Chapter Two Hundred and Sixty Two â Unprofitable Business
On the mountaintop, He Xiang looked at the ruined Nan Sheng Village, paused for a moment, and then broke down sobbing.
Zuo Mo looked with slight fear at the female xiu nearby. She seemed to have resumed her past state of motionlessness. After yesterdayâs battle, the female xiu was much more sinister from every angle in his eyes.
This made him slightly insecure.
He would treasure his life and stay far from female xiu. Especially strong females that knew evil spells.
He had discussed with Pu Yao for a while yesterday and hadnât concluded anything. He still needed to work so after resting for a night, so he continued to build formation battle watchtowers.
After such a battle, the captives in the camp were as obedient as they could be. However, the issue that arose was that no one dared to go within three zhang of Zuo Mo.
Zuo Mo originally had a question to ask Yuan Jiang. But when he walked two steps towards the other, he saw Yuan Jiangâs face paled and his legs were trembling. Zuo Mo suddenly remembered that some of the enemies had been scared to death by the strong girl, and his steps instantly stopped. Yuan Jiang was a rare kind of genius. If he was scared to death, it would be so unprofitable. He could only stop moving.
He thought of the strong girl that wouldnât leave him alone. Wasnât he now the plague that no one would approach?
Zuo Moâs mood immediately became terrible. He waved his hand for Yuan Jiang to leave. Watching as Yuan Jiang ran away faster than a rabbit as though he was pardoned from death, his mood became increasingly terrible. However, when he recalled Pu Yaoâs dark expression, and undisguised rage, his mood instantly became better.
As expected, happiness was always built upon other peopleâs pain. Zuo Mo snickered and went back to building the city.
Just as Zuo Mo had seen, Pu Yaoâs mood was extremely terrible. He felt great failure at the appearance of the female xiu. He didnât know her history, nor the scripture she used, didnât know how her power really was, didnât know ⌠⌠anything.
Yet he also had no solution. If this was still the time when his strength had not been damaged, if he was unhappy, he could just pinch and make the person explode. But now his soul was extremely damaged. He had to act carefully and could only rely on Zuo Mo. Zuo Mo was the place he had put his soul in, and was now under threat from the female xiu. How could Pu Yao feel safe like this?
Also, he could not understand the female xiu. This point caused the insecurity inside to grow. If something occurred, he could do nothing. His strength had reached the lowest point in his life. The female xiuâs strength wasnât just ridiculously strong, but extremely strange.
âIt seems that we need to temporarily cooperate,â Pu Yao gritted out to the gravestone. âThis woman is too dangerous!â
The gravestone didnât make a sound.
Pu Yao smirked coldly. âArenât you afraid that something will happen to him? Other than him, do you have any other choice?â
The gravestone suddenly became as smooth and clear as a mirror, a figure blurrily appearing.
After the first formation battle watchtower, Zuo Moâs construction speed increased dramatically. This was due to him acclimating to the new changes of his body. Zuo Mo gave the move he had randomly created that day the name of âDiving From Heaven.â Accidentally performing âDiving From Heavenâ had made him realize many aspects of his new body.
The most evident was the consciousness. His consciousness had not developed very much over time as though it was stuck at a certain barrier. In the sky that day, when he had accidentally stirred the flames in the turbulent air, he had comprehended and instantly broke through in that moment.
The improvement in his consciousness was enormous. This also caused his speed in building formation battle watchtowers to dramatically increase.
The most difficult part of the formation battle watchtower was carving the formation. After his consciousness improved, it became easier to carve formations. Adding on that he had the experience of making one tower, his construction speed made people gape. Yuan Jiang who was watching from a distance increasingly felt that Boss was a monster.
One female and one male monster.
The demand of resources suddenly increased. Ji Wei and Sun Bao instantly were so busy they were dizzy.
Zuo Mo furiously built at a rate of one formation battle watchtower every two days. Tower after tower rose up. Zuo Mo used almost all of the empty ground to build formation battle watchtowers.
Zuo Mo had a strong feeling that the potential of his body was slowly being uncovered.
All kinds of heavy labor would squeeze out every bit of strength in his body; controlling the fire paper would consume every drop of his ling power; carving formations exhausted his spiritual power.
He suddenly felt some anticipation. When this city was finished, what would he become?
The anticipation and yearning of the xiuzhe in the camp increased every day. Such a strong city, adding such a dense patch of formation battle watchtowers, they thought that no one could destroy this.
Just as Zuo Mo was happily busy, Ma Fan and the others arrived at the camp with the enormous slave transporting boats.
Looking at the black batch of xiu slaves, Zuo Mo was at a complete loss for words. The one thousand and more captives that Gongsun Cha had sent back had already gave him a headache. Just after he had managed to settle them down, Ma Fan and the others had brought to him one thousand and more of xiu slaves, and just lianqi xiu slaves ⌠âŚ
Zuo Mo was exceptionally angry, pointing at the xiu slaves in front of him and asking expressionlessly, âWhat do I do with them?â
Ma Fan, Xie Shan, and the others were very careful. They also felt that their spoils this time were somewhat absurd. Xie Shan piled a smile on his face. âXiu slaves can be used to mine.â
âMining? I donât believe they can do as well as Lilâ Pagoda,â Zuo Mo said with a black face. Lilâ Pagoda and Zuo Mo were connected in mind. Hearing Zuo Mo praise it, it whooshed out of somewhere and smugly twisted its slightly chubby body. However, when it saw Zuo Moâs pot black face, its figure froze and then it fled.
Many incidents had told him when his daddy wasnât in a good mood, nothing good would come out of appearing in front of him.
Ma Fan carefully gave a smile as he said, âBoss, you donât know how poor the Outer Hall is, so poor that they only have xiu slaves. We didnât have any solution. If we came back with empty hands, that doesnât fit in with what you usually teach us.â
âYes, yes!â Lei Peng hurriedly agreed as he furiously nodded his head.
Zuo Mo smiled coldly. âNot bad, not bad! You guys really remember my words well.â
âOf course!â Lei Peng beat loudly on his hairy chest. Xie Shan and Ma Fan exchanged a look and obediently close their mouths. The two of them looked with sympathy at Lei Peng.
âThen you can support them.â Zuo Mo glanced at Lei Peng. âYou forgot the other phrase I said. We donât do unprofitable business. Oh, I will take it from your rewards.â
Lei Peng gave a sky-shaking howl and grabbed onto Zuo Moâs leg. âBoss! I was wrong! I really was wrong!â
The anger in Zuo Moâs heart erupted as he kicked Lei Peng out twenty zhang away and swore, âYou also know you are wrong! Ha! Do you know how much jingshi you people spend every day? Five pieces! Seven hundred people, three thousand and five hundred pieces of third grade jingshi every day! Do you really think ge is a tycoon? Ge is so poor right now ge almost canât eat!â
Everyone was scared by the acrimony in Zuo Moâs words that they were shaking. They found he was right as they thought about it. They would consume large amounts of jingshi when they cultivated every day. All of the expenses were provided by Boss. They had never thought about it before. Now that Boss calculated it, they jumped in fright. Many people suddenly felt guilty. As long as it was jingshi for cultivation, Boss was always open and had never shorted them.
âHa! Now you guys have taken back this many xiu slaves, you just want ge to go bankrupt!â Zuo Moâs anger had not eased. Nothing could infuriate him more than going bankrupt!
âBoss, weâll go steal jingshi for you!â Lei Peng rolled and climbed over to express his determination.
âRight, Boss, we canât let you lose!â
âWeâll rob them blind!â
The crowd of people instantly started howling. Their killing intent scared the one thousand xiu slaves into paling.
âThen what to do with the xiu slaves? Sell them?â Ma Fan carefully asked.
âSell to whom?â The anger in Zuo Moâs heart had decreased greatly as he snorted coldly, âWouldnât that be telling other people what you guys did Nan Sheng Village?â
Everyone stared at each other, and instantly found it was a problem.
âShould we kill them?â Xie Shan hesitantly asked. The expressions of many of the surrounding people were not natural.
Once the words came out, the xiu slaves that were nearest instantly paled and knelt down with a bang, furiously kowtowing and begging, âDaren! We can work! Weâre willing to do any work! Daren, we only ask for something to eat ⌠âŚâ
âGet up! Get Up!â Zuo Mo instantly had a headache. He had never seen anything like this before.
Those xiu slaves didnât dare to get up, all of them kneeling down in a wave as they furiously kow-towed, âDaren ⌠âŚâ
The already impatient Zuo Mo suddenly raged, âAll of you, shut up and get the motherf***ing up! Iâll kill anyone who kneels!â
These words were very effective at silencing everyone.
Zuo Mo didnât speak another word, turning and leaving.
Ma Fan and the others that remained behind looked at each other with frowns on their faces. Those people who had suggested to take the xiu slaves with them were full of regret but at this time, no one was in the mood to talk.
Zuo Mo found a formation battle watchtower in a dejected mood, and laid down. He might have many people under his command, but in reality, he still was a youth who hadnât seen much.
Wu Kong Sword Sect also had xiu slaves. He had some sympathy for xiu slaves. They were a group of pitiful people.
But life was not easy. His sympathy wasnât going to be used on xiu slaves he didnât know or related to. This group of xiu slaves were a great burden, but he couldnât do something like massacre all the xiu slaves.
Usually, he was used to facing these things from an objective perspective. Who could have thought that something like this would one day occur to him?
Little Mountain Jie was full of danger. Their goal was to quickly leave. Where did he have the energy to take care of this group of helpless xiu slaves? What Zuo Mo needed right now was xiuzhe with offensive power, and not xiu slaves that could not fight.
These xiu slaves also needed to consume ling grains or jingshi. Even though it wouldnât be a huge amount, but due to the large numbers, it wouldnât be a small amount. The already heavy burden would grow bigger.
Why had he encountered such a terrible matter?
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Zuo Mo laid down with anger and no strength. Looking at the exquisite formations on the ceiling, he fell into a daze.
Suddenly, Pu Yaoâs voice suddenly sounded in his mind, âI have a solution.â
Translator Ramblings: Poor Man Fan and Xie Shan. They sincerely want to be good and useful, and they try so hard. Now theyâve âfailedâ twice in a row.
Zuo Mo finally shows some of the pressure he is under. The jingshi has to come from somewhere, and people in Little Mountain Jie are not that rich. The stuff they get from conquering other people are not enough, especially since they have to pay the forgers for the city building materials and also Gongsun Chaâs army who probably needs more ling power as they expend it in fighting.
To continue on names, letâs talk about Wei Sheng. It is written as âéŚčâ. Wei is a very old surname, part of the Hundred Names. It also means tanned leather. Sheng has multiple means. The first is âvictoryâ or âto win.â It is also 'surpass,â 'superbâ and many other synonyms along those lines. Itâs a pretty simple name. Though nothing is as simple as Pu, which is just a rush or a vine, and one of the words in the Chinese name of dandelion. Plant based name for a species that came from plants ⌠⌠very easy to create names this way.