Cultivation: Fortune by Lots

"Four..."

Watching, the elder suddenly looked up: "Four Ninth Heavenly Layer, including the Vajra Sect Leader at the Ninth Heavenly Layer Perfection?"

"Yes, father." Ye Wei looked at his father’s rare expression of surprise.

This expression, he had only recently seen.

But Ye Wei did not find it odd about Ye Moquan’s surprise.

Even now, thinking about the content of the report, he felt equally incredulous.

Vajra Sect Leader Garuda.

The Great Demon Four-eyed Python Emperor who was converted by the Buddhist Handprint Lineage.

The Sect Leader of the Alchemy Cauldron Sect Holy Land in the Intermediary Path Country of Great Song, Zhao You’an.

And the elder from the Vajra Division, Elder Cisong.

A full four Ninth Heavenly Layer experts, all perished.

As for the extermination of Vajra Temple, the massacre at Three Springs Palace, and the chaos within Sumi, these matters could be left aside.

Just the fact that all four Ninth Heavenly Layer experts were killed was enough to shock people.

Because from the Celestial Master Mansion’s side, Xu Yuanzhen did not participate in the Western Regions war.

In the Western Regions showdown, a pinnacle confrontation, Celestial Master Mansion sent only Tang Xiaotang and Lei Jun to the battle!

Yet they shattered the Vajra Division in Sumi, and even incidentally took down the Three Springs Palace in Great Song.

More terrifying was that although Lei Jun was injured, Tang Xiaotang still had the strength to tour the four corners on behalf of the emperor.

When Ye Wei first received the relevant news, he was overwhelmingly shocked.

Subsequent messages spread like wildfire throughout the world, with more and more details.

The Vajra Division in Sumi was somewhat overconfident and sluggish, acting like filling oil.

Having heard that Lei Jun and Tang Xiaotang were not facing multiple experts simultaneously, like the Empress of Yunzhou, but instead fought in a successive battle, Ye Wei was slightly relieved.

Yet even so, the battle result was truly terrifying.

After all, the Celestial Master Mansion did not just defeat and repel their enemies; they killed them.

"Xu Yuanzhen’s prior battle with Huang Xuanpu was already quite unexpected, and this Western Regions conflict..." Ye Wei’s expression was extremely grave.

Ye Moquan tapped his finger on the letter: "That formation might be the key."

Ye Wei: "The formation was set up by Lei Jun, but it’s uncertain if he created it, nor is it known if it can be deployed on the same scale in a short time."

Ye Moquan: "Therefore, we must act quickly, whether for the current emperor or for the Celestial Master Mansion."

Ye Wei: "Yes, father."

Watching his eldest son depart, Ye Moquan looked at the letter.

Often it is said, to regret too late is of no use.

Thus, Ye Moquan rarely experienced regret.

Yet one matter had almost become his lifelong regret.

Back when Empress Zhang Wantong had just ascended the throne, chaos erupted in the East Sea, and Zhang Wantong personally went overseas.

At the same time, three major events occurred.

The rebellion of Prince Wu.

The near-extermination of the Buddhist Holy Land Bodhi Temple.

The inner turmoil within the Taoist Holy Land Celestial Master Mansion, the battle of Li Wai.

Every event had far-reaching impacts.

Of these, the extermination of Bodhi Temple was orchestrated by Ye Moquan.

But at that time, the wrong choice was made!

An arrow on the string had to be released; at that time, even if it was an arrow already leaving the string, it should have been redirected towards the Celestial Master Mansion.

That was the best and possibly the last chance.

Since then, all actions have been to fill the pit and repay the debt of that wrong decision.

Today, can anything more be added?

Ye Moquan gazed out at the early winter scenery, feeling a chill.

......

Suzhou, Tianlong Temple.

Elder Miaokong and his party returning from the north after participating in the battle, headed back to the mountain gate.

Abbot Miaoxin and Elder Miaohui came to greet them.

"Although we led the disciples to war, the course and outcome of this battle were truly unexpected." Elder Miaokong sighed repeatedly.

Abbot Miaoxin nodded: "We were all very surprised."

On the side, Elder Miaohui remained silent.

Previously, it was thought that the Vajra Division in Sumi could contend with the Taoist Sect without becoming like the Intermediary Path Country.

But who would have thought...

"Various messages are mixed, and we know limited details here." Abbot Miaoxin said.

Elder Miaokong roughly recounted the events before and after the battle in Yunzhou, concluding with: "I know little about the battle results at the Vajra Temple in the Western Regions, much of it is hearsay, but a few points can be confirmed..."

"Five Great Dharmas, Dual Dragon-Tiger Strike?"

Elder Miaohui, who had been silent, finally couldn’t help but speak: "Wasn’t he injured because he killed that Alchemy Cauldron Sect Ninth Heavenly Layer Taoist Zhao You’an?"

Elder Miaokong lightly nodded: "Zhao You’an was indeed injured, but after all, he was still a Ninth Heavenly Layer high Taoist. Celestial Master Lei, with an Eighth Heavenly Layer cultivation, counter-killed him without injury. He was injured only after entering the decisive battle where he faced the Vajra Sect Leader at Sumi."

The five Great Dharmas were indisputable; apart from the three Dharmas of Heaven, Earth, and Man inherited from the Celestial Master Mansion and the Yin Thunder Dragon known to the world from Celestial Master Lei, there was an additional crimson-gold Yang Form Yang Fire Tiger."

Looking at the equally astonished Abbot Miaoxin, he seemed to know what the other was thinking and added:

"Celestial Master Lei is currently still at the Eighth Heavenly Layer Perfection realm, not the Ninth Heavenly Layer. There were people present who saw him display the Divine Court Superior Vista instead of the Mahayana Daoist Scene."

An Eighth Heavenly Layer cultivator is, of course, inferior to the Ninth Heavenly Layer.

But if someone is already so powerful at the Eighth Heavenly Layer, what would it be like once he breaks through to the Ninth Heavenly Layer?

Elder Miaohui returned to silence.

Abbot Miaoxin exhaled a long breath: "Is Celestial Master Lei currently resting on the mountain to recuperate?"

Elder Miaokong: "Yes."

Abbot Miaoxin: "National Master Tang, touring the four corners on behalf of the emperor?"

Elder Miaokong straightened his posture slightly: "Indeed, I witnessed at the ceremony in Luoyang, observing the National Master Tang receiving the sacrifice and bearing more National Destiny Dragon Qi before returning to the temple."

The court’s rewards for this battle have also been officially issued; for National Master Tang, they prepared Pure Yang Heart Blood."

Abbot Miaoxin: "Pure Yang Heart Blood sourced from Pure Yang Heart Crystal? Truly a rare spiritual object."

Now, as the surge of heavenly and earthly spiritual energy floods, many lost spiritual objects have finally begun to reappear.

Yet over decades, even close to a century, many spiritual objects that vanished in the river of history remain unseen.

The Pure Yang Heart Crystal is one such item.

And now it finally appears, making it an extraordinarily important rare treasure for Tang Xiaotang, who possesses a Pure Yang Body.

"With the additional support of more National Destiny Dragon Qi and obtaining the Pure Yang Heart Blood, National Master Tang’s cultivation is on the brink of further advancement." Abbot Miaoxin sighed.

Elder Miaokong quietly said: "The rewards for Celestial Master Lei and others from the Celestial Master Mansion are also substantial... They are now regarded as the mainstay of the Great Tang."

Abbot Miaoxin murmured to himself: "The northern and western lines both achieved major victories, but now it may be the time when the Great Tang dynasty is at its most vulnerable. If it gets through this, a new era will emerge, and during this period, the Great Tang dynasty needs such a pillar..."

......

The conferment for Tang Xiaotang as the State Preceptor was held at the Luoyang Dragon Tiger Temple in Imperial Capital.

On the Celestial Master Mansion side, an imperial envoy was specially sent to Dragon Tiger Mountain.

Just as Abbot Miaoxin and Elder Miaokong had said, the court gave generous commendations to the Celestial Master Mansion at Dragon Tiger Mountain.

Arrangements were made for the imperial envoy to rest.

Lei Jun gestured to the items.

Various heavenly materials and earthly treasures were abundant.

Nine Revolutions Starlight, Earth’s Core Crystal, Gold Stamens Vermilion Flower...

A dazzling array of treasures presented itself.

The most striking of which was a spiritual object named Heaven and Earth Inversion Flow.

The aura of power within it, capable of reversing yet harmoniously aligning the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, was so apparent that anyone could guess it was suitable for the Dual Polarity Immortal Body.

Although there were numerous doubts about the existence of the Destiny Star God, most people now began to speculate that the contemporary Celestial Master Lei Jun also possessed the Immortal Root Bone, and possibly the legendary Dual Polarity Immortal Body.

For Lei Jun, the moment the Yin Thunder Dragon and Yang Fire Tiger were simultaneously unveiled, he was mentally prepared for this.

However, the fact that the Tang Imperial Family picked this spiritual object suggests they perhaps had foreseen his root bone as well.

Lei Jun looked at the Heaven and Earth Inversion Flow, lost in thought.