Lady Lin’s First-ever Journey to Immortality-Chapter 486 - Return
Chapter 486 Return
This is the eighth district of the moonstar and now it is the 306th year on the new calendar.
Relying on the original large crater, the eighth district can be regarded as a high-end residential area on the moonstar. The artificial fountain is exquisite. Earth Federation people of the New Era have never got the chance to see the amazing natural landscapes and they are surrounded by artificial lakes. From time to time, water from the fountain in the urban square splashes on their clothes, which is a behavior of embracing nature for them.
Of course, if you have enough money, there are many planets which you can travel to in the Alpha Alliance. However, most people were born in moonstar and they hardly have the opportunity to get out of the Earth Federation. Living in the eighth district of moonstar is always a good choice for them.
On the left bank of the artificial lake, there is a house with green bricks and green tiles, which is incompatible with the entire construction of the eighth district. It adds a bit of ancient feeling to the steel-and-concrete structures.
The family surname of the house owner is Liu. The Lius moved here from Dongting City on the earth more than a hundred years ago. They stay away from publicity and buy land and build without anyone noticing. This house has attracted many people in the past one hundred years. Many people use all kinds of methods to get it but finally, they give up. The Liu family seems to be insignificant, but no one can bully them easily.
On the moonstar, there are no distinct four seasons. The side irradiated by the sun is extremely hot while the side without sunlight is very cold. Residential areas are all built in bunkers. High-grade residence simulates the temperature of the Earth in spring and autumn, which is really pleasant. The temperature of some worse residential areas sometimes may go wrong. People always curse the hot summer and cold current there.
In the early morning of August, 306 on the new calendar, there are voices in the Liu Family Mansion beside the artificial lake.
The master of the house leads all family members to light a stick of incense in front of the worshiped portrait in the hall. This is how the Liu family begins its new day.
“Qingdai, stay here. I have something to tell you.”
Younger generations leave one after another. Liu Qingdai has always been the favorite of the master. Liu Qingdai’s brothers and sisters of the same generation have long been accustomed to her special treatment. They were jealous when they were young, but now they are glad that someone can take the position for them and be favored by the master—please, as time goes by, who wants to be the “believer” selected from the family and devotes all her or his life to the faith of the Liu family?
The Liu family secretly gathers a lot of believers believing in “Mortal Heart Fairy”, especially the support from survivors of the Dongting City. In this case, Lius get the strength which cannot be underestimated. However, no one has actually touched even a corner of Gods and Buddhas because of his or her belief.
If they have the time for devout worship, they will use it to learn martial arts or exercise spirit power. It is people’s own strength that makes them feel confident. Can pious belief do any help to martial arts advancement and make them fly like legendary cultivators? What a joke!
However, Liu Qingdai has different ideas from the youth in the Liu family. As the daughter of the main branch in the Liu family, she has been chosen as the “believer” because of her cool temperament since she was a child. She is the most pious believer among the people who worship Mortal Heart Fairy.
For more than three hundred years and after turmoil, the Liu family’s rules dictate that all girls must bear the surname Liu, whether they are from the main branch of not. Only married women of side branches can take the surname of their husbands if their children are male. Sticking to this rule, the Liu family’s lineal descent is still pure in terms of bloodline and inheritance generation after generation.
As the “believer” of the Liu family, Liu Qingdai’s status in the Liu family has always been high. Her experience in Dongting City Hall and Mount Jun Island five years ago even makes the master like her more.
“It has been five years. Qingdai, we still have no news from the fairy. Do you think…” The middle-aged man in Tang suit is a little fat. But in fact, he is very talented. Lius refuse to take gene evolution fluid. What they practice is the ancient martial arts of Huaxia. The strength of this middle-aged man has already been a little better than ninth-level warriors classified by the Earth Federation.
Liu Qingdai lowers her head respectfully, but she does not hesitate to interrupt the middle-aged man’s words, “Master, the Liu family has waited for three hundred years. Five years mean nothing. Fairy told us her name on the top of Dongting. That is totally a sign of return. She has disappeared for five years but she must have her own reasons.”
The master sighs. Because of what Mortal Heart Fairy said at the top of Dongting City five years ago, the Alpha Alliance really leaves no stone unturned on the earth in these years.
The Alpha Alliance and some forces in the Federation can’t suppress the enthusiasm of the citizens of Dongting. Believers of Mortal Heart Fairy are returning. Lius hold their heads high after one hundred years of suffering and develop rapidly. The opening of Jun Island has also been proposed in the Federal meeting.
At this moment, he really should have confidence in Mortal Heart Fairy.
The honor and disgrace of the Liu family have been tied to Mortal Heart Fairy for more than three hundred years.
After talking with the master of the family, Liu Qingdai walks on the corridor. She totally believes in this opinion she has learned since she was a child.
Liu walks to the east part of the house. The Liu family advocates antiquity and builds exquisite and simple corridors and courtyards. Liu Qingdai’s place is a two-story small wooden building. She can see the full view of the artificial lake upstairs, which is the best view of the entire Liu family mansion.
A pond is built behind this small building and some lotus is transplanted here from Dongting Lake on the earth. With the temperature adjustment of Lius’ house, the growth cycle of lotus is still normal. In August, lotus has all withered. It is an excellent time to get lotus seeds.
Liu Qingdai goes up to the second floor. The ink on the rice paper spreading on the desk is still wet. It is a picture of a fairy with fine brushwork. She learns to paint by copying her ancestor’s work.
Liu Qingdai began painting when she was in elementary school. Her talent is not so good, but she is very diligent. She has copied the ancestor’s work since she was a child and now she can paint a very similar portrait. But since she personally met Lin Luoran five years ago, her painting skills have not advanced yet but even regressed. Her composition has been a mess for a while.
Compared with the picture scroll preserved for more than 300 years, the temperament of the Mortal Heart Fairy she saw has changed. When she paints, the previous work does no help and she has to rethink how to reproduce the beauty of the fairy with her pen.
A breeze blows from the lake. Liu Qingdai puts down her brush and rubs her brows.
Since Liu Qingdai met the fairy at the Dongting City Hall dinner five years ago, she has been feeling that there is a hazy mist in her mind. She heard that people who cultivate spirit power can develop ocean of consciousness when they reach a certain level. Liu Qingdai has done a lot of research about this. The thing between her brows seems to be somewhat different from the so-called ocean of consciousness.
First of all, she doesn’t cultivate spirit power.
Secondly, through the thick fog, she sometimes can feel that she can chase the trails of Mortal Heart Fairy… It is not that she can track Mortal Heart Fairy, but some emotional feedback can tell her if Mortal Heart Fairy is safe.
For example, three years ago, she suffered a serious illness inexplicably, lasting several months without any reason. It really frightens the Liu family.
Maybe something bad happens to Mortal Heart Fairy at that time.
Liu Qingdai opens the window, hoping that the morning breeze can blow away her absurd thoughts.
Isn’t it the time to pick lotus? Liu Qingdai watches lotus swaying with the wind. She remembers that the master of the family is kind of sick recently. She will go to the aquatic market to buy a carp and cook soup with fresh lotus seeds. The effect may be good.
“Crucian carp is a better choice. You should remember to pick out lotus cores when cooking. Otherwise, it will be a pot of bitter soup.”
Liu Qingdai nods in agreement and then she is totally stunned. This female voice is so familiar. Who is she?
A white wrist gently picks a lotus. Her green dress is much greener than the lotus leaf in this pond. There is no blue sky in the moonstar at all. The light in the morning, midnight and evening is all artificially simulated by the bunker. Even so, Liu Qingdai still has a moment of dazzling because of stunning light. The place where the woman in the green dress stands seems to have expanding layers of light. She cannot look at her directly.
“Fairy. ”
Liu Qingdai’s eyes turn red for some reason.
Lin Luoran fiddles with the lotus in her hand and smiles at Liu Qingdai, “You are right. I’m back.”
