Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Misfortune: Starting from the Celestial Master’s Mansion
Chapter 92: Second-class opportunity, Heavenly Master Seal

The sudden change caught Lei Jun off guard.

He didn’t even reach out to grab the white paper at first, letting it float down and land on the ground.

Lei Jun glanced around, then carefully observed the True One Sect’s Law Altar Cave Heaven for a moment.

There were no other movements, no one else had entered.

Chu Yu’s attempt to enter the True One Sect’s Law Altar Cave Heaven had been interrupted and destroyed by others… Lei Jun seemed to realize something.

From his understanding of the True One Sect’s Law Altar Cave Heaven, he sensed that the white paper didn’t contain any traps or mechanisms, so he used his soul to make contact.

The moment he touched it, Lei Jun seemed to feel the emotions and mindset of the previous owner of the white paper.

There was little anger or resentment, mostly helplessness and relief.

A brief image flashed before Lei Jun’s eyes.

He seemed to see Chu Yu, dressed in hunting attire, trying to open the portal to the True One Sect’s Law Altar Cave Heaven using the white paper that had the Heavenly Master Seal's marks on it.

But suddenly, a purple thunderbolt struck from the sky.

Chu Yu wasn’t injured.

The white paper wasn’t damaged.

However, the connection between Chu Yu and the white paper was severed.

The timing was exactly when the white paper was about to open a new path to the Cave Heaven, just as the portal was about to open.

It was a moment of barely a hair's difference.

If it had been a moment later, Chu Yu would have opened the portal and entered the Cave Heaven.

But now, the white paper entered, and the portal was closed, leaving Chu Yu locked out.

Lei Jun could clearly see, through the white paper, the expression on Chu Yu’s face at that moment—half exasperated, half amused.

The effort had failed, just a hair’s breadth from success.

There was no situation more fitting to describe the phrase "a near miss."

The vision disappeared like a revolving lantern.

Lei Jun’s vision once again settled on the seemingly vast and limited Cave Heaven.

Unlike before, the lights in the True One Sect’s Law Altar Cave Heaven flickered on and off, with Dao banners waving in the wind.

Lei Jun looked at the white paper, and his mind was filled with flashes of insight.

No one told him what to do, but through the True One Sect’s Law Altar Cave Heaven and the three Heavenly Master Seal marks he had already accumulated, Lei Jun suddenly understood.

His soul trembled.

The Heavenly Master Seal marks from Tianxu Mountain’s Qiantian Peak and the Nanhuang Yin Mountain’s Bone Armor, both appeared and floated in the Cave Heaven.

A third Heavenly Master Seal mark from the white paper also floated in front of Lei Jun.

Lei Jun focused his mind, and the three Heavenly Master Seal marks overlapped and merged into one.

The three marks combined into one, and a brilliant light was released.

The previously dim Cave Heaven, which resembled a starry sky, was illuminated by the light for a moment.

At that moment, Lei Jun suddenly felt his soul destabilize and could no longer stay within the True One Sect’s Law Altar Cave Heaven.

His soul was pulled backward and exited from the "portal" he had entered, returning to his physical body.

But this time, it wasn’t just his own soul that returned.

The beautiful True One Sect’s Law Altar Cave Heaven seemed to distort and shrink, as if an exotic space curled into a line.

Then it connected to Lei Jun’s soul and was drawn back into his body, flooding into his crown.

Lei Jun shuddered, his soul returned to his body, and he opened his eyes.

It seemed as though something had appeared before him.

An ancient jade seal.

The seal wasn’t heavy, but it seemed thin, square, and small. It shone with purple, green, and gold hues.

However, the jade seal was ethereal and vanished from Lei Jun’s sight in an instant.

It seemed like what he had just seen was an illusion.

But soon, the jade seal reappeared clearly in Lei Jun’s mind, detailed and distinct.

The words "Heavenly Master Seal" appeared in his mind, and Lei Jun took a deep breath.

He stabilized his mind and resisted the urge to explore the jade seal further.

Lei Jun turned his attention back to the real world.

Everything around him seemed unchanged from before.

The ancestral tomb’s forbidden area behind the mountain remained peaceful.

In the distance, Elder Xin was still walking in his battle formation, and the Taoist symbols and formations were still active.

His fellow disciples, including Wang Guiyuan, were seated in meditation, as they had been earlier.

The light from the altar’s lamps was still as bright as before, and the incense burner emitted a faint blue smoke.

If there was any change, Lei Jun felt that the statues and memorial plaques of the ancestors in the Taoist temple seemed to briefly shine.

But no one else noticed this.

Elder Xin, Wang Guiyuan, and the other disciples didn’t sense anything.

But Lei Jun was sure that what he had seen wasn’t an illusion.

He exhaled deeply, then respectfully bowed to the statues of the ancestors in the Taoist temple.

No matter what happened next, he knew that the Heavenly Master Seal had now returned to Longhu Mountain.

Lei Jun felt a subtle trembling in his soul, where the jade seal lay hidden.

It seemed as though some external force was trying to trigger the seal.

But at that moment, Lei Jun didn’t need to act. The seal’s surface glowed with purple, green, and gold hues on its own, as if something had been ignited.

Once again, Lei Jun’s mind was filled with strange images, as though he saw Master Li Zhengxuan and an old monk of the Vajra Sect, Master Long Jia.

Li Zhengxuan held a jade seal, which looked identical to Lei Jun’s Heavenly Master Seal in his soul.

But this was a fake seal, not the real one.

In Long Jia’s hand, there was an unremarkable piece of bark, but it bore the imprint of a Heavenly Master Seal.

Though it seemed ordinary, the spiritual power contained within was not inferior to the seal in Li Zhengxuan’s hand or the white paper in Chu Yu’s possession.

At that moment, Long Jia’s old face showed an expression of shock.

The bark in his hand suddenly started to burn.

On the other side, Li Zhengxuan showed no sense of schadenfreude.

His fake jade seal had cracked and turned to ash.

Though both Long Jia and Li Zhengxuan tried to use their power to suppress it, they were helpless to stop the destruction of the spiritual items bearing the Heavenly Master Seal.

The image before Lei Jun froze on their faces, filled with sorrow, shock, anger, resentment, and confusion.

The vision vanished, and Lei Jun returned to his senses, a realization forming in his mind.

He had successfully gathered three clues related to the Heavenly Master Seal, combining them with heaven, earth, and humanity, and had finally crossed a certain threshold to call forth the Heavenly Master Seal.

Even the lesser Heavenly Master, Li Zhengxuan, who wielded the Heavenly Master Sword, had been unable to stop it. Lei Jun suspected that this had something to do with his current location in the ancestral tomb’s forbidden area behind Longhu Mountain.

Although Lei Jun sensed that the current state of the Heavenly Master Seal seemed odd, it had temporarily escaped its previous state of having no master.

When someone else tried to touch it, the Heavenly Master Seal responded further.

However, this response severed the connection between others and the seal.

The result was that a fierce competition among top experts ended up benefiting a certain young Taoist who hadn’t even been near Qing Tian Peak.

"I really was just waiting for a rabbit to fall into my lap," Lei Jun thought, both pleased and somewhat absurd.

As predicted by the prophecy, staying quietly in the Taoist temple behind Longhu Mountain, waiting for the right moment, had led to this second-grade opportunity.

Lei Jun silently thanked the solid foundation laid by the previous Heavenly Master Seal marks.

Everything had fallen into place.

However, Lei Jun quickly suppressed his joy.

He focused inward, diving deeper into his soul.

After the jade seal cleared the marks it had left on the outside world, it returned to a state of stillness.

The Heavenly Master Seal’s current state was indeed strange… Lei Jun thought.

Although he hadn’t directly handled this treasure before, he was well aware of its reputation and the general understanding of its power.

The Heavenly Master Seal, Heavenly Master Sword, and Heavenly Master Robe could all transform between physical and spiritual forms.

But under normal circumstances, they should be in their physical forms when not in use.

Currently, the Heavenly Master Seal wasn’t in a solid form but seemed ethereal, buried within Lei Jun’s soul.

Lei Jun even felt as though the Heavenly Master Seal and his soul had merged into one, making it impossible to separate for now.

But this exquisite treasure seemed to be in a dormant or even lifeless state.

Lei Jun couldn’t summon or control it, and there was no way to refine it for now.

Yet, there was still some connection. He sensed that the situation was similar to when he entered the True One Sect’s Law Altar Cave Heaven earlier.

The jade seal was in a state of slumber.

This might have something to do with the great battle during the third internal conflict in the Heavenly Master Sect, when many powerful figures, including Li Cangtian and the third Heavenly Master, fell.

Lei Jun focused and gathered his mind.

Suddenly, a flash of light appeared before him.

His consciousness once again successfully entered the True One Sect’s Law Altar Cave Heaven!

At this moment, the Cave Heaven was brightly lit.

The lamps of the Daoist altar all illuminated, lighting up the entire Cave Heaven.

The treasure banner, over four meters tall, fluttered in the wind, and Dao flags fluttered under the large treasure canopy.

The Cave Heaven was filled with Daoist symbols and talismans, astonishingly beautiful.

However, when Lei Jun tried to enter the True One Sect’s Law Altar in the center of the altar, he still couldn’t pass.

As expected, the Heavenly Master Seal was still not in the right state… Lei Jun nodded to himself.

But now that the treasure was in hand, he wasn’t in a hurry. He withdrew his soul from the Cave Heaven.

Outside, the ancestral tomb’s forbidden area was still peaceful.

Until, once again, purple thunderclouds gathered above Longhu Mountain.

Elder Xin, with his advanced cultivation, had returned to the mountain.

Only then did Elder Xin relax and remove his battle formation and talismans.

Lei Jun and the other disciples approached Elder Xin, handing over their artifacts.

Elder Xin praised them, "Although it was a false alarm, you all did well."

In general, Elder Xin was in a good mood.

If the Lesser Heavenly Master and Elder Ziyang could successfully bring the Heavenly Master Seal back to Longhu Mountain, it would be even better.

But soon, Elder Xin seemed to notice something was wrong.

"Has Master Zhengxuan returned?" Elder Xin asked in surprise.

"Did I mistake something? Why does it seem like the Heavenly Master Sword didn’t come back with him?"

At first, Lei Jun and the others didn’t quite understand.

The Heavenly Master Sword didn’t come back.

Hm…

Ah?

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