[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cultivation-fortune-by-lots":3,"chapter-cultivation-fortune-by-lots-cultivation-fortune-by-lots-chapter-182":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Cultivation: Fortune by Lots",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1726846,2206,"Chapter 182 - 145. The so-called foundation of the influential families","cultivation-fortune-by-lots-chapter-182",182,"\u003Cp>Lei Jun looked at his lot and couldn’t help but feel speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Was Red Mountain Manor lucky or cursed? Hard to say.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last time, when he had left Red Mountain Manor to return to the mountain, he got into trouble on the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, was it really going to happen all over again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, it seemed as if the situation was even worse than last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last time, it was two moderately good lots, paired with one perfectly neutral lot and one moderately unlucky lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, there was just a single moderately good lot, and then a \"the worst lot\" popped up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sign of utter disaster, certain death and no hope of survival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This really was... Lei Jun could only shake his head repeatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the silver lining was, he didn’t have to wrestle with happy problems this time; as long as he didn’t rush headfirst, he could turn misfortune into luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of dodging calamity, this round of lots seemed to have some secrets to it... Lei Jun’s gaze flickered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good and bad intertwined, Heaven and men, all bring disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meaning should be, this deadly fate this time was caused by both natural calamity and human harm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*But was it that both kinds of disasters combined to create the risk of the moderately unlucky lot and the worst lot?*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Or did the moderately unlucky lot and the worst lot stem from different causes?*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun sat atop his disciple-in-training’s broad back, deep in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Gungun really did have spiritual nature; as if sensing Lei Jun’s state of mind, it quietly stayed where it was, not making its usual playful fuss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment, Lei Jun patted its forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant panda then perked up and set off, galloping away on all fours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Lei Jun’s direction, it naturally headed toward Remaining Sunlight Gorge, the direction the moderately good lot pointed to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Letting the panda run, Lei Jun focused his attention on the surrounding area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There ought to be a Fifth Grade Opportunity here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just didn’t know what it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The panda raced through the mountains, and after half a day, they gradually approached a massive gorge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scenery, bathed in the glow of sunset, was impossibly beautiful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun kept his senses primed for any sign of opportunity, while savoring the splendid view of nature, marveling at Heaven and Earth’s wonders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun’s expression suddenly changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clearly sensed that some remnant demon aura lingered in the gorge!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a cultivator in Spiritual Energy, Lei Jun rarely came into contact with demon aura, but he was extremely sensitive to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just him—even the giant panda under him suddenly grew agitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At once, Lei Jun became hyper-alert; while soothing Gungun, he paid extra attention to their surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good thing he’d made it a habit to always keep his Wind-Thunder Talisman’s \"Night Wind\" buff on himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, with Lei Jun even more watchful, his mana was churning, body concealed tighter, \"Night Wind\" spreading wider, letting him mask the giant bulk of Gungun beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As far as the moderately good lot said, this path should hold no risk and no after-effects. It wasn’t likely, right...? *Lei Jun was privately curious.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he still kept maximum vigilance, taking Gungun and carefully making their way through the gorge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucky the lot didn’t mention any strict time limit this round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun decided first to guarantee safety, then consider whether to continue seeking out opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*He wasn’t being overly cautious. It was just that the demon aura felt so thick and nasty.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, after making his way through the gorge for a while, Lei Jun gradually relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demon aura wasn’t growing any stronger, nor was it showing any signs of sudden surges or chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quite the contrary—the longer they stayed, the demon aura seemed to slowly fade away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t be a hundred percent certain, but from all the current clues, Remaining Sunlight Gorge seemed like a place where a Great Demon had dwelled before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, it was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just, it wasn’t clear whether the demon might come back to the gorge later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a chance—but not a guarantee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun recalled the moderately unlucky lot and the worst lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe the Cangling River valley and Tiansong Mountain were the Great Demon’s new lair for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Speculating as he searched, Lei Jun kept himself on high alert, scouring the area with care.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the shadow of the demon aura, Lei Jun’s senses were badly disrupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as the demon aura started to thin out a bit, Lei Jun found his perceptions of other things slowly growing sharper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a short while, Lei Jun’s heart stirred slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He picked up a faint hint of something magical, a thread of spiritual nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Against the background of the demon aura, it stood out even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, this spiritual nature was unusual—strange even.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun raised his hand and formed a spell gesture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightning sparked from his fingertips, transforming into Yin Metal Thunder from the Yin Five Thunder Righteous Dharma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Streaking with magnetism, the lightning danced through the air and gathered into a single bolt, as if tugged by something invisible, wending its way through the demon aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun’s spirits soared; he slapped Gungun at his side, and together, man and panda gave chase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they continued, Lei Jun suddenly felt a chill sweep over him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Up ahead, the demon aura thickened again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rounding a bend, the ground was littered with bizarre, enormous feathers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each feather was both black and white, half and half, the boundary crisp and clear, yet joined in a single shaft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The feathers were gigantic—a single plume looked like a banana leaf fan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are those the Great Demon’s feathers?\" Lei Jun felt the demon aura heavy in the air around the plumes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No doubt, most of the demon aura in Remaining Sunlight Gorge was coming from these.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lei Jun had his eye on something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, on the ground off to the side, lay a chunk of twisted, deformed metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite being gnarled and bent, the chunk was so massive it was almost like half a millstone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The odd spiritual nature, and the cold waves, all radiated from the metal itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun reached out and pressed his hand to the metal, feeling its chill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Southern Extreme Cold Iron]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had a sudden flash of insight; the name sprang to mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun’s face broke into a satisfied smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This chunk of metal was clearly an exotic treasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fifth Grade Opportunity the moderately good lot spoke of, it had to be this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Lei Jun, the value wasn’t in \"cold iron,\" but in the \"Southern Extreme.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides emitting a freezing chill, the strange spiritual nature was exactly the Primordial Magnet Force Lei Jun had been studying lately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Interesting. Very interesting.\" Lei Jun was instantly engaged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, a massive head poked over beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This gluttonous iron-eating beast was obviously interested too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lei Jun shoved its big head away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tucked the Southern Extreme Cold Iron into his Miniature Bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still couldn’t be totally sure whether that Great Demon would come back to Remaining Sunlight Gorge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Lei Jun decided to stash the treasure for now and wait till he returned to Dragon Tiger Mountain to study it more closely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hopped back onto the broad shoulder of Gungun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The big guy didn’t dodge, but turned its head aside, acting as if it was sulking and giving Lei Jun the cold shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun petted its head with a chuckle, \"Relax, you’ll get your share later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gungun was the type to never believe until it saw the rabbit; hearing this, it wasn’t all that cheered up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it shook its head and strode off, following Lei Jun’s command and leaving Remaining Sunlight Gorge behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demon aura here made Gungun, who also thrived on Spiritual Energy, feel especially uncomfortable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good thing that moderately good lot came through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the lot predicted, nothing dangerous happened along the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the way until man and bear left Remaining Sunlight Gorge safely—no sign of the Great Demon coming back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun gave Gungun another pat on the head, and together they set out on their cheerful journey home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as they went, both man and bear’s ears suddenly twitched at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The panda didn’t stop walking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun, though, turned his head to look off into the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sensed that someone over there was deep in a duel of magic, creating quite a ruckus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*If I’m not mistaken, that’s in the direction of the Cangling River valley...* Lei Jun raised an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of the Cangling River valley, last time the lot from Red Mountain Manor to the mountain mentioned that place too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lei Jun had chosen Guyuan Peak instead, another moderately good lot, giving up on Cangling River.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who would have thought the Jiangzhou Lin Clan had people go there and managed to obtain the Divine Eye Mirror Stone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, by a strange twist of fate, the Divine Eye Mirror Stone ended up in Master Lei’s hands in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, with Cangling River falling under a moderately unlucky lot, Lei Jun certainly wasn’t considering it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But from the looks of it, did someone else step on the landmine?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Lei Jun was a bit curious, but he didn’t go closer.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking advantage of the night, he guided the panda up a neighboring tall mountain, then used the Divine Eye Mirror Stone he’d gotten before to observe from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sides in the fight were on the move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looked like one side was fighting while retreating, the other relentlessly pursuing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As their movement brought them nearer, Lei Jun squinted and gradually saw the identities of both sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ones fighting and fleeing were just a single person alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What surprised Lei Jun most was that the person turned out to be Zhang Jingzhen herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t heard Zhang Jingzhen was leaving Red Mountain Manor when he left—so why had she shown up here...? *Lei Jun wondered.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He examined Zhang Jingzhen’s pursuers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivators of the Confucian Sect, sword aura everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Confucian scholars chanting poetry, invoking mystical phenomena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Confucian Divine Archers, bows drawn and ready.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging by their attire, they resembled the Jiangzhou Lin Clan disciples like Lin Liao he’d seen before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Great, the same old enemies... *Lei Jun frowned internally.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jingzhen was already a Sixth Heavenly Layer cultivator of the Talisman Sect, but she wasn’t just at a disadvantage—she was wounded too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only was she outnumbered and ambushed, but the Lin Clan’s siege this time was stacked—the lineup was loaded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just one Lin Clan Elder at the Sixth Heavenly Realm; a whole crowd of Lin Clan disciples joined in the attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anyone but Zhang Jingzhen had been here—even with Sixth Heavenly Realm cultivation—they’d probably never break out alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle raged, forests were cut down in swathes, even several peaks collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For those below the Upper Three Heavens, the scale here was astonishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luckily it was deep in the mountains for now, so it didn’t affect anyone else just yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Zhang Jingzhen fought with composure, charging left and right to outmaneuver her enemies, she still couldn’t shake her pursuers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind her, the lead Lin Clan Elder wore a cold expression, \"Quite the big catch, don’t let her get away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young man beside him lamented, \"Too bad it’s not that Lei Jun. Heard he left Dragon Tiger Mountain, but we didn’t manage to trap him!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lin Clan Elder kept his face blank, \"We’ll get our chance later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One Lin Clan disciple said, \"Uncle, weren’t we supposed to target Taoist Celestial Masters unrelated to Xinzhou’s Li Family first? Zhang Jingzhen may not be a Li by name, but she’s not some backwater nobody...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man replied coolly, \"Country bumpkins are indeed top targets, but Li or Zhang, if they die, so be it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nobility endures for five generations; only those who last five generations have roots to become a family of note.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Li Family’s barely held on for a few generations and looks to be on the verge of collapse—hardly enough to set a trend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the Zhang Family, they’re in decline too; we might as well help send them off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Sixth Uncle masking the Heavenly Fate, we simply need to act quickly and make a mess—let the Celestial Master Mansion tear itself apart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If Sixth Uncle took action himself, he’d have killed the girl long ago,\" someone said, glancing behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Elder declared, \"Sixth Uncle’s job is to keep watch; unless someone from the Upper Three Heavens shows up, he won’t intervene. Things are unstable and full of surprises right now; we have to be careful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Understood!\" The Lin Clan disciples asked no further, spreading out to encircle Zhang Jingzhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soil and rocks erupted among the forested slopes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dusky spirit light of the Breathing Soil Banner faded, and Lei Jun’s silhouette emerged amid it, watching the crowd with thoughtful eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>",2177,"2026-06-06T15:53:51.376Z",1,"novelbin.me","af584619a1eaf0b62908b64c5cca7010900a75caf57df1244758326ea93fe7b1","cultivation-fortune-by-lots-chapter-183","cultivation-fortune-by-lots-chapter-181",801,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcultivation-fortune-by-lots-cover.jpg"]