Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

The Black Sands father and son knew that the situation within the Ancient Desolate Sect was not good, and Lu Cheng'an, as a cultivator within the Ancient Desolate Sect, must have been affected as well.

Especially since so many years have passed, Lu Cheng'an has never entered the Netherworld River again.

With less than two years remaining until their agreed-upon sixty-year milestone, the Black Sand father and son are extremely worried about whether Lu Cheng'an will be able to travel to the Netherworld River as promised.

After seeing the message from the Black Sand Father and Son, Lu Cheng'an immediately relayed it to them, informing them that they would arrive at the Netherworld River as agreed.

Although Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu severely injured Tianhuang Zhenjun's Nascent Soul with the Yinming Shattering Soul Needle, the crisis of the Lu family was not resolved.

The Heavenly Locust True Lord's nascent soul suffered severe damage, but it will recover sooner or later.

When he makes his next move against the Lu family, he will definitely be on guard.

If the Lu family still doesn't have a Nascent Soul cultivator to help them by then, their only possibility is annihilation.

Therefore, Lu Cheng'an valued the Yin Moon Soul Fungus that was about to be born in the Netherworld River Region even more than the Black Sand Father and Son.

If he successfully obtains the Yin Moon Soul Mushroom, his chances of breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm will be much greater.

"After more than thirty years of arduous cultivation, my cultivation has now reached the peak of the Golden Core Perfection Realm. If I can successfully obtain the Yin Moon Soul Mushroom from the Nether River, I can return here directly to cultivate in seclusion and break through to the Nascent Soul Realm!"

A solemn expression appeared on Lu Cheng'an's face. Even though his journey in the Nether River Region was not smooth, he would still risk breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm when he returned from the Nether River Region.

He has now reached the peak of the Golden Core realm in terms of physical body, magical power, and spiritual soul. Even without the help of a Nascent Soul-forming artifact, he is confident that he can break through to the Nascent Soul realm.

More importantly, in the past thirty years, the power of that Fire Element Secret Realm has been completely exhausted and collapsed five years ago.

The spiritual veins and fire veins of Five Spirit Lake absorbed so much power from the Fire Element Secret Realm that a fourth-order spiritual vein and fire vein were successfully formed a year after the Fire Element Secret Realm collapsed.

After the fourth-order spiritual vein and fire vein were formed, several extremely precious fourth-order treasures were also born within them.

Moreover, these fourth-tier treasures are extremely useful to Lu Cheng'an, as they can assist him in cultivating fourth-tier divine abilities and refining fourth-tier natal magic weapons.

After the fourth-order spiritual vein and fire vein were born, the spiritual energy, fire elemental energy, and fire evil and fire poison energy of the Five Spirit Lake became increasingly concentrated and continued to spread outward.

Lu Cheng'an was unsure of the extent to which this spread would expand, so he sent a message to Lu Jingkun and Lu Chengping, asking them to come to Wuling Lake.

He needs the help of these two to seal the power of the fourth-order spiritual vein and fire vein of the Five Spirits Lake, so as not to attract the attention of the outside world.

Over the years, Lu Jingkun and Lu Chengping have also devoted themselves to cultivation, and their cultivation levels have improved considerably.

In particular, Lu Jingkun advanced to the late stage of the Golden Core realm before Lu Chengping.

Lu Jingkun's cultivation talent is top-notch. If Lu Chengan didn't have the help of external cheat codes, his cultivation talent would still be somewhat inferior to Lu Jingkun's.

Lu Chengping's talent is also extraordinary. Although his current cultivation level is still at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, he is not far from breaking through to the late-stage of the Golden Core realm.

Besides Lu Jingkun and Lu Chengping, the cultivation levels of Lu Wenxing and other Golden Core cultivators in the Lu family have also improved significantly, with Lu Wenxing even breaking through to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm.

The Lu family has also gained two new cultivators at the Golden Core stage. One of them is Jiang Hongmian, Lu Jingkun's Daoist partner, and the other is Lu Chengbo, a member of the Lu family.

Lu Chengbo was among the first batch of new cultivators trained by the Lu family after they moved to the vicinity of the Burning Flame Mountains.

Lu Chengbo's cultivation talent was not top-notch. Initially, Lu Wenxing and other senior cultivators of the Lu family only thought that Lu Chengbo had the talent to cultivate to the Foundation Establishment stage.

However, after Lu Chengbo broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, he became increasingly calm and composed.

Although his cultivation progress was relatively slow afterward, he made steady progress and did not encounter too many difficulties.

Even breaking through to the Golden Core realm was the same. He prepared diligently for a long time, and finally, with the help of the power of the Golden Core he obtained from his clan, he successfully broke through to the Golden Core realm.

Lu Chengbo's talent in cultivation was relatively ordinary, but his talent in alchemy was quite outstanding.

He initially studied alchemy under Lu Wenmei, the alchemist of the Lu family.

Lu Wenmei is an elder of the Lu family. She was the only first-grade high-level alchemist during the most difficult period of the Lu family.

However, her subsequent performance was quite mediocre. Although she broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, she ultimately failed to cross the Golden Core realm.

Foundation Establishment cultivators have a limited lifespan, around two hundred years.

Lu Wenmei suffered some serious injuries in her early years. Although she received proper treatment afterward, it still affected her lifespan.

She passed away peacefully in a cave on Sun Peak in the third year of her life, after she had lived to be two hundred years old.

This is the second elder of the Lu family to pass away!

The Lu family held a very grand funeral for Lu Wenmei, and Lu Wenxing also sent a message to Lu Chengan.

In the early years, Lu Wenmei had also cared for Lu Cheng'an quite a bit. Now that such a rare elder in the Lu family had passed away, Lu Cheng'an naturally wouldn't miss the funeral.

However, Lu Cheng'an did not stay at the Lu family for too long. After attending Lu Wenmei's funeral, he returned to Wuling Lake to continue his secluded cultivation.

After all, his cultivation progress is related to the survival of the Lu family, Dan Ding Sect, and Jin Yuan Sect. If he cannot break through to the Nascent Soul realm before Tian Huang Zhenjun recovers, then all of them will die tragically at the hands of Tian Huang Zhenjun.

The first elder of the Lu family to pass away was Lu Wensheng, who was the oldest cultivator in the Lu family, but he had been gone for more than a hundred years.

Unlike Lu Wenmei, who never married or had children, Lu Wensheng had two exceptionally outstanding descendants.

Lu Wensheng's two descendants are the twin siblings Lu Jinglin and Lu Jingxiu. They are slightly younger than Lu Chengbo, but their talent for cultivation is better than Lu Chengbo's.

However, the path of the brother and sister was not smooth, especially when True Lord Tianhuang attacked the Lu family, the brother and sister suffered extremely serious injuries, which greatly delayed their breakthrough to the Golden Core realm.

The brother and sister have now reached the Foundation Establishment stage and are quite confident that they can break through to the Golden Core stage.

Jiang Hongmian's situation is rather special; she is Lu Jingkun's Daoist partner.

Her talent for cultivation was not even comparable to Lu Chengbo's, but she possessed a tenacity that many people lacked.

Lu Jingkun was attracted by this tenacity and became Jiang Hongmian's Daoist partner. Jiang Hongmian also relied on this tenacity to rise from a rogue cultivator to her current position.

Lu Jingkun had exchanged a Golden Core Pill for Jiang Hongmian from the clan long ago. After Jiang Hongmian made preparations, she used the Golden Core Pill that Lu Jingkun had exchanged for her to break through to the Golden Core realm.

Jiang Hongmian did not disappoint Lu Jingkun's expectations, and successfully broke through to the Golden Core realm by relying on the power of forming the Golden Core.

Besides Lu Chengbo and Jiang Hongmian, the two newly added Golden Core cultivators, the Lu family has also seen a significant increase in Qi Refining and Golden Core cultivators. Among these new cultivators, there are quite a few with considerable talent, such as Lu Yongzheng and Lu Yongyuan.

Both of them practiced the same cultivation method as Lu Cheng'an, the Earth Flame True Scripture, and their cultivation progressed relatively quickly.

However, both of them are still quite young and are currently only at the Qi Refining stage.

On the other hand, Lu Ruiying and Lu Yongming have been cultivating for decades and have now broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage. It is a certainty that they will break through to the Golden Core stage in the future.

Lu Yongming cultivates the Earth Flame True Scripture, and he also uses the method of cultivating artifacts.

His talent in weapon crafting was also quite remarkable, only slightly inferior to Lu Cheng'an's.

Lu Ruiying cultivates the Earthly Jade Book, but unlike Lu Jingkun, she does not cultivate the Way of Spiritual Arrays. Instead, she cultivates the Way of Spiritual Plants.

Lu Ruiying is naturally sensitive to and close to all kinds of spiritual plants, and the Earthly Jade Book cultivation method also has a unique advantage in cultivating spiritual plants.

The Lu family also has a lineage of spirit plant masters. If Lu Ruiying focuses on cultivating this path, she will definitely be able to become a third- or even fourth-level spirit plant master in the future.

The Lu family has continued to develop rapidly over the years, but the strength of the Jin Yuan Sect and Dan Ding Sect has declined rather than improved.

This is mainly because they are trapped within the Lu family's mountain gate, making it relatively difficult to obtain cultivation resources, and they are also unable to recruit new cultivators into the sect.

Although the cultivators from both sects felt extremely anxious, they were helpless.

Even now, the evil cultivators like Lord Tianhuang are still staying in the Yunling Mountains and haven't left. Although those evil cultivators haven't attacked them in recent years, they still don't dare to leave the Lu family's sphere of influence.

They knew perfectly well that the reason those evil cultivators dared not attack them was because they feared the power of the Lu family.

If they leave the Lu family's sphere of influence, those evil cultivators will certainly not sit idly by and wait to die.

The Ancient Desolate Sect has remained closed off from the world for many years and has not been managing the heretical cultivators within its territory.

The injuries on Nascent Soul cultivators Qiongmiao Zhenjun and Suigu Zhenjun have healed, but they are still no match for the Sacred Heart Sect.

These Sacred Heart Sect members did not attack the Ancient Desolate Sect, but instead launched fierce attacks on other Nascent Soul forces in Qingzhou and Hezhou.

The cultivators of the Sacred Heart Sect and the two Nascent Soul sects suffered heavy losses. Countless cultivators at the Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core stages died in battle, and even some Nascent Soul stage cultivators nearly perished.

In recent years, these Nascent Soul sects seem to have grown tired of fighting, and the number of battles has gradually decreased, with Nascent Soul cultivators rarely making a move anymore.

However, this does not mean that the Sacred Heart Sect has given up its original plans, but is waiting for an opportunity.

This opportunity naturally came from the Butterfly Demon King of the Hong'e Mountains.

The news of the Butterfly Demon King's imminent return has been circulating for decades, but he has not yet returned to the Hong'e Mountains.

However, for a fourth-order perfect demon king like the Butterfly Transformation Demon King, who has a long lifespan, several decades is indeed just a blink of an eye.

Now, the Sacred Heart Sect has received definite news that the Butterfly Demon King may return to the Hong'e Mountains within the next ten years.

Therefore, the Sacred Heart Sect slowed down its attacks on Nascent Soul forces in Qingzhou and Hezhou. They planned to wait until the Butterfly Demon King returned, then join forces with the demon beasts of the Hong'e Mountains to wipe out all Nascent Soul forces in Qingzhou and Hezhou in one fell swoop.

These messages came from Lu Chengyue!

Lu Chengyue's cultivation has now broken through to the Golden Core realm. In addition, she is a disciple of the Nascent Soul cultivator Ku Shi Zhenjun of the Desolate Ancient Sect, so she is more knowledgeable about these matters than other cultivators.

Now, Lu Chengyue is not only worried about the Lu family, but also about the future of the Desolate Ancient Sect.

Among the Nascent Soul sects in Qingzhou and Hezhou, the Desolate Ancient Sect was considered to be at the bottom.

Once the Demon King returns to the Hong'e Mountains, the Sacred Heart Sect, in conjunction with the demon beasts of the Hong'e Mountains, will launch an attack, and the Ancient Desolate Sect will be in danger of annihilation.

The Lu family also felt worried about these things, but not particularly worried.

The demonic beasts of the Sacred Heart Sect and the Hong'e Mountains naturally focus their attacks on Nascent Soul sects like the Ancient Desolate Sect, and may not take a small Golden Core force like the Lu family seriously.

The Lu family is now facing Tianhuang Zhenjun, a cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage.

After sitting in his cave for a while, Lu Cheng'an sent a message to Shi Ningyu, briefly explaining his trip to the Nether River.

Shi Ningyu knew that Lu Chengan's trip to the Nether River Region would be extremely dangerous. Not to mention what he would encounter while fighting against the Netherworld ghosts in the Nether River Region for the Yin Moon Soul Herb, just crossing the Yunling Mountains would not be an easy task.

The evil cultivators, including True Lord Tianhuang, are now hiding in the Yunling Mountains. Lu Cheng'an and True Lord Tianhuang have a deep-seated hatred for each other.

If True Lord Tianhuang discovers Lu Cheng'an's whereabouts in the Yunling Mountains, he will definitely take action to finish him off personally.

Although Shi Ningyu knew that Lu Cheng'an's journey was extremely dangerous, she did not try to dissuade him from going to the Netherworld River.

Because this trip is related to Lu Cheng'an's opportunity to break through to the Nascent Soul realm, Lu Cheng'an is willing to try it no matter how great the danger.

To avoid causing unnecessary panic, only Shi Ningyu knew that Lu Cheng'an had left the underground lava river and headed to the Netherworld River region.

Over the years, Lu Cheng'an has been cultivating diligently in the underground magma river and rarely returns to the Lu family.

He is now heading to the Nether River region, and the cultivators in the Lu family's mountain sect have not noticed anything unusual.

Lu Cheng'an would definitely have to cross the Yunling Mountains to reach the Nether River region, as this was the only way.

The Yunling Mountains and the Lu family's mountain gate are tens of thousands of miles apart, but this distance is not far for Lu Cheng'an.

After leaving the Burning Flame Mountains, he used the Star Flame Concealment Technique to travel.

This supernatural ability also has the function of concealing one's whereabouts, so he sped along without revealing his location.

"These heretical cultivators are truly hateful!"

Lu Cheng'an concealed himself within a cloud of mist. As he gazed at the desolate and decaying landscape below, a fierce killing intent surged in his eyes.

Below was originally the site of the Divine Sword Sect's mountain gate, a once extremely prosperous area, but now it is a desolate scene.

Not only were there no human cultivators, but there wasn't even a single blade of grass or tree; all that remained was a layer of lifeless yellow earth.

Lu Cheng'an was very familiar with this scene; it was all caused by the Black-striped Sky Locust. (End of Chapter)