Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

"Now, there are no cultivators in Qing, He, and Tai states who can rival me, but the Heavenly Sword Talisman of the Heavenly Sword Sect and the Haoyang Mirror, the secret treasure of the Haoyang Sect, will still pose a certain threat to me."

Lu Cheng'an knew about the two trump cards of the Heavenly Sword Sect and the Haoyang Sect because they were exposed when the Sacred Heart Sect and the Butterfly Demon King launched their attacks on Qing and He provinces.

The Heavenly Sword Talisman of the Heavenly Sword Sect and the Haoyang Mirror, a secret treasure of the Haoyang Sect, are both treasures that can unleash attacks comparable to those of a Nascent Soul cultivator in the early stages.

Lu Cheng'an had never truly witnessed the power released by these two treasures, but he felt that he would be unable to withstand such an attack.

Of course, given his abilities, neither Sword Inquiry True Monarch nor Blazing Sun True Monarch should have had the chance to activate these two treasures in front of him.

He had already tested the power of simultaneously using the Thousand-Year Seal and the Tranquil Ancient Seal with the Butterfly Transformation Demon King. Even a being of the Butterfly Transformation Demon King's strength was unable to move for three breaths.

The strength of True Lord Lieyang and True Lord Wenjian is slightly weaker than that of the Butterfly Demon King. It will definitely take them longer to resolve the power of the Thousand-Year Seal and the Tranquil Ancient Seal.

During this period, he could easily suppress and kill True Lord Lieyang and True Lord Wenjian.

Of course, the Lu family has no conflict with Haoyang Sect and Tianjian Sect. If the cultivators of these two sects do not provoke the Lu family, Lu Cheng'an will not easily take action against them.

After explaining his current strength to Shi Ningyu, Lu Cheng'an said in a deep voice, "The main reason why I can have such formidable strength with the cultivation of the late Nascent Soul stage is that I condensed the Fire Domain when I was in the mid-Nascent Soul stage."

The domain is a power that only cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage can comprehend. If someone at the Nascent Soul stage possesses it, their strength will increase dramatically.

"Ningyu, you also need to find a way to solidify your own domain. After I finish dealing with things in Yanzhou, we'll cultivate together again, and then I'll guide you to comprehend the power of the Fire Domain!"

When Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu were cultivating together before, Lu Cheng'an had guided Shi Ningyu to comprehend the power of the Fire Domain.

However, they had not yet witnessed the power of the Fire Domain at that time. It was only after Lu Cheng'an's cultivation broke through to the late Nascent Soul stage that he truly realized how great the benefits of condensing a domain at the Nascent Soul realm were.

Shi Ningyu cultivates the Divine Jade True Scripture, which is a metal-elemental cultivation technique. If she wants to condense a domain, she also needs to comprehend the power of the metal element.

However, it seems that none of the Nascent Soul sects in Qing, He, and Tai prefectures are skilled in this art.

It will be extremely difficult for Shi Ningyu to condense her own domain at the Nascent Soul stage.

"These are storage artifacts I obtained from the Butterfly Demon King and other demon beasts. I haven't had a chance to examine them yet. Let's sort these things out together and see if there's anything you need."

At this moment, a smile appeared on Lu Cheng'an's face, and then he took out eight or nine storage magic items.

These storage artifacts were carried by fourth-tier demon beasts such as the Butterfly Demon King. One of them was a storage artifact shaped like a jade bracelet, which came from the Butterfly Demon King.

Only this storage artifact still contains the seal left by the Butterfly Demon King.

Because when the fourth-tier demonic beasts, such as the Golden Bee, handed over their personal storage artifacts to Lu Cheng'an, they had already consciously lifted the seal.

The sealing power left by the Butterfly Demon King in her storage artifact was very strong, but now that she has been killed by Lu Cheng'an, the sealing power has been weakened considerably.

Lu Cheng'an easily broke the seal on the storage artifact and then took out all the items stored inside.

A moment later, a dense spiritual energy surged forth from Lu Cheng'an's cave. This spiritual energy was released from the treasures stored in the Butterfly Transformation Demon King's storage artifact.

"How could the Butterfly Demon King possess so many treasures!"

"This is a top-grade fourth-tier Earth Spirit Mother Mushroom!"

"This is a top-grade fourth-tier Golden Light Divine Jade Grass!"

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Shi Ningyu exclaimed in surprise. The first thing she saw was a series of top-grade fourth-tier spiritual herbs.

Lu Cheng'an was equally shocked, but he was not attracted by those top-grade fourth-tier spiritual herbs. Instead, he focused his attention on a broken sword.

It can't even be called a broken sword, because it's only the size of an adult's palm.

The runes branded on it have been mostly erased, but the reason it caught Lu Cheng'an's attention was because this fragment contained the power of the Golden Dao.

This power wasn't particularly strong, but Lu Cheng'an sensed that it was the power of the Great Dao of Gold.

Moreover, the power of this Golden Dao is extremely strong. Based on this Golden Dao, Lu Cheng'an deduced that this broken sword fragment, in its complete state, must be a fifth-grade high-quality or supreme-quality magic weapon.

After a moment of surprise, Lu Cheng'an picked up the broken sword fragment from the pile of treasures, then smiled and said to Shi Ningyu, "Ningyu, this broken sword fragment is the real treasure. It contains the power of the Great Dao of Metal. It should have been specially sought by the Butterfly Demon King in an attempt to condense his domain, but now it has benefited us!"

The Divine Jade Scripture that Shi Ningyu cultivates is a metal-based technique, and this broken sword fragment is a perfect match for Shi Ningyu.

Originally, the chances of Shi Ningyu being able to condense a domain at the Nascent Soul stage with Lu Cheng'an's help were extremely slim, but the appearance of this broken sword fragment has greatly increased that chance.

After receiving the broken sword fragment from Lu Cheng'an, Shi Ningyu silently sensed it and indeed felt a faint but powerful force of the Dao of Metal within it.

In an instant, Shi Ningyu's breathing gradually became rapid, which gave her hope of narrowing the gap with Lu Cheng'an.

"Keep this broken sword fragment safe for now. Let's sort out these treasures first!" Lu Cheng'an said with a smile.

The Butterfly Demon King's wealth was extremely substantial. In addition to the broken sword fragment of unknown grade, he also possessed sixteen portions of top-grade fourth-tier spiritual items, thirty-two portions of high-grade fourth-tier spiritual items, thirty-six portions of mid-grade fourth-tier spiritual items, and fifteen portions of low-grade fourth-tier spiritual items.

In addition, the Butterfly Demon King also possesses two top-grade fourth-tier magic treasures, two high-grade fourth-tier magic treasures, two mid-grade fourth-tier magic treasures, and two high-grade fourth-tier magical artifacts.

There wasn't a single precious item like elixirs or talismans.

The cultivation levels of the fourth-tier demon beasts, such as the Golden Bee Demon King, were all in the mid-to-late stages of the fourth tier. Although their wealth was not as great as that of the Butterfly Transformation Demon King, they still obtained a large number of fourth-tier spiritual items after Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu sorted them out.

The total number is more than that of the Butterfly Demon King, but the quality is far inferior to the treasures collected by the Butterfly Demon King.

"These demonic beasts also possess treasures such as Earth Spirit Essence, Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Wood Heart, and Nascent Soul Grass, which are spiritual items that aid in the condensation of the Nascent Soul. Our clan is not lacking in such spiritual items this time!"

After sorting out these spiritual items, a pleasant smile appeared on Lu Cheng'an's face.

The fourth-tier demon beasts, including the Butterfly Demon King, had obtained these spiritual items from who-knows-where. Lu Cheng'an and his companion managed to gather a total of two portions of Earth Essence Marrow, one portion of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Wood Heart, and two Nascent Soul Grasses. Nascent Soul Grasses could be refined into Nascent Soul Pills, and with the current alchemy skills of the Myriad Medicine Elder, these two portions of Nascent Soul Grasses were enough to refine eight Nascent Soul Pills.

If we add the Nascent Soul Pill and Earth Essence Marrow that the Lu family already possessed, which are spiritual items that help condense a Nascent Soul, the Lu family will now have twelve spiritual items that help condense a Nascent Soul.

The Lu family currently has four cultivators at the Golden Core Perfection stage who have the potential to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, which is more than enough to meet the needs of the Lu family's existing Golden Core Perfection stage cultivators.

After selecting some spiritual items that would be useful to them, Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu stored the remaining spiritual items in the family treasury.

Then Lu Wenxing was instructed to compile these spiritual items into a book for the clan's cultivators to exchange for.

After sorting through these spiritual items, Shi Ningyu returned to her cave to cultivate in seclusion and study the broken sword fragment containing the Great Dao of Metal that she had just acquired.

Lu Cheng'an was refining materials in his cave, preparing to upgrade the two magical treasures, the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell and the Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan, to the fourth-tier superior grade.

He previously had the ability to upgrade the two magic treasures to the fourth-tier high-grade level, but he lacked the materials to do so.

Now that he has obtained all the valuables from the fourth-tier demon beasts such as the Butterfly Demon King, he not only has enough materials to upgrade the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell and the Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan to the fourth-tier high-grade, but also enough to upgrade these two magic treasures to the fourth-tier top-grade.

However, Lu Cheng'an is only preparing to perform a simple ritual on these materials, and does not intend to refine them directly, because he does not have the time.

Later, after the demon kings, including the Golden Bee, have plundered the spiritual treasures contained in the Hong'e Mountains, they will deliver them to the Lu family.

Once he has collected these treasures, he will travel to Yanzhou with Nascent Soul cultivators such as True Monarch Qiongmiao.

The Nascent Soul cultivators, including True Monarch Qiongmiao, have already informed Lu Cheng'an of the situation in Yanzhou. The situation in Yanzhou is even worse than they imagined.

There are over a hundred sand demons comparable to Nascent Soul cultivators, and these sand demons are very difficult to kill.

If we cannot help Yanzhou deal with these sand demons, then once these sand demons destroy Yanzhou, they will very likely threaten Qingzhou and Hezhou.

Yanzhou.

Qiongmiao Zhenjun and the Nascent Soul cultivators from Qing and He states are now preparing to leave Yan state, having repelled this small-scale attack by the Sand Demon.

The number of Nascent Soul cultivators dispatched by Yanzhou this time was large, and with the assistance of Nascent Soul cultivators from Qing and Hezhou, including True Monarch Qiongmiao, the sand demons dispatched from the Hanhai Desert were no match for True Monarch Qiongmiao and his Nascent Soul cultivators.

When the Nascent Soul cultivators, including True Monarch Qiongmiao, attacked the sand demons, they did not kill them as planned. Instead, they used their supernatural powers to seal the defeated sand demons.

After the sand demons retreated, the Nascent Soul cultivators, including True Monarch Qiongmiao, sealed off a total of twenty Nascent Soul level sand demons, two of which were comparable to Nascent Soul Perfection cultivators.

Afterwards, the Nascent Soul cultivators, including Tiandao Zhenjun from Yanzhou, expressed their gratitude to Qiongmiao Zhenjun and the others, and then urged Qiongmiao Zhenjun and the others to leave Yanzhou with the sand demons as soon as possible.

This was something they had planned with True Monarch Qiongmiao and others beforehand.

Although Qiongmiao Zhenjun and the others were somewhat annoyed by the urging from Yanzhou Tiandao Zhenjun and other Nascent Soul cultivators, they did not say much and followed the original plan, leading the sealed sand demons away from Yanzhou.

Just like when they went to Yanzhou, Qiongmiao Zhenjun and the others returned to Hezhou from Yanzhou by crossing the Black Abyss.

Tian Dao Zhenjun and other Nascent Soul cultivators from Yanzhou escorted Qiong Miao Zhenjun and the others to the vicinity of the Black Abyss, watching them lead the sealed Sand Demon into the Black Abyss's territory.

"Sacred Flame, are we really going to do this?" Jade Cloud True Lord looked troubled, as if he had done something wrong.

"Yu Xiao, why are you putting on an act now? We've already done it even if you don't want to!"

A chilling smile appeared on Tian Dao Zhenjun's face: "You should know very well what the situation is with those sand demons in the Vast Sea Desert. With our strength, we simply cannot withstand their attacks!"

Now that we've used the Sand Demon to annihilate all the high-level combat forces in Qing and He provinces, our invasion of those provinces will be much easier.

The reason why Tian Dao Zhenjun said that was because they had previously tested taking the sealed sand demon out of Yanzhou.

However, as soon as they left the territory of Yanzhou, those sand demons turned into ordinary yellow sand in an instant.

At the same time, the moment those sand demons turn into ordinary yellow sand, they will release an extremely terrifying power to attack the cultivators carrying these sand demons.

The cultivators who had tried to leave with the sand demon were caught off guard and were severely injured by this terrifying power.

Then that power invaded the cultivator's body. It was a power that surpassed the Nascent Soul realm, similar to the Dao Condensation power mastered by a Deity Transformation cultivator. The Nascent Soul cultivator simply could not resolve it, and in the end, that cultivator still did not survive.

Moreover, the sand demon's power returned to the vast desert, proving that this idea was completely unworkable.

Now that True Monarch Qiongmiao and his group have left Yanzhou with twenty sand demons at the Nascent Soul level, one can imagine what kind of attack they will face once they enter the central area of ​​the Black Abyss.

More importantly, the Black Abyss is not a safe place either.

If True Monarch Qiongmiao and the others had fallen elsewhere while severely injured, they might have had a chance to survive. However, they would likely lose that chance if they stayed in the Black Abyss Sect.

"Let's go back. Hopefully, we won't really end up invading Qing and He provinces!" Saint Flame True Monarch sighed softly.

In fact, even if they didn't plot to frame Qiongmiao Zhenjun and the Nascent Soul cultivators of Qing and He states, Qing and He states would still be no match for their attacks.

They're doing this now simply to save themselves some trouble later.

Although Jade Cloud True Lord was somewhat reluctant to do this, the Heavenly Fire Sect and the Heavenly Blade Palace had already decided to do so.

As a cultivation sect in Yanzhou, the Nine Heavens Sect could only do this together.

After the Holy Flame True Monarch finished speaking, he led the cultivators of the Heavenly Flame Sect away.

After glancing at Yu Xiao Zhenjun, Tian Dao Zhenjun also left with the people of Tian Dao Palace.

Yu Xiao Zhenjun glanced in the direction of Hei Yuan. Although she did not quite agree with this approach, it was impossible for her to tell Qiong Miao Zhenjun the truth now.

"Let's go back too!" Jade Cloud True Monarch sighed softly, then led the cultivators of the Nine Heavens Sect away. (End of Chapter)