Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Lu Cheng'an already knew that this Fire Element Secret Realm flowed in an underground magma river, but he did not expect that it would flow to the vicinity of the third-order spiritual vein and fire vein of the Five Spirit Lake.

After discovering the existence of this Fire Element Secret Realm, Lu Cheng'an carefully examined it again, but then he made an astonishing discovery.

The once flowing Fire Element Secret Realm seems to have been fixed here, and the spiritual veins and fire veins nurtured by the Five Spirit Lake are slowly drawing on the fire element energy nurtured in the Fire Element Secret Realm.

The spiritual veins and fire veins of the Five Spirits Lake do not draw fire elemental energy at a particularly fast rate, while the fire elemental energy nurtured in the Fire Elemental Secret Realm is extremely rich. This rate of extraction has not had a significant impact on the Fire Elemental Secret Realm.

However, the fire elemental energy in the Fire Elemental Secret Realm is also limited. If this continues, the fire elemental energy in the Fire Elemental Secret Realm will eventually be completely drained.

"No wonder Five Spirit Lake could nurture so many spiritual veins and fire veins in such a short time; it turns out it absorbed the power of the Fire Element Secret Realm!"

Suddenly, Lu Cheng'an understood why the Five Spirits Lake had nurtured spiritual veins and fire veins in such a short time.

At this moment, an excited look appeared on his face. Ideally, before his cultivation broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, the fire veins and spiritual veins of the Five Spirit Lake could be upgraded to the fourth rank by drawing fire elemental energy from the Fire Elemental Secret Realm.

This will also greatly benefit his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm!
After a moment, Lu Cheng'an suppressed his restless emotions and quickly entered the simple cave he had built in the spiritual vein, where he began to cultivate diligently.

After Lu Cheng'an entered the underground lava river of the Burning Flame Mountains for secluded cultivation, Shi Ningyu and other cultivators also began their own secluded cultivation, striving to improve their cultivation levels as Lu Cheng'an had instructed.

After the Lu family moved in with numerous spiritual peaks, they relied on the power of the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array to make the spiritual energy in the Lu family's mountain gate increasingly abundant.

Even with the addition of a large number of cultivators from the Golden Origin Sect, the spiritual energy released from each spiritual peak was still sufficient to support their cultivation.

Of course, Jin Yuanzong was forced into the Lu family after all. Even though the Lu family didn't say anything, they never thought of eating and drinking for free in the Lu family.

After Geng Qiuhuai led a group of cultivators from the Jinyuan Sect into the Lu family, he paid the Lu family an extremely generous accommodation fee.

Not only that, Geng Qiuhuai also promised to have the cultivators of his sect refine magical artifacts for the Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect cultivators free of charge, and was also willing to take the initiative to teach the Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect cultivators how to refine magical artifacts.

The cultivators of the Dan Ding Sect are not skilled in weapon crafting, and there are not many cultivators in the sect who are interested in weapon crafting; they prefer pill refining.

The Lu family does have quite a few cultivators willing to refine magical artifacts, and has already trained some second-tier artifact refiners.

The Lu family's weapon-refining tradition comes from the Burning Flame Sect, which is even more profound than the weapon-refining tradition of the Golden Origin Sect. Lu Cheng'an even became a top-grade third-tier weapon refiner because of this.

However, the weapon-refining inheritance is just that—the weapon-refining inheritance; after all, it's an inanimate object.

Although Lu Cheng'an was a top-tier third-level weapon refiner, his time was always quite tight, and he didn't have much time to teach the weapon refiners in his clan how to refine magical artifacts.

The Golden Origin Sect has several third-tier weapon refiners, especially Kong Liyun, a top-grade third-tier weapon refiner, who has plenty of time.

Kong Liyun is already very old, and his cultivation level is at the peak of the Golden Core stage, so there is no possibility of him advancing further.

Therefore, while Shi Ningyu and other Golden Core cultivators were in seclusion cultivating, he took on the responsibility of teaching, instructing the cultivators of the Dan Ding Sect, Jin Yuan Sect, and Lu family in cultivation and the art of weapon crafting.

Kong Liyun is a cultivator at the Golden Core Perfection stage and a top-grade third-tier weapon refiner. He can basically solve any problems raised by Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators.

He can solve many of the problems raised even by those in the early to mid-stages of the Golden Core realm.

Kong Liyun's actions made the Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect cultivators extremely happy, and they became increasingly close to the Jin Yuan Sect cultivators.

Lingxuan and the other spirits and demon beasts did not waste any time. In particular, the demon beasts, including Queyun, gained great benefits from their battle with those evil cultivators.

Because Lu Cheng'an took it upon himself to hand over the corpses of those evil cultivators to the demonic beasts like Que Yun for disposal.

These demonic beasts do no different from evil cultivators; they refine the pure vital energy in the bodies of human cultivators to enhance their cultivation.

Que Yun's talent was extraordinary, and he also received abundant cultivation resources from the Lu family.

During his time with the Lu family, he awakened his bloodline once again, and his cultivation talent improved significantly, which accelerated his cultivation progress once more.

It had been quite some time since he broke through to the mid-stage of the third rank. If he could refine the bodies of several evil cultivators at the Golden Core realm this time, he would have a great chance of breaking through to the late stage of the third rank.

Lingxuan and the other Spirit Clan cultivators did not refine the physical bodies of those evil cultivators for cultivation. They had complete cultivation methods, enough for them to cultivate to the fourth level.

These cultivation methods also originated from the Burning Flame Sect, but were left behind by the ancestors of the Spirit Clam Clan.

The cultivation methods passed down by the Spirit Clam Clan are extremely orthodox. If they rely on refining the essence in the bodies of human cultivators to cultivate, it will hinder their cultivation.

Currently, there are three third-tier spirit clams in the spirit clam clan: Lingxuan, Chiliu, and Qingzhu. Among them, Lingxuan has the highest cultivation talent, followed by Qingzhu, while Chiliu has the worst talent.

Qingzhu has an exceptional talent for cultivating Yuanhua Spirit Clams and Five Yuan Spirit Clams. After his cultivation broke through to the third level, he devoted a lot of time to cultivating spirit clams with Chiliu.

Over the years, green bamboo and red willow have also made considerable achievements.

They have already cultivated third-tier spirit clams such as the Yuanhua Spirit Clam and the Huanxu Spirit Clam, but the most precious Five-Element Spirit Clams are currently only at the second-tier perfect stage.

This is because the Five Elements Spirit Clams were cultivated by them according to Lu Cheng'an's requirements after they received the inheritance of the Spirit Clam clan.

Ultimately, they have only been cultivating Five Elements Spirit Clams for a short time. The fact that they can now cultivate Five Elements Spirit Clams at the second-order perfect level is already the result of their extremely hard work.

The Five Elements Spirit Pearl produced by the Five Elements Spirit Clam has a similar effect to the Golden Core. Currently, the Lu family does not have a strong demand for the Five Elements Spirit Clam because they have mastered another method for refining the Golden Core.

While cultivating, Chi Liu and Qing Zhu still devoted a considerable amount of time to cultivating various spirit clams, including the Five Elements Spirit Clam.

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

The Lu family remained remarkably peaceful throughout the year and was not attacked by the Heavenly Locust True Monarch.

The rain clouds driven from Yuanzhou by the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Desolate Ancient Sect also appeared in the Lu family's territory. This was a large-scale rainfall, and the amount of rainfall was more than the water that Lu Cheng'an had previously obtained using the Azure River Lamp.

The heavy rain lasted for several days, completely relieving the drought in Lujia territory.

Now, all the mortals within the Lu family and Dan Ding Sect's territory have been relocated to the outskirts of the Lu family's mountain gate. After the heavy rain, these mortals, with the help of Lu family cultivators, began to cultivate the land.

The Lu family is currently in a very calm situation, but the area south of the Yunling Mountains is in much more chaos.

Because there are still many heretical cultivators and demonic beasts rampaging here, although the strength of these heretical cultivators and demonic beasts is not particularly strong enough to destroy the Golden Core forces such as the Spirit Gu Sect, but they have had a great impact on these Golden Core forces.

Although the Lu family and the Jinyuan Sect were trapped in this area north of the Yunling Mountains, they had never lost contact with the outside world. Lu Cheng'an, Shi Ningyu, and the others did not pay attention to these matters; they had been focusing on their cultivation.

Time flies when you're cultivating, and another fifteen years quickly passed.

During this period, Lu Cheng'an devoted himself to cultivation in the underground lava river of the Burning Flame Mountains. After so many years of hard work, his cultivation finally broke through to the Golden Core Perfection realm.

After Lu Cheng'an's cultivation reached the Golden Core Perfection realm, his strength was greatly enhanced.

This improvement is not just an increase in cultivation level, but also in physical body and soul.

In recent years, Lu Cheng'an has not only been busy improving his cultivation, but also has been cultivating the True Yang Body Refining Technique and the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique.

The underground magma river environment is extremely suitable for cultivating the True Yang Body Refining Technique. Over the years, he has cultivated the True Yang Body Refining Technique to the peak of the third level.

If one wants to further improve their physical strength, they can only cultivate the fourth level of the True Yang Body Refining Technique.

However, this fourth level is for the physical body of a Nascent Soul cultivator, and he is not yet in a position to cultivate it.

Otherwise, an imbalance between his physical strength, spiritual power, and magical power would greatly increase the difficulty of his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm.

With his physical body nourishing his soul, and coupled with his cultivation of the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique, Lu Cheng'an's soul power also greatly improved.

After his cultivation broke through to the Golden Core Perfection realm, the range that his divine sense could explore reached 360 miles.

Once his cultivation reaches the peak of the Golden Core Perfection realm, it won't be difficult for his divine sense to probe beyond the 400-mile mark.

"The power of the spiritual veins and fire veins in the Five Spirits Lake is also growing stronger. When the Yin Moon Soul Fungus matures, it may really be able to nurture fourth-order spiritual veins and fire veins here!"

After examining the changes in himself after his cultivation breakthrough, Lu Cheng'an began to investigate the situation of the Fire Element Secret Realm.

This Fire Elemental Realm seems to have truly been fixed here, and over the years it has been enhancing the power of the spiritual veins and fire veins of the Five Spirits Lake.

This situation also alerted the fire demons in the Fire Elemental Realm, who began to struggle violently within the realm, trying to drag it away.

These fire demons were quite powerful; they almost managed to drag the Fire Elemental Realm, which was fixed in the Five Spirits Lake.

Lu Cheng'an had been keeping an eye on the Fire Element Secret Realm all these years. When he sensed that the power of the fire demon was about to shake the Fire Element Secret Realm, he took action to seal it off.

Therefore, even after so many years, the Fire Element Secret Realm has not left the Five Spirits Lake.

The spiritual veins and fire veins of Five Spirit Lake are now absorbing the fire elemental energy from the secret realm at an increasingly rapid pace, which is having a significant impact on the fire demons.

Some newly conceived, weak fire demons, due to the continuous reduction of fire elemental energy in the Fire Elemental Realm, had their bodies revert to fire elemental energy and dissipate within the Fire Elemental Realm.

Currently, it only affects these low-level fire demons. Once the fire elemental energy in the Fire Elemental Secret Realm is further reduced, it will affect second-level and even third-level fire demons.

These are the main reasons why those fire demons wanted to activate the Fire Elemental Secret Realm to leave the Five Spirits Lake.

Unfortunately, those fire demons were unlucky and encountered Lu Cheng'an, who was cultivating in the Five Spirits Lake. They could only let the spiritual veins and fire veins of the Five Spirits Lake absorb the power of the Fire Element Secret Realm until those fire demons were transformed back into fire elemental energy.

After inspecting the Fire Element Secret Realm, Lu Cheng'an applied several more seals.

The power of the Five Spirit Lake's spiritual veins and fire veins has increased significantly, making their fixation on the Fire Element Secret Realm even more stable.

Conversely, the power of the fire demons within the Fire Element Secret Realm is getting weaker and weaker. Even if Lu Cheng'an doesn't place any seals outside the Fire Element Secret Realm, it will be difficult for those fire demons to drag the Fire Element Secret Realm away.

However, Lu Cheng'an will be leaving Wuling Lake for a while to return to his family.

Just to be on the safe side, he still placed a seal on that Fire Element Secret Realm.

Two quarters of an hour later, Lu Cheng'an left Wuling Lake and entered the Burning Flame Mountain Range.

He did not return directly to the Lu family, but instead went to the area where the Lu family raised demonic beasts in the Burning Flame Mountains.

The Burning Flame Mountains are still to the north of the Lu family, and even further away from the Cloud Ridge Mountains.

Over the years, the evil cultivators led by True Monarch Tianhuang have remained extremely calm and have not made any moves against the Lu family, which has reassured the entire Lu family.

Therefore, the monsters such as Queyun and Qinghong left the Lu family's mountain gate and returned to the Burning Flame Mountain Range.

The cultivation environment in the Burning Flame Mountains is naturally not as good as that of the Lu family, but monsters like Queyun and Qinghong will be more at ease in the Burning Flame Mountains.

After Queyun, Qinghong, and other demonic beasts left, Lu Chengyao and the other beast tamers of the Lu family also left the Lu family and entered the Burning Flame Mountain Range.

Lu Cheng'an is now heading to the area where the Lu family raises demonic beasts in the Burning Flame Mountains to check on the situation of Lu Chengyao and other Lu family cultivators, as well as the demonic beasts like Queyun.

"Lu Chengyao greets the Supreme Elder!"

Upon seeing Lu Cheng'an suddenly appear, Lu Chengyao's face immediately showed a look of surprise, but he still immediately bowed and greeted Lu Cheng'an.

"How are things going for you here? Have you found any trace of the evil cultivators like the Heavenly Locust True Monarch?" Lu Cheng'an asked with a smile.

"Thank you for your concern, Elder. We are all well!"

Lu Chengyao smiled slightly and replied respectfully, "The Burning Flame Mountain Range is far from the Cloud Ridge Mountain Range. Seniors like Que Yun have been monitoring the situation in the Burning Flame Mountain Range and have not found any trace of evil cultivators."

Lu Cheng'an nodded slightly and said, "Now take me to see the demonic beasts raised by the family!"

"Elder, please follow me!" Lu Chengyao said with a smile.

Not long after, Lu Cheng'an left the Burning Flame Mountains and sped directly towards the Lu family's location.

Currently, the Lu family still has some demonic beasts at the second-stage perfect realm, but many of these second-stage perfect realm demonic beasts were left over from the last time they refined Golden Core pills.

These second-tier perfect realm demon beasts are very weak. Even with the help of secret techniques and the Primordial Chaos Pill, it is difficult for them to break through to the third tier.

Therefore, Lu Cheng'an changed his previous plan. Unless the family truly lacked Golden Core cultivators, he would not invest in such second-tier perfect realm demon beasts. (End of this chapter)