Chapter - 230 Disaster Strikes When the Screen Wall Breaches the Impregnable Fortress (10) (2/2)
”Ha … ha …” Yuan Zhen laughed while taking another step forward. ”You are not going to die with your eyes closed before knowing all the details, aren't you?” he said, ”You asked me how I knew the secret passages in the Brightness Peak, how I could pass through the layer upon layer of natural stronghold, and stealthily [as before, the original was 'deity does not know, demon does not aware'] going up the mountain peak. Very well, I am going to tell you, gentlemen, the truth. It was your own precious Cult's Yang Dingtian Jiaozhu, husband and wife, who personally lead me up here.”
Yang Xiao shivered involuntarily; he thought, ”Based on his status, there is no way he would tell a lie; but how can there be such thing?”
Meanwhile, Zhou Dian had already cursed, ”You are just releasing your eighteen generation ancestors' fart! This secret passage is the Brightness Peak's greatest secret, it is our Cult's sacred passageway. Although Yang Zuoshi [left emissary] is a Guangming Shizhe [emissary of the Brightnes], Wei Dage [big brother] is a Hu Jiao Fa Wang, they have never walked on that passage. Only the Cult Leader, one man, can use this secret passage. How could Yang Jiaozhu take you, an outsider, into this secret passage?”
Yuan Zhen sighed and was lost in thought for half a day before quietly said, ”Since you insist on getting to the bottom of this matter, I am going to tell you a secret that happened twenty-five years ago. You all are not going to go down the mountain alive anyway, so I am not worried that you would divulge this matter. Ay! Zhou Dian, you are right, this secret passage is the Ming Cult's sacred passageway, it was always only the Jiaozhu, one man, who can enter it. Anybody else entering it would be considered a sacrilege, punishable by the most severe punishment, without any possibility of pardon. However, Madame Yang Dingtian had entered it. Yang Dingtian had violated the religious law by personally sneaking his wife into this secret passage…”
(Zhou Dian cut him off by cussing, ”Fart! A stinky dog's fart!” Peng Yingyu rebuked him harshly, ”Zhou Dian, shut up!”)
”In turn, Madame Yang also personally took me in…”
(Zhou Dian cursed again, ”Damn it! Pei! Pei!” he spat, ”Nonsense!”)
”… I am not a Ming Cult disciple; technically, I did not violate you Cult's law. Ay, even if I were a Ming Cult disciple, even if I committed a grave offense against the Cult, what should I be afraid of?” As he recounted these past events, surprisingly his voice sounded so forlorn.
”Why did Madame Yang take you into the secret passage?” Priest Tieguan asked.
”It was something that happened a long, long time ago,” Yuan Zhen replied, ”Today Lao Na [lit. old cassock, a term used by Buddhist monk to call himself] is an old man, over seventy years of age … but when I was young … Alright, I will tell you everything. Do you gentlemen know who I am? Madame Yang was my Shimei [martial (younger) sister], before Lao Na left home, my secular surname was Cheng, my given name was Kun, I was none other than the 'Hun Yuan Pi Li Shou' ['hun yuan' – origin of the universe, 'pi li' – thunderbolt, 'shou' – hand]!”
As soon as these words came out of his mouth, no doubt Yang Xiao and the others were shocked beyond belief; Zhang Wuji, who was inside the cloth sack, was even more shocked that he cried out in alarm. The stories he heard from his Yifu that night on the Bing Huo Island immediately came back vividly to his mind; how his Yifu's master, Cheng Kun, had killed his entire family: parents, wife and son; how Yifu has excessively massacred Wulin people to force Cheng Kun to appear; and how he had wounded Divine Monk Kong Jian with his fist, but Cheng Kun had not fulfilled his promise to appear in the flesh…