Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

It's true that True Lord Tianhuang wanted to kill Lu Cheng'an to vent his anger, but if it came at the cost of causing his Nascent Soul to suffer secondary damage, he would definitely spare Lu Cheng'an's life!
Moreover, Lu Cheng'an suffered a blow from his Shattering Void Finger. Even if he survives, he will definitely become a cripple!
"I swear, all the cultivators in the Lu family today will die a miserable death at my hands!"

Lord Heavenly Locust roared angrily. After leaving behind this harsh statement, he urged the swarm of black-striped heavenly locusts to leave the Lu family's mountain gate at top speed, and their whereabouts were unknown.

The eight Golden Core cultivators under his command also left immediately, and did not launch another attack on the Lu family.

Although the eight Golden Core cultivators under the Heavenly Locust True Monarch were not weak, the defensive power of the Lu family's mountain-protecting formation was even stronger.

Even though the Lu family's protective mountain formation has been greatly damaged, the formation itself has not been completely destroyed.

With Lu Chengping and Lu Jingkun, the two spirit array masters who set up the mountain-protecting array, it would be impossible for that Golden Core cultivator to break through the defenses of the Lu family's mountain-protecting array.

After True Lord Tianhuang and his eight Golden Core cultivators left the Lu family, Geng Qiuhuai and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

"Brother An, how are you now?" Shi Ningyu flew to Lu Cheng'an's side and helped the blood-covered Lu Cheng'an up from the ground.

At this moment, Lu Cheng'an spat out another mouthful of blood, and his already extremely pale face turned even paler.

"Ningyu, I'm not in any danger. Take me back to my cave now!" Lu Cheng'an said softly.

At this moment, Lu Wenxing, Geng Qiuhuai and others also gathered around Lu Cheng'an, their eyes filled with deep worry as they looked at him.

They were also eager to know Lu Cheng'an's current situation, since it was Tianhuang Zhenjun who personally launched a powerful attack on Lu Cheng'an.

If an ordinary cultivator were to face such an attack from a Nascent Soul cultivator, they would probably be dead already.

It is truly unbelievable that Lu Cheng'an could survive such a powerful attack from the Heavenly Locust True Monarch!
Shi Ningyu ignored the reactions of those around her. As soon as Lu Cheng'an finished speaking, she immediately led him back to the cave.

"Brother An, are you really alright?" Shi Ningyu asked again with concern after sealing the cave.

She could sense that Lu Cheng'an's injuries were extremely serious. She thought that Lu Cheng'an had told her that he was fine just now, mainly to reassure the other cultivators.

After all, if something really happened to Lu Cheng'an now, then the cultivators of the Lu family would definitely be in trouble.

"My injuries are indeed very serious, but not fatal!"

Lu Cheng'an took a deep breath. He had just aggravated his injuries, and an indescribable pain immediately arose.

"Help me take off my close-fitting mithril armor, and I'll start healing shortly!" Lu Cheng'an said.

The mithril armor he wore was a low-grade fourth-tier defensive magic weapon, which came from the inheritance of the Burning Flame Sect.

If Lu Cheng'an could unleash the power of this magical artifact, he could definitely block the attack from True Monarch Tianhuang.

However, due to the limitations of his cultivation level, he could only exert a tiny bit of the power of the Secret Gold Soft Armor, which led to his severe injuries.

However, even though the fourth-grade low-level defensive magic weapon, the Secret Gold Soft Armor, was not activated, it still blocked a lot of power for Lu Cheng'an. Otherwise, it would have been difficult for Lu Cheng'an to withstand the attack from True Monarch Heavenly Locust.

Shi Ningyu knew of the existence of the Secret Gold Armor. Following Lu Cheng'an's instructions, she quickly helped Lu Cheng'an remove the Secret Gold Armor, which had not been damaged, and then left Lu Cheng'an's meditation room.

In the quiet room, Lu Cheng'an endured the intense pain and began to circulate the minor divine power of Returning Fire to Heaven, doing his best to heal his injuries.

The power of the minor supernatural ability, Returning Fire to Heaven, was still extremely formidable. Combined with the power of healing pills, Lu Cheng'an's injuries recovered at an incredibly fast pace.

However, his physical body still contained the power of the Heavenly Locust True Monarch, a power derived from a Nascent Soul cultivator, whose quality far surpassed that of Lu Cheng'an's own power.

This power lingers in Lu Cheng'an's body and continues to cause him harm.

To recover from his injuries, Lu Cheng'an must first remove all of these forces from his body.

This is not an easy task for Lu Chengan; it may take him quite a bit of time.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, nearly half a year had gone by.

At this time, Lu Cheng'an's physical injuries had recovered by more than half, but the power of the Heavenly Locust True Monarch still remained in his body.

This is a slow and gradual process; it will take him a very long time to completely wear down the power of the Heavenly Locust True Lord.

"Ningyu, you've worked hard these past few days. Now go back to your cave and cultivate in peace. My body is fine now!"

Lu Cheng'an walked out of the meditation room with a smile. During the time he was healing, Shi Ningyu had been guarding him in his cave, afraid that something unexpected might happen to him.

"Brother An, have all your injuries fully healed?" Shi Ningyu asked with a look of surprise and delight.

Lu Cheng'an shook his head and said, "I still have the power of the Heavenly Locust True Monarch remaining in my body. If I don't remove this power, my injuries will never be fully healed."

But don't worry, this power won't cause me much harm. I just need to spend some time and effort to completely eliminate it!

After briefly explaining his current physical condition to Shi Ningyu, Lu Cheng'an escorted her out of his cave.

After Shi Ningyu returned to her cave, Lu Cheng'an did not go directly back to his cave to continue treating his injuries. Instead, he strolled around the Lu family's mountain gate, attracting the attention of many cultivators.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng'an went to Lu Wenxing's cave dwelling, wanting to know how the Lu family had fared in the past six months.

The Heavenly Locust True Monarch's attack was very brief and did not break through the family's protective mountain formation, but his attack still caused great losses to the Lu family.

Upon seeing Lu Cheng'an, Lu Wenxing immediately inquired about Lu Cheng'an's current health condition.

After giving a brief introduction, Lu Cheng'an began to recount the situation of the Lu family after being attacked by the Heavenly Locust True Monarch.

Lu Wenxing was responsible for all subsequent matters.

Lu Wenxing was the patriarch of the Lu family, and he did not suffer too serious injuries during the attack of the Heavenly Locust True Monarch, and he quickly recovered.

This is because he didn't really activate the mountain-protecting formation, so the backlash he suffered was minimal.

Afterwards, Lu Wenxing was responsible for all the various things that happened to the Lu family due to the attack by the Heavenly Locust True Monarch.

"Although True Monarch Tianhuang failed to break through the clan's protective array, he still caused great losses to the clan. On that day, a total of 276 cultivators at the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages who were maintaining the array's operation were killed by the shockwave..."

The cultivators at the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages who were killed by the shockwave were not just from the Lu family; Lu family cultivators accounted for less than a third of the total. The majority of the casualties came from the Golden Origin Sect. The entire Golden Origin Sect felt extremely grieved by this, but they harbored no resentment towards the Lu family.

Because now the Lu family has taken them in, and if Lu Cheng'an hadn't gone to help them that day, the fate of the Jin Yuan Sect would probably not have been much different from that of the Divine Sword Sect.

Apart from the 276 Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators who died, almost all the cultivators who maintained the formation's operation suffered injuries of varying degrees.

As the central figures maintaining the formation's operation, Lu Chengping and Lu Jingkun suffered the most severe backlash injuries.

That day, after Lu Cheng'an was taken back to his cave by Shi Ningyu to heal his injuries, Lu Chengping and Lu Jingkun, despite their injuries, did some simple repairs on the severely damaged Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array.

Afterwards, they each returned to their caves and began to focus on healing their injuries.

Although their injuries were not as severe as Lu Cheng'an's, their physical strength was also not as formidable as Lu Cheng'an's, and they had not cultivated minor supernatural abilities such as the Returning Fire to Heaven Technique.

This resulted in their injuries healing much more slowly than Lu Cheng'an's.

Since returning to their caves to heal their wounds, they have not left their respective caves.

Therefore, the Lu family's protective mountain formation still has many problems that have not been repaired.

The Golden Core cultivators, including Geng Qiuhuai, and the demonic beasts also suffered serious injuries. After Lu Chengan and Lu Jingkun went into seclusion to heal their wounds, they all returned to their respective caves and began to focus on treating their injuries.

Half a year is too short a time. Geng Qiuhuai and the others have not yet come out of seclusion, and Lu Wenxing does not know how they are doing.

During this period, Lu Wenxing was in charge of the aftermath of the deaths of the family's cultivators.

Now, all the Lu family cultivators who used those formations have been placed in the family cemetery, and the Lu family has provided some compensation to the relatives of these cultivators.

Furthermore, it was promised that if the direct relatives of the fallen Foundation Establishment cultivators had any hope of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm in the future, they could obtain a Foundation Establishment spiritual item for free based on the merits they earned by sacrificing their lives for the family.

As for the cultivators who died in battle from the Dan Ding Sect and the Jin Yuan Sect, Lu Wenxing simply sent people to offer his condolences and intervene in the affairs of these two sects.

All three families have now resolved the issue of compensation for the cultivators who died in the battle. However, because the number of cultivators who died in the battle was relatively large, even though half a year has passed, the cultivators of all three families are still shrouded in a rather depressed atmosphere.

After learning about the family's current situation from Lu Wenxing, Lu Cheng'an felt much more at ease.

He then left Lu Wenxing's cave and prepared to return to his own cave to continue treating his injuries.

However, as soon as Lu Cheng'an left Lu Wenxing's cave, he saw his uncle Lu Wenhua guarding the entrance of Lu Wenxing's cave.

Before coming to find Lu Wenxing, Lu Cheng'an first toured all the areas of the family.

Many of the cultivators saw Lu Cheng'an.

During this time, Lu Wenxing had been keeping an eye on Lu Chengan's condition, but because he was afraid of delaying Lu Chengan's recovery, he did not disturb Lu Chengan.

However, after the cultivators in his clan told him that Lu Cheng'an had broken through his cultivation, he couldn't resist checking on Lu Cheng'an's situation.

Lu Wenhua's injuries were not serious, and after half a year, he had fully recovered.

Upon seeing Lu Wenhua, who was guarding outside Lu Wenxing's cave, Lu Cheng'an's face immediately lit up with a delighted smile.

After a brief exchange, Lu Wenhua was finally able to relax completely once he confirmed that Lu Chengan was truly alright.

Knowing that Lu Cheng'an's injuries had not fully healed, Lu Wenhua urged Lu Cheng'an to return to his cave to continue recuperating.

After parting ways with Lu Wenxing, Lu Cheng'an returned to his cave dwelling to continue treating his injuries.

For a long time afterward, the Lu family remained peaceful and was not attacked by evil cultivators such as the Heavenly Locust True Monarch.

Of course, this does not mean that the evil cultivators such as Tianhuang Zhenjun have given up their hatred for the Lu family, but rather that Tianhuang Zhenjun no longer has the mind to take action against the Lu family.

This time, he was severely injured in his Nascent Soul stage by Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu's combined attack with the Yinming Soul-Shattering Needle, thus forging a deadly feud with the Lu family.

Tianhuang Zhenjun even swore in his heart that once his Nascent Soul injury was healed, he would definitely exterminate the Lu family.

True Lord Tianhuang knew that the magical artifacts that Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu had used to attack his Nascent Soul had been destroyed, and that Lu Cheng'an was also beaten to the point of not knowing whether he was dead or alive.

Once he recovers from his injuries and attacks the Lu family again, the Lu family will have no chance of stopping him.

However, healing from a Nascent Soul injury is not easy. Although True Monarch Tianhuang has now aligned himself with the Sacred Heart Sect, such treasures for repairing Nascent Soul injuries are extremely precious even to the Sacred Heart Sect.

Even if the Sacred Heart Sect had such treasures in stock, it might not be willing to hand them over to True Lord Tianhuang, since True Lord Tianhuang is not a true cultivator of the Sacred Heart Sect.

Moreover, True Monarch Tianhuang dared not publicize the news that his Nascent Soul had been severely injured by a Golden Core cultivator, as this would be too damaging to his reputation.

If the Sacred Heart Sect were to learn of this news, it might negatively impact their perception of him among the Nascent Soul cultivators, making them more likely to abandon him.

He had not forgotten the instructions given to him by the Sacred Heart Sect, which was still very interested in Lu Cheng'an.

If the Sacred Heart Sect were to learn of Lu Cheng'an's formidable strength, they might become even more interested in him.

Although he hated Lu Cheng'an to the core, he had to admit Lu Cheng'an's strength.

If such a person were to be accepted into the Sacred Heart Sect, it would probably not be long before he could become a cultivator at the same Nascent Soul stage as him, at which point his situation would be extremely dire.

Therefore, not only would True Lord Tianhuang not tell the Sacred Heart Sect about Lu Cheng'an, but he would also try to conceal it from them so that they would not know how powerful Lu Cheng'an was.

However, injuries to the Nascent Soul are extremely difficult to heal. If True Monarch Tianhuang does not seek help from the Sacred Heart Sect, it may take even longer to treat his Nascent Soul injuries.

If Lu Cheng'an knew what True Lord Tianhuang was thinking, he would definitely applaud and cheer.

He was confident that he would break through to the Nascent Soul realm before the Heavenly Locust True Monarch's Nascent Soul injury healed.

If True Monarch Tianhuang were to cause trouble for the Lu family again, even without relying on the power of the Yinming Soul-Shattering Needles, he would be able to severely injure True Monarch Tianhuang, or even kill him outright. (End of Chapter)