Translated by Dardex
The sky was gloomy and rainy.
The training ground was completely empty.
A group of teenagers formed a circle around as Zhen Jin fell to the ground.
The teenagers looked down at Zhen Jin and laughed and taunted with faces of disdain.
A blue haired burly figure with hair sticking out from his head like steel needles took the
lead.
The blue haired teenager while crossing his arms and stepping on Zhen Jin's shoulder
said: "Zhen Jin, you gave me something good to remember. Your Bai Zhen family has
fallen from grace and is defeated! Did you really think you could stand on equal footing
with us?"
The blue haired teenager suddenly raised his foot and kicked Zhen Jin's head and
smiled: "Today we gave you a lesson! From now on, no matter where you see us in the
castle, you must obediently bow your head and get out of my way."
"A lesser noble must act like one. If I ever see you look at me Qing Kui, I will cripple
you."
"Do you understand?"
Qing Kui growled as he slammed Zhen Jin's head into the mud.
"I under...understand. Cough cough cough!" Zhen Jin quietly said.
"Hahaha." Qing Kui smirked, lifted his foot and walked away.
Before leaving, he spoke again: "Of course Zhen Jin, if you are not convinced, you can
challenge me any time. I Qing Kui will be waiting anytime anywhere!"
"Cough cough cough." Zhen Jin struggled to sit up. He coughed again because opening
his mouth allowed dirty water to get into his throat.
Seeing his depressed look the teenagers lost interest.
"Pooh, what a person!"
"Did he really think he could challenge young master Qing Kui? With what?"
"An embroidery needle? Hahaha."
With the rain falling hard, the teenagers grouped around Qing Kui and burst into
laughter as they entered the castle.
Zhen Jin sat in the mud and let the rain hit him.
He was covered in wounds and had a pale complexion. After sitting for a while, he
looked at the sword in the mud.
It was his sword.
It was a very thin rapier.
The rapier sat soaking in the muddy water showing no glimmer of its past.
The memory suddenly ended here.
Zhen Jin came back to reality and couldn't help but frown: "I am from the Bai Zhen
family? Their territory seems to be located in the south. The southern nobles joined the
Shen Ming Empire one hundred years ago. I seem to be an Earl.
Around one hundred years ago, Emperor Shen Ming swiftly conquered and united the
continent even making the most stubborn resistance surrender.
These stubborn resistors became the new nobles of the Shen Ming Empire.
However prior to the war, the Southern nobles and the Shen Ming Empire nobles had a
long time hatred for each other.
Both parties had many friends and family die on the battlefield. Both were covered in the
blood of each other.
So when the new nobilty joined Templar Knights like Zhen Jin they naturally suffered
from the old nobility's supression and discrimination.
Zhen Jin felt a little puzzled.
This is a memory of humiliation yet he did not have any anger or hatred.
"Strange, I feel calm as if I am a bystander."
"One more thing..."
He focused directly not on the contents of the memory but on a question--why did the
memory appear?
"This memory appeared when I tried to use the long sword."
This is the same type of weapon but when I tried the scimitar I did not have any
memories emerge. But when holding the hilt it emerged.
Back then at the river, the first thing I could remember is was the oath I took when
joining the temple. That time was the first time I heard the word templar from Zi Di's
mouth.
Zhen Jin reviewed these two experiences and speculated: "It seems the key to
unlocking my memories is to find a trigger point."
This trigger could be a word or an object like this sword.
Zhen Jin thought deeply.
He looked at the ordinary long sword and asked in his heart: "If I were not holding this
long sword, but the scimitar would my memories still appear?
"If I want to activate my battle qi what kind of trigger should I look for?"
Zhen Jin and Zi Di dug together and buried the two guards and moved on.
Zi Di followed the exploration team's path to go back.
The two dared not go deep into the rainforest.
It seems the deeper in, the greater chance of encountering a gold level demon beast.
With no way to use battle qi or magic, the two are in a very dangerous situation. Instead
of randomly exploring the unknown they retread the same path.
At least the current crises during the journey have been solved or were detected.
Of course there would also be new problems like the bloodline snake.
But compared to other routes this is undoubtedly the safest one. After hiking for a while
it was starting to get late.
The young couple carefully chose a place and arranged to spend the night there.
Dry wood and grass were not hard to gather.
Zi Di kneeled next to the fire wood with some flint.
Click, click.
She hit two flints together and quickly created a spark.
Fire spread to the grass and turned from orange to red burning quickly.
A small smoke cloud rose up.
Zi Di quickly put aside the flint and blew once.
The breeze fanned the flames and it quickly spread across the hay growing to the size
of a fist and turned the smoke thick.
"That will do." Zi Di's face was happy and stepped back.
After a while the flames completely spread forming a bonfire.
Zi Di put away the two flints.
In the past she only needed to snap her fingers to create a small flame.
This is one of the magician's spells.
But on this island, iron magic is completely unusable and impossible. Instead regular
firestarters like flint are much more practical.
Without flint, creating fire by hand is quite troublesome.
As the fire burned it created warmth and light chasing away the darkness of the night.
The couple did not use the fire to cook but sat around eating rations and drinking water.
Regardless of whether it was the flint, rations, or water all were obtained from the two
dead guards.
Although the rations are hard to swallow in this case one can't be picky.
Today's trek was full of thrills. They managed to stay alive even amongst all the demon
beasts including those on the silver and gold levels. They also found a bit of equipment
and plenty of food and water. Can't all of this make them feel happy and extravagant?
After eating and drinking, the couple carefully organized the remaining food and water.
Zhen Jin calculated in his heart and slightly frowed: "We only have enough food and
water for two days."
Whether it is a girl or a young man, they need to eat more than normal people.
Especially Zhen Jin who needs to eat three times as much as Zi Di.
This is not surprising.
Zi Di practices magic and her vitality is iron level. Zhen Jin is likely to have silver level
cultivation. The higher the vitality the greater the food intake and nutrition needed.
Zi Di estimated: "It will take us seven days to get out of the rainforest following this path.
But it doesn't matter we brought enough supplies along the way and established many
campsites along the way. There are some supplies at these campsites. So if there are
no surprises food should not be a problem.
Zhen Jin nodded and felt relieved.
He took out the long sword and wiped it with a cloth.
Weapons need to be maintained.
Although the long sword is ordinary it brings Zhen Jin a sense of security.
"Too bad there isn't a crossbow."
Civilians were forbidden from using crossbows but Zhen Jin's group had some when
going to Bai Shang City.
According to what Zi Di said the expedition team searching for Zhen Jin had five
crossbows.
But along the way they were lost.
After the blue haired wolf took a volley of arrows it specifically targeted the shooters and
even directly bit the weapons themselves.
Seeing Zhen Jin wiping the long sword, Zi Di came over: "Senior let me examine your
injury."
Zhen Jin nodded.
After removing the bandage, he found that most of his injury had healed.
"Good medicine." Zhen Jin praised.
He sat on a rock and Zi Di kneeled down.
The girl first pulled out some medicinal powder and sprinkled evenly over the wound
then softly wrapped a new bandage onto Zhen Jin.
Lastly Zi Di put on Zhen Jin's arm guard.
Zi Di looked at the arm guard and sighed: "If only senior had this iron arm guard earlier
then the bloodline snake would not have hurt you."
The fire reflected off the arm guard with a blur of orange light and onto Zi Di.
Zi Di's black hair under the light of the fire flashed a halo.
Her wheat skin looked delicate. At that moment a bodily fragrance passed through Zhen
Jin's mind.
Zhen Jin moved involuntarily and could not help but reach out and stroke Zi Di's hair.
Zi Di shivered.
"Sei..., Senior. " Zi Di bowed her head and seemed to be frightened like a nervous kitten
holding its breath by Zhen Jin.
Zhen Jin saw she was uncomfortable and he quickly retracted his hand asking lightly:
"Zi Di what kind of person do you think I am?"
The young man asked with the memory lingering in his mind.
After the second memory appeared he had been thinking and reflecting on it.
"As a Templar Knight from southern nobility it is a guarantee to be discriminated
against."
"But in my memory am I a coward?"
"No, not necessarily."
Zhen Jin felt there were other possibilities.
These days he knows himself.
Memoires only serve as one of many ways to judge oneself.
For example when Zhen Jin woke up and opened his eyes, he saw the wolf jumping into
the air. Instantly without thinking he attacked. In the end, although he accidently killed
the wolf, it still showed Zhen Jin's solid foundation in combat.
Subsequently after seeing the giant lava turtle, a powerful gold level creature, Zhen Jin
always kept calm and collected even when nervous.
Later on when he found the guard's body he searched it carefully and calmly without
disgust as if it were normal. This may be proof that he has battle experience. At the very
least, veterans would not react to such actions.
When following the clues he could easily extrapolate the fight between the wolf and the
guards. This power surprised him a little.
In my memory when challenged by Qing Kui I didn't really fight. There are two
possibilities."
"The first is that I was weak but trained and became strong."
"The second was that I feigned weakness."
Zhen Jin felt the second possibility was more likely.
The reason being that when the memory appeared, he was calm and even a bit
indifferent.
If it really was humiliating, shouldn't his heart have been hateful and angry?
Facing Zhen Jin, Zi Di pondered for a moment and responded: "Senior Zhen Jin I do not
know much about you."
"But based on the rumors, senior you were not close to women and was a loner. Even
when something big happened you do not show emotions."
You spent most of your time at the temple as a serious and silent ascetic. Also your
food, your clothing, and even your every move were elegant and calm like a rich noble.
Although you had few friends you were very helpful, protected the weak, and helped the
poor. The lower class admired you senior.
Senior when you suddenly moved your hand and successfully entered the Bai Sha City
Lord's competition you surprised the other templars.
"Oh?" Upon hearing this Zhen Jin couldn't help but frown.
Zi Di's reply made his heart quickly visualize a young man with a castle.
But what surprised the teenager the most was that he did not understand the situation
between him and Zi Di.
"What is going on?"
"Is she not my fiance?"
"If it is not love then why did she not leave me?"
"What is the relationship between us?"
Zhen Jin wanted to continue asking but suddenly a buzzing noise appeared.
The two immediately turned their heads to look at the jungle which suddenly lit up with a
thousand "flames".
The "flames" converged into groups and swarmed Zhen Jin and Zi Di.
"What is this?" Zhen Jin got up quickly and protected Zi Di with a dignified look.
A small part of the "flame" exuded a bronze level vitality.
"This is?" Zi Di saw the true face of the "flames" and her face became pale.
These are fire-poison bees! Senior we need to run!" Zi Di decisively stepped forward
and put Zhen Jin behind her.
"Go quickly senior!!" Zi Di shouted urgently revealing a deathly spirit.
Author's note
Sorry, today's update is a bit late. Yesterday, we discussed a way with the
management, and tomorrow we will announce a new group of new books. Last night, I
spent more than 2 hours communicating with the friends in the group and answering
some questions. But there are still many groups that have not gone. I received a
message from the management this morning, saying that some groups waited for an
hour last night, but I did not come! Bow and apologize here! One's energy is too limited.
This week I will take another time to communicate, and I will start to improve this activity
mechanism
Notes
You know when looking at Zhen Jin's name, it translates to Golden Needle. Apparently
the author has stated this is significant. What I didn't expect when reading through again
was more needle metaphors from him. That was a surprise and I suspect that more are
hidden by the veil of mtl in future chapters. Also the author in these past few chapters
implies that blue hair is a sign of evil. (I mean he's not wrong)
Side notes
Rip Zi Di isn't a jade beauty with her tan skin.
Qing Kui is the first arrogant young master of the series who is also entirely irrelevant
for all currently released chapters.
I highly suspect that magical weapons are in this world as the sword Zhen Jin has right
now is called "ordinary".
Finally world building within a flashback cliche.
Translation Notes BY DARDEX
1. 子爵领 translates to viscount leader. Debating whether this means a family that has
fallen from grace
2. 给我乖乖让路,缩到一边去 translates to obediently give way, and shrink off to the
side) (get out of my way sorta summarizes this interaction
3. 下等贵族就要有下等贵族的样子: "A lesser noble must look like a lesser noble." is the
more direct translation
4. 刺剑 translates to bayonet but I feel this can't be right so I am going to go ahead and
translate it as rapier
5. The introduction of the holy light empire. I will translate it as Shen Ming Empire
because translating names usually doesn't happen.
6. Help plz on this. I actually don't know if my translation is correct. I tried to get the
correct meaning out but I am not sure my translation is accurate
7. uses 和 but or makes more sense for grammar
8. Put "current" as there will be new problems but all current problems are solved
9. Not sure if I directly translated it correctly but I do know how firestarting works.
10. 戏法之 translates to trick but I think spell works better unless it really does mean
trick down the line
11. debating whether 被禁���得死死的 means left for dead
12. Everytime I see "少年,少女" or "少年和少女 I will use couple.
13. 生命层次跃 translates to level of life which I will translate to vitality. Also cultivation is
修为 nice
14. 针金的心思却不在儿女情长上面: I really want to translate this as Zhen Jin wasn't a
pedophile and he quickly retracted his hand.