Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 157 Sword Qi and Thunder Sound, beheading with one sword!
Ever since their encounter with Grandmaster Chen Daoyan of Yongchuan Bibotan, the five people's encounters with Grandmasters have increased significantly. Of course, they would avoid them as far as possible when they could vaguely sense the aura of a fight. This was accompanied by increasingly frequent earthquakes in Huangquan Valley.

"Have all the Jindan masters in the world come to Huangquan Valley?" Situ Hua cursed angrily.

The third or fourth level blood-exchanging flowers should not be worth the efforts of these masters, but many Jindan masters gathered here, and some of them had their own grudges, either personal grudges or sect hostility. If they met them here, they would of course deal with them.

Perhaps it was because the fight between these Jindan masters had disturbed the earth's energy, so earthquakes in Huangquan Valley have become more frequent in recent days.

Fortunately, Situ Hua knew the local environment far better than others. Whether it was avoiding the miasma and passing through quickly or finding a place to hide, it was much easier for him than others.

As they went deeper, the Yellow Spring Valley exploration map in Lu Cheng's hand gradually became useless. After all, Shen Longcheng and his friends could not possibly reach such a deep level in the Yellow Spring Valley. They were just seeking wealth, not death.

At this moment, the five people hid in a tree cave. This big tree has grown for too many years, and due to the special environment here, part of the tree trunk has turned into stone, which is perfect for hiding.

Situ Hua, Guo Lingbao, Madam Shi, and Shangguan Xue were meditating and regulating their breathing. It was not only the loss of their physical strength and magic power, but more importantly the loss of their mind and spirit. With their level of cultivation, sneaking into the place where the great masters of the Jindan gathered would undoubtedly be extremely draining.

Lu Cheng sat cross-legged in a corner, painting grids on an animal skin map. As he went deeper, the map of the Yellow Spring Valley was gradually painted into the shape of trees.

Those people from Shenlong City were constantly expanding outside, while his team had already penetrated deep underground.

Rumble, rumble.

Deep underground, there was a sudden and huge shock. The entire tree hole was shaking violently, and objects kept falling.

The five people present all had protective magic power so they were not afraid. However, in the constant vibration, Lu Cheng stared at the Yellow Springs Valley exploration map in front of him. Looking at the markings and nodes on it, he inexplicably recalled a formation deep in his memory, or to be more precise, a remnant of a formation.

"No, I think I'm overthinking it."

This remaining formation is called the Road to the Netherworld, and it is an evil formation discovered by the Lin family in an ancient cave. Once its power is fully unleashed, it can absorb infinite Nine Netherworld Qi from the deep and boundless Nine Earths and come across the air. The Qi of heaven and earth is yang, and the Qi of the Nine Netherworld is yin. When the two converge and the yin and yang collide, it is likely that the sky will collapse and the earth will split, and it is easy to turn the area of ​​​​a hundred miles into a dead zone!
"Impossible. The Passing Path requires at least three True Person Realm cultivators to work together to push it. Even if the Lin family goes crazy... if it's here, deep underground, two True Person Realm cultivators working together would be enough, right?"

Lu Cheng suddenly thought of the special geographical environment of Huangquan Valley and was distracted for a moment.

"Let's go, the earthquake is over."

At this moment, Situ Hua's voice suddenly came to my ears.

Lu Cheng also calmed his mind and flew out of the tree hole.

The twenty-second day of the first month of the downward movement.

After several dangerous obstacles, the group of five finally arrived at the medicine garden that Situ Hua had mentioned before. It was indeed an extremely hidden valley surrounded by dark purple poisonous miasma.

“It’s finally here, it’s finally here!”

Situ Hua led the four people along the winding path and arrived at the valley. He flew over with a look of ecstasy on his face, and then froze in a daze.

Guo Lingbao, Madam Shi, Shangguan Xue, and Lu Cheng also stepped forward quickly and were all stunned.

Because there was nothing in front of me, just a barren valley.

"Lin Hua, what's going on?"

Seeing this scene, Guo Lingbao's face turned extremely bad and his tone became grim. His eyes fell on Situ Hua and he was almost about to take action.

"Situ Hua, some poisonous insects can cause hallucinations after biting people. Have you been poisoned by those old monsters?"

Mrs. Shi also gritted her teeth. The scene before her did not look like a medicine garden. Even if it was destroyed by the battle between the Jindan Grandmasters, it would be impossible for there to be no ashes left.

"impossible!"

Situ Hua ignored Guo Lingbao and Madam Shi. He flew down and grabbed the yellow soil there.

However, the soil was full of sand and lacked spiritual energy. Although no one present was a spiritual plant farmer, they all knew that such soil could not grow spiritual medicine or even spiritual rice.

"Wait a minute, there was indeed a spiritual medicine garden here."

At this moment, Shangguan Xue, who had also stepped forward to investigate, suddenly spoke, temporarily easing the tense atmosphere between Situ Hua, Guo Lingbao, and Madam Shi.

"It should be a moving spiritual medicine garden. The spiritual energy here is too depleted. It is even inferior to the surrounding areas. The Lin family really has some tricks up their sleeves."

Lu Cheng flew high into the sky, entered the state of sword heart clarity and sensed something, then came down and said this, indirectly confirming what Shangguan Xue said.

Lu Cheng and Shangguan Xue have different means of investigation. Lu Cheng is looking down from a high place with his eyes on the overall situation, while Shangguan Xue is extremely sensitive to spiritual energy due to the Taoism she practices.

"A moving medicinal garden? Where is it now?" Guo Lingbao asked anxiously.

"It should be because of the chaos here during this period that the Lin family cultivators moved it to a more secret place, but there must be traces to be found, and it can't fly faster than us."

Lu Cheng's words calmed the minds of everyone present, and it was true if you think about it carefully.

As long as it is confirmed that the spiritual medicine garden does exist, it is impossible for such a large medicine garden to be moved without any trace and without leaving any clues.

Shangguan Xue practiced the special Taoist tradition of Xingshen Temple and had a strong sensitivity to spiritual energy, just like a chef with an unusually sharp tongue, who could taste deeper flavors than other chefs.

The spiritual energy of high-level spiritual medicine is different from ordinary ones. Although Shangguan Xue's sense of it was intermittent, she followed the intermittent clues, flying swords, water escape, and earth escape, and traced all the way. Twelve days later, the five of them finally found the moved medicine garden in a swamp area.

"It's right here, it's right here!"

Situ Hua flew down in great excitement, and the others were also ecstatic, and no one reacted to stop him for a while.

Just as he was about to approach the medicine garden, a vortex of black wind suddenly rose up from the dead woods surrounding the medicine garden, surrounded Situ Hua and blocked his way.

"Lin Hua, today is not the day to deliver food, why are you here again?"

When Situ Hua reacted, he found a monster with a human head and a snake body around his neck. The monster had the head of an old man, but the body was a snake from the neck down. When it opened its mouth, it had a mouth full of sharp teeth and eyes with tongue-like pupils. It stuck out a bloody red tongue and licked Situ Hua's cheek.

For a moment, Lu Cheng and others almost used their magic weapons.

"…Ancestor, two of these people are sons-in-law who married into the Lin family, and two are new wives who married into the Lin family. I brought them here to get to know the family so that they can pay their respects to the ancestors in the future."

Situ Hua seemed to be extremely frightened of this old monster with a human head and a snake body, and he quickly made up a lie.

"Hahahaha, good, good. There are always new people joining the family business, and only then can it prosper. Haha, you guys wait there."

The old monster with a human head and a snake body seemed extremely happy. He once again transformed into a black whirlwind and fell into the medicine garden below.

"Situ Hua, what should we do? Escape or take action?"

"Don't act rashly for now. Lin Qinian's brain is not quite right anymore, but his cultivation is extremely powerful among those old monsters! Even if we attack together, we may not be able to take him down in a short time!"

Not long after, Lin Qinian flew out again, spitting out five rays of spiritual light that hit the five people respectively.

Lu Cheng reached out and took it, and it turned out to be a fourth-level blood-changing flower. Shangguan Xue had the same one in her hand, while Situ Hua, Guo Lingbao, and Madam Shi each had a blood spirit fruit in their hands.

There is no need to say more about the efficacy of the Blood-Exchange Flower. Although the three Blood Spirit Fruits are only of the third level, this fruit is one of the best main ingredients for refining the third level longevity pill. If it is really placed in front of a cultivator with an insufficient lifespan, the price of the third level Blood Spirit Fruit will even be higher than that of the third level Blood-Exchange Flower.

"Thank you for the gift, ancestor." Situ Hua was already proofing in front.

Seeing this, Lu Cheng and his four companions followed behind.

“Hahahaha, good, good, you must remember, only when the family is prosperous can you live a good life. If the family is ruined, you will become independent cultivators, and you will have to work hard every day for a spiritual medicine or a spiritual stone, and you will never be able to get relief.”

After giving a sermon, the monster with a human head and a snake body let Situ Hua take the four people away, and then it disappeared into the dead forest.

"The handwriting of this Lin family ancestor is really generous."

Shangguan Xue looked at the blood-changing flower in her hand and said with a little emotion. "Generous? He bit off my ear and ate it. He is not generous, he is mentally ill. You are lucky to meet him generous this time. Next time, he will remember the benefits he gave you today and feel distressed. He may eat you whole to make up for the loss."

Situ Hua touched his bald left cheek and replied with a sneer.

"Then what should we do? If this guy is really as powerful as you said, and we can't take him down right away, it might attract many soul-transferring monks from the Lin family." Guo Lingbao frowned and said.

"Besides that, didn't you notice that the medicine garden was covered by a formation, a fourth-grade upper-grade formation, extremely heavy."

"..."

These numerous difficulties made everyone silent for a moment.

"The good news is that the spiritual medicine garden is real. Judging from the work of this Patriarch Lin, the number of spiritual medicines in it is also astonishing. Otherwise, even if he is not in his right mind, he would not have rewarded us with the best spiritual medicines, right?"

Mrs. Shi said this, but she had no awareness of trying to seize her family's wealth.

"Next, I will go and check how many Lin family cultivators are near the medicine garden, and take a look at the changes in the formation. Everyone, please find a place to hide and wait for my news."

Lu Cheng practiced the Tianyi True Art with eight landscapes and the Five Elements Sword Escape, and was extremely proficient in the art of hiding one's form.

Situ Hua, Madam Shi, even though they had only seen a few of his methods, were extremely impressed and therefore had no objection.

In the next few days, Situ Hua, Guo Lingbao, Madam Shi, and Shangguan Xue meditated and adjusted themselves in a secluded place.

Lu Cheng flew out every day to observe the large formation guarding the medicine garden.

Situ Hua was born a casual cultivator and a son-in-law of the Lin family. He learned all the five elements magic after marrying into the Lin family, so he naturally did not inherit any formation magic.

Guo Lingbao was good at refining instruments and identifying magical instruments. Shangguan Xue was devoted to cultivation and made great progress without distracting herself from other things.

Mrs. Shi is good at the art of cultivating immortality, and getting married to earn money and nourishment to support her cultivation. She follows the same path as Lu Cheng's concubine Xue Yuzhen.

They don't need to delve into the hundreds of arts of cultivation and can focus on practicing Taoism. In fact, their magical powers can surpass those of many people who have better innate talents than them.

Lu Cheng had never studied formations before, but he had spent thirteen years sorting out and refining the Five Elements' true evil energy, which involved a lot of knowledge on formations and talismans. He devoted himself to study for thirteen years, and as a result, he became the one with the highest attainments in formations among the five.

Seven days later, Lu Cheng discovered that there were four Lin family soul-transferring monks occupying this place. At the same time, the formation was a fourth-order, top-grade Wu Earth Mysterious Armor Formation, which was the most solid defensive formation and normally difficult to break through.

"But during this period of time, earth dragons have been turning over frequently. It was the right decision to go deep underground and use the Wu Earth Black Armor Formation. Now, as long as I find the right method, I am confident that I can suppress this formation temporarily." When Lu Cheng said this, it was obvious that he had made up his mind.

Seeing that Lu Cheng found a way to break the formation so quickly, Guo Lingbao nodded with great satisfaction:
"Fellow Daoist Lin has made great contributions to our trip. After we break the formation and get the spiritual objects in the medicine garden, we will definitely let Fellow Daoist Lin choose first and take an extra copy!"

Lu Cheng did not react to Guo Lingbao's words, but continued:
"The problem now is how to deal with the four soul-transferring monks led by Lin Qinian. If we can't deal with them, once the Lin family monks gather together quickly, even if we get the spiritual object, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to get out alive."

The four soul-transferring monks, led by Lin Qinian, transferred the soul of a snake demon, and the other three transferred the souls of a wasp, a toad, and a rhinoceros beetle respectively. Their cultivation and magic powers were also different.

Although the secret method of soul transfer can prolong the lifespan of a cultivator, it will also inevitably cause a certain loss of Gangsha cultivation. Whether it can be cultivated again after the soul is transferred is another matter, but it is definitely much more difficult than practicing Taoism in the human body.

"These old monsters go crazy from time to time. We just wait here in secret. When one or two of them leave, we will find an opportunity to attack and kill them. We will use our speed to defeat their speed and prevent them from having time to inform other Lin family monks. Nothing major has happened in Huangquan Valley for a thousand years. Even if we have been on high alert during this period, we can't change our habits over the years."

Situ Hua said this after thinking for a while. He was the person who knew this place best among all the people.

"Okay, let's do it."

After making a plan, there is a long wait.

This wait lasted for two months. At this point, the five people had been deep in the Yellow Springs Valley for more than four months.

On this day, Situ Hua found out that Lin Qinian had fled far away for unknown reasons. It seemed that the instinct of the evil insect had backfired and caused him to become mentally disturbed. He would not be back in the short term.

Although not two people left, the one who left was Lin Qinian, who had the most powerful magic skills. This seemed to be an excellent opportunity to escape.

"But even if there are three soul-transferring monks, we can't easily move them!"

"I'll deal with one of them, and you guys deal with the remaining two. Is that okay?"

Lu Cheng was originally sitting cross-legged in front of the cave entrance, with a fire flying sword placed across his knees. His eyes were closed, and he did not move at all. His body was covered with a little dust, and it seemed as if he had been sitting there for a long time.

At this moment, the Taoist's eyes suddenly opened, and a sharp light flashed in all directions. At the same time, an invisible sword energy seemed to burst out from his body. The dust covering his whole body flew up with a "bang", and then it was as if countless sharp swords broke and twisted it, turning it into powder and annihilating it.

"Friend Lin, we need to win this battle quickly!"

The magical power Lu Cheng displayed was only at the ninth level of Condensing Demon Realm, but his magical power was extremely deep, so the four people regarded him as a cultivator of Refining Gang Realm. However, after a long time, they realized that he did not have the characteristics of Refining Gang Realm, and should be the one with the weakest magical power among the four.

But at this moment, he had to quickly kill an extremely difficult soul-transferring cultivator of the Lin family.

They start from the Ningsha and Liangang realms, and have integrated alien bodies to possess all kinds of strange abilities, making them absolutely difficult to deal with.

"Let's take that rhinoceros beetle for example. He must have practiced physical training. Except for me, none of you can kill him quickly."

After saying that, Lu Cheng flew out with sword light.

Guo Lingbao, Madam Shi and the others looked at each other in bewilderment, but after spending some time together they realized that this Fellow Daoist Lin had an unfathomable origin and a profound background, so they chose to believe him.

"Since Fellow Daoist Lin is so sure, then the four of us, two against one, must not fail."

The Lin family monk who transferred the soul of the Seven-Star Rhinoceros Beetle lived in the hilly area on the edge of the swamp, which was quite a detour.

This guy looks roughly like a human, but his bones and muscles are extremely twisted and exaggerated. When Lu Cheng found him with his sword, this soul-transferring monk of the Lin family was burying his head in a large basin of flesh and blood, eating voraciously.

In the basin of blood and flesh, Lu Cheng saw a severed human hand. Not all soul-transferring monks would eat humans. Even if they all did, the Ranmu Mountain Lin family controlled millions of people in Qushui City, and the prisoners in the prison were enough to supply these soul-transferring monks.

However, this scene still made Lu Cheng feel murderous.

"Brother Qinian is out for something, and you little bugs finally dare to take action?"

The seven-star rhinoceros beetle didn't seem surprised by Lu Cheng's arrival. It continued eating, but stared at Lu Cheng with its other eye that was exposed outside the wooden basin.

"I've discovered you guys a long time ago, but I just thought it was interesting so I never told you, big brother. I'm not afraid to tell you, the soul I transferred to is the Seven-Star Rhinoceros Beetle, which has strong vitality and can withstand seven fatal injuries before dying. How many lives can you take from me? Hahahahahahahaha.

I will eat you all, the flesh of monks is much more fragrant and tender than that of mortals!"

This person seemed to have completely seen through the plans of Lu Cheng and others, but he didn't care at all.

But before he could put down the wooden basin in his hand, a red sword fire swept over, and the sword energy and thunderous sound quickly cut off the attacker's head.

If it weren't for the help of the Golden Dragon's inner elixir, Lu Cheng would need to use his innate blood and fire and consume his own lifespan to launch this sword. But now he only needs to stack the Meridian-Severing Sword Qi several times, which will only put a slight burden on the meridians.

puff.

The huge half of the head flew high up. The Lin family cultivator looked at his huge bodies that shook and then fell to the ground in mid-air, feeling puzzled:

"How come it's so fast?"

"How come that sword just now was faster than sound?"

The Seven-Star Rhinoceros Beetle's powerful vitality can quickly recover from fatal injuries, but it cannot recover from lethal injuries, so it died with just one sword.

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