Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 285: The Evolution of Taoism, the Unity of Nature and Man
Post-war inventory, reconstruction and repair, these things will naturally be done by the disciples below. Yuanying Zhenjun Gui Dongmei's face was a little pale, and he flew down and gave Lu Cheng a wink, indicating that he should follow.

Arriving at Gui Dongmei's cave, the middle-aged Taoist nun first sat cross-legged in meditation to recover her magic power. Seeing this, Lu Cheng did the same, sitting cross-legged, with one hand lightly pressing on his heart.

Each Taoist sect has slightly different postures for sitting and practicing meditation. After practicing to the Nascent Soul stage, most cultivators can do whatever they want without breaking the rules, but there are still many people who intentionally retain the habits accumulated over hundreds or thousands of years.

Lu Cheng's Five Elements Reform began with the Fire Element, so he pressed his palm on his heart to boost the Fire Element of his heart.

After several hours, Gui Dongmei's complexion looked slightly better. She stopped practicing her profound skills, and the light blue energy around her was retracted and returned to her body.

Lu Cheng sensed this and stopped practicing and opened his eyes. He knew that Gui Dongmei must have something to say to him when she invited him here.

The reason why I performed the exercise just now was because the matter was not urgent, or I had not yet sorted out my thoughts.

"Just now, when I used the Heavenly Gang Five Fire Divine Thunder in the formation, although I destroyed the physical body of the old demon Ren Qianqiu, I faintly sensed a flash of evil thoughts. Friend Tiedao, you must be careful. Although we won this battle, it is a pity that we failed to completely eliminate the roots and truly shatter the soul of this demon. The competition in the demon world is fierce and cruel. Masters secretly harm disciples, disciples kill their masters, fathers kill daughters, and sons kill mothers. I didn't expect that the old demon Ren has been rampant in the world for nearly two thousand years, and he has never used the secret method of turning disasters. With his talent and talent, he may really have a chance to glimpse the fruit position of Yuanshen Demon Cultivation in the future. The world will face another disaster."

It is no wonder that Gui Dongmei was still frowning despite having made great contributions in defeating the enemy. A demon cultivator like Ren Qianqiu would never stop seeking revenge until his opponent is dead.

In the history of the world of immortal cultivation, there are countless cultivators who were killed hundreds or thousands of years later because they provoked this kind of evil cultivator. There were even some who had already ascended to the upper realm, but had their Taoist lineage destroyed by the evil cultivator in the lower realm.

In the world of immortal cultivation, whether it is taking over a body or turning a calamity, the cultivators must first cultivate to the Golden Core Realm and stabilize their souls before they can perform it. It is only in legends that people at lower realms can perform this secret method successfully. In fact, no one has ever seen it, and it is very likely just a legend. Moreover, this secret method can only be performed once, because of the laws of heaven and earth, performing it a second time will almost certainly result in the annihilation of the soul.

Moreover, even if one has cultivated to the Golden Core Realm, the chance of success in performing this secret technique is only 60 to 70 percent, and failure is not uncommon.

The Nascent Soul's tribulation is much safer, because the soul is strong and basically anyone can successfully tribulate and even survive the mystery in the womb.

However, apart from memories, all spiritual consciousness and magical power could not be retained. Many cultivators left many spirit stones and magical tools for themselves, but as soon as they turned around, they were killed by their own disciples and relatives, and their spirit stones and magical tools were taken away. This kind of thing has happened to both righteous cultivators and evil cultivators.

If a ray of life force enters the mother's womb, it is called a transformation of calamity, and the life span is recalculated. If it directly invades a physical body, it is called possession of the body, and the life span is reduced by the life span that the person has already consumed.

For righteous monks, the time for their tribulation is usually controlled within three months of a woman's pregnancy, when the soul and spirit are not yet formed. It will not harm the harmony of nature, will not reduce their own destiny, and the unity of soul and body will be more perfect.

Most of the demonic cultivators also turn to calamity, but there are also some who like to take over other bodies, confident that they can resolve the backlash and not fear the cause and effect. The advantage is that they directly have an adult body, have a certain amount of self-protection magic power, and can determine the spiritual root qualifications and even special Taoist bodies. In the case of turning to calamity, it is possible that they were a master of the fire element in the previous life, but in this life they have the spiritual root qualifications of water, or even their innate qualifications have regressed. This situation also exists.

In history, there was once an immortal cultivator with a Sanyang physique. He was accepted into a pure Yang magic lineage and made rapid progress. With three golden and flaming swords, he was famous for slaying demons and eliminating evil.

After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, he began to cultivate again. Not only did he not have the Three Yang Dao Body, but he also lacked the aptitude of a Wood Spiritual Root. Most of his experience in cultivation from his previous life was directly wasted. Although he managed to cultivate back to the Nascent Soul stage with some bumps in the road, he no longer had the demeanor that he once had when he dominated the world.

It is possible that in order to avoid this situation, Ren Qianqiu deliberately chose a cultivator whose spiritual roots and physique are more compatible with his own, or even better, as his disciple. This kind of evil thought that can take over a person's body in an instant from thousands of miles away consumes a lot of resources and is not something that an ordinary evil cultivator can accomplish.

"In any case, his body has been destroyed. He will not be able to cause any trouble for at least one or two hundred years. Fellow Daoist Gui, we should focus on the great catastrophe ahead."

Lu Cheng understood the fear in Gui Dongmei's heart, and he was even a little concerned that Ren Qianqiu would take revenge on Huanyun Valley hundreds of years later, but he still spoke to comfort her and told her to focus on the present matter.

"Alas, if I had known this, I should have prepared a Ten Thousand Miles Soul-Slaying Talisman, which could have destroyed his life force with one strike. Even if I couldn't break his possession of his body directly, I could have interrupted his path."

The Wanli Soul-Slaying Talisman is a talisman that is specifically used to kill one's own spiritual light. It has a single function and is relatively unpopular. Although it is a high-level talisman, it has no killing power at all against cultivators with physical bodies. Unless prepared in advance, few cultivators will prepare this talisman in advance.

Lu Cheng and Gui Dongmei talked for a few more sentences and discussed the future garrison and defense of Kun Island. After this battle, the friendship and trust between the two increased several points.

Gui Dongmei signaled Lu Cheng to come over to tell him that Ren Qianqiu was the reincarnated demon. Otherwise, if Lu Cheng was unprepared, it would mean that Gui Dongmei intended to harm him.

After leaving the Taoist nun's cave, Lu Cheng flew back to his own cave on his sword. Lin Qinghan was already waiting at home. She breathed a sigh of relief after seeing her husband return and check the cave from top to bottom.

"It is said that the cultivators from the south of the sky have arrived, and that the True Lord Ji'an was ambushed and died in battle. My husband is fighting the old demon Ren Qianqiu alone. I am powerless and cannot lend a helping hand to my husband."

"Haha, Ren Qianqiu and I are not fighting alone. We have the help of fellow Daoist Gui and the monks on the island. Well, this great calamity of Qianqiu is both a calamity and a destiny. We monks steal the mysteries of heaven and earth to cultivate the Tao, so we should have the ability to resist all calamities. You are too weak, you should be strong and courageous."

Lu Cheng reached out and gently wiped away the tears on the eyelashes of the beautiful woman in front of him, making fun of his Taoist partner's cowardice.

The news of the surprise attack by the Tiannan monks was transmitted to the main island of Cangyun via a talisman, and the thirty-six islands of the Nanli Sea immediately went on alert and entered full defense mode.

But it was already too late. Two True Lords had already been ambushed and killed. The speed at which the Tiannan cultivators advanced and attacked was faster than the Northern Territory cultivators had imagined.

A few days later, the reward for Lu Cheng and Gui Dongmei's joint efforts to kill the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Demon Cultivator Ren Qianqiu was issued:

Kill the powerful enemy and warn the main island, and you will be rewarded with 600,000 good deeds.

The three island masters were not generous in this matter, but they were fair. After all, the war had just begun and the overall resources of the Nanli Sea defense line were limited.

Inside the cave, Lin Qinghan, dressed in white Taoist robes, was making tea for Lu Cheng and Gui Dongmei.

"From these 600,000 good deeds, take out 100,000 to share among the people below, and the remaining 300,000 good deeds from Tiedaoyou, I'll take 200,000, how do you say that?"

The middle-aged Taoist nun Gui Dongmei said this after taking a sip of the spiritual tea. The two of them were the guardian monks of Kunzi Island, and it was also their responsibility to reward and punish the monks below.

"Take out 200,000 and give them to the disciples below. Fellow Daoist and I will split 400,000 equally. The war ahead will probably be brutal and protracted. We want our people to fight for their lives. We must not only enforce the law strictly, but also promise them huge benefits so that they can have something to look forward to, just like when we killed the demon Ren Qianqiu last time. If the cultivators from all over the island had not gathered their magic power, Fellow Daoist would have found it difficult to complete the Heavenly Gang Five Fire Divine Thunder in such a short time."

"Good. Then let's follow the advice of our railway friends."

Gui Dongmei would certainly not object since it would not cost her own interests and would allow the monks below to work harder.

Next, the two continued to discuss the deployment of the disciples below.

Ji'an Zhenjun of Lingyuan Mansion is no longer here, and the cultivators of Lingyuan Mansion will inevitably suffer some losses in defense. Fortunately, Lu Cheng and Gui Dongmei are not the kind of people who would take advantage of others' misfortunes, so they will not let the cultivators of Lingyuan Mansion become ashes.

At this time, a disciple from Huanyun Valley flew over and said politely, "Grandmaster, Grandmaster Ji'an is back. Although his body was damaged, his Nascent Soul has returned."

"Ok?"

Lu Cheng and Gui Dongmei looked at each other, and then they turned into light and flew away together.

Although Kun Island is large, it is only within reach for Nascent Soul cultivators.

On Kun Island, outside the defensive ban and the golden light shield, a little man who looked like both a baby and an old man was seen standing on a flying sword, looking back anxiously.

After seeing Lu Cheng and Gui Dongmei flying over, Ji An shouted:
"Let me in quickly. I just managed to escape."

"It is indeed Taoist Ji'an." Gui Dongmei said.

Lu Cheng cast a spell, and his eyes gradually covered with a layer of golden-red flames. He looked around with his fiery golden eyes, and indeed did not see any traces of retreating cultivators within a hundred miles. Then he ordered the formation to be temporarily closed, allowing True Lord Ji An to enter.

"Fellow Daoist Ji, how did you escape back?"

Gui Dongmei stepped forward to greet him, but at the same time she asked with a hint of caution.

"I've shed my bones and abandoned my physical body, and escaped with my Nascent Soul. Isn't it obvious from my current appearance?" Ji An's physical body had already lost its way and was destroyed. He replied in a bad mood.

"Don't be surprised, Daoist friend. The magic method is mysterious and unpredictable. Daoist friend Gui and I are no different. Moreover, Daoist friend also needs to go to Cangyun Island and change into a five-element Dharma body."

Lu Cheng took out a talisman. The Nascent Soul, which looked like both a baby and an old man, felt a little embarrassed when it saw the talisman, but did not resist. It handed over its own flying sword and allowed Lu Cheng to stick the talisman on its dantian. Suddenly, it felt its body sinking, and even flying in the clouds became difficult.

This was done in order to prevent a Nascent Soul cultivator from being captured by the enemy, where he would be subdued using various magical skills and spells, and then return to the enemy side to wreak havoc.

If they did not seal Master Ji'an's magic power and take away his flying sword, and if they did not suddenly use the sword when he was teleporting, Lu Cheng and Gui Dongmei would have found it difficult to protect the teleportation array. Once the teleportation array was broken, the entire Kun Island would become a dead chess piece and would be difficult to revive.

In the series of actions just now, Lu Cheng secretly used the Magic Banner. To the cultivators outside, it seemed that True Lord Ji'an had escaped from danger and returned. After entering the formation, he changed back to his original physical form. The three True Lords exchanged a few words very friendly, and then returned together.

The morale of the cultivators on Kun Island was boosted by this, especially those in Lingyuan Mansion. The confidence of the cultivators in the sect is completely different if there is a Yuanying Zhenjun in charge or not.

"I'll be staying on the island. Please ask Fellow Daoist Tie to send Fellow Daoist Ji to the main island to receive the Five Elements Dharma Body." Gui Dongmei said after returning.

"It should be so." Lu Cheng replied politely.

"But I am a womanizer, so I am troubling you two fellow Taoists."

Ji'an Zhenjun seemed to have adjusted his mood as well, and he bowed and said this politely.

Lu Cheng first went to the cave and used the Earth-Clearing Spiritual Mirror to communicate with the main island. The Earth-Clearing Spiritual Mirror is a magic mirror connected to the spiritual veins. It has the effect of transmitting images and sounds thousands of miles away, and it is extremely safe. It is not as easy to be intercepted by others as the spiritual talisman communication and the flying sword communication.

Lu Cheng, Gui Dongmei and Ji An are stationed on Kun Island. Each of them has an earth-penetrating spiritual mirror built in their caves, and they have the right to contact the three great cultivators on the main island of Cangyun at any time.

Lu Cheng came to the Earth-Clearing Spiritual Mirror, opened it, and connected to the cave of Wei Shuyi, a great monk in the late Nascent Soul stage.

"I'm honored to meet you, Master."

"Oh, it's Tie, what's up?"

"Master Ji'an has returned. Kun Island is about to open a teleportation array with the main island. Please ask Master Ji'an to comb his meridians, harmonize his magic power and resolve his inner demons. In addition, Master Ji'an's body is damaged, so he needs to borrow a five-element Dharma body."

"Good, I happen to have some time."

After this conversation through the spiritual mirror, Lu Cheng and Taoist Ji An were immediately teleported to the main island of Cangyun via the Kun Island teleportation array.

"A Five Elements Dharmakāya would cost me at least 300,000 Spiritual Stones. It was clearly my physical body that was damaged for the Northern Territory, but I have to bear the consequences myself."

"It's 300,000 now. Once the war starts, I'm afraid it will be hard to buy it even for 400,000 or 500,000. If it weren't for the fact that this Five Elements Dharmakaya is hard to preserve, do you think you can exchange it?"

In a flash of inspiration, the two Taoists traveled thousands of miles and arrived at Cangyun Island.

Lu Cheng and True Lord Ji'an transformed into rainbows of light and flew to Mr. Wei's residence. After passing the message through the guards, they quickly received Ji'an's permission to enter.

"By the way, when I first came here, my disciples sent a message saying that Tie Daoyou had seen through the Painted Skin Technique of Ren Lao Mo. How did you see through it? This technique is really amazing."

Before entering Wei Shuyi's mansion, Master Ji'an suddenly turned around and asked this.

"...It is difficult to draw the bones of a dragon or a tiger. Your body is in the shape of a dragon and has the bones of a tiger, which makes you different from ordinary people." Lu Cheng replied with a slight smile.

"Hahahahahaha, okay, when I get out, I will definitely get drunk with my fellow railway friends again."

After accepting the two ghost babies as disciples, during the years they were stationed on Kun Island, the three True Lords, Lu Cheng, Gui Dongmei and Ji An, had taken elixirs, held banquets and held rituals several times.

Ji'an is good at refining a kind of Bilingdan, which can regulate qi and nourish the spirit. There are many beautiful female cultivators in Bihai Pavilion. Gui Dongmei once gave several beautiful concubines to Ji'an and Lu Cheng. Each of them has a graceful figure, fair skin, good at seductive techniques, and is knowledgeable and interesting.

Lu Cheng did not accept it, but Taoist Ji An accepted everyone who came.

The reason why Lu Cheng did not accept them was because the appearance and qualifications of these female cultivators were far inferior to those of his Taoist partner Lin Qinghan, so he had no interest in them.

Lu Cheng took out the sixth-rank spiritual item bitter leaf wine to entertain Gui Dongmei and Ji An. That was why when Lu Cheng said to Ren Qianqiu, "Don't be stingy with your treasured jars of bitter leaf wine. Give two jars to me and Senior Sister Gui," Gui Dongmei was able to react quickly and realized that Ji An was someone else in disguise.

The talisman that Lu Cheng had sent out before also played a key role. Without his advance reminder from this talisman, it would have been difficult for the cultivators on the entire Kun Island to respond so quickly, and Ren Qianqiu might have been able to escape.

Ji An stayed in Mr. Wei's cave for two hours and then came out. At the same time, a talisman flew out, which indicated that there were no traces of evil spirits on Ji An's body, at least the Haoran Jue of Bailu Academy could not sense it at all.

Everything that Master Ji'an does now is in line with his true intentions.

The inspection found no problems, so Lu Cheng felt relieved.

If one wants to use magic methods to avoid the detection of Wei Shuyi, a great cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage, it would probably require the intervention of a magic cultivator of the Yuanshen realm or a rare genius in the magic world that is rare in a thousand years.

"Brother Ji Dao, I'm sorry for offending you before."

"Alas, it would be the same if it were me. In such a great catastrophe, it is always right to be more careful. If I had been more careful, I would not have been beaten to the point where my body was destroyed and my path to enlightenment was cut off."

"The Five Elements Dharmakāya will not reduce its natural lifespan. After this calamity, Brother Ji Dao can concentrate on studying the Dao and pin his hopes on refining the Dao in the next life. Perhaps it will turn out to be a blessing in disguise."

Lu Cheng didn't know that Ji An had already possessed another body once when he was in the Jindan realm. This was not a glorious thing, and Ji An certainly wouldn't spread the word that he had possessed another body once and could not avert the calamity.

Therefore, he forced himself to look a little stiff, which was in line with his current state, so Lu Cheng did not notice anything unusual.

After passing Wei Shuyi's test, the two came to the spiritual plant garden together. In the center of this spiritual plant garden covering an area of ​​ten thousand acres, there was a huge five-element fruit tree.

At this moment, the fruit tree is full of fruits, and curled up inside are young men and women with transparent bones and muscles.

This situation is very similar to the ginseng fruit tree in the old myths and legends. But in fact, this is the masterpiece of the spiritual plant husband of this era in the past thousand years.

Most of the Qi training monks need the help of foundation building pills to advance to the foundation building stage. To break through to the purple palace, the foundation building monks need Ziyang warm jade and Xuanying jade marrow to help open up the upper dantian. To cultivate the golden elixir, the purple palace monks need the help of five elements elixir fruit or fifth-level demon elixir.

The Five Elements Fruit Tree that grows the Five Elements Pill Fruit is not a spiritual plant from heaven and earth, but a spiritual plant that has been continuously improved, summarized, cultivated, and created by generations of spiritual plant cultivators. It has greatly lowered the threshold for Purple Mansion cultivators to practice Golden Pill for tens of thousands of years.

In the past thousand years, there was another sixth-rank spiritual plant master, Mr. Wang Daolian, who summed up his experience, used secret methods, and modified the Five Elements Fruit Tree so that it could absorb a large amount of the Five Elements' essence and preserve the Five Elements' Dharma body.

The ancients did not go against the times, and today they are no longer separated from the times.

The world of immortal cultivation is populated by a large number of such cultivators, who have been developing their Taoism through innovation generation after generation, and have become increasingly prosperous. Their influence on the entire world may even be greater than that of the cultivators who have ascended to the upper realms.

"Remember this, Ji An, the Yuanying Zhenjun of Lingyuan Mansion on Kunzi Island, borrowed 200,000 good deeds, and Lingyuan Mansion paid 100,000 spirit stones to purchase a Dharma body."

"Follow the law."

Although there are people guarding this place, once the Nascent Soul cultivators arrive, the role of these cultivators is just to keep records.

But Lu Cheng also vaguely sensed that there was a strong aura of magical power emanating from this spiritual plant garden, which was at least at the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and it was obviously loose on the outside but tight on the inside.

"Please, fellow railwaymen, protect me."

"Of course." Lu Cheng responded politely.

Then Ji An came to the unusually tall Dharmakaya tree and began to look at the spiritual fruits one by one.

After a moment, he selected one, and his Nascent Soul, which had originally changed to the size of a normal human, suddenly shrank and turned into the size of a baby and threw it into it.

Because everyone's physique and the techniques they practice are different, the Five Elements Dharma Bodies within these Dharma Bodies Fruits are simply cultivated to a juvenile state with a huge amount of Five Elements Essence and then stop growing and developing, to make it easier for Nascent Soul cultivators to devote themselves to them and adjust their physical bodies to reach the most suitable state.

Although, based on the current understanding of the physical body in the world of immortal cultivation, the acquired five-element Dharma body cultivated can never be compared with the innate physical body, but after the Nascent Soul cultivator has adapted to it, he can exert 70% to 80% of his abilities.

However, it is almost impossible to increase the magic power by practicing the acquired five elements Dharma body.

As Ji An's Nascent Soul was put into it, the young man in the Dharmakaya Fruit began to grow rapidly and became more and more similar to Ji An's original physical body.

A few hours later, when the sun was setting in the west.

With a slight cracking sound, True Lord Ji'an came back to life. At least from the outside, he was exactly the same as he was before.

"then."

Lu Cheng threw Master Ji'an's natal flying sword over to him. Master Ji'an took the sword, and with a flash of inspiration, he took it into his body to nourish it.

"After thousands of years, perhaps losing a monk's body won't be a big deal. Changing bodies will be as easy as changing clothes, and it won't hinder the path of cultivation."

Master Ji'an looked at his palms at this moment, clenched his fists slightly, and felt the powerful magic power flowing in his body, which was enough to move mountains and fill the sea.

"By then, we may have already ascended to the upper realm, and in the upper realm we may really be able to change bodies like clothes."

For tens of millions of years, cultivators from the seven worlds of Dingzhang, Tongtian, Liehuo, Xuankong, Jumang, Yuqing, and Yinyang have been building spiritual veins and pursuing ascension.

According to the theories of some array masters, cultivators build spiritual veins just like they are constantly opening up meridians for the world. If the world is regarded as a huge human body, the spiritual veins are the routes for the flow of magic power throughout the body. As the spiritual cultivators ascend, they bring the huge spiritual energy from the upper realm into the lower realm, and the cultivators in the lower and middle realms build spiritual veins. When the spiritual energy between heaven and earth reaches a certain extreme, the entire world will ascend.

Of course, this is just a theoretical deduction at present, and no one knows whether it is really true.

Lu Cheng and True Lord Ji'an, who had obtained the Five Elements Dharma Body, returned to Kun Island together through the teleportation array. At least, now Kun Island was once again restored to the situation where three Nascent Soul cultivators were stationed together. This was certainly a good thing for the cultivators in the Northern Territory.

(End of this chapter)