The "Multilingual Sweet-Talk Translation Contest" at the Green Ox Medical Academy turned into a chaotic battle of tongues today—Huwa set up ten "sweet-talk cauldrons" in the martial arts arena, each steaming with the sweet mist of a different country. The Western Regions cauldron smelled of cumin, the Silla cauldron exuded the aroma of ink, and the Arabia cauldron drifted with the sweetness of roses. Protagonist struck Huwa's custom-made "multilingual sweet gong," and the sound of the gong unexpectedly mixed with the words for "start" in Chinese, Persia, and Silla, startling even the ants by the cauldron edges as they marched with sweet-grass flags and chanted slogans.
"Listen up!" Huwa stood atop the sweet-talk tower, waving a spinning "garbled sweet flag." "Today's test is 'medical terminology translation.' Anyone who can translate the sweet phrases of the *Treatise on Cold Damage Diseases* into three foreign languages will be rewarded with my 'bursting translation candies'!" No sooner had he finished speaking than Muhammad from Arabia tossed a "four-humor balance bean" into the "spleen and stomach cold deficiency" sweet cauldron. The bean instantly projected Persian script reading, "Phlegm is over-cooled, chili crystal is advised." Meanwhile, Apprentice Jin from Silla translated "liver depression transforming into fire" as "bamboo grove fire is excessive, bamboo and chrysanthemum ink needed," with the ink drawing bamboo stalks complete with Chinese characters inside the s…
Chapter 470