Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 368: Sudden Enlightenment, Breakthrough to the Third Level of Yuanying (Part )

In the depths of the vast ocean, waves are rolling and undercurrents are surging.

Several rays of light of various colors flew in the sky one after another and arrived at this mysterious and dangerous sea area.

They were moving slowly but actually quickly above the waves, while carefully looking around and staying alert.

Suddenly, a low roar was heard not far ahead, and then a strong demonic aura as real as a physical object rushed towards him, shocking his mind.

"Be careful, the monster is approaching!" Lu Chengfeng warned in a low voice.

Yuwen Zheng, Wu Lingjun, Shi Sheng and Yun Huang'er immediately became alert, but the attack suddenly came from behind them.

One after another, water spiders as big as calves or even bigger suddenly jumped out from the rolling waves. The patterns on their backs looked like ferocious ghost faces, which were dizzying to look at. They continuously spit out poisonous silk threads and poisonous needles.

Their compound eyes flashed with dark red light, full of bloodthirstiness.

These seaside monsters and the monks in Haiyuan City have been killing each other for thousands of years. They have long been accustomed to fighting with human monks and preying on humans.

"fall!"

Yuwen Zheng quickly pinched his fingers and thirty-six rays of light from the formation flags flew out from his body and fell in all directions, forming a magical barrier. However, it was corroded by the poisonous threads and needles in an instant and became shaky.

"Hoohoo!"

Normal spiders can only make a squeaking sound like leather rubbing against each other.

As for the monster beasts that have been practicing for thousands of years, let alone having vocal organs, even if they were born without vocal organs, they have already refined their bodies and evolved.

The sea water beneath their feet rolled violently. Boom! A shadow emerged and the sea water suddenly exploded. A ghost-faced spider as big as a hill broke out of the sea and instantly smashed Yuwen Zheng's defensive formation into pieces.

This made Yuwen Zheng's face pale, and he suffered some internal injuries while retracting the battle flags.

But Wu Lingjun, Shi Sheng and Yun Huang'er are not easy to deal with. They carry the Taoist tradition of the Tongxuan Realm. If they can cultivate to the peak of the late Jindan realm, they can even exchange a few moves with the weaker early Yuanying cultivators of the Seven Realms. They all have a deep foundation in Taoism.

Shi Sheng and Yun Huang'er, a couple, summoned their flying swords and used them together. The sword light surged and protected everyone.

Wu Lingjun was in charge of the Hanlin Tourmaline, which attracted water vapor from all directions to gather in a short period of time:
It has a dragon head and deer horns, snake scales and an ox tail, a tiger back and bear waist, and is shaped like a elk. Its body is covered with fine, aqua blue scales that sparkle as if there is a clear spring on each scale.

The descendant of the ancient monster, the water qilin!

Roar, with the same low roar, the Water Qilin lowered its head and charged forward.

Except for the sixth-order ghost-faced spider, the other ghost-faced spiders would be injured or killed if they were touched by the water unicorn.

Even if they escape into the sea, they will have no advantage at all against the water qilin in the sea.

When he saw the sixth-order ghost-faced spider appear and attack, Lu Chengfeng's eyes focused and his hands quickly formed a complex hand seal.

In an instant, several Buddhist guardian gods with green faces and fangs, multiple heads and arms, and even nine heads and dozens of arms suddenly appeared behind him.

The appearance of a demon and the golden body of Buddhism.

Anyone who practices cultivation and has a basic understanding of the classics will know that both Buddhism and Taoism have the tradition of subduing local demons and transforming their evil nature into protectors.

The supreme principle of the Mingwang Karma Transformation Technique is also here. It can transform demons and devils into guardian Mingwang. The heavier the previous karma, the stronger the magic power will be after the transformation.

Putting down the butcher knife will make you a Buddha instantly. Of course, the longer you hold the butcher knife, the harder it will be to put it down.

Lu Chengfeng controlled the guardian spirit and dropped his physical body suddenly towards the sixth-order ghost-faced spider.

The first thing to be knocked down was the Vajra, followed by the Big Dipper's Flying Sword.

At the same time, the Dharmakāya's true body merged into one and waved its arms, creating powerful waves of magic power, which smashed hard at the ghost-faced spider.

The ghost-faced spider was not to be outdone. It danced its limbs and launched a fierce counterattack against the Dharmakāya's true body.

Suddenly, a violent storm arose in the ocean.

The attack power of the Dharmadhatu's true body is extremely powerful, and every attack can leave obvious wounds on the ghost-faced spider.

However, the ghost-faced spider sometimes dived into the water and sometimes emerged from the sea. Although its body was huge, its movements were extremely flexible. It constantly spit out poisonous silk to wrap around Lu Chengfeng's true body, trying to restrain him.

However, the Dharmakāya's true body exerted tremendous force and struggled to break free from time to time, resulting in a stalemate between the two sides.

Seeing this, Yuwen Zheng, Wu Lingjun, Shi Sheng, and Yun Huang'er, after quickly dealing with the smaller ghost-faced spiders with less magical powers, also used their own magical powers and magic weapons.

Yuwen Zheng changed his hand gestures, and his whole body turned into a ferocious flying dragon. He flew around in the air and pounced on the sixth-level ghost-faced spider from behind.

A cultivator in the late Jindan stage dared to engage in close combat with a sixth-rank demon king, even if he was not the main attacker. This showed how strong Yuwen Zheng's self-esteem and foundation were.

Wu Lingjun summoned the Hanlin Tourmaline to her front and released a ray of extremely cold spiritual light, which hit the sea below, causing the surging water to quickly condense into ice crystals.

Shi Sheng and Yun Huang'er still used their swords together. The two high-quality flying swords gathered most of their spiritual power and flew in the air, suddenly shooting out sharp sword lights that shot towards the ghost-faced spider like sharp arrows, causing it considerable trouble.

Under the joint attack of everyone, the sixth-level ghost-faced spider gradually fell into trouble. Many of its limbs were broken by Lu Chengfeng's Dharma body, and its body was gradually covered with scars.

However, this ghost-faced spider is a powerful monster that has been cultivating in the ocean for thousands of years. Suddenly, it let out an angry roar, and its body suddenly swelled up, and an even more violent demonic energy burst out from its body.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Chengfeng immediately increased the attack power of his Dharma body.

The guardian spirit and physical body behind him simultaneously formed a swastika hand seal with golden light spreading out. A bright light shot out from it and directly hit the ghost-faced spider's head.

The ghost-faced spider suddenly let out a shrill scream and its body began to tremble violently.

It suddenly spewed a stream of black venom from its mouth, which quickly spread across the sea surface, forming a highly poisonous area.

This was the sixth-rank demon king's innate poison. Everyone tried to avoid it, but Lu Chengfeng did not retreat but advanced instead, allowing the poison to fall on his body and crash into the seabed with a bang.

First there was a violent wave rolling, and not long after, Lu Chengfeng flew out again, but in the hands of the golden body behind him, he was already holding a dead ghost-faced spider king.

At this moment, Lu Chengfeng's golden body was burning with black flames and fighting against the fierce demonic poison. Even the golden body was being corroded and repaired in this constant confrontation.

"Senior, you have just achieved a breakthrough not long ago. If you try to increase your magic power so hard, I'm afraid..." Yu Wenzheng frowned slightly when he saw this.

"What are you afraid of?" The ghost-faced spider corpse that Lu Chengfeng was holding suddenly froze into ice crystals, and the temperature around it dropped sharply.

The golden body was burning with black flames, which gradually transformed into the shape of a poisonous centipede, which raised its head and roared. The four Jindan cultivators were all shocked when they saw this.

"Just do your part, and I will handle the rest."

Several years ago, with the help of Lu Cheng, Lu Chengfeng advanced to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm through the Six Instruments Heart Refining Secret Method, and even with the assistance of the Nine Nether Pill, he possessed further magical powers.

Afterwards, he stabilized his realm a little, and immediately took several monks from the Jinting Xianque to carry out several monster hunting missions to show their skills.

Before long, the news spread throughout Haiyuan City.

After all, Lu Chengfeng's dual cultivation of Dharma and body was stuck in a bottleneck state. It had been hundreds of years. During these hundreds of years, he had used countless methods and even spent a huge price to ask two of the three great cultivators, Gu Yunge Zhenjun of Changle League and Jiang An Zhenjun of Tiansha League, to help him one after another, but they still could not help him break through the bottleneck. Many people had already believed that Lu Chengfeng was trapped in this state for the rest of his life. Now, he has successfully broken through.

Haiyuan City, a tide-watching pavilion built on the edge of the city.

The copper bell under the octagonal eaves suddenly rang. The green-robed old man who was sipping spiritual tea in the sea pavilion trembled slightly and closed his eyes to listen to the message from his subordinate monks:
Lu Chengfeng hunted down the sixth-level demon king, the Ghost-faced Spider, and returned successfully.

"Fifth level of Nascent Soul? It's only been three years! What kind of secret technique can achieve such an effect? ​​And what kind of person can perform such a secret technique?"

Haiyuan City, the place where middle-level monks have restaurants and teahouses.

"What kind of opportunity do you think this Master Lu had to be able to break through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul and continue his Taoist journey?" asked a cultivator in a Taoist robe with a puzzled look on his face.

"Master Lu has a solid foundation and has practiced for many years, so it is normal for him to break through the bottleneck of his magic power now."

"No, no. Fellow Daoist, you don't know that this True Lord Chengfeng is over 1,600 years old. To be honest, his body and mind are already in a state of decline. In this state, he should most likely be trapped in the middle stage and will never be able to break through in his lifetime."

"Yes, I heard that True Lord Chengfeng succeeded in breaking through with the help of True Lord Lucheng from Jinting Xianque through some secret method. It's just that this secret method, which can assist in breaking through the realm and greatly increase magic power, is something we have never heard of." A thin-faced cultivator nearby said.

"Could it be that True Lord Lu Cheng has some special origins? Maybe he is a true disciple of a Yuanshen sect. Otherwise, how could he have such a brilliant method to help True Lord Chengfeng survive this disaster?" A slightly older middle-aged cultivator touched his chin and guessed thoughtfully.

Inside the restaurant, many cultivators present were discussing the matter, all of them full of curiosity and speculation about Lu Chengfeng's breakthrough and the origins of True Lord Lu Cheng.

At the same time, inside the Jinting Immortal Palace of Canglong Mountain, Lu Cheng, ignoring external affairs, was concentrating on comprehending the "Insect Sutra" and studying the advanced technique of the Great Five Elements True Spirit Transformation Method, the Xuantian Thirteen Changes.

If a cultivator wants to rapidly improve his magic power, there are probably three ways. The first is the alchemy route among the four items of "alchemy tools, talismans and arrays", which is the first of the hundred arts of cultivation. If a cultivator has unlimited elixirs or endless money, it will not be easy to improve his magic power slowly even if he wants to.

However, the higher the level of magic power-enhancing elixirs, the rarer they are. There are few sixth-level alchemists, and even if they can refine a sixth-level magic power-enhancing elixir, it is often digested internally and rarely released. Those that do release into the market are worth incalculable price.

The second is sudden enlightenment. Some cultivators are born with extremely high comprehension. By observing the changes of heaven, earth, wind, rain and the four seasons, they can gain some insights and integrate them into themselves. Even if such cultivators have inferior spiritual roots, their paths will still be broad.

When a cultivator enters a state of enlightenment, it can also be said to be an opportunity for enlightenment. In this state, whether it is increasing mana or breaking through bottlenecks, it is much easier than normal.

However, if a cultivator lacks comprehension and opportunity, it is very likely that he will never enter a state of enlightenment in his entire life.

This state increases magic power and breaks through bottlenecks, and there is no residual poison from taking the pill, but it is a rare opportunity.

The third is to elevate the skills that one practices to a level higher than one's own magical power, so as to improve the efficiency of practice.

Taking the magic sect's Xuanmo Secret Code as an example, the Xuanmo Secret Code is divided into nine levels. Practicing to the seventh level is the Nascent Soul level.

It is not impossible to improve magic power by practicing the seventh level of Xuanmo's mental method, but it is extremely slow and it is impossible to practice to the late Nascent Soul stage in a lifetime.

On the contrary, if one reaches the eighth or ninth level of Xuan Mo, even if one's magic power is insufficient temporarily, one will make rapid progress afterwards and have unlimited potential.

The realm of mind and the realm of magical power are directly related and influence each other.

"From the transformation of the Flame Dragon to the Transformation of the Sun-Swallowing Divine Ape, to the Transformation of the Sword Demon, to the Transformation of the Ice Butterfly, to the Transformation of the Kunpeng of the North Sea. It can be called the Five Elements Qi. Now that the Five Elements Qi are flowing, next, I plan to melt the blood of five kinds of spiritual insects, and call it the Five Elements Poison. Everything in the world carries Yin and embraces Yang, and the Five Elements Taoism is the same. I can explain my own understanding of the Five Elements Law from both positive and negative aspects, and at the same time, I will advance the Xuantian Transformation to the tenth level."

The contents of Ruyi Tianmo Lu, Qingmo Shuangsha Tianhui Sword Technique, and Chongjing (The Insect Sutra) intersected and merged with each other in Lu Cheng's mind.

Although he had this idea a long time ago, Lu Cheng originally planned to collect a few more kinds of five-element spirit insects so that he would have more choices. Currently, he only had the gold-gnawing fire ant and the poisonous golden silkworm Gu, two kinds of spirit insects that had potential and were powerful enough.

But some time ago, he helped Lu Chengfeng to cultivate the secret art of refining the mind with six instruments. Although it came from the Book of Ten Thousand Tribulations and One Hundred Instruments, it was actually also a partial and modified version of the Ruyi Tianmo Record. It just had a different route, but the same goal.

The completion of this secret method brought great inspiration to Lu Cheng. He realized something at that time. As long as he started to practice the Sixth Transformation of Xuantian immediately, he would be able to break through this barrier and perfect the method immediately, as if he had received divine help.

In the Taoist palace filled with spiritual energy, Taoist Lu Cheng was practicing Taoism in peace. His eyes were closed, his expression was calm, and his whole body seemed to be flickering with spiritual energy.

"If I don't have the Five Elements Qi as the foundation of the Great Five Elements True Spirit Transformation Method, practicing the Five Elements Poison would be too extreme, narrow-minded and too evil, and I would not be able to live long. However, with the Five Qi staying in the Five Organs, the Five Elements Poison will not only fail to damage my foundation, but will instead fill in the gaps and prolong my life."

The Golden Silkworm Gu with a Hundred Poisons has been following Lu Cheng for many years, and the two are close to each other, so much so that Lu Cheng hardly needs to expend any spiritual consciousness to summon the Golden Silkworm Gu from the Jiuli Cauldron, and only needs to provide the basic magic power for it to stay in the world.

At this moment, Lu Cheng had the idea to fuse the true blood of the golden silkworm Gu with a hundred poisons in order to practice the sixth level of Xuantian Kung Fu.

Rolling golden clouds covered up and fell layer by layer on the Taoist's body.

Hundreds of poisons devour the body, and the golden silkworm melts the blood.

"The poison enters the mysterious world, and all the poisons return to their origin." The fat white Nascent Soul baby in Lu Cheng's body suddenly opened its eyes, and two flames shot out from its eyes and flew up to shatter the protective magic power from within.

The true blood of the golden silkworm Gu suddenly turned into an emerald torrent and poured into Lu Cheng's forehead. Colorful poisonous mist instantly gushed out of Lu Cheng's seven orifices, and his Taoist robe turned into ashes as soon as it touched the poisonous mist.

However, the Yin-Yang Fish Altar Formation beneath his seat suddenly collapsed into a pitch-black hole, swallowing up all the escaping poisonous gas.

Combined with the Taoist method of insect scriptures, if the five elements of poison are completely cultivated, not only will Lu Cheng himself be immune to all poisons, but it will also greatly increase Lu Cheng's ability to control the poisonous insects in the world and greatly increase his combat power.

And the five elements poison can be introduced into the Green Demon Frost Evil Heavenly Filth Sword Technique, which can transform it into the Ten Thousand Poisons Heavenly Filth Divine Light, which is the most poisonous and evil, and is more in line with its own Taoist system.

Lu Cheng circulated the magic power in his body, guiding the poisonous true blood to flow slowly in his blood vessels and blend with the true blood of the five elements. Every bit of true blood that was integrated seemed to create a wonderful resonance between his body and soul.

Gradually, Lu Cheng completely entered a wonderful state of enlightenment.

In this state, his mind seemed to be detached from worldly things, wandering in the endless empty universe, and comprehending the extremely mysterious laws of the universe.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment, and only he was blending with the mysterious laws and principles.

As his enlightenment deepened, the mana in Lu Cheng's body began to surge like a raging tide. The originally strong and stable second-level Nascent Soul mana realm also began to loosen at this moment.

The powerful magic power constantly impacts the barriers of the realm, as if trying to break through all obstacles and move towards a higher level.

There is no me in the world, and time passes by.

Finally, with the accumulation day after day and the endless impact of magic power, Lu Cheng successfully broke through the bottleneck of the second level of Nascent Soul magic power realm.

The sixth transformation of Xuantian was deduced and cultivated, and the third level of Nascent Soul magic power was cultivated.

To this day, Lu Cheng is just over 400 years old, which is an extremely young age among Nascent Soul cultivators. Most of the cultivators in the world at his age are probably far from having fully accumulated the magic power of the ninth level of Golden Core.

In the early stages of his cultivation, Lu Cheng's progress was by no means fast, and could even be said to be slow. However, his progress became faster as he progressed to later stages. It would take an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator about 130 to 200 years to accumulate magic power and break through a level.

However, in the past hundred years, Lu Cheng has advanced two levels, and his foundation is solid, and his magic power does not show any signs of being frivolous or unstable.

It is very normal for a Nascent Soul cultivator to practice in seclusion for several years at a time. In addition, Lu Cheng has become one with the Golden Silkworm Gu, and his skills are very successful, so he has made very little noise. Therefore, even the many disciples living in the Jinting Xianque of Canglong Mountain were unaware of this.

Perhaps only Nascent Soul cultivators with profound magical powers or who are more careful would be able to sense something vaguely.

Lu Cheng had just finished his retreat and opened the restrictions of the Taoist Palace when his disciples came to ask to see him.

It was the fourth disciple Shi Sheng. Lu Cheng had some preference for his youngest disciple and was relatively more patient with him.

A moment later, Shi Sheng came in and paid his respects with great ceremony.

(End of this chapter)