Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 361: Seventh-order ant ancestor, in harmony with the world (Subscribe!)

In the high sky, the golden light of the spiritual flame flickered continuously.

The seemingly endless number of fire ants before one's eyes was like a burning fire storm, making it impossible for one to advance or retreat, putting one in a dilemma.

Lu Cheng held the Samsara Banner in his hand and waved it, spreading out large patches of colorful seven-color light.

The swarm of fire ants surrounded them like a red wave, rolling towards Lu Cheng and Du'e Golden Boat, hissing, their sharp mouthparts flashing cold light.

Lu Cheng lightly waved the Samsara Banner in his hand, and the runes on the banner lit up, revealing an ancient and mysterious aura.

As gusts of wind blew, the Samsara Banner seemed to have opened the passage to the cycle of life and death, and large numbers of heavenly soldiers and generals as well as wronged souls and evil spirits poured out of it. The powerful fluctuations of their magic power made the surrounding air heavy.

The Taoist's own magic power can gather countless Taoist soldiers, and no one can stop them. This is the Taoist method of protecting the Tao since ancient times. Calling the wind and rain and scattering beans to make soldiers refers to this kind of ability.

And Lu Cheng's immortal and divine magic lineages are united, with the help of Chi Jun's power, the power of his own Taoism becomes stronger and consumes less of his own magic power.

At the same time, for the wronged souls and evil spirits of these heavenly soldiers and generals, it is also an opportunity to accumulate practice and wake up.

Unfortunately, this realm is too far away from the Tongxuan Realm, and there is no faith in Chijun in this area, so the power of the Samsara Banner has been reduced to a certain extent.

The surrounding gnawing golden fire ants spewed out orange-red poisonous fire and rushed towards Lu Cheng and the Du'e Golden Boat he was protecting without fear of death.

Each fire ant exudes captivating flames and heat, and attacks sharply and fiercely.

The heavenly soldiers and gods changed their bodies to the corresponding sizes to fight against them. When they were bitten to death, Lu Cheng would wave the reincarnation banner to pull their true spirits back. As long as the true spirits were not extinguished, it would only consume Lu Cheng's magic power.

As long as this banner is not destroyed, these souls will be immortal.

Lu Cheng looked calm, his hands constantly controlling seals and turning hand gestures, casting out five-colored runes and throwing them into the Samsara Banner to replenish his spiritual consciousness, magic power, and magic weapon power.

The two sides deployed their troops and attacked each other. This was the same path that the Palace of the Incarnation of Ten Thousand Beasts had taken in the past, so Lu Cheng was very familiar with it. To put it simply, it was nothing more than infantry blocking, archers shooting, and cavalry charging in the air.

Seeing that the Samsara Banner could still hold out for a short period of time, Lu Cheng used both hands to circulate the seals, interpreting the principles of the Five Elements, and finally released it with a palm.

The translucent handprint grew rapidly as it flew out of the hand. It first flew upwards, rose to a high place, and then grew to a size of several acres. It naturally guided the five lines of vital energy around it to converge and fill it. Finally, it covered the sky and the earth, then turned around and slapped down.

Boom boom boom.

It was like a giant palm of a god pressing down on a red cloud.

First, the shock wave spread violently, and then a mushroom cloud rose into the sky.

However, this Five Elements Divine Palm did knock down some of the gold-gnawing fire ants, but after a moment, they suppressed them again, and it seemed that the number of them had not decreased much.

This is also because, with the improvement of Lu Cheng's own realm, the Innate Qi Grabbing and the Five Elements Handprint are gradually no longer super-level Taoist methods, but just a powerful Taoist magical power in the sixth level.

After all, the Xiantian school had a limited foundation back then, and it was rare for a Taoist method to be able to be deduced to this level.

It would take a long time and a lot of insights for Lu Cheng to further develop this magical power.

If it were an ordinary cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage, his magic power would have been more than half consumed at this moment, and he should have been at his wit's end. If he didn't want to die, he could only return to Haiyuan City to ask for the Soul-Destroying Powder in the city to save his life.

However, Lu Cheng exhausted his mental and magical powers to perform the Five Elements Divine Palm, but failed to achieve any success. However, he did not care much about it. Instead, he sat cross-legged on one side of the Wheel of Reincarnation Banner and closed his eyes to meditate.

He kept moving his left and right hands alternately, as if he was calculating something.

After three days and two nights, the spiritual light on the Samsara Banner beside Lu Cheng had been greatly damaged.

The number of gold-eating fire ants flying around in the air did not seem to decrease at all compared to the beginning. If this continued for a long time, even Yuanying Zhenjun would die in the swarm of insects.

At this moment, Lu Cheng, who was sitting cross-legged in meditation, heard a whisper from his Taoist companion Xiao Yuhong:
"My dear, the Wind and Rain Summoning Talisman has been activated."

"Okay, I've almost figured it out."

As he spoke, Lu Cheng opened the seven-colored light that wrapped the Du'e Golden Boat for a moment.

During these three days and two nights, Xiao Yuhong, who had already injected a large amount of magic power into the fifth-level wind-summoning rain talisman, raised his hand and offered the jade talisman in his hand.

The jade talisman turned into a ray of white light that shot up into the sky. Rumbling sounds of thunder passed by, and in an instant, misty clouds gathered above the sky.

The five elements of the fire ant are fire, so it is naturally restrained by water.

However, this method is only effective against insect-like monsters whose intelligence has not yet been developed even after they have been upgraded to the sixth level.

If it were a Nascent Soul cultivator or a demon king who specialized in fire magic, it would be impossible for them to give their opponent the opportunity to cast this kind of spell.

Crash.

Because of the long preparation, the magic power within the talisman was very sufficient, and heavy rain fell in an instant, and billowing white steam and smoke rose from the bodies of the fire ants.

If Lu Cheng wanted to escape into the lake or the sea, with their intelligence they would actively stop him, but they could do nothing about the heavy rain falling from the sky.

In the past, the Xiao sisters often accompanied their parents to go out and control the clouds and rain to bring benefits to the world. They had deep attainments and accumulation in this magic.

Of course, this is only limited to ordinary wind and rain. If you practice the Taoist method of calling wind and rain to a high level, the wind you call is no longer ordinary wind, but blazing wind, icy wind, thunder wind, rainy wind, and karmic wind. The rain you call is no longer ordinary rain, but blazing rain, icy rain, thunderstorm, poisonous rain, foul cloud and bloody rain.

The heavy rain poured down for more than two hours.

The large number of fifth and sixth level gold-gnawing fire ants that were watered also became listless and their fire nature was greatly reduced.

When the light just broke through the clouds, it seemed that the storm would eventually pass.

Lu Cheng suddenly jumped up and thrust his finger forward like a sword.

Tongxuan sword, the sky-killing sword.

After three days and two nights of calculating his luck, both the inner sword and the outer sword, the Taoist magical power of Tongxuan Sword had reached its peak.

Combined with Lu Cheng's natal flying sword, he cut off the tail end of the swarm of gold-gnawing fire ants with one sword, and it was like a sword dividing the river and the sea. After the sword energy cut through, it lasted for a long time, as if it could devour the vitality of the void and replenish itself in a long cycle!

Lu Cheng had been waiting for so long, just for this moment.

The Tiangang atmosphere of the Fiery Realm is composed of countless flames, and the gold-gnawing fire ants are blessed to survive in it, and their numbers seem to be endless.

Therefore, it is impossible to expect that the Jiuli Ding can absorb all the gold-gnawing fire ants in the Tiangang atmosphere of the entire Fiery Realm in an instant. Even though the Jiuli Ding's power can do it, one cannot afford that kind of spiritual consciousness and magic power.

Lu Cheng’s choice was to cut off the beginning and the end and only take one part.

On the other hand, we must also stay away from Haiyuan City, because no matter whether it is the power of Tongxuan Sword or Jiuli Ding, the fewer people who know about it, the better.

A strong dark golden light suddenly spread out from Lu Cheng's sleeves, covering and enveloping him. All the gold-gnawing fire ants within the reach of the light were thrown into his sleeves, as if there was a bottomless dark cave inside.

Originally, everything was going smoothly. The Wind and Rain Summoning Talisman was weakened, Tongxuan cut it off with one sword, and the Jiuli Cauldron was captured. Lu Cheng obtained a group of high-level spirit insects that were not inferior to Tongxuan's first vicious Gu, the Hundred Poisons Golden Silkworm Gu. If they were well cultivated in the future, it would be another killer move.

But at this moment, a powerful spiritual consciousness enveloped him, instantly shattering Lu Cheng's Tongxuan sword energy and crashing into Lu Cheng's body.

In an instant, the virtual was used to control the real, causing some internal injuries to Lu Cheng.

It was a gigantic gold-gnawing fire ant as big as a towering mountain. At this moment, it was looking down. Its sharp jaws revealed endless majesty and cruelty. Every time it opened and closed, there was a sound of metal breaking.

Powerful and terrifying fluctuations of magical power surged out of its body like a storm, pressuring the surrounding space to produce substantial fluctuations.

The fiery red eyes are like burning torches, and any creature under its gaze will feel deep fear.

The surroundings of this fire ant were a barren landscape. The charred earth was barren of grass, with only rocks that had been crushed and shattered by its huge body scattered all over the ground.

"Is this a seventh-level Yuan Shen realm gold-gnawing fire ant?"

Because of their inherently low intelligence, a large number of individual fire ants do not have independent consciousness. Instead, they are governed by an overall consciousness.

Lu Cheng's Tongxuan sword contains the power of sword intent. The sword can cut the body, and the heart sword can cut the soul.

It was like a person being pricked by a needle while sleeping. The seventh-level gold-gnawing fire ant ancestor seemed to be the same, and instinctively counterattacked, sweeping with spiritual consciousness, causing Lu Cheng to suffer internal injuries in an instant.

"go!"

Lu Cheng did not dare to delay at this moment. With the power of his Dharma body and flesh, he pressed his palm on the Du'e Golden Boat. The man and the boat instantly turned into a golden red rainbow and fled far away to the southwest.

boom.

Not long after, a red beam of light suddenly shot down from the clouds.

Rumble, rumble, rumble...

There was a terrifying and violent explosion, with scorching flames. The huge shock wave brought with it an endless storm that spread out, and the area within a thousand miles was completely turned into wasteland in one blow.

Such an extremely ferocious insect is not something that the spiritual cultivators of the human and demon races who want to ascend to the upper realms are afraid of.

In a fit of rage, they would strike, splitting the heaven and earth as if the sky was collapsing and the earth was falling apart. Even a Jindan cultivator might not be able to escape such a horrific disaster.

Lu Cheng's physical strength and accumulated mana will not be weaker than that of a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul in a short period of time, at the edge of the storm thousands of miles away.

Lu Cheng and a group of cultivators from the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace looked at the horrifying scene before them and all felt fear in their hearts.

"Is there no one who can control such a demon?"

"How can we make it? If one accidentally destroys the Tiangang atmosphere, all the billions of sentient beings in the Fiery Realm will be exposed to the outside world. Such a sin is something that even an immortal cannot bear."

Taoist Lu Cheng frowned slightly as he listened to the whispers beside him. Looking at the scene in front of him, the joy in his heart for obtaining the ancient strange insect completely disappeared.

"Don't let me cultivate to become an immortal, or I will definitely take you away before I ascend."

Lu Cheng was also frightened at first when he looked at the scene in front of him, but his path of cultivation was to change his own nature with courage and determination, so he quickly eliminated the fear. There are very few people in this world who have courage, so they miss countless opportunities and benefits. Therefore, if one cultivates courage and determination to a certain level and eliminates cowardice and weakness, he can become an immortal.

Of course, Yongjue is not a brainless reckless man. For example, if he were to draw his sword against the seventh-level gold-gnawing fire ant ancestor right now, the word "yongjue" has nothing to do with it.

Lu Cheng thought that if he cultivated to the Yuanshen realm, he would be able to kill the monster with his sword. However, considering that he had to protect the Tiangang atmosphere of the Fiery Realm at the same time, he naturally raised his realm requirement to the late Yuanshen stage.

Otherwise, the evildoers may not be eliminated, but the Tiangang energy of this world may be destroyed.

"All of you go down and rest. After a while, we will forge an identity as a casual cultivator and go to Haiyuan City to become a demon hunter cultivator. How much benefit we can get by then will depend on your respective abilities."

"Disciple, obey."

In front of Lu Cheng, all the monks bowed politely.

"My dear husband, please don't feel too bad. I don't think there are any people within a few hundred miles. Besides, it was the monster that caused the trouble. It has nothing to do with you."

Xiao Yuxue saw that her husband was not in a good mood, so she stepped forward and said comforting words.

"...You don't have to comfort me like this. I don't have such high morals and self-requirements. If I killed someone, I wouldn't be afraid to bear the corresponding karma. If I didn't kill someone, I wouldn't feel guilty about it.

Our family, after all, is from the demonic path, and being selfish is beneficial to the path at times."

Sometimes, those who practice Taoism can avoid many disasters by being cruel and tough. There are many such stories in ancient books:

A high-level cultivator has practiced for a thousand years and is only half a step away from ascending to heaven.

However, because he wanted to help his children and younger generations survive a certain calamity, he ended up failing in his own ascension, and all his years of cultivation were wasted.

Half a year later, an early Nascent Soul cultivator named Lu Shouxuan, brought his disciples to join the Fiery Dharma Realm Haiyuan City.

This is a very common thing. The monks of Haiyuan City have been fighting with the deep-sea monsters for thousands of years. The blood they have shed is enough to dye the waters of all four seas red. They have already formed their own unique monster hunting system.

It does not matter what the origin, background, or purpose of the cultivator is. As long as you are not a demon and can kill demons, that is enough. On the Demon Hunting Merit List:
From small items like foundation-building pills, Ziyang warm jade, and Xuanying jade marrow, to large items like fifth-level inner pills, infant-transforming pills, and Jiuxiao Gangyu, sixth-level pills, sixth-level magic weapons, and sixth-level skills inheritance, there is everything.

As long as your achievements are great enough, the most important skills inherited by the major sects in Haiyuan City may be passed on to you.

In short, there are no treasures in Haiyuan City that cannot be exchanged for monster hunting merits, including skills, magic weapons, elixirs, and cauldrons.

However, in this war between humans and demons, the human cultivators from the Fiery Realm did not gain much of an advantage.

The ocean area accounts for more than seven layers of the surface area of ​​the Fiery Realm, and so is its war potential. Haiyuan City has gathered countless cultivators from the seven realms here, and countless cultivators have also died in Haiyuan City. Their relatives, friends, fellow disciples, and partners will never be able to leave here again.

The hatred is entangled and will not end until one dies. Even if there is nothing else to ask for, the demon clan must be killed.

This is a competition for living space between humans and demons. It doesn't matter whether either side is right or wrong, and there is no way out for either side.

Haiyuan City, Wangchen Residence.

Half a year later, the Taoist priest came to the city again, holding a whisk and flicking it lightly, and walked into the inn.

What you see is a jade bridge spanning over the gurgling stream. All around you can vaguely hear someone plucking the strings of a guqin, the clear sound lingering and seeming to be there and not there.

Under the bridge, three-colored carp play in the water, occasionally jumping out of the water, splashing ripples and adding a bit of liveliness.

White mist slowly rises from the stream and gently surrounds the Jade Bridge. Looking at flowers in the mist, the pavilions and terraces in the inn also seem to become hazy, layer upon layer, just like the fairyland in the legend.

Every inch of land in Haiyuan City is worth a lot of money. The owner behind Wangchenju is still able to set up such an arrangement, which shows that he has a considerable background and skills.

Lu Cheng walked in with Shi Sheng and Yun Huang'er behind him. A receptionist came up to them quickly with a neither humble nor arrogant smile.

Although he is just a low-level cultivator, he has stayed in Wangchenju for a long time and can adapt to the pressure from a real person.

Lu Cheng ignored the receptionist and asked his disciples Shi Sheng and Yun Huang'er to step forward and talk to him.

Lu Cheng looked around. The decoration in the entire Wangchen Residence was simple yet elegant, and every piece of furnishing revealed a unique cultural atmosphere.

The bamboo curtains were half-closed, and the sunlight shone through the sparse bamboo shadows onto the bluestone slabs, creating a mottled pattern. A few pots of orchids were quietly placed in the corner, exuding a subtle fragrance that complemented the surrounding environment.

When Lu Cheng's gaze fell on a certain place, his fire pupils and golden eyes naturally activated, causing flames to appear in his eyes.

All the layers of barriers were broken, and Lu Cheng could see a human-shaped volcano with raging flames behind the wall.

During the past six months, Lu Cheng and others have not been idle. They have learned the local dialect and changed their accents, while also gathering some basic information about Haiyuan City.

There are five sects and three cultivations in Haiyuan City.

These five sects are the Huangji Sect, Fuhai Sect, Raolong Sect, Chiyan Sect, and Feiling Sect. It should be noted here that the convention in the world of immortal cultivation is that only if there is a Yuanying Zhenjun in the sect can the sect be called a sect, otherwise it must be called a gate, sect, or religion. For example, if the Feiling Sect does not have a Yuanying Zhenjun, it can only be called the Feiling Gate.

In fact, due to the brutality of the war between humans and demons, the Feiling Sect was once indeed called the Feiling Gate.

Of course, it is also possible to keep the sect name unchanged for some purpose, like the Red Flame Sect did, but when the sect disciples walk outside, others will not be able to immediately identify that you are a Nascent Soul sect disciple, so deaths have occurred.

As for the Three Cultivators, they refer to three independent cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage. Only in a place like Haiyuan City would three independent cultivators gather in one city.

Countless Purple Mansion Golden Core cultivators sought shelter under him, hoping to obtain relatively better monster hunting missions through the relationships with the three great cultivators.

This is also the purpose of Lu Cheng’s visit today: to pay homage to the mountain.

You must have some magical power and status, but it shouldn't be too conspicuous. Lu Cheng now just wants to practice with Guang Tongchen for a period of time, and at the same time obtain some spiritual resources that are not available in the Tongxuan Realm.

Many of the spiritual objects on the Haiyuan City Monster Hunting List cannot be purchased with spirit stones, but can be exchanged for them with monster hunting merits.

By combining different resources from the two worlds and practicing diligently for three hundred years, Lu Cheng has the confidence to cultivate to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm, avoid being affected by calamity, and diligently seek the truth. This is the cultivation mentality that a cultivator should have.

At the same time, in the elegant hall of Wangchenju, a tall, iron-tower-like old man with messy hair, with his chest exposed, was drinking with a group of monks.

He was originally drunk, but suddenly he froze for a moment and looked down at the balcony. The layers of clouds naturally dispersed, revealing an elegant and graceful monk underneath.

(End of this chapter)