Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Lu Cheng'an possesses exceptional strength and talent, but he has only recently broken through to the Golden Core realm, and currently only has the cultivation level of the mid-stage Golden Core.

It's really too strange that the Lu family has produced a third-tier perfected demon beast and a third-tier late-stage demon beast in succession.

After exchanging a glance, the female cultivator in the green dress and the young man in the gray robe instantly abandoned their attack on Que Yun and the others. They then concealed themselves among the black-patterned locust swarm and urged the swarm to rush towards the Tianyan Sect.

The gray-robed youth was a cultivator who controlled the Black-Striped Sky Locusts within the Lu family's territory. He could sense that the Lu family's cultivators intended to drive them into the territory of the Heavenly Flame Sect.

He didn't know why the Lu family did this, but it suited their wishes perfectly.

Once they control these Black-Striped Sky Locusts to slaughter everyone in the Heavenly Flame Sect and devour and refine all the wealth accumulated by the sect over the years, these Black-Striped Sky Locusts will soon be able to break through to the mid-stage of the third rank, or even the late-stage of the third rank.

At that time, relying on the power of these black-striped locusts, destroying the Lu family would not be a difficult task.

The swarm of black-striped locusts is now very close to the Tianyan Sect. The three Golden Core cultivators of the Tianyan Sect, Chongxu, Longkong, and Wan Xianyun, have long since noticed the presence of the swarm.

They also witnessed the battle between Qinghong and other cultivators, but they dared not leave the mountain gate even for a moment.

Because neither the Qinghong and other demonic beasts, nor the black-patterned locust swarm led by the female cultivator in the green dress and the young man in the gray robe, were things that their Tianyan Sect could not handle.

Chongxu has now sent a message to Kongjian Zhenren of the Divine Sword Sect, hoping to receive their help.

The Divine Sword Sect and the Heavenly Flame Sect are adjacent. The Divine Sword Sect is slightly stronger than the Heavenly Flame Sect, but not by much.

There are no late-stage Golden Core cultivators stationed within the Divine Sword Sect.

The situation at the Divine Sword Sect is not particularly good either, as Black-striped Locusts have also appeared within its territory.

The Divine Sword Sect is currently preoccupied with its own problems and naturally has no energy left to support the Heavenly Flame Sect.

After receiving the news of Kongjian Zhenren's rejection, Chongxu felt somewhat desperate.

In the end, they had no choice but to heed the advice of Master Longxiang and seek help from the Lu family.

Chongxu sent his plea for help to Lu Chengan.

The Tianyan Sect and the Lu family have a deep connection, and they know very well that Lu Cheng'an is the one who truly holds power in the Lu family!

Before Master Chongxu sent the message, Lu Chengping had already informed Lu Chengan about the situation of the Black-striped Locust swarm.

Originally, Lu Chengping did not intend to disturb Lu Chengan, as he did not want to disturb Lu Chengan's cultivation.

However, the appearance of the female cultivator in the green dress and the young man in the gray robe, both late-stage Golden Core cultivators, proved that the appearance of these black-striped locusts was very likely related to an even more powerful force.

Although Liu Miaozhen, the sect leader of the Linggu Sect, is powerful, she is still slightly weaker than Lu Cheng'an.

Moreover, since these events are now taking place within the Lu family's territory, Lu Cheng'an must be informed.

After receiving Lu Chengping's message, Lu Cheng'an immediately left the underground lava river of the Burning Flame Mountains and sped towards the location of the Heavenly Flame Sect's mountain gate.

Although the demonic beasts like Qinghong are quite powerful, those Black-Striped Sky Locusts may have involved cultivators from the Sacred Heart Sect.

The Sacred Heart Sect is a Nascent Soul sect, and Golden Core cultivators from this sect must also be exceptionally strong.

The female cultivator in the green dress and the young man in the gray robe were both at the late Golden Core stage. With such cultivation levels, coupled with the powerful Black-Striped Sky Locusts, Qing Hong and the other demonic beasts and spirit race members might not be a match for them.

Not long after Lu Cheng'an left the underground magma river, he received a message from Chongxu.

After seeing Chongxu's distress message, he found it somewhat laughable, but he also understood that Chongxu and the other cultivators of the Tianyan Sect must have been desperate, otherwise they would not have asked him for help.

Although Lu Cheng'an had decided to take advantage of the Black-striped Locust crisis to destroy the Tianyan Sect in one fell swoop, he still gave hope to Chongxu and other cultivators of the Tianyan Sect.

He sent a message to Chongxu, telling him to lead the Lu family's cultivators to provide support, and to let them hold out for a while.

Judging from the strength that the Black-Striped Sky Locusts have shown so far, once they launch an attack on the Heavenly Flame Sect, the Heavenly Flame Sect will not be able to hold out for long.

However, Lu Cheng'an naturally ignored all of this. After replying to Chongxu, he continued to speed towards the Tianyan Sect.

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

At this moment, under the control of the female cultivator in the green dress and the young man in the gray robe, both late-stage Golden Core cultivators, the black-striped locusts had already rushed to the welcoming peak outside the Tianyan Sect's mountain gate.

At this time, Chongxu and other Tianyan Sect cultivators had already activated the Tianyan Sect's mountain-protecting formation, hoping to rely on the power of the formation to withstand the Black-Striped Locust's attack for a period of time until the Lu family cultivators came to their rescue.

The female cultivator in the green dress hid in the shadows. She took out her short flute, and as the clear flute music rang out, a dense swarm of black-striped locusts roared and charged toward the mountain gate of the Heavenly Flame Sect.

The gray-robed youth took out a dark brown command flag. As he activated the flag, wisps of dark brown spiritual light surged out from it.

These dark brown spiritual lights fell upon the third-tier Black-striped Sky Locusts, as well as a few second-tier perfect-stage Black-striped Sky Locusts.

After refining the power contained in the dark brown spiritual light, the aura of these black-striped locusts immediately surged.

A black vortex emerged from the body of a Black-Striped Sky Locust at the second-stage perfect realm. The surrounding Black-Striped Sky Locusts, drawn by the power of the vortex, directly transformed into resources for this second-stage perfect realm Black-Striped Sky Locust to improve its cultivation.

The vortex around this black-striped locust lasted for about half a quarter of an hour, during which time it devoured countless other black-striped locusts.

After the black vortex disappeared, the Black-Striped Sky Locust, which was at the second-stage perfect realm, broke through to the early stage of the third stage.

At the same time, black vortexes also appeared around the bodies of two early-stage third-tier Black-striped Sky Locusts.

Half a moment later, one of the two early-stage third-tier black-striped locusts successfully broke through to the mid-stage third-tier, while the other became the resources for the mid-stage third-tier black-striped locust to improve its cultivation.

Hidden in the shadows, the demonic beasts like Queyun were extremely shocked when they witnessed the changes in these black-striped locusts!

The speed at which these Black-Striped Sky Locusts are improving their cultivation is simply too fast. If they continue to improve at this rate, it probably won't be long before the swarm of Black-Striped Sky Locusts can produce fourth-order Black-Striped Sky Locusts comparable to Nascent Soul cultivators.

Before the monsters like Queyun could recover from their shock, the swarm of black-striped locusts had already covered the entire Welcoming Peak outside the Tianyan Sect's mountain gate.

Although the Welcoming Peak of the Heavenly Flame Sect is located outside the mountain gate, it serves as the face of the sect, and the sect has put considerable effort into its design. A third-tier spiritual vein runs along its summit, and it cultivates numerous high-quality spiritual plants.

However, after these black-striped locusts covered the welcoming peak of the Tianyan Sect, in just a short while, the hundred-zhang-high welcoming peak was completely devoured, and even the mountain peak shrank by half.

"What should we do? How can we possibly stop such a ferocious demonic insect with our strength?"

Master Chongxu's face was filled with panic. There were already mid-stage third-order demonic insects among the swarm of demonic insects, comparable to Golden Core cultivators.

Moreover, there are two late-stage Golden Core cultivators hidden in the shadows, and they are absolutely no match for the attacks of these demonic insects.

"Sect Master, I'm afraid we won't be able to wait for the Lu family's rescue!"

Master Longxiang's face was solemn. He looked at Master Chongxu and said in a deep voice, "Now let Yuze leave the mountain gate immediately with the sect's books and treasures. If he can escape successfully, our Tianyan Sect will still have hope of rising again!"

"The two of us will fight our way out of the mountain gate now, leaving Xianyun to stay behind and maintain the protective array, buying Yuze more time to escape!"

Yin Yuze's cultivation level is at the peak of Foundation Establishment. He is the direct grandson of True Person Chongxu and is the most promising Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Tianyan Sect to break through to the Golden Core realm.

Master Longxiang had no selfish motives whatsoever. He gave Yin Yuze a chance to escape because he felt that Yin Yuze had a high chance of breaking through to the Golden Core realm.

If Yin Yuze can escape successfully, then there is still a possibility of rebuilding the Tianyan Sect!

"Please don't blame me for what I did before, Junior Brother Longxiang. I was out of my mind and that's why I did those things!"

Master Chongxu gave Master Longxiang a guilty smile. After taking a deep breath, he turned to Yin Yuze behind him and said, "You have heard what your Grandmaster Longxiang said. Keep this storage ring safe and escape with all your might. The future revival of the sect depends entirely on you!"

"Grandfather, Grandmaster Uncle!"

Yin Yuze's eyes reddened slightly. He couldn't understand why their Tianyan Sect would suddenly face the crisis of its destruction.

"Stop talking nonsense and leave now. We can't buy you much time to escape!" Master Chongxu said in a deep voice.

"Grandfather, Grandmaster Uncle, please take care!"

Yin Yuze took a deep breath, quickly composed himself, and then quietly left from behind the Tianyan Sect's mountain gate.

After boosting the morale of the sect's cultivators, the two Golden Core cultivators, Chongxu and Longxiang, rushed out of the mountain gate and attacked the Black-Striped Sky Locusts.

At this moment, the black-striped locusts were attacking the protective array of the Tianyan Sect.

The Heavenly Flame Sect's protective mountain array is of the highest grade, the third rank. Even though the Heavenly Flame Sect cannot fully activate the power of the protective mountain array now, it can still withstand the attacks of cultivators at the Golden Core Perfection stage.

However, this protective mountain formation is not very effective against demonic insects like the Black-Striped Sky Locust, because their mouthparts can easily tear apart the defensive barrier formed by the Heavenly Flame Sect's protective mountain formation.

This was also the main reason why Master Longxiang told Yin Yuze to escape quickly.

The sect's protective formation couldn't hold for long. Once the formation broke, and the black-striped locusts attacked the mountain gate, none of the Tianyan Sect's cultivators would survive.

"kill!"

Chongxu and Longxiang both let out a furious roar, activating their desperate secret techniques to maximize their combat power, prepared to face death.

Their target was the Black-Striped Sky Locust that had just broken through to the mid-stage of the third rank. This Black-Striped Sky Locust was the most powerful, and it also caused the most damage to the mountain-protecting formation.

Both Chongxu and Longxiang were at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm. When they used their secret technique together, they were comparable to cultivators at the late-stage of the Golden Core realm.

However, it was by no means an easy task for them to kill the mid-stage third-tier Black-striped Sky Locust in the swarm, and there were also two late-stage Golden Core cultivators hidden in the swarm.

Although Chongxu and Longxiang fought desperately, they could only hold off the Black-Striped Sky Locusts for a little over a quarter of an hour before dying one after another at the hands of the swarm.

After Chongxu and Longxiang died one after another, the Black-Striped Sky Locusts slowed down their attack on the Tianyan Sect's protective formation, wanting to devour the two men's corpses.

The physical body of a Golden Core cultivator is the best treasure to help the Black-Striped Sky Locust improve its cultivation. If that mid-stage third-tier Black-Striped Sky Locust were to devour the bodies of Chongxu and Longxiang, it might break through to the late stage of the third tier in a very short time.

Lu Chengping was quite familiar with the Black-Striped Sky Locust. He had already instructed the demon beasts such as Queyun and Qinghong that if Chongxu and Longxiang died, their bodies must not fall into the mouths of the Black-Striped Sky Locust.

Qinghong and Queyun, along with other demonic beasts, were quite willing to plunder the corpses of Golden Core cultivators.

Because the physical bodies of human Golden Core cultivators are not only effective against the Black-Striped Sky Locust, but also have an excellent effect on demonic beasts.

Que Yun was able to successfully break through to the middle stage of the third rank because he devoured and refined the body of a cultivator in the early stage of the Golden Core realm.

As Qinghong and Queyun made their move, the female cultivator in the green dress and the young man in the gray robe, who were hiding in the shadows, also immediately attacked Qinghong, Queyun, and the other demonic beasts.

Although Qing Hong possessed the cultivation of the third-order perfect realm, surpassing the green-skirted female cultivator and the gray-robed youth by one realm, his strength was not significantly greater than theirs.

When faced with the intervention of the two, Qinghong, Queyun, and other demonic beasts were unable to spare any strength to fight for the corpses of Chongxu and Longxiang.

Inside the protective array of the Tianyan Sect, Wan Xianyun and other Tianyan Sect cultivators couldn't help but show deep sorrow upon seeing the scene outside.

Chongxu and Longxiang, two Golden Core cultivators, paid the ultimate price for their sect. Now, even in death, their bodies are being fought over by the Black-Striped Sky Locust and third-tier demonic beasts!

As the only remaining Golden Core cultivator in the Tianyan Sect, Wan Xianyun had very little time to grieve.

While the third-tier Black-Striped Sky Locusts were vying to devour the corpses of Chongxu and Longxiang, numerous first- and second-tier Black-Striped Sky Locusts continued to attack the Tianyan Sect's protective mountain formation.

This is the order given by the female cultivator in the green dress and the young man in the gray robe!

The Heavenly Flame Sect must possess a vast amount of wealth. If they were to breach the sect's gates and allow these Black-Striped Sky Locusts to devour all the wealth accumulated over the years, it would be entirely possible for them to breed Black-Striped Sky Locusts at the third-order perfect realm!

Just as Lu Chengping was hesitating about whether or not to let Qingyu and the other demonic beasts join the battle, he suddenly sensed the arrival of Lu Chengan.

Lu Cheng'an was very fast; almost the instant Lu Chengping noticed his arrival, Lu Cheng'an appeared beside him.

"Qingyu, you all join in!" Lu Cheng'an said. (End of Chapter)