Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 28: Forty-nine Tribulations
In the early morning, outside the Moyun Cave in Yinshan Mountain in the southern wilderness, for some unknown reason, the entire sky suddenly became dark.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, as dark as ink, strong winds were blowing, and the air was filled with murderous intent. This scene made the many evil-doers in the Yin Mountains below feel panic-stricken.

One after another, lightning flashed and moved in the rolling black clouds. For a moment, the sky was full of white and blue lightning, extending from the center outward, like billions of electric snakes dancing wildly. It was extremely gorgeous and terrifying, as if destruction was imminent.

All the clouds in the sky turned into disasters, and the dense layers of thunder surged like water waves.

Invade the creation of heaven and earth, and seize the mystery of all things.

The two words "invade and seize" fully reveal the essence of how mortals in the pursuit of immortality must go against birth, aging, sickness and death, as well as the destiny of heaven and ethics.

Therefore, those who practice cultivation are rebellious ministers of heaven and earth, and the path to immortality is a hostile inn for the heavens.

"Hahahaha, well timed, well timed!"

With the entire Yinshan Moyun Cave as the center, black light quickly spread out and manipulated the qi to burn and evaporate.

Countless ferocious monsters, fierce beasts, evil birds, and poisonous insects emerged from the black light, all screaming towards the sky, as if they wanted to bite the sky.

Boom!

Suddenly, a thick blue-white pillar of lightning struck down, connecting the sky and the earth. From a distance, it looked like a sharp sword slashing down from the sky.

With just this one strike, the black light energy and countless ferocious monsters on the entire Yinshan Mountain instantly dissipated.

A mere demon cultivator dares to compete with the sky?
At the same time, after this attack, countless blue and white thunder balls appeared in the surrounding void, densely covering a thousand miles.

“Thousands of Illusionary Thunders!”

With this whisper, a black figure suddenly appeared in the void high above.

This person was wearing a black and red robe and holding a bone skull scepter. He was tall and had a sinister and cold face, especially a pair of eyes that had a green glow in them.

It was none other than the leader of the Southern Demon Cult, Yinshan Zhenren.

The cultivators in this world practice Taoism and seek the truth. They reach the innate realm to cleanse their bodies, strengthen their internal organs, and then they can absorb and exhale the Qi of heaven and earth and refine the three treasures together.

Those with excellent qualifications can pursue the truth wholeheartedly and in twenty years their true Qi and magical power will be replenished, and they can reach the ninth level of Qi training and the foundation-laying realm.

The foundation-building realm is divided into three types: the heavenly way, the earthly way, and the human way. The heavenly way foundation-building supernatural powers are powerful, the foundation is deep and the magic power grows rapidly. The earthly way foundation-building supernatural powers are powerful, the foundation is slightly weaker and the magic power grows averagely. The human way foundation-building supernatural powers are weak, and the magic power grows averagely.

This state is the foundation of cultivation. Although the earthly foundation can also achieve the top-grade golden elixir, the opportunity and effort required are far higher than those of the cultivators who have cultivated the heavenly foundation. When the profound skills are fully mastered, one can impact the mysterious gate of heaven and earth.

Once the Xuanguan is broken, the roots and bones are changed, and the mind and nature are enlightened. After this realm is stabilized, one can absorb and exhale the true evil between heaven and earth: Earthly Evil and Heavenly Evil. Therefore, it is also called the realm of Condensing Evil and Refining Evil.

These two realms are both a slow and steady process. If one has a sufficiently tempered mind, sufficient skills, and has found a vein of land filled with evil spirits, it can be achieved in five to ten years. Then, one can condense the Tiangang aura and integrate it into the magic power, which can be achieved in another five to ten years.

It's just that when a cultivator inhales and exhales the Earthly Evil and Heavenly Gang, he is actually stealing the true energy of heaven and earth to practice his skills. Therefore, once he condenses the golden elixir, he will have to go through forty-nine tribulations.

When the golden elixir is condensed, the dragon and the tiger meet to generate a calamity. There is one calamity for the third level of the golden elixir, one calamity for the sixth level of the golden elixir, and one calamity for the ninth level of the golden elixir, for a total of four times. Because of the different circumstances, blessings, and merits of the cultivators who face the calamity, the heavenly punishment that comes down each time is also different, with a maximum of nine calamities, so they are collectively called: forty-nine calamities.

If one can cross it, the Golden Elixir True Person can obtain longevity and see the Nascent Soul in sight. If one cannot cross it, his body will die and all the true energy and magical power that he has cultivated for hundreds of years will return to this world.

In order to survive the second forty-nine tribulations, Yinshan Zhenren, as the leader of the Demon Cult, does not mind if everyone in Yinshan dies. It is also a good thing if this ancestor can consume less energy.

However, although these Thousand Illusionary Thunders are not as powerful as the Ten Thousand Illusionary Heavenly Thunders, the latter are able to gather together and are infinitely powerful, and can even evolve into Thunder Dragons, Sky Phoenixes, and ancient Thunder Apes, which can make those who are undergoing the tribulation feel like they are in heaven, and they feel sad that they have done too little good deeds in their lives and are not favored by heaven.

However, the Thousand Illusions Tribulation Thunder possesses the same properties as other thunder tribulations. If they are allowed to continue to merge and evolve, God knows what they will eventually transform into.

At this moment, countless thunderbirds and thunder eagles that seemed to have life had merged and transformed. They were whirling and killing from all directions, without letting the wind or rain penetrate, and their murderous intent was awe-inspiring. At the same time, purple-black thunder balls kept falling from the sky above their heads, hanging in the void.

"Follow the decree of the deity and mobilize all the Taoist soldiers!"

Yinshan Zhenren waved the bone staff in his right hand, and nine skeleton shadows flew out, circling around his body and opening their mouths wide to swallow the thunder. At the same time, he pointed at the air with his left hand, condensed the energy into a talisman, and then the talisman burned, and the decree was conveyed.

In less than a moment, there was a noticeable earthquake on the ground below.

Bang, bang, bang, bang.

The earth collapsed and cracks appeared everywhere, and then huge and deep caves appeared.

Countless poisonous insects flew out from the deep cave.

Although most of them were at the innate Qi training stage in terms of Qi, their number was terrifyingly staggering. They had gradually formed several black storms that rose from the ground and connected the sky to the earth, like four magic swords pointing straight to the sky.

These millions of poisonous insects also had the aura of Yinshan Zhenren, so the thunder in the sky began to kill those poisonous insects. The power was naturally dispersed, and both sides were quickly annihilated in large numbers.

Below, inside Moyun Cave.

The entire Yinshan Mountain is poor, with bad water and dense miasma, but the interior of the Moyun Cave is decorated with carved beams and painted buildings, jade buildings, golden and magnificent buildings, and white jade stairs, just like a fairy palace.

At this moment, all the monks in Moyun Cave were looking up at the sky, watching their ancestor survive the forty-nine tribulations.

“Big Brother, I never thought that this old ghost would survive the 49th level of tribulation today!”

Tian Xinzi and Bai Luzi, the next generation disciples of Yinshan Zhenrenzuo, have always been close. At this moment, the third brother Bai Luzi came to the eldest brother Tian Xinzi and whispered.

"..."

Tian Xinzi said nothing when he heard this. He just stared at the terrifying figure in the sky.

At this moment, Yinshan Zhenren had already used his magic power to take on the initial positive thunder tribulation, and used the millions of Gu soldiers he had raised to break the second thousand illusion thunder tribulation.

However, this third thunder tribulation was a tribulation of inner demons. The tribulation started from the heart, and made Yinshan Zhenren feel that there were many demonic shadows in front of his eyes. They were all the people he had tortured and killed over the years. He finally got rid of it, but his magic power had already gone astray and his vitality was damaged.

For those who are in the evil path, it is inevitable that there will be omissions in the process of sharpening their spiritual heart.

However, judging by the severity of the calamity in the sky, it is obviously far from over.

Yinshan Zhenren used his escape technique and transformed himself into several puffs of black and gray smoke and quickly escaped to the cave below, hoping to use the cave's defensive formation and many disciples to recover his breath and suppress his injuries.

However, the fourth thunder tribulation was a tribulation of golden wind breaking the body. The wind of heaven and earth turned into swords of disaster, and there was no place to hide between heaven and earth.

Although Yinshan Zhenren's escape method was fast, he could not escape from the cave at all and was already wrapped and entangled by the Golden Wind Body-breaking Tribulation.

The powerful magic power in his body turned into black smoke that spread out and eliminated the damage. Only in this way could he avoid being killed by the golden wind.

"Ah!" "Look at my magic weapon, the Yuanpin Pearl!"

The evil energy of the golden wind that broke through the body completely aroused the viciousness in Yinshan Zhenren's heart.

He suddenly activated his magic power, and slowly spit out a gem that was emitting warm golden light from his mouth.

As his magic power was activated, half of a insect man slowly crawled out from the orb. His face was flat without a nose or ears, and there was only a pair of extremely evil eyes and a bloody mouth. His pupils contained endless terror, hideousness, brutality, destruction, malice, cunning, distortion, insidiousness and other negative emotions.

It seems like the concrete embodiment of all the ugliness in human nature between heaven and earth.

The original form of this Yuanpin Pearl is an extremely poisonous insect that has been cultivated for many years by Yinshan Zhenren. After hundreds of years of cultivation, by chance, this extremely poisonous insect, which was originally extremely yin, extremely toxic and extremely evil, actually showed the image of pure yang. It was then cultivated for many years by Yinshan Zhenren as his own magic weapon, and he placed his own evil thoughts on it.

The extreme yin gives birth to yang, and yin and yang blend together. Once it is summoned at this time, it is truly evil and powerful.

Boom.

The fifth level of lightning fell.

This was the Tianwu Fiery Flame Transformed into Tribulation Thunder, the fire was fierce and masculine, extremely domineering, but it was taken head-on by the half-insect man who looked somewhat like Yinshan Zhenren, who soared into the sky, and tore it apart with his claws.

boom.

A terrifying flame exploded, blasting and burning half of the insect man's body.

However, this level was not enough to destroy the Southern Demon Cult's number one treasure, the Yuan Pin Pearl. The insect man whose half body was burned by the flames let out a sharp roar towards the sky.

The entire sky and the earth seemed to be turned upside down in everyone's perception. The entire southern border, the country of thousands of mountains, and the hundred thousand mountains, countless negative energy, dead energy, foul energy, and turbid energy gathered here and quickly merged into his body. In particular, millions of poisonous insects had just died here, and their energy was extracted and merged into his body.

Then, the Yuanpin Pearl, carrying all the magic power of Yinshan Zhenren below, rushed against the sky and crashed into the gathering calamity clouds, spreading the rolling demonic energy, covering the sky and the sun, and swallowing up the spiritual energy.

The sixth change of the forty-nine-fold calamity of Yinshan Zhenren's second time was unexpectedly broken, and it failed to be successfully struck down, and the calamity cloud dissipated.

"Hahahahahaha..."

Immortal Yinshan laughed wildly. He stretched out his hand to catch the slowly falling Yuanpin Pearl, and then suddenly waved his robe, which turned into several streams of black and gray smoke and fell into the center of Moyun Cave Mansion, on the central throne.

The smoke condenses into shape and the body is reunited.

"Congratulations, Master. Congratulations, Master, for having survived the second forty-nine calamities. From now on, you will enjoy eternal bliss and longevity!"

Tian Xinzi, the eldest disciple with the highest level of cultivation, rushed in first, kneeling and kowtowing.

"Congratulations, Master. The Yuan Pin Pearl is indeed extremely powerful. The Taoist tradition established by Master really has a bright future and is not like the ordinary ones."

The fifth disciple, Tang Shi, rushed in, knelt down and kowtowed.

Yinshan Zhenren had just sat down on the throne when dozens or even hundreds of his disciples and followers came rushing into the hall with carved beams and jade buildings from all directions. They all knelt respectfully and praised him in unison.

Among them, the words of the eldest disciple Tian Xinzi and the fifth disciple Tang Shi satisfied Yinshan Zhenren the most.

"Immortal bliss will last forever, and longevity is within reach. Indeed, after overcoming this second forty-nine-fold calamity, I can enjoy another hundred years of immortal bliss... However, this second forty-nine-fold calamity is already so terrible, how terrible will the last two forty-nine-fold calamities be?"

Although the Yinshan Moyun Cave lineage is also a side sect of Taoism, its founder, Yinshan Zhenren, is considered a very remarkable figure among these side sects.

He mixed various Qi training books and found his own way. After going through countless tribulations, he actually succeeded in refining the golden elixir. He was the ancestor revered by all the countries in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

There is no need to say much about thought, wisdom and perseverance.

He had just survived the second forty-nine tribulations, but he had already started to study the third forty-nine tribulations.

Such a desire to seek the truth is far beyond the reach of most of the orthodox Taoist practitioners.

"Although I survived the second heavenly tribulation, I also lost some vitality. I will have to practice in seclusion. The affairs of Moyun Cave will be handed over to... Tian Xinzi."

"Also, a small incident happened some time ago. A junior from the Fire Cloud Mansion's Red God's disciple came to Southern Xinjiang and almost injured one of my Black Centipede Kings."

"Is this true? Master, please let me go and capture this beast on your behalf."

When they heard what Yinshan Zhenren said, Tian Xinzi and other disciples who knew his character well all looked ferocious, as if they were facing an irreconcilable enemy.

"Alas, although Chi Shenzi has no friendship with me, his senior brother Huang Longzi is a fellow Taoist of mine, with profound cultivation, and we have had several exchanges. That junior has just arrived here and is not familiar with the affairs. He doesn't know how many descendants and creatures I have protected by spreading the poisonous insects. Tang Shi, you go and negotiate with him on behalf of your master. If he knows how to observe etiquette, the hundred-mile land of the Black Centipede King will be given to him to open a temple."

"I will obey Master's decree."

Upon hearing the voice, the fifth disciple Tang Shi immediately bowed down and accepted Yinshan's command.

The three brothers and sisters Chi Shenzi, Huang Longzi and Mie Hongzi, who are from the Huoyun Mansion's lineage, are all among the most immortal alchemy practitioners in the world.

With three immortals in one sect, the founder of the Yinshan Immortal Sect was not afraid, but thinking of his friendship with Huang Longzi, he was unwilling to offend his fellow Taoist for such a small matter.

Some time ago, after sensing the changes in the Black Centipede King's divine consciousness, Yinshan Zhenren calculated the cause and effect by counting on his fingers. At that time, he no longer cared about these trivial matters, and there was no time to deal with them as he was about to pass the tribulation.

After having difficulty passing through the second forty-nine tribulations, which he had thought was easy to pass, Yinshan Zhenren became even more cautious. He didn't know which fellow practitioner would have the chance to pass through the third forty-nine tribulations. Under such circumstances, how could he be willing to offend his fellow practitioners at will?

On the other side, in Ishihara County.

A Chixin Temple that is larger and more magnificent than any previous one is under construction, and Lu Cheng spends money without regard for cost.

On the one hand, it was because worldly money had little meaning to a monk, and on the other hand, he knew that the flow of a large amount of wealth could quickly help Ishihara County get rid of extreme poverty.

Lu Cheng himself spared no expense, but no one in Ishihara County dared to make money from him.

The shouting and killing that night, the giant centipede, the raging fire, the fairy who descended from the sky (Chen Qingyun), and the fairy who flew away on the clouds, all of these showed that the master of the temple was a true immortal with the Tao.

He defeated the Gu King, so people no longer have to offer their children as human sacrifices, and he will protect this place in the future - who would dare to earn more money from him?

There are even many people who feel honored to do the work and come forward to help without asking for any payment.

But what they are doing will not benefit the local economic development at all, and Lu Cheng has no intention of turning Chixin Temple into a new landlord class, so they have to take it, and they can't take less.

Under such circumstances, the Chixin Temple was built bigger and bigger, more and more magnificent and gorgeous. Anyone who dared to cheat on the construction site would immediately be chased by his own elders and beaten with sticks, and they would really be beaten to death.

Lu Cheng, Chen Qingfeng and Chen Qingyun temporarily lived in the original Tu family mansion, concentrating on practicing Taoism and digesting what they had learned from their previous experiences.

(End of this chapter)