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Chapter Four Hundred and Forty Eight – The Strong Vermillion Bird Camp
While the attention of the most prominent factions of Xu Ling City were focused on this mysterious new faction, this new faction hadn’t even stepped a foot out of Ren Cloud Island, oh, wait, supposedly the island was now called Turtle Island.
The scouts hiding in the shadows outside the island found, to their dismay, that the entirety of Turtle Island was shrouded in clouds and nothing could be seen. Only the lights that occasionally penetrated the thick cloud layer seemed to reaffirm that changes were happening inside the island.
Turtle Island was truly changing.
Zuo Mo did not spare jingshi for reinforcing the safety of the island. He acted as though he would not rest unless he really made Turtle Island worthy of its name. The lights the scouts outside Turtle Island saw were the lights produced as Zuo Mo constructed the island protecting formation.
Zuo Mo had thought that the [Yinyang Cloud Thunder Formation] was not strong enough and ran to Pu Yao to demand a new formation.
Pu Yao had all kinds of techniques and spells, all of them were spoils of victory from his war campaigns. Naturally, he did not lack protective formations. In the beginning Pu Yao wasn’t willing to hand over any formations, as he kept on brooding over the fact that Zuo Mo’s mo physique was stronger than his yao arts. Adding on that he hadn’t gotten any benefits from this guy, Pu Yao wasn’t very eager.
But this was a matter of life of death. Zuo Mo didn’t want to have someone sneak in while they were sleeping. He harassed, nagged, and grinded down Pu’s resistance, while Wei, the person who wanted the world in chaos, was pouring oil onto the fire, he managed to drag a formation from Pu Yao’s hands.
Wei started to resumed his liveliness, after having lost his motivation.
This formation was called the [Meridional Azure Aether Formation] and was a sixth-grade formation. Supposedly, it was the mountain-protecting formation of a formation sect called the Azure Formation Sect.
When Zuo Mo held the formation scroll, his drool came out. A sixth-grade formation, it was a formation he didn’t even dare to think about in the past!
When he read it in depth, he increasingly felt that this formation was deep and profound. With his skill at formations, he could only understand thirty to forty percent of the formation. He saw that, at this speed, without a year or two of study, he could not completely comprehend this formation.
But time waits for no man, and there were many eyes staring at them from the outside.
Zuo Mo, realizing this and decided to gather the Golden Crow Camp. He gave all of them a copy of the formation. He had a simple thought, since his individual power wasn’t enough, then everyone should work on this together. More people meant more strength!
It had to be said that this move was effective.
These people from Golden Crow Camp were not the same people of the past who didn’t understand anything. Zuo Mo never concealed anything about formations from them, and gave them any good formations he had to comprehend. Their study of all kinds of mo matrixes had caused their knowledge and vision to broaden and increased their understanding of formations.
They also had an accurate measure of themselves, and knew that their talents were average and were not anything spectacular. Due to this, they put more importance on communicating and cooperating with each other. Even they did not know that they had unwittingly stepped onto a new path that was different than other production xiuzhe. While it was true their individual strength was not strong, but when they worked together and were skilled at cooperative forging.
Gathering everyone’s strength to study a formation together was a familiar job for Golden Crow Camp. So when Zuo Mo handed them the problem, Golden Crow Camp under the leadership of the two masters, Sun Bao and Ji Wei, started to methodically study the [Meridional Azure Aether Formation].
This was the first time Zuo Mo attended the collective comprehension process of Golden Crow Camp.
Following a requested from Sun Bao, Zuo Mo first presented what he understood about the formation in detail. After the gathering slowly digested his lecture, the immediately string of reactions caused Zuo Mo to gape in shock.
The [Meridional Azure Aether Formation] was divided into several parts by the two masters and the members most skilled in formations. Golden Crow Camp also divided into groups to specifically target these parts.
Zuo Mo had a feeling the large formation was dismembered into pieces!
Golden Crow Camp quickly showed Zuo Mo what efficiency was. During the discussions on the second day, several problems that he did not understand were resolved by the group. Each little team reported their progress as well as the problems they encountered. The heated discussion that followed also caused a great shock for Zuo Mo.
The mood was heated, there were people slamming the tables, faces flushed, swearing and shouting, glaring angrily at each other. They almost started fighting physically.
The second day was so.
The third day was so.
The fourth day, the fifth day … …
On the fifth day, the problems of the formation were all solved!
The people of Golden Crow Camp that had just comprehended a sixth-grad formation disregarded the astounded Zuo Mo. They interestedly started to discuss how many variations there were in the [Meridional Azure Aether Formation] … …
So he had such a powerful group of people as subordinates!
Zuo Mo’s mind was dazed.
After the introduction on the first day, Zuo Mo was like an audience member. The completely deciphered [Meridional Azure Aether Formation] was recombined into a jade scroll along with twenty thousand characters of notes.
Receiving the jade scroll, Zuo Mo read the twenty thousand characters worth of notes. The profound and deep [Meridional Azure Aether Formation] was presented and straightforwardly as though it was an introductory jade scroll. In the twenty thousand character notes, it managed to explain almost every seed formation in the [Meridional Azure Aether Formation.]
Up until now, Zuo Mo had never stayed in Golden Crow Camp before. He would only come to deliver new formations, or if he needed to forge something. He had never thought that Golden Crow Camp had grown to such a level!
It was fantastical to believe!
Shocked, Zuo Mo could not understand even when he thought for a while.
While shocked and dazed, Zuo Mo had started to set up the formation. The [Meridional Azure Aether Formation] was very complicated and had complex formation scripts, but for Zuo Mo who had pretty good perception, these were not major problems.
The biggest barrier that Zuo Mo encountered were the Meridional azure aether spikes!
The meridional azure aether spikes were the most important weapons in the [Meridional Azure Aether Formation.] Almost half of the jade scroll was spent explaining how to forge meridional azure aether spikes, and the secret techniques that were used to forge them in azure aether. The best material to use were gold element materials and it had to be fourth-grade or above, the most suitable were those that were strong and sharp. When they formed, they would be dark azure and extremely powerful.
Materials were not a problem for Zuo Mo, he had a lot of Golden Crystal Sand.
The biggest problem was azure aether. He did not have azure aether. Azure aether was an unique mist of the world. It was a rare fifth-grade material, was completely azure in colour, and belonged to the water element.
Zuo Mo stared. Where could he go to get azure aether?
The main body of the formation was completed, and the only thing left was the one hundred and eight meridional azure aether spikes. When they were forged, and the meridional azure aether spikes were put into the formation, the entire formation would be completed.
Supposedly, the complete Meridional Azure Aether Formation could stop the attacks of yuanying xiuzhe, and jindan xiuzhe couldn’t break through at all.
Of course, considering that each sect liked to boast, Zuo Mo did not have that high of hopes for the [Meridional Azure Aether Formation]. He didn’t even know what yuanying xiuzhe looked like. But even taking that into account, that was enough security.
Without any azure aether, Zuo Mo could only temporarily stop the work on the formation.
Just at this time, Xie Shan suddenly ran in. “Daren, that old man Xu, from last time, is asking to meet you. He is with someone else.”
Old Man Xu? Zuo Mo recalled the scene that day. Old man Xu had been pretty courteous the entire time and hadn’t acted even at the end. After thinking, he flew into the air.
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Outside the formation, he saw Old man Xu. There was also a young and handsome male standing beside him in an azure robe.
“Mister Xu, welcome to my place, welcome! Welcome!” Zuo Mo put a smile on his face, and raised his folded hands with friendliness.
Xu Zheng Wei had been afraid the other would posture. The rock in his heart landed and a smile unconsciously came onto his face. “When this old man saw Boss Zuo that day, this man knew that Boss Zuo wasn’t ordinary. Young, talented, and handsome! Let this old man introduce to Boss Zuo, this is the young master of the Cloud Pavilion, Mister Liao Junior.”
He saw that young person raise his hands in a greeting, and say in an apologetic tone, “This one apologizes to Boss Zuo. Boss Zuo, please have great tolerance about the employees of my store who offended you.” As he spoke, his hands moved, and a jade scepter appeared. “This fifth-grade scepter is this one’s token, please, Boss Zuo, accept this.”
Zuo Mo, naturally, moved to take the jade scepter. He said, “Boss Liao is too polite. Come come, come in to sit!”
He ushered the two into the island.
When Boss Liao and Xu Zheng Wei saw the furor of activity on the island, they maintained calmness on their faces but they were shocked inside. Sword lights flashed across the island. There was most likely thousands of people and the factions outside the island were completely ignorant of this.
The two were shocked at Zuo Mo’s uncanny move. How could they know the normal-looking Black Turtle had a great belly?
Liao Qi Chang was alright, but the shock in Xu Zheng Wei was like a storm! He had come to the Ren Family Island before and had a general impression of the island’s situation. But the cloud island had now been completely transformed and he could not find any traces of the Ren Family at all.
If it had to be asked what the greatest impression this place gave him, then it was strict!
There were sword xiu patrolling by all over the sky. Of course, that wasn’t strange, but if these sword xiu passed over one’s head in organized ranks like a blade, the startling feeling in their heart wasn’t a pleasurable one to experience.
It was possible to see a black mist shrouding a camp in the distance. It was possible to feel the thick killing energy from a great ways off.
On this short walk of five li, Xu Zheng Wei’s expression kept on changing. Liao Qi Chang showed more calmness but the shock inside could be seen through the graveness in his eyes.
He could see more than Xu Zheng Wei. He was the young master of the Cloud Pavilion and seen countless treasures. There were not many that could rival his eyes. At first glance, he was deeply attracted to the Sonic Lightning Walnut tree. The Sonic Lightning Walnut was just fourth-grade but it was very rare. This Sonic Lightning Walnut tree was already mature. There were a few fruits hanging off it, and the thick power of the hard lightning was wondrous.
It was not a wonder to have Sonic Lightning Walnuts, but having the Sonic Lightning Walnut tree was a whole other matter.
What were the origins of this group?
Liao Qi Chang thought inside, he was both shocked and suspicious.
Translator Ramblings: The library of Pu Yao is once again open for business – for one millisecond.
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Thanks for the chapter!
First!!! YEy
Urrgh.. I lost. damn data.
Shouldn’t it be the STRONG GOLDEN CROW CAMP instead?
Thanks for the new chapter!
The mood was heated, there were people slamming the tables, faces flushed, swearing and shouting, glaring angrily at each other. They almost started fighting physically.
They were arguing which was the best : blonde twintails or black bob haircut.
The answer is feet, its always feet
The answer is neither. Black twintails wins, followed closely by blonde bob cut.
I`ve been waiting & this did not disappoint! Will the Cloud Pavilion, Liao Jr. young master be friend or foe? How will Zuo Mo get the aether mist? I’m kinda scared as yuanying xiuzhe was mentioned again. Looks like they will encounter one in this arc. Thank you WWYXHQC & WanderingGummiOfDoom! =D
He looks smart, so most probably become friend or neutral. Aether mist? How about the freezing cave from before? Yuanying… now that’s a serious problem, but I think it’s a bit early for that. Maybe after the whole Vermilion Bird Camp transformed into Jindan?
They have never fought a peak jindan yet so a Yuanying should still be a bit far away :p ….
Well, it seems like they will fight the peak jindan soon XD so maybe its not that far away XD
Thanks for the translation!
Pfft. yuan ying my ass. they will first meet a jindan army b4 meeting a yuanying.. in these backwater areas ,yuan ying old fags are in secluded meditation if there are any.
thanks for the chapter!
I bet 10 fifth grade jingshi that Zuo Mo will not give a physical gift back.
Looks like I’m going to earn some jingshi.
What a lively island.
where all the crazies live
Who would’ve known swearing, shouting and abuse of furniture would be so efficient in problem solving.
Thanks for the chapter.
I miss pu yao’s rambling.
Thank you for the chapter!
Zuo Mo to Meridional Azure Aether Formation:
“I’m gonna comprehended you!”
Meridional Azure Aether Formation (smirking arrogantly):
“You and what army!?”
Zuo Mo: “I and the golden Crow Camp army!”
(Meridional Azure Aether Formation pales)
wounder if they will reinvent the formation to use fire instead, or just use the turtle shield until they find the rare material.
do wounder about how ge will deal with a rival sect that wants to buy his raw materials, will he refuse, and sell items, trade against materials or will he just sell…
crow camp is op, each member is weak, but only has to understand less than 1% of a formation, and explain his part… madmen i tell you…
process
Damn it. The message got messed up. Whatever.
Thanks for the chapter!
Loving the story… Great work Golden crow camp TEAMWORK!! . I hope this book goes on and on ends the day I die.
Thanks for the chapter!
*bounce bounce bounce* I’m so happy with every chapter! I try and let a few days build up so I can read more at once, but whenever I see that a chapter has been updated I can’t help myself. Thanks for your hard work and consistent updates!
If the Junior is from the Cloud Pavilion maybe he has the Azure mist Ge needs. Either that or maybe they have some in one of their cold caves that they’re ignoring.
Is Cloud Pavilion part of the main family (can’t remember the name) that everyone was mad/confused at for not retaliating, or are they just another sect under the big family?
pretty sure they were part of that big formation sect…
Isn’t this literally a Cloud Sea Jie or whatever? Surely they have all sorts of ‘mist’ materials here! He’s going to talk to this young shop boss, find out it’s in a dangerous place in the Cloud Sea, figure out some way to gather it, and then take over supplying high-grade materials to everyone because he’s got crazy formation skills.
When word spreads, I wonder how many will be blinded by greed and just ignore all the warning signs.
I wonder how much the material he needs is going to cost him.
Is it just me, or spending all that time and effort trying to comprehend Azure Aether Formation BEFORE even checking whether they have the materials or not and BEFORE ascertaining whether they can build it or not is, like, SUPER DUMB???
I sure hope Liao Qi Chang can help with that.
Heck, he probably will.
I bet it’s gonna be a case of Zuo Mo going “oh, I wish I had some Azure Aether Mist!” and BAM, by incredible coincidence, somebody comes around who can provide it. Happens a lot lately. 😉
By the way, wyhcwe? I suspect there’s a problem with the chapter title. The Vermillion Bird guys don’t appear in this chapter at all.
nono, they appear. for like half a sentence. they are mentioned as patrolling the island. but yeah, author probably misnamed this… this is clearly the golden crow camp being awesome
Aren’t they the nice sword xiu who go around intimidating Liao Qi Chang?
eh, hasn’t gained that much in that way. name 3 things he has gained like that lately?
except the island, with fields and lakes, which i grant you is convenient since the little black turtle they just made can bring it onboard, but that sort of thing isn’t exactly rare. (ok, it’s rare but… it also exists everywhere)
the only thing that is convenient about it is him getting a good island after wishing for an island, but that is still just him occupying a piece of land by force. he has done it before, and probably will do it again once he leaves. i sincerely doubt that this will be his final decision for where he will base his sect
I think I wrote about this before… He needed a island, some bozos attack him, and, after licking them, he find the keys of a nice new island amidst the spoils. He needed ling plant farmers, and the clan who employs 70% of the farmers in the jie is about to attack him and get licked — after which all those farmers will need a new employer. Now, about the Azure Aether, I’m just speculating, but I suspect the newly introduced Liao Qi Chang will be able to provide it.
As wyhcwe said before, the standard fare for xianxia is: beat bad guys, get good things, and – coincidence – it usually is just the things you were in need of. 😉
i guess. However, WoC is way better at not doing this than most other stories. sometimes it can take a really long time before he eventually gets what they need, and most of the time, it’s more of that they have actually looked specifically for a resources for a long time before they get it than deux-ex-machina.
There is a huge difference to having your fairly large competent organisation look for something and eventually find it than just gifting it to them, after all, and i do believe that WoC tend to stay on the right side of it.
But i will grant you the island being a bit of a borderline case.
Meatbun delivery~
Thank you for the chapter ( ●w●)
*watch TV*i dun’t like this channel! change!!
*quickly search for remote* where is the remote?! Noo! the remote is gone..
*build another remote* phew~ crisis averted..
*tries the remote* huh? the channel didn’t change.. *press the remote again* huh? why did the table shrink? is it a faulty goods?
grabs remote…. hits button….
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mean while kid looks out from air plane “that looks tasty daddy”
‘He harassed, nagged, and grinded down Pu’s resistance — he managed to drag a formation from Pu Yao’s hands.’
– Zuo Mo has leveled up! His nagging level is now on the stage ‘Displeased Wife’.
Poor Pu, he has become Doraemon.
This sure made me LMAO. Hee hee. 😀
Thanks wyhcwe…this chapter crack me up…this novel(author) never stops to amazed me and wyhcwe perfectly translates the essence of it… both deserves a widespread recognition.
Aw, thank you for saying so.
My pleasure. I hope you also struck a deal with qidian or author like wuxiaworld did.
Haha, no. I’m a one-person operation so I don’t have the resources.
Hmmm….Zuo Mo should get out Lil’ Black to sneak into that Cloud Pavilion junior’s clothes to sneak away info.
Thanks! He will probably scam some azure aether from these dudes 😛 Also, I liked the old theme a lot more. The background color was much more easy on the eyes than this glaring white. Hopefully this is only temporary
I am just waiting for trouble to start again. Also is the site different or am I am imagining it?
Thanks for the chapter,
Love this whole faction building and such, but I want an update on his Yao acquaintances…
this chap just made me see our MC and his group in a new light… Salute!!
Thanks for the chapter WYHCWE and WanderingGummiOfDoom! The origins? Cast offs in a far away battlefield who banded together lol.
Can you put the next and previous button below the chapter. It getting harder to navigate in new page
interesting new site
I was overdue for a change.
Thanks for the chapter!
PuYao, pls lend Jack some of your hentai collection! Ooops Jack means your Art collection!
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Thank you for the chapter!
thanks for the hard-work!!
Haha Wei want to see the world burn….and become happy at Pu’s distress 😂😂
That old guy finally finiched assimilating.
Also, this cloud pavillion remind me of a super rich city in sky mountain jie before. It’s not the same shop, is it?
And Zuo Mo finally see the wonder of his subordinates lmao x,D. He’s fortunate all of them deeply loyal to him
Thanks for the chapter!🍀
I miss pu yao and wei, I wonder if they can have their physical bodies again