然后便以焚龙沙
“Then, they will be soaked and dissolved”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“your old bones will be shattered after you take certain medicine.”
然后便以 焚龙沙
“Then, they will be soaked and dissolved”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
A common trope in Chinese fantasy where practitioners undergo intense, painful physical trials using medicinal alchemy to strengthen bone and sinew.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
and then / subsequent to that
A literary connective marking an immediate chronological next step in a procedure.
thereupon uses / then uses
Classical phrasing often used in written or fantasy registers to indicate the means or instrument used.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“to suffer from the smoke and fire.”
“Also, you heated up the stove to burn the victim's head.”
“Use incense and smoke it daily.”
“let alone throw it into the incense burner?”
“how could it have burned to the ground?”
“they hid Master Shenguan's body in a load of firewood.”