Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 345: Fighting Swords in the Mountain, One Defeats and One Kills (One, please subscribe!)
Three years is a long time for mortals, but for immortal cultivators, it may not be completed even in one session of seclusion.

Three years is a short time for mortals, but for cultivators at the Golden Core True Person realm, they actually feel that time is much longer than that of mortals, and they can do much more.

Three years later, at the top of the mountain.

Lishan is one of the main routes from Tongxuan Realm to the Endless Sea Eye of the East China Sea and many caves and heavens. With the establishment of the Shenzhou barrier, it interacts with many caves and heavens in the outside world, thus forming a series of space cracks that are difficult to perceive but actually exist.

Every year, there are monks who accidentally die in these space cracks.

On the mountainside, lush and tall trees surround an open grassland, with colorful wild flowers among the grass, like colors dotted on the green canvas.

The sunlight shines through the gaps in the clouds, and the air is filled with a mixed smell of earth and resin, which makes people feel refreshed all over.

Lu Cheng was wearing a wide Taoist robe and had a calm expression as he sat on a rock at the edge of the grass. Beside him, a dark and ancient sword stood quietly, the sword reflecting a faint light in the sun.

As the footsteps got closer, a man dressed in sect uniform appeared in Lu Cheng's sight.

His eyes were as sharp as torches, piercing through the morning mist and fixed on the figure walking in the distance.

The person who came was a young man in black and white Taoist robes, with two swords on his back. Even before the swords were unsheathed, Lu Cheng could faintly sense the flow of his internal energy, as if it contained the most violent power in the world.

"Ji Shanze, the Water and Fire Sword? I didn't expect that the cultivator from the Milian Sect who came to fight with swords would be you." Ji Shanze was one of the four middle-Nascent Soul cultivators in the Milian Sect. Apart from Zhou Jingming, he was the cultivator with the most profound magical powers, and his ability to fight and kill was far superior to Zhou Jingming.

Zhou Jingming is a cultivator that the Mi Lian Sect has focused on training for thousands of years. He has natural spiritual roots, good comprehension, and some kind of special physique for cultivation. He has currently reached the fifth level of Nascent Soul magic power, and is the most powerful cultivator in the Mi Lian Sect today, except for Jiang Wangji and Tu Hanyun.

Moreover, Jiang Wangji and Tu Hanyun are both Tribulation-transforming cultivators, while Zhou Jingming is still in his first life of cultivation. It is no exaggeration to say that he has hope for his soul.

He is a genius in cultivation, but not necessarily in fighting. Especially after Zhou Jingming was discovered by the sect, he was cultivated like a treasure by all the people in the Milian Sect. Even when he went out, he was always accompanied by at least two protectors. It is certainly difficult to hone his skills. His fighting ability can only be considered decent. He is good at using the power of magic weapons and his realm to overwhelm the enemies.

Of course, this can also be called the noble and correct way.

In comparison, Ji Shanze has fought his way up. With the same magic power and magic weapon, Ji Shanze can kill four or five Zhou Jingmings, but Zhou Jingming cannot have the same magic weapon as him.

As far as Ji Shanze knew, his junior brother Zhou always carried six sixth-grade, mid-to-high-quality talismans with him for protection.

Legend has it that Patriarch Wangji has already handed the sect's soul magic weapon to Junior Brother Zhou to communicate with him spiritually.

However, Ji Shanze does not think that he is any worse than Junior Brother Zhou. He does not have any natural spiritual roots, nor does he have a special physique for cultivation. The only way to achieve the great truth is through swordsmanship. He has also walked step by step to this day.

This kind of practice made Ji Shanze feel happy and at ease. Of course, he would occasionally feel jealous of Junior Brother Zhou's fate in private.

"I have been doing business in Dingzhang Realm recently. Ancestor Wangji saw that I was relatively close, so he sent me here. There is no need to waste time on us. Today, we will fight with swords to the death and settle the cause and effect. In the future, our two sects will not pursue this matter any further."

People who practice Taoism often hate red tape, not to mention that the two are enemies who are about to fight to the death with swords, so Ji Shanze has even less interest in talking nonsense.

Lu Cheng stared at Ji Shanze, the man holding the Water and Fire Sword in front of him. He counted quickly with the five fingers of his right hand behind his back and frowned slightly.

"Shut up, ghost? Why are there these two hexagrams? If something unusual happens, you should be more careful."

But he still smiled and raised his arm and said, "Please!"

Then, clouds rose from under the feet of Lu Cheng and Ji Shanze, carrying the two of them as they flew rapidly towards the top of the mountain.

During this process, Lu Cheng roughly sorted out the cause and effect of the matter in his mind, and then sighed in his heart:
"For people in the demonic world, it turns out that face, integrity, and the like don't exist."

The two of them flew to the top of the mountain at the same time.

Although he was surprised at Lu Cheng's magic power, Ji Shanze waved his sleeves, and the shape of the mountains and rivers around the top of the mountain suddenly changed with his body as the center. Then he raised his shoulders and released a sharp sword light, which slashed towards Lu Cheng's head with both speed and ferocity.

Ji Shanze knew that the other party must have read a lot of information about him, just like he had investigated this number one swordsman before coming here.

However, when he was in the Dingzhang World, he had a fortuitous encounter and his magic power had successfully broken through to the fifth level of the Nascent Soul Realm. It is difficult for a Nascent Soul cultivator to improve his magic power level, and the gap between each level of magic power is a significant change.

At least Ji Shanze was certain that the sword light driven by the fifth level of his Nascent Soul magic power was one point faster and two points more fierce than before!

As Lu Cheng's eyes closed and opened, a golden glow of flames appeared. This was the Dharma Eyes of Fire Pupils and Golden Eyes.

In an instant, Lu Cheng could see clearly that four small flags were flying around Ji Shanze, with four ancient seal characters faintly written on the flags: earth, water, fire, and wind.

In addition to the mainstream characters used in various fields in this world, there are also cloud seal characters, thunder characters, dragon and phoenix characters, demon patterns, ghost patterns, gold characters, silver characters, jade tripod characters, cloud seal characters and other writing traditions.

The most famous and powerful ones are those mentioned above. Each of them contains powerful strength. If the monks can make good use of it, it will have endless uses.

Immortal practitioners no longer need to study mainstream written and spoken languages ​​after they reach the Golden Elixir Realm, because they can communicate freely and understand their meanings through spiritual consciousness.

So what Lu Cheng said just now was the language of Tongxuan Realm, and Ji Shanze spoke the dialect of Xuankong Fajie, and there was no obstacle in the communication between the two.

However, there is no need to study ordinary characters. It is still necessary to study various ancient characters that contain some kind of magical power. Otherwise, many Taoist books and classics that have been passed down from ancient times to the present day will be simply incomprehensible.

In addition to the four small flags flying around his body, Ji Shanze was flying in the air with a formation diagram that moved with his footsteps.

Lu Cheng understood it immediately with his fiery golden eyes:
"Wow, this guy has integrated the formation into his own Nascent Soul magical power domain. Just based on this move, Ji Shanze can be called a master among Nascent Soul cultivators!"

A skilled Nascent Soul cultivator would integrate his own Nascent Soul magical power domain into his spells and magic weapons, and could even defeat the enemy without fighting. Ji Shanze integrated the domain of magic with the formation, which greatly enhanced his control over the natural forces of the outside world.

In addition, Ji Shanze had just sacrificed two flying swords. One was a yang sword that chopped down on the head as fast as lightning, and the other was a yin sword that merged into the surrounding formations and then escaped into the real world, hiding and moving like a fish into water, attacking from behind Lu Cheng and killing his body silently.

One yang and one yin, one hard and one soft, it truly lives up to the name of the Water and Fire Sword.

In response, a colorful glazed flying sword flew out from Lu Cheng's sleeve. The next moment, his body merged into the flying sword, and the sword flew high in an instant.

Kendo skills, the unity of man and sword.

Lu Cheng has a lot of magic weapons on him, but he doesn't have a sixth-level magic weapon that is purely for defense.

The physical bodies of most cultivators are extremely fragile compared to spells and magic weapons of the same level, so a defensive magic weapon is extremely important. Otherwise, if the physical body is accidentally affected by a spell or magic weapon, not to mention the path to enlightenment, one's life will be in danger in an instant.

However, it is different for sword cultivators. For sword cultivators, the man and the sword are one. The attack power of the flying sword is equal to the defense power, and the sword light is unparalleled in killing power.

The early stages of physical cultivation are difficult. One must at least practice hard to the Golden Core or Nascent Soul stage before one can be considered successful. However, after achieving success, one will not be easily harmed by spells or magic weapons of the same level. Lu Cheng has expertise in both aspects, so unless it is a particularly powerful defensive magic weapon, he certainly will not use ordinary sixth-level magic weapons to consume too much of his spiritual awareness.

In terms of combat methods, sword cultivators are also different from most cultivators. Most cultivators use defensive magic weapons to protect themselves, cast spells and magic weapons, and move less frequently, while sword cultivators move with their swords, fighting while walking and avoiding the real and attacking the fake.

It is hard to say which of the two fighting methods is more superior. The former is simple and practical, but more difficult to cultivate to a higher level. The latter is difficult to start with, but after cultivating to an intermediate level it is indeed easy to gain a suppressive advantage over the former. However, there are also many monks who have died from this.

After the two fighting methods are cultivated to a high level, there is no difference between strong and weak. It still depends on the level of cultivation of both sides.

Ji Shanze knew that although the unity of man and sword was powerful, it consumed a lot of the sword cultivator's spiritual power. If used skillfully, there would be no problem. However, if used incorrectly, it would be easy to be crushed directly into the rock, just like suddenly canceling the earth escape technique inside the rock.

Therefore, he held the seal with both hands, controlled the Yin and Yang swords, and chased closely. Of course, the Yin Sword had to remain hidden, and the speed of the sword was relatively slow, mainly for predicting and blocking.

Lu Cheng controlled the Five Elements Flying Sword and flew through the air, avoiding the direct slash of the Yang Sword. Just as he got rid of the entanglement, he found that a black flying sword with a strong and feminine breath had blocked his way.

This is the Yin-Yang Double Sword Strangulation, the superb sword technique that Ji Shanze is famous for. Although it consumes a lot of mana to stab with the Yin Sword at this moment, it is a bit difficult.

But Ji Shanze still used his magic formula to unleash the power of his sword, causing the sword he was controlling to suddenly break out of hiding and stab out.

When masters fight with swords, they should act decisively and dare to fight. However, what Ji Shanze did not expect was that the Taoist Lu Cheng seemed to have anticipated this sword attack. He suddenly moved more than ten feet in the air with the sword. This distance was only a moment for the sword light.

However, the sword energy was highly condensed, thus maintaining its killing power. Lu Cheng's instant escape completely got rid of the killing power of the Yin Sword's sword energy.

Ji Shanze had learned in advance that the predecessor of the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace, the Ten Thousand Beasts Incarnation Palace, seemed to have a good inheritance of physical cultivation methods, but Lu Cheng's Samadhi True Fire body refining and self-cultivation was unique. His cultivation of the Dharma Eyes with Fire Pupils and Golden Eyes was even better than his master Huang Longzi's Dragon Pupils, and was not known to the world.

Clang.

Two swords in a row, Netherworld and Five Elements, the double swords slashed quickly and fiercely at the sword spine where the Yin Sword's power was not enough. Because the sword speed was too fast, it was as if a sound had been made.

"what!"

The twin swords of Yin and Yang, Water and Fire, are connected with Ji Shanze's mind after years of practice.

At this moment, the Yin Sword was suddenly severely damaged. Ji Shanze felt a sweetness in his throat and a mouthful of blood rushed up, but he suppressed it forcefully and used all his magic power to drive the flying sword back.

Two sets of sixth-order mid-grade flying swords, their quality is almost top-grade, who can be willing to throw them away easily?
If it were Lu Cheng, he would be reluctant to leave and would grit his teeth and fight to the death.

The top of the mountain is surrounded by clouds and mist. Due to the cracks in space around it, it is difficult for ordinary cultivators to even penetrate with their spiritual consciousness. Therefore, it is an excellent place for Nascent Soul cultivators to fight with swords.

Taoist Lu Cheng was wearing a Taoist robe, holding two swords, the Netherworld and the Five Elements, in each hand. The tips of the swords trembled slightly, as if attracting the power of heaven and earth contained in the area.

Lu Cheng closed his eyes tightly, and his body was surrounded by five-colored light, which was a large amount of the five elements of heaven and earth condensed.

Suddenly, the Taoist opened his eyes abruptly, his eyes were as fast as lightning, the sword in his hand shone brightly, and a style of Great Five Elements Life and Death Aurora Sword Qi broke through the air. The sword Qi came into being from nothing, and turned into a brilliant five-colored sword Qi, rising into the air and rushing straight into the sky.

Those who are good at attacking move above the nine heavens.

Ji Shanze stood on the top of the mountain with his robe fluttering in the wind, dancing with the returned Yin-Yang swords of water and fire in his hands, stirring up the power of heaven and earth. The Four Symbols Formation appeared around him, and the wind rose, the clouds surged, the water rippled, the fire blazed, and the earthquake shook the mountains.

The magic power of his fifth level Nascent Soul was far superior to that of Lu Cheng. The Nascent Soul's magical power domain was combined with the formation to protect himself and make him almost invincible. When fighting with Lu Cheng with swords, he only needed to consider the changes in sword moves and did not have to worry about himself at all.

However, Ji Shanze did not expect that under such circumstances, with his swordsmanship, he would be defeated so quickly and so miserably.

At this moment, Qiang gathered up his magic power and combined the sword skills in his hands with the formation skills, once again activating the power of the Four Symbols Formation. He went head-on with Taoist Lu Cheng's Great Five Elements of Life and Death Aurora Sword Skill, which mobilized the five elements of heaven and earth. In a short period of time, he did not lose the upper hand.

On the top of the mountain, the Five Elements sword light and the Four Symbols formation collided with each other, making deafening roars.

"Okay, have fun!"

Lu Cheng let out a long roar of great satisfaction, and the energy around him was as sharp as a sword, cutting the clouds in the sky in half.

Under the urging of the sword technique, each sword light was faster than the other. Each sword of the Netherworld and Five Elements swords condensed the power of the five elements between heaven and earth, and the sword force became more and more fierce and domineering.

Blood was oozing from the corners of Ji Shanze's mouth, his eyes were shining with brilliance, and his sword techniques became more exquisite and sharp. The Yin-Yang, Water and Fire swords seemed to come alive, each transforming into a fire dragon and a water dragon, shuttling back and forth in the Four Symbols Formation, trying to suppress the sword light of Taoist Lu Cheng.

However, after another fierce sword clash, the sword light of Taoist Lu Cheng's two swords collided with Ji Shanze's Four Symbols Formation in the air, bursting out with dazzling brilliance.

Boom.

With a loud bang, a crack finally appeared in Ji Shanze's formation. Lu Cheng's sword was extremely sharp, and the sword seemed to pierce through his heart. Ji Shanze showed a look of pain, his body stagnated, and finally he was swallowed by the sword light of Lu Cheng's two swords and was completely defeated.

Ji Shanze was defeated because his sword skills were easily broken by Lu Cheng at first, and then Lu Cheng held on to him tightly and suppressed him continuously, without giving him even the slightest chance to recover. The internal injuries in his body, which were not too serious at first, became more and more serious until they erupted and he was defeated.

On the top of the mountain, the clouds and mist gradually dissipated. Lu Cheng let out a long breath, and the lights of his two swords faded. He just felt that he had enjoyed the sword fight.

"Ahem, why don't you kill me? Do you think that our Mi Lian Sect can't afford to lose?"

Ji Shanze was not dead. When Lu Cheng was controlling the flying sword just now, the sword swept across his body and was able to pierce through his heart.

However, Lu Cheng did not do so, but chose to spare Ji Shanze's sword.

"Sheng Boqian attacked and killed me after the auction in order to seize the Ten Thousand Years Wood Spirit. You brothers have known each other for hundreds of years, and I think you know who he is. I think fellow Daoist Gu Qinghong of the Eight Landscapes would not fail to explain this matter.

Master Wangji is a great man of his generation. He sent you here because he wanted to leave room for this matter to turn around. Master Wangji left room for this, so I will leave room for this as well."

"..."

After listening to Lu Cheng finish his words, Ji Shanze was silent for a while before he let out a long breath and said:
“Ancestor Wangji did say in his letter that he would let me defeat you and spare your life, but the reputation of the Mi Lian Sect cannot be easily damaged, so I have to speak up for Sheng Boqian.

Since I have been defeated, the matter of Junior Brother Sheng is over, and the Mi Lian Sect will never bother about it again."

Hearing this, Lu Cheng stood with his hands behind his back as if he was resting his eyes. Seeing that the person in front of him really chose to let him go, Ji Shanze turned around and left after performing a salute.

Lu Cheng did not take action to kill. The Mi Lian Sect was the top sect in the Xuan Kong Dharma Realm, with seventeen Nascent Soul True Lords in the sect. Unless he could wipe out the entire Mi Lian Sect in one fell swoop, there was no need to add to the hatred. He was not alone.

"What's more..."

Lu Cheng's gaze was fixed on the rolling sea of ​​clouds in front of him. The sword intent and sword energy in his body were rising and rising, and then he moved towards the direction of the Endless Eye of the East China Sea.

Moving in the void, the figure appears and disappears, as if the void becomes an inch, and moves in an instant.

There was a faint golden-red glow in Taoist Lu Cheng's eyes. All the cracks in space were visible under his eyes, but those that were extremely weak and difficult to detect might not even be able to cut his body.

These space cracks are relatively rare when they are near the mountains, but now the deeper you go into the East China Sea, the more their number increases, and the danger naturally increases significantly.

"Alas, alas! You little Taoist priest, why are you rushing to those deadly places? I, an old Taoist priest, can't bear to accompany you."

Sure enough, it didn't take long.

From the void in front of Lu Cheng, an old Taoist in a white robe and holding a bamboo staff walked out, looking very graceful and elegant.

It was Tu Hanyun, a great cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage in the Milian Sect, second only to Jiang Wangji.

This person is cautious and vicious by nature. He first sends a letter under the guise of Jiang Wangji to send Ji Shanze to Lishan to fight with Lu Cheng with swords, secretly observe Lu Cheng's swordsmanship, and consume his magic power.

At this moment, I thought I was fully confident before I walked out.

We must seize this opportunity to convince this talented swordsman from the Tongxuan Realm.

With the cultivation level of the early Nascent Soul stage, he defeated a cultivator from a large sect who was in the middle Nascent Soul stage, and he himself was not even seriously injured.

Such sword skills instantly aroused Tu Hanyun's love for talent, and even his original idea of ​​killing and devouring him to protect the reputation of the Mi Lian Sect faded.

And what Lu Cheng had calculated before using the Tianmo algorithm: "Closed, ghost." The two words were an implicit prediction of future events.

"The Ten Thousand Spirits Wood God Technique, the ghost in the wood, has already eaten people, what level have you cultivated to?"

However, what was completely beyond Tu Hanyun's expectations was that Lu Cheng didn't seem surprised to see him at all, and even directly revealed the magic technique he was practicing.

The Wanlingmu Divine Art can revitalize itself by devouring the vitality of the living. After achieving a minor success, it can maintain youthfulness and immortality. It can also make the cultivator's blood pure and vigorous, and repair internal and external injuries. Even if one is on the verge of death, the vitality in the body can be kept at its peak.

When Tu Hanyun first practiced this skill, he transformed all the living creatures within a hundred miles into wooden men and wooden beasts. This was for this purpose. However, once you start practicing the Ten Thousand Spirits Wood Divine Art, you cannot stop. In the beginning, you can devour the life force of mortals and beasts to satisfy your cultivation needs. But as your practice progresses, the quality of the blood you need increases greatly. When Tu Hanyun practices to his current level, the Ten Thousand Spirits Wood Divine Art can no longer satisfy you with the blood of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

(End of this chapter)