Cultivation: Fortune by Lots-Chapter 611 - 279. Western Regions’ High Monks, Our Central Plains is the Land of Etiquette (Chapter Combined into One)_2
"Rest assured, Master, I will stay alert," Lei Jun replied, 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
He ended the communication with Yuan Mobai, then continued on his way.
The master and disciple no longer reunited at Gaoxu Mountain, as their newly agreed meeting place had been changed to Qingguo Gorge.
Lei Jun, out of habit as always, used the Shadow Movement Variation of his Heavenly Travel Talisman and the light of the Mysterious Void Mirror as his primary means to conceal his tracks, masking his whereabouts so well he seemed to merge with the landscape of the Southern Wilderness, while at the same time moving with impressive speed.
On the road, Lei Jun’s pupils suddenly showed the faint gleam of the Heaven-piercing Earth-penetrating Taliscript.
He immediately slowed down, summoned the Breathing Soil Banner, and let its dusky spirit light transform earth and stone to conceal his location, allowing him to blend seamlessly with the local mountains, as though turning into part of the ridge himself.
At the same time, the Mysterious Void Mirror surfaced, its radiance shifting continuously from dim to bright, alternating light and shadow, as Lei Jun kept vigilance in hiding and probed his surroundings.
He vaguely sensed the approach of another Upper Three Heavens Cultivator nearby.
After careful searching, he indeed spotted a clue.
The first thing he noticed was some tiny worms.
These worms were not for attacking, nor searching for Lei Jun’s location, nor for tracking.
The worms were spread out, mainly serving as an alarm system.
If anyone got too close, they would be detected by these lurking worms, triggering an alert for their owner.
The Witchcraft Gu Techniques lineage, just like the Daoist Artifact Refining Sect, placed great emphasis on Spiritual Soul cultivation.
Accordingly, their external senses were above average.
But Lei Jun, more skilled in this aspect, managed to outwit and detect the other first.
Besides the perimeter’s sentry worms for surveillance, the visitor had also enhanced his own concealment with a Shadow Worm.
However, Lei Jun, who possessed both the Heaven-piercing Earth-penetrating Taliscript inside and the Mysterious Void Mirror outside, had remarkable insight and, in the end, managed to discern his Seventh Heavenly Layer counterpart clearly.
He recognized the old man’s posture and thought to himself that the timing was uncanny.
*In a way, I could call this man an old acquaintance.*
It turned out to be Tian Linlong, an elder of the Worm Art Vein Sacred Land, Yintuo Mountain, in the Southern Witch Sect.
Back when the Celestial Master Mansion clashed with the Jiangzhou Lin Clan and the Yellow Sky Sect, besides members of the Blood River Sect who rushed there drawn by the scent of battle, Tian Linlong had also come to join the chaos.
Afterward, when the Celestial Master Mansion broke into war over Li Wai, Tian Linlong once again got involved.
Lei Jun himself had killed Tian Linlong’s direct disciple, the Worm Master Zhao Sen.
Later, during the Southern Wilderness war sparked by Wei Ancheng and Yang Yuqi, Tian Linlong seemed less conspicuous, and Yintuo Mountain joined Samsara Abyss and Gepo Mountain in resisting the Blood River Sect, but Tian Linlong secretly maintained contacts with Yang Yuqi, a member of the Former Sui royal family.
After the war, as Wei Ancheng and Yang Yuqi fled in defeat, Tian Linlong, though still an elder of Yintuo Mountain, dared not act so openly—these years he also lay low, living a secluded life and hiding his movements as much as possible.
Lei Jun had not expected to run into Elder Tian here yet again.
He briefly observed and found Tian Linlong looking a little run down, his expression gloomy as he hurried along.
Judging from the direction he came and went, it seemed he was arriving from the location Yuan Mobai had earlier mentioned, where a Jiuli expert had shown up.
This made Lei Jun more vigilant.
He watched as Tian Linlong rushed ahead, then suddenly stopped.
He had not discovered Lei Jun.
Instead, the ground in front of him suddenly shifted and turned up soil.
Then a tiny bug crawled out from below.
Tian Linlong opened his palm, the bug fluttered up and landed on it.
The worm’s body quivered slightly, and, startlingly, a human voice emanated from within,
"What happened?"
Lei Jun, thanks to the Heaven-piercing Earth-penetrating Taliscript, though separated by distance, still managed to catch fragmented snatches of conversation between Tian Linlong and the other speaker,
"I ran into the expansion of Jiuli’s black mist, and moreover, Upper Three Heavens cultivators were fighting, which wrecked one of my cave mansions. I had no choice but to seek someplace else,"
The sound-transmitting worm asked, "What exactly happened?"
Tian Linlong, "To avoid attention, I did not get close, only watched from afar, and it looked like a Taoist Talisman Sect cultivator was fighting with a Jiuli expert. That Talisman Sect cultivator’s Dharma seemed to be Destiny Star God."
"Earlier, what happened at Yutian Ravine?" the other person inquired again.
Lei Jun found the voice familiar.
He listened and tried to recall, and thought it sounded much like Yang Yuqi, Crown Prince of the Former Sui royal line.
"Some Tang Court person fought with the White Lotus Sect’s Future Maitreya," Tian Linlong answered,
"Thank you for your trouble, Elder Tian. Please keep an eye out for similar news," Yang Yuqi said,
Tian Linlong agreed.
After a few more words, their conversation ended, and the little worm in Tian Linlong’s hand crumbled instantly to gray ash rather than burrowing back underground.
The great Worm Master stood there without setting out again immediately, pausing to ponder in silence.
With the Shadow Worm hiding him, he was not worried about exposing his whereabouts.
*Lei Jun, observing from the side, felt a touch of emotion.*
*According to the timing and direction, Tian Linlong had earlier witnessed the battle between a Taoist Talisman Sect cultivator and a Jiuli expert—the Talisman Sect cultivator, using the Destiny Star God, must have been Yuan Mobai.*
*And Tian Linlong had previously been to the Yutian Ravine area noted in the perfectly neutral lot, then returned to his hidden cave.*
*Since Yuan Mobai was no longer heading for Gaoxu Mountain but instead changed course to Qingguo Gorge, he encountered a Jiuli expert en route, sparking a battle that spilled into where Tian Linlong was hiding, forcing him to leave and seek another clandestine spot lest he be detected.*
*In the end, just after dodging Yuan Mobai, Tian Linlong ran straight into Lei Jun.*
*Such luck made Lei Jun sigh again and again.*
*In that case, let’s not let it happen again.*
Lei Jun calmly raised his hand, and above his head, two Dual Polarity Heavenly Primordial Talismans spun together, quickly gathering Primordial Magnet Force.
Then, a Mysterious Gold Sword Pill extended out like a sword light, which flashed once in midair and disappeared in an instant.
