The world of martial arts, the immortal swordsman in the mortal realm.

Chapter 234, page 249: The whole family ascends to heaven? No, it's illegal immigration!
"Finally, I can go to the Journey to the West world?"

Rong'er looked at Lu Chen with bright eyes and an expectant expression.

"Correct."

Lu Chen nodded with a smile:

"I found a cave dwelling on the banks of the Tongtian River, and the environment was quite nice."

Rong'er looked surprised:

"The Tongtian River? Could it be... the eight-hundred-mile-long Tongtian River?"

"It's that Tongtian River."

Rong'er said excitedly:
Will we encounter Sun Wukong?

"I don't know. Judging by the time, the world of Journey to the West is already five hundred years after Sun Wukong's havoc in the Heavenly Palace, but whether Sun Wukong has been released from prison and when he will arrive at the Tongtian River are still unknown."

Even if you reach the Tongtian River, you might not necessarily encounter it.

After all, the Tongtian River is so long, who knows which section of the river Tang Sanzang and his companions will cross.

In any case, Lu Chen did not encounter a village called Chen Family Village along the Tongtian River all the way to Lingxu Mountain.

Of course, we can search upstream and downstream along the east bank of the Tongtian River later. Anyway, he flies fast enough that even if Chenjiazhuang is 100,000 miles away, it won't take much effort to find him.

"Alright, I knew it. You won't see the Monkey King easily..."

Lu Chen smiled and said:

"Our journey to the Western Paradise is for spiritual cultivation, especially since Rong'er is pregnant, it's not convenient for you to wander around aimlessly."

"Uh-huh."

"The world of Journey to the West is dangerous, as you know. Demons love to eat people, and their strength should not be underestimated..."

"Okay, okay, I know! Master Rong always prioritizes safety when traveling the world, don't you trust me?"

"Of course I believe you, it's just that Rong'er, you're too playful..."

"Don't look at me with old eyes! Master Rong is about to become a mother, so she won't be as playful as before!"

"Do you believe this yourself?"

"Look at my expression, that's what you call confidence! Okay, we need to pack our bags, you go and inform the others."

Rong'er pushed Lu Chen out the door with a smile, and happily packed her luggage with Mo Chou.

……

"To cultivate in another world?"

Dugu Feng's pupils dilated in shock, his face filled with astonishment:
"Brother Lu, you're not joking?"

Lu Chen looked serious:
"I mean it."

"Ha, the Heavenly Sword is finally not pretending anymore!"

Wanwan tried to remain calm and even made some joking remarks, but her slightly unsteady voice betrayed her true feelings.

"What is that world like?"

Surprised and shocked, Shi Feixuan asked the crucial question.

Li Xiuning and Lian Rou also looked on with excitement, anticipating his answer.

"That world..."

Lu Chen pondered for a moment, then answered truthfully:

"It's very interesting, but also very dangerous. There are immortals who live forever, and there are also vicious and lawless demons. Great supernatural beings can travel 100,000 miles in an instant, burn the sky and boil the sea, carry mountains and chase the moon, and can transform into a body ten thousand feet tall, with a head as majestic as Mount Tai..."

Wanwan asked, "Wait, how many zhang was it again?"

"lofty."

"Imaginary reference? Claim? Exaggeration?"

"Real number".

"..."

Wanwan's beautiful eyes widened, her small mouth slightly open, speechless with shock.

A Dharma body of immense size...

Even the highest mountain in the world is far from being ten thousand feet tall, right?

"Could that be the Immortal Realm?"

Dugu Feng murmured.

Lu Chen shook his head:
"It's a mythical world, but it's not as wonderful as the fairy realm I imagined."

The "celestial realm" in people's imagination is infinitely beautiful, where immortals live long and carefree lives, and are kind and benevolent.

But the world of Journey to the West...

Even in the most orthodox Journey to the West world, it's not a big deal for the mounts of gods and bodhisattvas to descend to the mortal realm for a stroll, or to eat a few living people for a treat.

The vicious and ruthless Golden-Winged Roc devoured everyone in the Lion Camel Kingdom, from the king to the common people, yet still managed to convert to Buddhism and enjoy offerings from the four continents.

The goldfish in Guanyin Pond are considered to have small appetites. However, a pair of boys and girls are offered sacrifices to them every year. After being subdued, they simply return to Mount Putuo Luojia, continuing to be ornamental fish in the pond, listening to Guanyin's sermons every day and continuing their spiritual practice.

The Marquis of Fengxian and his wife quarreled and overturned the offering table, feeding the food offered to the heavens to the dogs. The Jade Emperor was furious and sent down heavenly punishment, but instead of directly punishing the Marquis and his wife, he caused a three-year drought in Fengxian County, which will kill many more people.
If it weren't for Sun Wukong's tireless efforts to persuade the Jade Emperor to rescind the heavenly punishment, Fengxian County would probably have remained in drought forever.

Therefore, in Lu Chen's view, the Journey to the West world is just a mythological world and can hardly be considered a beautiful fairyland.

Demons may be vicious, but gods are not necessarily benevolent.

"Can we go to that mythical world?"

Li Xiuning looked on with awe.

Lu Chen's feelings were somewhat complicated.

He thought to himself, "Luckily, we're in Tongtianhe, Xiniuhe Prefecture."

If you were in the Great Tang Dynasty in the Southern Continent, and heard the name of Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, and also heard about his murder of Jiancheng and Yuanji, Xiuning, you don't know how shocked you would be.

"I can take you there. It just depends on whether you want to go."

Lu Chen said with a smile.

……

In the world of Journey to the West, at the Lingxu Mountain Cave.

There was a flash of light.

A group of people appeared in the cave.

Rong'er, Mochou, Dugu Feng, Wanwan, Shi Feixuan, Li Xiuning, and Lianrou all followed Lu Chen to the Journey to the West world.

No one can resist the allure of the mythical world.

Especially since this isn't a one-way trip, and they can go back to visit their families at any time, what else could Dugu Feng and the others possibly want?
Of course I had to come and see for myself.

Upon arriving at this place, they immediately sensed the difference. They felt that their internal energy flowed more smoothly and effortlessly, as if their power was slightly increasing with each breath.

"I feel like I used to be a fish trapped in a mud pit..."

Wanwan was deeply moved and murmured:

"Only today do I truly understand the joy of rivers and lakes!"

Upon hearing this, all the female generals nodded in agreement.

Lu Chen said with a smile:

"There is a spiritual spring in the cave, which is full of spiritual energy, far surpassing the outside world. One day of cultivation here is equivalent to ten days outside."

The female generals looked as if they had just realized something:
"No wonder I feel like my breathing is increasing my power..."

At this moment, Mochou suddenly had a strange idea and asked:

"We came from the mortal world to the mythical world, does that count as ascension?"

Lu Chen chuckled to himself:

"Ascension? We can only be considered to have smuggled ourselves in... Come on, let me show you around the cave."

As he spoke, he took Rong'er's hand and led the female generals on a tour of the cave.

The cave is quite spacious, about the size of ten football fields.

The interior is cleverly divided into several areas by a winding stream, with wooden bridges of different shapes spanning the stream and connecting the different areas.

This ingenious garden-style layout makes the cave dwelling appear more spacious than the actual space.

The cave's dome is nearly twenty feet high, and at intervals there is a bronze mirror embedded in it.

The bronze mirror emits light of varying brightness at different times of day. In the morning, the light is soft, during the day it is as bright as the outside world, at dusk the light gradually dims, and at night it transforms into a soft light like starlight and moonlight.

The twenty-zhang-high dome and the light that changes with the time of day make people feel no darkness or crampedness in the cave, and they may even forget that this is a cave in the belly of a mountain.

"In this bamboo forest, there is a kind of purple-gold bamboo, which is as tough as black iron and can be used to forge flying swords. Although it is not as sharp as flying swords forged from the finest black iron, it has one advantage: it is not restrained by magnetic magic weapons or supernatural powers. When I have some free time, I will forge a purple-gold bamboo sword for each of you."

"This garden is planted with many spiritual herbs, which have gradually matured under the nourishment of the spiritual spring over the years. It's a pity I don't know how to refine pills... Rong'er wants to learn how to refine pills?"
"Sure. This cave actually contains some alchemy techniques and recipes, collected slowly over hundreds of years by three generations of the Void Sword Sect. Unfortunately, they are only skilled in weapon crafting and sword forging, finding alchemy too troublesome, preferring to slay demons and monsters to exchange for elixirs..."

"This is the core of the cave, where the spiritual spring is located. No, you can't bathe in the spiritual spring..."

"It's not that I'm worried you'll pollute the spiritual spring, but your constitutions aren't strong enough to withstand its excessively concentrated spiritual energy. It's like the primordial essence within the Evil Emperor's relic—a precious medicine for cultivation, but if your meridians and acupoints aren't strong enough, ingesting too much primordial essence at once will cause you to explode and die..."

Lu Chen led Rong'er and the others on a tour of the cave, exploring every corner of it and explaining in detail the functions of each part. He taught them how to use the various magical artifacts inside and finally assigned them their own rooms for living and cultivation.

By this time, the light inside the cave had dimmed.

On the dome, the bronze mirrors, whose sole purpose was lighting, emitted faint starlight and moonlight, making the cave's dome look like a real moonlit night sky, leaving Rong'er and the others in awe.

Today's experience was so novel, especially for Dugu Feng and the others who were traveling through the world for the first time. They were all excited and their pretty faces were flushed. They were still talking about it while eating.

"I still feel like I'm dreaming. We actually got into a mythical world..."

"That purple-gold bamboo is incredibly resilient. Even with the palm strike of the eighteenth level of my Heavenly Demon Art, it couldn't break through it, and I couldn't even leave a finger imprint!"

"I never expected there to be a magical artifact that can automatically boil water!"

"The lighting artifacts are also quite magical..."

Rong'er, who had accompanied Lu Chen to the main world and witnessed all sorts of technological creations even more convenient than cultivators' magical artifacts, listened to their discussion with a smile, occasionally offering a suggestion:
"We can make the water outlet into the shape of a lotus seedpod, and then make a pressure-boosting device... which means making the water flow faster."

"The sound transmission device is still too rudimentary; it can only transmit messages one-way. We should think about how to make two-way communication, or even video communication..."

"The recording device can only record still images, which is so boring. It would be great if it could record a continuous sequence of images! For example, record Wanwan dancing the Heavenly Demon Dance and then play it back for viewing. Why not watch you dance live? That's fun! You can watch yourself dance, and it's clearer than looking at yourself in a full-length mirror."

"You can make a ritual implement for washing clothes... What? You have a dust-repelling talisman? A cleaning talisman? And a robe that won't get dusty? But, who among you knows how to make talismans?"

“We can’t let Brother Chen waste his cultivation time making such trivial things, can we? And forget about the robes, none of us know how to make them. Alright, Wanwan, Feixuan, you two learn…”

They chatted and laughed for a while.

Lian Rou suddenly asked:

"When can we go out and have some fun? I really want to see the Tongtian River, which is 800 miles wide."

Wanwan nodded vigorously:
"Indeed, a river eight hundred miles wide, just thinking about it is awe-inspiring."

Li Xiuning, Shi Feixuan, and even Rong'er and Mochou all looked at Lu Chen with anticipation.

Lu Chen shook his head:

"I have just offended a demon who calls himself the River God of Tongtian. It is said to be a dragon-like crocodile with the supernatural powers of overturning rivers and seas and summoning thunder and lightning."

"I killed its vanguard officer, and our Lingxu Mountain is only seven or eight hundred miles away from where I killed the demon. That dragon-crocodile demon might be searching for my whereabouts."

"Therefore, let's focus on cultivating here for a while, improve our cultivation, and then try to kill that dragon-seed crocodile demon."

Cultivators with a solid foundation will experience a rapid and dramatic increase in strength when they leap from a lower-energy world to a higher-energy world.

With Dugu Feng and Wanwan's skills, their strength might soar to surpass that of a Grandmaster at this stage.

In this way, the power of the Four Spirits Sword Formation will be greatly enhanced.

With Lu Chen, the sword master who thinks everyone else is weak, he will have a greater chance of killing that dragon-type crocodile demon.

……

Next.

Rong'er and the others then devoted themselves to cultivation in the cave on Lingxu Mountain.

Lu Chen then began to comprehend the sixth sword technique.

The Way of the Void is ethereal and mysterious, and is inherently extremely difficult to comprehend and cultivate.

However, sinking has one natural advantage.

That is the ability of the Zhuxian Sword Intent to travel through time.

Each time he travels through time and space, although it is extremely brief, he arrives in another world in an instant. In the past, Lu Chen was completely dazed and had no feelings at all. But since unlocking Sword Six, he can now sense a trace of time and space fluctuations in that extremely brief instant when he travels through time.

Although each time travel was too short, he could jump back and forth repeatedly, traveling multiple times.

Of course, even though the time travel was achieved through the power of the Immortal Slaying Sword Intent, Lu Chen still had to expend a certain amount of mental energy each time he initiated the time travel.

If you don't travel through time many times, it won't be very noticeable.

However, if he were to repeatedly jump between several worlds and traverse them multiple times, even with his current level of mental cultivation, he would quickly become mentally and physically exhausted.

Lu Chen also needs to reserve enough mental energy to prepare for unexpected events, and the training projects are not limited to Sword Six.

So every day he would just travel back and forth between the worlds of Legend of the Condor Heroes, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, Twin Dragons, and Journey to the West about fifty or sixty times.

Although the number of times the journey is repeated only a few times a day, the feeling of spacetime fluctuations is more pronounced when jumping between worlds of different energy levels.

Through these extremely short periods of time, spanning fifty or sixty instants each day, Lu Chen gradually gained some insights into the Dao of the Void.

this day.

Lu Chen had just finished a period of enlightenment when he suddenly felt something. He closed his eyes to sense the sword spirit imprint and saw that Shi Feixuan's sword spirit imprint was shining brightly. It turned out that her realm had broken through again, and she had clearly reached the level above the Grandmaster!
"Now that Feixuan has broken through, Feng'er and Wanwan are not far from doing so either. Xiuning should also be able to advance to a higher level soon... Once all four sword spirits have broken through, we'll go and meet that 'Tongtian River God'! Hmm, Feixuan has broken through, we should celebrate tonight. Let's go back to the Lishan Palace in the Twin Dragons World and hold a hot spring ceremony, and ask Feixuan to share her breakthrough experience..."

[I took my child to register for elementary school today, so I didn't have time to write this morning. I have a parent-teacher meeting this afternoon, so I still don't have time. I need to write tomorrow's chapter tonight, so this is all for today. Please vote with your monthly tickets!]

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