Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 158: Breaking the Formation (late update)
Soft and peaceful green mountains lie in the distance, with faint smoke rising in the distance. The suburbs in front of you are a field of flowers, dotted with bright yellow and tender green in the plains.

Yellow and green, such fresh natural colors that arouse the desire to possess, naturally attract countless butterflies to flutter around, making this place full of vitality.

A nun in white is sitting cross-legged on a cushion among the blue sky, white clouds and green grass. The cushion is made of Qingxin grass, which can clear the mind and calm the nature, and can also keep out insects and remove pollutants. It is easier to enter a state of meditation while sitting cross-legged on it, and reach a state of spiritual practice in which one loses both the human world and the environment, and forgets both the mind and the object.

At this moment, a ferocious beast like a wild leopard suddenly rushed in. It looked around with some confusion. When it saw the female priest in front of it, it was so frightened that all the fur on its body stood up, making itself look bigger.

"Ok!"

The nun in white stared at the leopard intently, and after a moment, the leopard carefully crawled over and lay down beside the nun. The female Taoist priest picked it up and held it in her arms. The leopard instinctively wanted to scratch and bite it, but it didn't dare.

After a while, it was thrown away by the female Taoist priest. It looked back, shook its hair and then ran away quickly.

"Only by staying close to nature and achieving harmony between heaven and man can I keep my humanity from being lost as quickly as possible. Phew, my Lin family's secret method is at least much stronger than the ghost cultivation method."

When Lin Junlan was about to finish her practice for the day and pack up her belongings to return to her cave abode, she suddenly turned around and saw a ray of light flying towards her from the horizon. Its powerful aura shattered the blue sky, white clouds and mountains in the illusion array, and the place returned to its dark and sunlight-less appearance of the Yellow Springs Valley.

"Elder Lin, Elder Lin, help me..."

Lin Hua came over riding a beam of light, holding a female cultivator who was bleeding profusely.

Lin Junlan still looked like a nun in white, but what were flying around her were no longer butterflies, but a group of spirit bees.

"Lin Hua?"

"Why are you here, and who is that female cultivator?"

Lin Junlan knew Lin Hua, one of the few non-Buddhist cultivators who could survive in Huangquan Valley for more than ten years. Even though he became Lin Junlan's daughter-in-law, she still didn't consider him a member of the Lin family in her heart.

"Elder Lin Tang is going crazy. This person is a true descendant of the Lin family. She is seriously injured. I beg Elder Lin to save her life, otherwise I will not be able to explain myself."

Lin Junlan stepped forward upon hearing that, but before approaching Lin Hua and the others, she waved her hand, took some blood from the female cultivator's body, and put it into her mouth to taste.

"I am indeed a member of the Lin family."

After the high-level cultivators of the Lin family have their souls transferred, they will gradually possess many spiritual insect abilities, and blood tasting is one of them, which can tell whether the blood of the Lin family is strong or not.

"Come to my cave, I will heal her."

Lin Junlan performed the soul transfer technique in advance because she was seriously injured, so her humanity is much stronger than many elders in Huangquan Valley.

In the cave, Lin Hua placed the female cultivator on the cold jade bed, then turned around and left. Lin Junlan followed him and stepped onto the cold jade bed to inject magic power into the female cultivator to dredge her qi and blood vessels. This was a very common method of healing for most cultivators who were not familiar with medicine.

Once the Qi, blood and magic power are connected, the cultivator's life is basically saved, or at least his injuries will not continue to worsen.

Sitting on the cold jade bed, Lin Junlan moved her hands, and there was a green and blue magical light, which she then pressed into the back of the female cultivator.

About half an hour later, sweat appeared on Lin Junlan's cheeks. She felt that the internal injuries of this female cultivator were a bit strange. Not only were they constantly resisting her own magic power, but they were also robbing her of some of her magic power from time to time.

Just when Lin Junlan began to suspect something, the stone door of the cave suddenly opened, and a figure rushed in from outside, stabbing with a sword.

"Situ Hua!?"

Situ Hua was born as a casual cultivator, and he also practiced swordsmanship hard to lay the foundation. At least he was confident that his swordsmanship was definitely much stronger than Lin Junlan's, even if the opponent's magic power was slightly better than his.

In fact, this was indeed the case. Caught off guard, although Lin Junlan avoided the sneak attack in time, she was still surrounded by Situ Hua's sword light. The sword light was as fast as the wind, and each sword pointed directly at the vital points. Lin Junlan's magic power was depleted at this moment, and she did not dare to use her protective aura to take it head-on.

But it was at this moment that something unexpected happened.

Suddenly, silk ribbons began to fly up from the body of the seriously injured female cultivator on the cold jade bed, entangled with her for a while, causing Lin Junlan's escape method to stagnate. The next moment, Situ Hua gathered his sword power and broke the protective aura with one sword, piercing her chest.

Poof, bang.

Situ Hua harbored deep hatred for the Lin family, and the power of this sword was extremely ruthless.

The fierce sword light pierced through Lin Junlan's body and hit the stone wall of the cave.

"Ah..."

Her life force was gone, and her magic power dissipated. In the process, Lin Junlan's body turned into a giant wasp, but on her chest there was a beautiful woman's face.

Before long, only a huge bee corpse was left hanging on the wall.

She trusted her blood relatives all her life, but in the end she died from the conspiracy of her blood relatives.

"You are very brave. You secretly absorb her magic power to improve your own cultivation." Situ Hua knew what was going on as soon as he saw Mrs. Fang's rosy face, and said this.

"Okay, let's go and help the others."

"Aren't you going to search this place?" Mrs. Fang felt reluctant to leave Lin Junlan's cave belongings after hearing this.

"The spiritual objects in the medicine garden are a hundred times better than those here. Why should we be reluctant to give them up?" Situ Hua said as he retracted his flying sword.

At the same time, Lu Cheng had already killed the Lin family cultivator who had transferred the soul of the Seven-Star Rhinoceros Beetle.

The Seven-Star Rhinoceros Beetle is indeed very strong. Even after its head was cut off, a large mass of flesh and blood quickly grew from its neck. However, no matter how it grew and recovered, it could not grow another head.

Lu Cheng did not stop and flew back on his sword. As expected, he noticed that the fire energy was rapidly gathering in one direction. It turned out that there was a problem with the cooperation of Guo Lingbao and Shangguan Xue. The Lin family cultivator who had transferred the soul of the Flying Fire Toad was a little too powerful.

Originally, Guo Lingbao and Shangguan Xue were lying in ambush, activating the fifth-order spiritual talisman, intending to launch a sudden and brutal attack to kill him.

But who knew that this fat middle-aged cultivator was extremely alert, and he transformed himself into a demon to counterattack in the first moment. A huge fire toad appeared, and a sound like a bull's roar and a frog's croak suddenly resounded through the sky. The fire cloud energy from all directions gathered and turned into a blazing and solid flame, which was simply unstoppable. Guo Lingbao and Shangguan Xue scattered in fear, and the activation of the fifth-level talisman was naturally interrupted.

boom.

The blazing and solid flames split mountains, crushed rocks, and burned the earth.

Guo Lingbao and Shangguan Xue were both horrified. With such skill in fire magic, the late-stage cultivators of the twelve top sects might be no more than that.

The Lin family's secret soul-transferring technique has its subtle and mysterious aspects.

"Where did you come from, these two little thieves? How dare you come here to plot against me?" The fat middle-aged monk changed the seals with his hands, and another fire toad appeared, swallowing the vital energy and chirping like the beating of war drums, domineering and overwhelming.

When casting the spell like this, the vitality of heaven and earth circulated violently. Even if he did not inform other people, the elders of the Lin family in Huangquan Valley were not dead, so naturally someone would come soon. Therefore, this middle-aged cultivator let go and cast the spell without any scruples.

But he could never have imagined that in the Yellow Springs Valley, the first person to arrive was not a cultivator from the Lin family, but a sword light that fell from the sky.

A sword light burning with white flames suddenly appeared in the air. Its control over the fire energy between heaven and earth was even better than that of the Lin family cultivator who possessed the Soul-Transferring Fire Toad. He dispersed his energy and then slashed down with a sword. The force was so great that the Lin family cultivator's face changed immediately.

“Senior… spare my life!”

The white flame sword light made two mid-air strangles and then cut the Flying Fire Toad in half as it suddenly dodged away.

But that was not enough, the sword light went up and pierced directly through the Flying Fire Toad's head, wiping out its last bit of life.

Such sharp swordsmanship made Guo Lingbao and Shangguan Xue's expressions change slightly, especially when they saw the white flaming flying sword flying back into Lu Cheng's sleeve.

"With such swordsmanship, he can't be a Condensed Demon Monk. Who is he and why did he come here with us?"

Guo Lingbao's mind was full of thoughts. At this time, Situ Hua and Madam Shi also flew over from afar, so that Guo Lingbao and Shangguan Xue finally didn't have to be too nervous.

"Okay, these three have been eliminated. The next step is to unlock the Wu Earth Mysterious Armor Formation and collect the treasure."

Lu Cheng knew clearly that using the power of the Golden Dragon's external elixir to perform swordsmanship would inevitably make others fear him, but since he had come this far, no one would back out.

There is a method to breaking the formation. This fourth-grade top-grade Wu Earth Black Armor Formation has been affected by the repeated flipping of the earth dragons, and the formation base has become unstable. As long as we find the formation flag to suppress it, we can make it ineffective in a matter of seconds.

However, it would require simultaneous attacks from several directions to suppress it. If he forced his way in, Lu Cheng felt that with the help of the Golden Dragon's external elixir and his own blood and fire to burn his life, he should be able to break the formation, but the amount of life he would have to burn would be countless.

“There are usually cultivators stationed in formations like this, but the soul-transferring cultivators of the Lin family all have certain mental illnesses. This formation is likely to be unmanned, but we will assume that there are people inside. After breaking the formation, we will enter and collect the treasures. Once we encounter an enemy, everyone must put down everything in their hands and work together to kill it.

how is it? "

Lu Cheng asked doubtfully.

Situ Hua, Guo Lingbao, Madam Shi, and Shangguan Xue all nodded in agreement.

Without the restraint of the Lin family's soul-transferring monks, Lu Cheng took out the formation plate and determined the direction. After the five people stood in the five elements' directions, they each emitted a stream of magic power and rushed towards the Wu Earth Black Armor Formation.

There are many complex and exquisite formations in the world, and many sects.

However, the members of the Ranmushan Lin family, like Lu Cheng, are all proficient in Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, and the transformation of the Five Elements. Therefore, if this Wu Tu Xuan Jia Formation does not have the continuous blessing of the Five Elements' power, the power of the formation will be weakened by about half.

If the two were not of the same origin, even if Lu Cheng had read all the notes left by Lin Tianshu, it would not be so easy for him to see through this formation today.

Lu Cheng took charge of the formation plate and commanded the other four people, continuously inputting magic power into the formation. Along with the five directions, five streams of magic power were continuously injected.

A low whistling sound suddenly came from the lifeless yellow fog that surrounded the medicine garden. Then the yellow fog began to roll like boiling water, as if there was a dragon turning the world upside down inside it, and the entire formation was activated.

Lu Cheng kept commanding the five people to change positions and inject magic power.

It's like a swallow skimming across the water.

Therefore, the rolling yellow fog was like an angry yellow dragon, not knowing who to be angry at, and it kept shaking, rolling, and roaring one after another.

Finally, as time went by, Lu Cheng activated his magic power and a ray of spiritual light shot out. Along with this, the rolling yellow fog disappeared, revealing sixteen formation flags.

"We will take action to freeze the flag in your position. You only have one chance."

As he spoke, Lu Cheng waved his sleeves and summoned the Qingming Flying Sword. A burst of green light flew up and landed on a formation flag, causing the circulation of the energy here to stop instantly.

Situ Hua and the other four also took action together, and sacrificed their own magic weapons, which landed in the formation to suppress the formation flags, causing the entire Wu Earth Black Armor Formation to gradually stop.

Situ Hua offered a flying sword, Guo Lingbao offered a jade ruyi, Madam Shi offered a silk ribbon, and Shangguan Xue offered a jade order.

These are basically the best magic weapons of the four people. No one wants to suppress the formation for too short a time and lose the treasure.

Five battle flag nodes were suppressed.
A loud bang suddenly came from the thick yellow fog.

Even though the five people were prepared, they were still blown to and fro by the fierce hurricane that followed, and they couldn't stand steadily.

Everyone hurriedly used their magic power to support the protective shield and finally managed to stand firm again.

Lu Cheng looked towards the medicine garden and saw that the yellow fog, which was originally so thick that it could not be dispersed, had now dispersed and became clearly visible, revealing the true face that had been shrouded in it:
All you see are spiritual plants, and the ground is filled with spiritual light.

"It will probably take about a cup of tea. If you don't come out in time, I don't think any fellow Taoist will come to save you."

After reminding everyone one last time, Lu Cheng controlled the sword light and took the lead to merge man and sword, rushing towards the medicine garden. After being busy on this matter for so long, of course he had to get a generous reward.

Lu Cheng was not interested in plundering his companions' spoils, so he had to take the best for himself first.

"Chongyuan Cleansing Blood Flower!"

The foundation of a clear swordsman's heart is the sharpness of the five senses and six consciousnesses. Lu Cheng's five internal organs and five qi are full, and the foundation of his five senses is extremely high. Looking down at this moment, the changes in the flow of qi in the entire medicine garden are within his sight.

The Chongyuan Blood-Cleansing Flower was not found, but more than twenty fourth-order blood-changing flowers were found.

"There is no Chongyuan Cleansing Blood Flower, or has it been taken away?"

Every inch of soil in this spiritual medicine garden exudes a strong smell of blood. To cultivate so many spiritual medicines to form a family medicine garden of this scale, even if the Yellow Spring Valley itself has sufficient spiritual energy, it is far from enough. It has to be filled with spiritual stones, spiritual water, and even the corpses of monsters and even monks. This piece of land has probably consumed a lot of them, otherwise the spiritual energy would not be enough.

Lu Cheng began to dig high-level spiritual medicines with a quick sword, regardless of whether they were old enough. Anyway, he had no intention of leaving any for the Lin family.

There are about 120 fourth-tier spiritual medicines in the entire spiritual medicine garden. Lu Cheng has dug up 13 of them that are obviously more powerful than the others. Some of them are recognized and some are not. Many of them are the main ingredients for refining foundation-building pills and meridian-protecting pills. Maybe their value is not higher than that of the fourth-tier blood-changing flowers, but for a big family like the Lin family, they have more inheritance significance.

Lu Cheng used his flying sword to dig out all of these spiritual medicinal plants, including their roots and soil, and put them into a cold jade box. He then brought them back to the Ten Thousand Beasts Palace. Even if the spiritual plant husbandry was very skilled, only a small number of them could be saved. Lu Cheng had already made up his mind and didn't care. What was more surprising was that there were no high-level cultivators stationed in this spiritual medicine garden. When several spiritual plant husbandrymen at the Foundation Establishment stage saw Lu Cheng and the others, they had no choice but to retreat. Any attempt they made would only result in meaningless casualties.

(End of this chapter)