Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 216: Chance, a Hundred Years of Dreams (Part )
In this endless dark sea, there is a ray of light faintly visible in the distance.

It is a deep-sea volcano group, a strange place where life and death coexist.

Lava overflows from the crater and spreads along the seabed. Its temperature is high enough to evaporate the surrounding seawater, forming areas of vapor-filled space.

At the intersection of this scorching heat and icy cold, some strange creatures display tenacious vitality.

A giant octopus and a giant crab are fighting for territory, their arms and legs entangled, and the battle of strength makes the surrounding sea water ripple. The octopus's eyes are glittering with cunning, while the crab's shell is indestructible. Their battle seems to be the main theme of this dark sea.

Deeper still, shark-like creatures roam, their bodies drawing graceful arcs through the deep water as if searching for their next prey.

At this moment, a red shadow as thin as a needle shot out from under the cover of sea sand and bit a light yellow sea snake at the seven inches. Of course, the sea snake struggled desperately, trying to shake it off, but the small red dragon held on tightly and refused to let go, even bouncing its body to use the momentum to tear the wound bigger.

After a moment, the pale yellow sea snake's blood flowed out and its life was gone. Lu Cheng then handed over the control of his body and allowed the little dragon's independent consciousness to devour its flesh and blood.

The Fire Region in the Sea is the final place that Lu Cheng chose to live. The extremely special environment here means that most monsters are destined not to come here.

Even if it was the dragon turtle with great magical powers, it would feel uncomfortable if it came here to fight against the power of heaven and earth.

Of course, there are still some fire monsters gathered here, but compared with those rare threats and the danger that exists at any time, the former is of course easier to deal with.

"Do you remember all my moves just now? When hunting, hide, wait, and attack suddenly. If you can attack from behind, do so. If you can attack from the side, do so. Unless you are about to starve to death, you will never fight head-on even if you let the prey go.

Don’t learn from your father. Have you forgotten how miserable his death was?

Once injured in nature, even a minor injury can lead to death."

At this moment, if there is a cultivator with extraordinary magical powers here, and he concentrates his mind and looks down with his Dharma eyes, he will be able to see the faint shadow of a Taoist priest emerging from the body of a small red earthworm-like dragon.

Although he taught it, Lu Cheng would not let the little dragon start hunting on its own now. Its father had no way to help it back then.

After the little dragon had eaten its fill of flesh and blood, it found a nearby conch shell, crawled into it and fell asleep. Faintly, a blood-colored Tai Chi was circling around its body.

This body is used alternately by Xiao Jiao and Lu Cheng. Most of the time, Lu Cheng returns the body to Xiao Jiao. He will only use that body when facing great danger or hunting.

During the rest of his free time, Lu Cheng used his own consciousness to guide his Qi and blood, sensing and memorizing all the information about the Fire Dragon:
Observe his body, bones, flesh, skin, scales, tendons, veins, flow, blood, liver, lungs, intestines, and stomach; think about his spirit, rhythm, essence, energy, movement, stillness, joy, happiness, anger, and sorrow.

This is what is called visualization. A skilled practitioner can even change the meridians in his entire body and thus change his physical body through visualization and some necessary spells.

This is what is meant by using the false to cultivate the true.

Dragon scales, dragon claws, dragon might, dragon spirit, dragon breath, visualization, and remembrance.

It is said that the Jiaolong is the descendant of a real dragon and a demon bird, the Golden Rooster. Although it cannot control the clouds and speak, or benefit the people, its physical body is inherently strong, and it can cause floods to submerge an area.

Many people ridicule the True Dragon Clan, who can discover the beauty of all things and leave behind blood descendants at random. It is said that a dragon gives birth to nine sons, but nine means the extreme number...

But in fact, even in this Tongxuan Realm, there are stories of human-demon love. Some demons who are born with powerful bloodlines can transform into human form at the Jindan realm and become no different from humans.

Therefore, it is actually very normal for the True Dragon clan and various races to leave behind blood descendants. In a world where one can cultivate to become an immortal, this is not a moral stain.

However, the true dragon clan itself does not like these mixed-blood dragon clans very much. At this moment, Lu Cheng is looking at the little red dragon, and is also trying to discover its true dragon bloodline, rather than the bloodline of the demon bird golden rooster.

The blood-colored Tai Chi circled around the little dragon's body, which was both a sense of perception and a way to guide the blood with the mind, stimulate its potential, allow it to grow quickly, and revive its blood.

A few years later, the small dragon that was originally as thin as an earthworm has now grown into a thick red dragon like a sea snake.

With a cultivator like Lu Cheng who is good at fighting constantly teaching by words and deeds, even if it only uses the physical body of the dragon clan, in this deep-sea volcanic area, except for those monsters that have practiced for many years, no one else can be a match for this red dragon, and the survival crisis is finally resolved.

"After a Jiaolong has gone through tribulations and turned into a dragon, its physical strength should be higher than that of a True Dragon of the same level. This is a gift from years of cultivation. So even though the starting point is low, it is still a good thing."

In fact, of course, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, but now that I am a dragon, I naturally have to look at the bright side of things.

Just as Lu Cheng was speaking, the red dragon suddenly stopped and looked in one direction.

Lu Cheng noticed this, so he looked over and saw a group of fire monsters, such as fire toads and fire fish, swallowing the earth fire evil near the flowing magma.

As they practice this, the demonic energy in them increases little by little.

"Teacher, when will you teach me how to practice Taoism? I also want to become stronger."

The red dragon tilted its head and looked at the Taoist priest whom only it could see.

Lu Cheng saw a hint of hatred in its eyes. Dragons can pass on some memories. The red dragon sensed that it was Lu Cheng who killed his mother, so he ran away and had no communication with him for a hundred years. It was not until he was on the verge of death that he entrusted his and his wife's only bloodline to Lu Cheng.

Of course, it did not hate Lu Cheng, because it knew that its mother raised it to devour it and purify its bloodline.

The little red dragon in front of Lu Cheng also clearly remembered the scene of his parents being killed by the dragon turtle. The dragon clan would always remember the blood feud even if it took thousands of years until the day when they could take full revenge.

“When you grow up a little, the Taoism I will teach you will be difficult and painful, but if you want to avenge your parents, this is the only way.

I can't stay with you forever, and my time in this world is limited."

As he spoke this, Lu Cheng subconsciously looked up at the sky above the water.

"Teacher, where are you going?"

Chi Jiao asked anxiously after hearing this.

For parents, it is just a one-time encounter, but for the teacher in front of us, it is years of companionship and trust in life and death.

"You don't really think that this is all I have left, do you? Of course I will return to my own body. What if I stay out for too long and damage my physical body?"

"Oh."

The little dragon responded aggrievedly when he heard this.

But he also felt a little happy in his heart. After all these years of getting along, he also had some common sense of Taoism because of Lu Cheng:

The Yin body leaves the physical body and does not return for years or even decades, but it does not damage the physical body's foundation. Teacher, is this the Yuanying Zhenjun or the Huashen Patriarch?

At the very least, he must be a Nascent Soul True Lord who has practiced some extremely powerful spiritual skills, otherwise he would not be able to achieve this.

The little dragon was a little snobbish, and thinking of this, he became even more respectful to his teacher.

However, it didn't know that Lu Cheng hadn't even refined the golden elixir yet, and the reason he had been able to retain his consciousness in the world for many years without damaging his body was entirely because of the incredible power of the Jiuli Ding, which could control the universe.

The up and down and the four directions are called Yu, and the past and present are called Zhou.

Controlling time, controlling space, the power of the Jiuli Ding. The more Lu Cheng practiced Taoism, the more he couldn't imagine how powerful it was and why it fell into his hands.

Because of its bloodline, the little red dragon is very spiritual and is born with the ability to practice cultivation. Unlike many monsters with inferior bloodlines, they have to grow old and become monsters first, and then gradually gain the awareness of practicing cultivation after their spirituality is awakened.

With his talent and Lu Cheng's assistance, he naturally broke through the two stages of Qi training and foundation building.

Lu Cheng chose the path of body training for her.

Therefore, as the magic power in the body naturally grows deeper, it will instinctively look towards the volcano, pay attention to the fire monsters in the deep sea, and absorb and exhale the evil spirit of earth fire.

It instinctively knew that if it did the same, its magic power would increase tenfold or even dozens of times in a short period of time, and its bloodline also guided it in this way.

However, the teacher didn't allow it.

It does not allow itself to inhale and exhale the evil energy of earth and fire like those monsters.

The little red dragon didn't understand why, but it obeyed and followed Lu Cheng's request, just working hard to cultivate its body. After a few more years, Lu Cheng saw that his cultivation was almost ready, and finally said:
"Okay, from today on you can go and swallow the evil spirit."

"Really? Thank you, teacher!"

The little red dragon was overjoyed when he heard this. It had been suppressing its instincts day and night for years, and it was in great pain. It could no longer hold back.

Therefore, he turned around and swam quickly towards the crater.

However, a telekinetic force acted on it, turning it around.

"Wrong, you swim up."

"Swim upwards?"

Seeing Lu Cheng raising his hand and pointing upwards, the little red dragon was confused, but looked at the volcano below with nostalgia. The pure evil spirit eventually swam upstream.

I vaguely saw a golden light shining down from the sky, enveloping myself in it.

puff.

Breaking out of the water, the little red dragon looked around and saw nothing but the sea water. He asked in confusion, "Teacher, where can we go to condense the evil spirit?"

"You don't need to condense any evil spirit. Just condense the Tian Gang directly. I have already condensed the evil spirit for you."

"what?"

The Jiaolong clan with pure blood does not have the innate stage. They have already passed the two stages of training Qi and building the foundation. The little red dragon has followed Lu Cheng to learn over the years and knows that the next two steps are the extremely important condensing evil spirit and refining Gang. These two steps directly determine the future foundation of the cultivator.

If you make a bad choice, you can easily fall behind others by ten or a hundred times.

It's not just the difference in magic power between the Ningsha and Liangang realms. Without superior Gangsha, it is naturally impossible to refine a superior golden elixir.

However, the little red dragon was sure that he had not practiced to condense any kind of evil energy from heaven and earth.

"It's blood evil energy. Ever since you broke through the foundation building stage, I have been condensing blood evil energy for you every day. You are a member of the Jiaolong clan, and you are born with strong blood and energy. You also practice the Taoist body refining technique, so I just comb through the excess dry energy in your blood every day, which is enough to condense the evil energy for you. There is no doubt that you have already reached the ninth level of condensing the evil energy. The breakthrough you made a few days ago was the result of your successful body cultivation and advancement to the refining Gang realm."

"...Then, teacher, what kind of Tian Gang do you want me to condense?"

The little red dragon gradually came back to its senses from the ecstasy of having reached the ninth level of the Demon Condensation Realm, curled up its body and asked respectfully.

"..." However, Lu Cheng did not answer for a while after hearing this.

After pondering for a while, the Taoist said:
"Jiao'er, your instincts have always been right. You are more suitable for the Earthly Evil in the Condensed Evil Volcano, which best fits your Fire-type Jiao nature.

The next thing Master will teach you is the method of condensing the Great Sun Divine Gang. The whole process of using the Blood Evil to cultivate the body and condense the Divine Gang will be extremely painful. If you really can't stand it, go back and follow your nature to condense the Fire Gang. "

"Master, the power of condensing the Great Sun Divine Gang is very powerful. Can you help me get revenge?"

If it was a pure Taoist practitioner, with such a strong obsession, his practice would certainly be filled with obstacles and dangers, but the little red dragon was a demon beast, so it did not have so many troubles.

"Hmph, ordinary fire and divine fire are clearly distinguished and have their own boundaries. I have repeatedly deduced this for many years. If you can master my method, you can trace your bloodline back and recreate the ancient flame dragon body."

As he spoke, Lu Cheng made hand gestures with both hands, leading the Nine Heavens Sun's True Qi to descend to the mortal world. As his hand gestures changed:
All of a sudden.

"Ow..."

A vast dragon roar pierced through the sky and broke through the clouds, stirring up waves all around, one layer after another. A strong wind suddenly arose, and everything was hazy.

Accompanied by this tremendous momentum and thrilling dragon roar, when the surrounding clouds dissipated slightly, a huge, winding shadow, with its claws swaying, emerged behind Lu Cheng.

It looked like a deer antler made of red gold, majestic and sharp, with a snow-white lion mane flying and flamboyant, a body of red fire scales glowing with divine light, and eagle claws like blades showing majesty, just like a god from the ancient mythological era descended to the world...

The hundreds of feet long body was covered with blazing golden-red flames, with flames rising up, exploding and flashing from time to time. Every movement of it seemed to carry an infinite force, stirring up layers of ripples in the air out of thin air, which seemed difficult to bear.

As soon as he appeared, he was shrouded in clouds and mist, with no head or tail visible. He emanated infinite power and had a pair of divine eyes that looked down on all directions!

——Dragon, this is the Dharmakāya of the ancient fire dragon!
This is the ultimate Taoism that Lu Cheng has created for the little red dragon after decades of careful deduction.

If it weren't for the unique body-refining and self-cultivation benefits of Blood Nerve, Lu Cheng wouldn't have been able to deduce that he could use blood evil to condense evil and stimulate his potential.

If it weren't for the accumulation of Taoist methods such as "Xuanmen Zong Gang" and "Dainichi Golden Book", Lu Cheng would not have thought of using the Dainichi Divine Gang to trace back the blood and purify the bloodline.

Looking at the figure of the ancient ancestor, the little red dragon was stunned for a moment, and it could not come back to its senses for a long time until the sea breeze blew and blew away Lu Cheng's magic.

"The ancients did not go against the times, and the present is no different. The ancient cultivation methods are not necessarily better than the modern ones, and the newly created methods are not necessarily inferior to the ancient magic. However, the ancient Tianlong clan roamed the world, and the Flame Dragon bloodline was not the strongest among the true spirits in the world, but it was at least first-rate. Except for Dapeng, Jinwu and other very few true spirits, I really don't know which other bloodlines are definitely stronger than the ancient Flame Dragon."

"It is my blessing to have a master to teach me. Don't worry, no matter how painful or difficult it is to practice this method, I will definitely master it."

The little red dragon looked excited and said this.

But it was obviously too early to say this.

Lu Cheng himself also deduced this Taoist method. He was sure that his deduction was correct, but when he actually practiced it, the dangers and pains were beyond Lu Cheng's expectations.

In a nutshell, tracing back the source of blood is not that easy.

If it were easy, there would be more monsters and beasts in the world than there are now, and cultivators who practiced the art of taming beasts would also become the mainstream of cultivation.

The reason why there is no such thing is because it is extremely difficult.

"Ah!"

High in the sky, in a golden flame, there was a red dragon swimming and struggling. This spell was as if it was actively inviting the flames to burn itself, and then it had to perform the spell well and guide its spiritual consciousness and magic power.

It won’t take long for an ordinary person to lose the sense of pain when being burned by fire.

However, absorbing the Great Sun Divine Fire is different. The Divine Fire burns the body externally and ignites the soul internally, as if it wants to burn the existence of trying to control the authority of the heaven from the inside out.

Fortunately, Lu Cheng was very familiar with both the Blood God and the Blood Evil and the Great Sun Divine Gang, and could even control them with his heart.

The little red dragon was flying high in the sky, gathering its energy, while Lu Cheng was performing some magic below. A round of blood-colored Tai Chi appeared and rotated on the body of the little red dragon.

It directs the bloody evil aura from its side, while suppressing the Great Sun Divine Energy that is burning inside and outside its body.

"Although this Taoist method can trace back bloodlines, it is impossible for cultivators or monsters to practice it alone. Although I created it, I am afraid it will become extinct in the future. No one else can trace back ancient bloodlines through this method."

Normally, practicing Taoism is an extremely private matter.

After nine levels of practice, it is like drinking water, only the person who drinks it knows whether it is hot or cold. There are still some secrets between parents and children, and between apprentices and masters.

The situation between the little red dragon and Lu Cheng is extremely special. It trusts Lu Cheng more than its own parents. In addition, it has been attached to him for many years, so naturally it is not a private matter. Only in this way can it assist in practicing Taoism.

At this time, if Lu Cheng had the slightest intention to harm the other party, those who practiced this Taoism would be trapped in a dead end and would have no way to survive.

Time passed day after day. Lu Cheng and the little red dragon worked together to practice the two steps of Ningsha Lian Gang, which should have been practiced quite quickly. For more than 40 years.

It is difficult to describe the various difficulties and obstacles involved. At the end of his practice, Lu Cheng even had to teach Xiao Chijiao some magic skills, so that he could turn his obsession with revenge into an inner demon, use the daily suffering as nourishment, and supplement it with the inner demon improvement method in "The Secret of the Demonic Dao of the Heavens", so as to force his way through the barriers, increase his refining magic power, and speed up his success.

Otherwise, with the little red dragon's determination, he really couldn't hold on any longer.

(End of this chapter)