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Chapter 414: Rectifying Deviations at the Heavenly Master's Mansion (Part 1)
Chapter 414: Rectifying Deviations at the Heavenly Master's Mansion (Part 1)
With the loss of Fengdu, the ancient city that had stood tall for so long, the spiritual energy of the Yellow Springs underwent a shift, initially showing signs of chaos and disorder.
But Lei Jun remained still, weaving his spiritual power to bring forth the black and white energies, which formed a illusory Tai Chi diagram above his head.
The Tai Chi diagram rotated, blending yin and yang in perfect harmony.
Even in the cold depths of the Yellow Springs, the spiritual energy of the four directions was calmly circulating.
There seemed to be a hint of spirituality in Lei Jun's soul, through which he communicated with the Yellow Springs.
His natural enlightenment connected him to the Yellow Springs, establishing a subtle link that was difficult to perceive.
Compared to the vast and profound Yellow Springs, the cultivators of the Lower Three Heavens, Middle Three Heavens, and even those with slightly weaker cultivation in the Upper Three Heavens would seem insignificant.
However, Lei Jun's current cultivation base, coupled with his powerful spiritual abilities, meant that this subtle connection to the Yellow Springs could now play a significant role.
During his first descent into the Yellow Springs, he had already established a connection with this realm.
Now, with the Yellow Springs empty and devoid of distractions, Lei Jun could slowly and meticulously exert his influence.
Thus, the destruction of the old Fengdu, which had been controlled by the Li Shu Mountain sect, did not create any further turmoil.
Lei Jun surveyed his surroundings.
The Heavenly Master's Seal rose into the air, transforming into a three-layered illusory altar shining with purple, gold, and blue light, towering like a mountain above the ruins of the old Fengdu.
By its side, the River of Forgetfulness flowed silently.
The spiritual energy of the Yellow Springs grew increasingly stable.
Holding the Heavenly Master's Sword upside down, Lei Jun circled the area, traversing the Nine Abyss of the Yellow Springs.
Aside from the Li Shu Mountain disciples he had swept away, he encountered no other living beings during this trip to the Yellow Springs.
In the past, the fake human realm created by the Li Shu Mountain cultivators, where humans were segregated like penned animals, was now devoid of any signs of life.
However, the cities and villages did not appear abandoned, as many places showed signs of recent habitation.
Evidently, the Li Shu Mountain cultivators had not changed their ways.
It was only recently that they had perpetrated large-scale, contiguous tragedies.
Although they had failed to recreate the Yellow Springs Sword and the White Bone Divine Boat, their rapid healing abilities and the nurturing of treasures like the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and the Heaven-Terrestrial Beast Mirror were related to this place.
In their eagerness to succeed, they had gone against conventions and fished out the entire pond.
"Indeed, they are nothing but disasters," Lei Jun nodded slightly.
After circling the Nine Abyss, Lei Jun discovered several void portals that had been sealed from within the Yellow Springs.
Among them were portals leading to the Great Tang and other human realms.
After observing and studying them, Lei Jun understood their nature.
One of them led to the former Great Song human realm, now the domain of the ethnic Khanates.
When Tang Xiaotang had first tracked Li Yuanheng to that human realm, Lei Jun had heard that the Li Shu Mountain sect leader, Ji Yao, had also made an appearance there.
Lei Jun and Tang Xiaotang's slaying of the Golden Khanate experts, followed by the fall of the Lotus Sect Master Zongga into the Ruined Realm, had left the Golden Khanate weakened in the former Great Song territory.
This had not only facilitated the activities of the Great Song remnants but also provided opportunities for Ji Yao and the Li Shu Mountain sect.
If it hadn't been for Empress Zhang Wantong's unexpected departure from the Great Tang human realm, the Li Shu Mountain sect would likely have continued their schemes in the ethnic Khanate realm.
After some contemplation, Lei Jun first reinforced these void portals from the inside, severing all connections between the realms.
Then he returned to the site of the old Fengdu.
To heal their injuries and refine their treasures, the Li Shu Mountain sect had nearly exhausted their collection of various heavenly materials and treasures, and they urgently needed to replenish their stocks.
However, they had left behind one item that caught Lei Jun's attention.
It was an extremely thick and lushly branched peach tree branch.
Planted on the banks of the River of Forgetfulness, it resembled a gigantic peach tree, its branches spreading wide.
"In the Yellow Springs, there is a divine tree that resembles a peach tree, covering three thousand li..." Lei Jun mused.
"It seems that the great calamity at the end of the Han Dynasty also had a significant impact on the Yellow Springs, causing the Yellow Springs Divine Tree to cease existing."
However, Ji Yao and his companions had some luck, as they had found a branch of the Yellow Springs Divine Tree in recent years due to a twist of fate.
Ji Yao intended to use it as the main material to refine a treasure comparable to the Five Declines Grand Dao Bell and the White Bone Divine Boat.
But now, all those plans had come to naught.
Lei Jun gazed at the sturdy branch of the Yellow Springs Divine Tree, deep in thought.
He agreed that this was indeed a top-notch material for refining treasures.
However, until he found a better inspiration, Lei Jun planned to use it for another purpose.
It would be one of the treasures used to set up the Grand Supreme Dragon and Tiger Immortal Array of the Three Caverns and Three Heavens.
This new array, conceived and created by Lei Jun, still had room for improvement and refinement.
Similarly, in Lei Jun's expectations, there was still much potential for enhancement.
The true meaning of the Three Caverns and Three Heavens had only been partially revealed through the three treasures of the Heavenly Master's Mansion.
To take it further, it should recreate the mysteries of the Three Realms of Heaven, Earth, and Man, encompassing the wonders of the natural world and the vast cosmos.
Of course, there was still a long way to go to achieve such a state.
Just the array materials alone would be a significant challenge.
But a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lei Jun's gaze shifted from the branch of the Yellow Springs Divine Tree to the River of Oblivion, and then to the entire realm of the Yellow Springs.
This was a good starting point.
As one of the Ten Realms, and especially as a realm that divided the underworld from the Abyss of Luo and the Abyss of Nothingness, the Yellow Springs possessed a unique spiritual energy that nourished the River of Oblivion and the branch of the Yellow Springs Divine Tree, making it ideally suited to embody the power of the earth in the Three Realms of the Grand Array.
With the branch of the Yellow Springs Divine Tree, this place was far more suitable than the Earthly Sea.
Lei Jun's spiritual power operated silently.
First, a vast amount of verdant Nine Abyss True Fire appeared, spreading farther than ever before, as if igniting simultaneously throughout the Nine Abyss of the Yellow Springs.
In addition to Lei Jun's personal spiritual power, he could now blend the Nine Abyss True Fire with the spiritual energy of the Yellow Springs without any external interference.
Fueled by the continuous influx of spiritual energy from the Yellow Springs, the sea of green fire raged more fiercely.
The waters of the River of Forgetfulness began to rise once more.
The branch of the Yellow Springs Divine Tree received even better nourishment.
Standing amidst it all, Lei Jun seemed like the new ruler of the Yellow Springs.
The Yellow Springs was vast, and even after the Li Shu Mountain sect's long presence here, there was still much to uncover. I, too, have a long way to go, Lei Jun thought, but the gains from this trip can, to some extent, fill the gaps in the current grand array...
The Great Supreme Dragon and Tiger Immortal Array of the Three Caverns and Three Heavens was overwhelmingly powerful, leaving the Great Dark Yin and Yang Nine Palaces Immortal Array of the Huangquan Li Shu Mountain lineage powerless to fight back.
However, as an immature and incomplete formation, its violent power also meant that it could not last long.
Just like earlier, the grand formation quickly disintegrated.
Lei Jun, with the help of various heavenly treasures and earthly treasures, had condensed the formation into a pitch-black altar, sweeping away his opponents. However, it soon exhausted itself and turned into ashes.
To some extent, the formation was in line with Lei Jun's consistent tradition of divine powers and magic.
In a short period of time, it unleashed an infinite and formidable power that the enemy could not withstand, quickly destroying them.
However, the materials used to prepare the formation diagram were already difficult to collect and had depleted a significant portion of their reserves.
Now that they had been consumed, it was uncertain when they could be gathered again.
Lei Jun himself, with the help of the ancestral court and the Wanfa Zongtan of the Great Tang Dragon and Tiger Mountain, could set up the grand formation again.
But without a formation diagram to carry the power of the formation, it would be difficult to establish it in a place other than the Great Tang, as he had done today.
Fortunately, Lei Jun had initially established a connection with Huangquan.
With the presence of the River of Forgetfulness, if manipulated properly, there might be surprising effects, to some extent making up for the current lack of the Great Supreme Dragon and Tiger Immortal Array of the Three Caverns and Three Heavens.
However, there were still quite a few risks involved, and Lei Jun needed to grasp the situation carefully without rushing.
After roughly arranging everything in Huangquan, Lei Jun waved his hand.
The Five Declines Daoist Bell, which had been wrapped by the Tai Chi diagram and temporarily silenced, left Huangquan with him.
In the cold and quiet world, there was currently not a single person in sight.
Lei Jun returned to the Great Tang world and sealed the entrance to Huangquan.
Apart from informing his master, Yuan Mobai, he did not plan to reveal himself for the time being and instead headed to Penglai discreetly.
At this moment, Penglai was still not completely peaceful.
Apart from Zhuang Changfeng and the others from the Great Ming world who had already been subdued, there were other Human Immortal Kingdom members on the vast seas of Penglai.
One group was under the command of the Central Yellow Emperor, "Yan Kejie."
The other group consisted of Daoist cultivators from the Khanate of the Foreign Tribes, following the orders of the Southern Red Emperor, Li Hang.
"Yan Kejie" and Li Hang had already become history.
And now, the Human Immortal Kingdom cultivators were in a state of turmoil and unrest.
Lei Jun returned to Penglai to finish the last of the aftermath.
Fortunately, Master Sister Xu Yuanzhen had already taken care of a part of it.
She was not particularly interested in the people under the Southern Red Emperor, Li Hang.
Most of them were cultivators from the Pure Yang Palace lineage of the Foreign Tribes' Khanate, with a small number of loose cultivators mixed in.
Due to the passage of time and historical accumulation, this Pure Yang Palace lineage had developed new insights that the Great Tang Pure Yang Palace did not possess.
However, in Xu Yuanzhen's opinion, those could be put aside for now.
Her current priority was to deal with the cultivators from the Human Immortal Kingdom under the Central Yellow Emperor, "Yan Kejie."
Compared to the Human Immortal Kingdoms of the Great Ming and the Great Song, the number of cultivators under the self-proclaimed Central Yellow Emperor, "Yan Kejie," was surprisingly smaller, and their cultivation levels were also unimpressive.
"Are they from the Daoist cultivators of the world of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?" Lei Jun asked, and Xu Yuanzhen nodded in response.
In the world of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, there was a void portal leading to the world of Sopha.
Hence, in that chaotic world, the Buddhist Sect of the Central Plains still thrived.
At the same time, due to the presence of another portal in the Nine Heavens, occupied by the Great Witches on Ling Mountain, the Witch Sect also had a significant influence.
In that era of chaos and war, with warlords ruling the land, Buddhists and witches competed, while Confucians and Taoists were relatively weaker.
"Yan Kejie" had taken advantage of this situation to gather Daoist cultivators who were in a disadvantageous position in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms world, forming his own Human Immortal Kingdom.
This Human Immortal Kingdom was relatively weak.
However, "Yan Kejie" probably didn't expect to achieve much with it anyway.
After all, this self-proclaimed Central Yellow Emperor was just a front.
"Once I'm done with the tasks at hand, I plan to pay a visit to that world," Xu Yuanzhen said casually.
Lei Jun: "Do the Great Witches of Ling Mountain know that there is actually a Buddhist dignitary dormant in Sopha?"
Xu Yuanzhen: "It's not surprising that they would notice some clues after facing each other for so many years."
Lei Jun nodded slightly.
It didn't matter if the Great Witches of Ling Mountain didn't know.
But if they did know that there might be a Buddhist dignitary dormant in Sopha and still chose to confront them openly for so long, then they were obviously no pushovers...
No wonder Xu Yuanzhen had regained interest in that world.
The waters there ran deep.
As Lei Jun was wrapping up the loose ends in Penglai, Li Miaozhen of the Great Ming Shu Mountain Sect came to seek an audience.
According to her, the current leader of the Great Ming Shu Mountain Sect, Yuan Qingci, hoped to meet the Heavenly Master of the Great Tang Dragon and Tiger Mountain in person.
"It's fine for Yuan Qingci to come," Lei Jun said. "However, the portal connecting Penglai to the Great Ming world will not be opened for the time being. I will open the void portal connecting Penglai to our Great Tang world instead. Please ask Yuan Qingci to take a slightly longer route."
Li Miaozhen: "That's perfectly fine."
Lei Jun: "How is the Great Ming Dynasty doing now?"
Li Miaozhen: "Grand Scholar Xi Zhichang is dead, and Zeng Kui is severely injured. The Great Ming Dynasty is in an uproar, and they are now regrouping their forces, determined to... well, eradicate Han Qingtao and the Human Immortal Kingdom."
Thinking back to the past events, Li Miaozhen also felt as if she were recalling a distant dream.
As for Yuan Qingci, the current leader of the Great Ming Shu Mountain Sect, he was secretly making his way to Penglai via the help of Xiao Chunhui and Meng Shaojie.
He would first travel from the Great Ming world to Guicang, and from there, he would arrive in the Great Tang world and then enter Penglai.
Yuan Qingci didn't mind the inconvenience; he traveled alone, keeping a low profile.
He first met with Ji Dongquan and Ye Dongming of the Great Tang Shu Mountain Sect through an introduction by Li Miaozhen.
After a brief conversation, Yuan Qingci, accompanied by Li Miaozhen and Ji Dongquan, went to meet Lei Jun.
(End of Chapter)
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