Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Chapter 225 The Invitation from the Spirit Gu Sect

“No, only if Sha Zehan and I determine the victor in the Divine Jade Sect ruins can we obtain the subsequent inheritance of the Divine Jade Sect ruins!” Shi Ningyu said.

The reason why the Divine Jade Sect has such restrictions on its inheritance is to prevent the selected successor from being killed by powerful cultivators in the outside world, thus causing the Divine Jade Sect to miss out on a truly suitable successor.

This restriction is actually a protection for Shi Ningyu.

After all, Sha Zehan came from the Ziyang Sect, a Nascent Soul sect. If there were no such restriction, Sha Zehan would definitely have invited the Ziyang Sect's experts to kill Shi Ningyu in advance.

"Are you really not going to let me go with you to the cultivation world in Hezhou?" Lu Cheng'an asked helplessly.

"If we act together, the only ones who can put pressure on us are probably Nascent Soul cultivators!"

Shi Ningyu chuckled softly and said, "Now the number of demonic beasts developing in the Burning Flame Mountains is increasing. I'm afraid it won't be long before third-tier demonic beasts like the Azure Flame Lion launch a beast tide to attack the human cultivators in the surrounding area."

If the two of us leave, and the third-tier demonic beasts like the Azure Flame Lion discover this, they will likely launch an even more ferocious attack!

After Lu Cheng'an sensed Shi Ningyu's feelings, he no longer insisted on going to the cultivation world of Hezhou with her.

The cultivation world of Hezhou and the cultivation world of Qingzhou are separated by a whole state, which is extremely far away from the Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect.

If he and Shi Ningyu were to travel together to the cultivation world of Hezhou, and if the Lu family and Dan Ding Sect were attacked by third-tier demonic beasts such as the Azure Flame Lion while they were away, they would not have enough time to return.

Lu Cheng'an sighed softly and said, "Then you should start cultivating the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique, a secret soul technique. With this technique, your ability to protect yourself will be greatly enhanced!"

When he cultivated with Shi Ningyu before, he shared the two divine soul secret techniques, the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique and the Great Sun Golden Flame.

He had a deep understanding of these two divine soul techniques, and Shi Ningyu, through the power of dual cultivation, also gained his insights into these two divine soul techniques.

Even if Shi Ningyu were to cultivate the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique and the Great Sun Golden Flame, these two divine soul secret techniques, there would be no problem.

The Yuan Soul Grass that he had specially prepared for cultivating the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique was not used up. If Shi Ningyu encountered any unexpected situations while cultivating the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique, she could also refine the power of the Yuan Soul Grass in time to recover.

“Then I will begin cultivating the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique now!” Shi Ningyu said.

She did not refuse. She had already learned about the power of the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique and the Great Sun Golden Flame, two secret soul techniques, when she and Lu Cheng'an cultivated together before.

If she could successfully cultivate the Great Sun Golden Flame, she would have the opportunity to severely injure a cultivator at the Golden Core Perfection realm, or even kill one, simply by relying on the power of this divine soul technique.

This is because the power of the Great Sun Golden Flame is extremely terrifying; the attack of this divine soul technique is equivalent to striking the Great Sun True Fire into the enemy's soul.

The Great Sun True Fire is extremely damaging to a cultivator's soul. Without corresponding defensive measures, one is very likely to be burned to nothingness by the Great Sun Golden Flame.

Shi Ningyu herself was quite comprehension-oriented, and with the help of dual cultivation, she gained insights from Lu Cheng'an's cultivation of these two divine soul techniques, thus quickly mastering the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique.

After Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu broke through to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, their spiritual power also saw a significant improvement.

Originally, the range of their divine senses was only about a hundred miles, but now it has completely exceeded that limit.

Lu Cheng'an could use his divine sense to explore a range of 180 li, while Shi Ningyu could only explore a range of 150 li, a difference of 30 li between them.

This is because Lu Cheng'an cultivated the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique!
The Great Sun Soul Refining Technique is extremely difficult to cultivate, but the benefits of cultivating this secret technique for the soul are also immense.

It can not only enhance the power of the soul, but also make the soul more condensed.

It was precisely for this reason that Lu Cheng'an's spiritual power increased more than Shi Ningyu's after his cultivation breakthrough.

“Next, I will also be practicing the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique again. I will continue to stay in the Pill Cauldron Sect. If you encounter any problems while practicing the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique, please tell me immediately!” Lu Cheng’an said.

A moment later, Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu left the bedroom and entered the meditation room inside the cave to begin practicing the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique together.

The stronger a cultivator's soul power, the easier it is to cultivate the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique.

Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu's spiritual power has increased significantly. Moreover, Lu Cheng'an had previous experience in cultivating the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique, so when he cultivated the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique again, he felt that the pain caused by the Great Sun True Fire burning his spiritual soul seemed to be lessened.

This was Shi Ningyu's first time practicing the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique. Although Lu Cheng'an had given her a reminder, the intense pain she experienced after introducing the first wisp of Great Sun True Fire into her soul almost became unbearable.

However, Shi Ningyu ultimately withstood the attack and successfully refined the first wisp of Great Sun True Fire.

Having gained the experience of the first success, the subsequent cultivation process, although still extremely painful, was greatly reduced in danger.

This time, Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu spent nearly three months cultivating the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique.

Their souls have become much stronger thanks to the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique, a secret soul technique. Lu Cheng'an's divine sense detection range has reached 190 miles, and is about to reach 200 miles.

However, the growth of spiritual power became extremely slow afterward, as if it had encountered a bottleneck.

However, Shi Ningyu's soul power increased even more during her first cultivation of the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique.

Her spiritual sense range increased from 150 miles to 170 miles, and she can now successfully unleash the Great Sun Golden Flame, a secret technique of the divine soul.

Shi Ningyu compared the power of the Great Sun Golden Flame and the Soul-Severing Palm.

The power of the Great Sun Golden Flame is closely related to the cultivator's level of mastery of the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique. Shi Ningyu's mastery of the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique is not yet profound, and the power of the Great Sun Golden Flame that she can unleash is relatively weak.

Although the Divine Jade Soul-Severing Palm is more powerful, its destructive power is not as great as the Great Sun Golden Flame.

The reason why Lu Cheng'an and the other stopped practicing the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique was because the process of practicing this secret soul technique was too painful.

If they continue cultivating, they may collapse.

After finishing their training in the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique, Lu Cheng'an left the Dan Ding Sect and returned to his family.

Lu Cheng'an stayed at the Dan Ding Sect for more than half a year, during which time he completely cut off contact with his family.

After Lu Cheng'an returned to the Lu family, Lu Wenxing immediately found him and told him about Lu Chengping's breakthrough to the Golden Core realm.

Before Lu Cheng'an began his dual cultivation with Shi Ningyu, Lu Chengping had already sent back a message. At that time, Lu Cheng'an had Lu Chengping investigate the Linggu Sect's attitude towards Lu Chengping's breakthrough to the Golden Core realm. The Linggu Sect's leader, Liu Miaozhen, already harbored designs on the Lu family, so Lu Chengping didn't expend much effort to understand the Linggu Sect's Golden Core cultivator's intentions.

Liu Miaozhen told Lu Chengping about inviting Lu Cheng'an into the Linggu Sect's secret realm, and asked Lu Chengping to convey the Linggu Sect's message to Lu Cheng'an.

During this time, Liu Miaozhen had already entered the secret realm to investigate, and the third-grade top-quality Jade Silkworm Gu had not changed much.

The Jade Silkworm Gu is currently a top-grade third-tier Gu worm. If it wants to greatly improve its strength, it must break through to the fourth tier!

Liu Miaozhen was extremely careful when entering the secret realm, but she was still detected by the Jade Silkworm Gu.

She then hurriedly left the secret realm and sealed it off, but did not prohibit the cultivators of the Spirit Gu Sect from entering it.

This time she disturbed the Jade Silkworm Gu, and it will take a long time for this top-grade third-tier Gu worm to calm down.

During this period, if any cultivators from their Spirit Gu Sect enter the secret realm, their essence, blood, and soul will be absorbed by the Jade Silkworm Gu.

After learning of Liu Miaozhen's intentions, Lu Chengping returned to the Lu family with his two Daoist partners, intending to personally tell Lu Cheng'an the news.

However, at that time, Lu Cheng'an was deeply engaged in dual cultivation with Shi Ningyu at the Dan Ding Sect, and had cut off communication with the Lu family.

Therefore, Lu Chengping could only send the message back to the Linggu Sect. He did not leave the Lu family and planned to wait for Lu Chengan to reply before speaking.

After returning to the Lu family, Lu Chengping and Lu Jingkun repaired the spiritual arrays on the family's Chiyan Mountain and other spiritual mountains.

Previously, Lu Cheng'an, Lu Jingkun, and others moved eight more mountain peaks from within the territory. Now, after so many years of management by the Lu family, these eight mountain peaks have all become spiritual peaks full of spiritual energy.

The Lu family also named these eight spiritual peaks, and the names of these spiritual peaks were based on the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array.

Crimson Smoke Mountain is the core of the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Formation. It was named Sun Peak based on this formation, but the Lu family cultivators are used to calling it Crimson Smoke Mountain and have not changed it yet.

Opposite to Sun Peak is Moon Peak, a sacred peak that the Lu family allocated to the Spirit Clam Clan, mainly guarded by Ling Xuan.

Apart from the two sacred peaks, Taiyang and Taiyin, the other seven sacred peaks are Yinghuo Peak, Chenxing Peak, Suixing Peak, Taibai Peak, Zhenxing Peak, Huangfan Peak, and Baowei Peak.

These seven sacred peaks face the Big Dipper, while the Sun and Moon face the Sun Star and the Moon Star.

Once the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array is fully formed, these nine spiritual peaks will be able to draw upon the stellar power of these nine great stars, evolving into various unique effects.

The Lu family's current arrangement is only a prototype based on the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Array, but this prototype can still draw upon the stellar power of the nine great stars.

If Lu family cultivators cultivate in such an environment for a long time, it will greatly benefit their cultivation.

The Lu family has already cultivated third-order spiritual veins on the five spiritual peaks of Taiyang, Taiyin, Yinghuo, Chenxing, and Zhenxing.

Lingxuan guards Taiyin Peak, Queyun guards Yinghuo Peak, Chiliu guards Chenxing Peak, and Lu Jingkun guards Zhenxing Peak.

Lu Jingkun is the only one whose cultivation level is still at the Foundation Establishment stage, but according to his current cultivation progress, it won't be long before he becomes a Golden Core cultivator.

Lu Chengping and Lu Jingkun are both spirit array masters. They both know the complete method of the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array and how powerful this array is.

Therefore, the two of them had spent a lot of energy on this great formation. When Lu Chengping returned to the Lu family this time, the two of them had an in-depth exchange on the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Formation.

Then they couldn't wait to make some changes to the formations set up on the family's nine spiritual peaks.

They spent nearly two months on this matter, but unfortunately, there was still no news from Lu Cheng'an.

But Lu Chengping still did not leave the Lu family. He stayed there, intending to wait for Lu Chengan to reply to him.

After returning from Dan Ding Sect, Lu Cheng'an went directly to see Lu Chengping.

"I understand what Liu Miaozhen means. I can enter the secret realm with the Golden Core cultivators of the Spirit Gu Sect, but the conditions will be slightly changed. The Core Formation spiritual items obtained from the secret realm must first be used to cultivate you and your two Daoist partners to the Golden Core realm before they can be used to cultivate other cultivators of the Spirit Gu Sect!"

Lu Cheng'an looked at Lu Chengping and said, "Send a message to Liu Miaozhen now, she should agree to my request!"

The Spirit Gu Sect's secret realms also produce Core Formation spiritual objects, but these Core Formation spiritual objects are quite special. They only have an effect on cultivators who practice the Spirit Gu Sect's techniques or have Gu worms cultivated by the Spirit Gu Sect in their bodies.

Although Lu Chengping did not cultivate the techniques of the Linggu Sect, he had Gu worms cultivated by the Linggu Sect in his body, and his two Daoist partners were also cultivators of the Linggu Sect.

Therefore, the Core Formation spiritual items produced in the Spirit Gu Sect's secret realm are also useful to Lu Chengping.

When Liu Miaozhen invited Lu Chengan to enter the secret realm to kill the third-tier top-grade Jade Silkworm Gu, she mentioned that the Core Formation spiritual items obtained from the secret realm would be used on Lu Chengping until he was trained into a Golden Core cultivator.

In addition, Liu Miaozhen offered Lu Cheng'an other benefits, which were not common cultivation resources such as magical artifacts and pills, but rather the ruins of an ancient sect.

The ancient sect was called the Myriad Spirits Sect. The most attractive thing about the ruins was not the cultivation techniques and scriptures, but the spiritual plants.

It is a spiritual plant called Blood Essence Rice, which produces Blood Essence Rice.

Spiritual plants such as spiritual grains and spiritual rice are extremely rare. They are all controlled by powerful large sects, and these sects maintain very strict control over them.

This is because spirit grains and spirit rice have a very special effect.

In addition to nourishing a cultivator's physical body and increasing their magical power, long-term consumption of spiritual grains and spiritual rice has an even more important effect: it can increase the chances of a cultivator's offspring becoming cultivators, and it can also enhance the cultivation talent of the cultivator's offspring.

Of course, not all spirit grains and spirit rice have this effect; for some spirit grains and spirit rice, this effect is almost negligible.

The effect of blood essence rice is very obvious.

Before its destruction, the Burning Flame Sect also cultivated a spiritual plant called Spirit Source Valley.

Lingyuan Valley can also increase the chances of a cultivator's descendants becoming cultivators, and enhance their cultivation talent.

However, Lingyuan Valley also disappeared completely with the destruction of the Burning Flame Sect, and now not a single one can be found.

(End of this chapter)