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Chapter 455: Sheyin Condenses the True Nature, Blood Sea Spirit Pearl Transforms into Miracle (Please Subscribe!)
In the quiet training room of the cave on the main peak of the seventh-level spiritual vein of Huangyun Mansion, the yin and yang energies were circling in the air like a dragon, and in the middle of it there was a ball of real fire burning fiercely, which was getting more and more intense.

Lu Cheng sat cross-legged on the altar, with the Tianyuan Nine-Chapter Jade Seal floating in front of him. The nine jade seals were green in color and emitted a bright and spiritual light.

Below the talisman, the underground fire was burning fiercely, and a huge furnace was placed above the underground fire. The chalcedony that had existed for thousands of years was calcined in it and turned into flowing green clouds, which was extremely magnificent.

"Master, the chalcedony has been refined to remove impurities." A celadon puppet boy stood three feet away holding a jade box, which contained seven blood crystal stones.

With the development of the earthly immortal world, the puppet technology has become extremely advanced. Now, in the caves of many high-level monks, there are only puppets but no other disciples or Taoist children.

Lu Cheng nodded, and seven golden lights flew out from his sleeves, stringing the blood crystals into a Big Dipper shape and hanging them above the talisman. With a light stroke of his fingertips, the yin-yang fish hanging from the top of the cave suddenly accelerated its rotation, attracting the spiritual energy of the earth veins to form a vortex.

"This jade seal has been with me for more than two hundred years. Today I must help it break free from its shackles." Lu Cheng put his fingers together like swords, and the chalcedony and green clouds turned into nine thin streams that were injected into the gaps of the jade seal one by one.

In an instant, the talisman began to hum, and spider-web-like golden patterns appeared on its surface, which were the hidden injuries caused by the thunder calamity that year.

People who practice Taoism can refine the embryo of their own magical instrument in the foundation-building stage. They can carry it with them and nurture it with their own magic power day and night. When they become Purple Mansion cultivators in the future, they will directly have a own magical instrument that has been refined for decades, which is a great advantage.

But in fact, doing so has both advantages and disadvantages. The reason why the grade of the natal magic weapon can be upgraded along with the cultivator's own cultivation is because it absorbs a small amount of the cultivator's magic power during the process of nurturing the Dantian. In other words, it slows down the cultivator's cultivation improvement speed.

It is natural for both the wise and foolish cultivators to refine their own life instruments in this way. What is worrying is that some cultivators will be stuck at the ninth level of the Purple Mansion after practicing for their entire lives, and they are just one step away from a breakthrough. Perhaps without refining their own life instruments, they can break through to the realm of the real person.

This is to damage the path of Tao due to external things, which is extremely regrettable.

Secondly, most cultivators in the foundation-building stage cannot find any good spiritual objects to refine instruments. Instead of finding some low-quality spiritual objects to refine for a hundred years, it would be better to wait until they have reached a high level of cultivation and then refine a good instrument with twice the result with half the effort.

There are also some situations where one encounters external disasters, no matter whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster. In short, at the critical moment, when life and death are at stake, one has to sacrifice the magic weapons that one has nurtured for many years to ward off the disaster. If the magic weapons are damaged, all the years of hard work will naturally be wasted.

However, the magic weapon was originally refined to ward off disasters, and the person is still alive, which means that all these years of hard work have not been wasted.

In addition to the most cumbersome effort of nurturing with one's own vitality and magic power, one can also refine compatible spiritual objects obtained from outside into one's own magical instrument. If the spiritual object is precious and the refining technique is superb, a successful smelting may save the effort of nurturing for a hundred years.

At this moment, this is what Lu Cheng is doing.

Refining spiritual objects into one's own magical weapon is much easier than directly refining a seventh-rank magical weapon. But even so, there are still people in the world of immortal cultivation who make mistakes. External spiritual objects collide with and counteract one's own magical weapon, which eventually backfires on one's own vitality, causing serious damage or even death.

As Lu Cheng's magic spells changed, the seven blood crystal stones in the jade box shattered, and the scarlet evil spirit drilled into the cracks like a living thing, blending with the chalcedony to form a strange purple-gold color.

The flame that envelops and refines the jade talisman and the purple gold chalcedony is Lu Cheng's Samadhi True Fire.

This fire has powerful firepower, pure fire nature, and infinite power. Most importantly, it is the one that Lu Cheng is most familiar with and can control best with his heart.

Although it was a bit painful to use this fire to refine the weapon, using the Samadhi True Fire undoubtedly greatly increased the chances of success in this refining.

Suddenly, pitch-black thunderclouds gathered rapidly outside the cave. Zhang Zhaodi looked toward the dome vigilantly and saw the shadows of stars looming in the clouds, which was the Big Dipper celestial phenomenon corresponding to the Nine Chapters of Tianyuan.

She quickly made hand gestures to activate the restrictions on the cave, and hundreds of formation flags flew out from the stone wall, forming the Taiqing Liangyi Formation.

Just at this moment, a green lightning struck down, but was swallowed up by the Yin and Yang Qi transformed by the formation diagram.

"Hahaha, good! Good! The magic weapon is refined, and the heavenly calamity will come!" Lu Cheng laughed loudly, and pressed the talisman with both hands. I saw nine jade seals suddenly separated from the main body and formed a formation in the air.

The patterns of mountains and rivers in each chapter squirmed and changed, and unexpectedly, a series of profound and mysterious talismans and Taoist scriptures emerged. The two characters "Tianyuan" on the central jade seal burst into golden light, dyeing the remaining eight chapters into red gold.

At the critical moment of refining the weapon, nine blood talismans flew out from Lu Cheng's brow. These blood talismans flew through the nine chapters like a dragon, and the jade gradually became transparent wherever they passed, and dense talisman texts emerged inside.

When the nine blood talismans completed their last circle, they suddenly merged together and turned into a square jade seal the size of a fist.

The seal button is in the shape of nine intertwined dragons, and the four characters "承天授法" are engraved on the bottom.

"Seventh-level mid-grade, finally done!"

Following Lu Cheng's clear shout, the jade seal burst out with a dazzling light. The yin and yang energy at the top of the cave shattered and turned into pure yin and yang energy, which was absorbed by the jade seal.

The thunderclouds outside were torn apart by an invisible force, and seven streams of star power poured down like a river from the sky, pouring into the seal through the top of the cave.

"Although the Jade Seal has reached the seventh level, it is not the ultimate of my method." Lu Cheng stared at this newly upgraded magic weapon, with a complex look in his eyes.

'When it is time to give up, give up.'

The Book of Dao says: "Only when the instrument and the Dao are combined can the truth be realized."

'If the compatibility between the Jade Seal and me is at level seven, then as I ascend to the Spiritual Transformation Realm, the Myriad Spirit Blood Pearl advances to level seven, and the compatibility between the Myriad Spirit Blood Pearl and me rises to level eight. The difference of one level may not seem too big, but if this difference is multiplied by thousands of years of practice, it will be very scary.'

As soon as he thought of this, he suddenly pointed his fingers forward and slashed forward. A strand of his own blood essence shot out. Halfway through, a dark red blood bead suddenly appeared on the side of the jade seal and swallowed the blood essence.

An accomplished physical cultivator will consume his own essence and blood appropriately to maximize the benefits. Of course, the prerequisite is that he has enough time to recuperate and take high-level spiritual nourishment to make up for the loss of his own essence and blood.

After all, the spiritual object that is most convenient and safe for a high-level cultivator to access is often actually the cultivator himself.

A cultivator's Nascent Soul, physical body, and blood essence are all of extremely high value, and the higher the realm, the more so. Otherwise, many demon cultivators would not be able to achieve enlightenment through this.

Suddenly, there was a violent thunder and lightning in the cave. Nine dragons around the jade seal roared together and sprayed out blue clouds to try to wrap up the blood bead. The blood bead of all spirits turned into a huge blood wave, and thousands of hideous demon shadows emerged in the wave.

The two magic weapons seemed to have spirits as they attacked each other, causing ripples to spread in the air above the platform.

Seeing this, Lu Cheng was not surprised but happy. He made hand gestures like a blooming lotus and continuously punched into the two seventh-tier magic weapons. When the last ray of blue cloud was swallowed up by the blood wave, the jade seal suddenly wailed, and the golden light on its surface faded, while the blood bead swelled three times, and the sea of ​​blood inside the bead seemed to be about to break out of the bead.

"Break!"

As the mantra was uttered, an invisible thread in Lu Cheng's soul suddenly broke.

The jade seal was struck by lightning, and the nine dragon seal buttons shattered at the same time, while the blood bead burst out with a terrifying blood light.

Lu Cheng closed his eyes and pointed his finger, hitting the damaged jade seal, causing it to fly backwards and crash into the furnace that had just been tempering the jade marrow for ten thousand years.

Because the connection with its master had just been cut off, the grade of this seal almost dropped directly from the middle grade of the seventh grade to the lower grade of the seventh grade.

This is also the reason why Lu Cheng refined such precious spiritual objects as the Ten Thousand Years Jade Marrow into it. If the connection is cut off directly, it is possible that the rank of this seal will drop from the seventh rank to the sixth rank.

Now it seems acceptable. It did not fall back to the lower seventh grade directly. If it is nurtured in the furnace with various spiritual objects for a hundred years, it should be able to stabilize at the middle seventh grade.

When the deep red blood-colored light faded away, what was floating in the original place was no longer the round bead, but a three-inch long blood-colored thick-backed knife. The blade was like blood crystal, and a surging sea of ​​blood was sealed inside.

"I am connected to my natal device. As long as the sea of ​​blood doesn't extinguish me, I will not die." Lu Cheng opened his mouth and swallowed the bloody knife, warming it in his dantian.

In an instant, dark red blood-red glow gushed out from the pores all over his body, his Taoist robe fluttered, his hair moved without wind, and every strand of hair was stained with a faint blood halo.

Behind him, a shadow of a vast sea of ​​blood seemed to appear. Countless ferocious demons were floating in the sea, but they were suppressed by a crystal knife and dared not move.

This strange phenomenon lasted for a full hour before gradually subsiding. When Lu Cheng opened his eyes again, a flash of blood and fire flashed in his eyes.

The Tianyuan Nine Chapter Jade Talisman is at the Nascent Soul stage and is more suitable for Lu Cheng to cultivate the Wanfu Dharma Body than the Wanling Blood Pearl.

But in the realm of transformation, after Lu Cheng cultivated the divine power of transformation and the blood talisman to open the mysterious orifice, this situation was reversed.

If it were an ordinary cultivator, he might not dare to easily change his natal magic weapon for such a small difference, which would hurt himself and the treasure. However, as the governor of Huanglong Prefecture, Lu Cheng has great authority and is in charge of a region. He also has his own financial resources. He does not care about this self-injury.

Normally, if one changes one's natal magic weapon, even the cultivator himself will suffer damage or even fall in realm, but Lu Cheng has a solid foundation in Taoism and was able to resolve the problem calmly.

"After all, I am a self-cultivator, and I focus on the Taoist transformation and ascension technique. The Blood Path is more suitable for my long-term cultivation than the Talisman Path."

After this incident, there were two hundred years of training and enjoyment.

For the Divine Transformation cultivators, these are the main themes. Exploring the mysteries, fighting with swords and magic, these are things that only happen once in hundreds or thousands of years.

With the authority of the garrison commander of Huanglong Prefecture, Lu Cheng killed the cannibalistic aliens and upgraded the All-Spirit Blood Pearl to the seventh-level intermediate level. At the same time, he obtained a large number of elixirs through his own financial channels. After swallowing them, he increased his magic power and was promoted to the second level of the Spirit Transformation realm.

This progress is already very fast. The time it takes for a Divine Transformation cultivator to improve each level of his mana is usually around three to five hundred years. The Divine Transformation cultivators in the spiritual world have infinite lifespans anyway, so they just need to practice slowly. What often holds them back is not the improvement of their mana, but the bottleneck in their Taoism or the exhaustion of their potential.

Therefore, the more he practiced, the more Lu Cheng felt that the Taoist transformation and ascension technique was extremely profound. Every level of progress brought about the evolution of the physical body, and the improvement of aptitude and potential.

However, if Lu Cheng himself did not master the essence of Samadhi True Fire, he would not be able to practice this skill through the method of his master Huang Longzi.

Even Huang Longzi himself had given up on the orthodox transformation and ascension technique and focused on practicing the Huanglong Dharma Lineage, because with his Taoist heart he had keenly realized that if he continued to practice this technique, except for exhausting his energy and falling into madness, there would be no other result. Fortunately, the Huanglong Dharma Lineage was already strong enough for him to ascend to immortality.

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During these two hundred years, Lu Cheng's progress in cultivation in all aspects can only be said to be proceeding step by step and slowly.

And his disciple Zhang Zhaodi in the spiritual world showed Lu Cheng how a person can make rapid progress when he has the following four characteristics: smart, hardworking, able to endure great hardships, and possessing good fortune.

In two hundred years, Zhang Zhaodi had overcome all the obstacles and difficulties along the way, and directly cultivated to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. This was because Lu Cheng specially set up various auxiliary cultivation methods for her, and asked her to join the Taiqing Sect and study the "True Explanation of the Samadhi Fire Palace" to delay her cultivation progress to this point. If she practiced the magic method, this child might have directly entered the God Transformation Realm, at least, the peak of the magic cultivator.

When Zhang Zhaodi was refining Qi, Lu Cheng taught her a set of Three Fire Secrets, and then asked her to drink a small amount of real ice water. From then on, she was corroded by the cold poison every day, suffering from pain, and her magic power progress was greatly affected.

After Zhang Zhaodi established her foundation, she was able to expel the cold poison. However, Lu Cheng asked her to practice the Three Fires Technique to fuse the extremely cold fire. From then on, she became extremely cold and no longer like a living person.

After Zifu, he asked him to become a disciple of a Confucian cultivator, and study Tiangang Zhenghuo to grasp its essence.

After the golden elixir was formed, he absorbed the Nine Heavens Mysterious Fire and refined it into his own body. In this way, he had the earth fire, human fire and heavenly fire. Then he joined the Taiqing Sect and studied "The True Explanation of the Samadhi Fire Palace". Finally, he condensed a ray of Samadhi True Fire in the Nascent Soul Realm.

With the help of this fire, one can burn and refine oneself. Not to mention damaging the meridians or even breaking the body, as long as the origin is not destroyed, one will be immortal. In the end, one can even achieve the Buddhist indestructible Vajra body or the Taoist immortal body.

But it was precisely because of observing Zhang Zhaodi's practice that Lu Cheng completely gave up the idea of ​​teaching other disciples.

Lu Cheng cultivated Samadhi True Fire in the Golden Core Realm, building the foundation of the Five Elements Earth True Fire, the Purple Mansion Life Blood Fire, and then absorbing the energy of the Great Sun Divine Fire. He mastered this skill in the Golden Core Realm.

Zhang Zhaodi was smart, hardworking, able to endure great hardships, and had great luck and fortune. She cultivated the innate magical power of Samadhi True Fire in the Nascent Soul realm. However, the journey was also difficult and painful, and she almost died several times.

Not to mention trying again, even if Lu Cheng tried a hundred times, he would not be able to succeed again.

This method seems to be granted by heaven and cannot be artificially created. At least for a cultivator at the level of a Spiritual Transformation cultivator, it is far from being artificially created. This success was too lucky.

Lu Cheng was certain that based on Zhang Zhaodi's experience, if it were any of his other disciples, whether it was Miao Chuyun, Shi Sheng, or Youming, they would all have died without a doubt and would have died directly from various disasters.

Moreover, Zhang Zhaodi is relatively not good at fighting, and her ability in the absolute fight is a little weak. In this way, she can only be polished slowly with the Samadhi True Fire. After a thousand years, there will be a True God who can establish his own family.

And so, another seven or eight years passed.

The sky is vast and the sea of ​​clouds is rolling.

On the main peak of the seventh-level spiritual vein of Huangyun Mansion, the Taoist priest Neilucheng was sitting cross-legged in the quiet room of the cave, chanting in the center of the Yin-Yang platform and practicing Taoism.

Suddenly, his brows moved slightly and a red light flashed in his opened eyes.

"Master, Uncle Han is outside the cave asking to see you." Zhang Zhaodi's voice came from outside the secret room. Her voice had lost its childishness but still carried the respect of those years.

Lu Cheng waved his sleeves, and when he stood up, the Yin-Yang fish pattern on the altar slowly stopped spinning: "Please let him in."

Not long after, Han Qingyun came riding on the clouds.

Today, the Palace Master Huang Yun did not wear a fancy robe, but only a plain white Taoist robe. The Palace Master's seal was hanging around his waist, but there was a hint of fatigue between his brows.

"Junior Brother Lu, I'm sorry to bother you. I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you really deserve to enjoy a peaceful life." Han Qingyun bowed and said with a wry smile.

Because he took advantage of the disaster in Huangyun Mansion to kill many alien cultivators, the harvest was extremely rich. In addition, Lu Cheng had its own trade channels between the two worlds, and he made money for himself through Chu Yibai and Yan Xiao.

Therefore, Lu Cheng seldom went out in recent years, and even his duties as garrison commander were rarely handled, most of which were left to Zhao Hanshan.

He would only leave the mountain and take action if there were demons or aliens in Huangyun Mansion that ordinary cultivators could not deal with.

"I am lazy by nature, and I don't have much desire for the Tao in this life."

Lu Cheng motioned for him to sit down, and Zhang Zhaodi had already served him spiritual tea.

In the mist of tea fragrance, Han Qingyun said straight to the point: "To be honest, I came here this time to ask Brother Lu to accompany me to a secret place."

"Oh?"

"The Secret Realm of Skyfire, there is a stable exotic crack 80,000 miles northwest of my mansion. Sometimes you can find some dazzling fire crystal sand in it." As he said that, Han Qingyun took out a piece of red crystal from his sleeve and placed it on the table. There seemed to be flames flowing inside the crystal.

The Earthly Immortal Realm is extremely vast, and is constantly in a state of collapse and expansion. Many small worlds whose lifespans have run out will be absorbed by the Earthly Immortal Realm to form secret realms.

Such places also exist in the mortal world, but there are more of them in the earthly immortal world, and the quality of the secret realms they absorb is higher.

Lu Cheng's eyes narrowed slightly when he saw this. This dazzling fire crystal sand is a rare item in the world. It can temper one's natal magic weapon and increase its spirituality and magic power.

The natal magic weapon was originally tempered by the cultivator's own vitality and magic power, which means that obtaining enough dazzling fire crystal sand would indirectly improve the cultivator's cultivation speed.

This kind of spiritual object is naturally rare and more universal than spiritual stones. Unless the cultivator is below the Purple Mansion realm or is about to die, any cultivator who has refined his or her natal magic weapon will need this object.

Although Lu Cheng was wealthy, he had not been able to obtain many of these spiritual objects despite spending huge sums of money on them over the years.

The Qi-cultivating monks have their own secret realms, the Jindan monks have their own secret realms, and this secret realm that can produce the Brilliant Fire Crystal Sand is undoubtedly the secret realm that the Shenhua monks need to explore. After all, this treasure is very difficult to acquire.

"Brother, do you want to explore the secret realm with me and share this dazzling fire crystal sand?"

"No, ahem, I won't hide it from you, Junior Brother. As long as Junior Brother Lu is willing to explore this secret realm with me, Senior Brother Han, I will not take a single cent of the Dazzling Fire Crystal Sand. I only ask for the Fire Liquid that accompanies the Dazzling Fire Crystal Sand to help me remove the harm of the Netherworld Nail."

As he spoke, Han Qingyun took off his Taoist robe, revealing a dirty, swollen and black area.

If you get closer, you can smell the foul odor.

"I thought that the Heart-Eating Ghost Saint was dead, and I could use Qiantian True Yang Divine Thunder to slowly wear away the harm, and I would be able to get rid of it. Haha, now it seems that I am much less talented than the Heart-Eating Ghost Saint."

With a wry smile and shaking his head, Han Qingyun put on his Taoist robe again.

Some people achieve success because of themselves, some people achieve success because of others, but many people tend to regard the power of the sect as their own power.

Han Qingyun serves as the lord of Huangyun Mansion, in charge of Huangyun Taoist Palace, and has the support of the Qiantian True Yang Divine Thunder Array. Even ordinary Return to Void cultivators are not taken seriously by him, let alone the Heart-Eating Ghost Saint.

However, over the past hundred years, Han Qingyun has suffered a lot from the heart-wrenching old ghost who fought his way up from the bottom.

Not only did his years of hard work fail to dissolve the power of the Netherworld Nail, but the effect of refining the Qiantian True Yang Divine Thunder also became increasingly weaker.

Although the lifespan of a Divine Transformation cultivator is infinite, he still has to go through a calamity every one or two thousand years. Normally, it is not difficult to go through the calamity, but Han Qingyun is not in a normal state now. The Netherworld Nail is still constantly absorbing his life force and magic power. As a result, Han Qingyun may really die in the calamity and become a laughing stock for the world.

“This Tianhuo Secret Realm is a shared secret realm that opens every seven hundred years or so. If it were normal, I would still have some confidence in my friends, but in this state, I dare not trust anyone except Junior Brother Lu.

Ahem, Junior Brother, I have already prepared the immortal documents. If you are willing to go with me, I will be waiting for you at Sanxian Mountain at noon five days later."

After handing over a Qiankun bag, Han Qingyun stood up, bowed, and then turned into a green light and left.

The back figure looked particularly desolate in the clouds. There was no trace of the high-spirited figure that Palace Master Huang Yun had when he fought against many enemies alone.

Lu Cheng sat quietly for a moment, tapping the table with his fingertips.

“Master, Uncle Han…” Zhang Zhaodi stood aside, wanting to say something but stopping herself.

"The Netherworld Nail is pierced into the bones, and the Qiantian True Yang is difficult to transform." Lu Cheng sighed softly: "Your Master Han has been forced into a desperate situation."

He stretched out his hand and the piece of dazzling fire crystal sand on the table flew into his palm. The crystal felt warm to the touch, and the red fire inside was swimming like a living thing, reflecting the meridians of his five fingers clearly.

Then Lu Cheng opened the Qiankun bag again. If it was just fairy documents, why would it need a Qiankun bag to hold them? Sure enough, in addition to the documents, there were many spiritual treasures in the Qiankun bag.

"The fire liquid that accompanies the dazzling fire crystal sand can indeed restrain the dark and yin energy of the underworld, but this secret realm of heavenly fire..." Lu Cheng frowned slightly, and the memory of this secret realm flashed through his mind.

"Zhao Di."

"The disciple is here."

"Go and fetch my master's ice fire-proof robe... and prepare three one-yuan heavy water talismans."

Zhang Zhaodi was shocked when she heard this: "Master, are you really going to meet Uncle Han? The Tianhuo Secret Realm is extremely dangerous, Uncle Han..."

"It's okay. I have my own plans." Lu Cheng waved his hand to interrupt.

Zhang Zhaodi’s concerns were correct. How many cultivators were trapped in disasters and unable to escape because of the entanglement of cause and effect with outsiders.

However, Lu Cheng and Han Qingyun have been together for more than two hundred years, and they are brothers from the same school. Since he is very sure that this matter is just a simple exploration of the secret realm, Lu Cheng finally decides to help Brother Han.

Although it is easy to cultivate to become a pure and blessed immortal, an immortal cultivator cannot live in the void after all. He should take advantage of this opportunity to explore the secret realm and find more dazzling fire crystal sand. He can also save Senior Brother Han's life. In the future, he will have more people in the sect who are willing to speak for him.

"As ordered."

Seeing that her master had made up his mind, Zhang Zhaodi didn't dare to say anything more and went downstairs to make preparations. Over the past two hundred years, Lu Cheng had also purchased many talismans and magic weapons for himself.

(End of this chapter)