Chapter 1108 - 381: The Fourth Opportunity to Enhance Root Bone (Double-Length - )

Chapter 1108: Chapter 381: The Fourth Opportunity to Enhance Root Bone (Double-Length Chapter)

Now that he has attained the Taoist Sect’s Ninth Heavenly Layer Great Vehicle Realm, his insights in this regard have become all the more distinct.

Now, having obtained Wrapped Hollow Gold and Void Spirit Yin Shadow, a plan for further improving the Dark Side of the Celestial Book arises in Lei Jun’s heart.

As for the concrete implementation, and whether new inspirations will emerge during the process, there is no need to rush at this moment; he will wait until he returns to the Ancestral Courtyard of the Sect and then ponder it in detail.

The remaining treasures are also rare and precious, but not many of them match the artistic conception suited to Lei Jun himself, so he simply collects them all together.

Strictly speaking, the accumulated wealth of the Cangzhou Ye Clan and the Youzhou Forest Clan is slightly lower than what ordinary people would normally expect.

Over these past years, they invested a vast amount of savings into rebuilding their respective ancestral lands.

In recent years, they have also had to assist Prince Zhao Zhang Teng in contending for the dragon throne, competing over the National Fate Dragon Vein against the Crown Prince, who is supported by the Qingzhou Ye Clan, the Suzhou Chu Clan, and the Jingxiang Fang Clan, shaking the mountain and river ley lines at great expense.

In addition, they intended to receive Great Unity back and open up a peach-blossom paradise beyond the world.

After all these various expenditures, it is only thanks to the deep foundations of the Cangzhou Ye Clan and the Youzhou Forest Clan that many of their ideas did not remain forever stuck on paper.

Even so, certain things among them still reveal their designs.

For example, among the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures collected by the Ye Clan, Lei Jun unexpectedly finds Gold and Jade Lapis Lazuli, a Spiritual Object used for cultivation by Buddhist Practitioners.

It is obvious without asking that this was prepared for Kongjian Monk and others.

In addition, there is the New Moon Magical Crystal, a rare treasure containing the power of the solar eclipse celestial phenomenon.

Placed together with Gold and Jade Lapis Lazuli, it is truly hard not to suspect what the Cangzhou Ye Clan intended to do with this treasure.

This item has a subtle similarity of function to the Eclipse Lotus Seat prepared by Wang Guiyuan.

Falling under the gaze of cultivators of the Buddhist Handprint Lineage, both are profane evils that desecrate Mahavairocana Tathagata.

The Sumi Vajra Division in former days undoubtedly also caused the Cangzhou Ye Clan and other renowned Confucian noble houses to adopt a wary stance.

Since Ye Moquan was willing to prepare the Never-Blooming Flower for the Hanging Temple, naturally he would make other arrangements for the far more powerful Sumi Vajra Division.

However, Dragon Tiger Mountain’s Celestial Master Mansion proved superior, not only shattering the Sumi Vajra Division in the Great Tang Mortal World, but even counterattacking into Sumi itself.

The New Moon Magical Crystal prepared by the Cangzhou Ye Clan never had a chance to be used, but the item was nonetheless kept.

As likewise expected, the Cangzhou Ye Clan and the Youzhou Forest Clan had each prepared certain things in advance, intended to target the Scholarly Cultivators of the Heavenly Principle Portal’s Little Ming Court.

Together with the Suzhou Chu Clan, the Qingzhou Ye Clan, and the Jingxiang Fang Clan, although they all delved into and studied Neo-Confucian sacrificial rites in hopes of trapping a certain Celestial Master surnamed Lei, conversely they were equally guarded against Scholarly Cultivators.

Judging from the overall situation as it stood before, the two sides were not of one path.

Of course, worldly affairs are ever changing.

So far as Lei Jun knows, in the years before and after the several openings of the Heavenly Principle Portal, within the Great Tang Mortal World some collateral younger scions of noble houses quietly went to Heavenly Principle.

Though their numbers are quite limited, they may be considered, from another angle, as the branching and spreading of the lineage.

On the Youzhou Forest Clan’s side, aside from sorting out some supplies, Lei Jun pays particular attention to collecting the various letters they have accumulated.

Through these letters, Lei Jun can further grasp the subtleties of the Youzhou Forest Clan’s Seeing the Words as if Seeing the Person Technique.

Now that his comprehension has risen to the natural level, all this will proceed even more smoothly, yielding twice the result for half the effort.

Just as earlier, through the Cangzhou Ye Clan’s exchanges of information, he successively intercepted intelligence related to Jade Railing Mountain and Nan Yuyuan.

Among the letters concerning the Youzhou Forest Clan, what currently draws Lei Jun’s attention the most are those dealing with their connections to Great Unity within the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

Although the information is extremely scant, at this moment it appears unusually precious.

Lei Jun destroyed the ritual of the Youzhou Forest Clan and the Jingxiang Fang Clan to receive Great Unity’s return to the Great Tang Mortal World, cutting off their chance to interfere in the Battle of Luoyang within the Great Tang Mortal World.

The Battle of Luoyang has now come to a temporary close.

But Lei Jun has not forgotten Great Unity.

After browsing the related letters, Lei Jun muses: "Mm, I’ll go take another look at Jingxiang."

He leaves Cangzhou.

He entrusts the remaining cleanup to others, and Lei Jun does not bother himself much over it.

Heading southwest from Cangzhou, Lei Jun travels toward Jingxiang.

On the way he receives some news, and pauses for a moment in Zhongzhou.

But he does not go to Luoyang.

Even with Zhang Ying and Shangguan Qing and others presiding over the situation, the Imperial Capital Luoyang remains unsettled at this moment.

Although the great battle before was blocked off by the Illusory Imperial Capital, the fact that the battle unfolded in this city has already made its significance extraordinary, and the people’s hearts have accordingly become turbulent and uneasy.

Nominally, Prince Zhao Zhang Teng and Crown Prince Zhang Hui have both fallen and died.

On the imperial court, half the rivers and mountains have practically collapsed.

Zhang Ying, Shangguan Qing and the others are still extremely busy.

Lei Jun arrives in Zhongzhou and stops at the former site of the Buddhist Sacred Land Bodhi Temple.

Empress Zhang Wantong is currently camped here.

Xiao Xueting remains in the North Sea, driving back the Northern Sea Whale King.

At present, Zhang Wantong rarely has no one by her side; dressed in casual clothes, she stands alone atop a mountain peak, her gaze turned toward the direction of Luoyang.

When Lei Jun arrives, her tone is as usual as she casually asks, "Did I put Lord Lei in a difficult position?"

"Your Majesty need not worry, this poor Daoist is unhurt." Lei Jun replies.

Including the Empress herself, the Tang Imperial Court’s imperial family has suffered a great loss of prestige in this episode.

In contrast, Celestial Master Lei together with Dragon Tiger Mountain have turned back the surging tides at the brink of collapse; their fame now soars, blazing like the sun at midday.

Even compared to when they shattered the Sumi Vajra Division in the past, it is far beyond.

To a certain extent, the stepping stones that built up Celestial Master Lei’s present renown, aside from Zhang Teng, Ye Yan and others, include the Empress herself.

Thus, Celestial Master Lei’s name shakes the Great Tang.

Though his cultivation realm is still somewhat inferior, at this present moment, in the short term, he vaguely carries the momentum of the foremost person in the Great Tang.

Once the news spreads, not to mention within and without the Great Tang, even those in other places beyond this Mortal World will in the days to come turn more of their gaze toward Lei Jun.