Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Chapter 125 Volcanic Eruption and the Gift of a Beautiful Woman
"Fellow Daoist Zhu, our Lu family is unaware of the situation of the Heavenly Flame Sect, and we dare not inquire too much about its affairs. We hope you can understand!"

Lu Cheng'an sighed softly and said, "If Fellow Daoist Zhu is worried about the safety of the cultivators in the clan, our clan leader said that Fellow Daoist Zhu can select some of the more talented cultivators in the clan and send them to our Lu family. After the chaos in the Burning Flame Mountains has subsided, they can be sent back. What do you think, Fellow Daoist Zhu?"

After returning to Qing'e Island, Lu Cheng'an went to find Zhu Yan and then told her what Lu Wenxing meant.

Lu Wenxing's guess was correct; Zhu Yan was indeed worried about the safety of the first-tier Fire-Slaying Earth Spider.

Her cultivation level has broken through to the mid-stage of the second tier, and her strength is not weak.

Even if she were summoned by the two demonic beasts, the Earth Flame Python, she was confident that she could survive.

However, the first-tier cultivators of the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider clan are in greater danger. Their strength is not formidable, and their ability to protect themselves is too weak, so there is a high possibility of significant casualties.

After hearing Lu Cheng'an's suggestion, Zhu Yan's eyes showed a thoughtful look as she considered its feasibility.

The Crimson Smoke Mountain, where the Lu family is located, is very close to the Burning Flame Mountain Range, but compared to the Azure Crocodile Island, where the Fire-Slaying Earth Spiders reside, the Crimson Smoke Mountain is considered to be far away from the Burning Flame Mountain Range.

The Lu family's strength may not be considered particularly formidable, but it is certainly not weak, especially with Lu Cheng'an in the family.

If she were to send some of the cultivators from her clan to the Lu family now, they would indeed be much safer there than on Green Crocodile Island.

"I can't give you an answer to this matter right now. Let me think about it carefully. I'll discuss it with the cultivators in my clan and then give you an answer!"

Zhu Yan pondered for a long time but did not make a final decision.

"There's no rush. Fellow Daoist Zhu can think it over with the cultivators in your clan. I will continue to cultivate on Green Crocodile Island," Lu Cheng'an said with a smile.

A moment later, Lu Cheng'an parted ways with Zhu Yan and walked towards the fire spring where he usually cultivated.

For the next period of time, apart from his daily training, he planned to devote all his energy to practicing the Cloud Shadow Sword Technique.

This return to his family allowed him to experience the thrill of flying on a sword, but unfortunately, his mastery of the second-tier sword control technique was not yet profound enough, causing him to be hesitant and timid when flying, and he did not truly unleash his speed.

The second-tier Cloud Shadow Sword Technique is not just a simple technique for flying on a sword; it is also a powerful attack technique.

If Lu Cheng'an cultivates this technique to perfection, it will also greatly enhance his strength.

Zhu Yan didn't keep Lu Cheng'an waiting for long; she gave him an answer a day later.

Zhu Yan agreed to Lu Cheng'an's suggestion and decided to send some of the cultivators in her clan to the Lu family.

The Fire-Slaying Earth Spider is a member of the Spirit Race. Humans and Spirits are not necessarily enemies; Spirits can also live in the territories of human cultivators.

If their Fire-Slaying Earth Spiders are truly unlucky, then the cultivators from their clan who were sent to the Lu family will be their spark and hope.

Worried that something unexpected might happen again, Zhu Yan immediately ordered Lu Cheng'an to lead Zhu Lu and the other cultivators of the Fire-Repelling Earth Spider away from Qing'e Island after making her decision.

Zhu Yan selected a total of six Fire-Slaying Earth Spider cultivators to send to the Lu family. Two of these six were at the late stage of the first rank, namely Zhu Lu and Zhu Yue, both of whom had the potential to break through to the second rank.

However, it is extremely difficult to go deep into the Burning Flame Mountains and snatch the Earth Spirit Jade from the mouth of the giant fire catfish. Zhu Yan has now temporarily given up on this idea.

Apart from Zhu Lu and Zhu Yue, whose cultivation levels were at the late stage of the first rank, the remaining four Fire-Slaying Earth Spiders were all at the early stage of the first rank.

Their cultivation level was low, but their talent for cultivation was even better than Zhu Lu and Zhu Yue.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, I hope you can send Zhu Lu and the others away from Qing'e Island now!" Zhu Yan said in a deep voice.

Zhu Yan trusted the Lu family quite a bit, which is why she agreed to Lu Cheng'an's suggestion to send the cultivators from her clan to the Lu family for resettlement.

"Fellow Daoist Zhu, rest assured, I will send them to the Lu family right now. Our Lu family will definitely not let Zhu Lu and the others be in danger," Lu Cheng'an said very seriously.

"Then I'll have to trouble Fellow Daoist Lu!" Zhu Yan said sincerely.

Lu Cheng'an wasted no time. After sending a message to Lu Wenxing, he led Zhu Lu and six other cultivators of the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider to leave Qing'e Island and head towards Chiyan Mountain.

The six Fire-Slaying Earth Spider cultivators, including Zhu Lu, were all at the first level of cultivation, so their travel speed was relatively slow.

Fortunately, Fire Locust Mountain and Red Smoke Mountain were not far apart, and with Lu Wenxing picking them up along the way, Lu Cheng'an safely delivered Zhu Lu and the other Fire-Slaying Earth Spider cultivators to Red Smoke Mountain in a very short time.

Lu Cheng'an did not stay with the family after that; he quickly returned to Qing'e Island.

After returning to Qing'e Island, Lu Cheng'an first told Zhu Yan about the situation of Zhu Lu and the other six.

After that, he returned to the fire spring and began to devote himself to improving his cultivation and practicing the Cloud Shadow Sword Technique.

After that, Lu Cheng'an was not disturbed again and spent two and a half months cultivating peacefully on Green Crocodile Island.

Lu Cheng'an has made great progress in the past two and a half months. He has cultivated the three second-tier techniques, Cloud Shadow Sword Technique, Fire Dragon Seal, and Cave Fire Finger, to the perfect level. He is only a little short of being able to completely cultivate these three techniques to the perfect level.

He spent more time cultivating, and with the addition of second-grade low-level pills to enhance his cultivation, his cultivation speed improved much faster in the past two months than before.

His cultivation level has increased from 12 to 35. He has already progressed one-third of his initial Foundation Establishment cultivation. Now, he only needs to continue to cultivate diligently to quickly advance to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

Lu Cheng'an, who was still diligently cultivating that day, was suddenly awakened. He heard a loud roar coming from the depths of the Burning Flame Mountains.

The loud roar instantly startled Lu Cheng'an, who was in deep meditation. After stopping his cultivation, he went directly to find Zhu Yan to inquire about the situation.

"Fellow Daoist Zhu, do you know what happened? Where did that loud noise come from?" Lu Cheng'an asked urgently.

"It was a large-scale eruption of the volcano on Golden Phoenix Mountain, 150 miles southwest of Green Crocodile Island. That loud noise came from the raging lava river beneath the Golden Roc." A solemn look appeared in Zhu Yan's eyes. She looked at Lu Cheng'an and said in a deep voice, "Fellow Daoist Lu, you may not be able to stay on Green Crocodile Island to continue cultivating. The Earth Flame Python and the Fire Bone Lizard are about to break through to the third rank. I must now lead the cultivators of my clan back to the depths of the Burning Flame Mountain Range!"

The volcanic eruption of Jinwu Mountain was the largest volcanic eruption in the Burning Flame Mountain Range, which also meant that the two second-stage perfect realm demon beasts, the Earth Flame Python and the Fire Bone Lizard, were about to be unable to suppress the large-scale volcanic eruption in the Burning Flame Mountain Range.

Soon, the fire elemental energy, spiritual energy, and fiery aura within the Burning Flame Mountains will reach their peak concentration, and the Earth Flame Python and Fire Bone Lizard, both at the second-tier perfect realm, will break through to the third tier at this opportune moment.

Zhu Yan has received a summons from the two demonic beasts, the Earth Flame Python and the Fire Bone Lizard. She must now lead the cultivators of her clan into the depths of the Burning Flame Mountains to guard the place where the Earth Flame Python and the Fire Bone Lizard break through to the third rank.

If human cultivators launch an attack after the Earth Flame Python and Fire Bone Lizard break through to the next level, these demon beasts below the third rank and the spirit race cultivators will have to defend against the human cultivators' attack at all costs in order to protect the two newly promoted third-rank demon beasts, the Earth Flame Python and Fire Bone Lizard.

Zhu Lu, Zhu Yue, and six other cultivators from the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider clan have been sent to the Lu family. Zhu Yan has made a decision that they will lead the clan's cultivators to do everything in their power to resist the human cultivators' attack.

If they were lucky enough to survive, that would be fine. But if they all died, at least the Fire-Slaying Spider clan would still have a spark of fire left behind.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, after this parting, I don't know if I will have the chance to meet you again. I would like to trouble you to take care of the Zhu Lu and other cultivators in my clan!"

Zhu Yan's voice carried a hint of sorrow as she spoke, taking out a storage bag and continuing, "This is the accumulation of my Fire-Slaying Earth Spider clan over many years. Now I am giving it all to Fellow Daoist Lu, hoping that we will meet again someday."

The defensive spirit array on this Green Crocodile Island is useless. Before you leave, dismantle this mid-grade second-tier spirit array as well!

After Lu Cheng'an took the storage bag from Zhu Yan, he did not look at it directly. Instead, he took out several bottles of pills from the storage bag: "These are two bottles of pills that I have stored in my hand. One bottle restores mana and the other heals injuries, but both are of the second-grade lower quality."

If you're not in a hurry to leave, I can return to my clan now and purchase some second-tier healing and mana-restoring pills for you.

Lu Cheng'an did not expect that in just over two months, the situation in the Burning Flame Mountains would become like this. Zhu Yan is now about to lead the cultivators of the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider Clan away from Green Crocodile Island.

"I can wait another half a month at most. I wonder if Fellow Daoist Zhu can deliver the pills within half a month?"

A hint of joy appeared in Zhu Yan's eyes, but it quickly turned to worry: "My clan doesn't have many treasures left. I wonder if what's in this storage bag is enough for Fellow Daoist Lu to help me purchase the pills?"

Zhu Yan gave Lu Cheng'an the treasures that the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider had accumulated over the years, hoping that Lu Cheng'an would help take care of the cultivators in Zhu Lu and the other members of the clan in recognition of these treasures.

Now, Lu Cheng'an offered to help her purchase second-tier mid-grade healing and mana-restoring pills, which greatly tempted her.

Although she returned to the depths of the Burning Flame Mountains with the determination to die, she still wanted to survive this calamity.

"Fellow Daoist Zhu, there's no need to worry. I only hope that you can survive this calamity by relying on these pills!"

Lu Cheng'an smiled at Zhu Yan and said, "Time is tight, so I'll leave Qing'e Island now. Fellow Daoist Zhu, you must wait for me to return."

Lu Cheng'an didn't waste any time. After making a decision with Zhu Yan, he left Qing'e Island with Jin Yuan.

Once Zhu Yan leaves Qing'e Island with the cultivators of the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider clan, Lu Cheng'an will no longer stay on Qing'e Island to cultivate.

Jin Yuan was his pet spirit, and it would be best to send it back to Chiyan Mountain first to avoid any unexpected situations during this period.

Now that Lu Cheng'an has mastered the Cloud Shadow Sword Technique to perfection, his speed is many times faster than before when he leaves Fire Locust Mountain and flies on his sword.

He traveled a hundred miles from Huohuai Mountain to Chiyan Mountain and returned to Chiyan Mountain in a very short time.

Lu Cheng'an first placed Jin Yuan in his cave in Chiyan Mountain. After instructing Jin Yuan not to run around in Chiyan Mountain, he hurriedly went to Lu Wenxing's cave.

"Cheng'an, you've come back at this time. Has something happened on Qing'e Island?" Lu Wenxing asked immediately upon seeing Lu Cheng'an.

"Indeed, something happened on Qinge Island. The Jinwu Mountain volcano, located 150 miles southwest of Qinge Island, erupted on a large scale... I am now preparing to set off for Dan Ding Sect to purchase second-grade mid-level healing and mana-restoring pills for Zhu Yan."

On his way back, Lu Cheng'an checked the treasures stored in the storage bag that Zhu Yan had given him. The storage bag was not very spacious, and it did not contain many treasures.

These treasures are of a very limited variety; they are all minerals.

The minerals collected by the Fire-Repelling Earth Spider are of extremely high quality. Three-quarters of the minerals in its storage bag are of grade two or higher, while the remaining third are all grade one high-grade minerals.

Lu Cheng'an took stock of them, and found that there were two pieces of Tier 2 top-grade ore, eight pieces of Tier 2 high-grade ore, fourteen pieces of Tier 2 medium-grade ore, and eighteen pieces of Tier 2 low-grade ore.

As Zhu Yan said, these are indeed treasures accumulated by the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider over many years.

Unfortunately, these ores are rather useless to demon beasts and spirit race cultivators. Apart from a few ores that they can use directly, most of them need to be refined by human weapon refiners before they can be used.

These minerals wouldn't be of any use to Zhu Yan. Considering that the cultivators of the Fire Spider Clan, including Zhu Lu, still needed the protection of the Lu family, she simply gave all the minerals to Lu Cheng'an.

When Lu Cheng'an decided to purchase pills for Zhu Yan, he did not check what was in the storage bag that Zhu Yan had given him.

His main purpose in wanting to help Zhu Yan was to ensure that she could successfully survive the volcanic eruption in the Burning Flame Mountains.

The Fire-Slaying Earth Spider is a spirit race that lives in the Burning Flame Mountains, and Zhu Yan even has a cultivation level of the mid-stage of the second tier.

Regardless of whether the Earth Flame Python and the Fire Bone Lizard, both at the second-tier perfect realm, can survive, once their cultivation breaks through to the third tier, the demonic beasts and spirit race of the Burning Flame Mountain Range will definitely suffer a severe blow.

If Zhu Yan can survive, she will be able to plunder more cultivation resources from the Burning Flame Mountains.

The Lu family can provide the Fire-Slaying Spider clan with pills and magical artifacts. The resources that Zhu Yan plundered from the Burning Flame Mountains will eventually fall into the hands of the Lu family.

This is a win-win situation for both the Lu family and the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider clan.

However, Lu Cheng'an never expected that the storage bag Zhu Yan gave him would contain so many second-tier minerals. These second-tier minerals could not only be used to purchase mid-grade second-tier pills, but also to purchase a lot of high-grade and top-grade second-tier pills.

(End of this chapter)