Lamen and other two weren’t as afraid of fire as the young Laror. They had seen the thunder that hit the trees turns into fire that burns the forest a few times. There were also descriptions of fire in their clan record. So even though they’re very curious about the fire humans make, they also knew that it was a very normal occurrence.
They’re not used to the goat stew at first. They had never eaten something with such a strong taste, and it was their first time eating a goat.
Yan Mo saw that they’re not used to the goat stew taste, so he gave them roasted fish instead.
As expected, when the menu changed to roasted fish, the three handsome mermen stared fixedly at Yan Mo’s hand. Watching him cut open the fish, descaled, washed, cut openings on the fish and smeared seasoning with practiced ease.
When it comes to the scalpel, Lamen and other two were curious about its shape, but not about its material.
Yan Mo had discovered that the mermen’s three-ended fish spears seem to be made with the similar material as his scalpel. Though unlike his scalpel, which was sculpted to a fine degree, the three spears look like they were made from some kind of large fish spine and pin bones. But, can fish bones be this sharp and hard?
Rich vocabulary, a free-flowing language, and weapons that seem to be made using a special method. The merpeople seemed to have developed better than the normal human clan, at least, they seem much better off than the present Jiuyuan tribe.
Looks like Jiuyuan really needs to speed up its development. Short-term show of weakness can attract sympathy, but a long-term being on the weaker position makes it very easy for others to belittle and control them. What he needs is an ally. He’s not looking for an owner to enslave him.
Four roasted fish, just enough for the four people present. But Yan Mo had just eaten half of his fish, other three handsome mermen had finished their own and were covetously eyeing one in his hand.
“No wonder Laror runs off to hang with those human kids every day. So it was…” Lamen muttered.
Davin enthusiastically asked Yan Mo, “Do you want to eat fruit? Want to eat more fish? Come back everyday. We will give you fish, a lot of fish. You roast it for us, okay?”
While Symon had already dived into the lake. Shortly after, fish were thrown up the shore one after another into a pile.
Davin hurriedly grabbed the fish pile over and almost fawningly sent them in front of Yan Mo, “Eat fish, eat fish.”
Yan Mo’s mouth twitched. He’s not trying to become a cook here. He didn’t intend to satisfy their craving all at once, either. He deliberately looked up to the sky and made an anxious expression. “Sorry, I still have work I have to do back in the tribe. I have to head back now.”
“Ah?” All three mermen sounded disappointed. “Can’t you play a while longer? We’ll go pick fruits for you.”
Yan Mo shook his head. “Maybe next time. I really have to go back now.” This is not a lie. It’s already noon, Big-eyes and Sa are going to be here soon. He doesn’t want the young kids to reveal his identity as priest yet.
“When is next time? Tomorrow?” Asked Lamen.
“Maybe after three days. I’ll come at the same time as today, three days from now.” Yan Mo saw disappointment in their eyes. He smiled inwardly. Three days is long enough that they’d keep thinking about him, but is short enough that they won’t forget him.
Before leaving, he left a small bag of roughly 1.5 kilogram of crude salt.
“This is our tribe’s special produce, only our people know how to make it. If you put it in your food or add it to your soup, it’ll make it taste better. How much you actually put in depends on personal taste. You guys saw how I made the roast fish, right? Just sprinkling a little of it is fine too.”
Lamen carefully took the small bag of crude salt. The boy said that it would melt once it came in contact with water, so he’s going to put it in a fish bladder bag before carrying it back.
“We’ll give you all these fish.” Symon piled all of the six fat fish towards Yan mo.
Yan Mo didn’t refuse them either. He untied the straw rope he brought with him, thread it through the fish’s gills and picked them all up.
Davin seemed to be very interested in the straw rope. He took hold of it and turned it around and around under his eyes.
The three mermen were still looking at Yan Mo even when he had walked far away. Lamen handed the salt over to Davin. “Take this to Chief.”
Davin and Symon nodded, they understood what he meant.
Lamen flicked his long fishtail and he soon slid far away on the snow. He’s going to check where the young man lives, clarify how many people their tribe really have and if they could be a threat to them.
Lamen didn’t find it strange when the boy joined two adult humans with a pile of dead branches.
When little cubs of the family run out to pay, it’s normal for adults came along with them. It could also be that the young ones only dared to run out so far because they’re following behind adults. While adults do their work nearby, the children are just responsible for having fun.
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Yan Mo didn’t think there would be merman following them. Or maybe he did, but he didn’t give the two warriors a heads up. Instead, he pretended to know nothing and returned to the encampment with the two warriors.
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The stone wall had a large number of big and small pebbles mixed into it, there’s grey white spread all over it and it looked very sturdy. It’s not very long, just about four to five adult mermen lined up. But it’s very high, it’s as high as two mermen standing up with their fins straightened.
These humans had only arrived here for a short period, how can they already have built such a strong stone wall? What’s that grey white material? Is it some kind of stone he hadn’t seen before? How did they embed the stones into the wall?
Lamen already grew vigilant when the boy took out that small knife. Now, looking at this still incomplete stone wall, his evaluation of these humans inched closer to threat.
This might be a strong neighbour settling near them. At this point in time, no one can say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. However, they basically stayed in the lake all the time and their staple food is also fish. There’s actually not much clashes between them and the humans, but who knows if these people are one of those very aggressive and also greedy humans, like in the Clan Witch’s clan record.
Lamen had studied, so he knew that some human clans are very aggressive while some human clans are kinder and more friendly, just like their mer clans. He just didn’t know which type of Jiuyuan tribe falls into. They won’t be afraid of them, either way. Although the long tailed merfolks are not very combative as a clan, the God of Water had blessed them with their inborn abilities and strong physiques. They need not be afraid of any enemy.
But Lamen still kept his distance. He found some humans patrolling area, so he only circled around the raised land from a distance.
Judging from the tents they’d set up, the tribe is as small as the young man described. But not to the point there’s only a handful of them. The rest of them might’ve gone hunting? Lamen thought.
Lamen also saw adults in the tribe saluting the boy. That’s a salute, right? They put their right fist on their left chest then dipped their head.
Then this child should be someone with a high-ish status in this tribe. The chief's child? Or something else? No wonder he could only play with them after three days. A chief’s child at his age have a lot to study and do in the tribe.
Lamen scouted the place until he got a clear picture then quickly returned. Merpeople can move on land, but they can’t stay away from the water for too long. Although you can say the winter snow make up the water content they need, the freezing air would also impact them greatly. It’s so much warmer under the water.
Yan Mo saw that the two naughty kids left Wu Chen behind again. He was sitting there doing work by himself, so Yan Mo waved at him.
Wu Chen immediately put down his work and ran over.
“You don’t have to worry for them. I already know what’s going on. If nothing big happens, they would ask you to come with them tomorrow.”
Wu Chen tried hard to understand the Priest’s words. Yan Mo repeated it in simpler words.
Wu Chen understood then. He rubbed his nose, feeling a little embarrassed. He really did feel unhappy that Big-eyes and Sa left him all alone. It’s very upsetting to feel like his little companions didn’t trust him.
Yan Mo patted the kid. He noticed his face was blue from the cold, and naturally grabbed his wrist and gave him a pulse reading.
The little kid is mostly healthy, except for the slight lack of nutrition. Their food choice is still too limited, there’s only one main food. Meat can give them energy, but only eating meat all the time is also harmful to the body.
Yan Mo put down Wu Chen’s wrist and turned to leave. But a moment later, he whipped back and grabbed Wu Chen’s wrist again.
Wu Chen froze up. Priest-daren had felt their wrists like this before. He told them that this was called “pulse reading”, that they could use this method to determine if people were ill and other things.
Wu Chen and other children regarded it as mysterious witchcraft. Wu Chen really wants to learn it. Priest-daren had also said that after they had learned the basic knowledge, he would teach this technique to whoever wants to learn it. That’s why he had been desperately studying all the knowledge Priest-daren had taught him. He wished he could master them all and finish his study already.
Yan Mo stared at Wu Chen with a slightly complicated expression.
Just now, right at the moment when he put down Wu Chen’s wrist, he felt something unusual. Although not as big and obvious as Yuan Zhan, he really felt it.
This time, he concentrated and carefully checked the pulse. Sure enough, he caught onto that minute jump.
This pulse was like a sudden heavier thump within a normal drumming beat, which repeated after a few moments. It’s very regular, but the interval between them is very long. If you don’t pay close attention to it, it’s easily overlooked.
Yan Mo is not familiar with this sort of pulse pattern at all. But with the first instance from Yuan Zhan, this time he didn’t miss the change in Wu Chen pulse pattern.
Yuan Zhan’s pulse was much stronger than Wu Chen’s and the interval between the two thumps were not as long in Wu Chen. It’s like there’s other energy in Yuan Zhan that supported his physical activities.
This energy was attached to Yuan Zhan’s body, meridians and acupoints. It was different from normal people.
If this world has ‘internal strength’, Yan Mo was close to suspecting this pulse is the evidence that the so-called internal power really do exist.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, practitioners are required to know about the meridians and acupoints.
Generally speaking, the human body has 14 meridians. In addition to the 12 normal meridians, there are the Conception and Governing vessels. There are 475 acupoints, of which there are 114 extraordinary acupoints and 361 ordinary acupoints.
Yan Mo had also doubted origin and function of the study on meridians and acupoints.
For example, the first medical book to mention the concepts of meridians and acupoints: “Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic”. Although author of this book is not clear — later generations agreed that the book had been compiled and improved by many people little by little. authors’ time period was determined to be roughly during the Warring States period, that is to say, the medical knowledge within the “Inner Classic” had already been summarised before the Warring States period.
Now here’s the question. how did people discover meridians and acupoints in a world without advanced science and technology? If the meridians and acupoints could really be traced back to the period of the Yellow Emperor, how did they find out about the meridians and acupoints and how did they use them at that time?
Any doctrine needs a long period of time of accumulation in order to become a doctrine.
If human beings already discovered meridians and acupoints in ancient times, can he presume that meridians and acupoints were used very often by people of that era? To the point that the knowledge was compiled and handed down thousands of years later in the period of the Yellow Emperor?
Thinking about modern people… Western medicine practitioners especially, they don’t see the importance of meridians and acupoints. Traditional Chinese medicine indeed doesn’t work as fast as western medicine, so many people only go for Traditional Chinese medicine after seeing that Western medicine didn’t take effect, as if doing a lottery. Will people then abandon these Traditional Chinese Medicine knowledge that is not valued and can’t be easily learned, then?
Perhaps there were mistakes in every aspects of Traditional Chinese medicine that were distributed up to that point. Most modern people learning traditional Chinese medicine only copied without thinking. Very few would ponder and study the scientific basis and origin of the theory.
However, Yan Mo felt that there must be a reason that traditional Chinese medicine spread across his country for thousands and even tens of thousands of years. It was just that, in the process of its development, in the long river of history, there’s a very important piece that were lost.
It might’ve been that great flood that engulfed the whole world? Yan Mo smiled. He now suspected that there might’ve been a high degree of civilisation within the past regions of Hua country, and this ‘civilisation’ could be related to the utilisation and development of abilities of the human body.
As for why there wasn’t any trace of advanced civilisation left; According to the myths and legends from various countries, “Gods” are beings who often fight and could destroy a whole lot of things in their wake, to the point it’s comparable to nuclear missiles.
Maybe, after the Gods fight, a great flood swept through, leaving nothing behind. Only a few oral knowledge and myths were handed down by the survivors. When he thinks about it, the great flood that affected the whole world was also very dubious. It was just a flood, how can it be so big to cover the whole world? Does it really have nothing to do with the disappearance of those “gods”?
Yan Mo habitually thought of conspiracy theories.
“Priest?” Wu Chen was a little uneasy. Why did the Priest keep holding onto my hand, could it be… I’m dying?
It’s not like children suddenly dying never happened around here. On the contrary, there are many such cases. He had seen more than four of them as he grew up. Babies just born were the easiest to die, but even if they do grow up, they can still die out of various reasons unclear to Wu Chen. Sometimes, they seemed fine just two days ago, and tomorrow, they were gone.
Yan Mo returned to his senses. Seeing the uneasy look on the child’s face, he immediately smiled, “It’s fine. I was just thinking about something. You… Come to my tent later.”
He needed to make sure of this. He’s not experimenting with Wu Chen. He really just wanted to make sure.
Just think: if there is really an energy within the human body’s meridians, and it can be activated and even gradually grow more powerful when using appropriate exercise methods…
Yan Mo let go of Wu Chen and grasped his own palm tightly. He can’t be too excited. He should analyse this with a calm mind, but this frantic urge to dig to the bottom of this made him feel like he could burst.
Wu Chen’s eyes followed the Priest as he walked his tent with his soul’s out of his body. He stood at the same place for a while, fear started to creep into his heart. He had this feeling that Priest-daren found something really scary in his body.
Yan Mo returned to the tent and felt calmer after drinking a bowl of cold water. He suddenly caught sight of his right hand, it had lit up again.
His first reaction when his right hand lit up was: I was just thinking about it, I wasn’t really planning on experimenting on that child! …Alright. He was actually planning to do it.
Yan Mo glared at his right hand. He didn’t stop ranting in his mind. After venting for a bit, he still had to raise his hand and check the situation.
As he opened his palm, a series of points added and reduced notifications naturally appeared in his mind.
Yan Mo’s face darkened reading those notifications.
Fucking hell! How is it my business if Yuan Zhan hunted and killed many living creatures?! Why add so many points to me?
20 points! It gave him 20 points!
He’s going to be punished again, okay!
He didn’t think much about the points reduction from things like teaching Yuan Zhan the beginner training method. All he can think about now is the upcoming punishment — getting hit by stones!
The hateful guide didn’t wait for him to be mentally prepared. Maybe because it sensed there was no one around him and nothing in his hands, the punishment fell without another word.
Bang!
Yan Mo felt as if he heard the stone smashing down his back.
“Ngh!” Yan Mo grunted and fell to the ground.
Bang! This time, the stone seemed to hit him directly on the head.
Yan Mo subconsciously raised his hand. He thought he would feel the wetness of blood, but he didn’t. He only felt a big bump and it hurt so much when touched!
Bang! Now this one crossed the line! It hit him on the nose!
Tears covered Yan Mo’s face.
…He might have discovered what the guide meant by ‘double-edged sword’.
Godammit, he shouldn’t have taught that bastard first. Now that little bastard’s ability improved big time, he started slaughtering left and right. But the sin for his blood spilling was billed back to him.
Wu wu! Damn it!
Double-edged sword, double-edged sword. It really is a double-edged sword. Their ability can get stronger by learning the training method, but because of this, they’d also kill more. They’d also be more threat to other living beings. In other words, HE’d have to bear all the sins for killing aside from when Yuan Zhan was only defending himself or filling his stomach?!
This was probably the same as when he taught Cao Ting and few others about some herbs. When they used it to help other people or teach it to other people, he would also get points reduced.
Wait! Following this pattern, if they use their knowledge to harm other people or a large number of creatures, will it also add to his scum points?
While his tears fell, his face turned pale.
He wiped his tears. Let’s think of the bright side. Although a lot of Yuan Zhan’s killing sins would be counted on him in the future, he can also reduce points by using his knowledge to save others and construct things. When it’s counted like that, it doesn’t seem too hard to accept?
When he’s back, he’s going to tell Yuan Zhan not to kill indiscriminately in the future. Our tribe’s going to aim to save others, protect the environment and live in harmony and friendship with all living creatures.
But no matter what, when that little bastard comes back, he’s definitely tying him up with golden needles and beating him up! Otherwise he’ll find it hard to swallow this anger.
“Ah choo—!”
In an open space in front of a huge stone mountain about 30 kilometres away from him, Yuan Zhan suddenly looked up and sneezed loudly.
The A’wu warriors who were happily tying up the their prey to the board looked at him.
Yuan Zhan wiped off his snot, and the snowflakes mixed with blood left on his face while at it too, and murmured, “Rather cold.”
Hu Hu came over and said happily, “Chief, we now have enough prey to eat until the spring breaks! Priest-daren will be very happy to see that we got so many prey.”
“Yes.” Yuan Zhan thought of his Priest-daren, and a smile also appeared on his face, but his smile was rather fierce and strange-looking.
Heheh! He finally found a way to deal with the little slave. This time, see if he doesn’t lay down and let him do it!
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This novel is so easy to MTL!
I feel quite sick thinking about all of these are ending up in other sites. No matter how many times it happens, I can’t get over it. Do read it in CG, I only post here. That other site doesn’t even link to translator or the author. How shameless. Due to this, I won’t be editing my chapters as obsessively as before, I don’t like feeding them super polished chapters.
Yuan Zhan you are going to get beaten up by Yan Mo before you can even touch him heehehehe
Thank you for the chapter!
We know how this is gonna play out 🙃
I love this novel so so much it became my favorite at this point
This novel made me think about ancient times and the things that we don’t know but it has happened … Sorry if my English doesn’t make sense Q-Q
Your point gets through! True, even at our grandparents’ generation, so many things are different from how it is for us.
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I hope they stop doing it after they can’t use copy+paste and you’ve said it
Thanks for the chapter even though that stuff<3
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