Chapter Two Hundred and Twelve Ge Is Pragmatic (2/2)

“What is Star Source?” This question had always been buried in Zuo Mo’s mind. Seeing that Pu Yao seemed to have intentions of explaining today, he played along and asked.

“Star Source is the origin of the spiritual power,” Pu Yao slowly said. “You can also think of them as the crystals formed from ling power. Don’t you xiuzhe like to talk about how many jing of ling power?”

“Ten star spiritual power?” Zuo Mo asked in response.

“Or you can see them as the springs that birth spiritual power. Ten stars mean that you have ten springs that can produce spiritual power.”

“One time, I saw that these stars could spray out silver star dust. What is that?” Zuo Mo couldn’t help but ask in curiosity.

“What did you say?” Pu Yao suddenly opened his bloody pupil, his spine straightening, changing from his lazy attitude.

Zuo Mo feel slightly terrified under Pu Yao’s bloody gaze. Inside, he wondered if the other had started to go crazy again.

“Is something wrong?” Zuo Mo weakly asked.

After a beat, he saw Pu Yao say dazedly, “The second consciousness … …”

He forcefully shook his head as he refocused. He looked deeply at Zuo Mo. “The stardust that you saw is a purer form of spiritual power. We usually call it spirit dust. These ten stars, bright and dull are different. The brightest star can produce the most star spirit dust, the speed that it produces spiritual power is the fastest.”

Zuo Mo didn’t really understand. Pu Yao didn’t attend to him, and kept on talking.

“What yao cultivate are the laws of the world. All objects in the world all contain the laws of the world, all objects in the world can cultivate their spirit. Stars are just one of them. The path of the stars is profound and cryptic. There are very few yao that walk the path of star spirit cultivation.”

Hearing this, Zuo Mo suddenly had a slightly bad premonition. “What spirit cultivation are you?”

“What I chose is Sky Fire Spirit Cultivation.” Pu Yao smiled, his teeth showing.

Zuo Mo interjected, “Then why am I star spiritual cultivation?”

“Because what you cultivate is [Embryonic Breathing Spiritual Cultivation],” Pu Yao snickered. “I hadn’t thought that this [Embryonic Breathing Spiritual Cultivation] is actually a star spirit cultivation. I was fooled by the name.” He muttered in a small voice, “I had expected it was trash, hadn’t thought that it was actually high level, such a loss … …”

An fire suddenly shot up from Zuo Mo’s heart. He was enraged, pointing at Pu Yao’s nose as he swore. “You trash, you gave something you hadn’t tested for ye to cultivate! You actually wanted to use trash to con ye, ye isn’t finished with you … …”

“Don’t be like this!” Pu Yao wasn’t angry, and said, chuckling, “In any case, you didn’t lose. Look, you even managed to cultivate to ten stars. In two years, you’ve gotten to manifestation. This speed is very fast!”

“You you you … …” Zuo Mo pointed, hearing Pu Yao’s heartless words became so angry his finger trembled.

“Do you want to know how to cultivate next?” Seeing the situation, Pu Yao crisply turned to temptation.

“Yes,” Zuo Mo did not hesitate in answering, all his anger flying away.

Pu Yao was not shocked in the slightest by Zuo Mo’s one hundred and eighty degree turn in attitude. This guy was very pragmatic.

“That’s right.” Pu Yao smiled. “I can tell you, and I can give you even more help. But I have a small request.”

“Say it!” Zuo Mo was very familiar with Pu Yao’s conduct as well.

“I want the golden core of the jindan of Clear Sky Sect.”

Zuo Mo was dumbstruck. When he managed to respond, he instantly jumped up. “Are you crazy? Jindan! Go get it yourself if you want it! Run to a little ningmai like myself to say you want the golden core of a jindan, humph humph, the other can turn me to dust with one slap.”

Finishing, he turned and left, waving his hand. “If you want to play, play by yourself, ge won’t play with you.”

Pu Yao’s expression was calm, and not angry, “Add a fifth-grade sword scripture.”

Zuo Mo pretended not to hear, and continued to walk forward.

“Add a fifth-grade movement method.”

Zuo Mo was not moved at all, his steps not changing.

“I’ll make seven more golden armor guards for you.”

Zuo Mo decided to ignore him.

“And another move of [Little Thousand Leaf Hands].”

Zuo Mo instantly stopped his body, and turned to walk towards Pu Yao.

“What to do?”

Translator Ramblings: Pu Yao reflects on Gongsun Cha and Zuo Mo. Chun Yu Cheng is not included since he hasn’t shown much yet and that isn’t Pu’s area of specialty. But Pu Yao is also selectively blind about his own role in Gongsun Cha’s development even as he acknowledges influencing Zuo Mo’s development. “Wild” battle generals had to accumulate knowledge and experience through fighting which eliminates all but the most talented so they can out-compete those that were trained by sects and did not have to fight so hard. Gongsun Cha is getting abused daily by a wise and experienced yao battle general. That is a lot of experience that most people won’t get on a very high level. It’s akin to getting a chess grandmaster to play with all his power daily against a child. Zuo Mo’s support using jinzhi is enough at this point to force compliance from the ranks which means that Gongsun Cha’s learning environment right now is better than any sect since he has motivation through his desire to survive this place.

Pu Yao and Zuo Mo also know each other very well now. Zuo Mo is getting better at negotiating with Pu.