Cultivation: Fortune by Lots

Lei Jun quickly arrived between two dark mountain ridges.

The world, originally cloaked in darkness, now acquired a hint of a different color.

Beneath the infinite darkness, a streak of dark red emerged.

As Lei Jun approached, he saw that it was a narrow rift. It presented an overall dark red hue, like a profound chasm.

The situation was similar to when movements in the earth’s veins caused earthquakes and fissures.

But the rift did not lead to the normal world’s underground; rather, it resembled a tremendously large and unstable Void Gateway.

An obscure red color, as if alive, surged out from within the crack.

However, upon reaching the Mortal World, these strange, dark red auras began to transform into a thick black mist.

The Earth Sea within the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths is eroding the Mortal World... Lei Jun realized upon witnessing the scene.

The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were certainly legendary, supreme otherworldly voids, but they were not completely safe and harmless for the Mortal World.

This was especially true for some areas within the Ten Earths.

The Earth Sea was notoriously perilous.

After observing for a moment, Lei Jun surmised that this was not a Portal deliberately created by the Jiuli People.

Instead, it was likely due to the influences of the Jiuli secret realm and Youning Lake. These influences caused a distortion in the earth’s veins, even interfering with the Void Realm. Ultimately, this resulted in the northern foothills of Zhuoqing Mountain also being breached by a rift connected to the Earth Sea.

With the void cracking open, the more aggressive Earth Sea immediately began to erode the Mortal World.

However, the realm as a whole remained resilient. The surging Spiritual Energy from the Mortal World resisted the Earth Sea’s aura, preventing the dark red Deep Valley from expanding for the time being.

When the Earth Sea’s aura reached the Mortal World, it underwent changes and gave rise to an eerie black mist, even though it was nighttime and there was no sunlight.

After careful observation, Lei Jun faintly discerned a speck of purple light twinkling at the edge of the dark red fissure.

He remained on guard as he continued to approach.

Upon reaching the edge of the dark red ravine, he felt the dark red auras. Influenced by the power of the realm, they seemed like living flesh writhing, constantly rolling out fresher shades of deep red from within.

The scale of the ravine did not appear to visibly expand at first glance. This was only because of the resistance from the Mortal World’s Spiritual Energy and the transformation of the deep red into black mist.

Lei Jun first considered whether he could facilitate the rift’s healing from the Mortal World’s side, thereby eliminating this Void Gateway.

But he was stumped in the short term.

The Earth Sea’s own aura had invaded the Mortal World. Consequently, closing the Void Gateway at Zhuoqing Mountain proved to be much more difficult than the Lin Family’s earlier attempt to seal the Void Gateway of Great Black Mountain.

Lei Jun developed some interest in studying the phenomenon, but considering the time constraints, he had to set it aside for now.

Without dwelling on it, he shifted his attention to the speck of purple light upon the deep red.

Observing the situation, it seemed the purple light had arrived in the Mortal World from this accidentally opened rift, along with the Earth Sea’s deep red aura.

Currently, the purple light seemed pinned to the edge of the dark red ravine. As the deep red churned and undulated, the purple light embedded within it swayed slightly.

Indeed, it is not the Ziwei Sword itself...

Lei Jun contemplated the purple light. He recognized that it was similar to his own Immortal Seed, intertwined with the artistic conception and aura of Mount Shu’s treasured Ziwei Sword.

This indeed aligned with the earlier possibility that the Ziwei Sword might have been lost in the Earth Sea.

Having previously entertained such speculations, Lei Jun was not disappointed. He calmly collected this Fourth Rank Opportunity connected to the Ziwei Sword’s trail.

However, the purple light was entangled with the Earth Sea’s aura, making it difficult to retrieve.

Lei Jun manifested his own Immortal Seed Purple Light to resonate with it.

The purple sword light pinned to the edge of the deep red rift swayed slightly and was indeed successfully drawn by him.

But at that very moment, a sense of alarm suddenly arose in Lei Jun’s heart.

He sensed that someone else had appeared beneath this veil of black mist, near the deep red rift.

It did not seem like Ye Liang entering. Rather, it felt as if someone had come from the Earth Sea, on the other side of the Void Gateway beneath the deep red rift, and arrived in the Mortal World.

Because Lei Jun was occupied with retrieving the Ziwei Sword Light, he was unable to conceal his presence as usual.

The other party had already discovered Lei Jun and was approaching.

However, after approaching to a certain distance, the newcomer halted.

Lei Jun’s eyes had somewhat adapted to the black mist. The brilliance of his Heaven-piercing Earth-penetrating Talisman flickered in his pupils.

The person was on his right.

He did not turn his body, nor did he turn his head to look.

The Mysterious Void Mirror quietly appeared, its dim light subtly masking any brightness.

Through the Mysterious Void Mirror, a silhouette began to form in Lei Jun’s vision.

The newcomer stood amidst the black mist, her skin color indistinguishable. She was a tall woman, only slightly shorter than Tang Xiaotang, with a notably fit and well-proportioned figure.

Her attire appeared quite complex, imbued with an ancient style yet far more meticulously crafted.

This matched some previous descriptions of the Jiuli People.

Markings resembling oil paint adorned her face, looking both cryptic and mysterious.

But what left the strongest impression on Lei Jun were her eyes.

Amidst the black mist, they seemed to flicker with a red light—another significant trait of the Jiuli People. However, those red eyes now held a gaze full of ruthlessness and bloodlust.

This gaze was currently fixed on Lei Jun.

She was a Jiuli Grand Shaman, an expert equivalent to the Upper Three Heavens Level of the Southern Wilderness Witchcraft Sect.

She had likely sensed the newly opened rift to the Mortal World from the Earth Sea side and had hurried over to investigate.

Consequently, she encountered Lei Jun, who was in the process of collecting the Ziwei Sword Light.

The female Jiuli Grand Shaman, without uttering a word, moved like a cold and merciless hunter stealthily approaching her prey.

After gauging the approximate distance, she stopped in her tracks.

Then, she began to wave her sleeves and dance.

Strange Mana spread silently under the cover of the black mist. It rapidly formed an immensely vast Ghost God Sacrificial Array, which spread out above the deep red rift.