Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

After exchanging pleasantries with Lu Cheng'an, Ku Shi Zhenjun asked, "I wonder how much Fellow Daoist Lu knows about the current situation in Qingzhou and Hezhou?"

"To tell you the truth, Fellow Daoist Chen, I have basically no understanding of the current situation in Qingzhou and Hezhou. I only know that the Sacred Heart Sect has launched an attack on these two states, but I know nothing about the specifics."

Lu Cheng'an sighed and said, "For years, our Lu family has been trapped in the mountain gate by the evil cultivator Tianhuang Zhenjun and could not go out. It was not until not long ago that I broke through to the Nascent Soul realm and dealt with Tianhuang Zhenjun that our Lu family's crisis was completely resolved and we were able to go out."

Lu Cheng'an's gaze fell on True Monarch Kushi, and he asked with a smile, "Fellow Daoist Chen must be very familiar with the situation in Qingzhou and Hezhou. Please explain the situation in these two places to me."

Ku Shi Zhenjun's real name is Chen Mou Nian, which is what Ku Shi Zhenjun just said when he introduced himself.

"Then let me start by talking about the Nascent Soul forces in Qingzhou and Hezhou!"

The True Monarch of the Withered Time spoke gently, saying, "In the cultivation world of Qingzhou, where we are located, there are a total of three Nascent Soul sects. Besides our Ancient Desolate Sect, there are also the Haoyang Sect and the Suspended Mirror Sect; Hezhou also has three Nascent Soul sects, namely the Purple Sun Sect, the Medicine Immortal Valley, and the Heavenly Sword Sect..."

The explanation by the True Lord of the Withered Time was very detailed, and only now did Lu Cheng'an have a clear understanding of the cultivation world he was in.

Haoyang Sect is the most powerful Nascent Soul sect in the Qingzhou cultivation world. Currently, Haoyang Sect has a total of six Nascent Soul cultivators, and the sect leader, True Lord Lieyang, is at the Nascent Soul Perfection stage.

Of the remaining five Nascent Soul cultivators, True Monarch Heavenly Fire is at the late Nascent Soul stage, True Monarch Moon Spirit and True Monarch Myriad Woods are at the mid Nascent Soul stage, and True Monarch Mysterious Lord and True Monarch Stream Shadow are at the early Nascent Soul stage.

The Suspended Mirror Sect is slightly stronger than the Ancient Desolate Sect, and it currently has four cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage.

The sect leader of the Suspended Mirror Sect, True Lord Wanying, is at the late Nascent Soul stage; True Lord Xiangkong and True Lord Qiandie are at the mid Nascent Soul stage; and True Lord Fanyun is at the early Nascent Soul stage.

The three Nascent Soul sects in the cultivation world of Hezhou have even more Nascent Soul cultivators, totaling as many as seventeen.

Among them, the Heavenly Sword Sect is the most powerful. The sect leader, Sword Inquiry True Monarch, is at the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm, while Myriad Swords True Monarch and White Bone True Monarch are at the Nascent Soul Late Stage. The remaining four Nascent Soul cultivators are at the Nascent Soul Early to Mid Stage.

Both the Ziyang Sect and the Yaoxian Valley currently have five cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage. Among them, the sect leader of the Ziyang Sect, True Monarch Ziyun, and the sect leader of the Yaoxian Valley, Old Man Wanyao, are both at the late Nascent Soul stage. The remaining cultivators in both sects are at the early to mid-Nascent Soul stage.

Besides the cultivators from these six Nascent Soul sects, there are five other Nascent Soul cultivators in Qingzhou and Hezhou.

These five Nascent Soul cultivators are Master of Myriad Stars, True Monarch of a Thousand Poisons, True Monarch of Divine Wood, True Monarch of Nether Water, and True Monarch of Flower Mist.

The Master of Wanxing Tower is the owner of Wanxing Tower, and his cultivation level is at the mid-Nascent Soul stage.

Lu Cheng'an had some prior knowledge of Wanxing Tower, but after hearing Ku Shi Zhenjun's introduction, he realized that his previous understanding was largely incorrect.

The Myriad Stars Pavilion was a cultivation force that existed before they severed ties with the outside world. At that time, the true master of the Myriad Stars Pavilion was indeed a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage.

However, after their region was cut off from the outside world, Wanxinglou also lost contact with the outside world.

The strength of Wanxing Tower has been greatly weakened, and now only the Wanxing Tower Master remains, a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage.

The Thousand Poison True Monarch is the master of the Poison Swamp Immortal City that Lu Cheng'an visited before. With the help of the Sacred Heart Sect, he broke through to the Nascent Soul realm at almost the same time as the Heavenly Locust True Monarch.

The Thousand Poison True Monarch was located in the area between the Medicine Immortal Valley and the Suspended Mirror Gate. After his cultivation broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, he had been active in this area, so naturally he could not affect the Ancient Desolate Sect.

Shenmu Zhenjun is a rogue cultivator in the Qingzhou cultivation world, and it has been a long time since he broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, more than a thousand years.

However, his cultivation talent is limited, and fourth-order spiritual objects are relatively rare. Currently, his cultivation level is still at the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage.

Shenmu Zhenjun cultivates wood-attribute techniques and is quite fond of spiritual plants, so he has studied the path of spiritual plants and is now a fourth-grade high-level spiritual plant master.

Shenmu Zhenjun resides in the Yuanmu Mountains between the Xuanjing Sect and the Haoyang Sect, where he cultivates a large number of high-grade spiritual herbs.

When the Sacred Heart Sect first targeted the Nascent Soul cultivators in Qingzhou and Hezhou, it had already made a move against True Monarch Shenmu.

Shenmu Zhenjun was extremely vigilant. Before the Sacred Heart Sect made its move, he had already harvested all the high-grade spiritual herbs he had planted and had left the Shenmu Mountain Range with his important disciples.

After that, Shenmu Zhenjun never appeared again, and no one knew where he went.

True Lord Youshui and True Lord Huawu are rogue cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage in the cultivation world of Hezhou.

When True Lord Youshui first began cultivating, he received the lineage of a Nascent Soul cultivator. The cultivation technique he practiced was called the Youshui True Scripture, which was an extremely powerful fifth-order technique.

Despite being a rogue cultivator, True Lord Youshui, relying on the lineage of Nascent Soul cultivators, possessed extremely formidable strength.

His current cultivation level is at the late Nascent Soul stage. Even cultivators from Medicine Immortal Valley, Purple Sun Sect, and Heavenly Sword Sect would have to treat True Monarch Youshui with respect.

Hua Wu Zhenjun's cultivation level is at the early stage of Nascent Soul. Her strength is relatively ordinary. She cultivates spirit arrays as a secondary skill and is now a mid-grade fourth-tier spirit array master.

Knowing that her talent was mediocre, and that she was also a female rogue cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage, Hua Wu Zhenjun's situation was relatively difficult.

Therefore, not long after she broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, she took the initiative to approach True Monarch Youshui, wanting to become his Daoist partner.

After all, True Monarch Huawu was a rare female rogue cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage, and since she took the initiative to show goodwill, True Monarch Youshui naturally had no reason to refuse.

Nearly a thousand years have passed since the two became Daoist partners. During this time, True Monarch Huawu and True Monarch Youshui even had a son together.

Both True Monarch Youshui and True Monarch Huawu were Nascent Soul cultivators. When they were conceiving their offspring, they refined many precious spiritual objects, with the aim of giving birth to an offspring with outstanding cultivation talent.

Their efforts paid off. Their son, now only three hundred years old, has reached the peak of the Golden Core stage and is just one step away from breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.

However, the treasures that help condense the Nascent Soul are extremely difficult to obtain. Even though True Monarch Youshui and True Monarch Huawu are both Nascent Soul cultivators, they were unable to seize the treasures that help condense the Nascent Soul from the three Nascent Soul sects in Medicine Immortal Valley.

Therefore, their son, Jiang Yuanyi, is still at the Golden Core Perfection stage in terms of cultivation.

This time, the Sacred Heart Sect launched an attack on the cultivation world of Hezhou. All three Nascent Soul sects in the cultivation world of Hezhou, as well as the Sacred Heart Sect, extended olive branches to True Monarch Youshui and his wife.

If True Lord Youshui and his wife helped them, they would give them a treasure to help them condense their Nascent Souls. After some discussion, True Lord Youshui ultimately chose a Nascent Soul sect in the cultivation world of Hezhou.

After they agreed to the request from the Nascent Soul sect in the cultivation world of Hezhou, they were immediately attacked by the Sacred Heart Sect.

However, the Nascent Soul sects in the cultivation world of Hezhou would not stand idly by and watch the You Shui Zhenjun and his wife get into trouble. In the end, the Tianjian Sect Master, Wenjian Zhenjun, personally took action to repel the attack from the Shengxin Sect.

This time, the one who made the move was Saint Yang Zhenjun, one of the nine saints of the Saint Heart Sect.

In recent years, True Lord Shengyang's cultivation has improved once again, and he has broken through to the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm.

The Heavenly Sword Sect's True Lord Wenjian broke through to the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm much earlier than True Lord Shengyang. Moreover, True Lord Wenjian's strength was extremely formidable, and True Lord Shengyang, who had only recently entered the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm, was no match for True Lord Wenjian.

After defeating the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Sacred Heart Sect, including the Sacred Sun True Lord, Wenjian True Lord gave the treasure he had promised to Youshui True Lord and his wife for condensing their Nascent Souls.

True Monarch Youshui immediately handed over this treasure that had condensed a nascent soul to their son. Jiang Yuanyi's cultivation talent was indeed outstanding, and his accumulation of knowledge was also quite profound.

After obtaining the treasure that allowed him to condense his Nascent Soul, he immediately began a closed-door cultivation to break through to the Nascent Soul realm.

His breakthrough process was relatively smooth, and now several decades have passed since they broke through to the Nascent Soul realm.

However, after his cultivation broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, he has been in seclusion ever since.

The Nascent Soul sects in Hezhou's cultivation world, such as the Medicine Immortal Valley, dared not say much about this, after all, Jiang Yuanyi's parents had contributed greatly in dealing with the attack from the Sacred Heart Sect.

Moreover, their agreement with the You Shui Zhenjun couple was that the You Shui Zhenjun couple would take action, and they never said that Jiang Yuanyi, who had just broken through to the Nascent Soul realm, would take action.

This is the situation of the cultivation world in Qingzhou and Hezhou. Kushi Zhenjun also introduced the situation of the cultivation world in Taizhou to Lu Chengan.

Taizhou only has one Nascent Soul sect, the Sacred Heart Sect, and the Nine Saints of the Sacred Heart Sect are nine powerful Nascent Soul cultivators.

Besides the nine saints of the Sacred Heart Sect, there are also some Nascent Soul cultivators with relatively ordinary strength in the Sacred Heart Sect.

In addition, the Sacred Heart Sect also has Nascent Soul cultivators like True Lord Heavenly Locust and True Lord Thousand Poisons.

They were originally independent cultivators, and the Sacred Heart Sect, recognizing their talent for cultivation, would support them in breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm.

The spiritual objects that the Sacred Heart Sect used to help them break through to the Nascent Soul stage were created using an evil secret technique mastered by the Sacred Heart Sect. The spiritual objects used to condense the Nascent Soul required the lives of tens of millions of low-level cultivators.

Moreover, the nascent soul formed from this spiritual object will also have great hidden dangers, and it will be difficult to make further breakthroughs in the future.

Of course, the Sacred Heart Sect did not reveal the hidden dangers of this condensed Nascent Soul spiritual object, and even if those rogue cultivators knew that this spiritual object had hidden dangers, they would deliberately ignore it.

There are quite a few Nascent Soul cultivators like True Lord Tianhuang in Taizhou. The number of Nascent Soul cultivators exposed by the Sacred Heart Sect has now exceeded 10.

"Does Fellow Daoist Lu know why the Sacred Heart Sect attacks our Ancient Desolate Sect and the cultivation world of Qingzhou less?"

Ku Shi Zhenjun looked at Lu Cheng'an with a worried expression and said in a deep voice, "That's because they want the demons of Hong'e Mountain to attack us. We have obtained definite information that the Butterfly Transformation Demon King will return to Hong'e Mountain in ten years!"

When Ku Shi Zhenjun mentioned the Butterfly Transformation Demon King, his expression was extremely serious. After pausing for a moment, he continued, "Fellow Daoist Lu may not know much about the Butterfly Transformation Demon King. I can tell you that the Butterfly Transformation Demon King is an even more powerful being than the Holy Heart Ancestor!"

At this point, True Monarch Kushi glanced at Lu Cheng'an's reaction and asked, "If I remember correctly, Fellow Daoist Lu has a deep-seated hatred for the demonic beasts of the Hong'e Mountains. One of the offspring of the Azure Lion Demon King died at Fellow Daoist Lu's hands."

"Once the Butterfly Demon King returns to the Hong'e Mountains, the demon beasts of the Hong'e Mountains will inevitably launch an attack on us. At that time, the Azure Lion Demon King will very likely target your Lu family. Fellow Daoist Lu, do you think your Lu family's strength is enough to withstand the Azure Lion Demon King's attack?"

Lu Cheng'an frowned slightly. He glanced at Ku Shi Zhenjun's reaction and said, "If the Azure Lion Demon King makes a move, our Lu family will definitely not be able to withstand it. At that time, we will have to ask your sect for your help!"

"It is only right that we lend a helping hand, but our Ancient Desolate Sect is not very strong. If our sect leader's cultivation can break through to the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm, then dealing with the attacks of the demonic beasts in the Hong'e Mountains will be relatively easier!"

Ku Shi Zhenjun's gaze fell on Lu Cheng'an, and he said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist Lu should have obtained the inheritance of the Burning Flame Sect, right? The Burning Flame Sect's inheritance contains water-attribute Nascent Soul cultivation techniques such as the Black Water True Scripture and the Sea Mirage Rainbow Scripture. I wonder if Fellow Daoist Lu has obtained them?"
"If Fellow Daoist Lu obtains these water-attribute Nascent Soul cultivation techniques, would it be possible for our sect leader to examine them? In exchange, we can allow Fellow Daoist Lu to examine our Ancient Desolate Sect's Ancient Scripture!"

Lu Cheng'an's heart stirred slightly. When he heard what True Lord Kushi said later, he guessed that True Lord Kushi might have some request.

He just didn't expect that what True Monarch Kushi wanted was actually the fourth-tier water attribute technique of the Burning Flame Sect.

Lu Cheng'an wasn't particularly surprised that the Ancient Desolate Sect knew about his inheritance from the Burning Flame Sect.

The Lu family's background is too easy to investigate. Before his cultivation broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, the Ancient Desolate Sect probably never imagined that he had obtained the inheritance of the Burning Flame Sect.

However, his current cultivation level has broken through to the Nascent Soul realm, which makes the Ancient Desolate Sect think of this.

After realizing this, Qiongmiao Zhenjun of the Desolate Ancient Sect even went to the Lu family to investigate.

She recognized that the Lu family's protective mountain formation was the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Formation, which was originally the protective mountain formation of the Burning Flame Sect.

This discovery by True Monarch Qiongmiao further convinced the Ancient Desolate Sect that the Lu family had obtained the inheritance of the Burning Flame Sect.

Therefore, the current situation is not a test for Lu Cheng'an, but rather a confirmation that the Lu family has indeed obtained the inheritance of the Burning Flame Sect.

To Lu Cheng'an's surprise, the Ancient Desolate Sect actually offered the Ancient True Scripture in exchange.

Lu Cheng'an knew that the Ancient Scripture was the sect's most treasured technique, and its significance to the Ancient Sect was self-evident.

"I did obtain the Mirage Rainbow Scripture and the Blackwater True Scripture, but these are only the two fourth-tier water-attribute cultivation techniques!"

Lu Cheng'an's gaze fell on True Monarch Kushi, and he asked in a deep voice, "May I ask Fellow Daoist Chen, does your Ancient Desolate Sect really intend to exchange the Ancient Desolate Scripture for it?" (End of this chapter)