Chapter 228: Dark Leopard dies for love

第二十九节：幽豹殉情

Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral

The setting sun was dyed like blood as the clouds on the west resembled burning flames.

残阳如血，西天火烧云连绵一片。

Under the setting sun, the footless bird started slowly dropping down after having flown for the majority of the day.

晚霞之下，飞行了大半天的无足鸟，开始缓缓下落。

It had made a series of extreme diving and rising actions, while suffering from the explosion of the human torch; its body was filled with cracks and could no longer continue to fly.

经过一系列超越极限的拉升俯冲，承受住火人的爆炸，它浑身都布满了裂纹，已经再无力飞翔了。

Bam!

砰。

Under Fang Yuan’s meticulous control, the footless bird finally fell into a forest.

一声轰响，在方源尽量的操纵下，无足鸟终究坠落到了一片森林当中。

Smoke and dust flew everywhere and groups of beast escaped in a panic.

一时间烟尘四起，群兽奔逃。

“Where is this?” Bai Ning Bing jumped off from the bird and surveyed her surroundings.

“这是何处？”白凝冰跳下鸟背，环视周围。

The trees were short and thick, but had a lot of lush leaves, unlike the sparse amount in the bone trees of Bai Gu mountain. The trees in this forest were like a canopy blocking the sunlight; and the leaves were all purple – light purple, dark purple, reddish purple, violet…

周身的树木又矮又粗，但是枝叶特别繁盛，不像白骨山上的骨树那样稀疏。这里的山林棵棵如华盖般，叶片皆是紫色。

淡紫、暗紫、紫红、嫣紫……

The evening wind blew over, if one looked into the distance, all they would see was a sea of purple.

晚风吹来，放目远眺，形成一片紫色的浪潮。

“A purple forest… we have been moving north all along and according to our course, this should be near Zi You mountain.” Fang Yuan guessed.

“紫色的山林……我们一路往北，按照行程来算，这里应该是紫幽山附近。”方源估摸着道。

His countenance was covered with worry: “Zi You mountain is safe in daytime, but is extremely dangerous in night. It is getting dark, we need to quickly leave and find a safe place to stay.”

他眉宇间笼罩着一层忧色：“紫幽山白天安全，夜晚却极为危险。天快黑了，我们赶紧离开这里，找一处尽量安全的落脚点。”

“Okay.” Bai Ning Bing nodded.

“也好。”白凝冰点头道。

After over two hours, they found a cave luckily.

一个多时辰后，他们幸运地找到了一处山洞。

The cave’s original owner had been a Pouched Bear.

山洞的原主，是一头布兜熊。

This species of bear possessed a natural marsupial pouch on their stomach, just like kangaroo.

这种熊的腹部，长着一个天然的育儿袋，类似袋鼠一般。

Dry wood burnt with crackling sounds, the bonfire quietly blazed; the meat stew in the iron pot over the rack was already boiling, giving off a dense aroma.

干柴被烧得噼啪作响，篝火静静地燃烧着，架起的铁锅中肉汤已经沸腾，散发着浓烈的香气。

The fat, tender bear paws were already roasted. Besides these, there were also many delicacies, from Bai clan, stored in tusita flower.

肥嫩嫩的熊掌，也已经烧烤好了。除去这些，兜率花中还有从百家多带走的美食。

The two quickly began devouring the food, and their strained mood began to relax.

两人大快朵颐，一直紧绷的心弦慢慢地放松下来。

Bai Ning Bing suddenly laughed, her dark blue eyes looking at Fang Yuan: “Look, this is retribution. You burned that pair of brother and sister to death, and now, you yourself are burned to this state.”

白凝冰忽然轻笑一声，幽蓝的双眸看向方源：“你看看，这就是报应啊。你烧死了那对兄妹，没过多久，自己也被烧成这个样子。”

The light of the fire shone upon Fang Yuan’s face, the severe wounds on his face made him look horrifying and ugly. If a timid girl saw his appearance, they would probably scream in fear right then and there.

火光映照在方源的脸上，他脸上恐怖的伤势令其显得有些可怕和丑陋。若是胆小的女生，见到他的面目，恐怕当场就要吓得惊叫起来。

Fang Yuan, however, laughed, not minding the comment, he was even inwardly happy.

方源却笑了笑，不以为意，甚至暗暗为此高兴。

“Fortunately, we have meat bone Gu, it won’t be difficult to recover your original appearance. You just need to cut off the burned skin and flesh, then we can use the meat bone Gu to grow them anew. But, you are only a rank one and can’t use the meat bone Gu. Come, beg me, maybe my kind and magnanimous heart will feel pity for you, and heal you.” Bai Ning Bing wouldn’t let go of any chance to snide at Fang Yuan.

“幸好有肉白骨在手，你想要恢复原貌也不困难。只是把你全身烧伤的皮肉削掉，再用肉白骨治疗，就能长出全新的皮肉。不过，你现在的一转修为，可用不来肉白骨。你可以求我，兴许我大发慈悲，心生不忍，能为你治疗呢。”白凝冰不放过任何一个挖苦方源的机会。

Fang Yuan made a motion of raising his eyebrows, despite his eyebrows already being burnt off.

方源做了一个扬眉的动作，尽管他现在的眉毛已经被烧光。

“Why would I want to heal it? Isn’t this situation quite good?” He laughed, “We killed off the two young masters of Bai clan and also played the Bai Clan leader and the elder, do you think they will let us go? This injury saves me the effort to change my appearance.”

“为什么要治疗，这样的情况不是很好吗？”他笑起来，“我们把百家仅有的两个少主统统杀死，还戏耍了百家族长和家老，你觉得他们会放过我们吗？现在这样的伤势，正好省去了我改头换面的功夫。”

Earth hearing ear grass was destroyed; Fang Yuan’s right ear was shattered. The injuries to cartilage in his ear wasn’t something the meat bone Gu could heal. But even if he could heal it, he would rather have one ear less to change his appearance.

地听肉耳草已经毁灭，方源如今残缺右耳。耳朵里有软骨，这伤势并非肉白骨能够治愈。但他即便有治疗手段，也情愿缺着一只耳朵来改变形象。

In past, there was a demonic figure, Bai Shan Zi, who was captured and put into a prison. He feigned becoming mad; smearing his own stool onto his body, even cutting off his fifth limb and became a eunuch. His enemies finally believed he had gone crazy and thus loosened their vigilance, giving him a chance to flee. Later on, he returned to take revenge and massacred the whole family of his enemies, including the old and the young.

昔年，有魔头白鳝子，被人捉去，关押在大牢中。装疯卖傻，把自己拉的屎涂在自己身上。甚至自削第五肢，成为太监。他的仇敌终于认为他彻底疯了，因此放松警惕，被他逃走。日后，他归来报复，将仇敌一家老小杀得干干净净。

There was a great figure of the righteous path, Empress Wu Ji. When she was young, her own elder sister had seized her rights to the throne; she could only hide this grievance inside her. Her elder sister was jealous of her beauty and thus, to avoid letting her make things difficult, Empress Wu Ji cut off the bridge of her nose, disfiguring herself, but gained the space to survive and grow. After over ten years, she overthrew her elder sister’s regime and reestablished her authority. She then ordered her elder sister’s five sensory organs to be cut off, making her live in a state where she couldn’t choose to live or die.

也有正道巨头武姬娘娘，年幼即位时被亲生姐姐夺权，只能隐忍。但姐姐嫉妒她的美色，处处与其为难，她便自削鼻梁，作践自己，终于赢得生存空间和成长的时间。十多年后，她推翻姐姐的统治，重新执掌大权。将姐姐五官都削去，令其求生不得求死不能。

Throughout the history, all the great figures were good at biding their time and not being attached to fleshly appearance.

历来成大事者，都擅长隐忍，不耽于皮肉美色。

No matter if it were the righteous path or the demonic, regardless of men or women, they were all like this.

这点不管是正道，还是魔道，不管是男性，还是女子，尽皆如此。

After Empress Wu Ji took the control, she didn’t heal her nose even though she had the healing means, keeping this as a warning to herself. The Wu clan became the top clan of the Southern Border, suppressing Tie clan, Shang Clan, Fei Clan; its dominance couldn’t be challenged!

武姬娘娘掌权之后，尽管有治疗手段，但从未将鼻梁复原，以此来自我警惕。因此武家乃南疆第一家族，盖压铁家、商家、飞家，霸主地位无人可以撼动！

Those who indulged in fleshly appearance were mostly superficial and it would be difficult for them to succeed.

耽于皮肉美色者，几尽肤浅，难以成事。

Regardless of whether it was this world or Earth, both attested to this point.

不管是这个世界，还是地球的历史，都充分说明此点。

King You of Zhou, just for a smile from his beloved concubine Bao Si, lighted the warning beacons to trick the vassal states; what was the outcome? People lost their trust in him and he was killed by the barbarians.

周幽王为了爱妃褒姒一笑，烽火戏诸侯，最后什么下场？众叛亲离，被蛮族斩杀。

Lü Bu for Diaochan; King Wu for Xishi; Xiang Yu the conqueror took Consort Yu when he went on military campaigns; hahaha, what was the outcome of these people?

吕布之于貂蝉，吴王之于西施，项羽打仗居然把虞姬带着身边，呵呵，这些人又是什么下场？

By contrast, Cao Cao was short; Sun Bin was handicapped; Sima Qian was castrated…

反观曹操矮小，孙膑残疾，司马迁宫刑……

Everyone loves beauty. However, achievements were not in the least relevant to fleshly beauty, only a temperament which could firmly let go was the foundation to a great success.

爱美之心，人皆有之。但成就和皮肉美色毫无相干，能有毅然割舍的心性，才是成就大业的基石。

“Actually, it is you who is too dazzling, with your blue eyes and silver hair, you should change it.” Fang Yuan said as he looked all over Bai Ning Bing.

“事实上反倒是你，蓝眸银发，实在太耀眼了，需要改变一下。”方源打量了白凝冰全身，道。

Bai Ning Bing coldly snorted and didn’t reply.

白凝冰冷哼一声，没有说话。

Fang Yuan continued: “The footless bird was damaged, but we have only flown over few thousands of miles. Although we are quite far away from Bai clan, they will definitely come to capture us for the things we have done. We are in a dangerous situation, if they spread wanted posters, our days will become even more difficult.”

方源接着道：“无足鸟受损，我们只是飞了数千里。虽然距离白家寨较为遥远，但是我们做了这个案子，百家一定会来缉拿我们。处境还是危险的。若是他们发布通缉悬赏，那我们今后的日子就更加困难了。”

Bai Ning Bing considered the idea with a frown, before agreeing: “Alright, I am also tired of this outfit, changing into a new appearance might be a brilliant experience.”

白凝冰皱眉思索了片刻，切了一声：“也罢，这身行头我也腻了，换换造型的话，想来也是一个精彩的体验。”

Next, the two started to calculate their losses and gains.

接下来，二人开始总结此次的损失和收获。

There were losses; earth hearing ear grass, chainsaw golden centipede, carapace Gu, iron thistles, stealth scales Gu, footless bird, were all destroyed in the pursuit.

损失是有的。

地听肉耳草、锯齿金蜈、背甲蛊，铁刺荆棘，隐鳞蛊，无足鸟，都在追击战中损毁了。

However, to Fang Yuan, being alive was the most important.

不过对于方源来讲，能逃出生天，才是最重要的。

Only by being alive could there be possibilities and hope.

活着，才有可能，才有希望。

This was the foundation to everything.

这是一切的基础。

To continue living, even if he had to give up Spring Autumn Cicada, so what?

为了活下去，就算是舍弃掉春秋蝉又能如何？

In a word, being able to let go was the character of a great man!

一句话，能舍能弃方是大丈夫！

As for gains?

而收获呢？

There were large numbers of bone spear Gu and spiral bone spear Gu in Fang Yuan’s aperture. They had also obtained rank three flying bone shield, jade bone Gu, iron bone Gu, the healing type meat bone Gu and several bone books recording all kinds of recipes.

方源空窍中，大量的骨枪蛊、螺旋骨枪蛊。

三转级数的飞骨盾，玉骨蛊、铁骨蛊，用于治疗的肉白骨，以及记载着各种合炼秘方的几本骨书。

Besides these, they had also gained clearing heat Gu from the Bai clan.

除此之外，还有在百家营地收获的清热蛊。

Of course, the most significant was still the bone flesh unity Gu which they had successfully refined at such a dangerous moment.

当然最重要的，还是最后关头冒着风险，合炼成功的骨肉团圆蛊。

Compared to the gains, their losses weren’t that serious!

相比较收获，那些损失并不严重！

This was a complete inheritance, after all. The flower wine monk might be a rank five expert, a cut above the rank four Grey Bone Scholar, but Fang Yuan’s gains from the flower wine inheritance loses out to this Bai Gu inheritance.

毕竟这是一道完整的传承，那个花酒行者虽然为五转强者，比四转的灰骨才子还要高一筹。但方源在花酒传承中的收获，却输给了这个白骨传承。

The reason was Bai Gu inheritance had been carefully planned out for a long time by Grey Bone Scholar, whereas flower wine inheritance was completed in haste and hurry.

原因无它，白骨传承是灰骨才子用心设计，筹谋良久。花酒传承却是仓促而行，灵机一动的产物。

In fact, Fang Yuan only walked through the main path of the Bai Gu inheritance, there were many other side branches, and moreover, there were many steel teeth locks that weren’t knocked open in the Flesh Sac Secret Chamber. These things would all serve the Bai clan.

事实上，方源还只是走了白骨传承中的一条主线。还有许多岔道支线，另外肉囊秘阁当中，绝大部分的齿关都没有敲开。这些东西，都便宜了百家寨。

They controlled this place, and so long as they spent some time and energy, they could definitely devour the whole inheritance.

他们掌握了此处，只要耗费时间，花费精力，必定能将整个传承都吞掉。

“But it doesn’t matter, I have taken all the Gu worms in my list. As long as this bone flesh unity Gu displays its effects, it will far surpass the others. It is just that the earth hearing ear grass has been destroyed which is a bit troublesome.”

“不过也无所谓了。计划中的蛊虫，都被我取来了。只要这骨肉团圆蛊能够发挥效果，就远远超过其他的东西。只是地听肉耳草损毁了，这就有些麻烦。”

Fang Yuan’s philosophy was only those things that are practical can be valuable.

在方源的理念当中，只有实用才有价值。

They had lost the chainsaw golden centipede, but the spiral bone spear Gu could qualify to replace it. Iron thistles and carapace Gu were gone, but they still had canopy gu and flying bone shield. However, with the loss of earth hearing ear grass, they now had a hole in the investigative aspect.

损失了锯齿金蜈，可以用螺旋骨枪勉强替代。没有了铁刺荆棘、背甲蛊，却还有天蓬蛊以及飞骨盾。唯有地听肉耳草损失了，在侦察方面，就出现了短板。

They had lacked in the healing and movement aspects before, but now these two aspects were more or less filled, whereas a gap appeared in the investigative aspect.

以前是少治疗、少移动，现在这两方面差不多补齐了，侦察方面却出现了错漏。

In life, things often do not go your way.

人生之事，不如意者十之八九啊。

The night time in the Zi You mountain was much livelier than daytime. Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing took turns to keep watch; both didn’t get proper sleep.

紫幽山的夜晚，比白日热闹得多。这一夜，方源和白凝冰轮番守夜，都没有睡好。

Occasionally, roars and sounds of battles of the wild beasts came from outside the cave.

时不时的，从洞外传来野兽的嘶吼声，扑杀之声。

Especially at the crack of dawn, an intense battle occurred near the cave, waking up the soundly sleeping Fang Yuan.

尤其是到了黎明时分，一场激战就在洞口附近展开，熟睡中的方源也被惊醒。

This was a fight between two thousand beasts kings!

这是两只千兽王大战！

Two winged black feather python had provoked a dark leopard.

长有双翅的黑羽蟒，主动挑衅一只幽豹。

The two exchanged killing moves back and forth, their movements were very noisy, and their momentum, astonishing.

双方你来我往，展开厮杀大战，动静闹得很大，声势惊人。

Dark leopard was a ferocious beast specific to the Zi You mountain. They had purple spots on their skin, their bodies were powerful and they were extremely fast; they would often leave behind ethereal afterimages when they moved through the forest. Their movements were quiet and their prey usually ended up in their stomachs without even being able to react.

幽豹是紫幽山的特有猛兽，它们身躯矫健，一身花斑紫皮，速度极快，常在山林中穿梭，留下一道道幽雅的魅影。捕猎时，悄无声息，猎物常常还未反应过来，就沦为它们的肚中餐。

Fang and Bai were on the edge, they could even say they were trapped in the cave, unable to escape.

方白二人看得提心吊胆，他们可以说是被堵在洞中，难以脱身。

As time passed, the dark leopard gradually became outmatched, getting into a corner.

随着时间的流逝，幽豹渐渐不敌，落入下风。

This was a pregnant female leopard.

这是一头怀孕的雌豹。

Dark leopard always came in male and female pairs. The female leopard had been pregnant, and the male leopard had gone out to hunt. Who would have thought the black feathered python would attack during this gap.

幽豹向来是雄雌搭配，如今雌豹有孕，自然是雄豹出去猎食了。不想被黑羽蟒钻了空子。

In the end, the female leopard died by black feathered python’s constriction.

最终，雌豹死在黑羽蟒的缠绕之下。

However, before the black feathered python could escape, the returning male leopard saw it, then after another life and death battle, the male leopard killed the killer, but it was welcomed by the female leopard’s cold corpse.

但黑羽蟒也未走脱，被归来的雄豹撞见，又一场生死激斗之后，雄豹杀死了凶手，却只得到雌豹冰冷的尸躯。

Dawn came.

黎明到来了。

The first rays of light shone upon the dark leopard’s beautiful fur.

晨曦的光，照耀在幽豹一身优雅华美的皮毛上。

However, the female leopard was no more.

但是雌豹却已经死亡。

The male leopard paced back and forth around the female leopard’s side and let out a mournful whimper. They were so near, yet so far, separated by life and death.

雄豹徘徊在雌豹的身边，发出呜咽的悲鸣声。它们俩的距离是如此之近，又是如此之遥远，相隔了生与死。

“Why is it not leaving?” Bai Ning Bing grumbled.

“怎么还不走？”白凝冰暗暗叫苦。

“Relax, the male and the female dark leopards are of one heart, if one dies, the other will not continue to live alone.” Fang Yuan sighed, “I will go back to sleep.”

“放心吧，幽豹雄雌同心，一方死，另一方必然不会独活。”方源叹了口气，“我回去先睡个回笼觉。”

He returned to the depths of the cave to sleep again while Bai Ning Bing remained behind at the cave entrance to keep watch.

他回到山洞深处睡觉，白凝冰则在洞口留守。

The male leopard paced back and forth before lying down; it stuck out its tongue and started licking the female leopard’s wounds.

雄豹徘徊了一番，匍匐下来，伸出舌头，舔舐雌豹的伤口。

The wounds on the female leopard had turned pitch black due to the black feather python’s poison.

雌豹的伤口，一片漆黑，这是黑羽蟒的毒素所致。

The male leopard lived all its life here, it could distinguish this poison with only a sniff. However, it no longer cared now.

雄豹生活在这里，只要闻一闻，就能分辨出这种毒素。但如今，它却是不管不顾。

In the end, its resplendent eyes started dimming and slowly closed.

最终，它明亮的双眼越来越暗淡，眼皮子越来越沉重。

By the time it was noon, it had passed away. It was quietly lying together with the female leopard, their beautiful fur made them look like delicate artworks.

当等到中午时分，它也死了。静静地和雌豹躺在一起，漂亮的皮毛令它们俩看起来，仿佛是精美的工艺品。

Having personally seen this whole course of events, Bai Ning Bing couldn’t help letting out a deep sigh.

亲眼目睹整个过程，白凝冰也不由地叹了一口气。

Not long after, Fang Yuan woke up and walked out full of vigor, he saw Bai Ning Bing resting against the cave wall, staring blankly at the corpses of the two dark leopards.

不久后，方源醒来，精神饱满地走出山洞，便看到白凝冰依靠在洞壁，正看着这两具幽豹的尸体发呆。

“How is the harvest?” Fang Yuan asked.

“收获怎样？”方源问道。

Bai Ning Bing shrugged and spoke with a waning interest: “The Gu worms that could fly have all flown away, I don’t have any means to capture Gu. Besides, didn’t you also see last night’s battle? Those Gu worms died or are injured, the remaining aren’t something we need. Haha, if it were not for that, why would someone like you go back to sleep?”

白凝冰耸耸肩，有些意兴阑珊：“该飞的蛊虫都飞走啦，我可没有捕蛊的手段。再说了，昨天的战斗你不也看过了吗？那些蛊虫死的死，伤的伤，残留的都不是我们需要的。呵呵，若非如此，你这种人又怎可能主动去睡觉？”

Fang Yuan laughed: “Although they are two thousand beasts kings, the Gu worms on them aren’t anything great. But that doesn’t necessarily mean there are no harvests, hehe.”

方源笑了笑：“虽然是两只千兽王，但身上蛊虫的确不怎么样。不过没有收获却也未必，嘿嘿。”

Saying so, Fang Yuan walked towards the dark leopards’ corpses.

说着，方源就向幽豹的尸体走去。

《蛊真人》中英文对照版 第二十九节：幽豹殉情

《蛊真人》中英文对照版第二十九节：幽豹殉情