Immortality and Cultivation: Starting with Harvesting the Talents of Demonic Beasts

Chapter 141 The Power of the Profound Flame, Turning a Mistake into an Opportunity (Two Chapters Combined)

Behind the rocks on the other side of the valley entrance.

There were also two cultivators, a man and a woman, hiding there. They had not revealed themselves until they saw that the "prey's" attention was drawn to the male cultivator with the rat whiskers. They suddenly leaped out and made their move decisively.

The man was tall and powerful, with a cultivation level of the ninth stage of Qi Refining. He used a high-grade magic weapon to attack.

It was a yellow flying shuttle magic weapon, its cold light chilling, whistling past as it turned into a point of cold light, directly slashing towards Lin Changheng's neck.

The woman was also at the ninth level of Qi Refining. She directly threw out a red ribbon, a mid-grade high-quality magic weapon. It rolled in mid-air, resembling a red venomous snake. After a few twists, it had already swept towards Lin Changheng's hands and feet.

It must be bound.

Such coordination, with a clear objective and division of labor, demonstrates exceptional skill and suggests extensive training or practical experience.

"call out!"

"Hey!"

The attack was incredibly powerful and came extremely fast. Lin Changheng's hearing had already picked it up. He kicked hard on the horse's back with both legs, let out a mournful cry, and the immense force directly overturned the Azure Dragon Horse.

The horse flew backward off the ground, leaving a long trail on the earth and stones, and left the battlefield.

Lin Changheng also used the momentum to leap into the air, temporarily avoiding the fierce attacks of the two magical artifacts.

"Keep going! He dares to go up into the sky, he's a target."

The tall male cultivator sneered and continued to control the magical artifacts to attack with the female cultivator, not even glancing at the Azure Dragon Horse that had been kicked far away.

Lin Changheng remained calm, raised his hand and summoned a high-grade [Golden Bell Talisman]. A majestic golden bell materialized and enveloped him.

His body plummeted downwards, but his hand continued to perform incantations, further channeling magical power into the artifact, the Sandbag.

"call!"

The bag swelled violently, and yellow sand surged forth again, blotting out the sky and the sun.

The rat-whiskered male cultivator, already suffering from eye strain and difficulty breathing, was struggling to stay afloat by manipulating a shield-like magical artifact.

It was incredibly uncomfortable, as if I were about to be swallowed up by the yellow sand at any moment.

As Lin Changheng took a break to infuse more magical power into the shield, a series of teeth-grinding "crackling" sounds rang out, and the shield artifact finally gave way, being swept away by the yellow sand.

"Do not--!"

The male cultivator with the rat-like whiskers lost his shield and roared fiercely, desperately trying to activate his magical energy shield to protect himself. However, the magical energy shield was just a fragile piece of glass, and it shattered into pieces when the yellow sand swept over it.

His frail body was thus exposed, and before he could even let out a scream, it was choked by the yellow sand that entered his throat.

"Woooo..."

Even magical artifacts cannot withstand it, let alone flesh and blood.
In less than a breath, a stark white skeleton, its flesh worn smooth by the yellow sand, appeared on the spot.

Extremely terrifying and tragic!
……

On the main battlefield.

"Clang clang clang!"

Under the combined attack of two magical artifacts—one superior and one mid-grade—the Golden Bell Talisman trembled and shone with golden light in just a moment.

"This person has numerous talismans, including some of high-grade ones, so he must be very wealthy. It's a win-win situation!"

The tall male cultivator was somewhat envious, and greedily licked his lips. This time he had encountered a fat sheep, and he was about to make a fortune!

"Oh no, something's happened to Lao Mo."

The female cultivator noticed something amiss and saw a cloth bag fly back. She instinctively turned around and glanced at it, then immediately screamed.

"what?"

How long has it been?

The tall male cultivator's face turned ugly, and he vaguely sensed that something was wrong. He immediately unleashed his magic power and used a high-grade flying shuttle magic weapon to launch a fierce attack.

The female cultivator also sensed it and gritted her teeth to control her magical artifact to keep up.

"boom!"

Sparks flew everywhere.

When a superior-grade magic weapon unleashes its power, even a superior-grade defensive talisman will find it difficult to withstand the onslaught for long.

The next instant, the golden bell conjured by the [Golden Bell Talisman] shattered completely, lasting for no more than two breaths from beginning to end.

"Come die!"

The tall male cultivator, with his rich combat experience, seized the opportunity. In a flash, he transformed into three, rushing directly into the crack and striking the figure inside from different angles.

This is the special ability of this superior magic weapon: when attacking, it suddenly transforms into three, making it difficult to distinguish the real from the fake. If one does not have divine sense to differentiate them, it is impossible to block it.

"Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!"

Three sharp whooshing sounds rang out, but the figure did not activate any more high-grade defensive talismans.

But the scene of flesh and blood being torn to pieces... did not appear!

The figure seemed to have vanished mysteriously.

"how is this possible?"

The tall male and female cultivators thought their attack was a sure kill, but it failed. Their joy froze on their faces, and their pupils contracted as a sense of shock and unease grew in their hearts.

There was no sound to answer them, only two fist-sized [Fireballs].

It hurtled towards them from behind, moving with incredible speed, like a meteor piercing the moon.

The two, being seasoned veterans of life-threatening situations, immediately sensed the danger and turned to face it. However, they were taken aback when they saw that the attack was merely a low-level spell like [Fireball].

Such a good opportunity to fight back was wasted?
They were indeed scions of prominent families who had secretly come out to travel.

Too much of a newbie!

However, the two people came up with completely different approaches to the same idea.

A hint of disdain appeared on the female cultivator's face. As the fireballs came, she simply activated a layer of magical energy shield around her and ignored them.

Holding the magic weapon Red Silk again, he prepared to continue his attack.

However, just as a spark of inspiration appeared, the Fireball spell descended, and the spark had already ignited a prairie fire!

The flames had engulfed her like a raging beast.

She only had time to let out a short scream before her magical shield shattered like paper, and she was swallowed up by the golden flames, turning into a charred humanoid figure.

It crashed to the ground and shattered into powder.

Only one storage bag remained intact, thanks to the deliberate manipulation of the flames to avoid it.

……

On the other side, the tall male cultivator, though disdainful of the fireball technique, was tactically emphasizing it.

When a lion fights a rabbit, he also uses all his strength.

His expression was solemn, and he was on high alert.

He put away the superior-grade flying shuttle magic weapon and instead summoned a mid-grade exquisite umbrella-shaped magic weapon, opened it directly, flew it to the top of his head, and cast a protective light shield along the edge of the umbrella.

He then took out another mid-grade defensive talisman and placed it on himself, forming a water curtain for a second enhancement.

After quickly preparing his defenses, he took out another mid-grade flying sword and charged forward!

"call!"

But the fireballs here are clearly different. They suddenly surged, and the blazing flames instantly expanded to the size of a millstone. The flames even seemed to exude a sense of grandeur as they flickered and spewed out!

"wrong!"

The tall male cultivator had no way to avoid it, so he quickly took out a life-saving jade pendant, ready to activate it at any time. Only then would he feel slightly safe with three layers of defense!
"boom--"

The moment the flames collided and exploded, the entire entrance to the valley was dyed dark gold, and the male cultivator's triple protective shield crumbled layer by layer like paper.

The first layer of the exquisite umbrella-shaped magical artifact, forming a protective shield, hissed and shattered upon contact with the flames, the artifact itself crashing to the ground with a mournful cry. The second layer, the Water Curtain Talisman, cracked open with a snap, failing to block the fire in the slightest.

Even more strikingly, the violent sparks touched the male cultivator's right arm, instantly carbonizing it, his charred fingers still in the hand seal position.

"No...this is impossible!"

Pain shot through him, and he roared hysterically. He had just crushed his last life-saving jade pendant when the resulting azure light barrier twisted and deformed in the flames. The surface of the barrier reflected not flames, but what appeared to be a blazing sun—

This isn't some kind of fireball technique! There's no such thing as a fireball technique!

The azure barrier shattered instantly, flames descended, and the aura of death arrived.

In his despair, a trace of resentment flashed in the tall male cultivator's eyes. He used some kind of blood-burning secret technique to enhance the mid-grade flying sword. With a "whoosh," the mid-grade flying sword's speed increased dramatically, turning into a flying line and speeding away!

"clang!"

With a muffled thud, the flying sword, carrying the hatred and killing intent of the tall male cultivator, broke through the magical energy shield that Lin Changheng had condensed and finally struck him.

There was no tearing of flesh, yet it felt as if it had struck an incredibly hard piece of ironwood!

Not an inch!

No defense breached!

Lin Changheng remained calm and unharmed.

A faint bluish light shone through the tear in the clothing.

"Hiss—you're not him?"

The tall male cultivator's pupils shrank dramatically, revealing a deep sense of powerlessness and, more than anything, astonishment in the depths of his eyes!
This was his last look before a howling dark golden flame engulfed him, turning him into charred remains.

"got the wrong person?"

Lin Changheng, with his sharp hearing and keen eyesight, was also stunned when he heard these final "last words".

Clearly, these people were not lying in ambush here to kill me, but rather to a different person.

However, I was somewhat "lucky" because I stumbled in blindly and was mistaken for someone else.

What is all this about?
"We can only make the best of a bad situation."

Lin Changheng thought helplessly, but it didn't stop him from running around and happily picking up three storage bags and several unclaimed magical artifacts.

However, he also gained a lot. In addition to these material storage bags and magical artifacts, after confirming that there was no life-or-death crisis, he also used the two of them as a testing ground.

The defensive capabilities of the "Evergreen Body of Azure Wood" and its practical combat effectiveness against the second-tier flame, "Crimson Sky Profound Flame," were tested.

In the final strike, Lin Changheng added the true meaning of the [Fire Control Divine Power] halfway through, directly tearing through three layers of defense and killing the male cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining.

In particular, even the high-quality mid-grade magic artifacts and the obviously extraordinary life-saving jade pendant couldn't stop them in the slightest!
The results are quite good and basically meet expectations!
Just then, Lin Changheng suddenly thought of a question: since this was a premeditated ambush, did that mean that the person being abducted and the reinforcements of the abductors might be coming soon?

"No, I have to go!"

If we run into each other, that would be real trouble.

With a flash, Lin Changheng arrived at the Azure Dragon Horse, which was still circling in the distance and had not fled on its own. He patted its head and said with satisfaction, "Good buddy, you didn't abandon me. You're really loyal. It wasn't for nothing that I saved you!"

"This place is dangerous, let's get out of here!"

Then, with a spur of his horse, the man and his horse galloped away, leaving behind trails of dust.

Half an hour later, just as Lin Changheng had predicted, a gaunt cultivator arrived in a magic boat from afar and found the location of the formation.

After inspecting the place several times, he glanced at the direction of [Floating Life Immortal City] with a gloomy expression. Then, unwillingly, he dismantled the formation, erased all traces, boarded the magic boat again, and roared towards the border wilderness mountains.

They disappeared in the blink of an eye.

……

After speeding along, before dusk, Lin Changheng finally saw a giant city appear on the horizon.

Floating Immortal City!

Lin Changheng reined in his horse and stood still. Looking into the distance, the outline of the city resembled a giant beast coiled on the earth, exuding an extreme sense of oppression. Its scale far exceeded any market Lin Che had ever seen or stayed in, by hundreds of times!
The majestic city wall is made entirely of blue granite, standing over thirty feet tall, and faintly glows with a blue light, as if it blends into the sky.

Every hundred feet along the city wall stands a towering, straight pavilion. These pavilions, serving as "array flags," are interconnected with the Floating Life Lake in the city center, forming an "array plate," enveloping the entire immortal city in a faint yet awe-inspiring light curtain.

This is at least a third-tier grand formation!
On the ground, cultivators and merchant caravans came and went in an endless stream, and many magic boats and magical artifacts also whizzed overhead.

In a very short time, Lin Changheng saw three streaks of light flash across the sky.

There are at least three Foundation Establishment cultivators.

He had lived in the Xu family for over thirty years and had never seen so many Foundation Establishment cultivators.

I saw many more of them later at Zhao Li's banquet.

The importance of the platform is evident.

However, these escape lights, magic boats, and magic artifacts all have one thing in common: when they are within a hundred feet of the city gate, they all involuntarily sink downwards, as if some kind of force is pressing them down.

Then Lin Changheng saw that all the cultivators on it landed and walked towards the city gate entrance.

"This is the anti-flight formation?"

Lin Changheng had already driven his horse closer.

There were four long queues at the city gate for people to enter the city.

Most of them were Qi Refining cultivators, with a few ordinary people without spiritual energy queuing up.

As for Foundation Establishment cultivators, they have a separate entrance, which is more convenient and eliminates the need to queue.

"One low-grade spirit stone is enough for a single entry into the city, and thirty stones are required for a permanent stay of one year."

Immortal City was extremely efficient, and Lin Changheng was quickly approached. There was a table set up in the city gate, where he could directly process his entry into the city.

Faced with the choice, Lin Changheng originally wanted to choose the latter, paying thirty low-grade spirit stones.

But considering his own cautious nature, he probably wouldn't leave the city too often, so he quietly chose the former.

After paying a low-grade spirit stone, you need to register your identity information as required, and have a trace of magic power imprinted on a token and a register in the immortal city, or you can drip blood into it.

The Floating Life Immortal City was far from the Blackwater River and Qinglingfang, where Lin Changheng usually stayed. He was new to the place and knew no one.

In addition, since he was kind to others and had no enemies, he used his real identity.

As for whether to leave a magical mark or drip it into the blood, Lin Changheng, who was more sensitive to blood, chose the former.

And so, Lin Changheng entered the city smoothly with the token.

My first impression was of a massive crowd.

My second impression was one of unparalleled prosperity.

Third sense —

It has everything.

The shops lining both sides of the street offer a wide variety of products, including elixirs, weapon crafting, formations, talismans, robes, spiritual materials, medicinal herbs, and materials from demonic beasts—a truly comprehensive selection.

There was even a special market for independent cultivators, where many cultivators set up stalls and sold their wares.

A thought suddenly occurred to Lin Changheng:
"If we can't find Foundation Establishment Pills or Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects here, then I'm afraid no rogue cultivator in the world can find them."

Looking up, he saw that it was already late. Although there was no curfew in Floating Life Immortal City and the crowds never stopped, Lin Changheng still decided to find an inn to rest and wash away the fatigue of his long journey.

At the same time, I also took stock of my gains.

If the three storage bags you receive contain hidden marks or markings, it's best to deal with them as soon as possible.

We'll talk about renting a place to live in tomorrow.

With that in mind, it wasn't long before Lin Changheng moved in.

Even after activating the built-in isolation array of the Immortal Inn, Lin Changheng still felt uneasy. He then set up a circle of the room with the high-grade defensive array and mid-grade maze array that he had brought with him before he was finally satisfied.

Next, three storage bags and a series of magical artifacts were lined up on the table.

(End of this chapter)