Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 90: Sword Defeats Sword Maniac (Please collect and subscribe)

Lu Cheng usually doesn't curse unless he really can't help it:
The predecessor Lu Cheng was a cultivator. He didn't care which fellow disciple had higher cultivation or better talent, but only cared which fellow sister had bigger breasts, thin waist and long legs. Is this appropriate?

Ye Cheng was wielding two swords, controlling the sword energy to burst out, as if sword lights were blooming all over the sky, slashing down from all directions.

Lu Cheng held the magic formula in front of him: Pure Jun Gold, Medicine Master Wood, Bingpo Water, Red Flame Fire and Hidden Edge Earth. The five swords flew around his body, echoing the Five Elements Earthly True Fire in Lu Cheng's body, dispersing the sword energy coming from all directions.

But the next moment, the young man, whose eyes revealed an extremely focused and pious look, had already passed through the sword light with two swords in his hands, and crashed into Lu Cheng's Five Elements Sword Circle with a clang.

The man and the sword energy are one, as if he is wearing sword armor, and therefore naturally, he exudes a fierce and powerful aura.

Lu Cheng raised his hand, drew out the earth sword, hid the tip and held it horizontally, forcibly blocking Ye Cheng's attack.

They advanced and retreated, and then attacked each other with their swords.

In an instant, the two sides exchanged nearly a hundred moves with their swords.

Ye Cheng wielded swords with both hands, one sword was fierce and domineering, the other sword was soft and lingering. What was even more terrifying was that the two sword lights complemented each other, cooperating seamlessly and doubling their power.

This kind of close combat swordsmanship is closer to the dual cultivation of magic and martial arts, and is more dangerous than the authentic sword skills of the sword immortal lineage. It has a stronger murderous intent and is more fierce.

Compared to controlling flying swords to attack each other from a distance of several miles, this kind of close combat sword technique loses the advantage of long-range attack, but the sword speed is faster, the sword force is stronger, the sword momentum is more fierce, and the cultivator can control it more freely and directly.

Only those with a strong sword heart who can cut through the fear of life and death can control it.

However, Lu Cheng's swordsmanship is dense and tenacious. His flying sword seems to be as heavy as a thousand pounds, but when he uses it, it seems to be light as a feather. The shapes of mountains and the four seas are all in it.

"Block! Blocked?"

"That seems to be the true meaning of the earth sword energy, right? He didn't build his foundation in the earth, so how could he know the true meaning of the five elements sword?"

At this moment, even the true disciples of the previous generation who had been standing quietly on the side of the mountain wall cried out in surprise.

"What are you yelling about? Even if it's an underground foundation, the true meaning of the Five Elements Divine Sword can be comprehended later, just like Gao Hongcheng's fierce sword intent, which can help him comprehend the sword intent into momentum. But comprehending the sword intent into momentum can also cover the fierce sword intent. It all depends on the depth of the two parties' cultivation."

Third brother Xuan Ce frowned slightly and spoke to calm everyone else down so as not to lose the dignity of Huoyun Mansion.

"Moreover, even if he comprehended the Earth Sword Intent, under the 'Sword Flying Wings', the Earth Sword Intent alone cannot stop it."

Jian Feiyi is the foundation-building magical power of Ye Cheng, the seventeenth disciple of Huoyun Mansion. It can amplify and enhance the sword-controlling speed of sword cultivators. It is a simple magical power, but very powerful.

Unless Lu Cheng can fully comprehend the sword intent of the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth and cultivate the five elements divine sword, otherwise, even if he can comprehend four elements, he will be no match for Ye Cheng's Jian Feiyi.

At this time, Ye Cheng, who was fighting with Lu Cheng in close combat, had already sensed the sharp sword intent emanating from the opponent's sword.

"Earth gives birth to gold, and earth-splitting sword energy?"

Sensing this, Ye Cheng suddenly flew up, a ray of sword light carried him away at a rapid speed, and another ray of sword light suddenly changed, slashing down like a dragon.

A flying dragon from the sky, kill with one strike!

At this moment, Lu Cheng's long-accumulated earth-splitting sword energy slashed out, and the swords of both sides collided, making a clanging sound.

In Huoyun Mansion, Qigong practitioners begin to learn the way of the sword and practice the Twelve Basic Sword Techniques of Chiji, which include nine defenses, two attacks, and one change. This is to give disciples a preliminary ability to protect themselves. At the same time, the sword technique contains more defense than attack, which is also meant to encourage disciples to go down the mountain less and cause trouble in the Qigong realm, and concentrate on practicing Taoism.

However, after reaching the foundation building stage, the foundation building cultivators of Huoyun Mansion can practice the advanced Twelve Styles of Chiji Sword Technique, which consists of nine attacks, two defenses, and one change. These techniques complement the entry-level sword techniques and are able to combine offense and defense, or even be strong in offense and weak in defense. They begin to show the characteristics of the sword immortal lineage.

Furthermore, disciples who have cultivated to this level can comprehend the sword techniques of various sects in the world collected by Teacher Chi Shenzi in the book cave, thereby absorbing all the knowledge and increasing their foundation.

Ye Cheng is a sword fanatic. Apart from swordsmanship, he does not learn any other magic and does not know any magic. Apart from swordsmanship, he only cares about the essence and purity of things.

At this moment, he was in high spirits. His sword techniques changed continuously, and he moved around Lu Cheng in a flash. He used twenty-four sets of sword techniques in one breath. Each one was profound and unfathomable, and each one was subtle and powerful.

However, Lu Cheng's five flying swords switched: pulling, dragging, blocking, hitting, stabbing, pointing, collapsing, stirring, washing, pressing, and chopping. One sword was attacked and defended after another. These were the simplest and most basic sword techniques, but they were so flawless. Twenty-four sets of superb and exquisite sword techniques were all useless!
Ye Cheng swooped down from time to time, reversing the sword's path, turning the strong into the soft, and the soft into the strong. The two swords combined the yin and yang, turning into infinite sword power, bombarding all directions, like the yin and yang breaking through the dawn and the rising sun, destroying all enemies.

This is the killer move in his swordsmanship.

But Lu Cheng didn't give him the chance at all. Every time the sword light was moving, Ye Cheng was forced to keep a distance. Once the distance was increased, he could not use the Yin-Yang Breaking Dusk and Dawn move. This was because although this move was powerful, its attack range was very limited.

The sharpness of metal, the entanglement of wood, the vastness of water, the violence of fire, and the heaviness of earth.

In front of everyone, Lu Cheng displayed the true meaning of the Five Elements Divine Sword one move after another. At this moment, even his senior brothers from the previous generation, such as Xuan Ce and Yi Bin, looked surprised and suspicious.

"Five Elements Divine Sword, isn't he building a foundation in Heavenly Dao?"

"No, it is indeed the true meaning of the Five Elements Divine Sword that he comprehended later. Look at his Qi channels and the traces of his foundation building. It is indeed..."

"What a waste! He could have built a foundation in the Heavenly Dao, so why did he want to be so greedy for those few years?"

"It may be due to the chaos in southern Xinjiang and the situation at the time."

On the cliff, the senior brothers and sisters of the previous generation were talking there.

From above, the voice of the Red God Patriarch came over again: "The five energies are like a wheel, which can create and destroy all laws in the world. Lu Cheng, I asked you to use all your strength, but why is it that all you use is the swordsmanship of the Fire Cloud Mansion? Didn't you go down the mountain for nothing in the past twenty years?"

Hearing this, everyone in the mountain fell silent. They stared at the person in the field. Hasn't this person used all his strength yet?

"Master, you are roasting your disciple on the fire!"

Lu Cheng sighed in his heart, but he waved his hands and circulated the five elements flying swords around him, spinning and spreading sword energy, causing Ye Cheng, who was approaching close to him, to wield the sword frantically and was unable to cope with it.

At this moment, Lu Cheng flashed and came close to Ye Cheng. Ye Cheng reacted instantly and changed his sword to attack, but was avoided by Lu Cheng who was also proficient in swordsmanship and placed his palm on Ye Cheng's elbow.

"what……"

People around could see that the muscles at Ye Cheng's elbows were constantly rising and falling, as if something was rapidly flowing into Lu Cheng's body. Everyone present was a person from the Xuanmen sect with strong cultivation. With their Dharma eyes, they could see that the vitality of heaven and earth in that place seemed to have a huge chaotic hole.

"Ranmu Mountain, the Heaven-stealing Spirit Transformation Technique! How can it be so powerful!"

Ye Cheng was devout in swordsmanship, and his mind and will were extremely strong. Even he could not help crying out in pain at the beginning. It can be imagined that if he were an ordinary cultivator, he would have fainted from the severe pain at this moment, completely losing the ability to resist and being at the mercy of others.

The black and white entangled sword light flashed brightly at the junction of their bodies and quickly poured into Lu Cheng's body. Ye Cheng's forehead was covered with cold sweat, but he quickly calmed down. With a low shout, he used all his strength to drive a large amount of sword energy into Lu Cheng's body. Lu Cheng's expression changed slightly, and he took a step back and gently exhaled.

Ye Cheng took this opportunity to escape, and with a pale face, he used his sword to escape again, putting some distance between the two sides.

But this time, Lu Cheng no longer needed to hide this martial art. As he stretched out his hand, a third-grade, top-grade Star-Capture Ring flew out from his side.

This treasure was obtained from the Burning Wood Forest and was refined by Lin Qingfeng's fiancée Luo Peifang for many years and was upgraded to a third-level magic weapon.

In the direction of the Star-Capture Ring, a huge chaotic hole suddenly appeared in the energy of heaven and earth. Ye Cheng was enveloped in it, and several strands of magic power in his body were forcibly extracted and thrown into the magic ring. His face became paler.

"It's amazing. His foundation and will are both strong. Even in such extreme pain, he was able to calm down quickly and think of a way to break the spell... If he was an ordinary cultivator, he would have been turned into mud just by that blow."

Lu Cheng sighed in his heart, but with just these two draws, his own mana not only fully recovered to its peak, but even increased in a short period of time. Moreover, he had the Great Five Elements Earthly Extreme True Fire in his body to refine all the methods, so Lu Cheng had no flaws in the Heaven-stealing Spiritual Transformation Method.

“Hahahaha, it’s the old Taoist who is too impatient. If the fight lasted a little longer and Lu Cheng consumed more of his magic power, Little Seventeen would not be able to escape at all. It’s the old Taoist who is taking sides.”

As if he couldn't bear to see Ye Cheng do anything good, the Red God Patriarch was still clapping his hands and laughing, giving Ye Cheng another stab in the heart. At this time, Xuan Ce, Yi Bin and others gradually understood their teacher's thoughts.

"Junior Brother Seventeen is already very good. Aren't you afraid of breaking the sword by polishing it like this?" Yi Bin said with a sigh.

"If it's not a divine sword, how can the teacher personally polish it? It seems that this Junior Brother Ye and Junior Brother Lu, both of them have the hope of forming a golden elixir like the eldest brother, and laying the most solid foundation for the establishment of our Huoyun Mansion. They both have the opportunity to help the teacher..."

When it came to this, Third Senior Brother Xuan Ce's expression became a little gloomy.

Yi Bin was talking here, seeing this, he quickly changed the subject and said:

“I never thought that the Burning Wood Mountain Lin Family, one of the sixteen evil sects in the world, has pursued the most perfect Heaven-stealing Spiritual Transformation Technique for a thousand years, and has completed it in my junior brother. Heaven-stealing Spiritual Transformation, combined with the Earthly Extreme True Fire that refines all things, is indeed not inferior to any Heavenly Dao Foundation Building Technique, and the difficulty of cultivation is greatly reduced. For a family of immortal cultivators…”

"Even if the Lin family practices and deduce for another 10,000 years, they will never be able to achieve this level of the Heaven-stealing Spirit Transformation Technique. To achieve this level of cultivation, the most important thing is to 'go from evil to Taoism'. The Lin family is one of the sixteen evil sects in the world and they are proud of it. Do you think the disciples they train can go from evil to Taoism?"

Xuan Ce sneered and made a judgment for the Lin family of Ranmu Mountain. It was indeed true. As long as the twelve people taught by Chi Shen Zi were still practicing Taoism in the mountains, they all had the confidence to chat about the Lin family.

On the other hand, even though his magic power was greatly damaged and he was in a desperate situation, Ye Cheng's eyes were still as tough as before. After the sword fight and the sword skills just now, and then being extracted twice by Lu Cheng, Ye Cheng's magic power was less than 30%. However, he used this less than 30% of his magic power to maintain the same powerful fighting power as at the beginning, and even better than before.

The two swords are like snakes, the sword lights rotate as fast as a hurricane and as heavy as a rainstorm!

Clank clang clang clang clang, the figures of both sides were entangled with sword lights, and for a short time, it was still difficult to separate them.

The combat power of a cultivator is related to or has nothing to do with the number of magic weapons he has. A cultivator who can be called "rich" is generally not weak in combat power. But there are also cultivators who are pure and unique, sweeping the world with just one sword.

Ye Cheng is good at using two swords, and Lu Cheng belongs to the Qi Sect and can control five swords with five Qis. However, these are just appearances. The real core combat power lies in the two people's skills, will, and sword heart.

Lu Cheng's Tao heart includes the sword heart. He believes that this is part of his own strength. In comparison, Ye Cheng's sword heart is purer.

It seemed that there was no option of surrender in his mind, so he swept the sky with one sword and turned it into clouds to cover the sun and confuse the enemy, and the other sword turned into wind to kill the enemy, and the two swords worked together perfectly.

But Lu Cheng's sword was high in the clouds, completely unaffected by any temptation. It was ethereal and sharp, with rapid changes and erratic sword light, forcing Ye Cheng to pay full attention at all times.

If you fail to confuse the enemy and kill him by a sudden attack, then use your double swords to stab him repeatedly.

Continuous dripping water wears away the stone.

But Lu Cheng's swordsmanship is also ever-changing, like white stone, like flowing water, like waves, converging into the sea, counterattacking the enemy... They are all wonderful moves, beyond words.

The sword moves changed again. It was no longer a close combat sword technique, but a free-hand chain sword attack. This was already an exquisite sword technique in the mortal world. When combined with close combat sword control, it was extremely powerful.

However, as sharp as the sword's heart is, the cultivator's body still has its limits after all.

Ding. Ding.

Ye Cheng focused and attacked with his sword again, but this time his two swords fell to the ground one after another, and then his feet went soft and he suddenly fell down.

Lu Cheng, who was standing right in front of him, picked him up.

"Master, Senior Brother Ye has exhausted his spiritual consciousness and magical power and has fainted."

This is why Lu Cheng does not practice swordsmanship purely. After all, this world is material and objective. It is not the case that one can break anything just by pointing the sword.

Taoism is objective. One has to comprehend, think, verify, and then practice it on oneself. Lu Cheng always feels that the sword cultivation tradition of Huoyun Mansion is too extreme.

If a sword is sharpened too sharply, it will be very powerful but also easy to break.

"Hahahahahaha."

Upon hearing this, Chi Shen Zi laughed out loud, and suddenly his whole body turned into a red rainbow and disappeared into the sky.

At this time, Ye Mingru flew over quickly and picked up her younger brother. She was the older sister, but she ranked eighteenth in the sect. Ye Cheng was the younger brother, but he ranked seventeenth in the sect. The latter were ranked according to the order in which the master accepted disciples.

"Thank you, Junior Brother Lu."

"Sister, you're welcome."

After all, they hadn't seen each other for more than 20 years, and Lu Cheng had just returned on the first day of the new year and defeated three people in a row. Everyone looked at him with some strange eyes.

There were expressions of amazement, doubt, admiration, and hostility, so everyone dispersed, but no one came to talk to Lu Cheng again.

…………

A disciple who was not very outstanding originally traveled outside for twenty years. When he came back, he defeated the best disciple of the sect.

This matter will undoubtedly be a thorn in everyone's heart.

Therefore, in the following days, Lu Cheng faced challenges one after another.

Especially the few true disciples of the previous generation, who challenged through the hands of their junior brothers and sisters, did use various sophisticated methods to restrain Lu Cheng's Five Elements Swordsmanship to a certain extent.

But it was useless in the end. This repeated and continuous challenge continued until the third brother Xuan Ce came forward to warn others:
"Although Junior Brother Lu has been away for some years, he is still a fellow disciple of ours. What have you been doing these days?"

With this person coming forward, things finally calmed down.

At the same time, Third Senior Brother Xuan Ce also asked all the disciples of Huoyun Mansion to keep their mouths shut about the sword fight that day.

It's not that he was afraid of losing face for Huoyun Mansion, but there was no need to expose the methods of his fellow disciples because of such a thing.

As for stealing the Burning Wood Mountain skills?
That would require the Ranmu Mountain, one of the sixteen evil sects in the world, to dare to come to Huoyun Mansion to reason.

Although Lu Cheng didn't understand what Chi Shen Zi was thinking, with the suppression of his third senior brother Xuan Ce, as time went by, Lu Cheng would gradually integrate into Huoyun Mansion and become a member of the eight major sects in the world again.

In particular, in addition to the first twelve and the last twelve, during the twenty years that Lu Cheng left the mountain, Chi Shen Zi also accepted the last four disciples.

These four people are very close to Lu Cheng. When Lu Cheng defeated Ye Cheng, the sword fanatic, the other fellow disciples might feel a little strange, but these four people just admired Lu Cheng's swordsmanship.

"Brother Lu, the Fire Cloud Dharma Assembly will be held in half a month. Why don't you go and participate and earn some magical instruments and spirit stones?"

Guan Linxiang, Xia Xixiao, Xu Hanxiang, and Xu Xinyu were the last four disciples accepted by Master Chi Shen Zi.

I don’t know if it was to alleviate the completely unbalanced situation of more men than women in Huoyun Mansion, but two of the four disciples that Master finally accepted were Kun cultivators.

Lu Cheng, who was reading a book, raised his head upon hearing this and looked at the four people who were grinning foolishly in front of him. Then he lowered his head and said:

"I was wondering why you guys kept coming to my place during this period. It turns out you wanted to get me to work for you for free."

Huoyun Mansion has no shortage of spirit stones and low- and medium-level magical instruments, but those belong to the sect, and sect disciples will not receive rewards from their teacher for no reason, so if they want to have more money on hand, they still have to earn the spirit stones for magical instruments on their own.

The Fire Cloud Dharma Assembly is a trading ceremony held by the second and third rate sects that rely on the Fire Cloud Mansion. At the same time, they will also give some commissions that they cannot complete by themselves to the disciples of the Fire Cloud Mansion who go down the mountain to gain experience. Master Chi Shen Zi usually doesn't care about such things, as long as what is done does not violate the rules of the sect.

"Brother Lu, what are you talking about? If you bring us along, then he will definitely get the lion's share. The four of us just want to follow him and see the world."

The four kids were talking and winking at each other, and they came forward to rub legs or tap backs, very attentive.

(End of this chapter)