Chapter 89 - The Cross Dressing Mr. Cult Leader (6) (1/2)
A sound of chiming bells awakened the beautiful scenery of Crescent Moon spring from its five year long slumber. A Miao woman, who anyone would praise as a peerless beauty stepped inside. However, compared with the average woman, she seemed to be taller. But a single glance at her face, and anyone would agree that her stature could easily justify her fierce momentum. The woman’s eyebrows were sharp, but they did not look out of place in her visage.
[T/N: Author uses female words to describe LH]
The beautiful eyebrows were slightly raised.
Hmm, it’s pretty clean. Does that man come every year?
Five years ago, shortly after Duan Feiqing had left. Lu Heng’s beloved mother was killed in an accident while she was cultivating the Gu. Lu Heng, who suddenly faced the death of his close relative, chose to enter the ten thousand Gu Cave to practice Gu techniques in order to improve faster and take over the burden of commanding the five immortals cult, and subsequently, all Miao people.
Before leaving, he had left a letter in Crescent Moon Spring, explaining his whereabouts. He mentioned that until he didn’t succeed in completing his Gu technique, he would not come out of the ten thousand Gu cave. Later, he set up an array to seal the Crescent Moon spring. No one could enter except him and Duan Feiqing, whose body contained the poison neutralizing Gu personally refined by him.
In the cave, there were many rare things from the Central Plains that Duan Feiqing used to tell him about. On the stone table, there was a Guqin. Duan Feiqing had once claimed that he was good at playing the Guqin. This man was really treating this place as his home. Next to the Guqin was a stack of letters. Lu Heng went to pick it up. On the top of the envelope, it said “To be personally opened by my dear* Heng.”.
T/N: “ah” – An endearing term, not necessarily romantic.
Duan Feiqing, as promised, returns to the Crescent Moon spring every year. Even if Lu Heng had left a letter saying that he would not leave Miao village for several years, he would still come to wait for Lu Heng every year.
Lu Heng sat down on the rattan chair beside him and found that there were several silk cushions placed on the rattan chair. He raised his hand and unfolded the letter.
“My dear Heng: It has been a while, I am missing you so much. Last night, you appeared in my dream. We were sitting in each other’s embrace. Ever since we separated, I have never felt so happy.”
“My dear Heng: I hope you are well. I will be coming back during New Years Festival. I have prepared the Guqin in case you want to hear me play. As soon as the spring festival is over, I will bring it to Miao territory. ”
“My dear Heng: I heard that you are going for seclusion into the Ten Thousand Gu cave. I am very worried. I hope you can come back safely…”
In addition to these greetings and his feelings of longing for him, Duan Feiqing also penned down everything he had experienced in recent years.
When he came back to the Central Plains, he found that the hypocrite had used the excuse of closed door secluded cultivation for his [Feiqing’s] three years in captivity. After that, Feiqing, a famous youth whose name was well known throughout the world, was said to have died soon after he joined the Taichu sect following the great changes in his family*. This was also the reason why Feng Weifang didn’t chase after him. Anyway, with Duan Feiqing’s injury, he wouldn’t live long. Even if Duan Feiqing revealed the truth before he died, compared to the highly respected Feng Weifang, there was no other evidence, and no one would believe the words of a young man.
T/N: The implication is that DF had an accident in his martial arts seclusion from sorrow and died
Duan Feiqing returned to the Taichu school and met Feng Weifang. When the other person’s mind was in turmoil, he took control of the man with the soul devouring article from his cultivation technique. This soul devouring article was the most feared one in the <<mind Sutra of demons>>. It was extremely powerful and could control people’s mind and spirit.
Later, Duan Feiqing intended to find out the mysterious organization hiding behind the scenes through Feng Weifang. The more he learned, the more he was scared. The organization seemed to be huge, and the victims were not only Duan family. A few decades ago, several massacres seemed to be inextricably linked to this mysterious organization.
After reading the letter on the desk, Lu Heng turned the snake shaped silver bracelet on his hand and wondered if he would leave for the Central Plains one of these days. Of course, it was not to see Duan feiqing, Lu Heng silently muttered this in his heart. When Lu Heng’s Mother had died, she told him a story about the stupid things she did when she was young, and about Lu Heng’s past.
The young lady who had just left the Miao area for the first time was pure and passionate, and was attracted to the son of an aristocrat who had been recuperating in biezhuang. After that, they promised to be with each other for life. The son of the aristocratic family was born with a heart disease. After an attack, his life fell in great danger. How could Nadolo see her sweetheart’s death? Thinking that this man was her life partner she had always imagined about, she pulled him back from death’s doorstep with the most precious treasure of the cult, the golden silkworm Gu.
After her sweetheart recovered, Nadolo thought that she could return to Miao territory and settle down with her sweetheart, and live a life full of love. Unexpectly she found out that her beloved had a main* wife.
T/N: In ancient china, polygamy was considered normal. The main wife had legal spouse status and went into family records and tombstone.
At the time she confronted him, the son of the aristocratic family was not even the tiniest bit apologetic and instead promised to treat Nadolo as his equal* wife. But he didn’t know that the Miao people believed that love was meant to be between two people and there was no place for a third person to step in. It was not common for a young Miao woman to do something like rob another person of their husband.
T/N: Equal wife had legal spouse status, was recorded in family record and tombstone unlike concubines, and inherited first wife status if the previous first wife died.
After exhausting her body and mind, Nadolo angrily returned to Miao, but when she left, she was unable to retrieve the golden silkworm gu from the man. After returning to the Miao village, she found that she was pregnant. Nadolo only told the people that the father of the child was a Miao person who she had met during her travels and lived in seclusion in other places.
A few years after Lu Heng was born, Nadolo went back to the Central Plains to try to find the man. Golden silkworm Gu was the sacred Gu of the five immortals cult. How could it stay on a Han person all the time. But Nadolo didn’t think about taking that person’s life. She has always been free and easygoing. It’s just that in the past when she was young, she couldn’t distinguish people clearly. At that time, Nadolo had refined the life Gu, which could be used to replace the golden silkworm Gu. Although it couldn’t make someone be as strong and healthy as the golden silkworm Gu did, there was no problem to live until the end of one’s life as long as one took good care of their health.
“It’s just that I didn’t expect that the name the man told me turned out to be false.” Nadolo cut the skin on her wrist, and a golden bug the size of a grain of rice crawled out.