Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

The Burning Flame Mountain Range is very close to the Lu family. This time, when Lu Cheng'an returned, he passed by the place where the Lu family raised demonic beasts in the Burning Flame Mountain Range again.

This time, Lu Cheng'an went to the Lu family's place where they kept demonic beasts not to check on the situation of the demonic beasts, but to bring back Lu Chengyao and other Lu family cultivators, as well as third-tier demonic beasts like Que Yun, to the Lu family.

With the Nascent Soul cultivator of the Ancient Desolate Sect giving a sermon, True Monarch Tianhuang is very likely to take advantage of this time to attack the Lu family.

Moreover, nearly twenty years have passed since Tianhuang Zhenjun entered the Yunling Mountains, and his injuries have probably fully recovered.

The third-tier demonic beasts, such as Queyun, naturally dared not disobey Lu Cheng'an's orders. After settling the first and second-tier demonic beasts, they followed Lu Cheng'an back to the Lu family.

Third-tier demonic beasts like Queyun also had their own caves in the Lu family. After entering the Lu family, they returned to their respective caves and did not have much interaction with the human cultivators of the Lu family.

After returning to his family, Lu Cheng'an first inquired about the current situation of the Lu family from Lu Wenxing, and then went to Shi Ningyu's cave.

Two years is not a long time, but the cultivators of the Lu family have undergone considerable changes.

Two years ago, Shi Ningyu and Lu Cheng'an practiced dual cultivation and gained considerable benefits. After the dual cultivation ended, she began to cultivate in seclusion and soon raised her cultivation level to the Golden Core Perfection realm.

After she consolidated her cultivation, she continued to cultivate diligently and strive to improve her cultivation level. At the same time, she also devoted a lot of energy to cultivating the Taiyin Body Refining Technique.

Through her and Lu Cheng'an's hard work in deducing the body-refining technique, they successfully deduced the complete third level of the technique.

She can rely on this body-refining technique to raise her physical strength to the peak of a Golden Core cultivator.

In addition, she is also practicing the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique to enhance her spiritual power.

Two years is too short a time. Shi Ningyu has a lot to do. Although her cultivation, physical body and soul have all improved, the improvement is not particularly significant.

After two years of dedicated cultivation, Lu Jingkun successfully broke through to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm.

He didn't stay in the early stage of the Golden Core realm for very long, and the time it took was not much different from that of Lu Cheng'an.

This doesn't mean that Lu Jingkun's talent surpasses Lu Cheng'an's, but rather that his cultivation conditions are far better than Lu Cheng'an's.

Lu Jingkun's Daoist partner, Jiang Hongmian, also made rapid progress in her cultivation.

Jiang Hongmian was originally a rogue cultivator, so her talent for cultivation was naturally inferior to Lu Jingkun's, but her tenacity was stronger than that of 99% of the cultivators in the Lu family.

After all, this is a ruthless person who forcibly broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm without relying on Foundation Establishment Pills!

After Jiang Hongmian and Lu Jingkun became Daoist partners, they basically no longer had to worry about cultivation resources.

This is all thanks to Lu Jingkun's subsidies!
Lu Jingkun's wealth is extremely substantial, not only because he is a Golden Core cultivator, but also because of the cultivation technique he practices, the Earthly Jade Book.

The Lu family's protective mountain formation was successfully set up because of Lu Jingkun.

Moreover, he is also a third-tier spirit array master.

Jiang Hongmian is not a parasitic vine that blindly tries to cling to the powerful; she also wants to help Lu Jingkun.

Unfortunately, she is still far behind Lu Jingkun, so even if she wanted to help him, she couldn't do much.

Therefore, all she could do was make good use of the cultivation resources that Lu Jingkun had given her and cultivate even harder.

Jiang Hongmian built a solid foundation when she broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, and her years of diligent cultivation have also yielded results.

Her cultivation has now broken through to the Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm, and she is currently the most promising Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Lu family to break through to the Golden Core Realm.

The Lu family possesses two methods for obtaining Core Formation spiritual objects, so they are not particularly lacking in such objects.

With Lu Jingkun's presence, if Jiang Hongmian attempts to break through to the Core Formation realm, she will definitely receive support from a Core Formation spiritual object.

Jiang Hongmian is now attempting to break through to the Golden Core realm within the next two or three years. Lu Jingkun has already mentioned the matter of forming a Golden Core to Lu Wenxing.

However, this matter still needs to be discussed with Lu Cheng'an, so Lu Wenxing did not give Lu Jingkun a definite answer.

When Lu Wenxing mentioned this matter to Lu Cheng'an, Lu Cheng'an considered it briefly and then agreed.

Jiang Hongmian and Lu Jingkun have been Daoist partners for some years now, and Jiang Hongmian's performance over the years has been quite good. For Lu Jingkun's sake, it's acceptable to let her exchange for a Golden Core.

With Lu Cheng'an's agreement, it was confirmed that Jiang Hongmian could exchange a Core Formation artifact with the Lu family to break through to the Golden Core realm.

As long as Jiang Hongmian is ready to break through to the Golden Core realm, she can exchange for a Golden Core from the Lu family's treasury at any time.

After Lu Cheng'an and Lu Wenxing parted ways, Lu Wenxing immediately relayed the good news to Lu Jingkun.

Lu Cheng'an was unaware of these things. After parting ways with Lu Wenxing, he went to Shi Ningyu's cave.

The two met again after a two-year gap.

This was because Shi Ningyu's cultivation had broken through to the Golden Core Perfection realm within the past two years, and she had also cultivated the Taiyin Body Refining Technique to the third level.

After Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu met, Lu Cheng'an briefly expressed his longing for each other, and then they began to exchange their insights on cultivation during this period.

Time passed slowly, and more than half a month went by in the blink of an eye.

At this point, there were less than five days left before the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Ancient Desolate Sect began their sermon.

Liu Miaozhen and others from the Linggu Sect had already arrived outside the gates of the Huanggu Sect, waiting for the sermon to begin.

The lecture by the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Ancient Desolate Sect will take place outside the sect's mountain gate, and all cultivators are welcome to participate.

Those who perform well in the lectures and are interested in joining the Ancient Desolate Sect can take this opportunity to enter the sect's gates and become inner disciples.

The news that the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Ancient Desolate Sect were giving a sermon outside the sect's gates has spread throughout the entire sect's territory, resulting in a large number of cultivators arriving at the sect's gates.

The Golden Core cultivators from the Golden Core factions, such as Liu Miaozhen, were naturally different. They had befriended some Golden Core cultivators from the Ancient Desolate Sect and thus learned more useful information.

One of the most important pieces of information is that the Ancient Desolate Sect does not impose many restrictions on the cultivators who come here, and will not prevent them from using communication devices.

Therefore, Liu Miaozhen had already made an agreement with Lu Chengping that once the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Ancient Desolate Sect began their sermons, she would use her communication artifact with Lu Chengping to transmit the content of their sermons in real time.

Geng Qiuhuai and the others from the Lu Family Mountain Sect were also extremely excited, as such an opportunity was extremely rare for them. Nascent Soul cultivators certainly had a more thorough understanding of the various realms than they did; listening to their lectures might trigger wondrous insights, leading them to break through to even higher realms.

Geng Qiuhuai had high expectations for this. His cultivation had been stuck at the late Golden Core stage for a long time, and he was now on the verge of breaking through to the perfect Golden Core stage.

However, it was precisely this point that he had been unable to overcome, and therefore his cultivation level had not yet broken through.

He wanted to take advantage of the lecture given by the Nascent Soul cultivator from the Ancient Desolate Sect to trigger a breakthrough and allow his cultivation to reach the Golden Core Perfection realm.

Although Lu Cheng'an was also full of expectations, he did not let his guard down. Instead, he increased his surveillance of the Yunling Mountains.

The Lu family did not send cultivators to monitor the situation in the Yunling Mountains. Instead, they used Queyun and Qinghong's control over low-level demonic beasts to have first and second-level demonic beasts gather information about the Yunling Mountains for them.

High-level demonic beasts have a strong deterrent effect on low-level demonic beasts and can make low-level demonic beasts do certain things.

The Beast Taming Inheritance of the Burning Flame Sect also contains many methods for controlling demonic beasts. These methods will achieve better results when used with third-tier demonic beasts.

Judging from the information conveyed by those first and second-tier demonic beasts, everything in the Yunling Mountains is normal, and the Heavenly Locust True Monarch has not appeared in the Yunling Mountains.

However, it was precisely because of this that Lu Cheng'an felt even more alarmed, because he had a persistent sense of unease.

This feeling of unease persisted until the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Ancient Desolate Sect began their sermon, and the Heavenly Locust True Monarch of the Cloud Ridge Mountains remained inactive.

At this moment, Lu Cheng'an could only suppress his unease and listen to the sermon of the Nascent Soul cultivator from the Desolate Ancient Sect together with the cultivators from the Lu family, Dan Ding Sect, and Jin Yuan Sect.

Several thick, five-colored clouds floated above the mountain gate of the Ancient Desolate Sect.

These five-colored clouds surged and eventually transformed into an extremely exquisite five-colored lotus platform.

Then a middle-aged male cultivator dressed in a gray-blue robe flew out from the gate of the Ancient Desolate Sect and landed on the five-colored lotus platform.

"I am the Great Desolate True Monarch of the Ancient Desolate Sect. Today, I will preach to you all!"

The Great Wilderness True Monarch sat cross-legged, his gaze sweeping over the cultivators below before he spoke in a deep voice, "I will begin with the Qi Refining Realm..."

After the appearance of the Great Wilderness True Lord, Liu Miaozhen began communicating with Lu Chengping.

The communication artifact in Lu Chengping's hand revealed the figure of the Great Wilderness True Lord, along with the content of his words.

The Great Wilderness True Lord began by talking about the Qi Refining Realm, which is the beginning of cultivation. Cultivators like Lu Cheng'an, who were at the Golden Core Realm, had already passed through the Qi Refining Realm and had a deep understanding of it.

However, when the Great Wilderness True Monarch was explaining this realm, Lu Cheng'an and the other Golden Core cultivators realized that there were still many things they didn't know about this realm.

Nascent Soul cultivators are indeed Nascent Soul cultivators, and the Ancient Desolate Sect is a Nascent Soul sect whose lineage has never been interrupted.

The insights that the Great Wilderness True Monarch, a Nascent Soul cultivator, had into the various realms were far beyond what cultivators like Lu Cheng'an, who were at the Golden Core realm, could compare to.

The Great Wilderness True Lord explained in great detail, which made the process very slow.

But the monks listening to the lecture did not feel bored; on the contrary, they were completely absorbed.

Time flies, and two days have passed since the Great Wilderness True Monarch began his sermon. He had just finished explaining the mysteries of the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment realms and was preparing to continue with the Golden Core realm.

During this period, Lu Cheng'an never gave up monitoring Tianhuang Zhenjun of Yunling Mountain Range, and the task was handled by monsters such as Queyun.

The cultivation methods of human cultivators and those of demon beasts differ in many ways, but they are also closely related.

However, for various reasons, Lu Cheng'an did not allow the demonic beasts such as Queyun to listen to the sermons of the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Desolate Ancient Sect.

Just as the Great Wilderness True Monarch began to explain the mysteries of the Golden Core realm, Lu Cheng'an, who was listening attentively, was interrupted by the sound emitted by the communication artifact on his body.

This was Lu Cheng'an's and Que Yun's exclusive communication method. Now that this communication artifact was making noise, there was only one possibility: the Heavenly Locust True Monarch, who had been hiding in the Yunling Mountains, had finally decided to take action against the Lu family.

Lu Cheng'an quickly read through the messages from the monsters like Que Yun. Just as he had predicted, it was indeed True Monarch Tianhuang who had appeared in the Yunling Mountains and was heading towards the Lu family's location.

In fact, those second-tier demonic beasts were too weak to sense the presence of True Monarch Heavenly Locust, but they could detect the presence of those Golden Core evil cultivators.

The evil cultivators who had been hiding in the Yunling Mountains all came out this time, and there was also a cultivator with even greater strength accompanying those Golden Core evil cultivators.

The third-tier demonic beasts, such as Queyun, determined that it was True Monarch Tianhuang who had emerged from the Yunling Mountains and was preparing to attack the Lu family, based on the information conveyed by those second-tier demonic beasts.

After reading the messages from the third-tier demonic beasts like Queyun, Lu Cheng'an instructed Lu Chengping to cut off communication with Liu Miaozhen, and then immediately informed Geng Qiuhuai and the others about the situation of the evil cultivators in the Yunling Mountains.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, where is True Monarch Heavenly Locust now?"

“How should we respond?”

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Geng Qiuhuai and the others hurriedly asked, their faces full of worry.

Although Lu Cheng'an had previously mentioned that he had a method to deal with the attack of True Monarch Tianhuang, they still couldn't help but worry now that they knew this Nascent Soul cultivator was actually attacking them.

"I only discovered that True Lord Tianhuang left the Yunling Mountains, but I don't know where he is now!"

Lu Cheng'an frowned deeply and said in a deep voice, "However, given the speed of a Nascent Soul cultivator, if he really wants to attack our Lu family, he should be able to arrive very soon!"

At this moment, Lu Cheng'an's gaze fell on Lu Jingkun and Lu Chengping: "Brother Chengping, Jingkun, you two should activate the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Formation now. All the other cultivators should follow their orders and reinforce the power of the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Formation!"

Next, they will face Tianhuang Zhenjun, a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage. Not to mention Geng Qiuhuai and Kong Liyun, whose strength is relatively ordinary, even he and Shi Ningyu would not have any chance of winning if they were to truly fight Tianhuang Zhenjun.

All they can do now is rely on the power of the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array to temporarily block the attack of True Lord Tianhuang, and then he and Shi Ningyu will find an opportunity to activate the Yinming Soul Shattering Needle to attack True Lord Tianhuang's nascent soul.

Upon hearing Lu Cheng'an's arrangements, Geng Qiuhuai and the others did not hesitate for a moment and immediately took action.

Led by Lu Jingkun and Lu Chengping, the Lu family cultivators quickly activated the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Formation.

The formation was already at the top-grade level of the third rank. After Lu Chengping and Lu Jingkun broke through to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, the power of the formation was further enhanced.

Now, led by Lu Chengping and Lu Jingkun, and joined by Geng Qiuhuai and a group of cultivators at the Golden Core, Foundation Establishment, and Weapon Refining stages, the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array has been activated, raising its power to an extremely terrifying level. (End of Chapter)