Dofie didn’t doubt what Yan Mo said about the god punishing him.
The priest have always told her ever since she was small: The God is a god, but also the devil. God can bless us, but can also punish and torture us. That’s why we must give offerings to the God, fear God, and beg God for mercy.
What she doubted was that this punishment came from the “Primordial God”.
The Primordial God was the very first god in the world. What right does this boy have, to dare mention the name of Primordial God?
According to the stories passed down from the upper cities, there are not many gods in this world.
The first of all gods, Primordial God…
The Primordial God split his own flesh and blood, from which a son and a daughter was born. That was Father-God and Mother-Goddess, who were also the god of sun and the goddess of the moon. The remaining parts of his body turned into the world and the beings living on it.
Then, Father-God and Mother-Goddess combined and gave birth to the Fire God, Water God, and the God of Earth.
The five gods combined again with each other, and their relations gave birth to the gods of spring, summer, fall and winter, and the other gods and spirits.
According to the legends, the reason why there were many human-headed XX-bodied and YY-headed human-bodied creatures was because the gods and spirits then mated with the ancient creatures and passed down the bloodline of gods.
The same was true for human beings.
That’s how many humans and other creatures came to have the abilities of gods.
Just like the crystals she’s using. Lord Yehe once told her that this was the most precious treasure that was left by the Primordial God after his body turned into this world and all the things on it. But Lord Yehe also said that after Primordial God had fallen into an unending sleep after he gave birth to Father-God and Mother-Goddess.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Dofie had doubts on whether Yan Mo was really the priest that the Primordial God chose, but she was not so stupid as to interrogate him on this occasion. She just repeated that she can help treat his legs.
“Tbe kjca ab tfji wf?” Tjc Zb jrxfv klat j rwlif.
“Tfr.” Gbolf rjlv, klatbea yflcu abb tewyif bg abb qgbev.
“Cigluta.”
Dofie shouted, Yes! inwardly.
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Ye Xing and the other children can understand Dofie’s words, so they explained the situation to the people around.
Everyone in the A’wu clan respected Dofie because they know of Dofie’s ability, while the people who had got treated by her watched on with a hopeful heart. They prayed that Dofie can really heal Lord Priest’s legs.
Wu Chen looked at Dofie with a mix of doubt and vigilance. He was still too young to know how to hide the emotions on his face. Ye Xing and Sa Yu was happy to hear that Dofie can heal their priest, but Wu Chen felt that something was off.
I don’t like her. Wu Chen thought to himself. The way that Dofie sometimes looked at them, as well as the way she usually spoke weirded him out, he didn’t like it. Also… Wu Chen frowned. He can’t describe it. Anyway, he just doesn’t like it.
Yan Mo ran his hand on Wu Chen’s head — the boy was wearing a fierce expression like a little tiger — then raised the other hand to vaguely point at Dofie’s direction while smiling to everyone in the audience. “My tribesmen, I was too busy before and nearly forgot about this young lady. Come, come, let me introduce this beautiful miss, your name is Dofie, right?”
A’wu people laughed with him. Yes, Lord Priest was always running around.
Dofie didn’t know what this little priest wanted to do, so she just answered as politely as she could, “Yes, lord. My full name is Dofilde.” Dofie left out the “Daughter of Hal of Godsfort” that followed her name. As the daughter of Hal, the city lord, her name should have had her father’s territory and name attached.
“Did you hear it, fellow clansmen? This beautiful miss is called Dofilde, but let’s call her Dofie like always.” Yan Mo’s voice wasn’t big or small, just enough to let everyone present hear it.
“Dofie!” Many voices called out Dofilde’s name in that very close manner.
It really hurt Dofie’s pride to be called in such an intimate manner by savages who’s even lower than the slaves in Godsfort city. She almost lost it, but she still squeezed out a smile and waved to the people in a practised manner.
A’wu people found it weird, they felt like the miss seemed a little different from how she usually was, but they can’t explain what was different.
Yuan Zhan looked at Yan Mo. What does he want to do? Why does he want everyone to know who Dofie is? Does he want everyone to see that her status is different from the others? That can’t be it!
Yan Mo didn’t look at Dofie, his eyes always stayed on the A’wu people as he continued to say in a flippant manner, “Dofie isn’t from around these parts, a big gust of wind brought her here. She was dropped in the wilderness and our chief saved her when she was about to freeze to death. Dofie didn’t want to be warrior Meng’s slave, but also didn’t want to leave the safety of the tribe. So I discussed with Lord Chief and we decided she can treat our people to repay the chief for saving her life and also to exchange for food and a place to stay in the tribe.”
Everything he said was the truth, but he could choose another way to say it! When Dofie heard Yan Mo introduce her like that, she knew that the image that she had worked hard to build had completely collapsed. This person’s really cunning and sinister!
Yan Mo is not like Yuan Zhan who still needs to be translated when he talks, everything he said went straight to A’wu people’s minds from the moment he opened his mouth. there’s no barrier when it comes to understanding what he was saying.
Oh… so that woman wasn’t helping them out of her own volition, it was an order from Lord Chief and Lord Priest. Everyone understood, then.
At this time, the people who was treated by Dofie before and was feeling very grateful to her felt like they were conned. It was clearly thanks to Lord Priest who was thinking for them, but this woman didn’t tell them about the deal at all. She even hinted for them to give her food, fur and firewood, light up the fire and roast meat for her.
“That’s why, from now on, Miss Dofie will stay and help me treat everyone, while warrior Meng will be responsible for providing her food and lodging.”
Now that he said that, A’wu people suddenly remembered they seemed to have seen Master Meng coming in and out of that woman’s tent, even carrying food and firewood into her tent.
“Miss Dofie might leave when all her debt was repaid, but before that, she is not a member of our tribe. God also hasn’t given her any test.
Dofie can no longer keep up the smile on her face.
A’wu people’s face only changed a little, but both Yan Mo and Dofie know that no matter what Dofie planned to do to win people’s hearts, A’wu people’s loyalty will not waver to her.
Xenophobia. This was the natural instinct for any creature, no matter their race and their location.
Yan Mo threw the last rock with an innocent face, “My tribesmen, although miss Dofie was just a slave before, her ability is very valuable to our tribe. That’s why I gave her the chance to be a free person. I also ask everyone to not reject her just because she’s an outsider. You can go to her for your injuries or illnesses. I believe that miss Dofie will do her best to treat everyone. If she doesn’t give her all and you feel uncomfortable after the treatment, you can tell me.”
Dofie just wants to turn around and leave this fucking primitive tribe right now!
Fake disability or not, she no longer wanted to use her energy and ability to heal him. He should just be invalid until he die!
But can she afford to do that?
Of course not, she couldn’t leave this place. At least not before she found another tribe that’s willing to accept her and was simple enough to worship her like a god!
Yan Mo finally looked at Dofie who had a stiff smile on her face. “You said you’ll heal me? This is a punishment from god. If you can give me back my legs, my tribe and I will be thankful to you. But if you can’t, we will not blame you.”
Old shaman Wu Cheng went up full of worry, “Lord, no matter if Dofie can heal or not, this is a punishment from the god. If it got … will it cause god to be angry with us?
Yan Mo sighed, “Miss Dofie said it out of good intention, we should just let her try.”
“It’s nice for her, she’s not the one who’ll bear the god’s wrath!” Sa Yu, the naughty kid, shouted out of the blue.
“But…” Ye Xing fell into a dilemma. He wanted Priest to regain his legs, to walk again, but he didn’t want god to keep punishing their priest.
Dofie was so angry she felt faint in the head. In the past when she was in the Godsfort, so many people begged her to treat them and she didn’t even look at them. Now, she went up to offer her help and it was actually met with rejection and suspicion?
“Let’s do it!” Yan Mo cut everyone’s worry and discouragement short, and said as if joking around, “If Miss Dofie’s ability really did come from the gods, maybe Primordial God will allow this punishment to end quicker for the sake of that god?”
Dofie gnawed her lip. “I need to first determine how serious your punishment is.” Luckily my ability can tell me how serious your “injury” is, if you’re just pretending, I’ll tear your mask apart!
“Alright.” Yan Mo lifted the lower hem of the fur coat without worry.
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Thank you for the chapter!
Caught up! Thanks for the chapter! ☺️
Thanks for the chapter
For the primordial god’s pronoun, I think you can use “they” as a genderless pronoun, as this is already pretty common practice in more progressive forums (I know the precedent would be to use “he” due to Christianity but this isn’t the same god so I think it’s plausible).
Ah thanks, that’s a really good feedback. I was wondering if They/Them is acceptable for Divine Beings or if I can just pick one gender and run with it.