Great Merchant – Dao Ming

Previously on Dao Ming…

King Yanlou, Judge of h.e.l.l, his secretary Lin Bai and Zhu Wuneng, aka Pigsy/Pig Demon aka brother disciple of Son Goku got put to trial for releasing Li Fang Sing into a new Domain without authorization. The Rulers of the various Domain threw the charges out after finding out the truth, learning that there is a flaw in their Fate prediction system. Incidentally, they also find out that someone succeeded in the Dao of Creation, creating the Domain that Li Fang Sing’s soul currently resides in.

The sun is now dropping from its zenith as the willow tree’s curtain of foliage softly sweeps above the river, rustling softly in the gentle breeze. The resting youth slowly opens his eyes as the the warmth of the sun perfuses throughout his body as the willow’s shade shifts away from him. 

With natural movements, he gets up and pats his robe, shaking out the leaves and soil, before stretching with large, deliberate motions. Satisfied, he walks to the gourd embedded into the ground nearby, with a slender branch stabbing into its opening. He removes the branch carefully, the tip of which is broken, with a milky liquid over its breakage. He then peers into the gourd before giving a little swirl, nodding as he feels the satisfying weight shifting within. He swiftly corks the gourd and retrieves the small bundle of willow bark he had gathered in the morning and heads back to the village.
 

[T/N: This almost whooshed over my head, good thing I did some reading prior + help made everything clicked. Guanyin, aka the G.o.ddess of Mercy, has willow as part of her symbolism, in fact, she holds it in one hand while she hands a jar of water in the other. Considering that the f.u.c.ker is definitely referring to buddhist/hindu references here, I think this scene is intentional. This seems to be continuing from the very beginning of Chapter 1 btw]

[T/N: He said big brother Tiger… but it sounds really stupid in english, so yeah, going with senior instead. And eh… “You ate yet?” is used a greeting of sorts as well, just FYI.]

Hoist always implies verticality so if it’s not mentioned it’s supes confusing to a normal english reader

“Eh?” The man stills for a moment before clapping his hands. “Ah! Don’t worry, don’t worry, I didn’t intentionally make it for that d.a.m.n monk. Whoever pa.s.sed by would’ve gotten it, there’s just simply too much meat since that d.a.m.ned boar appeared from nowhere and attacked me. Actually, when you get back, can you send someone to help me haul these back tomorrow?”
 

[T/N: Apparently, some sects of buddhism allows their pract.i.tioners to eat meat as long as it wasn’t intentionally killed for them to consume, so the monk literally lucked out.]

“Physician Li(理), please, save my daughter!” A pair of husband and wife are kneeling on the floor, repeatedly banging their foreheads onto the rough, wooden floor.

“Then pay up!” The plainly dressed man with a scholarly appearance shakes his right hand that’s holding onto a measly 5 bronze coins.

“We don’t have that much money right now, I will be your ox and horse, please, I beg you, save her!” The malnourished husband bangs his head more vigorously as he replies, his fresh blood flicking from the broken skin on his forehead. The wife can only sob uncontrollably with her forehead flat to the floor.

The physician narrows his eyes. “You get what you paid for.” The man closes his hand that’s holding onto the coins and flicks his sleeve. “Tong!” The man throws 4 bronze coins to a youth standing to the side.

“Yes, master!” The youth steps forward after pocketing the coins, rummaging through his sorry-looking medicine bag before taking out a small medicine bottle.

“Wait, he’s the one that’s going to treat her?! That’s just asking for her to die, please, great Doctor, you can’t just watch her die.”

“Either you leave it up to Heavens, or you let him do it! Just to let you know, he can’t use anything over the worth of 4 bronze coins, if you want to leave it to ‘Heavens’, then I will give you back your money and you may leave!” The scholarly man says firmly. “Otherwise, even if his treatment fails, don’t come looking for us for revenge.”
 

[T/N: Tempted to change “Leave it to Heavens” to “leave it up to chance” since that’s the meaning, but keeping it cause of the flavour of the text~]

[T/N: I believe these things are made up, so don’t go thinking they are real medicine :P]

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SumguyoranotherApril 19, 2016 at 1:59 AM

Parvati is written as "G.o.ddess of the Snowy Mountain" or "Snow Mountain G.o.ddess" (雪山女神), which can be both a generic t.i.tle, as in, literally snow mountain G.o.ddess, but it"s also the name of the G.o.ddess in hinduism/buddhism as Parvati. 

Bhaisajyaguru is written as "Buddha of Medicine" or "The Pharmacist Buddha" (藥師佛), which, as you guessed it, could be generic or actual reference. 

So I had to wait a bit for some help from the people, already told the author to leave me some notes to work with, which... admitted he did, but I am... gonna need more than what he gave me... although, to be fair, this was mailed to me weeks ago, so I guess things will be easier to work with in the future chapters o/

Anyways, enjoy, this is tentatively labelled the "youth arc" internally, while chapter 1-5 were labelled the childhood arc. Been laying the criticism pretty thick on him, but he seems receptive so far, which is actually pretty rare. 

To the people affected by the recent disasters, take care of yourselves and family, hope this provides a good break for you, stay safe!