Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 410: Trade between the Two Worlds, Business Market

Inside the Jinguan Cave of Canglong Mountain, there are misty clouds, jade-like buildings, and a lively atmosphere.

Lu Cheng led the two Taoists Chi Yanzi and Yan Xuzi through many restrictions. After entering, they found that the cave was a different world:
As soon as he stepped in, he felt the spiritual energy rushing towards him. Chi Yanzi took a deep breath and felt the pores all over his body dilate, and his magic power circulated three times faster than usual.

"What a blessed place!" Yanxuzi looked around and saw a high dome with flying eaves and pointed corners, while the ground was covered with warm white jade. When he stepped on it, his feet felt warm.

Lu Cheng smiled slightly when he heard this, and flicked his sleeves, which suddenly lit up with a soft light. He led the two to a spacious palace.

Lu Cheng was not greedy for material desires but was not afraid to enjoy them either. His incarnation found the best blessed land formation in the spiritual world and sent it down to the human world, where he arranged it in the spiritual vein of the Golden Light Cave. The space expanded and became a magnificent Taoist palace.

"Two fellow Taoists, please take a seat."

Lu Cheng sat down first, and maids in palace dress came out from all around, serving him on both sides, pouring tea and holding long fans.

Chi Yanzi initially thought that these maids were all low-level female cultivators, but he realized something was wrong after a moment, because he saw that the skin of these maids faintly shone with jade light.

"Ten Thousand Changes Jade Mud!? This puppetry technique is truly exquisite to the extreme."

Chi Yanzi lightly touched the skin of these maids outside their clothes, and his touch felt warm and smooth as real flesh and blood, but there was no blood flowing underneath.

"It's getting late today, let's start the banquet." Lu Cheng said to the female official who was the leader among the many puppet maids.

"Yes, Immortal Lord." The puppet female official bowed and saluted, just like a real person.

“Good tea, good tea!”

At this time, Yanxuzi picked up the teacup and took a sip. He felt his mind refreshed and relaxed, and he couldn't help but sigh.

"This tea is called 'Nine Turns to Resurrection'. It is said that drinking it regularly can restore and enhance spiritual consciousness. If Daoist Fellow Yanxuzi likes it, take some back today."

Good tea? How fresh it is, of course it is good tea. How can it be bad if it is the spiritual tea often drunk by the spiritual world's spiritual monks?
"Oh, how can this be done?"

"It's okay, just some daily necessities."

When Chi Yanzi heard the conversation between the two, he couldn't help but raise his cup to taste it. As the tea went down his throat, it was slightly bitter at first, then became sweet, and finally turned into a warm current flowing through his limbs and bones. Even his soul seemed to have a refreshing feeling.

Putting down the teacup, Chi Yanzi could not help but praise repeatedly: "Good tea! Even if it is placed in my Five Fire Cliff, it is considered top quality. Normally, we disciples cannot enjoy it."

Lu Cheng sat in the main seat, smiling but silent. After a moment, maids in the mist came over like butterflies, offering all kinds of spiritual delicacies:

Ruyi bee nectar, black water duck, bitter leaf wine, and many other spiritual items.

Upon seeing this, Chi Yanzi and Yan Xuzi couldn't help but look at each other.

It was impossible for the owner of the Golden Light Cave to know in advance that the two of them would be coming. In other words, these spiritual objects were just things that people enjoyed in their daily lives.

It is not a big deal for a person to be strong in fighting. Among the independent cultivators, every few thousand years, there will be one or two talented and lucky killers who are so good in fighting that they have no rivals since they came out of the cave and dominate the world for a while.

However, this Lord of the Golden Light Cave is not only powerful in fighting, but also has great bearing in daily expenses. He does not seem like a killer who emerged from the ranks of casual cultivators, but rather has a powerful force behind him.

For people like them, such talents are truly not to be messed with.

No matter what, a person with extraordinary talent will eventually run out of luck. In comparison, a Yuanshen sect is much more stable and terrifying.

Chi Yanzi looked at the jade table in front of him, which was filled with delicacies. He chose a small bowl that looked like blood mud and tasted it with jade chopsticks.

This blood mud looks ordinary, but after being punctured, it emits a strange fragrance that makes people salivate at the smell.

After taking a mouthful, the rice aroma overflows and it seems to melt in the mouth.

"This is bloody rice!"

Chi Yanzi was a man of asceticism and didn't care much about food and drink, so he quickly came to his senses.

"Blood Tooth Rice? Junior Brother, is it the spiritual rice that can increase blood essence, improve the body, and even improve the aptitude of a cultivator if consumed for a long time?"

Although Yanxuzi asked, he did not wait for Chiyanzi's answer, but tasted it immediately. He pierced the blood mud, picked up a piece with chopsticks and put it into his mouth, leaving a lingering fragrance on his lips and teeth.

"It is indeed Blood Fang Rice, and it is a thousand-year-old Blood Fang Rice. Fellow Daoist Lu, you are so kind to me. I am afraid that my fellow disciples and I will never be able to repay you."

At this moment, Yanxuzi had begun to worry about the Lord of the Golden Light Cave, because he believed that one must have something to ask for when he presented a gift to someone.

Unexpectedly, Lu Cheng had no reaction to this, but just said calmly:
"It's just a spiritual meal, how can you ask for a reward?"

Blood Tooth Rice is only a sixth-level spiritual creature. Lu Cheng usually eats seventh-level Blood Dragon Rice, which can thicken the essence and blood, improve the physique, and can be eaten all year round. It is beneficial for practicing body-refining techniques and for the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit.

As the saying goes: "Those who eat meat are brave and fierce, those who eat grains are wise and skillful, those who eat air are divine and long-lived, and those who do not eat are immortal and divine."

Whatever you eat for a long time will have a huge impact on the body and mind of a cultivator. This is the most obvious and basic truth.

In the previous fight, the brothers Chi Yanzi and Yan Xuzi were fine, but at least they were able to maintain their demeanor and bearing.

Now, fellow disciples Chi Yanzi and Yan Xuzi were enjoying the spiritual meal with trepidation. As far as they knew, many of these spiritual creatures should be extinct, at least in the Fiery Realm.

If it was transported from other realms, how many spirit stones would it cost?

Fortunately, the spiritual meal was finally finished. Then the three Taoists tasted the fruits and discussed Taoism. Seeing that Lu Cheng never mentioned anything, the brothers Chi Yanzi and Yanxuzi finally let go of their worries.

When the three were discussing the Dao, a beam of light suddenly appeared outside the cave and broke through the air.

Lu Cheng's brows knitted slightly at first, then relaxed, because his consciousness had sensed that the visitors were the Xiao sisters, Xue Yuzhen, Yun Ling'er and others.

Sure enough, a moment later, two female cultivators in light purple dresses came in together.

The female cultivator on the left has picturesque features and holds a jade whisk in her hand; the female cultivator on the right has a similar appearance but is more delicate and innocent, with an ancient long sword hanging from her waist, which is decorated with silver bells that tinkle when she moves.

"Husband." The Xiao sisters called in unison, but their eyes swept over Chi Yanzi and Yanxuzi.

Lu Cheng stood up to greet them and introduced them, "My two beloved wives, you have returned just in time. These two are the excellent disciples of the Chixia Divine Lord of the Guiyuan Cave at the Five Fire Cliffs, fellow Taoists Chiyanzi and Yanxuzi."

After hearing this, the Xiao sisters bowed gracefully, their gestures dignified yet graceful.

Chi Yanzi and Yan Xuzi hurriedly returned the greetings, secretly shocked in their hearts that the cultivation of these two women had actually reached the early Nascent Soul stage, and their aura was illusory, obviously they had achieved enlightenment with the Fake Nascent Soul Pill.

To have been able to help his disciples’ wives and concubines to such an extent could only be accomplished by the Yuanshen Sect. I’m afraid that even a small sect like the Guiyuan Cave in the Wuhuo Cliff could not compare to it.

"Since the virtuous couple has returned, we brothers should not bother them too much." Yanxuzi stood up and said this.

Lu Cheng naturally tried to keep them politely, but Yanxuzi insisted on leaving, so Lu Cheng had no choice but to see them off and say goodbye after they walked out of the Jinguan Cave Mansion.

After the two scarlet lights flew hundreds of miles away, Yanxuzi finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Junior brother, you were too rash before."

Chi Yanzi smiled bitterly upon hearing this: "Brother, you have also sensed it, right? That fellow Daoist Lu is truly... unfathomable."

Yanxuzi nodded, with a lingering fear in his eyes: "It's okay for him to be able to fight, there are countless talented cultivators in this world, but looking at this person's food, clothing, housing and transportation, they are all the behavior of the bloodline of the Yuanshen sect, and he actually took out the sixth or seventh level spiritual objects to entertain guests."

"Yes, no wonder his body-refining and self-cultivation skills are so terrifying. If you and I had the blood-fang rice and took it every day...but which lineage among the ten sects does it inherit from?" Chi Yanzi lowered his voice and asked doubtfully.

Yanxuzi suddenly stopped talking after hearing this, and looked around vigilantly. After confirming that no one was around, he continued, "This matter ends here. The power behind the Master of Jinguang Cave is obviously not something that our small Guiyuan Cave can spy on. If we spy recklessly, it will easily bring trouble to our Master."

The two looked at each other and saw the fear in each other's eyes, so they said no more and flew away quickly.

At the same time, on the other side, inside the Golden Light Cave.

Xiao Yuhong said to Lu Cheng, "My dear, my parents have temporarily settled in Haiyuan City. In addition, when we came back this time, we were besieged by robbers. They are proficient in demonic skills and their identities are mysterious and unpredictable."

They haven't seen each other for a hundred years. Huang Longzi and Madam Baoxiang are not only Lu Cheng's master and master's wife, but also Lu Cheng's father-in-law and mother-in-law. This time when they came to the Fiery Realm, they naturally couldn't come directly to the Golden Light Cave. So after sending their two daughters to a safe place, Huang Longzi and Madam Baoxiang first lived in Haiyuan City, waiting for Lu Cheng to come and pay a visit.

"Husband, I used one of the seventh-level thunder talismans you gave me." Xiao Yuxue said to Lu Cheng.

"I'm sorry to have frightened the two ladies. I think it's because I've been selling high-level spiritual objects recently. Although I've concealed my identity, I've still been discovered by others. That's why they came to investigate my background today."

Lu Cheng had already anticipated and foreseen the fact that the Xiao sisters would encounter the Tribulation Cultivators. He even took the initiative to go to Xiaohan Mountain to meet Lin Qinghan in order to create an opportunity for those Tribulation Cultivators.

Because there are more than just Huang Longzi, Madam Baoxiang, and the seventh-level talisman as insurance. Lu Cheng even placed five-element poison on the Xiao sisters. Once the two of them are really in danger and the poison breaks out, their safety will be guaranteed unless a Yuanshen cultivator takes action.

On the other hand, cultivators who have cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage will not easily waste their lives unless there is a sect war or a race war.

After all, those in the Nascent Soul stage can already live forever for four thousand years. They are all immortal people. Who would be willing to give up immortality and fight to the death?
Under normal circumstances, a seventh-level talisman would be enough to suppress the situation, not to mention that Lu Cheng had set up two extra insurances, so the battle between the Xiao sisters seemed dangerous but was not, and there was no danger at all.

On that day, when Lu Cheng drove the escape light into Haiyuan City alone, it was almost dusk.

This huge city, which stands on the edge of the Fiery Realm, is dyed red gold by the setting sun. Runes flow on the city walls, revealing a faint aura of solemnity and murderousness.

Passing through the bustling streets, Lu Cheng went straight to a quiet house in the east of the city.

The outside of the courtyard looks ordinary, but there are hidden secrets inside. Lu Cheng can certainly see that the restrictions set up by his master Huang Longzi are like dragons and snakes. If an ordinary Jindan cultivator rashly breaks in, his bones and flesh will probably turn into mud in an instant.

"Disciple Lu Cheng pays homage to Master and Master's wife." Standing in front of the gate, Lu Cheng was very respectful.

A moment later, the copper ring on the door rang out a clear sound without any wind.

The door creaked open, and a fragrant breeze suddenly blew in front of me. Madam Baoxiang came out in moon-white silk shirt, her eyes still showing the elegance of her past.

Seeing that Lu Cheng was still about to bow, she held out her hand and said, "Okay, Cheng'er, we haven't seen each other for a hundred years. Your master missed you very much. He is not obsessed with these empty formalities. He is angry about how you let Yuhong and Yuxue take risks. Come in quickly."

The two of them walked through the nine-curve corridor one after another, and saw Taoist Huang Longzi brewing tea in the pavilion in the middle of the courtyard.

This once powerful and influential Tongxuan monk now has white hair at the temples, but his eyes, like those of an old dragon, are still as sharp as swords.

"Master, the disciple is here."

"Ah."

“You have built up a large fortune, but I will not brag about it, because with your ability, building up such a large fortune is nothing new.

But the Supreme One said: "I have three treasures, I hold on to them and protect them: one is kindness, two is frugality, and three is not daring to be the first in the world!"

Have you done it? Using wives and concubines as bait is unkindness, and being extravagant is unthrifty. As for not daring to be the first in the world, your personality is even more sharp and there is no way to talk about it. How can you maintain and protect the Tao in this way? "

"Master, your teaching is correct, but I am indeed in a difficult situation." Lu Cheng said with a wry smile.

"Oh, with your current magical power, what difficulty do you have? Tell me and let me know." Huang Longzi suddenly turned around and asked with a frown.

Lu Cheng did not say much, but walked forward. Suddenly, a clear light flowed from his sleeves. He took out three jade boxes one by one and placed them on the stone table. The seals of the jade boxes had not yet been opened, but a faint fragrance of elixir could be smelled out. The spiritual energy in the pavilion suddenly became three times richer.

Lu Cheng set up restrictions around him again, and then opened the jade boxes one by one.

Huang Longzi's gaze also suddenly focused, and he saw three completely different kinds of elixirs in the jade box. Just the faint fragrance of the elixir made his magic power float.

"This..." Madam Baoxiang covered her lips with her bare hands. She clearly saw the details on the lids of the three jade boxes, which read: "Dongxuan Yuzhen Pill", "Jiuzhuan Zengyuan Liquid", "Taiyi Qingling Powder", etc. They were all pills that helped Yuanying cultivators cultivate their magic power.

"I have come across an opportunity by chance. It seems to be a gate of the Yuanshen or a banished immortal from the upper realm. Due to my oath, I cannot explain too much, but I can use the spiritual objects of this realm to exchange for various magic weapons and elixirs. I have only given away a little bit, but it has already caused trouble. I am afraid that I will not be able to grasp it because of my lack of merit. Therefore, I asked Master and his wife to come out to help."

"...You are a filial child. I knew that this stubborn guy was making trouble." Madam Baoxiang was the first to lose patience and stood on Lu Cheng's side.

Taoist Huang Longzi still had integrity. After a while, he said:
"...Using the seventh-level spiritual talisman to protect your wife and concubines is kindness. Using one out of ten is thriftiness. With such an opportunity, you can still calm down and be patient, hiding your true form. You dare not be the first in the world. You monkey (Huang Longzi once gave Lucheng the true blood of the Sun-Swallowing Ape), you have to endure until now, making your master lose face, and then feel relieved?"

By the time he finished speaking, Huang Longzi was already laughing and cursing.

I have accepted a disciple that satisfies me and gained a chance to become an immortal. Now that things have come to this, what else is there to blame?
Huang Longzi’s cultivation level is very high, but even he cannot guarantee that he will be able to achieve divine enlightenment and ascend to the higher realms.

There are two ways for mortal cultivators to ascend to the spiritual world: one is for the cultivator to cultivate to the perfect state of the seventh level of spiritual transformation, tear through the void and ascend on his own.

The other way is to cultivate to the level of transformation of spirits, then look for the ascension platform, follow the signs of the spiritual world, and ascend across the world.

However, after a cultivator reaches the Nascent Soul stage, the growth of his magic power becomes very slow. If he encounters a bottleneck, it is very normal to be stuck for hundreds of years.

Therefore, Huang Longzi has just practiced the Great Heavenly Corpse Capture Technique, hoping to use the power of the fusion of Taoism and magic to enhance his own ability to protect Taoism, so as to improve his grasp of ascending through the ascension platform after he reaches the realm of transformation in the future.

With Huang Longzi's arrogance, he has even given up on cultivating to the seventh level of spiritual perfection and tearing the void to ascend on his own. It can be seen how difficult it is.

But it was different with these magic power-increasing pills in front of him. Huang Longzi originally had only a 30% to 40% chance of ascending to the upper realm, but now that he had these pills that increased the magic power of his Nascent Soul, his chances increased to about 60% to 70%.

……

At the same time, on the other side, in the world of earthly immortals.

Lu Cheng did not go directly to Taiqing Sect to inherit the true teachings and be taught the true teachings of Taiqing Sect. Instead, he first went to the General Affairs Hall of Xuandu City and took on a task as a true disciple of Taiqing Sect.

"Four percent!"

"what?"

Tian Yunzi, the head of Xuandu City's General Affairs Hall, stood up suddenly, his face full of disbelief: "Is this true?!"

"The tribute to Black Mountain Market is made approximately once every ten years... Within ten years, I guarantee that I can increase the profits of Black Mountain Market by 40%... If I cannot do so by then, I will bear all the consequences myself."

Lu Cheng said this to Tian Yunzi in front of him in a serious tone.

The Black Mountain Market is the latest market developed by the Taiqing Sect in recent years. It is located in a remote area and due to a disaster, many monks were killed and injured, making it difficult to recover the initial investment.

Now that Lu Cheng is brave enough to take over, it is a way for Tian Yunzi to get rid of a bad debt. Anyway, the head of a true disciple is not too big or too small, which is just right for taking the blame.

"…Okay, I'll give you full management rights over Black Mountain Market as you said. But you have a shallow foundation, so I still want to advise you. Have you really made up your mind?"

Lu Cheng smiled slightly when he heard this, and then signed his name.

The Taiqing Sect has seven true teachings and fourteen branch inheritances. Just as Tian Yunzi said, he has a shallow foundation, no power or influence, and he can't even prove whether he is a spy of the sect or not.

If one goes to Taiqing Sect at this time, what one will get will most likely be the fourteen branch inheritances. It is not that the branch inheritances are bad, but the Taiqing Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir Technique can still be practiced to the peak of the Golden Elixir realm. One can accumulate merits during this time, and then directly obtain the seven true methods for one's mortal body to practice.

"There shouldn't be any spy who would sneak into a sect to earn a large amount of spirit stones and fairy jade to increase their strength, right?
If I do this well, I can achieve great success.”

(End of this chapter)