Chapter 1 Part 5 Teng Po*

Warning: This chapter has a violent scene.

It was strange to say that the sanctuary, apart from the altar, does not worship any gods at all. In the East corner, there was only trunks height as one-person-tall three logs, looked like the logs on the wall outside the stockade, generally covered with rattan vines, but a piece of them bulges out in the middle, which looks like three big spindles standing in the distance.

There’s nothing weird about it.

He heard Li Da’s moaning. Like it was soul-stirring. Couldn’t stop it. Long Ya secretly laughed and turned back, in a twinkling of an eye. he saw the gentlewoman and white arms around Li Da’s neck, and her indescribable love was lingering.

Suddenly, a terrorize scene happened!

The woman’s delicate and symmetrical arms suddenly surged several zhang, becoming winding and slender, like a vine around Li Da’s neck! Then climb up and hold Li Da’s whole body tightly! The strength of its power was so great that Li Da could not move a little!

The woman’s body suddenly turned into a miserable green, waist, abdomen and other places also spread rattan-like things, the speed of derivation was so astonishing, in the blink of an eye had tightly tied up Li Da, even mercilessly strangled into the flesh!

Long Ya hid and watched the terrible situation outside the sanctuary then startled, but he saw that the woman’s legs had also changed, alternating and circling with each other, pulling several zhang high, firmly clinging on the top of the stone roof, in a flash, Li Da had been hanging upside down in the air!

Poor Li Da did not die suddenly, but he could not utter even a word, Li Da useless struggled, his blood flooded along vines and branches, “patter” on the below altar!

The woman’s figure was not human anymore, as pupa tightly wrapped Li Da in. And Li Da’s spilt blood was undoubtedly nourishing the growth of vines, more densely multiplied, more closely wrapped Li Da, only revealing a face of panic, despair, pain and distortion because of blood loss, gradually dry and gloomy!

Obviously, Li Da was dead, the process was just a blink of an eye.

Anyone who saw such horror scenes could not be calm, Long Ya was no exception. When he suddenly regained his sense and was ready to flee, there was a cold voice behind him.

“Did you see it?”

Long Ya turned back instantly, but the newcomer started first and pushed him forward to the sanctuary!

When he stood firm and turned around, the figure of an old and bent woman stood at the door, indescribable ghastliness and terror!

“Haha… After waiting more than sixty years. Finally, a prey delivered himself to me.” Teng Po trembled in, touching the moonlight that shined from the roof, chirping sounds, the old body like a bunch of rattan lashed around, interwoven on a rattan net, roaring toward the Long Ya!

Long Ya relied on his light skill to avoid them one by one. Once it touched the ground, it took root and multiplies itself from the ground. It seems endless. In a short time, half of the hall is covered with rattan, and a stone door had already been sealed up!

Long Ya had no choice but retreated to the eastern corner. It was only near that corner that there was a horrible face on the huge spindle-shaped object. Although it had been distorted, it could be dimly distinguished that face. It was Li Er, Li San and Li Si who disappeared last night.

Soon the hanging Li Da, would become like them, the wood wrapped by the rattan!

At this moment, Long Ya just thought about what the crack pattern he saw on the log on the wooden wall that day was, just like them, many distorted human faces!

When he still thought, a large vine had swept in, tightly tied his legs, stretching a few time, had pulled him down to the ground, then a great force came, he had been unconsciously towed to the lush vine!

Even pulling out the steel sword, inserting it directly into the ground, could not stop the slip!

Seeing the rattan net getting closer and closer, suddenly a flashed of a sword. The big rattan had been torn off and brought a terrifying howl that made the heart chill!

A hand stretched out beside him and pulled him up. Turned his head, it was Sha Man!

Sha Man took hold of Long Ya with one hand, another hand grabbed rattan that hanging down from the roof, then rose up. In a blink of an eye, they had jumped out of the hole on the roof and landed on the roof. He could only hear the screaming from below, and the tangled vines seemed to want to spew out from the hole, but it could not come out.

“You can rest assured that as long as she transforms in the sanctuary, she would never be able to come out unless she succeeds in reincarnation.” Sha Man stared at the vines were spreading below, and her eyes filled with sadness.

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“What are you?…”

“I don’t know.” Sha Man shook her head and said blankly, “We have been here for a long time. One life that lived for twenty-five years. If we can’t find trees before the age of twenty-five, our body will be withered and difficult to find trees to rely on.”

“But that’s a human, not a tree!” Longya murmured, “My four subordinates…” For a moment, he felt sad and angry, but couldn’t say any more.

“They became trees. Women are like vines men are like trees, if we are not entangled, how can we miss each other endlessly? Sha Man said lightly, “Soon, our sisters will be reincarnated, and then they will continue to repeat cycle, next life cannot escape this cycle. Even though tired of fate like this, I can’t help it.” Sha Man’s voice is gentle, but Long Ya could felt indescribable loneliness.

“Why did you save me?” Long Ya asked in a trembling voice. But saw Sha Man pulled her skirt up to show the symmetrical leg, there is also an egg-sized scar on the right leg, it is the wound bitten by the rat during the day, Unthinkable that scar could heal in one day, but the scar was dark green, more like the fracture of the rattan vine.

“You go before it’s too late.” Sha Man raised her hand and pointed to the path hidden in the deep forest outside the stockade. “If you leave the stockade, you must not look back. Close your eyes before you go, you can open your eyes again when you go out of the forest.”

Most of the cottages below were lit up, many people were already shocked.

Long Ya knew that he could not go out if everyone came out. So, he jumped down from the roof, rushed to the gate of the stockade. Suddenly, he turned around and saw Sha Man standing on the roof, gentle as a fairy in the moonlight, with a slight understanding of his eye, smiled at him and fell into the sanctuary.

Then he saw many rattan vines winding out of the sanctuary, entangled with the vines of the former Teng Po vines, and sealed the door of the sanctuary tightly!

Sha Man turned into a rattan vine before his eyes, there was no more a beautiful woman with a soft and charming voice.

Long Ya stood there blankly, watching the group of Miao guniang rush from all directions to the sanctuary, and scream desperately. Suddenly he regained consciousness and ran down to the path, closed his eyes and kept asking himself, “Why did she do this…”

It was a very long night. Until felt the light he opened his eyes, he had returned to the intersection two days ago. There were still marks on the barks of the road, left by him before entering the forest, but they had already been mottled and cracked, and the scratches by a sword was covered with floating soil. It seemed that there had been more than two days.

Looking back at the smoky path behind him, there are many rules or incomplete footprints on the muddy ground. There are his footprints, the four brothers of the Li family, and the footprints of countless pedestrians who were unknown before, all heading towards the depths of the dense forest…

Only his footprints zigzagged out of the woods…

Long Ya fell to the ground and gazed at the mysterious path, confused by all kinds of confusing experience. It seemed that the songs sung by the girls on that day were ringing in his ears:

Large trees, large trees, vines without trees blown away with the wind.

Trees grow, trees grow, vines hold trees well without root.

Loneliness and emptiness until senescence, can’t compare with one love’s night…”

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Long Ya said that he poured a cup of Lishoushao from a jug and was about to reach his lips, but suddenly stopped. He murmured, “When I found my way out of Miaoling and returned to the city, I knew that the outside world had passed more than two months, the truth is I had only been in the mountains more than two days.”

Yu Ji smiled and took out a small and exquisite white jade bottle from the wine rack, walked to the table. “One day in the mountains, the world has been a thousand years, no wonder the Long Butou caught the head of it without knowing it.”

She reached out and took the wine from Long Ya’s hand. She raised her hand, splashed the wine on the street. “After hearing such a wonderful story, inviting Long Butou to drink Lishoushao. It seems ungenerous.” Then put the wine from the white jade bottle poured into the wine cup and put it on the table.

The wine in that cup is green like dripping. Long Ya sipped it, a sensation was lightly touched. It’s only a lingering mouthful. It was so refreshing and a bit bitter in some way.

“What kind of wine is this?”

Yu Ji put the white jade bottle on the table with a smile and slowly moved back to the counter. “This wine…call it…Lovesick”

When Long Ya heard her words, felt a shiver in his heart, he took a look at the wine bottle and saw a small piece of fine rattan vine in the white transparent jade bottle, beautiful and enchanting…

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*藤婆 (Téng pó) = Vine (Old) Woman

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Translator’s talk cornor:

This is the last one that I stock up and thinking about to stop posting this novel here.

Copycat I did not translate novel for your benefit. I know where your hosts are. AND THINKING YOU SHOULD CIVILISATION LIKE YOUR COUNTRY!

Also this story seems not cup of anyone tea. Because it get 1 star. No views. And someone did not understand sypnosis because it’s supernatural thing. Thanks to you.

I will decide this again if this novel should post here or not.

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Chapter 1 Part 4 Not Mention It

He saw a strange smile on an old face like an air-dried orange peel. She was Teng Po, the oldest woman in the stockade.

Suddenly saw such an old face, few people were not frightened, Longya responded in a hurry, but heard a snickering voice next to them. The little girls squatted near him, their similar faces with the same sarcasm, but the look did not know why made people felt anxious, very uncomfortable!

Even Long Ya was so dissatisfied, but he had no intention to argue with children. Turning around, Tang Po had gone, seemingly trembling, but in a blink of an eye, she walked more than ten zhang away!

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Long Ya calmed down and thought that everywhere here was so strange. After all, it was not a place to stay for a long time. It was better to take the four men with him early and find another way out of the mountain. So, he went straight to the four cottages that brother lived and began knocking at the door.

After a long knocked, the door slowly opened, and Li Da’s unawakened face appeared at the door.

“Quickly, wake your brothers up, we have something to do!”

“Didn’t they get up early?” Li Da yawned, and a bad smell of alcohol came out of his mouth. It seems that he overdrank last night and had a hangover.

Long Ya plugged his nose in disgust and pushed Li Da into the house. He saw some official caps and gowns scattered on the bamboo slabs, but the three men were not here.

“Strange. Didn’t the three men come back after they went out last night?” Long Ya was suspicious. He grabbed the official hat on the bed and threw it on Li Da. “Get it ready, then go and find them!” After that, I stood up and walked out. From a distance, he saw the Miao women set their tables on the dam site to prepare for dinner. On closer inspection, it seemed that there were fewer people. He thought they were the three Miao women who were looking for Li Si and others.

No one talked about the missing couples of men and women during the meal. Long Ya knew something was wrong and could not ask each other. He just took Li Da with him privately after the meal. All day, they failed, could not find anyone.

This mountain village located in the middle of the dense forest. It seems that only the path leading the way out was the same path they arrived, and the forest is full of white fog, so it was impossible to go out of the village indeed!

When they returned to the village at night, the Miao women were still hospitable as they had been last night, and there was still no mention of their whereabouts.

Li Da did not care about his brothers disappeared. He only drank with the group of Miao women and played with them. Long Ya vaguely has some bad foreboding, in the meantime, after eating and drinking he returned to the room early rest, intended to investigate at night himself.

Sure enough, after midnight, someone knocked on the door of the cottage next to him!

Long Ya hid behind the window and looked out. A beautiful woman knocked on Li Da’s door. They embrace each other and showed unspeakable love and compassion. Li Da wanted to pull the woman into the house, but saw the woman shy and secretly laughing, pointing to the sanctuary.

Not long after, Li Da followed the woman to the sanctuary!

Long Ya’s suspicion arose. Last night, the three dogs picked up the place to avoid suspicion. Tonight, the cottage was only had one man, Li Da, and there was no reason to go far away.

Some of the missing me finally went to the temple with the Miao women. Although a few beautiful women could not possibly be any threat to practitioners, it seems that there is something strange in the sanctuary now.

Long Ya quietly followed, when he just arrived at the door, heard a groaning voice.

Stone room was ordinary, the top of the wall was wrapped by vines of different sizes, the center had a hole that pierces through the roof about one zhang wide, a beam of moonlight penetrated in, illuminating the round altar in the center of the stone room. The man and woman on the altar copulated, and their naked bodies were tangled with each other, under the moonlight of the night reflected on formidable pallor!

It was always bad to peeping at people’s privacy like this. Although Long Ya was willing to enjoy the living Spring scene, it was not good to approach, but explored other things in the sanctuary from far away.

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Chapter 1 Part 3 Suffering from the shock

Walking out of the Miao stockade, circled around the wooden wall of the village. It seemed that the fog in the forest outside was thicker, but the sunset still penetrated into the mountain, the rattan vines of the wooden wall were coated like a gold border.

It would have been a pleasure to leisure away for half a day, counted as a joyful occasion.

But you looked closer, the wooden wall made by logs were very peculiar. Every tree had a thick waist size, cracked bark and dense lines. Between each tree, there was no wedge nail. It seems that it was just standing vertically together, firmly wrapped by the vines that grow outside.

Looking carefully, found that the vines were winding around, only had the vine’s leaves but didn’t have its roots. It seemed that grow from the barks, tightly wrapped, all root in the bark. No wonder there were cracks on the barks, showing different twisted cracks.

Long Ya was trying to get closer, but he heard a soft female voice: “Long Ye (1) is here.”

Following the voice, it was Sha Man, the Miao guniang who sat beside him at the banquet, who nodded and smiled in reply. “Sha Man came here to invite Long Ye back to the stockade. When nightfall, there had many wild animals around here.” Charming voice and beautiful woman, he did not believe that men can refuse her request. Without thought, Long Ya went back with her, Sha Man arranged a room for rest.

Living in a different place, he couldn’t sleep well. At midnight, he could hear a sound from the next cottage, looked like someone walked around. Long Ya habitually turned over and swept to the window. Sure enough, Li Si furtively came out of the cottage, walked to the sanctuary alone. After a while, a beautiful figure appeared in the dark, which seemed to be one of the many Miao guniang. They met, hugged each other intimately, and walked the steps head to the sanctuary…

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In the middle of the night, a lonely man and a widow can’t do anything good. Although the Great Song Dynasty was strict in etiquette and law, these brothers were also the masters that often played around. What about scruples in this remote place?

“What a dog and bitch.” Long Ya chuckled and ignored, turned back to bed and went on sleeping.

Two Si Chen (2) later, heard someone knocking on the window next to him. he thought some beautiful Miao guniang could not stand loneliness. Sure enough, later on, there was another sound of footsteps, which seemed to be heading towards the sanctuary again…

Long Ya laughed, thinking that Li Si had not returned yet, another pair of a lustful ghost, fearing that they would look good when they bumped into each other. It’s none of his business and too lazy to pay attention to it. He slept until dawn and wake up feeling refresh and clear in the morning.

When he went out to move his hands and feet, saw many people working in the fields outside. Sha Man’s skirt was tucked around her waist, revealing a pair of smooth and symmetrical jade legs, which could not say why was so charming.

Long Ya’s eyes couldn’t be moved away, just crossed his hands, lent against the doorpost.

Suddenly, Sha Man screamed, jumped and struggled in the field. It seemed that something terrible had happened to her.

Long Ya rushed toward with his light skill, holding her in one hand and rising up, only to see the blood dripping from the right leg, her wound was torn off, had the size of an egg!

Just listen to the “squeak” sound, under the ground had a giant rat leapt out, one chi (3) large rat, looked so fierce!

Long Ya’s sword had always been very fast when a sword lashed, the rat’s head was separated from its body in a different place, the blood flood over fields, the soil was dyed to a dark brown shade.

Sha Man was still in a panic state. The other women helped her heal her wounds. After several steps, she turned around again. With an inexplicable look on her face, he couldn’t tell whether she was grateful or what.

Long Ya watched Sha Man walked away, thinking that it was hard for such delicate women to stay in this remote place. He was thinking a nonsense thing, sudden he heard an old hoarse voice behind him:

“Long Ye… Let have breakfast…”

Long Ya was a martial arts practitioner. Rarely had people could be able to appear behind his back so quietly. Hearing a strange voice. His heart beat faster, he couldn’t help but turned his head around.

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1. 爷 (yé) a form of address for an official or rich man
2. 时辰 (shí chen) Chinese time divided hour into 12 Shi Chen (1 Shi Chen = 2 hours)
3. 尺 (chǐ) a unit of length（=1/3 metre）

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Translator’s talk corner:

Not Only Sha Man suffers from her injury but also ME The translator that suffer from their idiom. OTL.

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Chapter 1 Part 2 Overwhelmed by favours

Until the dawn of the next day, they finally found a path deep in the forest, muddy mountain road, a series of shallow footprints extending to the deep of mountain.

The footprints were very shallow, touched down by the tip of toes. It was supposed to be left by the people who had the best light skill. In this remote forest, except for the great bandit Feng Qilin, who was being pursued, no one could think another.

So, they carefully followed, just in case of unexpected events, Long Ya marked the trunks on the roadside. Who knows that after walking for a day, they did not find Feng Qilin, but saw a Miao’s stockade!

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The walls were well built by logs, winding with layers of vines, which looked green and beautiful from afar.

Nearby, there was a group of Miao girls’ chasing around outside the stockade, clapping their small hands and singing “Large trees, large trees, vines without trees blown away with the wind. Trees grow, trees grow, vines hold trees well without root. Loneliness and emptiness until senescence, can’t compare with one love’s night…”

Long Ya and other people have not seen a sign of human for a long time. Then they suddenly met people. They were naturally joyful to see several children playing happily. They were about to ask, but unexpected surprised.

Because those children look very similar, they were generally pretty, their snowy skin, as if they were born of twins. Seeing five people including Long Ya, the girls seemed to be frightened and rushed into the village one by one, hiding and peeping from far away.

It was normal for hill folk’s children to be afraid of strangers, but they were all bright-eyed and excited more than terrify.

Long Ya and other people did not mind with children, so they went to the village to asked the way out of the mountains.

In the middle of the small village had an ancient sanctuary, winding with the large rattan vines a long the broken stone stairway. At first glance, it seemed that the sanctuary, had broken out from the ground, together with numerous rattan vines, looked somewhat strange.

Near the sanctuary had scattered cottages, a few fields, Miao’s women cultivated in the field, saw Long Ya and other people, had put down their work, warmly received them.

There are more than twenty families living in the big stockade. There were around forty people, mostly young women aged from ten to twenty-five. They are all beautiful and charming. In addition, there are several young girls and old women with flaccid skin and grey-haired. Not only no men in the whole village but also young and middle-aged women over twenty-five years old were none.

The most peculiar thing was that beautiful women were similar to those girls in appearance. If they were not at different ages, they may be mistaken for twin sisters.

Although Long Ya and others were surprised, the warmly welcome of women made them undoubtedly overwhelmed by flattered and honour. Naturally, if only a group of women lived together in a place for a long time, and a few young men suddenly came in, they would surely stir up a thousand waves with one stone.

Long Ya asked the women about the way out of the mountains, but they were told that because of the complex weather in the mountains, miasma was diffuse on these days, people and animals could not be infected with them at all. Looking up from a high place, they could see that the mountain roads were covered with white fog, even they ascended, they could not see the road clearly. As a result, they had to stay in the stockade temporarily for several days and waited until the fog faded away before they could leave.

The most comfortable thing about staying here was the four brothers of the Li family. They were not as worried about their fate as Long Ya, who concerned about a mission, hardly that they would entertain themselves.

Thought about that Miao’s stockade had beautiful women like clouds, chose anyone can compare with guniang from the brothel of the capital city. Moreover, the Miao girls were generous, informally than Han women, which naturally had a variety of customs.

Long Ya saw that Li brothers were happy to forget about shu (1) appearance so he was indolent to warn them, but there were many unusual things in this place, which really make people feel a little uneasy. Besides, the escaped burglar might be nearby, so he left the banquet and went around for a tour. Out of the tens zhang (2), he could still hear the noise of drinking and laughing.

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1. 乐不思蜀 (lè bù sī shǔ) means have much enjoyment and forget to go back home; indulge in pleasure and forget home and duty. This idiom come from three kingdom period. After Liu Bei (刘备) died, Zhu Geliang (诸葛亮) helped Liu Chan(刘禅) ascending to the throne. After Zhu Geliang died, Shu Kingdom became chaos. Wei Kingdom (魏) blockaded Shu and arrested Liu Chan. Wei Wang (King of Wei) knew that Liu Chan was incompetent. So Wei Wang took a good care of him. One day, Wei wang arranged the banquet that playing and dancing Shu songs. Many nobles and officers of Shu felt sad but when Wei wang asked Liu Chan. “Did you miss your home (Shu)?”. Liu Chan, who enjoyed his life said no. He was happy here. Shu noblemen and officers felt depress and gave up the idea of restoring Shu.
2. 丈 (zhàng) a unit of length = 3 1/3 meter

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