Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Chapter 139 Cultivation Breakthrough to Mid-Foundation Establishment Stage
Zhu Yan didn't explain anything to Lu Cheng'an. After the huge opening appeared, she went straight into the cave.

A moment later, Zhu Yan left the cave, radiating a strong sense of joy, clearly indicating that she had successfully obtained the Earth Core Fire Jade.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, you're quite lucky this time, you've obtained a total of four pieces of Earth Core Fire Jade!"

“The Earth Core Fire Jade is a spiritual object needed to cultivate the offspring of the giant fire catfish. If I take all the Earth Core Fire Jade from this place, it will surely provoke the giant fire catfish’s furious revenge!” Zhu Yan said in a deep voice.

Boundless Abyss was, after all, the territory of the giant fire catfish, and Zhu Yan did not want to continue fighting the giant fire catfish here.

Lu Cheng'an has already obtained three early-stage Tier 2 giant fire catfish corpses, so his need for more Tier 2 giant fire catfish corpses is no longer as strong.

Upon hearing Zhu Yan say that she wanted to leave Wuliangyuan immediately, he immediately agreed.

Zhu Yan and Lu Cheng'an moved very quickly. Although the fact that Zhu Yan took away the four pieces of Earth Core Fire Jade was quickly discovered by the giant fire catfish swarm, it also alarmed the fish king of the giant fire catfish swarm, which was a mid-stage second-tier demon beast.

Just as Zhu Yan had predicted, after all these years, the fish king's cultivation level remained at the mid-stage of the second tier.

By the time the king of the giant fire catfish arrived at the cave where they were raising their offspring, Lu Cheng'an and Zhu Yan had already left.

Not long after, Zhu Yan led Lu Cheng'an away from Wuliang Abyss, at which point their speed slowed down.

The giant fire catfish is a type of monster that lives deep within the Boundless Abyss, and they rarely leave its boundaries.

They have now left the Boundless Abyss, thus escaping the danger posed by the giant fire catfish.

After that, Lu Cheng'an and Zhu Yan did not stay in the depths of the Burning Flame Mountains, and headed towards the direction of Green Crocodile Island.

Their return journey was much slower because Lu Cheng'an had Zhu Yan introduce him to the lava river and the monsters and spirit race forces deep within the Burning Flame Mountains.

With Lu Cheng'an's help, Zhu Yan successfully obtained four pieces of Earth Core Fire Jade. In high spirits, she did not hide anything from Lu Cheng'an when he asked her questions.

After the two newly promoted third-tier demonic beasts, the Earth Flame Python and the Fire Bone Lizard, died at the hands of human cultivators, the demonic beasts and spirit race forces of the Burning Flame Mountain Range also suffered heavy losses.

However, the Burning Flame Mountains are very vast, and many monsters and spirits live in the lava rivers below the mountains.

Currently, there are still quite a few demon beasts and spirit race cultivators at the second-stage perfect realm in the Burning Flame Mountain Range. Among these demon beasts and spirit race cultivators at the second-stage perfect realm, there are a total of four who have the hope of breaking through to the third stage.

These four are the Golden Flame Centipede of Golden Cave, the Bear Bear of Fire Bamboo Ridge, the Crimson Horned Python of Lava Lake, and the Five-Colored Spirit Clam of Five Spirit Island.

The Golden Flame Centipede, the Mountain-Bearing Bear, and the Crimson Horned Python are all of demonic origin. Among them, the Golden Flame Centipede and the Mountain-Bearing Bear live in the Burning Flame Mountains, while only the Crimson Horned Python lives in the lava river below the Burning Flame Mountains.

The five-colored spirit clam of Five Spirits Island is of spirit race origin, and the spirit clam clan to which she belongs is the most powerful spirit race force in the Burning Flame Mountains.

The Five-Colored Spirit Clams live in the deepest part of the lava river. This race can refine the fire evil poison gas and condense it into fire evil pearls. They are a rare race that can refine fire evil energy.

Therefore, the Five-Colored Island where this clan resides is also a place with extremely dense fire-evil energy, making it difficult for cultivators from other clans to set foot there.

The Spirit Clam Clan rarely interacts with cultivators from other races. Zhu Yan had only heard of the Spirit Clam Clan's reputation but had never seen any of their cultivators.

Even though the Earth Flame Python and Fire Bone Lizard summoned the demonic beasts and spirit races from the Burning Flame Mountains to participate in the war, the Spirit Clam Clan did not accept their summons and never showed up.

Golden Flame Centipede, Mountain Bear, and Crimson Horned Python accepted the summons of Earth Flame Python and Fire Bone Lizard. They are extremely powerful and have first-class survival abilities.

Master Xuan Kong focused his attention on the two third-tier demonic beasts, the Earth Flame Python and the Fire Bone Lizard, and did not waste too much energy on the Golden Flame Heavenly Centipede, the Mountain Bear, and the Crimson Horn Heavenly Python, which gave them a chance to escape.

The Golden Flame Centipede, the Mountain Bear, and the Crimson Horned Python have not yet appeared in the Burning Flame Mountains, presumably because their injuries have not yet healed.

Aside from these four demonic beasts and spirits that have the potential to break through to the third tier, there are other demonic beasts and spirits in the Burning Flame Mountains that are at the perfect second tier.

Some of them, even Zhu Yan, were unaware of their existence.

After hearing Zhu Yan's introduction, Lu Cheng'an realized that he had underestimated the power of the demonic beasts and spirit cultivators in the Burning Flame Mountains.

Nowadays, late-stage and perfect-stage second-tier demonic beasts and spirits in the Burning Flame Mountains rarely show themselves. Led by Zhu Yan, a mid-stage second-tier spirit, Lu Cheng'an and Zhu Yan returned to Green Crocodile Island very smoothly.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, thanks to you this time, I was able to successfully obtain the Earth Core Fire Jade. I, Zhu Yan, have no way to repay your great kindness to our Fire-Slaying Spider Clan!"

After returning to Qing'e Island, Zhu Yan once again expressed her deep gratitude to Lu Cheng'an.

The Earth Core Fire Jade is a key spiritual item that helps the Fire-Breaking Clan cultivators break through to the second tier. This time, she successfully obtained four pieces of Earth Core Fire Jade in the Boundless Abyss.

If they are lucky, their Fire-Slaying Earth Spider clan will be able to cultivate four second-tier cultivators, and their clan's strength will be able to recover quickly.

"Fellow Daoist Zhu is too kind!"

Lu Cheng'an smiled and looked at Zhu Yan, saying, "I also gained a lot from this trip to Wuliang Abyss, and I must thank Fellow Daoist Zhu!"

After learning about the demonic beasts and spirit race forces in the Burning Flame Mountains, Lu Cheng'an truly expressed his gratitude to Zhu Yan.

Otherwise, with his early Foundation Establishment cultivation level, venturing deep into the Burning Flame Mountains would have been extremely dangerous.

After exchanging pleasantries with Zhu Yan, Lu Cheng'an went to the fire spring on Qing'e Island to sort through his spoils.

During his journey deep into the Burning Flame Mountains, he obtained the corpses of four early-stage Tier 2 demonic beasts, three of which were giant fire catfish, and the remaining one was a phoenix-beaked black fish.

The main reason for the popularity of the Phoenix Mouth Snakehead Fish is its delicious taste, and it is believed that consuming it can enhance physical strength.

Lu Cheng'an didn't know what the giant fire catfish tasted like. His main purpose in wanting these three giant fire catfish was to extract refining materials from them.

After arriving at the fire spring, Lu Cheng'an took out the corpse of a giant fire catfish at the early stage of the second tier and began to dismember this early stage second tier monster.

The giant fire catfish was very large, but Lu Cheng'an decomposed it very quickly.

In less than two quarters of an hour, he completely peeled off the giant fire catfish's skin and scales, and then he extracted the essence and blood from the giant fire catfish's body.

The essence blood of second-tier demonic beasts is a key material needed to refine many second-tier talismans, and a portion of second-tier low-grade demonic beast essence blood is not cheap.

After Lu Cheng'an extracted the essence blood, the remaining flesh and blood were of little value.

However, Lu Cheng'an still did not discard the flesh and blood of the giant fire catfish. This flesh and blood still contained a considerable amount of spiritual energy, far exceeding that of the flesh and blood of a first-stage demon beast.

When he returned to his clan, he handed over the flesh and blood of the giant fire catfish to the clan's dining hall to provide an extra meal for the younger generation of cultivators.

The Lu family is in much better shape now, so they can spend more resources on training new cultivators in the clan.

It was precisely for this reason that Lu Chengbo and the others were able to improve their cultivation so rapidly.

Lu Cheng'an quickly finished processing the three corpses of the early-stage second-tier giant fire catfish, but he did not immediately begin refining magical artifacts.

After cleaning up the bloodstains beside the fire spring, he began to concentrate on his cultivation.

He had broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm over a year ago. During this time, many things happened in the Lu family, which greatly reduced his cultivation time. Otherwise, given his cultivation speed, he should have already broken through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

After completing his daily cultivation, Lu Cheng'an began to process the skin and scales of the giant fire catfish.

These are just the raw materials for making the robes. They need to be refined step by step before they can be used to make the robes.

This raw material is not a mineral, and it is much more troublesome to process. Even if Jin Yuan breaks through to the second level, he cannot process these materials in place of Lu Cheng'an.

The skin and scales of the giant fire catfish were not easy to process, and since Lu Cheng'an always processed these materials after cultivating, it took him almost half a month to finish processing them all.

After processing these materials, Lu Cheng'an did not start refining immediately. He planned to first break through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

When he and Zhu Yan returned from the depths of the Burning Flame Mountains, their cultivation levels were already close to breaking through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

After another half month of dedicated cultivation, his cultivation level was closer to breaking through to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment. He felt that it would only take five or six days for his cultivation level to successfully break through to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.

Lu Cheng'an wasn't sure if it was because he possessed a Fire Virtue Spirit Body or because of the panel, but his cultivation progressed from the Qi Refining Realm to the Foundation Establishment Realm without encountering any bottlenecks, and he completed the breakthroughs very easily.

Time flies, and six days have passed in the blink of an eye.

At this point, Lu Cheng'an's cultivation had reached the peak of the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and he could no longer advance.

After meditating for a while, he left the fire spring and went to find Zhu Yan to tell her about his upcoming breakthrough in cultivation.

Previously, Lu Cheng'an and Zhu Yan entered the depths of the Burning Flame Mountains mainly to seize the Earth Core Fire Jade, thereby assisting Zhu Lu and Zhu Yue in breaking through to the second level of cultivation.

They have been back for almost half a month now, and Lu Cheng'an is unsure when Zhu Lu and Zhu Yue will break through.

If his breakthrough to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage coincides with that of Zhu Lu and Zhu Yue, it could cause the spiritual energy of Qing'e Island to become disordered, thus affecting their breakthroughs.

"Fellow Daoist Lu's cultivation is progressing at a truly rapid pace; you're about to break through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage so quickly!"

Zhu Yan looked at Lu Cheng'an with surprise, but also felt that this was a normal thing.

After all, Lu Cheng'an was a genius in her mind, and she had also witnessed the terrifying strength that Lu Cheng'an had shown in the Boundless Abyss.

Now that Lu Cheng'an suddenly tells her that he is about to break through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, it doesn't seem so unexpected.

"You can focus on your breakthrough on Green Crocodile Island. I will instruct the cultivators in the clan not to disturb you!"

After suppressing her surprise, Zhu Yan smiled and said, "Zhu Lu and Zhu Yue are not that talented; they need to prepare for a while longer."

Zhu Lu and Zhu Yue do have a chance to break through to the second tier, but they need more time to prepare.

Breaking through to a higher realm is much more difficult and dangerous for demonic beasts and spirit race cultivators than for human cultivators. If they fail to break through, they are very likely to be seriously injured or even die.

Therefore, they need a longer preparation time before making a breakthrough, in order to maximize their chances of success.

"Then I'll have to trouble Fellow Daoist Zhu!"

After confirming that Zhu Lu and Zhu Yue's breakthroughs did not conflict with his own cultivation breakthroughs, Lu Cheng'an felt slightly relieved.

He did not continue talking to Zhu Yan and quickly returned to the fire spring.

The number of Fire-Slaying Earth Spider cultivators is now extremely small. In addition, Zhu Yan specifically instructed that the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider cultivators on Green Crocodile Island dare not go near the Fire Spring to disturb Lu Cheng'an's cultivation.

After returning to the fire spring, Lu Cheng'an did not waste any time.

He was ready. As the Earth Flame True Scripture was activated, the rich spiritual energy and fiery aura around him began to gather.

Under the refinement of the Earth Flame True Scripture, these two forces were rapidly transformed into his magical power, allowing his cultivation to continuously approach the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

The advancement from the early to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment is a minor realm advancement. Lu Cheng'an's breakthrough this time was a natural progression, and he did not encounter any bottlenecks during the breakthrough.

The time spent was also relatively short; he completed the advancement of his cultivation from the early stage of Foundation Establishment to the middle stage in less than four hours.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng'an did not leave the fire spring, but continued to sit cross-legged beside it, consolidating his newly broken-through cultivation.

Five days later, Lu Cheng'an's cultivation was completely consolidated at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage. At this time, he began to check the changes on the panel after his cultivation breakthrough.

Name: Lu Cheng'an

【Lifespan: 25/310】

[Constitution: Fire Spirit Body (affinity with fire, fearless of being burned by fire) can be improved]

Cultivation Level: Mid-Foundation Establishment (2/100)

[Cultivation Technique: Earth Flame True Scripture (Mastery 23/100)]

Skill: Earthwalking (Perfect 12/100)

Cave Fire Finger (Perfect 100/100)

Fire Dragon Seal (Perfect 100/100)

Cloud Shadow Sword Technique (Perfect 100/100)

Stealth (Beginner 15/100)

Weapon Forging (Early Stage 2, 45/100)

Talent Skill: Crimson Flame

"My cultivation has broken through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, and my lifespan has increased by another fifty years!"

Lu Cheng'an became extremely excited after seeing the changes in lifespan displayed on the panel.

When he first broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, he was wondering if his lifespan would reach four hundred years when he reached the Perfect Foundation Establishment realm.

Now that he has gained fifty years of lifespan by breaking through from the early stage of Foundation Establishment to the middle stage, even if his lifespan increases by another fifty years for the next two minor breakthroughs, his total lifespan will still exceed the threshold of four hundred years.

These cultivators work so hard not only to gain greater strength, but more importantly, to prolong their lives.

Now that he sees his lifespan extended by another fifty years, he is naturally very excited.

(End of this chapter)