Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 251 Tian Yanzi, Half of the Yuanshi Tianmo Sutra

Endless purple-ink clouds, endless thunder storms, endless raging ocean waves, and endless tsunamis crashing down.

The great formation that those demon gods used to suppress the Tongxuan Realm, even if it was not at the seventh level, was at least a high-grade sixth level. Even if there was no one to preside over the formation, even if they used the magic weapon, the Golden Boat to smuggle out, Lu Cheng and Jin Ling would still be stranded in that endless sea eye whirlpool world for five years.

When a huge black tsunami hit, even Jin Ling was already in despair, realizing that his magic power was too low and there was no way to survive. It was Lu Cheng who used all his magic power to make the golden boat slash like a sword.

In the face of the surging waves that connected the heaven and earth, the unruly and determined man still stood at the top, vowing to break through all disasters, split everything, and rush forward.

After they really rushed out, the clouds finally cleared and the sun came out.

In the Dingzhang world, beside the waves, the golden boat was broken into pieces and its brilliance was gone. Lu Cheng and Jin Ling were exhausted. If one of them fell unconscious, one would drag the other forward. If the other fell unconscious, the other would wake up and drag the other forward.

Finally they reached the shore and both fainted.

As time passed, Lu Cheng slowly woke up because he felt pain in his wrist. Lu Cheng looked up and saw that it was a wolf biting his wrist, trying to bite open the flesh and suck the warm blood inside.

Although Lu Cheng was seriously injured at this time, his physical foundation was still there. He flipped his wrist and grabbed the wolf's throat, then stood up slightly and pressed his whole body on it.

Find that hairy throat and bite it down.

The warm blood passed through his teeth and tongue, slowly giving Lu Cheng strength: "Where is this place?"

No one answered, and Jin Ling was naturally taken back into the Jiuli Ding after he had exhausted all his strength.

There is lush grass all around, and a half-broken golden boat is on the side. There should be no one nearby, otherwise even a half-broken golden boat would look like a mountain. In addition, its shape is luxurious and gorgeous. No matter whether it is a cultivator or a mortal, no one will let it go once they find it.

No one has come yet, which means there are probably not many people living nearby.

"According to what Jin Ling told me, based on the direction we are flying, if we are lucky we will probably enter the Dingzhang or Tongtian world. If we are unlucky... there are too many possibilities."

He killed the wolf, sucked its blood and ate its flesh, then turned over and let his body's strength slowly gather and recover.

By night, Lu Cheng was able to move freely, light a bonfire and summon the golden spirit.

Both of them had their magic power severely damaged, but they could still use their spiritual sense. In fact, Jin Ling's spiritual sense was stronger than Lu Cheng's because of his cultivation.

After performing various mystical tests, she said:
"This should be a secret space in the Dingzhang World."

In the world of the universe, there are many special areas called Jedi and death zones, which are either formed naturally, artificially created, or generated by fighting.

Some of these secret spaces are extremely stable and can accommodate the battles of Divine Transformation cultivators, while others are extremely fragile and can be collapsed by the magic power and spiritual pressure of Foundation Establishment cultivators.

In short, if the big world is compared to a big bubble, these secret realms are small bubbles attached to it. They can communicate with the big world, but if the intervening force is too great, the bubble will be punctured.

"Don't use the magic power above the Qi Training Realm, otherwise this world will collapse and you will die here. Use your spiritual sense to sense that there are no monsters of the third level or above in this secret realm. They are suppressing themselves instinctively."

"Then how to get out?"

"Either wait, or if you have a level above fifth-order formation master and can measure space, you can heal your wounds first. These five years have damaged our bodies and souls. We should heal our internal injuries first and then wait for the situation to change."

"For now, this is all we can do."

Lu Cheng had not expected such an outcome in advance. He went to the coast of the East China Sea with the original intention of taking away the Du'e Golden Boat as a backup for his master and himself.

However, he did not expect that the Du'e Golden Boat would be activated directly, crossing the void and bringing himself here.

Next, Jin Ling continued to return to the Jiuli Ding to heal his wounds, while Lu Cheng packed up the golden boat and collected all the broken fragments to reduce the difficulty of repairing it in the future.

At the same time, Lu Cheng certainly did not miss the precious collection in the golden boat.

Back then, Old Monk Zongzhen had planned to lead the Tianfo Sect and all the believers across the sea of ​​suffering and escape. Of course, there were countless reserves and collections, magic tools and spiritual stones in the golden boat for salvation.

In fact, this is indeed the case. After a search, Lu Cheng found a large number of spirit stones and magic weapons - all of which had lost their spiritual power and were completely worthless.

It turned out that in order to ensure that the Du'e Golden Boat had enough magic power, the monks connected the energy room and the secret treasure house together. Once the former was short of magic power, the latter would be drained of spiritual power.

During these five years, spiritual stones turned into ashes, and magical instruments turned into dust. Hundreds of millions or even billions of spiritual stones and magical instruments turned into dust in front of Lu Cheng.

Fortunately, the Sutra Repository was well preserved. Lu Cheng walked in and opened the restriction without difficulty. He excitedly opened the jade slips and scriptures and found that they were all Buddhist scriptures. However, the capacity of the Sutra Repository was limited. At that critical juncture, how could the Tianfo Sect preserve the inheritance of other lineages instead of choosing to preserve its own lineage?
Although it cannot be said to be completely worthless, for Lu Cheng who has no intention of practicing Buddhism, eight or nine out of ten of its value has been lost.

Day after day, Lu Cheng was trapped here with nothing else to do. Although his internal injuries had not fully healed, he did not need any magical powers above the Qi training level in this secret realm.

Sometimes he searched for the golden boat, and sometimes he went into the secret realm to search for spiritual objects.

The spiritual energy in this secret realm is quite abundant. Although the monsters cannot be promoted to the third level, the plants and spiritual minerals are not subject to this restriction. No cultivator has been able to get their hands on it for thousands of years, but today all of it has fallen into Lu Cheng's hands.

One day, when Lu Cheng was searching for the golden boat, he found a skeleton in a Taoist robe in a quiet room. A thousand years had passed, but the skeleton was still sitting cross-legged on the cushion, and its skeleton was as shiny as gold and jade.

This shows that he was at least a Jindan Zhenren realm cultivator or was good at body refining during his lifetime, otherwise his magic power would not have been refined to this level.

But when he saw the objects in front of him, Lu Cheng was shocked, because in front of the bones, there were four stone slabs, which Lu Cheng had seen before.

"Yuanshi Tianmo Strategy, four volumes?"

There are only ten volumes in Yuanshi Tianmo Ce, and nearly half of it is here.

Lu Cheng immediately went forward to check, and after probing with his spiritual sense, he found that it was indeed the Heavenly Demon Strategy: "The Volume of Cultivating the Spirit", "The Volume of the Demon God", "The Volume of Life and Death", "The Volume of Purple Blood", plus the "The Volume of the Devil's Heart" that Lu Cheng had left with his master Huang Longzi. In total, half of the ten volumes of the Heavenly Demon Strategy were in his hands.

In addition to these four stone slabs, there was also a jade slip, which Lu Cheng also picked up and put into his spiritual consciousness.

However, this is not the Heavenly Demon Strategy, but the life story of Tian Yanzi, the last master of Shenji Valley:
Tian Yanzi was originally a true disciple of the Yuanshi Demon Sect, the origin of the demonic sect in the previous era. Later, he was asked by his master to infiltrate the Shenji Valley.

In order to achieve internal and external cooperation and completely destroy this righteous sect.

However, who would have known that Tian Yanzi started as the lowest-level disciple in Shenji Valley, and a hundred years later he had become one of the nine elders of Shenji Valley. He had obtained the four volumes of Tianmo Strategy by chance several times, and combined with the skills of Shenji Valley. Tian Yanzi removed the restrictions set on himself by his master, and secretly killed the other party, and one by one eliminated all those who knew his true identity and past, truly becoming the head of the nine elders of Shenji Valley, and accumulating merits to succeed the position of the head.

Shenji Valley was the sect with the most advanced attainments in weapon refining and mechanical puppetry in the last era, so when the old monk Zong Zhen from the Tianfo Sect wanted to build the Golden Boat to Deliver from Evil, he had to go around this sect.

Under Tian Yanzi's continuous influence, the Tianren Temple, which represents the Heavenly Path among the Six Paths, became the most powerful and most complete world among the Six Paths, and the control of the Du'e Golden Boat was actually in the hands of Tian Yanzi.

"That old monster Zong Zhen has great magical power, but there is no need for me to deal with him. It is better to keep him to deal with those demon gods..."

"The Heavenly Man Palace is in the hands of my sect. It is still unclear who will be the orthodox ruler of this world a thousand years later..." "...After the Destruction Heavenly Venerable is fully activated, ordinary late Jindan cultivators will find it difficult to compete. Can I create a sixth-level puppet?"

“…Haha, hahahaha, I calculated everything, but I didn’t expect the demon god to be so terrifying. I have calculated everything in my life, but I have not calculated my own life and death.

I am so unwilling to accept this. If I could cultivate the sixth level of Destruction Heavenly Lord, everything might be different."

After the jade slip, there is a record of what Tian Yanzi learned throughout his life.

Being able to survive the severe injuries at the hands of the demon god and return to the golden boat alive, the magical powers of Tian Yanzi were incredible in the Jindan realm.

At the same time, Lu Cheng also knew what kind of puppet he had fought with before, the puppet creation of Shenji Valley, Pomie Tianzun.

As a cultivator, it is impossible not to read and comprehend a book like Yuanshi Tianmo Ce. For a moment, Lu Cheng almost forgot the years and flipped through the secret scrolls of Tianmo Ce one by one:
The Scroll of Spirit Cultivation talks about the mysteries of cultivators' spiritual consciousness. Although the Heavenly Demon Strategy itself rarely involves specific techniques, there is a corresponding chapter on spirit cultivation techniques in the jade slips left by Tian Yanzi. Tian Yanzi used this technique to cultivate his spiritual consciousness during his lifetime, and could control more puppets more freely, with all kinds of mysterious and amazing powers.

The Demon God Volume tells the story of a cultivator who combines his own golden elixir and primordial infant with his own inner demons to communicate with the gods and demons from outside the realm in the dark, thereby gaining immortality and terrifying power.

Although the final result of this path is often that the body and mind are assimilated into one with the gods and demons from outside the domain, and the original heart is lost, becoming a shadow puppet of the gods and demons from outside the domain, the Demon God Volume tells of various methods of "gaining the benefits without suffering the disadvantages", because assimilation is a "gradual" process, while countless higher-level knowledge and insights are obtained directly, so in theory it is possible for the cultivator to only gain the benefits but escape from the control of the gods and demons from outside the domain in time.

The probability of success is about one in ten to one in twenty, but in Lu Cheng's opinion, it seems like the bait deliberately released by the extraterritorial demons to make latecomers continue to fall for it and harbor illusions.

The Demon God Volume talks about a large number of taboos and rules, but whether to follow them or not is ambiguous. The cultivator needs to weigh the pros and cons himself. Only those who always choose the right one can truly escape unscathed.

The Scroll of Life and Death gave Lu Cheng a different kind of insight when he read it because of his own understanding of the Taoist method of "transformation of life and death, and reincarnation after death."

Purple Blood Scroll, because of his own comprehension of the blood nerves, Lu Cheng discovered that the contents of the two scriptures conflicted with each other and he almost went insane.

Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, ten years had passed. Because of the extensive study of the Heavenly Demon Strategy, Lu Cheng's mental state was getting worse and worse.

"You can't continue to comprehend this magic scripture. Nine is the maximum number, but there are ten volumes of this Heavenly Demon Strategy. Back then, that madman wanted to write a book to explore the mysteries of the universe. Many of the contents were simply his imagination and he didn't cultivate to that level! What basis do you have to make such an assertion?"

On this day, Jin Ling escaped from the Jiuli Cauldron without Lu Cheng's permission.

She was dressed in a black Taoist robe with gold thread, looking elegant, solemn and dignified, with long black hair, skin as white as jade, and she was extremely beautiful.

However, anyone who is forcibly interrupted while concentrating will become angry, and the same is true for Lu Cheng, who was sitting cross-legged on a cushion and contemplating the scriptures.

He took a deep breath and opened his eyes, but there was a bloodshot glow in his eyes.

The next moment, Jin Ling was attacked by the sudden attack of Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng's punch was ferocious. As a physical cultivator, his attack at this distance was completely worthy of the eight words "sharp, fierce, and indestructible".

However, Jin Ling's true form was a golden-winged Roc. When he saw Lu Cheng punching at him, a sharp light flashed in Jin Ling's eyes. He did not retreat even a step. He stretched out his arms, and his jade hands turned into claws and grabbed down. As the claws changed, they covered Lu Cheng's head, neck, chest, back, and even lower abdomen. The claws changed intricately, and seemed to be even better than Lu Cheng.

The golden-winged Roc roams across the sky, catching dragons for food. Even if Jin Ling has not practiced deliberately, his claw techniques are unique in the world.

However, Lu Cheng's eyelids suddenly lifted, and he did not retreat, dodge or evade. He just raised his hand suddenly and pushed it upward with great force. The Five Directions Five Elements Fist made small changes, but it accumulated power and hit Jin Ling's wrist accurately, blocking the opponent's claws.

The next moment, the two sides had passed each other. Lu Cheng changed his fist into a claw, grabbed Jin Ling's neck and slammed him heavily against the wall behind him.

"I've seen your claw techniques many times, and they're just a few moves over and over again. How could you think I couldn't break them?

Ten years, ten years! How on earth am I supposed to get out of here? "

Lu Cheng and Jin Ling looked into each other's eyes. After a moment, Jin Ling turned into a cloud of golden smoke and suddenly disappeared under Lu Cheng's claws.

Lu Cheng stared blankly at the scene in front of him, and after a moment he stroked his forehead in pain.

He suddenly waved his left hand, a golden light flashed, and Jin Ling, wearing a golden nightgown, stood there sleepily.

Looking at Lu Cheng with a puzzled look: "You called me suddenly"

"fine."

Before Jin Ling could finish her words, Lu Cheng waved his sleeves again and sent her back.

"No, I can't read this Heavenly Demon Strategy anymore. My mind has been exhausted. I don't know what kind of trouble I will get into if I continue reading it."

In fact, considering that Lu Cheng had practiced in the Jiuli world for a hundred years to cultivate the Red Dragon, he would not have to wait for only ten years and become plagued by demons.

It was really because the Heavenly Demon Strategy itself was too mentally demanding, and the magic techniques contained therein were strange and confusing. After becoming alert, Lu Cheng immediately sealed up all the secret scrolls of Yuanshi Heavenly Demon Strategy, and stipulated that he could not look at them again until ten years at the earliest.

The process was extremely painful at the beginning, but Lu Cheng was, after all, a cultivator who had condensed the golden elixir through hundreds of refining processes. After thousands of trials and tribulations, he gradually gained the tranquility and peace of a righteous cultivator.

In fact, if Lu Cheng was determined to leave this secret realm, he could directly stimulate the magic power above the Qi training realm. When the spiritual pressure spread and the secret realm collapsed, Lu Cheng would hide in the Du'e Golden Boat. With the remnants of the spiritual boat, he would still have a great chance of directly entering the Dingzhang world.

But Lu Cheng did not make such a choice. He still wanted to bring back the Du'e Golden Boat to leave a way out for Huang Longzi, Madam Baoxiang, the Xiao sisters, Xue Yuzhen's mother and daughter, and his two disciples, so he endured the years in this secret realm.

"I don't know how high the blue sky is, or how thick the yellow earth is. I only see the cold moon and the warm sun, burning people's lives..."

Five years later, Lu Cheng decided to practice the second level of the Great Five Elements True Spirit Transformation Method, using fire to create earth. He did have true blood, the true blood of the Sun-Swallowing Divine Ape that he had prepared as the original true blood.

Although it is impossible to cultivate mana in this secret realm, it is still possible to cultivate the realm of cultivation. The former requires a large amount of spiritual energy from the surrounding heaven and earth, which is quite a lot of movement, while the latter is more of a kind of operation and adjustment of the mana in one's own body.

Inside the Golden Boat's quiet room, after adjusting his body and mind, Lu Cheng took out the jade bottle, poured out the Sun-Swallowing Ape's real blood from it, and after transforming it, he pressed it on the position where it had been injected into his spleen.

It is called the Sun-Swallowing Beast, but it is actually an earth-walking monster.

Lu Cheng sat quietly in the quiet room, surrounded by flames, like an isolated island surrounded by fire. His breathing was deep and powerful, and the air seemed to tremble with every breath. The power of the Sun-Swallowing Ape's true blood boiled in his body, turning into streams of blazing fire, rushing forward in the meridians. Gradually, the fire flow encountered a tough resistance, which was the second level of the Great Five Elements True Spirit Transformation Method - using fire to generate earth.

In order to master this technique, one needs to transform all of this blazing fire into earth power and restore it to its original form.

The temperature in the stone chamber suddenly rose, as if it could burn a person to a crisp, but Lu Cheng's expression remained unchanged, and there was a burning light flashing in his eyes.

At the same time, outside the secret realm, six old men brought a group of young men and women to this deep mountain valley. Four old men each performed magic spells and magic weapons. After a cup of tea, accompanied by a sound like tearing cloth, a pitch-black hole appeared out of thin air.

"You youngsters, hurry in. Together we can cast a spell to protect this passage for three months. If you don't come out after three months, you will have to stay in there for another hundred years!"

An old man in a purple robe and grey beard said this to the young people behind him.

(End of this chapter)