by Fang Xiang
There were only two types of people that would be sent to the front lines, one was elite troops, the other was cannon fodder.
"Ever since Eldest Shixiong disappeared from the sword cave, many groups of people from Kun Lun came to ask the sect leader about the sword cave. One time, the argument became intense and Xin Shishu almost drew his sword. After that, our sect's position started to decline in Bright Wave Jie. Other sects started to antagonize us. The disciples started to leave."
Luo Li's gaze was empty and unfocused.
"The sect leader felt very depressed but the other shishu were alright. The disciples from before the expansion did not leave since days would be the same no matter where they spent it. Later on when the nearby sects came to antagonize us, Xin Shishu beat them away. No one cared too much. Was there a place that did not have conflict? It was at this time when the chaos rifts opened and the mo battalion came."
"Kun Lun came and wanted the shishu to go to the front lines. The sect leader did not agree and said that Fourth Shigu was not strong offensively and wanted her to remain behind. Kun Lun did not agree. They surrounded the sect. Fourth Shigu eventually agreed but requested for the disciples to be kept in the rear. Kun Lun agreed."
Luo Li's expression suddenly became twisted.
"But who knew when the sect leader and others left, Kun Lun's people put jinzhi on us. They said it was to prevent us from betraying them. On the road, we were attacked by a troop of mo. The people from Kun Lun forced us to go to delay the mo, otherwise, they would activate the jinzhi killing us. We could only listen and go, and then the Kun Lun people turned and ran abandoning us. Some of us died and some were wounded, the rest were captured. As a slave, I passed through the hands of several people before this mo."
"Kun Lun!" Zuo Mo squeezed out the two words from his teeth, his eyes bloodshot. He had never thought that Kun Lun would do something this low.
"After Eldest Shixiong disappeared, Sect Leader was very distraught impacted and his hair turned white overnight. From then on, the sect leader started to talk about many things with me. Second Shixiong, Lin Qian always suspected that you were yaomo and mentioned something about Stars in Daytime. The sect leader had heard some rumors and deliberately did not search and have you come back. Sect Leader said, he had picked you up and brought you back, if you really are … … then it is this was better than handing you over to Kun Lun … …"
Hearing this, Zuo Mo's tears could not be suppressed anymore and flowed down his check. The thread of resentment that had been inside disappeared. Indescribable sorrow and regret welled up.
Luo Li was sobbing.
A moment later, Zuo Mo stopped his sorrow. He raised his head and asked, "What about the other shidi and shimei?"
"I only know that Xiao Guo and Li Shimei are still alive. They were also captured. Shidi, you have to rescue them!" Luo Li grabbed onto Zuo Mo, his grey eyes filled with begging.
Zuo Mo's heart hurt and he unhesitatingly nodded. He said resolutely, "I will definitely rescue them!"
He then asked, "Second Shixiong, do you know who bought them?"
Luo Li lowered his head and thought for a moment before saying, "It is a female mo, she seems to be called Princess Xia."
"Princess Xia … …" Zuo Mo repeated a few times fearing he would forget.
It seemed he had to go investigate who this Princess Xia was.
Zuo Mo secretly cased a resting spell on Luo Li, causing Luo Li to felt his eyelids become heavy and quickly slipped into sleep. Zuo Mo inspected the wounds inside Luo Li's body and his expression became terrible.
The channels inside Luo Li's body were shattered. It would be extremely difficult to heal such severe wounds.
"Kun Lun!"
Zuo Mo had never hated a sect so much before, never!
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Ximen Ning drank his wine and listened to the report from his subordinate.
"Boss, you have great foresight, Guard Camp really entered the Great Peace City!" The subordinate was admiring in his tone.
"Haa haa, there aren't enough people in Guard Camp. If they had some more people, they might fight Bu Heng. This group is not friendly, and their origins definitely are not simple," Ximen Ning said with a slight smile.
"A strong dragon cannot suppress the local snake. Even if they are strong, they can only eat dust," A Qing's voice came.
"Haha, A Qing is right. Their origins will quickly be found. So many mo embryos, we probably are not the only ones interested. That will be fun to see when the time comes," Ximen Ning said with a smile.
"Only when the water is cloudy can we take advantage to steal fish," A Qing inserted at the perfect time.
Ximen Ning laughed.
"When Guard Camp entered the city, they had a standoff with Lan Tian Long." The subordinate hurriedly narrated the information he had obtained.
"Lan Tian Long!" Ximen Ning's brow creased.
Ximen Ning was very familiar with Lan Tian Long and naturally knew of the other's fiery temper. Lan Tian Long had not fought? This didn't seem like Lan Tian Long's usual style.
The leader of Guard Camp definitely had some special trait. Otherwise, it was not possible to explain Lan Tian Long's course of action.
Was it strength? Or background?
Ximen Ning pondered. It would be exaggerated to say that there was individual's strength that Lan Tian Long would be wary of. He had researched. The leader of Guard Camp was a youth not yet twenty. Could such a young youth be more powerful than Lan Tian Long?
He didn't believe it!
So the only way would be background! Lan Tian Long recognized the background of this person so he purposefully retreated. Ximen Ning felt this was the most plausible. He had fought against Lan Tian Long before and knew while this person had a fiery temper, he wasn't simple-minded as people assumed.
This speculation was supported by many details. For example, the strong Guard Camp was likely be the personal guard the young man's family had sent to protect him.
Background … … what was his background?
At this time, another subordinate came in to report.
"Boss, Bu Heng has entered the city!"
Ximen Ning came out of his thoughts and laughed. "It has been very long since Great Peace City been so busy!"
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"Is there some way to heal him?" Zuo Mo looked at Pu Yao and Wei.
Pu Yao was silent, Wei did not make a sound.
Zuo Mo instantly felt disappointed. When he agreed to rescue Xiao Guo and Li Ying Feng Shijie, he had seen the desire to die in Luo Li Shixiong's eyes. Zuo Mo was clear. Under these circumstances, many people would lose the will to life. Their hearts were dead.
Zuo Mo didn't know how to persuade Luo Li. He could only use the resting spell to temporarily force the other to rest.
Suddenly, Pu Yao spoke. "Maybe there is a solution. However, it is almost the same as death."
"What solution?" Zuo Mo was like a person drowning that grabbed the life-saving reed and hurriedly asked.
Pu Yao slowly spoke, "On the battlefield in the past, I had found an incomplete spell from a xiuzhe. Read it and you will know."
Finished speaking, he threw a ball of light at Zuo Mo.
Zuo Mo took the ball. After he read it, he finally understood what Pu Yao meant that it was not much different than death.
This was a spell called [Life-Death Lock] that was incomplete. It was very extreme. Saying it was a spell was not accurate. In Zuo Mo's view, this was just a daring theory. The spell was not complex, and was actually very simple.
Enter the path through death!
In this speculative chapter, it assumed that a person's death was a process, like passing through layers of biscuits, one layer after the next. Only when one broke through the last layer was one truly dead.
The person who wrote this assumed that while the upper layers were also death, it was only a fake death. A state of fake death could easily stimulate the instincts of a person. If one was a
ble to slow down the speed at which they passed through these upper layers of death, and stimulate their potential so that their potential counterbalanced death. This required that the rate their potential increased surpassed the speed they passed through the layers of death, doing so they could totter on the edge of life and death, and completely express a person's complete potential.
After reading this, Zuo Mo had to admire the person who wrote this.
Such a strange idea. It looked so absurd, but the author was able to explain what it meant. This person had also spent great effort to ponder how to stimulate one's potential in the state of death to twist life and death.
It was just as Pu Yao had said. This was not any different than death. The entire chapter was speculative. In the end, even the author did not believe this spell would work and stopped writing.
Consequently, this spell was incomplete.
Zuo Mo also hesitated. From every angle, [Life-Death Lock] was so absurd, but the phrases in the chapter swirled in his mind. They seemed to hold a strange power. Many of the ideas gave him great inspiration.
He had a faint feeling that this [Life-Death Lock] was a wondrous spell.
At this time, Luo Li slowly woke up.
He opened his eyes. When he saw Zuo Mo, he forced a smile. His eyes were grey and empty, lifeless.
Xiuzhe were powerful, but if their heart was dead, their vitality would flow away faster than normal people. Because their heart was the base of all their power.
When Zuo Mo saw Luo Li's eyes, he knew it was not good.
"Shixiong wants to die?" Zuo Mo suddenly said.
Luo Li was surprised but he nodded and said honestly, "I am nothing now, my channels are all broken, my dantian destroyed. Even the best ling medicine cannot heal me. I'm satisfied now that I am able to see Shidi. I do not have any left to connect me to this world. With this broken body, I will drag down Shidi. I will also feel life is boring and painful. Rather than suffering through that, death is an easy matter."
Zuo Mo stared hard at Luo Li's eyes. He saw Luo Li's expression was the same from beginning to end and knew the other was resolved.
"Shixiong, do you not want revenge against Kun Lun? Do you not want to rescue Xiao Guo and Li Ying Feng Shijie?" Zuo Mo asked.
"Shidi, do not … …" Luo Li grimaced.
"I have a spell here. It is dangerous, but it may be your only hope." At this time, Zuo Mo could only hope for the best and took out a jade scroll, [Life-Death Lock].
Luo Li assumed that Zuo Mo was trying to persuade him but did not bear to reject his goodwill so he took it.
After sweeping a glance, he froze!
Translator Ramblings: About 300 chapters and it finally gets resolved! Foreshadowing for this was there but extremely hard to detect in the chapters.
Chapter 571: Mo Skill Steles
"Princess Xia?" Tao Xing was slightly shocked. "Why have you asked about Princess Xia?"
"Do you know her?" Zuo Mo instantly became alert.
"No." Tao Xing shook his head and said in self-mockery. "I might have some skill in mo embryos, but in the eyes of those truly great personages, I'm just someone that raises mo embryos. To them I'm not any different than a person who raises insects."
Zuo Mo was instantly disappointed but he still hurried to give comfort. "You are still very powerful."
At the side, Tang Fei's expression became strange. It was the first time she had heard someone comfort another person like this. Didn't he know that City Master was just being humble?
Tao Xing laughed and then warned, "Do not provoke Princess Xia. You were very rash today in provoking Lan Tian Long. However, Princess Xia's background is deeper than Lan Tian Long's. Look at how arrogant Lan Tian Long was at the city gates today. If Princess Xia was present, he would be docile."
"Who is Princess Xia?" Zuo Mo was confused, his face puzzled.
"Princess Xia comes from the ancient Anwei family and is much older than the Lan Family. The Anwei Family is one of the oldest families in Hundred Savage Realm. They have the most noble bloodline called the Anwei Bloodline. In history, they have produced sixteen marshal levels. You can imagine the glory of this family."
Tang Fei had a desirous expression. Sixteen marshals, such a powerful existence.
Tao Xing could not stop himself from warning again. "You have to be careful and not offend Princess Xia. The Anwei Family is an enormous entity that is truly at the top of the food chain. Right now, the leader of Anwei Family, Anwei Ming, is a mo marshal. They rule over seventy four mo jie!"
Hearing this, Zuo Mo was also frightened. One mo marshal ruling seventy four mo jie. A powerful family like this was really scary.
However, when he thought of Xiao Guo and Li Ying Feng, Zuo Mo threw all the fear to the back of his head.
"Where is Princess Xia now?" Zuo Mo asked.
"I do not know this." Tao Xing spread his hands. He felt more and more admiration towards Zuo Mo. In his view, even though the other was too direct in his conduct, he was a very good young person.
"Anwei Family … …" Zuo Mo murmured.
In his consciousness, Pu Yao's voice suddenly piped up. "I have a solution."
Zuo Mo was slightly surprised and looked suspiciously at Pu Yao. "What are you scheming now?"
Pu Yao said with a snicker. "The Anwei Family are old opponents! Hmph hmph, I had wanted to settle the debts from the past. I had not expected them to come to us!"
Murderousness brimmed in the bloody pupil.
Wei also came out and said with a smile. "A Zuo, in the past, we and Anwei Family had a little conflict. Oh, you will help us, right?"
Zuo Mo instantly felt his head swell up. "Can you not fool around at a time like this?"
"Don't you want to save Xiao Guo and Li Ying Feng?" Pu Yao snorted coldly. "We know everything about Anwei Family' origins. We will help you find and save Xiao Guo and Li Ying Feng, in return you will settle our debts with the Anwei Family."
Zuo Mo turned towards Wei.
Wei nodded crisply. "He is speaking the truth."
Pu Yao and Wei both nodded. This matter seemed reliable.
Zuo Mo nodded. "Alright! You help me, I'll help you!"
However, he was gaping inside. It seemed this Anwei Family had seriously offended these two. More than a thousand years had passed, but they did not forget their grudge. Just how serious had this conflict been?
However, as long as he could rescue Xiao Guo and Li Ying Feng, Zuo Mo let the two do what they wanted.
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"Oh, Lan Tian Long really did not act?" Bu Heng asked coldly.
"Yes! This one learned this. Lan Tian Long remained peaceful, he even gave the slave to the leader of Guard Camp as well as a token, and he invited the other to his compound to drink," the subordinate replied in great detail.
"It seems that this person is not so simple," Bu Heng murmured to himself and sank into deep thought.
Originally, he had planned to challenge Zuo Mo when he entered Great Peace City and kill the other in the open to wash away the embarrassment on his clan. However, when he heard this news, he immediately realized that the situation was much more complex than he imagined.
Bu Heng was strong but he was more skilled as a battle general. His individual strength was not comparable to Lan Tian Long.
Lan Tian Long had a fiery temper but he was someone with brains. If he did not act in public, then there was something to ponder here.
If it was due to individual power, then it was even more unwise for Bu Heng to challenge the other. If it was any other reason that caused Lan Tian Long's actions, then Bu Heng had to be even more careful.
If the other had a background that even Lan Tian Long had to worry about. Just the slightest carelessness could bring down a calamity that would destroy his clan.
As a gold battle general, Bu Heng was able to see the important connections.
The embarrassment was related to the morale of the soldiers, but offending those ancient families woul
d bring extinction to his clan!
Not even a scrap would remain!
Familiar with history, Bu Heng knew that countless families had perished like that.
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Zuo Mo walked along the street, Shu Long and the others a few steps behind him.
"Anwei Family will have a faction established in Great Peace City." Pu Yao's tone was very certain. "That old man was right just now. The Anwei Family is full of talents and has produced many mo marshals. However, Anwei Family has never produced a king! Haa, Anwei Family has always had ambitions and this is the greatest thorn in their side. The desire of each generation of the Anwei Family has towards acquiring mo skills is something other families cannot compare too. They desire too much to have a breakthrough! The Mo Skills Steles placed in Great Peace City contain mo arts that can touch the power of the king level. How could they pass up on that?"
The more Zuo Mo heard, the more he felt that Pu Yao had a special understanding of the Anwei Family.
"This Shi Zi Ming is definitely a influential person to be able to teach mo marshals." Pu Yao who usually had his eyes high up expressed rare respect towards Shi Zi Ming. But then he smirked coldly. "However, it is not so easy to understand what people like him think. Shi Zi Ming's Mo Skill Steles are real, but it is hard to say if visitors can read and understand their contents. When techniques and skills reach that level, it is very hard to describe them using language."
"And then?" Zuo Mo couldn't help but ask.
"The people of Anwei Family are very smart. They cannot understand the steles but there will eventually be someone who can. I suspect that the construction of this Great Peace City was supported by the Anwei Family from the shadows. If this Great Peace City was built, the Mo Skills Steles were put up, many geniuses will gather and eventually someone would understand them. Ha, what is left to do is very simple. Either they pull the person into their Anwei Family, giving them enough mobei and beauties. If the person doesn't obey, hee hee" Pu Yao laughed coldly.
Zuo Mo's hairs stood up upon hearing this. "Aren't there other people that see this?"
"Probably." Wei continued, "That Shi Zi Ming definitely knew this but he sees clearer than the Anwei Family. He only wants his succession to continue and he definitely did not believe that the Anwei Family would gain complete control because the other families are not stupid. Why have so many factions established themselves in Great Peace City? Because experts and geniuses will be produced here. Which family doesn't need experts and geniuses? Why were there so many mo generals and marshals that helped out with the construction. Were they really repaying Shi Zi Ming out of gratefulness? No, it is because everyone saw the benefits. But this is where Shi Zi Ming was good. I have to admire how he used the powers!"