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Chapter Four Hundred and Three – Collision!
“Do you think Xiao Mo Ge would accept the draft?” Yu Zi Zhou said with bemusement. His gaze was poisonous and hateful.
“Probably,” his best friend said without confidence, “at this time, refusing the draft is punishable by military law! No matter how powerful his is, he won’t dare to oppose a military corp.”
“Haha!” Yu Zi Zhou laughed smugly. “No matter if he accepts or not, it won’t be easy for him. Haha! This is an unwinnable situation! I will let him know how death is written!”
“Your move is too poisonous!”
“Haha! Your praise makes my heart bloom! Haha!”
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“The Heavy Earth Corps sent a draft notice for Xiao Mo Ge?” Ji Li Yu was slightly astonished.
“En.” Ji Cheng nodded repeatedly. “Yu Zi Zhou did it. The commander of Heavy Earth Corps is his uncle. A lot of people know this.”
“Yu Zi Zhou is not a good person, as expected,” Ji Li Yu said with a cold smile. “But this move is vicious!”
“What do we do?” Ji Cheng was slightly excited. “Xiao Mo Ge’s good days have reached an end!”
“Us? What does this have to do with us?” Ji Li Yu’s eyes flashed. “Yu Zi Zhou has lost his reason to his hatred. Making moves like this at this time, what would the people above think?”
“You mean … …” Ji Cheng made a sound. He was not dumb and understood she meant.
“They will fight their battles, while we just sit and watch,” Ji Li Yu said decisively. “At such a sensitive time when we are losing at the front lines, there are no disadvantages to being passive.” She changed the topic, “I heard that Mu Xi has come back?”
“En, she’s been back for a while now.” Ji Cheng nodded. He then reacted and said with astonishment, “You think well of her?”
“Find a time for us to visit Mu Xi.” Ji Li Yu’s eyes flashed with a different kind of light. “I have a feeling that Palace Lake Wood Clan is going end up with her as the main leader.”
“That’s not possible.” Ji Cheng’s expression was disbelieving and he said unconcernedly. “She’s so young! Also, she didn’t have any great battle achievements on her trip this time.”
“Let’s wait and see.” Ji Li Yu giggled.
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Mu Xi narrated her entire journey in detail without missing any detail. The old person in front of her was the person she respected the most, and was also the leader of Palace Lake Wood Clan. In her eyes, he was also the wisest person.
“You say that the xiuzhe are also investigating this matter?” the clan leader said in a deep voice.
“Yes,” Mu Xi respectfully replied. “We did not detect that they were hiding near us at all. If an accident had not occurred to them, their scheme might have worked.”
“Stars in Daytime … …” the clan leader murmured to himself, “which daren would it be?”
Mu Xi sat respectfully and did not disturb the clan leader from thinking. Truthfully, even now, she did not fully understand the significance of Stars in Daytime.
A while later, the clan leader shook his head and refocused.
Mu Xi really could not contain her curiosity any more. “Clan Leader, what is Stars in Daytime?”
The clan leader explained, “The so-called Stars in Daytime is when one uses the power of the stars to heal the wounds of the body. If it is during the day, stars would appear on the entire sky, this is Stars in Daytime. Only the strongest of yaomo possess this kind of unnatural power.” He then grimaced and said, “This kind of skill only exists in the legends. I have not heard of anyone in the present that possesses it. Also, because the manifestation indicates he is injured, a daren would only cast such a secret technique in the most dangerous of times.”
Mu Xi finally understood. “No wonder!”
“Now you know why the Council of Elders is so panicked and reacted so urgently,” the clan leader said with a smile, “It shows great favor that the Elder Council gave such a mission to you, they are nurturing you. Now that the front lines are successively losing, it is a rare opportunity for you young people.”
Mi Xi calmly nodded, “Xi’er will definitely work hard.”
A flash of satisfaction flashed through the eyes of the clan leader. His expression then became stern as he said, “This man, Lin Qian, you speak of is probably a Kun Lun disciple, since he is able to pinpoint your origins immediately. The disciples of Kun Lun are always outstanding. If you fight against them in the future, you cannot take them lightly!”
“Yes!” Mu Xi obediently replied. That calm and handsome figure appeared in her mind’s eyes, and her fighting spirit rose. After returning, she had repeatedly thought back to the battle exchanges she had with Lin Qian. But even now, she could not find his weakness.
She had to admit that the other’s skills as a commander were higher than hers! She had the advantage of greater strength but still could not do anything to the other. If this was a mock battle in a battle general class, it would be judged as her defeat.
As expected from a Kun Lun disciple!
No matter if it was skill or conduct, it made others respect them.
She was not demotivated,but it was the opposite. The other’s appearance had caused her to understand how stupid and narrow it was for her compare herself with only those inside the yao art house. This was her starting point, she truly understood that a vast world had appeared in front of her.
Noticing the fighting spirit that rose in Mu Xi’s eyes, the experienced clan leader instantly understood what Mu Xi was thinking and couldn’t help but smile slightly.
“This matter will not end like this. Gaining the aid of a daren that can cause the Stars in Daytime is worth any price. This, we understand, the daren of the Council of Elders understand, but the xiuzhe also understand.” The clan elder was very clam. “Since all clues now point to Wu Kong Sword Sect, then we have a direction.”
Mu Xi was slightly puzzled. In her view, they should not enter into the conflict over the matter.
Almost as though he saw Mu Xi’s puzzlement, the clan leader said with a smile, “Our Palace Lake Wood Clan has some power, including influence in the territory of xiuzhe. However, the Council of Elders is probably also investigating in secret.”
“Then aren’t we wasting our efforts?” Mu Xi asked.
“Ha ha. It seems that we are wasting our efforts,” the clan leader chucked, and a sharp light flashed through his eyes, “but what if this daren is an elder that survived from the Thousand Year Battle?”
Mu Xi first froze and then she unhesitatingly shook her head. “That is impossible!”
“Why is it impossible?” The clan leader’s eyes narrowed. “I feel this is the most likely possibility! Otherwise, why did this daren appear in the territory of xiuzhe? A daren that could cause Stars of Daytime, it wouldn’t be strange for them to have some life-saving secret technique. Also, this relates to a secret that not many people know.”
“What secret?” Mu Xi unconsciously asked. But when the words came out, she regretted it. It was almost not appropriate for her to ask this.
Just as she was feeling insecure, the clan leader did not conceal and said, “In that great war, everyone knows that we yaomo lost but there are only a few that know some elders were captured! They were imprisoned in the Yao Subduing Tower. If I haven’t guessed wrong, this unknown daren most likely escaped from the Yao Subduing Tower.”
Mu Xi gaped and stared with wide eyes as she listened to the story.
Seeing Mu Xi’s expression, the clan leader smiled warmly. “Don’t find it strange. If this daren really escaped from the Yao Subduing Tower, then they are definitely worth our Palace Lake Wood Clan investing all our power.”
He did not explain more. There were some things that Mu Xi would understand only when she reached a certain age.
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“Heavy Earth Corps?” Zuo Mo felt puzzled. However, when he saw the attitudes of the surrounding four people, his face instantly darkened.
“The draft notice has already been delivered to Sir’s follower, Nan Yue. Please report to the base of Heavy Earth Corps within ten days,” one of the people stared at Zuo Mo and said in a deep voice. He did not know who he had offended, but for him, this order held no influence.
“I have not heard of any Heavy Earth Corps and don’t have any interest!” Zuo Mo’s expression was icy.
Even though he did not understand why the other had come to find him, but in his view, the other’s attitude was enough to indicate a problem. Surrounded by four people, he was not afraid.
“You wish to resist a military order?” This person’s expression darkened and his gaze became vicious.
The other three people also had vicious glares as their bodies moved forward. A murderous energy instantly locked onto Zuo Mo. Even though they had heard that Zuo Mo had reconstructed the Wasteland Beast Chessboard, but in the eyes of this military combat yao, that wasn’t anything. Those genius that boasted so much were like bubbles that popped on impact, once they were placed on the battlefield.
The leading combat yao smirked. His gaze when he looked at Zuo Mo was like he was looking at a lamb waiting for slaughter. He did not object to giving the other a lesson in the Ten Finger Prison. Which one of those proud young masters didn’t obey under his hands?
Zuo Mo’s eyes narrowed and a cold light flashed through them. His upper body waved lightly like that of a clock pendulum.
The pupils of the leading combat yao suddenly shrank. In his field of vision, the Zuo Mo seemed to disappear! What shocked him even more was the other’s decisiveness. Attacking proactively without a word!
He was both shocked and angry. He bellowed, “You dare … …”
The movement of his hands were even faster than his angry shout. After long years of training, it was instinct to react once encountering danger. A ball of dirt yellow light lit up in his hand and a shell of dirt yellow light appeared around him.
This was one of the most widely used military intermediate yao arts of the Heavy Earth Corps—[Earth Defence Art]. Proven through combat, it had outstanding defensive capabilities.
Being able to enter the third prison, his power was not weak. As one of the top combat yao in the military corp, he had absolute confidence in his power. Even more, he also had three powerful fellows with him.
Four against one, it made him feel as though he was using a sword to kill a chicken.
Ping!
A clear shattering sound caused his bellow to suddenly stop. A golden fist rapidly grew larger in his eyes!
How was this possible!
His expression froze. The earth defense art that he had always relied on was so easily broken by the other?
A military intermediate yao art at his full power … …
Was … …was … … smashed to bits by one punch … …
Time seemed to suddenly slow at this moment. The other’s fist grew larger and large in his eyes. Everything was so clear. He was even able to see the complex patterns that densely covered the golden armor on the other’s fist.
The terror was like a ferocious beast that escaped and rampaged in his body.
Translator Ramblings: Zuo Mo is being underestimated … …
Thank you so much!! 😘😘😘
“where are those “earth corps” ?”
“I cannot be there in 10days, I live farther than that. begone.”
“you don’t have juridiction over me”.
so many interesting possibilities…
he doesn’t like being ordered. he’ll kill before even considering giving an explanation. earth corps is gonna be slaughtered before even reaching the war
Seriously. He should just tell them to come get him! LOL
“How much will you pay me per day?”
“NOT ENOUGH. YOU TAKE GE FOR SOME COMMON STREET BEGGAR WILLING TO WORK FOR SCRAPS? I’LL SHOW YOU HOW MUCH GE IS WORTH!”
One fight with Xiao Mo Ge – 200,000 soul bucks
One tenth grade talisman – 1 million fourth grade jingshi
One high level yao art from Pu Yao – your soul (as a lifetime follower)
Drafting Zuo Mo into the Yao Army – Priceless
Thanks for the chapter!
thanks
1v4? please, bring the entire corps. it’s not like ge could obey even if he wanted to, so lets just kill.
Can you scalp you enemies in the prison, or will ge just have to settle for stealing their yao arts?
Literal scalping is probably impossible, since they would leave from the damaged consciousness before Zuo Mo managed to do it.
Figurative scalping which he’s done before, is in a somewhat similar situation. Most Yao can leave at any time they want to from those kinds of areas , so it would only be the threat of continuous hunting of them everytime they visit which would work.
So robbing wouldn’t work, but blackmailing them so they would actually survive when they’re there might work.
Zuo Mo has killed people in the prison world before & all of them military dudes. so i suspect soldiers are way to pain tolerant for their own good resulting in getting more damage to their consciousness than they can survive with
can only scalp if they have a yao treasure that is actually able to enter the prison, very high level shit. but also means you gotta get it off their body BEFORE they are forced out of the prison, not easy to do.
so what we are telling ge is that if he is able to, it’s the good stuff?
Inbetween, we’re saying that if he somehow manages to defeat them, and they don’t instantly vanish which they should, and then he somehow manages to loot them in time, anything he would be able to loot would be good stuff.
Thanks for the new chapter!
Thank you!! I didn’t expect a straight up fist fight. I thought he’d make some snarky comments on how he technically can’t answer the military call :p
And thus, Heavy Earth Corps get buried under the heavy earth and turned into crops…
The pun is with you! I was wondering, is any Yao able to enter the prison from anywhere? I mean, ZM is definitely not in a Yao town
@jkmessah
I think Ten Finger Prisons is equivalent as “virtual world” that only accessible through a certain yao art (spell, formation, program). That’s why only the consciousness that go there, not the body.
So anyone that knows the art can “connect” to it from anywhere.
@guradugilgida There have to be some more substantial limitations than that. If you could log into it from anywhere, its utility for keeping in communication with Yao on the front lines (or even Yao split into different squads to coordinate) would be pretty obvious. We wouldn’t see things like physical messengers having to be sent to tell Yao to come home.
I’m pretty sure that a person cannot be doing anything else when they are in the Ten Finger Prison. So the person cannot run or fight. That would be disadvantageous if they used Ten Finger Prison as a real-time messenger because one person would have to be carried and would be burden.
“Breaking news! Heavy Earth Corps renamed to Fertilizer Corps. Reports are unclear but it seems they were decimated at the front line by secret elite xiuzhe unit. Codename Ling Farmer.”
Four little children daring to threat Ge, go home and eat soft rice!
Stop playing VRMMO and go cultivate! Ge will help you all log-out!
Thank you very much for this chapter!
Thanks for the chapter c:
Understimating ge? Tsk tsk , these Yao are tired of living.
Didn’t they get the memo that he crushed what was it 26 people? including some military yao who were terrified. I guess their boss hates them.
Thanks for the chapter. :>
Top Reasons We Can Beat Xiao Mo Ge
4) Only a few of them were military yaos.
3) Those military yaos were the weak ones.
2) One on one? Four on one, bitch! Gangam, I mean gangsta-style.
1) Military Intelligience? Over-rated.
He did that in one on one fights. They are ganging up on him and they are professional “team fighters.”
Man if they knew just where he is….
thanks for the chapter!
I guess he wasn’t aware of the challenger incident where the MC beat down several military yao in very short order 😉
If these guys are near the top of the yao’s military power, what made the yao think that they could take the xiuzhe? A single yuanying taking an interest would be enough to wipe out all the yaomo if this is all the strength they have.
They’re elite among the normal people. Basically, they’re probably the strongest among Ningmai-level people, while iirc their Ningmai equivalent is stronger than Xuizhe Ningmai, meaning they should be at least mid Jindan strength in terms of normal Xuizhe (the people Zuo Mo’s fought so far are extremely weak becuase of lack of techniques). Meanwhile, Zuo Mo is probably around the top of Jindan in terms of strength, although his techniques leave something to be desired for now since he trains so many different things.
but his brute force is something to be feared.
TYVM for the chapter!
Hahaha, I can’t wait till Mu Zi leans of Xiao Mo Ge. Surely when she sees his face she would connect it to Zuo Mo (assuming that since she was looking for him she studied his face).
Is what I thought initially, but then I remember his face exploded. I can’t remember if they had interaction after that so it’s still up in the air. But maybe another road to realization is the fact that all of Xiao Mo Ge’s followers will be the same families involved in one troop in that 1000 year battle. This will lead to suspicions about Stars in Daylight Daren and Xiao Mo Ge. And since they were already suspicious about SiD Daren possessing Zuo Mo, and Xiao Mo Ge’s strange tendencies, they will think such things.
My best attempt at long term speculation.
It is a bit of a far shot for the majority to realize it. 1) They have to be a super good historian, 2) They have to be paying great attention to Zuo Mo, and 3) They have to know what Stars in Daylight mean in terms of the daren from the war.
Somehow this chapter feels so short.
Thank you for the chapter!
Meatbun delivery~
Thank you for the chapter ( ●w●)
Earth corp? Don’t know em. Go away! Ge’s skill is for combat! not to gather dust on a muddy field. Now go on or taste the dirt under ge’s feet!
I wonder if the military yao are going to end up noticing that zuo mo is using mo stuff. I mean… they seem like the ones to have the most interaction with mo, as they interact with them in bloody sky jie in cooperative actions.
Zuo mo of course has a reasonable excuse for why he can’t show up (“If you can find me and drag me there, then I would actually thank you. Even GE doesn’t know how to get GE out of here”. He might even be able to bribe them using this ancient battlefield (it is filled with fiend energy that is great for yaomo cultivation, and the fiend soul beasts are tasty treats that both give cultivation materials with the beads and potential mo weapons with the claws; all of that seems important in a war situation).
“i am somewhere around here… “(takes out a map and circles afrika….)
Question: In yao terms what level would Zou mo’s strength be at? On that note, what yao cultivation stage was Zou mo at again???
It’s a little unclear. We don’t know enough about how the yao measure strength let alone the fact that ZM wouldn’t fit the “normal” standards of measuring strength (now or even 3,000 years ago).
was very clam -> was very calm
larger and large -> larger and larger
Welp, looks like Zuo Mo is going to start a one-man war now XD I guess the higher ups aren’t going to intervene, or if they do then they’ll help Zuo Mo later on.
Thanks for the chapter!
Thanks for the chapter!
Thanks for the chapter
a military press gang+ Zou Mo day form = ground paste
also one punch man reference.
Expecting people to be able to get to a certain location in 10 days from anywhere, is the Yao world *much* smaller then the Xiuzhe world?
Better highways
Lol its not as if they can force him to go even if they manage to capture him. He will just log out.
Other stories are all ‘look how decisive my MC is!’ but this one actually cuts past all the posturing BS when the MC is being belittled. 😛
With ErGen using One-punch-man related punsin his stories, this chapter made me think of this out of the blue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkcSu0EH-s
Oh well, more people underestimating him xD