Chapter Two Hundred and One – Armed To The Teeth (2/2)
After that, he waved his sleeve. Large amounts of materials were added to the lake water, many of them ones that Zuo Mo had bought from Hong Yang. The black lake water started to bubble, like a boiling pot of porridge.
Pu yao’s right palm opened slightly, a red-black flame appeared at the center of his pal,
Hiss!
His hand did not move, but the red-black flame suddenly turned into a fire dragon and charged at the altar.
The red-black fire flamed as it surrounded the altar, the flames flickering and enchanting.
Pu Yao inhaled deeply, his hands reaching out.
His hands changed movements. His slightly closed bloody eye suddenly widened, commanding lightly, “Rise!”
The altar that was shrouded in fire rose at command and started to fly towards the black lake, only slowly landing as it reached the center of the lake. As it carried the flames that were so red they were almost black, it floated at the center of the lake.
Pu Yao’s expression was solemn, his eyes focused, not daring to slip, as his hands changed shape again.
It was like the fire was poured on oil, spreading across the surface of the black water. In a blink, the entire black water lake was shrouded in flame.
Pu Yao finally released a breath. He reached out his hand, the black water lake dramatically shrinking until it became palm sized. Then the mini lake flew into his hand, the surrounding flame silently burning.
After being forged for many more months, the Nether Pool could form!
A deep exhaustion came from his body. Pu Yao felt unspeakably tired and sighed lightly inside. The present him was so weak.
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Zuo Mo’s excitement had not faded. He had never bought so many talismans before, and so many fourth-grade talismans!
The feeling of being so rich was so good!
“Not bad, you are at ningmai.” Pu Yao suddenly appeared, He seemed slightly exhausted. “Then let’s continue with the earth energy.”
Zuo Mo felt as though a bucket of cold water was poured on his head.
Drawing out earth energy! He finally understood what was extreme grief born of extreme joy … …
It was alright though; this had benefits for him, so Zuo Mo comforted himself in this way.
Pu Yao’s actions were unusually fast. In a blink, the earth energy inside Zuo Mo’s body was cleanly swept away. Zuo Mo dropped to the ground, paralyzed, his body occasionally convulsing. Pu Yao glanced at Zuo Mo on the ground. His face showed pleasured, before he disappeared.
Zuo Mo’s mind was blank.
It was four hours later when his numb mind finally recovered.
Why, why was the feeling this time was stronger than before?
Was it a side effect of breaking through to ningmai?
Before, he had assumed that he had gradually adjusted to the pain of earth energy being forcibly drawn out, he hadn’t thought the pain would suddenly increase. Without any preparation, Zuo Mo instantly became a tragedy.
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A female stared at the large river in front of her. Behind her was a silent and solemn, well-organized troop.
“Have you found out?”
“Yes!” A middle-aged man said respectfully, “The location of Stars in Daytime is Sky Moon Jie. It was not long ago, about a year ago.”
“One year ago … …” The female sighed lightly. “I’m very curious which daren it is.”
The middle-aged man’s eyes were filled with a fanatical heat. “A daren that could escape from the Yao Forging Tower, it definitely is a daren that managed to survive the Thousand Year Great War!”
“Thousand Year Great War … … a long time ago.”
“Miss!”
“Nothing, I’m just reflecting.” The female smiled. “Our generation is very lucky.”
“Yes!” The middle-aged man couldn’t help but be excited.
“Have there been any suspicious targets?” The female asked.
“Not yet.” The middle-aged male gave a realistic plan. “We have already found the jie rivers to Sky Moon Jie. We only need to lock the jie rivers, and we will have plentiful time to slowly investigate.”
“Alright, it is a stupid method.”
“Yes! Our previous infiltrators were impeded by others, so … …”
“Nothing, stupid methods are more effective sometimes.” The female waved her hand.
“Yes.”
Glancing at the jie river, the female said, “Depart.”
“Yes!”
Translator Ramblings: So I mixed up a thread from the Novel Updates Forum with the Novel Translations subreddit. The discussion about parents was in the general category here.
Daren is the general term used to refer to officials and people of status and power. I’m going to use it a lot because “Honorable Personage,” or “Sir” are not enough to cover the meanings. Going “Greetings to panjandrum/VIP” is also quite awkward.
Zuo Mo throws around his money and has terrible sense about appearances.
Time-traveland dimensional-travel are very common plot devices. It erases a character’s mistakes, give them foresight and knowledge, and usually sets them up to win when they lost in their previous life if the character is born back in time. There is also being reborn in another person’s body. In dimensional travel, knowledge from one’s modern life becomes an aid if they are reborn in historical times, and they have a small edge if they are born in a different world. Sometimes the rebirth element is almost unnecessary except for the author to easily relate something in the modern world to the setting of the novel without having to explain or show how something works or happens. In novels where the character ends back at a certain point in their life, it is to change a major event that may be their fault. The struggles that character encounters are almost always solved through advance knowledge and the author seems to be unable to think of a plausible solution. If a character ends up in another person’s body, it becomes an opportunity for the author to compare how their characters contrast in dealing with situations. The great majority of the time, the new owner of the body does much better.