Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 92 Blood Refining
"Let's go to the Huang family first. After all, they have paid 100,000 spirit stones. But we can't just go there directly, so as not to alert the enemy and cause unnecessary trouble."

Guan Linxiang said this carefully.

"Well, let's hide near the Huang family first and see if there's a chance to insert a communication talisman and bring us in silently with the help of the insiders and the outsiders."

After finalizing the strategy, the group of five hid in seclusion near the Huang family. Then, when a batch of communication talismans flew into the Huang family, Lu Cheng took action and mixed in a communication talisman to inform the Huang family cultivators that the cultivators from the Huoyun Mansion had arrived.

That night, the group of five successfully entered the Huang family through the closed defense formation path as agreed.

"My name is Huang Qingyan, nice to meet the five senior cultivators."

Madam Huang is thin and looks like a trembling old woman, but she holds a silver dragon-headed cane in her hand, which shows her extraordinary spirituality.

Although she said that she had met the five senior cultivators, there was some hesitation in Madam Huang's eyes after she stood up, especially the men and women following her, who looked alert.

After all, I have long heard that the Taoist monks in the Huoyun Mansion are very powerful, but among the four sisters of the Guan, Xia, and Xu family, only Guan Linxiang and Xu Hanxiang have already achieved the foundation building stage, and their magic power is still far weaker than that of Madam Huang who has already reached the fifth level of the foundation building stage. Only Lu Cheng looks capable, but he is also alone and weak.

"We have accepted the commission from Qianxiu Dharma Assembly and have come here to investigate the evil cultivators who have kidnapped people. Please cooperate with the investigation."

Lu Cheng had no interest in intrigues with them. He took out the letter of authorization and at the same time, a majestic and extremely sharp sword intent emanated from his body. This was a unique skill that was more effective than any other proof: sword intent became momentum.

Which sword cultivator who is able to cultivate sword intent and power in the foundation-building realm would come to this remote place to cheat a small immortal cultivation family?
"I am negligent. The five senior cultivators have traveled a long way for the affairs of my Huang family. Have you not had a good rest yet?"

Under the fierce sword intent, Madam Huang's expression and attitude changed drastically. Although she was not rude before, she could be said to be arrogant at first and respectful later at this moment.

"No need, we ..."

When he said this, Lu Cheng thought of something and glanced at his fellow apprentices who looked a little tired. He then said, "Since we are already here, there is no need to rush. Let's arrange for my fellow apprentices to rest first."

The purpose of this trip is not for spiritual stones, nor for self-cultivation, but to train these junior brothers and sisters. Making them tired before going into battle is a kind of training, and making them energetic and able to use their full strength is also a kind of training.

"The five senior cultivators are welcome to come quickly."

Old Madam Huang was personally in charge of the reception, and although more members of the Huang family were not disturbed at Lu Cheng's suggestion, four clean rooms were quickly cleaned out for the Xu sisters to live in together.

Seeing the five senior cultivators from Huoyun Mansion staying there, Old Madam Huang's eyes flickered. She gently waved her hand and called over a capable family member beside her, and whispered in her ear.

That night, Lu Cheng was meditating on his bed, practicing his Dao.

When one cultivates to his level, the five energies in the body are sufficient. Even if he sleeps for one or two hours a day, the effect is much better than an ordinary person sleeping for a whole night. He is full of energy and vitality every day, and has nearly twice as much life as others.

At this moment, there was the sound of wind outside the room accompanied by very light footsteps, and then there was a slight sound from outside the door:
"May you be well, Immortal Master. I was sent by my grandmother to serve you." A clear, elegant and soft voice sounded outside the door.

"No need, go down and rest."

This is not his own cave. Lu Cheng is not practicing martial arts but is instead honing his magic power, so he can speak at any time.

An hour later, Lu Cheng's practice was completed.

There was still a slight sound coming from outside the door. Lu Cheng frowned slightly, walked forward to open the door, and sure enough, he saw a girl in a white gauze dress squatting at the door sobbing.

It wasn't fake crying, my eyes were swollen from crying. Even if it was acting, I put my heart and soul into it.

"Sure enough, it's the same thing again."

When Lu Cheng was running the Chixin Temple, there were cultivator families who offered spiritual stones, magic tools, martial arts secrets, and even the beautiful Kun Xiu in order to seek protection.

Now they have changed their identities, but the true teachings of the previous sect seem to be more worthy of these small families' huge investments.

"I don't know what your family promised you, but I have no interest in it tonight. You can stay in this room for one night. As for how much benefit you can get, it depends on your own ability."

The beautiful and charming lady in white was stunned when she heard the words. Then she bowed and said sadly, "Thank you for your understanding."

So, Lu Cheng and the woman meditated in the room for a whole night.

In this way, she can be considered as making a contribution to the family and will get some benefits.

The next day, the five people who had rested all night reunited, all full of energy.

Old Madam Huang personally took them to the scene of the incident, where Huang Huiqian was abducted.

"It's been over a month since this happened. Although the scene was preserved, it's probably hard to find out anything. Fortunately, traces of evil cultivators had already appeared in Luoxia City at that time, and the Huang family's defensive formation was half-opened at the time, so the shadow stone was able to capture the thief's figure."

When we arrived at the back garden, it was a mess with only broken hills and dead trees.

Madam Huang recounted the events of the fight between the two sides. Guan Linxiang, Xia Xixiao, Xu Hanxiang, and Xu Xinyu each stepped forward to cast a spell to test the situation, but because a long time had passed, it was difficult to cast a spell to track the enemy.

"My dear senior cultivators, I only hope to save Huiqian. She is the most outstanding child of this generation in my Huang family. If 100,000 spirit stones are not enough, I can sell my house and land to add more."

Mrs. Huang, who had always behaved rather coldly and realistically, at this moment showed some kindness and compassion as an elder.

The love a mother has for her child is still touching.

Guan, Xia, and the Xu sisters came forward but it was useless. Finally, Lu Cheng came forward. He closed his eyes for a moment, then waved his sleeves and a small golden bug flew out.

The little golden bug first flew around Madam Huang a few times, then began to flap its wings and fly high towards the southwest.

"What is that? The Golden Silkworm Gu with Hundred Poisons!"

"And he has already been cultivated to the foundation-building stage. Isn't this kind of vicious insect extinct? How could it be on Senior Brother Lu's body?"

"Brother Lu was ordered by Master to go to Southern Xinjiang. He spent twenty years transforming a barren land into a paradise for humanity. So what if he got a few excellent Gu worms by chance? Isn't this normal?"

Guan Linxiang and Xia Xixiao were both very surprised to see the third-level golden silkworm Gu, but Xu Xinyu admired her senior brother Lu in her heart and took the initiative to get it back for him. Guan and Xia thought it was normal for senior brother Lu to have some opportunities and encounters during his twenty years in Southern Xinjiang.

"But, I haven't heard that the Golden Silkworm Gu is good at finding tracks? Is Senior Brother Lu's just a hybrid?" Guan Linxiang was puzzled.

In fact, it is not. Lu Cheng's golden silkworm Gu is still an authentic species with iron jaws and steel teeth, which can chew up flying swords and swallow magic weapons raw. It's just that this second generation of golden silkworm Gu is naturally close to him, and Lu Cheng can command these insects to do things that ordinary Gu breeders cannot do.

But even so, after searching for a hundred miles and arriving at a barren mountain, the poisonous golden silkworm Gu was flying everywhere and had lost its trace.

Seeing this, Lu Cheng shook his head and waved his sleeves to take back the golden silkworm Gu.

"No, that evil cultivator is very cautious. He changed directions several times to eliminate the smell. Even the golden silkworm Gu couldn't continue to track him when he found this place."

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but feel disappointed.

After returning to the Huang family, Lu Cheng and others looked at the shadow stone.

The reflecting stone can reflect and store images, but it consumes mana. When the Huang family's defense formation is activated, it can reflect most areas.

Lu Cheng and his group used the shadow stone to see what happened and what happened between Old Madam Huang and the evil cultivator in the Huang family garden a month ago.

But apart from the fact that both sides' cultivation and magic power are not weak, and that the evil cultivator is slightly better, not much else can be seen.

"Since we can't find any clues here, let's go to Chen's house. The evil cultivator who abducted the mortal and Huang Huiqian might be the same person. Combining the clues from both sides may be able to solve this matter." Seeing that everyone looked a little depressed, Lu Cheng encouraged.

Next, Lu Cheng restarted the Cloud Summoning Flag and flew towards the Chen family with the four children.

Whether it was this time or the last time they tracked clues to leave the Huang family, everyone had used means of hiding. Unless the evil cultivator focused all his attention on the Huang family, he would most likely miss the appearance of Lu Cheng and others.

When they arrived at the Chen family, the head of the Chen family, Chen Yundong, greeted Lu Cheng and his party very warmly.

They also wanted to hold a banquet to entertain them, but the people from Huoyun Mansion didn't have the leisure for that and went straight to the topic of the commissioned task.

"This happened about half a year ago. There are Chenjia Town, Huangjia Town, Luoxia City and some smaller towns and villages in the local area. Since half a year ago, my family has received many requests for help. Recently, some people have mysteriously disappeared. At first, we just thought it was some low-level monsters. The cultivation family has the responsibility to protect the local safety, so we sent our clan members to investigate, but it was useless. People kept disappearing. Now even the cultivators of my Chen family have begun to panic."

The head of the Chen family spoke very skillfully, but Lu Cheng gradually understood that after encountering the incident, the head of the Chen family would shrink his family, first ensure that his family did not suffer major losses in this incident, and then report it to the Huoyun Mansion.

Lu Cheng had nothing to say about this. He took money from others to help them get rid of disasters, but he still had to admire his keen sense of smell.

"Let's go to Chenjia Town and take a look."

Knowing that he couldn't get anything out of them here, Lu Cheng waved his sleeves and rolling white clouds emerged, lifting the group up and escaping from the Chen family.

"It's really embarrassing. Immortal cultivation families have the duty to protect others. But Chen Yundong is as afraid of fighting as a tiger. If it weren't for the protection of Huoyun Mansion, how could his family be worthy of owning Zixia Lingshan?"

Xu Hanxiang felt somewhat dissatisfied and cursed in a low voice while flying out.

"Brother Guan, what do you think?"

Lu Cheng knew in his heart that being cautious and making accurate judgments was the way for a small family in the Tongxuan Realm to survive, so he ignored what Junior Sister Xu said and asked Guan Linxiang instead.

"Somehow, I feel that although both the Huang family and the Chen family are plundering others, there seems to be some difference in the inner flavor." Guan Linxiang frowned slightly and replied after thinking.

"..."

At this moment, Lu Cheng, who was flying with Baiyun, saw some pedestrians walking on the mountain road below.

Lu Cheng flew down directly.

"God?" "Monster!"

Even though he was riding on a white cloud, because people often went missing in this area during this period, there were still some mortals who screamed and dropped their belongings in an attempt to escape.

Xu Hanxiang and Xu Xinyu cast a spell on him and pinned him down in mid-air, making him unable to move for the time being.

Those mortals who thought they were gods dropped their goods, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, but were also swept away by Lu Cheng with a wave of his sleeves.

"We are neither gods nor monsters, but people who come to catch evil spirits. Please tell us the characteristics of the people who have disappeared here recently and where most of them disappeared."

Lu Cheng slightly exerted his sword power, pinning down the fear, ecstasy and other extreme emotions of these mortals, allowing them to calm down in a short period of time.

"Reporting to the Immortal, most of the missing are local young men, many of whom disappeared on the way from the town to the city. At first, there were only three or five people, but later, even if there were 10 or 20 people, they would suddenly disappear without a trace and could not survive. We agreed to bring our families to Luoxia City together. Disappearances in the city are relatively rare."

The relatively calm old man among the crowd answered Lu Cheng's question.

Lu Cheng casually threw him a spirit stone, then flew up into the sky on a cloud. The mortals who were immobilized below also quickly recovered.

At this moment they finally realized that they had encountered an immortal, not a monster.

"It seems that it is not just one thing. This time we are encountering the matter of blood refining magic weapon."

Refining magic tools with blood is a side path in the weapon refining technique. It is important to know that it is extremely difficult to increase the grade and power of a magic tool, but the grade and power of a magic tool can be easily increased with the help of the soul of a living person. However, this method is easy to use, but it will also cut off the possibility of further refining the magic tool. Therefore, even some more advanced evil cultivators are unwilling to do this kind of thing wantonly. However, there are some evil cultivators who are willing to do it as long as their magic power is strong, even if it means killing many people.

Lu Cheng flew the Cloud Summoning Flag in the air for a while, found a place with dark red soil, landed there, and then summoned the Poisonous Golden Silkworm Gu.

"Take us to the source of the blood."

The Golden Silkworm Gu is vicious in nature and is best at tracking this kind of blood.

Half an hour later, under the guidance of the golden poisonous insect, Lu Cheng and his five companions came to a very hidden cave in a dense forest.

“Ahhh…woo…woo”

Before they got close, bursts of huge and terrifying howling were heard from within the cave, and a fierce demonic aura immediately spread out.

"Is this demonic energy a fourth-level demonic beast?"

Feeling the strength of this demonic energy, Guan Linxiang and Xu Hanxiang looked at each other, and finally their eyes fell on Senior Brother Lu Cheng.

After all, he was the one who made the decision on this trip.

"A fourth-level demon beast? Blood refining technique?"

The appearance of a fourth-level monster here was indeed somewhat unexpected.

Logically speaking, Lu Cheng should have evacuated immediately with his fellow disciples and returned to the sect to report the matter.

After all, the safety of fellow students is more important than the entrusted task.

"But why does a fourth-level monster always stare at mortals? Moreover, this cave is equipped with a third-level defense formation."

While Lu Cheng was thinking, the howling and the spreading evil spirit soon stopped.

"A seriously injured demon beast? This is the blood-refining divine sacrifice technique of Wandering Soul City! They are not refining a magical weapon with blood, but a forbidden divine card with blood."

Guan Linxiang suddenly exclaimed, causing Lu Cheng to look over.

Youhun City is one of the sixteen evil sects in the world and a subsidiary of the Dongyang Demon Sect, the largest evil sect.

The Wandering Soul City excels at forbidden spiritual techniques, exorcising evil spirits, and resurrecting the dead. Of course, what is resurrected is the body, but it is unknown whether the person inside is still the original person or even if he is a human being.

"I've seen in a new book collected by the sect that the Eastern Demon Sect's Wandering Soul City has a blood-refining and god-sacrificing technique that can refine a forbidden god card through blood, allowing the foundation-building cultivator to control a fourth-level monster as his trump card." Guan Linxiang explained when he saw that everyone else was looking at him.

"So the people inside are monks from Wandering Soul City?"

"Not necessarily. Youhun City likes to spread those newly created magic skills and then modify the magic skills according to the cultivation status of those independent practitioners."

Lu Cheng listened to their conversation and finally made up his mind.

The most important thing is, after more than ten years of training, his own golden silkworm Gu with a hundred poisons has grown into a group, and among that group of golden silkworm Gu, thirteen have even been promoted to the third level. Even if facing a fourth-level monster, it will not be difficult to use them to cover the retreat and take his junior brothers and sisters away safely.

"If they are just ordinary evil cultivators, it would be fine. But if they are really evil cultivators from Youhun City, and we let them do whatever they want on the territory of our Huoyun Mansion, and finally they get what they want and escape unscathed, how can our Huoyun Mansion keep its dignity?"

After saying that, Lu Cheng waved his sleeves forward, and the sky was filled with golden stars. Hundreds of second-level golden silkworm Gu with hundreds of poisons flew and spread, surrounding the entire evil cultivator's cave, but did not activate the magic circle.

"Hide and set up the formation to wait for the enemy to attack. Even if there is such a coincidence that they have just completed the blood-refining sacrifice, we can attack together and prevent them from having the opportunity to summon the monster."

Lu Cheng has taken care of the Golden Silkworm Gu for two generations. While these insects retain their ferocious nature, they also inherit their bloodline memories and are naturally close to Lu Cheng. Therefore, Lu Cheng can drive the swarm of Golden Silkworm Gu with very little consumption of his spiritual consciousness.

The disadvantage is that after the Hundred Poisonous Golden Silkworm Gu form a group, the demand for various spiritual objects increases dramatically, and there is no upper limit at all. Therefore, they will almost never bring spiritual objects from the Jiuli world to Lu Cheng. Instead, Lu Cheng needs to send some spiritual objects in from time to time, otherwise the Hundred Poisonous Golden Silkworm Gu will even devour each other, reducing the number of the population.

In addition, the Jiuli world is not completely safe, or it can be said that the world is extremely dangerous: the more ferocious the monsters are, the more ferocious the environment inside the Jiuli Ding will be.

Therefore, the newly born red dragon entered a world of clear water and green mountains, while the poisonous golden silkworm Gu entered a world of constant fighting.

Even if one day the swarm of poisonous golden silkworms in the cauldron were destroyed, Lu Cheng would not be surprised. He could only try his best to help avoid it.

After the first generation of golden silkworm Gu entered the insect nest, Lu Cheng's Yuan consciousness could no longer possess the body. That insect nest was a forbidden area for the golden silkworm Gu, and Lu Cheng's Yuan consciousness was not allowed to enter.

This wait lasted for seven days. If Lu Cheng's golden silkworm Gu group had not been discovered, and this cave had no other entrances and exits, even Lu Cheng would have been suspicious.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Suddenly, the roar of a fourth-level monster once again spread from the evil cultivator's cave, accompanied by a demonic aura as fierce as fire, which was far stronger than the one seven days ago.

The stone door of the evil cultivator's cave suddenly opened, and two foundation-building cultivators used their magic weapons to escape quickly. However, they did not move in a straight line, but turned several turns, as if there was a wall in the void before they flew out.

"Damn it, can we tame that dog demon? We have tried so many times, but we still can't plant the forbidden god tablet. This is the territory of Huoyun Mansion. If we kill too many people, we will be killed by flying swords soon!"

A horse-faced monk who was wielding a black flying hook cursed in a low voice.

"Shut up, as long as the eldest brother succeeds, we brothers can stand up straight and be men. Then we will also be saint envoys, no need to compare..."

A cold and fierce murderous aura suddenly penetrated the whole body like cold water.

At the same time, the monk who was riding the long banner watched his companion being besieged by four flying swords of different colors, but he himself seemed unable to move even a finger.

The magic power in the body wanted to circulate according to the thoughts and resist fiercely, but it was constantly extracted by an unknown force from the outside world, making it difficult to condense and release the magic power.

"what happened?"

This was his last thought in this life, because a ray of sword light had already cut him in half from bottom to top, and blood spurted out.

In fact, Lu Cheng's sword was one step faster than Guan Linxiang, Xia Xixiao, Xu Hanxiang and Xu Xinyu's swords. Even though he used the sword intent to form momentum, the sky-stealing spirit and the sword at the end, he was still one step faster because he started later but arrived first.

The reason why the monk holding the banner still wanted to rescue the horse-faced monk was because Lu Cheng's flying sword was too fast, and his thoughts were slow, and he did not realize that the flying sword was already killing his physical body.

But this is also a good thing, at least he didn't feel any pain until his death. For him, it is a good thing.

When fighting with masters, Lu Cheng would no longer easily display his sword intent, because the masters' minds were concentrated, and once they were on guard, the power of the sword intent would be greatly reduced. So it would be better to retain the sword intent and unleash it when necessary to establish the killing momentum in one fell swoop.

However, the two men just now were not masters, so Lu Cheng defeated them in an instant. He did not care about the seriously injured horse-faced monk beside him, but followed the sword, reversed the trajectory of the monk holding the banner who had just left the cave, and quickly rushed into the cave of the evil cultivator.

Speed ​​is of the essence in war, this is the truth, a fast and fierce attack can often unreasonably break many sophisticated preparations.

For example, at this moment, the white-haired demon cultivator in the cave had reached the ninth level of cultivation. Originally, he was using a blood-colored token to suppress the mad dog demon in the cave.

Suddenly, he felt a fierce and sharp sword energy behind him. He turned around abruptly and saw that the monk who had combined man and sword was already approaching him.

The Five Elements Sword Technique, the Meridian-Severing Sword Qi, combined with the magic power and vitality that had just been seized and transformed into a true fire, the sword energy suddenly surged and the momentum was extremely fierce.

stab.

"Ah..."

The white-haired demon cultivator successfully used his defensive magic weapon and used all his strength to activate his body-protecting magic skills, but the sword light cut into his shoulders and chest, and the powerful magic power and sword energy collided violently.

As the blood mist exploded, the man could no longer control his body and fell into the cave behind him.

Normally this would be nothing, but at this moment, there was a huge dog demon with red eyes in the cave. It swooped down and swallowed the white-haired demon cultivator in one gulp. Its teeth gnashed, and in an instant the bones and flesh were decomposed into the stomach and intestines.

"What a demon!"

Seeing this, Lu Cheng also sighed softly. In front of him was a short-haired, white, thin-waisted dog. Its body was like that of an elephant, and its head alone was as high as two or three stories. It had red eyes and sharp teeth, and at this moment, its mouth was full of blood. It was extremely cruel and brutal.

The white-haired demon cultivator was hit by the sword just now, and the blood-colored jade token in his hand fell to the ground. Lu Cheng picked it up, and the dog demon that had just swallowed the flesh and blood seemed to be severely stimulated and rushed over with a howl.

(End of this chapter)