Chapter 257 Dialectic between man and nature, follow the trend; Five Directions and Five Elements, use fists to ask questions (2)
"Steward Tie, this is the recent rectification plan for the overall design of the mining area. Take a look, it is very urgent. Hurry, I'll be here in half an hour Get your approval.”
“Okay, I understand, I will take a look immediately.”
Taking the overall design of the recent mining area from the steward’s hand, Lu Cheng handed it over. He laid it out on the table and frowned slightly.
Spiritual stone, just like secular gold and silver, cannot be directly circulated and used after being mined. There is also a process of mining, refining and shaping.
Just like gold, silver and copper are made into coins to make them easier to use in normal transactions, the spiritual energy of unrefined spiritual mines is violent and chaotic. Too much exposure to low-level monks may even cause their own mana to lose control, and then lead to the tragedy of explosion and death. .
It is not that the whole person explodes from the inside out. Most of the time, a certain meridians and a few acupuncture points in the body cannot withstand the violent movement of magic power, break and implode, resulting in the death of the monk.
There is a complex large-scale spiritual mine in Huanyun Valley, which produces both spiritual stones and spiritual iron. However, the senior officials of the sect intend to retain the sect’s property. The sect has production lines for mining, refining, and shaping. However, production capacity has always been controlled at a low level, which is a very far-sighted strategy.
The four directions of heaven and earth are the universe, and the past and present are the universe.
The vast universe is full of spiritual energy everywhere, but only a few and very few areas are located. Due to the special cosmic environment or cosmic phenomena, a unique spiritual area is formed, placed in a world It is called a place of extraordinary beauty.
Monks practice by gathering spiritual energy from all directions into themselves, so that they can continue to grow and undergo transformation and evolution from human to immortal:
Xiantian, Qi training, foundation building, Zifu, golden elixir, Yuanying, transformation of gods/yuan God, finally ascended to the upper world.
Although the monks adopt the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, at the moment they ascend, there is a huge difference in spiritual energy concentration between the upper world and the lower world.
It will produce a huge convection effect of spiritual energy. Even if the tribulation monk fails to ascend, if the ascension is successful, huge spiritual energy from the upper world will flow into the lower world. The total amount of spiritual energy is far more than the world it takes. The spiritual energy is a hundred times or even a thousand times.
That’s why the world of heaven and earth hates those who cultivate immortality, but they also love those who cultivate immortality.
When the positive cycle is large enough, a sufficient number of ascenders will even lift the lower realm to ascend to the upper realm. This is the promotion of world status.
However, immortal cultivators have to undergo huge tests and bear great dangers when they go through the catastrophe of ascending to heaven. Therefore, some immortal cultivators do not want to experience the catastrophe of the upper realm, but they still want to live forever, so some immortal cultivators He began to study the art of smuggling.
Smuggle directly from the lower world to the upper world through the space nodes of the lower world and the upper world. Although the whole process is also very dangerous, it is at least much safer than crossing the catastrophe of ascension.
But in this way, this world begins to have only losses but no gains. The monks who can sneak into the upper world are often at the Nascent Soul realm at worst. They take a large amount of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and condense it into themselves.
If it ascends and succeeds, it will be of great benefit to this world. If it fails, the spiritual energy will be dissipated, and the loss will not be much.
But if the monks sneak across, no matter whether they succeed or fail, they will only suffer a huge loss and no gain to this world.
Most of the immortal cultivators who have survived the catastrophe of ascension will become the blessed land of cave heaven.
Some of the huge pure spiritual energy that falls into this world will travel around the world and turn into true spirits and monsters, while some will merge into the mountains and rivers to form natural spiritual veins and spiritual mines, giving birth to unlimited spiritual energy. vitality.
These contents were deduced by Lu Cheng after sneaking into the world of Dingzhang, reading countless Dao books and classics in this world, combined with his own experience and knowledge, and deduced bit by bit. Some of them are based on Legend:
For example, some Nascent Soul monks will spend their whole lives searching for space nodes and smuggling to the upper world. The matter is only vaguely mentioned in books and mentioned briefly, and I don’t know whether it is true or false.
Lu Cheng read these Taoist books to increase his own foundation and better understand the relationship between immortal cultivators, heaven, earth and nature. This is also beneficial to Taoism, as long as he thinks often and is good at thinking.
But this also caused him to quickly understand what Li Zhuoyang and the others were doing after quickly looking at the design drawings in front of him.
Although it is not frequent, every time the Earth Dragon turns over, due to damage to large equipment in the mining area and damage to some appliances, the sect has to carry out overall design and repair.
This is all based on precedents. This time, the scope of the changes is relatively large, and the repairs are completed in a hurry. It is so urgent that if Lu Cheng was just a monk in the late stage of Qi training, he would not be able to do it. After reading the entire design drawing in half an hour, I could only sign my name in the end.
Ke Lu Cheng is a Jindan monk, and his mind works like lightning, so he quickly read the entire design and signed his name.
"After all, he is a golden elixir monk in the big world. He is a country bumpkin from a remote place like me. He has more knowledge and ideas. It is better to use the force!"
Every senior manager in the mining area is responsible for himself. The rectification plan for that area, and this time someone from above was supervising on-site to implement the construction quickly.
If you look at the entire design as a whole, it looks like an inverted volcano, or like a cannon, pointed in a certain direction.
At the same time, the seven Li Zhuoyang people who had sneaked underground were not idle. They were busy setting up the next formations: attack, defense, and disrupt the secrets of the sky.
The immortal cultivator uses the weak to defeat the strong, and kills monsters that are far stronger than himself. He may use siege, magic weapons, or formations, but the most important thing is to use his own wisdom.
"Old Li, do you think we can make it this time? I always have some bad premonitions in my heart, and I don't know if it's a warning from heaven."
In the heart of the underground mountain, Li Zhuoyang stood beside the real person An old monk wearing a monk's robe said this.
The two have been lifelong friends, so there are some things they can say directly.
“Without warning, do we still have room to retreat now? It is rare to face such an opportunity in our life as a monk. Instead of lingering on the sickbed and dying in the arms of a woman in the future, it is better to take risks now. Bo, this is our last chance to bet.
We have no more chips.”
Li Zhuoyang said this without turning his head, looking at the mountain wall, or rather the ghost-infant tree demon behind the mountain wall.
The Nascent Soul Demon is supposed to have a keen sense, and will be alert immediately at the slightest danger and retreat in time.
But Li Zhuoyang and other golden elixir monks, their own strength is not so much a danger to the ghost infant tree demon as a great tonic, so of course they will not trigger the danger sensor.
After Li Zhuoyang and the others set up a formation to confuse the heavenly secrets, the danger sense of the ghost infant tree demon would no longer be triggered, allowing them to arrange it calmly.
Fourteen days later.
The overall design drawings of the mining area have been fully implemented and have quickly entered the stage of re-commissioning.
As a senior manager of the mining area, Tie Xiao will also participate in the commissioning ceremony.
I saw the large puppet pouring huge amounts of ore onto the steel crawlers, and then transporting them to the refining furnaces on the steel crawlers.
After being refined in the furnace, the purified spirit stone is cut with a steel guillotine, cooled by water, and polished to become pieces of spirit stone that can be used.
However, when a large amount of ore was sent to the refining furnace for high-temperature refining, a mutation occurred.
Rumble, rumble, rumble.
Another huge shock came from deep underground. The whole world seemed to be shaking, and the earth was shaking.
"...The earth dragon turns over! Stop, stop quickly!"
Finally some monks reacted and shouted, but at this time, the refining had already reached the middle game, where could there be more? Can it be stopped?
Boom, boom, boom...
The earth shattered, cracks spread, and the cracks opened just in front of the giant furnace. The giant furnace overturned instantly, and the billowing golden-red fire poured down. At this moment, it was controlled and guided by the power of some kind of magic.
It turned into a blazing fire dragon containing high temperature and began to fall down - what does the temperature of the flame mean? How can it be as terrifying as the torrent of steel?
Of course it is impossible for Li Zhuoyang and others to directly cause such a huge earthquake. However, not long after the earth dragon turned over in the Cangyun Mountains, the earth veins themselves were not very stable. With the seven gold medals, With the magic power of Master Dan, and the existence of a fifth-level formation master who is proficient in formations, it is not that difficult to cause a major earthquake again.
It’s just that we don’t usually do this kind of thing. Natural disasters like earthquakes are not easy to kill even Qi-training monks. The imperial weapon escapes into the air, and then casts a few protective spells on oneself, and is killed. The probability of earthquake damage is too low.
Li Zhuoyang's seven people passed through the earthquake, causing the overturning of several large furnaces in Huanyun Valley. They used the entire mountain as a giant cannon and the molten flow in these furnaces as cannonballs, triggering a fire far beyond the Golden Core realm. A terrifying attack of monk level.
At the moment when the furnace overturned and the molten flow poured down, Li Zhuoyang stood in the formation, floating with his six companions behind him, and cast the spell.
The spiritual consciousness and magic power of the seven people briefly merged together through the formation to control the burning torrent that poured down, and attacked the ghost infant tree demon like a flaming dragon.
It can be said that this sixth-level monster was stunned until it was hit on the head by the attack.
If Lu Cheng and Li Zhuoyang had not discovered it, it would definitely use its roots to kill a large number of Huanyun Valley miners, and then lead to the golden elixir of Huanyun Valley and the True Monarch Nascent Soul. After a great battle, Maybe he can escape unscathed.
But Lu Cheng and Li Zhuoyang discovered it first, which meant that the immortal cultivators acted first.
Just like a tiger is discovered in a mortal village, if you have the ability, you cannot wait until it starts eating people before trying to eradicate it.
"Roar!"
The ghost-infant tree demon looked up to the sky and hissed, and a majestic mana instantly spread out from its body.
The Nascent Soul's magical domain forms a legal domain with itself as the center, affecting the changes in the laws of the surrounding heaven and earth, and rejecting all non-self existences.
The Nascent Soul Divine Ability Domain of the Ghost Infant Dryad is of course dominated by darkness and death. Its external appearance is a huge jet-black sphere appearing out of thin air.
If Li Zhuoyang and others did not make such preparations and went directly to hunt the tree demons, they would be blocked by the Nascent Soul Divine Power Domain and would not be able to exert 10% of their mana. They would be killed one-sidedly and all the monks' gold would be destroyed. Dan will be swallowed up.
But with this advance arrangement, it was different. The full blow supported by the seven real Jindan monks could not be carried even by the sixth-order demon when it was caught off guard.
The golden-red fire flow collided with the dark and dead energy, forming a violent explosion that caused the entire Cangyun Mountain Range to tremble and sway faintly.
"Fellow Taoists, the plan has been completed. The honor and disgrace of life and death after today will depend on the outcome of this battle!"
Li Zhuoyang patted the spirit beast bag on his waist and leaped out of it. An ape wearing black armor and carrying an iron rod on his shoulder. Although there was a trace of regret in his eyes, Li Zhuoyang still took out a few vermilion pills and fed them to the ape.
After taking the elixir, the ape's aura, which was originally a little sluggish, increased at a speed visible to the naked eye. With a sharp roar, he rushed towards the ghost infant tree demon. Li Zhuoyang is good at controlling beasts. The one he just trained was a spiritual pet that he had cultivated for hundreds of years. From the Qi training realm to the fifth level, it can be seen how much hard work and resources were spent. After today's battle, all of them were in vain. If he failed, he would die.
The other six golden elixir masters looked at each other, and each offered his own flying sword, spiritual ruler, silk belt and other proud magic weapons.
The six of them are also close friends that Li Zhuoyang has made over the past hundreds of years. They signed a strict blood oath of the underworld before coming here. At this moment, they dare not not try their best.
The temperature of simple ordinary fire has its own limit, but the temperature of metal fire can be more than a hundred times higher.
The monks observed the truth, so they said that earth and fire complement each other, and thunder and fire complement each other.
In the underground cave, golden-red fire flows like magma, and the hot atmosphere spreads. Li Zhuoyang was hanging in the air with a solemn expression. His eyes were like two blazing flames, staring at the battlefield ahead.
His crazy blood-fighting ape, after taking the Blue Blood Pill, went crazy. Facing the sixth-level monster, he was not afraid at all and did not retreat. He waved the iron rod crazily and was beaten back time and time again. , attacking again and again.
The whole ape's body was pulled up, and a stick was lifted up, from top to bottom, and fell with a huge blow. This big split with the stick was like a mountain suddenly collapsing, and the iron rod cracked with thunder, the power was terrifying!
Li Zhuoyang's crazy blood-fighting ape is like a physical practitioner at the Golden Elixir realm. He doesn't need any magic, but only relies on his fierce and fierce close combat skills. He can dominate the world. There are enemies.
Six golden elixir masters surrounded him, each using their own magic weapon to contain, besiege, or arrange defense, and they had their own coordination.
Suddenly, a roar broke through the silence, the Nascent Soul's magical realm collapsed, and the ghost-infant tree demon appeared with gusts of sinister wind. Its huge twisted body seemed to be able to squeeze out all the surrounding space with its fangs and claws. The sharp-toothed mouth opened and sprayed out pieces of blood-red poison.
Seeing this scene, the golden elixir masters present had a flash of determination in their eyes. The flying swords, spiritual rulers, and silk ribbons in their hands turned into bright rays of light and rushed towards the ghost infant tree demon. .
On the ground, the spirit beasts roared, made various violent and mysterious attack forms, and started a fierce competition with the ghost-infant tree demon.
In mid-air, flying swords streaked across like meteors, spiritual rulers waved out layers of ripples, and silk ribbons were like living creatures, agile and elegant, wrapping around the terrifying tree demon.
There are golden elixir cultivators who are good at alchemy. They use the elixir powder to prescribe the right medicine. They use the fifth-level elixir powder to remove the sixth-level demonic poison. Even if there is still some residue, it will be difficult to break through the body-protecting magic weapons and body-protecting essence of the cultivators. .
At this moment, Li Zhuoyang, who had the strongest magical power among the seven people present, suddenly used a small seal.
This small seal first stood in the void, and then turned into a size of more than ten feet high. When pressed, it continued to rotate during the process of pressing down. Every time it rotated, it absorbed a stream of spiritual energy, and its own volume also increased. Increase a few points.
This object is already Li Zhuoyang's natal magic weapon, the Heart Ape Seal. It has the ability to control spiritual beasts and fights. It can also break the inner demons to a certain extent. It is extremely powerful.
But sacrificing his natal magic weapon, the Heart Monkey Seal, and fighting to the death with the sixth-level demon showed that Li Zhuoyang really had the intention of dying if he didn't win.
With his current lifespan, magic power, natal spiritual beast, and natal magic weapon, he has been destroyed one after another, and his lifelong practice will be wiped out. I am afraid that he will really die of illness on his bed in a few years.
The huge sound of the collision between the magic weapon and the terrifying body of the sixth-order demon echoed in the cave.
The ghost infant tree demon screamed shrilly, and every attack was accompanied by the wail of the branches and roots. Its tentacle-like branches were waving violently, but every time it touched the monk's magic weapon, it would trigger waves of Violent explosion.
Similarly, the same is true for the magic weapons of the monks. The spiritual light flickered and the cracks were faint.
However, these monks did not flinch at all. Under the attack of the ghost infant tree demon, their respective magic weapons either penetrated the poisonous gas or cut off branches. Each blow was full of determination and ruthlessness. .
The battle between the two sides intensified, and the rocks in the cave continued to crack and shatter under the strong impact of mana.
If this battle really goes to the final stage, perhaps the seven real people led by Li Zhuoyang can really win the final victory, if no unexpected changes occur:
In At the moment when his own vitality was losing more and more, the ghost-infant tree demon suddenly opened his mouth and spit out a chubby and white doll, which floated in the air.
“Ghost Infant Fruit!?”
“It’s really the Ghost Infant Fruit!”
Although the distribution has been discussed long ago, when the Ghost Infant Fruit actually appeared in front of them, the seven Jindan Masters present could not restrain the fire in their hearts:
The Ghost Infant Fruit is also known as Immortality If you take it, you can live forever and lead directly to the Nascent Soul Avenue. This is the dream that many Jindan practitioners have been tossing and turning about day and night.
But at the next moment, the ghost infant tree demon below spit out a black tongue, wrapped up the crying ghost infant, and then swallowed it directly into his mouth, chewing and swallowing.
The majestic Yin Qi mana instantly irrigated the whole body, restoring the vitality of the ghost infant tree demon, and at the same time, it also cut off the fighting spirit of all the monks present.
Although this decision is cruel, it is correct. Instead of being killed and having the Ghost Infant Fruit taken away, it is better to swallow the Ghost Infant Fruit yourself and regain your strength to kill all the enemies.
"No! Kill it quickly, maybe it can still be refined."
The real person Li Zhuoyang responded to was the tree whip that was struck fiercely, with the Yin Qi gathering on it, and the magic power was deep and powerful.
The Heart Ape Seal was tightly bound by countless tree whip vines, and then faintly collapsed.
Once the Ghost Infant Fruit was lost, all the benefits promised by Master Li Zhuoyang with the Nether Blood Oath were lost. Except for the fact that Master Li Zhuoyang, who had given everything, was still casting spells frantically and attacking fiercely without retreating.
The other six people present looked at each other and wanted to give up.
Finally, one person let out a long sigh, cast a magic trick, and retreated in the form of light.
It would be fine if this was any other place. This is Huanyun Valley, one of the three major immortal sects in the Cangyun Mountains.
We have been fighting here for a long time. The longer the time, the greater the danger. At this moment, the ghost infant tree demon has undergone such a change and its vitality has recovered. It is meaningless to continue to fight to the death.
Even if we can defeat this tree demon in the end, it will only be a wedding dress for the old monster Nascent Soul in Phantom Cloud Valley, so we might as well go back.
Because this decision is correct, although those old friends of Li Zhuoyang regretted it and could not bear it, as time went by, they finally made the correct decision one after another, leaving only the inner demons. The unborn Li Zhuoyang was casting spells like crazy and still fighting endlessly.
Until, whoosh whoosh whoosh.
Tree branches and vines killed his fighting ape, broke his protective magic weapon, and tore his body apart. Only then did Li Zhuoyang's mind gradually become clearer.
"...I am so unwilling, so unwilling."
Plop, the remaining half of the body fell to the ground, and the blood spread and flowed. At this moment, Li Zhuoyang wanted to explode the golden elixir and die. He wanted to be more relaxed, but the few heavy blows just now had already dispersed the alchemy energy in his body, and he could no longer even gather the last of his mana.
"Are you going to be swallowed by a tree demon? It is said that the soul swallowed by this tree demon cannot even be reincarnated..."
After hundreds of years of practice, Li Zhuoyang didn't have much fear at the moment, but he was still unwilling to make a move.
But at this moment, because the attack that killed him had not arrived, Li Zhuoyang, whose eyes were already covered with blood, looked up from the pool of blood, and saw a young, strange Taoist, standing on the tree. In front of the huge tree demon, he stretched out his hand to block the opponent?
“What?”
The figure of the Taoist is obviously far from that of the ghost-infant tree demon, but the two give people the impression that they are evenly matched... No, on the contrary The latter is taller.
“It’s really wonderful! The monks in Dingzhang World are indeed more knowledgeable than my monks in Tongxuan World, and they have more experience in planning to hunt down the sixth-order monster.
But now that the matter has come to an end, it’s time for fellow Taoists to take a final look at my methods as a monk from the Tongxuan Realm. ”
Based on the calculation of intention and lack of intention, coupled with the shadowless and intangible characteristics of the invisible sword, Lu Cheng was not even aware of sixth-order monsters like the Ghost Infant Tree Demon before he appeared.
Understood the art of killing with the sword, the essence of "I can attack the enemy but the enemy cannot attack me"
Although he knows all the swordsmanship skills, Lu Cheng's strongest offensive power at this moment is his physical body that he has practiced to this day, but it is the innate one-qi great capture method:
Sensing the five-element pounding behind him. In order to express his gratitude, Lu Cheng clenched his fist and punched him
The first punch was made of earth, and he punched through the air. The fist force carried the majestic power of earth and crushed it, making the ground rumble, like thousands of troops galloping past.
With just one punch, the huge mountain-shaped body of the sixth-level demon was knocked back, making it difficult to control itself.
Suddenly, he hit the mountain wall behind him.
The second punch was made of gold, and the palm turned into a fist. The golden light was bright, and a punch was blasted. The sound of gold and iron clashing came from all directions. It was extremely cold, and the wind of the fist passed by wherever it touched. , it seemed that the swords were all broken, and metal fragments were scattered in all directions.
“Ouch!”
The ghost infant tree demon roared, because the Taoist in front of him punched it into the body and forcefully took out the ghost infant it had just swallowed.
The circulation of Yin Qi in the body is restored, and it is suddenly exhausted.
The third punch is water, and the fists are turned over. Suddenly the surrounding water vapor evaporates and turns into a torrential river. Carried by the wind of the fist, the water rolls and the waves are turbulent, driving the surroundings like an undercurrent. in all directions It rolled towards the ghost infant tree demon, turning in thousands of circles, making the tree demon's huge body seem to be trapped in a roaring sea, unable to extricate itself. It fell deeper and deeper, and at any time it could swallow up everything it touched with an overwhelming force. Tangle, devour, crush!
The fourth fist is wood. This fist is an undercurrent of dark energy. The wood-like magic power wraps around his body, and then is shot out through his fist edge. It combines with the previous water-based fist power and turns into countless growing branches. , piercing through the rock and soil, destroying dryness and decay, with a punch, there was a shocking scene of trees being uprooted and fallen leaves flying.
With four punches, all the four qi in the sixth-level tree demon's body were cut off, and internal fire secretly grew instead.
What these four punches disrupted was the balance of the five elements in the opponent's body. Even the wood-element monster also had the fire element in its body.
The fifth punch is fire, and this punch is just a simple punch. The only terrifying thing is the flickering flame on the edge of the Taoist's fist, the true fire of samadhi, connecting the inside and outside, Nothing burns!
Bang, boom.
The five directions and five elements are beaten, and they are sacrificed in a row.
The entire body of the ghost infant tree demon was beaten until it fell into the mountain wall. At the same time, its entire body turned into a raging flame that burned violently from the inside out. It listened to the roar, whine, and struggle of the big demon. But he was powerless. Li Zhuoyang, who was lying there unwilling to die, exhaled his last breath with satisfaction: After all, it was me, the human monk, who won. These five punches are true, so happy!
The Five Directions and Five Elements, using fists to ask the sect, both Lu Cheng and Li Zhuoyang felt happy!
(End of this chapter)