Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 137 Gift of Sword, Adventure

To welcome a Jindan Zhenren, all the servants in the Leihuo Palace came out. Lu Cheng and Xue Yuzhen were the first to greet him. Yun Linger had gone out to play and was not in the palace at the moment.

The middle-aged Taoist priest was holding a whisk, his green robe fluttering in the wind, and his only son Yuwen Yi was following behind him, smiling as he walked towards them.

The old Taoist priest had a beard like silver, and there were slight wrinkles on the corners of his eyes and forehead, but his eyes were extremely sharp, and anyone who saw them would feel chilled:

Yuwen Zheng, who has been guarding outside on the orders of his master for many years, resists the pressure brought by Gong Nanzong, the incarnation of all beasts, with the assistance of several sect elders.

Because of the long years of fighting, it naturally has its reputation:
His original cultivation level was the ninth level of Liangang, and he had fused his blood with a dragon. Although it was as ferocious and brutal as a real dragon, its spirituality was much lower than that of a real dragon, so it was easier to restrain and fuse it. Furthermore, as his cultivation level improved, his blood would be purified in the future.

The fusion of the true blood of a flood dragon has some weaknesses compared to the fusion of the true blood of a real dragon, but it can be compensated by the abilities of the cultivator. At least Yuwen Zheng is definitely not a cultivator with obvious flaws, otherwise he would not be alive today.

People describe him as being powerful, fierce, cunning and intelligent.

In this life, he had only one Seljuq Taoist companion, who gave birth to his only son, Yuwen Yi. He doted on him very much. Apart from him, he had no other relatives. After hundreds of years of cultivation, he did not even have a concubine.

"Meet Senior Brother."

Lu Chengzhi bowed first, but was supported by Yuwen Zheng.

"For a cultivator, there is no greater hatred than someone blocking the path. Similarly, for me, there is no greater favor than my help. Come, let's go into the hall and talk."

Although the middle-aged Taoist has a righteous temperament, he seems to have a great liking for Lu Cheng.

Yuwen Zheng, Lu Cheng, Yuwen Yi, and Xue Yuzhen walked into the Thunder Fire Hall together, chatting and laughing. Looking at the banquet that had already been set up in the hall, Yuwen Zheng shook his head and said:

"Junior brother, cultivators do not like to be polite and prefer to speak directly from the heart. Please remove all these. I came here uninvited today just to discuss Taoism with you and to express my gratitude. There is no need for a banquet."

Lu Cheng had no objection to this. There were waiters around who quickly cleared away the food and wine.

"It is said that Junior Brother had a quarrel with Junior Brothers Five and Six because of the elixir fruit issue?" When he said this, Yuwen Zheng glanced at Xue Yuzhen who was standing beside him and said:
"We have been together for many years, so it is normal. Junior brother, you don't have to worry about this. I have called the fifth and sixth junior brothers to listen to the Dharma for half a month. Now they already know that cultivators should not only focus on the cultivation of merit, but also pay attention to the cultivation of their own Tao heart. No matter how good the opportunity is, it is an external thing. From ancient times to the present, no one has achieved success by chance alone."

Yuwen Zheng told Lu Cheng these words as the eldest senior brother, telling him that he no longer had to worry about the fifth and sixth brothers causing trouble because of this, or else they would make things difficult for him.

As the eldest eldest brother in a sect, only Yuwen Zheng was suitable to step in and resolve such a situation, and he did step in to resolve it, trying his best to maintain stability within the sect.

Next, the two discussed Taoism.

It was called a discussion, but in fact it was more of Lu Cheng asking for advice, and Yuwen Zheng giving the answers. The fact that he was able to cultivate to become a Golden Elixir True Man showed that Yuwen Zheng's understanding of Taoism was correct, or at least not wrong, to a certain extent.

This discussion lasted until dusk fell.

Then Yuwen Zheng calculated with his fingers and saw that it was getting late, so he left resolutely, leaving behind a sword box.

Lu Cheng opened the sword box and saw a flying sword with a dark red halo inside. It was a fourth-grade top-grade sword and its name was Cang Yan.

On the way back, Yuwen Yi was a little puzzled:
"Father, although it was Uncle Nine who sold the Yuxu Yandao Fruit to you, we also signed a huge purchase agreement for a million spirit stones. Why did you condescend to help him mediate the feud and give him the swords in your collection?"

"...Condescend to me? Yier, what do you think is the most important thing for a cultivator to practice?"

"Chance, character, and bones."

"No, I'm asking about the four essentials of cultivation: Dharma, land, companion, and wealth. In my early years, I was as rebellious as you, thinking that as long as my cultivation was high enough, I could dominate the world. It's not wrong for young people to think like this, but when you reach my age, you won't think like this anymore.

A Jindan Zhenren has to go through 49 tribulations, and each time he goes through a tribulation, his vitality will be greatly damaged, so a good Taoist partner is very important. The Taoist method of my Wanshou Huashen Palace is powerful, but it is very difficult to condense a golden elixir. Among the disciples of Master who have this opportunity, Wu Lingjun has mastered the fifth level, Ou Bai has mastered the third level, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth brothers... If there is no great opportunity, there is no chance. On the contrary, this Master's new ninth disciple Lu Cheng has the strengths of several families and his Taoist foundation is much deeper than mine."

"We are brothers from the same sect and the most natural allies. What's the point of me investing in him a fourth-grade high-quality flying sword now? In the future, even a fifth-grade magic weapon may not have the same effect as today."

The son behind him was his biological son, so Yuwen Zheng explained the truth to Yuwen Yi in detail.

In fact, the reason why Yuwen Zheng behaved like this today was because he was struck by the forty-nine tribulations. When a cultivator inhales and exhales the Earthly Evil and Heavenly Gang, he is stealing the true energy of heaven and earth to practice. Therefore, once he condenses the golden elixir, he will have to go through the forty-nine tribulations.

When the golden elixir was condensed, the calamity of the dragon and the tiger converged and evolved into one calamity. Yuwen Zheng turned into a dragon and resisted the thunder calamity. It was not known whether it was because of his low fortune or insufficient merit. In short, Yuwen Zheng, who could definitely be said to have a high level of cultivation, was almost struck to death by the thunder calamity.

There isn't much logic to explain when a cultivator goes through a tribulation. Fate plays a large part in it. Some people don't have strong magical powers, nor have they accumulated much merit, so the tribulation just passes by easily. Some people have strong magical powers, and have several magical instruments for going through the tribulation, but they are still killed by a violent thunder.

Fortunately, Yuwen Zheng is the eldest disciple under Huang Longzi of the Palace of the Incarnation of Ten Thousand Beasts. Otherwise, even if he survived the first forty-nine tribulations, he would become the prey of many evil cultivators and demon cultivators due to the severe damage to his vitality. After retreating to the Palace of Ten Thousand Beasts, he was able to safely survive the weak period under the protection of Huang Longzi and his wife.

Therefore, Yuwen Zheng's understanding of the relevant knowledge during this period was particularly deep-rooted, and even changed his previous style of doing things.

"What's more..."

What's more, Yuwen Zheng didn't say anything. He just remembered that day when he was practicing in his Tengjiao Palace, he saw a ray of blood shining through the sky above the Five Elements Cave from afar.

Yuwen Zheng was also an old monk who had practiced for hundreds of years, so he certainly knew what that blood light meant. Although he didn't think that this strange phenomenon could be hidden from his master and mistress, it didn't stop him from coming to confirm his guess in advance.

"It really is the Blood God Son. It's fine now, but if we advance one more level, we will be able to see the blood light from a thousand miles away. I can see that it is impossible for our master to be unaware of it. Does our sect want to protect this generation of the Blood God Son?"

Under normal circumstances, this would be impossible, but Yuwen Zheng had followed Huang Longzi for hundreds of years and had already refined the golden elixir.

Huang Longzi told him the truth about this world. When Yuwen Zheng heard that there were 24 ancient demon gods equivalent to the Nascent Soul Realm entrenched outside the end of the world, he was horrified. When he learned that all the promoted Nascent Soul cultivators in this world were swallowed by these demon gods, his hands and feet were even colder. Fortunately, Huang Longzi told him frankly that many real people from various sects had already seen through and made preparations, and Yuwen Zheng barely calmed down. Now, he naturally felt that Lu Cheng, who cultivated the blood nerves, was one of the backup plans prepared by his master to deal with the 24 demon gods outside the world.

At the same time, on the other side, although Lu Cheng had some doubts, he did not know the truth of this world, and did not know that this world was actually a food cage set up by the demon god.

After resting in the Thunder Fire Palace for several months, he re-entered the Five Elements Cave to condense the True Evil. However, this time, he had an extra fourth-level middle-grade magic weapon, the True Evil Gourd.

This gourd can absorb the true evil of heaven and earth and preserve it, and transform it into true evil thunder beads to protect the way and body. The more true evil of heaven and earth is absorbed, the more powerful the thunder beads will be, but the same amount of time will also be required to condense the thunder beads.

This was something Lu Cheng came to borrow after he learned that his second senior sister Wu Lingjun had this magic weapon. It was used to absorb enough of the Five Elements True Evil. This way, even when he went out, it would not affect his own practice of condensing evil spirits, and he would not be without evil spirits to condense.

After obtaining the Zhensha Gourd, Lu Cheng now had two fourth-grade mid-quality magic weapons and two fourth-grade top-quality flying swords. Such a wealth exceeded what most Ningsha and Liangang monks had accumulated over the years.

This is the advantage of being born into a first-class and large sect. Those senior brothers and sisters are natural allies, and there is no need for you to search for many resources by yourself like most cultivators do, thus saving countless efforts.

In the Five Elements Cave, Lu Cheng went deep underground for more than half a month.

Because it took thirteen years to use talismans and formations to devour all the Five Elements True Evil in a fairly large area, so if one wants to obtain sufficiently deep and pure Five Elements True Evil energy, they have to go deep underground.

Of course, if one could accept a more complex collection of the Five Elements' True Evil, that would be fine, but how could Lu Cheng accept that?

Not to mention walking around for half a month to chase the evil spirit, even if it was for half a year or a year, Lu Cheng would only choose to cultivate his own evil spirit magic power to be both pure and thick.

On this day, Lu Cheng was escaping into the earth to pursue the evil spirits of the Five Elements. He also extracted a node where the earth's energy condensed and condensed the evil spirits to the ninth level. The more he practiced, the more evil spirits of the Five Elements he would need.

However, Lu Cheng's innate magical power is the sea of ​​qi, and the amount of magic power he needs to absorb far exceeds that of other cultivators at the same level. He also has the Great Five Elements Earth True Fire to refine the True Evil to the utmost purity. As a result, his magic power has become exquisite, powerful and unparalleled. It is nearly fifty times more powerful than the Taoist magic of the same level from other sects.

While he was escaping, Lu Cheng suddenly stopped his escape technique, landed on the ground, and then waved his hand to summon an ancient green tripod.

The lid of the small green tripod opened and closed, emitting two rays of light. One of them fell into Lu Cheng's left hand, and it turned out to be a piece of ore.

Galaxy Sand, a fifth-grade precious material for sword-making, is a purple ore. It looks as if there are stars twinkling inside it, and it is extremely magnificent.

Another ray of light turned into a puppy and landed at Lu Cheng's feet. It rubbed against him at first, then turned over and faced Lu Cheng with its belly. This was a behavior of a canine monster expressing its loyalty.

"After all these years, you finally woke up."

Although they were very different, Lu Cheng could tell who this little white dog was. This fourth-level dog demon swallowed a fourth-level ghost dragon for itself decades ago, and has been unable to subdue it since then. Lu Cheng has not summoned it over the years, allowing it to recuperate in the Jiuli Ding.

Now, the appearance of the fourth-level dog demon has changed greatly, and it is obvious that its own demonic power has greatly improved.

The original short-haired, white, thin-waisted dog had now transformed into a small size, like a meat egg. Seeing that there was no one around, Lu Cheng bent down and played with it for a while, then lifted it up to look at the little bean below, and then put it down again.

Swallowing the heaven and earth with the "sun and moon in the belly" and then refining it will indeed greatly increase the dog demon's power, but it is actually quite dangerous. If the refining fails, the intestines will be pierced and the stomach will be rotten, which can cause great damage to the vitality at the very least, and death on the spot at the worst.

The Wanshou Huashi Palace has been taming beasts for many years, so it is not difficult to find records like this in ancient books.

"It has actually been directly elevated to the realm of refining Gang. The conversion of mana is quite high. It is indeed worthy of being the innate magical power of the demon race. It has its own advantages over the acquired cultivation of the human race."

There are two main spiritual beasts in Lu Cheng's Jiuli Ding now, one is a fourth-level dog demon, and the other is a hundred-poison golden silkworm Gu. The former has greatly improved its magic power, and the latter has greatly increased the number of third-level golden silkworm Gu after years of cultivation. In addition, the golden silkworm Gu controls many spiritual insect production resources, which can be considered as an income. If Lu Cheng is not allowed to practice, he will be completely eating up his resources.

On the contrary, the Green Scaled Snake King, which was the most powerful back then, has gradually become useless because Lu Cheng has now been promoted to the Ningsha level and even possesses a fourth-level flying sword.

“Woof woof…Woof woof”

Suddenly, the little dog demon barked, then ran in one direction, looking back from time to time.

In its larval state, it hardly consumed much of Lu Cheng's spiritual power, and Lu Cheng quickly understood what it meant.

"What's there?"

"Wang Wang."

Lu Cheng followed the dog demon and gradually became alert. Although he had trained this dog demon for many years, who knew what it had found.

"Wang Wang Wang Wang."

The dog demon didn't run far before it came to a place between rocks underground and started barking wildly. Lu Cheng didn't sense anything here at first.

But after a while, rocks rolled down in the area where the dog demon was barking, and the ground cracked. Finally, a figure that looked like a human, but with skin as dark as iron, crawled out from it.

"Zombies?"

At this moment Lu Cheng understood why the dog demon could sense it, but his own spiritual sense could hardly detect it. Zombies are known as the sons of the earth, and they are fully integrated with the earth's energy and have a sympathetic relationship with it. It is normal for their earth escape techniques to be hidden across a large realm.

"Just don't move."

Seeing that the fourth-level dog demon was about to change its shape, Lu Cheng reached out and shot out golden light to take it back. At the same time, he did not sacrifice the Qingming and Cangyan flying swords, but used his original third-level five-element flying sword to attack the zombie.

(End of this chapter)