The two men heard a burst of cackling, coarsened with age, come from behind them. That Peach Red Grandma had dodged fast--even though she was severely injured by the force of Zhou Zishu's palm strike, she was not dead. As she regurgitated blood, she pointed at Liu Qianqiao and laughed, "A husband and his wife are…are merely birds in the same forest. When disaster strikes, they fly their own separate ways…much less that her, her relationship with Yu was not even socially legitimate, haha…throughout history, women have always been fools for love, while men have always been shallow of heart. She… could not understand even this, evidently, she did not die an unfair death, hers was no unfair death!"

Zhou Zishu glanced back at her, but did not bother with her. He simply rose and strode back in the direction they had come from.

Wen Kexing followed behind him, and after they had covered some distance, he suddenly asked, “Your gongfu seems to be of a higher skill level now than it was when I first met you…why is this so?”

Zhou Zishu’s footsteps halted. When he looked back, there was a rare solemnity to Wen Kexing’s expression.

Zhou Zishu smiled, pointed at his own chest and said, “When I first met you, it was sealing half of my internal energy.”

“What about now?”

“Now, about four-fifths of it as it was at my peak has returned.”

Yet, Wen Kexing did not seem exceptionally happy to hear this, but merely fixed his gaze on him silently. Zhou Zishu turned around and continued walking ahead, remarking flippantly, “When I die, all the martial prowess I had at my peak will have returned.”

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There aren’t major changes to the general content, I corrected some typos and sentences with erroneous structure, deleted a little bullshit, then I broke a confusing, convoluted extra into a Helian Yi chapter and a Wu Xi chapter, and completed them both. The approximate content can be inferred from the chapter titles.

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[1] The NU translation uses "Monk Gu" for 古僧, but I'm translating it as ancient monk which I think is slightly more appropriate.

[2] As the footnote in Chapter 6 of the NU TL explains: “The Eight Wastelands and Six Constituents (八荒六合), 八荒 refers to extremely remote areas beyond China; 六合 means the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down), basically everything in the universe.”

[3] The ancient Chinese calendar divided time into 60-year cycles.

[4] 你侬我侬 is from a poem about the tight bond of love by Yuan dynasty poet Guan Daosheng (a female poet!). I translated it a while back at:

[5] 心动, apart from “his thoughts”, also refers to that feeling when you think you might be developing a crush on someone (something like the Japanese doki doki)