Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 62 Rescue
It is a demon beast in the foundation-building stage, and a ferocious tiger demon at that. For the demon race that attaches great importance to bloodline, a race with strong innate bloodline can directly be promoted to a small realm.

Moreover, the mirror array in the cave is unable to detect the cultivation level of this tiger monster. Who knows whether it is in the early third stage or has already reached the peak of the third stage?

If it is the latter, even if everyone attacks together, they may not be able to defeat it.

"Uncle Yuan, Qingyue has to consider everyone's safety, so I can only ask you..."

Either let Yuan Wuwang go alone to rescue Yuan Xiaodie, or, like Lin Chuanli, secretly use a magic weapon to kill Yuan Wuwang to avoid possible danger:
Because if Yuan Wuwang fails to save his daughter and harbors resentment, it is hard to say what he will do.

When seeking the truth, monks should sometimes use any means necessary and consider themselves more in everything, so that they can get closer to success.

The Taoist monks emphasize purity of mind and few desires. Apart from finding a few like-minded people to become friends and support each other, they try to stay away from the world and avoid being involved in cause and effect.

It is recorded in Taoist scriptures that in ancient times, many great monks had reached a certain level of cultivation and were only one step away from ascending to heaven, but they were either caught up in a catastrophe of heaven and earth, or their relatives and friends suffered, which dragged them into the catastrophe, causing their cultivation to decline or their bodies and Taoism to disappear.

Of course, there were also great monks who successfully faced the calamity and broke through it to ascend to heaven. But there were still many who died in the calamity. If they had been able to harden their hearts and ignore it, they might have ascended to heaven.

Mortals fear the consequences, while Bodhisattvas fear the causes, so the major sects often choose to retreat from the world and live in seclusion to practice in seclusion, avoiding involvement in cause and effect.

"This tiger demon is at the early third stage."

At this time, Lu Cheng walked up to Yuan Wuwang, who was filled with despair, and blocked Lin Chuanli's attack route for him. He said to the picture on the jade wall:
"Lin Lie, what basis do you have for making this judgment at this time?"

Lin Qingyue, who was wearing a light purple dress, frowned slightly, but was somewhat annoyed at the person in front of her for wasting his life.

"I've read some books before. Tiger monsters have pure yang bodies. They usually raise a small number of minions, cultivating the most promising ones to balance their own yin and yang. Otherwise, the yin energy will be too strong and will suppress the growth of the tiger monster's own magic power. It's impossible for a third-level tiger monster to kill many immortal cultivators. In other words, it would be like slaughtering a village of ordinary humans if it collected so many minions. This is obviously a typical characteristic of those who have just been promoted to foundation building, and they haven't even fully mastered their own innate magical powers."

Lin Chuanli had already taken back the iron ring that he had secretly fastened at this time, and asked with a smile that seemed to have no hostility:

"Brother Lin is planning to rescue Xiaodie?"

At this distance, although Lin Chuanli was confident that he could seriously injure Lin Lie, he had also seen the opponent's swordsmanship. If the opponent drew his sword and killed him, it would be a loss in exchange for death, which was not worth it for him.

"If we act now, we have a chance to rescue her. Even if it is impossible, I am confident in my ability to escape."

"Thank you very much, benefactor. Thank you very much, benefactor."

Yuan Wuwang no longer cared about his own face at this time. He knelt down and kowtowed to Lu Cheng continuously. He was very strong and his cultivation was not bad. His head was injured and bleeding, and he also smashed the hard stone slabs on the ground into pieces.

"Get up, you've already wasted a lot of time."

Of course Lu Cheng would choose to save Yuan Xiaodie. In addition to the sympathy in his heart, it was more because after the death of Yuan's father and daughter, he was the only "outsider" left in this cave.

He was not afraid of a head-on fight, but after living together for several months, it was impossible for anyone to be on guard all the time, so keeping the father and daughter of the Lao Yuan family alive was also a way to ensure their own safety. Lu Cheng had a fierce personality, but he was also cautious.

"Uncle Yuan, you should wait in the cave. I will go first. I have the highest magical power besides Brother Lin. If you go with me, you will only cause trouble for Brother Lin."

Lin Chuanli's eyes flickered, as if he had thought of what Lu Cheng was thinking. Or maybe he had some youthful arrogance after all, and he actually said this at the end.

"Okay. Then please ask Miss Lin and Brother Yuan to cast a spell for us."

Time was running out and Yuan Wuwang didn't have time to hesitate, so Lu Cheng made the decision for him.

The exit of the underground cave.

Lin Qingyue and Yuan Wuwang each mobilized all their magical powers to activate a third-level spiritual wind and cloud body talisman, and blessed Lu Cheng and Lin Chuanli.

This talisman was originally intended to be used for escaping and saving one's life, and no one had thought that it would be used here.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Chuanli and Lu Cheng turned into two fast phantoms and quickly went in the direction indicated by the mirror array.

At the same time, the Lin sisters and Yuan Wuwang retreated back to the underground cave. Lin Qingyue would continue to send messages to the two using the mirror formation and flying talismans.

"I don't know if it's an illusion, but I always feel that Brother Lin seems to be quite hostile to me?"

Among the mountains and forests, Lin Chuanli controlled the Fire Dragon Flag, and the Fire Dragon swam on his black and red Taoist robe. He was like a god of fire, and he fled rapidly towards the northeast as if he could shrink the distance into an inch.

Lu Cheng walked forward with his hands behind his back. It seemed that he was walking forward, but in fact, he was being carried forward by the two swords on his back. This Taoist was extremely skilled in controlling swords, and a force point was formed between him and the swords. The external manifestation was that when he lightly touched the ground with his toes, ripples spread out, and the whole person instantly flew a very long distance, as if he was lifting a heavy weight with ease, without any worldly airs.

"I have some friendship with Miss Lin, but two years ago, a group of cultivators from Burning Wood Mountain attacked the city, and someone I knew under the Ten Thousand Poisons Map died in the battle."

After using such a foolproof rhetoric to dismiss the other party, even Lin Chuanli couldn't say anything more.

After spending some time together, Lu Cheng had a vague feeling that Lin Chuanli beside him had some demonic qualities.

Taoism is about purifying the mind and self-restraint. As the saying goes, if the gods are emotional, the three realms will be in turmoil. If all the gods indulge in their desires, then countless worlds will probably be destroyed. You can have desires and release desires, but you must have a certain degree of self-control and a certain bottom line.

The evil path is obsession and indulgence, just like what Lin Chuanli showed. He practiced the method of transforming spirits into souls and wantonly plundered the spiritual energy of all living beings in the world. He clearly had admiration and pursuit for Yuan Xiaodie before, but he immediately cut off the relationship once it endangered his own interests. At the same time, he was ready to attack Yuan Wuwang to kill the hidden danger.

The only thing that could slightly influence him seemed to be the word "Lin" in the Lin family.

He is close to his aunt Lin Qingyue, and he shows closeness to me because of the word "Lin", but the problem is that his last name is Lu.

Lu Cheng suspected that even if he married into the Lin family and had known them for many years, once his identity was exposed, this guy next to him would still kill him without hesitation.

"Family, in fact, is just a means for them to restrain their own devilish nature. Using devil to control devil, using devil to refine devil, using devil to control devil. It seems to be ingenious to turn it upside down, but in fact, it is just to set up an anchor point and harbor in their hearts to avoid having no room to escape when the sea of ​​desire is churning."

Lu Cheng knew that he was now overambitious, so he was just guessing in his mind.

At this time, the two encountered a migrating tide of beasts.

Among the trees ahead, there were a group of red demonic snakes gathered together, devouring the flesh and blood of a fallen fire-haired cow, thus forming a snake ball.

Seeing this, Lin Chuanli stood in front of Lu Cheng and said:

"Brother Lin, you don't have to do anything yet. Leave these small matters to me."

Lin Chuanli practiced the great skill of Stealing Heaven and Transforming Spirits. When facing an opponent weaker than himself, his magic power was endless. He first raised the Fire Dragon Flag, forming a wall of fire that continued to advance inward around the snake ball. Then he stretched out the five fingers of his left hand, and seven fire dragons entangled head to tail, with half of their bodies connected together. Using his left arm as a fulcrum, they suddenly opened their mouths and stretched out.

boom!
A red ball of light flew towards the snake ball and exploded it directly. A high temperature fire burned fiercely, and all the snakes were killed.

Lu Cheng also practiced the Heaven-Snatching Spirit Transformation Technique, so how could he not know that Lin Chuanli was wasting his magic power and emptying his meridians.

He walked quickly through the forest without any pause.

When they encountered several waves of beasts and had walked one-third of the way, Lu Cheng suddenly drew his sword and killed all the monsters he encountered, preventing Lin Chuanli from continuing to consume his own magic power.

Then, he handed over a piece of talisman paper:
"We will attack together on the way, but when we encounter the tiger monster, you must cast this talisman on me first."

"Sharp Gold Talisman?"

Lin Chuanli reached out and took the talisman paper handed over by Lu Cheng, and quickly recognized this commonly used third-level talisman.

This talisman can be added to flying sword-like magical instruments to increase their sharpness.

"Okay, but after I use my magic power to cast this talisman, I'm afraid I won't be able to help Brother Lin do anything else." After activating this third-level sharp gold talisman, Lin Chuanli had to use the remaining magic power to protect himself and escape.

"Yes, but you have to use all your strength to activate the power of this talisman."

"Brother Lin is really confident in his swordsmanship."

Just as the two of them were following the guidance of the mirror array in the underground cave and rushing towards the cliff and ravine as quickly as possible.

Yuan Xiaodie was already chasing the black and gray smoke in a daze. She was extremely lucky, or perhaps she already had the aura of a foundation-building monster on her body, and came to this cliff and mountain stream.

"Mother, mother, wait for me!"

The giant tiger was licking its paws on the cliff. Because it had eaten so many people, red light had appeared in its eyes.

The smoke floated back into the giant tiger's mouth. Yuan Xiaodie also ran to the giant tiger's mouth in a daze and reached out to grab it.

But at this moment she suddenly woke up, only to see a huge tiger head, opening its sharp and bloody mouth towards her.

Roar!
"Ah ah ah ah..."

She was like a straw, and was easily slapped by the tiger's claws into a pool of blood and flesh.

All his magical powers and several magical weapons could not be used because of extreme fear.

On the other side, Lu Cheng and Lin Chuanli were still advancing forward under the communication of Lin Qingyue's talisman.

When there are too many monster groups, you have to avoid them if you can. When there are fewer monsters, you can just cast spells and rush forward with swords.

Because he would cast a spell to activate the third-level talisman soon, Lin Chuanli no longer cast spells frequently. Instead, he would occasionally control his Star-Catching Ring to fly out into the air, grab the scattered spiritual energy, fly back, and replenish his own magic power.

At the same time, he stared at Lu Cheng with the sword.

This big brother Lin Lie seemed to have a clear mind, as if the actions of all the monsters around him were reflected in the lake of his heart.

The two flying swords on his back flew back and forth, and Lin Lie had no idea where the two flying swords were flying to, where they would appear, and who they would attack.

But after this period of time, he has clearly known that whenever the sword flashes, blood will bloom and the monster will die. "Kill one person every ten steps, and leave no trace in a thousand miles!"

My mind naturally recalled the famous verses left by the immortal poet during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. However, they were no longer applicable here, because the opponent was killing ten people in one step!

"If he really marries Aunt Qingyue, it shouldn't be difficult for me to ask him to teach me swordsmanship. In that case, I should do my best to make this happen. If such a swordsman cannot join my Lin family, I should kill him as soon as possible. However, I don't know whether the Heaven-stealing Spirit Transformation Method is suitable for activating swordsmanship. It seems that my Lin family has never had a master of swordsmanship."

It is certainly not easy for the Lin family to produce a master of swordsmanship. This family has always been known for its sharp and vicious magic.

When a certain force develops to a certain extent along a certain path, this path will naturally suppress the development of other paths.

The road will eventually come to an end, and perhaps the only thing that will never end in this world is the supreme path.

Lu Cheng and Lin Chuanli, one the main and one the assistant, under the guidance of Lin Qingyue, finally arrived at the place where the Foundation Establishment Realm demon tiger was entrenched.

This evil beast can be said to be the top monster within a hundred miles. Other monsters dare not approach where it is, and there are only corpses. The slope of the cliff is littered with the corpses of monsters.

It was no longer hunting at all. Only the most tender and delicious parts were removed from the corpses of each monster. Some were not even eaten, but were toyed with and tortured to death.

Cats seem to have the bad habit of playing with their prey. When they have enough food and are not hungry, they will play with the prey in front of them, hurting it again and again but not killing it, until they get tired of playing with it or get hungry.

Yuan Xiaodie was tortured terribly, but she did not die.

When Lu Cheng and Lin Chuanli arrived, she was lying in a pool of blood in despair, having lost the courage to live.

When Lu Cheng and Lin Chuanli were two hundred feet away, they were noticed by the demon tiger. However, the demon tiger lazily glanced in that direction and then continued to lie on the rock and lick the blood on its claws.

But from its ears that were already erected high, Lu Cheng knew that the demon tiger had already discovered him and was on guard, but it was just playing.

"Such a heavy grudge. How many people did this guy eat?"

This is not a mirror formation. Under the gaze of Lu Cheng and Lin Chuanli, the demon tiger lying on the stone was almost wrapped in black air, revealing a pair of scarlet beast eyes.

What made Lin Chuanli breathe a sigh of relief was that this demon tiger was indeed only at the initial stage of foundation building, just as Lin Lie had previously judged.

"Cast the talisman on the sword I hold."

“Ah, this distance?”

Although Lin Chuanli was surprised, his hands did not slow down at all.

He took out the third-level sharp gold talisman, poured enough magic power into it, and then with a hand gesture, threw it at the flying sword held by Lu Cheng.

hum!
The next moment, a bright sword light came out like a dragon emerging from the sea, slashing out and killing. The rocky ground a few feet away was also shattered by the power of the sword.

Lu Cheng followed the sword, and his whole body merged into the sword light. He quickly flew towards Yuan Xiaodie with the sword, and in an instant the distance between the two was greatly shortened.

"Roar."

Seeing that the Taoist had already taken action, the man-eating tiger no longer disguised itself.

It fell sideways, and pounced on the female cultivator Yuan Xiaodie in the pool of blood. It wanted to kill the two Taoists in front of them to satisfy the evil in its heart.

At the same time, Lu Cheng's figure fell in the sword light, and he drove the sword light to slash at the demon tiger, but the distance was obviously too far, and although the sword was fast, it was obviously not enough.

"In any case, a cultivator in the Qi training stage can only fly a sword a hundred feet at most. No matter how exquisite Brother Lin Lie's swordsmanship is, he can't go beyond this limit. This is too far away!"

The distance just now was two hundred feet, but Lu Cheng flew forward sixty feet on his sword in an instant, and was still one hundred and forty feet away from the demon tiger and Yuan Xiaodie. No matter how fierce, fast, and sharp his flying sword was, it was ultimately beyond his control.

At this moment, Lin Chuanli was looking at this battle with the mentality of a spectator. Anyway, the talisman paper had been activated. Once Yuan Xiaodie died, he would retreat immediately. If it was really dangerous, he would activate a light feather talisman and jump off the cliff nearby. As long as the demon tiger had not grown wings on its back, he would be safe.

With the Lin family cultivators' ability to sustain fighting, it is not difficult to escape from such a chaotic situation.

However, at this moment, when the Fiery Golden Sword broke through the air for a hundred feet and its power was exhausted, under the slowly falling golden-red sword light, another flying sword with pure and noble sword light appeared, Chunjun.

There is a sword hidden under the sword.

Clang.

The two swords collided, and amid the vibrations, the golden-red sword light of the Fiery Golden Sword suddenly became brighter and brighter again. The two sword shadows, one white and one gold, were like flying dragons, carrying the momentum of lightning and thunder, with sword energy running wild and sword intent galloping.

The two swords collided head to tail, and the transmission of sword force caused a buzzing vibration. The powerful force was emptied and rolled out, crushing the surrounding fallen leaves, flowers and plants into pieces.

The Fiery Golden Light Sword, fire overcomes metal, ordinary swordsmiths dare not use these two types of materials to melt flying swords, because they will harm themselves.

But if they are successfully fused together with extremely sophisticated techniques, the fire element will be violent and domineering, while the metal element will be sharp and fierce, and both will become the most superior flying sword weapons.

At the same time, fierce fire can forge real gold, and appropriate fire-attribute magic power can make the flying sword even sharper.

The swordsmith is skilled, and Lu Cheng is an unrivaled swordsman.

The man-eating tiger wanted to play with Lu Cheng, but it didn't expect that Lu Cheng would not save anyone at all. The Taoist appeared calm on the surface, but the meridian-breaking sword energy in his body burst out with all his strength and circulated rapidly, and he performed a fierce and vicious killing move of hiding a sword under his sword and piercing the sun with two swords.

Lin Chuanli, who had been watching the entire battle from the side, was originally calm and composed, but at this moment he almost choked to death on his own saliva.

How can a flying sword be used like this?
The two swords advanced progressively, breaking through the upper limit of the Qi training realm cultivator's sword flying range of no more than a hundred feet.

The flying sword attacks and kills, life and death are in a flash.

"Ow..."

The golden-red sword light swept across in an instant and landed on the demon tiger's belly, which was exposed when it pounced on Yuan Xiaodie, and a bloody red light burst out.

Because of the power of the sword, when the demon tiger fell from mid-air, the black energy of the evil spirits around it scattered like burning.

How could the mixed power gathered from killing hundreds or thousands of ordinary people be able to withstand the killing intent of the sword?

"help me……"

The demon tiger's hot blood instead aroused Yuan Xiaodie's desire to survive. She stood up and stumbled towards the Taoist who was running towards her.

However, Lu Cheng had no time to care about her. He ran to catch the falling Chunjun flying sword, swung his hand and swung the sword to block Kaiyuan Xiaodie. He and the sword combined and pounced on the demon tiger that was already seriously injured again.

If you are careless and playful in front of Lu Cheng, you will die in an instant!
The demon tiger was seriously injured and was frightened, and wanted to escape from here.

But in a severely injured state, its wind escape speed was no longer as fast as Lu Cheng's sword escape speed. The two sides grappled several times, and the demon tiger counterattacked several times, but they were all resolved by Lu Cheng's sword.

Lin Chuanli reacted immediately and took out the Star-Snatching Ring, spinning it several times at the tiger demon from a distance. Several spiritual ideas were forcibly taken out of its body.

The man-eating tiger was obviously even more depressed because of this.

"Roar."

It roared again, trying to intimidate Lu Cheng and Lin Chuanli, and at the same time fled into the mountains and forests with all its might.

Seeing this rare opportunity, Lu Cheng moved sideways and gently swung the flying sword in his hand, piercing the abdomen of the demon tiger, eventually leaving a four-foot-long bloody wound on its snow-white belly.

The tiger struggled involuntarily due to the severe pain from the injury. With a loud splash, a large amount of internal organs left a pool at the wound.

The internal organs fell to the ground, and the demon tiger roared unwillingly a few times, finally lowered its originally mighty and ferocious head, and gradually lost its breath completely.

Lu Cheng slapped his Qiankun bag and put the corpse of the third-level demon tiger into it. If it had not underestimated the enemy, the sharp gold talisman combined with the flaming golden sword would only have the power of one sword. At most, he could have taken Yuan Xiaodie and Lin Chuanli and escaped, and it would have been impossible for him to have such a record of victory.

However, before the three of them could catch their breath, bursts of wolf howls came from the forest below the cliff.

It was obvious that the wolf pack had somehow sensed that the tiger demon was dead and were approaching here quickly.

"Brother Lin, what should we do next?"

Yuan Xiaodie was a cultivator after all. After a short period of adjustment, her mind had recovered a little and she asked this in a hurry.

"Brother Lin and I have no more magic power. We carry the Light Feather Talisman with us. After activating it, we can jump off the cliff. With the fighting power of the three of us, it won't be difficult to return to the cave after a short rest. Let's go."

When Lu Cheng saw the position where the demon tiger was perched on the jade wall, he had already thought of this escape route, and of course he used it without hesitation at this moment.

The three of them activated a feather charm each, and after observing that there were no flying monsters nearby, they jumped off the cliff when more wolf monsters appeared in the forest behind them. The three of them held each other's hands, and floated to the side of the nameless stream, landing safely.

“Ah, ahhhhhh.”

Having really escaped death and survived successfully, Yuan Xiaodie tried her best to suppress her emotions, but still couldn't help but shouted a few times to vent.

Lu Cheng and Lin Chuanli looked around cautiously, while trying their best to recover their own magic power. This was in the midst of a beast tide, so it was very normal to encounter a group of monsters again.

"Let's go."

Just as Lu Cheng finished saying this and was about to leave, he and Lin Chuanli discovered that Yuan Xiaodie did not follow them, but stared blankly at the river.

The two followed her gaze and saw a bloody line of water flowing above the river, going against the flow of the river and spreading upstream...

(End of this chapter)