Cultivation: Fortune by Lots-Chapter 529 - 260. Refining Techniques like Stars, Divine Skills Ascend to the Skies (Combined Chapter)_2
But if a cultivator of Lei Jun’s strength kept attacking it, the magical power prohibition’s spiritual nature would be destabilized and dissipate. Without Lin Jian himself to replenish it, the gathered global spiritual qi would naturally disperse as well.
So Lei Jun, ever composed and unfazed, stood above the nine tributaries of the Grand River within the illusionary realm.
To break this technique, under normal circumstances, one would follow three steps,
Circle Stars Array Fight to protect oneself, resisting further intrusion into one’s spiritual soul by the illusion.
Heaven-piercing Earth-penetrating Taliscript to separate the false from the true, discerning the current illusion.
Finally to unleash the Doumu Star God Dharma, forcefully striking the crucial points of the illusion, eroding the power that Lin Jian left behind, breaking it with pure force.
...But Lei Jun did not need to waste time wrestling with this masterless prohibition.
He had his own unorthodox methods.
Dealing with a lingering restriction not controlled by its master, nothing could be easier.
Standing atop the flowing water, Lei Jun raised one hand, and within his palm a dark shadow faintly appeared.
The shadow did not expand, merely swirling atop Lei Jun’s palm.
Yet an intangible force spread automatically throughout the entire poetry-crafted illusion. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
That realm instantly began to falter.
The world it created started to grow turbulent, mountains and rivers quaking.
The once orderly and smoothly operating illusion, its spiritual energy paths became chaotic, and then moved inevitably toward collapse.
Under the power of the Dark Side of the Celestial Book, the scene before Lei Jun’s eyes swiftly transformed once more.
The endlessly multiplying rivers faded away, and Qingmei Creek returned to its true state.
The surrounding mountains likewise restored themselves.
As if nothing had ever happened before.
The Yu Chen Real Water also vanished.
*Directly invoking the Dark Side of the Celestial Book’s power, my own mana was drained rather quickly—like borrowing and repaying in one breath...* Lei Jun’s expression remained unchanged as his five fingers closed, and the shadow in his palm disappeared.
At this moment, his own black and white streams of mana shot forth again, probing into the mountains around Qingmei Creek.
The creek water parted down the middle.
Veins of water like luminous jade appeared beneath the surface.
Within the stream, specks of starlight shimmered, hazy and ethereal, from afar appearing like the Star River.
The true Yu Chen Real Water.
Lei Jun gestured, and the intertwining black and white mana coiled around the tangible water vein, lifting it to float before him.
Like a silken belt flashing with starlight, the rippling water never stilled.
Lei Jun lit a stick of incense and respectfully honored the now-restored Qingmei Creek below.
The curling blue smoke rose straight to the heavens, prayers sent to the Supreme Heaven.
Then, following his usual practice, Lei Jun took the Yu Chen Real Water vein far from the mountains near Qingmei Creek, settling it in another remote and peaceful spot before proceeding to examine it closely.
After a careful inspection, he made a discovery.
This Yu Chen Real Water vein was, in fact, slightly flawed, not completely pure.
It was not that the vein had been polluted, but that a few foreign substances were mixed within.
Sea sand... Lei Jun understood instantly.
Lin Jian, after placing the Yu Chen Real Water here and setting his own magical prohibition, had in fact been purifying this vein by continually washing it with mana all these years.
*I suppose there had originally been much more sea sand mixed in; after so long purifying, there was barely any left, save for this last bit.*
If Lin Jian himself had claimed this water vein and focused on purification, surely he would have succeeded already.
But Lin Jian had temporarily left the Yu Chen Real Water in the region of Qingmei Creek, letting the global spiritual qi purify it on its own, while he departed. The reason, too, came down to that sea sand.
The presence of sea sand revealed that this Yu Chen Real Water was not native to the mountains near Qingmei Creek.
More likely, it came from overseas.
Then, due to the shifting currents of global spiritual qi, it traveled beneath the land, pushing against the flow of the Grand River, only arriving in the midwaters of the Grand River at Yuanzhou’s Qingmei Creek, and finally settling beneath the creek.
And the sea sand found within the Yu Chen Real Water might indeed point to its place of origin.
The sea sand, though seemingly ordinary, contained earth-type spiritual energy whose nuances differed subtly by location.
*Yet these distinctions were so minute—even ordinary mortals, or cultivators of moderate skill, could not hope to tell them apart.*
Lin Jian, being a Great Scholar of the Eighth Heavenly Layer, may have declined in body and strength, but his insight remained keen.
He could distinguish the delicate differences in sea sand, allowing him to trace its origins and venture overseas in search of the birthplace of this Yu Chen Real Water vein.
There, perhaps, lay his true goal—the Sky-reaching Vine.
The Yu Chen Real Water was left behind in the inland Qingmei Creek, purifying itself through global spiritual qi, achieving both goals at once.
*But what happened later must have gone beyond Lin Jian’s expectations.*
*He traveled overseas to seek the Sky-reaching Vine—perhaps only hoping for a chance, not truly certain.*
That was why he left without informing his kin.
No one had expected, yet, that he would never return.
The result was a lingering mystery, leaving the Jiangzhou Lin Clan helpless at their ancestor’s bewildering disappearance.
What happened to Lin Jian after he went overseas, Lei Jun could not be certain.
*Still, from all appearances, this was entirely the will of Lin Jian himself.*
What about the other vanished, secluded ancestor of the Jiangzhou Lin Clan, Lin Zhan?
Lei Jun shook his head slightly.
For now there were no clues, so he chose not to dwell on it.
He simply separated the last remaining bit of sea sand from the Yu Chen Real Water vein.
The direction indicated by this sea sand was most likely the Changjie Island in the East Sea, as prophesied by the moderately unlucky lot.
Lei Jun did not intend to go to that island to search for the source of the Yu Chen Real Water vein, nor for the possibly extant Sky-reaching Vine.
*Though he was curious, the path foreseen in the moderately unlucky lot warned of dangers with no certain reward.*
So, the old saying still held true.
Whoever was willing could go.
Right, members of the Lin Clan?
.........
Lin Yuwei and Lin Jinsong, joined by several elite members of the Nanzong Lin Clan, were now scouring the East Sea in search.
