Hi all

Its me CurlyAdi once again, bro will finally be back from his business trip by tomorrow. So all would not have to deal with me much 😉

Before going through to read the chapter, there are a couple of small changes since I have finally read to the halfway point in the current raws, i.e. right now I am at Chapter 683 in the raws. Where if we use a few of the current terms it would only cause confusion to you all. So in order to avoid that, here are a few corrections for the grading of the cultivation methods and techniques:

Ordinary Level -> Ordinary Grade

True Level -> True Grade

Black Level  -> Profound Grade

Tian Level -> Heaven Grade

I already made the changes in the glossary, and as for the changes in the previous chapters, I’ll do it tomorrow.

That said, enjoy the chapter:

1. Chapter 0066 – I Have Not Been A Proper Big Brother For Many Years
   Translated By – DemonKiller
   Checked and Edited By – CurlyAdi
   Proofread By – SmartyMouth

P.S. our site has finally been approved by WordAds, the very own and also the only ad revenue component for WordPress.com sites.

Though I don’t know much about it, but from what I read, we get paid a bit for the number of ads you click (unfortunately we do not have any control over the ads that they put in the ad spaces as it is completely controlled by wordpress/wordads, but according to the mail they sent us, the ads are all safe and legit.) So, I request you all to please turn off your adblockers when you visit our blog, and click on a few ads, who knows it might be something of your interest.

As for the rest of the stuff about it, bro is the one who knows about it more than me, so once he finally comes back you all can ask him about it (my suggestion just swamp him with your questions so that we can see his face as he tries to reply to all of you, he he..)

Hi all

CurlyAdi, once again, sorry bro actually sent this chapter to me this morning, but I had college so could not edit it till after coming back.

So, enjoy the second regular chapter of this week, as bro slaves away in front of his computer or wherever he is, honestly I really am surprised at how much time those 2 brothers of mine can even sit for so long in front of the computer…….

1. Chapter 0065 – Tai Shu Shi’s Girlfriend
   Translated By – DemonKiller
   Partially Checked and Edited By – CurlyAdi
   Proofread By – SmartyMouth

P.S. bro said that he would like to apologize for not being able to release any chapters for his own series “The Unsuspecting Journey”, he said that he should be able to write up a few chapter once his work finally brings him back home.

Hi Guys

CurlyAdi here, big bro DemonKiller is out for a week for something related to his work, so I will be posting the completed chapters till he come back.

So enjoy the first regular chapter of the week,

1. Chapter 0064 – Wishing That They Had Met Earlier
   Translated By – DemonKiller
   Checked and Edited By – CurlyAdi
   Proofread By – SmartyMouth

P.S. The donations bar is just on the right side of the page, you can’t miss it though ;). If you want more chapters than just the regular one’s then please donate so that we (including SmartyMouth) can then pester big bro DemonKiller to churn out more chapters. Don’t worry we really will make him churn out chapter after chapter till he finally wails out the apology that was long overdue along with the bet money that he lost against us muahahahaha…..

Sup Folks

So, I apologize for the previous post though, it was actually to satisfy the curiosity of my siblings that I posted it, but regardless I am leaving it as it is on the front page for a week to find out what you all do think about this project.

Putting those things aside, I wanted to share some other things things with you that I found regarding “The Gate of Good Fortune” series: Continue reading “Some artwork and other photos that I found of this series…..” →

Sup guys

So this happened yesterday, as we were eating dinner, my sister CurlyAdi, who you might have known from the previous posts, is studying Chinese for the past three years in her college and has taken it up as her minor, suddenly asked me out of the blue as to why I chose to translate the title 造化之门 of the series that I was translating here as “The Gate of Good Fortune” rather than “The Gate of Creation” or “Nature’s Door” or (going by the literal translation)  “Good Luck Gate” which are actually a more accurate translation of the title. Moreover even SmartyMouth chipped in that he had seen some chats on the other websites that say that the main reason why they don’t read this series is because we didn’t even translate the title correctly (Don’t burn me for this as even I am not sure about this as he always has a tendency to make things up and exaggerate things to out of proportions). Continue reading “A small rant and a bit of help from your side ….” →

Sup Folks

This chapter is officially now the most difficult chapter that I had to translate till now, not only did it contain a lot of new terms but was even more lengthy when compared to the previous chapters. If anyone wants to know, then this chapter actually took me almost 5-6 hrs to translate especially to get the terms right.

Anywho, enjoy the third and last regular chapter for the week, and also join me in a round of applause for Alenstarl and Anonpuffs from Wuxia World Forum who helped me in correcting a paragraph that I was stuck at:

1. Chapter 0063 – The Tai Shu Clan
   Translated and Checked By – DemonKiller
   Edited By – CurlyAdi
   Proofread By – SmartyMouth

Also this coming week I am relatively free, so I might do an extra regular chapter, i.e. if there are no sponsored chapters to do.

Sup Folks

You all might have noticed that our donations bar had finally filled up after a long time. So cheer up it means you have a new chapter to read.

Enjoy the first sponsored chapter of this week and also the first sponsored chapter of this month too.

1. Chapter 0062 – Coming Out Of The Daan Forest
   Translated and Checked By – DemonKiller
   Edited By – CurlyAdi
   Proofread By – SmartyMouth
   Sponsored By – Jago Spencer, Eddy Rochard and Anonymous

Also, SmartyMouth has a message for our anonymous sponsor, so here you go “Thanks for the donation, and no I am not that kind of guy, rather I am more of a gamer than a party’er. But still thanks though.” Moreover, this I can definitely attest to, he’s more of a game freak than me and will play for hours on end if someone does not forcibly switches off the computer. [P.S. just between you an me, he is also the one who always crashes my laptop by fiddling with all kinds of mods, and I am the one who has to fix all of it.]

Sup Folks

A small change before you all proceed to read the chapter: Ling Shi have now been changed to Spirit Stone for better readability and consistency. I have also went back and changed them all.

Now, with that out of the way, enjoy the first regular chapter of this week:

1. Chapter 0061 – Red Apricot Tree Leaning Over The Garden Wall
   Translated and Checked By – DemonKiller
   Edited By – CurlyAdi
   Proofread By – SmartyMouth

Also a word from SmartyMouth (though I told him not to, but he still insisted on putting it) “Kindly fill up the donations bar, so that I could get my lunch money for this week.”

[Honestly, I don’t know what he wants to do with the money when he already gets allowance from me AND Mom and Dad separately, sigh the perks of being the youngest in the family.]

Sup Folks

Regular Monday release for you all to enjoy:

1. Chapter 0060 – Gold Coins And Ling Shis
   Translated and Checked By – DemonKiller
   Edited By – CurlyAdi
   Proofread By – SmartyMouth

P.S. Most of you would have by now come to notice the changes in the realm names, so during this weekend I have been discussing something with many of the manual translators working on different projects. The point of discussion was using Chinese names/terms when translating a series.

Usually many translators like Deathblade and others usually translate the Chinese Terms to an English Equivalent, for example (Taking from this series itself)

Ling Shi –> Spirit Stones
Lan Shan –> Blue Sands…. etc

We still haven’t reached a consensus among ourselves though, whether to use these Chinese Terms or use the English Equivalents. Some here are in the opinion of using the Chinese terms for the names of characters and places and use the English Equivalent for the other miscellaneous terms, but then there are others that feel that if you really want to use the English Equivalents then we should also use the same English Equivalents for the character/place names, while there are still others who think of not changing the terms at all and continue with it.

If any of you people frequent the subreddit of noveltranslations then you would be much familiar with the discussions on many of the series that heavily used Chinese Terms while translating.

So what we do want to hear from your side is, what would you prefer as your own personal choice:

1. Using Chinese Terms of character name/places and use English Equivalent for the miscellaneous terms.
2. Using Chinese Terms for all the way through.
3. Using English Equivalents for the Chinese Terms all the way through (including names of characters and places)

Please do comment what you would like to see, and we would then go ahead with which one of the three has the highest votes (personally speaking, I like the first option better). So, once you finish reading the chapter or before it or during reading it (if that ever happens) just comment with a number (1,2 or 3) for your choice.

Moreover anonymous comments have been turned on for this particular post, so everyone could vote even if they do not have an account. So please do comment, so that we could bring a better reading experience for you all.

Sup Folks

As promised the extra chapter (have to say, this chapter was a tough nut to crack)

1. Chapter 0059 – Two Kinds Of Murderous Auras
   Translated and Checked By – DemonKiller
   Edited and Proofread By – CurlyAdi and SmartyMouth
   Dedicated to – Deathblade and totmes

P.S. Yes, its the same Deathblade who translates ISSTH, really helpful guy, even took the time from his extremely busy schedule to help out novice translators like us, hats off to his dedication to translating. As such he is more than worthy to dedicate this chapter to. Not to mention even totmes, I don’t know if any of you read the comments in the previous post but, totmes really provided a plethora of information which really helped us finalize the terms (though the last realm is still a bit iffy, will correct it and finalize it once we find more information about it, but as for the other realm names, they are more or less now finalized).

Sup Folks

Before proceeding for the chapter, we wanted to bring to light a few name changes that we decided after discussing it with other translators both here, reddit and the Wuxia World Forums. So below are the changes that we have incorporated after literally banging our heads on the walls and of course vomiting a few mouthfuls of blood *wink*wink*:

Qi Gathering Realm -> Qi Gathering Realm (No Change)

Qi Condensation Realm -> True Condensation Realm

Building Yuan Realm -> Essence Building Realm

Mysterious Liquid Realm -> Profound Congealing Realm

Mysterious Dan Realm -> Profound Core Realm

As for the other realms that have not yet appeared in the chapters, you can check them out in the glossary.

As for who the lucky people who helped us are, well you will come to know about them later in the night when we release another chapter in honor for those kindhearted souls who helped us out despite their busy schedule.

So without further ado, enjoy the last regular chapter of this week:

1. Chapter 0058 – A Terrible Battle Scene
   Translated and Checked By – DemonKiller
   Edited and Proofread By – CurlyAdi and SmartyMouth

P.S. The next chapter is almost 75% complete, should be able to release it by today night if something unexpected does not happen.

Sup Folks

The moment that most of you have been waiting for since the start of this series:

1. Chapter 0057 – Battling Qi Condensation
   Translated and Checked By – DemonKiller
   Edited and Proofread By – CurlyAdi

This is the first guaranteed regular chapter of this week, i.e regular Monday release.

P.S. Sorry for the posting this chapter late, it was actually completed yesterday, but I ended up reading ahead and finally reached the 100 Chapter in raws, all I can tell you at this moment is that it finally starts to get exciting from here onward.

Also while reading the raws I finally came across the chapter where all the 9 Cultivation Realms in this series were briefly discussed (only in name), and honestly I don’t know if the author has a whacky sense of humor or I misinterpreted the words, but either way I might need a bit of help from our reader base to finalize the names of the cultivation realms (not having a TLC who knows the language is really a pain, and the one we do have cannot be reached at the moment, he probably is scared because we kidnapped him last time to update our glossary), so any help in this area will be really appreciated as I spent almost the entire night just on that particular chapter.

This might be considered a minor spoiler, so if you all can skip it if you like, as it has the names of the 9 Cultivation Realms, from 1 to 9, in this series:

1. Qi Gathering Realm (聚气境)
2. Qi Condensation Realm (凝真境)
3. Building Yuan Realm (筑元境)
4. Mysterious Liquid Realm (玄液境)
5. Mysterious Dan Realm (玄丹境)
6. Yuan Soul Realm (元魂境)
7. Model Soul Realm (塑神境)
8. King Sea Realm (辟海境)
9. Transforming Cauldron Realm (化鼎境)

The first five realms are already know by you all (have already been discussed briefly or at least in name), but the last four realms, I have no clue and have only put the literal translation here.

So my request is, if any of have an alternate name or think that I translated them wrong (at least for the last 4 realms), then please point them out with a few suggestions, the help would really be appreciated and your name or screen name (your choice) would even be featured in the post and as well as the chapter page that would be dedicated to you (this is apart from the regular chapters, i.e you all get an extra chapter which would be dedicated to the person who proposed the names).

Sup Folks

Enjoy the regular Monday release:

1. Chapter 0056 – Su Zhu’s Help
   Translated and Checked By – DemonKiller
   Edited and Proofread By – CurlyAdi

On a side note, good news for you all, I finally was able to pass the elementary Chinese course that I had been taking in my free time with a full 87% marks. It may not be much in peoples eyes, but its still a huge leap for me, as it brings me a step closer to become a manual translator. Personally speaking, learning a new language sure is tough, especially if you have a full time job, which involves a lot of tiring travelling, plus taking care of my bratty little sister and brother, who always are finding new ways to kill me early (I swear to god, those two plan new ways to kill me every time I leave for work).

Sup Folks

The second chapter as I promised,

1. Chapter 0055 – How Can I Get Away
   Translated and Checked By – DemonKiller
   Edited and Proofread By – CurlyAdi

This chapter is in honor of Jago Spencer and Eddy Rochard who once again jump started our donations queue after a long while, so everyone please join us in thanking them for their support to our Demon Army.

Edit: This is not a sponsored chapter per se but just as mentioned its an honorary chapter.

Sup Folks

Enjoy the regular Saturday release:

1. Chapter 0054 – Ning Cheng Hooks A Girl
   Translated and Edited By – DemonKiller
   Edited and Proofread By – CurlyAdi

P.S. The second chapter that I promised is completed and is being edited at the moment, it should be finished in an hour or two depending on CurlyAdi’s mood so stay tuned.

Sup Folks

CurlyAdi was a bit busy with discussing some girly stuff with her friends in the house which believe it or not doesn’t sound bad or irritating at all, it even made me want to join in. Only if it wasn’t for the long a** report that I have to submit by tomorrow and also thinking that it would be creepy as hell for an older brother to join his sister’s ‘discussion’.

So, this time as CurlyAdi couldn’t edit the chapter, so my little brother, SmartyMouth, stepped in to fill her shoes or sandals or pumps or whatever the girls call their footwear as. I could not completely go through his work, so I am not sure if their are any errors in it or not, so if any of you do find out, be a gentleman/woman and point them out.

Also, a special thanks to Anonpuffs from Wuxia World Forum who helped me out in translating a paragraph from the chapter which really gave me a bit of headache.

Enjoy the second regular release of this week:

1. Chapter 0053 – *Minor Spoiler Title*
   Translated and Checked By – DemonKiller, with a bit of help from Anonpuffs
   Edited and Proofread By – SmartyMouth

P.S. You might have noticed that the donations bar finally moved after a long time. Well it is because we actually received a donation after a long time, almost 3 weeks I guess since the last one.

So although the donations bar isn’t filled, I will release an extra chapter in the honor of our beloved sponsor. It will either be on Saturday or Sunday, but rest assured that this week there will be a total of 4 chapters rather than 3.

Sup Folks

Enjoy the regular Monday release:

1. Chapter 0052 – You Want To Learn Alchemy
   Translated and Checked by – DemonKiller
   Edited and Proofread By- CurlyAdi

On a side note – If any of you are facing a problem while using the donate button, like transaction failure or anything else, then please contact us through the comments or by sending a private mail along with your transaction id to me at [email protected]. So that I could help you sort it out with the officials at PayPal.

(Only asking because we haven’t been receiving any donations in a long while. So I was wondering if it was a problem from our end or something else. So if any of you people are facing any difficulty regarding this matter, please reach out to us ASAP.)

Sup Folks

Somehow was able to complete the translation of this chapter despite the constant partying and dancing that went on through put the night. Unfortunately the party will still continue here till the 4th of January, but I won’t be able to stay and party because of work and stuff.

So just enjoy the regular chapter as I try to catch a few hours of sleep before I catch my flight back to work:

1. Chapter 0051 – White Haired Old Woman
   Translated By – DemonKiller

P.S. I tied hard to edit it as CurlyAdi was unavailable, and since I am already too tired and completely exhausted, so I just just posted it up here, I’m sure that CurlyAdi would edit it by tomorrow, as I just finished it. I’ll update you all once the edited chapter is posted, which most probably will be by tomorrow (didn’t want to mess up my schedule on the first post of the year).