Cultivation: Fortune by Lots-Chapter 446 - 242. Mastering the Celestial Master Seal (Combined Chapters)_3
Xu Yuanzhen swept her sleeve, rolling up all three spearheads together.
In the air, a few remnants lingered, looking like ashes or scraps.
"Keep these for now, maybe they’ll come in handy later,"
the black-robed woman said casually, "Those three pieces of ’Barbarian Spearhead,’ let’s talk about them after we get out and see who’d be best to give them to."
Hearing that name, Lei Jun’s brow twitched slightly.
He put away those ashes.
*Suddenly, inspiration struck him, and a name appeared in his mind,*
*[Ru Siwen]*
*That name, what the hell... Lei Jun couldn’t help but laugh and cry at the same time, but inwardly, he guessed this was the ’moderately good lot’ mentioned earlier—one Third-Rank Opportunity, one Fourth-Rank Opportunity.*
*He’d already broken through to the Seventh Layer of Heaven Realm earlier, so that must be one of them.*
*Then, was this so-called ’Ru Siwen’ the other opportunity?*
*Judging by the inner logic and artistic conception it contained, it sure echoed the aura left in the ruins—that martial Tao trampling over Confucian elegance.*
*But what specific effect it had, he’d have to wait and see...*
"Let’s move,"
Xu Yuanzhen strode out ahead.
With her step, the Void Realm before her instantly warped and blurred, then unfolded into a brilliant Portal.
Lei Jun closely followed, stepping into that void Portal.
......
Outside, in the Mortal World of the Great Tang, amidst the Northern Border Snow Ridge Mountains.
The once frozen, snowbound land had now changed dramatically.
The mountains were collapsing as massive swaths of snow melted away.
Across the sky, besides swirling golden light and jade fire, torrents of Sword Qi surged violently. Bolts like meteors blazed by, streaking across the heavens.
By now, the battle had reached its full boil.
Even Lin Che, at this moment, no longer held back.
Sword Qi shimmered, artistic intention condensing into reality—suddenly, the mountains and rivers seemed painted in an idyllic scene.
The blooming beauty of the South, as if miraculously transplanted into the icy realm of the Northern Country.
This vision felt like its own miniature world. Inside it, Lin Che could shift the skies and lay out the land as he pleased.
The scroll-like panorama unfurled endlessly, blurring the boundaries of the real world in a dreamy haze.
Across the land and sky, ancient music and dance seemed to rise up anew.
Compared to the clan chief of the Lin Clan and his gentle Confucian refinement, Celestial Master Tang’s style on the opposite side was distinctly... wild.
Yin and Yang in harmony, the Dragon-Tiger Strike unleashed.
Though her cultivation realm was still a notch beneath Lin Che, who had already mastered the Three Discourses on Governing the Country, Tang Xiaotang’s attacks remained ferocious.
Her supernatural powers were astonishingly strong, matching the Celestial Master Mansion’s renowned finesse.
But no matter how refined the Taoist Laws were, in her hands, the style always looked like overwhelming brute force—like throwing bricks with seismic power...
And because of this, Lin Che suffered all the more.
Lin Che’s past injuries, though mostly healed after long rest, had still left him short of primordial qi.
Now, exchanging blow for blow with Tang Xiaotang’s relentless assault, the clan chief of the Jiangzhou Lin Clan was beginning to feel that his strength was running thin.
Luckily, Lin Yuwei was still at his side.
Though the Jiangzhou Lin Clan’s main and collateral branches were currently entangled in strife, Lin Yuwei did not hesitate when it was time to act.
Arrow after arrow shot through the sky like meteors, aimed at that golden-green Tai Chi Diagram floating overhead.
With Lin Che covering the front, Lin Yuwei could keep his distance from Tang Xiaotang, going all out on the offensive and bringing out the full advantage of the Confucian Divine Archery Lineage.
He set aside the traditional Lin Clan archery style—dense as rains, vast as rivers—and favored range and single-arrow firepower. It looked as if the arrow storm was sparse, but each shot posed a greater threat. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
Lin Yuwei, after all, was at the Eightfold Heaven Realm.
Even someone as fierce as Tang Xiaotang couldn’t fend off Lin Yuwei’s arrowheads while still battling Lin Che.
But this time, Celestial Master Tang showed a brand-new subtlety.
The golden-green Tai Chi Diagram blazed overhead like a great sun, with golden flames sparkling in four directions.
Around this massive golden-green star, several smaller golden ’suns’ spun and hovered.
Tang Xiaotang, back in her days at the Middle Three Heavens, had practiced her life-bound School of Dharma, which included the Constellation Step Array.
After she broke through to the Upper Three Heavens Level, her Three Lifesaving Techniques and three laws all evolved and ascended along with her.
Only, her Constellation Step Array had since set off down a different path.
The dazzling, infinite Star River no longer appeared.
In its place: a handful of stars, each one shining as bright as a stellar sun.
Now, as these miniature ’suns’ spun, they adopted a defensive stance, intercepting Lin Yuwei’s piercing arrows one by one.
Lin Yuwei shifted the tempo—sometimes unleashing a dense rain of arrows, other times sending meteors chasing the moon.
Tang Xiaotang’s stars shifted too, flickering between mighty rivers of stardust and burning stellar suns.
Her temperament certainly favored offense over defense.
But that didn’t mean she couldn’t pull off intricate maneuvers.
*To be mean, you could call Celestial Master Tang a reckless showoff in most matters,*
*But in cultivation, she was both an unrivaled natural and a relentless hard worker.*
Right now, facing Lin Yuwei’s cold arrows, she played defense—yet on the other side, her attacks on Lin Che grew wilder and more uninhibited.
The Dragon and Tiger roared together, shattering the stately music of Confucian rituals into a broken rhythm.
Tang Xiaotang wielded myriad supernatural spells with effortless grace, shifting patterns with skill, and she herself was clearly having a blast.
But suddenly, she stiffened, her mind condensing sharply, "Huh?"
Another surging blade of Sword Qi struck, howling like an arctic blizzard, instantly bringing the frozen landscape back in force.
At nearly the same moment, two beams of light flashed from the distant horizon, arcing across mountains and rivers, practically ignoring space itself, arriving within a breath.
Two arrows.
Both from a single Confucian Divine Archery Lineage Great Scholar of the Eightfold Heaven Realm.
Two arrows fired together—it looked as if they’d been loosed second, but actually arrived first. One sliced through the northern winds, churning up snow, the other flew straight toward the source of the northern gale.
