Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 379: Vast Divine Powers and Infinite Magical Powers (Part )
What is opportunity?

That is, in a very short period of time, you can obtain profits that you cannot earn in 20 to 30 years or even a lifetime under normal circumstances.

For example, there was a cultivator with four spiritual roots. Normally, it would be impossible for him to practice foundation building in his entire life. It would not be easy for him to practice to the late stage of Qi training with his qualifications. However, this person had an extraordinary opportunity. While collecting herbs in the mountains, he accidentally discovered a cave left behind by a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building.

He obtained resources that he could never earn in his entire life under normal circumstances. With them, he cultivated to the late stage of Qi training before the age of sixty, and purchased the Foundation Establishment Pill to successfully establish his foundation.

The future destiny of him and his descendants was changed.

Taoist Lu Cheng is a person who is very good at seizing opportunities. He practices courageously and resolutely to change his own Taoist nature.

When he was young, he was good at swordsmanship, so he dared to travel around the world with his sword in search of his own opportunities. He also used this to practice and lay a very strong foundation for Taoism.

At the same time, he can endure loneliness. After coming to the Liehuo Fajie from the Tongxuan Realm, he devoted himself to practicing Taoism for nearly a hundred years. He lived in seclusion and rarely took action without the right opportunity. He silently accumulated magic power and recited Taoist books and classics to accumulate Taoist skills.

When the heavenly fire disaster came, he saw opportunity in the destruction. He immediately stopped his retreat and came out to save the world. He brought his wives, concubines and disciples with him to resolve the heavenly fire disaster.

Many opportunities will not be presented to one person only. They need to be fought for, snatched and seized. Some people are brave but not wise and die in them. Some people are wise but not brave and retreat. However, the vast majority of people in this world are foolish, cowardly and mediocre.

If you want to cultivate and become an immortal, you must have extraordinary qualities in your aptitude and character.

Of course, there are also noble and blessed immortals. This is the so-called fortune, which is one of the strongest powers.

Some people are born gods, and this kind of thing also exists objectively.

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Haiyuan City, 4,900 miles to the southeast.

There is a city called Wujin, which is larger than Qingcheng and Luoxiacheng. It has developed commerce and a large population, but there is no major repair station.

There may be a few Jindan Zhenren, but facing such a fire disaster, their Taoism and magic power are far from enough.

On the Yin-Yang platform, Taoist Lu Cheng, who was originally sitting and drinking tea, suddenly stood up with a white whisk in his right hand resting on the crook of his left arm, and looked up, his Taoist robe fluttering without wind.

I saw red clouds rolling like blood in the northwest sky, and countless billions of gold-gnawing fire ants turned into lava torrents and poured down. Wherever they passed, it was like a wound in the sky and the rivers were steaming.

The Xiao sisters were the first to sacrifice the Demon Refining Pagoda. The seven-story tower glowed with pure golden light that was a combination of Taoism and Buddhism, and transformed into a hundred-foot-high Vajra barrier that protected the entire Wujin City.

Xue Yuzhen and Yun Ling'er interlocked their fingers, used the sword diagram and the Five Elements Sword Formation to create a thousand phantoms, and attacked the swarm of red insects that were falling down.

"Form a formation!" Lu Cheng shouted softly, and Miao Chuyun immediately unfolded the formation diagram. She was the one in charge of the formation.

Shi Sheng, Yun Huang'er and others led nine hundred cultivators to step on the Gang position, waving the formation flags, extracting all the spiritual power from the local veins and transforming it into a Xuanyin magic formation.

The first time makes you unfamiliar, but the second time makes you proficient.

What's more, Lu Cheng is a cultivator who is very good at summarizing past experiences. He used the Fire Pupil and Golden Eyes technique to observe the direction of the movement of the swarm of golden fire ants in the Tiangang atmosphere. Assisted by the Heavenly Demon Algorithm, he judged that the next large-scale sky fire disaster would befall Wu Jincheng.

So he came to Wujincheng alone, communicated with local businessmen and wealthy families, and asked them to provide money and manpower for his dispatch and command.

Among these nine hundred cultivators, three hundred were individual cultivators hired in advance from Haiyuan City, and six hundred were local cultivators from Wujin City.

Not only does Monk Wu Jincheng have to pay for the nine hundred people, but they also have to bear all the expenses for Lu Cheng's family members.

However, under the catastrophe of heavenly fire, the judgment and face of a Yuanying Zhenjun cultivator were still very valuable, so there was no delay in the delivery of spirit stones.

Even if they didn't pay the money, Lu Cheng would help save the city, but he alone, even with the help of his family and followers, was not enough to support such a large formation.

When the great formation was completed, the sky and earth suddenly changed color. Nine black ice chains stretched out from the void, connecting the sky and the earth. And each chain seemed to be engraved with extremely mysterious and magical talismans. Under the cover of the negative formation, with Wu Jincheng as the center, a huge wave that seemed real and unreal was rolled up, rolling mighty and majestic!

"The course of nature is constant. It does not exist for the sake of Yao or die for the sake of Jie. If you respond to it with order, it will be auspicious. If you respond to it with chaos, it will be disastrous. If you are prepared, this natural fire disaster is just like the flooding disaster of rivers in the mortal world. As long as you channel it properly, it will not be difficult to resolve.

However, the monks from the five sects of Haiyuan City are not lazy people, how could they not have any methods to deal with it? Is there a danger here that I haven’t noticed yet..."

While thinking, Lu Cheng flew up, waved his sleeve and summoned a Five Elements Flying Sword whose sword energy turned into a fire dragon. When the blazing sword fire burned to the extreme, it suddenly turned into the Sunset Divine Sand method.

After practicing the Thirteen Transformations of Xuantian to Lu Cheng's current level, every time he practices and integrates a powerful true spirit blood, he can gradually condense a great magical power through this bloodline. This is the relationship between the Sun-Swallowing Divine Ape Transformation and the Sunset Divine Sand.

But correspondingly, if the Sunset Divine Sand was completely destroyed by someone, Lu Cheng's Sun-Swallowing Divine Ape bloodline would be temporarily lost, like losing a life. However, the higher the level of cultivation, the smaller the loss would be.

The Sunset Divine Sand turns into an earth dragon that flies around the city. Its main body is a piece of sand and stone that is between reality and illusion. Because it has the attributes of both fire and earth, it cannot be directly broken by wood magic. The fire attribute will restrain most of the wood attributes. It is best to break it with a spell that has both water and wood attributes, such as a hurricane in the sea.

The sea is the nature of water, and the wind is the alienated nature of wood. Unfortunately, it is impossible for the fire ants to possess such magical powers.

Therefore, wherever the Sunset Magic Sand passed, the gold-gnawing fire ants caught in it were quickly crushed into powder. Their fire nature was even absorbed by the magic sand, further enhancing its power.

This time is different from the time in Qingcheng. In Qingcheng, Lu Cheng faced the heavenly fire alone. The Sunset Divine Sand had to be used for both defense and attack, so its power was naturally insufficient. But at this moment, Lu Cheng used all his strength to attack, and its power increased by more than ten times.

Even if they broke through Lu City's Sunset Divine Sand, the swarms of gold-gnawing fire ants that were attacking from all directions would find it difficult to reach Wu Jin City.

Looking at the many cultivators outside from inside Wu Jincheng, they only had strange light flowing on their bodies and seemed to hear the sound of the rising and falling tides. However, what the swarm of gold-gnawing fire ants saw in the formation was completely different.

The original scene around Wu Jincheng completely disappeared, and everything he saw instantly twisted, decomposed, and reorganized into a vast sea storm:

The sky was covered with dark clouds and thunder was roaring. The area and surrounding area where the fire ants were located completely turned into a vast ocean, and the huge waves that kept coming were hundreds of feet high.

Xuanyin refines the soul and uses water to break fire. Although Lu Cheng's butterfly formation is magical and exquisite, when it comes to powerful and vast magic power, it is ultimately not as good as nine hundred foundation-building, purple mansion, and golden elixir cultivators who work together to draw power from the earth veins and set up a large formation.

The swarms of fire ants that filled the sky were constantly buffeted and hit by the howling wind and rain and the huge waves that were hundreds of feet high. Gradually, their strength was exhausted and their souls disappeared.

Inside the Sea Palace in Haiyuan Town, the monster hunting list hanging high up suddenly glowed red.

Attracting the attention of many serving monks present, this Monster Hunting List is a special magic weapon. It changes every month and ranks the top 500 monks in Haiyuan City for their monster hunting merits. As long as one's name is on this list, even if he does nothing, Haiyuan City will pay a considerable amount of spirit stones to this monk every year to commend his contribution.

"Although the Heavenly Fire Tribulation did not burn Haiyuan City during this period, many cultivators in the lower and middle realms took the risk to accept missions. The ranking list should change."

A monk on duty at Zhenhai Palace whispered this.

When the Heavenly Fire Catastrophe struck, the number of monster hunting missions in the city increased greatly. Many Nascent Soul cultivators were unwilling to resolve this catastrophe because they had too many choices. However, for many Golden Core and Purple Mansion realm cultivators, resolving a small Heavenly Fire Catastrophe was not too difficult, and the merits for monster hunting were relatively rich, so it was still worth taking action.

"No matter how things change, the True Lords at the top of the Monster Hunting Rankings will remain unshakable even after a thousand years of thunder. At most, they will just swap positions with each other."

Another monk on duty at Zhenhai Palace replied.

During their whispered conversation, the names on the Demon Hunting List were reversed and changed one after another. Several names disappeared, and then several names reappeared:
First place: Master Jiang An, with merits of 1.27 billion.

Second place, Lu Cheng Zhenjun, with merits of 240 million.

Wan Feiyu, a true disciple of the Raolong Sect in Zhenhai Hall, had a teacup in his hand that broke into pieces with a "crack": "Two hundred and forty million? How is this possible!"

Wan Feiyu stared at the list in a daze for a moment, because he knew that the 1.27 billion demon hunting merits of Master Jiang An were actually the result of most of the demon hunting merits of the Tiansha League concentrated on him alone. He would not touch the 1 billion merits, because this was also Jiang An's sincerity to the five sects of Haiyuan City in order to establish a sect.

However, Master Lu Cheng of the Golden Court Fairy Palace in Canglong Mountain did not want to establish his own sect, and it was even more impossible for the Changle League to concentrate the merit of hunting monsters on him alone.

Seven days later, a group of more than 300 monks, with blood-stained robes but excited looks, entered Haiyuan City. When the monks of low and middle realms around saw these people, they immediately retreated and performed greetings.

"Who are these people and why are they so majestic?"

The leader of a demon-hunting team that had just returned from the sea, a cultivator in the Purple Mansion Realm, asked with a frown.

"Friend Yin Daoyou, it's been a long time since we last met. Did you gain a lot from this trip to the sea?"

A middle-aged, short and fat monk was also waiting outside the city. He seemed to know the Purple Mansion Realm monk and started chatting with him.

"It went quite smoothly. I hunted a fourth-level big monster and came back safely." The old friend's words just touched Yin Yifei's heart, and he replied with a smile to dispel his anger.

"It's no wonder that Fellow Daoist Yin went out to sea to hunt monsters without knowing about it. These fellow Daoists are extraordinary. Does Fellow Daoist Yin know about the heavenly fire calamity?" the short and fat monk asked softly.

"Of course I know. We returned early because we saw the Heavenly Fire coming. Even if we are at sea, there is no guarantee of safety under the Heavenly Fire!"

"Yes, these cultivators, or to be more precise, the leader of them, True Lord Lu Cheng of the Golden Light Cave in Canglong Mountain, brought his disciples and some temporarily hired independent cultivators to rescue Qingcheng and Luoxia successively, and broke the sky fire disaster outside Wujin City.

Now on the monster hunting list, Master Jiang An of the Tiansha League is still number one, but Master Lu Cheng and his wives, concubines and disciples are all on the list.

Besides, who doesn’t know what’s going on with Master Jiang An…”

Inside the Monster Hunting Pavilion in Haiyuan City.

Lu Cheng was negotiating with a chief monk about increasing his monster hunting merits. The amount of merit he had achieved was one thing, but whether or not he would discuss it was another. Lu Cheng didn't mind working hard and shedding blood, but he must get enough compensation.

The beautiful female cultivator, Mei Xize, had served Lu Cheng before, so she was called over again by the chief cultivator this time, hoping that she could please Lu Cheng.

Because he knew that the waitresses who received the Yuanying True Lords had all been strictly trained, and most of the time, they were able to leave some good impressions on the True Lords, and many times these good impressions could make their tasks a little easier.

"Master Lu, you are really embarrassing me. I am just a manager. The mission of resolving the heavenly fire catastrophe has already been assigned a very high merit. You suddenly want to float up three levels, and I really don't have the authority to do so."

Pan Ziang, the manager of the Monster Hunting Pavilion, explained with a wry smile that Monster Hunting Merits were, in a sense, spirit stones. In fact, in Haiyuan City, Monster Hunting Merits were more useful than spirit stones.

After all, the merits of hunting monsters can be exchanged for spirit stones, but spirit stones cannot be exchanged for the merits of hunting monsters.

“I think the losses recovered for Haiyuan City during this period far outweigh the merits I have gained. My fellow True Lords feel that this matter is too dangerous to move forward, and I will rise to the challenge and resolve the crisis. Does the city still want to be stingy?
In that case, I will retire. Anyway, the merits I have earned during this period are not small."

Yuanying Zhenjun was unwilling to accept the Heavenly Fire Tribulation mission because it was difficult to predict its danger. It was difficult to judge the number of gold-gnawing fire ants that would fall from the Tiangang atmosphere.

Every time there was a catastrophe of heavenly fire, there would be Nascent Soul True Lords who died. In those days, there were even cultivators in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul who died in the fire catastrophe.

The death toll did not drop until all the True Lords stayed away from such missions. However, correspondingly, every heavenly fire disaster brought huge casualties and losses. Even Haiyuan City would suffer a considerable loss of vitality.

Now a True Lord Lucheng has finally appeared, and this person seems to have a targeted method to deal with the situation. Although Pan Ziang has only reached the Golden Core Realm, he is as worldly-wise as Wan Feiyu and is already a high-level cultivator.

Before coming here, he had already calculated the pros and cons repeatedly in his mind. Now, negotiating conditions is just to maximize benefits and improve his status in the sect.

"Xize, say something?"

Seeing that Lu Zhenjun seemed really angry, he turned and left.

Master Pan signaled with his eyes to the beautiful female cultivator Mei Xize beside him, but he saw that this beauty, who was usually the most knowledgeable and tactful, had a pale face and said nothing today.

My heart sank and I quickly chased after him.

Mei Xize was indeed good at observing people's words and expressions, but because of this she also vaguely discovered that she seemed to have been annoyed by the other party.

These monks have undergone rigorous training and have figured out the personality of everyone who might come into contact with a True Lord.

As far as she knew, Master Lu was usually a very gentle person, especially considerate of old friendships, but this time, after she came in, he didn't even look at her. In other words...

Thinking of this, Mei Xize felt a chill all over his body, and cold sweat soaked his Taoist robe in an instant. At this moment, he no longer cared about the look given to him by the steward. He was only thinking about whether he could survive the night.

When Lu Cheng came out of the Monster Hunting Pavilion half an hour later, he had already got what he wanted. Not counting the previous ones, the Monster Hunting Merit for resolving the Heavenly Fire Disaster would be increased by 20%. As for Mei Xize, Lu Cheng did not do anything to her anymore, but it seemed that she must have been worried and fearful during this period.

Lu Cheng directly exchanged the eighth volume of the Insect Sutra in the Monster Hunting Pavilion.

In addition to Lu Cheng, the Xiao sisters exchanged many Taoist books on formations, Xue Yuzhen and Yun Linger exchanged many spiritual objects and elixirs, and so did Miao Chuyun, Shi Sheng and others.

During this period of time, the heavenly fire disaster struck. Even though Haiyuan City had sufficient spiritual objects and magical treasures, the prices of many offensive and defensive magic weapons and talismans increased by 30%. On the contrary, the prices of Taoist books dropped, which was a good time to exchange for such spiritual objects.

The heavenly fire disaster spread throughout the entire Fiery Realm. Lu Cheng only had the ability to suppress large-scale fire disasters within tens of thousands of miles of Haiyuan City. He didn't care about small and medium-sized fire disasters because he couldn't afford to escape. These small and medium-sized fire disasters were also the tasks carried out by the Purple Mansion and Golden Core True Persons.

Late at night, at "Qiuhuangju" in the east market of Haiyuan City.

Yuwen Zheng got up from the bed, where a charming and beautiful woman with skin as white as jade was still lying.

The mortals in the world think that the gods are pure and have few desires, but that is just their belief. In fact, the gods are probably not pure and have few desires. Instead, they are the most willful. That is why the ancient Taoist scriptures record:
The battle between the God of Fire and the God of Water caused the collapse of the pillars of heaven, bringing disaster to the world.

So when the Dragon King gets angry, he will create water waves and kill millions of lives.

At least, every time after a fight, Yuwen Zheng would come to Qiuhuangju to vent the heat in his body. Maybe this was not the state of a cultivator, but the remnant of the dragon's nature. After all, the dragon's nature was the most willful, even promiscuous.

Whenever he thought of this, Yuwen Zheng would especially admire his former junior brother. His transformation and ascension skills had obviously been cultivated to a level that he could not even imagine, and his humanity had far suppressed his animality. Even his master could not help but have ambiguous relationships with many female practitioners of his time, but his junior brother had been keeping several wives and concubines for so many years and never stepped beyond the limit.

Obviously he could have done it, and even if he did, the two junior sisters wouldn't say anything given their personalities.

"Good man, when will you come to accompany me again?"

The beauty was wearing a thin gauze, revealing her creamy skin, which rubbed lightly against Yuwen Zheng's arms and back, looking smooth and sexy.

"Hahahaha, Fairy Lianyu invited me, and I will certainly come to visit you often. It's just that I'm busy with my Taoist practice, so I hope Fairy will forgive me."

Fairy Lianyu looked at the Taoist in front of her, and suddenly felt extremely envious of Yuwen Zheng.

Her background was the same as her master's. Her fellow disciples did not have enough luck and none of them had cultivated to the Purple Mansion realm. These people were of no help to her in forming the Pill.

In comparison, Yuwen Zheng has the support of Yuanying Zhenjun, and his aptitude for practicing Taoism is better than his own. As long as his luck is not extremely bad, he will definitely have a better future than his own.

Although the skills practiced by Fairy Lianyu include methods to confuse people's minds, which can make the man under her live or die at will if the spell is successful, but she dare not take action against Yuwen Zheng at all. In front of these monks with deep backgrounds, the secret techniques in the skills are nothing more than adding interest to the pleasure of the boudoir.

(End of this chapter)