Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 378: Great magical power, boundless magic power (Please subscribe!)
A Taoist priest in a plain robe stood high above Haiyuan City. He first closed his eyes to rest, then after a moment, he circulated the Qi, blood and magic power in his body and chanted a spell to make it surge up.

His pupils suddenly opened and ignited with a strange red-gold light. The art of his fire pupils and golden eyes spread the light and penetrated the sky. Thousands of miles of clouds were torn apart like a veil, and the scene of billions of gold-gnawing fire ants surging in the depths of the Tiangang atmosphere was clearly visible. Looking around, golden light beams moved in all directions - two thousand four hundred miles to the northwest, a red torrent was carrying lava meteors and bombarding a mortal city.

"You really don't take us, the True Lords of the human race, seriously."

After whispering this, the eighth level of Xuantian magic power in his body began to circulate, and Lu Cheng turned into a beam of light and flew away into the air.

Wherever it passed, the sea of ​​clouds split like waves, and its speed of escape was so fast that it dragged a three-meter-wide crack in the sky behind it.

The sword light cut through the atmosphere, and the physical body followed closely behind. The man and the sword combined, and they actually helped each other.

When approaching the disaster area, a blazing fire dragon suddenly flew out from Lu Cheng's sleeve, roaring and turning into a hundred-foot-long fire wave that intercepted the falling fire rain meteors.

The first transformation is the Ancient Flame Dragon Transformation.

The unique skill of kendo, sword energy takes shape.

The fire dragon transformed from the Five Elements Flying Sword, his natal magic weapon, sometimes grows big, sometimes gets small, swaying and spinning in the air, swallowing up the fire energy in the sky.

Normally, when facing the fire poison of the gold-gnawing fire ants, the ancient fire dragon would have been somewhat afraid of the poison even if it was not afraid of the flames. However, the situation at this moment was that Lu Cheng's sword energy dragon form was wandering around and devouring at will, without any sign of weakness.

This is because the changes of the five elements poison have been refined into the Five Elements Flying Sword, and Lu Cheng is well versed in the ways of fire poison, so of course it is impossible for him to let himself be poisoned.

"Someone is here to save us!"

"It's the upper cultivator coming from Haiyuan City. We are saved, and the people in the city are saved."

From the mortal city below, cheers came from the monks on the city walls.

Although the immortal cultivators are high above, mortals are the foundation of the immortal cultivators. They protect a large number of mortals and select disciples with outstanding talents and abilities from them. This is the cornerstone of the prosperity of any force.

Using fire to fight fire, a burning area was formed to prevent the fire ants from falling into the city below. The landing points of many fire meteors naturally shifted to Lu Cheng itself.

"Water overcomes fire, but my five-element poison has not yet been refined into a water-element transformation. So I will use fire to attack fire, and fire to create earth."

Lu Cheng is a master of the Five Elements Theory. He knows clearly that the Five Elements are not only mutually restraining, but in many cases mutual promotion can also replace the effect of mutual restraint.

Mutual restraint means fierce offense, and mutual promotion means solid defense. No matter who is better at offense or defense, both are very advantageous in actual combat.

As Lu Cheng's magic formula changed, his hand gestures stood in front of his forehead.

"Roar!"

The ancient fire dragon suddenly changed, and its entire huge body turned into a huge burning flame, like a dark red blood-red fire cloud.

But the next moment, the gravel and sand between heaven and earth were sucked together, forming a yellowish-brown cloud mountain that filled the sky and the earth, covering the sky and the earth, and enveloping the entire world.

The second transformation is the Sun-Swallowing Divine Ape Transformation and the Setting Sun Divine Sand.

The yellow cloud mountain rolled up and enveloped the Taoist priest in the sky.

One after another, flaming meteors fell into the yellow cloud. It cannot be said that there was no chance of a breakthrough, but even if there was, the big ones would become small, and the small ones would become nothing. The monks who were originally defending in the city below could still cope with it at this time.

In the yellow cloud, Lu Cheng waved his sleeves again, and large groups of gold-gnawing fire ants flew out and fought together with the gold-gnawing fire ants of the same species that were besieging them.

There is no way. Among the five elements of poison, there are only three elements of spiritual insects: gold, wood and fire. All of them are restrained by the gold-gnawing fire ants. If you can't restrain each other, you can't be restrained by the other party.

"The Gold-Gnawing Fire Ant has a strong body, is naturally poisoned by fire, has a weak consciousness, and is fearless of death."

The yellow cloud of earth where Lu Cheng was hiding was transformed by the magic power of the Sun-Swallowing Divine Ape. This kind of true spirit had a very high resistance to fire, and had a great advantage in the confrontation with the gold-gnawing fire ants. Unfortunately, facing this type of large-scale spiritual insect, its range attack power was insufficient.

No matter how big and heavy the rocks are, can they crush a nest of ants?

That's the truth.

The monks from Qingcheng below were struggling to kill the few insects that had fallen.

Because the True Lord of the main city came to help, the morale of the cultivators was greatly boosted.

Many monks of the lower and middle levels gathered together, their faces filled with solemnity and determination.

Within the range of this heavenly fire catastrophe, there were countless gold-gnawing fire ants. They were all flaming red, and their hard shells shone with a metallic luster under the reflection of the heavenly fire.

And each of them has a powerful bite force, enough to tear apart the monk's defenses and chew up his flesh.

But these monks mustered up the courage to fight, because this was their home, their native land, and behind them were their families, their relatives and friends; also because they were not those high-ranking true cultivators, the blood in their chests had not yet cooled.

Some of these monks controlled flying swords with flashing spiritual light on them, trying to use sword techniques and sword energy to resist the attacks of the fire ants.

Some cast spells to form shields around themselves, hoping to find a glimmer of hope in the attack from the skyfire and fire ants.

One of the young middle-level cultivators, named Lin Qingyu, quickly made hand gestures and muttered something. Wind blades whizzed out from his hands and rushed towards the dense ant colony.

Wherever the wind blade went, many fire ants were cut into bloody mist, but more fire ants swarmed towards him, as if they were not afraid of his attack at all.

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded in Lin Qingyu's mind.

"My dear friends, do you have any water-based or spirit-capturing formation books or diagrams? I want to cast a water-based formation, but unfortunately I don't have enough skills to use them. If any of you have such a formation diagram, please sell it to me and I will reward you handsomely."

This voice did not sound in the minds of one or two people, but in the minds of all the monks guarding the city of Qingcheng.

The power of the caster's consciousness and the exquisite control made Lin Qingyu feel terrified, because based on his understanding of Taoism, a cultivator who could do this could also use his own consciousness to directly blow up the Six Yang Leader of everyone present.

"I have it here!"

"I have one here too. It's a water-illusion maze!"

"The True Lord wants to refine the spirit."

Soon, many cultivators in the city understood who the person who was transmitting the message was. Almost all of them who had formation books or diagrams that met the requirements raised their voices in response.

Lin Qingyu hesitated for a moment, but finally gritted his teeth and said in his mind:
"I have a Xuanyin Spirit Refining Formation Diagram on me, which was passed down by my ancestors. If it is useful to you, please take it. I have already received your life-saving grace, so I dare not ask for your treasure again."

What Lin Qingyu was concerned about was that this Xuanyin Spirit Refining Formation was a demonic formation. He didn't know whether the True Lord in the sky was eager to help others and would blame him for this.

The next moment, Lin Qingyu felt the formation diagram in his hand become lighter and fly high into the sky. At the same time, many formation diagrams also flew up from all around.

At the same time, Lin Qingyu felt something heavy in his hand, and there appeared a jade bottle and a wine gourd.

In the thick and majestic earth cloud, Lu Cheng quickly flipped through those Taoist books on formation diagrams. It is better to sharpen your sword before the battle. In the past few decades, he had focused too much on cultivating his own magic power and rarely studied the insect formation. Fortunately, he had enough understanding of the Taoist water method, and he could drive the spiritual insects like arms, so it should not be too difficult for him to set up one or two simple formation diagrams.

"Xuan Yin Spirit Refining Formation?"

He quickly scanned the Dao book with his spiritual sense, focusing only on the formation diagrams required by the Water Element and the Soul Capture Technique. Finally, Lu Cheng's eyes fell on a magic formation diagram:

This method is relatively simple, easy to use, and extremely powerful, but it directly attacks the depths of the person entering the formation and is prone to backlash.

After all, the concept of mind is extremely mysterious.

Even if a Nascent Soul cultivator has been in the process of tribulation and has practiced hard for thousands of years, he may still not be able to defeat the innate infant true spirit that has been nurtured in the human body for three months. From ancient times to the present, there have been more than one or two True Lords of Tribulation who have been defeated by these innate true spirits.

"Hahahaha, this formation is amazing. I don't want to fight with faith and gods. I will lose to a group of ants."

People's innate true spirits are powerful. According to the Buddhist theory of the six realms of reincarnation, the human realm is naturally higher than the animal realm, the hungry ghost realm, and the hell realm.

Even in Taoism, there are corresponding legal principles. No matter whether it is a demon or a ghost, its status is far inferior to that of a human being.

It is very dangerous to use the Xuanyin Refining God Formation to fight against others, but using it to kill these gold-gnawing fire ants can greatly reduce the danger.

At the end of the third day and night, the sky and the earth were covered with dark clouds and purple light was flowing.

With the yellow cloud that covered the entire Qingcheng for three days as the center, a dark golden light suddenly bloomed around the yellow cloud.

"The frosty sky shines through, with the icy spirit as the guide!"

The dark golden light shattered, and thousands of phantom ice butterflies flapped their wings and flew out from it.

Every time these crystal-clear butterflies flapped their wings, they left traces of frost in the air. The ice crystals condensed on the tips of their wings actually connected into waves of cold air in mid-air.

"Kan water, Li fire, Xuan Yin refines the spirit!" Lu Cheng's hands flew and changed, and the ice butterflies around him also formed an array and unfolded a strange formation.

With the yellow cloud as the center, the sky full of ice butterflies transformed into an extremely strange Xuanyin talisman. This magic array and talisman are one, both a talisman and a formation.

The icy air descended from the sky, and with it came an even more terrifying evil power that could consume the minds of living beings. The earth was broken and the water moved, so the yellow cloud around Lu Cheng was still moving smoothly, but the large number of gold-gnawing fire ants trapped in it were in a miserable state.

The flames spewed out by the ant colony were gradually dissipated by the cold air in the formation. Even the surging red waves were forced to shrink into a three-meter fireball. Surrounded by a large number of ice butterflies, they were like candles trapped in a lamp.

The Phantom Ice Butterfly is a species of spiritual insect that Lu Cheng collected and cultivated in large quantities in the Insect World when he was practicing the fourth level of his technique. After practicing for so long, Lu Cheng discovered that it did not conform to the flow of the Five Elements Qi, but was more in line with the changes of the Five Elements Poison.

However, the Thirteen Changes of Xuantian was originally created by Lu Cheng Jiegang, so it is not difficult to make some modifications.

"Refine!" The Taoist shouted like thunder, and the sky-filled ice butterfly array completely turned into a rotating vortex of frost and snow. The fire ants trapped in the array made dense bursts. Even if they were not dead, they were greatly weakened. Even if they tried their best to escape, they were dragged and held by the rolling yellow clouds around them and could not escape.

With the method of restraint and three days and nights of training, Lu Cheng kept deducing and calculating in his mind, and finally determined that he could completely take on this large group of gold-gnawing fire ants.

He broke free from the yellow clouds below and waved the sleeves of his Taoist robe downwards. As his sleeves swirled, countless swarms of gold-gnawing fire ants wrapped in the yellow clouds all flew into Taoist Lu Cheng's sleeves.

The yellow cloud part was transformed by Lu Cheng's Sun-Swallowing Divine Ape magic power, while the spirit insect part was directly sucked into the Jiuli Cauldron by the golden light in the yellow cloud.

With the increasing establishment and perfection of the skills, every time Lu Cheng cultivated a new level of change, he would gain an additional magical power, such as the Five Elements Poison. After cultivation, it would be transformed into the Five Elements Hundred Poisons Heavenly Filth Sword Art. The Heavenly Filth Divine Light that was refined could be said to be extremely poisonous, evil, and filthy, so that even a Yuanshen cultivator could not withstand a blow from the sword.

However, the most powerful thing is the Xuantian Thirteen Transformations technique itself. If one can deduce and practice it to the level of transformation and ascension, it can truly be said that one has "great supernatural powers and boundless magic power."

"We won, we won. Long live Qingcheng, long live the True Lord!"

"Can you f*cking talk? If you can't, shut your stinky mouth. Long live Qingcheng, and may the Immortal Master enjoy eternal happiness and a long life!"

The defending monks of Qingcheng below kept cheering loudly, and they even flew up into the air, wanting to go forward and invite Lucheng to join them in the feast.

However, in the sky, there was a flash of rainbow light, and the Taoist who had waved his sleeves to break the calamity disappeared without a trace the next moment.

If it were an ordinary day, Lu Cheng would not mind helping others and making friends with the lower and middle level cultivators, but he spent three days cultivating the Xuanyin Soul Refining Formation, of course, not just for the purpose of rescuing Qingcheng. If that were the case, there would be no need to waste three days of effort, as he was preparing for this heavenly fire disaster.

You need to use water to break the fire disaster and earn more merits in hunting monsters.

"Alas, the True Lord should have gone to resolve the heavenly fire disasters in other regions. He fought hard for three days and did not even accept a bowl of spiritual tea as an offering. He is truly a god!" A middle-aged monk in a black robe and a goatee sighed in the sky.

"Yes, we should build a temple for the True Lord and pass it down through the ages." Another red-robed monk said so.

"Let's not talk about this for now. Does anyone know the surname and name of this True Lord? Don't write the wrong name when you build a temple or biography, or you will be laughed at."

“…This, uh, this…”

"We should be able to find out the identity of this True Lord from these spiritual objects. Although he has completed his mission and left, we cannot help but be grateful for his merits." Lin Qingyu flew high into the sky on his sword and said this, while taking out a jade bottle and gourd filled with jade bee nectar and bitter leaf wine.

"Most of the cultivators who received gifts from the True Lord received these spiritual objects. Through these, we should be able to find the identity of the True Lord of Haiyuan City. We should repay him anyway, so that people won't say that the cultivators of Qingcheng are all ungrateful and shameless."

"Yes, fellow Taoist is right."

Lin Qingyu's words were recognized by many cultivators present.

Even if we don't consider it from a moral perspective, according to human nature, people are more willing to help those they have already helped.

There are many disasters in this world. If Qingcheng can establish a relationship with such a powerful Yuanying Zhenjun, the entire Qingcheng may usher in great development.

The heavenly fire disaster in the Qingcheng area was successfully broken by Lu Cheng's magic.

However, this entire world of blazing fire was shrouded in the calamity of heavenly fire. Even if one only looked at the area of ​​tens of thousands of miles around Haiyuan City, there were more than a few places that were hit by the fire calamity.

When the first ray of catastrophe fire fell towards Luoxia City, the warning jade tokens on the waists of the monks guarding the city on the city wall all exploded.

The moment the red meteor broke through the barrier, the entire city defense formation was covered with cracks.

"The city guards, form a formation!" The elder deacon's roar was instantly drowned out by the roar of the fire ants' wings. Seventeen-year-old Su Mingxue tightly grasped the formation flag and watched his fellow disciples being swallowed by the red torrent.

Many cultivators didn't even have time to make hand gestures before the protective aura shattered like thin paper and turned into charred bones in an instant.

The market for independent cultivators at the foot of the mountain has become a purgatory.

The old monk who was selling talismans slapped the last three Ice Soul Talismans on his forehead, wanting to fight to the death. His cloudy pupils reflected the fire ants all over the sky:

“Borrowing the magic of Han Yuan, Xuan Guang…” Before he finished speaking, seven fire ants as big as fists had pierced through his chest, and the ice talisman fell to the ground covered in blood before it could be activated.

The foundation-building monks halfway up the mountain formed the Big Dipper Sword Formation. The seven flying swords weaved into a light net. Each strike could kill hundreds of fire ants, but the sword blades were turning red and blunt at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Change the formation!" The purple-robed man in the lead bit his fingertips and used his blood as ink to write lightning patterns on the sword. When the third round of sword formation was launched, his right arm had been corroded by ant poison, leaving white bones.

At the Luoxia City Observatory on the top of the mountain where a Nascent Soul cultivator was in charge, True Lord Xuanyu's robe was already soaked with sweat.

Three hundred and seventy-two spiritual energy chains extended from under her altar, each connected to the core of the city defense formation.

At this moment, the chains were breaking one after another, and every break caused her to suffer backlash and vomit blood.

"Master, the 49th array center has been lost!"

Amid the Taoist boy's panicked shouts, True Lord Xuanyu saw that the formation pattern in the southeast had completely extinguished.

Seeing this, she forced her Nascent Soul to appear above her head. The Nascent Soul suddenly opened its eyes and sprayed out magic power to forcibly fill the gap. This was like drinking poison to quench thirst - when the ninety-fourth chain broke, the Nascent Soul above Xuanyu Zhenjun's head had already lost its spirit and spirit.

If I continue to forcefully mobilize my magic power, I'm afraid my Nascent Soul will disintegrate.

A ray of light broke through the air at this moment.

The first person to notice the abnormality was the purple-robed man who was engaged in a tough battle. He was about to chop down the oncoming fire ants with the yellow thunder sword in his hand when he suddenly saw frost condensing on those hideous mouthparts.

Then, the entire battlefield was filled with blue snowflakes, and each snowflake landed precisely on the fire ants, exploding with icy air.

A roar like a dragon's roar or a tiger's roar came from the top of the mountain. The cultivators looked up and saw a mysterious talisman appear in the sky. Under the cover of precious light, all the gold-gnawing fire ants in the area became sluggish in movement, as if they were suppressed by something.

"It's the Xuanyin Water Spirit Refining Formation! Which Taoist friend helped me? Xuan Yuzi is very grateful." After escaping from the desperate situation, Zhenjun Xuan Yu was greatly encouraged.

Taoist Lu Cheng was writing the Xuanyin Refining Spirit Talisman in the air. Every time he finished drawing a talisman, the "bright moon" rising in the night sky became brighter, and in the end it was as bright as daylight hanging in the sky.

The divine light enveloped the sky and fell, but it only affected the swarm of gold-gnawing fire ants, without causing any harm to other cultivators or even mortals.

At least on the surface, that's the case.

The situation here is different from that of Qingcheng. Although the disaster in Qingcheng was imminent, most of it was intercepted and blocked, while the city below has already fallen into the disaster.

Relying on his own research on spiritual insects and his familiarity with gold-gnawing fire ants, Lu Cheng can reduce the frequency of the divine light to a low frequency that only fire ants can feel. So in fact, the Xuanyin Refining God Talisman illuminates all things below, but only the gold-gnawing fire ants can actually feel it.

"The short-term exposure shouldn't cause much damage. At this time, even if there is some damage, we can't care."

Finally, the swarm of fire ants that had spread throughout Luoxia City suddenly went crazy.

These demon insects, which probably did not have much intelligence, instinctively gathered into a red vortex, but they attacked in the completely opposite direction - towards the Taoist who directly threatened their lives.

However, behind Lu Cheng, there was a moon, and he waved his sleeves to sweep out large patches of yellow clouds, and yellow sand swept in, engulfing the swarm of insects.

The number of gold-gnawing fire ants attacking Luoxia City was originally less than the number that attacked Qing City before. After the consumption during the siege, it was of course easy for Lu City, which already had experience, to destroy them.

Therefore, in the eyes of the monks of Luoxia City below, the swarm of fire ants that almost wiped out the entire city were first covered by the rolling yellow clouds, and then there seemed to be a flash of light, and they were swept into the sleeves of the Taoist along with the yellow clouds.

Such divine power is truly as high as the sky and as incredible as it is!

With the help of his disciples, True Lord Xuanyu staggered to Taoist Lu Cheng, his face pale and dull.

She was about to perform a great ceremony, but was held back by a gentle force.

"You could have gotten away, but you chose to use your Nascent Soul power to protect the formation for several days. I sincerely admire your willingness to help others."

"No, compared to Master Lu's tremendous magical power, my little brute force is really a joke to fellow Taoists. I am Xuanyu, my father's surname is Shen, fellow Taoists can call me Phoenix Lady."

Shen Fengniang was dressed in a white Taoist robe, with beautiful curves, firm breasts and round buttocks, and a hint of nobility in her temperament. Even now, when she was injured, she looked a bit charming and seductive like a delicate flower or a willow.

Lu Cheng is used to being a hero saving beautiful girls, so he knows what is going on: at a critical moment of life and death, the mood is extremely turbulent. Xiao Yuxue was in such a relationship with him back then. Women always instinctively want to have someone to rely on in dangerous moments. This is their nature.

If you meet this person on ordinary days, you will only see his elegance but not his charm.

"Fellow Daoist Shen has seen me?"

"It is true that we have never met before, but we, the minor sect cultivators, must know which outstanding people and geniuses have emerged in the city in recent years, so as to avoid bringing disaster to the sect."

"Fellow Daoist, you are too modest. A sect with the Nascent Soul tradition cannot call itself a small sect any longer. The city has suffered a great disaster, and I am afraid that fellow Daoist has many things to deal with. I will take my leave."

Ignoring Shen Fengniang's affectionate eyes, Lu Cheng turned into a rainbow and fled into the sky. What he was thinking in his heart was that he had roughly known the intensity and danger of the "Heavenly Fire Disaster". Now he should send out a talisman to notify his wives, concubines and disciples to work together to resolve this fire disaster.

After all, the related monster hunting merits are extremely large, which will be of great benefit to their future practice.

Even the Xiao sisters, Xue Yuzhen and Yun Linger, who achieved enlightenment through the Ghost Infant Pill, had relatively few demands for resources for cultivation, and they also had Taoist books and items they wanted to exchange in Haiyuan City.

In recent years, the Xiao sisters have been studying formations, and want to set up a demon-suppressing formation in conjunction with the Demon Refining Pagoda. In this way, they don't have to worry about the Demon Refining Pagoda being unable to bear the cost, and the mountain-protecting demon-suppressing formation will also increase its power. At the same time, the Demon Refining Heart Sutra they created also needs the expansion and auxiliary study of many Taoist books and scriptures.

Many of the Taoist books that Lu Cheng read were useful to them, but there were also many that were completely useless to them.

After completing this mission, youngsters like Miao Chuyun, Shi Sheng, and Yun Huang'er should have enough monster hunting merits to exchange for treasures such as the Infant Transformation Pill, the Nine Heavens Jade, and the Disaster-avoiding Thunder Bead.

(End of this chapter)