stop obsessing over opposing him. It does you no good at all.”

Heaven knows she wasn’t pleading for Ye Xiu; she was clearly telling her master to stop courting death!

”The day he treats my injuries properly is the day I’ll let him off,” Yan Long snorted, acting as if Ye Xiu were a plaything in the palm of his hand.

Qing Luan grew anxious. If her master continued to test the limits of death like this, he would surely be killed the day he finally provoked Huang Quan. Just as she was about to persuade him further, she suddenly saw a dark shadow materialize like a ghost behind him.

It was Ye Xiu in the Huang Quan Suit.

”Master, I’ll go prepare some External Injury Medicine for you,” Qing Luan said hurriedly, knowing full well what Ye Xiu was there for.

”External Injury Medicine?” Yan Long was puzzled. ”Why would you prepare that for me?”

BANG!

The words had barely left his mouth when a solid kick landed on his rear. He face-planted onto the deck, eating dirt, and then felt a barrage of fists and feet rain down on his body. Even as he lay on the ground, he could guess who was hitting him.

Huang Quan! Now he understood why Qing Luan had gone to get External Injury Medicine for him. It was damn necessary!

”Why are you hitting me this time?” Yan Long cried out from the deck, feeling aggrieved, wronged, and utterly bewildered.

”My hands were itching,” Ye Xiu replied perfunctorily, continuing to beat him mercilessly.

The other members of Heaven Net acted as if they saw nothing. The ones lighting the fires, skewering the food, and mixing the seasonings all continued their work, bustling about cheerfully.

***

Half an hour later, Ye Xiu had vented his frustration and left by leaping off the ship.

”Master, let me apply the medicine for you,” Qing Luan said as she squatted down. She looked at Yan Long, who had been beaten into an unrecognizable shape by Ye Xiu, and struggled to hold back her laughter. ”Huang Quan was a bit ruthless this time. I can barely recognize you.”

The prone Yan Long flipped over to sit up, looking so aggrieved he wanted to cry. ”Why does Huang Quan always hit me?” he asked.

Qing Luan silently applied the medicine to his face without a word. She couldn’t very well tell him that Huang Quan was Ye Xiu, could she? She didn’t dare. Ye Xiu had forbidden it!

”Damn it, I was lying face-down, and he still managed to make my face swell up,” Yan Long muttered. Despite the beating, he was immensely impressed with Huang Quan’s skills. ”Can you really ’hit a cow from across a mountain’ like that?”

By this time, Ye Xiu had already returned to the luxury yacht and changed out of the Huang Quan Suit. He sat alone at the bow, watching as the yacht overtook the vessel carrying Heaven Net.

”Qing Luan, who’s that green pig-head next to you?” Ye Xiu shouted toward her as she applied medicine to Yan Long.

Qing Luan glanced over, and her face instantly darkened. You’re the one who beat him up! Don’t you have a damn clue who the green pig-head is?

”Ye Xiu?” Yan Long was stunned to see him and shouted, ”You... weren’t you captured by the ’Beat Up Ye Xiu Alliance’? How did you get on a luxury yacht?”

”Guess!” Ye Xiu said with a smile.

Guess my ass! Enraged, Yan Long stood up and declared, ”Ye Xiu, you just wait! I’m coming over to beat you up right now!”

Qing Luan hurriedly stopped him. ”Master, our boat is over a hundred meters from the luxury yacht. You can’t swim, and you’re injured. How are you going to get across?”

”Tell the captain to move closer to the luxury yacht!” Yan Long ordered angrily.

Qing Luan didn’t follow the order. ”Master, look. The luxury yacht is much faster than our ship. It’s already passed us. We can’t catch up.”

Yan Long stomped his feet in a rage, but he was helpless. He could only shout menacingly at Ye Xiu, ”When we get to Biluo Island, I’ll take care of you!”

”Fine, I’ll be waiting for you,” Ye Xiu replied with a smile.

Enraged to the point of near-death, Yan Long grabbed a bottle of beer and hurled it at Ye Xiu with all his might.

Ye Xiu casually caught it, opened it, and took a sip. ”I was just thirsty. Thanks.”

Yan Long was speechless.

Ye Xiu ignored him, his thoughts turning to the vast fleet of ships sailing toward Biluo Island. There’s no way this could be hidden from Kristina. How would that little lady handle this?

***

「At dawn the next day.」

Kristina was still in bed when a respectful yet urgent voice came from outside her tent. ”Princess, there’s trouble! Princess...”

Startled awake, Kristina ran out in her pajamas. ”What’s happened?”

The Island Master of Biluo Island reported, ”The aircraft carrier strike group has detected numerous ships heading toward Biluo Island. There’s a vast amount of them, covering the sea. The lead ships are estimated to arrive in about an hour.”

Kristina’s expression turned grim. The reinforcements for Biluo Island hadn’t arrived, yet the army of the Black Water Nation was already on its way. She assumed that after she had destroyed their aircraft carrier strike group, the Black Water Nation’s Navy had come for revenge.

”What’s happened?” Ming Yue asked, emerging sleepily from her tent.

”Hurry and get dressed! Inform everyone to head to the coast immediately!” Kristina didn’t answer, instead ducking back into her tent to change clothes quickly.

Ming Yue didn’t understand what was happening but felt the gravity of the situation. She also hurried into her tent, but not before reporting the situation to Ghost Shadow.

Soon, Kristina and Ming Yue were leading the remnants of their forces toward the coast at full speed. In the last battle with the aircraft carrier strike group, a third of Kristina’s two to three hundred thousand First and Second Realm War Gods had been killed, and countless others were injured. On top of that, Mo Luo and Dizang’s people had been launching constant, non-lethal sneak attacks for a long time.

As it stood now, the number of uninjured troops under Kristina’s command was barely over ten thousand.