Cultivation: Fortune by Lots

"Aunt, I'm fine, but Sixteenth Sister and the others..." Fang Jian briefly explained the situation.

Chu Yu was even more surprised.

She didn't say another word, leaping straight toward the blood lake in front of her.

Before she could get close, the blood was automatically parted by an invisible surge of energy.

After a moment, Chu Yu reappeared.

There were no signs of Fang Lu or Fang Mingyuan's bodies by her side.

But she now held a Cosmic Coordinate Box in her hand.

The Fang Clan disciples, seeing this, felt utterly hopeless.

It wasn't that Chu Yu refused to bring back the bodies of Fang Mingyuan and his sister.

Rather, after destruction by the Blood Acupoint and Blood River, the two corpses were likely beyond recognition...

Chu Yu sighed softly as well, saying nothing more, and simply handed the Cosmic Coordinate Box to Fang Jian.

After a while, led by Elder Du, a rather bedraggled group of Celestial Master Mansion disciples arrived at the scene.

Upon learning what had happened, Elder Du got a headache too.

The Fang Clan had come to aid Dragon Tiger Mountain, and the Celestial Master Mansion had always been quite cautious about this; before last night, the Fang Clan disciples had only suffered some injuries, but there had been no fatalities yet.

But after one night, two of them were gone just like that—and both were direct descendants.

"I came here mainly to represent my clan in assisting Dragon Tiger Mountain," Chu Yu sighed, "but I never imagined I would receive such terrible news."

Elder Du forced himself to speak, "Master Chu, Nephew Fang, and esteemed members of the Fang Clan, please accept my deepest condolences,"

The event had already occurred, and dwelling on it any further served no purpose.

Luckily, there was the Blood River Sect—an ideal scapegoat.

Elder Du kept Chu Yu company while ordering people to purify the remaining blood lake.

No matter what, this time they'd wiped out a major force of the Blood River Sect, which, for the Celestial Master Mansion, counted as a victory.

Still, the battles between Dragon Tiger Mountain and the Blood River Sect, Yintuo Mountain—the Witchcraft Worm Sacred Land—and the Yellow Sky Sect, continued on.

Now that both the Fang Clan and Chu Clan had made their positions clear, the pressure on the Celestial Master Mansion lessened a little.

Fang Jian, Xia Qing, Luo Haoran, and other disciples who'd exhausted themselves were granted a chance to return to the mountain and recuperate before taking on new assignments later.

Lei Jun was also quite worn out; since he hadn't used the Breathing Soil Banner to restore his mana this time, he looked rather battered as well, and was also permitted to return and rest first.

Back in his private quarters at the upper residence on Dragon Tiger Mountain, Lei Jun bathed, changed his clothes, and took a good rest.

Then he picked up the Breathing Soil Banner and separated his biggest gain from this trip to the underground palace.

Nine Sacred Frost Dew.

After carefully studying it, Lei Jun was very satisfied.

This supremely pure spiritual object was just what he needed to help cultivate at his current realm.

With this Nine Sacred Frost Dew, Lei Jun felt confident he could establish his third-tier Altar in a very short time!

*Having his comprehension rise to Clear Insight had already shortened the duration of his stay in the Three-layered Heaven Dharma Platform Realm considerably.*

*Sensing the Tao Containment in the True One Altar Cave Heaven had sped things up even further.*

*Now, with the addition of Nine Sacred Frost Dew, he would get another powerful boost.*

*Damn, if he also counted the previous help from the Huo Sui Yang Yu and Water Marrow Yin Fish in reducing the time between the First and Second Layers of the Altar, overall, the time he would spend in the Three-layered Heaven Dharma Platform Realm might actually be shorter than his time in the Second Layer Heaven Foundation Establishment Realm!*

*Even he himself felt a little uneasy...* Lei Jun raised his eyebrows slightly.

One slow step, every step slow.

One quick step, every step quick.

Cultivation progress was best seized early; the sooner, the better; the faster, the more potential there was to climb to higher realms.

Lei Jun exhaled slowly, stabilizing his mind.

He immediately started using the Nine Sacred Frost Dew to cultivate himself.

He was decisive, but when it came to the actual process, he exercised extreme care.

Lei Jun continued to contemplate, meticulously refining it into his own Tao Foundation Altar.

Even with just initial refinement, his whole body, inside and out—from the flesh to the spiritual soul—became utterly clear and pure.

His vitality, energy, and spirit grew even more pure and refined.

Above the Octagonal Altar on the second tier of the Tao Foundation Altar Field, the outline of a round altar gradually became clear.

Lei Jun saw this and nodded, satisfied.

However, he remained cautious.

So far, he'd only figured out that the Nine Sacred Frost Dew could help with cultivation.

But based on the fortune described by the best lot, this Fourth Rank Opportunity—Nine Sacred Frost Dew—had further potential for development.

Lei Jun couldn't seem to determine what else the Nine Sacred Frost Dew might be used for just yet.

After some deliberation, he decided to use only half of the dew for cultivation at present.

He intentionally set aside the other half, intending to consult Yuan Mobai, Xu Yuanzhen, Tang Xiaotang, and the others once they returned to the mountain.

In the days that followed, Lei Jun simply buckled down and cultivated diligently while on the mountain.

*However, as time went by, he once again started to feel a sense of unease during cultivation.*

*That anxiety still wasn't coming from Lei Jun himself.*

*It was coming from the True One Altar Cave Heaven.*

*At first, Lei Jun thought, just as last time, maybe someone was trying to open a "passage" to the True One Altar Cave Heaven again.*

*But later, he realized that wasn't the case.*

*Instead, it was the True One Altar Cave Heaven—or, to be precise, the Celestial Master Seal itself—that was becoming active again!*

The Celestial Master Seal was still somewhere near Dragon Tiger Mountain, its spiritual nature hidden and its movements hard to track. Yet now, suddenly, it was showing signs of stirring again. Was it because of that earlier Blood Sea eruption...*Lei Jun wondered to himself.*

Earlier, the reason the Celestial Master Seal had wandered back automatically to near Dragon Tiger Mountain was because of the series of fierce battles there.

Afterward, the Seal had flashed briefly but continued to lie dormant beneath the mountains and earth veins near Dragon Tiger Mountain.

The Blood River Sect's unleashing of the Blood Sea had poisoned countless lives and also caused severe problems for the earth vein spiritual qi surrounding Dragon Tiger Mountain.

Therefore, the Celestial Master Seal had been provoked once more.

So this time, would the Celestial Master Seal reappear?