Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Chapter 201 The Ancient Desolate Sect's Reward (Please Subscribe!)
Lu Cheng'an was unaware of the situation of the demonic beasts in the Burning Flame Mountain Range and the Hong'e Mountain Range. After sending Shi Ningyu away from Chiyan Mountain, he did not take the time to treat his injuries. Instead, he summoned all the cultivators of Chiyan Mountain and held a brief meeting.

"This time we have killed a total of 325 first-stage first-order demonic beasts... The Lu family keeps its word. Later, fellow Daoists can exchange the merits earned from killing the demonic beasts for cultivation techniques, spells and other classic texts from the Lu family."

Of course, the demonic beasts in the Burning Flame Mountains haven't been completely eliminated yet. Third-tier demonic beasts like the Azure Flame Lion will undoubtedly launch another attack. You can also slay more demonic beasts to earn merit points, which can be exchanged for higher-grade cultivation techniques, spells, and other scriptures!

Following Lu Cheng'an's instructions, Lu Wenxing announced the results of the battle against the demonic beasts in the Burning Flame Mountains to all the cultivators of Crimson Smoke Mountain, and also mentioned the rewards obtained from slaying the demonic beasts.

After Lu Wenxing finished speaking, the cultivators from the independent cultivators and small cultivation forces immediately started discussing among themselves. They hadn't expected the Lu family to actually offer such a reward.

Among these people were some cultivators who had come with the Tianyan Sect. They were quite far from the Lu family and had never even heard of this news before.

"The Lu family is actually going to offer cultivation techniques and spellbooks as rewards!"

"We live quite far from the Lu family. Are we still able to receive the same rewards as the Lu family?"

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Excitement appeared on the faces of the cultivators, including those at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Because among the ancient texts and inheritances that the Lu family brought out, some were top-grade second-tier texts.

Such texts are only obtainable by top Foundation Establishment sects, and even for Golden Core sects like the Heavenly Flame Sect, they are extremely precious.

Let alone giving it as a reward to outsiders, even when giving it as a reward to cultivators within the sect, one must be extremely cautious.

"Fellow Daoists, rest assured, apart from the Golden Core Sect, Tianyan Sect, all cultivators are treated equally. As long as you kill enough demonic beasts, you can exchange them for the scriptures you need in our Lu family!" Lu Wenxing said with a loud laugh.

When the cultivators of the Tianyan Sect, including Chongxu and Longshi, heard Lu Wenxing mention their sect, a cold glint appeared in their eyes.

However, upon seeing Lu Cheng'an sitting in the main seat, they could only suppress their negative emotions.

The power that Lu Cheng'an displayed this time was too terrifying; even the mid-stage third-tier Azure Flame Lion was no match for Lu Cheng'an.

Their sect's Golden Core cultivators were killed by Lu Cheng'an, and barring unforeseen circumstances, they have virtually no chance of seeking revenge against Lu Cheng'an.

There are also the edicts of the Ancient Desolate Sect's Master Kushi in Chiyan Mountain, so they dare not do anything in Chiyan Mountain.

Because once their actions are exposed, they may face retribution from the Ancient Desolate Sect.

As a long-established Golden Core sect, the Heavenly Flame Sect was very clear about the methods of the Ancient Desolate Sect.

The Ancient Desolate Sect cultivates these Golden Core cultivators primarily to enhance the strength of cultivators within its territory, in order to deal with the demonic beasts living in the Hong'e Mountains.

Now that the Lu family and Dan Ding Sect are stronger than them, if they have an irreconcilable conflict with the Lu family and Dan Ding Sect, they will definitely be the ones abandoned in the end.

Therefore, no matter how angry Chongxu and Longshi were with the Lu family, when Qingyan Huoshi led the demons and spirits of the Burning Flame Mountain Range to attack the Lu family, they did not deliberately hold back their strength.

Lu Cheng'an didn't take the Tianyan Sect seriously at the moment. After the cultivators below calmed down a bit, he said in a deep voice, "Our Lu family was able to withstand the attack of the demonic beasts in the Burning Flame Mountain Range thanks to the all-out efforts of all of you fellow Daoists. As for those fellow Daoists who died, our Lu family will find their relatives and friends and will definitely compensate them."

We will need your continued assistance. I have already contacted True Person Chunqiu of the Ancient Desolate Sect, and news of our defeat of the Azure Flame Lion and other demonic beasts has been relayed back to the Hong'e Mountains.

This enraged the demon king of the Hong'e Mountains, who might send even more powerful demonic beasts into the Burning Flame Mountains at any time.

Fellow Daoists, now is the time to quickly improve your strength in order to prepare for the upcoming attacks from the demonic beasts of the Burning Flame Mountains!

Lu Cheng'an was not lying. After the third-tier demonic beasts, including the Azure Flame Lion, withdrew from Crimson Smoke Mountain, he sent a message to Master Chunqiu about the outcome of the battle.

Before he convened the cultivators' meeting, Master Chunqiu had already sent a reply to Lu Cheng'an.

The reply from Master Chunqiu was not the result of the Ancient Desolate Sect's investigation, but rather Master Kushi's conjecture.

After all, the time interval was too short. Even if the Ancient Desolate Sect had spies planted in the Hong'e Mountains, they could not immediately find out the latest news about this matter.

After learning that Lu Cheng'an had suppressed the Purple Flame Firebird, a third-tier early-stage demonic beast, Master Kushi was very satisfied with the Lu family's performance.

He will personally inform the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Ancient Desolate Sect of this news, at which time the Ancient Desolate Sect will also bestow rewards upon the Lu family.

Chunqiu Zhenren told Lu Chengan that his master guessed that the sect's Nascent Soul True Monarch might bestow a high-grade third-tier talisman, or even a top-grade third-tier talisman.

Even if the Hong'e Mountains send more Tier 3 demonic beasts into the Burning Flame Mountains, the Lu family can still block their attacks by relying on these Tier 3 mid-to-high grade talismans.

With Lu Cheng'an's strength, relying on these high-grade third-tier talismans, he could even kill those third-tier demonic beasts.

Moreover, Master Chunqiu also taught Lu Cheng'an the method to activate the talisman of Master Kushi of Chiyan Mountain, which Lu Cheng'an could use to attack demonic beasts at crucial moments.

This matter cannot be decided by Master Chunqiu; it is Master Kushi's decision!
The talisman sealed away Master Ku Shi's Lesser Earth Drying Technique, whose power was enough to severely injure a demon beast at the third-order perfect realm.

The Hong'e Mountains would never send a demon beast at the third-order perfect realm into the territory of the Ancient Desolate Sect.

This is because although there are many third-tier demonic beasts in the Hong'e Mountains, the number of demonic beasts that have reached the perfect third-tier realm is extremely rare.

Demonic beasts that can cultivate to this level have a certain chance of becoming fourth-tier demon kings.

The fourth-tier demon kings of the Hong'e Mountains, such as the Azure Lion Demon King, would naturally not send these third-tier perfect realm demon beasts into the territory of the Desolate Ancient Sect to risk their lives.

Therefore, after obtaining the method to activate the Lesser Earth Drying Technique Talisman, Lu Cheng'an was basically able to ensure that the Lu family would not be breached by the demonic beasts of the Burning Flame Mountain Range.

The reason why the Ancient Desolate Sect bestowed so many rewards upon Lu Cheng'an was because the Lu family was the first Golden Core force within the Ancient Desolate Sect to forcefully suppress a third-tier demon beast.

The Ancient Desolate Sect wanted to use this opportunity to boost the morale of the Golden Core cultivators within its territory, encouraging them to fight with all their might against the third-tier demonic beasts.

Lu Cheng'an has not yet told Chongxu and the other cultivators about these matters. Once the rewards from the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Desolate Ancient Sect arrive, True Person Chunqiu will come to the Lu family's Crimson Smoke Mountain again. Although Lu Cheng'an obtained all the inheritances of the Burning Flame Sect and acquired many high-level magic weapons, minerals, and other treasures, he did not obtain a single talisman.

This is because the Burning Flame Sect lost a large number of talismans, especially high-level talismans, when the crisis arrived.

Talismans are treasures that can quickly enhance a cultivator's combat power, but they are also the fastest to be destroyed in the event of a crisis.

Furthermore, the preservation of talismans is relatively difficult.

Talismans are treasures formed by talisman masters drawing talisman arrays on talisman paper. Talisman paper is different from the embryo of a magic weapon. Compared to talisman paper, talisman paper is more unstable, and the talisman arrays drawn on it are more likely to collapse.

So much time has passed that even the fourth-tier top-grade magic artifact, the Sky Palace, has been damaged, not to mention the talismans preserved inside.

Those talismans have long been destroyed by the passage of time.

After briefly explaining the situation of the Burning Flame Mountains, the Hong'e Mountains, and the Desolate Ancient Sect, Lu Cheng'an boosted morale and then announced the end of the meeting.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng'an immediately returned to his cave and began to focus on treating his injuries.

Lu Cheng'an's injuries were not minor, but his physical strength was much stronger than that of cultivators of the same realm. Moreover, he had third-grade low-level healing pills and the Purple Flame Resurrection Technique, a technique mainly used to recover from injuries, so his injuries recovered relatively quickly.

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

At this time, Lu Cheng'an's injuries had basically recovered. Just as he was preparing to completely subdue the Purple Flame Firebird, a third-tier early-stage demonic beast, he received a message from True Person Chunqiu.

"Master Chunqiu will be arriving at Chiyan Mountain soon. The Nascent Soul cultivators of the Ancient Desolate Sect have bestowed a total of five third-tier talismans upon us!"

Upon receiving the message from Master Chunqiu, Lu Cheng'an's face immediately turned solemn, showing no joy whatsoever at the prospect of receiving a reward.

Because the rewards from Nascent Soul cultivators of the Ancient Desolate Sect are not so easy to obtain!
Of the five talismans bestowed by the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Ancient Desolate Sect, three are of mid-grade third rank and two are of high-grade third rank.

Along with the bestowal of these five talismans, the Lu family was also given a task: to do everything in their power to suppress or kill the Azure Flame Lion!

The Azure Flame Lion is a mid-stage third-tier demon beast, and it is also the offspring of the Azure Lion Demon King. Killing it would naturally have a different meaning.

If Lu Cheng'an really obeyed the orders of the Desolate Ancient Sect and killed the Azure Flame Lion, it would definitely bring endless trouble to the Lu family, even though the Hong'e Mountains where the Lu family is located are extremely far away.

"What exactly does the Ancient Desolate Sect mean? Why are they doing this?"

Lu Cheng'an frowned deeply. After putting away the communication artifact he used to contact Master Chunqiu, he immediately took out the communication jade plate he used to contact Shi Ningyu.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, has the demonic beast of the Burning Flame Mountain Range launched another attack?" After Shi Ningyu's figure appeared in the communication jade plate, she immediately asked Lu Cheng'an the reason for the message.

"It wasn't the demonic beasts of the Burning Flame Mountains that launched the attack, but rather the Ancient Desolate Sect!"

Lu Cheng'an sighed softly and said, "I just received a message from True Person Chunqiu. The Nascent Soul cultivator from the Desolate Ancient Sect... Fellow Daoist Shi, what do you think the Desolate Ancient Sect means by this?"

Shi Ningyu's eyes flickered slightly, her brain working rapidly, and she quickly realized the key point.

“Perhaps our behavior has caused concern among the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Ancient Desolate Sect. They fear that we threaten the sect’s position!” Shi Ningyu said in a deep voice.

"Fellow Daoist Shi, you're overthinking it!"

Lu Cheng'an's expression changed slightly: "We two have only recently broken through to the Golden Core realm. To the Ancient Desolate Sect, we are just small fry. They can kill us at any time. Why would they bother?"

Although Lu Cheng'an said this, he somewhat believed what Shi Ningyu said was true, but he still found it hard to accept.

"We may not yet have the strength to threaten the Ancient Desolate Sect, but the talent we have shown already gives us the power to do so. The Ancient Desolate Sect probably doesn't even want to see this kind of humiliation!"

A cold expression appeared on Shi Ningyu's face: "The Nascent Soul cultivator of the Desolate Ancient Sect sent you to kill the Azure Flame Lion. This is to make you a blood enemy of the Azure Lion Demon King. This will both annoy the Azure Lion Demon King and allow you to eliminate both of us threats by killing the Azure Lion Demon King!"

“Fellow Daoist Lu, that Azure Flame Lion must not die at our hands. The demonic beasts of the Hong'e Mountains pose a great threat to the Ancient Desolate Sect. Before our cultivation breaks through to the Nascent Soul Realm, the Ancient Desolate Sect will definitely not kill us personally. They want to use our strength to deal with the demonic beasts of the Hong'e Mountains!”

Shi Ningyu's gaze fell on Lu Cheng'an, and she continued, "Anyway, we are both only at the early stage of the Golden Core realm. Even with the third-tier talismans bestowed by the Burning Flame Sect, it's understandable that we can't kill the third-tier demon beast, the Azure Flame Lion."

However, we must conceal our true cultivation level to prevent the cultivators of the Ancient Desolate Sect from seeing through us. It would be best if we could learn a minor supernatural power-level concealment technique.

These kinds of spells are quite rare, but we must do our best to find them!

"A minor supernatural power similar to the Concealing Breath Technique? I currently possess one, and this minor supernatural power is called the Minor Shapeshifting Technique!"

The Lesser Transformation Technique is also a minor supernatural ability recorded in the Burning Flame Sect's heritage. This minor supernatural ability is similar to evil magic and is extremely difficult to cultivate.

To begin learning the Lesser Transformation Technique, one needs to collect a unique type of Heavenly Illusion Qi from the world. Only after refining the Heavenly Illusion Qi can a cultivator begin to master the Lesser Transformation Technique.

Next, one needs to refine the essence, blood, vital energy, and soul of other cultivators, based on the methods recorded in the Minor Transformation Technique, and then mix these with some precious materials to refine them into Minor Transformation Pills.

Only by relying on the Lesser Transformation Pill can one continue to cultivate the Lesser Transformation Technique.

Once the Minor Transformation Technique is mastered, cultivators can use this technique to freely change their appearance and aura.

When a Golden Core cultivator uses the Minor Transformation Technique, even a Nascent Soul cultivator at the peak of their cultivation level cannot see through its power.

After mastering the Lesser Transformation Technique, one no longer needs to kill cultivators to refine them into Lesser Transformation Pills for cultivation, but one still needs to absorb a large amount of Heavenly Illusion Qi for cultivation.

In short, this minor supernatural power is extremely difficult to cultivate.

In addition, Lu Cheng'an already had quite a few minor supernatural abilities to cultivate, so after seeing the cultivation method of the Minor Shapeshifting Technique, he directly gave up on cultivating this minor supernatural ability.

(End of this chapter)