Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

This monster's body was much more intact than the one Lu Cheng'an had seen before. It maintained a complete human form, but all its flesh and blood had dried up, leaving only an old skin covering its bones.

He lay in a coffin. The materials used to make the coffin must have been of extremely high quality. However, perhaps too much time had passed, and the coffin's spiritual energy had completely disappeared, leaving it dilapidated and broken. It was unknown what kind of misfortune had befallen it.

Below the coffin was a fifth-order spiritual vein. The spiritual energy of this fifth-order spiritual vein was extremely weak, far inferior to the one Lu Cheng'an had when he broke through to the Nascent Soul realm. It seemed as if it was about to fall to the fourth order at any moment.

As Lu Cheng'an was observing the monster in the coffin, the earthen-yellow palm also struck towards Lu Cheng'an's body.

The power contained in this earth-yellow palm was extremely violent, but it was only equivalent to the full-force attack of a Nascent Soul cultivator in the early stage.

Lu Cheng'an summoned the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell and directly struck the earth-yellow palm.

With a dull thud, the earthen-yellow hand shattered instantly, turning into endless yellow sand that fell back into the desert below.

"Another Nascent Soul cultivator!"

The withered monster in the coffin spoke in a hoarse voice, pointing his finger, and a yellowish-brown light sword appeared, piercing towards the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell like lightning.

The power of this earth-yellow light sword was several times stronger than the previous earth-yellow palm, equivalent to the full-force attack of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

Lu Cheng'an's expression remained unchanged as he secretly channeled the power of his Dao Domain to enhance the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell.

Then, he changed his hand seals, and the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell spun around, with fiery red light surging out from within it.

In an instant, the earth-yellow light sword was shattered by the power released by the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell.

Lu Cheng'an did not stop. With a thought, the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell surged with endless purple flames.

These flames transformed into a purple fireball, roaring as it blasted towards the coffin where the withered monster lay.

"Young friend, stop right now! I mean you no harm!"

With a deafening roar, the purple fireball shattered the coffin in an instant.

The power contained within the fireball was too violent. After the coffin shattered, the spiritual veins below also trembled violently, as if they were about to collapse at any moment.

However, there seemed to be a sealing formation around the spiritual vein, which blocked most of the power released by the fireball, thus saving the spiritual vein.

The desiccated corpse flew out of the coffin, and its shriveled body quickly recovered, eventually transforming into a middle-aged man with a very honest and simple appearance.

The middle-aged man grinned sheepishly at Lu Cheng'an and said, "I have an incredible opportunity to bestow upon you, young friend. I wonder..."

The middle-aged man had a wide smile on his face, as if he were not angry at all.

Lu Cheng'an glanced at the middle-aged man who had returned to normal, a cold glint appearing in his eyes.

He ignored the man's words and attacked the middle-aged man again.

"you wanna die!"

The middle-aged man let out an angry shout, and quickly cast a spell with his hand, then summoned a yellowish-brown magic seal.

This earthen-yellow magic seal has reached the fifth-order top-grade level, and at this moment, the middle-aged man has pushed this fifth-order top-grade magic treasure to its limit.

A heavy earth-elemental power emanated from the earth-yellow seal, as if it encompassed the power of the entire earth.

Lu Cheng'an instantly recalled the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell. When the earth-yellow magic seal bombarded him, he directly used the space folding divine power to quickly leave the place.

After Lu Cheng'an deepened his understanding of the Dao of Space, he can now fully utilize his spatial folding supernatural power, teleporting millions of miles at a time.

Although the power contained within that earthen-yellow magic seal was extremely formidable, it was impossible for it to extend over a distance of a million miles.

This is something that even a Nascent Soul cultivator could not do!

Lu Cheng'an had already determined the middle-aged man's cultivation level; at his peak, his cultivation was at the perfect Nascent Soul stage.

He can no longer maintain his peak fighting strength; he's just putting on a brave face right now!

"Damn brat, once I recover, I will devour him!"

After the middle-aged man could no longer sense Lu Cheng'an's presence, he roared angrily, almost going into a frenzy.

Because Lu Cheng'an's guess was correct, the middle-aged man's current condition was extremely bad.

At his peak, he was indeed at the perfect Nascent Soul stage, but now his strength is less than one-tenth of what it used to be.

That last attack consumed too much of his strength, and he will become extremely weak afterward.

He sensed that the junior was only at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm. If he could severely injure the junior with that attack, he would have plenty of ways to capture him alive.

Once he has absorbed all of that junior's cultivation, his weakened body will be able to recover more than half of its strength.

Then he can leave from here. After he devours the cultivators outside, he can not only fully restore his strength, but also take another step forward and break through to the Void Refinement Realm.

It's all destroyed now, and his attack didn't seriously injure the junior.

A moment later, the middle-aged man returned to his withered state.

At this moment, Lu Cheng'an activated his spatial folding technique and returned once again.

At this moment, he spread out his Dao Domain, and a huge firebird emerged from the sea of ​​fire, whistling as it charged toward the middle-aged man.

This is the only Nascent Soul level divine power, Fire Sea Nurturing Golden Sparrow, recorded in the Earth Flame True Scripture!

Lu Cheng'an had long ago cultivated this divine ability to perfection, and this divine ability was closely related to Lu Cheng'an's Dao Domain.

The stronger Lu Cheng'an's Dao Domain, the stronger the power of this divine ability.

After absorbing the branch of the Fire Phoenix Tree, the Crimson Phoenix Spirit Wood reached the fifth-grade top quality. After enhancing Lu Cheng'an's Dao Domain, it raised Lu Cheng'an's Dao Domain to a level comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator at the peak of his cultivation.

Now Lu Cheng'an has pushed all his methods to the limit, and the power of the firebird that was born from his Dao Domain is comparable to the attack of a cultivator at the peak of the Nascent Soul realm.

The firebird let out a loud cry, its body wreathed in flames, and charged towards the middle-aged man with a raging sea of ​​fire.

"Perfect Nascent Soul stage? That's impossible!"

The middle-aged man cried out in alarm and once again brought out the earthen-yellow magic seal.

The earthen-yellow magic seal was a top-grade fifth-tier magic weapon, but the middle-aged man was currently extremely weak and unable to unleash its full power. A moment later, accompanied by a violent roar, the earthen-yellow magic seal was blasted away, but the firebird did not dissipate and continued to charge towards the middle-aged man's body.

The middle-aged man had many tricks up his sleeve. He quickly made hand seals, and at that moment, a violent rumble came from the desert below, and an extremely terrifying power surged out from the desert.

A cold light flashed in Lu Cheng'an's eyes. At the cost of his own lifespan, he used the Thousand-Year Seal and the Tranquil Ancient Seal to instantly freeze the middle-aged man.

At that moment, the firebird struck the middle-aged man directly, and a surge of flames erupted, instantly incinerating his body into nothingness.

Then the power of the flames began to burn the middle-aged man's primordial spirit.

Not only that, Lu Cheng'an summoned the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell and directly absorbed the middle-aged man's primordial spirit into it.

At this moment, Lu Cheng'an put the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell into his Dao Domain. He simultaneously activated the power of the Dao Domain and the Crimson Wutong Spirit Wood, and began to refine the middle-aged man's primordial spirit with all his might.

The middle-aged man was, after all, at the peak of the Nascent Soul realm. Although his current condition was extremely bad, the difficulty of refining his primordial spirit was extremely high.

Lu Cheng'an exerted all his strength and spent five days to completely refine the middle-aged man's primordial spirit.

Only then did Lu Cheng'an feel a little relieved. He then immediately rushed into the desert, wanting to see what the middle-aged man had finally stirred up.

"This is a sixth-tier treasure!"

It was a golden arrow about ten feet long, with multiple damages on the shaft, and a deep crack in the middle that looked like it would break the golden arrow in two.

Now, the golden arrow's power is contained, and it looks no different from an ordinary iron arrow.

However, Lu Cheng'an could sense an extremely violent power within it. Once activated, it could easily kill cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage!
This should have been the middle-aged man's last trump card, but before he could fully activate the golden arrow, Lu Cheng'an used the Thousand-Year Seal and the Tranquil Ancient Seal to immobilize it, leaving him no chance to make a move.

However, Lu Cheng'an also paid a considerable price.

The middle-aged man was, after all, at the peak of the Nascent Soul realm. In order to enhance the power of the Thousand-Year Seal and the Tranquil Ancient Seal, Lu Cheng'an deliberately consumed fifty years of his own lifespan, which is why he was able to immobilize the middle-aged man for such a long time.

Fortunately, Lu Cheng'an's lifespan far exceeded that of cultivators of the same level. He felt it was worth sacrificing fifty years of his lifespan to kill that cultivator at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

"This long arrow is a metal-attribute treasure, and the metal-path power it contains is extremely powerful. If Ningyu can comprehend the metal-path power within it, it should greatly help improve her own Dao domain power."

Lu Cheng'an cast a spell, quickly storing the long arrow into his storage ring.

He then searched the area carefully and found the earthen-yellow magic seal and a storage bracelet that the middle-aged man had used.

That earthen-yellow magic seal was the middle-aged man's natal magic weapon, and its grade had reached the fifth-order top-grade.

Lu Cheng'an did not carefully examine the earthen-yellow magic seal and storage bracelet. After quickly putting these two items away, he began to deal with the fifth-order spiritual vein.

This fifth-order spiritual vein is of very poor quality, far inferior to the fifth-order spiritual vein that Lu Cheng'an had when he broke through to the Nascent Soul realm.

However, the owner there was in a much worse state than this middle-aged man; the owner of that fifth-order spiritual vein had completely lost his mind.

His physical body had decayed, leaving only a fragmented primordial spirit.

Otherwise, Lu Cheng'an would never have been able to break through to the Nascent Soul realm there.

Lu Cheng'an stood above the fifth-order spiritual vein. He quickly formed a hand seal, and the spiritual energy in the vein was drawn towards the center.

Lu Cheng'an is now using the method of condensing spiritual vein beads, which allows cultivators to forcibly condense spiritual vein beads within spiritual veins.

However, after the Spirit Vein Bead is condensed, the spiritual energy of the Spirit Vein will drop significantly, and in severe cases, it may even cause the Spirit Vein to collapse directly.

Lu Cheng'an is now actively condensing the Spirit Vein Pearl in order to cause this Spirit Vein to collapse directly.

He had already realized that the cultivators buried in the vast desert were in a special state because of these spiritual veins, which allowed them to survive for so long.

However, it is unknown what has happened. The spiritual veins upon which these cultivators depend for survival are drying up, which has caused these cultivators to awaken from their special state.

In order to maintain this state, they began to devour the spiritual veins of Yanzhou, and this process led to the invasion of Yanzhou's territory by the Hanhai Desert.

This was Lu Cheng'an's deduction after seeing the middle-aged man's condition, and he felt that his deduction was most likely the truth.

The spiritual energy in this fifth-order spiritual vein was already extremely thin, and it simply could not support Lu Cheng'an in using the secret method to condense the spiritual vein bead.

In just a moment, the rank of that fifth-order spiritual vein plummeted to the fourth order, and the vein emitted a cracking sound, as if it were about to shatter at any moment.

At this moment, Lu Cheng'an quickly summoned the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell. The Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell floated above the spiritual vein, and its power enveloped the entire spiritual vein to prevent it from collapsing.

Lu Cheng'an did not slow down his speed of condensing the spirit vein pearl, and continued to absorb the spiritual energy in the spirit vein.

This process lasted for nearly 15 minutes before the spirit vein bead slowly condensed and took shape. By then, the spiritual energy in the spirit vein had been almost completely extracted.

After putting away the unfinished spirit vein bead, Lu Cheng'an then put away the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell.

Without the support of the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell, the spiritual vein collapsed in an instant.

After confirming that the spiritual vein had completely collapsed, Lu Cheng'an breathed a slight sigh of relief.

He did not leave there, but continued searching in the vast desert, but he did not find this special area again.

This was good news for him, proving that there were no more of these ancient cultivators awakening in the vast desert.

After that, Lu Cheng'an did not linger in the Vast Desert. He quickly left the area of ​​the Vast Desert and went directly into the mountain gate of the Heavenly Fire Sect.

"All Nascent Soul cultivators, come out!"

Lu Cheng'an stood in mid-air above the Heavenly Fire Sect's mountain gate, making no attempt to conceal his Nascent Soul realm cultivation.

"Greetings, Senior Lu!"

Upon hearing Lu Cheng'an's voice, the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Heavenly Fire Sect, including True Monarch Heavenly Fire, were momentarily shocked, but they dared not hesitate and immediately rushed out of their cave.

They knew Lu Cheng'an's situation very well, and knew that Lu Cheng'an's cultivation had broken through to the Nascent Soul realm.

Moreover, after Lu Cheng'an's cultivation broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, other cultivators in the Lu family also broke through to the Nascent Soul realm.

The Lu family's strength has now reached a terrifying level, and they could destroy the Heavenly Fire Sect at any time.

Lu Cheng'an's gaze swept over the Nascent Soul cultivators, including True Monarch Tianhuo, and he realized that the strength of the Tianhuo Sect hadn't improved much over the years. (End of Chapter)