Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 89 Ye Cheng
"The sun is also the law of destruction, the law of creation, the law of the golden elixir, and the secret of the elixir. The first is opposition, the second is fusion, and the most important is sublimation... Therefore, destruction and creation, the exchange of yin and yang, sublimation and illumination of the self-path."

"Why do Jindan Zhenren realm cultivators have forty-nine tribulations? Why don't lower-grade and middle-grade Jindan cultivators have forty-nine tribulations?"

"It is probably because the Supreme Golden Elixir Master swallowed the true energy of heaven and earth, and offended the heavens, causing the heavens to punish him. The heart of heaven is in chaos, and it does not know what it wants or needs."

"Earthly Evil and Heavenly Gang are the treasures of the true breath of heaven and earth. Only when they are released by the method of the Great Sun can the golden elixir be obtained."

At the end of this sermon, Chi Shen Zi began to explain the secrets of the Golden Elixir Way.

This is the highest method in the current cultivation world, but all the cultivators present were confused and found it difficult to fully comprehend it.

Lu Cheng has lived two lives as a human being, so his horizons are much broader than those of the cultivators in this world. However, even if he combines the knowledge from his previous life, he can only vaguely understand and analyze:
"The explanation of the Great Sun's Law is nothing but a nuclear fusion reaction. In other words, the Earthly Evils and Heavenly Gangs are the fuel that produces fusion. Through continuous practice, the immortal cultivators can produce controllable nuclear fusion in their bodies, thus possessing the power to move mountains and fill the sea, and gaining immortality."

"Mass-energy conversion. As long as 100% of the mass of the golden elixir is converted into energy, it won't be a problem to destroy a star with one strike, but it will be no problem to wipe out one-fifth of it with one sword."

Lu Cheng only used the knowledge he already had to analyze and understand, but he did not think that the science of his previous life was superior to the Taoism of this life.

In the previous life, the world had developed to the Martian era, and the lifespan of humans had not been greatly improved. But in this world, with his current Taoist cultivation, he already has a lifespan more than twice that of the previous life, not to mention the Jiuli Ding in his body that seems to be able to evolve an infinite world.

It brings itself into this world, beyond the scope of known scientific explanation.

Therefore, Lu Cheng did not regard what he was thinking at the time as the truth/answer, but chose to keep his teacher's words in mind, hoping to explain them from a Taoist perspective in the future.

The lesson was over. If it had been any other time, Teacher Chi Shen Zi would have turned into a red rainbow and flew away.

But today, the old Taoist sitting on a high rock shifted his gaze and fell on Lu Cheng.

"It is a taboo for people who practice Taoism to sit and talk about the mysteries of the mind and nature. Lu Cheng, you have practiced swordsmanship for ten years and traveled thousands of miles to transform a bad land into a peaceful and prosperous world. Today, you should stand up and demonstrate your own gains to your brothers and sisters, so that they will not be arrogant in this deep mountain valley and think that they are already sword immortals."

"I will obey Master's decree."

Upon hearing this, Lu Cheng first bowed deeply, and then a sword light flashed out from his sleeve, bringing him to the wide central venue. At this moment, he was already holding the Red Flame Sword.

After being away from the mountains for many years, a test of cultivation is inevitable. To put it in a good way, it is to measure the level of cultivation so that the teacher knows which aspect to teach next.

Think of the worst... Lu Cheng closed his eyes and concentrated, and the next moment when he opened his eyes, he saw a sharp and fierce look.

Just this scene made several disciples of the previous generation on the cliff nearby nod secretly.

"The swordsman's heart is pure. Junior Brother Lu originally had no talent in swordsmanship, but I didn't expect that after going down the mountain to practice, he would make such great progress."

Xuan Ce, the third senior brother of the previous generation, said this with his arms folded.

"Junior Brother Lu has spent twenty years transforming a barren land in southern Xinjiang into a paradise for humanity. This external merit has accumulated profound merits and has also sharpened his own heart of Taoism. Third Senior Brother, take a good look at this. Perhaps Junior Brother Lu's performance will be beyond your expectations."

Yi Bin's injuries had obviously been suppressed. At least he wouldn't vomit blood for no reason anymore. He had seen Lu Cheng use a sword and knew that his level was amazing.

"Who will fight with Lu Cheng?"

Chi Shen Zi did not designate who would fight, but asked this.

"I come."

The sword flashed, and a young man appeared in front of Lu Cheng.

He is a young man, with alertness and intelligence between his eyebrows, his long black hair is casually scattered, and his bright eyes under his thick eyebrows are sparkling with curiosity and vitality.

"Senior Brother Lu, long time no see. I am Gao Hongcheng. I wonder if you still remember me."

"Brother Gao, please."

Lu Cheng did not respond much to Gao Hongcheng's questions. He was afraid that Chi Shen Zi would find out his true identity, so he studied all the memories of his predecessor Lu Cheng, including this Gao Hongcheng.

Lu Cheng ranked twentieth in the sect, with only four people who joined the sect one or two years later than him. At that time, Lu Cheng wanted to put on airs as a senior brother of the sect, but within a few years, these four younger brothers and sisters who joined the sect later caught up with or surpassed him in magical powers and cultivation, which was very embarrassing.

Lu Cheng didn't want to settle the old accounts left by his predecessor. He held the Red Flame Sword horizontally in his hand, intending to speak with the sword and rebuild his reputation in the sect.

The most real strength is more effective than any false rhetoric.

When Gao Hongcheng saw Lu Cheng's attitude, he stopped talking.

With a low shout, he merged his body with the sword.

"Go!"

With a clang, the sharp sword was unsheathed.

The sword light that struck was like a raging fire, as fast as lightning. Just this one sword showed the extremely high level of the sword cultivation disciples of Huoyun Mansion.

clang.

Lu Cheng blocked with his sword, and the two swords collided.

A fierce murderous aura came through the sword. If it were an ordinary cultivator, this sword intent would shock his mind and slow down his consciousness.

"Sword Intent Becomes Power!?"

"No, that's not right. This is his Earth Sword ability. It's a bit like the weakening of the Sword Intent."

Cut with the sword! Cut with the sword! Cut with the sword again! Cut with the sword!
Thousands of times of practice, finally bursting out at this moment!
The sword light flashes!

Gao Hongcheng followed the sword light and at this moment was wandering in the air around Lu Cheng. He wielded the sword like a rainstorm and a gust of wind, as if to devour everything.

As for Lu Cheng, he controlled the Red Flame Sword, and his sword light moved freely without any leaks, which was also extremely spectacular.

"It's amazing. Gao Hongcheng's fierce sword intent is best at using the strong to attack the weak and to overwhelm others. I didn't expect that Senior Brother Lu was not affected at all. It seems that the past twenty years of travel have not been in vain. He has made great progress."

"Yes."

There were whispers coming from all around.

These cultivators in Huoyun Cave Mansion are all the pride of the Tongxuan Realm.

After the war between the two worlds, this world entered an era of great destruction. Tens of thousands of years later, chaos began again, causing the clear air to rise and the turbid air to descend between heaven and earth. The innate qi resided in it, allowing all living things to practice Taoism.

But everyone's innate aptitudes are still strong or weak.

All of these young cultivators in Huoyun Cave Mansion were selected by Chi Shen Zi from thousands of miles away. According to the standards of the previous era, they were either cultivators with natural spiritual roots or cultivators with single spiritual roots. The worst were cultivators with two spiritual roots. Those worse would not be accepted.

Such a group of young people were brought to the mountain by a Jindan Zhenren, who carefully taught them the Taoism and provided them with all the necessary skills and resources.

It is very common to build a foundation in one's twenties, and those who have not built a foundation will be driven down the mountain and cannot serve as the foundation for a sect.

For example, Gao Hongcheng, who was fighting with Lu Cheng at this time, was a young man in his forties, a young cultivator, with the fourth level of foundation building cultivation. He had cultivated the underground foundation and obtained the ferocious sword power. If he was outside, he would be like Xie Yan of the Xie family, who was hailed as a thousand-year-old unicorn.

This is the difference between the top sects and ordinary cultivation forces. However, even so, the Red God Son Patriarch did not seem satisfied.

At this time, everyone was amazed at the sword fight between the two people in the middle of the field, but from high in the sky came the somewhat dissatisfied voice of the old Taoist in red robes:

"Lu Cheng, your master asks you to give it your all."

Hearing the sound, the whole audience was in an uproar.

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, but no one dared to question the teacher's authority.

Because the teacher can never be wrong, so, that guy in the field, he didn’t try his best at all?
How much strength did he use? Seven points, or eight points? Was he more cautious? Did he prefer the defensive and counter-attacking style?

"I will obey Master's decree."

Hearing this, Lu Cheng no longer dared to observe the sword movement of his twenty-third junior brother Gao Hongcheng. Instead, he swung his sword and used his powerful magic power to counterattack Gao Hongcheng, forcing him and his flying sword to fall back.

When he looked surprised and wanted to attack back with his sword again.

The red flaming flying sword in Lu Cheng's hand flew back into his sleeve, and then five colors of light, green, red, white, yellow and black, flowed and changed in the Taoist's sleeves, gradually turning into a ball of light and converging in the center: boom.

Gao Hongcheng, who was flying the sword to counterattack, felt his eyes light up. The next moment, the sword flashed in front of his eyes, and he was pulled to the cliff where his senior brother from the previous generation was standing.

Boom! The five-colored sword energy exploded, blasting the cliff behind Gao Hongcheng into pieces.

"...Mumble" Gao Hongcheng stared at the huge deep pit in silence and swallowed subconsciously.

"There are so many people watching you, don't waste your time. Ye Mingru, you go ahead."

It was obvious that Patriarch Chi Shen Zi didn't think that Gao Hongcheng had any chance of defeating Lu Cheng. The battle just now was intended to strike a blow at the arrogance of the disciples in Huoyun Mansion.

"I will obey Master's decree."

Beside the waterfall, among the disciples, a female cultivator with a beautiful appearance and extraordinary beauty stood up and flew in front of Lu Cheng with a sword.

"Meet Junior Brother Lu, please."

The teacher obviously didn't want to waste too much time. Although Ye Mingru wanted to chat with this junior fellow student whom she hadn't seen for more than 20 years, she still suppressed her thoughts.

"Senior Sister Mingru, please."

Clang.

The flying sword at Ye Mingru's waist came out with a clang, and what he cut out was a colorful sword light like a rainbow.

To ordinary cultivators, it was just the glow of a rosy cloud entering the sheath and the sword energy appearing like a thousand illusions. However, Lu Cheng has been practicing the art of the five senses and six consciousnesses over the years. His pupils narrowed slightly and he saw that a flying sword stabbed out first, and then translucent illusory swords appeared on its left and right sides.

"One sword with a thousand illusions, infinite changes?"

Everyone present was a sword practitioner, so they naturally understood the power of the sword's changing light and avoiding the real and attacking the fake.

Lu Cheng waved his sleeves, and five brilliant lights appeared and disappeared in the void behind him. They were blue, red, yellow, white and black. They stood proudly like five sharp swords, with light flowing.

As Ye Mingru's Thousand Illusion Sword Lights attacked, above Lu Cheng's head, the five five-colored sword lights crisscrossed, stabbing and attacking each other like dragons, and seemed to cooperate with each other to form a sword formation.

Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang...

It was clearly just two people fighting with swords, but there was the sound of thousands of swords clashing. No matter how many sword lights Ye Mingru conjured up, Lu Cheng's five-colored sword lights seemed to be able to swallow them all. The sword energy was born and died, endlessly.

"He has practiced a spiritual cultivation technique that allows him to control five flying swords at the same time?"

"No, it's a very sophisticated sword-wielding skill, just like a folk artist who can catch and throw dozens of balls with one pair of hands and pass them back and forth. In fact, he can only control three flying swords at the same time, but he controls them one by one and passes them back and forth to form this effect."

"What if someone uses their spiritual power to directly seize the flying sword?"

"You haven't figured it out yet? He has already mastered the sword power. If he strikes at the spiritual consciousness with a sword, and attacks the mind directly, he might be defeated with just one sword."

If Lu Cheng used this set of sword techniques outside for one or two hundred years, perhaps no one would be able to discover the basics of it. However, in the Huoyun Cave, he was discovered after just one use.

But even if it is seen through, Lu Cheng’s swordsmanship is not afraid of being seen by others.

"Senior Sister Ye, your Thousand Illusions Sword Technique cannot break my Five Elements Sword Formation. I will take the lead."

Over the years, Lu Cheng has possessed the power of the five elements, and spent a large sum of money to purchase a top-grade five-element third-level flying sword. His purpose is to use the sword to circulate Qi, and use the Qi to nourish the sword, so that the two can benefit each other.

Now that he has achieved preliminary success, these five third-grade top-quality flying swords have been refined by him day after day until they are in harmony with his own swords and can be controlled by his mind. Although he is still unable to break free of the limitation of the spiritual consciousness of cultivators of the same realm who can only effectively manipulate three magical instruments of the same grade, and he himself can only effectively control three swords at the same time, the effect of one person setting up the formation is still powerful. It is extremely difficult for ordinary cultivators to break this five-element sword formation. If they are not careful, they will be hit in the heart by Lu Cheng's sword intent and defeated immediately.

He lunged forward, pressed his five fingers in the air, and as the sleeves of his Taoist robe fluttered, five colors of sword light shot out: green, red, yellow, white, and black. Although he had received Lu Cheng's warning before, the speed of the sword light still made Ye Mingru's expression change drastically. In almost the instant, he dodged the sword lights with his sword.

Boom boom boom boom.

The huge explosion behind him indirectly reflected the powerful force of the flying sword.

Ye Mingru no longer felt that he was fighting a sword duel, but that the opponent was swinging five huge hammers and smashing towards him fiercely.

"What's wrong with this guy? I can't block this kind of sword light. If I try to block it, I will definitely die."

Ye Mingru, who was present, also quickly understood the key to Lu Cheng's simultaneous use of five flying swords, but from Ye Mingru's perspective:

Lu Cheng was just like a giant monkey with three heads and six arms, holding five big sticks and roaring at him.

If at this time there was a senior brother beside him shouting: "Mingru, go to the middle, that's his weakness."

Even a Kun cultivator like Ye Mingru, who has great cultivation, would probably curse in his heart: I have to dare to go, it won't matter if I cut him, but I'll be dead if he touches me.

If Lu Cheng followed his own wishes, he would give his senior sister some respect and beat her for a while to make her give up.

But at this moment, feeling the gaze of the Red God Patriarch behind him, Lu Cheng sighed in his heart and had to destroy the flower with ruthless means.

At the same realm, the sword-escaping speed of a cultivator who has combined man and sword cannot be faster than the speed of a pure flying sword killing.

Therefore, even though Ye Mingru's movements were erratic and her sword skills were exquisite, when Lu Cheng did not move and she had to fly around, the relative speed difference widened rapidly.

When the speed difference reached a certain level, Lu Cheng raised his finger and in an instant the five elements of sword power changed and superimposed, earth gave birth to gold, gold gave birth to water, and water gave birth to wood. The Red Flame Flying Sword among the Five Elements Flying Swords took on a large amount of wood element magic power and fired with a bang.

It turned into a red light, like a dragon soaring into the sky, and swept Ye Mingru down with a sword.

Of course, just before the sword light actually hit him, Ye Mingru, like Gao Hongcheng before him, was taken away by his senior brothers and sisters in the Liangang realm who were standing beside him.

"Master, I have accomplished my mission."

After winning two games in a row, Lu Cheng turned around and saluted.

"Five Qis Converging to Origin, Five Elements Sword Qi! It is indeed very exquisite, but it is not enough to sweep across my Huoyun Mansion and become invincible, Ye Cheng."

Following the order of the Red God Son, a young cultivator who was originally sitting next to Ye Mingru stood up.

Lu Cheng originally thought that it was over, but he didn't expect that his master was still interested.

"Just doing this, if I keep winning, Master doesn't intend to let me gain a foothold in Huoyun Mansion? If I continue to fight, I will be fine, right?"

While Lu Cheng was thinking, the disciples of Huoyun Mansion were also in an uproar. Because Lu Cheng had left the mountain 20 years ago, he didn't know.

It is impossible for the disciples of the previous generation to take action. Among the twelve disciples first accepted by the ancestor Chi Shenzi, some have been practicing Taoism for hundreds of years. As long as they are still practicing Taoism in the mountains, their cultivation level is at least Nengsha Realm. Among the twelve disciples accepted later, Gao Hongcheng and Ye Mingru were not bad, but among these twelve people, only the seventeenth disciple Ye Cheng had established the foundation of Heavenly Dao.

There was a wealthy cultivator family called the Ye family in the Tang Dynasty. They had been doing business for generations and had accumulated countless wealth. The current head of the family, Ye Yinglin, offered the family's entire fortune as a betrothal gift to a Taoist cultivator and asked him to accept his two children as disciples. The two children were: Ye Cheng and Ye Mingru, a brother and sister.

All the assets accumulated by the Ye family for seven generations belonged to the Huoyun Mansion from then on, but people all praised Ye Yinglin as a business genius.

Because his son Ye Cheng has been practicing Taoism in the mountains for forty years, building a foundation in the Heavenly Dao, and becoming famous in the Tongxuan Realm. He is truly a genius that only appears once in a thousand years.

In fact, if Ye Cheng had not been so gifted in cultivation, Chi Shen Zi would not have cared about the Ye family's seven generations of foundation, let alone the seventieth generation, let alone accepting a stupid disciple.

With the support of Huoyun Mansion, one of the world's top sects, the Ye family's business is spread all over the world. As long as they are right, no one dares to be unreasonable with the Ye family.

Compared with Mingru's exquisite beauty, Ye Cheng looks more like an old farmer in the fields. He is not ordinary-looking, but a little ugly.

But after he saluted and grasped the sword, a pious and sacred glow appeared on this ugly man.

他 说:

"Junior Brother Lu Cheng, please!"

At this moment, Lu Cheng seemed to feel a flash of lightning, which illuminated the entire sky:
The sky is filled with murderous intent! Dragons and snakes are dancing!

The lights of the two swords bloomed like a flame explosion, and the center of the explosion was Ye Cheng. The swords slashed in all directions like arc-shaped fireworks, forming sword lights. Their density and speed seemed beyond human control.

Layer upon layer, they all attacked Lu Cheng.

"It feels like you really want to kill me!"

Lu Cheng looked into Ye Cheng's eyes with some surprise, but all he could see was piety!
The more pious, the more killing!

This person is completely devoted to swordsmanship. He can't see that Lu Cheng was completely incompetent in Huoyun Mansion back then. In his memory, he only remembers that Ye Mingru was beautiful. His memory about Ye Cheng is: that guy is a fool.

"Lu Cheng, you idiot!"

(End of this chapter)