Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 253: Intercepting Spiritual Veins and Mineral Veins (Please collect and subscribe!!)
Lu Cheng initially thought that Fairy Lin had a unique vision and saw his extraordinary qualities. After a few years, he found out that she was simply afraid of being poor.

In order to cultivate the golden elixir, Lin Qinghan had already used up all of her sect's good deeds. If it weren't for the strong support of her family behind the scenes and the generous help from her fellow sect leaders, she would not have been able to raise enough money to spend on forming the golden elixir. Even so, she still owed a lot of foreign debts.

Although the space in these secret worlds is not stable enough to support creatures with too powerful magical powers, spiritual plants and minerals are not included.

The fifth-grade thousand-year-old Rehmannia glutinosa that Lu Cheng took out was of mild quality and good appearance. Although it was common, it was a precious elixir. Lin Qinghan received it in the name of a thank-you gift for his teacher. Whether he used it for himself or sold it, it could solve his urgent problem.

The sect had this intention in mind when they sent her on this mission. Knowing that she was in a difficult situation, they wanted to give Lin Qinghan some way to make money.

A Jindan Zhenren who has spirit stones and fifth-level magic weapons is completely different from a Jindan Zhenren who can only use spells. His value to the sect is also low.

Some of those secret spaces are close to the main world and easy to open, while some are far away from the main world, and the mana of the Purple Mansion Realm cultivators is not enough to open them, so it is necessary to send the sect's alchemist.

However, this matter was also a good thing for Lu Cheng. After accepting the thank-you gift, Lin Qinghan was quite caring towards him as a registered disciple and selected a position for him as a mine manager. For a Qi training cultivator, this was a very lucrative job.

In addition, with the name of the fairy Lin Qinghan, she can save herself a lot of trouble in this Huanyun Valley.

In the deep underground mineral vein area, a cultivation cave that has been opened up for many years stands silently.

The entrance to the cave is made of bluestone, with stone pillars on both sides engraved with Taoist blessing talismans and spiritual beasts, which seem to be silently telling the vicissitudes of a century.

As you enter the stone gate, a gust of fresh air blows towards you. The air carries a faint spiritual energy, which makes people take a deep breath and feel refreshed both physically and mentally.

On the surrounding walls, the starlight is like the stars in the night sky, and the crystals inlaid inside emit a faint light, leading the practitioners into the depths of the cave.

On the ground, the bluestone floor is clean and solid.

Inside the cave, a stone table and stone bench were placed in the center, with some tea cups and utensils scattered on the table, which had obviously not been used for many years.

There are rows of neatly arranged bookcases against the wall. Of course, don't expect any secret books or scriptures, but the classic Taoist collections are complete.

In the corner of the cave, there is a large white jade bed, which has a certain effect of clearing the mind and calming the spirit.

At the deepest part of this cave, a half-human-high altar occupies the center.

The altar was engraved with complex Taoist runes, flickering with faint spiritual light. In the center of the altar, a young Taoist in a gray robe was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, surrounded by a faint white mist, like a fairy.

“The spiritual vein of the Cangyun Mountains is a natural sixth-level spiritual vein. In addition, the three sects have intentionally maintained and cultivated it for so many years, so the spiritual energy is extremely abundant. I have set up a five-element formation here, and I am quite confident that I can steal the spiritual energy of the spiritual vein.

Even if I fail, as long as the Nascent Soul cultivators don't come out, the several Jindan cultivators in this mountain gate won't be able to stop me."

The journey to his own cultivation cave went quite smoothly, and then Lu Cheng began to think about how to take advantage without doing anything.

In the large spiritual vein of Cangyun Mountains, the three sects of Xuanmo Sect, Huanyun Valley, and Haoran Academy all have Nascent Soul cultivators in charge. They did not restrain their auras and acted unintentionally. Lu Cheng sensed it as soon as he approached Cangyun Mountains. Although the Jindan cultivators were pushed to the front to preside over the sect affairs, it was obvious that they were not the ones who had the real decision-making power.

Although cultivators who have cultivated to the Golden Core Realm have some status, their promotion will no longer directly increase the strength of the sect, the scope of influence and resources, so they must fulfill their obligations.

In addition, the cultivators in the Dingzhang world do not have low-grade Jindan. The quality of Jindan is usually around the third or fourth grade. Some have advanced cultivation methods and deep foundations and achieve second-grade Jindan, while some have extremely shallow foundations and achieve fifth-grade Jindan. However, they are all collectively called Jindan cultivators, and there is no distinction between the Jindan Grandmasters and Jindan Immortals in the Tongxuan world.

The difference in the appearance of the pills is believed to be caused by the different techniques practiced and the cultivator's personal understanding of Taoism.

On the altar, Lu Cheng suddenly opened his eyes, then turned over and jumped to the center of the cave. At this time, he had a small khaki flag in his hand. On the flag, talismans were flowing and dancing, as if dragons and snakes were swimming around.

He took a deep breath, sensing the fluctuations of the spiritual veins under his feet.

As Lu Cheng breathed in and out and sensed, the air around him seemed to become misty. A huge chaotic hole appeared in the void behind Lu Cheng. A silver-gray and extremely pure spiritual energy was drawn up from deep underground and gathered in the formation flag that Lu Cheng kept offering, the five elements formation flag.

The runes on the five formation flags began to light up, the light flowed like running water, and the five-colored light illuminated every corner of the cave.

The flag of green trees on the east side is full of green, as if spring is in full swing, nourishing the plants to grow strong in an instant; the flag of white gold on the west side is silent, but contains the power to destroy mountains and seas. The flag of red fire on the south side is blazing and the flames are jumping; the flag of black water on the north side is sparkling and a cool air is spreading. The flag of earth in the center is the land that breeds all things, solid and heavy, full of vitality.

Lu Cheng controlled the seals with both hands and turned the seals, and the five-sided flags around him also turned accordingly. The power of the five elements converged in the formation, restraining and generating each other, forming a perfect cycle.

The purest spiritual energy was trapped inside and was gradually refined and filled into the cave.

In a very short period of time, the intensity of the spiritual energy in the cave has increased by more than ten times and is still increasing.

As the formation was completed, a look of satisfaction appeared on Lu Cheng's face. What he was doing now was to slowly draw away a little bit of the spiritual energy supply from the spiritual veins of the entire Huanyun Valley and distribute it to each cultivator. They would then just see it as a normal fluctuation in the spiritual energy supply, and it would even be normal for most cultivators to feel unaware of it.

With an adequate supply of spiritual energy, one can achieve twice the result with half the effort whether recovering from internal injuries or practicing profound skills to increase magic power.

So Lu Cheng began to live a secluded life in Huanyun Valley. Apart from doing his job as the manager of the underground mines, Lu Cheng was silent and didn't care about other things.

He is almost the only disciple of the master in the entire underground mine, and he has been working there for a long time, so no one cares about him or irritates him, and everyone tries to make things convenient for him in every way.

Two years passed in peace and tranquility. After being squeezed to the limit by the Endless Sea of ​​the East China Sea, Lu Cheng's magic power was tempered. Afterwards, he had sufficient spiritual energy to replenish it. During these two years, Lu Cheng's magic power was promoted to the second level of the Golden Core realm, and he was still making great progress.

At the age of 149, Lu Cheng refined the ultimate golden elixir, the elixir of the eighth and ninth caves.

Afterwards, he fought numerous bloody battles to protect his master, and spent fourteen years recuperating in the sect's Guizang Mountain and listening to the teachings.

He entered Huangquan Valley, inherited the Taoist magic left by Lin Chong Taoist, used the three fires to refine his body, and in ten years his physical body was upgraded to the third level of Golden Elixir, and his magic power was upgraded to the peak of the first level of Golden Elixir.

Afterwards, he went to the secret realm of Tianfo in the East China Sea to obtain the golden boat for salvation, but accidentally broke into the endless sea of ​​the East China Sea. He spent five years breaking the formation and was seriously injured. He entered the secret realm of Dingzhang World and was trapped for fifteen years, a total of forty-four years. Including the past two years of meditation and cultivation, forty-six years have passed since he achieved the golden elixir.

In the Tongxuan Realm, the lifespan of a Jindan cultivator can often exceed eight hundred years, as long as he has not been seriously injured and has not lost his vital energy.

However, this is only a theoretical lifespan, because there are forty-nine heavenly tribulations to overcome, and the average lifespan of a Jindan cultivator in the Tongxuan Realm may be far less than that of cultivators in worlds where vital energy is relatively scarce and whose innate lifespan is shorter.

Lu Cheng's current cultivation progress is slow compared to his foundation, but it is very fast for most cultivators, especially his dual cultivation of Dharma and body. Although the mutual assistance will not double the cultivation time, there will still be some impact.

During these two years, members of the Tie clan also contacted Tie Xiao through letters.

She wanted him to find a way to use his connections to bring her sister Tie Yushuang into Huanyun Valley.

This is a survival strategy of the immortal cultivation families. For example, there are open and covert fights or even genocide among the immortal cultivation families. As long as there is a member of this family practicing in a powerful sect, the other party cannot easily go to the sect to kill people. For an ordinary immortal cultivation family, provoking a sect is tantamount to seeking death.

After dozens or hundreds of years, it would be fine if that member of the clan had achieved nothing. But if he succeeded in his cultivation, a Purple Mansion upper cultivator would have many ways to exterminate an entire foundation-building family, and it would not be difficult. This would be a great deterrent.

Through letters, Lu Cheng realized that he had a good relationship with his sister Tie Yushuang.

I replied immediately, gave him a sum of spiritual stones, and explained:

I have just taken up a management position within the sect and have not yet settled down. If I promote my relatives now, I might be criticized.

Moreover, from the family's perspective, concentrating all qualified disciples in one sect is not a good choice. It would be better for the family to smooth out the relationship and let the younger sister go to other sects to practice and share the family risk.

Lu Cheng's letter was written in a fair and reasonable manner. Most importantly, the spirit stones he gave away were extremely generous for a small family. The Tie family would certainly value his opinion. Sure enough, within half a month, Lu Cheng received another reply.

The letter said that he had asked someone to enroll his sister Tie Yushuang in Haoran Academy. In addition, the letter told him to concentrate on his practice and not to waste his spiritual stones, as there would be countless places where he would need spiritual stones in his future practice.

"In this way, I have also concluded the cause and effect between you and me."

With a wave of his hand, the letter in his hand burned. Lu Cheng turned sideways and said this to Tiemian in the mirror beside him.

Immortal cultivators pay attention to the origin and end of fate, whether it is a good fate or a bad fate, it is best to have a conclusion. With the help of their status, Lu Cheng will take care of the Tie family appropriately. Many people in a family are not necessarily useless. With Lu Cheng's means, it is not difficult to cultivate a foundation-building immortal cultivation family.

In the world of cultivating immortals, a family with cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage is called an immortal cultivation family, while a family with only cultivators at the Qi Condensation stage is only considered a casual cultivator.

Southwest of Huanyun Valley, there is the sect’s underground mineral vein.

The deep and dark underground mine is filled with flickering lights and rugged rocks.

A few slender blue-green spiritual grasses stubbornly poked their heads out from the cracks in the rocks, with a faint blue light on the leaves, like stars, adding a bit of vitality to this dark underground world. This is the spiritual grass that grows with the spiritual ore. Apart from emitting light, it has no value. Otherwise, it would have been mined long ago.

A group of low-level immortal cultivators were holding pickaxes, searching for spiritual stones in the mineral veins.

Not everyone in the world of immortal cultivation is unproductive, although they can create puppets to complete many heavy tasks.

However, the lower-level immortal cultivators are cheaper than puppets and can better cope with various unexpected changes. Although immortal cultivators can enter the mortal world to enjoy wealth and glory, there is almost no way to progress. Secondly, immortal cultivators who go to the mortal world must have a few spells to protect themselves. If you want to be a national teacher in a country, you must have the magic power of the late stage of Qi training. Those high-ranking officials among mortals are not all unsophisticated people who have never seen anything.

The real bottom level cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation are those who only have the first or second level of Qi training when they are young, and only have the fifth or sixth level of Qi training when they are in their seventies or eighties. However, they have descendants with spiritual roots, and for the sake of their descendants, they risk their lives to go down to the mines to earn spiritual stones.

I hope to earn more spirit stones to pave the way for future generations.

Not far away, several young cultivators were sitting together, using fire starters to light a small bonfire. The bonfire danced in the darkness, casting their excited or tired faces.

They talked about today's gains and laughed heartily from time to time, which formed a sharp contrast with the silence around them and the sound of mining spirit stones in the distance.

Deeper in the mine, the sect's inner disciples were besieging a spiritual beast that was accidentally lured out.

This spiritual beast was covered in spikes, like a large rat, with eyes as sharp as torches. It roared angrily, trying to drive away the enemies that had invaded its home.

The flying swords flashed, the spiritual power surged, and the ore fragments flew everywhere in the fierce battle. The faces of these inner disciples of the sect were full of fighting spirit. They hoped to improve their cultivation through actual combat and make further progress in the sect.

This is the world of immortal cultivators, full of hope and danger. Among these many people, there may be one who can cultivate step by step to the realm of foundation building, purple mansion, or even higher. When you think back to today, it will be a different feeling.

"Mr. Tie, please sign this bill."

A middle-aged man handed a bill to Lu Cheng, who was wearing an iron mask, with both hands with a respectful look on his face.

Lu Cheng took the bill, glanced at it and frowned slightly:

"How could so many people die? In order to collect more spiritual stones and spiritual minerals, you hired many independent cultivators to join in?

I will not sign this ticket. If this continues, outsiders will say that the spirit stones in my Huanyun Valley are all stained with blood."

If the established rules are strictly followed, the middle and lower-level managers and miners will be tired, but the risk of accidents can be minimized.

However, in order to obtain as many spirit stones as possible, either as merit or to enrich themselves, the middle and lower-level managers often instruct the miners to work in violation of regulations. The miners are willing to do so in order to get more spirit stones, and they all have a fluke mentality.

However, if an accident occurs and there is no response, the casualties will be extremely heavy.

"Oh, my dear, the task assigned by the higher-ups is heavy. What can we do? The ones who died were not monks from the sect."

"What will be ruined is the reputation of our Huanyun Valley. As long as I am here, I must follow the rules. You should put aside the other things in your hands and deal with the pensions of these independent cultivators first. If you can't handle it well in one day, you will not be allowed to work that day."

Lu Cheng is a Jindan realm cultivator, his mind works as fast as lightning. For many things, he can know what is going on just by a glance of his consciousness. The people below want to deceive him, unless they themselves are really unaware, or their deception is already perfect, the slightest changes in facial expressions cannot be hidden from Lu Cheng's eyes. It is natural that he can achieve twice the result with half the effort when managing things in this way. He can manage everyone under him obediently, and there is no decrease in profit.

In fact, if we eliminate half of the embezzlement of these middle and lower-level managers, we can give an explanation to the sect and benefit the miners.

But these middle and lower-level managers are of course dissatisfied. They have been working here for many years and are familiar with the affairs. Some of them have ways to deal with their superiors, collude with each other, and pretend to obey but actually disobey. But Lu Cheng knows about this and his background is strong enough.

Simply fire the disobedient managers and replace them with new ones who don't have such big appetites. The income of the sect and the miners will naturally increase.

In just two years, Lu Cheng, who used the alias Tie Xiao, earned the nickname "Iron as God", and people said he was as good at making decisions as a god.

In fact, most of the time, it is just a sweep of the divine consciousness that takes in everything.

This matter only occupied a small part of Lu Cheng's mind. Most of his mind was spent on studying the soul refining techniques left by Tian Yanzi.

Essence, Qi, and Spirit, only spiritual consciousness is the shortcoming in his cultivation. Now that he has obtained the right formula, it is impossible for Lu Cheng not to study and practice it.

This soul-refining technique is profound and mysterious, and quite obscure and difficult to understand. Lu Cheng started from the beginning of Tian Yanzi's practice, tracing back and deducing it bit by bit, and gradually he understood it.

Half a month later, a document suddenly came from above, saying that there would be a sudden earthquake and mining in all veins would be temporarily suspended.

All underground mines were immediately shut down and the miners returned.

The higher the realm of the immortal cultivator, the more sensitive he is to the operation of the power of heaven and earth. Therefore, things like an earth dragon turning over can be predicted in advance in most cases.

Deep in the underground stone palace, there stood a platform with a rotating yin and yang fish. Taoist Lu Cheng sat cross-legged on it with his eyes closed and a solemn expression.

He was wearing a grey Taoist robe, and as he took deep breaths, the hem of the robe rose and fell gently, as if blending into the surrounding environment.

Around the altar, there are incense burners burning with wisps of green smoke rising up. The air is filled with a faint fragrance, which has the effect of clearing the mind and concentrating the spirit.

Lu Cheng formed seals with his hands and slowly circulated the techniques of the Soul Refining Technique within his body. He first calmed his mind to the utmost and sensed his own thoughts.

Observe these distracting thoughts, and then cultivate them into demons, then devour and refine them, and reintegrate them into your own consciousness.

In this process, the spiritual consciousness is like a tempered iron sword, gradually becoming tougher and sharper under the tempering of the spiritual refining technique.

However, the way of cultivating spiritual consciousness has always been extremely dangerous, not to mention that Tian Yanzi came from a demonic family, and his skills are powerful but also have severe backlash.

Observe with a calm mind: killing, greed, sexual misconduct, abusive language, lying, slander, obscene language, greed, anger, and ignorance. Normal Taoist practice will suppress and block all of these poisons. Although they exist objectively, they do not really affect one's own practice.

The Art of Refining the Spirit, however, does the opposite. It observes them, cultivates them, devours devil with devil, devours evil with evil, and achieves one's own Taoism.

When Lu Cheng started practicing, he felt that many ghosts, monsters, demons and ghosts appeared around the altar. They were whispering, and he was watching them, and they were also watching him.

Fine beads of sweat began to seep out of Lu Cheng's forehead. When he reached the stage of cultivating with his own evil thoughts, these beings turned from virtual to real and transformed into many naked children without a single hair, but with blood-red pupils and sharp white teeth in their mouths.

They gathered around the altar, staring intently at Lu Cheng:

You are bloodthirsty by nature. You can fly your sword at the thought of something and take people's heads thousands of miles away. Father, now you want to kill us again. With a person like you, how can you practice Taoism?
You are greedy beyond measure. Spirit stones, magic weapons, profound magic formulas, beauties, the trust of teachers, what don't you want? What don't you like? With a person like this, why do you practice Taoism?
You are committing adultery...

You talk nonsense...

You are full of greed, anger, ignorance and other poisons...

Boom! A circle of magic fire burned around the altar, encircling Lu Cheng and protecting the Taoist priest.

Every time Lu Cheng inhaled, he seemed to condense the spiritual energy between heaven and earth in his dantian, and every time he exhaled, he expelled all the impurities in his body, making his consciousness clearer.

"Five elements, turn!"

As Lu Cheng's hands operated the magic formula, the five elements on the platform rotated, and a huge chaotic hole appeared behind him, swallowing all the evil spirits and demonic thoughts that had already formed around him into the endless void chaotic hole.

This time, Lu Cheng failed in his practice of the Soul Refining Technique. At the last moment, he used his own strong physique to promote the Five Elements Qi Refining Technique and forcibly suppressed his consciousness which was already beginning to run wild. If he had allowed his consciousness to run wild, it would have been natural for him to be seriously injured in the end.

The magic fire is the Samadhi true fire, and the five elements qigong technique can promote the chaotic hole to devour all the laws. This essence and qi training is Lu Cheng's method of protecting the way, and it is also the guarantee for him to practice the soul refining technique.

"Cough cough."

"It's not that I've comprehended it wrong, it's that there's something wrong with this Soul Refining Technique itself. Did Tian Yanzi cultivate his spiritual consciousness in this way? It's absolutely impossible. If he cultivates his spiritual consciousness in this way, he'll probably go crazy before he achieves anything.

Although I have committed murder, greed, adultery, frivolous talk, and lies, I have practiced Taoism for two hundred years and have been able to control myself. How could a demon cultivator like Tian Yanzi be superior to me? "

Lu Cheng had read Tian Yanzi's practice notes. He knew him better than he knew himself, so he knew clearly that it was impossible for Tian Yanzi to practice this technique while he could not.

(End of this chapter)