Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Misfortune: Starting from the Celestial Master’s Mansion
Chapter 80: Fetching Water with a Basket and Good Things Come in Pairs

Staring at the bone armor crackling with purple lightning, Lei Jun took a deep breath.

This was indeed related to the Tianshi Seal...

The time and place weren’t right for further exploration, so Lei Jun used the Breath-Taking Flag to wrap up the mysterious Southern Wasteland bone armor and put it away.

With a thought, the Breath-Taking Flag glowed with an earth-yellow light.

The imprints on the flag and the bone armor both fell silent, and the purple lightning disappeared.

After stowing the Spirit Flag, Lei Jun turned to the glacier that had frozen Li Zhenchang.

After a moment of thought, he took out a Mid-Grade Flame Talisman and a Mid-Grade Warding Talisman to dispel the ice caused by the Cold Ice Gu.

The ice gradually melted, and Lei Jun destroyed the Cold Ice Gu.

Finally, Li Zhenchang was freed.

Lei Jun saw that Li Zhenchang was holding a Tranquility Talisman in one hand and a Golden Barrier Talisman in the other. Despite shivering, his life was not in danger.

The old Gu Master had already been injured. Although his cultivation level was superior, he still used a divide-and-conquer strategy against the two True Disciples.

He had seriously injured Chu Andong.

As for Li Zhenchang, he had been subdued and restrained first.

The old Gu Master had intended to finish off Chu Andong and then focus on Li Zhenchang.

That’s why he had been calmly recovering his energy earlier.

However, he hadn’t anticipated that there was someone even more troublesome than Chu Andong and Li Zhenchang—Lei Jun.

“Lei... Lei Junior Brother?” Li Zhenchang looked at Lei Jun in surprise, still wary of his surroundings.

Lei Jun explained, “I heard fighting from a distance and rushed over to find a Southern Wasteland Gu Master about to harm Senior Brother Chu.

I quickly intervened, and luckily, the Gu Master was already heavily injured. I barely managed to kill him.

Senior Brother Chu is alive but seriously wounded. Are you alright, Senior Brother Li?”

Li Zhenchang sighed in relief. “I’m fine. Let’s check on Senior Brother Chu.”

Together, they treated Chu Andong.

Although Chu Andong was severely injured, his condition stabilized, and he eventually regained consciousness.

He said weakly, “Junior Brother Lei, thank you for saving my life...”

Lei Jun shook his head. “You two fought the Gu Master and weakened him. I only took advantage of that. If I had faced him first, I wouldn’t have survived.”

Li Zhenchang smiled bitterly. “No matter what, we owe you today. I’ll remember this favor, and one day, I’ll repay it.”

As they spoke, a green thundercloud drifted down from the distant mountains.

The cloud descended, and a Talismanic Daoist in a dark red robe stepped off.

Seeing him, Lei Jun and the others relaxed further. “Senior Brother Li Kong.”

The newcomer, Li Kong, appeared to be in his thirties. He was one of the top talents among Tianshi Mansion's younger generation, alongside Zhang Jingzhen and Li Xuan.

He was also a direct descendant of the Li Family and the grandson of Supreme Elder Li Song.

Lei Jun had met Li Kong before. When he first transmigrated to this world, he encountered Xu Yuanzhen and Li Kong at Green Mountain.

It was during an incident involving a Lower-Bad Omen where a Tianshi Mansion Daoist was hunting a Gu Master downstream.

If not for the mountain breeze purifying Lei Jun’s toxins, Li Kong might have mistaken him for a Gu Master's poisonous puppet and killed him.

But now, after hearing how Lei Jun had killed the old Gu Master and saved Li Zhenchang and Chu Andong, Li Kong couldn’t help but look favorably on his Junior Brother.

Lei Jun recounted how he had defeated the Gu Master and cleansed the lingering poison.

Li Kong nodded approvingly. “Well done!”

After checking Chu Andong’s wounds again and ensuring no other Gu Masters were nearby, Li Kong led them back to the mountain.

As they reached the foot of the mountain, they saw another group hurrying back.

Among them was another injured person—a Talismanic Daoist in a dark red robe.

It was Li Xuan, the eldest son of Elder Ziyang.

His face was pale, his eyes were closed, and he looked extremely weak—his injuries were worse than Chu Andong’s.

Young Tianshi Li Zhengxuan personally came down to meet them.

After Li Zhengxuan’s treatment, Li Xuan’s condition improved slightly, and he finally woke up.

“Senior Brother... I’m sorry,” Li Xuan said weakly.

Li Zhengxuan shook his head. “As long as you’re alive, that’s what matters. We’ll talk later.”

Li Xuan continued, “I couldn’t retrieve the Tianshi Seal... but at least it didn’t fall into enemy hands.”

He had searched the Xunjiang River area but had encountered Yu Qingling, the Supreme Elder of the Yellow Heaven Sect.

If not for Li Song arriving in time, Li Xuan would have died.

Even then, he barely survived.

If his father, Elder Ziyang, hadn’t also arrived to support Li Song, the battle might have ended in tragedy.

“Before going to Xunjiang, Uncle Master went to Upper Qing River,” Li Xuan said, gasping for breath. “But neither Xunjiang nor Upper Qing River yielded the Tianshi Seal...”

Li Zhengxuan smiled bitterly.

The Tianshi Seal’s appearance had drawn attention from all sides, including Li Song and Yu Qingling.

One went to Upper Qing River, the other to Xunjiang River, yet neither found the treasure.

All their efforts had been in vain.

Li Xuan was particularly unlucky, suffering a severe injury.

The Tianshi Seal had briefly appeared and then vanished again.

Perhaps it wasn’t yet time for the treasure to fully return... Li Zhengxuan sighed.

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Although the mountain was short-handed, Li Kong arranged for Lei Jun to rest and cleanse any remaining Gu poison.

Chu Andong and Li Zhenchang also needed time to recover.

After bidding them farewell, Lei Jun returned to his residence and meditated to restore his energy.

Once he was in peak condition, he took out the Breath-Taking Flag again.

Unfolding it, the yellow light isolated him from the outside world.

He retrieved the bone armor with the Tianshi Seal imprint and studied it closely.

Years ago, Li Cangting’s wife came from the Southern Wasteland Witch Sect, which led to their involvement in the third Tianshi Mansion civil war.

Both Li Cangting and his wife perished alongside the previous Tianshi, causing great losses to both factions, and the Tianshi Seal was lost.

But before that, the Tianshi Seal had left traces in the Southern Wasteland.

Over time, the truth was buried, and even the Southern Wasteland Witch Sect forgot about the bone armor’s secret.

Otherwise, the old Gu Master wouldn’t have carried it so carelessly... Lei Jun mused.

He aligned the two Tianshi Seal imprints again.

Purple lightning crackled, and the imprints resonated.

The lightning formed a purple mirror above Lei Jun’s head.

As he gazed into it, he felt his soul tremble and begin to drift upward, as if drawn into the mirror.