Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 160: Cutting off the path
"No, the other spiritual herbs are normal, most of them are not mature yet. How come there are so many mature fourth-level blood-changing flowers? These twenty-six plants are all mature, but they were not used by the Lin family cultivators. What secret method was used to make them mature in such a short time?"

Around the twenty-six fourth-level blood-changing flowers were many kinds of red orchid spiritual medicines that Lu Cheng could not name. Except that their aura and brightness were far inferior to those of the blood-changing flowers, this low-level orchid spiritual medicine was very similar to the blood-changing flowers in appearance.

At this moment, his heart moved slightly, and Lu Cheng sensed that the Qingming Flying Sword he used to suppress the Wu Earth Black Armor Formation was gradually unable to suppress it. Although there were still some elixirs in front of him that he had not taken, he suddenly turned into a sword light and flew high.

It's almost time for a cup of tea, it's time to go.

In the spiritual medicine garden, although Lu Cheng's sword light was fast and arrived first, the remaining area was enough for Situ Hua, Guo Lingbao, Madam Shi, and Shangguan Xue to share.

When a cultivator enters such an unguarded family spiritual medicine garden, it is like a robber entering a vault. They can take as much as they can within a limited time. They don't have to worry about the cultivation resources for the next few decades or even hundreds of years.
Spiritual medicines that prolong life, spiritual medicines that assist monks in breaking through realms, spiritual medicines that increase monks' mana, spiritual medicines that restore mana and heal injuries are all easy to sell and easy to fetch a price.

Those that are already mature can be harvested directly, while those that are still a few years from maturity need to be dug out with their roots and soil, and asked to be transplanted outside by a spiritual plant farmer to see if they can continue to grow.

When Lu Cheng flew into the air with a sword, Situ Hua, Guo Lingbao, Madam Shi and Shangguan Xue all sensed it. Although Situ Hua, Guo Lingbao and Shangguan Xue were reluctant to give up the elixirs around them that had not yet been taken, they still gritted their teeth and flew into the sky with their weapons.

Only Madam Shi looked up at the sword light flying into the sky, then gritted her teeth, lowered her head, and continued to take those elixirs, her heart blinded by greed.

"It's a miracle that she can still live to this day with such self-control."

"Come out to me!" Lu Cheng stretched out his hand and waved it in the sword light, grabbing the air. A huge palm composed of spiritual energy and with five-colored light suddenly appeared around Mrs. Shi, and he pinched it hard and lifted her up.

It is exactly the Xiantian school's innate qi catching technique.

Five beams of light quickly escaped from the coverage of the Wu Earth Black Armor Formation in the Lin family's spiritual medicine garden. Madam Shi was wrapped in the five-colored light and captured. Her speed was slightly slower than the other four people. The next moment after she escaped from the formation, yellow mist rose up around the Wu Earth Black Armor Formation and suddenly closed, like a huge dragon-breaking stone falling, severing the barrier between the inside and the outside. This scene also made Madam Shi come back to her senses from the greed in her heart. She knew that if it weren't for Fellow Daoist Lin Cheng's rescue, she would have been trapped inside.

The escaping lights fell to the ground one after another, and the five people looked at each other, and finally couldn't help laughing heartily.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"

"It's done, it's done!"

Just by doing this today, the five people have accumulated many years of cultivation resources for themselves. If they concentrate on the Tao, they will have a great chance of making further progress.

Although there are limitations on talent in practicing Taoism, if a large amount of resources are invested regardless of cost, most practitioners can still achieve considerable success.

"Let's go. It's not fun to laugh now. We can only laugh out loud after we leave the Yellow Spring Valley and truly return to the sea like a dragon." Guo Lingbao said.

"Yes, let's go." Situ Hua nodded in response.

The five of them then flew away towards the top of Yellow Springs Valley.

In fact, the Lin family's spiritual medicine garden can be said to be extremely safe and secure. It is located deep in the Yellow Springs Valley and changes its location from time to time through the ancestor's endless sea of ​​trees. It is also guarded by four cultivators in the Condensing Sha Lian Gang realm.

If it weren't for the fact that the Lin family's ancestor was limited in his cultivation and his spiritual awareness was not enough to observe the endless sea of ​​trees at all times, if it weren't for the traitor Situ Hua leading the way, if it weren't for Lin Qinian returning to the depths of the cave to ask the ancestor for the situation, if it weren't for Lu Cheng's sharp sword light that quickly killed two Lin family guarding monks in succession, this Lin family spiritual medicine garden would not have been successfully robbed by them.

Not to mention that it was difficult for the Jindan Grandmasters who didn't know the terrain of Huangquan Valley to find this place. Even if they succeeded in finding it, it would not be easy for one or two Jindan Grandmasters to quickly kill the four guarding monks. There was a great possibility that they were surrounded by the high-level monks of the Lin family in Huangquan Valley, attracting the Lin family's ancestor or even the two guests he invited to attack together.

Lu Cheng, Situ Hua, Guo Lingbao, Madam Shi, and Shangguan Xue all knew that the sooner they left this place, the safer they would be.

Therefore, they all swallowed the pills and tried their best to speed up and return the same way.

After flying for about four hours, the warning signs lingering in Lu Cheng's heart became more and more serious. Therefore, he, who was flying in the front, suddenly stopped and put his arm across to block the attack.

The four people behind him also stopped their escape and formed a formation to face the outside, raising their guard.

"Friend Lin, what's wrong?"

Guo Lingbao wondered aloud. Although the cultivation levels of the five people varied, they were generally equal.

However, after Lu Cheng killed two high-level monks of the Lin family with his swift sword and directly captured Madam Shi with his innate qi, the relationship between the five people naturally changed to Lu Cheng being the leader as their strength shifted.

In this world, when we talk about benevolence, righteousness, propriety and trustworthiness, but when we really put it into practice, we often end up falling on the edge of a sword.

"Someone has been following us."

"Hahahahaha..."

Just as Lu Cheng finished speaking, before the others could react, bursts of wild laughter suddenly resounded throughout the valley.

Like a surging wave, it knocked the five people into a deep and icy cold.

"Sword Heart is Clear? What sect are you from? At such a young age, you have mastered the swordsmanship. It is truly amazing. No wonder you can accomplish such a great thing."

Amid the waves of sound rushing back and forth, an old man with a handsome face, a jade flute in his hand, and a graceful demeanor suddenly appeared in mid-air and slowly descended.

Although there was only one person, the huge pressure made the five people present feel like they were carrying heavy objects, with layer upon layer of pressure piled on them, making their knees feel weak and they wanted to kneel down.

This is the imposing aura and pressure of the Jindan Grandmaster.

Although in the Tongxuan Realm, some cultivators jokingly said that the elixir can reach the ninth level, only the cultivators who can make the elixir of the top three levels can be considered to have achieved the great path of golden elixir.

For cultivators who have achieved lower or middle grade elixir formation, it can only be said that they have formed a small pill of lead and mercury.

However, lead represents life and mercury represents nature. A Taoist sage once said in a poem: "If someone knows the true lead and mercury, he will be an immortal.

Xiaodan of Lead and Mercury has also made great progress in the practice of alchemy, and is still at the top of the current Tongxuan realm.

"Xiao Zhongzi! This person is Xiao Zhongzi!"

He heard Madam Shi's exclamation in his mind. In fact, Lu Cheng also recognized the person in front of him. The portraits of the masters of the Ten Thousand Beasts Incarnation Palace were of course far more than those collected in Burning Wood Mountain.

Xiao Chongzi, the former Jindan Grandmaster of the Dongyang Demon Sect, was fond of beautiful women and acted recklessly. All the beautiful disciples in the sect were like his singing girls and concubines.

Actually, this is nothing. Monks may be hundreds or thousands of years old, but the moral principles and etiquette are not the same as the Three Bonds and Five Relationships in the mortal world. Only cultivation and inheritance are the most important. The rest are trivial and not worth mentioning.

Xiao Chongzi cultivated to the Jindan Grandmaster realm. Given the Heavenly Demon Palace's style of doing things, it would be fine to build a kingdom of daughters for him and let him be the romantic ruler.

But Xiao Chongzi had enjoyed too many beauties in the world, so he set his sights on a true disciple of the Heavenly Demon Palace and wanted to take her red pill.

If he had just taken advantage of the situation and tried to lure her slowly, it would have been fine, but this guy used incense and poison powder to plot against her, and in the end it didn't work. Xiao Chongzi was expelled from the Dongyang Demon Cult because of this, and was hunted down by all the cultivators in the world who had caused him harm for hundreds of years.

However, the current Lord of the Demonic Palace does not seem to want to take his life. He will wait until he has suffered enough and made some meritorious contributions to the sect, and then he will be recruited back.

In short, although he is an eighth-grade Jindan Grandmaster who achieved his goal through dual cultivation, with the inheritance of skills and techniques from the Demon Sect's greatest sect, this person's cultivation and combat power should far exceed that of an ordinary lower-grade Jindan Grandmaster.

"I am... Casual Cultivator Lin Cheng. What can I do for you, Senior?"

All kinds of thoughts flashed through Lu Cheng's mind, and he finally asked this question.

"Self-cultivator? Well, considering that it is not easy for you to cultivate this sword skill, hand over everything you got in that medicinal garden, and I will let you go freely."

After hearing what Xiao Zhongzi said, the expressions of the five people present changed slightly. But this was not the end yet, Xiao Zhongzi used the jade flute to instruct and said:
"You, and you, stay and serve me during this period. If you serve me well, I will allow you to take away half of the elixir."

Madam Shi and Shangguan Xue, who were being instructed by Xiao Chongzi with the jade flute, both turned pale.

As an abandoned disciple of the Dongyang Demon Sect, Xiao Chongzi was well-known for his ability to harm people through spiritual essence. After being harmed by him, the half of the elixir left behind might not be enough for the two of them to repair their foundation.

However, at this moment, the gap between the magic powers of the two sides was huge. Normally, five cultivators at the ninth level of Liangang could still fight against a Jindan Grand Master, while Guo Lingbao, Madam Shi and the other four people had magic powers at the ninth level of Ningsha, or around the first or second level of Liangang.

So after learning that the young man who had cultivated the sword heart did not have any powerful master, Xiao Chongzi was sure to defeat the five people present.

He came to this place by accident when Lu Cheng and his five companions broke the Wu Tu Xuan Jia formation. He looked down from afar with his spiritual sense and did not see Lu Cheng kill two high-level cultivators of the Lin family. Otherwise, he might not be in this state at this moment.

The five people looked at each other, and finally looked at Lu Cheng.

Madam Shi and Shangguan Xue's eyes were filled with eager pleading.

But Lu Cheng turned his face and said, "Look at me, what are you doing? Why don't you take out the elixir and offer it to me? Don't keep Senior Xiao waiting for too long."

As he spoke, he was the first to take out a jade box and opened it. He saw a black jade ginseng lying horizontally inside. It was a fifth-grade spiritual medicine that was almost mature and was a precious spiritual medicine that could increase the magic power of cultivators.

"Slow down, don't be clumsy. If you don't close the lid quickly, the medicinal energy of my precious medicine will leak out. I can't even pay for it with your life."

Lu Cheng smiled slightly when he heard that, closed the cold jade box of the black jade ginseng, and pushed it over into the void.

But the moment Xiao Chongzi carefully took the cold jade box, two sword lights, one blue and one white, burst out in an instant.

The golden dragon's inner elixir, the meridian-severing sword energy, the five elements sword intent, the sword intent becomes a force, the sword light turns into a rainbow, the sword energy makes a thundering sound, the sword is hidden under the sword, and the rainbow breaks the shadow.

In just a moment, Lu Cheng had used his magical swordsmanship to the extreme.

And it wasn't just Lu Cheng who drew his sword.

Situ Hua, Guo Lingbao, Madam Shi, and Shangguan Xue all used their own magic weapons and attacked with all their magic power.

From just a few short sentences, Lu Cheng roughly judged that Xiao Chongzi had not been targeting him and others for too long.

Otherwise, after seeing his swordsmanship, he would never dare to neglect and despise him to such an extent.

From just a few words, the other four people also keenly realized that Lu Cheng was going to launch an attack. The reason was simple. Along the way, this fellow Daoist Lin Cheng had been extremely daring, unfathomable, and had amazing swordsmanship. It didn't make sense that at this moment, his personality would suddenly change so drastically.

"Young man, how dare you..."

Before he could finish this thought, he seemed to hear the roar of a dragon.

Before my eyes, a golden dragon seemed to appear, circling and dancing, roaring and biting towards me.

"The sword heart is clear, the sword will is in motion, the dragon-shaped sword will!?"

After all, he was a Jindan Grandmaster, and his mind moved as fast as lightning. Even though he was stunned for a moment by the sword intent, when Xiao Chongzi broke free from this suppression, the two sword lights like silk threads were still several fingers away from him.

But this distance of a few fingers was enough. Xiao Chongzi injected his magic power into the jade flute in his hand. Several heavenly sword waves immediately spread out from this life-saving magic weapon and mixed into the owner's protective magic power.

Clang Clang Clang Clang.

It was like the sound of continuous sword clashes.

Xiao Chongzi was shocked to find that the two flying swords actually cut into his body's protective magic power, broke through several Tianyin sword waves, and killed him.

"External alchemy method?"

boom.

The magic weapons of Situ Hua, Guo Lingbao, Madam Shi and Shangguan Xue hit Xiao Chongzi's protective magic power heavily.

With the combination of internal and external forces, the master's protective magic power was shattered.

When the meridian-breaking sword energy in Lu Cheng's body was stimulated to the extreme, two sword lights, one blue and one white, intertwined into a scissor-shaped light. Wood gave birth to fire, and the sword forces were superimposed on each other, so the killing power was extremely great.

Xiao Chongzi spun in the air, and almost avoided the two swords perfectly, but blood still spurted out.

"Ah, youngsters, how dare you bully me like this? Just wait, wait... When I return, I will surely grind your bones to dust and scatter your souls!"

Xiao Chongzi was an expert at escaping to save his life. He barely avoided the pursuit of the two swords, and summoned a flying shuttle. He and the shuttle's escape light merged together and immediately flew away into the distance.

Even if Lu Cheng flew with a sword, he couldn't catch up.

Facing five cultivators whose cultivation was far weaker than his own, they immediately abandoned the fight and fled at the slightest injury. Lu Cheng finally understood why this man could live until now despite doing evil to the world. There was indeed a reason for it. If Xiao Chongzi had just had a glimmer of thought of turning defeat into victory, he would have died under his two swords at this moment.

"Wood generates fire. After one strike of the sword, my sword power is exhausted. There is no sword intent or sword moves to follow up. If there were five fifth-level flying swords, this person would be dead by now."

Seeing the escaping light go away, Lu Cheng had to retract his swords no matter how unwilling he was.

(End of this chapter)