Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

At the Lu family's mountain gate, in the council hall, all seventeen Nascent Soul cultivators of the Lu family had gathered there after receiving Lu Cheng'an's order.

In recent years, the Lu family has added nine more cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage. After that, the number of Lu family members who can break through to the Nascent Soul stage in a short period of time has greatly decreased.

Of the original Nascent Soul cultivators, five of them used the power of the Heavenly Python Pill to raise their cultivation to the mid-Nascent Soul stage.

Of the seventeen Nascent Soul cultivators in the Lu family, there are two late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, six mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, and ten early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators.

Upon arriving at the council hall, Lu Cheng'an looked solemnly at the Nascent Soul stage cultivators in his clan and said in a deep voice, "I just received a message from the Golden Flame Sect. Two sects in Chuzhou with Dao Integration stage cultivators have issued summons. Our Lu family must also send cultivators to Chuzhou to provide support!"

"Uncle Cheng'an, when are we heading to Chuzhou?"

"Will I be able to fight those demonic cultivators once I arrive in Chuzhou?"

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Unlike Lu Cheng'an's solemn expression, the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Lu family showed no fear upon hearing that they would be summoned to Chuzhou to fight against the demonic cultivators. On the contrary, they seemed quite excited.

This is because the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Lu family have all used the Heavenly Python Pill for cultivation. Although the Heavenly Python Pill can rapidly improve the cultivation level of Nascent Soul cultivators, if they continuously consume the Heavenly Python Pill for cultivation, it will also lead to the hidden danger of unstable cultivation.

There is a solution to this hidden danger: during the process of taking the Heavenly Python Pill, one must undergo a series of life-or-death battles.

The best way to refine the Heavenly Python Pill is during a life-or-death battle!
The cultivation level gained from refining the Heavenly Python Pill in this way will not be superficial at all; on the contrary, the foundation of cultivation will become more stable!
The cultivators of the Lu family were well aware of the current situation in the Xuan Chen Realm. After learning about the Heavenly Python Pill, they were eager for battle, and only now had they finally gotten this opportunity.

Lu Cheng'an looked at the reaction of the Lu family's Nascent Soul cultivators with some surprise, and then said in a deep voice: "There are currently seventeen Nascent Soul cultivators in the clan. I will also be going to Chuzhou at that time. Our Lu family only needs to send half of the Nascent Soul cultivators."

"Jingkun must stay and guard the family's mountain gate. You can discuss the rest among yourselves!"

Lu Cheng'an had originally thought that some Nascent Soul cultivators in his clan would be unwilling to go to Chuzhou, but the reaction of the Nascent Soul cultivators in his clan had exceeded his expectations.

Therefore, he changed his previous decision and let the Nascent Soul cultivators in the clan discuss it among themselves.

After a heated discussion in the council hall, the nine Nascent Soul cultivators who would accompany Lu Cheng'an to Chuzhou were finally selected.

Lu Jingkun, who was at the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, was ordered by Lu Cheng'an to stay in the family's mountain gate. This was mainly because Lu Jingkun was the only fifth-tier top-grade spirit array master in the Lu family. Only by staying in the mountain gate could he better utilize the power of the family's protective mountain array.

At the same time, he can better activate the fifth-grade top-quality magic weapon, the Golden Spear Magic Ship, because his understanding of various runes far surpasses that of other cultivators in the Lu family.

Another late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator from the Lu family, Shi Ningyu, will accompany Lu Cheng'an to Chuzhou. During the trip, she will refine various pills needed by the Lu family's Nascent Soul cultivators. At the same time, she also wants to purchase some high-grade pill-refining materials in Chuzhou.

Apart from Shi Ningyu, four of the six mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators from the Lu family will go to Chuzhou, while the remaining four will be early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators.

These four early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators had already broken through to the Nascent Soul realm some time ago, and they wanted to use the battle with the innate demonic cultivator to break through to the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm as soon as possible.

After confirming the candidates for the Nascent Soul cultivators going to Chuzhou, Lu Cheng'an did not immediately take them to Lizhou, but instead let them return to rest and recuperate.

Not only the Lu family received a summons from the Golden Flame Sect, but also the Yin Hua Sect and the Heavenly Corpse Sect received summons from the three Void Refinement Realm forces in Lizhou.

Upon receiving this news, Yin Hua Sect and Tian Shi Sect immediately contacted the Lu family, inquiring when they would be heading to Lizhou, as they wished to travel with them.

There are no cultivators at the Refinement Realm in the three states of Mengyuan Prefecture. The only cultivator at the Refinement Realm they know is Lu Cheng'an.

Next, they headed to Chuzhou to attack the Innate Demon Sect. They didn't know what dangers they would face, but following a familiar Void Refinement Realm cultivator would certainly be safer.

After receiving the message from the Yin Hua Sect and other sects, the Lu family quickly responded.

Lu Cheng'an was willing to let cultivators from sects like Yin Hua Sect follow him. The strength of Nascent Soul cultivators like Tianyun Shangren and Wan Shi Laoren was not weak.

By following him, they can also enhance his own power.

The Yin Hua Sect, Tian Shi Sect, and Yun Hai Sect in the three states of Mengyuan Prefecture have a considerable number of Nascent Soul cultivators. Each sect needs to send two-thirds of its Nascent Soul cultivators to Chu Prefecture.

In addition, there were also some rogue cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage who were also conscripted to travel to Chuzhou with cultivators from sects such as the Yin Hua Sect.

The Lu family has obtained the specific number of people from the Yin Hua Sect and other sects who went to Chuzhou. The total number of Nascent Soul cultivators drawn from the various sects in the three states of Mengyuan Prefecture has reached sixty-five.

The Lu family also dispatched nine cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage, bringing the total to seventy-four Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

With the addition of Lu Cheng'an, who is at the Refinement of Void realm, this will be an extremely powerful force.

And this only represents the strength of the three states of Mengyuan and Qianyuan. The strength of several states, such as Lizhou, is even more formidable, and they have deployed even more cultivators at the Refinement Void Realm and the Transformation Spirit Realm.

Even with so many cultivators at the Refinement Void Realm and the Divine Transformation Realm going to Chuzhou to provide support, it can only alleviate the crisis in Chuzhou, not completely resolve it.

Because the final outcome between Chuzhou and the Innate Demon Sect is determined by cultivators at the Dao Integration Realm, and the strength of Tianyuan Daojun of the Innate Demon Sect is far too formidable.

Unless Tianyuan Daojun is completely annihilated, the Innate Demon Sect will be difficult to destroy!
After the Lu family agreed to bring the Nascent Soul cultivators from the Yin Hua Sect and other sects to Chuzhou, Master Tianyun and others led their respective sects' cultivators to the Lu family's mountain gate at top speed.

They moved quickly, arriving at the Lu family's mountain gate three days after picking up Lu Cheng'an.

"Thank you all for your trust in me. When we arrive in Chuzhou and clash with the cultivators of the Innate Demonic Sect, it would be best if we could work together. I will also do my best to protect you all!"

"Our fellow cultivators from the Golden Flame Sect are already urging us to head to Lizhou to join them. I won't waste any more words; let's set off for Lizhou now!"

After Lu Cheng'an finished speaking, he summoned a spaceship with a flick of his hand.

This spaceship was Lu Cheng'an's spoils of war; its original grade was top-tier fifth-order. After Lu Cheng'an's cultivation broke through to the Void Refinement Realm, he reforged this top-tier fifth-order magic weapon spaceship.

Although this spaceship has not yet been upgraded to the sixth-grade low-level, its power has already exceeded the limit of a fifth-grade top-level magic weapon.

Lu Cheng'an's group included seventy-four cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage. These Nascent Soul cultivators had varying levels of cultivation and travel speeds. If they relied on their own strength to travel, it would definitely take much longer, far slower than traveling by flying magic ship.

The teleportation array is faster than the flying magic ship, but the fact that so many Nascent Soul cultivators are riding on the teleportation array together will put a considerable burden on it.

This is mainly because the teleportation arrays built in the three states of Mengyuan Prefecture are of insufficient quality. Once they reach Li Prefecture, the teleportation arrays there do not have this problem.

After Lu Cheng'an boarded the flying magic ship, Shi Ningyu and other Nascent Soul cultivators from the Lu family immediately followed him. Later, Tianyun Shangren and other Nascent Soul cultivators from outside the Lu family also boarded the flying magic ship one by one.

Although this flying magic ship has not yet reached the sixth-grade low-level, under Lu Cheng'an's command, even carrying a large number of Nascent Soul cultivators, its speed still exceeds that of many Nascent Soul Perfection cultivators.

Qianyuan Prefecture and Li Prefecture are not close to each other. Even with Lu Cheng'an fully activating his fifth-grade magic weapon flying ship, it still took him three days to reach Li Prefecture.

Lu Cheng'an did not go to the familiar Golden Flame Sect, but instead led Tianyun Shangren and others directly to Lingxu City, which was built by the Lingxu Sect.

This is because Lingxu City has a super-large teleportation array, and the other end of this teleportation array is in Xuanxiao City in Chuzhou.

Xuanxiao City is the first immortal city built by the Xuanxiao Sect, and it is also very close to the sect's mountain gate.

The super-large teleportation array in Lingxu City can teleport eighty cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage at once.

Although there were quite a few Nascent Soul cultivators gathered in Lingxu City heading to Chuzhou, the super-large teleportation array could still teleport all of them to Xuanxiao City in a very short time.

When Lu Cheng'an led Tianyun Shangren and others to Lingxu City, many cultivators at the Refining Void Realm and Transformation Spirit Realm who were going to Chuzhou to provide support had already arrived in Xuanxiao City via the teleportation array.

However, there were still cultivators at the Refinement Realm from the three families of the Golden Flame Sect remaining in Lingxu City. Among them was Zhou Sheng, a late-stage Refinement Realm cultivator from the Golden Flame Sect who had previously had contact with Lu Cheng'an.

After Lu Cheng'an arrived in Lingxu City with Tianyun Shangren and other Nascent Soul cultivators, he was directly led by Lingxu Sect cultivators to the location of Lingxu City's teleportation array.

Zhou Sheng and two cultivators at the Refinement Realm from the Lingxu Sect and the Yuqiu Hu Clan are currently guarding that place.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, you've finally arrived!"

As soon as Lu Cheng'an arrived at the location of the teleportation array, Zhou Sheng appeared in front of him with a smile. Accompanying Zhou Sheng were cultivators at the Refinement Realm from the Lingxu Sect and the Yuqiu Hu Clan.

"Let me introduce you. This is Chen Anyun from the Lingxu Sect, and this is Hu Ziyu from the Yuqiu Hu Clan!"

"Fellow Daoist Chen, Fellow Daoist Hu, this is Lu Cheng'an, whom I told you about before. If it weren't for Fellow Daoist Lu's help, I wouldn't have been able to kill Granny Blackwater so easily."

Zhou Sheng smiled and introduced Lu Cheng'an to Chen Anyun and Hu Ziyu.

Chen Anyun of the Lingxu Sect and Zhou Sheng both had the same cultivation level, both at the late stage of the Refining Void Realm; Hu Ziyu of the Yuqiu Hu Clan had a slightly lower cultivation level, at the mid-stage of the Refining Void Realm.

The three of them were responsible for guarding the teleportation array of Lingxu City. They would wait until all the cultivators in the Refining Void Realm and the Nascent Soul Realm from the surrounding states had arrived before they would travel together to Chuzhou via the teleportation array.

Although Lu Cheng'an had never met Chen Anyun and Hu Ziyu before, he had heard of the reputation of these cultivators at the Void Refinement Realm.

After exchanging greetings with Chen Anyun and the other person under Zhou Sheng's introduction, he did not linger for long and led the Nascent Soul cultivators, including Tianyun Shangren, onto the teleportation array and arrived at Xuanxiao City in Chuzhou.

Many cultivators from the three Void Refinement Realm forces of the Golden Flame Sect have arrived in Xuanxiao City, and the Xuanxiao Sect has arranged accommodations for them.

After Lu Cheng'an led Tianyun Shangren and the others into Xuanxiao City, they were immediately picked up by the cultivators of the Golden Flame Sect who were guarding the teleportation array and taken to the three families of the Golden Flame Sect's residence in Xuanxiao City.

The three forces in Lizhou that are at the Refinement Void Realm—Golden Flame Sect, Spirit Void Sect, and Jade Hill Hu Clan—all have cultivators at the Perfect Refinement Void Realm stationed there. The Golden Flame Sect and the Jade Hill Hu Clan each have one cultivator at the Perfect Refinement Void Realm.

The cultivator at the peak of the Void Refinement Realm in the Golden Flame Sect is named Zhu Sheng, and the cultivator at the peak of the Void Refinement Realm in the Jade Hill Hu Clan is named Hu Yangxu.

The Lingxu Sect is the strongest of the three sects. This sect has two cultivators at the peak of the Refining Void Realm: Han Shuheng and Yue Yaoguang.

Now, each of these three families has sent a cultivator at the peak of the Void Refinement Realm to Chuzhou to provide support.

After being led by the cultivators of the Golden Flame Sect to the three families' encampment in Xuanxiao City, Lu Cheng'an soon met Zhu Sheng, Hu Yangxu, and Han Shuheng, three cultivators at the peak of the Void Refining Realm.

"Lu Cheng'an greets the three fellow Daoists!" Lu Cheng'an immediately cupped his hands and smiled upon seeing Zhu Sheng and the other two.

All three of them, including Zhu Sheng, were at the peak of the Void Refinement realm, and their strength was extremely formidable.

"Young friend Lu is promising; in a few years, his cultivation will surpass ours!"

Zhu Sheng laughed loudly, then said in a deep voice, "The situation in Chuzhou is not good right now. The mission assigned to us by the Xuanxiao Sect is to wipe out the Earth Infant Demon Sect. The Earth Infant Demon Sect is one of the affiliated sects of the Innate Demon Sect. It is extremely powerful. There are a total of three great demons in the sect who have reached the peak of the Void Refinement Realm... We have thoroughly investigated the strength of the cultivators you brought. We want you to lead the cultivators from the Lu family and the three states of Mengyuan to deal with the demonic cultivators in the Golden Camel Mountain area. What do you think?"

The Primordial Demon Sect is extremely powerful and occupies a vast territory. Under the Primordial Demon Sect are four subordinate demon sects: the Earth Infant Demon Sect, the Profound Nether Demon Sect, the Heavenly Sound Demon Sect, and the Snow Fiend Demon Sect.

These four affiliated demonic sects are all extremely powerful, with no fewer than two demonic cultivators at the peak of the Void Refinement Realm within each sect.

When Xuanxiao Sect and Zixia Mansion launched their attack on Xiantian Demon Sect, they first wiped out Xue Sha Demon Sect, which was closest to Chuzhou.

The Earth Infant Demon Sect, the Profound Nether Demon Sect, and the Heavenly Sound Demon Sect were located after the Snow Fiend Demon Sect. After the Profound Cloud Sect and the Purple Cloud Mansion swiftly annihilated the Snow Fiend Demon Sect, they encountered a fierce counterattack from the Innate Demon Sect.

Now, not only have they lost the territory they occupied from the Snow Fiend Demon Sect, but the Innate Demon Sect has also seized a significant portion of Chu Prefecture. (End of Chapter)