You might've noticed Cang Wuzi's dialogue being worded a bit weird. It was the same in Chinese to convey mystery and vagueness. Hopefully that was the feeling you got from reading it.
@Earthling thanks for the chapters, if I remember right, you are continuing the last chapter translated on bilili right? been months or years since the last time I read this manhwa
They aren't all on mangadex anymore but you can find translations up to chapter 72 online. I think you could find them on the english BiliBili website as well but they're not there anymore for some reason. As such I've started from chapter 73 onwards.
BTW, so the golden lotuses didn't just help Ah-Ting but also her brother, right? That's why he could ascend to the golden core stage without much danger. Did I get that right?
@Earthling thank you so much for these translations!
man, the reveal of Cang Wuzi being the head of the Proxies... in a way it's not surprising (he had no qualms about meddling with mortal affairs when he took Qu Chen at the start), but it's sad because Qu Chen idolizes him. will this pit Qu Chen and A-Ting against each other?
i'm also still confused about what happened to Qu Chen while he was sleeping.
even after reading the Bilibili translations... when his dream first started, Qu Chen experienced what looked like someone's mortal life (life and death in a snowy village, a man with a scar). was this Cang Wuzi's life or someone random, because the mortal didn't look like the white-haired green-eyed cultivator either...? Qu Chen also addresses this person as "Ancestor" and asks why they're showing him their past life.
then he turns into the white-haired green-eyed man, and we learn from the Fairies observing his sleeping body that cultivators can trap you in their dreams and you can lose your own identity. so this part makes some sense. but i'm wondering where this cultivator came from. Qu Chen entered the dream on a random island because he was trying to transfer qi to A-Ting, so some part of me thought it was the wood cultivator in A-Ting's sword (lol).
Qu Chen is eventually able to dispel the dream, but it's unclear why... the cultivator is going through a major tribulation, and then the screen shatters and Qu Chen sees his own master Cang Wuzi. did Cang Wuzi help Qu Chen break the dream's spell somehow? did he want Qu Chen to lay dormant and get stronger quickly by witnessing the white-haired cultivator's tribulation?
because when Qu Chen wakes up, he immediately endures a tribulation and it seems unusual that he'd manage it at his age. i know A-Ting helps him somehow with the golden lotuses, but i was wondering if Cang Wuzi orchestrated all of this to make Qu Chen grow strong quickly and join his side on the Proxies.
or am i getting it really wrong? i've been re-reading so much my brain is addled.
@Earthling thank you so much for these translations!
man, the reveal of Cang Wuzi being the head of the Proxies... in a way it's not surprising (he had no qualms about meddling with mortal affairs when he took Qu Chen at the start), but it's sad because Qu Chen idolizes him. will this pit Qu Chen and A-Ting against each other?
i'm also still confused about what happened to Qu Chen while he was sleeping.
even after reading the Bilibili translations... when his dream first started, Qu Chen experienced what looked like someone's mortal life (life and death in a snowy village, a man with a scar). was this Cang Wuzi's life or someone random, because the mortal didn't look like the white-haired green-eyed cultivator either...? Qu Chen also addresses this person as "Ancestor" and asks why they're showing him their past life.
then he turns into the white-haired green-eyed man, and we learn from the Fairies observing his sleeping body that cultivators can trap you in their dreams and you can lose your own identity. so this part makes some sense. but i'm wondering where this cultivator came from. Qu Chen entered the dream on a random island because he was trying to transfer qi to A-Ting, so some part of me thought it was the wood cultivator in A-Ting's sword (lol).
Qu Chen is eventually able to dispel the dream, but it's unclear why... the cultivator is going through a major tribulation, and then the screen shatters and Qu Chen sees his own master Cang Wuzi. did Cang Wuzi help Qu Chen break the dream's spell somehow? did he want Qu Chen to lay dormant and get stronger quickly by witnessing the white-haired cultivator's tribulation?
because when Qu Chen wakes up, he immediately endures a tribulation and it seems unusual that he'd manage it at his age. i know A-Ting helps him somehow with the golden lotuses, but i was wondering if Cang Wuzi orchestrated all of this to make Qu Chen grow strong quickly and join his side on the Proxies.
or am i getting it really wrong? i've been re-reading so much my brain is addled.
I also think it was the wood cultivator from A-Ting's sword. Because the memories that Qu Chen was reliving were the tree's memories. The tree basked in the sun and morning dew for 1000 years and acquired consciousness. After that, the tree took on a human form and started his cultivator path, and at some point he died in a heavenly tribulation. Qu Chen gets to relive the tree's whole life.
The reason that random mortal appears in those memories is because that mortal used to hang around the tree. But the memories were from the tree itself, not the mortal.