Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 417: Refining the Thunder Demon, Purple Gang Black Evil Lightning Sword Technique;

In the Jinguan Cave of Canglong Mountain, clouds and mists appear naturally.

The Taoist in a plain robe sat cross-legged on the jade platform, with five-colored lightning flashing around him, like a dragon or snake swimming in the void.

In front of the jade platform, where the spiritual energy of the whole mountain gathered, a suspended green cauldron was buzzing and vibrating. The body of the cauldron was as green as jade, and there were eight red gold runes on it, which corresponded to the numbers of the innate Bagua.

The furnace cover is cast in the shape of a blue phoenix with spread wings. The phoenix holds a "Mysterious Fire Pearl" in its beak, and thirty-six "Heavenly Fire Essences" are embedded in each of its wings. When it flaps its wings, it can cause the blue phoenix's true fire to circulate around the body.

This alchemy furnace is of the top grade of the sixth level and can release the Blue Luan True Fire. Even within Haiyuan City, it is unlikely that you will find an alchemy furnace better than this magic weapon.

Its value is even higher than that of ordinary seventh-level spiritual magic weapon, but it is just so-so in the world of earthly immortals.

At this moment, the talismans attached to the furnace mouth moved automatically without wind - the purple-scaled magic dragon's Xuanyin blood thunder was as deep as the abyss, the red-eyed Suanni's burning sky fire thunder was as blazing as the sun, the green-winged thunder roc's Xunfeng light thunder was as clear as a feather, the white-armored divine elephant's Wu Earth Gang thunder was as heavy as a mountain, and the black jade unicorn's Netherworld evil thunder was as strange as the night.

"The five elements rotate, and the thunder method returns to its origin."

He put his fingers together and made hand gestures, sending out rays of magical light. The humming sound inside the alchemy furnace became even louder.

The blood essence of five thunder beasts turned into a dragon-like blood light that shot up into the sky. The golden talismans attached to the furnace mouth flickered, suppressing the violent thunder energy into a trickle.

Strands of blood appeared between Taoist Lu Cheng and the alchemy furnace, and when the blood and essence merged, a phantom of a thunder beast appeared. Its roar shook the cave wall and dust fell off. It was:

"I got the secret of thunderbolt by accident, and the five elements are in harmony with each other.

The mysterious Yin and Burning Heaven are stirring, and only then can the Blue Dark Creation Machine be seen! "

As the "Purple Gang Mysterious Evil Thunder Sword Art" mental method was circulated, a three-foot purple light rose from the Taoist priest Lu Cheng's forehead.

This incomparably sharp sword light first gathered into a pill, spinning around, and then suddenly turned into a sword light, grinding the essence of the Five Thunders into a fine talisman.

Each talisman is in the shape of a sword, with dragon scales or lion eyes on the sword spine, which is in line with the principles of Xuanmen law.

Suddenly, black gas overflowed from the thunder - it was the backlash of the residual spirit of the Black Jade Qilin.

The Taoist was not in a hurry. He opened his mouth and spit out a breath of Samadhi True Fire, refining the evil thoughts into a wisp of green smoke.

The time of the mortal world and the immortal world is synchronized, or it can be said that the three thousand infinite worlds are imaginary numbers, which are born and destroyed at will. No one knows exactly how many infinite worlds there are, it may be thirty thousand or three hundred million, but it will not be less than three thousand at least.

The eight hundred middle realms are the earthly immortal spirit realms. Above them is the true immortal world, which is the great realm.

The incarnation has been practicing Taoism in the earthly immortal world for many years, and Lu Cheng has done the same in the mortal world. In fact, because of his concentration on practice, the growth of his magic power and Taoism will only be faster than the former.

The current Lord of the Golden Light Cave, Great Lord Jie Fa Lu Cheng, is already the most deeply rooted force in Haiyuan City. Over the past hundred years, he has won over fellow disciples Chi Yanzi and Yan Xuzi from the Five Fire Cliff. In the process, he visited Chi Xia Shenjun of the Guiyuan Cave and gave him a Taoist treatise.

After receiving this, Lord Chixia was greatly surprised and delighted, and was willing to establish a friendship with Lu Cheng. With this relationship, Lu Cheng could rest assured to make the trade fair the largest trade fair for high-level cultivators in this place and earn countless resources.

At this time, Lu Cheng's main practice was the Thirteen Changes of Xuantian, and his auxiliary practice was the Nine Revolutions of Taiqing Golden Elixir to accumulate Taoist power and increase his potential.

"Mysterious Heaven Thirteen Transformations. I have cultivated the Five Elements of Qi and the Five Elements of Poison, pushing the Mysterious Heaven Art to the Tenth Transformation. To go one step further, I need to cultivate the Purple Gang Mysterious Evil Lightning Sword Technique, practice the Five Elements of Thunder, and push the Mysterious Heaven Art to the Fifteenth Transformation. Only in this way can I have exhausted all my potential in the Nascent Soul Realm."

If Lu Cheng was not the founder of this set of skills, and if Lu Cheng did not have extraordinary talent in swordsmanship, it would be almost impossible for him to practice Xuantian Gong to the fifteenth level in the Nascent Soul Realm.

People in later generations, if they can cultivate Xuantian Gong to perfection of thirteen changes in the Yuanying realm, it will be enough to dominate the contemporary world and dominate the world for a while. At most, they have extraordinary talent and amazing opportunities. If they cultivate to the fourteenth change realm, they will definitely be able to break through to the seventh level of Yuanshen realm and achieve immortality.

However, Lu Cheng relied on the two seventh-level sword techniques, the Purple Gang Xuan Sha Lei Guang Sword Technique and the Green Demon Shuang Sha Tian Hui Sword Technique, to cultivate the Xuan Tian Gong to the fifteenth level. This is the perfection of both internal and external skills in the Nascent Soul Realm. If it weren't for the adventure of his external incarnation going to the Earthly Immortal Realm, it would be almost impossible for him to do this, at least, he couldn't do it in such a short time.

The purple-scaled demon dragon, the red-eyed Suanni, the green-winged thunder roc, the white-armored divine elephant, the black jade unicorn, these five sixth-tier ancient demon thunder beasts, including the Qingluan Bagua Furnace, were all exchanged by their external incarnations from the Taiqing Sect's treasury.

These treasures may be famous throughout the world in the mortal world, but in the world of immortals they are just ordinary cultivation resources.

Of course, there are some spiritual objects that are born with a small chance in the mortal world. These are things that the cultivators in the earthly immortal world have been longing for, but they are not easy to collect.

As the practice gradually progressed, clouds and mist appeared in the Golden Light Cave.

Lu Cheng sat cross-legged on the Yin-Yang Jade Platform, with five-colored lightning condensing into a water canopy three feet away from his body, sometimes like a coiled dragon, sometimes like a roc flapping its wings.

Before his eyes, the golden text of "Xuanmen Danding Lianxing Secret Book" moved without wind and fell into the void.

If he and his external incarnation were not two sides of the same coin, these golden characters would have spontaneously combusted. They would not have been able to fall on paper, but only into the void.

Lu Cheng is a cultivator who created his own skills. After all, Huang Longzi practiced Taoism for 800 years and created the general outline of the Xuanmen True Spirit Transformations. The subsequent Five Elements True Spirit Transformations and Xuantian Thirteen Transformations were all created by Lu Cheng. It is very difficult to create your own skills. A cultivator who lacks comprehension will be stuck at a bottleneck and may not be able to break through it for a hundred years or even a lifetime.

However, cultivators who create their own techniques make rapid progress in their cultivation, and their comprehension of the great Dao is much deeper than that of cultivators at the same level. As long as they understand the path of the Dao, their magical powers will improve much faster than that of ordinary cultivators at the same level.

Lu Cheng and Huang Longzi were trapped in the Tongxuan Realm back then and had no way out. There were no classics left by their predecessors, so they could only make their own way.

Later, when he left Tongxuan Realm, he still had a lot of room on his own path so he did not give up.

Now that he has obtained "Xuanmen Danding Lianxing Secret Book", one of the seven true teachings of Taiqing Sect, Lu Cheng's path has been greatly broadened. After all, with this high-level practice as a reference, cultivators no longer have to have no way to advance in their practice. Lu Cheng does not have the ambition to create a practice of his own. If he cannot move forward in the future, he does not mind turning to the path to immortality that his predecessors have already paved the way for.

"The interaction of the five elements gives rise to thunder, and the combination of the five thunders proves the truth." Lu Cheng pinched his fingers and recited softly, and two flying swords, one blue and one purple, flew out from his sleeves one after another.

The two flying swords flew around him like spirit fish, evolving into countless superb and wonderful sword techniques.

With the sword and qi helping each other, Lu Cheng's magic power gradually rose to the level of a great cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage.

After all, with the realm of Xuantian Fifteen Changes, accumulating and enhancing magic power means that Taoism is far superior to magic power. As long as the spiritual energy is sufficient, one will naturally make great progress in this practice.

In the Earthly Immortal Realm, Huangyun Island, inside the cave, Lu Cheng sat cross-legged on a stone bed, with the golden scripture of the Xuanmen Danding Lianxing Secret Classic floating in front of him.

Those words flowed in the void like swimming fish, and every stroke contained the supreme mystery of the Taoism.

However, when he tried to operate his own magic power according to the scriptures, the Great Light Talisman Pill in his body suddenly trembled, the talisman was disordered, and it almost backfired on himself.

"It is true..." Lu Cheng sighed softly, frowning.

The Secret Book of Xuanmen Danding Refining the Body emphasizes "using the body as a furnace and refining the body into elixir", and follows the pure Xuanmen Danding tradition.

However, the "Xuanshu Secret Talisman Scripture" he practiced previously was based on talismans and used all kinds of methods. Although both belonged to the seven true teachings of the Taiqing Sect, they were like water and fire and could not be integrated.

'There is no other way. The main body is the main thing, and the external incarnation is the auxiliary. I must always practice the main body. After all, if the main body dies, I will die too. The complete version of "Xuanshu Secret Talisman Sutra" should have a method for talisman practice to turn into body practice, but how can I get the complete version of this sutra?'

Even with the "Xuanmen Danding Lianxing Secret Book", Lu Cheng only got the information about the Nascent Soul and Yuanshen realms. It would be useless to pass it on more, and it might also lead to the leakage of the sect's true teachings. This is a very normal countermeasure.

'If you have practiced in Taiqing Sect for thousands of years and hold a high position, it should not be too difficult to comprehend the other six true teachings. But how can I become a high-ranking official in Taiqing Sect with the basic "Xuanshu Secret Talisman Scripture"? Can I use a large amount of spiritual stones to bribe the high-ranking officials of the sect?'

"It seems that we have to put it on hold for now." Lu Cheng was about to put away the golden book when a crisp bell sound suddenly came from outside the cave.

"Is Senior Brother Lu here? Wan Shuang'er is here to visit."

The voice was like the sound of a clear spring, yet it also contained a hint of irresistibility.

Lu Cheng frowned slightly when he heard the voice. This Wan Shuang'er was a true disciple of the same generation as himself. It was said that she had already mastered the true teachings of "The Male and Female Dragon and Tiger Demon Sword Sutra". She usually stayed at home and devoted herself to practicing Taoism. Why would she suddenly visit today?

But no matter what, the people who came were fellow monks after all. Lu Cheng moved and flew out, waved his hand to disperse the restrictions of the cave, and the stone door opened by itself.

I saw a bright and beautiful woman in a yellow Taoist robe standing outside the door, carrying two swords on her back, her eyebrows like distant mountains, her eyes like autumn water but with a hidden edge. She was full of sword energy, but she didn't reveal it. Just standing there, she let the spiritual energy flow around her naturally.

"I am sorry to disturb you, brother, for your meditation." As she spoke, Wan Shuang'er bowed deeply.

"Junior Sister Wan." Lu Cheng bowed in return: "I wonder if Junior Sister Wan has any advice for you?"

Wan Shuang'er's eyes swept back and forth over Lu Cheng's body. After a moment, she seemed to see something and raised her lips slightly: "I heard that Senior Brother was awarded the "Xuanmen Dan Ding Lianxing Secret Manual", so I came to congratulate you. But now it seems... Senior Brother is in some trouble?"

Lu Cheng was unhappy in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face: "It's just a little obstacle in my practice, I don't want to trouble you, Junior Sister."

"Why should we be so formal with each other?" Wan Shuang'er chuckled and walked straight into the cave: "It just so happens that several fellow disciples are having a small gathering at Feiyun Peak today. Senior brother, why don't you come with me to relax. The right way to practice is to have a balance between tension and relaxation."

"There are many fellow disciples and friends on Feiyun Peak right now. It's better to discuss Taoism together than to sit and practice in seclusion."

"Haha, I'll bother you, Junior Sister."

All the cultivators who ascended to the immortal world from the lower realms have practiced for thousands of years and are experienced, thick-skinned and black-hearted.

In comparison, although Wan Shuang'er had a sharp spirit, she was shallow and superficial. Moreover, Lu Cheng could see that she did not seem to have any ill intentions, so he agreed without thinking.

After walking out of the cave, the two of them rode on the clouds and flew towards Feiyun Peak.

On the way, Wan Shuang'er suddenly asked, "Brother, why did you choose to study the "Xuanmen Dan Ding Lianxing Secret Canon"? Although this sutra is one of the seven true teachings, it conflicts with the talisman method you are practicing, so it is not the best choice."

Clouds brushed his face, and the scenery flew by. Lu Cheng answered carefully: "When I was in the lower realm, I mainly practiced the body cultivation method. Although the talisman method is useful, it lacks vigor. I originally planned to practice it as a transition. Now that I have inherited the true Dharma, I naturally have to choose the heart-combining method to practice."

"Yes, Senior Brother is an ascended monk from the lower realm, but I forgot this."

There are many talented and outstanding cultivators who ascend from the lower realm. As long as they do not die midway, their chances of cultivating to the realm of refining emptiness or even the realm of fusion are much higher than those of the native cultivators in the earthly immortal world.

Moreover, these people are often experienced and ruthless in fighting. While they are feared in the world of earthly immortals, they are also often looked up to.

Here Wan Shuang'er was actually praising Lu Cheng, because the fact that Lu Cheng was a smuggled cultivator was not difficult to detect for the true disciples of Taiqing Sect.

Even if a cultivator of the lower level has no power or background, as long as he becomes a true disciple of Taiqing Sect, there will naturally be countless people who come to cling to him and change his fate, and among these people there are many who are well-informed.

In Lu Cheng, there are people like Chu Yibai, Yan Xiao, and Feng Xiu Lun, but Lu Cheng arranged them in the Black Mountain Market so that he could continuously earn resources for cultivation.

During the time when Lu Cheng was in seclusion in the spiritual vein of Huangyun Island for cultivation, Zhou Zijing had sent him talismans several times, but Lu Cheng was concentrating on cultivation and comprehending the Tao, and all the talismans were blocked by the restrictions outside the door.

Not long after, the two arrived at Feiyun Peak.

There were already four or five true disciples drinking tea and discussing the Dao between the pavilions. Seeing Wan Shuang'er and Lu Cheng coming, one of the red-robed men snorted coldly, "Junior Sister Wan, why did you bring outsiders with you?"

This man had a handsome face, but his brows were filled with murderous intent, and there was a hint of fire all over his body. It was obvious that he was practicing an extremely domineering fire-based martial art.

Wan Shuang'er said calmly: "Brother Tianyan is wrong. Since Brother Lu is the true disciple, how can there be an 'outsider'?" Then, she turned to the crowd and said:
"This is Senior Brother Lu Cheng. He is the man who has been running the Black Mountain Market for a hundred years. He was personally selected as the number one by Senior Uncle Xuan Zhenzi. I'm sure you have all heard of him."

A monk dressed in a blue shirt who looked like a scholar stood up and saluted: "I have heard for a long time that Junior Brother Lu's talisman skills are exquisite. I am very fortunate to see it today."

This man had an elegant demeanor, with a jade flute hanging from his waist and a sword on his back.

"This is Senior Brother Xiao Ming, who was taught the Cloud Seal Dunjia Heavenly Book." Wan Shuang'er introduced, and pointed to a taciturn man in black, "This is Senior Brother Mo Xuan, who is practicing the Phantom Light Invisible Sword Art."

Lu Cheng greeted them one by one. Finally, his eyes fell on the red-robed man. Before Wan Shuang'er could introduce him, the man sneered and said, "Duan Tianyan from Huoling Peak is practicing the True Explanation of Samadhi Fire Palace. He is not as good as my senior brother who has been taught the true Dharma."

Lu Cheng naturally would not argue too much with someone who would show his resentment outwardly. After a normal greeting, he sat down and feasted with everyone.

(End of this chapter)