Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Chapter 190 Comprehending Cultivation Techniques and Supernatural Powers (Please Subscribe!)

The Azure Flame Lion and other demonic beasts will not enter the Burning Flame Mountain Range for another year. After that year, Lu Cheng'an's strength will have improved significantly. He is confident that he can cultivate a minor divine ability to perfection within this year.

With the help of the third-grade low-rank Mount Sumeru Seal and the third-grade mid-rank Fire Ruyi, he was confident that he could suppress the Golden Core cultivators such as Chongxu from the Tianyan Sect.

Moreover, he also has Shi Ningyu as an accomplice. With the combined strength of the two of them, the Golden Core cultivators of the Tianyan Sect would definitely not be a match for them.

“Let’s discuss this matter a year from now. I will personally go to the Burning Flame Mountains at that time. If Fellow Daoist Lu’s strength is strong enough, I will hand over Master’s edict to you!” Master Chunqiu said with a smile.

Master Chunqiu did not make a decision immediately; he needed to see Lu Cheng'an's true strength before he could decide whether or not to do so.

The reason why Master Chunqiu took the initiative to meet with Lu Cheng'an was to discuss this matter with him.

After making the appointment with Lu Cheng'an, he did not linger in the Desolate Ancient Immortal City and soon returned to the Desolate Ancient Sect with Lu Chengyue and Lu Cheng'an.

Lu Chengyue is living a good life in the Desolate Ancient Sect. She is the personal disciple of True Person Kushi. At present, her cultivation is still at the Qi Refining stage. She does not need many resources for cultivation and does not need the support of the Lu family.

After parting ways with Chunqiu Zhenren, Lu Cheng'an returned to the cave he had temporarily rented.

Two days later, Shi Ningyu finished her inspection of the Desolate Ancient Immortal City, and she and Lu Cheng'an did not stay there for long.

Lu Cheng'an did not inquire about the results of Shi Ningyu's investigation, because there was no need to.

A year later, the third-tier demonic beasts of the Flood Crocodile Mountains, such as the Azure Flame Lion, will enter the Burning Flame Mountains. The Pill Cauldron Sect is also very close to the Burning Flame Mountains, so it is impossible for them to have the energy to open shops in the Desolate Ancient Immortal City.

Lu Cheng'an did not directly tell Shi Ningyu about the third-tier demonic beasts such as the Azure Flame Lion. Instead, he only told Shi Ningyu about it after returning to the Dan Ding Sect.

"I met the Golden Core cultivator Chunqiu Zhenren of the Ancient Desolate Sect in the Ancient Desolate Immortal City. I inquired about the third-tier demonic beasts in the Hong'e Mountains from him... How much will Fellow Daoist Shi's strength improve in a year?" Lu Cheng'an asked in a deep voice.

"I should be able to cultivate the Jade Soul Immortal Light and Jade Rainbow Divine Transformation Palm, these two minor divine abilities, to the minor completion level!"

The power of a minor mastery of supernatural abilities is extremely formidable; it may be far more powerful than many third-tier spells at their peak.

Shi Ningyu frowned deeply: "Although the combined strength of the two of us can suppress Chongxu and the others from the Tianyan Sect, we might not be a match for third-tier demonic beasts like the Azure Flame Lion, right?"

The Azure Flame Lion contains the bloodline of the Azure Lion Demon King, and the Six-Winged Heavenly Centipede is an ancient and exotic species. Their cultivation levels are both at the mid-stage of the third rank, which makes Shi Ningyu extremely worried.

"We don't need to defeat the Azure Flame Lion and other demonic beasts; we only need to stop them from expanding their influence!"

Lu Cheng'an smiled and looked at Shi Ningyu, saying, "A year from now, we might not be no match for third-tier demonic beasts like the Azure Flame Lion!"

As long as he cultivates the minor supernatural power attached to the Earth Flame True Scripture to perfection, he will have a chance to defeat a mid-stage third-tier demonic beast like the Azure Flame Lion.

The Earth Flame True Scripture is a fifth-order Nascent Soul cultivation technique. Cultivators who break through to the Golden Core realm by practicing this technique will naturally be stronger than those who practice other techniques.

The Heavenly Flame Sect does indeed possess the cultivation method for the Golden Core stage of the Earthly Flame True Scripture, but currently, among the Golden Core cultivators of the Heavenly Flame Sect, not a single one cultivates this technique.

This is because the Earth Flame True Scripture is extremely difficult to cultivate, and the difficulty increases as you progress to the later stages of the technique.

Chongxu and the others were not capable enough, as they had not cultivated the Earth Flame True Scripture, and therefore their strength was relatively mediocre.

Lu Cheng'an promised Qing Yi that he would destroy the Tianyan Sect, but he had only recently broken through to the Golden Core realm and was not yet strong enough.

Adding to the threat of the third-tier demonic beasts in the Hong'e Mountains, he definitely cannot take action against the Tianyan Sect now.

The destruction of the Tianyan Sect needs to wait a while longer and requires further careful planning.

"A year is not a long time. We need to seize the time to improve our abilities!"

"I will return to my family now. Fellow Daoist Shi, we will meet again in a year!"

Lu Cheng'an did not stay at Dan Ding Sect for too long. After talking to Shi Ningyu about the third-tier demonic beasts such as the Azure Flame Lion, he left Dan Ding Sect directly.

After returning to the Lu family, Lu Cheng'an did not immediately go into seclusion to cultivate. Instead, he summoned all the Foundation Establishment and late-stage Qi Refining cultivators of the Lu family and held a simple family meeting.

“I met Master Chunqiu, the eldest disciple of Master Kushi, in the Desolate Ancient Immortal City. I learned some information about the third-tier demonic beasts in the Hong'e Mountains from Master Chunqiu… You can all bring up your ideas now so that the family can overcome this difficulty smoothly!” Lu Cheng’an said in a deep voice.

Lu Wenxing and the others looked worried. They had known for a long time that third-tier demonic beasts from the Hong'e Mountains would enter the Burning Flame Mountains, but the specific time had not been determined before. They still held out hope, wondering if the third-tier demonic beasts from the Hong'e Mountains would give up on the Burning Flame Mountains.

Lu Cheng'an has now confirmed this news with the Golden Core cultivator of the Desolate Ancient Sect: the third-tier demonic beasts of the Hong'e Mountains will enter the Burning Flame Mountains in a year, and they will be powerful mid-stage third-tier demonic beasts like the Azure Flame Lion!

Lu Wenxing, the patriarch of the Lu family, reacted immediately after a moment of shock.

His mind raced, and he quickly came up with a series of solutions.

"Among the spiritual lands currently occupied by the family, Falling Phoenix Mountain and Burning Flame Mountain Range are the furthest apart. From today onwards, all cultivators in the early stage of Qi Refining and ordinary people in the family will be relocated to the vicinity of Falling Phoenix Mountain!"

Luofeng Mountain was originally the territory of the Ziluan Wang clan. After the Ziluan Wang clan was wiped out by evil cultivators, this spiritual land fell into the hands of Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators.

After several twists and turns, the sacred land of Luofeng Mountain was occupied by the Lu family again.

Even now, Luofeng Mountain is still used by the Lu family as a breeding ground for demonic beasts. In order to seize the Black Gold Jade Bees raised by the Lu family, Yuan Shaoyun of the Tianyan Sect killed the Lu family's cultivators and stole the rare Black Gold Jade Bees.

At that time, Lu Cheng'an's cultivation had not yet broken through to the Golden Core realm, so the Lu family could only swallow their anger and change their original plan, starting to raise some common demonic beasts on Luofeng Mountain.

These kinds of monsters are relatively inexpensive, but they are also relatively easy to raise.

For example, the Black Mountain Eagle and the Green Crane are demonic birds, and the Azure Cloud Steed and the Dragon Scale Deer are demonic beasts; these are all large demonic birds.

They are relatively weak in combat, but have a docile nature. The Lu family mainly raises these large demonic birds and beasts to transport goods.

This time, Lu Wenxing wants to relocate the Lu family's mortals from near Chiyan Mountain to near Luofeng Mountain, where demonic birds and beasts such as the Black Mountain Eagle and the Green Crane can come in handy.

Luofeng Mountain and Chiyan Mountain are a thousand miles apart, and even further from the Burning Flame Mountain Range. If third-tier demonic beasts such as the Azure Flame Lion were to enter the Burning Flame Mountain Range, the Lu family's mortals could greatly avoid being harmed by the demonic beasts of the Burning Flame Mountain Range by migrating to Luofeng Mountain.

"The news that the Grand Elder has broken through to the Golden Core realm should also be spread widely, as should the news that Cheng Yue has been accepted as a personal disciple by True Person Ku Shi of the Desolate Ancient Sect."

"Using this information, we will gather the cultivation forces and independent cultivators near our Lu family. Once the Azure Flame Lion and other third-tier demonic beasts enter the Burning Flame Mountains, we will organize them to jointly resist the demonic beasts' onslaught."

The Lu family has grown much stronger over the years, but the number of cultivators in the family is still not large.

Apart from Lu Cheng'an, a Golden Core cultivator, and excluding Lu Chengping, who entered the Spirit Gu Sect, there are only three Foundation Establishment cultivators left in the Lu family: Lu Wenhua, Lu Cheng'an, and Lu Chengping.

The Lu family now has quite a few cultivators at the Qi Refining Realm, exceeding three digits.

However, the cultivation levels of these Qi Refining cultivators are generally in the early to mid-stages of Qi Refining, with only a small number reaching the late stage.

The Lu family currently has only twelve cultivators at the late stage of Qi Refining, and even fewer at the ninth level of Qi Refining, with only a pitiful three.

If the Lu family were to rely solely on its own strength to reach third-tier demonic beasts like the Azure Flame Lion, it would be nothing short of a pipe dream.

Therefore, Lu Wenxing thought of mobilizing the cultivation forces and independent cultivators around the Lu family. There were many of these cultivators, and the total number could definitely exceed 10,000.

The number of Foundation Establishment cultivators can reach ten or twenty.

If Lu Cheng'an's cultivation had not broken through to the Golden Core realm, the Lu family would not have been able to mobilize these cultivators.

But now that Lu Cheng'an has become a Golden Core cultivator, if the Lu family issues an order, regardless of what those cultivation forces and rogue cultivators think, they will definitely have to make a certain response. They certainly wouldn't dare to openly disobey the Lu family's orders.

This is the status of Golden Core cultivators in the cultivation world!

After Lu Wenxing raised these points, Lu Chengan added some supplementary information.

"We can indeed mobilize the cultivation forces around the family, but we also need to offer some benefits. We can offer Foundation Establishment stage cultivation techniques, second-tier spells, alchemy, weapon crafting, and other inheritances. If any cultivator performs well, we can reward them with these things!"

For small cultivation factions and independent cultivators, the most precious things are not cultivation resources such as pills and magical artifacts, but these classic texts and their inheritance.

This is the most basic thing for their cultivation. After all, without a suitable cultivation method, even if they have the talent for cultivation, they cannot become cultivators.

Before obtaining the inheritance of the Burning Flame Sect, Lu Cheng'an would never have dared to be so generous in giving away these classic texts and inheritances as rewards to the surrounding cultivation forces and independent cultivators.

However, the Lu family has no shortage of these inheritances now, after all, the Earth Flame True Scripture and the Earth Jade Book are two fifth-order Nascent Soul cultivation techniques!

Lu Wenxing and the other Lu family cultivators were extremely shocked when they heard Lu Cheng'an mention the reward.

However, they did not raise any objections because Lu Cheng'an was a Golden Core cultivator!
Time passed slowly, and soon an hour had gone by.

After Lu Cheng'an and Lu Wenxing finalized a plan to deal with the third-tier demonic beasts, such as the Azure Flame Lion, entering the Burning Flame Mountain Range, he instructed Lu Wenxing and other cultivators from his clan to handle these matters.

He then began to set up three third-order spirit arrays on Crimson Smoke Mountain: the Earthly Element Gathering Spirit Array, the Myriad Trees Heavenly Splendor Array, and the Sun and Moon Heavenly Mirror Array.

Setting up such a complete set of spirit arrays is not easy. All of them are of grade three or higher, and only Lu Cheng'an in the Lu family was able to successfully set up these three spirit arrays.

The Earthly Element Gathering Spirit Array and the Myriad Trees Heavenly Splendor Array are both of the third-tier, lower-grade quality. Both of these spirit arrays are used to cultivate third-tier spirit veins.

Lu Cheng'an spent five days setting up these two spirit arrays in Chiyan Mountain. After the two spirit arrays were completed, the spiritual energy surging between heaven and earth immediately converged on Chiyan Mountain, continuously strengthening the power of the second-tier spiritual vein of Chiyan Mountain and promoting the second-tier spiritual vein to be upgraded to the third tier as soon as possible.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng'an invested a large number of spirit stones into the spirit array to accelerate the upgrading of the spirit veins of Chiyan Mountain.

After setting up the Earthly Spirit Gathering Array and the Myriad Trees Heavenly Splendor Array, Lu Cheng'an immediately set up the Sun and Moon Heavenly Mirror Array in the Crimson Smoke Mountain.

The Sun and Moon Mirror Array is of the third rank, high grade, and activating this spiritual array requires a massive amount of spiritual energy.

The spiritual veins in Crimson Smoke Mountain have not yet reached the third rank, and cannot provide sufficient power for the Sun and Moon Mirror Array.

Lu Cheng'an is setting up the Sun and Moon Mirror Array on Chiyan Mountain mainly to allow this spiritual array to accumulate the power of the sun and moon.

After successfully setting up the three third-tier spirit arrays, the Earth Element Gathering Spirit Array, in Chiyan Mountain, Lu Cheng'an entered his cave dwelling there and began to study the cultivation methods for the Golden Core stage of the Earth Flame True Scripture.

He had obtained the cultivation method for the Golden Core stage of the Earth Flame True Scripture some time ago, but he had been dealing with other matters and had no time to comprehend the Golden Core stage technique until now.

Lu Cheng'an sat cross-legged in the cave, the Golden Core stage technique of the Earth Flame True Scripture slowly surging in his soul. He chanted incantations, and the Golden Core stage technique of the Earth Flame True Scripture continuously flowed from his mouth.

Time passed slowly, and five days went by in the blink of an eye.

After five days of dedicated study, Lu Cheng'an successfully comprehended the fifth-tier Nascent Soul cultivation technique, the Earth Flame True Scripture, relying on his own formidable comprehension and the power of his character panel.

[Cultivation Technique: Earth Flame True Scripture (Beginner 1/500)]

"Both the cultivation technique and the progress in cultivation level have increased from 100 to 500!"

"I'm afraid that, like the progress of cultivation techniques and cultivation levels, the progress of skills may have also increased from 100 to 500."

Lu Cheng'an frowned slightly. He had originally been confident that he could cultivate the minor supernatural power attached to the Earth Flame True Scripture to perfection within a year, but now he felt it would be difficult.

"I have already mastered the basics of the Golden Core chapter of the Earth Flame True Scripture. Next, I will begin to comprehend the minor supernatural abilities. The minor supernatural abilities attached to the scripture are the Earth Flame Myriad Manifestations Body, the Myriad Flames Burning Heaven Palm, the Star Flame Concealment Technique, and the Returning Origin Fire Fiend Seal."

Lu Cheng'an's brows did not relax; he wanted to cultivate all four of these minor supernatural abilities to perfection.

However, he has limited time and can only choose one minor supernatural power to cultivate for the time being, so he must be careful now.

Each of the four minor supernatural abilities, Earth Flame Myriad Manifestations Body, has its own focus. After careful consideration, Lu Cheng'an finally decided to cultivate the Returning Origin Fire Fiend Seal first.

(End of this chapter)