Episode 1431. You must be busy?
Three days later.
Yeon Ji-an’s funeral was held at Seokgyeongjang.
When the Jeongseung’s dog dies a crowd gathers to pay tribute but when the Jeongseung dies the number of mourners decreases.
There were not many visitors because there was no longer a royal family and Lee Man-yang the previous owner of Seopungpyoguk had passed away.
A small funeral was held with the participation of her daughter Lee Seol-ah’s family and Seopung Pyo-guk Gukju Namgung Sega General Secretary.
After the funeral Yeon Ji-an was buried alongside Lee Man-yang in Seokgyeongjang Gasan.
Somehow the mountain was turned into a family graveyard but Lee Seol-ah who inherited Seokgyeongjang actually liked it.
That night.
Around midnight a man fell as lightly as a feather from Seokgyeongjang’s mountainside.
A long time ago he was linked to Namcheon which was known to have been blessed with good fortune.
With long sorrowful eyes she gazed at the grave of her daughter whom she had raised with great care.
Her daughter happily accepted the human bondage of birth old age illness and death.
Only heaven knows whether she did it because she was not confident that she could achieve anything like Namgung-yeon or because she wanted to die as a human.
Yeon Jeok-ha touched her tombstone for a while and then moved to Namgung-yeon’s grave.
Instead of the sadness she felt at her daughter’s grave her confusion came over her.
The tombs of Namgung-yeon and her daughter look the same on the outside but their meaning is completely different.
Yeon Jian existed as a demon in the upper world but ended up as her own daughter.
On the other hand Namgoongyeon started out as her own wife… but we don’t know how she will end up in the end.
As she lives her immortal life she will meet new relationships.
The ninety years she lived as a human would be nothing more than a blink of an eye for her immortal soul.
She is Namgung Yeon. She will one day become a wise woman of nine heavens and she will become Shastra Parakti…. She will advance to a higher world than that and she will be called by another name.
For Shastra Parakti the time she lived as a wise woman of the Nine Heavens would have been nothing more than a blink of an eye.
“haha….”
Yeonjeokha laughed hollowly.
There is no way Namgoongyeon with her transcendent wisdom did not know that.
Did she really do it because she didn’t want Nam Gung-yeon to see her grow old and die?
I don’t even know what the relationship between her and her husband is.
He suddenly thought of the years she had lived with Nam Gung-yeon in her mind.
They met for the first time in her childhood reunited later in life traveled around Gangho together got married and lived in Seokgyeongjang.
What she felt in her childhood was the affection of her mother whom she had never seen.
It later turned into a deep love and then a deep affection as I turned 50.
I thought her deep affection would not change as it had remained the same for a long time.
Then he suddenly realized that he was obsessed with Namgung-yeon who had become a immortal.
This is clearly an obsession as I feel betrayed every time I think of the Nine Heavenly Wise Women and Shastra Parakti.
He thought that she would be his wife forever having made her conjugal bond for a short time in her present life.
My appetite is bitter.
Even though I found out the cause my mood did not improve.
He stood blankly in front of Namgung-yeon’s tomb and turned around lonely.
Namgung-yeon left on her path to immortality right away but she herself could not let her go yet.
Even though she was not very intelligent Namgoongyeon’s feelings were even greater.
He decided to be satisfied with that for now.
The rest – given to demigods and immortals – will be solved by the time of eternal life.
Yeonjeokha who had soared so high with the divine law of Eogi Chungso flew into the western sky.
***
Ho Kwang-seong.
Wudang Mountain.
Yeonjeokha visited the shrine of Gucheonhyeonnyeo not far from Oryonggung Palace.
I first went to the ‘Fourth Heaven’ here about 60 years ago.
This is where Namgung-yeon broke away from the gold line and left for her world finishing her daughter’s funeral and going as far as she could.
Neither Namgung Yeon nor her daughter ever asked to go to the ‘fourth heaven’.
But the place her daughter spoke of ‘where she needed her father’ was ‘the fourth heaven’.
The Nine Heavenly Wise Woman’s shrine was in worse condition than it was sixty years ago.
The wooden statue of the wise woman of nine heavens was now rotted and falling apart in some places.
It seemed like the shrine would be torn down sooner or later.
Yeonjeokha who was looking around the inside of the shrine with her mixed eyes took out incense from Mahadam (space storage) and lit it.
Soon he put incense into a heavily rusted incense burner and recited the ‘Taesangjeongil Advent Mantra’ as before.
Sixty years ago the Nine Heavenly Wise Woman descended but now there has been no change.
She waited until one of the incense sticks burned out but the wise woman of nine heavens never appeared.
‘huh?’
Yeonjeok looked around her once again with a perplexed look on his face.
However there was no sign of the Nine Heavenly Wise Woman descending anywhere in her old shrine.
‘It shouldn’t be like this….’
She thought that if she earnestly recited the ‘Taesang Jeongil Advent Divine Spell’ at the nine-cheon wise woman’s shrine the nine-cheon wise woman would descend.
Didn’t she the nine heavenly wise woman say about sixty years ago that ‘your wind has reached me’?
‘Taesangjeongil Advent Sinju’ is one of the esoteric techniques of Taeilgwan where the famous cult leader used to work.
Taeilgwan’s Taoist monks used to meet the gods through that spell.
If Yang Yeo-ryeong (the mother of the Eight Emperors) had not met the ‘unknown god’ through that spell and founded the Yumyeong Church Taeilgwan would still remain in Gomyeongsan Mountain.
Yeon Jeok-ha who remembered the famous religious leader and Jeokwol smiled bitterly and shook his head.
She even memorized the ‘spell to communicate with God’ and prayed to meet her but she did not appear.
Suddenly I remembered how she got lost while going to warn the Shaolin Temple about Namgung-cheon.
While resting in a tent near an old shrine to the god of land the shrine suddenly caught fire.
In the flames the Nine Heavenly Wise Woman appeared.
What is needed to meet her Nine Heavenly Wise Woman is not the Nine Heavenly Wise Woman’s shrine spell or earnest wish.
It is clear that the wise woman of Gucheon can only meet her if she wants to.
It was a bit frustrating and unfair but I couldn’t deny the reality.
This is because although she has the powers of a demigod her own essence is that of a human.
“Looks like you’re busy?”
She roughly cleared her seat and lay down in the middle of her shrine.
As she was unable to rest as she watched her daughter’s death and her funeral from afar she was overcome with anxiety.
“Hey.”
She raised her shaking upper body at the sound of someone shaking her awake.
“Gucheonhyeonnyeo?”
In her half-asleep state the name of the wise woman of nine heavens came out first.
However the person looking down on him was not a wise woman from the nine heavens but a middle-aged woman.
Behind her middle-aged woman the old woman frowned and purred.
“no way! Why did a young man with all four limbs fall asleep in a shrine? He said that if you go down the mountain there are a lot of guesthouses. Anyway there is no one to take care of it so it’s just dogs and cows….”
Yeonjeokha who I couldn’t hear said something.
“Grandma I’m not a dog or a cow I’m a human?”
Instead of feeling sorry the old woman raised her voice.
“Why is this pale young person doing that at the shrine? Is it because you don’t know where the shrine is? It is a magical place where Namcheon and Gucheon Hyeonnyeo met! Anyway I don’t know what’s important these days. “If you wake up why are you looking at me instead of rushing out?”
“Oh yeah.”
When Yeon Jeok-ha went outside the old woman and the middle-aged woman offered food for the ancestral rite and prayed earnestly.
Yeonjeokha couldn’t think of a place to go right now so he just stared blankly at the sky.
When Namgung-yeon left for her world and her daughter died her heart had no place to go.
At that time an old woman from the shrine called him.
“Look.”
“Me?”
In response to the old woman’s polite words I looked around as if to show off.
“Yes you. “There’s someone else here besides you.”
“The way he spoke was different from when he was at the shrine so I thought he was talking to someone else.”
“That’s because you fell asleep inside the shrine.”
The old woman’s tone became rough again.
A middle-aged woman who was watching from the side hurriedly intervened between the old woman and the young man.
“Mom calm down… I’ll tell you. Confucius: Can I call you Confucius?”
“It doesn’t matter.”
Yeonjeokha shrugged his shoulders.
The middle-aged woman looked the young man up and down and continued speaking.
“It looks like there’s nowhere else to go is that right?”
“why?”
Then the old woman could not stand it anymore and came out.
“Why! We’re afraid they might touch our ancestral rite food! If you are hungry and want to touch the ancestral rite food I will give you something to eat so follow me. “What are you going to do?”
I looked at the old woman and the middle-aged woman alternately.
Seeing that he gave food to a stranger in his first encounter it didn’t seem like he had a bad disposition.
‘Since they are such people they must come up here this morning and offer a sacrifice right?’
After thinking that far Yeonjeokha nodded.
“As long as you give me something to eat.” “I’ll follow you.”
“What a shameless young man.”
The old woman said a word to the young man then turned around and walked down the mountain path.
“Don’t feel bad. No matter what you say you are a person who does not just let poor people go. “Oh that doesn’t mean Confucius is like that.”
After finishing her words the middle-aged woman followed behind the old woman.
She tilted her head and started walking.
‘Do I look pitiful?’
After going down the mountain for about half an hour (1 hour) we came across a small village with about 30 households.
There were no shops or stores so it felt like a slash-and-burn village.
The old woman and the middle-aged woman entered a house that looked quite large.
At that moment a boy and girl who appeared to be teenagers were out in the yard and approached a middle-aged woman.
She said as the clever-looking boy glanced at the unfamiliar young man.
“Whew! Those things are all superstitions. “Don’t you know that Confucius stayed away from gods with great power?”
Then the old woman slapped the boy on the back. I scolded him and hit him loudly.
“Are you talking about Confucius Mencius and those who only have snouts but ignoring what this grandmother said?”
“Ouch! grandma! They say that things like Gucheonhyeonnyeo and Namcheon are all superstitions. “What’s happening in a world where even a martial arts expert can fall flat with just one shot from a bird’s gun…”
“What about this guy?”
When the old woman raised her hand again the boy ran behind his sister.
A middle-aged woman who was watching Jo-son’s fight said to the boy.
“You stop too. “If your grandmother and mother wish you and your sister the best you can’t thank them so what are you doing to embarrass yourself in front of guests?”
The boy’s sister who was glancing at the young man asked cautiously.
“By the way mother who is your guest?”
The old woman who was having a nervous war with her grandson answered one step faster than the middle-aged woman.
“She is not a guest she is someone I met at the shrine. He said he hadn’t had breakfast yet so he brought him over to feed him something. “Where is your father?”
“It’s in the backyard. “You’re fixing a broken wall.”
“okay? So-ok please help her mother and give that person something to eat. And Soryong you go and read the text. “If you don’t want to suffer like your father when you grow up you have to study hard.”
Even though the middle-aged woman and So-ok headed toward the kitchen the boy named So-ryong did not move.
The old woman who was looking at her grandson with disapproving eyes said to the young man:
“If you wait here for a while your daughter-in-law and granddaughter will soon bring you something to eat.”
After finishing speaking the old woman walked towards his backyard.
Yeon Jeok-ha who was standing with a puzzled look on his face spoke to the lounging boy.
“Aren’t you going to study writing?”
“Am I going to go in at the top?”
“Then you should read harder. “Ignorant people won’t even write it down.”
“A top guard warrior must be proficient in martial arts rather than studying writing. “I will become a bodyguard.”
“So are you learning anything?”
At that moment the boy Soryong looked left and right and said softly.
“No. So I’m planning to run away to Gyunhyeon soon. “First I will save up money at a guest house or at a base and then I will learn martial arts at a cheap military officer.”
“You’re saying you’re going to become a beggar.”
“Wow man. “You return the favor with evil words?”
“I don’t know what grace is but I haven’t received it yet.”
As soon as the words were finished So-ok came out carrying food on her plate.
She sat down on the veranda and began to eat.
When he finished eating and was rinsing his mouth with cold water the old woman returned with a middle-aged man.
When the middle-aged man made eye contact with the unfamiliar young man he asked directly.
“Looking at his behavior he doesn’t seem to be a thief or a wanderer. What is he doing?”