Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 179: Grade A, bloody killing!

After killing Shang Huitong with a swarm of poisonous golden silkworm insects, Lu Cheng flew to the deserted island in the sea where the uncle and nephew had stayed before.

After spreading the poisonous insects to search, they found Shang Yunchuan's body in an animal cave not long after. Maybe because he was mentally disturbed at the time, Shang Huitong did not take his nephew's Qiankun bag.

This Jindan cultivator, who was proficient in the art of dual cultivation and nourishing the body, was now crouching in the corner of the cave with a pale face, and there was still a look of disbelief in his eyes.

"Go."

Lu Cheng waved his sleeves, and bits of golden light flew out like clouds and mist and landed on the corpse, rapidly turning it into bones, and finally eating up even the bones.

"Well, the Jade Scale Needle wasn't destroyed?"

When the corpse was broken open, Lu Cheng once again sensed the Green Scale Needle.

Previously, when he was chasing Shang Huitong's uncle and nephew, he suddenly lost the sense of this magic weapon and subconsciously thought that the needle was destroyed.

Compared with flying sword-type magical weapons, flying needle-type magical weapons are more difficult to refine and more easily destroyed.

Now it seems that the qi that Shang Huitong cultivated had a special nature. After killing his nephew with a palm, it sealed his seven orifices. In addition, Lu Cheng was on guard against the backlash of his spiritual consciousness caused by the destruction of the magic weapon, so he withdrew most of the spiritual consciousness in the Green Scale Needle, so he could not sense the needle. Until this time, Shang Yunchuan's body was broken open by the Golden Silkworm Gu.

After putting away the two people's Qiankun bags and deploying the golden silkworm Gu to protect them, Lu Cheng meditated in the cave to regulate his breathing and restore his own magic power.

There are some cultivators with ferocious personalities who will destroy their Qiankun bags or even use their internal energy to self-destruct when they are close to death in a fight, but the vast majority of cultivators are not so ferocious. When they are close to death, most of them will feel that they have lost all thoughts or try their best to survive, and they will not value material things so much. To self-destruct the inner elixir requires practicing a special method. At least Lu Cheng does not intend to practice this kind of method of burning and exploding the inner elixir.

Of course, his meridian-severing sword energy and blood-fire-burning-life technique are ten times more domineering than the ordinary inner elixir burning and exploding method.

However, cultivators ultimately value life and fear death, and most cultivators will not practice this secret method. At most, only the masters of the magic path practice it more.

One month later, in the Stargazing City in the southeast sea area.

At this time, this place can be said to be the front line of the battle between the Three Immortal Islands of the East China Sea and the Three Demons from overseas. A large number of cultivators who feared the battle between good and evil left this place, and a few cultivators came here with other purposes, but overall, the Stargazing City was still prosperous.

The overseas cultivation world is much richer than that inland. The three immortal islands in the East China Sea, Tumu Island, Tianji Mansion, and Zifu Chonglou, have each built a large city of cultivators near their own sects:
They are Dongshi City, Guanxing City, and Nanyahai Pavilion. At this time, Lu Cheng came to Tianji Mansion Guanxing City.

Killing two Jindan Grandmasters from Dongji Island cannot be in vain.

When Lu Cheng flew here, he had already found out that the three overseas demon clans of Dongji Island, Xinfo Temple, and Baiguyuan had colluded with the Hualongyuan demon clan and were going to attack the three overseas immortal islands and massacre everyone on the island.

The demon clan in the southeastern waters is powerful, and with their joining, the balance of power between the two sides quickly becomes unbalanced, but there are also masters in the Three Immortal Islands in the East China Sea.

It is true that Sanxian Island has no external aid, but they have been entrenched there for many years and have spiritual stones and resources.

The monks of Tianji Mansion quickly imitated the management model of Cangjian Palace and established a good deed system inside and outside the sect. Good deeds were exchanged for spirit stones at a one-to-one ratio, but good deeds could be exchanged for spirit stones, but spirit stones could not be exchanged for good deeds under normal circumstances.

The sect's good deeds can be exchanged for the sect's various spiritual objects, elixirs, magic tools, talismans, and classics. Sect disciples have great discounts, but non-sect disciples, in addition to a few core classics related to the sect's inheritance, can also add one or two times the good deeds to exchange for spiritual objects and skills from the Three Immortal Islands in the East China Sea.

The emergence of this good deeds system directly gathered a large number of independent cultivators, many of whom were even evil cultivators. However, at this time, as long as they could kill the demons, there was nothing to be afraid of. This move restored the balance of power between the good and evil forces in the southeastern sea area, and brought peace and tranquility for a short period of time.

Shang Huitong and Shang Yunchuan, uncle and nephew, are Jindan masters of Dongji Island after all. Lu Cheng felt that a reward for both of them was necessary, so he chose to come directly to the Three Immortals Island in the East China Sea.

The Stargazing City of Tianji Mansion is equipped with an extremely sophisticated formation, and the sky above the huge Stargazing Island is in eternal night.

The Taoism of Tianji Palace excels in spiritual awareness, astrology, and the deduction of celestial secrets, so the eternal night environment is certainly beneficial to the cultivation of the monks of this sect, and it is indeed a grand and earth-shaking event.

The sword light had just flown over a mountain when Lu Cheng suddenly felt the magic power in his body stagnate, and he slowly slipped down from mid-air.

"An air-forbidden formation? Tianxing City does have a very large formation."

Although he could use his magic power to forcibly pull out the sword light, Lu Cheng did not come here to make enemies, so of course he had to abide by the rules.

Fortunately, low-altitude flight is allowed. Tianxing City also has special reception for these cultivators who are at least at the Condensing Sha Lian Gang realm. They don’t have to queue up and be checked like the cultivators under the city.

"Thank you for coming all the way here. I am Kang Wudao, the steward of Tianji Palace. I wonder if you have any important business in Tianxing City. I may be able to help."

A middle-aged cultivator wearing a purple robe and holding a whisk in his hand came over. Although he was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, he handled the situation appropriately and neither servilely nor arrogantly.

"Take me to your Tianji Mansion's Good Merit Hall. I have killed two masters from Dongji Island, one is Shang Huitong and the other is Shang Yunchuan. I wonder how much good merit you can give me."

"what?"

The middle-aged cultivator from the Tianji Palace, who originally had a rather extraordinary demeanor, almost had his beard torn off.

Fortunately, after years of handling foreign affairs, he finally had some calmness. After a few deep breaths, he calmed down and said:
"Do you have any proof, senior?"

The bodies of Shang Huitong and Shang Yunchuan were all eaten up by the golden silkworm Gu, but Lu Cheng was prepared for this. He took out two broken swords and handed them to the cultivator in front of him.

These two flying swords are the natal magic weapons of the Shang family uncle and nephew. If they can even use this as an excuse to deny it, Lu Cheng will turn around and leave.

"The broken blade of the hilt of a fifth-tier magic weapon. With this certificate, it should not be difficult to exchange it for good deeds. Senior, please come in quickly."

The middle-aged cultivator from the Tianji Palace was so excited when he saw the broken sword that his face flushed. Being able to attract strong reinforcements for his master was one of the important achievements of Zhike. For him, it was like sitting at home and doing good deeds in heaven.

Under the guidance of Kang Wudao, Lu Cheng soon arrived at the Good Deeds Hall of Tianxing City.

This is a Taoist temple, and overall it has a relatively elegant layout and structure.

After Kang Wudao whispered a few words with another middle-aged monk from Shangong Hall, the middle-aged monk obviously did not dare to take the initiative in the face of such a matter and entered the inner hall. Not long after, he followed an old Taoist priest with white hair and eyebrows out.

"Wang Xuanqi, the head of Xiaoxiushangong Hall, apologizes for keeping you here for so long. Please forgive me for my impoliteness. Please give me the broken sword and I will have someone take it for appraisal."

Lu Cheng knew that the other party would not be able to confirm such a major event casually, so he took out the pair of broken swords and handed them to the other party.

Next, Wang Xuanqi and Lu Cheng drank tea and discussed Taoism indoors. About half an hour later, the middle-aged monk returned again.

Only this time he looked happy and held a token in his hand.

"Haha, it seems that the senior's good deeds have been reviewed. This is the Heavenly Secret Order, which is a fifth-rank low-grade defensive magic weapon. It also contains 200,000 good deeds, which can be exchanged for 2 million spirit stones at any time. If it is traded on the black market, it can be increased by half. In addition, the senior has done such a big thing, it is best for him to stay in Tianxing City and practice in the near future, so as not to be disturbed by those evil demons and heretics."

Lu Cheng took the Tianji Order, held it in his hand, chuckled and said, "Since I have taken your Tianji Palace's token, I am afraid that my every move is under your surveillance."

Wang Xuanqi's face changed when he heard this and he said, "The Heavenly Secret Order does have a surveillance function, and the sect does have a way to track the whereabouts of cultivators who have refined the Heavenly Secret Order. However, this method will not be used easily, and holding the Heavenly Secret Order itself is equivalent to being a guest elder of this palace. There are not many affairs to attend to, but there is a sum of money from the sect every year."

The other party's words sound nice, but the guest elders can only be regarded as high-level thugs of a sect, and usually have no influence within the sect. Of course, nothing is absolute. There are also cases where the guest elders have profound magical powers and have lived in a sect for a long time, and they have become the hosts. However, such things are rare.

Lu Cheng had the Jiuli Ding with him, so even if he had refined the Tianji Order, he would take it out when he needed it, and throw it into the Jiuli Ding when he didn't need it, leaving it to the Tianji Palace to find. If they could really find it, Lu Cheng would immediately obey orders and not say a word.

"Okay, bring me your exchange list from Tianji Mansion." Lu Cheng said without further ado.

Wang Xuanqi let out a sigh of relief when he heard this, and then asked the people below to immediately present the roster.

Lu Cheng was drinking tea in a separate room in the Good Deeds Hall, looking through the redemption catalog:

There were indeed all kinds of spiritual objects, elixirs, magical instruments, talismans, and classics. Lu Cheng even saw a list of names of enemy female cultivators who had been captured alive.

It contains a detailed introduction to the identity, portrait, and all kinds of information about the female cultivator's magical realm.

Usually, the more beautiful the appearance, the higher the level of magic power, and the higher the merit required for exchange. Lu Cheng roughly scanned them. He was not interested in these female cultivators, but he was worried that his two junior sisters would be mixed in. After all, the battle between good and evil in the southeastern sea was extremely chaotic, and anything could happen.

"Can I use the good deeds I have to issue missions to the Tianji Mansion sect?"

Lu Cheng asked Kang Wudao, a middle-aged monk who was waiting on the side.

"Of course you can, but the sect missions you publish cannot be in serious conflict with the sect's rules and cannot harm the sect's interests. Of course, missions like this will often be warned and prohibited before they are published."

"Ah."

Lu Cheng nodded when he heard this. If the search for the two junior sisters was fruitless, he might have to use the good deeds of the Tianji Mansion and rely on the power of this sect to look for them.

Even if she was taken hostage, as long as the other party was willing to come forward to negotiate, she could negotiate at any price, as long as it did not harm the Xiao sisters.

Turning to the last page of the list, Lu Cheng saw an option called "Pointing out the Secrets of Heaven".

It turns out that the Tianji Palace is good at Tianji Yishu, and is proud that this method is not inferior to the "Book of Changes" of the Eight Views. Now there is a great battle between good and evil in the southeast sea.

The cultivators in the sect or even outside the sect can use their good deeds to ask the elders or even the master of the Tianji Palace to personally predict the secrets of heaven for them.

The minimum asking price is one million merits, which is equivalent to one hundred thousand merits, but if the questions raised are too difficult to calculate, the price will be increased.

It is also noted that the clearer the conditions of the question asked, the clearer and more accurate the divination results will be.

Lu Cheng closed the list and thought for a long time. Finally, he decided to go to Grandma Jinhua's Biyun Cave first to take a look, at least to collect more clues before he could predict the future.

After leaving the Hall of Good Deeds, as a guest elder of the Tianji Mansion, he can live in the highest-end inn in Tianxing City for free.

When being led to the inn by the deacon Kang Wudao, Lu Cheng unexpectedly saw a special symbol on the street. It looked like a child's random graffiti and did not attract attention.

That night.

Lu Cheng went to a dilapidated Taoist temple in Guanxing City, lit three incense sticks in the temple, and then came to the skinny fortune-teller, took out a bamboo stick, pressed it on the table and said:
"The dark wind blows into the night, and the bloody rain takes away souls."

Then, ignoring the reaction of the skinny old Taoist, he turned around and left the Taoist temple.

Two hours later, Lu Cheng, who was strolling in the streets of Tianxing City, had just walked into a dark and secluded alley when he saw a blood rainbow flying towards him. Faintly, he could see several blood-like coachmen carrying a blood-red sedan chair.

Lu Cheng did not resist, but let himself be put into the sedan chair. Then he closed his eyes and rested.

Not long after, Lu Cheng found himself seeming to be passing through some kind of legal domain.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a pitch-black Taoist temple.

In the center of the Taoist temple, there was a man wearing a black robe and a hood, with only a pair of eyes showing.

"I can't believe that the Blood Rain Tower has already extended its reach to the southeastern sea area."

Lu Cheng flicked the corner of his clothes and said with a smile.

"Grade A, Blood Killer! You were rated as a Grade A killer after just completing one mission. It seems that you are highly valued by the host."

The voice that came from under the black robe's hood was actually a woman's, but it was cold and clear, just like the running water of a cold spring.

"I am offering a reward to find the two daughters of Huang Longzi, the real person in Guizang Mountain. Their current location is unknown."

"Blood Rain Tower is a killer organization."

"Give us 500,000 Spiritual Stones for accurate information, find the two people and bring back 5 million Spiritual Stones."

"… Let's talk about where they disappeared."

A killer's moral integrity is like a bitch's chastity. If you think he has it, then your offer is not high enough.

Lu Cheng's wealth may not be comparable to that of a Jindan master who has practiced for one or two hundred years. In order to save the Xiao sisters, he is willing to spend all his wealth. Even if the Xiao sisters have nothing to do with him, Lu Cheng will just regard it as repaying his teacher.

While the head of the Blood Rain Tower branch was preparing to make arrangements, Lu Cheng also walked aside and looked at the bounty.

The ones with the highest reward in the entire southeastern sea area are, of course, the Twin Saints of Dongji Island.

These two masters of the magic path and golden elixir who have occupied Dongji Island for hundreds of years are simply the nightmare of overseas cultivators. The past hundred years have been considered good, with the two saints practicing in seclusion, while their disciples were doing evil outside. A hundred years ago, the entire southeast overseas cultivation world was at the mercy of the two saints of Dongji Island. Even the Three Immortal Islands in the East China Sea could only close their mountain gates to avoid their attack and could not compete with them.

The bounties offered by Deng Shang and the other two masters were both over 30 million spirit stones. But they were just posted there for fun, and no one in the entire Xueyu Tower thought it was possible to get them.

"Why, are you interested in carrying out your second mission? Grade A, Blood Kill, you can complete the mission first and then accept the reward. Not only will you kill your enemy, but you can also earn some extra spirit stones. Why not?"

"No need, the task has already been released for me?"

In response, the female cultivator did not answer Lu Cheng's words, but raised her head to signal him to go and see for himself.

Lu Cheng turned around and saw a new task appearing on the spiritual jade wall in front of him:

Looking for the two daughters of Huang Longzi, the Taoist master of Guizang Mountain. The reward is five million spirit stones.

"With this kind of mission and this kind of reward, everyone will soon pay attention to this matter. As long as they are still alive and their bones have not rotted away in a corner, they can be found in half a year at most."

This female cultivator seemed to be very confident in the strength of the Blood Rain Tower and said so.

"Then I'll wait for your good news."

Seeing this, the female cultivator also understood Lu Cheng's intention, nodded, and clapped her hands lightly.

A blood-colored rainbow of light passed by and brought Lu Cheng out of the Blood Rain Tower's domain.

The Blood Rain Tower has great ambitions, especially the owner whom I met in the City That Never Sleeps before. I can vaguely feel the ambition surging in his chest.

Gathering the monks from all sects and schools in the world in one place, and establishing the thirteenth top sect hidden in the dark, if it succeeds, its power will probably be greater than the twelve orthodox sects in the world. Perhaps only the Eight Views and Dongyang Orthodox Sect can compete with it.

But this has nothing to do with me. Ambition is not a bad thing sometimes. At least now I have borrowed this power.

After refining the Tianji Order, the next day, Lu Cheng left Tianxing City and went to Biyun Cave.

The Xiao sisters have lived in Biyun Cave for a long time, and no matter how weak Grandma Jinhua is, she is still a master-level figure. Even if she dies, she will leave some traces. Lu Cheng now plans to find these traces.

At the same time, two Jindan masters died suddenly, and the soul lamps in the ancestral hall of the Shang family on Dongji Island went out, which made many Shang family monks very angry.

The Great Deserted Island of Dongji is the number one family of overseas magic practitioners. Because the techniques they practice are unique and easier to break through, there are many masters.

The two saints of Dongji Island are famous in the southeastern waters. All the cultivators on Dongji Island believe that the reason why their sect has not been ranked among the twelve orthodox sects in the world is simply because they are overseas cultivators, far away from the mainland and have insufficient influence, so they are ranked one of the sixteen evil sects in the world.

However, the fact that Shang Huitong and his nephew did not even take Huang Longzi seriously shows how conceited the monks of Dongji Island are.

At the same time, Tianji Mansion also intended to highlight this great victory and boost its momentum. As a result, the struggles and confrontations between good and evil in the southeastern waters became increasingly frequent.

(End of this chapter)