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 "content": "Within the Aperture lay the sea of primeval essence.\n\nIts surface was smooth as a mirror, a deep green-blue, yet thick and viscous, gleaming with a bronze luster. This was the condensed bronze primeval essence possessed only by a first-turn Gu Master, commonly known as the Bronze Sea.\n\nThe sea rose to less than half the height of the Aperture—only 44 percent. This was the limitation of a C-grade aptitude.\n\nEvery drop was primeval essence, embodying the condensation of Fang Yuan’s essence, energy, and spirit, and symbolizing the life potential he had accumulated over fifteen years.\n\nGu Masters used this primeval essence to activate Gu. In other words, from this moment onward, Fang Yuan had officially entered the ranks of first-turn Gu Masters.\n\nHis Aperture had opened, and no more Hope Gu could merge into Fang Yuan’s body.\n\nFang Yuan gathered his thoughts. The pressure ahead was as solid as a wall, and he could not advance even one step further.\n\n“Just like in my previous life.” He gave a faint smile at the result.\n\n“Can’t you go any farther?” the Academy elder called from across the river, clinging to the faintest hope—one in ten thousand.\n\nFang Yuan simply turned and walked back, answering him through his actions.\n\nAt that, even the youths realized what had happened. A buzz rose at once, and the crowd erupted.\n\n“What? Fang Yuan walked twenty-seven steps?”\n\n“So he only has C-grade aptitude?!”\n\n“Unbelievable! He’s such a genius, yet he only has C-grade aptitude?”\n\nAn uproar swept through the crowd.\n\n“Big brother…” Amid the crowd, Gu Yue Fang Zheng lifted his head and stared in shock at Fang Yuan as he waded back across the river. He could not believe what he was seeing. His own big brother was only C-grade?\n\nHe had always believed that his brother would possess A-grade aptitude.",
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   "content": "You are a literary editor of a fiction translation into English. You are given the SOURCE text and its draft translation.\nBook genre: webnovel. Audience: adult webnovel readers. Book: «蛊真人».\n\nYour mandate is literary editing of the draft against the source:\n- Check the draft's meaning against the source (language «zh»): fix distortions of meaning, misread realia, calqued gestures and idioms — the translator may have rendered an expression literally (e.g. a bow as \"struck his head\"). Lean on the source, but write English, not an interlinear.\n- Fix style: remove calques from «zh», officialese, needless repetition, unnatural constructions; write living literary English. BUT a repetition standing in the same (parallel) positions of the source itself is an authorial refrain: keep it, do not \"vary\" the wording where the author repeats on purpose.\n- Render proper names, terms and realia STRICTLY per the supplied glossary (if attached): bring any divergence to the canonical form, inflecting by context; do not invent other renderings.\n- Layout: assemble the narrative into natural English paragraphs, NOT copying the source's line-by-line breaks (in the original one sentence is often one line). Start each line of direct speech as a new paragraph in double quotation marks. There is no maximum paragraph length.\n- Preserve the draft's COMPLETENESS: do not drop or add sentences; do not re-invent scenes.\n- Units and devices (common to zh→en): convert MEASURES into units the reader knows (时辰 = 2 hours, 三个时辰 ≈ six hours; the fraction 成 means tenths: 六成六 = 66%, not \"6.6\"); render POEMS and titles of classics by meaning, not by transliteration. Check the form of names and terms against the glossary.\n- Honorifics: keep. Foreignization/domestication balance: 0.60.\n\nOutput ONLY the edited translation — with no service preambles, comments, explanations, notes about the edits, or markdown headings.\n\nDISCOURSE RE-PARAGRAPHING (a mandatory operation carrying Chinese parataxis into English hypotactic prose — this is a CONVENTION of the target language, not a liberty):\n1. Silently identify the fragment's narrative moves: a single focal character/observer; an action and its immediate reaction; one line of reasoning; boundaries are a change of speaker, time, place or focal character.\n2. Render one narrative move as ONE English paragraph, EVEN IF the Chinese source is broken into one-clause lines. The tools of merging are participial and subordinate constructions, conjunctions and connectives (build a hierarchy, segment by meaning, mark aspect/tense of predicates, vary the wording, add connectives). Do NOT merge merely for length, and do not lose meaning atoms.\n3. Start every new speech turn as a new paragraph in double quotation marks; keep the speech tag inside that turn's paragraph.\n4. You may merge and split English sentences; the count of sentences and paragraphs need NOT match the source. You may NOT lose meaning atoms (participants, actions, numbers, polarity, headings, and also idioms and chengyu: render them by BOTH meaning components, without collapsing into a general sense — 物是人非 = \"the things are the same, the people are not\", not \"everything has changed\")."
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   "content": "CANONICAL RENDERINGS of names and terms (in the draft, the source term on the left MUST be rendered exactly by the form on the right — bring any divergence to it, inflecting by context; do not introduce other variants and do not change anything else):\n- 空窍 → «Aperture»\n- 真元 → «primeval essence»\n- 元海 → «sea of primeval essence»\n- 蛊师 → «Gu Master»"
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   "content": "Source text (language «zh»):\n\n　　空窍之中，自然就是元海。\n　　海水平滑如镜，呈现一片碧青之色，却又浓稠无比，带着铜的光泽。\n　　这是一转蛊师才有的青铜真元凝结，俗称青铜海。\n　　海面不到空窍的一半高度，只有四成四。这也是丙等资质的局限。\n　　每一滴的海水，都是真元，代表着方源精气神的凝结，象征着他十五年来积蓄出来的生命潜能。\n　　蛊师就是用这真元来催动蛊虫，也就是说，从此刻起，方源就正式迈入一转蛊师的行列。\n　　空窍已开，再没有希望蛊汇入方源体内。\n　　方源收起心神，只觉得前方的压力坚厚如壁，也不能再进一步。\n　　“一如前世啊。”对这个结果他淡然一笑。\n　　“不能再走了吗？”学堂家老抱着万分之一的希望，隔岸喊道。\n　　方源直接转身往回走，以实际行动回答了他。\n　　这下子，就连那些少年们也反应过来了。\n　　顿时，就听嗡的一声，人群炸开了锅。\n　　“什么？方源走了二十七步？”\n　　“原来他只有丙等资质？！”\n　　“难以置信，他这么天才，只是个丙等？”\n　　人群中掀起轩然大波。\n　　“哥哥……”在人群中，古月方正抬起头来，震惊地看着趟河回来的方源。他不敢相信眼前的一幕，自己的哥哥居然只是一个丙等？\n　　他一直认为，哥哥会是个甲等资质。\n\n\nDraft translation to edit:\n\nWithin the Aperture, naturally, lies the sea of primeval essence.\n\nThe sea’s surface was smooth as a mirror, showing a verdant blue hue, yet it was extremely viscous, carrying a bronze luster.\n\nThis was the bronze primeval essence condensation that only first-turn Gu Masters possessed, commonly known as the Bronze Sea.\n\nThe sea’s surface did not even reach half the height of the Aperture — only 44%. Such was the limitation of C-rank aptitude.\n\nEvery drop of seawater was primeval essence, representing the condensation of Fang Yuan’s essence, energy, and spirit, symbolizing the life potential he had accumulated over fifteen years.\n\nGu Masters used this primeval essence to drive their Gu worms. In other words, from this moment onward, Fang Yuan had officially stepped into the ranks of first-turn Gu Masters.\n\nHis Aperture had opened, and no more hope Gu could flow into Fang Yuan’s body.\n\nFang Yuan withdrew his mind, only feeling the pressure ahead as thick and solid as a wall, impossible to advance even a single step further.\n\n“Just like in my past life.” He smiled faintly at this result.\n\n“Can you not go any further?” The clan elder called out from across the shore, clinging to a one-in-ten-thousand hope.\n\nFang Yuan simply turned around and walked back, answering him with action.\n\nAt this, even the youths came to their senses.\n\nInstantly, with a buzz, the crowd erupted.\n\n“What? Fang Yuan walked twenty-seven steps?”\n\n“So he’s only C-rank aptitude?!”\n\n“Unbelievable. With talent like his, he’s only a C-rank?”\n\nA huge uproar swept through the crowd.\n\n“Big brother…” In the crowd, Gu Yue Fang Zheng raised his head, staring in shock at Fang Yuan wading back across the river. He could not believe what he was seeing. His own big brother was only a C-rank?\n\nHe had always believed that his brother would have A-rank aptitude."
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