Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

The location of the Tianyan Sect's mountain gate is quite far from the Lu family's. Although the Lu family has now occupied the mountain gate, Lu Chengping has sealed it off and left Queyun to guard it alone, without developing it.

This is because the Lu family's current strength is limited, and they cannot spare the manpower to manage this spiritual land at such a great distance.

The spiritual lands occupied by the Tianyan Sect are not limited to the mountain gate; there are also several spiritual peaks with third-order spiritual veins.

The Lu family can't even develop the spiritual peaks within the Tianyan Sect's mountain gate, let alone other spiritual peaks containing third-order spiritual veins.

Once Lu Jingkun refines his natal magic weapon, the Mountain-Driving Whip, and successfully cultivates the minor supernatural power of Mountain Driving, this situation will be able to change.

At that time, Lu Jingkun was able to use his magic weapon, the Mountain-Moving Whip, and his minor supernatural powers to move all these spiritual peaks to the Lu family's mountain gate.

The Mountain-Driving Whip is quite difficult to refine, and the materials used in its refinement are also quite precious.

Lu Cheng'an had been waiting for Lu Jingkun to break through to the Golden Core realm so that he could use Lu Jingkun to renovate the Lu family's mountain gate.

Therefore, Lu Cheng'an had already asked his family to help collect materials for refining the Mountain-Driving Whip, and now the Lu family has collected enough materials to refine the Mountain-Driving Whip.

Now, as long as Lu Cheng'an is willing to refine the Mountain-Driving Whip, he can refine this magic weapon at any time.

Because Lu Cheng'an is currently in seclusion, Lu Jingkun naturally did not seek Lu Cheng'an's help in refining his natal magic weapon at this time.

He exchanged some insights on cultivation with Lu Chengping, and then together they improved the family's protective mountain array, the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array.

Therefore, Lu Jingkun and Lu Chengping worked together to move several more sacred peaks.

The Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array is of a high grade of five. In addition to the original nine main spirit peaks, it also requires a large number of auxiliary spirit peaks for protection.

The more auxiliary spirit peaks there are, the more powerful the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array will be.

Although Lu Chengping and Lu Jingkun are currently only at the early stage of the Golden Core realm, the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Formation that they set up can withstand the attack of a Golden Core Perfection realm cultivator if fully activated.

This is not only related to the two people's expertise in spirit arrays, but also to the extraordinary power of the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array itself.

Lu Jingkun and Lu Chengping spent nearly half a year working on the mountain-protecting formation.

After modifying the family's protective mountain formation, Lu Jingkun and his Daoist partner Jiang Hongmian spent some time together.

Jiang Hongmian was originally a rogue cultivator. Her talent for cultivation was not top-notch, but few cultivators in the Lu family could match her temperament.

After all, Jiang Hongmian is a ruthless person who broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm without relying on Foundation Establishment spiritual objects!
In recent years, after she became a Daoist couple with Lu Jingkun, her cultivation conditions have improved a lot, and at least she no longer has to worry about cultivation resources.

She cultivated more diligently than the other cultivators in the Lu family. When she married Lu Jingkun, her cultivation had just broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

After so many years of arduous cultivation, her cultivation level has now broken through to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.

Jiang Hongmian has laid an extremely solid foundation, and there is a high probability that she will be able to break through to the Golden Core realm in the future.

During this intimate moment between Lu Jingkun and Jiang Hongmian, the couple had already engaged in dual cultivation.

Jiang Hongmian's cultivation level is still at the Foundation Establishment stage. She and Lu Jingkun, who has already broken through to the Golden Core stage, will receive greater benefits from dual cultivation.

After their tender time together, Lu Jingkun returned to his cave and began to cultivate the minor supernatural power of driving away mountains.

The minor supernatural power of driving mountains is not only able to drive spiritual peaks in conjunction with the magic weapon Mountain-Driving Whip, but it can also unleash extremely terrifying power when used together.

The combined power of the two can cause great damage to a cultivator's physical body.

If a Golden Core cultivator's physical defense is not strong enough, the combined attack of the two can shatter the cultivator's body into pieces.

After all, the power to move mountains is extremely terrifying!

Although the power of the Lesser Divine Eye is formidable, it is also quite difficult to master.

Even with Lu Jingkun's high level of comprehension, it would be no easy task to master the minor supernatural power of driving mountains in a short period of time.

During this period, Lu Wenxing consolidated his strength completely. After that, he did not go into seclusion to cultivate, but began to handle various family affairs.

Lu Wenxing's focus was on finding a magical artifact capable of storing large quantities of water.

The cultivation worlds of Qingzhou, Hezhou, and Yanzhou have also experienced droughts before, especially the cultivation world of Yanzhou, which is very close to the vast desert.

Because there are also many magical artifacts in the cultivation world that can store water.

After searching for a while, Lu Wenxing also found some magical artifacts of this type, but he was not particularly satisfied with the water storage capacity of these artifacts.

After all, they were going to the distant Yuanzhou and Lianzhou cultivation worlds to fetch water. If these magical artifacts didn't store enough water, then the round trip wouldn't be worthwhile.

After Lu Wenxing emerged from seclusion, Lu Chengping left the Lu family with his two Daoist partners and returned to the Linggu Sect.

Because Lu Chengping wanted to help the Lu family gather information from the outside world.

Although the Lu family has been developing rapidly in recent years, it has only recently risen to prominence and its foundation is still relatively shallow.

Especially in terms of connections with Golden Core cultivators within the Ancient Desolate Sect, it certainly cannot compare to a sect with a long history like the Spirit Gu Sect.

After returning to the Spirit Gu Sect with his two Daoist partners, Lu Chengping briefly reported the situation of the Lu family to Liu Miaozhen, and then took out the Golden Locust Gu that he had been cultivating during this period.

When Lu Chengping first arrived at the Lu family, the Golden Locust Gu he cultivated was not even at the second rank, but now the Golden Locust Gu he cultivated has reached the perfect second rank.

The Golden Locust Gu, currently at the second-tier perfect stage, is in a dormant state. Once this dormancy period ends, there is a high chance it will break through to the third tier.

The main reason why Lu Chengping's Golden Locust Gu broke through in such a short time was that it devoured a large number of Black-striped Sky Locusts.

The Lu family still has a large number of Black-striped Sky Locust corpses stored up, which is exactly what the Spirit Gu Sect needs.

Therefore, Lu Chengping had another mission upon returning to the Linggu Sect: to successfully trade the corpses of the Black-striped Sky Locusts accumulated by the Lu family to the Linggu Sect.

The Linggu Sect and the Lu family had a good relationship, and with Lu Chengping acting as an intermediary, the Lu family's stored corpses of Black-Striped Sky Locusts were traded smoothly with the Linggu Sect. These Black-Striped Sky Locusts brought the Lu family a considerable profit, and if the Linggu Sect could use these Black-Striped Sky Locusts to cultivate more high-level Golden Locust Gu, they could earn even more.

After facilitating the deal between the Lu family and the Linggu Sect, Lu Chengping began to inquire with the Golden Core cultivators of the Linggu Sect about the plans of the Sacred Heart Sect and the Desolate Ancient Sect, the two Nascent Soul sects.

The Ancient Desolate Sect is far weaker than the Sacred Heart Sect, but it does not fight alone; it has allied sects.

Currently, the Ancient Desolate Sect has reached preliminary cooperation agreements with two other Nascent Soul sects in the Qingzhou cultivation world.

Even so, the Ancient Desolate Sect, the Haoyang Sect, and the Suspended Mirror Sect were no match for the Sacred Heart Sect.

They are now contacting the three major sects in the cultivation world of Hezhou: Yaoxian Valley, Ziyang Sect, and Tianjian Sect, hoping to reach a cooperation agreement with these three sects to jointly resist the attack of Shengxin Sect.

There are also three Nascent Soul sects in the cultivation world of Hezhou, among which the most powerful is the Heavenly Sword Sect.

The Heavenly Sword Sect has seven Nascent Soul cultivators, only one of whom is at the Nascent Soul Perfection stage.

Next is the Ziyang Sect, with five Nascent Soul cultivators; the weakest is the Medicine Immortal Valley, with four Nascent Soul cultivators.

These three Nascent Soul sects have a total of sixteen Nascent Soul cultivators, which is on par with the Sacred Heart Sect in terms of numbers.

If we add the Nascent Soul cultivators from the three sects of the Desolate Ancient Sect in the Qingzhou cultivation world, the number of Nascent Soul cultivators from the six sects far exceeds that of the Sacred Heart Sect.

However, the strength of the Nascent Soul cultivators of the six sects of the Desolate Ancient Sect is not comparable to that of the Sacred Heart Sect. All nine saints of the Sacred Heart Sect are at or above the mid-Nascent Soul stage.

Besides the Holy Heart Ancestor, a cultivator at the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm, there are three other cultivators at the late Nascent Soul Realm!

The Sacred Heart Sect alone might not be able to withstand the attack of the six sects of the Ancient Desolate Sect, but it is also impossible for the six sects of the Ancient Desolate Sect to destroy the Sacred Heart Sect.

Add to that the demonic beasts of the Hong'e Mountains; if they were to join forces with the Sacred Heart Sect, it would be even more difficult for the six sects of the Ancient Desolate Sect to deal with them.

The three sects of the Desolate Ancient Sect in Qingzhou's cultivation world want to unite with the three sects of the Medicine Immortal Valley in Hezhou's cultivation world, mainly to resist the impact of the Sacred Heart Sect and the demonic beasts of the Hong'e Mountains.

After all, the news that the Butterfly Demon King was about to return to the Hong'e Mountains had spread like wildfire. If this news was true, the Butterfly Demon King and the Holy Heart Ancestor would possess extremely terrifying power when they joined forces.

Even if the six sects of the Ancient Desolate Sect cooperate, they may not be able to withstand the onslaught from the Sacred Heart Sect and the demonic beasts of the Hong'e Mountains.

After Lu Chengping learned of this information from the Linggu Sect, he immediately relayed it to the Lu family.

Lu Wenxing did not spread the news widely within the Lu family. He only told a few high-ranking cultivators in the Lu family, and also informed the Dan Ding Sect.

Lu Wenxing knew about the relationship between Lu Chengan and Shi Ningyu; now, their Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect were related by marriage.

In recent years, the strength of the Dan Ding Sect has been steadily improving, but the speed of its improvement is far slower than that of the Lu family.

Not long after Lu Jingkun and Lu Wenxing broke through to the Golden Core realm, Wu Qing'an, the second elder of the Dan Ding Sect, also successfully broke through to the Golden Core realm with the help of the Golden Core left by Shi Ningyu, becoming the third Golden Core cultivator in the Dan Ding Sect.

However, apart from Wu Qing'an, among the remaining Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Dan Ding Sect, only Liu Muyuan has the hope of breaking through to the Golden Core realm.

Liu Muyuan is Shi Mingxin's apprentice. He has good talent and also has good cultivation resources.

His cultivation has now broken through to the Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm, but he has only recently broken through to this realm. He doesn't know how many years it will take to advance to become a Golden Core cultivator.

Besides Liu Muyuan, the only other cultivator in the Dan Ding Sect at the Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm is their elder, Liu Xiyun.

When Lu Cheng'an was still at the Qi Refining stage, Liu Xiyun was the Grand Elder of the Dan Ding Sect. At that time, both she and Wu Qing'an were at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

Liu Xiyun's talent for cultivation is far inferior to Wu Qing'an's. Wu Qing'an has successfully broken through to the Golden Core realm, but Liu Xiyun is still stuck at the Foundation Establishment realm, and she is not very confident in breaking through to the Golden Core realm.

Xu Shao, whom Lu Chengan had previously befriended at the Dan Ding Sect, was not particularly bad at cultivation, and his current cultivation level was in the late Foundation Establishment stage.

Xu Shao's master is Wu Qing'an. With Wu Qing'an's help, he may have a chance to break through to the Golden Core realm in the future.

After informing the Dan Ding Sect of this news, Lu Wenxing continued to inquire about magical artifacts capable of storing large amounts of water.

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

That year, not a drop of rain fell within the territory of the Desolate Ancient Sect. Within the territory of the Lu family, although Lu Wenxing was doing his best to rescue the mortals and low-level cultivators, many mortals and low-level cultivators still died.

At this time, heretical cultivators within the territory of the Sacred Heart Sect also began to frequently operate within the territory of the Desolate Ancient Sect. They did not take the initiative to attack the cultivators within the territory of the Desolate Ancient Sect, but instead began to bewitch those low-level cultivators, making them fight each other and constantly wear down the power of the low-level cultivators of the Desolate Ancient Sect.

The heretical cultivators within the Sacred Heart Sect did not abandon the corpses of the low-level cultivators and mortals who had died. They used these corpses to cultivate heretical techniques and refine heretical magical artifacts.

After discussing with Shi Mingxin, Lu Wenxing and Shi Mingxin decided to join forces to control the cultivators within their respective territories.

On the surface, the Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect only have five Golden Core cultivators: Lu Wenxing, Lu Jingkun, Lu Chengan, Shi Mingxin, and Wu Qingan. However, in secret, there are also ten third-tier spirit race and demon beasts, including Ling Xuan and Qing Hong.

The area occupied by the Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect is not very large. With so many Golden Core Realm warriors in charge of control, it can greatly prevent evil cultivators from causing trouble within the territory of the Sacred Heart Sect.

After suffering losses within the territories of the Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect, those heretical cultivators realized the power of the Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect, and thus withdrew from the Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect, all gathering at the nearby Divine Sword Sect.

The Divine Sword Sect is not weak. In recent years, it has added another Golden Core cultivator, bringing the total number of Golden Core cultivators in the sect to six.

Of the six Golden Core cultivators in the Divine Sword Sect, two are at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, while the remaining four are at the early-stage of the Golden Core realm.

Those heretical cultivators gathered in the territory of the Divine Sword Sect. Although the six Golden Core cultivators of the Divine Sword Sect were doing their best to deal with them, they were still somewhat exhausted.

This is because those heretical cultivators did not cause trouble openly, but rather instigated it secretly.

The reason why ordinary people and low-level cultivators were fooled is because their current situation is really too bad.

Lu Wenxing did not pay much attention to the affairs of the Divine Sword Sect. After more than a year of effort, he mobilized the power of his family to search for many magical artifacts for storing water.

However, these magical artifacts can only store a limited amount of water. Qingzhou is too far from Yuanzhou and Lianzhou, so it would be a waste to carry such artifacts to fetch water.

The Spirit Gu Sect learned of the Lu family's plans through Lu Chengping, and Liu Miaozhen, in turn, began searching for magical artifacts capable of storing large quantities of water, just like the Lu family. (End of Chapter)