World of Cultivation - Volume 04 - Zuo Mo’s Counterattack

by Fang Xiang

  “Mystical Earth is not yin or yang, and is the only mo physique in colonel level mo physiques that doesn’t belong to either. The biggest reason that it is ranked first is that it can develop into any brigadier physique, including the top three brigadier physiques.”

  “Great Day is yang and unyielding, filled with brutal power. It is the best for developing any kind of yang and unyielding mo physique in the future. Demonic Fiend Sea is yin and deceptive, and the best for transformations.”

  “I have the Great Day mo physique?” Zuo Mo seemed to understand.

  “Right.” Pu Yao explained, “During the fight with Clear Sky Old Forefather, you coincidentally activated the big formation. The big formation processed your body, the essence of Golden Crow, hard lightning, and earth fire. All of those are yang and unyielding substances. Under these coincidental conditions, it allowed you to develop the Great Day mo physique.”

  When he spoke to there, Pu Yao rolled his eyes. “It’s just you. If this was another other mo that cultivated to Great Day mo physique, he would already have gone to find a jindan to feed on. Afraid of a jindan? Humph!”

  “Feed?”

  “What is strange about that? The inner core of yaomo are treasures to xiuzhe, the jindan of a xiuzhe is also great food for yaomo!” Pu Yao’s vividly red tongue unconsciously licked his lips. “You could try. That taste is delicious.”

  Zuo Mo shook, and then swore, “Pu Yao, you pervert!”

  Pu Yao was not affected. “It’s you who is too ignorant. It’s very normal for xiuzhe to use yaomo to forge and in dan-making. But you say we’re perverts for eating golden cores?”

  Zuo Mo was speechless.

  He decided to not linger on this question. “What benefits are there to this Great Day mo physique?”

  Pu Yao became excited. “There are many benefits. Otherwise, how can it match to a jindan xiuzhe? The first is in cultivating mo skills. You practiced [Sky Wave Fist Scripture] before, so you must know the crux to fully using the power of this fist scripture is how strong your body is. Mo skills are even more extreme on this point. In the future, you will discover than any mo skill in the end it is to cultivate the body. Great Day mo physique is innately strong and powerful. It is easier to cultivate those domineering mo skills.”

  “Mo skills again, you don’t have mo skills, what are you excited for?” Zuo Mo responded neutrally.

  Pu Yao almost choked. He decided to ignore Zuo Mo, and continued, “Mo physiques from colonel and up have many wondrous abilities. Yaomo are not skilled in forging, and really cannot stack up to xiuzhe on talismans. What do we do to compete then? One method is a soul-tethered talisman, but they are different from the soul-tethered talisman of xiuzhe. The yaomo’s soul-tethered talisman is a part of their body, like a claw, tooth, or the skin they shed, formed after being forged constantly. The other method is the transformation of the mo physique.”

  “Of the colonel mo physiques, each type of mo physique has its own transformations, but there are never more than six transformations. The reason that Mystical Earth, Great Day, and Demonic Fiend Sea can rank in the top three is because all of them possess six transformations.”

  Zuo Mo’s eyes lit up upon hearing this, “What are transformations?”

  “Similar to the abhinna of dhyana xiu. Didn’t you get Ling Eyes activated? The transformations of a mo physique are techniques that can use the abilities of the mo physique to the greatest degree.”

  “You understand the six transformations?” Zuo Mo looked at Pu Yao with suspicion.

  Pu Yao said calmly, “No.”

  “I just knew. What Sky Yao, you don’t understand anything … …” Zuo Mo muttered to himself.

  A vein throbbed in Pu Yao’s forehead but he suppressed himself. “I might not understand, but someone does.”

  “Who?” Zuo Mo was very curious now.

  “That guy,” Pu Yao said as he pointed at the gravestone.

  “The gravestone?” Zuo Mo stilled.

  “Right.” Smugness imperceptibly flashed across Pu Yao’s eyes. “You only need to agree to a little request from him, and he will teach you the six transformations of the Great Day mo physique, and also pass mo skills on to you.”

  “Little request?” Zuo Mo instinctively detected danger. He suddenly remembered the ancient voice that sounded when Pu Yao had entered his body.

  That damned “To abide by my ceremony, to execute my desires, to give my oath, will thou?” that had tormented him.

  The more he thought, the more his anger burned. In the past when ge had been tender, you felt ge was easy to bully, and shit and peed on ge’s head, ge couldn’t defeat you, so ge tolerated it! Now you want to trick ge! No one could tolerate this!

  He sprinted in front of the gravestone, and his foot heavily kicked the gravestone!

  “Idiot! You ran into ge’s sea of consciousness! Didn’t give one piece of jingshi in rent! Now you scheme against ge! Do you want to live?”

  Bang bang bang!

  Bang bang bang!

  As Zuo Mo swore loudly, his foot kicked the gravestone rapidly so much the gravestone wobbled.

  Seeing Zuo Mo turn berserk, his eyes bloodshot, Pu Yao was dumbstruck where he stood!

  He … … he dared to kick “him” … …

  Heavens … …

  After a long time, Pu Yao finally recovered. When he saw the gravestone that had almost been kicked over, his face instantly turned pale.

  “You … …”

  Just as he opened and said one word, he saw Zuo Mo stop and turned around. On the dark and vicious face was a pair of bloody and murderous eyes.

  Pu Yao swallowed. He felt he was being targeted by a wild beast. If he took a wrong step, Zuo Mo would instantly leap over. His throat felt tight. When his words reached his mouth, they became, “Let’s talk peacefully … … let’s talk peacefully… …”

  Zuo Mo turned around his pot-black face, and lifted his foot again.

  Bang bang bang!

  After kicking viciously for dozens of times, he finally stopped. Before he left, he did not forget to leave words behind. “Idiot, let ge tell you! You dare to scheme against ge, ge will kill you!”

  As he finished, he was finally content and left.

  Pu Yao looked dumbstruck at the gravestone. The black surface of the gravestone was covered in footprints.

  After a long moment, Pu Yao suddenly exploded in laughter so hard he fell down.

  “Hahahaha! This is the person you picked? He has such a personality! Really has a personality! Even more of a personality than you in the past! Haha! How do you feel? It must be great! Haha, I hadn’t thought there would be a day when you get kicked by other people? This is so interesting! Hahahaha! I like this guy!”

  In the sea of consciousness, Pu Yao’s roaring laughter echoed.

  ———

  When Zuo Mo left the sea of consciousness, his anger had not been completely vented. What Great Day mo physique, ge doesn’t care!

  Don’t think that if you had stuff like mo skills that you can get good things out of ge!

  Ge doesn’t lack spells!

  Zuo Mo took out a large bunch of jade scrolls from the ring, and arranged them in a row.

  These jade scrolls had been collected over time while he was in Little Mountain Jie, and were all spells that were unique. The great majority were good fourth-grade spells. Among them, there were also two fifth-grade spells. For him, at present, this was enough to use.

  As to the golden core, it can go to hell!

  Zuo Mo suddenly had a deep understanding of a rule. Self-reliance was the true path! Back at Wu Kong Mountain, he was able to break through to the fourth level of the[Little Art of Cloud and Rain] by relying on the lowest grade jade scroll. Right now, he had this many jade scrolls and their grades were not low. There was no reason that he would deteriorate over time.

  Deeply stimulated by Pu Yao and the gravestone, Zuo Mo completely sank into a frenzy.

  Wasn’t it just spe
lls? Wasn’t it just skills? You think if you hold onto the spells, you hold ge’s throat?

  If the tiger doesn’t roar, you mistake it for a sick cat?

  Ge will let you see why you Sky Yao and old antiques have declined to the point that you couldn’t pay the rent, and had to take out the yin beads but couldn’t sell them!

  While ge could hold a place in the outer sect of Wu Kong Sword Sect with just the [Little Art of Cloud and Rain], everyone calling out Little Mo ge, and the jingshi was rolling in!

  * * *

  Translator Ramblings: World of Cultivation has fanart here by Ars. I love the crane feathers fan Gongsun Cha has, reminds me of Zhuge Liang.

  Pu Yao is like a child in this chapter. Gimme my candy, I want my candy, I WANT my CANDY! Zuo Mo’s upgrade is explained and he (finally!) discovers the difference between Pu Yao and the gravestone. Bit of a lighter chapter and more Pu Yao-Zuo Mo interactions so hopefully people are satisfied. Also, look, no lil’ cliffy!

  I researched and it turns out people pronounce “a” differently in English depending on geography and other influences. So the “a” in “A Gui” seems like “ah” to me because that’s how I usually say my “a.” Some of you might pronounce “a” like “ai” or “eh” so please keep that in mind.

  Should I stick the ramblings of the past chapters back into the edited chapters. I thought they were distracting between chapters so I left them out. Do they alleviate the off-putting horror that Pu Yao might seem to be?

  Chapter 305: Entrance to the Jie River

  Of more than one hundred jade scrolls, seven-tenths were sword scriptures. This made Zuo Mo feel very helpless.

  Even though he had once cultivated sword essence at Wu Kong Mountains which had attracted the eye of the sect leader and the others, but that was relying the abilities of Pu Yao to forcibly make gains. His innate talent of practicing the sword was lacking, and he was more skilled with five element spells.

  So when he saw that seventy percent of the sword scriptures, he really had a headache. However, he had put the words out. If he didn’t do something, wouldn’t Pu Yao laugh at him?

  He was determined to get the two old codgers to see something new. Zuo Mo resolved himself. Wasn’t it just sword scriptures?

  He lined up the jade scrolls, and read through each one patiently. However, he did not read deeply, but scanned through all of them first.

  It took him nearly two days to finish reading more than one hundred jade scrolls. His head was dizzy and his vision was blurry when he finished, but he felt he had learned a lot. Right now, his cultivation was limited, but of the xiuzhe of the same age, there were only a rare few as knowledgeable as he was.

  The spiritual cultivation arts of yao, the body cultivating mo skills of mo, and even though he hadn’t seen many high level spells of xiuzhe, but in terms of numbers, it was still very astounding. There were rarely people who would do as he did, and like to read all kinds of spells whether or not he would practice them or not.

  The best benefit of having a vast knowledge was that he could examine these spells from a higher level.

  Even though Zuo Mo could not cultivate these spells to a deep level, but that did not stop him from finding the main concepts. Of course, understanding was just understanding. Casting these spells required more than just understanding.

  The spells were of a great variety. It clearly was not realistic to cultivate them one by one.

  And Pu Yao would completely dismiss these spells. He needed to think of a way to shock this guy!

  Zuo Mo thought for a long time. His face suddenly lit up — — he got it!

  ———

  “Is Boss okay?” Xie Shan had a slightly worried expression.

  Boss’ state was not normal! Anyone that had eyes was able to see this.

  Boss had been in this state for a few days. Without eating and drinking, he sat on the deck as though he had gone insane, occasionally mutter something. In comparison, A Gui that sat silently beside him seemed more like a normal person.

  “Probably,” Ma Fan said uncertainly.

  Yesterday, Boss had suddenly cast an unknown spell. The result was the air in the surroundings had suddenly turned chaotic. They had almost been caught in it. After that, everyone stayed far away from Boss. Only A Gui sat silently beside him.

  “Haha, you think that it is easy to make a new spell?” Pu Yao fanned the flames from the side.

  Zuo Mo ignored him.

  Time passed extremely quickly. Without realizing it, a month had passed.

  Zuo Mo still forgot to rest and eat, but he still had nothing to show for his efforts.

  ———

  The jie river entrance of Sky Water Jie was extremely wide. This place was controlled together by eight different entities. Hundred Flower Alliance was one of them. Hundred Flower Alliance entered the path through the flower, its entire sect was composed of female xiu. The sect leader, Su Yue, was extremely adept, and Hundred Flower Alliance prospered in her hands.

  Those that could have a share of the jie river entrance were all sects with great power. It could be imagined how powerful Hundred Flower Alliance was.

  Hundred Flower Alliance had a branch at this place with its own camp. More than five hundred people were present. The leader was a jindan elder called Gao Jian Ting. It was possible to see how much importance Hundred Flower Alliance put on the camp.

  Gao Jian Ting was as beautiful as a flower, her [Begonia Sword Scripture] was at the level of Sword Essence Manifestation. When she attacked, it was a beautiful scene of begonias flying in the sky.

  “The slave transporting boats that went to Little Mountain Jie last time still haven’t come back? Is there any other news?” Gao Jian Ting’s brow was creased.

  “Shishu, no news has come back,” a female disciple hurriedly responded.

  Gao Jian Ting murmured to herself, “Did something happen?”

  Just at this time, a female disciple suddenly ran in with panic. “Shishu, Shihu! Please come out and see this!”

  Gao Jian Ting’s expression changed, and her figure disappeared.

  In the air, Gao Jian Tiang looked at the vast army in front of her, and inhaled sharply.

  The sky above the jie river was completely filled with xiuzhe without any visible end.

  “Shishu, that’s our slave transporting boats!” a female disciple cried out.

  Gao Jian Ting’s pupils suddenly shrank. That was right, the five big ships at the very center of this large army were the slave transporting boats of Hundred Flower Alliance! The other didn’t even change the Hundred Flower Alliance markings on the slave transporting boats.

  She was confident that something had happened in Little Mountain Jie!

  This large procession disturbed all the factions. Sword lights flashed, and large amounts of xiuzhe flew into the sky. However, when they saw such a large number of xiuzhe, they were dumbstruck where they stood.

  “Heavens! What is going on?”

  The five colossal slave transporting boats slowly flew with a shocking presence like moons buoyed by the stars.

  Gao Jian Ting’s expression changed. She controlled herself and did not move rashly. Since the other had gotten to this place, Clear Sky Old Forefather had most likely been killed. They were both jindan, and Gao Jian Ting knew her own strength was far below Clear Sky Old Forefather.

  Even more, the troop that was swimming around the slave transporting boats looked extremely strong from a glance.

  She was not only one. Every person’s gaze was attracted by Vermillion Bird Camp. This troop of no more than eight hundred people gave them a strong feeling of danger.

  Elite!

  Only an elite force that gone through many battles would possess such a dangerous aura.

  The Little Mountain Jie xiuzhe that had just arrived were exhausted but all of them were excited.

  They had finally escaped Little Mountain Jie!

  However, when they noticed the xiuzhe from Sky Water Jie look
ing warily at them, they instantly quieted down. These fortunate xiuzhe that had survived had all gone through blood and fire. Their sensitivity to danger was far higher than Sky Water Jie xiuzhe.

  They unconsciously retreated towards the five slave transporting boats. Even more of them took out their talismans.

  Silence, an abnormal silence!

  The situation instantly became tense. The expressions of the Sky Water Jie xiuzhe changed. They felt as though there was an invisible cord tightening slowly.

  Gao Jian Ting’s expression also changed as well. The other side had much higher numbers than they did. If a conflict occurred, this place would flow with blood.

  Their gazes all turned to the five slave transporting boats.

  At this time, many people noticed the Hundred Flower Pavilion marks on the slave transporting boats and looked at Gao Jian Ting with strange looks. However, when they saw the contorted grimace on Gao Jian Ting’s face, they instantly understood.

  They all knew what Hundred Flower Pavilion had done in Little Mountain Jie. Looking at it now, Hundred Flower Pavilion probably had not gotten any benefits.

  However, they were more curious about the five slave transporting boats. From the movements of the xiuzhe, it was possible to see the leader of this group of people were on the five boats.

  Gongsun Cha looked at Zuo Mo. Shu Long looked at Zuo Mo. They were waiting for Zuo Mo’s order.

  The xiuzhe in the surroundings all turned to look at Zuo Mo, waiting for the order from the master of Golden Crow City.

  When people encountered danger, they were used to looking towards people who could resolve the problem and bring them victory. Zuo Mo was this kind of person in their hearts.

  Gao Jian Ting and the others also noticed the change in people’s gazes, and unconsciously looked towards the youth sitting on the deck of the slave transporting boat at the very front.

  The enormous jie river entrance was silent.

  ———

  At the center of everyone’s attention, Zuo Mo didn’t feel anything at all. He was arguing furiously with Pu Yao.

  “This is what you thought of? Ha, nonsense!” Pu Yao said scornfully, “I thought you had some ability, but after working for a month, you just have something this far-fetched?”