Chapter 47: Ignorance
Lu Yun lay motionless under the ship plank.
A grain of rice fell onto his face through the ship seam, but he didn’t even blink, his gaze piercing through the ship seam, fixed tightly on Manager Chai.
He then saw Manager Chai lick the tip of the brush with his tongue, then start writing in the account book. As for what was written, Lu Yun had no way of knowing, but he could guess it was definitely the accounts for today’s shipment. Manager Chai only recorded a few strokes before stopping, closed the account book, and sighed deeply for a while. Then he undid the front of his robe, revealing a hidden interlayer in the lining of his upper garment. Manager Chai placed the account book inside, then carefully tied a specially styled knot. Only then did he fasten the buttons and gently smooth out his upper garment.
Lu Yun watched unblinkingly, imprinting all of Manager Chai’s actions in his mind.
The ship arrived at the Lu Clan Pier north of the Luo River. Manager Chai left three sailors to watch the ship and departed with the other three.
Lu Yun patiently waited until nightfall, finally enduring until the sailors fell asleep. Once the three snoring sounds rose rhythmically, he silently pushed up the ship plank and left the place where he had hidden for an entire day. Casually, Lu Yun struck the sleep acupoint of the three sailors. Amid the thunderous snoring, he hammered the several wooden wedges in his hand back into that ship plank.
Once everything was restored without leaving a single trace, he tiptoed out of the cabin. Circulating his cultivation to observe for a moment, he took advantage of the gap when the night patrol house soldiers walked away, silently returning to the shore, and vanished into the night in an instant.
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Leaving the dock, Lu Yun did not head south, but continued north.
By now, curfew had long been imposed in the city. The gates of each ward north of the Luo River were tightly shut, and aside from the night patrol official soldiers on the streets, there was not a single soul.
Lu Yun concealed himself in the darkness, moving unhurriedly through the crisscrossing streets. After avoiding several waves of patrol teams, he arrived outside Jingxin Ward.
These past few days, Lu Yun had already inquired clearly that Lu Feng and his father lived here.
Patiently waiting for the night patrol official soldiers to move far away, Lu Yun leaped up, his body hanging on the tall ward wall. His hands and feet clung to the smooth wall like suction cups, just like a large gecko, easily climbing up to the three-zhang-high wall top.
Crouching on the wall top to observe for a moment, Lu Yun repeated the process, crawling down from the wall top like a gecko.
The first residence inside was Lu Jian’s mansion. Lu Yun landed in the rear garden of the mansion. Hiding behind a short tree, he adjusted his breathing slightly, then resolutely raised his cultivation to eighty percent!
Because Lu Jian was an Earth Rank Grandmaster of more than ten years, he was definitely meditating and cultivating at this time! Lu Yun knew very well that at such times, a Grandmaster’s senses would become extremely sharp, and any slight anomaly would trigger a warning sign in their heart. Otherwise, Lu Yun wouldn’t have avoided being successfully ambushed by Uncle Bao even once after entering the Grandmaster realm.
Lu Yun could clearly feel the suppressed true qi surging out from the ancestral aperture, flowing through his meridians and joyfully rushing to his limbs and bones! His entire body felt reborn, every meridian filled with boundless power, as if a casual raise of hand or foot could move mountains and overturn seas.
This unparalleled sense of power made him deeply intoxicated. Even though it would bring excruciating backlash afterward, he still relished it!
At this moment, Lu Yun’s body seemed to merge as one with heaven and earth. Even if someone saw him, they would think their eyes were playing tricks. All his senses were heightened to the extreme; in his eyes, everything in the darkness was crystal clear. In his ears, it was as if he could hear every sound in the entire courtyard distinctly.
In his perception, the flow of time seemed to slow down. A firefly flew past his eyes, and Lu Yun could even clearly see every flap of its wings; the firefly’s glow, which should have been constant, flickered dimly and brightly…
Slightly adapting to his new state, Lu Yun walked toward the residence of the master of this place. It was truly walking, not running or dashing, because that would produce wind sounds and would definitely be detected by Lu Jian!
Lu Yun strolled as if leisurely wandering in the moonlit flower shadows, appearing extremely relaxed. In reality, his vigilance was at its peak; anyone appearing would be detected by him in advance. Unless that person was a Heavenly Rank Grandmaster…
Passing the main courtyard, Lu Yun clearly sensed a faint, almost imperceptible, yet endlessly prolonged aura within.
Lu Yun knew that it must be Lu Jian without a doubt. He couldn’t help but become even more cautious, ready to abandon the mission and withdraw from north of the Luo River at the slightest change in that breathing sound! Even if Lu Jian couldn’t do anything to him, there was still a Heavenly Rank Grandmaster nearby who could rush over at any time!
Fortunately, the other party didn’t notice him. Even after Lu Yun walked far away, Lu Jian’s aura showed no change whatsoever…
Since it was confirmed that Lu Jian lived in the main courtyard, Lu Yun knew Lu Feng should be elsewhere. The reasoning was simple: that two-faced guy definitely didn’t want his father to detect his filthy deeds, so he would stay as far away as possible.
Lu Yun gradually moved away from the main courtyard, about to search room by room, when he suddenly heard a faint woman’s scream. Lu Yun’s heart tightened; this noise wasn’t small. Even from a distance, Lu Jian should have heard it!
He immediately hid in a concealed spot, holding his breath and waiting for Lu Jian’s reaction. But after waiting left and right, there was no movement from the main courtyard at all. Instead, the woman’s screams drifted to his ears from time to time. This left Lu Yun very puzzled. Could it be that Lu Jian hadn’t heard that sound? Or… was he used to it?
Lu Yun couldn’t help but feel a surge of disgust, thinking that sure enough, like father like son. With someone in the mansion so brutally harming women, Lu Jian actually turned a blind eye! Truly devoid of conscience!
Moreover, the one daring to so crazily harm women in Lu Jian’s mansion was most likely Lu Feng!
Lu Yun followed the woman’s voice to the east courtyard of the mansion, silently flipping over the wall to enter. Sure enough, he saw a light on in the north room. Two elongated shadows were cast on the window paper; the one clearly male viciously pressed on top of the woman, his entire body exerting force continuously, while snarling viciously from his mouth: “******, ******!”
Lu Yun felt a wave of irritation. He considered himself to have no sense of justice whatsoever, yet he couldn’t help wanting to see inside, to know exactly what abuse that pitiful woman was suffering.
Finally, under the influence of some inexplicable force, his gaze pierced through the propped-up partition window and fell on the two of them.
Under the high-burning red candlelight, two naked, fair bodies were pressed tightly together. The woman was on all fours on the ground, the man kneeling upright behind her, gritting his teeth and thrusting. His hands reached over the woman’s smooth back…
The woman’s face was flushed like fire, her expression a mix of pain and pleasure, her mouth constantly emitting those sounds that misled Lu Yun… But with Lu Yun’s exceptional hearing, he could tell she was not the same woman who had screamed initially.
Lu Yun couldn’t help but widen his eyes, watching the two bright red spots on that snowy white bounce continuously with the man’s ravaging under the candlelight, so strikingly red, so scorching! His breathing involuntarily grew heavy. A heat rose from his lower dantian, and Lu Yun felt his face hot enough to fry an egg.
In an instant, the scenes he had only seen in the Imperial Extreme Profound Cave Skill appeared before his eyes! Lu Yun then realized they were dual cultivating… This was his first time seeing the actual scene of man and woman coupling. But for some reason, their auras were chaotic, especially the woman’s, who had not the slightest internal energy in her body, completely not matching the ‘harmony of yin and yang, both man and woman becoming immortals’ described in the Imperial Extreme Profound Cave Skill!
What Lu Yun couldn’t understand even more was that another naked woman lay beside them. She looked identical to the woman kneeling there enduring the dual cultivation, but her eyes were tightly closed, her face exhausted, with only her chest rising and falling continuously… He truly didn’t know why dual cultivation involved an extra person. Could it be a threesome?
After a moment of daze, Lu Yun suddenly snapped alert, forcing himself to withdraw his gaze. He quickly formed hand seals and silently recited a segment of the Heart Calming Incantation, finally suppressing that inexplicable restlessness, his mind restoring clarity.
“Damn it!” Lu Yun cursed himself inwardly. Just now, his aura had been chaotic; if not for being masked by those two people’s sounds, he might very well have been detected by Lu Jian!
Strongly suppressing the urge to look again, Lu Yun circulated his true qi to maintain mental clarity, and slipped into the adjacent study room. A couple of days ago, he had come to north of the Luo River and glimpsed Lu Feng from afar, already confirming that the man was the one he was looking for.
The study room was pitch black, but it posed no obstacle to Lu Yun. He scanned the room once, identified several possible hiding spots for things, and after a thorough search, indeed found over a dozen erotic picture albums, several bottles of drugs of unknown use, and various bizarre things… such as a string of coral beads; small copper beads shaped like broad beans, hollow inside and filled with mercury; small loops made from goat eyelashes; thick jade rings too big to fit on any finger…
Lu Yun couldn’t help but feel embarrassed. Sure enough, traveling ten thousand miles was better than reading ten thousand books; he didn’t recognize a single one of these things…
The studious youth carefully memorized the appearance of each item, planning to look them up later. He put the things back in their original places and continued searching the study room.
