Cultivation: Fortune by Lots-Chapter 452 - 243. This trip shuts the door on the dog! (Two-in-one Chapter)_4

Chapter 452: 243. This trip shuts the door on the dog! (Two-in-one Chapter)_4

But his heart sank to rock bottom.

*That vague unease and hidden worry had finally come true.*

Celestial Master Mansion truly had not gone all out to block Lin Che’s return to the ancestral land of the Jiangzhou Lin Clan.

Because those Daoist bastards had planned from the very beginning to break through the Jiangzhou Lin Clan’s ancestral land in one fell swoop, and, by leveraging the qi conduits of the land, smash him while dragging him into deadly danger. Now, even with the Dragon Serpent Pen in hand, his movements were more restricted than before.

Under the pull of the qi, Lin Che’s face went paper-white, and all his old wounds flared up at once.

At the same time, elder Lin Chou, beside him, let out a muffled groan.

A perfectly square, polished wooden board flew up in front of him, stretching and swelling in the wind into a massive size. In an instant, the physical became ethereal, transforming into a stream of light that enveloped Lin Chou.

Lin Chou suppressed the ancestral tremors and Tang Xiaotang’s Celestial Master’s Sword strike, forcing himself to focus his strength and barely hold on. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

But unexpectedly, that stream of light split and reformed, morphing into a wooden shackle that snapped closed on Lin Chou.

Lin Chou was instantly trapped from all sides.

But that wasn’t even the worst part. What hurt more was the scene he was now living through.

*He’d lived for hundreds of years and never been humiliated like this before!*

"Disgrace! Disgrace upon our heritage... This is fucking outrageous!" the Lin Clan elder spat blood in fury.

Off in the distance, Lei Jun remained calm.

*Otherwise, why call it "disgrace upon our heritage" at all?*

Strictly speaking, it was the Locking Scholar Shackles.

Refining this treasure, he actually had the Jiangzhou Lin Clan to thank.

When they ventured to the Northern Border, they drew two moderately good lots, one pointing to Long Sky Lake, the other to Dragon Bone Ridge.

Lei Jun obtained the Mother-Child Condensing Essence Beads at Long Sky Lake.

Tang Xiaotang destroyed the Lin Clan’s sacrificial ritual at Dragon Bone Ridge, casually swiping one of the spiritual objects the Jiangzhou Lin Clan used for the rite, called the Sealing Spirit Wood.

Lei Jun left those Foreign Lands and received the leftover bits of "Barbarian Spearhead" from Xu Yuanzhen—another disgrace upon heritage.

Once he linked up with Tang Xiaotang again and learned about the Sealing Spirit Wood, he immediately asked for it, and refined it together with the disgrace upon heritage, eventually forging the Locking Scholar Shackles.

On the return journey, he temporarily handed over the Celestial Master Seal to Tang Xiaotang. He himself slipped into the True One Altar Cave Heaven, hitching a ride and ignoring all outside matters, pouring his focus entirely into refining the new treasure using the Nine Abyss True Fire from the first layer of the True One Altar—finishing just before reaching Jiangzhou.

To put it bluntly, this was like shutting the door and beating the dog.

To phrase it better, this was trapping a turtle in a jar... Well, neither saying sounded all that good.

All that mattered was how effective it was.

Just like "Barbarian Spearhead," the Locking Scholar Shackles was a one-time consumable spiritual object.

Its effect was outstanding—against those Great Scholars of the Eightfold Heaven Realm, it could lock them down for a solid amount of time.

Still, seeing that Lin Che, with the Dragon Serpent Pen in hand, could still defend others, Lei Jun aimed the Locking Scholar Shackles at another of the Lin Clan’s Eightfold Heaven experts, Lin Chou.

Lin Chou was instantly shackled and put on display.

Luckily, after first flying into a rage, he quickly regained his composure. Realizing he was now little better than a sitting duck, he threw all his strength into resisting the shackle and powered up his defensive treasure for protection.

Lin Che’s reaction wasn’t slow either. Though he was hardly in perfect shape, he still had the presence of mind to block Tang Xiaotang’s next sword strike for Lin Chou.

"Buzzzz—"

But just then, from another direction, a deep, low howl echoed.

Sparks of electricity flashed, followed by thunder and fire exploding forth in a roar.

The target, though, wasn’t Lin Chou, but rather other elders of the Lin Clan.

Lei Jun had anticipated Lin Che throwing everything into defending Lin Chou, so when he activated the Locking Scholar Shackles, the three metal rails floating above his head weren’t aimed at Lin Chou.

He’d set his sights on three old scholars with hair and beards gone gray.

The Celestial Master Mansion and the Jiangzhou Lin Clan knew each other too well by now.

Though those three Lin Clan elders hadn’t shown their faces for years, Lei Jun recognized them as three senior Lin Clan elders at the Seventh Heavenly Layer.

They were getting on in years, far from their prime. Now, with the Jiangzhou ancestral land broken and the qi forced to shift, they were hit hardest of all.

Tang Xiaotang’s sword swept the battlefield. By chance, those three were farthest from Lin Che, and beyond his protection. So, the three old men took additional wounds on top of their old injuries.

Lei Jun had always believed that it was better to cripple one finger than merely injure ten.

*So...*

The three metal rails surged with Primordial Magnet Force, a silent roar boiling through the air.

With countless Heaven’s Sight Earth’s Hearing Talismans boosting him, Lei Jun did not fire all three cannons at a single target.

He aimed individually, targeting three separate elders, firing simultaneously!

Thunder and fire blasted down. The three Lin Clan elders, already wounded, and too slow to respond, shook violently as another round of destruction hit them.

One had half his body blown away.

One took a massive hole through his torso.

One’s head disappeared without a trace.

The rest of the Lin Clan cultivators froze.

The Locking Scholar Shackles had appeared bizarrely, showing they had more than just Tang Xiaotang to worry about. While they searched for the enemy, the thunder cracked, and the three elders who’d just emerged from isolation were now gone forever?

The attack came from a huge distance.

Had Xu Yuanzhen of the Ninth Heavenly Layer arrived?

Or was it some Upper Three Heavens Confucian Divine Archer, or a Taoist who specialized in Flying Swords?

*How many enemies were there?*

"The timing’s still a bit rushed. My aim could’ve been better," Lei Jun muttered, shaking his head.

He had just ascended to the Seventh Heavenly Layer, but hadn’t had time to consolidate his cultivation or elevate his techniques further. What little time he had was spent training in the Life Skill Human Script Talismans and refining the Locking Scholar Shackles.

His other life-bound magic arts had only been quickly summarized and organized. Thanks to his current Serene Insight level of comprehension, he could extrapolate and adapt, skipping countless hours of slow practice.

*Still, there were subtle details that could use work.*

"There!" Lin Che, though pale as a ghost, proved his worth as an Eightfold Heaven scholar of Confucian Classical Studies. Leaning on his mastery of the Three Discourses on Governing the Country, he pinpointed Lei Jun’s location with precision.

But he had no time to worry about anything else. Above, purple, gold, and blue flame poured down like a tidal wave.

Lin Che wielded the pen like a sword, Dragon Serpent Pen flashing, Vast Integrity Qi surging, as he threw everything he had into repelling the descending Tang Xiaotang.