Taoist cultivation begins with being a miner

"However, we must not let our guard down in the city. We must not let those scoundrels in." A guest advisor raised a question.

"Don't worry, starting tomorrow, there will be Golden Core cultivators stationed at every city gate. Under the surveillance of the Golden Core cultivators, the people of the Holy Heaven Sect will have nowhere to hide."

"Furthermore, I have increased the number of guards on the city walls and strengthened patrols," Ye Wuyou said again.

That would be best.

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Lu Yan was unaware of Shan Shengou and Ye Wuyou's scheme, and even if he had known, there would have been nothing he could do about it.

After all, he is only at the mid-stage of Qi Refining and cannot get involved in the struggle between Golden Core cultivators.

He then used the Ghost Character Turntable to generate seven clusters of divine soul essence and began to enhance his own divine soul.

Now, his spiritual strength is no weaker than that of cultivators at the eighth level of Qi Refining. When refining pills, he can occasionally refine high-grade Spirit Nourishing Pills into medium-grade ones.

His cultivation level is also steadily progressing towards the seventh level of Qi Refining. This is a gradual process that cannot be rushed, otherwise it will lead to an unstable foundation.

The cultivators inside the city were also engaged in a fierce battle with the Holy Heaven Sect outside the city.

The cultivators in the city needed the people of the Holy Heaven Sect to exchange for spirit stones, while the people of the Holy Heaven Sect also needed the bodies and souls of the cultivators in the city. In short, everyone got what they needed.

With the help of Lu Yan's talismans, Zheng Qu and his group have been very successful recently and have earned a lot of spirit stones.

With sufficient resources, their cultivation levels also advanced by leaps and bounds. Following Zheng Qu's breakthrough to the fourth level of Qi Refining, Li Feng, Ma Hong, Zhao Yu, and others also broke through one after another.

Yue Tingxin also benefited greatly from this struggle, successfully breaking through to the eighth level of Qi Refining.

Lu Yan thought that such days would continue, but unexpectedly, a large number of people from the Holy Heaven Sect appeared in the city one night.

Worry-Free City is indeed protected by an array, but the third-tier array is limited to certain areas within the city.

The formation protecting the inner city is a second-tier formation.

The outer city is a slum and has no formations whatsoever.

The central city and the city walls are equipped with first-tier formations, which can only be used for warning and cannot defend against foreign invasion.

I heard there's a top-tier, third-order protective formation in the city, but it consumes a lot of spirit stones and won't be used unless it's absolutely necessary.

As a result, countless heretical cultivators from the Holy Heaven Sect sought out loopholes in the city's guards' patrols to infiltrate the city.

The consequences of a group of evil cultivators entering the city in the dead of night are predictable.

Countless corpse puppets and vengeful spirits were released and began to wreak havoc in the city. Since they could not break into the inner city in a short time, they caused chaos in the middle and outer cities, and the same was true for Lu Yan's place.

"Hit!" Seeing the few low-level first-tier vengeful spirits that had broken through the courtyard's protective array, Lu Yan threw over a talisman to ward off evil spirits.

Under the attack of the first-tier intermediate talisman, several low-level vengeful spirits were directly annihilated, and several soul crystals fell to the ground.

Seeing this, Lu Yan took them in and then went out to check.

They discovered that fires were raging everywhere in their neighborhood, and that members of the Holy Heaven Sect and cultivators from Worry-Free City were fighting each other in the streets.

Corpse puppets, vengeful spirits, talismans, magical artifacts, and battles are everywhere.

What's even more deadly is that there are Golden Core cultivators and Foundation Establishment cultivators fighting in the sky.

Seeing this, Lu Yan knew that the Holy Heaven Sect had been planning this for a long time, launching a simultaneous attack from both inside and outside the city to catch Wuyou City off guard.

As soon as Lu Yan went out, he immediately attracted the attention of the Holy Heaven Sect.

"Oh~ This little brother is so handsome, he's my little brother now~" A female cultivator from the Holy Heaven Sect with a bluish-purple face was deeply attracted after seeing Lu Yan. She then controlled several vengeful spirits to pounce on Lu Yan, and followed him with a short-handled dagger in her hand.

"You're asking for death!" Lu Yan threw three evil-dispelling talismans at the vengeful spirits, instantly destroying them.

Then he summoned a high-grade magic weapon, a large sword, and slashed at the blue-faced female cultivator.

"Clang!" The blue-faced female cultivator's short-handled dagger collided with the broadsword and was knocked away.

"So strong!" He thought that he, a Qi Refining Level 7 cultivator, could easily defeat a Qi Refining Level 6 cultivator, but he didn't expect that he couldn't withstand a single blow.

Seeing that she was about to die under Lu Yan's blade, the blue-faced female cultivator quickly summoned her natal vengeful spirit to envelop herself and then swiftly escaped.

"Huh? You can do it like that?" Lu Yan exclaimed in surprise.

"I was hoping to have some fun with you, but since you're so ungrateful, then don't blame me." After saying that, the blue-faced female cultivator no longer held back and released more than a dozen vengeful spirits to attack Lu Yan.

Lu Yan used his divine sense to sense them and found that there was one first-tier high-level vengeful spirit, while the rest were all first-tier mid-level vengeful spirits.

Lu Yan then took out two Yin-transforming talismans and used them.

The Yin-dispelling talisman is much more powerful than the Evil-breaking talisman; these vengeful spirits are directly dissolved by the Yin-dispelling talisman when they get close.

"Damn it!" The blue-faced female cultivator was furious at the sight. Most of the vengeful spirits she had created had already been destroyed by Lu Yan. This was definitely not going to work.

"Go to hell!" the blue-faced female cultivator said, her eyes suddenly flashing with a ghostly light.

Before he could react, Lu Yan suddenly felt a wave of dizziness, and the scene before him became increasingly blurry.

In a state of great alarm, he quickly focused his mind and forcibly restored himself to normal.

It has to be said that the evil cultivators of the Holy Heaven Sect are truly formidable; their attack methods are impossible to defend against.

This kind of method, which can directly attack a cultivator's soul, is something that ordinary cultivators simply cannot withstand. Fortunately, he had refined a lot of soul essence, making his soul much stronger than that of ordinary cultivators.

"How is this possible! You're a Qi Refining Level 6 cultivator, it's one thing to have such a strong body, but why is your soul also so powerful? My Soul Control Technique could only control you for a moment!" This time, the blue-faced female cultivator was completely stunned.

Her own vengeful spirit couldn't do anything to Lu Yan, and she was no match for him in close combat. Even her own soul techniques were ineffective.

"Rest in peace." Lu Yan had made quite a commotion while fighting the blue-faced female cultivator, and other evil cultivators had already taken notice of the place. Lu Yan quickly finished the fight.

He slashed at the blue-faced female cultivator with his sword.

The blue-faced female cultivator wanted to continue using the vengeful spirit to possess her as before, but Lu Yan had anticipated this and pressed down the Yin-transforming talisman with his left hand.

"Ah—" The vengeful spirit dissipated, and Lu Yan's knife struck the blue-faced female cultivator's shoulder, causing her to scream in agony.

"Save me!" The blue-faced female cultivator cried out one last time before Lu Yan finished her off with a fatal blow.

After killing the blue-faced female cultivator, Lu Yan began to loot the corpse.

"You dare to kill someone from my Holy Sect here? You're courting death!" Several evil cultivators were enraged when they saw the blue-faced female cultivator at Lu Yan's feet and launched an attack on Lu Yan at the same time.

He scanned the group with his divine sense and discovered that one of the six people was at the eighth level of Qi Refining. Fearing that he would be entangled with them, he turned and ran.

"Chase!" The group controlled the corpse puppets and vengeful spirits and began to pursue Lu Yan.

Along the way, Lu Yan discovered that there were battles everywhere.

Although the number of people from the Holy Heaven Sect was small, each of them was exceptionally strong. In addition, they carried a large number of corpse puppets and vengeful spirits, so the cultivators in the city were unable to do anything to them for the time being.

As Lu Yan ran, he threw talismans to his back, including those for dispelling evil and warding off evil. Fortunately, he had prepared quite a few during this time.