Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 72 Five Qi Foundation Building, Return

If you think you can become a god if you are rich and powerful, then you are underestimating this path.

In that case, all the immortals and Buddhas in the sky should be emperors of every dynasty. But in fact, although the emperor is supported by the world, he is also criticized by the world. The world is inauspicious, and the more noble a position one holds in the world, the more difficult it is for him to embark on his own path of cultivation.

The trip to the ancient tomb of Wanshou Mountain earned Lu Cheng and Lin Qingyue inexhaustible resources before they could cultivate to the Golden Core stage. This was a great blessing, but also a great hidden danger:

Misfortunes often come with blessings, and blessings often come with misfortunes. Can you achieve the golden elixir by practicing with a mountain of spiritual stones?
If you practice with this kind of thinking, you may not even be able to refine a low-grade golden elixir in the end.

Is it true that we should sharpen our heart of Taoism?
Lin Qingyue's character is even worse than Lin Chuanli's. Lin Chuanli is paranoid and possessed, but Lin Qingyue has not yet entered that state.

Lu Cheng's own cultivation of Taoism was not high, but he vaguely sensed the hidden danger, so he did not kill Lin Chuanli, but used him to force Lin Qingyue to fight him.

If Lin Qingyue was willing to leave with him, then of course he would kill her with one sword, but if Lin Qingyue was unwilling, then she would need a whetstone.

Even the princes of secular dynasties have often been overthrown, not to mention the true inheritance of a force in the world of immortal cultivation. Without a stable bloodline to maintain it, the capable will rise and the incompetent will fall.

Lin Chuanli's foundation is now polluted and his body is damaged. Without a great opportunity, it will be difficult for him to build a foundation.

Lin Chuanli now has a hard time maintaining his position in the family, while Lin Qingyue already controls half of the wealth left by Lu Cheng. With the increase of one thing and the decrease of the other, she is also proficient in business and naturally knows how to make choices in exchange for protection and benefits - unless the Lin family of Ranmu Mountain is united as one, but the possibility of an evil force without a Jindan Zhenren to suppress it is almost zero.

Standing on the top of Wanshou Mountain, he watched the ruthless man's sword flash as it quickly disappeared into the distance.

Lin Qingyue cried for a while, and her emotions gradually calmed down. Looking at the Qiankun bags around her, a cold look flashed in her eyes.

She ignored the seriously injured Lin Chuanli and turned around to escape in another direction.

In the Lin family of Ranmu Mountain, due to the control of the great elder, female cultivators have relatively no status and cannot inherit the family's core skills. But because of this, the female cultivators of the Lin family have broken free from the restrictions of the incomplete Five Elements Alchemy Book, and can use the power of the Lin family to a certain extent to practice the skills of other lineages.

One of the most outstanding figures among them is the Goddess Lishan of the Star God Temple. This female cultivator of the Lin family was hurt by love in her early years, and since then she has devoted herself to Taoism. In order to find a suitable evil spirit, she traveled overseas for a hundred years, condensed a pure evil spirit, and then returned to her family and established the Star God Temple a hundred miles away from the Burning Wood Mountain, where she is concentrating on practicing and refining the Tiangang magic power.

The "Dou Mu Yi Qi Jue" practiced by the Goddess of Lishan was originally an incomplete technique, but the Goddess's Taoism determination was not strong in her early years, and she only coveted the extraordinary power of this technique in the realm of Qi training and foundation building. Later, she devoted herself to Taoism, and while traveling overseas for a hundred years, she unexpectedly encountered a chance encounter to complete the technique, and from then on, she could not stop.

Even the Lin family's eldest elder, Lin Shouye, hopes to use her power to increase the Lin family's foundation.

Because of her family background, Lady Lishan was also willing to protect the female practitioners of the Lin family. However, the life in Xingshen Temple was austere, and few girls from the Lin family of Ranmu Mountain were willing to enter this Taoist temple and suffer.

"It's a pity that when I chose to study Taoism in my early years, the queen had not returned to Burning Wood Mountain, otherwise I would have practiced the Dou Mu Yi Qi Jue. The queen was hurt by love in her early years, and now I have been abandoned by that unfaithful man. I am going to Xingshen Temple to offer the treasure of the heavenly book. Although it is considered a break with the family, it is not considered a betrayal of the family. I will not expose Lin Chuanli's shortcomings. I will sell him for a good price, which can bring more benefits to Qingxue and me."

As a cultivator of the Lin family, Lin Qingyue knew better than Lu Cheng that there were several outstanding young men in the main line of the Lin family who had been competing with Lin Chuanli.

On the other side, with the help of a light feather talisman and Lu Cheng's sword-controlling skills, even with the Yuan family father and daughter, Lu Cheng glided hundreds of miles away, and then put down the father and daughter who had already regained consciousness.

On the east side of the mountain, beside the clear water lake, Lu Cheng landed on his sword.

"Although Lin Chuanli said that he had already informed the elders of the Lin family, this is mostly false, but we cannot be unprepared. If the three of us act together, we will be too conspicuous. Fellow Daoist Yuan, Miss Xiaodie, let's say goodbye now."

He rescued a father and daughter from another family and beheaded Lin Chuanli.

In the eyes of the Yuan family's father and daughter, Lu Cheng's actions were a great favor.

"Don't leave, benefactor. Although my father and I are poor and independent cultivators, we know that we must repay the life-saving grace."

As he spoke, the seriously injured Yuan Wuwang took out all the Qiankun bags from himself and Yuan Xiaodie and respectfully handed them to Lu Cheng.

"Since you killed Lin Chuanli, I'm afraid it will be difficult to keep your foundation in the Never-Sleeping City. My father and I can only repay you this much. Please accept it."

Because Yuan Wuwang and Yuan Xiaodie were so earnest and pushed the money several times, Lu Cheng thought about it and accepted most of it but still pushed one Qiankun bag back.

"These are also the result of your hard work during this period of time."

"Thank you very much, benefactor. Xiaodie and I have offended the Lin family and can no longer stay in the southern border. We will go to the Central Plains to seek refuge with a family of relatives and friends. If you come to the Tang Dynasty in the future, you can go to the Cui family in Qingtang. Xiaodie and I will pray for you day and night."

After this incident, Yuan Wuwang had obviously completely given up on his own path. Of course, considering his age and serious injuries, this was a wise choice.

Lu Cheng nodded when he heard that, and then rushed towards the City That Never Sleeps.

On the way, he dispersed the illusion of thunder and fire on his face, changed into a Taoist robe, and transformed from Lin Lie back into the identity of Lu Cheng, a disciple of Huoyun Cave Mansion.

At this time, it was already the end of the beast tide in southern Xinjiang, but there were still a few scattered beast groups, so Lu Cheng hardly met anyone else along the way and traveled alone.

Travel during the day, find a safe and secluded place to hide at night, and read Taoist books. A rainy night, a cave.

The second-level demon bear that originally lived here was beaten and driven out by Lu Cheng. At this moment, it was outside the cave in the rain, looking at the fire in the cave pitifully but not daring to get close.

Lu Cheng was sitting by the campfire reading the Five Palaces Forging Yuan Jue secret book, and gradually he understood why the Lin family cultivators were not afraid of the conflicts and clashes of their internal energy and were unable to achieve foundation building.

"All things are born from the five elements, so we absorb the energy of the five elements and integrate them into our own five organs. Fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, and water generates wood. All the energy in the world is absorbed into this. Why should we worry about impurities?"

"That's it, that's it..."

The more Lu Cheng read the secret book of the Five Palaces Tempering Yuan Jue, the more he applauded.

The Great Method of Seizing the Sky and Transforming Spirits can seize the magic power of the world. When you are in the Qi training realm, you must advance courageously and courageously. When you practice to the foundation building realm, you will enter the Five Palaces Tempering Yuan Technique. With the five qi foundation building, you can transform all the laws of the world. It is actually the most perfect foundation building method in the world.

"Unfortunately, such a miraculous skill that can take away all the changes in the world's pivots is too perfect. Since its establishment, no one in my Lin family has been able to cultivate the five qi foundation. The one who came closest to success was my great uncle who was in charge of the business. He cultivated the four qi foundations of gold, water, wood and fire, but he had exhausted his human potential." The secret book contained Lin Tianshu's comments and records. It turned out that the two core miraculous skills of the Lin family were indeed perfect in theory, but in fact, no one could really practice them.

To lay the foundation with the Five Palaces Tempering Yuan Jue method, a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training needs to collect five third-level five-element spiritual objects, preferably the inner core of a third-level monster, which is expensive and rare in itself. Then, based on one's own foundation, one can absorb the spiritual power of these five spiritual objects according to the five elements, and melt them into one's own internal organs. Every time one is melted, one can purify one kind of five-element vital energy in the body. When all five energies are melted, one can naturally refine the magic power in one's body to the utmost purity.

As the saying goes, there are five kinds of qi in the chest and three kinds of flowers on the head. The qigong practitioners and alchemists gathered in the Lin Dynasty at that time also deduced their skills according to the characteristics of ancient immortals recorded in classics.

Even after mastering it, the power of the Heaven-Snatching and Spirit-Transforming Art will increase dramatically, and you won't have to worry about the problem of mixed magic power when performing it in the future.

However, there are limits to the capacity of the meridians and the load on the physical body of a cultivator. At least in the past thousand years, no one in the Lin family of Ranmu Mountain has truly practiced the Five Palaces Tempering Yuan Art. Building a foundation with three to four Qi is already a genuine genius of the foundation-building family. Many Lin family cultivators build their foundation with one or two Qi, which is barely a human foundation, and is no different from building a foundation with the same foundation-building pills.

"Absorbing the spiritual power of five third-level spiritual creatures? Even with my meridians and physique, I will explode and die, right?" Lu Cheng practiced the Meridian-Severing Sword Qi, so he was very familiar with the upper limit of his own meridians and physique. In his estimation, even at his current level, he could only cultivate the Four Qi Foundation at most, otherwise he would die.

Using the five elements to build a foundation is a practice that is perfect in theory but almost impossible to achieve in practice.

Thinking by the campfire, when Lu Cheng regained his consciousness, the heavy rain outside the cave had stopped and the campfire beside him had gone out, leaving only curling white smoke.

When I came out of the cave, I saw that the unfortunate fat bear was still reluctant to leave his nest.

Lu Cheng simply found a piece of animal skin to use as a muzzle and rode it towards the City That Never Sleeps.

Although the speed was not very fast, he could still think about the martial arts on the bear's back. However, Lu Cheng, who was absorbed in the secrets of the martial arts, did not notice that the fat bear with a muzzle was running eastward under his butt, panting and drooling, which was so inconsistent with his own demeanor of Quanzhen.

After changing back to his own identity, Lu Cheng was no longer afraid of encountering monks from Burning Wood Mountain, the City That Never Sleeps, or even the Gu God Cult.

The identity of a disciple of Huoyun Mansion is not enough to support him to do whatever he wants, but it can ensure that these three factions will not offend him easily.

After arriving at the City That Never Sleeps, Lu Cheng let the stupid bear go.

"I don't know if you can understand, but from now on, hide in the mountains and forests to practice in peace, don't eat people and kill people, in the future, maybe you will have a chance to achieve enlightenment. If you do evil, one day a flying sword will come to your head, go."

Flying up, the young Taoist once again walked towards the City That Never Sleeps. The big bear looked at the Taoist who had been sitting on its back for a few days, and after making sure that the Taoist would not come back, it turned around and ran away.

The beast tide has just ended, and the price of monster materials in the entire City That Never Sleeps has dropped to the lowest level in decades. However, many cultivators have to trade and sell them because most of them do not have the ability to preserve monster materials for a long time.

However, for Lu Cheng, selling is a loss, but buying the Five Elements Inner Elixir is a bargain. In and out, it is relatively balanced.

After traveling outside for so many days without waiting for the hunt down of the elders of the Ranmu Mountain Lin Family, Lu Cheng is now certain that what Lin Chuanli said before was a lie and a way to create psychological pressure for him.

Therefore, he returned to Wenjianzhai and explained that he had realized the opportunity to build a foundation. He made arrangements for his three disciples and returned some of the apprentices' spirit stones. After all, they did not learn anything from him.

"Master, where are you going? Let me follow you and serve you."

He Guo's life destiny was changed by Lu Cheng, and Lu Cheng arranged for him to go to the southeast forest and practice sword-fighting in seclusion for twenty years without caring about anything else. At this moment, he was crying miserably.

"Don't blame me for being cruel. If you want to achieve something in your cultivation in the future, you have only this difficult path to take. Otherwise, you should marry Bai Fei'er from the Jinhong Sword Hall. Give up the path of cultivation. Your life is your own. As long as you don't regret it, it's fine."

"Master, I haven't learned your meteor from the sky yet!"

Xie Yan felt somewhat unwilling and reluctant to leave the young Taoist in front of him.

"Practice the Forty-Nine Swords well and develop your own Sky Meteor. Well, if you think it's appropriate, it would also be nice to create your own Sky Flying Fairy."

"Alright, alright, stop being childish, everyone. You will regret it sooner or later."

After saying this, Lu Cheng turned around and left, striding out of Wenjianzhai, and casually abandoned the sword hall he had founded, a business that brought in tens of thousands of spirit stones a year.

"Disciple, what's wrong?"

"Thank you Yan."

"Yu Liang."

"I wish the teacher good luck and prosperity!"

"Disciple, I wish the teacher good fortune and prosperity!"

All the apprentices and disciples of Wenjianzhai also bowed.

After taking care of all the aftermath, Lu Cheng, armed with a bamboo stick and wearing a Taoist robe, walked out of the city that never sleeps, step by step, towards the Chixin Temple in Shiyuan County in southern Xinjiang, and embarked on the return journey.

“The Tao is invisible, yet it gives birth to the heaven and the earth; the Tao is ruthless, yet it moves the sun and the moon; the Tao is nameless, yet it nourishes all things.” He recited it leisurely in his mouth, and his heart became firm again.

During this trip, Lu Cheng did not fly a sword, drive a beast, or take a car. He even did not use his own magic power unless it was necessary. He walked in the morning and read at night.

Thinking back on the past two years, Lu Cheng became more and more certain that cultivation requires cultivating the mind, sharpening one's heart of Taoism, and continuing to comprehend the operation of heaven and earth.

It's not that cultivation resources and techniques are not important, but if a cultivator does not see clearly into his own heart and is firm on his own path, then even if you are given unlimited resources and unique techniques, you may not be able to practice anything at all.

Haven’t you seen that the Lin family of Ranmu Mountain, who used all the strength in the world to create the two martial arts, the Dutian Hualing Dafa and the Wufu Duanyuan Jue, but over the past thousand years, no one has been able to practice them. Instead, they are entangled in them and unable to extricate themselves.

At this point, the divine power is not a treasure but a disaster. However, the Lin family cultivators are trapped in the calamity and cannot extricate themselves.

(End of this chapter)