Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 60: Family Heritage, Talisman Sword Double Line (There will be updates in the evening!)
When the calamity of heaven and earth comes, according to the laws of the City That Never Sleeps, all monks have the responsibility to maintain the safety of the city. If anyone leaves without permission, the city has the right to confiscate all his property or even execute him.

But if they took the initiative to go to the front line to share the defensive pressure brought by the beast tide, it would obviously not fall into the category of "escaping without permission".

The Lin family was powerful and after a brief registration with the City Patrol Office of the City That Never Sleeps, Lu Cheng and six others obtained registration and credentials to assist in defending the city.

Three days later, the six monks arrived at the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, located hundreds of miles southwest of the City That Never Sleeps.

"My ancestors have a hidden underground cave here. They have been operating it for many years and have set up formations to protect it. Even a third or fourth level monster beast would have difficulty finding it without special magical powers. Even if they find it, this cave has a secret tunnel leading to dozens of miles away. Our safety is still safe."

We came to a low hill with lush trees.

Lin Qingyue and Lin Chuanli each took out a jade token and shone it forward.

Boom, boom.

After waiting for a while, a dull sound of stone friction was heard among the grass and vines.

Apart from Lin Qingyue and Lin Chuanli, Yuan Wuwang and Yuan Xiaodie looked at each other. Even Lu Cheng was impressed in his heart by the profound foundation of a powerful family.

From the vines, we entered a cave in the mountains. Although the cave was covered with thick dust, the air was fresh, and the stone tables and benches were in good order. It was obvious that it had been planned for hundreds of years.
Whenever a beast tide breaks out in southern Xinjiang, younger cultivators from the Lin family will open this cave under the guidance of the family elders.

Hunt monsters, hone your own magic power and character, accumulate resources for cultivation, and kill several birds with one stone.

"This is not a cave, it's simply a small underground palace. It's not impossible for dozens of people to live here for a short period of time."

Yuan Wuwang, wearing a green robe and yellow beard, walked back and forth in the cave. After observing for a while, he stroked his beard and admired.

"There is running water and a small ice room underground. In the days before the beast tide arrives, we will use our magic power to condense water into ice. In this way, even if the empty Qiankun bags we brought are not enough, we can still put the monster corpses in the ice room to delay corruption."

Lin Qingyue, who was dressed in purple, said this.

For the next half month, the group used their internal energy to condense ice in the underground ice chamber of the cave. Four of them worked, while two were sent out to explore, in order to prevent any group of monsters suitable for hunting from passing by here without anyone knowing.

On the nineteenth day, at night, Yuan Wuwang and Yuan Xiaodie, who had gone out to explore, hurried back and said that they had discovered a group of fire-haired cattle migrating.

"There are about fifty or sixty of them, all second-level monsters. My father and I are not good at concealment spells, so we didn't dare to get too close to investigate. They went to the river to drink water."

Yuan Xiaodie was wearing a yellow tight-fitting outfit, had delicate features and a petite figure. She had been suffocated by the boring days in the cave these days, and she looked excited after finding her target today.

In fact, it was not just her, everyone present was cheered up after hearing the words.

"Brother Lin and I will go investigate the situation. If there is no problem, Miss Lin will set up the formation. It has been half a month, and it is time to start the business."

That night, under the guidance of Yuan Wuwang, Lu Cheng and Lin Chuanli came to the bank of the unnamed river. They had used a breath-concealing talisman on each of them beforehand, so they could get closer.

Under the moonlight.

I saw a large group of dark red cattle playing and butting in the river.

"About seventy of them, none of them have particularly strong demonic aura, level three fire-mantled bulls. No problem, notify Miss Lin to prepare for action."

Upon hearing this, Lin Chuanli, who was standing by, took out a short-distance communication talisman from his pocket, wrote a few words on it, and then lit it.

Lu Cheng, the Lin sisters, Lin Chuanli, and the Yuan father and daughter, none of these six cultivators are good at formations among the hundred arts of cultivation.

The art of formation is a mysterious and difficult one. It is important yet obscure among the hundreds of arts of cultivating immortals.

Fortunately, there are formation flags, formation plates and other formation-type magic tools in this world that are easy to carry and easy to deploy. If used properly, they can greatly enhance the fighting ability of cultivators.

For a complete formation, a magic platform, a formation plate, and formation flags are all necessary. If any one of them is missing, the power of the formation will be reduced. However, the most important thing is the spirit vein. With the spirit vein as the foundation, a matching formation can be arranged on it. Immortal cultivators can defeat the majority with the minority and defeat the strong with the weak.

Of course, there are no such conditions at the moment.

"The target is the herd of fire-haired cattle, so we will set up a cloud-locking water magic formation to break the fire with water and kill the monsters."

After receiving the message from Lin Chuanli, Lin Qingyue thought for a moment and patted the Qiankun bag on her waist.

A white jade platform, a tortoise-shell formation plate, several water-blue formation flags, and a map of the Cloud-Locking Water Illusion Formation flew out from it, and then he directed the others to follow his example and learn how to set up the formation.

There are so many formations in the world. Unless one is a formation cultivator, who can learn so many targeted formations according to different situations? In most cases, cultivators learn on the spot.

Two hours later, the formation was set up, and after a test, it was confirmed that it could be started and run smoothly. Lin Qingyue passed the magic talisman back to Lin Chuanli, and asked others to help Lu Cheng and the others.

"Brother Lin, what should we do now?" Lin Chuanli asked after everyone arrived.

Time is not tight now but it is not ample either. It is almost dawn and no one knows whether this group of fire-haired cattle will leave after dawn.

"I will take action in a moment to lure these fire-haired cows into the battle formation. You all should be careful. If you are confident, come to support me. If you are not confident, just focus on saving yourself."

"Ok."

"Brother Lin, you have to be careful."

After saying goodbye to everyone, Lu Cheng no longer hid himself, but drove the sword light to the bank of the nameless river, and pointed with his hand.

A blue second-level talisman paper flew out of his Qiankun bag. Under the stimulation of magic power, the talisman paper burned out, and a blue light suddenly shot onto the water surface where the Fire-Haired Cattle were resting.

boom.

Second-level spell, water explosion.

The river, which was originally flowing gently, suddenly became violent.

When the blue light hit the water surface, suddenly a large amount of river water turned into sharp water guns and water swords, shooting in all directions.

"Moo!"

The blood suddenly dyed the river red, and several fire-haired cows at the core of the magic power died on the spot.

Don't underestimate them because they are cows, they are more like monsters. Herbivores also eat meat. They don't mainly eat meat, they just can't get it.

Monsters like the Fire-Haired Oxen will not show mercy to mortals if they encounter them.

Compared to the difficulty of raising children for human monks, demon beasts give birth to babies in large litters, and reproduce very quickly. In this world, humans are not so much the masters of heaven and earth as they are the competition among hundreds of races. However, the territory of the Tang Dynasty is relatively peaceful.

"Moo!!"

After their fellow tribesmen were killed, the group of fire-haired cattle quickly discovered Lu Cheng who had taken action. They roared and rushed ashore, charging with their heads down.

There were also some fire-haired cows that spewed out fire bullets and tongues from afar, and attacked the Taoist from all directions.

However, after activating the first water explosion talisman, Lu Cheng did not stop at all, and directly activated the second talisman, the third-level earth talisman, Breath of Earth Flow.

The spiritual patterns on the talisman paper flickered in the magic fire, and the next moment turned into a ray of spiritual light that fell on the land in front of Lu Cheng.

Rumble, rumble...

This is a third-level talisman, which seals a spell at the foundation-building level.

The ground in front of Lu Cheng seemed to come alive. The soil and rocks softened and suddenly rose up, turning into a tsunami of earth waves, heading towards the group of fire-haired cows rushing towards them.

Low-level earth magic is particularly useful because most of the two sides will not fly during a fight, and their feet are on the ground, which is the advantage of the terrain.

The earth, rocks and mud transformed by the earth flow blocked a large number of fireballs and flames, but its power was not diminished at all. It still carried a huge force, knocking down a dozen fire-haired cows rushing in the front to the ground, and even rolled most of their bodies into the ground, grinding them into meat paste.

But on Lu Cheng's side, he instantly felt that his mana was depleted by nearly 30%.

This is because Lu Cheng was unable to provide enough mana for the third-level spell, and did not fully exert the full power of the Breath of Earth Flow. Otherwise, the power of this spell would be even greater:
Low-level cultivators are basically unable to control higher-level magical instruments, but talismans can be activated. However, their meridians are often unable to bear the magic power absorption of higher-level talismans in a short period of time, and their full power cannot be exerted.

Lu Cheng possesses the Qi Sea supernatural power of the Qi training realm, his meridians are broad and strong, and he has reached the eleventh level of Qi training, with pure magic power. Most of the power of this third-level talisman has been used, and the remaining part is made up by the earth overcoming fire (fire produces earth).

Therefore, the Fire-Haired Cattle Herd was facing the spell attack from the cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

What's more, right after that, with a little bit of magic power left, Lu Cheng summoned the two flying swords on his back and slashed out to kill.

The Chunjun Sword and the Fiery Golden Light Sword, the two flying swords, under the urging of the sword master, turned into two sword shadows, cutting into the herd of fire-haired cattle, and with the power of the spell that had not yet ended, they found an opportunity to sneak in and maximize the damage in a short period of time.

When the herd of fire-haired cattle approached him, Lu Cheng recalled his two swords, rolled himself up and fled.

At this time, Lin Chuanli and others, who were extremely shocked by the power of Lu Cheng's swordsmanship and magic, also reacted and took out their own magic weapons to support.

The magic weapons that Lin Chuanli and Lin Qingxue sacrificed were all flying swords.

The father and daughter of the Yuan family, Yuan Wuwang sacrificed two flying cones, and so did his daughter Yuan Xiaodie. The quality of these four flying cones themselves was not good, but they were connected by their qi, and seemed to be in exquisite coordination.

Because of the water and earth spells, most of the hatred of the fire-haired cows was concentrated on Lu Cheng. They lowered their heads and rushed towards him. Occasionally, they raised their heads and cast attack spells such as spitting flames and fire bombs.

However, as Lu Cheng controlled the two swords, he was like an extremely agile fish, turning and fleeing rapidly in the direction of Lin Qingyue's formation.

He has the Still Water State of Mind, and with his spiritual cultivation that is superior to other cultivators of the same state, he is like a god looking down, making him difficult to hit. Even if he encounters an accidental crossfire that he cannot dodge, cultivators of the same state can control three artifacts of the same level at the same time, and Lu Cheng will suddenly summon a cold iron shield to block the attack.

The Frost Iron Flying Shield was a top-grade second-tier magical weapon that Lu Cheng had occasionally obtained during the past two years when he participated in the Liujin Ancient Artifacts Workshop auctions.

Not only this, he had a lot of spare money, and as one man could feed the whole family, and all the money was used for his own practice, so in the past two years he bought a lot of magical instruments, talismans, and things to assist in his practice.

Back then, Lu Cheng's predecessor used the Huoyun Mansion's skills to exchange for several practical magical instruments that could restrain Southern Xinjiang's witchcraft. Lu Cheng didn't need them, so he bought them directly and they were all top-grade. Even if he sold them later, he wouldn't necessarily suffer a loss.

Two years and more than 80,000 spirit stones were not a small amount of money in the eyes of a foundation-building cultivator. Lu Cheng's ability to make money by opening the Sword-Wenzhai was among the best among the Qi-Condensing cultivators.

About twenty of the mad fire-haired cattle were killed, and then, under the guidance of Lu Cheng and others, they rushed into Lin Qingyue's "Cloud Locking Water Magic Array".

White smoke and fog rose up, confusing the senses and disorienting the cattle. The herd that had originally been working together gradually began to scatter.

Lin Qingyue stood in front of the white jade altar, wearing purple clothes, holding a magic sword, stepping on the Gang Step, infusing her magic power with all her strength to maintain the operation of the formation.

However, even though it was an illusion, the pressure of such a large number of fire-haired cattle rushing in suddenly made Lin Qingyue's pretty face turn pale.

Fortunately, Lu Cheng noticed this and guessed that Lin Qingyue was under too much pressure. He crossed his two swords, and the superposition of their sword forces immediately accelerated. The swords flew to a water-blue formation flag, pulled up the flag, and injected his own magic power into the formation.

Seeing this, Lin Chuanli, Yuan Wuwang, Lin Qingxue and Yuan Xiaodie also threw themselves into the formation and injected their magic power. With the combined efforts of the six, the entire illusion formation stabilized, clouds rose, and fog locked the sky and the earth.

Many of the originally ferocious fire-maned bulls were charging around, but they couldn't find their targets in the fog, and gradually, they began to spin in place.

In fact, if the remaining forty or so fire-haired cows continued to rush around violently, the Cloud-Locking Water Illusion Formation would be broken sooner or later.

It’s just that low-level monsters don’t have enough intelligence, and this has always been their fatal weakness.

With everyone's combined efforts to gather their magic power, the pressure on Lin Qingyue, who was on the formation plate and in front of the white jade altar, suddenly eased. After the female cultivator relaxed a little, she danced with the sword on the altar, muttering something at the same time.

Sword dancing is to use the sword's momentum and the movement of the body to coordinate the circulation of one's own magical power from the outside to the inside.

Taoists chant words to calm their minds, and they may recite the key points of the formation they just memorized, or they may recite both before and after.

"Imperial command, all soldiers and armors are out!"

After calming down her own magical power and state of mind, and checking to make sure that the formation was running correctly, Lin Qingyue slapped another Qiankun bag on her waist, and a ray of spiritual light flew out of it.

Falling to the ground were actually eighteen human-shaped puppets.

Sword and shield puppets, spear puppets, and longbow puppets. After these puppets landed in the formation, they began to attack the separated herds of fire-haired cattle.

The movements of these puppets are extremely mechanical and slow. Even if they are formed into a formation, they are not enough to deal with human monks. However, they are suitable for dealing with low-level monsters.

With shield raised and spear pointed, the longbow puppet was shooting arrows from behind, and its power was surprisingly not small.

Like Lu Cheng, Lin Qingyue is a cultivator with great wealth and strength.

In fact, the two are interrelated. Those who are wealthy are often powerful, and those who are powerful will often become wealthy quickly.

Of course, there are exceptions. There are some sword cultivators in the Tongxuan Realm who have nothing but a flying sword, yet they are powerful and aggressive everywhere, and their methods are astonishingly fierce.

Lu Cheng's cheap master, the ancestor of Huoyun Cave Mansion, Chi Shenzi, seems to be a representative figure of this kind of ascetic people.

"Unless they have cultivated a rare method of spiritual cultivation, ordinary cultivators can only control two or three magical instruments that match their realm. These puppets should be low-level magical instruments made with high-level materials, and they are refined in sets. In this way, cultivators can use relatively little spiritual consciousness to control as many puppets as possible. In many cases, they can indeed serve as a surprise force!"

Lu Cheng injected magic power into the formation flag while observing the fighting in the formation.

As time passed, the sky gradually brightened.

As more and more Fire-Haired Cattle died, the Fire-Haired Cattle herd began to collapse. They no longer had the will to fight and began to flee in all directions.

This is rational. When facing an opponent that is too powerful to be defeated, turning around and running away can preserve the bloodline and descendants as much as possible.

As the pressure inside the formation became lower and lower, the monks under the banners of various formations entered the formation and took action, killing as many monsters as possible.

At the last moment, Lin Qingyue simply withdrew the formation, and everyone started killing, since the Fire-Haired Ox didn't dare to resist anyway.

Lu Cheng controlled the two swords, pointing east and striking west. Wherever the swords flashed, a fire-haired bull would fall down.

He noticed that Lin Chuanli was waving a small red flag in his right hand, and fire dragons emerged from it, blazing with flames. They swam around him, protecting him while constantly attacking the surrounding monsters and casting powerful fire spells.

On his left wrist, there is a steel ring that shines with a gleaming light.

Lin Chuanli threw the steel ring up from time to time. The steel ring spun in the air, getting bigger and bigger, and then faintly covering a certain direction, and several dark red spiritual ideas would be sucked into it.

Then the steel ring flew back to Lin Chuanli's body and combined with his own Qi.

"The Great Art of Stealing the Sky and Transforming the Soul, stealing the soul and replenishing the essence! So that's how it is. He uses the Fire Dragon Flag to perform various powerful fire spells, and then uses the Spirit Ring to absorb the opponent's spirit and replenish his own. The Ranmu Mountain Lin family has been studying the Great Art of Stealing the Sky and Transforming the Soul for many years, and it turns out that they have a mature system of skills."

"His magical power is so mixed and impure, but he is not affected at all. He is not worried at all about not being able to cultivate and build a foundation in the future. 'The five energies are like a wheel, which can create and destroy all laws in the world.' Is it really that powerful?"

Lu Cheng has great magical powers and superb swordsmanship; Lin Qingyue has a great fortune in setting up formations; Lin Chuanli has a Fire Dragon Spirit Ring, and their internal and external Taoist magics work together seamlessly.

Any one of these three is a top master among the cultivators in the Qi training realm, and the remaining three are weaker but not bad either. Therefore, after joining forces, they quickly killed all the remaining fire-haired bulls.

They killed them all and collected the cattle corpses. At this time, another group of demon wolves came from a distance, but the six people chose to hide and retreat, returning to the underground cave in Wanshou Mountain to practice Qi and recover.

Six days later, in the ice room of the underground cave.

"I'm rich, I'm rich! Hahahaha, following the Lin family really makes a lot of money. How many spirit stones can I get from selling so many monster materials?"

After hunting a monster, it is not enough to just put the monster's corpse directly into the Qiankun bag.

You can do that when the quantity is small, but if the number of monster materials you need to carry is large, reasonable division and processing can greatly increase the number of monster materials in the Qiankun bag, especially you can discard some of the worthless ones and take away the valuable parts of the monster materials.

During the days of recuperation in the cave, six people took turns entering the ice room to process the materials of the fire-haired cattle, and many of the worthless parts were simply discarded.

Yuan Wuwang was born a casual cultivator, and it was difficult for him to survive, not to mention he had to raise his daughter and cultivate to his current level.

He has never closed his mouth in the past few days, always estimating the value of this batch of monster materials.

"Alas, my daughter is lucky. She is beautiful and better than your mother, but she married me, who is nothing. I can see you marry into the Lin family, so that I can explain to your mother after I die."

Yuan Wuwang said this while he was skinning and disassembling the monster materials on hand.

"Dad, can you please stop saying that? And can you please stop trying to please Lin Chuanli? It's embarrassing. There are always bad rumors about Lin Chuanli among my sisters. He has had affairs with several girls. Why do you always pair me with him?"

"Xiao Die, listen to Daddy. There's nothing wrong with a man having three wives and four concubines. As long as he treats you well, that's enough. If you become successful in the future, you can divorce him and find thirty or forty male favorites. Daddy won't care about you. But don't you have that ability now?"

"He likes to hang out outside, just let him be. It'll be fine as long as you can marry into the Lin family. You've followed your father for so many years. Don't you know how difficult it is to be a free cultivator? You have no one to rely on, and you have to run around every day for a spiritual stone or a spiritual medicine. You won't have to worry about these things after you marry into the Lin family."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Wuwang put down his work, came to Yuan Xiaodie and tried to persuade her earnestly.

"Your mother was stupid back then. There were obviously other family members who liked her, but she followed me because of a few sweet words from me. What was the point? She was beaten to death in the end, and I couldn't even avenge her. I took you on a run and fled to the ends of the earth. Do you want your children to live the same life as you did when you were a child?"

"Oh, Dad. That Lin Chuanli is not a good person at all. If we, the Xuanmen cultivators, really want to choose a Taoist partner, why would we want a daughter's body before we build our foundation?"

"Also, these few days we took turns to come down and process the monster materials. Sister Qingyue and Brother Lin Lie each processed a batch, but he left the monster materials the same way he did when he came down. How can we entrust our lives to such a person?"

Her father kept chattering beside her. Feeling frustrated, Yuan Xiaodie put down the materials in her hand and stood up to refute him.

"Or does Daddy not really care about his daughter's future well or badly, and just wants to sell her off to prepare for the foundation-building fund?"

"You... shut up."

I don’t know if it was because he touched a painful spot or what, but Yuan Wuwang’s face twitched and he raised his hand and slapped him.

Snapped.

The sound of the slap echoed throughout the ice room.

It’s just that my daughter is older now and I can’t beat her like I did when she was little.

Yuan Xiaodie ran out of the ice house with tears in her eyes, but she happened to run into Lin Qingxue who was coming to the ice house.

"Hey, Fluttershy?"

Lin Qingxue had no idea what had just happened and looked bewildered.

As for Yuan Wuwang, he stood in the ice room, staring blankly at his hands.

On the other side, inside the secluded stone chamber, Lu Cheng and Lin Chuanli were sitting cross-legged and practicing. After six days of adjustment, their magic power and condition had returned to their peak.

Because the space in the underground cave is limited and there is only one place where spiritual energy gathers, it is more convenient to recover magic power in this stone chamber.

(End of this chapter)