Yan Mo smiled and placed his hand on Yuan Zhan’s chest before the other can react.
That inexplicable feeling of comfort washed through his entire body.
Yuan Zhan’s scary expression turned dazed. He had imagined various outcomes to his words just now, but he never this.
To tell the truth, he didn’t have high expectations that Mo would satisfy his demands, and he didn’t actually want to make Mo spend his life force on himself. If he was really that beastly like his Mo said, he would’ve pushed Mo down and be done with it already. He actually… actually just wanted Mo to know he had endured it for so long for Mo. Wanted Mo to know he…
Screw that, beast it is! Anyway, Mo had already touched him!
Yuan Zhan took Yan Mo in his arms and turned their bodies around, pressing Yan Mo to the ground.
Yan Mo just looked at him with a blank emotionless face. However, as the life force continued to flow out of him, his face grew more and more weary and the fatigue in his eyes grew and grew. It was as if he would fall down and scatter like a pile of ashes if you slightly poke him with a finger.
“……” Yuan Zhan opened and closed his mouth. He wanted to say something, but it was a word he had never used before.
Yuan Zhan tore open Yan Mo’s collar, and slowly bent down his body to the exposed chest. He pressed his cheek to his chest, feeling the warmth of his body, listening to the rhythmic beat of his heart.
He didn’t like the look on his face.
A sneer appeared on Yan Mo’s face where Yuan Zhan couldn’t see. Despite it, his hand started to move, slowly feeling its way down to the other man’s lower regions…
All of Yuan Zhan’s dissatisfaction and overbearing momentum evaporated into the air. Right now, is his Priest interrogating… no, punishing him?
The man’s breathing grew harsher, he suddenly opened his mouth and bit down on the younger man.
Yan Mo lightly hissed. He cursed inwardly, this dog!
His hand movements didn’t stop. It was repulsing, but he tried his best to suppress it to the deepest part of his heart. Think of it as treating a patient, a patient with impotence.
He might follow up with a prostate gland massage next time.
If doing this can let him tame a certain wild beast and make him his tool, he really didn’t mind lending out his right hand once in a while.
And he was sure this wouldn’t always be the case.
He was the priest, his power in this tribe would only grow by the day. The native people here had seen what he can do and recognised how important he was.
He was sure that, even if he was to completely reject Yuan Zhan now, the other guy wouldn’t be able to disregard everything and burn all bridges with him just to fᴜᴄk him once.
In the future, when he becomes even more indispensable and has grown real power that belongs to him, when he has the ability to protect himself and strike back — Yuan Zhan will have to act more cautious towards him, unless he wants to stand on the opposite trenches with the Priest.
Yuan Zhan’s possessiveness of him and desires of him in that aspect, will be easy to get rid of, too. All men thinks with their lower half, not excluding himself. That’s why he even clearer how bad their self-control can be in some aspects. One day when Yuan Zhan found a more beautiful woman or man, and had endured for too long because he can no longer treat Yan Mo as he wished, his target would, naturally, change.
He might have to revise his judgement of this guy if he really can manage to wait for three or four years without going to someone else. But, can he, really?
A barbarian who was not bound by restraints of morals, who had always lived a lifestyle driven by primitive desires. He would only get more pent-up. Just wait until he finds someone who fits the bill better, he would definitely jump that guy or girl to satisfy his animalistic desires.
He would be growing up into adulthood and have a bigger, sturdier body too. According to so-and-so’s psychologist, as long as Yuan Zhan had that other person to transfer his ‘feelings’ to, he would very likely lose that desire for him and their relationship would become more like brothers and companions.
Just like Meng. After Meng was with Dofie, he never bothered Yan Mo saying he wanted to feel him again.
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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He was still more important than others in Yan Mo’s eyes. Mo would bless other people and have even blessed his disciple twice, but he would never punish other people like this, or let others strip him and hug him all night like this.
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In order to avoid making Mo bless him more than once, he never left his touch even once from the moment Mo’s hand touched his chest. They were always in close contact, all night until morning.
The next day, no one who had eyes can miss that their Lord Chief was in a good mood.
He even smiled at the dwarves.
Meng immediately leaned in close seeing such Yuan Zhan, boorishly nudging him with his upper arm and winked at him, “You slept with Mo? Can Lord Priest touch people already?”
“No.”
“Ah? Then how can yo—?”
“Of course I’m different.” The exuberant man suddenly roared to the skies from on top of the walls, then with one hand on the wall, he leaped across and let the gravity take him.
Meng was startled and hurriedly checked on his companion, but when he reached the edge of the wall, what he saw was their chieftain landing safely on the ground.
Is this the ability of a level four warrior? How can he be completely fine after jumping from such a high place! Meng felt extremely envious. Zhan didn’t say anything, but he still thinks his rapid leap in ability must be connected to frequently sleeping with Mo.
…
Three days after that was a time of great celebration for the Jiuyuan people.
The heavy rain stopped, the sun had finally come out and their priest’s legs had recovered!
With all these good events piling on top of each other, their days seem endlessly hopeful.
Kathi and Langlang went to meet with Yan Mo.
“Venerable Lord Priest, our Worwo clan will never forget the help you and your clan gave during this time. We had a wonderful time during our stay here. Not only did you provide us with a safe and warm place to stay, you also gave us food to eat. Moreover, you and your disciple treated our wounded and you have also taught us so many things that we didn’t know before. Benevolent priest of Jiuyuan, not only do you have a miraculous ability to talk to any race, you have a beautiful heart as well as the wisdom granted by the Primordial God.”
Yan Mo had heard so many words of praise and flattery that he was more or less immune to them by now.
And he was thinking the dwarven ancestral shaman was not using such extensive vocabulary to praise him purely out of gratitude.
“The heavy rains have now stopped. My clansmen and I have concluded that we shall leave the next morning so that we don’t trouble you any further.”
Yan Mo’s lips ticked up. He asked in a gentle tone, “Where do you plan to go?”
Kathi and Langlang looked at each other, Langlang answered, “We thought we would head to the east. We are accustomed to living in a forest, and there is a forest on the other side of Qingyuan lake. Maybe we’ll be safe from the monsters there.”
Yan Mo nodded. “I will let people prepare some dry rations for you.”
Joy appeared on Kathi and Langlang’s faces. Langlang followed up this concession with a more brazen request: “Then, can you also give us some of those pink grains?”
Yan Mo laughed out, “Of course. But, shouldn’t we talk about the remuneration now?”
“Remuneration?” Although Kathi and Langlang had never heard this word, they understood what Yan Mo’s saying.
“You said that you will repay me. I am a very practical man, I don’t like waiting for things to come, I want that repayment as soon as possible.”
The two dwarves exchanged glances again. They thought that Yan Mo would be easy to handle, who’d have thought that the other guy would so frankly demand the repayment to their face?
“But we already gave you so many combs! A lot of combs!” Langlang emphasised.
“Those combs? Give me a number and by tomorrow our people can give you that many combs back. Ours might not look as pretty as your combs, but they can still be used. We can even make you combs from the horns and bones of beasts.”
“Horns and bones can be made into combs too?” Langlang was astonished, but quickly waved his hand, “That’s beside the point. Venerable priest, your tribe didn’t have combs at all before we came here. You can’t take something you learnt from us as yours.”
“Very well. If that’s so, let us carefully count all the charges.” Yan Mo grabbed the stone slate that was set up on the table and jotted everything down one by one for the dwarves.
The dwarves rubbed their noses, feeling ill at ease. Yan Mo’s four guards closely stared at them, as if afraid the dwarves will eat and run.
“First, the price for the stone building we provided: Staying at the corner tower is one adult goat for one night, and it’s one bull per night in the gate tower. We have lent you the four corner towers and one gate tower; your boarding fee for each night is four goats and one bull. You stayed there for sixteen days, that’s sixty-four goats and sixteen bulls.”
Yan Mo drew a simple goat and bull on the stone plate and put 64 under the goat and 16 under the bull.
“What! Why is it so many!” Langlang jumped out of his chair.
“Not at all. There’s 206 of you, I should actually count the boarding fee separately per person but I didn’t because your circumstances is bad enough.” Yan Mo smiled, then continued, “And then…”
“There’s still more!?” Langlang shouted again.
“Of course there’s still more. Boarding is boarding, food is counted separately. Your 206 people ate more than two thousand large fish that we caught, which is about as much as four hundred adult goat, and a lot of the wild greens too.”
“How can there be so many…” Langlang clutched his head.
“That’s because you guys normally don’t count them. Eight of your people can roughly eat one whole goat in a day. That much appetite is still normal, actually.” Yan Mo added drawings of fish and plants on the plate and jotted down the detailed sum under it.
“Our people have to face dangers when we hunt, catch fish, and pick plants, and yet, we still provided you with a large amount of dry firewood and clean water. Oh, and our most precious salt, too. Our roast meat and hot soup are delicious, aren’t they? It’s because we cooked it with our most, most precious item from our tribe, red salt. These are all separate costs, it’ll be another 16 adult bulls.”
Langlang opened and closed his mouth, he already didn’t know what to say.
Kathi lowered her head, it’s unknown what she was thinking.
Yan Mo still continued his counting, “Now those combs of yours… let’s say for a moment that they are as precious as you say. Even then, can they be more precious than your people? When you first arrived, there were close to 90 people needing treatment, five were heavily injured and some were sick. Our tribe treated your people, I had even blessed them myself. Those with heavy injuries recovered instantly, we made sure everyone survived. You gave us 61 combs, if we say one of your combs pays for one person’s treatment, there are still more than 20 accounts left unpaid. Shall we count them separately, now? This time we don’t want combs, let’s turn it into food again. For one person’s treatment, we will just take one goat, and one bull each for the heavily injured people. That’s already being considerate for you.”
The two dwarves became mute as they watch the ever-increasing number on the stone slate.
“The most important part is my teachings. You listened to my lessons even though you’re not part of my tribe. That is knowledge from the Primordial God, only Jiuyuan people can learn it. Since you’ve audited my class, you should know how precious the knowledge I teach is. One lesson is one bull per person, so you owe us 1,000 bulls for those 16 days of class.
Yan Mo kept his eyes on the two dwarves who looked a bit angry now, and said matter-of-factly, “This price is a definite bargain for you. Those knowledge are very precious, anyone who understands their value would know it’s not a loss even if you trade a whole tribe’s wealth for what you’ve learnt in these 16 days. I’ve only let you into my class because I can see you have potential.”
Langlang and Kathi didn’t refute these words, they also knew how valuable those knowledge are. They had only learnt for 16 days but it really opened up their minds, they’ve really learnt a lot. If possible, they actually wanted to keep learning, but…
Yan Mo stood the stone slate up, “After calculation, you owe us 1037 bulls, 490 goats, 2420 big fish, 3135 wild greens. How will you pay it? We don’t accept combs and other things we don’t need.”
Langlang and Kathi completely lost their voice. To think that they had thought he was a good person! They even thought these big fools were very warm and hospitable, extremely kind, and so easy to dupe too. They were in a rush to leave because they were afraid these people will start to notice how much they ate as time goes on and start asking them to pay back everything… But turns out, the other party was already keeping accounts from the start!
Langlang and Kathi didn’t know the meaning of ‘keeping accounts’ before, even now they can’t even pronounce it, but it had become a term that’s deeply engraved in their minds.
“Our chieftain said you can pay us back with slave—”
Before Yan Mo could finish, the two dwarves stiffened and Langlang stood on his chair and yelled, “We will never let our people be your slaves! Never! Is this invitation to war? Come on then, we’re not afraid of you!”
The four guards aimed their spears at Langlang when he started shouting, they stared at the dwarves with full alert.
Kathi was going to react, but Langlang already cried for war beside her, making her turn around to look at her companion instead.
“War? Alright. But you still have to clear up all your debts with us before we start fighting. The Worwo clan are smart, diligent, kind and earnest, I trust you are different from those monsters who attacked you. There’s no way you would be as shameless and gluttonous as those monsters.”
War? The four guards couldn’t understand what the dwarves’ are shouting, but they could understand their priest’s words. Once they heard the dwarves say the word ‘war’, one of them nodded to the other three and quickly slipped out. He had to tell the chief about this.
Not long after he left, a patrolling group who heard what happened rushed in, immediately protected their Lord Priest, and surrounded the two dwarves.
It was fortunate that they were talking in the gate tower and no one else can see what’s happening, or…
Langlang was about to shout again but Kathi threw a punch at her Leader’s face. “Shut up and sit down!” She scolded angrily.
Kathi turned around and calmed herself down before saluting Yan Mo, “Venerable Lord Priest; If all you want are slaves, I think you wouldn’t have let us into your class or treated us so kindly. It’s true that we have no way of paying back those bulls and goats you have calculated. There is something you want us to do for you, am I right?”
Yan Mo returned her greeting. “Venerable Lady Shaman, I have always admired your cool head and wisdom. But, you seem to have misunderstood, it’s not that I want your clan to do something for me. I don’t want anything in return, either. Your clan took refuge in our tribe and I am treating this event like a transaction to make things easy. We have provided you with all you need during your stay, and now, you can just pay it back using the currency that we have decided on. I can assure you that the price I listed is definitely fair. You’ll reach the same price even if you count it again yourself.”
Kathi knew Yan Mo was telling the truth. Though the number total of those bulls, goats, fish and greens seemed enormous, she knew that they’ll also get the same total if they count it again with the class’s method. There shouldn’t be any tricks in the number total. The reason why it became such a huge number is because their clan is too big and are strong eaters.
Kathi replied bitterly, “You should’ve told us what your prices are from the beginning.” Then we wouldn’t have eaten so much, or so thoughtlessly run into another priest’s class.
“You said you will pay us back. I thought you’re prepared to pay, no matter the price. If you really can’t give us that much prey, you can pay us back using something else of the same value.”
“We… don’t have anything else.”
“Really? Now that’s troubling. But no need to worry, the Jiuyuan tribe follows the commands of the Primordial God. There can be no slave in our tribe.”
Langlang and Kathi visibly heaved a relieved sigh, hearing that Jiuyuan do not have slaves.
Yan Mo laughed as he put down the stone slate, “In our tribe, when someone can’t pay up the amount of the transaction, they have the option to work as contract workers. Contract workers are people who do things for the contractors to pay back their own debt. These include helping to tan the beast pelts and polish the stone tools, or helping in hunts, looking after the kids, roast meat, building a tent, and other things.”
Kathi’s eyebrows scrunched while Langlang directly yelled, “What’s the difference between that and making us your slaves!?”
“Of course it’s different.” Yan Mo gestured at the patrol and guards to lower their weapons. “Slaves can never be free unless their master allows it. They have less food, thin clothes, and have to work day in and day out. Contract workers will only be helping the contractor they have a debt to, they are still free people and only works during working hours. Once the debt is paid, they no longer have to keep working.”
The dwarves fell into deep thoughts.
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Loved it! It’s so fun watching their interaction, I wonder what fun and important things the dwarves will come up with for the tribe! thank you so much!
Noooo I caught up 😭 and all the comments are from 3 months ago 😩
Hope you come back soon, this story is amazing and your translation is so smooth 👌
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Curious if CG has dropped translating this story? I hope not, as all other translations I’ve found for it are pretty unreadable, to the extent it just doesn’t make any sense. I really hope CG hasn’t dropped this!
Thank you for the translation. it has been a while since the last update, Is it dropped?
It’s been 7 months. 😢
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Thank you for the chapter and the truly amazing quality of translation. Thank you for all your time and effort put into this translation
Is this dropped??¿
Hi, I read last time that the translator was busy IRL so I’m not sure if it’s just a hiatus, or has this novel been dropped?
I finally caught on but it hasn’t updated in so long. Is this novel dropped ? Please dont 😭
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This novel is my comfort novel idk y but from time to time i often come back and reread it even when the already translated version is really low quality I just really love this work…been keeping an eye on here so that when its translated a bunch I’ll read it….and i did…trust me there is so much of the novel lost or missed in the low quality version 😔….it was such a joy to finally read a translation fitting this awesome novel….u did so so so good kudos to u ❤️…i do hope some kind soul pick this up translate it and quench my lust for this novel hehehe 🤞