books/gu-zhenren/bank-arbitration/fp-EF-w1-r2.json

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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.\nGenre: 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.\n- Fix style: remove calques from «zh», officialese, unnatural constructions; write living literary English. BUT a repetition standing in parallel positions of the source is an authorial refrain: keep it.\n- Render proper names, terms and realia STRICTLY per the supplied glossary (if attached): bring any divergence to the canonical form; do not invent other renderings.\n- Layout: assemble the narrative into natural English paragraphs, NOT copying the source's line-by-line breaks. Start each new line of direct speech on a new paragraph.\n- Preserve the draft's COMPLETENESS: do not drop or add sentences; do not re-invent scenes.\n- Honorifics: keep. Foreignization/domestication balance: 0.60.\n\nOutput ONLY the edited translation — no preambles, comments, notes or markdown headings."
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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- 元石 → «primeval stone»\n- 元海 → «sea of primeval essence»\n- 蛊师 → «Gu Master»\n- 月光蛊 → «Moonlight Gu»"
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   "content": "Source text (language «zh»):\n\n　　第二种方法，就是汲取元石中的自然元力。\n　　元石是大自然的瑰宝，凝聚着天然真元，可以被蛊师吸收。\n　　方源手握元石，从里面源源不断地汲取出天然真元，汇入到自己的空窍元海之中。\n　　元石表面的细腻光华，慢慢地暗淡下去，方源的元海水位却以肉眼可见的速度，不断攀升。\n　　大约半个小时之后，元海重新恢复到四成四的体积。到了这程度，海面增高的趋势，就戛然而止。虽然空窍中还有空间，但是方源却再也存储不了更多真元。这就是他丙等资质的局限了。\n　　由此，就可体现出修行资质的重要作用了。\n　　资质越高，空窍中存储的真元就越多，并且真元自然恢复的速度也越快。\n　　对于方源来讲，要炼化蛊虫，巩固成果，必须得吸收元石，因为他真元自然恢复的速度，比不上月光蛊驱逐真元的速度。\n　　但是对于甲等资质的方正来讲，他每小时能补充八分真元。六个小时，就能恢复四成八分的真元总量，而月光蛊在同样的六个小时内，只能驱逐三成真元。\n　　他甚至不需要元石这样的外力帮助，就这样一直炼化，期间休息几次，过个几天，就能将月光蛊成功炼化。\n　　所以，方源从一开始就知道，在这场炼化月光蛊的考核中，自己根本就没可能夺得第一。这无关实力，而是资质才是此中的第一因素。\n\n\nDraft translation to edit:\n\nThe second method was to absorb the natural primeval force within primeval stones.\n\nPrimeval stones were treasures of nature, condensing natural primeval essence that Gu Masters could absorb. Fang Yuan held a primeval stone in his hand, drawing out its natural primeval essence in an endless stream and channeling it into the sea of primeval essence within his Aperture.\n\nThe delicate luster on the surface of the primeval stone slowly dimmed, while the water level of Fang Yuan's sea of primeval essence rose visibly, climbing without cease. After roughly half an hour, the sea of primeval essence recovered to 44% of its volume. At this point, the rising trend of the water's surface came to an abrupt halt. Though there was still space within his Aperture, Fang Yuan could no longer store any more primeval essence. This was the limitation of his C-grade aptitude.\n\nFrom this, the crucial role of cultivation aptitude was made evident.\n\nThe higher one's aptitude, the more primeval essence could be stored within the Aperture, and the faster natural recovery of primeval essence would be.\n\nFor Fang Yuan, refining the Gu worm and consolidating his progress required absorbing primeval stones, because the speed at which his primeval essence naturally recovered could not match the speed at which the Moonlight Gu expelled primeval essence.\n\nBut for Fang Zheng, who had A-grade aptitude, he could replenish 0.8 tenths of primeval essence every hour. In six hours, he could recover 48% of his total primeval essence, whereas the Moonlight Gu could only expel 30% of it over the same six hours.\n\nHe did not even need external aid like primeval stones. He could simply keep refining, resting a few times in between, and after a few days, he would successfully refine the Moonlight Gu.\n\nTherefore, Fang Yuan knew from the very beginning that in this assessment of refining the Moonlight Gu, he had no chance whatsoever of taking first place. This had nothing to do with strength—aptitude was the primary determining factor here."
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 "content": "The second method was to absorb the natural primeval force within primeval stones.\n\nPrimeval stones were treasures of nature, condensing natural primeval essence that Gu Masters could absorb. Fang Yuan held a primeval stone in his hand, drawing out its natural primeval essence in an endless stream and channeling it into the sea of primeval essence within his Aperture.\n\nThe delicate luster on the surface of the primeval stone slowly dimmed, while the water level of Fang Yuan's sea of primeval essence rose visibly, climbing without cease. After roughly half an hour, the sea of primeval essence recovered to 44% of its volume. At this point, the sea surface's rise came to an abrupt halt. Though there was still space within his Aperture, Fang Yuan could no longer store any more primeval essence. This was the limitation of his C-grade aptitude.\n\nFrom this, the crucial role of cultivation aptitude was made evident.\n\nThe higher one's aptitude, the more primeval essence the Aperture could store, and the faster the natural recovery of primeval essence.\n\nFor Fang Yuan, refining the Gu worm and consolidating his progress required absorbing primeval stones, because the speed at which his primeval essence naturally recovered could not match the speed at which the Moonlight Gu expelled primeval essence.\n\nBut for Fang Zheng, who had A-grade aptitude, he could replenish eight percent of his primeval essence every hour. In six hours, he could recover forty-eight percent of his total primeval essence, while the Moonlight Gu could only expel thirty percent over the same six hours.\n\nHe did not even need external aid like primeval stones. He could simply keep refining, resting a few times in between, and after a few days, he would successfully refine the Moonlight Gu.\n\nTherefore, Fang Yuan knew from the very beginning that in this assessment of refining the Moonlight Gu, he had no chance whatsoever of taking first place. This had nothing to do with strength—aptitude was the primary determining factor here."
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