Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 384: A Hundred Years of Peace; Xuantian Nine Transformations, Advancement to the Middle Stage of Yuanying
Whether it is the Fiery Saint Ancestor of the Gold-Gnawing Fire Ants above the Nine Heavens, or the high-level monks from the five sects in Haiyuan City, they all consider themselves chess players rather than chess pieces.

They all try their best to avoid getting involved personally and risking their lives.

Therefore, after Lu Cheng Tongxuan cut off the attack from the Saint Ancestor of Fiery Flame with a sword and subdued the Taoist Master Huoyun with the Jiuli Ding, the Saint Ancestor of Fiery Flame, who vaguely sensed the irresistible power, actually chose to stop.

Obviously, in the eyes of Taoist Huoyun and Tianhuo Tongzi, the ordinary gold-gnawing fire ants are not of the same species, and in the eyes of Saint Ancestor Liehuo, the two of them are not either.

The high-level monks from the five sects in Haiyuan City also made a similar choice. After realizing the almost unfathomable depths of the Golden Light Cave in Canglong Mountain, they did not choose to continue testing it, but acquiesced to it becoming the sixth sect in Haiyuan City, and even subtly squeezed the living space of Changle League.

If a low-level monk does not take a risk, it will be difficult for him to break through his original class. If a high-level monk does not take a risk, even if he falls, it will take a long time.

Strategic choices will naturally vary depending on your location.

A hundred years later, above the Jinting Immortal Palace in Canglong Mountain, rolling clouds of disaster surged like black dragons.

Miao Chuyun, dressed in a green robe, stood on the Yin-Yang platform. The 726 acupoints on his body absorbed and exhaled spiritual energy, which condensed into lotus shapes in the void.

According to ancient Taoist books and scriptures, there are a total of 129,600 acupoints in the human body, which coincides with the number of one yuan, so the human body is the innate Taoist body and is pursued by all living things in the heavens.

Nowadays, the world of immortal cultivation focuses on the cultivation of magic power far more than the cultivation of the Dharma body. Most cultivators in the world pursue the ascension of rainbow body rather than the ascension of the physical body, so they are naturally lacking in the research of the Dharma body.

Miao Chuyun's ninth-level golden elixir magic power is perfect, and it is quite rare to be able to refine 726 acupoints in the body. If she did not have a master who practiced both magic and body to guide her in her practice, it would be difficult for an ordinary golden elixir cultivator to have half of her accumulation.

On the cliff where the Golden Light Cave is located on Canglong Mountain, Taoist Lu Cheng stood with his hands behind his back, deducing in his mind from time to time, with fire flickering in his eyes.

"This calamity will have nine layers of Yin thunder, and the thunder calamity and the heart calamity will come at the same time." Lu Cheng counted with his fingers and caught a glimpse of blue and purple lightning flashing in the northwest sky. This is the Taoist heavenly punishment.

After a hundred years of cultivation, Miao Chuyun's Nascent Soul tribulation has arrived.

"Husband, can Chu Yun cultivate the Nascent Soul?" On the cliff, Xiao Yuxue asked softly, a little worriedly. She had a good relationship with this disciple of her husband.

"I don't know either. If I calculate too deeply, it might damage Chu Yun's own luck. Her accumulated Taoist skills are enough to refine the Nascent Soul, but the Taoist methods of the Tongxuan Realm are against the harmony of nature, so it is difficult to predict." Lu Cheng shook his head and answered.

Not to mention in the world of immortals, even in the mortal world, there are some people whose destinies are too strong and whose aura is too powerful, so it is difficult for external disasters to befall them, and they often fall on their relatives with weaker destinies.

The more immortal cultivators there are in a realm, the more powerful the Heavenly Dao will be. However, Lu Cheng has now used the Samadhi True Fire to refine his Vajra Indestructible Body, which also means that he will never be destroyed.

Miao Chuyun has been practicing Taoism for nearly five hundred years and met Lu Cheng when he was in his early teens.

Over the past five hundred years, she had traveled across the world and killed countless people. A hundred years ago, she was the master of the formation and used the Xuanyin Refining God Formation to devour the spirits of millions of fire ants. Now, these causes and effects have turned into numerous inner demon fires, which are rolling endlessly in her inner palace.

At the same time, thousands of ice cones suddenly fell from the high-altitude clouds, and there was a connection of blue-purple lightning between each ice spike.

This is the art of attacking from both inside and outside. As long as the victim is not careful and loses his mind, he will die.

Suddenly, the sky and the earth became bright.

Miao Chuyun put her fingers together to form a sword and drew a circle in the air. A sharp sword light suddenly burst out from the green jade sword case that was nurtured in her dantian. The words "Zhen Nie" on the sword spine flickered under the illumination of the surrounding lightning.

"I have sharpened my sword for a hundred years, but the blade has never been tested. Today I will show it to you. Who has any grievances?"

The sword light soars into the sky, and the sword intent reaches the sky.

The woman in the iron crown is asking the heaven with her sword: I have a clear conscience, what crime have I committed?
Taoists believe that animals and plants, like humans, have spirituality and, under certain specific circumstances, can also cultivate successfully and become immortals. So to a certain extent, in the eyes of the Way of Heaven, there is no distinction between high and low among all things in the world, and killing is a sin.

Miao Chuyun practiced his natal flying sword, and in his early years he obtained a green jade sword box to nourish the sword energy. He seldom used the sword, but once he did, the sword was as its name suggests: it could kill evil.

Seeing the nature is merit, equality is virtue, being unobstructed in every thought and always seeing the original nature is merit and virtue.

At this moment, she relied on her own sword intent and sword energy to express her feelings. Buzz buzz buzz buzz... Amid the clear and pleasant sword chanting, Miao Chuyun's flying sword light not only destroyed the thunder tribulation, but even eliminated the power of the inner demon tribulation that invaded her body, thus passing three tribulations in a row.

The lightning above the sky suddenly turned red, and then the tragic scene of Luoxia City in the past appeared in front of Miao Chuyun's eyes.

Among the charred corpses stood True Lord Xuanyu holding a broken sword. The tip of her sword pointed directly at Miao Chuyun's brow, and she cried, "If you hadn't instigated True Lord Lu to take the risk, how could millions of people in Luoxia City be turned into ashes!"

The huge impact of the inner demon caused Miao Chuyun's energy to suddenly become chaotic, his throat tasted fishy and sweet, and he suffered internal injuries.

But with the last bit of clarity in her heart, the Iron Crowned Taoist priestess' fingertips brushed across the sixth-rank talisman in her sleeve that she had obtained in exchange for most of her demon hunting merits and wealth. The four characters "Tian Gang Zhen Yue" were written on the talisman with mysterious Taoist patterns.

This talisman was thrown out, like a stone smashing the moon in the water: even today, a hundred years later, Luoxia City still exists. It was clearly the inner demon's power that was forcibly activated just now, using the tragic death and injury scene of the heavenly fire catastrophe a hundred years ago to fabricate facts and disrupt his own mind and magic power.

"How can you lie about right and wrong? Break it!" Miao Chuyun bit his tongue, and slashed out with his blood and sword light. Thousands of illusions in front of him suddenly turned into blood-colored glass and shattered into nothingness.

"Hahahaha, my baby Qilin is born."

On the cliff where the Golden Light Cave is located, Lu Cheng saw Miao Chuyun break through the power of the inner demon and immediately clapped his hands and laughed. Although this heavenly calamity has not yet passed, Lu Cheng knows that his lineage has gained another true Nascent Soul Master.

When the last thunder tribulation came, the clouds in the sky turned into a sea of ​​red blood.

All the defensive magic weapons in place, such as the Xuanjin Shield and the Taiyin Magic Mirror, were shattered to pieces. Miao Chuyun's Taoist robe underneath was stained with blood, and a Xuanyin sword energy suddenly burst out from his body, circling and spinning.

Wherever the sword energy passed, the lightning above the sky turned into ice crystals, but then reignited into red fire lotus after a moment. All the calamity power was consumed in this frequent transformation of ice and fire.

On that day, Miao Chuyun, the Yin-Yang Sword Infant of Ice and Fire, was born.

The strange phenomenon of three Nascent Souls descending from the sky indicates a profound foundation in Taoism.

After a hundred years of cultivation after the heavenly fire catastrophe, many spiritual creatures in the Jinting Immortal Palace of Canglong Mountain have been nourished. Not to mention Miao Chuyun, Youming, Shisheng, Yun Huang'er and other disciples of Lucheng, but also Yuwen Zheng, Wu Lingjun, Lu Chengfeng, Zui Daoren, and even many outer disciples under his tutelage over the years, have all seen their magic power increase and their Taoism improve.

After Miao Chuyun achieved the Nascent Soul stage, Yuwen Zheng, who had endured for several years, finally could not bear the loneliness anymore. Relying on his own merits in hunting monsters, he borrowed some from the Xiao sisters. He then exchanged them for a Nurturing Pill in Haiyuan City and also tried to reach the Nascent Soul stage.

Yuanying Zhenjun has a lifespan of 2,000 years and a strong spirit. He can reincarnate and continue his cultivation in another life. There is no Jindan Zhenren in the world who does not desire to achieve success in cultivation.

It was still the spiritual vein of Canglong Mountain. The calamity clouds in the sky surged in, and blue and white lightning descended. Yuwen Zheng turned into a dragon and was struck by lightning for three days and three nights. Finally, he could not bear it anymore, so he took off his dragon body and escaped from his Nascent Soul, activating the talisman for avoiding disaster hidden in Canglong Mountain.

The talisman burned in the void, and the calamity clouds in the sky could not find their target, so they gradually dissipated. Although Yuwen Zheng successfully cultivated the Nascent Soul, he did not survive the heavenly calamity, which is the Nascent Soul's Dharma Body.

Just like the Xiao sisters, Xue Yuzhen and Yun Linger, they remained at the first level of Nascent Soul throughout their lives and could hardly make any progress.

Of course, there is still a chance of living for two thousand years and a chance to turn the catastrophe around. Even if one studies Taoist books hard in this life to increase his Taoism, and then has the help of a chance in the next life, it may not be impossible to cultivate the primordial spirit. However, the possibility of this is even lower than that of an ordinary Nascent Soul True Lord to cultivate the primordial spirit.

After all, Yuwen Zheng is far behind the Xiao sisters in terms of age and Taoist attainments.

In the Jinting Immortal Palace, Lu Cheng and his two ladies chatted after their homework, and they were also full of emotion.

"I really didn't expect that with my eldest brother's accumulation, he couldn't even get through the Nascent Soul Tribulation. Apart from my husband, my eldest brother should be the most outstanding one among my father's disciples."

Xiao Yuhong held the Taoist book in his hand and shook his head and sighed.

"On the one hand, the heavenly tribulation is unpredictable. Some people's Yuanying heavenly tribulation is strong, while some people's Yuanying heavenly tribulation is weak. There is no pattern to be found except that people of great virtue can reduce certain heavenly tribulations. On the other hand, with my Tongxuan Realm Dharma lineage, the Yuanying heavenly tribulation is mixed with the power of the fourth level 49 heavenly tribulation, and the tribulation force itself is heavier. Senior Brother also has bad luck.

Besides, the sixth-level talisman for avoiding disasters in the mountain is gone, and I have to find a chance to buy another one." Lu Cheng said.

The Haiyuan City in the Fiery Dharma Realm is a gathering place for cultivators from all over the world. There are even quite a few Nascent Soul True Lords here, not to mention the cultivators at a lower level.

Therefore, there are many resources for cultivating immortals and spiritual objects.

The sixth-level talisman for avoiding catastrophe can dispel the calamity of the Nascent Soul and seize the fortune of heaven and earth. Drawing this kind of spiritual object will inevitably damage one's own luck, so unless it is a sixth-level talisman maker who is about to die, few cultivators will draw it. But such a treasure can be bought every few hundred years in Haiyuan City.

The Jinguan Cave in Canglong Mountain has made two great contributions to Haiyuan City and has become the sixth faction outside the five factions. It has few core cultivators but many demon hunting achievements. Lu Cheng saw this sixth-level calamity-avoiding talisman at an auction and bought it for the disciples in the sect to use. It was not specially prepared for Yuwen Zheng, but he just used it.

"We also need to purchase the five elements essence to build a five-element Dharma body for our eldest brother. Otherwise, it will be too dangerous to have only a Nascent Soul, even in Haiyuan City."

Xiao Yuxue on the side said this.

Everyone has been living together for many years. Although Yuwen Zheng has suffered great losses in his career and owes a lot of spiritual stones and spiritual objects, everyone still tries their best to support him.

Yuwen Zheng had a solid foundation and profound magical powers, but even with his cultivation level, he couldn't get through the Nascent Soul tribulation. This dealt a heavy blow to the confidence of people like Shi Sheng, Yun Huang'er, and Wu Lingjun. There were no talismans to avoid tribulations in Canglong Mountain now, and for a while, no one dared to break through to the Nascent Soul realm.

Lu Cheng knew about this, but he didn't care, because he knew that these people would gradually adjust their state of mind. What's more, when it comes to practicing Taoism, it depends more on yourself, and no one can practice for you.

If you lose all confidence from now on, then just be content to be a Jindan cultivator for the rest of your life.

On that day, the ground veins within a radius of hundreds of miles centered on Canglong Mountain suddenly trembled like a living thing, and the earth energy rising from between the seventy-two peaks formed a coiled dragon shape in mid-air.

Deep in the Golden Light Cave, the Samadhi True Fire around Taoist Lu Cheng was burning into a red-gold altar. The six-inch Nascent Soul that appeared above his head already looked like a little adult, minus a lot of baby fat. At this moment, it was swallowing and spitting out the dark golden spiritual light in front of it - this was the ten thousand year old Wu Earth Spirit Earthworm that he had bought in the Black Market during the past hundred years at a cost of tens of millions of spirit stones.

The Wu Earth Spirit Earthworm is a kind of spiritual insect. It has almost no ability to attack, defend, or escape in a normal environment. However, once it is allowed to escape into the earth, it can gather earth energy and transform into an earth dragon. Even a real earth dragon may not be its opponent, and its life is so powerful that it is almost immortal.

The gold-gnawing fire ants and the Eastern Pole locusts are two of the ten most vicious insects in the Seven Realms. Each of them brings great disasters to the cultivators of the Seven Realms. Although the golden silkworm Gu is not as vicious as them, it is not weaker than them. Only the earthworm is a beneficial insect. It can fertilize the soil if released in the wasteland, and it can roam freely in the underworld without causing any harm to the living beings in the world.

Lu Cheng was attracted by its vitality and innate magical powers. When encountering an opponent that was difficult to resist, he transformed himself into a spirit earthworm and lurked in the earth, hiding his form and recovering his life. It could be said that he was unnoticed by anyone. In essence, he was no weaker than the gold-gnawing fire ants, the eastern locusts, and the poisonous golden silkworm Gu, and could use the five elements of poisonous magic power.

“Before Master went into seclusion, he specifically instructed me that if the abnormal changes in the earth’s energy continued for more than three days, I would activate the Earth Prison Gold Formation.” Yun Huang’er stood outside the Golden Light Cave with her sword in hand. The formation formed by hundreds of outer disciples behind her was in harmony with the terrain of the mountain.

Shi Sheng was standing high in the sky above the sword light. Suddenly, he saw a pillar of dark yellow light bursting out of the ground. He immediately shouted, "Set up the formation!"

In the Golden Light Cave, the remaining ferocity of the Wu Earth Spirit Worm suddenly erupted. This alien species unexpectedly broke free from the suppression of the demon-suppressing talisman at the last moment and turned into a phantom of a hundred-foot-tall earth dragon.

The Nascent Soul above Lu Cheng's head suddenly opened its eyes, and the huge Dharma image transformed by the power of the Eastern Locust and the phantom of the Sun-Swallowing Divine Ape activated by the Thirteen Transformations of Xuantian appeared at the same time.

Three huge forces collided and surged in the cave, shaking the entire cave so much that gravel and sand fell.

The Wu Earth Spirit Earthworm is different from other spirit insects. It is a single individual and also a whole clan. The one Wu Earth Spirit Earthworm in front of you can differentiate into millions of Wu Earth Spirit Earthworms, but their magic power will continue to decline and their grade will also be lowered.

Under the effect of the Earth Prison Gold Transformation Array outside, the entire sacred mountain almost turned into a golden mountain. It was extremely solid and indestructible. There would be no gap for the monster to escape.

Lu Cheng stretched out his hands slowly but quickly and began to perform the complicated fusion technique.

His hands were seen constantly changing the spells, and each spell would cause a fluctuation in the surrounding spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy between heaven and earth surged towards him and the Wu Earth Spirit Earthworm like a tide, and this sixth-level Wu Earth Spirit Earthworm seemed to have sensed the impending fusion. It twisted its body in mid-air and emitted bursts of low whistles.

Unfortunately, it is neither in the sky nor on the ground at this moment, and its demonic power is suppressed by the demon-suppressing talisman. Even if it can barely condense the phantom of an earth dragon, its power is far from enough.

As he practiced his martial arts, beads of sweat gradually appeared on Lu Cheng's forehead.

The fusion process was not easy, as it required him to precisely control his own magic power and the power of the Earth Earthworm to achieve a delicate balance.

His Nascent Soul that had escaped and returned gradually became restless in the Purple Mansion, and its tiny body was flickering with light.

At first, the Wu Earth Spirit Earthworm was still trying to resist the fusion. Its power suddenly burst out, trying to break free from the restraints of Lu Cheng's magic power.

A powerful earth-attributed magical power rushed in all directions, and some objects in the cave were blown everywhere by this magical power.

Lu Cheng frowned, but he was not distracted. Instead, he took a deep breath, increased his mana output, and chanted something. Green mana chains shot out from his palms and tightly wrapped around the Wu Earth Spirit Worm.

This is the application of the magic power of the Eastern Locust. Among the five elements, wood overcomes earth. The wood roots, which seem to have little power, can tear the earth and rocks apart.

At the same time, Lu Cheng used the power of the Sun-Swallowing Ape to apply the Sunset Divine Sand to the Earth Spirit Earthworm, so that it would not be in too much pain and resist.

Under the suppression of Lu Cheng's powerful magic power and after knowing its nature in depth through the "Insect Classic", the Wu Earth Spirit Earthworm gradually calmed down.

Lu Cheng seized this opportunity and began to carefully guide the power of the Wu Earth Spirit Earthworm to penetrate into his body. The earthy yellow power slowly flowed into his body meridians like a trickle.

The Nascent Soul also gradually began to absorb this power, and a layer of khaki halo gradually appeared on the surface of its body.

Xuantian's nine changes are gradually approaching success.

As the magic power of the Wu Earth Spirit Earthworm was continuously absorbed by the Nascent Soul, Lu Cheng's body began to change. His bones were crackling, as if they were being reshaped.

His muscles became tighter, and some earth-shaped runes appeared faintly on his skin outside the robe. These runes kept flashing, echoing with the magic array in the cave.

As time goes by, integration has entered the most critical stage.

Lu Cheng felt that his Nascent Soul was like a bottomless pit, constantly devouring the power of the Earthworm. The Earthworm's body was also slowly shrinking. Although it was not dead, its realm was constantly falling.

Lu Cheng knew clearly at this moment that he could not relax at all. If he made a mistake at this moment, not only would all his previous efforts be ruined, but he might even suffer a backlash, causing irreparable damage to his Nascent Soul and Dharma Body.

That is why the cultivators in the world need an impregnable cave to resist external disasters.

Lu Cheng concentrated on controlling the rhythm of the fusion, and the ochre-yellow light around the Nascent Soul became brighter and brighter.

Suddenly, a dazzling light burst out from the Nascent Soul, instantly filling the entire cave. This light contained a powerful force that enveloped everything in the cave.

Lu Cheng only felt a roar in his mind, as if countless information was pouring in at that moment.

These are blood messages that come from the integration of the true spirit bloodline. They will enter one's own subconscious sea and assist oneself to use this power of change more perfectly.

Lu Cheng's Nascent Soul continued to transform in the light, and its originally slightly immature appearance became more mature.

The power of Nascent Soul was rising steadily, and Lu Cheng could clearly feel that his realm was constantly improving.

As he advanced from the third level of the Nascent Soul to the fourth level, his magic power became more powerful, and his perception of the spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven and earth became more acute. He could sense the fluctuations of spiritual energy hundreds of miles away from the cave, and even feel the direction of the spiritual veins deep underground.

A huge ochre-colored beam of light broke through the air in the Golden Light Cave, spreading out magical power fluctuations in all directions as if they were tangible, causing the entire Canglong Mountain to shake and tremble.

"Congratulations to Master for coming out of seclusion and achieving success in his profound arts!" Yun Huang'er knelt on one knee and said excitedly.

"Congratulations, Master, for your progress in Taoism!" Although Shi Sheng's personality is not as quick-witted as his Taoist partner, he is really happy for his Master.

"Xuantian Jiubian, finally, the middle stage of Yuanying."

Inside the Golden Light Cave in Canglong Mountain, Lu Cheng stretched his body, making bursts of explosive sounds like the collision of metal and stone, and then stretched out his hands to watch. With his magical power of Dharma eyes, he could naturally observe the strengthening of his own body and the improvement of resistance to earth-based spells.

In fact, when he cultivated the second transformation, the Sun-Swallowing Divine Ape Transformation, he had this effect. But now, he added another layer of protection on the original basis.

The improvement of Taoist Lu Cheng's magical power was a happy event for the entire Canglong Mountain, and it also could not be hidden from the many cultivators in Haiyuan City. However, it did not have any major impact. Most of the True Lords from various sects just lamented that this person's spiritual practice had made another step forward.

(End of this chapter)