Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 204: Confucians fear destiny, Buddhists fear cause and effect; only Taoism can change and ascend

Nine out and thirteen back, all the benefits he had received from Deng Dongyuan before, he would have to spit out now without a single cent less. However, Lu Cheng himself was mentally prepared for this. After all, he would not believe that such a combination of interests could really lead to a loving master and filial disciple.

The second strike of the sword connected to the innate blood and fire in the middle dantian, and Lu Cheng's blood, bone marrow and even his mind began to burn.

The Blood God's true breath flowed throughout his body, and his vast magic power, under the compression and push of the Meridian-Severing Sword Qi Technique, passed through his broad and solid meridians.

But this time, Lu Cheng did not use the Vajra Flying Sword to kill the Buddha.

The left hand showed a sword gesture with the index and middle fingers together, and five colored sword lights of blue, red, white, yellow and black flew out and flowed around his body. Finally, as the sword gesture of the right hand was drawn up, it quickly turned into a ball of light, gathered in the center, and the five swords became one.

"go with!"

At this moment, the magic power erupting from Yu Lucheng's body was truly earth-shaking.

He was even comparable to Deng Dongyuan and Shang Xiwen, and also attracted the attention of the thousand-year-old sky ghost in the field.

But after all, it was impossible for it to attack Lu Cheng with all its strength in front of the two vicious men Deng Dongyuan and Shang Xiwen.

Although the same magical aura burst out, it was obviously violent and unstable. It is questionable to what extent such magical power can be exerted, and it is bound to not last long.

What's more, Lu Cheng's sword was slashing towards the sky, a sword cutting through the air!
During this period of time, most of the five Jindan masters from the Deng and Shang families and more than twenty Liangang realm cultivators had been killed by the thousand-year-old sky ghost and had their bodies taken over by it.

It was also learning rapidly and increasing its magical powers. Moreover, it could learn about the personalities and weaknesses of Deng Dongyuan and Shang Xiwen through these cultivators:

Deng Dongyuan is a greedy person. He is domineering and does not leave any benefit to others. He wants to possess all the good things in the world. When he was young, he pursued beautiful female cultivators. After middle age, he became powerful and dominated the world. In his later years, he established a family and called himself the ancestor. He wants to possess all the good things in the world.

This is not a bad thing in terms of spiritual practice. Seeing one's nature is merit, equality is virtue, knowing one's own nature and practicing to expand one's nature are the evil and stubborn nature of the devil.

This kind of devilish intention combined with his circumstances and talents is extremely terrifying.

Shang Xiwen is a man of indecisive character. He practices his innate magic weapon, the Ghost King Flag, and at the same time practices as a fifth-level talisman maker. High-level talisman makers are very scary. A high-level cultivator can only have one innate magic weapon and several high-level magic weapons, while a talisman maker can have many high-level talismans, and they can use all the power of the talismans to their advantage.

This resulted in Shang Xiwen having a variety of methods, and he was even able to indirectly master the thunder method that was most powerful against himself, and he also had many ways to deal with the thunder methods of others.

But he lacks the magical power to make the final decision, which is also related to the environment he grew up in. It has been like this for hundreds of years. As long as he can entangle the opponent and wait for his senior brother to recover, he can make the final decision. In a sense, this is indeed the best choice for Shang Xiwen.

During this period of time, the Millennium Sky Ghost had already gained a very deep understanding of the personality traits of Deng Dongyuan and Shang Xiwen.

Unfortunately, before it could make any preparations, Deng Dongyuan and Shang Xiwen had already noticed it and counterattacked.

That day, when Lu Cheng was meditating and practicing magic, he suddenly felt a chill. It was coveting Deng Dongyuan's magic and Taoism, and wanted to take over his body, but was scared away by Lu Cheng's Five Elements Sword Intent.

It was not that he was defeated, but facing that kind of sword intent, the Millennium Sky Ghost was keenly aware that it would not be able to kill quickly, and was worried that it would attract siege from other cultivators, so he retreated.

After these days, most of the cultivators from Deng Shang's family had been devoured by it. It originally planned to devour everyone except Deng Shang, Lu Cheng and the other two before taking action, but it didn't expect to be overtaken by someone else.

The Millennium Sky Ghost did not realize that the more monks it devoured, the more it became infected with the weaknesses of “humans”.

This thousand-year-old celestial ghost was like a cloud of smoke at this moment, pouncing between the dozen or so cultivators from the Deng and Shang families. Those cultivators whose bodies had been possessed and killed by it and whose souls had been scattered, of course, became possessed by the ghost at this moment and launched a crazy counterattack with their magic weapons.

But there were also a few people who looked normal and cried out for their ancestor.

However, they were still killed by Deng Dongyuan and Shang Xiwen. Unless they were more than 80% sure that the ghost had not been possessed by another body, they would kill him without mercy. They would rather kill someone by mistake than let the ghost come back to life.

Judging from the changes in the bodies of the monks after their death, someone was indeed wrongly accused, but Deng Dongyuan didn't care at all. With a roll of his demonic energy, he turned it into nothingness and increased his own demonic energy.

Of the five Jindan Grandmasters, two had already died in battle. One was killed by a possessed spirit, one was approached by a screaming and wailing nephew, and one could not bear it and failed to attack immediately, and then was hugged by the other party and exploded, dying of serious injuries:

Ghost magic, corpse soul and bone explosion.

A cultivator's soul, physical body and magical power are all utilized to the extreme limit.

But at this moment, in the air, above the sky, a blood-red sword light suddenly blazed, and in the next moment, the blood-red light had covered the entire sky. Under the shocking blood-red light, the entire Tianfo world, mountains, rivers, lakes and seas were all dyed blood red.

Huge blood swords extended from the sea of ​​clouds. In the midst of such sad and mysterious sword light, the entire world was filled with an indescribable sense of murderous coldness, brutality and ruthlessness.

One sword separates the worlds, the five elements' extinct sword energy.

According to Deng Dongyuan, Shang Xiwen, and the Millennium Sky Ghost, the sword light that Lu Cheng had swung before turned into a blood-colored chaos hole between the high-altitude sea of ​​clouds. All the vitality in the world was sucked away by this extremely ferocious blood-colored sword light, and all of it was transformed into nutrients for its own proliferation and growth, and it seemed to continue to grow endlessly.

In the previous fight with Shang Xiwen, Lu Cheng displayed his highest level of swordsmanship.

The sword moves across the sky to guard Tianyuan, seize the first move to seize the initiative, chain swords fall to create a killing situation, mysterious and mysterious, all empty, the twelve jade towers are even emptier, an inch of lovesickness is an inch of ashes.

If the three sword kills were completed, Lu Cheng would even have a certain chance of killing Shang Xiwen quickly. Then, there was a high probability that the resurrection would fail. It was unknown whether Shang Xiwen would die or not, but he himself would definitely die.

At this moment, when fighting with the Millennium Sky Demon, Lu Cheng was not forced at all to waste his hundred years of life in hesitation and uncertainty. Instead, he completely immersed himself in it, observing, understanding, and enjoying this sword.

The sword returns to the Five Elements, regards the world as life, and the Great Five Elements destroys the sword energy, plundering and destroying the vitality of the world!

It can be said that Lu Cheng has perfectly integrated his swordsmanship, the Heaven-stealing Spirit Transformation Method and the Five Elements Seal. With his current magical power, only when he performs the swordsmanship of "Sword Across the Worlds" can he integrate his swordsmanship and Taoism into such a realm.

"This sword is really beautiful!"

Deng Dongyuan looked up at the blood-red sword formation in the sky, sighed, and then continued to intensify his attack to suppress the sky ghosts that were flying and hiding.

Shang Xiwen looked strange, but he probably did the same thing.

The only difference was that the Millennium Sky Ghost could not remain unresponsive like Deng Dongyuan and Shang Xiwen, because this sword was absorbing the energy and ready to attack it.

"Ah ah ah ah..."

With a sharp roar, the bodies of the cultivators from the Deng and Shang families who were originally used as shields exploded in an instant, and all their essence, blood and vitality were gathered by the sky ghost.

At this moment, it finally condensed into a solid entity and stood in the void.

Raising its head, it was the figure of a faceless man, or rather, a human face appeared on its face all the time. This was the resentment of hundreds of millions of believers who had died unjustly in the human world. They ate vegetarian food and worshipped Buddha, and gave away all their wealth, but received no good reward!

It’s hard to let go of the resentment and hate all living beings!
This overwhelming hatred once swept across the entire Buddhist world, and now, it is about to sweep across everything in this world and send everyone to hell.

“Putting your hopes of transcendence on others is foolish and cowardly.

Confucians fear destiny and cultivate themselves to wait for it; Buddhists fear cause and effect, but do not know that karma cannot be escaped; only we Taoists want to live forever, transform and ascend, do not believe in destiny, do not fear karma, and fight against nature, how brave we are! "

Yuanshi Tianmo Ce never believed that devil is the opposite of Tao, but believed that Tao is objective, natural, and not subject to human will. Devil is Tao. Tianmo Ce says that the universe is originally dark, and darkness occupies 98% of the universe. It is mistakenly regarded as devil by fools and moralists in the world. But in fact, most people in the world cannot see the truth and just follow what others say. Tao is there, and Tao itself has no good or evil. Tianmo Ce merely describes the objective and true side of Tao.

Therefore, the practitioners of Tianmo Strategy all believe that they are the true Taoists. At this moment, Deng Dongyuan looked up to the sky and shouted, "How brave you are!" A breath of golden elixir energy turned into black thunders that struck down one after another, condensed and domineering.

He just suppressed the Millennium Sky Ghost, who was gathering strength, and had no time to attack Lu Cheng who was also gathering strength. Shang Xiwen also used swordsmanship and magic to follow closely behind.

His sword techniques are solemn and meticulous, his skills are solid, and combined with his ever-changing talismans, he can truly be said to have won by using the right combination and the unexpected.

The remaining cultivators from the Deng and Shang families also reacted after they had calmed down from the shock. They each summoned their flying swords and launched continuous attacks.

With the suppression of two Jindan Zhenren, three Jindan Grandmasters, and several Liangang monks, Lu Cheng finally completed his own Great Five Elements Extinction Sword Formation.

As he made a move with the sword in his hand, huge blood swords fell down with a force that shook the heavens and the earth.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a war between cultivators broke out between the Chiyang Realm and the Qingming Realm. This brutal war almost wiped out all living beings in these two worlds, causing them to fall into destruction. However, the overly powerful force also broke the boundary between the two realms, causing the heaven and earth to return to a state of chaos. When chaos opened again tens of thousands of years later, the clear air rose and the turbid air fell between heaven and earth, and the innate qi resided in it, allowing all living things to practice Taoism.

This resulted in the fact that in the newly born Tongxuan world, the Taoists' spiritual foundation and innate physique were superior to those of the cultivators of the previous era.

In many other realms and worlds, there is no cultivator who can achieve the ninth level of elixir cultivation, because of their congenitally weak constitutions and insufficient foundation in cultivation, and most people can only achieve low- or medium-level elixir cultivation.

It is impossible to cultivate many top-grade Jindan Zhenren like the Tongxuan World. The mana of these top-grade Jindan Zhenren is almost ten or even dozens of times that of the Jindan masters in other realms. Once they cultivate to the late Jindan stage, they can even compete with the Yuanying cultivators in other realms.

Therefore, even if a sixth-rank Millennium Sky Ghost cultivated for a thousand years, he could still deal with Deng Dongyuan. After all, there was a huge gap in magic power between them. With the addition of Shang Xiwen, he could only fight back. At this moment, the third Jindan fighter joined in, which directly broke the balance between the two sides.

Lu Cheng used the blood sword technique to sense and attract the five elements of vitality in the sky, swallowing it up, circulating it inside and outside, echoing each other, and the qi and energy interacted with each other. The massive magic power became more and more powerful.

When the swordplay was completed, one blood-red giant sword after another slashed downwards with the force of splitting the world, and the sword intent firmly locked onto the Millennium Sky Ghost.

At that moment, the mental pressure brought to it was even greater than that of the two Jindan Zhenren Deng Dongyuan and Shang Xiwen.

He let out a silent sharp roar and pointed a finger at the huge blood-red sword that was looming over him.

"Fortunately, it was a range attack by the sword formation, and the magic power was not concentrated at one point!"

Just before meeting the sword, such a thought flashed through Tian Gui's mind.

But at the moment of the finger-sword confrontation, Tiangui found that his dark finger force penetrated into the blood-colored giant sword without any hindrance. However, the blood-colored giant sword passed through his body like a phantom.

Finally, the person who appeared in front of him was the young Taoist priest. He did not know when he had a glass-like sword in his hand that emitted a bloody and five-colored glow, and he slashed down at an angle.

The unique skills of swordsmanship and the power of sword.

Because the sword's intent was too real and too strong, the Heavenly Ghost who was besieged by Deng Dongyuan and Shang Xiwen was unable to distinguish the truth from the false in an instant.

Deng Dongyuan said before, "It's really beautiful!"

This is exactly what he meant, because even he was not sure that he could make the right judgment in an instant under such a situation.

A sword carrying extremely terrifying magical power directly broke the Dharma body of the Heavenly Ghost.

Cut it in half diagonally at the waist with one sword.

The Five Elements Sword Fire burned on the body of the Sky Ghost in an instant. As the most stable sword intent in the world, once it touches the body, it is like a maggot attached to the bone, following you like a shadow.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Sudden and severely damaged, the Millennium Sky Ghost let out a terrifying scream.

It didn't even have time to kill Lu Cheng, who was almost exhausted and right in front of it. It suddenly soared into the sky and fled in one direction at a speed far beyond the normal speed.

Ghosts are obsessed with death and life, which are higher than anything else in the hearts of celestial ghosts.

"Cheng'er, you did a great job! Deming, bring Lu Cheng here quickly. Protecting Lu Cheng's safety is the top priority. There must be no mistakes."

Deng Dongyuan saw that the Sky Ghost had been seriously injured and his body was burning with the Five Elements Sword Fire. His eyes brightened. He only needed a wisp of the purest sixth-level Sky Ghost Qi to make up for his Taoism and advance to the Nascent Soul stage. Seeing that success was imminent, he was naturally filled with pride.

"Yes, old man."

Upon hearing this, Deng Deming immediately responded politely.

He also saw that after Lu Cheng swung the sword, his face aged and his hair instantly turned much paler. He now looked like someone between middle-aged and old. How could he not understand what his ancestor meant?
This person still has some sword power that can be exploited, so we must not let him go.

After saying that, Deng Dongyuan immediately turned into a rainbow and continued to chase after him. Of course, before he left, he took away treasures such as the Netherworld Bead, the Stone Spirit Heart, the Nirvana Golden Lotus, and the Sun Golden Book.

Otherwise, he was also worried that Lu Cheng would kill Deng Deming with a sword, and then escape into the Tianren Palace to survive.

"Brother Lu, I'm sorry."

As a Jindan Grandmaster, Deng Deming actually called Lu Cheng "Senior Brother" when he stepped forward. Perhaps this was the tradition of Dongji Island, and the status of Deng Dongyuan and his disciples was supreme. However, it could also be seen that Lu Cheng's sword strike just now really frightened this person, so much so that his words subconsciously revealed a bit of respect from the bottom of his heart.

Deng Deming was an expert at escaping. He used a low-level talisman as a rope, with one end connected to Lu Cheng and the other end to himself. Then he suddenly performed the escaping technique, and the two of them were surprisingly fast in moving forward.

Even while escaping at high speed, he still had enough energy to chat with Lu Chengdong.

"After wiping out the Sky Demon this time, the old ancestor's chances of cultivating the Nascent Soul will be greatly increased. By then, Senior Brother Lu, as the old ancestor's last disciple, will also have a higher status. He will be the number one person under the seat of the Nascent Soul True Lord in this world. Being second to none and above ten thousand people is not a small thing."

"Let's finish this first, and then talk about other things."

At the other end of the talisman rope, a cloud gathered under Lu Cheng, carrying him to fly quickly. Lu Cheng sat cross-legged on top of the cloud, trying his best to replenish his own energy.

With the experience from last time, he is in a slightly better condition this time. However, after the last sword strike, he was able to focus his mind and heal his wounds. But this time it won’t be possible. It may even be not long before he has to strike the third sword.

A hundred years of life was gone in a flash, and only one tenth of it could be replenished by gathering vital energy.

As for Deng Dongyuan's method of breakthrough, Lu Cheng had listened to many of his lectures in recent days and learned the jade-planting skill, so he had some vague guesses.

The other party is probably going to use the Heavenly Ghost's original vitality to absorb yin to replenish yang and return to the innate. This is in line with the Heavenly Demon Strategy method obtained by Deng Dongyuan.

"It's just that we don't know whether the ghost that day was a man or a woman, male or female. Master Deng is really not picky and takes all of them."

Lu Cheng secretly criticized Deng Dongyuan for his lack of preference for meat and vegetables, but he also knew in his heart that let alone this kind of Qi replenishment, in the Tongxuan Realm, many cultivators would sometimes really go beyond their limits in order to achieve a breakthrough.

"My sword struck hard, and it is unlikely to escape even if it is familiar with this place. Next, we should wait until it is exhausted and then kill it successfully. However, it is unclear whether Deng Dongyuan is cultivating here to break through the Nascent Soul stage or going to look for the Golden Boat to save his life first.

When should I get out?"

Deng Dongyuan has treated me well these days, although he mostly took advantage of me, but it is already good to be treated like this under the command of the giant of the magic world.

If he was willing to stay, Deng Dongyuan could definitely fulfill 70% or 80% of what he had promised, if not 100%.

But Lu Cheng was not interested and stayed in Dongji Island to practice dual cultivation with Deng Dongyuan.

It is possible to practice both subjects, but practicing it as the main subject does not suit Lu Cheng's temperament. In comparison, Guizang Mountain's transformation and ascension techniques, and the dual cultivation of Dharma and body are more in line with Lu Cheng's temperament.

This is not a question of which side benefits more, but a question of choosing the road construction route.

…………

Meanwhile on the other side.

A faceless ghost figure, without the lower half of its body, and at the same time, the five elements sword fire was burning in its waist and abdomen.

Using only its two hands, it crawled quickly into a ruined ancient temple as if swimming.

Because of the severe damage to the body and the loss of its life force, its flying speed has greatly decreased. If it is discovered by the monks from Dongji Island at this time, it will surely die.

At this moment, a rainbow of light flew across the sky above.

The faceless ghost immediately used his escape skills and hid in the shadows, but it turned out that the cultivators from Dongji Island had already chased him. Above his head was a cultivator from Dongji Island who was practicing the refining arts.

"Search carefully and don't miss any spot. The sky ghost has been seriously injured. It will be a great achievement if we can find it. If the ancestor can cultivate the Nascent Soul, we can also benefit from it!

It must be nearby, search everywhere."

"Yes!"

The remaining Jindan masters and Liangang monks from Dongji Island dispersed and expanded the search area. At this moment, the faceless ghost was already extremely weak.

As the Taoist in the sky cast a spell, the faint ghostly aura on his body was attracted by the light. The Taoist from Dongji Island naturally looked down and his eyes met with the faceless ghost.

At this moment, the Sky Ghost was no longer able to escape. It had already decided to risk everything to exchange its life for the young man in front of it.

however.

The Taoist stared at the ghost for a long time but did not call out.

Either he sensed the desperate will of Tiangui, or he thought of his fellow brothers who had died at the hands of the two ancestors before.

"Yanbo, have you found anything?"

"...No, Uncle Jiu, let's go take a look somewhere else."

"it is good."

The uncle did not suspect anything and left with the young Taoist priest.

Even the faceless ghost had not expected such an ending. After a while, his obsession was rekindled, and driven by instinct, he crawled towards the depths of the huge temple.

In this once grand but now dilapidated temple, there is a Buddhist hall.

Sitting on the cushion in the center of the Buddhist hall was a dried corpse wearing a cassock.

When the faceless ghost crawled in, the mummy actually opened its eyes and looked at the Sky Ghost. After a while, it slowly said:
"Who hurt you like this? Amitabha!"

"Amitabha, our Buddha is merciful and has infinite light, which shines on the pure lands in all directions without any obstruction. To express gratitude to the Buddha, I should repay him with my body, make a great vow, and be reborn in that land!"

The golden light spread, and the mummy actually turned into a golden Buddha in the scripture. Seeing this, the faceless ghost quickly pounced on it, biting and devouring it, swallowing pieces of golden Buddha light into its mouth and stomach. In the process, its Dharma body was quickly solidifying and recovering, and even the Five Elements Sword Fire that was burning faintly at its waist was covered and suppressed by the strong and gentle Buddha light at this moment.

"Eat, eat. I owe you so much that even a thousand years would not be enough to repay you. Eat, eat up my body and soul."

The dried corpse looked at the celestial ghost that was lying on top of it and biting and eating it, with a look of compassion on his face. The Buddha's light spread over his body, but it did not burn the ghost. Instead, it brought an inexplicable sense of peace and tranquility. He fed the ghost with his body in order to repay his thousands of years of evil deeds.

(End of this chapter)