Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 346: Fighting Swords in the Mountain, One Defeats the Other (Wishing Everyone Good Health and Prosperity in the New Year)

The Ten Thousand Spirits Wood God Technique absorbs the vitality of heaven and earth, and the more it is practiced, the greedier it becomes. Tu Hanyun feels pity for Lu Cheng's swordsmanship and just wants to subdue him and get more blood food for himself.

When this magic technique is practiced to a high level, it is often no longer the person who controls the technique, but the technique that controls the person.

Lu Cheng directly revealed the source of Tu Hanyun's martial arts. The next moment, from Tu Hanyun's perspective, a fire sword came slashing, and the sword energy was burning and destroying.

"I pity your talent, but since you know things you shouldn't know, don't even think about leaving."

The old Taoist priest in white robe and holding a bamboo staff looked graceful and elegant. With a wave of his sleeves, the sleeves expanded rapidly, seeming to wrap up the whole world.

The fire sword's energy disappeared in an instant, but what the white sleeves touched was a huge, rotating black chaos.

The green light and dark gold suddenly became blazing.

Even with Lu Cheng's magic eyes, he couldn't look directly at Tu Hanyun's magic power under such blazing light.

When the two opened their eyes again and looked intently.

Lu Cheng found himself in a cyan and golden world.

Green lotuses were dancing around the butcher Taoist, and the world he stood in was pure green. Green lotuses fell to the ground, and mountains, rivers, and trees evolved and grew rapidly, as if thousands of years were frozen in an instant.

On Lu Cheng's side, however, there was a brilliant golden color. Behind him, eighteen golden-armored gods walked out of the golden mirror-like world, supporting the sky and the earth, looking mighty and majestic.

"Nascent Soul Divine Power Realm, Yimu World."

"...The sword strike just now was a phantom sword move, a sword skill with sword intent! Did you guess that I would suppress you with the Nascent Soul Divine Power Domain? This is... the Divine Law Domain? Which Divine Lord are you a disciple of?"

Tens of thousands of years ago, Shinto still existed in the Seven Realms, but as of today, those sixth and seventh rank gods no longer exist, and the immortal way is flourishing. Shinto has its uniqueness, but overall it is ultimately inferior to the orthodox Taoism.

Moreover, the power of incense and vows of the Shinto lineage erodes the physical body. Unless one has a special physique or practices the Taoist method of sanctifying the physical body or the Buddhist method of Vajra Indestructibility, the physical body is unlikely to survive.

Over the past tens of thousands of years, most cultivators have specialized in Qi training, and there are very few who practice physical cultivation. Of course, no one would practice the dangerous and bleak divine way.

Lu Cheng practiced the art of refining the spirit, and accidentally obtained the eighteen golden corpses of the Taoist priest Shiqi. He destroyed their bodies and captured their spirits to use against the enemies, thus gaining the supernatural powers he has today. It can only be said that he can practice both arts, but his main practice is far less extensive than that of the orthodox Taoism.

In the very short time that the two were talking, Tu Hanyun's Nascent Soul Divine Power Domain Yi Mu World had already transformed into a large lush mountain forest, and living creatures emerged from it, including gray rabbits, elks, wolves, and even huge forest dragons.

However, unlike the dragons in the material world, the forest dragons in Tu Hanyun's Yi Mu world have many characteristics of flood dragons and real dragons, but they have wings on their backs.

Obviously, with Tu Hanyun's understanding of the laws of nature of living things, he could not comprehend the mysteries of the physical bodies of flood dragons and real dragons, and how they were able to fly in the clouds. His dragon could not fly fast without wings, but it was already an extremely terrifying beast.

In addition, many beautiful Semites who wore leaves to cover their bodies and had fair skin were born in Tu Hanyun's Yi Mu world. They shuttled through the mountains and forests, holding bows and arrows, and multiplied and grew rapidly.

There are two directions of cultivation in the Nascent Soul Divine Power Domain, one is inward-looking, the other is outward-looking. The high-level Buddhist practitioners will refine their own Dharma domain into the Buddha Kingdom in the palm of their hands, in the magic golden bowl. Once an ordinary flying sword is covered by it, it is said that half of its lethality can be retained. Many of them only have 20% to 30% of the sword power left.

But if that sword cultivator cultivates the corresponding sword intent, he can offset this suppression. Both of these are internal.

Tu Hanyun uses the method of the Nascent Soul Divine Ability Domain to release it outward, evolving infinitely in sync with the heaven and earth. Although it usually cannot suppress opponents of similar realms, and can easily be broken by the opponent's own realm, if the difference in magic power is huge, the Nascent Soul Divine Ability Domain is almost a small world of the Nascent Soul True Lord, and many spells and magical powers can be suppressed, and once entered, it is almost impossible to escape.

Lu Cheng is not a junior cultivator in the Jindan realm, and he is also a sword cultivator with amazing killing power, but Tu Hanyun's Nascent Soul magical power domain is extremely mature and complete. It is likely that it can already interact with the real world and produce some rare spiritual objects that do not belong to this world.

Even further, he can even use his magical powers to create life and a race.

"You have been practicing the Great Dao of Wood all your life, and in the end you gave up everything to practice the Ten Thousand Spirits Wood Divine Art. It is normal for you to have this understanding of the Great Dao of Wood. Let's see today, which one is more powerful, your Yi Wood World, or my Ten Thousand Ghosts Paying Homage to the Master."

After Lu Cheng was promoted to the Nascent Soul stage and cultivated the Xuantian Sword Infant Dharma Body, he attained the two great principles of life and death.

Putting life on oneself can activate one's consciousness, strengthen one's body, and make one's magic power flow smoothly. Putting death on the flying sword can make the flying sword carry the meaning of death and increase its power.

It can also be done the other way around, by placing life on the Five Elements Flying Sword and blending it into the Five Elements of Heaven and Earth, just like escaping from the sky, mysterious and leaving no trace.

It brings death upon oneself and repels all forms of death. It has a strong inhibitory effect on many curses, exorcism techniques, and instant death secret methods.

At this moment, he waved the Samsara Banner in his hand, and a world of life and death slowly unfolded:

Behind the eighteen golden generals came numerous heavenly soldiers and generals in gold and silver armor, and celestial officials in Taoist robes.

Some of them held halberds and swords in front, some held bows and spears in the back, all of them shouted and killed, cooperating with the eighteen golden gods to resist the spreading mountains and forests.

There are many evil spirits around them, fighting together with the heavenly soldiers and generals.

The Shinto inheritance in the seven worlds of Dingzhang, Tongtian, Liehuo, Xuankong, Jumang, Yuqing, and Yinyang is on the verge of extinction, not to mention the Tongxuan world whose foundation is far inferior to those seven worlds. Therefore, Lu Cheng almost monopolizes the faith of this world.

Even in the Tang Dynasty, there are already many people who believe in the Red Heart God. Among them, those who have a firm enough faith and have a sufficient understanding of the Taoist scriptures will be sent to the ghost country established by Lu Cheng in the depths of southern Xinjiang after death, and then enter the reincarnation flag to practice with all their heart.

The Wheel of Samsara Banner is controlled by Lu Cheng alone, who has the final say over everything. He established the Taoist Palace's belief system based on his sincere viewing of the people back then. The civilian Taoist officials are responsible for suppressing and converting the tens of thousands of ghosts that were originally captured in the Wheel of Samsara Banner, while the military heavenly soldiers and generals are responsible for suppressing the tens of thousands of ghosts and protecting the Taoist Palace.

It is difficult for a Yin spirit to become a saint after ten thousand calamities. It is very difficult to reach a high level by practicing on this reincarnation banner.

However, it is possible to accumulate more blessings and luck by reciting scriptures and practicing day and night. And if one reincarnates before losing one's spirituality, theoretically one's blessings and luck in the next life will be even more abundant.

Lu Cheng uses his own understanding of Taoism to guide the operation of the Wheel of Reincarnation Banner, so that it does not just take or give, but integrates its own system with the world of heaven and earth like purifying water, and is beneficial to this world.

...The Shinto world and the Yimu world, the two Dharma domain worlds collided with each other.

Those wood elves ride on elks, holding longbows and arrows that never miss their targets. They can also perform all kinds of strange magic in the dense forest, controlling vines and commanding animals to attack.

However, the heavenly soldiers and generals of the Shinto world formed a solemn battle formation and advanced step by step without haste. Compared with those wood spirits, they had more spiritual fighting spirit and were not bound by the rigid rules of Taoism.

At the beginning, Tu Hanyun relied on his own magical powers as a late Nascent Soul cultivator to forcibly suppress the erosion of the Shinto world.

But as time went by, Tu Hanyun felt more and more that his own magic power was running out, and the Shinto world was gradually able to compete with him.

One after another, giant forest dragons roared, flapped their wings, and flew out, then swooped down.

But the eighteen golden god generals, their bodies wrapped in magical powers such as thunder, fire, and wind, wielded huge weapons to take on those forest dragons and quickly killed them.

The golden god general whose body is wrapped in thunder has the strongest attack penetration. The golden god general whose body is wrapped in fire has extremely high attack and can restrain wood spirits. The golden god general whose body is wrapped in hurricane has weaker attack but extremely fast speed, and can cut into any place on the battlefield at any time to fight with more people against fewer.

"What's going on? With the difference in magical power between us, how could he possibly hold his ground under my domain?"

After all, Tu Hanyun was an old monster who had experienced hundreds of battles and had a wide range of knowledge. He quickly discovered that something was wrong and suddenly looked up, only to see a sun hanging high in the sky.

But if he looked closely, Tu Hanyun could see thousands of families and billions of people praying sincerely, and experiencing life and death, sorrow and joy, in the dancing flames.

Although he was tied up by chains extending from the void, the magical light falling from him alone made the entire Shinto world extremely stable. The other party had one more source of magical power than himself.

This huge sun is the embodiment of the faith of all people in Southern Xinjiang and the Tang Dynasty. The will of heaven and the hearts of people converge at this moment, which is beyond the power of a Taoist priest.

“If I am trapped here, even if I am worn out day after day, I will eventually die, but boy, you are still too naive.

Today I will show you why Shintoism has declined. Gods are originally Taoism, and demons are originally Taoism! Compared with the Taoism, the bright sun is just the brilliance of a firefly. "

While whispering this, Tu Hanyun walked forward in the void.

The more he walked, the more his body transformed into a tree, growing taller and taller in the wind. However, this towering tree was entirely blood-red.

The Ten Thousand Spirits Wood God Technique, the ghost in the wood, requires human blood to be consumed when practicing. A small achievement in this technique can heal internal injuries, revitalize vitality, increase magic power, and strengthen the body.

Tu Hanyun is now more than 3,400 years old, and he is only at the seventh level of the Nascent Soul. According to the normal progress of cultivation, he will never be able to cultivate to the realm of Yuanshen in this lifetime. Tu Hanyun is Jiang Wangji's junior brother, and he has admired his senior brother very much throughout his life. However, it was when he saw how old and weak his senior brother Jiang Wangji was that he completely strengthened his determination to practice the Wanling Wood Divine Art.

At this moment, it turned into a huge wooden man that seemed to connect the sky and the earth. It walked over step by step and threw out a bronze bell. The bell continued to vibrate and spread the sound of thunder. Thunder dragons were circling around it. Wherever it passed, a large number of heavenly soldiers and generals were instantly turned into powder. How could the evil spirits survive under the thunder punishment?
But at this time, Taoist Lu Cheng, who was standing among a large number of heavenly soldiers and generals, threw out a golden branch that spread out five colors.

The golden branch flew to the top of the Thunder Bell and brushed it lightly from top to bottom. The lightning and thunder around the Thunder Bell immediately spread out and disappeared, and was suppressed by the golden branch on the top and fell down.

Although the Falling Treasure Branch could no longer fly, the timing for the attack was chosen by Lu Cheng, so the two magic weapons naturally fell near him.

"Give me back my magic weapon!"

The bloody tree man let out a low roar and reached out to grab the two magic weapons.

However, a fist as white as jade suddenly appeared in the void and hit the tree man's claws, breaking through Tu Hanyun's grab with a horizontal blow, and at the same time dissolving Tu Hanyun's subsequent counterattack.

The difference in magic power between the two sides is huge, but it is not irresistible, at least not in Lucheng. The difference in the fighting ability of the two sides is even greater than the difference in magic power.

Lu Cheng had been accumulating his sword intent and sword power until this moment. He had accumulated two levels of sword intent in the previous battle with Ji Shanze, the Water and Fire Sword Master. At this moment, he had accumulated three more levels of sword intent. Lu Cheng did not pursue the confidence of ten levels. He dared to take action as long as he was confident of seven levels.

After Tongxuan's sword, the opponent was injured. Lu Cheng was confident that he could kill him with just his normal swordsmanship.

Defeating a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul stage by being in the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage was only the level of a natural genius, but Lu Cheng's sword fighting level was slightly higher than that.

The magic weapon dropped by the golden branch cannot be connected or sensed by spiritual consciousness.

Tu Hanyun thought that he had lost a magic weapon that he was most proud of, and suddenly he dared not use it casually anymore. Blood-colored spiritual light rained down from his body.

It fell on the giant trees in the mountains and forests within the realm of his Nascent Soul magical powers.

Click, click, click.

One after another, huge tree men opened their eyes and rose from the ground. Their fighting power was far beyond the reach of ordinary wood elves.

For a moment, the tree men rushed into the battle formation and charged around. Even if the eighteen golden men joined forces, they still had a hard time dealing with these animated tree giants.

The eighteen golden men and the heavenly soldiers and generals began to retreat, breaking away from the entanglement in the mountains and forests, and more of them gathered towards the big sun in the sky.

The giant tree man and the wood elves began to chase, but when they chased to a huge mountain, the mountain suddenly collapsed without any warning, and the mountain collapsed, immediately causing huge losses to the tree man and the wood elves.

At the same time, the eighteen golden men and the heavenly soldiers and generals seemed to have been prepared. They launched a counter-charge and slaughtered the tree men and wood elves who had been severely injured.

"These spatial cracks are moving? But you can see the outside world through my domain?"

Tu Hanyun frowned deeply, somewhat incredulous.

(End of this chapter)