Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 488 The Five Elements Converge to Suppress the Demonic Aura, The Immortal Sword Cuts Down the Blood of the Demon God (Seeking Rewards and Subscriptions!)

Lu Cheng stood tall in mid-air, his entire being subtly resonating with the Five Elements Reincarnation Grand Array.

His body was surrounded by a vast expanse of five-colored immortal light, with the five primordial immortal energies of gold, cyan, blue, crimson, and earth yellow circulating endlessly, evolving the infinitely profound and mysterious Dharma meaning of mutual generation and restraint.

Each rotation stirs up the vast spiritual energy of the entire Tongxuan Realm, crushing and assimilating the invading calamity and demonic aura.

"In terms of quantity, the number of human primordial spirit cultivators in the Tongxuan Realm is still inferior to that of demon saints; in terms of quality, these demon saints have powerful innate source blood and have an advantage in combat. Apart from me, Wanmiao, and Hunxie, I'm afraid it would be difficult for anyone else to defeat them."

There's only a chance if you fight tooth and nail, but that takes a huge toll...

Fortunately, the formation served as a barrier. Taking advantage of this opportunity, they killed as many demon saints and demon gods as possible, crippling their foundations.

Lu Cheng's divine sense swept across the entire battlefield like a tidal wave, instantly locking onto several ferocious giant demon figures that were slaughtering human cultivators within the formation.

But at that very moment, the five-colored light screen inside the formation suddenly shook violently!
"Hoo hoo hoo hoo!"

A series of violent roars that tore through the soul pierced through the array walls, followed by several demonic beams of light of various shapes, each carrying an aura of destruction, crashing into the area of ​​Lu City.

However, their escape lights varied in speed, while the Five Elements Reincarnation Grand Array was constantly operating, thus creating a certain degree of time difference.

High-level formations can form their own world and move through the void. The higher the level of the formation, the more expansive it can theoretically become.

However, it also has its limits. Formations are not omnipotent; otherwise, the myriad arts of cultivation would not be contained within them, such as pills, artifacts, talismans, and hidden treasures.

Outside the Tongxuan Realm, the Heavenly Army of Ten Thousand Demons attacks.

Warships and massive war fortresses, with the combined magical power of countless demons, formed a seventh-order formation, a brilliant method of using formations to break formations.

This kind of seventh-order formation that can move naturally requires more mana, but the demon race's Annihilation Burning Heaven Formation is theoretically enough to directly break a mid-grade seventh-order formation.

Without the defense of a seventh-order formation, the sheer force of this Annihilation and Heaven-Burning Formation could directly destroy all life on a planet, causing the species to become extinct.

Lu Cheng manipulated the formation, causing the unknown Five Elements Formation to lose much of its power, which also resulted in many deaths and injuries below. Naturally, Yinglong, Xiangliu and other mid-level demon gods believed that this was only a mid-grade seventh-rank formation, at most a high-grade seventh-rank formation.

Those powerful demon gods who rushed into the broken seventh-order formation witnessed the fall of the witch spirit and temporarily set aside their differences to join forces and attack!
Their demonic power surged to the heavens, sometimes accompanied by wind and thunder, sometimes by water and fire, sometimes by roaring and shaking the earth. Their violent magic instantly disrupted the balance of the light band at the edge of the Five Elements Formation. The light curtain churned violently like boiling water, and space was twisted and cracked.

The first demonic figure was none other than the nine-headed, ferocious Kaiming Beast.

Ancient texts record: The southern abyss of the immortal mountain is three hundred fathoms deep. The Kaiming Beast has a body resembling a tiger with nine heads, all with human faces, and stands facing east atop the immortal mountain.

According to ancient records, this is a mythical beast used by immortals to guard sacred mountains. It resembles a tiger, has nine heads and a human face, and possesses considerable magical powers.

The nine heads of the Enlightened Beast opened their massive mouths simultaneously, emitting not ordinary sound waves, but nine different colors of divine light imbued with special magical intent!
Crimson burns the soul, black erodes the spirit, gray induces weariness... Nine beams of light, like nine roaring evil dragons, carrying the terrifying power to annihilate intelligence, shot straight at Lu Cheng's face.

Wherever the divine light passed, the spiritual energy within the array seemed to be polluted, emitting a hissing and groaning sound.

"The Nine Sounds Bewitching Technique? It's nothing but a minor skill." Lu Cheng's eyes flickered upon seeing this, his voice calm yet penetrating the void.

He pressed down with his left hand, forming a Taoist hand seal, and at the same time, a Xuanhuang Pagoda flew out from the protective spiritual light around him and stood on top of him.

The seventh-grade superior defensive magic treasure, the Xuanhuang Prison Suppressing Tower, is an anomaly among Taoist magic treasures. It can absorb divine power to a certain extent. At this moment, it transforms into crystal clear, vibrant blue lotus petals that bloom.

Thousands of lotus flowers layered upon each other, protecting the space around him.

"Chichichi..."

The nine soul-destroying sonic beams struck the lotus barrier, only to be momentarily rendered useless, like mud sinking into the sea. The lotus petals were not only unaffected, but in that instant of impact, their power shifted from mutual support to mutual destruction.

Suddenly, a dazzling crimson flame of Bing Fire burst forth from the blue lotus, the fire born from the wood element! The flame of Bing Fire was pure and domineering, containing a trace of the power to burn the world and destroy evil.

The nine sound waves were ignited by the crimson flames, twisting and deforming into nine howling and struggling fire snakes, which finally turned into wisps of foul smoke and dust amidst hissing sounds, and were completely refined.

In the past, Lu Cheng preferred to fight with swords and magic rather than rely on the advantages of magical treasures, thus honing his own cultivation and magical power.

But today, facing a multitude of demons alone, he had to kill as many as possible, so he couldn't care less about anything else.

The Xuanhuang Town Prison Tower can draw upon divine power, while Lu Cheng established the Red Heart Divine Lord faith in the Tongxuan Realm, honoring the Three-Five Fire Chariot King Heavenly Lord, the Manifestation of the Mighty Spirit Heavenly Venerable, as the first guardian deity of Taoism, in charge of the investigation and punishment in heaven and earth, controlling the natural forces of thunder, fire, and wind, exorcising evil and curing diseases, and protecting the orthodoxy and peace of the great religion.

After thousands of years of development, the Red Heart God Lord faith has become the number one faith among the common people of the Tongxuan Realm, to the point that when the Xuanhuang Prison Tower is used in this realm, it exerts power far beyond the ordinary.

When the Enlightened Beast saw that its innate divine power, which it had exerted with all its might, had been broken, all nine heads showed astonishment, and the momentum of its huge beast body charging forward was halted.

Little did he know that the beliefs in the divine were extremely complex and contained a great deal of restraint over one's innate supernatural powers.

In that brief moment of respite, a condensed, supremely powerful sword beam, imbued with the essence of severing cause and effect and piercing through the realms of Yin and Yang, silently shot out from Lu Cheng's sleeve. Its trajectory was mysterious and unpredictable, bypassing all the defenses surrounding the Enlightened Beast, directly tearing through its protective magic power, and tracing a mysterious sword rainbow that encircled all nine heads.

"puff!"

The sword light flashed and disappeared in an instant, and the nine heads of the demon gods exploded silently into a mass of filthy blood and fragments of soul matter!
The Purple Gang Profound Fiend Thunder Light Sword Technique, combined with the Five Elements Flying Sword, was the seventh-level Divine Transformation Realm sword technique that Lu Cheng cultivated by condensing the power of the Five Transformations.

Its killing power was earth-shattering. Therefore, Lu Cheng didn't even look at the result before his figure disappeared from the spot.

In the next instant, his figure appeared in another space.

A dense, pitch-black shadow, seemingly capable of swallowing all light, silently moved along the edge of space. Within the shadow, scarlet eyes gleamed with a cruel and cunning light—the Howling Sky Demon Hound!
This demon god, renowned for its shadows, stealth, and assassination, had already spotted the target's weakness. Although surprised by Lu Cheng's sudden appearance, it still roared and pounced. Its enormous shadow descended, seemingly about to swallow Lu Cheng and the surrounding space whole into its Netherworld Stomach, which was said to be able to dissolve immortal bones.

"My innate supernatural power is 'the sun and moon in my belly, swallowing the heavens and the earth!' I never imagined that one day I would have to face this kind of Taoist magic."

At the same time, Lu Cheng also noticed that the Howling Sky Demon Dog's innate divine ability was not as refined and mature as the Devouring Moon's. This indicated that it was only after reaching an extremely high level of cultivation that it awakened this divine ability, or even after advancing to the seventh-level Demon Saint, that it truly mastered it.

In this way, it is very likely that it only knows the power of this supernatural ability, but does not know its drawbacks.

The shadows fell like a curtain, pressing down and threatening to completely engulf Lu Cheng's figure.

Lu Cheng seemed to have anticipated this. He did not dodge, but simply placed his hands on either side of his waist and abdomen, and held a hand seal to gather his energy.

Then, centered on its body, a vast torrent of five-colored light and magical power suddenly spread out, endless and ceaseless, surging on and on.

Large gusts of Five Elements Immortal Qi were urged to surge wildly into the chaotic hole in front of them. The Howling Sky Demon Hound was initially smug, but gradually its expression changed.

The Howling Sky Demon Dog's proud innate divine power, which seemed capable of devouring everything in the world, was as if it had encountered the purest purifier in the world after continuously absorbing a large amount of the Five Elements Immortal Qi.

A sickening hissing sound gradually emanated from the shadowy void. The thick darkness was rapidly purified into nothingness by the five-colored immortal energy, revealing the terrified true form of the Howling Sky Demon Dog within!
If Lu Cheng had restrained his magical power and engaged in a tug-of-war and confrontation, it would have given the dog time to digest and process it. Instead, it was like this moment, relying on the advantages of his Dharma Body Meridians, that he was able to suppress all his magical power in a short period of time. The magical power of the seventh level of the Primordial Spirit realm forcibly broke through the physical limit that the Howling Demon Dog's body could bear.

The strongest point is also the weakest point; the absence of flaws is also the presence of flaws everywhere. As its innate divine power was broken, the Howling Sky Demon Dog's physical body began to disintegrate irreversibly.

The scattered Five Elements Immortal Qi was once again forcibly drawn back into Lu Cheng's body. This incredible ability to control magical power actually happened...

The Howling Demon Hound let out a piercing howl. Overwhelmed by fear, it finally overwhelmed its bloodlust and, with all its might, shook its tattered body and retreated hastily.

But a sharp golden aura, derived from the Five Elements Immortal Qi, rose up and, like a leech, precisely pierced the flaw it revealed out of fear.

Lu Cheng's figure moved like a fleeting shadow, darting through the formation, his movements fluid and unpredictable. The Five Elements Immortal Light shifted at his command, each transformation precisely targeting the Howling Sky Demon Hound's weak points.

Actually, placing the Xuanhuang Pagoda on one's head could also forcefully block this attack, but that would inevitably consume a great deal of divine sense and magical power. It would be better to do it this way, which, although somewhat risky, would kill the opponent at the lowest possible cost.

After slaying the Heavenly Bright Beast and the Howling Sky Demon Hound, Lu Cheng reached out and stored their corpses in his Qiankun Ring.

Although this battle was arduous and difficult, what they gained were precious materials that were hard to find even in the Immortal Realm.

If the Earthly Immortal Realm were to fall into chaotic destruction, thus fostering the growth of innate Qi, it would certainly be more effective than the innate Qi in the mortal realm in stimulating the purification of the demon race's source blood. However, even a celestial immortal descending to the mortal realm would likely find it difficult to destroy the Earthly Immortal Realm.

On the contrary, such opportunities are more likely to exist in the mortal realm.

This is also a major reason why the two demons, Sheng Yang and Kong Ji, linger in this world and are reluctant to ascend.

While ascending to the upper realm allows for faster progress in a short period, it also makes it difficult to have the opportunity to refine one's source blood again.

Therefore, Lu Cheng might not dare to provoke these powerful demons who traced their bloodline back to a certain level in the lower realm.

Just then, a thunderbolt pierced through the heavens and earth, tearing apart the array's light barrier!

A towering figure descended, standing on thunderclouds and wielding a hammer and drill. He was majestic, with a face like jade, two dragon horns sprouting from his forehead, and electric snakes dancing wildly around him. His eyes were crimson, like molten lava cores. Each time the massive thunder hammer fell, it triggered a storm of lightning like a raging sea to crash down from all around.

His roar, like thunder from the heavens, shook the very soul: "Divine Transformation Thunder Technique, Thunder Sword Art? Those who usurp divine authority shall be punished by heaven!"

After he finished speaking, the lightning tribulation he had summoned, carrying a solemn will close to that of the Heavenly Tribulation, crashed down with a power far exceeding that of ordinary Daoist lightning.

The thunderous roar surged and churned, threatening to tear a corner of the great formation apart. Lu Cheng's eyes blazed with fighting spirit; he let out a clear cry and advanced instead of retreating!

"You're nothing but a thunder dragon, yet you dare claim to act on behalf of Heaven? I wield the power of the Profound, cleansing away the demonic aura—that is the true path of Heaven! Rise!"

Lu Cheng's blood and qi surged like a roaring river, and his Xuan Tian Fifteen Transformations technique was pushed to its limit. He even abandoned his natal magic weapon, the Five Elements Flying Sword, and suddenly raised his hands to embrace it.

The fiery red Bing Fire Immortal Qi and the emerald green Yi Wood Immortal Qi around him instantly surged to their peak!

Yi wood generates Bing fire, and with the blazing and pure immortal energy of Bing fire protecting his physical body, Lu Cheng actually took the initiative to meet the raging thunderous ocean.

It combines the physical body cultivated with the Xuan Tian Divine Skill as the foundation with the Qi Refining Method as an aid.

With a deafening roar, a scene unfolded that the Thunder God Demon Saint could not believe and was utterly shocked by!

The terrifying lightning tribulation, powerful enough to obliterate ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, was assimilated and guided by the pure fire elemental source the moment it came into contact with the Bing Fire Immortal Qi.

Under Lu Cheng's extremely precise control, the Bing Fire Immortal Qi transformed into an enormous vortex furnace composed of interwoven lightning and fire.

The violent lightning energy not only failed to severely injure him, but was instead absorbed by the furnace and transformed into a purer and more explosive power of lightning and fire!

This is precisely the skill that Lu Cheng comprehended after studying one of the seven true teachings of the Taiqing Sect, the Xuanmen Danding Refining Secret Manual—the Thunder and Fire Furnace, Refining the Source of Calamity.

This is a technique used by a true disciple of the Taiqing Sect who excels in body refinement. When undergoing a tribulation, if they have the strength to spare, they can use this method to absorb the power of the lightning tribulation to refine their physical body, surpassing most body-refining elixirs in the world.

Lu Cheng held the Thunderfire Furnace in his hands, his body bathed in blazing white lightning and crimson flames, like a god forged by thunder and fire.

He suddenly hurled the Thunderfire Furnace in his hand, along with the terrifying energy compressed and condensed to its limit within it, at the Thunder God in mid-air with the force of throwing stars.

"Back to you!"

Rumble rumble rumble...

This attack combined Lu Cheng's own powerful magic with the overwhelming lightning tribulation power that the Thunder God had just unleashed, and its power far exceeded the simple sum of the two magics.

For the first time, Thor's crimson eyes, which had been filled with contempt, revealed a near-desperate terror. He tried to swing his hammer to stop it, but it was too late.

“Boom, boom—!!”

It was as if two suns were colliding within the Five Elements Formation! An extremely concentrated sphere of lightning and fire suddenly exploded!

The blazing white light instantly engulfed Thor's massive body, followed by rings of world-destroying light shockwaves.

The divine lightning that surrounded Thor was instantly dispersed and annihilated. His solid and immortal thunder dragon body melted and disintegrated rapidly like thin ice under the scorching sun in the pure light and heat.

After the deafening explosion, only a huge, charred, and empty void remained, which was slowly repaired by the turbulent spatial currents under the influence of the Five Elements Wheel.

A few streaks of lightning flickered weakly in the void before vanishing completely.

The Thunder God, who symbolized the control of divine punishment, was melted down by Lu Cheng using his proud thunder as fuel, and was completely reduced to nothingness.

The bloody battle has reached this point, and four infamous demon gods—the Ancient Witch Spirit, the Enlightened Beast, the Howling Demon Hound, and the Thunder God—have fallen at Lu Cheng's hands.

In fact, they arrived in quick succession, with very little time between them, but Lu Cheng Dao Ren took advantage of this short time to kill four demon gods in succession.

This is partly because Lu Cheng was born into combat, and his ruthlessness and precision in seizing opportunities are unparalleled in the world.

On the other hand, it was because these demon gods were far inferior to him in terms of magical power, and it was very difficult to cultivate the magical power of an earth immortal in the mortal world.

Humans are known as having innate Dao bodies, the most suitable physique for cultivation in the world. Among the thousands of boats vying for the crossing, those who can cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage are all geniuses among geniuses. However, very few of these human Nascent Soul cultivators have actually reached the later stages of cultivation on their own.

Although the innate true spirit bloodline of the demon race is powerful, cultivation is also much slower and more difficult. However, the natural upper limit is very high. Most of the twenty-four demon gods cannot cultivate for tens of thousands of years like Sheng Yang and Kong Ji. It is already extremely difficult for them to cultivate to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm before ascending.

The four who died at Lu Cheng's hands were almost all at the first to third level of the early Nascent Soul stage. Of course, ordinary human cultivators at the mid-stage of the Primordial Spirit stage might not be their match in a fight.

Because Lu Cheng had slain four demon gods in succession, many of the demon gods who were originally flying towards this place stopped in their tracks, and the morale of both sides naturally shifted.

The spiritual energy pillars that spread when a seventh-tier demon falls are different from those when a human primordial spirit cultivator falls.

Judging from the current battlefield, most of the human cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage have been defeated, but none have perished. On the contrary, the Heavenly Army of Ten Thousand Demons has suffered heavy casualties.

"We can win! This battle can be won! Cultivators are the shield and sword of the human race. If I live today, the race will perish; if I live, we will be invincible!" A Nascent Soul cultivator who was already seriously injured suddenly rushed out of the formation, used his escape technique to break into the demon race, and then detonated his Nascent Soul.

He led several demon kings to the Yellow Springs, and even slightly injured a seventh-level demon saint.

"If I live, my clan will perish; if I live, I am invincible!"

More and more human cultivators gathered their mental and magical power to fight to the death. Having a chance to win versus not having a chance to win leads to different choices, and for a moment, a counterattack even emerged within the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation.

"Lord Lu, please hand over the treasure for the array foundation to me. I am a pure human and would never dare to betray you. I swear on my Dao heart! With the treasure for controlling the array, I can maximize the power of this array."

Just then, Lu Cheng heard the divine sense transmission from Lin Xuance, the hermit of Sanyuan Mountain. At this moment, while Lu Cheng was out fighting, Lin Xuance was sitting in the center, controlling the overall changes of the formation.

However, without the treasure to control the formation, no matter how hard Lin Xuance tried, he could not maximize the power of the Five Elements Formation, because the ultimate control over the formation rested with Lu Cheng.

Without this magic weapon, no matter how talented a master of array formations Lin Xuance was, he would still be a step behind in controlling the Five Elements Reincarnation Grand Array.

'...'

Lu Cheng pondered for a moment, but ignored Lin Xuance, because at that moment, a terrifying aura that was even more ferocious and could trigger a tsunami suddenly descended!
The void before them twisted violently, and endless water elemental power converged wildly from all directions.

A towering, ape-like ancient demon god, covered in deep blue scales, arrived riding the waves.

Surrounded by an endless whirlpool of raging sea, it holds a huge, rusty, yet powerful magic staff that can stabilize the sea—it is none other than the ancient remnant, the water-controlling demon god Wuzhiqi!
As soon as this demon appeared, the surrounding array space seemed to be impacted by immense water pressure, and the edge light curtain, like a glass dome sinking into the deep sea, groaned under the unbearable burden.

Even the ever-rotating Five Elements Wheel was slightly slowed down by the immense pressure of the water element.

"You mere human, practicing the Five Elements, dare to tamper with the laws of water? You truly deserve to die!" The Water God Wuzhiqi roared, his roar containing a special law that could cause the water in the blood of living beings to boil.

Water is one of the five elements and the source of life. Wuzhiqi inherited the bloodline of the ancient demon god and his mastery of water control is the pinnacle of this world. He also possesses the rare treasure, the Sea-Stabilizing Divine Iron, which makes him several times more difficult to deal with than the demon gods that Lu Cheng had previously killed. In terms of magical power, he has also reached the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

Lu Cheng looked around and his eyes flashed. Then he took a step forward, and the azure water light beneath his feet was brighter than ever before, like a galaxy rolling back!

Faced with this ancient demon god who possessed the talent to control water, he actually wanted to fight against water with water!
"Ancient gods control water? I comprehend the mysteries of creation, control the rotation of the five elements, and all waters under heaven obey my will! Come and fight!"

With Lu Cheng's clear shout, the five-colored immortal light flowing around him suddenly changed!
The originally vast and balanced five-colored radiance instantly transformed more than 80% into pure, profound, azure Gui Water Immortal Qi that seemed to contain the cosmos.

Lu Cheng took the initiative to meet the massive tsunami triggered by Wuzhiqi.

In his hands, his natal magic weapon, the Five Elements Flying Sword, was no longer just a sword, but seemed to have transformed into the core of a liquid galaxy, thanks to the infusion of the vast Gui Water Immortal Qi.

The sword became as transparent as water, rippling with a light that could reflect the myriad worlds.

Where the sword tip pointed, the world-destroying tsunami unleashed by Wuzhiqi split apart under his will, as if it had encountered an insurmountable chasm. The towering waves seemed to have come to life and actively avoided Lucheng, crashing into the array walls on both sides.

At the same time, the ripples on the sword instantly spread out, dispelling the oppressive aura of the all-pervasive demon god Shuiyu, who had stirred up a flood of bloodline calamities.

"Boom!"

It was like a god beating a drum!

Visible shockwaves of icy blue light rippled outwards with a teeth-grinding cracking sound, and countless spiderweb-like cracks appeared in the void within the formation due to the boundless power contained in the divine staff. Mastering the laws of water to an extremely high level had also made Wuzhiqi's physical body exceptionally powerful.

(End of this chapter)