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Due to the way the cultivation system in the novel has been set up, I’ve decided to change a term (again!). We will now have ling energy and ling power. Ling energy is now the energy that is spread out in the world which people absorb. Ling power is the stuff that people use, which is basically “processed” ling energy. Think solar energy and solar power (in cactuar’s words).
Chapter Eighty Nine – Silly Yao
The mist faded and a hot spring had appeared. In the steam that rose up, a crowd of beautiful women who were bathing could be barely made out. Their eyes were alluring and extremely seductive. The smooth and silky skin seemed to have magnetism, securely holding Zuo Mo’s eyes.
The beauties played and laughed, disregarding Zuo Mo as empty air.
When had the pitiful Zuo Mo ever seen something like this? It was like he had been struck by lightning, dumbstruck. The laughter and breathing of the women burrowed into his ear. He felt his throat was dry, his entire body hot. Something inside his body seemed to be moving.
What spell was this?
Zuo Mo felt his heart beat faster and faster until it felt like his heart was going to jump out of his chest, uncontrollably beating.
He used all the energy in his body to struggle to swallow. He detected that his entire body wasn’t normal, definitely not normal! He started to channel ling power. It didn’t have an effect. He couldn’t help but be shocked.
— Such a strong spell! Such a strong maze formation!
Calm! Calm!
It was fake! Fake!
Zuo Mo told himself. At this time, he should close his eyes, but for some reason, his eyelids today didn’t listen to him. It seemed that there was a mysterious world in that hot spring that uncontrollably attracted his eyes. If he didn’t restrain himself forcefully, his legs would unconsciously walk towards the hotspring.
Tracelessly capturing a person’s mind and soul. Imperceptibly controlling a person’s body. Zuo Mo’s last bit of rationality concluded, this group of beauties were in reality a high grade maze formation!
Fourth-grade or even fifth-grade?
The person trapped would feel hot, the rhythm of breathing lost, the mind disturbed, ling power channeling would be obstructed… …
He reflexively swallowed again. Suddenly, Zuo Mo’s pupils expanded.
The hot steam suddenly disappeared. Those beautiful women, without an exception, their heart-startling faces, their amazing bodies, the porcelain skin and … …
A blow like no other before attacked Zuo Mo like a stream of lightning. His breathing stopped, his heart stopped at this moment as well.
Was this the final attack… …
All the beauties suddenly stopped moving like they were under a paralyzing spell. After that, with speed visible to the naked eye, they started to age and wither. The healthy and alluring skin lost the glow, the tightness, became wrinkled like the bark of a tree. Their beautiful appearance quickly withered and lost vitality.
The skin turned bad, rotted and revealed the white bones inside.
In the flick of a finger, a crowd of beautiful women became a crowd of skeletons.
His chest heaving, Zuo Mo felt like he had ate countless mosquitoes and wanted to throw up! This reversal of events, all the blood in his body seemed to reverse flow and he almost spat out blood.
The viciousness of this final attack… …
Zuo Mo was extremely shocked. The person who created this maze formation was really strong! He hadn’t felt even a bit of ling power. This was a traceless attack. At this time, a tearing sound occurred next to his ear. The scene in front of him suddenly twisted as though it was being sucked away by something.
Beautiful women, skeleton, the black and white checkerboard, it completely disappeared.
He saw Pu Yao opening his mouth and a wisp of smoke was sucked inside. His state seemed comfortable and satisfied. When did Pu Yao recover? Did he just ruin the maze formation right now?
Pu Yao closed his mouth and turned to look at Zuo Mo, lightly throwing down, “You have a nosebleed.”
Zuo Mo dazed and hurried to touch his nose. As expected, it was red!
“Ha ha ha ha ha ha … …” Pu Yao laughed carefree, his face mischievous as he looked at Zuo Mo. Zuo Mo didn’t understand at all.
Bleeding proved that the other’s maze formation was really too strong. He had actually been wounded and bled without him noticing. But why was Pu Yao laughing?
He felt that Pu Yao’s laugh was slightly strange. Even now, his chest felt unspeakably uncomfortable. The last ultimate attack, the power was too amazing. The feeling of disgust lingered in his heart.
Barely managing to calm down, Pu Yao glanced at Zuo Mo and started snickering again. He swept across the pink colored paper on Zuo Mo’s hands and snatched it over, shoving it into his mouth. He chew two times and swallowed it down. For the second time, he had a satisfied expression.
“You… … you eat paper?” Zuo Mo pointed at Pu Yao, face full of disbelief as he asked.
“Such pure yin energy, it would be a pity to waste it.” Pu Yao thrust out a blood red tongue and licked his lips, still hungering.
“When did you wake up?” Zuo Mo asked dumbly.
“When this maze formation started.” Pu Yao snickered. However, Zuo Mo felt that the other’s eyes as they looked at him were slightly weird.
“You’ve recovered?” Zuo Mo still decided to have some concern for Pu Yao.
“Not that easy.” Pu Yao stretched and said lazily, “The injury this time was too much. Recovering isn’t that easy.” From his expression, he didn’t seem to be that concerned with his injury.
It seemed the situation was better than he had thought. Zuo Mo felt slightly safer. He thought about the beautiful women he had just seen. He hurriedly asked, “What maze formation was it just now? Too strong! I was injured without me noticing!”
“Ha ha ha ha ha ha … …” Pu Yao couldn’t resist and started howling with laughter again, holding his stomach. Laughing to the point of not being able to stand up.
Zuo Mo’s face was puzzled. He didn’t know why Pu Yao was responding like this.
This maze formation really was powerful… …
At a place far away from Sky Moon Jie.
“Hm, why hasn’t there been a response? Is he really not tempted by beauty? Hee Hee, has he surrendered?”
A girl propped up her chin and talked to herself.
A while later. Still nothing. Her face was suspicious.
“There’s no reason. As long as he isn’t a playboy, he shouldn’t be able to resist! Is he really experienced? He didn’t seem like it! Did I look wrong? This miss dislikes that kind of men the most!”
She completely did not know her tempting maze formation had been altered by Pu Yao and its effect had moved from one extreme to another extreme.
She wasn’t satisfied.
In Little West Wind Yard.
“Do you understand women?” Pu Yao asked.
“Of course.” Zuo Mo looked strangely at Pu Yao. This question was so dumb and idiotic. Had Pu Yao’s mind been wounded? His mind was now unclear? He reminded in goodwill, “Li Ying Feng Shijie, Xiao Guo, Master. They are all women.”
No. No. Pu Yao had previously been an old antique of three thousand years ago but, at least, he had been somewhat normal. But now, his mind had been wounded and become dumb. Zuo Mo looked slightly sympathetically at Pu Yao. So pitiful. A Sky Yao becoming a dumb yao.
Meeting Zuo Mo’s gaze, Pu Yao snickered, “Have you been close with a woman?”
Zuo Mo looked with even more sympathy at Pu Yao, “I’m close to all of them.”
Pu Yao’s snickers suddenly stopped, like he had choked. He suddenly found that it was very difficult to explain this matter to Zuo Mo.
“When you see them, do you have any strange thoughts in your head?” Pu Yao made a last effort.
“Uh, strange thoughts?” Zuo Mo struggled, and then nodded, “I have.”
“So you really do have some thoughts!” Pu Yao became excited. He continued in leading, “What thoughts?”
“Selling medicine.” Zuo Mo bashfully and obediently answered.
Pu Yao was dumbstruck.
Zuo Mo counted on his fingers as he said, “But it’s a pity that Xiao Guo is still too poor right now. Master, she won’t buy the dan that I make. Usually, only Li Ying Feng Shijie would buy. However, Xu Qing Shijie also would buy. Oh, after some more time, I would advertise moisture dan to them. And there must also be Xu Yi Xia Shijie. Oh, Hao Min might be lacking, but I won’t say no to jingshi… … in the future, I will make lots and lots of dan. Elder Wei Nan’s jade scrolls said that women are the best people to sell to… …”
Pu Yao sprayed out blood and collapsed. After a while, his limbs twitched and he struggled up. He said, refusing to give up, “Didn’t you just see those naked women? Didn’t you feel something?”
If before, Zuo Mo had been using a look reserved for silly yao, then now Zuo Mo’s gaze as he looked at Pu Yao was like if he was looking at an idiot. Full of pity, he said, “Pu Yao, that’s the seal formation!”
Gurgle gurgle. Pu Yao once again fell down, fresh blood furiously flowing out from his mouth like a spring.
So pitiful!
Zuo Mo looked sympathetically at Pu Yao who had been heavily affected.
However, Zuo Mo quickly didn’t have the time to sympathize with Pu Yao. The sect leader and the others all returned to the mountain. When Zuo Mo saw the deep exhaustion in the expression of the elders, he perceptively didn’t say anything. The sect leader didn’t say any words, only waved his hands to signal for the disciples to leave.
“This time, the incident really is too big.” Pei Yuan Ran sighed deeply, “Sky Moon Jie would not be peaceful.”
The others were silent. Yan Le’s face was worried, “We have to take precautions. Wei Sheng’s talents are so outstanding, one in a hundred years. We need to think of ways for him to reach jindan early, otherwise… …”
Everyone understood the rest. A genius, no matter the talent, before they matured, they were all very fragile. Killing an exceptional zhuji xiuzhe only required an average ningmai. They only needed a seal, a talisman… …
“Oh, I wanted Wei Sheng to have a strong foundation. Looking at it now, time doesn’t wait for me.” Pei Yuan Ran gave a deep sigh. He thought for a moment and said resolutely, “In abnormal times, we have to act abnormally. Everyone, gather all your power to help Wei Sheng.”
Xin Yan and Yan Le nodded at the same time. Shi Feng Rong hesitated for a second and said, “What about Zuo Mo?”
Pei Yuan Ran said helplessly, “Zuo Mo’s talent might be outstanding. In another sect, they naturally would take care and nurture. But our assets, Shimei, you know it as well. If we need to put all our energy into nurturing, we could barely just nurture Wei Sheng.”
“Yes! Shimei, I only have that much in my stores. I don’t even know if there is enough for just Wei Sheng.” Yan Le urged.
Shi Feng Rong knew that what the shixiong said was the truth. Wu Kong Sword Sect wasn’t some large sect and didn’t have much wealth. How were young experts made? Made from countless jingshi and lingdan! Wei Sheng was the undisputed successor of the sect. Shi Feng Rong knew very well.
However, Zuo Mo was her disciple. She gritted her teeth, “I do not have objections on nurturing Wei Sheng. But since Zuo Mo won’t have a share of the resources, then we should reimburse him in other areas. If I need to make dan for Wei Sheng, in the future, I won’t have time to teach him and will have to leave him to his own devices.” Speaking of it, she was slightly sorrowful and then raised her head, “I only have a request. Other than some special jade scrolls, all the jade scrolls in the sect should be open for him.”
“This… …” Pei Yuan Ran was slightly hesitant. Shi Feng Rong’s request was against the sect’s rules. But when he saw the determination on Shi Feng Rong’s face, he still nodded, “Yes, I agree.” Nurturing Wei Sheng. The most important part was the supply of lingdan. On this point, Shi Feng Rong was extremely important.
Pei Yuan Ran was a charismatic person. He thought and then stood, “Since the situation is this bad, the jade scrolls would be garbage if they are in the pavilion. From today onwards, all the jade scrolls in the sect will be open to all inner sect disciples.”
And then the whole of Wu Kong Sword Sect shook!
Translator Rambling: So slightly major business first. I changed the term.
Second, I know and agree it totally sucks that the elders want to focus on Wei Sheng. Pei Yuan Ran is bribing Shi Feng Rong, who really is trying her best within her limits since the other is her sect leader/boss. I’m going to play devil’s advocate and say Pei Yuan Ran is investing in what looks to be the most profitable venture.
On the other hand, the elders are terrible at making money!
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Thanks for the new chapter! Too bad Zuo Mo or someone related to him could secretly tell him about the Patriarch’s decision. He really deserves better than this Sect.
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I like this story but it’s just flipped. I mean, it’s a little funny about Zuo but he really has no time to rest at all. I mean even people in other series have rest. It’s as if someone wiped his mind about the ability to rest. 🙁
agree there is first victim cuz our dear zombie not resting enough see Pu Yao coughed blood in this chapter even Zuo Mo pity him
Time is jingshi!!! (money)
I really am thoroughly convinced by this point that Mo isn’t human: He’s a being made purely of greed!
Well, they don’t know Zuo Mo evolved “again”. When they happen to know about the fights and his performance … who knows.
Bah. Let the elders focus on Wei Sheng. That just lets Zuo Mo float under the radar better, and let’s face it, as a Ling farmer and Dan maker, getting more lingdan isn’t going to be a real issue for him.
I love the comedic part of this chapter, but as for the sect elders – they really treat Zuo Mo like dirt 😡 , Shi Feng Rong might be a little better but not much imho. She could always have offered to let Zuo watch as she made all the advanced pills for Wei Sheng’s training, that way he could still learn a lot without taking up her time.
So far, SFR’s contributions as ‘teacher’ are to provide a workplace and a library of reference materials, and give him a tile to learn a sword technique from the pavilion (expecting a farmer to win against the former #1). This time she did try to get him a good benefit, but what does Pei Yuan Ran do?
From today onwards, all the jade scrolls in the sect will be open to all inner sect disciples. … hahaha, so basically its not an advantage for SFR’s disciple but every single person in the inner sect! Including even WS once he is out of meditation, or even Luo Li, Han Min, the other inner sect guys who were laughing at Zuo Mo earlier etc. 😮
I think of it as a mutually beneficial business relationship. Zuo Mo takes advantage of what the sect provides and he gives benefits to the sect (like Golden Crow Pill) in return. That is totally different from Wei Sheng’s relationship to the sect since the sect is making a big investment on him without any short-term benefits.
Well the first catch would make sense is that the pavilion has a heavy pricing. So all the inner sect disciples would still be screwed by that point price. Since most of the other inner sect disciples don’t evenly know how much contribution points that they already have to stay inside the pavilion library for a whole day and night.
While Zuo Mo already got his appropriated power by Pu Yao’s study and gambling all in. So evenly most of the other inner sect disciples would have probably still have trouble finding the appropriated skills for them and can’t gamble.
No matter how I look at it, their decision was the right one. Zuo Mo wouldn’t benefit as much as Wei Sheng with all their help. Instead, he’d probably become less powerful if he’s under their watchful eyes. Free and able to do what he wishes, and now having access to all the jade scrolls, Zuo Mo will finally be able to expand his foundations.
Also, Wei Sheng does deserve more attention. The last time we saw him, his Sword Essence and his cultivation level rocketed. He’s worthy of the attention IMO. I just hope he keeps his outright and friendly attitude. It would such if he turns all Xin Yan on everyone.
I think Wei Sheng’s personality will stay the same, but maybe in the future he will think of Zuo Mo as a friendly rival and will pester him to battle all the time XD.
No matter how much the elders want to invest in Wei Sheng, they wont be able to do anything if he keeps himself shut inside that cursed cave XD
Go Wei Sheng! Leave the cave and show your might to the world!
It seems Zuo Mo is really getting stronger, now he is able to deal damage to Pu Yao just by talking about women XD
The sect leaders have no idea what happened in the sect while they were away, or else they would put a bit more effort in Zuo Mo as well XD
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SELLING MEDICINE huh.. hmm SELLING MEDICINE… YEAH WTF!!
So that why the maze formation didn’t work.. its either your a playboy which means your practically used to the woman’s naked body or an idiot who doesn’t have a reaction towards a woman’s body..
Damn Scalping zombie
It makes sense. There is no reason not to focus on Wei Sheng. Zuo Mo right now is great support character. Wei Sheng is the sword. The clan should focus on raising the sword in times of war and the sword then should shelter and raise the support.
Anyway, glad to see the yao in Zuo Mo’s space is moving again.
Thank you for the chapter 🙂
The Zombie-faced Salesman. 😂😂😂
>felt like he had ate
he had eaten
Thanks for the chapter WYHCWE, cactuar0, WanderingGummiOfDoom, and warlord212!
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Well.. it wouldnt be fun to read if our protagonist gets showered with ling shis while doing secluded training 24/7 anyway..
Comparing wei sheng and zuo mo in terms of telent is like comparing a rotten apple and a fresh new one..
Thank you so much!! 😘😘😘
ahahahahahahaha no way ge you think women like jingshi 😀
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haha zombie have no love for women – his eyes is only on jingshi!
yay they open up the pavilion! but i expect the yao will sneer at every last one of them. i hope our zombie find something about fire, or else the talisman he ‘acquire’ cannot show its strength!
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thank you for the chapter. the elders made the right decision. WS is a genius and only follows the path of the sword. on the other hand ZM is talented in many fields, he is an all-rounder. normally a person that is good at wide range of things will be difficult to be an expert.
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Silly Pu~ Zombie is too Rotten to know that stuff.. or was it too pure?
“What maze formation was it just now? Too strong! I was injured without me noticing!”
Probably the first time I’ve seen someone blaming a nosebleed on something like that…
“What thoughts?”
“Selling medicine.” Zuo Mo bashfully and obediently answered.
…
And I was thinking for a moment that maybe he really had some of those thoughts… I don’t know why I doubted him for even a second…
He did have a reaction, so it’s not like he’s immune to women, but he’s been too busy trying to survive for two years without memories and with people making light of him due to his appearance! And he has no experience with women, so it’s no surprise he hasn’t spared such things a thought.
Personally, I want him to continue being innocent (or should I say ignorant?); it’s cute and much more pleasant than perverted harem-centered MCs in other stories. At one point I wondered if this story would eventually form a sort of harem, but I don’t worry about it now. Even if the story WERE to turn in that direction, which I doubt, I know it would not be meant to be taken seriously and it would not be disrespectfully stereotype-ridden.
Zuo Mo should form genuine friendships with the people he has good relationships with now, especially Guo, Ying Feng and Qi. He gets along well with them, but he hides himself. I know he has to hide Pu Yao, so he must be cautious and prudent, but I wish he found a way to interact wholeheartedly with others while still managing to keep his secret… While most of his thoughts and drives is jingshi, he is a person too. Won’t he ever tell anyone the reason he has no memories or facial expressions? Will he never share with anyone his dream about not forgetting something even in death?
I hope he deepens his relationship with his Master too; I want at least her among the elders to be aware of his true talent and potential and give him praise for his hard work; although he has had help from Pu Yao, he still had to work very hard and has made commendable progress in a short time. True, he’s trying to avoid the elders precisely because of Pu Yao, yet I feel that Feng Rong might have a chance of accepting him despite this if they get to interact more intimately. While she’s not unconcerned about sect matters, she clearly cares more about dan-making, and Zuo Mo’s talent at it is undeniable, being able to determine the method for Crow Fire pill synthesis!
I also would love it if he becomes good friends with Wen Sheng, though that might be hard since the elders pay him much attention, which Zuo Mo wants to avoid. In fact, I have almost given up on this happening ever since Ying Feng predicted the three of them as the future pillars of the sect; that kind of narration of future events is always suspicious!
I….did not expect to write a large post here. Sorry not sorry
respect for the master
I laughed so loud and long in this chapter. PY and ZM comedy duo. I’d buy tickets to that! haha It’s a little shabby that they ignore ZM so much, but I do think it is better for him so I can’t get too upset.
Well its not really suprising that ZM has no thoughts about women like that, since his kind of like a 3-4 year old kid, since he lost all his memories and started from a clean slate again just like a newborn, just that he has some some skills from before, like speach and a better thought proces.
But now he has an even better reason to leave this s*** of a sect, he has been on the losing end since he got the plant emblem..
Translator’s Note: “on the other hand the elder’s are bad at making money.”
True story.
HAHAHAHA THIS IS THE BEST CHAPTER BY FAR IN TERMS OF PU YAO’S HELPLESSNESS. I love how Zuo Mo is so innocent <3
Thank you for the update!
I really like Shi Feng Rong now 🙂 Humph humph!
Humph humph!
There is this weird thing that keep bother me, was that spectacular breakthrough to Zhuji just a show, didn’t Pu Yao mention that breaking into Zhuji is the most important in cultivation, but there was never a mention of the advantage of our MC breakthrough, does the author forget about it?!!!!
And the is this second thing that’s bothering as well, how could a sect with 4 powerful jindan (in their own way) would only be able to produce only 5 zhuji cultivators 8 now, and no Ningmai to bout, they should the trash of trash, this is really a big loophole that’s unbearable to watch. and the Master of the MC is the most ignorant and irresponsible master that i ever saw despite her good intentions or whatever.
Zuo Mo, so innocent! (｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )ﾉﾞ✧*｡
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After all this time pu should have noticed that zuo mo is interested in jingshi only xD
Oh, I realized now that pu is only awake now because of that formation xD