Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 354: Devouring the World, the First Great Religion
"Huh...huh..."

Inside the pagoda with black and gold patterns, dim light shines through the hollow window lattices, casting mottled shadows.

A burly middle-aged Taoist priest was lying in a pile of dry weeds, snoring soundly. His snoring was like thunder rolling across the sky, and he seemed to be immersed in a deep sleep.

However, suddenly, a buzzing sound that was initially slight gradually became harsh, and it seemed that some small insects were crawling on the body.

The burly Taoist's eyelids trembled slightly, and he finally opened his heavy eyelids, but the next moment, his pupils shrank sharply, because in front of him were large swarms of golden poisonous insects buzzing and flying, attacking him in an overwhelming manner.

These vicious poisonous insects crawled onto the body, devoured the flesh and sucked the blood. They bared their fangs and gnawed at their own flesh recklessly.

"what!"

The Taoist's body suddenly burst into dazzling blue-white lightning, and streaks of lightning danced and spread around his body like a dragon.

The middle-aged Taoist's muscles were twisted and his bones were creaking, as if he was trying to expand his body to the limit.

As he waved his hands, straw flew everywhere, and people could see that his limbs and waist were bound with fine steel chains.

The blue and white electric light crackled and struck the poisonous insects, but it could not stop their bloodthirsty desire.

This is of course true. The Golden Silkworm Gu is said to eat everything and is extremely ferocious, otherwise it would not be called the most vicious Gu in the world.

Not liking to eat vegetarian food does not mean that you cannot eat vegetarian food.

"Let me out! Let me out!"

The middle-aged Taoist screamed and roared madly, and his body suddenly turned into a one-legged green bull with muscular and extremely strong body in a flash of lightning. The green bull raised its only hoof and turned into a green light, which collided with the divine light emitting from the Demon Refining Pagoda above.

With a loud bang, it fell down.

The poisonous golden silkworm Gu from all directions surged forward even more fiercely. No matter how many the one-legged green ox could kill, the subsequent influx of golden silkworm Gu seemed endless.

Only after they had eaten away half of its body did the poisonous insects retreat like the tide.

Only the Kuiniu Demon King was left lying there, seriously injured and gasping for breath.

On the second floor of the Demon Refining Pagoda, Taoist Xu was sitting on the altar, practicing mysterious magic. As he sat cross-legged and made hand gestures, a round of black gas gradually condensed and formed at his fingertips, swirling and spreading, devouring the spiritual energy in the Demon Refining Pagoda.

Over time, it will be like corrosion, and one day, you will be able to break this treasure and escape.

"As long as you let me out, no matter what the cost, I will make Lucheng and the entire Heaven and Earth Demon Palace suffer a fate worse than death!"

Just when Xu Daoren was getting angry.

Suddenly there was a buzzing sound all around. Taoist Xu was slightly startled. The next moment, he saw large patches of golden light suddenly pouring in from the windows on all four sides of the pagoda.

"Golden Silkworm Gu with Hundred Poisons! How could there be such a vicious creature here!"

Taoist Xu flew up and wanted to use his magic skills to struggle, but as he flew up, the chains formed by the magic light that bound his limbs suddenly tightened and pulled him down forcibly, and his magic skills were also greatly suppressed.

Hundreds of poisonous golden silkworm Gu rushed forward, and after a moment, a faint black gas rose from the center of the huge golden ball.

"what!"

With a low roar, powerful demonic energy overflowed, and even many of the golden silkworm Gu in the center of the golden ball were corroded to death and fell to the ground.

However, more golden poisonous insects pounced on him again, and golden light continued to pour in from the window, seemingly endless.

"Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!"

The extremely unwilling roar gradually turned into a scream, and Master Xu's ancient demon form could not be changed at will.

But even if he ignored the forced changes in the demonic energy in his body, after a long period of time, he was still no match for the group of golden silkworm Gu.

Outside the Demon Refining Pagoda is the Demon Palace of Heaven and Earth.

As the centerpiece of the formation, the Demon Refining Pagoda was placed at the core of the mountain protection formation. This way, the formation could be strengthened by the power of the pagoda, and the power of the formation could be used to refine the pagoda, killing two birds with one stone.

Xiao Yuhong sat on the left and Xiao Yuxue sat on the right. The two sisters each cast a spell and poured magic power into the pagoda.

Lu Cheng was between the two sisters, holding the seal in front of him, controlling the swarm of poisonous golden silkworm insects.

Using the poisonous golden silkworm Gu to devour the demonic aura of Kuiniu Demon King and Taoist Xu would inevitably lead to fierce resistance from them. However, neither of them could defeat the Lu couple outside the Demon Refining Pagoda, and it would be even more impossible for them to defeat them now.

"If we ignore them, with the magic power of these two demons, I'm afraid it won't take long for them to break out of the tower. But now there is a hundred poisonous golden silkworm Gu that will wear them down every once in a while, I don't think they can even recover from their internal and external injuries."

Xiao Yuhong said this while sitting cross-legged on the platform.

"Husband, please hold back a little and don't refine them to death. Where can we find such good golden silkworm Gu feed?"

At this moment, golden light was flying around Lu Cheng, and some naughty golden silkworm Gu among them flew into Xiao Yuxue's palm, and she held it in her palm to play with it.

This world-famous number one evil Gu was raised by Lu Cheng and its ferocity remained the same but its spirituality greatly increased. Even his father Huang Longzi was amazed when he saw it, saying that the founder of Yinshan Mountain back then did not have such means and magical powers.

"Of course. My husband's ability is beyond the reach of that old monster from Yinshan." Xiao Yuxue thought so in her heart as she looked at the young Taoist priest who was urging people to perform magic spells not far away, her heart filled with sweetness.

Trust and admiration are like intoxicating wine. Xiao Yuxue drank from it willingly and was immersed in it.

This refining process lasted for three days and nights. When Lu Cheng took back the poisonous golden silkworm Gu, most of Master Xu's body had been eaten, and even his ribs and heart were exposed.

The Kuiniu Demon King devoured the human race, and Taoist Xu turned from a human into a demon. Lu Cheng never showed mercy to his enemies, and he would not even kill them until he had squeezed the last bit of value out of these two demons.

It's not just the Kuiniu Demon King and Taoist Xu. Every day, a large number of poisonous golden silkworm Gu fly out and return from Zhiguan Mountain.

In the areas governed by the Tiandi Demon Cult, the customs and habits were changed, and the temple priests and Taoist priests of the Chixin Temples in various places would say to the believers:

"The Golden Gu is the spirit under the Red Lord. The dead body is devoured by the Golden Gu to purify sins and allow the soul to ascend to the kingdom of God sooner."

In addition, there were indeed believers who had devoted themselves to the Chijun Divine Realm and whose souls returned to the realm through dreams. It only took the entire mortal society of the Tongxuan Realm only a few decades to change their customs and practices and no longer practiced burials, but instead switched to sky burials.

Even many immortal cultivation families that were close to the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace began to do this gradually.

Immortal cultivators know where their souls go. After reincarnation, leaving behind a physical body can easily attract evil cultivators and corpse cultivators to steal their bodies and dig up their graves. It would be better for them to express their attitude directly to the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace.

Of course, the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace does not force this, but only guides. Cremation will turn you into ashes, and sky burial will be devoured by the poisonous golden silkworm Gu. It can also be used to protect the world. If someone can't turn this corner, you will bury them, but for those who can turn the corner, they are enough for Lucheng to raise a million demon soldiers.

"If I didn't have the power of the Jiuli Ding, I wouldn't dare to do this. The insect control technique of immortal cultivators is simply impossible to achieve perfect control. The Yinshan Patriarch who raised the golden silkworm Gu like me back then, I don't know how much sin and evil karma he would have committed. But with the power of the Jiuli Ding, the golden silkworm Gu will not disobey my orders in the slightest, so I can raise it like this."

With the entire world as nourishment, Lu Cheng could faintly feel that the realm of the Hundred Poisons Golden Silkworm Gu, which had long been stagnant, was beginning to be slowly broken through.

Humans are the most intelligent creatures on earth. After transforming into monsters, wild beasts will become extremely bloodthirsty and will often attack humans and devour their blood.

Then it won’t be long before most of them will be killed by human cultivators.

The Golden Silkworm Gu of a Hundred Poisons now feeds on the dead of the world, and has no karma, only merits. It also has the divine power of the Red Lord to refine the filthy corpse qi for it. With multiple superpositions, as time goes by, it will eventually accumulate potential and advance into an unprecedented sixth-order Golden Silkworm Gu swarm of a Hundred Poisons.

A million level six golden silkworm Gu could probably bite even the Yuanshen Ancestor to death.

Northeast of Tongxuan Realm, on the bank of Haihe River.

There is a Yunxiao County here, which is managed and controlled by the five local immortal cultivation families: Guan, Liu, Wu, Zhang, and Zhu.

This place was originally the sphere of influence of the Dongyang Orthodox Church, but after a war of unification between the demon sects several decades ago, the Dongyang Orthodox Church and the Beichen Sword Sect were all dispersed. In addition, the Gushen Sect, which surrendered to the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace earlier, now controls the demon sect only. The former first demon sect in the West, the Ten Thousand Beasts Incarnation Palace, is now the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace.

Among the five families of Guan, Liu, Wu, Zhang and Zhu, except for Zhang and Zhu, who surrendered quickly when they saw the opportunity and saved their own Lingshan, the other three families of Guan, Liu and Wu were all appointed monks of the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace.

Since these five cultivators control the spiritual veins and own the population and land of an entire county, they have the responsibility to defend the land. They cannot allow the local people to be devoured by monsters or killed by evil cultivators at will.

But having said that, there are times when we are unable to do so.

Because there is a river in Yunxiao County that leads directly to the sea, there are countless living people on both sides of the river, but in recent years, many sea monsters have frequently invaded Yunxiao County along the river.

The five immortal cultivation families in the county had the responsibility to defend their territory, and many of their cultivators died in battle. The cultivators from the Guan, Liu, and Wu families could no longer bear it, so they wrote a letter to the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace.

Calculating the time, the letter should have been delivered by now, but I don’t know if the God has time to pay attention to this matter as he is busy with his work.

The fourth-level spiritual vein returns to Yanfeng and the Wu family.

The heads of the five families gathered here to discuss the matter of the monsters invading Yunxiao County.

"Alas, the flood season is approaching. In half a month, I'm afraid that sea monsters will attack the city again. My Zhang family can no longer bear it. If there is no news from the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace, the Zhang family will have no choice but to withdraw from Yunxiao County. It's hard to leave the hometown. It's not that we don't want to protect our hometown, but if we continue to defend it, the Zhang family will be extinct!"

"It's the same for my Zhu family. Who knows, we may have no choice but to abandon Lingshan."

In the past, Guan, Liu and Wu suppressed the development and operating profits of the Zhang and Zhu families. However, in recent years, the situation has reversed and the Guan, Liu and Wu families have been begging the cultivators of the Zhang and Zhu families not to evacuate Yunxiao County with their entire families.

If the Zhang and Zhu families evacuate, all the pressure will be on them.

"Logically, the letter should have been delivered. I have a nephew who became a disciple of an elder in the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace and holds a relevant position in the palace. He has promised me to put the letter at the top of the official documents. Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, he should have received a reply."

While the five family heads were still discussing, a servant suddenly ran in hurriedly:

"Come, someone is coming! The monks from the upper sect have arrived!"

"How many people are here?" asked Guan Bohan, the head of the Guan family, anxiously.

"Someone's here."

"A person? Could it be a real person or even a real master? Please come in quickly. No, let's go out and welcome the envoy from the upper sect."

As he spoke, Guan Bohan led the four patriarchs of the Liu, Wu, Zhang, and Zhu families behind him to greet them.

The heads of the four families were all cultivators in the Purple Mansion Realm. At this moment, clouds appeared under their feet, so they soon saw the people from the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace who had come here.

This is a nun, wearing a black silk dress, her skin is as white as snow and jade, unusually white, her hair is like clouds, her eyebrows are like willow branches, she is charming and alluring.

But she held a silver whisk in her right hand, which was placed across her chest, giving her a sense of solemnity.

In her arms was a fat, white, and adorable puppy, which was sleeping soundly, leaning against her chest.

"Uh, hello, may I ask your name?"

"This is Rong Jiao'er."

"It is the five attendants of the High Clan who have come to visit. I hope the High Clan will forgive my negligence."

There are five maids serving the Lord of the Demonic Palace of Heaven and Earth. They are called attendants, but they are actually concubines. This is a fact recognized by all the cultivators in the world.

However, if he remembered correctly, Xue Yuzhen, the palace attendant among the Five Attendants, was favored by the Divine Sovereign and had already cultivated to the realm of the True Sovereign.

Zhou Qingyun and Fang Shiman both have good aptitude for cultivation and have already refined golden elixirs.

Only Lin Wanrong and Rong Jiaoer are currently at the ninth level of the Purple Mansion realm. Although the God has noticed what happened in Yunxiao County, what is the point of sending this girl here?

Guan Bohan was confused, but he did not dare to neglect the formalities. Even though most monks were intolerant of conventional etiquette, he had to be very careful on his side.

"No need. It looks like I can go back earlier this time."

Rong Jiaoer suddenly looked at the white dog in his arms, and saw that the dog, which was originally sleeping soundly, suddenly woke up. It broke free from Rong Jiaoer's arms and jumped to the ground, barking incessantly in one direction.

"You guys come with me."

Rong Jiaoer picked up the puppy again, and flew away towards the southeast with clouds under his feet.

Guan Bohan and the other five family heads didn't understand what was going on, but they still used their magic powers to soar into the air and fly away.

Not long after, the five people's consciousness sensed a strong demonic aura rising into the sky.

"How could this be? The flood season hasn't even arrived yet, but the monsters attacked the city ahead of schedule!"

Zhu Jinshu, the only female cultivator among the five family heads, exclaimed.

"The intelligence of high-level demon cultivators is not inferior to that of humans. They can still understand the principle of making the virtual real and the real virtual."

Rong Jiaoer said this and continued to fly forward at high speed.

"Sir, there are a large number of monsters, and they are fearless under the command of high-level monsters. I'm afraid we have no chance of winning if we go to meet them with only five of us. At this time, we..."

Before Guan Bohan could finish his words, he saw a huge rainbow light suddenly rise into the air from Rong Jiaoer's arms.

"Woof woof woof woof!"

It sounded like the barking of a domestic dog, but the sound was loud enough to fill the heaven and earth. This brought with it an extremely terrifying feeling that surged into the hearts of all the monks present.

A short-haired, white, thin-waisted dog changed its true form and suddenly appeared in front of everyone, high in the sky, with its feet stepping on the clouds like a mountain.

The fourth-level dog demon looked up to the sky and sucked, forming a huge suction force, and a dark chaos hole appeared out of thin air.

The monster's innate magical power, the "sun and moon in its belly" swallows the world!
Even if it is nine days long, there will be a day when it will be swallowed up.

At this moment, the heads of the five families, Guan, Liu, Wu, Zhang and Zhu, saw thousands of sea monsters being sucked up by a huge suction force and being thrown into the chaotic cave continuously. The more they saw the grades of those monsters, the colder they felt all over their bodies.

He was afraid that this terrible dog demon would slip up and point its bloody mouth in this direction and sweep over.

After this devouring, the powerful demonic energy that originally came from the direction of the East China Sea had dissipated without a trace, and the dog demon did not change back into the form of a puppy, but suddenly soared into the sky and turned into a white ball of light and flew towards the west.

After a moment, Lu Cheng, who was meditating hundreds of thousands of miles away, waved his sleeves and stopped a beam of white light.

The white light turned into a puppy, jumped into Lu Cheng's arms, and barked incessantly.

"Okay, okay, do you like the snacks this time? If you like them, then digest them well. I'll take you to eat something better next time."

"The sun and the moon in the belly, swallowing the sky and eating the earth" can transform all the spiritual energy and vitality swallowed into the belly into one's own.

Use it frequently to devour natural mana and make fierce progress.

But if it cannot be digested, the end result will be a ruptured stomach and death.

However, as Lu Cheng's magic power level increased, his control over the Jiuli Ding also improved. He had borrowed part of the Jiuli Ding's power to cross hundreds of thousands of miles in the air and bring back the enemy with one move.

Lu Cheng can now also use the Jiuli Ding to influence the fate of the spirit beast he owns, allowing this dog demon to advance quickly.

(End of this chapter)