Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 242: Seventy Years of Practicing Together, the Five Extremes and Five Punishments
"In compliance with Master's Jade Order, my junior sister and I have already prepared all the spiritual objects."

Two monks, one middle-aged and one young, came to the collapsed Yellow Spring Valley today.

The middle-aged man had a serious face and a sinister temperament, but his Taoist uniform was meticulous, with a whisk in his hand, a pine-patterned sword on his back, and a gray and white Taoist robe, looking bright and clear.

Although the pretty female cultivator was also dressed like a cultivator, she was much more casual than her senior brother. With a gleam in her eyes, she looked around curiously at the land that was constantly being burned by the Nine Nether Fire.

Miao Chuyun could notice it, and naturally Situ Hua, as his senior brother, could too.

But he was more filled with emotion, as this was the method used by his master nearly seventy years ago. Back then, the Taoist Lin Chong, who was insignificant and unattainable in his eyes, died under his master's sword before he could pass the tribulation, and then the entire Lin family of Ranmu Mountain collapsed completely.

At this moment, a sword light flew out from the crack in the ground, accompanied by a voice:
"Come down, follow the flying sword, and be careful, the Nine Nether Fire is fierce here, don't let your body get burned."

"Thank you, Master."

Situ Hua and Miao Chuyun saluted together, and then the two of them followed the sword light and flew away. The speed of flying was not slow, and there was no detour, but the two of them still flew for several hours before they found the place where their master was in seclusion.

It seemed that there was already a peaceful and quiet little world there, but Lu Cheng used his own magic power to open up a quiet little world there.

After entering the cave, Situ Hua and Miao Chuyun saw their master sitting high on a mountain wall. In the center of the cave, there was an ancient tree that looked dead and yet alive. A jade dragon was climbing on the tree, and there were talismans on the walls around the cave.

"Master, except for the Qingyuan Pure Water, all the spiritual objects written in your talisman are here. Next, I will go to Mingquan Temple to ask for spiritual water. But please give me the Jade Bee Puree first, so that I can gain people's trust."

"Very good. Thank you for your hard work. Rest here for two days before leaving. If you have any questions about cultivation, you can ask me."

Hearing this, Situ Hua hesitated for a moment, then knelt down, took out a manuscript from his arms and held it high with both hands.

Lu Cheng didn't expect that his disciple really had some problems in his cultivation and needed his answers. Judging from the cultivation of his eldest disciple Situ Hua, he should be quite solid. With a wave of his hand, the manuscript fell into Lu Cheng's hands.

"The five extreme punishments, the loss of limbs, the expulsion of intelligence, the separation of form and knowledge, the unity of the Great Way..."

Lu Cheng read this Taoist book for about two hours. The more he read, the more he frowned. When he finished reading, he threw the manuscript on the ground, seeming to be quite angry.

Situ Hua looked at the manuscript he had written with so much effort, which was thrown on the ground. He wanted to pick it up, but he was so afraid that he curled up and knelt there.

"The Taoism I taught you is not enough for your practice? Why do you have to practice this evil art? What are you thinking?"

"Master, Master, I..." Situ Hua wanted to explain, but he didn't dare to defend himself and ended up just kowtowed there.

After a while, looking at Situ Hua, Lu Cheng gradually calmed down, waved his hand and took the manuscript back, and said:
"Go, go to Mingquan Temple. As for your Taoist book, I will also read it." As he said that, Lu Cheng gave her a bottle of jade bee jelly.

"Thank you, Master, for helping me."

Situ Hua wiped away his tears, then put away the jade bee syrup, turned around and ran away.

"And you, what are you doing here? I shouldn't have asked you to come." Lu Cheng's eyes moved to the second disciple Miao Chuyun. "Master, it is only natural for the disciple to serve the master when the master is busy. Chuyun is envious of his brother who can serve the master all the time. This time, I know that the master is going to practice Taoism, so I want to accompany you and serve you."

"…You are also filial."

There is no time in the immortal way, and years are unknown in the mountains.

Looking at Miao Chuyun in front of him and the departing eldest disciple Situ Hua, Lu Cheng suddenly remembered that it had been a hundred years since he first saw this bullied little girl.

Even his eldest disciple, Situ Hua, has been his disciple for more than sixty years.

In the previous life, this would have been almost half of my life.

"I am condensing the Nine Nether Fire, the Sun True Fire, and the Fire in my heart, using the three fires to refine my body and cultivate my Dharma body. Since you are already here, go to the nearby market and buy two jade bottles that are specially used to store spiritual fire. You need the ones that have been refined from scratch and have not been contaminated by any foreign fire. If you really can't find anyone, you can only return to Cangshan to find the sect's weapon refiner to refine it.

With your cultivation level, condensing the Nine Netherworlds and the Sun True Fire will certainly be full of dangers even with the help of magic tools, but it is also a good opportunity to hone your character and prepare for your future cultivation of the Golden Pill."

After following Lu Cheng in practicing Taoism for many years, Situ Hua and Miao Chuyun have both reached the level of condensing the evil spirit and even pondering the golden elixir. Of course, if they don't have the opportunity or if they don't pursue the quality of the elixir, it is normal to be trapped for hundreds of years.

Situ Hua practiced the "Demonic Writings and Ghost Seals to Attract Demons" in "The Secret Demonic Dao of the Heavens". Although the external demons were very strong, his magic power improved by leaps and bounds, even surpassing Miao Chuyun.

The Taoist book he had just presented came from this origin: The Five Punishments, also known as the Five Extreme Punishments Secret Technique.

Situ Hua wanted to transfer the vital energy of his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys into his limbs and other parts, and then attract hundreds of ghosts to gather and eat them in exchange for magic energy. Then, he would use the hundreds of ghosts to attract the strange demons from all over the world to descend upon his body, forming a pattern of mutual restraint among all energies and checks and balances among ghosts and demons, so as to forcibly improve the quality of the fifth-grade Lead Mercury Pill, the Cold Essence Ghost Seal Secret Demon Yuan Pill.

Lu Cheng is proficient in the art of cultivating both sex and life, and the theory of the five elements and five qi. Situ Hua studied under him, and what he has learned now is all a weakened version of what Lu Cheng has learned.

If he were to do it alone, at such a huge cost, he could at most upgrade the Danhan Jing Guizhuan Secret Demon Yuan Dan to the fourth grade, and it would be a mid-grade pill.

But if Lu Cheng could organize the Taoist books for him, summon hundreds of ghosts for him, descend the secret demons for him, and sort out the protection of the Tao, Situ Hua would really have a great chance of cultivating the third-grade golden elixir secret demon Yuandan.

To some extent, it almost crossed the Taoist barrier set by Deng Dongyuan back then.

But this is different from Lu Cheng's sword returning to death. Lu Cheng can slowly transform death into vitality. Situ Hua does not have this talent. Even if he cultivates the third-grade golden elixir, he will inevitably be entangled with ghosts and demons in this life. That is not only his most powerful magical power, but also his most terrible backlash and self-damage. To cultivate to this point is already too narrow-minded and sharp and not in the right way.

How can a person who is so cruel to himself be tolerant to others?

As long as Situ Hua is kept in Lucheng, his future will surely be one of strict discipline, rigid and self-discipline, but once he leaves Lucheng, he will almost certainly fall into the evil path.

Huang Longzi and Lu Cheng practiced Taoism, not focusing on Taoism or magic, but only focusing on the word Tao. However, Situ Hua did not have this talent.

(End of this chapter)