Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 17: Dividing the Treasures, the Universe Inside the Cauldron

The sword penetrates the vital point, cutting off all chances of survival.

The blood soaked the edge of Chisong's sword, and Lu Cheng immediately withdrew.

At this time, the power of the small seal script Qingfeng Talisman was still taking effect, so the young Taoist's body movements were as fast as the wind.

The dying monsters are the most terrifying. Monsters have strong vitality and even if they are pierced in the vitals, they may still have extremely violent counterattack power within a short period of time and die together with the enemy.

In fact, this was indeed the case. Almost the next moment after Lu Cheng retreated quickly, the bloody mouth of the white-scaled snake had already bitten fiercely at the place where he was the moment before.

boom.

The sound of sharp white teeth biting into the air.

What followed was even more violent roaring and struggling.

"Roar……"

Click, click.

However, Chen Qingfeng saw that the situation was settled, so he relaxed and reacted a little slower.

As the white-scaled giant snake struggled violently, the golden earth and rocks around its body shattered and crumbled, allowing it to break free from the suppression of the Earth Prison Gold Transformation Array and break the array with force.

"puff"

Before Chen Qingfeng could immediately disconnect his own magic power from the formation, he was hit by the huge backlash force and spit out blood on the spot.

"elder brother!"

Chen Qingyun exclaimed and ran over.

Chen Qingfeng raised his arm and gestured to his sister not to worry. He held the Taoist spell in his left hand and pressed it on his chest several times to suppress the internal injuries.

"Ahem, it's okay, it's just that my internal organs have been impacted a little, it's nothing serious."

At this time, Lu Cheng summoned the Thunder Hammer, Lightning Mother Cone and Six Desires Peach Blossom Fan, suspended them beside him, and stared at the giant snake that was rolling and struggling wildly, until it gradually stopped rolling and there was no movement.

"return."

Lu Cheng took back the magic weapon and stretched out his hand again. The Chisong Flying Sword that had fallen to the ground and pierced the rock flew back in response to the Taoist's words and fell back into Lu Cheng's hand.

Lu Cheng observed the sword diagonally and found that the originally green blade of the Chisong Sword had turned into a red sword after being stained with blood.

Until today, it is truly worthy of its name: Ancient Sword, Red Pine.

"It is worthy of being the sword embryo bestowed by Master Chi Shen Zi. Although it is only a first-grade superior magic sword, its quality and toughness are almost as good as those of an ordinary second-grade magic sword."

Lu Cheng slowly stroked the sword with his fingers, checked and found that there was no damage to the sword itself, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Only at this time did he turn around and walk to the side of the Chen brothers and sisters.

At this time, Chen Qingfeng was sitting cross-legged in meditation, and Chen Qingyun saw Lu Cheng coming over and just called out with a smile: "Senior Brother Lu"

Before she could finish her words, a long sword with a sharp red blade was already across her slender neck.

"Lu... Senior Brother Lu, you..."

Chen Qingyun was completely frightened at this moment.

Even Chen Qingfeng, who was meditating nearby, seemed to sense something and frowned slightly.

"Brother Chen is injured, and I have a sword at your neck now. If I want to kill both of you and keep the spoils of this demon slaying, it would be a piece of cake." The next moment, Lu Cheng sheathed his sword.

"I won't do that, but that doesn't mean others won't do it either. Don't trust others easily in the future. At least you have a talisman in your hand that can be used to protect yourself."

Lu Cheng had a good impression of the brother and sister, so he used this method to deepen their memories in this situation.

Maybe this can save lives in the future, and the two sides will have more opportunities to interact with each other in the future.

"Ah, Senior Brother Lu, you scared me to death. Huh..."

Chen Qingyun stroked her slender neck. At this moment, the little girl's expression was very complicated. She wanted to complain, but she didn't dare to.

Not long after, Chen Qingfeng also finished regulating his breathing.

He also had some feelings about what had just happened, but at this moment he quite agreed with Lu Cheng's approach.

"Brother Lu is right. My sister is sometimes too trusting of others. It is definitely a good thing to deepen her memory like this."

"Brother, what are you talking about? If it weren't for Senior Brother Lu, how could I be completely unprepared?" Chen Qingyun defended himself unconvincedly.

"Brother Lu can certainly be trusted, and even most of our fellow disciples in Huoyun Mansion can be trusted, but what about the cultivators in the Walking Corpse Cave, the Guiyi Gate, and the Miaoyu Cave? They also practice in Huoyun Mansion."

When he said this, Chen Qingfeng glanced at Chen Qingyun, then subconsciously looked at Lu Cheng, but he didn't know how to continue.

Because the cultivators of the three sects, the Walking Corpse Cave, the Gui Yi Sect, and the Miaoyu Grotto, also presented their Taoism to the True Man Chi Shen Zi, and only with his permission could they live in the Huoyun Mountain Spiritual Vein. The people in these three sects committed evil and committed serious crimes, which made many cultivators in the Huoyun Mountain Spiritual Vein extremely disgusted, but they could not understand why the True Man Chi Shen Zi let the cultivators from these three sects in.

It’s just that True Man Chi Shen Zi has been in seclusion for many years, devoting himself to practicing Taoism. Even when he came out, ordinary cultivators could not visit him, so most of the time they could only complain in private.

Lu Cheng did not respond to these words. He just recalled the memory of his previous life. During a lecture, his senior brother Mo Hanyuan once asked his master:
"Master, may I ask what is the difference between Taoism and demonism?"

That day, the old Taoist in the Taoist Palace sat cross-legged on the floating stone platform. After a while, he opened his eyes and replied calmly:
“Does Taoism distinguish between good and evil?”

The Tao does not distinguish between good and evil, the Tao and the devil. It just exists there objectively. Good is it, evil is it, the Tao is it, and the devil is it. Good and evil, the Tao and the devil are just artificial divisions.

Even if one day a demon cultivator uses his devilish magic to enslave and destroy the world, it will be because his understanding and cognition of the Tao surpasses that of the righteous cultivators in this world.

The Tao just exists there objectively.

If you like it, it will not be happy; if you hate it, it will not be angry. Whether you love it or hate it, it is there.

With this period of buffering, the white-scaled snake was completely dead. Even so, Lu Cheng still scattered golden beans to summon two heavenly soldiers to check. Snakes are reptiles, and their brains are relatively underdeveloped. The brain is small, and the higher nerve centers are relatively underdeveloped. Relatively speaking, the lower center capabilities are stronger.

Even if the snake's head is cut off, it can still bite people for a period of time. It is just a conditioned reflex.

In Lu Cheng's opinion, Chen Qingfeng's injury was already very unexpected. If he was bitten again, Lu Cheng felt that he should go back and wash his hands and quit the world.

Two silver-armored heavenly soldiers stepped forward to check and confirmed that there was no problem. Then Lu Cheng, Chen Qingfeng and Chen Qingyun gathered around the huge snake corpse and began to skin it and extract its tendons, looting all available resources.

The materials from monsters are all good things for cultivators.

The blood and flesh of this snake contain spiritual energy, which can be consumed as food supplement, its skin can be used to make robes and armor, its bones and teeth can be made into magical instruments, and its eyeballs and other organs can be sold for a lot of spirit stones if sold to monks in need, especially the snake gall, which is a treasure.

The overall value of a third-level monster is about two thousand spirit stones. This white-scaled snake has a long bloodline and is only a step away from being a third-level monster. Its overall value is also around two thousand spirit stones.

"Brother Lu's swordsmanship is really superb. This snake skin is barely damaged. It will definitely sell for a good price. Hey, brother, what is this?"

While Chen Qingyun was collecting the snake's brain in a jade bottle, he pulled out a soft, palm-sized yellow ball from deep within its brain cavity. The ball quickly hardened when it came into contact with air.

"Is this... a demon pill?"

Chen Qingfeng was a little uncertain at this time. The possibility of obtaining a demon pill from a second-level demon beast was too small. A large number of third-level demon beasts did not have demon pills in their bodies.

There must be a demon pill in the body of a fourth-level demon beast, which is a treasure for cultivators.

On the other hand, fourth-level cultivators are also treasures in the eyes of monsters. Eating them can help improve their cultivation, purify their blood, and replenish their vitality.

"It's really a demon pill. This evil dragon seems to have a deep foundation. If it becomes powerful, it may really be able to transform into a dragon. Brother Lu, this demon pill is no less powerful than a third-level demon pill. I'll give it to you. The bones, flesh and skin of this demon beast will belong to us brothers and sisters."

"Well, that's fine too."

The bones, flesh and skin of the white-scaled snake are worth about 1,600 spirit stones in total. A third-level demon pill is usually worth 800 spirit stones, and the snake gall is worth about 400 spirit stones.

Lu Cheng knew that Chen Qingfeng was trying to collect as much of the snake's bones, tendons and membranes as possible and go back to find someone to refine a magical weapon. Materials from the same monster were more likely to produce high-quality magical weapons.

Although the most precious treasure of a demon beast is often the demon pill, the demon pill of this big snake is almost at the third level, and so is the bones, flesh and skin all over its body.

That's why Chen Qingfeng felt a little embarrassed when he said this.

The greatest value of a demon pill lies in its grade. The demon pill he gave to Lu Cheng was close to grade three rather than grade three. In fact, it was not easy to sell it. It was possible to get a discount of two hundred to four hundred spirit stones.

What's more, this time they asked Senior Brother Lu to come and help, which saved a fire thunder bead and improved their evaluation with the master. These are invisible benefits.

However, Lu Cheng was not as specially prepared as the Chen brothers and sisters. He did not have such a large Qiankun bag. It was a good deal and relatively fair for him to give up the bones, tendons and membranes of the monsters and take away high-value spiritual objects such as monster pills and snake gall.

Neither side cared too much, so they dealt with the monster quickly. Next, the three of them would meditate in this cave to recover for a while, and then return to Chixin Temple together.

After Chen Qingfeng's internal injuries were fully recovered, he said goodbye and left Chixin Temple.

"Brother, we specially invited Senior Brother Lu to come and help us, and Senior Brother Lu contributed the most in this battle. Did we take too much?"

"Alas, Qingyun, I don't want to do this either, but after this experience, Master obviously wants us to set up our own school. We are different from Senior Brother Lu who has the support of True Man Chi Shen Zi. In the future, we will have to fight for countless cultivation resources on our own."

"If we are successful in cultivation in the future, we can still have some incense and affection with Senior Brother Lu. If we make no progress, even if Senior Brother Lu doesn't abandon us, can you and I visit him in the future?"

Compared with Chen Qingyun's naivety, Chen Qingfeng's thoughts are more profound.

Instead of giving up some benefits that Senior Brother Lu may not care about at all in order to win some favor, it is better to use these resources to allow yourself and your sister to go further on the path of Taoism. In this way, both sides can still talk to each other in the future and maintain their friendship. Otherwise, those little favors will gradually vanish due to the huge gap in the Taoism between the two sides.

On the other side, Lu Cheng, who was meditating in a corner of the cave, did not care about the whispered conversation between the Chen brothers and sisters. In his opinion, this was already a fair cooperation:

If the giant snake is not killed in time, given its level of cultivation, it might be promoted to a third-level monster at any time. At that time, Lu Cheng would have no choice but to abandon the temple and run away. At that time, protecting himself would be the top priority. God knows how many people in the entire Ishihara County would die.

On the other hand, Lu Cheng concentrated his mind and then put it into the Jiuli Ding little by little. He roughly knew how to use this treasure, but he had never subdued a monster into it before.

The reason why he did not subdue the white-scaled snake in the previous battle was that Lu Cheng vaguely sensed that after the Jiuli Ding was activated once, it would need to rest for a period of time, which could be as short as a few months or as long as several years. This was not because it was tired, but because it was lazy.

As Lu Cheng focused his mind and devoted himself, a dark golden light flashed on the Jiuli Ding, drawing Lu Cheng's consciousness into it.

In the past, Lu Cheng had also imagined in his spare time what the Nine Li Cauldron, the rare treasure that brought him to this world, looked like:
Is it just a huge bronze tripod, or is it filled with flames like Laozi's alchemy furnace, or is it a complete world?

Today, he finally saw:
At the junction of the blue sky and the boundless earth, a little light rises from time to time, and then rapidly expands. After it is about the size of a palm, it turns into endless and indescribable mysterious spheres that look like words but not words and like patterns but not patterns. They seem to be the incarnation of Tao. Then the clear air rises and the turbid air descends, turning into black and white rotating runes.

Yin and Yang began to intertwine, igniting countless energies, which diffused and intertwined like a web, giving this world life and spirituality.

Earth, heavy and solid. Water, flowing and gentle. Fire, blazing and fiery. Wind, light and invisible. They kept increasing and evolving, gradually filling the originally barren world.

Under the influence of these black and white runes, many rough laws appeared in the void. As the space became stable, the black and white runes and countless laws slowly merged into the space, and lightning began to appear. The shapes of these lightning blooming and shining were the origin of the cloud seal lightning. After that, life appeared, rain fell, there were rivers, lakes and seas, there were thousands of feet high mountains, there were snow covering thousands of miles... The laws of the world became more and more detailed and perfect.

In that cauldron, there are countless such points of light. If you look carefully, you can see countless worlds being born and destroyed within them.

It turned out that the scene inside the Jiuli Ding was even more exaggerated than the young Taoist's most exaggerated imagination. There was not just one world inside it, but countless worlds that were born and destroyed, evolving the primordial chaos.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng entered a small world. It seemed to be a cave in the deep mountains. Water drops gathered into a clear stream. The fire dragon egg he had put in before broke out of its shell in this cold stream. It was hungry and seemed to be dying at any time.

But the arrogance deep in its blood made it stretch its body and shoot out like an arrow, biting a red shrimp in the stream. Regardless of the shrimp's desperate struggle, it held on tightly and finally swallowed its flesh and blood.

This kind of dragon is a real dragon, with a warm and comfortable nest and the nourishment of countless fire spirit creatures, but without its own greed for flesh and blood, and without the courage to experience life and death, how can a dragon break out of its shell?

The nature of the dragon is that it sits majestically above the nine heavens, traverses the three realms, can be big or small, can rise or hide; when big, it can create clouds and mist, when small, it can hide its shape; when rising, it can fly in the universe, when hiding, it can lurk in the waves. How could such a creature be born in a deep palace, raised by women, carefully cared for, and pampered?

Lu Cheng stood in the void and looked at the little red dragon. The little red dragon seemed to sense something after eating and drinking, and raised its head and saw him. Then, it turned and swam away without hesitation.

As time went by, his mind was exhausted, and Lu Cheng's consciousness gradually returned to his body, and he seemed to have realized something.

He knew that although he had not gained anything substantial from the Jiuli Cauldron today, the great power of Taoism that he had seen from a high vantage point would definitely have enormous significance for his future progress that he could hardly imagine today. The reason he had not benefited from it now was simply because he was too weak.

In short, when I advance to the Foundation Establishment stage, Golden Elixir stage, or even reach a higher level of cultivation in the future, what I see today will be able to play a greater role.

After meditating and resting, the three of them returned to Chixin Temple together.

(End of this chapter)