Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 118: Recalling the youthful vigor and the rampant evil spirit
The blood river rolled and surged, in which yellow and white skeletons and beautiful girls were entangled. A young man in a blood-stained Taoist robe was standing in the middle of it, stretching his arms.

There is no one at all who can withstand the full force of his Blood River Magic Power.

He can control the poisonous insects and use the Thousand-winged Flying Centipede to hide and attack. In addition to this, Tang Shi can also summon the locusts, blood mosquitoes, wasps, snakes and other poisonous creatures that he has raised. These insects are controlled by him like his own arms, and they can advance and retreat in a measured manner, just like Taoist soldiers, which is extremely terrifying.

In Lucheng of Gongbei Sect, the incarnation of all beasts, Greedy Wolf Swallows the Moon, which has the power of fourth-level Taoism.

Luo Jie of the Southern Sect raised two late-stage third-order blood jade mantises, which were extremely fast in flight and fierce in attack. In addition, there were Ren Shoupeng and Ye Cheng, whose swords were fierce, and Chu Chuanxiu of the Guanghan Palace, whose blood-freezing soul-killing sword was terrifying.

With round after round of fighting and swordplay, the truly capable people would immediately stand out from the crowd, just like an awl in a cloth bag.

The late stage of foundation building: Shengshen of the Xuehe Sect and Tang Shi of the Gushen Sect.

The middle stage of foundation building: Lu Cheng from the north sect of the Palace of Incarnation of Ten Thousand Beasts, Luo Jie from the south sect, and Ren Shoupeng from the north sect of the Sword Gate of the North Star.

The initial stage of foundation building: Ye Cheng from Huoyun Mansion, Chu Chuanxiu from Guanghan Palace.

These people have become existences that most of the cultivators present are unwilling to face. If they can be lucky enough to avoid these people, or if they encounter infighting in advance, then everyone still has a chance to compete for the eight-view treasures.

If they were unfortunate enough to encounter such an incident, the possibility of the cultivators being able to defeat the top disciples of these sects would be very low.

"Initial stage, Xia Youqing from Huoyun Mansion."

"In the first realm, Yin Han of the Qingmu Sect."

After entering the court, the two men each performed a salute, and the moment Yin Han stood up, he emitted a large amount of hazy green light, and at the same time, he used magic formulas to coordinate with magic weapons to launch a fierce attack.

Huoyun Mansion is one of the eight orthodox religions. Although the ancestor Chi Shenzi rarely takes action, he is very famous in the Tongxuan Realm. In contrast, Qingmu Sect is only one of the Nine Palaces Demon Realms and a sect that ranks very low. Therefore, if Yin Han wants to win, he can no longer care about whether the victory is glorious or not.

This battle is about one's own path.

Facing Yin Han's almost sneak attack on his genitals, Xia Youqing drew his sword and flew back at the same time, seeming to be in a rather embarrassed state. Just after dealing with this wave of attacks, Yin Han's Qingmu sword formation came flying again, with as many as twelve flying swords forming a faint formation.

Under normal circumstances, a cultivator can only control three magical instruments of the same level as his own realm at the same time. This limit can be raised by cultivating his spiritual consciousness on his own. The upper limit can also be raised by starting from the magical instruments, refining them or purchasing a set of magical instruments.

Just like Yin Han at this moment, his twelve green wooden flying swords are essentially magical weapons. In the most extreme situation, he can control twenty-four or even thirty-six green wooden flying swords at the same time. When fighting against the enemy, he only needs to sacrifice the flying swords to gain the upper hand.

It's just that a complete set of magical instruments is difficult to refine, the price is high, and they are mutually dependent. In the eyes of masters, it is inevitable that there is a connection between them, so they have not become popular in the Tongxuan world.

"seal up!"

Yin Han's twelve green wooden flying swords almost smashed towards Xia Youqing, and then suddenly separated. After each sword took its position, they formed a sword formation. With a spell from Yin Han, the energy of heaven and earth near the sword formation suddenly became sluggish and solidified, and the sword light wrapped around Xia Youqing suddenly became ineffective.

Yin Han cast a defensive talisman on himself, and then summoned a flying sword and rushed into the Qingmu sword formation together with the sword. The two then started fighting with swords inside the sword formation.

The energy of the entire Green Wood Sword Formation spread like a forest of giant trees, with green light emerging and roots extending, spreading and growing towards every corner around it. There was actually a kind of overbearing magical power that entangled and fixed everything except the wood element energy, and it seemed as if a condensed green forest appeared where the sword formation was.

"There should be another variation of his sword formation, which is to draw fire into the forest and burn everything. Although the Qingmu School specializes in wood-based methods, fire-based talismans can always be purchased. Unfortunately, he underestimated the enemy, so he probably didn't have the chance to use this killer move."

At the banquet on the side, Lu Cheng and Tang Shi were drinking and chatting like this.

"You think he has a hidden killer move and is unwilling to use it. That's your perspective. In his eyes, this may have been his limit."

Tang Shi was unwilling to agree with Lu Cheng's statement. Xiao Yuxue, who was standing beside him, was eating spiritual fruit and watching the sword fight with sharp eyes. She felt that compared to them, although she had magical powers, she indeed lacked training.

What Xiao Yuxue didn't know was that before she met Wan Zongshao and activated her own Heavenly Fox True Blood, she was indeed not qualified to participate in this Eight Scenes Dharma Assembly. However, after activating her Heavenly Fox True Blood, although her cultivation level could not be said to be among the best among everyone, she was still a strong master in the Foundation Establishment Period. Coupled with a top-grade magical weapon, she was fully qualified to participate in the Eight Scenes Dharma Assembly on her own.

For cultivators in the Ten Thousand Beasts Incarnation Palace, whether or not top-notch true blood is integrated into their bodies is extremely important, as it affects all aspects.

However, after activating the Heavenly Fox Blood, Xiao Yuxue was confined to the Ten Thousand Beasts Palace. In addition, the list of participants in the Eight Scenery Assembly had already been determined by that time, so there was no invitation for her.

If her parents had not also received an invitation, Xiao Yuxue would have missed out on this opportunity.

And at this time, in the sword fighting arena.

Yin Han from the Qingmu School was defeated inexplicably. He had originally had all the advantages. The Qingmu Sword Formation sealed off the vital energy of heaven and earth except for the wood element. He used his school's quick sword to attack the enemy at close range, and in addition, he used the set of Yin flying needles he released at the beginning. In the environment with abundant wood element vital energy, he was almost invisible and intangible, coming and going without a trace.

Several times Yin Han felt that he was only a stone's throw away from victory, but during a few sword duels, the protective talisman was inexplicably worn away, and the flying sword of the female swordsman on the opposite side suddenly crossed his neck.

Until he was announced as defeated and walked off the field, Yin Han was dazed and found it hard to accept the situation. Many people present also couldn't understand it. They just felt that Xia Youqing was really lucky and Yin Han made several low-level mistakes, which led to such an outcome.

But at the banquet off the field, people like Sheng Shang, Luo Jie, and Ren Shoupeng were either stroking their wine glasses or lightly touching their chins, and they all saw the deeper meaning behind it.

"She takes one step and plans three steps ahead, and every step is correct. Is she integrating mathematics and swordsmanship?"

"Brother Lu, it is true that you have deceived the girl. If she had kept hiding like this, she might have been able to bring down a difficult character in the end. But now that she is taken more seriously because of you, it will be hard for her to be believed if she tries to use some tricks now."

Tang Shi said with a smile, and Lu Cheng didn't say anything more.

He only found out today that his junior sister was so skilled in mathematics, but his predecessor knew nothing about it. It seemed that even if his predecessor had not been driven down the mountain, if he wanted to take action against this junior sister, the final outcome would not be good.

“Thinking about it this way, Master Chi Shenzi really loved that guy in his previous incarnation. Seeing that he was about to suffer a great loss, he hurriedly drove him down the mountain and rewarded him with wealth and glory.”

He had previously hated Master Chi Shen Zi deeply for not paying attention to him and looking down on him, but in fact, a cultivator like Master Chi Shen Zi would not have so much time to care about a disciple in the Qi training stage. His concern was a decision to lead the fate of this disciple in a relatively better direction, rather than just asking about his well-being and caring about his daily life.

"The upper realm, Deng Qihe from the Three Immortal Islands of the East China Sea."

"The upper realm, the master of the Yin corpse in the White Bone Courtyard."

The Three Immortal Islands in the East China Sea are one of the eight orthodox religions. Like the Nine Palaces Demon Sect in the Western Regions, this sect is formed by the union of the three island sects of Tumu Island, Tianji Mansion, and Zifu Chonglou. However, they did not unite to become one of the eight orthodox religions. Instead, the three islands' lineages have the same origin and can be traced, but they developed in different directions later on.

When Lu Cheng learned about the Tumudao sect, he felt that this sect was very similar to the civil engineering profession he knew in his previous life:

Bitterness, fatigue, and no Taoist companion, but if you can grit your teeth and endure all of this, you will indeed have a promising future. This sect is good at refining weapons, and uses the weapon refining technique to reversely practice their own Taoism.

The Tianji Palace excels in the cultivation of spiritual consciousness, while the Zifu Chonglou is good at refining equipment and cultivating spiritual consciousness. They also inherited the advanced alchemy technique, thus becoming the most prominent and wealthy sect in the East China Sea.

Dongji Island, Xinfo Temple, and Baiguyuan are three of the sixteen evil sects in the world and are also known as the Three Overseas Demons. It is said that among these three sects, only Dongji Dashadao was a demon sect, while Xinfo Temple and Baiguyuan were originally righteous Buddhist sects. However, the leaders of the two sects made a great wish to convert Dongji Island from evil to good. The three sects struggled for hundreds of years, and finally Xinfo Temple and Baiguyuan turned from righteous Buddhist sects into evil sects, which proved the saying that the higher the Taoism, the higher the devil.

Deng Qihe looks like a middle-aged Taoist priest, with an immortal look, a gaunt face, a few strands of long black beard under his chin, a silver-white snow-silk whisk resting on his left elbow, and he slowly walks into the sword-fighting arena.

The Master Yinshi was also wearing Taoist robes and looked quite young, but ordinary people could never sense any Taoist sense of peace from him. His skin was pale, without a trace of blood, and a cold and gloomy aura spread from his body.

The three immortals and three demons all gathered in the East China Sea. Both sides were familiar with each other and might even have a blood feud with each other, so there was no politeness at all in the sword fighting arena.

Deng Qihe first summoned a bright mirror and dropped it on his head, illuminating all directions to guard against sneak attacks from the opponent, and then summoned a white jade tower from his Qiankun bag and threw it into the air. The white jade tower spun and grew larger in the air, controlling the energy from all directions, and finally fell down slowly and quickly like a small mountain.

Every move this Taoist made was the most orthodox Taoist technique. He protected himself first and then used his strength to overwhelm others.

The white jade tower fell from the sky, and the spiritual light it shone even contained a powerful suction force, making it impossible to dodge and everyone could only take the blow head-on.

The corpse under the white jade tower was muttering something, but allowed himself to be covered and knocked down by the opponent's magic weapon.

With a loud bang, the white jade tower crushed the ground into powder.

But there was no joy on Deng Qihe's face. Instead, he instantly summoned a sword light and wrapped his body in it and flew away.

Without even using his spiritual sense to investigate, Deng Qihe was absolutely sure that Master Yinshi would not be defeated by him in one move. He was also practicing in the East China Sea, and he had heard of Master Yinshi's notorious reputation.

Almost the next moment after the Taoist flew up, a burly and ferocious corpse jumped out from the ground, but missed his target and chased after him on a black cloud of mist.

"Demon corpse."

With a whisper, a crystal clear jade ruyi appeared in Deng Qihe's right hand, and his left hand was chanting magic spells continuously. A magical light as warm as water surged out from the jade ruyi and rushed towards the demon corpse below.

The demon corpse was ferocious but had the nature of water. The burly corpse was entangled by wisps of water-blue spiritual light. Although it roared angrily, it was not enough to pose a threat to Deng Qihe.

"Where is the Yin Corpse Master?"

The magic gestures in his hands changed continuously, and the bright mirror above Deng Qihe's head shone with light in all directions. At the same time, the white jade tower slowly flew up again, controlling the vitality of heaven and earth from all directions.

For a magical weapon like this, it is best to interrupt it during its charging stage, otherwise it will be difficult to continue once it has completed the charging process.

"Roar!"

The light in the mirror above his head suddenly became brighter and a sound similar to the roar of an animal came to his ears. Deng Qihe shifted his attention and saw a female corpse with a transparent body that had approached him at some point.

However, Deng Qihe's magic weapon, Mingjing, saw through it and blocked it with its mirror light. This magic weapon, Mingjing, could use the power of the sun's fire to drive away evil spirits. It would not be so effective against other magic weapons, but it would be more effective against corpses.

"found it!"

As his spiritual consciousness and the mirror light spread in all directions, Deng Qihe noticed something unusual in one direction. He cast a spell and let a sword energy slash over. The water rippled, revealing a Taoist in black robe hiding behind him.

The Yin Corpse Master had a blank expression on his face, and didn't care at all about his true identity being discovered. His robe fluttered in the strong wind, and he stretched out a pale hand, holding a bone spear and swung it forward.

"go with!"

As soon as the latter appeared, the air was filled with piercing whistling sounds, which were sharp and fast. As soon as the whistling sound reached, the white bone spear had already crossed half of the space. On the bone spear, evil demonic energy was entangled, with black and white mixed together, and there was also a faint sound of ghosts crying.

"Three Yin Bones Contemplation, Netherworld Bone Spear!"

Deng Qihe's brows were full of solemnity. He shook the jade ruyi in his hand, and countless spiritual lights overflowed like stars, transforming into whirlpools of water waves, sweeping towards the Yinshi Master.

You must combine defense with offense. If you keep following the opponent's rhythm, you will definitely lose. Even if you want to defend, you must not let the opponent attack at will.

Seeing this, Master Yinshi sneered. A long banner appeared in his hand. He waved it forward lightly, and black gas rose up, engulfing the oncoming vortex of water waves.

Even as it was thrown up, the soul-capturing banner collided with the white jade tower that was flying towards it, and the two were in a stalemate for a while.

Deng Qihe, whose two magic weapons were broken in succession by the Yinshi Master, was now facing the Netherworld Bone Spear and the full force of two demon corpses at the same time, and suddenly felt that he was not up to the task.

Facing the Netherworld Bone Spear, Deng Qihe used the Lingxu Sword to attack and the Golden Mirror to use for part of the defense. However, the result was a loud bone explosion. The evil spirit of the Yin and Yang demons raged wildly, and the several magic weapons on Deng Qihe's body were unable to block it. They were hit by the evil spirit and fell from the air.

The two Yin-Yang Demon Corpses wanted to take the opportunity to devour the flesh and blood of the monks, but they were restrained by the spell cast by the Yin Corpse Master.

He shifted his gaze towards the Eight Visions Valley Qinghong. The female cultivator's hand was already on the hilt of the sword.

"Daoyou's soul flag is very powerful, but killing so many people would be against the harmony of nature."

"All living things are suffering, so it is better to be free as soon as possible!"

The Master Yinshi was clearly dressed in Taoist attire, but at this moment he put his hands together and made a Buddhist salute gesture. Gu Qinghong looked at him deeply, took a long breath but said nothing more.

"That magical weapon just now was the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, right? I can't believe that there are still people who dare to openly refine this magic treasure!"

"Deng Qihe lost unfairly. All his responses were correct and his skills were not inferior to that Yin Corpse. But with the few magic weapons he had, how could he possibly compete with the power of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner?"

"It is said that in order to refine the banner, this Yin Corpse slaughtered several mortal villages on the islands of the East China Sea, killing tens of thousands of people without blinking an eye... If you don't have a strong Taoism, you will not be able to escape the pursuit of the guardian monks of the various islands."

Lu Cheng looked at the young man in black and gray Taoist robes who was walking back with the banner, and suddenly he missed the Human Emperor Flag that he had refined that year. In order to brush up his stats, he relied on his first-mover advantage as a magic cultivator and ran to the imperial city to block the city gate for more than a week. In the end, his merit value was too low, and a thunder tribulation came. In addition, the strongest sword cultivator Chen Ziqiong and the strongest physical cultivator Li Buyi joined forces to drive him away.

Back then, he was the first magic player to be struck by lightning when his merit value dropped to the lower limit. He was also the first magic player to refresh his negative merit value and increase his attributes by increasing the number of tribulations.

This incident was even recorded in the "Jiutian Yearbook" at the time. Looking back now, I really was full of youthful vigor and energy - but if you are not full of youthful vigor and energy, can you still be called a young person?

"In the middle realm, the beasts are transformed into Gonglu City."

Finally, the boy shook out the bamboo stick with Lu Cheng's name on it again.

"Middle Realm, Ren Shoupeng from Beichen Sword Gate."

There was a faint uproar at the scene. Both of them came from top demon sects, Lu Cheng's Taoism was sharp, and Ren Shoupeng's swordsmanship was fierce. I didn't expect that they would collide with each other so soon.

I wonder what kind of brilliance will emerge from the confrontation between the two.

"In the first nine, no matter who it was, they could at least make Brother Lu show something, but Ren Shoupeng... why is this kid so unlucky? He has no chance of winning at all."

Tang Shi drank and shook his head while muttering. Xiao Yuxue beside him nodded in agreement when she heard it. Perhaps no one present knew the horror of Lu Cheng's swordsmanship better than the two of them.

Xiao Yuxue also felt that the other party had no chance of winning.

"You make the first move." Ren Shoupeng said.

In the sword fighting arena, the sword cultivator opposite Lu Cheng suddenly said this.

He had said the same thing before when he was fighting with Bu Mengbin. But Bu Mengbin was a casual cultivator, and his cultivation and magic power were not as good as his.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Incarnation Palace is even stronger than the Beichen Sword Gate, and Lu Cheng's magic power is comparable to his, so Ren Shoupeng's abrupt words made many people present slightly stunned.

And what Ren Shoupeng wanted was this shock, just like Xia Youqing's mental arithmetic. Every time it was by chance, and every time he defeated his opponent narrowly, and finally after getting the top three in the initial realm, he challenged the top three in the middle realm.

Huoyun Mansion is a famous and upright sect, so the sword cultivators are very poor and have to travel around the world from time to time to slay demons and monsters, rob the rich and help the poor. But Xia Youqing likes to spend money. She likes beautiful flying swords, beautiful skirts, beautiful magic weapons, and even likes to help the poor. She buys all the food and clothes in the city and distributes them to the poor, and listens to those little beggars calling her the fairy sister.

Therefore, Xia Youqing decided to get two eight-level treasures and two Yuxu Yandao fruits. If he sold any two of them, he would get a lot of spirit stones, which he could use to do many things he liked.

Ren Shoupeng does not have Xia Youqing's ability of mental arithmetic. He uses the Beichen Sword Sect's mind sword technique, using any method to disrupt the opponent's mind, and then kills the enemy with one sword.

If you can fight a few more battles, deepen everyone's inherent impression of you, and then launch a surprise attack with a sword, the power of this tactic will be much greater.

But at this time Ren Shoupeng had no choice. Facing the person in front of him, it seemed that there would be no chance of winning unless he gave his all.

He has practiced swordplay for many years, experienced life and death, and has a terrifying intuition.

Ren Shoupeng swung his sword suddenly, and his whole body suddenly swayed slightly in the air, flashing into nine afterimages that rushed towards Lu Cheng's direction from different angles. Each of the afterimages was waving a sword light in his hand. The sword light was divided into nine colors and contained amazing power!

Nine-turn Soul-breaking Sword!
The Nine-Turn Soul-Breaking Sword, the secret sword technique of the Beichen Sword Sect, can unleash nine kinds of sword energy at once, which cooperate with each other to launch terrifying attacks that are extremely sharp.

However, Lu Cheng, holding the banner in his hand, seemed to have fallen into a trap, and was frightened by the power of the sword, so he retreated back and forth.

Nine afterimages flashed by, and Lu Cheng didn't cast any spells or counterattack, but Ren Shoupeng was tripped by the long banner and fell into the lotus pond outside the Baishi venue.

The whole process was as if Ren Shoupeng was so eager to win that he used a powerful sword technique that he was not familiar with, and ended up losing by himself.

Wow, Ren Shoupeng had just turned over and floated to the surface with a red face, but at this moment, the tail of a long flag hit his throat.

Ren Shoupeng looked up and saw Lu Cheng's eyes. In an instant, all his resentment and anger were suppressed, and his face turned from red to pale. Ren Shoupeng knew clearly that if it had not been for the Eight Scenery Conference, he would have been dead by now.

Lu Cheng is the reincarnation of a modern man. Although he never behaved like a human in the game in his previous life, it does not mean that he would be the same in reality. On the contrary, Lu Cheng's moral level is even slightly above the average. That's why he stood up for a group of people in southern Xinjiang back then. That's why when he saw Master Yinshi refining the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, it aroused a trace of murderous intent in his heart.

As for Ren Shoupeng... he just hit the wrong car by mistake.

Among all the cultivators present, none of them were fools as they were able to cultivate to this level. Everyone could see that Ren Shoupeng had lost in a strange way.

Especially the performance of Gu Qinghong, the host of the Eight Landscapes, proved this point.

Although Ren Shoupeng of Beichen Jianmen lost, his bamboo stick was not taken out of the stick tube, which means that he can still participate in the next competition.

Any form of competition may lead to relative unfairness, but the ranking of the young generation of cultivators in the world by the Eight Scenes of the Eight Scenes has always been recognized by the Tongxuan world, because the host of the Eight Scenes of the Eight Scenes has certain authority to make assessments:

It doesn’t matter if you lose a sword fight, as long as the presiding monk approves, you can keep losing and end up in last place.

Such things have happened in the past few hundred years. Later, the person who was ranked last achieved the Golden Elixir True Person Realm and stood at the pinnacle of the Tongxuan Realm in this world.

Moreover, the last person will always lose when fighting with the people in front of him, and other monks who go to challenge him will often lose miserably.

"That guy's swordsmanship is better than the true teachings of Beichen Sword Sect? Yes, the Huoyun Mansion he came from is the ancient sword immortal lineage."

While drinking, Sheng Shang was imagining how he would perform when facing Ren Shoupeng's Nine Revolutions Soul-Breaking Sword Art. But it seemed that no matter what, he could not be like that guy who just defeated Ren Shoupeng with ease in an instant. Sheng Shang drank more and more.

"See through all the sword paths of the Nine Revolutions Soul Breaking Sword in an instant, Junior Sister Xia, can you do it?"

At another seat, Ye Cheng asked Xia Youqing softly.

"If you've seen it more than five times, it should be enough. But the first time I saw him, I didn't dare to see through him even if I could. By the time I saw through him, my head would have moved away. What's wrong with Senior Brother Lu? Is this how Southern Xinjiang trains people? I almost didn't recognize him when he came back this time."

The Eight Scenery Dharma Assembly continued in such a strange undercurrent.

However, many cultivators in the late stage of foundation building, except Tang Shi, began to feel insecure.

(End of this chapter)