World of Cultivation - Volume 05 - Charge Out of the Ancient Battlefield

by Fang Xiang

  He had put in all the power that he could use from his body, but he still was not a match for the Great Day Banded Flame … …

  Zuo Mo’s mind moved quickly.

  How could he get his power to become stronger?

  A bolt of lightning suddenly flashed through Zuo Mo’s mind. A daring yet matter-of-fact idea floated up in his mind.

  His three types of powers were fighting for themselves, and were not a match for the Great Day Banded Flame. What about merging them together?

  Would it become more powerful?

  It was like the gate had opened. Inspiration bursted out!

  Zuo Mo thought about how he had tried to use fire yao arts to forge because he could not use the Great Day Banded Flame. Even though he had not succeeded, but he had found a discernable path that could connected fire yao arts, consciousness, ling power, and fire control!

  This idea was just a vague and general one. He had prepared to settle down before studying it.

  But at this time while he was slowly drowning against the waves of power, Zuo Mo seemed to find a lifesaving piece of driftwood. Without care to anything else he grabbed on, and he started to experiment.

  He did not have the time to hesitate!

  He withdrew hiis ling power from the five element glass bead. At this time, there was only half of his ling power remaining. His consciousness quickly wrapped around the ling power. Zuo Mo could feel every detail of the ling power.

  The connection between ling power and consciousness was very tricky. The ling power inside a xiuzhe’s body was what the xiuzhe obtained after absorbing it from the outside and then processing it into even purer ling power. Yao arts, that was the consciousness controlling all kinds of primary energies of the outside word. Yao arts were like using a lever to move all kinds of ling power in the natural world.

  When Zuo Mo’s consciousness wrapped onto the ling power, a wondrous feeling occurred.

  Among the xiuzhe, Zuo Mo’s consciousness was pretty big, and among the yao, Zuo Mo’s ling power was also very powerful.

  When the two entwined together, a strange change occurred.

  The consciousness was able to control the ling power roaming in the outside world, and his ling power was even purer and abundant than the ling power on the outside!

  But … …

  The strange feeling stimulated Zuo Mo but he couldn’t help but furrow his brow. He seemed to feel that something was lacking.

  Mo physique!

  That was right, mo physique!

  He understood that he finally found the key to the crucial problem! He forcibly suppressed the joy and excitement inside. An idea he never had before rapidly took shape in his mind!

  Chapter 420: Very Normal

  Once this crazy idea was formed, it securely took over Zuo Mo’s entire mind.

  All stray thoughts were thrown to the side. Truthfully, at such a dangerous moment, finding a plausible idea was enough for him to gamble everything. There was just no other choice!

  The five element glass bead was in great danger and could be swallowed by the Great Day Banded Flame at any moment. The five element glass bead was his last defense. If it was swallowed by the Great Day Banded Flame, the crazy Great Day Banded Flame would instantly consume him.

  Zuo Mo’s eyes suddenly turned entirely red.

  He gathered all the remaining power he had in his body and used all of the six transformations of the Great Day mo physique at the same time!

  The Great Day Banded Flame was freed from its restraints and exploded to cover his entire body. The golden flame were clearly divided in concentric circles but flickered at the same rhythm. It was enchanting and appeared like golden rainbows.

  But Zuo Mo was not in the mood to admire the beauty of the Great Day Banded Flame. His power was quickly being expended.

  The consciousness and ling power that were mixed together suddenly separated into many portions and rained upon every corner of his body. Like raindrops, they quickly permeated into Zuo Mo’s flesh and blood.

  Boom!

  Zuo Mo felt as though something inside his body had suddenly exploded. His mind was completely blank!

  At the same time, the Great Day Banded Flame that shrouded Zuo Mo strangely stopped moving. The five element glass bead also stopped spinning. At this moment, all movement inside Zuo Mo’s body stopped. Time seemed to stopped.

  Pah!

  A light explosion broke this strange calmness. His left foot exploded without warning, yet the blood seemed to be constrained by an invisible force transforming the spray into rice-sized beads of blood.

  Pah pah pah!

  A string of explosions. Many parts of Zuo Mo’s body continuously exploded. The string of blood beads extended up Zuo Mo’s legs and spread upwards.

  Channels, joints, organs … …

  Pah pah pah pah …. …

  Zuo Mo’s spine popped like popcorn. His body shook fiercely but the Great Day Banded Flame seemed to be frozen and remained motionless.

  When the last bead of the thirty six blood beads appeared at the center of Zuo Mo’s brows, his body quieted down again.

  There was no expression of joy or grief on Zuo Mo’s face, just indifference.

  Hiss!

  The ferocious Great Day Banded Flame was quickly absorbed into the body. Once it entered the body, it was divided into thirty six flows that spread into the thirty six beads of blood.

  The dark-red beads of blood seemed to be dyed with a layer of gold.

  The six changes of the Great Day mo physique collapsed like an avalanche. The ling armor and talismans he wore on his body turned to dust. The only thing left on his body was the ring on his hand.

  Inside the sandstorm, Zuo Mo was like a person that never cultivated before. There was no energy on his body. The only thing that caused fear was his eyes, that pair of indifferent and cold eyes.

  The sandstorm was powerful but it was not able to go near one zhang around him.

  The space of one zhang radius around him was deathly silent.

  The strange corpse stared at Zuo Mo as though there was something on his face. That pair of grey eyes showed a rare thoughtful expression.

  ———

  When Zuo Mo regained consciousness, an unknown amount of time later,, he saw was many concerned gazes.

  “Why are you all looking at me?” Zuo Mo reflexively said. He suddenly felt that his body was cold. He looked down and he instantly blushed. With rapid speed, he took out a piece of clothing from the ring and covered his body with it.

  What was the situation?

  His brain was dazed. What happened? He suddenly recalled his memories; his expression changed. Sandstorm! Right! He had just been in the sandstorm!

  Hadn’t he encountered trouble?

  What was this?

  Zuo Mo’s expression changed slightly as he hurriedly inspected his body.

  The inside of his body was empty. It didn’t seem any different than usual, but when Zuo Mo tried to channel ling power, his expression couldn’t help but change!

  Why was it like this?

  His ling power, consciousness, and body had merged into one!

  This … … this!

  His ling power in the past was like the water that flowed in a stream and was easy to manipulate. But his ling power seemed to be a layer of oil on his flesh and blood. It was very viscous and flowed extremely slowly.

  His spiritual power which had been like a mist before was now an enormous web that passed through his entire body. Countless branches spread into every piece of flesh.

  The strangest was his body!

  The peerlessly tyrannical Great Day Banded Flame did not float in the dantain like before but permeated into his flesh and blood. This caused his flesh and blood to have a golden sheen.

  What … … what was this?

  Zuo Mo was stunned!

  “Shidi, are you alright?” Wei Sheng saw Zuo Mo’s shocked expression and hurriedly asked. All of them had benefited from this sa
ndstorm, but Zuo Mo had seemed slightly off. Everyone had been very worried.

  Zuo Mo refocused. Seeing the worry on all the faces, he forced a smile and said, “Nothing, nothing!”

  Hearing Zuo Mo say he was alright, everyone released a breath.

  The crowd left. Zuo Mo suddenly saw the strange corpse out of the corner of his eyes. His mind shifted and he ran toward the strange corpse.

  His feet seemed to be exerting the same force as usual but the scene in front of him blurred!

  He had jumped forward. Before he understood what happened, he seemed to hit something with a bang, and his field of vision turned black.

  Zuo Mo was dumbstruck!

  Fine sand spilled into his mouth. He finally reacted as knew where he was!

  He was inside a sand dune!

  Without needing to use his consciousness, he was able to detect everyone in the surrounding. He really was in the sand! He had fallen headfirst into the sand!

  What was going on?

  He did not understand. His hand unconsciously moved to push himself out of the sand. Before his hands could even exert force, his body rocketed multiple zhang high into the air.

  Midair, Zuo Mo allowed the Golden Crystal sand to fall from his body with a blank expression.

  Who could tell him what was going on?

  Face bewildered, Zuo Mo dropped like a rock. When he was about ten zhang from the ground, he still didn’t know what had happened but he knew it was definitely because of a change in his body.

  He was thinking about it when he reached the ground.

  When this thought appeared, Zuo Mo’s vision blurred again. When he could see clearly, he was already on the ground!

  This was freaky!

  Zuo Mo shook!

  ———

  “Daren has gained greatly this time!” Xie Shan’s face was upraised and admiring.

  “Daren is an outstanding genius!” Zong Ru’s hands were together, his expression pious. “I was not able to see Daren’s figure clearly just now! It is terrifying!”

  “I didn’t neither!” Xie Shan felt great empathy. He turned and asked Wei Sheng. “Teacher Wei, did you see him clearly?”

  Wei Sheng shook his head. He didn’t speak. Thinking back to Zuo Mo’s movements, a thread of shock flashed through his mind! In his field of view right now, there had only been a faint shadow!

  That wasn’t possible!

  Wei Sheng almost let out a sound of surprised. It had to be said that he did not locate others just by relying on his eyes, but instead used his sword essence! In his knowledge, nothing was faster than sword essence!

  But just now … … his sword essence could not keep up with Shidi’s speed!

  What did that mean? He was left in a cold sweat! If sword essence could not keep up with the other’s speed, that meant he would be unable to lock onto the other. If the target could not be located, then the attack would be ineffective!

  What happened to Shidi? What had happened?

  ———

  Zuo Mo bent his back as he carefully raised his foot, and then carefully put down his foot as though the sand under his feet were fragile treasures.

  The gazes of everyone in the surroundings became strange. Daren looked like a duck walking with a limp foot!

  Zuo Mo did not notice the gazes of other people. All of his attention was on his feet. He was so focused it was like he was embroidering.

  While alternating between shallow and a deep steps, he walked in front of the strange corpse. Zuo Mo finally released a breath.

  “What happened to me?” Zuo Mo asked baldly.

  You fooled all of them, and pulled ye down as well. Now it was like this, you have to give an explanation!

  The strange corpse tilted his head, “What do you mean what happened?”

  Zuo Mo glared. “My body! What is going on with my body?”

  The strange corpse swept him up and down. He said, “Your body is very normal.”

  Zuo Mo almost spat blood. Normal? This was called normal? Then what was ye’s body in the past? Abnormal?

  Looking at the strange corpse, Zuo Mo couldn’t help but sigh inside. He really was an idiot to put his hopes on an antique from tens of thousands of years ago! A few ten thousand years ago, it was enough for his brain to go wrong a few cycles!

  But Zuo Mo thought about how he had two other antiques in his body. The antiques of a few thousand years ago should be more normal than one from tens of thousands of years ago!

  He suddenly remembered that when he was burning up, he was unable to call Pu Yao. Thinking to there, his heart jumped. He hurriedly called for Pu Yao inside his sea of consciousness.

  When Zuo Mo saw the terrible expression on Pu Yao’s face, he felt it was unspeakably close.

  But Pu Yao’s next words instantly caused him to not be in the mood to be emotional.

  “I know what you want to ask.” Pu Yao’s expression was grave. “The change inside your body is a rare one. It is the first time I’ve seen it. Consciousness, ling power, and flesh and blood can exist together, but I’ve never seen this kind of mixture.”

  Zuo Mo’s heart instantly cooled.

  Wei’s expression was also grave. “I’m very sorry. It is the first time I have seen this.”

  Zuo Mo’s face was ashen.

  However, Wei was an antique a bit older than Pu Yao. He hesitated and then said, “I suspect that your present state is somewhat similar to the ancient cultivators.”

  Pu Yao stilled and then had an expression of realization. “Yes! Your state, isn’t this the state of ancient cultivators? Ancient cultivators didn’t have divisions of ling power, spiritual power, and mo physique!”

  Ancient … …

  Even though Wei and Pu Yao were only guessing, Zuo Mo instinctively thought about what the strange corpse had just said, and his face paled!

  An old antique a few tens of thousands of years old said he was very normal … …

  That meant—in the eyes of the strange corpse, Zuo Mo was like him!

  * * *

  Translator Ramblings:

  Zuo Mo: Pu Yao, Wei, you two antiques, false advertising! How can you be so ignorant! You’re a sky yao! And a suit of armor! I want my jingshi back, I want damages, I want to sue you!!!

  Chapter 421: An Insane Idea

  Zuo Mo didn’t know how to describe his mood at this moment.

  It really was … … really was … …

  It wasn’t sad, but there wasn’t much joy. Zuo Mo quickly sorted out his mood. Since it had happened, no amount of thinking could change the reality of his situation.

  Feeling the powers in his body that had been amalgamated into one ball, he was slightly curious. Were ancient cultivators also like this? Then how did they channel these powers?

  Thinking, Zuo Mo decided to find and ask the strange corpse. That would be better than thinking aimlessly like this.

  ———

  Zuo Mo’s initial actions seemed slightly strange, but everyone’s worries had slowly lessened. Everyone’s attention quickly turned to that terrifying sandstorm. Without exception, their faces would change when they spoke of it.

  The one issue that was everyone agreed on was that the defensive abilities of the slave transporting boats was not sufficient to weather the sandstorms. It had to be said that they had only just stepped into the central part of the ancient battlefield. How many dangers were waiting up ahead for them?

  Everyone felt pessimistic about the prospect of carefree travel.

  Of the slave transporting boats, the one in the best state was The Golden Crow, the boat that the Golden Crow Camp was on. As none of members of Golden Crow Camp had offensive capabilities, they had instead put all their efforts into reinforcing their slave transporting boat. The other slave transporting boats held combat personnel. They usually invested their time on cultivation so the defenses of their slave transporting boats were very fragile in comparison.

  If the strange corpse had not acted to stabilized th
e situation, the results would be terrible to see.

  The entire Golden Crow Camp started to move. If everyone had been filled with joy before, everyone had serious expressions now. A tense mood spread.

  No one knew when the next sandstorm would come!

  The only thing worth celebrating was that there was endless materials here! Golden Crystal sand! A supply of fifth-grade Golden Crystal sand that was endless and could not be used up!

  “I have an idea,” Sun Bao suddenly said as he stared at the endless dunes.

  Ji Wei asked curiously, “What idea?” Their minds were in sync. Ji Wei knew if Sun Bao spoke now, it would not be baseless.

  Sun Bao suddenly turned around, his eyes burning, “Let’s use Golden Crystal sand to forge a slave transporting boat!”

  “Use Golden Crystal sand to forge a boat?” Ji Wei exclaimed. “Heavens! That is insane!”

  “Yes! Use Golden Crystal sand to forge a treasure ship! Use Golden Crystal sand for the entire boat!” Sun Bao was like a fanatic. He waved his arms and said loudly, “A Ji! Look at this place! It is all Golden Crystal sand! If we leave, we might never encounter a chance like this ever again!”

  Ji Wei looked at the endless dunes. His heart was moved. He was excited as well!

  Sun Bao was right. If they missed the chance in front of them, they might never encounter one like this again! No matter how much Golden Crystal sand they took with them this time, they could never be so wasteful as to use Golden Crystal sand to forge a big boat that could hold everyone!

  “But it is hard for us to even process it … …”

  Sun Bao said without hesitating, “Then we use the Crimson Fiend Cauldron! Do you remember how we forged the Crimson Fiend Cauldron last time? It’s just more work this time!”

  Seeing the two masters were excitedly shouting with red faces, more and more Golden Crow Camp members came over.

  When they understood what the two masters were saying, they were dumbstruck!

  But after a short silence, the surrounding people exploded!

  “Do it! This is such a good chance … …”

  “Oh! Heavens! I’m excited just thinking about it! A Golden Crystal sand treasure ship!”