Chapter 279: Exchange of Skills, Backstabbing
If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his weapon.
Lu Cheng himself has mastered the art of swordsmanship, but he also understands this better.
Cultivating swordsmanship requires talent, time, hard work and even a certain amount of opportunity, but even if you have these, a sword cultivator is likely to be beaten up by a weapon refiner of the same realm and fly away.
Because in a sense, monks who can practice the four techniques of alchemy and talismans to a high level are rarer and more powerful than sword cultivators.
At least, even if Lu Cheng himself met a sixth-level weapon refiner who was armed to the teeth, he would hide as far away as possible and would never dare to provoke him easily.
Sixth-level magic weapons are extremely precious. Even a great monk in the late stage of Yuanying has no more than five sixth-level magic weapons that match his own magic power. Any sixth-level magic weapon is useless to a person. It is a precious heritage for the sect.
So, even though Lu Cheng took Lin Qinghan to various trade fairs and auctions during this period, he did not encounter any suitable sixth-level magic weapons. Either they were not suitable for use, or the prices were raised to an abnormal level. the point.
Lu Cheng had a good fortune in his life and had a lot of spare money, but he did not want to be the big one.
During this period, Lu Cheng took Lin Qinghan to trade fairs and auctions. On the one hand, he wanted to buy protective magic weapons for him. After all, a golden elixir early-stage monk with an excellent protective magic weapon could overcome the lack of magic weapons. The monks in the middle and even late stages of the golden elixir fight against each other.
On the other hand, Lu Cheng also used the cover of his concubine to purchase some skills and books on the various arts of immortality that were needed in the Tongxuan world.
After being away for many years, Lu Cheng is still worried about the situation in the Tongxuan world, but he also knows that it is useless to worry. Master Huang Longzi, teacher Chi Shenzi and many seniors in the Tongxuan world have already become the Great Demon God. The robbery has been raised for nearly a thousand years, and now it is no more than one more than oneself, and one less one is too much. It is better to obtain enough resources in the world of Dingzhang. When the time comes to return, it can bring about huge changes in all aspects of the entire Tongxuan world.
“With pure force, the Tongxuan world, which has just developed for more than a thousand years, can never be the opponent of those demon gods from outside the world. The only way is to make those demon gods from outside the world throw rat weapons into a trap... ...Li Tang Dynasty, the Chinese enchantment?
Is this development even beneficial to those demons and gods outside the world? Only in this way can we buy more time. But even so, it is not easy."
As his horizons broadened and his Taoism level increased, Lu Cheng moved himself from southern Xinjiang to Huo. Yun Mansion, from the Huoyun Mansion to the Tang Dynasty to the Western Regions, the life experiences are connected together, and the layout and plot of the Eight Views and Guizang Mountain can be vaguely glimpsed.
What they did was even beneficial to those demons and gods outside the world, but it was also the only chance to survive:
"Connect the entire Li Tang Dynasty with the energy of the people in the world, and fill it together into In the Shenzhou barrier, if the Shenzhou barrier is broken and all the people's energy is dispersed, the value to the demon god will be greatly reduced. However, if it is delayed for a thousand years, it will be nothing to the demon god, but it will make people in the Tongxuan world The overall value has greatly increased.”
This is like a hen rolling away her eggs and hiding in the forest, changing from poultry to pheasant, but this forest belongs to that family. Carrying a shotgun, I am also happy to see that raising chickens has turned into free-range chickens. Not only is it more valuable, but it also brings more fun to hunting. Anyway, in such a short time, you can never evolve from a chicken to an eagle, and in turn, blind the owner. Eye.
“However, it is already very difficult for a hen to turn into a pheasant. The eggs may be broken halfway, and the chicken may die in the wild.”
“Husband, are you here? What are you thinking about?”
In the auction house, Lin Qinghan saw that the man beside him had been closing his eyes and concentrating, so he asked with concern. The peach blossom eyes of this stunning woman were full of tenderness.
"Nothing, I just thought of some Taoist tips."
At this moment, a fat Taoist man with a waistline of three feet walked quickly to the center of the auction and stood up.
The fat Taoist man grabbed a piece of blue jade slip from his arms and said:
“This is a sixth-level formation book, and there are some formations in it. I think everyone knows how valuable the insights gained from cultivation are. Tao wants to use this jade introduction in exchange for a sixth-level martial art with a complete inheritance. It can be either of a moderate or feminine nature. Sixth-level formation books like this rarely come out on the market. This time, Tao. You should seize the opportunity to avoid regrets later.”
There are a hundred arts of cultivating immortals, starting with the four items of alchemy and talismans. There is no reason why such a good thing cannot be used.
Many monks' eyes were shining, and they were eager to buy this treasure to increase the sect's heritage.
"I have a sixth-level flying sword. Would you like to have a look at it, fellow Daoist Ma? I am willing to make up for the shortcomings with spiritual stones."
"I have a sixth-level defensive method. "
This fat Taoist is named Ma Zhiqiu, and he is a famous Nascent Soul cultivator in the Northern Territory. A few years ago, he and Master Xue Bi gave birth to a daughter, and the whole world congratulated her.
It is a great auspicious sign that the Nascent Soul Master and the Golden Core Master can naturally have heirs. It should be noted that the higher the monk's magic power, the more difficult it is to have heirs. This is a kind of balance of heaven.
Moreover, Xue Bi was still more than a thousand years old when he was younger than Ma Zhiqiu, and he was doted on by old couples and young wives.
For this little daughter, the couple held it in their hands for fear that it would fall off and put it in their mouths for fear that it would melt.
But Ma Zhiqiu's own Taoism is vicious and fierce, and practicing it will harm the world. He simply does not dare to teach it to his daughter. Master Xue Bi comes from a small sect, and his Taoism inheritance is not good. He can practice to Today's state of affairs relies heavily on the support of her husband.
Ma Zhiqiu knows very well that monks easily change their majors in martial arts, which damages their innate qualifications. In order for his family to live together for a long time and enjoy the happiness of freedom and immortality, he came to Nan Lihai. If not In this way, if this person is alone, even the ancestor of the soul will not be able to control him.
Facing the sixth-level formation book, there were many monks present who wanted to exchange.
But most of the people present were monks from the sect, so naturally the sect’s skills could not be taught at will. Ma Zhiqiu didn't want his daughter to join someone else's family, so the mother and daughter were separated and communicated with several fellow practitioners, but nothing was achieved.
Just when the fat Taoist was feeling a little discouraged, Lu Cheng sent a message of consciousness: "Fellow Taoist, I have a technique in my hand. You can see if it is suitable."
< br>As he spoke, Lu Cheng sent the first half of a skill over.
"The secret of pure heart and universal kindness? Buddhist practice?"
Ma Zhiqiu glanced at it with his spiritual consciousness and carefully read the first part of the exercise. His face suddenly felt unhappy. Of course he didn't want his only daughter to break up the family and become a nun.
This technique was inherited by Lu Cheng from the Tianfo Sect. Old monk Zong Zhen practiced it to the Yuanying realm, leaving a total of two sixth-level Buddhist cultivation techniques for this sect.
Lu Cheng knew that he had read too many demonic books, and his mind would inevitably turn into intolerance at times. Therefore, in addition to Taoist books, he sometimes also read Buddhist scriptures, although not many.
“Don’t be impatient, my Taoist friends. The nature of this Qingxin Universal Kindness Art is gentle and peaceful. It does not necessarily require breaking up the family to practice it. From the innate to the Yuanying realm, step by step, the technique is complete and flawless. In the end, The important thing is that this practice can harmonize temperament. Don’t Taoist friends want their daughters to be gentle and uphold good intentions? What’s more, Buddhist practices can also accumulate blessings? The effect of eliminating disasters. ”
Ordinary people often don’t know the taboos when making offerings to the Buddha. In Buddhism, accumulating blessings and eliminating disasters is like a dam, turning violent waves into gurgling water. That is to say, ordinary people make offerings to the Buddha. Don't offer many Buddha statues at one time. Ordinary people are not so blessed. This is like a dam that stops flowing and becomes unsustainable all of a sudden.
In many secular homes, the elderly in the family do not understand the key points and invite Buddhas into their homes. If one person is not enough, another person will be invited, and if one person is not enough, another person will be invited. Then the situation in the family will take a turn for the worse, and bad luck will continue for several years or even more than ten years. , many opportunities to change one's destiny have been missed. Accumulating blessings and eliminating disasters means the dam stops flowing. For ordinary people, it is enough for ordinary people to ask for one or two Buddha statues.
After much thought, Fat Taoist Ma Zhiqiu decided to exchange the jade slips of the exercises with Lu Cheng. Both parties signed a contract that the exercises in their hands would not be passed on to others for five hundred years.
After this transaction, Fat Taoist Ma Zhiqiu said goodbye and left. Before leaving, he invited Lu Cheng and Lin Qinghan to sit at Biqiu Peak in their free time, so that the relationship between the two true kings It was considered a friendship.
"Bi Qiufeng, hehe, this Ma Zhenjun is really interesting." Lin Qinghan said with a smile after Ma Zhiqiu left.
"It is true that this true king loves his Taoist companion very much. They have been together in the world for three thousand years, but they only envy mandarin ducks and not immortals."
Lu Cheng shook his head and continued to watch the auction on the auction stage.
The auction held here is not very standardized. As long as any Nascent Soul Master has such a wish, he can interrupt it at any time and step forward to make a transaction, just like Ma Zhiqiu just now.
On the auction stage, there were mostly fifth-level elixirs, weapons, talismans, array disks and other treasures. Not long after, Lu Cheng bought another fifth-level spiritual medicine book.
Among the hundreds of arts of cultivating immortality, the art of spiritual medicine is the most consistent with the way of physical cultivation. Although Lu Cheng also practices divine arts, he is not a pure physical cultivation monk.
The war is about to begin, and this auction will focus on magic weapons. In less than an hour, more than thirty fifth-level magic weapons were sold. However, these fifth-level magic weapons were mainly of middle and lower levels, which did not make Lu Cheng and Lin Qinghan feel tempted.
Just when Lu Cheng and Lin Qinghan thought there would be no more gains today, two more exquisite items finally appeared on the stage.
“The fifth-level top-grade Xuanwu and White Tiger puppets. The former is refined using four thousand years of black ice. When used by Ice Spirit Root monks, its power will be increased by three points. The latter is refined from Taiyi real gold. , the attack was fierce and powerful. Man, the base price of these two puppets is only six thousand spirit stones.”
Qi-building foundation monks use low-grade spirit stones, Zifu Jindan monks use medium-grade spirit stones, and Yuanying monks trade daily spirit stones. The unit is a high-grade spiritual stone.
In other words, these two fifth-level puppet beasts are priced at 600,000 yuan of low-grade spiritual stones.
“Six thousand two hundred!”
"Six thousand four hundred!"
"Six thousand eight hundred!"
Seeing that Lu Cheng was also participating in the competition, Lin Qinghan's pretty face turned pale.
“Husband, you have bought me enough magic weapons to protect me these days.”
“I didn’t buy them entirely for you. You forgot, I He is also proficient in the art of puppets, and he bought them to study and increase his accumulation of puppet arts.”
Hearing what Lu Cheng said, Lin Qinghan's expression improved slightly, but she knew very well that once her husband fell in love with a certain treasure, he would often spend a lot of money to buy it.
In the end, these two fifth-level high-grade puppets were purchased by Lu Cheng at a sky-high price of 84,000 spiritual stones, causing a sensation in the auction conference.
After getting the treasure, Lu Cheng directly handed the puppet bag to Lin Qinghan beside him. "You are a monk who practices water walking. These two treasures will be more powerful on you."
"Husband, you still said you didn't buy this for me. ?”
"It is indeed used for research, but it makes no difference to me if I leave it with you."
After this auction, seeing that there was nothing good anymore, Lu Cheng and Lin Qinghan left. During the auction, two rays of light, one blue and one red, flew through the air.
On the top of the island, under the sky, the evening breeze caresses and the stars shine brightly.
The night is like silk, embellished with the brilliance of the Milky Way falling, and the stars sway in the sea and sky. The bright moonlight in the sky softly shines on the winding coast, and the silver waves echo with the starry sky, creating a breathtaking picture.
Being in it, flying in the air is like a person in a painting.
"What a beautiful night. It's already so beautiful between heaven and earth. I really don't know what it will be like when it's written in the book, 'The grand view of the sky is as far as the eye can see.'"
Lin Qinghan feels Watching the starry night with the night wind blowing, I felt a little emotional for a moment.
“As a member of our Taoism, shouldn’t we think that one day we will open up the sky, recreate the flow of nine qi, and reunite with our ancestors in the Divine Palace of Heaven?”
What is in front of us? The night was beautiful, but Lu Cheng knew that as long as he could continue to live, one day he would be able to see more and more beautiful scenery.
“I don’t have your husband’s level of cultivation, your Taoist heart is firm, and I can accompany you for thousands of years. As a concubine, I have nothing more to ask for.”
"..."
Everything on the island is wrapped in the soft light of the stars and the moon. The originally sharp outlines become softer and the colors become deeper.
"Boom."
The waves rolled in the night, making a low and powerful roar, which was the original movement of nature.
Riding the wind under the starry sky, Yu Jian seemed to have even his soul purified, and all the worries and constraints seemed to dissipate along with the waves.
The starry sky is like deep eyes, staring at everyone who looks up to it, giving them endless imagination and peaceful power.
“Boom.”
When the waves broke again, Lu Cheng suddenly felt severe pain coming from his chest. He lowered his head, only to see a stab on his chest. A sharp sword emerges.
Without the demonstration of Taoism, any spiritual purification is false.
“Evil thief!”
Lin Qinghan's reaction was already outstanding. When he was suddenly attacked, the female cultivator immediately screamed and slapped the magic bag. Four colors of radiance surged around her body, and two bodies The newly purchased Xuanwu White Tiger puppet and the two humanoid puppets donated by Lu Cheng all flew out to defend against counterattacks.
I just want to attack but I don’t know where to attack. The current situation is that except for the chest of my husband, Taoist Tie Xiao, a flying sword suddenly pierced from behind, the assassinating swordsman is nowhere to be seen. There is no semi-fractal hidden exposed.
Suddenly, the body of Taoist Lu Cheng who was later assassinated began to change rapidly. Sometimes he looked like Taoist Lu Cheng, and sometimes he was a cold iron armor.
At the same time, another Lu Cheng appeared in front of him out of thin air. He pointed out with a cold expression. His five fingers were as white as jade, and there was a golden red flame at the tip of his finger, condensed, blazing.
“If I hadn’t always used the ghost baby incarnation as the main body, and the main body is hidden on one side most of the time, I would have been seriously injured even if I didn’t die from this sword! Who is this person? How dare he do it at this time? Kill people near Cangyun Island!”
Lu Cheng used the cultivation of Jindan Zhenren to hide among Zhenjun Yuanying through his external incarnation. He has always been extremely cautious.
As long as he goes out, the Phantom Demon Banner will always be activated, surrounding the body and switching the body of Lu Cheng and the Ghost Infant Dharma Body, causing most monks to believe that the body is the puppet and the incarnation is the real body.
But even if he is careful, he still cannot prevent this assassination sword.
The whim is ineffective, the heart of the sword is bright and ineffective, the phantom banner that has been hidden by the side like a hidden dragon is also ineffective in defense, and is pierced by the flying sword like dark electricity. Until this moment, Lu Cheng You can feel the terrifying sword energy, the crazy bombardment inside the puppet's body.
Although it is a humanoid puppet, the puppet master will certainly not place a large number of vital points on the chest and abdomen of the humanoid puppet.
The ghost baby was placed at the lower end of the puppet's back neck by Lu Cheng to avoid the brain, heart, and dantian, which are parts that are more frequently attacked. Some puppet masters like to place the spirit stone on the butt or feet of the humanoid puppet. The former is thickly armored and the latter is not easily attacked by the main attack.
However, although the ghost infant puppet was able to avoid the direct piercing of the flying sword by virtue of its design, the sword energy overflowed and spread in the puppet's body. Even if the ghost infant was wrapped by a large group of hundred poisonous golden silkworm Gu, it would still be Seriously injured in a short period of time.
If it weren’t for the life-saving protection of Golden Silkworm Gu, the ghost baby would have collapsed physically and mentally.
锵.
Samadhi True Fire, struck hard with the flying sword.
It's not that Lu Cheng didn't want to attack the spine and weak points of the flying sword, but that the flying sword was surrounded by sword energy and had no weak points. In this case, it would be better to attack directly.
Originally, this flying sword could be retreated in time, but the ghost baby was severely injured and his ferocity was aroused, and a stream of strange, tricky, vicious, and vicious sword intent erupted from his Dantian. The sword energy bites the flying sword from all directions in the puppet's body.
At the same time, the phantom demon flag suddenly appeared, like rolling up an endless undercurrent, delaying the flying sword for a moment.
There was a clang, swords and fire clashed, and the flying sword fell back. Then it spun in the air, and a tall and thin Taoist in black robe suddenly appeared.
"The art of sword demon! You are a monk of the Sky Demon Sword Sect!"
Because the energy and mana fluctuations in this area exceeded a certain limit, island protection formations suddenly appeared on several surrounding islands.
Cangyun, Kunzi, Danyang, and Sifang Islands are all shrouded in a cloud of light, whether golden, green, red, or blue. Different formations have different lights. These lights are intertwined. The changes are extremely mysterious.
This is also one of the reasons why Lu Chenghui was successfully plotted by his opponent. He thought that if he took action here, it would be difficult to escape the pursuit of the three great monks on the main island of Cangyun. He came here Not long ago, and he didn't form a deadly feud with anyone, who would take such a risk to kill him?
When he saw the roots of the tall and thin Taoist in black and the Heavenly Demon Sword Sect, Lu Cheng was even more puzzled. The little fight between him and the monks of the sect seemed to be far from a life-and-death situation. As for using the assassination sword here?
“Unexpectedly, Taoist Tie Xiao, who has suddenly become famous recently, is actually the incarnation of a Nascent Soul. Your original body practices physical cultivation, but you practice golden elixir physical cultivation?
I don’t know which ancestor of the Yuan Shen is the beloved disciple... So this female cultivator with the Nine Spirit Sword Body is the cauldron you have already prepared! ? "
"What? Nine Spirit Sword Body? ”
When Lu Cheng was slightly distracted, a fierce and violent sword intent directly penetrated into his brain.
The sword’s unique skill, the sword intent became powerful.
Will The sword cultivator himself has experienced hundreds of battles, defeated the murderous intention to kill the opponent, and perfectly integrated into his own divine energy and his own swordsmanship. As long as he does this, any opponent will be frightened by the killing power of the sword.
Lu Cheng himself had also mastered this unique skill, so the clash of sword intentions was like two swords biting violently in his mind.
For high-level monks, it is not easy to use the sword intention, because the high-level monks have a very strong mentality. After cultivating to the realm of Jindan Yuanying, the vast majority of monks have no obvious weaknesses in their mentality. , the gap that the sword intention can create is too short, it is better to leave it to the right critical moment and only seize the half-moment gap.
“His target is not me, but Lin Qinghan!”
That Nascent Soul Lord of the Heavenly Demon Sword Sect, he thought he had an insight into Lu Cheng’s weakness: physical cultivation , the mind will always be weaker, not to mention that the two sides are still far behind in a big realm, and the sword intention is enough to restrain the opponent for a while.
So he used his divine consciousness to turn his sword into an attack, and then the human sword joined forces and attacked Lin Qinghan again.
"Nine Spirit Sword Body, one of the three major sword cultivating spiritual bodies in the world of immortality. As long as I get her, as long as I get her, I can be promoted to the late stage of Nascent Soul and become a great monk!"
At this moment, that A tall and thin swordsman in black clothes was like a poisonous dragon, with a harsh air-piercing sonic boom scream that was ten times the speed of sound, directly attacking Lin Qinghan, who was shocked.
The white tiger spit out the sword energy like the moon, and Xuanwu spit out the whirlpool of ice, but they were unable to withstand it. In front of the poisonous dragon-like sword force, they were easily torn apart like paper.
However, at this moment, the monk suddenly felt a huge suction force coming from his side. When he looked around, it was the monk whose mind should have been sluggish for a moment. At this moment, a hole appears in front of the palm, and the terrifying power of absorption comes from it and covers itself.
At the same moment, a piece of golden light appeared in front of Lin Qinghan, and a giant tree suddenly grew out and completely enveloped her entire figure.
The sword light condensed and slashed down, instantly gaining the upper hand.
But in the center of the big tree that was quickly broken open, an old woman in white stood up, avoided the sword edge, and pointed behind the sword light:
Tian Jue Di cage.
With just one finger, he broke the sword's unique sword light and rainbow, and briefly cut off the monks of the Sky Demon Sword Sect's control of the surrounding heaven and earth aura with the wood element aura.
(End of this chapter)