Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Lu Cheng'an had already refined a set of Yinming Soul-Shattering Needles before this, and now he had stored that set of Yinming Soul-Shattering Needles in his sea of ​​consciousness to nurture it, but he had not yet had time to refine this magic weapon.

The Yinming Soul-Shattering Needles he is currently refining are for Shi Ningyu.

Once the two of them successfully refine the Yinming Soul-Shattering Needle, if the Sacred Heart Sect launches an attack on the Ancient Desolate Sect in the future, and if the cultivators of the Sacred Heart Sect dare to attack the Lu family, they can rely on the Yinming Soul-Shattering Needle as a magic weapon to severely injure or even destroy the soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Lu Cheng'an's refining of the Yinming Soul-Shattering Needle went very smoothly this time. After successfully refining the Yinming Soul-Shattering Needle, he sent a message to Shi Ningyu, asking her to come and pick it up.

During this period, Shi Ningyu had been refining third-tier pills, which were mainly for the Lu family and the Golden Core cultivators of the Dan Ding Sect.

Excluding third-tier demonic beasts like Queyun and Qinghong, the Lu family and Dan Ding Sect now have a total of six Golden Core cultivators, and that doesn't even include Lu Chengping.

Refining third-tier pills is quite difficult. After Shi Mingxin's cultivation broke through to the Golden Core realm, he soon became a third-tier low-grade alchemist.

However, the number of third-tier pills that can be refined is very limited. Therefore, the pills needed for cultivation by the Golden Core cultivators of the Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect are all purchased from outside.

Shi Ningyu's alchemy skills were far superior to Shi Mingxin's. After she made time, she began to refine third-tier pills.

The materials for refining third-order pills were jointly provided by the Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect, but the Lu family provided the majority of the materials.

The Lu family's wealth has now surpassed that of the Dan Ding Sect.

Besides the rapid development of the Lu family in recent years, there is another very important reason: the Lu family has destroyed a lot of cultivation forces.

In particular, the Golden Core Sect was destroyed by the Lu family, and all the resources accumulated by the Heavenly Flame Sect over the years fell into the hands of the Lu family.

After receiving Lu Cheng'an's message, Shi Ningyu temporarily stopped refining pills and hurriedly went to the Lu family to retrieve the Yinming Shattering Soul Needle that Lu Cheng'an had just refined.

"Ningyu, you must refine this soul-attacking magic weapon carefully. Not long ago, the family received news from the Ancient Desolate Sect that True Person Kushi's cultivation had broken through to the Nascent Soul realm; the Sacred Heart Sect has also cultivated True Person Tianhuang and True Person Qiandu to the Nascent Soul realm!"

These messages were all sent to the Lu family by Lu Chengyue.

Lu Chengyue's cultivation has now broken through to the Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm. She is the personal disciple of Master Kushi. Judging from the talent she has shown so far, it is a sure thing that she will break through to the Golden Core Realm in the future.

After Master Kushi successfully broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, Lu Chengyue and other disciples of Master Kushi also rose in status within the Desolate Ancient Sect, which is why Lu Chengyue was able to learn about this news.

Tianhuang Zhenren and Qiandu Zhenren were both rogue cultivators. They accepted the recruitment of the Sacred Heart Sect and received its training, which enabled them to successfully break through to the Nascent Soul realm.

The Thousand Poisons True Man is quite far from the Desolate Ancient Sect. His breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm will not have any impact on the Desolate Ancient Sect.

However, True Man Tianhuang was the main force behind the attack on the Ancient Desolate Sect.

The Heavenly Locust Master is very difficult to deal with. After his cultivation broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, the Black-Striped Heavenly Locust Mother Worm he controlled also broke through to the early stage of the fourth rank.

The Heavenly Locust Master himself is not particularly strong, but if he were to combine his army of Black-Striped Heavenly Locusts with him, even a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator might not be his match.

The cultivators, including Master Tianhuang, have only recently broken through to the Nascent Soul realm, and they are currently in seclusion to consolidate their cultivation.

After they break through their cultivation, the Sacred Heart Sect may launch an attack on the surrounding Nascent Soul forces.

"Don't worry, Brother An, I will refine the Yinming Soul-Shattering Needle as soon as possible!" Shi Ningyu said in a deep voice.

Because of the Sacred Heart Sect, Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu did not talk for very long.

After obtaining the Yinming Soul-Shattering Needle from Lu Cheng'an, Shi Ningyu returned to the Dan Ding Sect.

Once she successfully refines the Yinming Shattering Soul Needle, she will start refining the third-tier pill.

After Shi Ningyu left, Lu Cheng'an announced that he would go into seclusion again.

During this seclusion, he planned to rely on the Black Fiend Fruit and other spiritual items he obtained from the Black Sand Father and Son to temper his body and cultivate the True Yang Body Refining Technique, a method for tempering the body.

When Lu Cheng'an went to the Netherworld River to trade with the Black Sand Father and Son for materials to refine the Yinming Soul-Shattering Needle, he also purchased some spiritual items from them to temper the ghost body.

These treasures for tempering ghost bodies are extremely yin in nature. Not only can they not temper the physical bodies of human cultivators, but they will also cause great damage to the physical bodies of human cultivators.

Lu Cheng'an purchased these treasures mainly because of the special nature of the True Yang Body Refining Technique, which is extremely powerful and requires the refinement of the sun's power to temper the physical body.

If one is not careful, their physical body may be burned by the power of the Heavenly Sun.

The Black Fiend Fruit and other treasures for tempering the ghost body are extremely yin objects. Lu Cheng'an wanted to see if these extremely yin objects could neutralize the power of the sun.

If his speculation comes true, then the danger of cultivating the True Yang Body Refining Technique will be greatly reduced.

After announcing his seclusion, Lu Cheng'an devoted himself to studying the cultivation method of the True Yang Body Refining Technique before beginning to practice it.

After Lu Cheng'an circulated the True Yang Body Refining Technique, a surge of solar power from the heavens and earth was absorbed into his physical body.

The power of the sun was extremely hot. After entering Lu Cheng'an's body, this power of the sun made Lu Cheng'an feel a long-lost burning sensation.

As the True Yang Body Refining Technique was activated, the power of the sun was slowly broken down and refined into Lu Cheng'an's physical body.

"The process of refining the power of the sun is not as dangerous as described in the cultivation technique, and I can completely bear the pain!"

Lu Cheng'an silently sensed it for a moment, and then a look of joy appeared on his face.

Based on his current cultivation progress, he should have no problem cultivating the True Yang Body Refining Technique.

Once his physical strength increases, it will also nourish his soul, at which point his soul strength will also increase.

When a Golden Core cultivator breaks through to the Nascent Soul realm, the stronger their physical body and soul, the higher the quality of their cultivated magical power, and the greater their chances of successfully breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm.

After a moment, Lu Cheng'an suppressed his excitement and continued to cultivate the True Yang Body Refining Technique.

Although Lu Cheng'an had not practiced any special body-refining techniques before, he had already reached the late stage of the Golden Core realm, and his physical body had undergone a lot of tempering, so his strength was not weak.

Therefore, when he first began practicing the True Yang Body Refining Technique, he progressed quite quickly in this body refining method. In less than a year, he condensed three golden sun patterns within his physical body.

Three golden sun patterns signify that the True Yang Body Refining Technique has been cultivated to the second level of perfection. To cultivate the True Yang Body Refining Technique to the third level of perfection, one needs to condense six golden sun patterns within the physical body.

The physical strength corresponding to the different levels of the True Yang Body Refining Technique also corresponds to the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment realms, respectively.

If Lu Cheng'an were to condense four golden sun patterns within his physical body, it would mean that he had used the True Yang Body Refining Technique to elevate his physical strength to a level comparable to that of a cultivator in the early Golden Core stage.

Lu Cheng'an has been stuck condensing the fourth solar golden pattern for nearly three months, during which time he has refined a great deal of solar power.

However, all of this power was either integrated into his physical body or absorbed by the previous three golden sun patterns. The solar power accumulated in his body was still not enough to allow him to condense the fourth golden sun pattern.

Although this took Lu Cheng'an a lot of time, he never thought of giving up on refining the fourth golden sun pattern.

He had a feeling that if he successfully condensed the fourth golden sun pattern, his strength would be greatly enhanced.

While Lu Cheng'an was diligently cultivating the True Yang Body Refining Technique in his cave, the Lu family also underwent significant changes.

Lu Jingkun had successfully refined the Mountain-Driving Whip, his natal magic weapon that Lu Chengan had helped him to refine. After that, he sent a message to Lu Chengping, asking him to return to the family and work with him to rearrange the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Formation.

Over such a long period of time, Lu Jingkun had already moved all the spiritual peaks of the Tianyan Sect to the Lu family's mountain gate.

These spiritual peaks were moved by Lu Jingkun using his magic weapon, the Mountain-Moving Whip, and minor supernatural powers, without harming their spiritual essence.

After these spiritual peaks were moved into the Lu family, Lu Jingkun used the methods recorded in his cultivation technique to quickly connect them with the earth's energy, allowing these spiritual peaks to completely merge with the Lu family's earth veins.

Only after Lu Jingkun moved all the relocatable spiritual peaks within the territory into the Lu family's mountain gate did he and Lu Chengping work together to modify the family's protective mountain formation.

Lu Chengping and Lu Jingkun were both only at the early stage of the Golden Core realm. Although their skills in spirit arrays were quite remarkable, even with their combined efforts, they could only raise the grade of the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array to the upper third rank.

However, after Lu Jingkun moved many spiritual peaks into the Lu family's mountain gate, the power of the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Array was greatly enhanced.

Although the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Array is only of the third-tier high-grade level, once fully activated, it forms a defense that is virtually impossible for cultivators at the Golden Core stage to open.

The attack power released by the third-grade superior Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Array is also extremely powerful, capable of threatening cultivators at the Golden Core Perfection realm.

After Lu Jingkun and his companion upgraded the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Array to the third-tier high-grade, the spiritual energy within the Lu family's mountain gate was greatly enhanced.

The most obvious example of this is blood-sperm rice!

The Lu family has been cultivating blood essence rice for decades. Since Lu Jingtong developed fertilizer for cultivating blood essence rice, the condition of the blood essence rice cultivated by the Lu family has been getting better and better.

As Lu Jingkun moved more and more spiritual peaks into the Lu family's mountain gate, the spiritual energy within the Lu family's mountain gate became increasingly abundant, which caused the spiritual plants planted by the Lu family to grow better and better.

After the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array was upgraded to the third-tier superior grade, the spiritual energy contained within the Lu family's mountain gate reached its peak.

The blood rice, which was already close to maturity, matured completely at this time.

The Lu family did not cultivate a large quantity of blood essence rice, and the yield of this blood essence rice was not particularly high.

The Lu family also wants to keep some seeds to cultivate new blood essence rice.

In addition to the blood essence rice that the Lu family kept for cultivation, some seeds also need to be left for the Spirit Gu Sect.

The Blood Essence Rice cultivated by the Linggu Sect encountered many problems. Although these problems were solved by Lu Jingkun and Lu Jingtong working together, the Lu family did not tell the Linggu Sect about the fertilizer for cultivating Blood Essence Rice, which resulted in the Blood Essence Rice cultivated by the Linggu Sect not being particularly good.

Although they transplanted the blood essence rice at the same time as the Lu family, it is still a long time before it matures.

After the Lu family's blood essence rice matured, Lu Jingtong personally harvested it one by one.

After leaving behind the blood essence rice for breeding, Lu Jingkun handed over the remaining blood essence rice to Lu Wenxing.

The main effect of blood essence rice is that after consumption, it can help offspring with better cultivation talent.

This doesn't mean that eating food made from blood essence rice once is enough; it requires long-term consumption, and the amount of blood essence rice needed is not small.

This time, the Lu family's blood essence rice matured, and apart from those reserved for seed, the remaining quantity of blood essence rice was not large.

Therefore, how to distribute these blood-seed rice is an extremely important matter.

Lu Jingtong naturally couldn't make the decision himself. After leaving behind the blood essence rice for breeding, he handed over all the remaining blood essence rice to Lu Wenxing.

Lu Wenxing did not make the decision alone, but discussed with Lu Cheng'an, Lu Jingtong and other Golden Core cultivators of the Lu family how to distribute these Blood Essence Rice.

After discussion, they decided to give these blood essence rice to only a few cultivators in the family, and these cultivators must conceive offspring after consuming the external blood essence rice.

The blood essence rice grown by the Lu family is of the second-tier superior grade, and its effects are best when consumed by cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage or above.

The number of cultivators in the Lu family who met this condition was not large, so it was ultimately decided that Lu Chengbai and his wife, Lu Chengyun and his wife, and Lu Jingli and his wife would consume the blood essence rice.

All three couples were at the Foundation Establishment stage, and neither of them had particularly good cultivation talent. After learning about the effects of Blood Essence Rice, they all planned to have children.

Lu Cheng'an, Lu Chengping, and Lu Jingkun were all well aware of the effects of Blood Essence Rice. However, all three of them were at the Golden Core stage of cultivation. Apart from Lu Jingkun, Lu Cheng'an's partner was also at the Golden Core stage of cultivation. They had no plans to have children for the time being.

This is because female cultivators who give birth to offspring suffer a great loss of their vital energy, and pregnancy itself greatly delays their cultivation.

The sisters Shi Ningyu and He Huan have not yet reached the end of their cultivation journey, so naturally they will not have children at this time.

Lu Jingkun's Daoist partner, Jiang Hongmian, was originally a rogue cultivator. Her talent for cultivation was not particularly outstanding, but her temperament was far beyond that of ordinary cultivators.

She did not use any Foundation Establishment spiritual items when she broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, which made her foundation even more solid.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, her chances of breaking through to the Golden Core realm are quite high. (End of Chapter)