Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Lu Cheng'an used the Fire Domain to refine the power of the Chaos Creature Bloodmane Hun Tian Niu corpse, and the range of the Fire Domain expanded from nine zhang to ten zhang, resulting in a significant increase in its power.

Now, when he uses the power of the Fire Domain to absorb the fire evil and fire poison in the underground magma river, the speed is much faster, and the absorption is also more thorough.

While absorbing the fire evil and fire poison, Lu Cheng'an was also carefully sensing the changes in the power of the fire domain, trying to do something again by relying on the power of the fire domain.

Time passed slowly, and two years went by in the blink of an eye.

For the past two years, Lu Cheng'an has been continuously absorbing the power of fire evil and fire poison in the underground magma river using his fire domain, and his gains have been substantial.

He absorbed almost all the fire evil and fire poison in the entire underground magma river using his fire domain, and the fire domain underwent some changes after absorbing so much fire evil and fire poison.

After being absorbed into the fire domain condensed by Lu Cheng'an, these fiery evils and fire poisons did not disappear, but instead merged into a new power.

This power possesses two characteristics: fiery malice and fiery poison, which permeate the entire fire domain.

Lu Cheng'an once conducted experiments using monsters living in underground magma rivers.

Lu Cheng'an had previously cleared out the monsters in the underground lava river, but after so much time, new second-tier monsters have been born in the underground lava river.

Lu Cheng'an used a second-tier demon beast for the experiment.

These monsters, born from underground lava rivers, were not afraid of the power of fire evil and fire poison. However, when Lu Cheng'an sent them into the fire domain he had created, they were instantly poisoned to death by the potent toxins contained within.

This potent toxin is formed by the condensation of fire evil and fire poison.

At that time, Lu Cheng'an silently sensed the power of this poison in the fire domain. He felt that this poison was extremely terrifying, and even cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage would find it difficult to withstand its attack.

To this end, Lu Cheng'an created a secret technique that utilizes the power of this potent poison for proactive attacks.

Lu Cheng'an named this secret technique "Flame Poison Scorching Spirit".

If he activates the secret technique of Flaming Poison Scorching Spirit, he can release the potent poison contained within the fire domain to launch an attack.

Of course, this secret technique has more than just that function; its main function is to amplify the power of Lu Cheng'an's Fire Domain.

However, if the power of the Fire Domain is amplified by using the Flame Poison Scorching Spirit, the consumption of mana is extremely terrifying.

Even with Lu Cheng'an's current cultivation level, he can only activate the Flame Poison Scorching Spirit for five breaths.

However, the Flame Poison Scorching Spirit secret technique also greatly amplifies the Fire Domain, almost doubling its power.

The enhancement of the Fire Domain's power will also double Lu Cheng'an's combat strength.

This kind of advancement is extremely frightening.

With Lu Cheng'an's current strength, if he were to use the Flaming Poison Scorching Spirit secret technique to amplify his power, he would be able to kill a Nascent Soul Perfection Realm cultivator like True Monarch Qiongmiao and severely injure a Nascent Soul Perfection Realm cultivator like True Monarch Lieyang.

Lu Cheng'an had never seen the Sacred Heart Ancestor or the Butterfly Transformation Demon King make a move, but he felt that with the amplification of the Flame Poison Scorching Spirit Secret Technique, he should be able to fight against an existence like the Sacred Heart Ancestor.

Unfortunately, the Flame Poison Scorching Spirit's duration is too short, so it can only be used as a trump card.

Of course, as long as he doesn't do anything reckless, given the strength he's currently displaying, even beings like the Sacred Heart Ancestor and the Butterfly Transformation Demon King won't attack him.

Not long after Lu Cheng'an created the secret technique of Flaming Poison Scorching Spirit, he received a message from Lu Jingkun, asking him to return to the family to help refine and set up the array flags, array plates, and array beads for the Intercepting Spirit Array and the Earth Mother Spirit Transformation Array.

For the past two years, Lu Jingkun and his companion have been working on perfecting the Spirit Interception Array and the Earth Mother Spirit Transformation Array, and now they have finally succeeded in perfecting these two arrays.

Once Lu Cheng'an has refined the array flags, array plates, and array beads needed for setting up the array, they can begin to set up the Intercepting Spirit Array and the Earth Mother Spirit Transformation Array.

After receiving Lu Jingkun's message, Lu Cheng'an immediately left the underground lava river and returned to his family's mountain gate.

After exchanging ideas with Lu Jingkun, he began to refine the array flags that Lu Jingkun and Lu Jingkun needed.

The crafting difficulty of this kind of magical artifact is relatively low, and Lu Cheng'an has experience in crafting such artifacts.

Moreover, the array flags needed by Lu Jingkun and his companion this time are much simpler than those needed to upgrade the Nine Luminaries Star Thunder Refining God Array. The only similarity is that the quantity is quite large.

It took Lu Cheng'an three years to refine all the magical artifacts needed to set up the array. By then, Lu Jingkun and Lu Cheng'an had already begun to set up the Spirit Interception Array.

The Spirit Interception Array was developed by Lu Jingkun and his companion, who were extremely familiar with it.

Moreover, the fact that the two fourth-tier spirit array masters worked together to set up this low-grade fourth-tier spirit array greatly reduced the difficulty of setting it up.

Less than two months after Lu Cheng'an finished crafting all the magical artifacts needed to set up the array, Lu Jingkun and Lu Cheng'an successfully set up the Spirit Interception Array.

The central area of ​​the Spirit Interception Array is located in the Five Spirit Lake, because this is the place with the most concentrated spiritual energy in the underground magma river, and there are two fourth-order spiritual veins here.

"Uncle Cheng'an, come and feel the power of the Spirit Interception Array!"

In the Five Spirits Lake, Lu Jingkun looked at Lu Chengan with a smile on his face. The spirit-intercepting array that he and the Earl of Chengping had spent so much time setting up had finally not failed.

Lu Cheng'an released his Nascent Soul power to feel the power of the Spirit Interception Array. He sensed the abundant spiritual energy in the Five Spirit Lake surging towards the Lu family's location under the effect of the Spirit Interception Array.

The power of the Spirit Interception Array is very extensive, directly connecting to the nine main peaks within the Lu Family Mountain Gate.

Ultimately, the spiritual energy intercepted by the Spirit Interception Array from the underground magma river will be transported into these nine main peaks.

In addition, Lu Cheng'an also sensed that the Spirit Interception Array had the effect of gathering spiritual energy.

Moreover, the area covered by its spiritual energy is extremely vast, almost covering most of the underground magma river.

The Spirit-Gathering Power of the Spirit-Intercepting Array will cause the spiritual energy of the underground magma river to converge into the Five Spirit Lake, and then all of it will be transported into the Lu Family Mountain Gate until the spiritual energy of the underground magma river becomes extremely thin.

This will be a very slow process, after all, the Spirit Interception Array is only a fourth-grade low-level array.

If the grade of this spirit array were improved further, the time would be greatly shortened.

"The Spirit Interception Array is working well. Thank you for your hard work these past few days!" Lu Cheng'an said with a smile.

"We're not working hard; it's all for the future development of the family!" Lu Jingkun and the other man said with a smile.

After confirming with Lu Cheng'an that the power of the Spirit Interception Array was not a problem, Lu Jingkun and his companion began to set up the Earth Mother Spirit Transformation Array.

The setup of this spirit array is much easier than that of the spirit interception array. Its main function is to better integrate the spiritual energy of the underground magma river intercepted by the spirit interception array with the spiritual veins of the Lu family mountain gate.

Lu Cheng'an no longer paid much attention to the setup of the Earth Mother Spirit Transformation Array, as he trusted Lu Jingkun and his companion's abilities. Instead of continuing his cultivation at Five Spirit Lake, Lu Cheng'an returned to his cave on Sun Peak.

The spiritual energy in the Sun Peak Cave is much richer than that in the Five Spirit Lake spiritual vein. Moreover, after he condenses the Fire Domain, he no longer needs to rely on the fire evil, fire poison, and fire elemental energy in the underground magma river to cultivate.

Shi Ningyu had already refined the fourth-grade mid-level Treasure Qi Returning Pill, but Lu Cheng'an had not had time to take it for cultivation since he obtained it.

After returning to his family from the underground lava river, he announced his seclusion and began taking the Treasure Qi Returning Pill to improve his cultivation.

The medicinal power of the Precious Qi Returning to Origin Pill is more abundant than that of the Three Yuan Jade Purity Pill, and this pill is also more effective in improving Lu Cheng'an's cultivation.

After consuming all four Qi-Returning Pills in his hand, Lu Cheng'an's cultivation level improved significantly.

The two extra illusory patterns that appeared on his nascent soul after advancing to the mid-stage of nascent soul have already mostly solidified, and the remaining one should also solidify in a short time.

By then, his cultivation will have broken through to the late Nascent Soul stage.

Lu Cheng'an originally wanted to continue cultivating in his cave, but he received a message from the three Nascent Soul sects of the Desolate Ancient Sect, asking him to go to the Heavenly Sword Sect together.

The reason for this is that they have received accurate information that the Holy Heart Ancestor is preparing to break through to the Nascent Soul realm.

There is an insurmountable chasm between the Nascent Soul stage and the Deity Transformation stage. Nascent Soul cultivators face enormous risks in successfully breaking through to the Deity Transformation stage, and the probability of successfully breaking through is extremely low.

Nascent Soul cultivators also have to undergo the Pure Yang Fire Tribulation when breaking through to the Deity Transformation Realm. However, the power of the Pure Yang Fire Tribulation in the Deity Transformation Realm is far superior to that in the Nascent Soul Realm. If one is not careful, the Nascent Soul will be burned to ashes by the Pure Yang Fire Tribulation.

The perilous Pure Yang Fire Tribulation was merely the first tribulation in breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm. Following the Pure Yang Fire Tribulation would come the Pure Yang Lightning Tribulation.

There are a total of nine Pure Yang Lightning Tribulations, each more terrifying than the last.

After a Nascent Soul cultivator survives nine pure Yang lightning tribulations, they are considered to have successfully broken through to the Deity Transformation realm.

Afterwards, the Nascent Soul transforms into the Primordial Spirit, and the Primordial Spirit has an opportunity to closely comprehend the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. It is during this opportunity that the Nascent Soul cultivator is able to successfully condense their own domain.

This is an immense opportunity for cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage.

However, this opportunity also contains great danger.

Although the primordial spirit can take this opportunity to closely comprehend the power of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, the power of the Great Dao is too terrifying.

Even though the primordial spirit of a Nascent Soul cultivator is extremely powerful, it can be directly destroyed by the power of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth if one is not careful.

The Holy Heart Ancestor had remained at the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm for many years, and his lifespan was nearing its end.

If he doesn't attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul realm at this time, his physical body and nascent soul will gradually decline over time. At that point, even if he wants to break through to the Nascent Soul realm again, he won't have the chance at all.

It was for this reason that, after planning for a long time, the Holy Heart Ancestor launched an attack on the Nascent Soul sects in Qingzhou and Hezhou in preparation for his breakthrough to the Divine Transformation realm.

Unfortunately, he ultimately failed to achieve his goal.

Many years have passed since the attack by the demonic beasts of the Sacred Heart Sect and the Hong'e Mountains. After making so many efforts, the Sacred Heart Ancestor still wants to try to break through to the Nascent Soul realm.

The Nascent Soul cultivators, including True Lord Lieyang, felt that the chances of Sacred Heart Ancestor succeeding were not high.

The ancestors of Haoyang Sect and Tianjian Sect were cultivators who reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and their sect records contain detailed accounts of this.

They felt that given the circumstances of the Sacred Heart Ancestor, the chances of him successfully breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm were extremely slim.

But since the Holy Heart Ancestor chose to break through, it proves that he still has a certain amount of confidence.

This confidence instilled fear in Nascent Soul cultivators like True Lord Lieyang.

The difference in strength between Nascent Soul cultivators and Spirit Transformation cultivators is too great. If the Holy Heart Ancestor's cultivation has truly broken through to the Nascent Soul realm, then they would be no match for him.

The reason why True Lord Lieyang sent a message to Lu Cheng'an to go to the Heavenly Sword Sect was to discuss how to deal with the matter of Ancestor Shengxin breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm.

After receiving the message from the three sects of the Ancient Desolate Sect, Lu Cheng'an immediately relayed the news to the other three Nascent Soul cultivators in his clan.

He didn't linger in the family after that and headed straight for the Ancient Desolate Sect.

Qiongmiao Zhenjun has not yet departed from the sect. Lu Cheng'an will meet up with Qiongmiao Zhenjun, and then head to Tianjian Sect together with Lieyang Zhenjun and Wanying Zhenjun.

This meeting was merely to discuss how to deal with the Holy Heart Ancestor's breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm, not to launch a direct attack on the Holy Heart Sect. Therefore, each sect only sent the main responsible cultivators.

Lu Cheng'an and the Nascent Soul cultivators, including True Monarch Qiongmiao, moved extremely fast. After they met up, they arrived at the Heavenly Sword Sect together in a short time.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng'an and the others were taken into the council hall of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Three cultivators from the Heavenly Sword Sect attended the meeting: the Sword Inquiry True Monarch, who was at the peak of the Nascent Soul realm, and the Myriad Swords True Monarch and the White Bone True Monarch, who were at the late Nascent Soul realm.

"The main reason I've summoned you all to our sect is because Ancestor Sacred Heart is preparing to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm. We've received confirmation of this, and now..."

Without wasting words, after the Nascent Soul cultivators, including True Monarch Lieyang, had all arrived, he directly revealed all the information the Heavenly Sword Sect possessed regarding the Sacred Heart Sect.

According to True Monarch Wenjian, Ancestor Shengxin was worried that his failure to break through to the Nascent Soul realm would destroy the Shengxin Sect's millennia-old foundation.

Therefore, before his breakthrough, he took the lead in training a cultivator who had reached the Nascent Soul stage for the Sacred Heart Sect.

The cultivator at the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm whom the Sacred Heart Ancestor trained for the Sacred Heart Sect was none other than the Sacred Yang True Lord, who came from the Haoyang Sect.

Saint Sun True Lord has extremely high cultivation talent, and his combat strength is the strongest in the Saint Heart Sect besides the Saint Heart Ancestor.

His cultivation has now broken through to the Nascent Soul stage. Relying on the various foundations left by the Holy Heart Ancestor, he will surely be able to safeguard the Holy Heart Sect's ten-thousand-year foundation.

Now, Lu Cheng'an and the other Nascent Soul cultivators face two paths. One is to do nothing and hope that the Holy Heart Ancestor will fail to break through to the Divine Transformation Realm and die.

The chances are quite high; they don't have to pay any price to survive.

The second method was to attack the Holy Heart Ancestor before he broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, thus denying him the opportunity to advance.

If they choose the second option, they will face enormous risks.

After all, this was an act of obstruction against the path of the Sacred Heart Ancestor, and it would inevitably provoke his furious revenge. (End of Chapter)