Playboy: Medical and Martial Master

”Damn, could they be from the herb-gathering team?”

Sun Zhe immediately quickened his pace. As he got closer, he focused his gaze and saw a man and a woman in the nest, being pecked by the large black bird.

The pair had been pecked into a bloody mess, their clothes torn to shreds by the bird’s claws, barely hanging on to their bodies and offering no decency.

”Beast!” Sun Zhe roared, snatching a stone from the ground and hurling it at the bird.

Hit by the stone, the large black bird shrieked, cawing furiously as if cursing Sun Zhe foully. It released the man and woman, unfurled its wings, and shot out of the nest, charging toward Sun Zhe with a ferocious cry.

”You beast, didn’t you learn your lesson from before?”

Sun Zhe’s face was livid. Instead of slowing down, he accelerated, charging head-on to meet the bird. Lightning erupted from his body as he leaped into the air and threw a punch.

”SCREEE—!”

While the large black bird was still airborne, an invisible current of electricity surged through it. It let out a piercing shriek as its feathers were charred and sent smoking, leaving it in a pathetic state.

After hitting the ground, it flapped its wings, hopping and scrambling into the distance like a panicked chicken fleeing a coop, screeching wildly as if cursing Sun Zhe’s entire family tree.

Sun Zhe retracted the lightning around him and let out a long breath. He glanced down at his fist. This True Qi Thunder Transformation is incredible.

In terms of pure strength, despite being at the Middle Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm, his punch wouldn’t have done much damage to the bird. The punch’s power came from the lightning amplification. No carbon-based life form with a mortal body was immune to electricity. In essence, Sun Zhe was a walking high-voltage electric baton.

He then climbed up the roots hanging from the large banyan tree that grew atop the fossilized skull. He found the man and woman lying in the nest, writhing and moaning in agony. It was a miserable sight. Inside the nest, Sun Zhe also saw a thick layer of white bones—both human and animal—piled up like a hellish, ghastly scene. Amidst the bones, he spotted several bulging backpacks and some miscellaneous human tools, clearly the bird’s collection of ”trophies.”

Sun Zhe leaped into the nest. After a quick inspection, he picked up the more severely injured man and laid him down flat. The man was already semi-conscious from excessive blood loss. Upon seeing Sun Zhe, a flicker of hope ignited in his eyes. As if in a final burst of life, he gripped Sun Zhe’s arm tightly, straining to look at the woman beside him. ”Please... save her...”

Before he could finish, the man passed out.

The woman beside him burst into tears, scrambling over to his body and collapsing on top of him.

”Ruolong!”

”Ruolong, what’s wrong with you?”

”Don’t scare me!”

Sun Zhe said patiently, ”He’s just unconscious for now. If you delay my treatment any longer, something might actually happen to him.”

Hearing this, the woman’s beautiful eyes widened. She quickly moved back. ”Please save my brother! We will be sure to reward you handsomely!” She started crying again, choking out, ”If he wasn’t protecting me, Ruolong wouldn’t have ended up like this... Fellow cultivator, please, won’t you save him?”

”Fellow cultivator?” Sun Zhe gave the woman a deep look. What a niche term.

”Rest assured, I’ll do my best to save him. But there’s no guarantee that bird won’t return. Let’s move to a safer location first.”

The woman suddenly pointed to a black backpack among the pile of bones. ”That’s my bag. There’s a field first-aid kit inside.”

”Alright, I’ll get it.”

”Um... fellow cultivator, my leg is injured, so I might have to trouble you to carry me.”

”Okay. I’ll carry you down first, then your brother.”

”Thank you.”

Afterward, Sun Zhe moved the siblings to a nearby patch of reeds. After stopping the man’s bleeding and stitching his wounds, Sun Zhe unhesitatingly took out a piece of Candle Dragon’s Blood, crushed it with a stone, mixed it with mineral water, and fed it to him.

The woman was clearly knowledgeable and not an ordinary person, as she recognized the item at a glance.

”Is... is this Candle Dragon’s Blood?”

Sun Zhe nodded without a word.

The woman was taken aback. ”Such a precious Divine Medicine, and you just... Fellow cultivator, rest assured, we will definitely reward you handsomely!”

Sun Zhe said calmly, ”To me, the best medicine is meaningless if it isn’t used to save lives. I’m a doctor. This is my duty.”

Hearing his words, the woman was filled with awe. She gazed at his serious, handsome profile and said no more, not wanting to disturb him. A sudden sense of security washed over her.

A short while later, after giving the man the Candle Dragon’s Blood, Sun Zhe turned to the woman and said, ”Your injuries are also severe.”

He now realized that she was left in nothing but her bra and panties. Her fair skin was covered with ghastly, bleeding claw marks—a heartbreaking sight.

”If you don’t mind, I’ll treat your wounds now.”

”Um... thank you. My family name is Chen. My name is Chen Ruoyi, and this is my younger brother, Chen Ruolong.”

”I’m Sun Zhe.”

As they spoke, Sun Zhe had already knelt in front of Chen Ruoyi. He began to gently peel away the strips of cloth that were stuck to her wounds by dried blood.

Chen Ruoyi’s delicate body trembled with pain and her face grew pale, but she bit her lip and refused to cry out.

”Miss Chen, you’re quite a tough woman,” Sun Zhe said, trying to distract her as he worked on the cloth strips.

Chen Ruoyi hissed in pain. ”Anyone who comes to a place like this can’t afford to be a delicate young lady,” she said, her voice strained.

”That’s true.”

During their conversation, Sun Zhe finally removed all the tattered cloth. ”Miss Chen, your bra... if you don’t mind, you’ll need to take it off too. It will be difficult to bandage you otherwise.”

Chen Ruoyi’s beautiful eyes flickered. After a brief moment of hesitation, she nodded. ”Please help me... My hands hurt too much.”

”Alright. Brace yourself.”

Soon, the sight of two proud, snow-white peaks was revealed to him.

Sun Zhe secretly admired them. This woman’s figure is stunning, and her features are delicate and pretty too. But with her body and face covered in blood and grime, he wasn’t in the mood to look too closely. After a quick glance at the delicate pink cherries atop those snowy peaks, Sun Zhe focused on treating her wounds.

To alleviate the awkward atmosphere, he initiated a conversation.

Through their talk, Sun Zhe learned that the siblings, Chen Ruoyi and Chen Ruolong, were not part of the Su Family’s herb-gathering team. They had actually entered this ”Life Forbidden Zone” three months ago. The two had originally formed an expedition team of fifteen people to search for a treasure. After countless hardships, they finally found it, but the team’s leader grew greedy. Wanting the treasure for himself, he abandoned everyone and fled with it.

Afterward, Chen Ruoyi and her teammates were trapped in the swamp, wandering in circles, unable to find a way out, all while being hunted daily by Jiao Beasts. One by one, the team members died, until only the two siblings remained. Just yesterday, the large black bird had targeted them. After a desperate escape attempt, they ultimately fell into its claws. The siblings had thought they were doomed, waiting to become the bird’s next meal, never expecting to be rescued by Sun Zhe.

After hearing Chen Ruoyi’s story, a chill went down Sun Zhe’s spine as his thoughts immediately turned to Su Nanzhi.

This pair were both Golden Core Realm Martial Artists, yet they had found it nearly impossible to survive here. He couldn’t begin to imagine what a cultivator at the Qi Refining Realm like Su Nanzhi might have endured. Perhaps, like Chen Ruoyi’s teammates, she had already become food for the giant beasts in the swamp.

”Dr. Sun, what’s wrong?” Chen Ruoyi asked with concern, noticing the change in his expression.

”It’s nothing.” Sun Zhe stood up. ”Have you seen another group of people around here? They were gathering herbs.”

Chen Ruoyi shook her head. ”Besides the people from my expedition team, I haven’t seen anyone else. Dr. Sun, are you here looking for them?”

Sun Zhe nodded, then asked, ”Do you know what lies in the depths of this basin?”

Chen Ruoyi replied, ”There’s a village in the deepest part, but it’s extremely dangerous. It’s swarming with Jiao Beasts. We actually planned to flee there ourselves, but we didn’t because of all the Jiao Beasts. Going there would have been a faster death.”

Sun Zhe said, ”I want to go to that village to look around. I might find some clues there.”