Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 241: Return to the Underworld, Refining the Body with Three Fires

"The Demonic Strategy of Yuanshi Tian" is one of the ten most profound and supreme volumes of the magic world in this world. Although "The Blood Sutra" is also known as the most advanced and supreme magic formula in the magic world, many Taoist practitioners know very well that the Blood Sutra expounds the law of "essence and blood" among the three treasures of Taoism, essence, energy and spirit. It's just that the author's own practice is too profound, and he wrote casually and insightfully, so that his successors have no way to learn and find it difficult to get started. In the end, the practice method is often primitive and direct.

It is easy to obtain supernatural powers, but also easy to be possessed by demons. For the vast majority of Taoist practitioners, obtaining them is either a blessing or a curse, and is extremely dangerous.

The Blood Sutra is a Taoist book that turns into a magic scripture, while the Heavenly Demon Strategy is the complete opposite, it is a magic scripture that resembles a Taoist book.

These ten volumes contain almost no specific methods of practicing qigong and cultivating qi; they only record the most fundamental principles of the universe.

Those who obtain it need to meditate and understand it on their own. What kind of magic power they can finally obtain depends entirely on the practitioner's own understanding, cultivation, and opportunity. Some people have the magic scriptures in their hands, and they have been reciting them for a hundred years without being able to enter the door, and they die of depression. Some people get only a few words, and they practice and understand it on their own, and finally achieve the golden elixir. However, the most advanced magic skills in the Heavenly Demon Palace are almost all derived from these ten scriptures.

Of the ten volumes of Yuanshi Tianmo Strategy in the hands of Dongyang Orthodox Church, it was good enough to preserve five volumes. However, with these five volumes, Dongyang Orthodox Church has been in charge of the first lineage of magic for thousands of years, and is even the first Xuanmen magic sect in this world.

Deep in the magnificent Taoist palace, the majestic palaces seem to stand in the clouds, and the magnificent golden glazed tiles sparkle brightly under the sunlight.

Taoist Huang Longzi was dressed in a cloud robe, with a posture as straight as a pine tree. He walked side by side with Lu Cheng in the garden to discuss Taoism. The sound of pine waves all around seemed to be telling the eternal meaning of Taoism.

In front of the two people was a deep pond with rippling green waves. Several red and white lotus flowers were quietly blooming, and the air was filled with a faint fragrance.

On one side of the pond, ancient trees and vines are intertwined, forming a dense green shade. Occasionally, the sound of birds chirping through the shade adds a sense of tranquility.

“After these days of contemplation, I have come to understand a little bit. The Jade Planting Technique is to use the inner world as a furnace and the body as a cauldron to absorb the essence of the world and condense it into the three orifices, so as to achieve the purpose of replenishing the body and purifying the soul.

That would be fine, the magic of this skill lies in the word "sensation". It is a state of mind that views everything as a wave. Every flower, leaf, grass and tree is a kind of "wave".

Sometimes, when I reach a high level of cultivation, I can feel that everything in the world has its own qi. The sun in the sky has its own qi, the earth and the mountains and seas have their own qi, and even birds, beasts, and even a stone on the ground have their own qi.

Each breath is a long line, and together they make up this vast, magnificent and vibrant world.

After reading this scripture, I think my understanding is still shallow. Perhaps, this world is not made up of lines, but points, particles, and waves. Once we can observe this world in a more detailed and microscopic way, our achievements in Taoism will surely be greatly improved. "

Taoist Huang Longzi held the broken stone slab in his hand, which was engraved with mysterious runes that kept changing and emerging. He slowly taught the essence of jade planting to Lu Cheng beside him.

Lu Cheng was listening attentively, with a thoughtful expression on his face from time to time, and sometimes a look of sudden enlightenment.

Taoist Huang Longzi's practice emphasizes thinking and empirical evidence, with induction as a secondary consideration. He completely breaks all Taoist precepts and rules.

Therefore, this Heavenly Demon Strategy can be said to make up for a shortcoming in Huang Longzi's practice, and the benefits to him are even greater than those to Lu Cheng.

But Lu Cheng didn't care much about this. "General Principles of Xuanmen", "Blood Nerve" and "Five Elements Reform" were enough for his practice. Instead of greedily learning more and more, it would be better for him to let his master Huang Longzi improve his magic power to a higher level. With the shade of this big tree, he, as a disciple, could live more calmly and happily.

In fact, when returning from the East China Sea, Lu Cheng also presented two Taoist books, "The Secret of the Demonic Origin of the Heavens" and "The Miraculous Calculation of Yin and Yang of Taiyi Tiandun".

However, Huang Longzi was concentrating on cultivating his Nascent Soul at that time and had no energy to pay attention to other things. He simply accepted it as a gesture of filial piety from his disciple.

What's more, although Deng Dongyuan's magical power is high, it is still weaker than Huang Longzi, and Huang Longzi will not care too much about his main Taoist practice.

But the Yuanshitian Demon Strategy was different. Although Huang Longzi disdained to eat Deng Dongyuan's leftovers, he was still interested in comprehending the Demonic Scripture.

"Master, I am going to Southern Xinjiang to practice Taoism. I will leave this magic scripture with you for safekeeping."

Lu Cheng was not being polite. If he carried a treasure of this level with him, he would be waiting to be besieged by the monks of the Heavenly Demon Palace. If he placed it in the hands of the Xiao sisters and Xue Yuzhen, it would harm them. Only by keeping it with Huang Longzi could he rest assured.

"Well, Lao Jiu, you have to be careful too. Everyone in the world sees you as my wing, and they want to disrupt my mind by cutting you off. You have to be more careful when you go out this time."

As he spoke, Huang Longzi took out a talisman from his sleeve and handed it to Lu Cheng with a little reluctance.

"I don't have much of this talisman, so I'll lend it to you for now. You have to return it to me when you come back."

The sixth-level low-grade spiritual talisman, the golden divine thunder talisman.

This is one of the things Taoist Huang Longzi uses to save his life. The last time he overcame the forty-nine tribulations, if Lu Cheng had not arrived, he would have used this thunder talisman to strike someone at the last moment.

The sixth level corresponds to the Nascent Soul stage. The lower-grade talismans can also be given to the Golden Core stage cultivators for use. The only problem is that using the Golden Lightning Divine Thunder Talisman under a heavenly tribulation will increase the power of the tribulation.

There haven't been any Nascent Soul cultivators in this world for a thousand years, let alone sixth-rank talisman makers. Therefore, there are only two ways to obtain a sixth-rank talisman. One is to be a fifth-rank talisman maker in the Golden Core realm who has a sudden breakthrough and accidentally draws a sixth-rank talisman. The second is to explore the ancient caves and find the legacy of the predecessors.

Neither of these two paths is easy.

"Thank you, Master."

The main purpose of Lu Cheng's trip this time was to go to the East China Sea and retrieve the sixth-rank magic weapon, the Golden Boat for Deliverance, left over from the ancient Tianfo Sect, as a backup plan for the master and disciple to deal with the demon god's destruction of the world.

However, Huang Longzi calculated the secrets for him and thought that the time was not yet ripe, so he asked Lu Cheng to wait ten years before going. It would be better for him to go to Huangquan Valley first. Taoist Lin Chong left behind many treasures, which were just right for Lu Cheng to use now.

After bidding farewell to his master and mistress, his wife and concubines at Guizang Mountain, and instructing his disciples, Lu Cheng hid himself and headed for Huangquan Valley in southern Xinjiang alone.

Back then, the ancestor of the Ranmu Mountain Lin Clan, one of the sixteen evil sects in the world, the Taoist Lin Chong, who had practiced Taoism for thousands of years, vaguely foresaw the future fate of the Ranmu Mountain Lin Clan's decline and even destruction, so he attempted to defy fate and come back to life.

However, he did not know that it was precisely because of his actions that directly led to the decline of the Lin family. Now the Ranmu Mountain Lin family no longer exists. There are only some bloodline branches in the Nanjiang Xingshen Temple. They are a big family in this emerging Taoism, but it is almost impossible to reproduce the power of the Lin family in the past.

In those days, there were almost no Lianjiedan masters in the Ranmushan Lin family, but they practiced the secret method of soul transfer, which allowed them to transfer their own souls to alien bodies before their lifespans ended, in order to achieve immortality. Therefore, the number of cultivators in the Ningsha and Liangang realms accumulated over the past thousand years is unimaginable.

Therefore, although the Ranmushan Lin family was ranked low among the sixteen evil sects in the world at that time, it dominated the southern border and was also the most poisonous local snake. Ordinary Jindan cultivators did not dare to provoke them.

“But the soul transfer technique is both a way of success and failure. The Lin family’s soul transfer technique is too mysterious and powerful. Not only can the soul be transferred to an alien body to survive for a thousand years, but even the magical powers can be transformed to threaten the life of a Jindan cultivator. The difficulty of cultivation is also reduced by a lot. With such a convenient method, how many cultivators in the family are willing to slowly polish the foundation of Taoism?
If you don’t wake up in time, no matter how talented you are, it will be hard to change. But in that family environment, it is almost impossible for you to wake up on your own.”

The Yellow Spring Valley has been reduced to a ruin, with purple flames surging from time to time. It has become a dead zone. Lu Cheng, dressed in a Taoist robe, revisits the old place and looks around with some emotion in his heart.

At that time, I didn’t have enough knowledge of Taoism and couldn’t think clearly.

It now seems that the reason why the Ranmushan Lin family has been trapped in southern Xinjiang for a long time is also because of the secret method of "Soul Transfer".

Because there are so many poisonous insects and poisonous insects in southern Xinjiang, their magical powers are fierce and their intelligence is inherently low, so their fightback after soul transfer is minimal, so the monks of the Lin family often choose the bodies of spiritual insects to transfer their souls, but they seem to be bound to southern Xinjiang forever because of this.

If you don't leave Southern Xinjiang, the insect poison will feel comfortable and won't attack you. Once you leave, the longer you stay, the heavier the attack will be. It's because of the low intelligence that the insect poison will become more stubborn and will not stop until you die. Lu Chengxiu has the Five Elements Magic Intention and is proficient in the Five Elements Escape Technique. However, when Lin Chong Taoist opened the way to the Netherworld and performed the Nine Netherworld Devouring World Forbidden Technique, the harm has been left to this day.

Even today, Yin Fire still suddenly bursts out from the collapsed Yellow Springs Valley from time to time. If one is only good at earth escape techniques, he will definitely die if he goes too deep into it, even if he is a Jindan cultivator.

Lu Cheng is a Jindan Zhenren, who is good at fighting and practicing both the Dharma body and the Dharma body. He also has cultivated the Samadhi True Fire and is not afraid of damage to his ordinary Dharma body. However, he is still very cautious while escaping downwards.

Just as he was penetrating the earth and rocks and escaping downwards, a purple fire suddenly rushed out like a tornado and covered Lu Cheng's face.

The Taoist raised the sleeves of his Taoist robe and a layer of powerful golden elixir energy emerged, which forcibly repelled the purple fire and Yin flames, breaking the magic with force.

Because he had mastered the Taoist method of "sword entering the extreme of death, and reincarnation at the extreme of death", Lu Cheng put all his life's energy into the golden elixir when he condensed it, and cultivated the golden elixir in a state of neither death nor life, so his golden elixir energy was extremely powerful, and it was probably more effective in protecting himself than any fifth-level defensive magic weapon in the world.

It is also extremely powerful when used for attack, but in Lu Cheng's opinion it may not be more powerful than using his own flying sword to perform special skills, so he usually only uses the golden elixir energy to protect himself, and will only turn it into an attack when it comes to a life-or-death moment.

"No wonder many people know about this place, but no one comes down. Could it be that the forest worms really broke through the ground membrane back then? Is it connected to the Nine Netherworld below?"

If it were a normal world, it would certainly be impossible to shake the earth's membrane with a formation set up by a cultivator who was at most equivalent to a Jindan Zhenren. However, the situation in the Tongxuan Realm is special, and if the location is right, this may not be impossible.

After diving for another two hours, when one third of the golden elixir energy was consumed, Lu Cheng pinched the magic formula with his hands and chanted a few words:

"rise!"

The next moment, as Lu Cheng pointed his finger, the Qiankun bag on his waist opened, emitting a red light, and inside was a statue of Chijun.

This fifth-grade magic weapon was the most profitable investment in his more than one hundred years of Taoism career. He spent five hundred low-level spirit stones and found a devout carpenter to make it. After more than one hundred years of nurturing it, it was gradually upgraded to a mid-grade fifth-grade weapon. Even if it was not in line with his own Taoist system, a lower-grade fifth-grade magic weapon was always powerful, and it was unique in that it could attack and defend at the same time.

The statue of the Red Heart God floated beside him, emitting red light, enveloping Lu Cheng and flying downwards.

After flying for another hour, the divine power in the statue of Red Heart God was exhausted. Lu Cheng took it back and continued to sneak around with the golden elixir to protect himself. Then he successively sacrificed the Seven Sacred Magic Lamps and the Hundred Poisons Golden Silkworm Gu to protect himself. He found a place where the Nine Nether Fire was relatively weak and swallowed the elixir to restore his spiritual consciousness and magic power.

They searched like this for seven days and nights. Not to mention the Jindan Grandmaster, even an ordinary Jindan Zhenren would have been killed in such an environment.

With at least the magical power of the Golden Core, no one in the entire Tongxuan Realm, except Lu Cheng, can face danger here with ease.

"This Nine Nether Purple Fire is Yin Fire Dead Fire. I will collect some Great Sun True Fire, refine Yin Fire and Yang Fire together, and combine them with my Samadhi True Fire. It should be able to greatly improve my Dharma Body. However, it is a bit risky to cultivate in this way. The fire poison is too strong. Even if I use Samadhi True Fire to remove it afterwards, it will delay my cultivation for many years. The gain may not be worth the loss.

However, if there is Qingyuan Pure Water to eliminate the fire poison, it may be possible to minimize the damage. In this world, there are sects with spiritual water such as Qingyuan Pure Water: Dongyang Orthodox Sect, Wuliang Dihuo Moku, Dongji Island, Mingquan Temple... Let Situ Hua go to Mingquan Temple and exchange it with the fifth-level jade bee syrup, and he should be able to get what he wants."

I just had a dispute with the Dongyang Orthodox Church. Wouldn't it be humiliating to go to them now? Even if I didn't practice the Three Fires Body Refining, Lu Cheng would not do this.

The Wuliang Earth Fire Demon Cave is one of the sixteen evil sects in the world. Its relationship with the Dongyang Orthodox Church is similar to the relationship between the Burning Wood Mountain, Lingnan Never-Sleeping City and the Gu God Cult in the past. There is no difference between looking for them and directly looking for the Dongyang Orthodox Church.

Mingquan Temple is a second-rate sect in the Xuanmen sect. The reason why it was able to preserve the spiritual spring is because this sect has some connection with the Eight Views and Cangjian Palace.

Qingyuan Pure Water is one of the most famous spiritual waters in the world, and is best at removing fire poison. The Eight Views and Cangjian Palace have joined forces to protect this sect in order to avoid conflicts with the Dongyang Orthodox Sect and the Wuliang Earth Fire Demon Cave, where they would have no way to restrain the opponent's magic fire skills.

Lu Cheng's Samadhi True Fire can extremely restrain the overbearing fire magic of the Infinite Earth Fire Demon Cave, but the practice of drawing fire into his body is different. If he does not have the Qingyuan Pure Water, it is better to slowly cultivate his Dharma body than to practice the Three Fires to refine his body.

Finally, after Lu Cheng had been traveling underground for dozens of days, through constant measurement and sensing, he finally found his target.

Boom.

Accompanied by a flash of five-colored sword light, a large rock was chopped into pieces. First, a flying sword flew in, and the next moment a Taoist appeared out of thin air, holding the hilt of the invisible sword.

This small underground space was surrounded by a faint and refreshing air, and it was cool and refreshing, because in the center, there was a huge ancient tree. On the ancient tree, there was a pale giant insect that had already taken the shape of a dragon, with scales and horns, coiled on it.

Lu Cheng has been searching for these two treasures for so long.

Back then, the Taoist Lin Chong transferred his soul onto a strange insect and parasitized an ancient tree to practice Taoism for thousands of years. Although his Taoism and magical powers were always difficult to improve, he gained longevity and accumulated experience.

He had already prepared an extremely powerful magic weapon for himself: the Falling Treasure Golden Branch.

When it falls down, it can drop people's magic weapons, which is extremely mysterious.

This giant insect and this ancient tree are both treasures of Taoism.

The former is extremely soft and gentle, and can be refined into any kind of physical form, while the latter can be combined with the Falling Treasure Golden Branch in Lu Cheng's hand to greatly improve the quality of the magic weapon.

If Taoist Huang Longzi had not arrived and marked off this place, even if endless fire from the Nine Netherworlds was surging in the collapsed Yellow Springs Valley, it would not be able to stop the Taoist master in the world.

It was only the difficulty of obtaining the treasure, coupled with the reputation of Taoist Huang Longzi, that prevented no one from coming.

Lu Cheng first turned around and filled the broken stones back to bridge the gaps in the rocks, preventing the fire from surging inside and the fresh air from leaking out.

Then he flew up and looked around at the ancient tree and the white worm with scales and horns.

"What a treasure! It's really a treasure. The thousand years of cultivation of Lin Chong Taoist have not been in vain. It's a pity that his luck had declined to the extreme at that time. Otherwise, if he was allowed to ascend to heaven, the world would have another giant of the magic way. Hmm? The tree source energy and spirit insect aura are both a little insufficient?"

There was a gleam of fire in Lu Cheng's eyes. This was the Fire Pupil and Golden Eye, an ability he naturally acquired after refining himself with the Samadhi True Fire for the past fourteen years. Although the fire was still not yet ready, the white worms on the ancient tree did not resist at all at this moment, so he could naturally see through the essence of the problem.

After all these years of consumption of the Nine Nether Fire, the white worms on the ancient tree have somewhat depleted their essence. Now either the ancient tree must be used to replenish the white worms, or vice versa. Otherwise, whether it is melted into the Falling Treasure Golden Branch or refined into an external incarnation, it is likely to be insufficient.

Lucheng chooses: ...

"I choose both. If the essence is insufficient, it will be replenished. My Ten Thousand Beasts Incarnation Palace is rich in the world, and it is used for times like this. Otherwise, what is the use of wealth?"

Thinking of this, Lu Cheng immediately gathered spiritual power in the void to write a letter, and then sent out the communication talisman with the Five Elements Flying Sword.

Let the disciple Situ Hua quickly prepare the materials he had written. If the sect has them, he can use them from the sect's treasury. If the sect doesn't have them, he can go out to buy them. The reason why cultivators have to manage the sect is to use them at times like this. The twelve hours of a Nascent Soul cultivator and the twelve hours of a Qi-training disciple are essentially no different. Even if the former is ten thousand times more efficient than the latter, letting ten thousand disciples do this may be more effective than a Nascent Soul cultivator doing it himself.

After doing all this, Lu Cheng sat cross-legged under the huge ancient tree and began to meditate with his eyes closed to nourish his spirit and body.

(End of this chapter)