Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 230: Demons Arrive, Protect the Dao and Slay the Calamity (Part )
Swish!
Gu Xuanzhang swung his sword, mysterious as a shadow passing through the air, sharp as a flash of cold lightning, shooting towards him.

Lu Cheng sensed the sword's heart and quickly retreated. With a flash of his body, he shot into the sea tide. The Tianjun Sword turned into light and struck. With a clang, the two swords collided and a ball of dazzling sword fire burst out.

In Lucheng and Gu Xuanzhang's two swords competed with each other, both of them fighting fast, and in a short moment they had already exchanged hundreds or even thousands of moves.

Lu Cheng's figure flew into the air, and the Tianjun Sword was drawn out. In a flash, the two swords turned into dragons and twisted in the air again.

boom!
Sword fire splashed, sword energy flowed and surged, the vast ocean waves seemed to be blasted away by thunder, and exploded countless times in the clash of the two swords.

"It feels so good!" Gu Xuanzhang let out a long roar towards the sky, with an indescribable sense of satisfaction in his voice.

The two sides had already exchanged hundreds or even thousands of sword moves, but they were still unable to make up for the slight disadvantage they had at the beginning.

Now that I think about it, my previous idea of ​​accepting the other party as my true disciple was really a joke.

"What kind of sword technique is this? It's so exquisite. The five energies rotate, the sword energy takes shape, and the sword guides the energy, and the mind controls the sword. The sword energy is already perfect and there is no obstruction. I have been in seclusion for many years. When did such a wonderful sword technique appear in the world?"

When cultivating to Gu Xuanzhang's swordsmanship level in the Tongxuan Realm, it is difficult to make much progress through simple practice. Only by competing with masters can one promote the evolution of one's own swordsmanship. Fighting to support fighting is nothing more than this.

But when sword immortals fight with swords, their lives hang on a thread. In this world, there are not so many life-and-death battles, and one must fight without dying or getting hurt.

Lu Cheng stretched out his hand and grabbed, and a chaotic hole appeared faintly. Above the surging sea, a water dragon suddenly emerged and shot out.

Gu Xuanzhang swept his sword across, and the water dragon exploded with a loud bang.

"This move is somewhat similar to Burning Wood Mountain's Heaven-stealing Technique, but how can it be as powerful as yours!?"

The next moment, a flying star and a stunning flying sword appeared out of thin air and stabbed towards Gu Xuanzhang's throat.

The sword energy came with a hissing sound and flashed over.

This sword was incredibly fast, and the sword path was even more bizarre and unpredictable. Even the world's top swordsman would be injured by this sword. However, just as the sword was stabbed out, Gu Xuanzhang's deadly flying sword also arrived at the same time.

Clang!
As the sword waves exploded, the tips of the two flying swords collided with each other, creating a powerful force field that surged in all directions.

Lu Cheng used the Heaven-stealing Technique to make Gu Xuanzhang's body full of water energy. The Water Sword Jinghong hid and assassinated here, almost without a trace or intangible.

However, Gu Xuanzhang could not sense the Jinghong Flying Sword, but he could sense the murderous intent and death energy. Beichen Jianmen practiced the Life and Death Magic Sword and was able to sense it accurately and block it in time.

The offensive and defensive transitions between the two sides were so exquisite that they were beyond words.

"The current divine sword is nothing more than this."

On the deserted island nearby, Taoist Sun and a group of Sun family monks were dazzled and speechless. Even the Taoist Sun, who had the most profound magical power, could only see a glimpse of the sword fight, but he also felt that the excitement was beyond description, and any random sword move was thrilling. No matter which side was fighting, they would use the most dangerous and deadly sword moves in the world.

"Unfortunately, my cultivation is so low that I don't understand much. When I try to recall the essence of it, not even a fraction of it remains."

On the other side, Lu Cheng flew down above the sea tide and paused on one foot.

Rumble, rumble, columns of water and white waves burst up, and water-based sword energy diffused in between, invisible and yet with real killing power.

"Humph!"

With a cold snort, Gu Xuanzhang chased after him like a demonic shadow with sword light, and swung his sword diagonally.

call out!
A sharp sword energy came over like a white line. Lu Cheng dodged the sword attack, but the remaining force of the water sword energy under his feet was silently cut in half by the sword energy, destroying his foundation.

White waves exploded, and the water-based sword energy suddenly dissipated.

The sea tide is rolling.

Lu Cheng's sword entered the five energies, trying to take advantage of the momentum of the vast sea around him. The sword energy of Gu Xuanzhang's Life and Death Demon Sword was sharp, refined and pure, and it killed everything it encountered.

The two figures shot forward and backward. Lu Cheng used the Five Elements Escape Technique, sometimes using the Golden Mist Sword Escape to accelerate suddenly, and sometimes using the Water Illusion Escape to create illusions to interfere with Gu Xuanzhang's instant judgment ability. At this moment, he suddenly used the Wood Hidden Escape:
Jin Lan Dun is the combination of man and flying sword, which greatly increases the speed of the sword.

Water Illusion Escape can create an illusion while being performed to interfere with the recipient's ability to make instantaneous judgments.

Wood Hidden Escape is the moment of escaping into the Wood Element, where one's own aura completely disappears to avoid being locked by spiritual consciousness and sword intent.

Above the vast ocean, the water energy is overly abundant, so among the Five Elements Escape Techniques, only these three are relatively useful. The others, such as Fire Escape and Thick Earth Escape, are not suitable or even impossible to use.

Several miles away, Lu Cheng captured the scent of a tree and used it to perform the Wood Hide Technique. In Gu Xuanzhang's perception, this terrifying young man disappeared in an instant.

boom! !

The sharp sword force burst out in an instant, creating waves. Gu Xuanzhang instantly slashed out a huge sword energy that seemed to split the sky and the earth. It flew out like a waning moon and instantly chopped the island in Lu Cheng that was receiving the wood element's aura into pieces.

"Ahhhh!"

The Sun family cultivators who were originally watching the battle were also on that small island. They never expected that they would encounter an unexpected disaster even though they were so far away. Fortunately, Gu Xuanzhang's sword energy was extremely condensed and rarely spread. Otherwise, all the Sun family cultivators present would have died.

Even at this moment, when the island collapsed and sank, everyone screamed in pain and cast spells to save themselves.

"You lost!"

Fire Escape!
Among the five elements of escape techniques, the Fire Escape has the strongest instantaneous explosive power. Strong flames suddenly burst out from Lu Cheng's body. He flew close to him at an extremely fast speed and thrust out a sword as powerful as a mountain.

Gu Xuanzhang's expression remained unchanged when he saw this, and he controlled his flying sword to strike back. The deadly flying sword's sword energy filled the void layer by layer, protecting his body, and keeping out wind and rain.

Clang!
The swords collided and the two were evenly matched.

Lu Cheng took a breath, and the muscles all over his body tensed up, emitting a dark gold color, and he used this opportunity to strike out with the second sword.

Over the past hundred years, his physical cultivation has been no weaker than his magical cultivation, but he cherished his physical body and never used it directly as a weapon of killing. At this moment, the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit gathered together to refine the golden elixir, and his physical body has been slightly successful and can be used without any damage.

The sword flashed.

This sword was like clear light and flowing clouds, coming at you like lightning, and covering your entire body like a torrential rain.

"Good swordsmanship, great cultivation!"

Gu Xuanzhang let out a long roar, activating the sword energy in his body. The pale white deadly flying sword rolled back like a streak of silk, heading towards Lu Cheng's menacing sword.

Clang! !

The second sword collision occurred, and the flying sword still bounced back.

But at this moment, a strong flame suddenly appeared around Lu Cheng, but this fire was not an ordinary fire, it turned gold into a bright light. The vastness of the universe has no inside or outside, it refines my Vajra body.

The Samadhi True Fire turned, and in an impossible situation, it generated tremendous power in the Taoist's body, allowing Lu Cheng to swing the third style of the peak sword.

A fierce murderous aura spread.

The sword energy came and went without a trace, as if it had appeared out of thin air. Even with Gu Xuanzhang's swordsmanship and experience, he was unable to capture its trajectory at this moment. Most importantly, his sword intent and sword energy could no longer be continued:

During the initial confrontation, they were ambushed and attacked, and although they used various means to resolve the situation in time, they did not allow the disadvantage to expand and suppressed the losses to a minimum, but they were never able to make up for the initial disadvantage.

Later, when Lu Cheng performed the Wood Hidden Escape, Gu Xuanzhang was tricked into losing the sword's energy. This was not a big deal, as after practicing to the late Golden Core realm, the sword energy in the body would be created and destroyed at will. However, Gu Xuanzhang could not have imagined that Lu Cheng's grasp of the opportunity to fight was so accurate.

He was so good at catching the chance to kill in the face of a desperate struggle. He put all his magic power and even his life on the line without any hesitation. Lu Cheng's first sword was Gu Xuanzhang's second sword, and Lu Cheng's second sword was Gu Xuanzhang's third sword.

When Lu Cheng used the Samadhi True Fire to forge his Dharma body and performed the third style of the peak sword, Gu Xuanzhang's sword intent and sword energy had already exploded to the limit, and the thieves had left.

Clang.

The third sword clash, Gu Xuanzhang blocked with his sword slanted, and the sword rainbow passed by like an illusion.

"It's a pity that I didn't have the chance to strike you from behind, otherwise, you would have been the one to die..."

Standing on the tide, the two men confronted each other with swords in their hands. Lu Cheng held the sword in his left hand at his side, and Gu Xuanzhang held the deadly sword diagonally in front of him. After a moment, the deadly sword broke, and Gu Xuanzhang's entire body was cut in half diagonally.

The monks of Beichen Sword Sect used swords to gamble. The winner lived, the loser died. This time, Gu Xuanzhang lost the bet and his life at the same time.

The killing power of a sword cultivator is equivalent to his own protection. All means of attack cannot penetrate the sword light, so there is naturally no need to defend. Attack is equal to defense, so a skilled sword cultivator is good at both offense and defense, which is extremely terrifying.

However, Gu Xuanzhang's deadly sword was cut off, which proved that his magic sword technique of life and death was broken cleanly and neatly, and the sword was broken and the man died.

"Huh...huh..."

Lu Cheng's whole body was covered in sweat. Compared with True Man Xuehe, although both of them were late Jindan cultivators, Gu Xuanzhang, who "carried a cold sword on his back", was overwhelmingly powerful.

Fortunately, he was too obsessed with striking with the sword from behind, otherwise, it would be hard to tell who would be killed by the sword.

"If I hadn't known that this old monster had cultivated for 600 years and was about to face the 49th level of calamity, from which there was no way back, I really wouldn't want to fight with such an old monster. I can almost smell the scent of death!"

Lu Cheng closed his eyes slightly, trying to comprehend the gains from this battle.

After a moment, he took Gu Xuanzhang's Qiankun bag and fled away. He did not continue to look for Huang Longzi, but looked for a place to rest for some time to recover his lost mind and magic power.

Many old demons in this world who are about to face the 49th tribulation have been attracted by the Master. There are relatively fewer cultivators of the righteous path, because they have accumulated merits from the heterodox paths, so the 49th tribulation is relatively gentle, and they can also use magic weapons and secret treasures to conceal the secrets of heaven and delay it.

Many old demons act radically. They were rampant when they were young. Even after practicing for more than 600 years like Gu Xuanzhang, when they were facing a severe calamity, they became hysterical and crazy.

They wanted Huang Longzi to fail in his tribulation, and then devour his semi-immortal body to gain benefits and prolong their lives.

As for the first Yuanying True Lord throughout the ages?
You didn’t do me any good, so what does it have to do with me?

If he really succeeds, he will be able to suppress the world for a thousand years. Wouldn't it mean that we will never have a chance to rise?

Evil demons like this, not to mention not knowing the truth of this world, the affairs of the twenty-four demon gods, even if they knew, they would only think of colluding with the demon gods and enslaving all living beings in exchange for further improvement of their own magic power and their own survival.

Therefore, people like Master Qingxuan of the Eight Views and Master Huang Longzi of the Palace of the Incarnation of Ten Thousand Beasts consciously blocked the news, because they knew that once the news got out, the number of people willing to serve those demons and gods would be far greater than those who dared to resist.

After all, the gap between the two sides is too huge.

Our advantage now is only that there is internal strife among the demons and gods, and we are not taken seriously by them.

Deep in the ancient cave, a faint light flickers.

A young and handsome Taoist with long black hair sat cross-legged on a stone bed. He had a solemn expression, his hands were in seals, and he was chanting incantations.

There were a number of talismans with strange seal characters scattered around, emitting a faint golden glow.

"The Demon School emphasizes ruthlessness, while the Taoist School emphasizes abundance. You have done a lot for me, so I will not use up all my strength and destroy your soul. However, you cannot directly enter the reincarnation cycle, otherwise you will be guided by the evil energy of heaven and earth and cause countless disasters!"

As he spoke, Lu Cheng put down the Seven Saints Secret Magic Lamp in front of him, then took out a mahogany statue and worshipped it respectfully.

The etiquette here is not about respecting the authority of the other party, but about respecting the predecessors on the path of cultivation.

“Please ask the First General of the Innate World, the Three-Five Fire Train King, to show his mighty spirit and transform the Heavenly Lord, the Dharma Protector, into a holy figure to capture this soul and let him follow your teachings every day, turning evil into good.”

As he spoke, Lu Cheng used a spell to absorb the last bit of golden liquid lamp oil in the Seven Saints Secret Magic Lamp and threw it into the Chijun Dharma Domain.

I saw a golden bean falling into a deep red light area. The light area was extremely bright, and then faded away, leaving only the statue of the Red Heart God.

Then Lu Cheng began to pray for it and injected magic power into it to seal the town.

The magic of the Seven Saints' Secret Demonic Arts is the top magic skill in the world. To start practicing it, one needs to kill a cultivator who has at least formed a golden elixir, extract his soul and refine his spirit, refine his body into corpse oil, and seal it into a magic lamp together with his soul, causing him to be burned by magic fire every day, making his life worse than death, and increasing his ferocity.

Before achieving great success in cultivation, the life and soul of a Jindan cultivator are consumables, which can be said to be extremely cruel. Deng Dongyuan even wanted to sacrifice the blood of seven Jindan cultivators at the same level as himself, to breed a fatal fetus in the magic lamp and cast a spell to control it.

Once his magic power is perfected, it will be easy for him to overcome the forty-nine tribulations with the help of this lamp. He can even rely on this lamp to reach the peak of the Golden Core realm and compete with the early Nascent Soul cultivators.

If one goes one step further and cultivates to the point of no retreat or reduction in the magic path, the seven souls in the magic lamp will be imprisoned forever, and they won't even be able to disperse.

This method is too detrimental to the harmony of nature and will reduce one's merits. Lu Cheng originally did not plan to practice it, but he later deduced that zombies are condensed by the evil energy of heaven and earth, and their souls are scattered in the bones, flesh and veins. Refining them into nothingness may not only be harmless but also be considered a merit.

To this day, Lu Cheng's Taoism has improved, and his calculus has taken another step forward. He put the last bit of lamp oil into the Chijun Dharma Domain, and will inject magic power and recite Taoist scriptures every day to transform them into guardian gods. This way, it is not just a possible merit, but a certain merit.

What's more, the eighteen golden corpses have practiced Taoism for thousands of years, they are just not good at using it. After forming a formation, their magical powers will be even more powerful. If they can be transformed into guardian gods, it may be possible to reproduce the majesty of the eighteen golden corpses of Taoist Shiqi who dominated the world in the past. Of course, their image and appearance will be very different.

However, this is not a one-day job. After Lu Cheng injected magic power to complete the seal.

He waved his sleeves again and summoned a golden corpse from the Jiuli Cauldron. Today, his Taoism and magical powers had greatly improved, and practicing magic to refine the golden corpse was no longer as difficult as it was in the past.

Of course, the physical and mental training is certainly not that great.

Lu Cheng closed his eyes and secretly used magic to make the air around him surge. He was like an awakened dragon or snake, wandering and circling in the cave.

Lu Cheng chanted strange incantations, his voice gradually becoming louder and louder, like drumbeats resounding in the empty cave.

As the spell rose and fell, the purple crystal and glass-like Seven Saints Secret Magic Lamp suddenly lit up, and the magic flame rolled up and shrunk the uncontrolled golden corpse. The magic fire on the wick burned, refining the golden corpse bit by bit into boiling lamp oil, which was then injected into the lamp. The whole cave was filled with a pungent corpse stench, which suddenly turned into a strange fragrance after a long time.

For a moment, the light and shadow in the cave changed, as if countless souls were wailing, struggling, screaming, and begging in the light. Lu Cheng had a blank expression on his face, chanting the Tao and the mantra, his heart as calm as still water, as if he didn't hear anything.

At the same time, the five elements of magic power in his body kept rotating, and he slowly recovered his magic power according to the operation trajectory of the Innate Five Elements Seal.

The power of the wood element is gentle and growing, the energy of the water element is swirling and flowing, the sharpness of the metal element is unstoppable, the firmness of the earth element carries all things, and the flame of the fire element burns blazingly. The five elements are in motion, and all things grow.

With the continuous recovery of his own mana, the mana seems to have become more pure. In the Liangang realm, Lu Cheng's mana is so pure and powerful that it cannot be improved any further, but in the Jindan realm, the potential of a cultivator has increased a hundredfold, and it is a new beginning.

When he reached a higher level of cultivation, beads of sweat oozed out of the young Taoist's forehead and a hint of imperceptible pain was revealed between his brows.

However, Lu Cheng's hand gestures did not stop moving. Instead, they became more and more frequent, as if he was fighting against some force between heaven and earth.

The light of the Seven Sacred Secret Magic Lamp became brighter and brighter, and everything in the cave seemed to be swallowed up by this light.

It is of course dangerous to practice the Seven Saints' Secret Magic while recovering mana, but Lu Cheng no longer has time to recover slowly. Surrounded by demons, it is worth taking this risk to protect the immortality path for his master Huang Longzi.

"In the current situation, instead of me guarding beside Master, I might as well roam around alone with my sword and kill those old demon clowns who are attracted here. Otherwise, when they gather together, I will definitely not be a match for them with just one sword. It would be better to blend in and defeat them one by one, which will give me a better chance of winning."

Many times, many things that seem impossible to accomplish are not caused by a lack of strength, but a lack of courage.

Huang Longzi encountered a natural calamity and was surrounded by demons, which made him almost certain to die. However, Lu Cheng dared to come with only a sword to protect him and break the calamity. His cultivation was secondary. What was really terrifying was his indestructible mind.

(End of this chapter)