Yan Mo waved at everyone to tell them to come over.
He just tried it, he still couldn’t feel his legs.
Seeing that their Lord Priest was alright, A’wu people slowly moved closer to the platform again.
No one went near Dofie who was slumped below the platform. They had never seen someone becoming so scary in an instant. Many among them rubbed their own face unconsciously, people can look like that when old?
Some of them felt that Dofie was demon herself. Even if they didn’t know the concept of devils yet, looking at Dofie was the same as looking into a dark cave to them, it made them shiver.
“You better not use your healing ability to heal yourself. The Primordial God don’t like how you heal by taking away people’s life forces.” The first thing Yan Mo did was warn Dofie, who was secretly trying to recover herself.
Dofie stopped absorbing the surrounding energies when she heard him. She’s really afraid now. The secret behind her ability was just exposed, there was no one who would protect her now. Even if that person can treat their illnesses and grow back their limbs, who would want to be near someone who can take away their life force?
Dofie didn’t have the guts to look straight to Yan Mo. All she could think was this boy’s power was more mysterious than Lord Yehe. If it was Lord Yehe who tried to steal his life force away, can he succeed?
Yan Mo’s words went straight to A’wu people’s ears. A’wu people quietly retreated further away from Dofie, including people she had treated in the past.
See, this is human nature.
It’s the same reaction, even if they’re primitive people with no knowledge.
Yan Mo laughed inwardly. Yep, he did it on purpose. He wanted Dofie to know that if she still wanted to stay in the tribe from now on, she’d have to rely on him and be used by him.
So what if you saved them? Once they know that you can harm them, they would instantly avoid you as if you have venomous fangs and tails. They might even try to kill you.
They call it reverence, when your power can make them fear you.
What if they had tried to subjugate A’wu clan just with the three of them without Yuan Zhan’s ability and Jiu Feng to deter them?
Both the old shaman and their clan leader were no idiots. They didn’t have knowledges, but they still had their brains. This clan sacrificed their own people to get salt and food in return. Do you expect them to have a heart of gold on the inside?
They will be kind and simple people, if the conditions are right. They will be kind, hard-working, simple and obedient people in front of those who can help them while completely suppressing them and make them feel fear and respect. Towards their enemies… well, you saw what happened to those small monsters who attacked them.
In this world, you can have a heart dedicated to helping others, a grand ambition and a one-in-a-million mind, but without power to back it all up, you’re just going to get bonked in the head and die before you can realize anything.
Think about it, if he didn’t have Yuan Zhan and Jiu Feng backing him up, if he had relied on those measly needles to threaten these primitive people. How could he succeed? They’d take away his needles and scalpel, that’s what will happen.
You can pose like a supernatural force all you like, but it all depends on if the other person believed you or not.
It’s all for naught if you have no opportunity to show your full potential.
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Dofie had plenty of opportunities, but she showed her skills to the wrong people, and made an enemy of someone she shouldn’t have. He had spent a lot of energy and schemes to subdue these people and claim this territory, how can he offer it up to someone who just showed up at the end? That would be absurd!
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When you talk about taking the life of others, isn’t it what people do in Chinese and western medicine? They use medications and herbal medicines, there’s blood transfusions, bone marrow transplant, any procedures where they replace the parts of the body, don’t those need other people to provide the thing?
How many mice and other animals, worms or plants, that a medical researcher kill every day in their research?
When they make the wrong diagnosis and prescribe the wrong medicines or something went wrong during the surgery, it’s way worse than these people who directly used other people’s life force to treat others. At least those people won’t leave the patients worse than before the treatment or lose their lives anyway after sacrificing a whole bunch of other lives.
He bet that if you ask any doctor in his original world: Do you want an ability like Dofie’s? Nine out of ten would be dying to have it. Some may hesitate, and that’s because they’re kind people who are afraid they’ll misuse that power.
Ability abuse is a serious issue, but if you master this ability it can help you in many ways! It’s even better when you can select a target to get your life force from.
Won’t you be able to heal your allies while harming your enemies on the battlefield?
While in the tribe, if any of the kids break their arm or leg, their parents would definitely agree to giving their life force away so that their kids can get it back. It’s even more true when the one injured was the head of the family. If they don’t want to give away their own life force, they can always use plants, animals, bugs, other life forms’ life force.
What about those injuries that were too serious? If there’s someone willing to support the injured person with their own life force, there will be bigger chances they can be saved when they reach the place of treatment. That way they can still save the person without sacrificing a lot of life force, that’s a good deal for both parties.
Anyway, it’s Dofie who’d be treating people that way, not him. He’s fine with it as long as it doesn’t use his own life force and doesn’t increase his own scum points.
However, he needed to consider this one point: Now that he knew the truth behind Dofie’s ability, will he or will he not get scum points increase if he agreed to or opened his mouth to keep Dofie in the tribe, and Dofie later takes away more life force to heal other people?
Dofie would need to stay first in order for him to know the answer to that, to his dismay.
After many considerations, Yan Mo decided that it’s still worth it to keep Dofie in the tribe. Won’t it be okay if she’s always monitored so that she can’t misuse her ability, and she has to get the permission from the surrounding creatures she’ll be taking energy from before the treatment?
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Yuan Zhan didn’t insist on killing Dofie when Yan Mo had disagreed.
He was more interested in how a warmth filled his body from his hand that touched Yan Mo’s shoulder.
That sensation felt too good, just like… just like that time when Yan Mo ‘tortured’ him.
Speaking of, he should look for opportunities to let Yan Mo interrogate him again.
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Yan Mo’s brows knitted. Since Yuan Zhan put his hand on his shoulder, he felt something emptying inside him, it didn’t feel very good.
Is this the pain of losing his own life force?
This was just the first person, if he continuously made contact with five people…
“Lord Priest!” Wu Chen charged over, only to stand in front of the platform and stare at Yan Mo with eyes that had many words to say.
“Are you alright, lord?” Wu Chen knew by now that his master didn’t really like other people touching him.
Wu Chen’s complexion didn’t look much better, he was standing very close to Dofie before.
Yan Mo shook his head and his hand moved to touch Wu Chen’s head. “I’m okay, the one who’s not okay is you. Wu Chen, you’re a good boy, this is the blessing from the Primordial God and me.”
He’ll get the kid back on his feet while he still had some strength left, it’ll be a reward of some kind for his concern and loyalty.
Wu Chen blinked, he didn’t understand what he meant at first, but not few moments later he felt it.
The thick browed kid had a wide open mouth, he was completely shocked and moved. “Priest! I, I…”
Wu Chen clenched his fist. All of a sudden, his young voice tore through the air, and his fist moved with strength. He felt like his body was filled with energy at this moment.
Yan Mo took back his palm. Fatigue rolled onto him like waves, he was still sitting, but barely.
Yuan Zhan behind him saw him waver and naturally grabbed him to support his body.
At present no one noticed anything wrong with Yan Mo yet, because after Wu Chen issued that roar, someone in the crowd yelled in surprise, and the people at the front row were thrown to chaos.
“Fire! Fire!” A’wu people shouted, fire sparks landed on Mu Changming (previously known as clan leader)’s pelt skirt. He was caught off guard at first, then Meng kicked him and he remembered he should be rolling on the ground to put out the fire.
Other people rushed to the piles of snow around that hadn’t been swept away and tossed it on him. Luckily it was a small fire, they’ve distinguished it in no time at all.
Mu Changming stood back up with a confused face, how can his pelt skirt suddenly catch on fire?
Some people were looking at the little young lad Wu Chen with unbelieving but also uncertain eyes.
Ye Xing and Sa Yu were staring their eyeballs into Wu Chen, their expressions full of disbelief.
Yuan Zhan was also looking at Wu Chen with surprise, even as his hand kept supporting Yan Mo by the shoulder.
Yan Mo quirked an eyebrow. He might be the only one who was in the know, and was certain that this kid can awaken an ability. That’s why he decided to teach him the beginner training method in the first place, because he wanted to see how long it’ll take until this kid awaken his ability. At the same time, he’ll take some of the credit for this kid’s awakening onto himself. But he didn’t expect this kid would awaken his bloodline ability today, of all days, and in front of all this people.
Mhm. Nice work, what a good timing to awaken! Yan Mo felt like Wu Chen’s thick eyebrows looked more and more pleasing to the eyes. This kid was definitely his lucky star, Yan Mo had always met with good things from the first time they met and later when he took him as his disciple too.
Wu Chen himself didn’t know what had just happened. He caught the weird expression on Ye Xing and Sa Yu’s faces and glared back while feeling confused as to why.
“Fire… Wu Chen, you just threw out a fireball. It’s you! I saw it!” Ye Xing was unsure at first but then out of nowhere he felt very certain and shouted it like he lost all control.
“Yes, it’s Wu Chen, I also saw it.” One of the warriors at the front of the crowd muttered.
“Ah…” Wu Chen lifted his fists up and looked at it blankly for a long while, then maybe something clicked for him because he started to do the moves that were in the beginner training method below the platform.
As his moves rolled out, he yelled out during exhalation and his hands clasped together, his thumb and index finger touched and made a hand pistol gesture, and he lashed it toward the ground.
Yan Mo suddenly thought, that move looked kind of familiar…
This time many people paid attention and saw a fireball, small like a grain, fall out from Wu Chen's finger. Although it didn’t burn for long on the ground, that flicker of light was clear to everyone’s eyes.
“The blessing of the Primordial God and Lord Priest…” Ye Xing murmured, envy and jealousy clearly displayed on his face.
Sa Yu went to Wu Chen and took his hands, flipped it front and back to check it, even trying to put it in his mouth and take a bite of it, but then Wu Chen kicked him to the side.
The words of these kids quickly spread through the people and the crowd started to grow restless.
Padam: a good start to a new year, secondhand embarrassment.
Thank you for the chapter！
Yayyy! Thanks for the update 💘
I love little Wu Chen. I can’t wait to see what else he’ll learn to do with his powers!
I really love this story😍 but I just couldn’t finish the last translation so I’m glad that you’ve taken it up😊. Your translation is really very good and your little notes help explain some Chinese idioms that when directly translated from the story seems sorta random and awkward lol. Thank you so much 😊❤️
they’ve distinguished -> extinguished
Thanks for the chapter!