Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Chapter 223 The Situation of the Lu Family Cultivators
"The secret technique recorded by the Burning Flame Sect is indeed powerful. If we master this technique, we can refine a large number of Golden Core pills and cultivate Golden Core cultivators!"

After Shi Ningyu collected the Crimson Horned Heavenly Python's source power, an excited smile immediately appeared on her face.

Originally, she was still skeptical about the secret technique of the Burning Flame Sect that Lu Cheng'an mentioned, but now that she has witnessed the power of this secret technique with her own eyes, she no longer doubts its effectiveness.

To perform this secret technique, one needs to prepare a low-grade third-tier Primordial Chaos Pill and a second-tier perfect-level demon beast.

Although the materials used to refine the Primordial Chaos Pill are quite precious, they are far inferior to the power of the demon beast's origin used to refine the Golden Core Pill.

Demonic beasts at the second-stage perfect realm are relatively common!

First and second-tier demonic beasts are considered to be at the bottom of the demon race, and there are many demonic beasts of this rank among the demon race.

Even demonic beasts at the second-tier perfect realm are like this; they are all cannon fodder at the bottom.

Only a very small number of exceptionally talented second-tier monsters are valued by third- and fourth-tier monsters.

Both Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu are Golden Core cultivators, so hunting a second-stage perfect realm demon beast would not be particularly difficult for them.

Shi Ningyu did not stay at the Lu family for long. After successfully obtaining the source power of the Crimson Horned Heavenly Python after it broke through to the third level, she returned directly to the Dan Ding Sect.

Although she was a third-level alchemist, she had never refined a Golden Core before.

The Golden Elixir is a low-grade third-tier pill, but it is very difficult to refine, even more so than many mid-grade third-tier pills.

There is only one portion of the third-tier demon beast's original power needed to refine the Golden Core, so Shi Ningyu needs to prepare carefully to avoid failure.

After Shi Ningyu left the Lu family, Lu Cheng'an gave Lu Wenxing some instructions and then also left the Lu family, entering the underground lava river of the Burning Flame Mountains.

Lu Cheng'an went directly into the underground magma river where the Five Spirits Island was located, where the Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan was still being nurtured.

He hasn't come to check on it since he placed the Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan here last time.

Besides the fact that the environment of Five Spirit Lake is relatively harsh and no demons or spirits would enter it, the main reason was that he was quite confident in the power of the Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan.

The Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan is a low-grade third-tier magic weapon, and its destructive power is extremely terrifying.

When Lu Cheng'an placed the Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan in the Five Spirits Lake to nurture it, he had already left a way to ensure that if any external force touched the Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan, its power would be activated on its own.

Even a cultivator in the early stage of the Golden Core realm who is accidentally struck by this power could be severely injured.

"The grade of this spiritual vein has been upgraded to the third rank!"

When Lu Cheng'an arrived at the original location of Wuling Island, he immediately noticed the changes in the spiritual vein.

The spiritual vein has now been upgraded to the third rank, and the power of the Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan nurtured within it has also increased considerably.

Lu Cheng'an did not retrieve the Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan from the third-tier spiritual vein. Instead, he used the Treasure Condensation Technique again to continue nurturing the Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan.

After that, Lu Cheng'an, like the Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan, infiltrated the third-tier spiritual vein and began to cultivate diligently.

After Lu Cheng'an broke through to the Golden Core realm, he didn't spend much time actually cultivating, which resulted in his cultivation level not improving much and him still being a long way from breaking through to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm.

Now that he has entered the underground lava river, he is prepared to put everything else aside and focus all his efforts on improving his cultivation.

The Lu family is very different now than before; its strength has greatly increased.

The most important thing is that the Spirit Clam Clan entered the Lu Family, and now Lingxuan and Chiliu's cultivation has broken through to the third level.

Although their combat strength wasn't particularly formidable, they were both at the early stage of the third rank. Relying on the various spirit arrays set up by the Lu family, even mid-stage third-rank demonic beasts like the Azure Flame Lion couldn't easily invade the Lu family's territory.

And there's also the third-tier demonic beast, Queyun!
Several years have passed since they returned from the Poison Swamp Immortal City. After cultivating diligently for so long, Que Yun's cultivation has successfully broken through to the mid-stage of the third rank.

Under the persuasion of the old turtle, Que Yun gave up hope of getting rid of Lu Cheng'an's control. However, after his cultivation broke through to the mid-stage of the third rank, he still tried to break the Taiyuan Demon Control Soul Seal in his soul.

Unfortunately, his soul power did not improve much, while Lu Cheng'an's soul power increased greatly thanks to the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique.

Now, even if his cultivation breaks through to the mid-stage of the third rank, or even if he breaks through to the late stage or the perfect stage of the third rank, he still cannot escape Lu Cheng'an's control.

However, after that, Queyun's mindset completely changed.

He felt that following Lu Cheng'an would allow his cultivation to improve even more rapidly, and perhaps with Lu Cheng'an's help, he might even be able to seek revenge on Yuan Hong in the future!
Que Yun's strength is still quite formidable. After his cultivation broke through to the mid-stage of the third rank, even if he fought against the Azure Flame Lion, he would not be easily defeated by it!
If we add Que Yun, the number of Golden Core warriors remaining in the Lu family reaches three.

Even if Lu Cheng'an is not at the Lu family, there is no need to worry about the Lu family's situation.

While Lu Cheng'an was cultivating diligently in the underground lava river of the Burning Flame Mountains, the Lu family was also developing very steadily.

So many years have passed, and now another cultivator in the Lu family has broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining, and can try to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

The Lu family has not yet used up all the Five Elements Spiritual Fruits. In addition, Lu Cheng'an purchased three more Foundation Establishment Spiritual Items from the Poison Swamp Immortal City. The Lu family still has quite a few Foundation Establishment Spiritual Items accumulated.

Therefore, once the cultivators of the Lu family reached the conditions to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm, they could easily obtain Foundation Establishment spiritual items from the clan treasury to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

During this period, the Lu family gained two more Foundation Establishment cultivators: Lu Chengmin and Lu Chengyao.

Compared to Lu Jingkun and the others, these two were relatively old when they broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

Besides their slightly inferior talent for cultivation, it was also related to the time they spent learning various arts of immortal cultivation.

Lu Chengmin studied weapon crafting, while Lu Chengyao pursued beast taming.

Both of them had good talent in the various cultivation arts they had studied. After Lu Chengmin's cultivation broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, he successfully refined a second-grade low-level magic weapon and became a second-grade low-level weapon refiner.

After breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm, Lu Chengyao immediately raised the cultivation level of his carefully nurtured natal demon beast to the second tier.

The Beast Taming Inheritance of the Burning Flame Sect includes methods for raising natal demonic beasts. Natal demonic beasts are similar to the natal magic treasures of Golden Core cultivators, and both are connected by their energy.

Lu Chengyao's natal demonic beast is the Azure-Gold Sky-Feather Crane, a metal-attribute demonic beast. The Azure-Gold Sky-Feather Crane is very powerful, possessing two potent demonic arts: the Azure-Gold Sky-Splitting Claw and the Sky-Sweeping Technique.

The Azure Gold Sky-Splitting Claw is an offensive demonic technique. The Azure Gold Sky Feather Crane is a metal-attribute demonic beast. After its cultivation breaks through to the second tier, it can use this demonic technique to tear apart low-grade second-tier magic artifacts.

The Soaring Technique is a magical flying technique. Even with Lu Chengyao in tow, its speed still surpasses that of a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator flying on a sword.

Although Lu Chengyao's cultivation had only recently broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm, with the power of his natal demon beast, even a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator could not do anything to him.

In addition to the newly added Foundation Establishment cultivators, the Lu family has added even more Qi Refining cultivators.

This is because the number of ordinary members of the Lu family has exploded. The number of ordinary members of the Lu family has now exceeded 1.5 million and is rapidly growing toward 2 million.

With the protection of cultivators, ordinary people don't have to worry about food and drink. In addition, the Lu family encourages ordinary people to have many children, which is why the Lu family's ordinary population has grown so rapidly.

As the mortal population grows, the number of new cultivators in the Lu family each year is also gradually increasing, and the chances of finding a cultivator with good talent for cultivation are also rising.

Among the new cultivators in the Lu family who are expected to break through to the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core realms are Lu Jingli, Lu Jingkai, Lu Ruizhe, Lu Ruining, and Lu Ruipeng.

Currently, most of the new cultivators in the Lu family are from the Jing and Rui generations, while the number of cultivators from the Wen and Cheng generations has been greatly reduced.

The Lu family has not severed ties with Lu Chengyue either. Over the years, Lu Chengyue's cultivation has greatly improved, and she has now successfully broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

Lu Chengyue is the personal disciple of Master Kushi. After her cultivation broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, her status in the Desolate Ancient Sect was greatly enhanced.

The cultivation resources required for Foundation Establishment cultivators' daily cultivation have also increased significantly. Although Lu Chengyue has not studied the various arts of immortal cultivation and is the personal disciple of True Person Kushi, she still has to earn cultivation resources on her own.

After learning that Lu Chengyue's cultivation had successfully broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm, Lu Wenxing sent the Foundation Establishment cultivators of his clan to the Desolate Ancient Immortal City to deliver second-tier magic artifacts, pills, spirit stones, and other cultivation resources to Lu Chengyue.

The Lu family sent Lu Chengyue to the Desolate Ancient Sect in order to establish a relationship with the sect.

With Lu Chengyue becoming the personal disciple of Master Kushi, the Lu family's goal can be considered achieved.

Previously, when the Azure Flame Lion entered the Burning Flame Mountain Range, the Lu family was able to gain the support of the Ancient Desolate Sect. This was not only because the Ancient Desolate Sect disliked the actions of the Heavenly Flame Sect, but also because of Lu Chengyue.

Given Lu Chengyue's current situation, she has a good chance of breaking through to the Golden Core realm in the future.

Therefore, the Lu family has never given up on nurturing Lu Chengyue. This is also the main reason why Lu Wenxing immediately dispatched a Foundation Establishment cultivator from the clan to send cultivation resources to Lu Chengyue after learning of her breakthrough in cultivation.

In addition, the Lu family also took good care of Lu Chengyue's mother and younger brother who stayed with the family.

Lu Chengyue's younger brother is Lu Chengjue. Lu Chengjue also has the talent for cultivating immortality, but compared with Lu Chengyue, Lu Chengjue's talent for cultivation is much weaker.

If the Lu family is willing to nurture him, Lu Chengjue has a good chance of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm!

Because of Lu Chengyue, although Lu Chengjue's cultivation talent was not particularly good, Lu Wenxing still gave him some resources.

Of course, this is also related to the current situation of the Lu family. The Lu family is now a Golden Core power, and its cultivation resources are much more abundant than when it first moved to Chiyan Mountain.

It is quite easy to allocate certain resources to cultivate a cultivator at the Qi Refining stage.

Lu Chengjue did not disappoint Lu Wenxing. Although his talent for cultivation was very ordinary, he was extremely diligent in his cultivation and his comprehension was also quite good. At the age of twenty-six, his cultivation level was at the fifth level of Qi Refining.

The Lu family now has as many as thirteen Foundation Establishment cultivators, among whom Lu Wenxing, Lu Wenhua, Lu Wenmei, and Lu Chengping were the first batch of cultivators to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

Following them were Lu Jingkun, Lu Chenglan, Lu Chengbai, Lu Jingxiu, Lu Jinglin, Lu Jingtong, and Lu Wenjing.

The most recent ones are Lu Chengyao and Lu Chengmin.

Lu Chengping's cultivation has now broken through to the Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm, but his situation is somewhat special, requiring him to stay in the Spirit Gu Sect for an extended period of time.

Lu Wenxing is the patriarch of the Lu family. Among the several Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Wen generation in the Lu family, his talent for cultivation is the best.

Although he devoted a lot of energy to family affairs, as the Lu family's strength grew, they no longer lacked cultivation resources.

Furthermore, he switched to cultivating the fourth-tier technique, the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Technique, which greatly accelerated his cultivation progress.

Lu Wenxing's cultivation has now broken through to the late Foundation Establishment stage. He still has a long lifespan and will definitely have the opportunity to break through to the Golden Core stage in the future.

Lu Wenhua's talent for cultivation is second only to Lu Wenxing, and he is also Lu Chengan's uncle, so he receives a lot of preferential treatment in terms of cultivation resources.

When Lu Wenhua was still in the Qi Refining stage, Lu Cheng'an had already equipped his uncle with a second-grade low-level Spirit Gathering Jade Token.

After Lu Wenhua's cultivation broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, Lu Cheng'an re-refined the Spirit Gathering Jade Tablet, turning it directly into a second-grade high-quality magic weapon.

Lu Wenhua carries a Spirit Gathering Jade Token with him. The spiritual energy gathered by this second-tier high-grade magic artifact will automatically enter his body, nourish his physical body, and slowly increase his cultivation level.

With such excellent cultivation conditions, Lu Wenhua did not disappoint Lu Chengan and the Lu family's great support. His cultivation has broken through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, and he is very close to breaking through to the late-Foundation Establishment stage.

Lu Wenmei and Lu Wenjing's talent for cultivation was relatively poor.

Lu Wenmei broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm earlier than Lu Wenhua. Although she didn't have a powerful nephew like Lu Wenhua, she was a second-tier alchemist and didn't lack cultivation resources.

Unfortunately, due to her own limitations, her cultivation level only broke through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage not long ago.

Lu Wenmei is already quite old, and given her current rate of cultivation advancement, she is very likely to stop at the Foundation Establishment stage in the future.

Lu Wenjing's talent for cultivation is also not high. He broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm in a relatively short time, and his cultivation is still at the early stage of Foundation Establishment. In the future, he will most likely stop at the Foundation Establishment realm, just like Lu Wenmei.

Lu Jingkun, Lu Jinglin and others had much better cultivation talent, especially Lu Jingkun, whose talent was the most outstanding.

Under Lu Cheng'an's instructions, Lu Jingkun did a lot of things, which delayed his cultivation time considerably.

However, his cultivation level still improved extremely rapidly, and he has now broken through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

(End of this chapter)