Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 149: Golden Dragon Inner Pill
After resolving the issue of Chen Qingfeng's obsession, Lu Cheng, who had known each other for many years, did not want to embarrass his old friend, so he quickly left Chixin Temple.

With the pressure from the Five Elements Sword City, coupled with the careful management of Chen Qingfeng and the assistance of Chen Qingyun and Luo Peifang, Chixin Temple will be able to maintain its status and the faith in Chixin God.

Lu Cheng had no intention of letting Chixin Temple dominate Chixin City. It was enough for it to maintain its status as a first-tier sect.

Of the resource income of Chixin City, Chixin Temple takes 20%, Gushen Sect takes 30%, and the remaining 50% is divided among the cultivators of various sects.

The Yinshan Patriarch should have no intention of advancing northward and coming into conflict with the Tang Dynasty and two of the world's twelve top sects.

"I hope my attitude will be seen by the Yinshan Patriarch and can help Brother Tang Shi's situation. I have no interest in meeting this real person who is covered in poisonous insects."

After cultivating the Great Five Elements Earth True Fire, Lu Cheng can refine most of the alien magic powers in the world. After cultivating his own blood fire, the qi fire and life fire are combined, and Lu Cheng also has a strong resistance to most of the poisons in the world.

This comes from the cultivation and understanding of one's own life.

But Lu Cheng absolutely did not think that he could defend against the poison of Yinshan Zhenren. Even if facing a cultivator who was immune to all poisons, this southern leader would surely be able to concoct the 1001st strange poison.

So even today, fifty years later, the Moyun Cave in Yinshan Mountain in the Southern Wilderness is still a dangerous place that Lu Cheng is absolutely unwilling to approach.

The sword flashed and flew towards Lingnan City that Never Sleeps.

To the east of here is the Southeast Forest Sea, and to the west are the Ten Thousand Mountains. If you encounter a powerful enemy in the Central Plains, you only need to go to these two places, and even a cultivator with high cultivation will find it difficult to find you.

However, these two places are poor and barren, with scarce resources for cultivation. Unless there is really no other way, no one would want to hide here for a long time.

In comparison, the City That Never Sleeps is like a place of extreme yang in the midst of extreme yin. It has order, population, and is extremely prosperous.

A large number of independent cultivators just live here, so the City That Never Sleeps is regarded as one of the evil sects in the world, and the locals are unwilling to recognize it.

At night, on a river beach.

Lu Cheng flew down on his sword. After landing, he stretched out his palm and struck a stone tablet. With the cutting of the sword energy, a piece of stone fell down and landed in his hand.

Then, Lu Cheng crushed it into pieces with his five fingers. After the rubble was dispersed, a ring appeared in the middle.

It was the storage ring that Lu Cheng, Liu Baihong and Lin Qingyue had obtained after joining forces to assassinate Chen Tianxiong many years ago.

In order to save his life at that time, Lu Cheng followed the method taught by Liu Baihong and hammered the ring into the inscription on a stone tablet, where it remains to this day.

Liu Baihong was born a killer, and his method of dealing with his aftermath was very clean. After strict execution, even though the Ranmu Shanlin family had spent many years of manpower and resources, they still could not track down anything.

Today, even if the Ranmushan Lin family finds out, Lu Cheng has nothing to fear.

He returned to the city that never sleeps with the ring and found the best inn to stay in.

Lu Cheng sat down on the bed in the room, and began to cast a spell to break the defensive restrictions on the ring. However, as soon as his spiritual power penetrated into it, Lu Cheng was shocked.

The copper ring was seen corroding rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Self-destruction restriction, what did Chen Tianxiong hide in it?"

A black and red flame emerged in the palm of his hand, quickly covering the storage ring, and the Great Five Elements Earthly True Fire dissolved all things.

This corrosion and melting, the confrontation between the two magical powers, lasted for two hours. When Lu Cheng retracted the flames, the sky outside the inn room had already brightened.

"Phew, that was close. Fortunately, I didn't try to break it back then. This kind of restriction is very likely to be impossible to break even for an ordinary cultivator. If it weren't for the special nature of my Earthly True Fire, I wouldn't be able to break it either."

Lu Cheng was interested in the things that were kept so carefully. He was not sleepy anyway, so he first set up several magical restrictions in the room, and then took out the items one by one from the ring.

The vast majority of them are things commonly used by foundation-building monks: magical instruments, talismans, elixirs, and Taoist books and regulations.

Until Lu Cheng took out a jade box from the ring. As soon as he opened it, a terrifying aura emanated from it.

At the same time, the guy who had already gotten up to clean the inn outside the room was suddenly startled. He felt as if there was an ancient wild beast behind him, so wild and ferocious that even his thoughts came to a halt. Many guests in the inn who were originally sleeping were also awakened at this moment.

However, Lu Cheng quickly closed the jade box and set up several prohibitions around him. Only then did the terrifying aura completely disappear and could no longer be sensed.

"What happened? Why did I get so scared just now?"

The innkeeper turned his head suspiciously, but saw nothing. Finally, he shook his head and could only think that he had suddenly gone crazy.

At the same time, most of the guests in the inn just turned over and continued to sleep soundly. The few who were extremely perceptive could not figure it out no matter how hard they thought.

Only Lu Cheng slowly sat back on the bed. It was not until today that he knew what the betrothal gift was when Chen Tianxiong asked for the noble lady of the Lin family.

It was not until today that he found out why Chen Tianxiong's death would attract sixteen high-level monks from Ranmu Mountain, who set up the Heaven and Earth Resentful Souls Poison Formation and carried out a mass killing.

"It's actually a fifth-level demon pill!?"

There hasn't been a great demon in the Jindan stage born in this world for many years, because the demon pill of a fifth-order great demon can help cultivators at the ninth level of the Lian Gang to break through the bottleneck, and can also be refined into an external pill, forming a special magical instrument, which can enable the cultivator wearing it to possess magical powers close to that of a Jindan master.

It can melt the elixir, allowing the cultivators at the ninth level of the Refining Gang to have a considerable chance of being promoted to the rank of the Grandmaster of the Forming Dan. It can also be refined into a natal magic weapon with matching properties, saving the cultivators the effort of nurturing for many years.

In addition to this, there are various other wonderful methods. In short, the inner elixir of high-level monsters has endless uses.

But for Lu Cheng, there are only two ways to use this demon pill: either refine it into an external pill now, forming a special magic weapon, and wear it on the body to directly gain magical powers close to that of a grandmaster of the Jindan realm.

Or put it aside and refine it into your own magical weapon later.

Although the method of melting the elixir can give a cultivator with a weak foundation a considerable chance of being promoted to a master of elixir formation, the elixir can only be of middle quality at best. Lu Cheng certainly would not choose this method and destroy his own foundation.

Even if it is a breakthrough caused by this, because too much external force is needed, it is relatively easy to make a third-grade elixir, but it will be more difficult to make a second-grade or even a first-grade golden elixir.

"I never thought that after so many years, Great Elder Chen Tianxiong would actually give me such a generous gift. With this as an external elixir, I can now deduce many of the sword techniques and magic formulas that I have envisioned."

In the inn room, a solemn isolation ban was set up, and then Lu Cheng took out the golden inner pill, and saw a golden dragon shadow hovering inside from time to time. It was a precious dragon inner pill. Among the inner pills, it was also of extremely high quality.

He lifted the pill with his magic power, and then Lu Cheng began to recall the books on external pill refining that he had read in his spare time in the sect. The Palace of Incarnation of Ten Thousand Beasts was the main school of beast taming, and at least in this world, its research on this art was unparalleled. Even this external pill refining method for monster beasts had secret techniques that were superior to those of other cultivators' sects.

As the words of the Taoist scriptures flowed through his mind, Lu Cheng clasped his hands, condensed the magic talisman, and began to cast a spell.

He gathered the magic talismans in the void and then injected them into the inner pill. Lucheng's Great Five Elements Earthly Extreme True Fire was one of the most suitable true fires for this kind of thing. At first, the golden dragon phantom in the inner pill was still struggling and roaring, but as time went on, it was covered by waves of black and red flames, and the sound of the dragon's roar gradually disappeared.

"I also know the nature of dragons very well. By making you my external elixir and a magical tool to protect you, I can help you fulfill your lifelong wish of transforming into a dragon."

"Ouch...ow..."

Seven days later, Lu Cheng completed the secret method and broke through the barrier with satisfaction and left the inn. At this moment, he was holding the dragon elixir, and suddenly his hands felt itchy again. He wanted to find a few people to be killed and kill them with his sword!
“Blessings and infinite blessings to the Heavenly Lord, a serious cultivator should abstain from killing and cherish life…Blessings and infinite blessings to the Heavenly Lord, it is a sin, a sin.

The Ranmu Mountain Lin family has been an evil sect for many years, and has committed countless evil deeds. How about I just go to their house and wipe out their entire family?"

Lu Cheng had finally managed to suppress his murderous intent.

The Ranmu Mountain Lin Family is the largest vassal sect among the Southern Demon Cult. It is easy for me to kill them now with a sword alone, but it is not so easy to escape with my hands and feet safe when I am chased by Yinshan Zhenren for thousands of miles.

In the early morning, in front of Wenjianzhai in the Never-Sleeping City, there was a crowd of people, and there was an endless stream of poor children in the city who came to learn swordsmanship.

Today is the day when Wenjianzhai opens for sword-teaching. In front of the door, tall old pines stand. On the door plaque, three large characters "Wenjianzhai" written in a flamboyant style still sparkle with sharp sword intent under the shining of the morning sun.

Although they charge a tuition fee for teaching swordsmanship, the basic qualities still have to undergo strict assessment. Only those who pass the assessment can truly join Jianzhai, become a member of it, learn swordsmanship, and fight for a future.

The main hall of Wenjianzhai is the sword teaching hall, and the overall layout is cold and chilly.

Today, all the disciples that Wenjianzhai recruited, young men from all directions gathered here. Some of them looked around curiously, while others talked in low voices with the people around them, feeling nervous and excited.

The instructors on both sides had serious expressions. They wore the same robes, with swords on their knees, in their hands, or on their backs.

Suddenly, a burly middle-aged man accompanied by a beautiful woman walked into the hall. He was the current abbot of Wenjianzhai and He Guo, the eldest disciple of the previous abbot.

He came to the center of the training hall with a long sword in his hand. The tip of the sword lightly touched the ground and then swung it. A murderous aura immediately spread.

This made the atmosphere in the training hall quiet, and everyone's eyes were focused on him. He Guo had no expression on his face, but his voice was sonorous and powerful:
"The path of swordsmanship is long. Joining our school today is like embarking on a new life. Today, I will pass on to you the words my master gave me back then. Remember, as a disciple of the Sword School, you should never regret when you strike!"

"A disciple of Wenjianzhai, once you strike the sword, you will have no regrets!"

Those sword-fighting instructors all bowed their heads.

"Disciple, accept my instruction."

The new disciples all bowed down, as if this had become a kind of inheritance.

He Guo, after Lu Cheng left the City That Never Sleeps, worked hard with his disciples to keep the inheritance of Wenjianzhai going. Later, he married Bai Feier from Jinhong Sword Hall and led Wenjianzhai to take root in the City That Never Sleeps. Although it is no longer as prosperous as before, the inheritance is still orderly.

Xie Yan was Lu Cheng's second disciple back then. He had admired swordsmanship since he was young, and later became Lu Cheng's disciple. His swordsmanship made great progress. After Lu Cheng left, he and his senior brother supported the sword gym. After the gym became stable, he left, wholeheartedly pursuing the swordsmanship in his heart.

Yu Liang, Lu Cheng's third disciple back then, did not like swordsmanship but was good at business. Later he became Lu Cheng's apprentice and made great progress in swordsmanship. Now he is the patriarch of Yu family and has a close relationship with Wenjianzhai, with both sides helping each other and benefiting from each other.

He Guo, who was already a middle-aged Taoist priest, was walking back and forth in the sword hall, watching his disciples practicing with swords. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure turning and walking away, and he was stunned.

"Husband, what's wrong?"

Bai Fei'er on the side asked very gently. The bright and pretty girl like a hot pepper back then has become a gentle woman today.

"Nothing...Nothing, maybe I saw it wrong."

Lu Cheng had no intention of meeting He Guo. So many years had passed, and He Guo certainly could no longer clearly see his master's back.

This is the life of a cultivator. However, now that his life is perfect and everything is going well, he no longer has the courage to seek the truth. Although the two of them once walked the same path, they are no longer fellow travelers.

In this case, it is better not to meet each other, as it will only disturb his mind.

Knowing the current life trajectories of these disciples and knowing that they are all safe, Lu Cheng is already very satisfied.

night.

A remote inn in the city that never sleeps.

The owner of this inn is named Zheng. He runs an inn that is not very prosperous, but he has a beautiful wife and concubines and is well-off.

It was still early, but the fat boss Zheng had already started closing the shop with his colleagues and prepared to go home and enjoy life.

At this time, he was patted on the shoulder.

"Who?"

Boss Zheng turned around impatiently, only to see a young Taoist looking at him with a smile. In the Taoist's palm, there was a token which he quickly retracted.

But Boss Zheng saw it, and his expression suddenly changed, he said rudely:

"I didn't know that the envoy was coming, and I was unable to greet him. Damn it, damn it!"

As he spoke, Boss Zheng slapped himself hard, really hard, so that his cheeks soon became red and swollen.

"Forget it, I don't blame you. It's just that all of you secret agents are now visible agents, right?"

"Hey, this, the envoy is really joking."

The young Taoist was of course Lu Cheng, and the shopkeeper named Zheng was a secret agent of the Palace of All Beasts in the City That Never Sleeps, used to collect information for emergency use.

However, as the top demonic sect, the Palace of the Incarnation of Ten Thousand Beasts is not a force that the City That Never Sleeps can contend with. The secret agents sent by it would not be very elite. After living there for many years, they still have the function of collecting information, but they may no longer be able to hide themselves in the shadows.

Sometimes, the City That Never Sleeps would even pass on some messages to the Palace of the Incarnation of All Beasts through here, but most of them fell on deaf ears.

Knowing this situation in his heart, Lu Cheng simply did not hide anything. After all, the secret agent of the Palace of Ten Thousand Beasts in the City That Never Sleeps was welcoming a monk from the sect after many years, which in itself was not a big deal.

If he concealed it, it would only arouse suspicion. Under the hospitality of the shopkeeper Zheng, Lu Cheng walked into the inn.

(End of this chapter)