Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 357: Catching Corpses (Part )
The Demon Refining Pagoda hit him head-on, and there was no hope of suppressing the monster directly. What they wanted to break was the first level of escape technique of the Ten Thousand Years Corpse Monster.

Physical cultivators are similar to ordinary warriors in the secular world, with many changes and fierce bursts of power, but they need to recover their energy.

At the moment when the Wanzai Corpse Demon just transformed, dusk fell and Lu Cheng's Netherworld and Five Elements swords had already descended, stabbing and spinning close.

Because the sword light was moving too fast, the sword light of the Netherworld and Five Elements swords was looming and flickering like phantoms.

But the Wanzai corpse demon recognized Lu Cheng. How could it be possible that he was not on guard at all at this moment after suffering so many losses at the hands of this Taoist priest?

"call!"

With a loud roar, the air waves exhaled by the corpse demon fell on the Netherworld and Five Elements swords like a real hammer.

The shout seemed to contain the power of the Arctic mountains, accompanied by slight vibrations of the mountains within a thousand miles.

The rolling mountains seem to be responding to this will. The cold air blows and the wind and snow sway, as if telling something.

Zombies are the children of the earth.

At this moment, the energy and blood of all the monks around seemed to be sucked away by a huge force, surging upstream, forming a strange vortex in the sky, making people feel suffocated.

The lights of the Netherworld and Five Elements swords paused as a result.

Lu Cheng cultivated the three treasures of spirit, energy and soul, and had a strong foundation in Taoism, so he was not able to counter the spell that seemed to summon the soul.

However, the Netherworld and Five Elements swords seemed to be fixed and could not break free for a while.

While Lu Cheng was injecting his spiritual power into the two swords for protection, he was also making hand gestures and using the Five Elements Seal to rescue Madam Baoxiang, the Xiao sisters and others who were restrained by the soul-calling spell.

Mysterious five-colored characters danced in the air and continuously fell on Madam Baoxiang, the Xiao sisters, Xue Yuzhen and Yun Linger, regulating their meridians and soothing their souls.

Master Huang Longzi had a solemn expression on his face, but he was not controlled by the magic. He immediately used the Heavenly Corpse Capturing Technique and grabbed the corpse down.

After the Wanzai corpse demon subdued everyone with the soul-calling spell, its first reaction was to escape.

However, it had fought with Lu Cheng more than once or twice, so it did not dare to escape underground again. Instead, it hid its body and tried to escape into the sky.

But at this moment, suddenly a devil's hand shot down from the sky. This horrible devil's hand was tattered and rotten, as if it was made up of countless corpses. It was extremely terrifying.

The air was filled with a suffocating stench, which was more unbearable than the poisonous miasma, as if it was a filth that could corrode the mind.

The smell spread instantly, invading every inch of the monk's skin, causing his magic power to boil in his body, like boiling magma, almost breaking through the constraints of the body.

"I am the king of all corpses in the world. How dare you use such magic in front of me!"

Seeing that he could not hide and escape, Wanzai Corpse Demon broke out of his escape state, black and red devil fire burned around his body, and he swung out a huge fist shadow, which collided with the Heavenly Corpse that fell in front of him. The devil fire and corpse energy suddenly rolled into a huge chaotic vortex.

"Only when you practice the Corpse Refining Technique in front of a corpse demon can you know how advanced you are!"

Boom.

After a hard fight of magic power, both the corpse demon and Huang Longzi fell back several steps, but the corpse demon revealed his true form, while Huang Longzi's entire Heavenly Corpse Demon Hand was burning layer by layer, and corpse poison rose to the sky.

However, after using the Ten Thousand Years Corpse Demon as their imaginary enemy for so many years, the cultivators in the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace had already asked Master Huo Xiu to refine several furnaces of detoxification pills specifically for countering the corpse poison.

As long as the poison is not contaminated by the blood of the ten thousand year old corpse demon, ordinary corpse poison is nothing to be afraid of in front of these sixth-level detoxification pills.

Taoist Huang Longzi fell back, and Madam Baoxiang followed closely behind him, swinging her own magic weapon, the Male and Female Immortal Whip violently. This long scarlet gold whip continued to extend and grow longer through space, and the sound of metal clashing shook the sky.

The fifth-level magic weapon, the male and female immortal whip.

Although it is a fire element, it implies the intention of breaking the law, destroying the law, and even breaking evil and killing immortals.

It was a magical weapon for protecting his wife that Huang Longzi had refined after exhausting all his resources and using all his favors and money.

Why do cultivators often spend all their money and energy on their own life-saving magical instruments/magic treasures? Because after the sacrifice is completed, the cultivator's life-saving vitality is consumed for cultivation and nourishment, and the grade of the magical instruments/magic treasures continues to improve with the cultivator's magic power.

Although there is a huge gap in magical power between Madam Baoxiang and Wanzai Corpse Demon, with this magical weapon in hand, even Wanzai Corpse Demon with a strong body would not dare to underestimate Madam Baoxiang.

Snapped.

The Wanzai corpse demon's claws changed mysteriously several times, and finally found the flaw, and grabbed the sharp edge of the male and female immortal whip with one claw.

It is called a whip, but it is more of a sharp blade of golden red steel. The raging fire on it can break the invasion of evil forces, making the Wanzai corpse demon feel uncomfortable.

Fortunately, it was one step ahead in seeing through the changes in the whip techniques of the male and female whips, and locked all subsequent changes of the male and female whips, preventing Madam Baoxiang from attacking it harshly.

Xue Yuzhen and Yun Linger stood side by side, the Five Elements Flying Swords and Five Elements Sword Diagrams in their hands echoed each other, forming a miniature sword formation, shooting down from the sky.

Mother Xue Yuzhen used her sixth-order Nascent Soul magic power to nurture five fifth-order top-grade flying swords, while her daughter Yun Linger nurtured a Five Elements Sword Diagram. When the two of them attacked together, they were able to unleash nearly half of the power of Lucheng's Five Elements Sword Technique in a short period of time.

Among the cultivators in the early Nascent Soul stage, he is not considered a weakling.

"what!"

Wanzai Corpse Demon knew that if he continued to be consumed like this and was dragged down by this round-the-clock battle, he would die sooner or later.

A faint black mist of decay gradually spread over its rotten body, and its eyes emitted a green glow.

If you don’t fight hard, you will have no life to fight for!
Wanzai Corpse Demon slowly raised his hand, and the Yin Energy emanating from his body became like substance, condensing into streams of red and black fire mist, rushing towards the Five Elements Sword Formation.

The Five Elements Flying Swords drew brilliant trajectories in the air. The tips of the swords condensed into blazing spots of light, tearing through the air and colliding with the corpse demon's body's gloomy aura, making a clanging sound.

In the Five Elements Sword Formation, Xue Yuzhen had a stern look on her face. The three-colored flying swords of fire, earth, and gold that she controlled were powerful and precise. Every strike of the sword was like a finishing touch, hitting the vital point directly.

Yun Linger controlled the water and wood colored flying swords like agile elves. The sword light was erratic and the sword tips flickered like stars, assisting her mother in launching the offensive.

Not much time passed before the Five Elements Sword Formation was forcibly broken by the Wan Zai Corpse Demon, but it failed to break it immediately, so it was defeated.

Because this was not a one-on-one sword fight between two people, but seven Nascent Soul cultivators from the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace besieging one person.

Even Master Ou Bai, who was not seriously injured and had recovered some of his magic power, used his sword to attack again shortly afterwards.

In this way, it was eight against one. Lu Cheng had never fought a sword fight so easily in his life.

In fact, if among the cultivators of the seven realms outside the Tongxuan Realm, eight Yuanying early stage cultivators besieged a great cultivator, not to mention that the opposing great cultivator could retreat calmly at any time, it would even be unknown whether the eight early stage cultivators could win.

It can only be said that the Taoist lineage of the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace and the abundant spiritual stones and spiritual objects stored there have led to a very high average level of True Lord cultivators. In addition, the Wanzai corpse demon was hit by Lu Cheng Tongxuan's sword many years ago, and he still has certain internal injuries that have not yet healed.

"Corpse demon, you can't leave! Today is the day you die."

Lu Cheng put his hands together and made his fingers into swords, controlling the Netherworld Five Elements twin swords to fly and circle in the air.

A faint purple lightning flashed through the glass-like Five Elements Flying Sword.

A green sword energy emanated from the Netherworld Flying Sword.

Lu Cheng's Five Elements Flying Sword is essentially five sixth-rank flying swords forged together. More than two hundred years ago, they were five fourth-rank top-grade flying swords.

If a normal cultivator were to practice this method to refine his natal magic weapon, at best he would find it difficult to improve his magic power, at worst his strong branches would become weak, his power would be wasted and he would die.

The natal magic weapon needs to be nurtured by the cultivator with his own three treasures of essence, energy and spirit (also known as the natal vital energy). The longer the nurturing time, the more vital energy is obtained, and the more powerful it will naturally be.

It itself will reduce the progress of the cultivators' magic power cultivation, but the gains are far greater than the costs.

Lu Cheng can nurture five high-quality flying swords of the same level at the same time. On the one hand, it is because he practices the Five Elements True Evil and the Great Sun Divine Gang, which makes his own foundation of Taoism extremely solid and deep, and he can withstand the consumption.

On the other hand, it was because he was proficient in the five elements and sword intent. One point of consumption could get several points of effect. The five elements sword in the dantian naturally circulated according to the five elements. It can be said that Lu Cheng only spent a little effort.

The five swords were combined into an invisible flying sword, and with this sword as the foundation, the Purple Gang Xuan Sha Lei Guang Sword Technique was used. Wherever the sword energy went, everything was as he wished. Even the Green Demon Frost Evil Tian Hui Sword Technique was used. The five elements entered the sword, and the sword became the five elements, which was magical and wonderful.

It's just that the Netherworld Flying Sword has its own spirituality, almost a half-step spiritual treasure, with stronger sword intent and greater sword power, but it is naturally incompatible with the Purple Yang Gangsha Heavenly Thunder. The sword energy is divided into two, stimulating the Heavenly Evil Divine Light, which complements each other and increases its power.

Two sword lights, one purple and one green, circled and turned into dragons, swallowing the energy of the surrounding heaven and earth and soaring up. Two dragons, one purple and one green, with scales and horns, flew high in the sky and looked down, their dragon pupils firmly locked onto the ten thousand year old corpse demon.

This is the sword light turning into rainbow and sword energy taking shape. When Huang Longzi saw Lu Cheng's move, he nodded secretly, knowing that he had been left far behind by his disciple in the realm of sword practice.

When practicing the Jade Dragon Sword Art, if one has sufficient aptitude and understanding, it is relatively easy to cultivate the two sword skills of sword energy turning into shape and sword light turning into rainbow.

When he reached the Jindan Zhenren realm, Zhenren Huang Longzi was also an expert in this art. The sword light turned into rainbows, guiding the essence of heaven and earth into the sword, increasing the speed of the flying sword. The sword energy took shape, and mimicked life. He used sword energy to simulate real dragons, phoenixes, or other powerful innate creatures. The deeper his understanding of the simulated creatures, the greater the power of the sword energy after it took shape. It was as if the sword energy itself had a short life and was extremely powerful.

However, the sword skills cultivated in the Jindan realm do not mean that the sword skills will automatically improve after the magic power is promoted to the Yuanying realm.

Huang Longzi had secretly cultivated the sword energy transformation to the sixth level, but the technique of sword light turning into rainbow was still a little lacking, so much so that he had rarely used his natal flying sword in recent years.

"Cheng'er also had extremely high attainments in the two arts of sword heart enlightenment and sword and man unity. It is impossible for him to give up sword heart enlightenment and sword and practice rainbow transformation and shape transformation first. My disciple's talent in swordsmanship is simply terrifying. Could it be that there are really natural sword immortals and immortal seeds in this world?"

The two purple and green dragons circled in the sky and were in no hurry to land, but they continued to build up their strength, which would only bring more pressure to the Wanzai Corpse Demon.

While constantly dealing with the sword lights and spells coming from all directions, most of his energy had to be focused on these two sword lights.

Finally, the Wanzai Corpse Demon was unwilling to allow the two sword lights to continue absorbing the essence of heaven and earth to strengthen itself, so it roared and shot out two black gas columns into the sky.

But the two dragons dodged nimbly, circled upwards, and actually entangled on the body of the Wanzai corpse demon, one on the left and one on the right, with incredible agility.

"Ah!"

The monster roared and grabbed the two dragon heads with its arms, one on the left and one on the right. It flew into the sky, crashed into mountains and into the sea, but it was still unable to break free.

The poisonous golden silkworm Gu all around flew up and pounced to bite the corpse monster, but the corpse monster's body was strong and the fifth-level golden silkworm Gu couldn't even bite through its flesh.

However, the two divine dragons, purple and green, suddenly opened their mouths and spit out two light balls, one purple and one green, towards the corpse demon at a very close distance. These balls were all condensed from the essence of the Purple Yang Thunder and the Heavenly Evil Divine Light.

Boom.

The purple-green ball of light spread out in an instant, and the sword's aura became stronger. The aftermath of the spread alone almost crushed several nearby icebergs to the ground.

Seeing this scene, all the cultivators present including Huang Longzi looked relieved. With such power, even a ten-thousand-year-old corpse demon should be smashed to pieces.

However, Lu Cheng was extremely sensitive and felt that the sword feeling he received back was not right. The two flying sword lights did not hit the target, at least not all of them.

"This is a physical transformation, the size is as desired!"

Lu Cheng himself is also a physical cultivator, but his body cultivation has not reached this level. This is already a unique skill of physical cultivation. It is said that when it is cultivated to the extreme, one can advance like the laws of nature and follow the earth, and retreat like a mustard seed. No matter attack, defense, or escape, it is an extremely powerful magical power. But no one would have thought that this demon corpse had actually mastered it, which is simply a waste of heaven's gifts.

Ten thousand miles to lock the soul, the size can be as desired, the fist intention becomes momentum, the diamond is indestructible, reborn by a drop of blood, ever-changing, the pinnacle of body cultivation will never be inferior to that of sword cultivation.

However, those who have achieved something are even rarer than sword practitioners. It requires a very high balance between training the body and protecting the body, and also requires extremely high talent and understanding, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve anything.

Compared to the current world of immortal cultivators where there are many sword practitioners and countless resources from the predecessors that can be absorbed, the path of physical cultivation is too difficult to blaze. In the future, when he has free time, Lu Cheng will take the time to conduct in-depth research, but he really doesn't have much time in the past thousand years.

Fire flashed in Lu Cheng's eyes, and he used the Fire Pupil and Golden Eyes technique to immediately capture it. The thousand-year-old corpse demon suddenly shrank to the size of a fist, and turned into a black and red ball of light, tearing through space and trying to escape.

The change was so small that even though he was within the range of the Zi Yang Gang Lei and Tian Hui Divine Light's detonation, the damage he suffered was greatly reduced.

He had been patient until this moment to perform this physical transformation. If Lu Cheng was careless, he might really let the monster go.

At that time, the monster must have hidden itself even more secretly for hundreds or thousands of years. When it was ready, it would attack the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace, which would surely cause certain losses.

Unfortunately, Lu Cheng has been planning this for many years.

"Yuhong, Yuxue, leave the Demon Refining Pagoda there!"

Under the fiery golden eyes, Lu Cheng could clearly see that the corpse demon was tearing the space here, and the dark red cracks were spreading and diffusing, indicating where it would eventually land.

Although performing Space Shift after performing Big and Small Ruyi is more secretive and difficult to defend against, it also has a disadvantage, which is that the range of shift is greatly reduced.

The sisters Xiao Yuhong and Xiao Yuxue are strong in attack but weak in defense, and lack the ability to protect themselves and see through various magical powers. However, these shortcomings are almost completely made up for by Lu Cheng and Huang Longzi.

It is difficult for ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, even if they are master and disciple who have been together for hundreds or thousands of years, to have such mutual trust.

The two sisters held the seals in front of them and chanted the mantra continuously.

Magic formulas, hand formulas, and incantations can be avoided if one's spiritual consciousness and magical power are strong. However, on the other hand, having these can greatly reduce the consumption of spiritual consciousness and magical power. Naturally, the Xiao sisters use all three formulas.

The Wanzai corpse demon tore through space and escaped. Before he could catch his breath, a huge golden pagoda fell down on his head.

It was the demon-refining divine light that was covering and falling, like a mountain looming overhead.

"Certainly!"

Lu Cheng put his fingers together to form a sword, pointed it at a distance, and with his sword skills, his sword intent became a force.

The sword cultivator himself must have experienced hundreds of battles, and must have overcome the murderous intent of killing his opponents, and perfectly integrated it into his own spiritual essence and swordsmanship. As long as he can do this, using this unique skill against the enemy, any opponent will be intimidated by the sword's murderous intent, even if it is only for a brief moment.

Lu Cheng doesn't know the God-Slaying Thorn, God-Shocking Technique, or other spiritual skills, but for him, cultivating the sword intent to the sixth level is much easier than practicing those secret techniques.

When Wanzai Corpse Demon tried hard to break free from Lu Cheng's sword intent and mental suppression, he looked up and saw that the Demon Refining Pagoda had already fallen, leaving no room for dodge.

It could only cancel the changes in size as it wished, raise its arms to activate its magic power, and hold up the Demon Refining Pagoda to stop it from falling.

"Well!"

Sisters Xiao Yuhong and Xiao Yuxue both groaned, feeling that the force of the counterattack was so great that it almost blew the Demon Refining Pagoda away.

You know, the Demon Refining Pagoda itself is a treasure that can overwhelm others with force and power, and this ten-thousand-year-old corpse demon has been repeatedly weakened after a series of battles.

Lu Cheng's sword technique changed, and the Five Elements Flying Sword suddenly split into five, turning into five-colored sword lights of blue, red, white, yellow, and black, which circulated and besieged endlessly, gradually turning into a ball of light gathering at the center.

The Netherworld Flying Sword suddenly rose into the air and transformed into a sword dragon again, roaring and flying, and finally clinging to the Demon Refining Pagoda.

Next, Huang Longzi's Heavenly Corpse Hand exerted force from high altitude without directly touching the pagoda, strengthening the suppressive power of the Demon Refining Pagoda.

Madam Baoxiang wielded the male and female immortal whips and lashed them out continuously, constantly reducing the magic power of the Wanzai corpse demon.

Ou Bai, Xue Yuzhen and Yun Linger also took action.

"... Lu Cheng, if you let me go, I swear to my soul that if you let me go, I will escape from this world and never trouble your Heaven and Earth Demon Palace again in this life!"

"...There are treasures left in Tianhai Cave. Others don't know, but I do. Please spare my life and I will take you to find them!"

The Wanzai Corpse Demon used all its magic power to hold up the Demon Refining Pagoda so that it would not fall. If it were to just wrestle with the Xiao sisters, they might not be able to outlast it with their stamina. After their magic power was exhausted, they would probably be harmed by it.

But at this moment, ten Yuanying cultivators close to the Tongxuan Realm besieged and suppressed it. With such a scale, if it was not counted as the battle against the Demon God, it was also the first battle in this world.

Lu Cheng said nothing, but closed his eyes and placed his hands on his dantian. The power of the Five Elements Flying Sword and the Netherworld Flying Sword suddenly increased.

"Ah ah ah ah..."

Amid the furious and unwilling roars of the Wan Zai Corpse Demon, the Demon Refining Pagoda slowly suppressed it and sealed the demon inside.

Many demons in the sixth level, even physical cultivators, are not easy to kill. In this case, using magic tools such as the Demon Refining Pagoda to suppress and seal them is definitely an excellent choice.

If you can't kill it in a short time, you can often kill it after a thousand years.

"In the future, we must use this treasure as a foundation to build a mountain protection formation for Zhiguan Mountain. Otherwise, if we are not careful in the future and the demons in this tower escape, it will be a huge trouble."

At this time, Madam Baoxiang flew over and said this when she looked at the pagoda that was taken back by her two daughters.

"Instead of worrying about this, it is better to think of a way to deal with them. Even if they manage to escape, they will only have one or two levels of mana left. What is there to be afraid of?"

Taoist Huang Longzi's idea is similar to Lu Cheng's. Both of them are cultivators with strong self-confidence. In comparison, Madam Baoxiang is much weaker in terms of strength of character.

(End of this chapter)