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◈ Cultivating Underground ◈
Chapter 41
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The change had begun with a martial artist born in the Geonyang Kingdom about 300 years earlier.
The Geonyang Divine Demon.
Though an ordinary mortal without spiritual roots, he had reached the Profound realm before turning thirty and continued advancing into realms no one had even named.
At last, the Geonyang Divine Demon displayed terrifying power by killing a Golden Core cultivator from the Gon Kingdom!
A martial arts grandmaster from the mortal world had killed a Golden Core cultivator?
The news shook the cultivation worlds of both the Gon Kingdom and the Chang Kingdom.
Even the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Byeokra Sect and the Danso Sect, the Gon Kingdom’s two great sects, prepared to punish the Geonyang Kingdom.
But the Myriad Gu Sect suddenly intervened. This great sect in the Chang Kingdom to the south had Nascent Soul cultivators and was famous for its spirit insects and gu arts.
No one knew what agreement the Nascent Soul cultivators had reached. All that was known was that the Byeokra Sect and the Danso Sect did not attack the Geonyang Kingdom afterward, and the Myriad Gu Sect did not move north either.
Many suspected that the Geonyang royal family had formed close ties with the Myriad Gu Sect. Rumors even claimed that the Geonyang Divine Demon’s strength had come from the sect’s secret teachings or assistance.
Whatever the truth, the Geonyang Kingdom rapidly expanded its territory.
To the south, it conquered two mortal kingdoms belonging to the Chang Kingdom. To the north, it swallowed the Untaek Kingdom and nearby small states belonging to the Gon Kingdom.
The present Geonyang Kingdom had become a strange country with vast territories stretching across two fourth-rank cultivation kingdoms, the Gon Kingdom and the Chang Kingdom.
Its power made it difficult to call it a mere mortal kingdom.
Some cultivators even joked that it should be considered a separate third-rank martial kingdom wedged between the two fourth-rank cultivation kingdoms.
Still, the accepted view was that no matter how strong the Geonyang Divine Demon was, he could not match a Nascent Soul cultivator. Many therefore regarded him as comparable to a late-stage Golden Core cultivator.
However, the Geonyang Divine Demon had last appeared in public decades earlier. Rumors that he had already died and the royal family was hiding the truth circulated alongside rumors that he had entered secluded cultivation to seek a higher realm.
“Wait, the Untaek Kingdom was annexed?”
Yi Hyeon’s gaze lingered on the northern part of the map.
The name Untaek Kingdom was nowhere to be found. Only the Geonyang Kingdom’s vast territory remained.
“So that’s what happened...”
For a moment, Yi Hyeon recalled his life in the Untaek Kingdom.
“Well, by the time the Geonyang Divine Demon was born, everyone I knew would’ve already passed away. It doesn’t mean much now.”
His meeting with Yu Jeong-hwi, who had been the king of Untaek, and the ambush a few days later by Wi Mun-do, Paeng Ja-ryang, and Han So-baek of the Cheongun Sect had already taken place 540 years earlier.
Even so, seeing the country’s very name vanish from the map left him with a strange feeling.
...
Yi Hyeon was more interested in how the Geonyang Divine Demon and his disciples had grown beyond their limits than in the Geonyang Kingdom’s expansion.
For several days, he visited bookstores, martial arts schools, and inns around Nammun Pass, gathering material on the Geonyang Kingdom’s new martial arts.
Books published in the Geonyang Kingdom praised the path of the New Martial Arts, while books from the Gon Kingdom condemned it as an evil path that planted insects in human bodies.
Yi Hyeon read accounts from both sides and first picked out only the details they shared.
The Geonyang Kingdom’s New Martial Arts had split into several branches, but the main one was the Symbiotic Gu Path.
People shortened its name to the Gu Path and called martial artists who followed it gu adepts.
At the heart of the Gu Path was a symbiotic spirit insect called the Life-Sharing Gu.
「A suitable Life-Sharing Gu larva is implanted in a martial artist’s dantian. Special internal cultivation methods and medicinal baths then link the vitality of the human and the Life-Sharing Gu, creating a single cycle.」
Unlike ordinary mortals, the Life-Sharing Gu could absorb the spiritual qi of heaven and earth!
The host mixed the spiritual qi that the insect had absorbed and initially refined with their own blood energy. The resulting power was called gu-origin true qi.
This allowed even mortals without spiritual roots to circulate gu-origin true qi, a form of spiritual power, through their meridians and apply it to their martial arts.
In other words, the Life-Sharing Gu served as both a living spiritual root and a dantian.
As the Life-Sharing Gu grew, its host’s lifespan increased as well. The extent depended on the insect’s breed and cultivation realm, but it was not unusual for powerful gu adepts to live for hundreds of years. This was also why rumors that the Geonyang Divine Demon was still alive never faded.
The nature of gu-origin true qi varied with the type of Life-Sharing Gu.
Gu adepts who hosted certain spirit insects had exceptionally strong Protective Spiritlight, while those who hosted poisonous insects had toxic spiritual power. Spirit insects with keen senses could even improve their hosts’ ability to detect danger.
There were also accounts of gu adepts whose wounds released fine insect threads instead of blood, stitching their flesh back together. It was impossible to tell how much was true and how much was exaggerated.
The total number of Life-Sharing Gu varieties was unknown, and rumors claimed that new ones were still appearing.
The Geonyang Divine Demon was also known to be a gu adept who hosted a Life-Sharing Gu.
However, the accounts disagreed on who had first created this method. One claimed that the Geonyang Divine Demon had learned it from an unnamed extraordinary figure as a child. Another said that a royal physician had discovered the secret method in an ancient tomb.
The most widespread suspicion was that the Myriad Gu Sect had created the Gu Path while experimenting with spirit insect implants on the Geonyang Kingdom’s martial artists. Some even claimed that the entire kingdom was a vast mortal bulwark cultivated by the sect to test the Gu Path’s potential and extend its influence toward the Gon Kingdom.
From what Yi Hyeon had read so far, the Life-Sharing Gu seemed capable of shaking the cultivation world’s entire order. Even mortals without spiritual roots could gain the power to fight cultivators.
But the reality was somewhat different.
The Life-Sharing Gu only replaced the function of spiritual roots. Naturally, it could not create spiritual qi on its own. To grow stronger, gu adepts had to rely on good spirit veins, alchemical pills, and spirit stones, just like cultivators.
Yet in the present cultivation world, good spirit veins were far rarer than people with spiritual roots!
Even if Life-Sharing Gu were distributed to ten thousand people, without resources for cultivation, most would spend their entire lives at a level comparable to early-stage Qi Refining.
Moreover, receiving a Life-Sharing Gu implant required a martial artist who had reached at least the Transformation realm, with a sufficiently tempered dantian, meridians, and body. Otherwise, most died the moment they accepted the spirit insect.
But were Transformation realm masters common?
Raising a single Transformation realm martial artist was far more difficult than finding a child with ordinary spiritual roots.
In the end, the demanding requirements for both resources and talent made it impossible to produce enough powerful gu adepts to overturn the cultivation world’s order.
Rather than a new path of cultivation, the Gu Path was closer to an expensive, dangerous detour toward immortality open only to a few mortal geniuses.
Still, the mortal countries of this world had populations and territories beyond imagination. Among their people were many with terrifying talent who lacked only spiritual roots.
In principle, the gu adepts’ cultivation system was not superior to ordinary cultivation.
However, gu adepts who had reached at least the Transformation realm and successfully formed a symbiotic bond with a Life-Sharing Gu were actually stronger than ordinary cultivators at the same cultivation realm!
The title of gu adept therefore carried considerable weight.
The Geonyang royal family had established Gu-Rearing Institutes throughout the country to raise Life-Sharing Gu.
These institutes selected children with outstanding martial talent at an early age and tempered their bodies through martial arts and medicinal baths. Only those who reached the Transformation realm and were compatible with a Life-Sharing Gu could receive an implant.
The outstanding gu adepts produced this way were assigned to the military, government offices, and combat units directly under the royal family.
Yi Hyeon continued reading.
「What are the weaknesses of gu adepts?
If the match was unsuitable, the martial artist’s body treated the Life-Sharing Gu as a foreign substance and rejected it. Mild cases ended in fever and damaged meridians, but severe cases killed both host and spirit insect.
The quality and type of Life-Sharing Gu determined a gu adept’s future. Some lost all their true qi or even their lives while trying to replace a low-quality insect with a better Life-Sharing Gu.
Cultivation was also expensive. Depending on the Life-Sharing Gu, it had to be fed specific medicinal ingredients, poisons, or demonic beast blood. If food was insufficient, it could instead consume its host’s blood essence and vitality.
Since human and spirit insect shared their lives, a serious injury to one also dealt a shock to the other. If the Life-Sharing Gu died, its host often suffered a collapsed dantian or went mad.
Above all, the Gu-Rearing Institutes that raised good Life-Sharing Gu were controlled by the royal family and the great sects. Rare breeds were worth a fortune and could not easily be obtained even with cultivators’ spirit stones.」
Yi Hyeon closed the book in wonder.
“Live long enough, and you really do see everything.”
At that moment, he recalled the martial artists he had encountered at the inn a few days earlier.
The Fuzzbees had become excited as though they had found food when those people appeared, and the martial artists had suddenly left without knowing why.
“Wait... Did one of them have a Life-Sharing Gu inside their body?”
Fuzzbees were predators that specialized in eating spirit insects and their eggs.
If one of those martial artists had hosted a symbiotic spirit insect in their dantian, that would explain both the Fuzzbees’ reaction and the martial artists’ behavior.
“There was a gu adept among them!”
...
“Now that I’ve got a rough idea of how the world has changed, let’s choose a site for Underground Hideout No. 3.”
Yi Hyeon laid the maps on top of one another on the table.
The Gon Kingdom, the Chang Kingdom, and the Geonyang Kingdom that had grown between them. The shifting balance of power around the three countries was interesting. But as someone still at the seventh layer of the Qi Refining stage, he had no reason to get caught in the struggles of the great powers.
...
Half a month later.
An unnamed mountain valley near Pyeongneung County, Saknyeong Province, in the Anneung Kingdom, in the northwestern Gon Kingdom.
Yi Hyeon sat halfway up a cliff, looking over the surrounding mountains.
Rocky peaks stretched as far as he could see, and even the nearest mortal village was more than 300 li away. There was no reason for anyone to come here.
Black Crow Ridge and Cheongha Valley lay some 6,000 li to the north.
About 1,050 years earlier, Yi Hyeon had passed this place while fleeing Cheongha Valley and traveling south past the southern side of Black Crow Ridge.
Over the past half month, he had explored an area roughly a thousand li in radius, marking mortal villages, official roads, and small local powers on his map. He had descended as far as twenty-five li underground to examine the bedrock, water veins, and earthfire flows. He had also checked for traces of demonic beasts or cultivators that had stayed there for a long time.
There were no immediate signs of danger.
He had also discovered a bedrock layer containing several wide, stable caverns about eighteen li beneath the valley. Two thin water veins flowed into the area from different directions.
“This should do for Underground Hideout No. 3.”
‘And... it shouldn’t be difficult to establish a second Heaven-Drawing Society nearby.’
Yi Hyeon intended to create a new Heaven-Drawing Society here.
To establish one, he needed a nearby spirit vein to draw from.
To the north lay Cheongha Valley’s third-tier spirit vein. Scattered around it were sects and cultivation families that occupied second-tier spirit veins.
Another place that caught Yi Hyeon’s attention was the Geonyang Kingdom, south of the Anneung Kingdom.
Having swallowed several mortal kingdoms, the Geonyang Kingdom possessed a number of second-tier spirit veins within its territory. Most of the major Gu-Rearing Institutes that raised Life-Sharing Gu and trained gu adepts were likely built over such veins.
If the Geonyang Divine Demon was comparable to a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, it would not be surprising for the kingdom to have a third-tier spirit vein as well. However, none of the material Yi Hyeon had obtained provided evidence that one existed there.
‘Well, it doesn’t matter. A second-tier spirit vein is enough for me...’
Yi Hyeon considered the Geonyang Kingdom a good place for a Heaven-Drawing Society to take root.
The cultivation families of the Namnyeo Kingdom had already suffered at the hands of independent cultivator organizations like the Heaven-Drawing Society. Over many years of monitoring the spiritual pressure of their spirit veins, they had developed detection formations and patrol procedures.
By contrast, the Geonyang Kingdom’s gu adepts had only been an established force for a little over 300 years. They might have learned to fight cultivators, but they likely had yet to feel the need to find independent cultivators hiding deep underground and taking small shares of spiritual qi.
They would therefore have less experience operating the relevant detection formations.
Of course, if the Myriad Gu Sect truly stood behind them, countermeasures might eventually appear. Even so, it was well worth trying.
Yi Hyeon did not find gu adepts particularly frightening.
People who used martial arts and spiritual power together.
They were like reflections of himself.
Yi Hyeon had begun combining martial arts and spiritual power long before they had, and the breadth and depth of his accumulated martial knowledge surpassed theirs. Many of the older martial arts that the Geonyang Kingdom’s gu adepts drew upon belonged to traditions he had personally encountered or whose inheritors he had fought.
Yi Hyeon descended from the cliff.
Ssssss.
His body sank into the ground.
...
After descending eighteen li underground, Yi Hyeon drew the Mountain-Subduing Sword.
Scrrrape.
「Underground Hideout No. 3」
Yi Hyeon first chose a cavern with a level floor and laid out the magical implements he had obtained from the Azure Tide Merchant Alliance’s two Foundation Establishment cultivators.
There were six bronze flying swords with linked ripple patterns and a black iron spear with no seam between its shaft and blade.
The six bronze flying swords formed a single set of magical implements whose restrictions were only complete when all six were used together. The black iron spear looked simple, but carefully connected restrictions allowed spiritual power to flow through its entire blade and shaft at once. Both deserved to be called high-grade magical implements.
Yi Hyeon was not yet well versed in artifact crafting. However, by combining the basics of ritual refinement he had learned from Introduction to Object Manipulation and Sword Control at Cheongha Valley with his knowledge of formation inscriptions from the Jangchun Sect, he had gained enough insight to examine magical implements’ structures and restrictions.
He spent several days inspecting them inside and out, confirming that traces of their dead owners’ spiritual power clung to various parts of the core restrictions.
‘It won’t happen right away, but if I pour spiritual sense and spiritual power into them every day, I should be able to push out the previous owners’ traces little by little...’
Of the iron rings that had emerged from the spear, only two remained intact. One had been cut apart by the Mountain-Subduing Sword.
The spirit material used for the iron rings was far inferior to that of the spear, and they were not connected to its core restrictions. They were little more than auxiliary projectiles that could be enlarged with spiritual power before being thrown. Yi Hyeon therefore classified all the iron rings and fragments as items to sell.
* * *
One year later.
Drip. Drip. Drip...
Drops of water gathered at the end of a bamboo pipe and fell.
The water followed the channels in Spirit Field No. 1-1 and seeped into grooves throughout the field. Once the soil was wet enough, nearby formation inscriptions lit up, while the water-drawing formation inscription lost its light.
The flow through the bamboo pipe stopped.
Yi Hyeon headed to the next spirit field.
Underground Hideout No. 3’s water supply system was more advanced than that of Underground Hideout No. 2.
A large water supply tank sat one level above the spirit fields. Low stone walls divided its interior into several sections, so a crack in one part would not drain all the stored water.
The water created by the Spirit Rain Spell was clean. However, the tank had been carved out of bedrock, and Yi Hyeon sometimes needed to leave for years at a time. Stone dust or fine sand falling from the ceiling and walls could mix into the water. To prevent settled debris from entering the pipes, he placed the bamboo pipe inlets a handspan above the tank’s bottom.
Each spirit field had its own bamboo pipe running from the tank and its own connected formation inscriptions. When the soil lacked water qi, a basic formation inscription activated the water-drawing inscription, allowing water to flow a little at a time. Once the soil was wet enough, the water-drawing inscription shut off, and no more water entered the pipe.
It was a structure Yi Hyeon would have struggled to create before learning basic formation inscriptions at the Jangchun Sect.
Rather than using separate spirit stones, the inscriptions ran on the spiritual qi remaining in the water he had supplied to the tank with the Spirit Rain Spell.
The inscriptions consumed a small amount of spiritual qi, but supplying water only where it was needed and only in the amounts required actually reduced overall consumption. The new water supply system could maintain the spirit fields for three years without Yi Hyeon visiting.
‘A larger tank would last longer, but expanding the caverns eighteen li underground would be dangerous.’
When building his hideouts, Yi Hyeon made use of natural bedrock and caverns whenever possible.
He had never studied civil engineering or architecture in his past life, so he could not calculate the loads and pressures the bedrock could withstand deep underground.
‘It might be worth looking for relevant knowledge in this world later...’
Underground Hideout No. 3 consisted of four main levels. The top level held a cultivation room, storage rooms, and a resting room, with the water supply level and spirit field level below it. At the bottom, he had added a drainage level in case water from an underground aquifer unexpectedly flooded into the spirit fields.
He had not built any broad ventilation shafts that might leave traces on the surface. Instead, he connected narrow, winding natural cracks to caves and cavities in the bedrock, allowing air to circulate, however slowly. In truth, with the Clear Air Art, breathing underground was not much of a problem for him.
The spirit fields kept their old numbers.
Their location had changed, but the lineages of the spirit plants and their records continued. Giving them new names as well would only cause confusion when he checked cultivation ledgers kept over hundreds of years.
Within the new bedrock, Yi Hyeon had recreated all twelve fields, from Spirit Field No. 1-1 through No. 1-7 and Spirit Field No. 2-1 through No. 2-5. He kept the Experimental Spirit Field for researching bone age manipulation separate from them.
Spirit Field No. 1-1 held 81 Bone-Rotting Flowers, 282 Yin Soul Grass plants, 73 Purple Poison Orchids, and 52 Earth Vein Flowers, with an average medicinal age of 349 years.
Distributed among the fields from Spirit Field No. 1-2 through No. 1-5 were 432 Bone-Rotting Flowers, 1,104 Yin Soul Grass plants, 292 Purple Poison Orchids, and 204 Earth Vein Flowers, with an average medicinal age of 315 years.
The oldest Yinwater Lotuses in Spirit Field No. 1-6 and the three Stone-Honey Peach trees in No. 1-7 had reached a medicinal age of 295 years. The Yinwater Lotuses he had divided and replanted after entering the Jangchun Sect, along with the three Stone-Honey Peach trees grown from cuttings, had also passed five years of medicinal age and were well established.
The fields from Spirit Field No. 2-1 through No. 2-5 were still Spirit-Storing Ginseng fields. Of the ginseng roots, 552 had a medicinal age of 180 years, while 915 had a medicinal age of thirty-eight years.
“In another sixty years, those 552 roots will reach a medicinal age of two hundred years. There must be plenty of second-tier pill formulas that use Spirit-Storing Ginseng...”
Spirit-Storing Ginseng was a relatively neutral spirit plant, and its main function was to store spiritual power, so it was likely used in many pill formulas.
Yi Hyeon picked up a handful of soil from the edge of a spirit field. Because he had moved entire slabs of soil during the relocation, almost none of the Spirit-Storing Ginseng had suffered root damage.
Bzzzzzz.
A Fuzzbee flew over from somewhere and landed on the back of Yi Hyeon’s hand. White, sticky larval slime clung to its golden fur.
“You’ve eaten something strange again.”
Squit.
As though feeling wronged, the Fuzzbee pooped, then threw itself onto the freshly packed dry soil.
Rrrroll.
As it rubbed its back against the ground to wipe off the slime, three nearby Fuzzbees threw themselves onto the soil one after another.
“Do you like your new home?”
...
Underground Hideout No. 3’s alchemy chamber lay about twenty-five li underground.
Its design was more advanced than the alchemy chamber in Underground Hideout No. 2, with a separate passage in the ceiling to release heat and smoke. One rock wall had been carved thin so that if a pill furnace exploded, the pressure could escape into an empty cavern.
Nine red formation stones were embedded in the chamber floor in a broad circle. This was the Nine-Fire Flame-Storing Formation recovered from Underground Hideout No. 2.
However, the formation’s size and the arrangement of its inscriptions differed slightly from before.
At its center stood not the pill furnace he had purchased from the Heaven-Serving Directorate, but the first-tier supreme-grade pill furnace he had received from a steward of Third-Stem Fire Court when leaving the Jangchun Sect.
Yi Hyeon had widened the spacing between the formation stones to fit the new furnace. He had altered only those parts of the Nine-Fire Flame-Storing Formation’s inscriptions that connected with the restrictions on the furnace’s surface. He had not created an entirely new formation, but after dozens of tests, he had successfully expanded a proven formation to fit different dimensions.
Fwoooosh.
As Yi Hyeon released his hand seals, the nine jets of fire died down one after another.
When he opened the pill furnace’s lid, an even layer of ivory powder lay at the bottom. He checked its medicinal potency and impurities, then divided it into equal amounts and packed it into six paper packets.
It was first-tier Bone-Tempering Powder.
Yi Hyeon took the packets to the storeroom. On one shelf sat three magical implements for measuring bone age and thick ledgers he had compiled over the past ten-odd years.
At present, after taking Bone-Tempering Powder, Yi Hyeon could adjust the bone ages shown by the three types of magical implements to anywhere between thirty-five and eighty-five. The difference between the three implements’ readings was no more than two years.
He sorted the finished Bone-Tempering Powder according to the target bone age and the time of testing.
「Bone age: 35. Test between 10 and 20 days after taking.」
...
「Bone age: 85. Test between 8 and 17 days after taking.」
Yi Hyeon placed each packet in a small jade case and sealed it with a first-tier Spirit-Sealing Talisman. Jade cases of identical dimensions piled up neatly in one part of his storage pouch.
...
After building Underground Hideout No. 3, Yi Hyeon changed his appearance and used various identities to visit several cultivator markets in the Anneung Kingdom and the Geonyang Kingdom. He needed to sell the items from the two Foundation Establishment cultivators’ storage pouches.
He kept the six bronze flying swords, the black iron spear, the two storage pouches, some healing pills for injuries, and some general-purpose talismans. He sold the iron rings and the remaining pills, talismans, and spirit materials across several markets.
The sales brought in the equivalent of thirty-eight mid-grade spirit stones. After adding the spirit stones he already owned and those obtained from the two cultivators’ storage pouches, he exchanged most of his low-grade spirit stones for mid-grade ones to reduce their bulk. Once everything was settled, he had 145 mid-grade spirit stones and 100 low-grade spirit stones left.
“That takes care of everything that needs doing right now. All that remains is an environment with enough spiritual pressure to keep raising the upper limit of my spiritual power even in late-stage Qi Refining...”
He looked at the new map attached to the wall. Spirit veins in the Gon Kingdom and the Geonyang Kingdom were marked on it.
“Time to establish a Heaven-Drawing Society.”
* * *
280 years later.
The Anneung Kingdom, a mortal kingdom in the northwestern Gon Kingdom.
In the most remote alley of Gray Rock Market stood a shabby shop called Hundred Wares Hall.
Its worn shelves were piled with poor-quality spirit materials, empty jade bottles, and fragments of old magical implements whose uses were unknown. Most days, not a single customer visited.
Late at night, a closed sign was hung on Hundred Wares Hall’s door. The independent cultivator tending the shop pushed aside a chest on the floor and held an identity token against the formation inscription hidden beneath it.
Grrrnk.
A stairway leading underground appeared.
The independent cultivator took a black crow mask from inside their robe, put it on, and descended the stairs.
Five masked cultivators who had arrived earlier were waiting in the stone chamber beneath Hundred Wares Hall. Their masks depicted a gray mountain goat, a yellow field mouse, a blue snake, a white owl, and a mole.
The independent cultivator in the black crow mask took the last empty seat.
Just then, it happened.
Tap.
A small pebble sprang up from one side of the stone chamber’s floor.
The solid floor rippled like water, and a cultivator in a purple robe rose from the ground like a ghost. A badger mask covered their face.
Every member who saw this for the first time had much the same thought.
‘What a terrifying spell! Is there really an Earth Escape Spell that lets someone pass through granite? The society leader must be at Foundation Establishment. No... perhaps even a great Golden Core cultivator!’
All six rose at once and clasped their hands in greeting.
“Greetings, Society Leader.”
“Good. Begin your reports.”
None of the members truly knew the history of the Two Heavens Society. Even the exact time of its founding was unknown.
The mystery of its name’s origin only made the name Two Heavens Society seem more profound. The less they knew of its meaning, the more plausible interpretations appeared.
One member believed it meant drawing spiritual qi from two heavens, the Gon Kingdom and the Geonyang Kingdom.
Another claimed that the two heavens referred to the worlds above and below ground. Yet another guessed that it was called the Two Heavens Society because there were two society leaders called Badger.
Which interpretation was correct did not matter. Simply belonging to this mysterious secret organization gave the members pride, a sense of belonging, and a feeling of superiority.
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