Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Chapter 192 Family Updates and Lingxuan's Breakthrough (Please Subscribe!)
After leaving the lava lake, Lu Cheng'an went directly to Wuling Island.

When the Spirit Clam Clan occupied Five Spirits Island, the number of spiritual veins on Five Spirits Island exceeded that of the Lava Lake.

However, with the collapse of Five Spirits Island, all the spiritual veins on the island were also destroyed.

The spiritual energy dissipated from these collapsed third-tier spiritual veins still lingers in the area where Five Spirits Island is located, making the spiritual energy here even more concentrated than before the spiritual veins collapsed.

However, after the spiritual veins collapse, this rich spiritual energy will slowly dissipate, and the concentration of spiritual energy will gradually become thinner.

Unlike the lava lake, the Five Spirits Island is not located in a place occupied by second-tier demonic beasts. This is because the Five Spirits Island is surrounded by a dense aura of fire and evil.

These fiery energies are extremely concentrated and of very high quality.

Even demonic beasts and spirit cultivators who live in lava rivers cannot refine it. If they live in such an environment for a long time, their bodies will be slowly destroyed by the dense fire energy.

However, this environment was perfect for Lu Cheng'an, as he needed to refine the fire elemental energy to improve his cultivation and practice minor supernatural abilities.

After entering the Five Spirits Lake, Lu Cheng'an quickly found the area in the lake where the spiritual energy and fire energy were most concentrated.

He quickly left a barrier around himself, then sat cross-legged and began to cultivate diligently.

He has already mastered the basics of the Golden Core chapter of the Earth Flame True Scripture and the Returning Origin Fire Fiend Seal. Next, he only needs to continuously refine the fire fiend energy and spiritual energy to quickly improve his cultivation and enhance the power of the Returning Origin Fire Fiend Seal.

While Lu Cheng'an was cultivating diligently at Wuling Lake, Zhu Yan led cultivators of the Fire-Slaying Spider Clan and Chi Liu led cultivators of the Spirit Clam Clan to Chiyan Mountain, where the Lu family was located.

Lu Cheng'an had already instructed Lu Wenxing beforehand, and Lu Wenxing had long ago prepared a cultivation ground for the two clans in Chiyan Mountain.

After the cultivators from the two races settled down in Chiyan Mountain, Lu Wenxing immediately mobilized their resources to accelerate the cultivation of the third-order spiritual veins in Chiyan Mountain.

Although the Earthly Spirit Gathering Array and the Myriad Trees Heavenly Splendor Array, both third-tier spirit arrays, can cultivate second-tier spirit veins into third-tier spirit veins on their own, the progress of cultivating third-tier spirit veins can be accelerated if a cultivator assists in the process.

Lu Cheng'an also set up a powerful Tier 3 superior spirit array, the Sun and Moon Mirror Array, on Chiyan Mountain. However, this Tier 3 superior spirit array can only release its power when the spiritual veins of Chiyan Mountain are upgraded to Tier 3.

The Sun and Moon Mirror Formation is extremely important to the Lu family; it is their trump card that allows them to withstand attacks from third-tier demonic beasts such as the Azure Flame Lion.

Lu Wenxing explained the pros and cons to Zhu Yan, Chi Liu, and other Spirit Clan cultivators. Moreover, even if Lu Wenxing hadn't said anything, Zhu Yan, Chi Liu, and the other cultivators would have agreed to Lu Wenxing's various requests out of respect for Lu Cheng'an.

The number of cultivators from the Fire-Slaying Spider and Spirit Clam clans far exceeds that of the Lu family, especially the Spirit Clam clan. Not counting Ling Xuan, who is currently working hard to break through to the third rank, there are still three cultivators at the second rank perfection level.

This clan has a larger number of cultivators who have reached the second rank, a total of sixteen, far exceeding the number of immortal cultivation sects like the Dan Ding Sect.

Led by Chi Liu, the second-tier cultivators of the Spirit Clam Clan fully activated the Earth Origin Gathering Spirit Array and the Myriad Woods Heavenly Splendor Array, two low-grade third-tier spirit arrays.

Lu Wenxing also directed the Lu family cultivators to continuously inject spirit stones into the spiritual veins of Chiyan Mountain, which made the spiritual energy nurtured in the second-tier spiritual veins of Chiyan Mountain increasingly dense.

Lu Wenxing felt that the spiritual vein grade of Chiyan Mountain might be able to be upgraded from the second grade to the third grade within half a year.

Meanwhile, the cultivators of the Lu family continued to relocate the Lu family mortals near Crimson Smoke Mountain.

The Lu family has always been working hard to develop its mortal clan. After these years of development, especially after destroying the Tianhong Zhao clan and bringing back the original mortal clan members, the number of Lu family mortals has begun to grow rapidly.

The number of ordinary members of the Lu family is now close to one million. The more ordinary members there are, the more cultivation seeds the Lu family can bring each year.

As the base of ordinary people continues to expand, the number of ordinary people in the Lu family will increase rapidly.

Now that Lu Cheng'an's cultivation has broken through to the Golden Core realm, the Lu family has become a Golden Core power, and the number of mortal clansmen they can support can be greatly increased.

Now, the Lu family no longer makes ordinary people travel with great difficulty when they migrate, but instead relies on the large demonic birds and beasts they raise on Luofeng Mountain.

This would allow for a faster population transfer between Chiyan Mountain and Luofeng Mountain.

Lu Chengbo, Lu Jingxiu, and other talented cultivators from the Lu family did not participate in these matters; they continued to cultivate diligently in Chiyan Mountain.

Lu Jingxiu and the others are more talented than Lu Wenxing and the others, and their cultivation is still at the Qi Refining stage, so it is easier for them to switch to cultivation techniques than for Foundation Establishment cultivators like Lu Wenxing.

Over such a long period of time, they have successfully completed the transition of their cultivation techniques.

Among them was a genius cultivator from the Lu family who successfully switched to cultivating the Earthly Jade Book!

The Earthly Jade Book is a fifth-order Nascent Soul cultivation technique with earth attributes, and Lu Cheng'an values ​​this technique highly.

This cultivation technique becomes extremely powerful when it reaches the Golden Core stage. It includes a minor supernatural power called Mountain Driving, and the natal magic weapon it is used to refine is the Mountain Driving Whip.

With the combination of the natal magic weapon, the Mountain-Driving Whip, and the minor supernatural power, the Mountain-Driving Ability, a cultivator can move spiritual lands like Crimson Smoke Mountain, which contains third-order spiritual veins.

If a cultivator's cultivation reaches the Nascent Soul realm, the magic weapon Mountain-Driving Whip will be upgraded to the fourth rank, and its minor supernatural power will transform into the supernatural power Mountain-Driving, allowing it to move spiritual lands with fourth-rank spiritual veins.

Golden Core cultivators possess the power to move mountains and fill seas, but this ability only destroys mountains and seas; it cannot relocate spiritual lands.

Once a cultivator cultivates the Earthly Jade Book to the third level and becomes a Golden Core cultivator, they can rely on the minor supernatural powers and third-level magic treasures recorded in the Earthly Jade Book to create an extremely prosperous immortal cultivation holy land.

The cultivator who successfully cultivated the Jade Book of the Lu Family was named Lu Jingkun, and he was the one who discovered the spirit stone mine in Linghe Valley.

After Lu Jingkun successfully transitioned to cultivating the fifth-order Nascent Soul technique, the Earthly Jade Book, he became even more extraordinary, instantly becoming the most talented cultivator among the younger generation of the Lu family.

He has made a great contribution to the discovery of the spirit stone mine in Linghe Mountain, and with his successful cultivation of the Earthly Jade Book, he is the first cultivator the Lu family will cultivate.

Lu Jingkun's talent for cultivation was also exceptionally high. After successfully switching to the Earthly Jade Book, his cultivation level directly broke through from the seventh level of Qi Refining to the eighth level.

He is just twenty years old now and has a great chance of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm before he turns twenty-five.

Such talent in cultivation is not much different from that of Lu Cheng'an.

Of course, the rapid improvement in the cultivation levels of Lu Jingkun and other talented cultivators of the Lu family is also related to the continuous increase in the strength of the Lu family.

These talented cultivators received special training from their families, who invested a great deal of resources in them, allowing them more time to focus on cultivation.

Lu Jingkun is not only talented in cultivation, but also has extremely high talent in spirit arrays.

Before Lu Chengping's accident, he had been studying the art of formations under Lu Chengping's guidance.

After Lu Chengping joined the Linggu Sect, Lu Jingkun did not give up his research on formations. He is now a first-tier high-grade spirit formation master.

Lu Cheng'an also placed the inheritances of various cultivation arts, such as alchemy, weapon crafting, and spirit arrays, obtained from the Burning Flame Sect into the family's scripture pavilion. Any cultivator in the Lu family who is interested in these cultivation arts can study these classic texts for free.

This was also Lu Cheng'an's intention. The reason Lu Cheng'an did this was to try to improve the strength of the Lu family cultivators in a short period of time in order to cope with the upcoming crisis.

Time passed slowly, and half a year went by in the blink of an eye.

Under the dedicated cultivation of cultivators like Lu Wenxing, the spiritual veins of Chiyan Mountain finally rose from the second rank to the third rank.

After the spiritual veins of Crimson Smoke Mountain were upgraded, the concentration of spiritual energy in the mountain increased significantly.

However, Lu Wenxing and other cultivators did not give up on cultivating the spiritual energy of Chiyan Mountain. Although the spiritual energy of a third-order spiritual vein could activate the third-order superior-grade Sun and Moon Mirror Array, it could not maintain the operation of the array for a long time.

For a Tier 3 superior Sun and Moon Mirror Array to operate for a long time, it needs a massive amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, and the more Tier 3 spiritual veins there are, the better.

After the first third-order spiritual vein was born in Crimson Smoke Mountain, Lingxuan, who had been in seclusion in Lava Lake to break through to the third order, finally reached the final step.

Lingxuan's accumulated knowledge was extremely profound, and she already had the potential to break through to the third rank.

Now that she was under Lu Cheng'an's protection, she no longer had to worry about being plotted against by the Tianyan Sect. She devoted herself to cultivating in the third-tier spiritual vein of the lava lake for half a year and finally broke through to the third tier, triggering the tribulation of lightning.

After breaking through to the third rank, both spirit race cultivators and demon beasts will also develop something similar to the golden core of humans within their bodies. The demon race condenses a demon core, while the spirit race condenses a spirit core.

The tribulation they undergo is called the Transformation Tribulation, because after the Spirit Race and the Demon Race pass through the tribulation, they can shed their original bodies and transform into bodies like those of human cultivators.

This is one of their abilities, but they still prefer their original bodies. Unless they enter the human world, they will still choose to use their own bodies.

However, the Spirit Clam Clan is somewhat special; once their cultivation reaches the second tier, they can transform into human form.

However, because of the Flower Garden, the second-tier cultivators of the Spirit Clam Clan are very resistant to transforming into human form.

However, because of Lu Cheng'an, their view of human cultivators has changed significantly.

After Chi Liu led the cultivators of his clan into the Lu family's Chiyan Mountain, the second-tier cultivators of the Spirit Clam Clan, including Chi Liu, transformed into human form.

Lu Cheng'an had been cultivating in the central area of ​​the Five Spirits Lake, and he had been keeping a close eye on Lingxuan's cultivation progress.

The power of the lightning tribulation is extremely strong. As long as the flower garden can trigger the lightning tribulation, even if Lu Cheng'an is in the Five Spirits Lake, he can still sense it.

"The aura of tribulation lightning... this must have been triggered by Lingxuan!"

Upon sensing the aura of the tribulation lightning, Lu Cheng'an immediately stopped cultivating and flew towards the lava lake.

Lu Cheng'an was not worried that Ling Xuan would fail her tribulation. When he parted ways with Ling Xuan, he took out a low-grade third-tier defensive magic artifact from the Sky Palace.

If Lingxuan cannot withstand the power of the lightning tribulation, she can use this low-grade third-tier defensive magic weapon to block the bombardment of the lightning tribulation.

Lingxuan's transformation into lightning was swift. By the time Lu Cheng'an arrived near the lava lake, Lingxuan had already burst out of the lava lake and entered the Burning Flame Mountain Range.

The aura emanating from the Transformation Lightning Tribulation was too powerful, attracting the attention of all the spirit race cultivators and demon beasts in the Burning Flame Mountain Range.

They knew that the Burning Flame Mountains were about to give birth to a third-tier being!
They wanted to know who had broken through to the third rank at this time, but they were extremely afraid of the power of the Transformation Lightning Tribulation and dared not go forward to check.

Lu Cheng'an also did not get too close to the area where Ling Xuan was undergoing her tribulation. His cultivation was at the Golden Core stage, and if he got too close to the area where Ling Xuan was undergoing her tribulation, he might trigger another lightning tribulation.

The power of this lightning tribulation would be even more terrifying, and even with Lu Cheng'an's strength, it would be difficult for him to overcome it.

The transformation lightning tribulations of the Spirit Race and the Demon Beasts also consist of only three strikes, and these three strikes descend very quickly.

Lingxuan had an extremely solid foundation. Before her breakthrough, she also received the inheritance of the Spirit Clam Clan from Lu Cheng'an, which further strengthened her foundation.

Although her transformation lightning tribulation was extremely terrifying, she still managed to pass through it smoothly without relying on the third-tier defensive magic weapon given to her by Lu Cheng'an.

After Lingxuan survived the tribulation of transformation, Lu Cheng'an quickly appeared in front of her and led her back into the third-tier spiritual vein of the lava lake.

At this moment, Lingxuan shed her original form as a spirit clam and transformed into a human female cultivator.

The human female cultivator that Lingxuan transformed into was extremely beautiful and exuded an ethereal aura.

"Lingxuan thanks Fellow Daoist Lu for his help; otherwise, I would never have been able to break through to the third rank so smoothly!"

After Lingxuan followed Lu Cheng'an into the third-tier spiritual vein of the lava lake, she immediately expressed her gratitude to Lu Cheng'an.

"This five-colored spirit shield is now returned to you, fellow Daoist!"

Lingxuan summoned a palm-sized, five-colored spirit shield, a very precious third-grade low-level defensive magic weapon.

Lu Cheng'an had given it to Ling Xuan to help her overcome the tribulation of transformation.

However, Lingxuan's foundation was solid enough that she forcibly passed the Transformation Lightning Tribulation with her own strength without using the Five-Colored Spirit Shield.

"This five-colored spirit shield was originally crafted by your Spirit Clam clan's predecessors, so I'm giving it to you for your refinement!"

After Lingxuan's cultivation breaks through to the third level, it's equivalent to Lu Cheng'an having another Golden Core cultivator under his command, which will greatly enhance his overall strength.

Although the Five-Colored Spirit Shield was precious, he had more than one third-tier magic weapon.

With the Azure Flame Lion and other third-tier demonic beasts about to enter the Burning Flame Mountain Range, he not only needs to work hard to improve his own strength, but also to enhance the strength of the Lu family and the spiritual cultivators under his command, including Ling Xuan.

"You should also refine this Azure River Pearl to quickly improve your strength!"

Lu Cheng'an formed a hand seal, and then a ray of spiritual light appeared between his brows, revealing a blue pearl.

This cyan pearl is also a low-grade third-tier magic artifact, named the Azure River Pearl.

This third-grade low-level magic weapon is also a magic weapon used by third-grade cultivators of the Spirit Clam Clan, making it extremely suitable for Lingxuan.

"Thank you for the treasure, Fellow Daoist Lu!" Lingxuan's face lit up with joy, and she became even more respectful to Lu Cheng'an.

(End of this chapter)