A pair of thin but muscled legs appeared in everyone’s eyes. You can’t tell there’s something wrong with it just by looking.
Yan Mo was pleased with the increasing mass of muscle on his legs, at the same time, he felt depressed that he wouldn’t be able to exercise his legs this month.
Yuan Zhan sneaked a couple of glances at those legs. His other companions would always bare their arms and legs like this, they’d bare even more during summer. But why was he much more disturbed about it when it’s Yan Mo’s legs being exposed to everyone’s eyes?
Dofie’s right hand went to touch Yan Mo’s lower leg.
“Aah!” Dofie screamed and immediately backed away. In front of her, a spike made of soil rose and nearly stabbed into her.
Yuan Zhan shifted his body to stand behind Yan Mo. “Kneel down!” He roared.
Wu Chen raised his thick eyebrows, he also didn’t like it when people put their hands on Lord Priest!
The earthen spike disintegrated and Dofie was reduced to kneeling on the earth platform.
Yan Mo didn’t really like people kneeling down to him, but he’s not about to contradict Yuan Zhan in front of all of these people. He’s not trying to gain Dofie as a friend, anyway.
He really wouldn’t mind if the tribe gained another healer, if Dofie was a smart girl who knows when enough’s enough. Even if her actions would lessen his own opportunities to reduce his scum points. Because he didn’t have the ability to regrow cut limbs and he can’t make something out of nothing. He needed to consider the big picture if he’s going to be a qualified leader. There’s no real disadvantage to having one more healer with this sort of ability in their tribe.
But it’s a different story when the said new healer tries to enter into a power struggle with him. He will never keep them nearby, even if they can revive the dead. If they’re to stay, then they have to be under his control.
Dofie. Maybe you were once high and noble, but am I any worse than you?
Isn’t it just kneeling down? No one was born with a naturally bendy back. Just kneeling down. Back in Yuanji tribe, just to not let the old priest notice anything strange with me, I even re-break my newly healed leg, and you?
I endured being dominated in front of everyone by that beast Zhan, what about you?
Everyone’s fighting to survive! Luck is part of the reason I can sit here today and pose as a priest, but that’s not all, I have endured a lot and worked hard for it!
Luck was also on your side, or you would’ve died when you were thrown in the middle of nowhere this winter. Now, what will you do to survive from now on?
Everyone has their own path, which path are you going to choose?
I want you to know that what I want is an obedient helper who knows to read the situation, not an opponent who’s full of tricks. If you can’t be that, leave this place and look for another tribe to be a priest there.
Yan Mo can say these things out loud for Dofie to hear, but he didn’t want to.
Dofie wasn’t his disciple, student, or even one of his people. He had no obligation to, nor does he want to, guide her.
She was someone who was trying to secretly nip away his power. The fact that he didn’t already torture, or kill, or cut her open to study her insides, was because the other party was a girl, and he felt a little sympathy for her who was in a similar situation as him.
He was no longer him from before, who would be on the brink of life and death if his scum points go up or down a little bit. Once he gets really angry, he’d brave the punishment to eliminate one or two enemies.
Dofie extended her hands again.
Her hands were beautiful. The ice, the snow, wood, stone, and salt, didn’t leave any marks on her hands.
Dofie’s ability came from the same line of her city’s priest, Yehe. They use that special crystal to gather the life force of the surrounding creatures to heal themselves or other people, they can even make it into an invisible shield to protect themselves.
These crystals have some sort of power to begin with, but once the power can run out, the users need to refill the crystal with the energy again. These crystals would be useless if it was used by someone who didn’t know how to refill or release the power inside it.
Similarly she would have no idea how to store the energy or take it out if she didn’t have these crystal stones.
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.
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The second that her hand touched the young boy, she felt the energy from the crystals getting sucked away. The speed even made her feel scared, it was like there was an endless black hole sucking away all the energy out of the crystals and the life out of her.
Everyone saw the panic and anxiety in Dofie’s face before she composed herself, and understood that’s how serious Yan Mo’s punishment was.
The woman who said that she can heal other people had only touched the priest for a second and her face turned so pallid that the blue in her stood out, and she was standing unsteadily.
Right now, Dofie was trying her best to hold up, even if it’s hard.
When she healed others in the past, she would go up to a special sacrificial altar, which had a sacrificial chamber. Her people would have had slaves ready to be sacrificed in that chamber. This was all to avoid accidentally hurting herself or people not meant to be sacrificed.
If the person being treated didn’t have a large injury, the energy takes from the slaves would be little, too. They would be uncomfortable for a few days, at most.
But if the patient had a serious injury, like someone at the death’s door or someone with too many missing parts, some slaves with weaker bodies wouldn’t be able to make it.
In order to kill less slaves each time, her people would always prepare a lot of slaves and those slaves would be reaped in turns.
As for this time, …
Dofie looked at the crowd of people watching the commotion and thought vindictively, You humiliated me. Then you can feed your life force for your dear Lord Priest!
Yan Mo, who was receiving the treatment, very soon felt like he was flying among the clouds.
This sensation felt too good. It was like basking in a warm sunlight in the winter, like your work-tired body was getting massaged with just the right pressure. So comfortable like you were soaking in a hot spring while the outside was icy cold or like eating the best food when you have starved for so long, not just filling your hungry stomach, but also a delight to your tongue.
In the eyes of Yuan Zhan, it was clear how good it felt for Yan Mo by how his eyes was half-closed in pleasure, just lacking satisfied groans to cement the fact. When compared to the woman who tried to hold on even as she bit down her lip and her face keep getting paler, Yuan Zhan felt that this woman was quite pitiful.
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Meng crossed his arms in front of him and didn’t react at all from start to finish; Whether it was when Dofie came up wanting to treat Yan Mo, or when Yan Mo allowed her to treat himself and threw attacks at her, or now, as he watched the woman wither away.
Meng might be an idiot, he might not think before he acts, but he had a very straight head. Women are important, but his brothers in arms are obviously way more important. Compared to Little Momo who had earned his trust and respect, Dofie was just a woman who can warm his bed.
At first Dofie stood a chance to become his wife and his companion, he didn’t even mind that she couldn’t do any work. Dofie didn’t even know how to do the most basic stuff like roast meat, you know? But when she tried to sow discord between him and his companion and challenged Momo’s role as the priest, Meng had already tossed her into the same category as “slave that can be sold off“.
Momo didn’t try to pit them brothers against each other before, he didn’t even say one bad word about the old priest Qiu Shi.
There were many who were interested in Momo back in Yuanji. Meng and Da Shan both wanted to sleep with him, and Momo could’ve made all of them fight each other to get one slave, if he so wanted. Da Shan got his slave Wen Sheng in that exact same way, fought against many other warriors to win him.
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Yuan Zhan’s face changed.
Something’s wrong. He knows that he didn’t use his ability, but his ability was getting released without his control.
Wu Chen looked down at a sprout that already started to emerge, the tender green plant that was bursting with life just moments ago was now going yellow and dying…?
Ye Xing, the closest one to Dofie, suddenly felt his legs give away, he staggered, almost falling down.
“Eh… What’s wrong with me? Why am I so dizzy?”
Yan Mo was too deep in that wonderful feeling and couldn’t extricate himself, he can feel the lack of energy being rapidly filled and restored. He could even feel each of his cell getting soothed and quenched.
The children who stood the closest to the platform were the first to show something, some shouted that they were dizzy, some directly fainted, and some had their legs give out on them.
“Stop!” Yuan Zhan barked at Dofie.
Meng followed suit with his spear end pointing at the woman’s neck.
Dofie couldn’t stop if she wanted to! Her hand seemed to be glued to the boy’s leg.
She encountered an actual monster! And this terrible monster was sucking away her life force instead!
If she stopped sucking from her surrounding now, she will be the one sucked dry!
“Help… me…” Tears rolled down Dofie’s cheeks, she looked pleadingly at the boy with half closed eyes, “Lord… please, spare… me!”
Yan Mo’s senses were so far away from the reality, he was even thinking that this feeling was really nice, he might make Dofie do it more for him in the future.
A’wu people noticed the oddity of the situation, based on the Chief’s expression, the kids’ reaction and what Dofie said and did.
Everyone started to visibly panic, Wu Cheng shouted lowly, “What’s going on?”
Yuan Zhan immediately shouted in his deep voice, “This is the punishment from god! Punishing this woman who didn’t know her place, to think that she tried to go against the power of gods with mortal means! All of you back down, don’t come close! Meng, leave with the other warriors, take the children away! Now!”
Meng issued a loud noise and all the warriors moved, they grabbed the kids, each taking one of them, then quickly ran back away. The warriors secured all the children, including Wu Chen.
Yuan Zhan told everyone around the platform to leave the surroundings.
A’wu people slowly retreated, but Wu Cheng was too weak that he fell on his knees. His disciple, Wu Qing, was pulling the old shaman who was the oldest and showed the most obvious reaction to the reaping, so that he can leave the immediate danger zone.
Dofie could never have expected that her offer to heal Yan Mo not only exposed the secret and drawback of her power, but also land her in a situation where she couldn’t pull herself away even if she wanted to.
Dofie could no longer endure it. There’s a limit to the area she can take energy from. When there’s no more living creature around her to take energy from and the plants can no longer support the large consumption, her own life force will be the energy feeding the crystal stones!
She didn’t want to die, but she couldn’t stop it.
“Lord, please… spare …my life…” Wrinkles started to appear on Dofie’s hands and face, her hair started to turn white.
Yuan Zhan was also at his limit, but he couldn’t leave Yan Mo behind, so he let out his power to fight off the force. But how do you fight off this type of ability? How on earth does he stop his energy and life force from getting sucked away?
“Lord!” Dofie wailed. She had never experienced anything like this, the energy taken away from her, and the speed at which it was sucked away. Before she didn’t believe it, but now she believed that this boy was punished by Primordial God. Even if it’s not the Primordial God, this was truly the power of gods
Yan Mo’s right hand started to glow, but he didn’t see it.
However, his hand lit up at the same time that a sentence appeared in his brain.
——The Exile's body received one treatment and completely recovered. All bodily functions had caught up to the body's age, and this body is in the optimal condition for release of ability. Method of treatment: absorbing the life force of other living creatures, of all the living creatures within 31 m² area. 64 people predominantly affected. Exile was not an active participant. Scum points +95. Note: The excess life force had been stored.
Yan Mo was instantly sobered! He was too drunk in that feeling that he didn’t even grasp most of what the guide said, but that +95 at the end immediately woke him up.
That’s nearly one hundred point!
How can it just add on points without any rhyme or reason? And +95 points at once?
Yan Mo opened his eyes and immediately saw a horrifyingly shrivelled old woman, lying by the edge of the platform. Still latched on his legs was that old grandmother’s scrawny and wrinkly hand.
It startled Yan Mo, he instinctively swatted that hand away.
Dofie lied on the ground trembling, now with deeply wrinkled body, thin hairs and facial features changed beyond recognition. She couldn’t even cry any more. So that’s how it feels to have your life sucked away!
Yuan Zhan lurched forward the moment Dofie’s hand left Yan Mo’s body, he nearly fell down. The force that was taking away his life force was gone, he had found a way to resist it, but because it was new to him, his energy seemed to be pulling against that force when it tried to guide it back to himself.
Yuan Zhan lifted one hand to his brows, he could feel that familiar heat coming from his brows.
Yan Mo looked at his shining right hand, and his face instantly became as ugly as Dofie’s own.
The guide had issued a new penalty.
——The Exile had more than 10 scum points increase at a time, triggering a minor punishment. Description: contact with another will recover at most 50% of their life force. Amount: 95 times. ——Note: Since the Exile did not actively ask to be given the life force of others, he will not be providing the energy used during the punishment period, but he will experience the pain of losing own life force. Other note: The punishment will only trigger 5 times a day.
When he had read it all, Yan Mo’s face turned from an ugly frown to a puzzled expression.
It turns out that Dofie was taking away the life from other creatures to treat people.
He was forced to suffer this 95 points increase. If this guide was attached to Dofie instead, how many points would she get for being the active user? It was clearly not the first time she ever used this ability.
Heh. Yan Mo sneered inwardly. This woman and anyone with an ability like her, will not be better off than him now if they use their ability without being mindful of the world’s balance.
Yan Mo patted his legs. The whole surrounding area was clear of people, there were only three people present here, A’wu people and Meng were looking at the platform from a distance.
Wu Chen wriggled away from the person holding him steady when Dofie fell to the ground, and ran back at the top of his speed.
Yan Mo glanced at Dofie, down on the ground, without a word.
Punished to replenish other people’s life force for 95 times… tsk. He didn’t know how painful it can be to feel your life force flow out, but if he used it well… This penalty could be of great help to him!
Padam: I really don’t know what to say, Christmas was not just family reunion but also babysitting young ones in the family, unpacking, and chores around the house because we just had a move 
Up till today I didn’t even have place to sit down to stay up all night and finish this. I’m not parading my misery online, I just want you to know the chapters were late for a valid reason ><”
Merry Christmas to those celebrating
and Happy Holidays for everyone who’s not!
Thanks for the uppy! Happy holidays to you as well!
Thank you for this wonderful chapter!! And have Merry Christmass
finally Yan Mo knows about the ability now or else I think something worse is gonna happen
Thank you for the chapter and Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays and happy new year!!! Thank you for the chapter! 💕💖💝
Oh oh, Dofilde’s power is now out in the open to both Momo and Ah Zhan. How will she live her life now? I wonder if Er Meng will still wants her though? Will it be a true love next?