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The Man Behind the Yellow Sky Sect_3","cultivation-fortune-by-lots-chapter-570",570,"\u003Cp>Lei Jun did not attend the meeting, nor did he deal directly with Yue Xiling, Wei Qiyue, and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he had the skill to trigger Zhang Jingzhen’s Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission Talisman to record audio, Lei Jun did not do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless he was certain there was an issue with the other party, he would not eavesdrop on his own sect members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*As for the idea that only by listening could he know if there was a problem, Lei Jun simply did not consider such things.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the relationship between both sides was not close enough for Zhang Jingzhen to know the secrets of Lei Jun’s talismans either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, while it was a bit more troublesome, Lei Jun also did not care, and whenever something urgent occurred, Yuan Mobai from Dragon Tiger Mountain would relay the message to him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pure Yang Palace had already been investigating Gu Han and the others, and the Guo Ling you mentioned this time, they already dug him up themselves.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun asked, \"Master, what about Mount Shu?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Mobai replied, \"Back then, during that internal strife at Mount Shu, aside from Liu Dongzhuo, Mount Shu had identified several other suspects, but currently lacked conclusive evidence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gave Lei Jun several names, then continued, \"However, Elder Wei mentioned someone related to the current situation. Chongyun, you may have heard the name—surname Chen, given name Donglou.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun answered, \"This disciple had indeed heard of him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was only hearsay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shu Madman, Chen Donglou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been the youngest of the Mount Shu Sect elders in his generation to break into the Eighth Heavenly Layer realm of the Daoist Artifact Refining Sect as a Great Sword Cultivator, and more than a hundred years ago, he was world-renowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, it was Chen Donglou and Fu Dongsen who vied for the position of Sect Leader at Mount Shu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, Chen Donglou had the upper hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the man’s temperament was eccentric and combative; he managed to offend every possible fellow sect member, both peers and elders alike, making himself thoroughly unpopular among both his own generation and senior elders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To put it bluntly, if one spoke strictly about standing within their own sect, Tang Xiaotang at the Celestial Master Mansion was actually more well-liked than Chen Donglou at Mount Shu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was hardly a compliment for Tang Xiaotang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Celestial Master Tang succeeded mostly because of the unique circumstances within and outside the Celestial Master Mansion at the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Chen Donglou had been at Mount Shu, he had not enjoyed such a chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, in the end, it was Fu Dongsen who succeeded and became Sect Leader of Mount Shu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, Chen Donglou, wounded by pride, left and it had been years since anyone heard of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, after more than a century, his name was seldom heard of in the Great Tang today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, as long as that name was mentioned, even the younger generation of cultivators would quickly remember him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Shu Madman’s reputation for belligerence was not limited to the Land of Bashu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that, since he had been absent from the world for so long, people now said he had perished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps, he had fallen somewhere in some Cave Heaven or another world beyond the borders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before leaving Mount Shu, Chen Donglou once said he sought to recover the lost sect treasure, the Ziwei Sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet after all these years, neither the man nor the sword had ever returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over a decade ago, during Mount Shu’s civil strife, this name again caused sighs among the people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Donglou was utterly without support and left in anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mount Shu Sect chose Fu Dongsen, who seemed vastly more reliable, to become their current leader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was precisely under Fu Dongsen’s leadership that Mount Shu Sect gradually changed, engaging ever more with the outside world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, more and more internal tensions built up among the disciples, eventually erupting into chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people of Mount Shu did not necessarily miss Chen Donglou that much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Their thoughts likely ran more along the lines that neither Chen Donglou nor Fu Dongsen was particularly fitting.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if Chen Donglou had remained, Fu Dongsen would have found it much harder to stretch his wings as he had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"According to Elder Wei, in their thorough investigation this time, they uncovered some clues about Brother Chen Donglou’s whereabouts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Mobai said, \"They still could not confirm that Brother Chen was definitely involved with Liu Dongzhuo, but it is worth looking into.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun understood what his master meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Donglou, when all was said and done, also had some entanglements with the Celestial Master Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was not the personal feud like that between Ji Dongquan and Yuan Mobai; rather, Chen Donglou was on good terms with the previous Sect Leader of Yellow Sky Sect, Taoist Taiping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, Chen himself sympathized greatly with Yellow Sky Sect, and was extremely hostile to the Li Clan of the Celestial Master Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The belligerent Chen Donglou had once helped Yellow Sky Sect, battling Li Cangting and his cousin Li Qingfeng in turn, aiding Yellow Sky’s disadvantage and restoring the balance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only afterwards, when his attempt to find the Ziwei Sword failed and he disappeared, did the matter fade away, and both Yellow Sky Sect and Taoist Taiping lost a powerful ally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, considering Chen Donglou’s character, he did not seem like a mastermind who would lay plans for the long-term in the shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*The fact that his name was being brought up now might have been Mount Shu’s own people trying to redirect blame elsewhere.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to Lei Jun and Yuan Mobai, that was not a bad thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more their opponents stirred up trouble, the more likely they were to slip up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the surface these were Mount Shu’s issues, but beneath it all, a great web operating in the shadows was now finally being exposed—seen from certain angles, this was a good development.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very soon, a message arrived from Zhang Jingzhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was to travel southwest along with Chu Yu, Wei Qiyue, Yue Xiling, and others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The southwest region was likewise full of remote mountains and rarely visited by people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sparse population mostly favored the Southern Witch Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in the previous era, news regarding the Sheng Kang line had first surfaced here, and Chu Yu had once traveled southwest to verify those claims.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long ago, this place had even become a battlefield between the Great Demons of the Snowy Plateau and the Southern Wilderness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The great battle changed the terrain and triggered abnormal pulses in the Global Spiritual Qi, which exposed things previously hidden—in theory, that made sense, but Lei Jun remained skeptical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He left Chuanxi for the south, quietly drawing closer to the southwest region, but remained out of sight, watching developments unfold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jingzhen, on the other hand, acted in concert with the main group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After arriving in the southwest, they sent word that they would split into two teams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One would head for Snow Dragon Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other would travel to the Stone Forest of Nanzhao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Jun at first only listened in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at that moment, a sphere of light suddenly flashed in his mind, and words appeared,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[When true becomes false, and false becomes true, traces left in Tiannan, peril in the north of the mountains, good or ill is up to fate.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, two lots of fortune flew out from the light sphere, and appeared before Lei Jun,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Moderately good lot, if you travel to the Stone Forest of Nanzhao, you may obtain a third-rank opportunity, no risk for now, but potential karmic entanglements may result, handle it carefully, auspicious.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Perfectly neutral lot, if you go north of Snow Dragon Mountain, you may receive a fifth grade opportunity, but the weather is brutal and the currents fierce; danger lurks, exercise caution, so-so.]\u003C\u002Fp>",1324,"2026-06-06T15:54:08.403Z",1,"novelbin.me","3bca5cf115ad85b5e0eb2aa2faba9693542f3a0b319ba45a29da249917cec761","cultivation-fortune-by-lots-chapter-571","cultivation-fortune-by-lots-chapter-569",801,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcultivation-fortune-by-lots-cover.jpg"]