Chapter 181: Secret realm of ruins, second-level demon core!
In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed.
Because of the Black Cloud Mountain Range ruins, Lu Changsheng had been drawing not only second-order talismans but also many first-order high-grade talismans these days.
Not only him, but Lu Miaoge had also been busy making talismans these days.
After all, the Black Cloud Mountain Range was not far from the Red Leaf Valley market.
It was only four to five thousand miles away.
Therefore, many cultivators from the surrounding area went to the Black Cloud Mountain Range, hoping to try their luck.
Moreover, after half a month of fermentation, the hype surrounding the Black Cloud ruins not only did not decrease at all,
but also became even more popular due to several rumors that someone had obtained ancient cultivation methods, foundation-building spiritual objects, and natural treasures from the ruins, attracting even more people to go.
After all, for most cultivators, a cultivation method or a foundation-building spiritual object was a great opportunity.
They might not be able to obtain such an opportunity even after a lifetime of hard pursuit.
Now that such ruins had appeared, they would naturally not miss it.
It was also for this reason that the traffic in the Red Leaf Valley market had increased.
Talismans, pills, and magical artifacts were selling like hotcakes, and prices had risen by thirty to forty percent, allowing Lu Changsheng to make a small fortune.
Faced with this situation, the four major families also dispatched manpower to increase patrols and guards in the Red Leaf Valley market.
In order to prevent the Black Cloud Mountain Range ruins from attracting rogue cultivators, who might take the opportunity to cause trouble.
After all, the previous incident of two rogue cultivators causing trouble had left the four major families with lingering fears.
In a conversation with Lu Miaoge, Lu Changsheng learned that the Lu family, Bai family, Yu family, Zheng family, and many surrounding cultivation families had sent people to explore the ruins in Black Cloud Mountain.
Cultivation is like crossing a river, with thousands of horses and soldiers competing to sail.
If there is an opportunity and you do not fight for it, how can you win and achieve success in cultivation?
However, the Lu family’s old ancestor, Lu Yuanzhong, was still stationed at Green Bamboo Mountain.
He did not participate in the exploration of the ruins.
The Yu family, Zheng family, and Bai family were also the same.
They were only small families.
There were only one or two Foundation Establishment ancestors in the family.
They did not dare to go out and risk seeking opportunities at all.
After all, they were not individuals, but pillars of the family.
Once an accident occurred, the entire family would have problems and face a catastrophe.
They could only send a few Qi Refinement late-stage cultivators to explore.
However, Lu Changsheng heard that Foundation Establishment cultivators had already gone to this ruin.
“The Azure Cloud Sect has entered the fray?”
A few days later, when Lu Changsheng was chatting with Lu Yuanling, he learned that the Azure Cloud Sect had also taken action on the Black Cloud Mountain secret realm.
“That’s right, it has now been confirmed that this ruin is a small secret realm, with many opportunities and treasures inside, so the Azure Cloud Sect will naturally not let it go.”
Lu Yuanling said.
As the Lu family’s second elder and the person in charge of the Lu family in the Red Leaf Valley market, he paid close attention to this kind of news.
“With the Azure Cloud Sect’s involvement, the entire secret realm belongs to the Azure Cloud Sect.”
Lu Changsheng said with a tut.
For rogue cultivators and various forces, the Azure Cloud Sect’s involvement was a complete dimension reduction blow.
Other rogue cultivator forces simply had no chance to play.
“That’s not the case, the Azure Cloud Sect has not blocked the secret realm or driven away rogue cultivators and other forces.”
Lu Yuanling shook his head.
“Oh, so the Azure Cloud Sect is quite generous.”
Lu Changsheng raised his eyebrows when he heard this.
He thought that the Azure Cloud Sect would directly block the secret realm and prohibit others from entering.
After all, if the Azure Cloud Sect did this, others would have nothing to say and would not dare to say anything.
“Changsheng, you are still too young.”
“It’s not that the Azure Cloud Sect is generous. Such secret realms must be full of dangers. The Azure Cloud Sect naturally does not want its own disciples to charge into the battle.”
“It’s better to give us these family forces and rogue cultivators a little soup and let us act as cannon fodder to go in and explore.”
Lu Yuanling chuckled and said.
At his age, he had experienced a lot and saw these things very clearly.
“Uh.”
Lu Changsheng understood the truth when he heard this.
It’s like the Violet Nether Secret Realm, which is controlled by several major immortal sects.
If they relied entirely on the immortal sect disciples to explore, not only would the harvest be limited, but it would also be easy to lose disciples in it.
It would be better to let rogue cultivators and people from other forces enter together.
Anyway, if there are gains inside, some benefits must be given to the major immortal sects.
“It is very difficult for rogue cultivators and small forces to profit from such secret realms and gain benefits from this unexpected opportunity.”
Lu Changsheng sighed.
Every time he heard these things, he deeply felt the difficulty of the cultivators at the bottom of the cultivation world.
Without excellent talent, it is too difficult to achieve success in cultivation.
They can only keep betting their lives.
“Fortunately, I have a system.”
Lu Changsheng thought to himself.
With the system, he only needs to be safe and stable, marry wives and concubines, have children and raise children, and he can obtain countless opportunities and treasures that people cannot obtain in their lifetime.
Thus, the immortal path is smooth.
At this time, Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but think of his good friend Li Feiyu, who was far away in Qingluan Immortal City.
Although the other party did not say it in detail.
But he also knew that Li Feiyu was taking the path of hunting monsters, exploring ruins, and the caves of predecessors, betting his life.
Just like these rogue cultivators, if he is not careful, accidents may occur.
Jiang Country, Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range.
This mountain range is endless, stretching from the southern border of Jiang Country and spanning half of the Southern Wilderness cultivation world.
It is also a natural barrier between Jiang Country and Yue Country.
Because there are many monsters in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, and many rare spiritual medicines and herbs grow, cultivators often enter the mountain range to practice and hunt monsters all year round.
After all, for cultivators, monsters are treasures all over their bodies.
Flesh, fur, tendons, and bones can all be sold for a good price.
If you can encounter some monster cubs or rare spiritual herbs, it will be a big harvest.
At this time, on the periphery of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, five cultivators were besieging two snake-shaped monsters with blue bodies.
These two giant pythons were very huge.
Their bodies were more than one meter thick, exuding a strong spiritual light, and their two faint eyes flickered with cold light, constantly spewing cold air at people.
“Roar!”
One of the cultivators roared, making a lion-like roar, causing the giant python that was about to attack to stagnate.
Then, a golden rope was sacrificed, binding a giant python, and he shouted: “Old Li!”
Immediately.
A middle-aged man in his thirties, tall, wearing black tight-fitting clothes, with a fierce look on his face, and holding a red long knife, strode out.
His muscles burst and agitated, and the red light surged in his hand, and he slashed **** at the seven inches of the giant python.
“Clang!”
This knife was as powerful as thunder, mighty and domineering, directly shattering the giant python’s body-protecting spiritual light.
Then it fell on its blue snake scales, making a golden sound, faintly breaking the scales.
“Hiss hiss hiss!”
The giant python roared angrily, its body surging with spiritual light, and its tail suddenly swung, swinging on the black tight-fitting man.
“Boom!”
The man in black tight-fitting clothes flew out directly with the knife, smashed into a big tree in the distance, and knocked the big tree down.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, the protective gas mask around him surged, resisting most of the damage, and he was not seriously injured.
“Take advantage of now, kill!”
The three people who were entangled with the other giant python saw this, and at this moment, they also urged the magic weapon and used spells to turn around and bombard the giant python whose body-protecting spiritual light was broken.
“Aoooo — —”
The giant python roared to the sky and wailed under the turbulent offensive.
This roar almost drove the other giant python crazy.
But these five people were obviously very experienced in dealing with monsters.
Under this circumstance, they did not choose to continue to head-on, but kept entangled.
After grinding a giant python to death, they began to face the other giant python head-on and slowly beheaded it.
“This harvest is good, the materials of these two blood pythons can be sold for a lot of money.”
After beheading the two giant pythons, an old man with gray hair and wearing a gray robe said.
“These two blood pythons should be a pair, I don’t know if they have laid eggs.”
“If they have laid eggs, it will be a big profit.”
A middle-aged woman in a long red robe said.
“Laying eggs, what are you thinking about, how can you be so lucky.”
Another man in a green robe shook his head and said.
Immediately, several people walked towards the cave of these two blood pythons.
These monsters live in the mountains, and when they see any treasures, or the remains of cultivators, the corpses of other monsters, or even spiritual medicines and herbs, they will bring them back to the cave.
So sometimes after killing the monsters, exploring the cave will also have unexpected gains.
“There are actually eggs, eight blood python snake eggs!”
The woman in the red robe saw the depths of the cave, her eyes lit up, and she said in surprise.
“What, there really are?”
“These eight blood python snake eggs can also be sold for four or five hundred spirit stones!”
“This wave has made a lot of money!”
When the others heard this, they looked at the snake eggs, and their eyes also showed surprise.
For them, four or five hundred spirit stones divided equally, each person would have almost one hundred spirit stones.
It is a small income.
However.
At this moment, the gray-robed old man looked at a gray and dull crystal core.
When he saw this dull-colored crystal core, his slightly turbid eyes widened, and his throat was a little dry.
“Uncle Xiao, what are you looking at?”
The woman in the red robe saw the gray-robed old man stunned and asked.
Then she looked along her eyes and immediately saw the dull-colored crystal core.
“This is a demon core!”
The woman in the red robe exclaimed.
The demon core is similar to the Dao foundation of human cultivators, the core of storing mana.
But not all second-order monsters have demon cores.
Only some rare or more powerful second-order monsters have demon cores.
Because having a demon core means that this monster has the potential to advance to the third order.
If it advances to the third order, the demon core will also transform into a ‘demon pill’, corresponding to the true pill or golden pill of the Jindan cultivator.
At this time, a demon core actually appeared in the cave of the blood python.
Although this demon core looks like it has leaked a lot of energy, it is also priceless.
There are eight blood python snake eggs and a demon core, and the atmosphere in the cave suddenly solidified.
After all, wealth moves people’s hearts.
The five people only cooperate frequently to hunt monsters, and they can’t talk about deep friendship.
Now that such a big benefit has appeared, people will naturally have ideas in their hearts.
“This demon core can probably be sold for two or three thousand spirit stones.”
“When it is sold, each of us can get at least five or six hundred spirit stones.”
At this time, the gray-robed old man said to everyone.
When the others heard this, they all showed joy.
This spirit stone is not a small amount.
“Who should we put this demon core in?”
The man in the green robe said in a deep voice.
Like the blood python, they can directly treat the corpse as material and divide it equally according to its value.
The snake eggs are the same.
The extra three snake eggs are converted into spirit stones.
But such a priceless demon core cannot be handled.
As soon as this remark came out, the atmosphere in the cave became stagnant again.
“What’s going on! My head is so dizzy.”
At this moment, the woman in the red robe suddenly supported her forehead, and her body was faltering.
“Not good, there is poison!”
The man in the green robe trembled and realized that something was wrong.
“Who poisoned it!”
The man in black tight-fitting clothes showed a fierce look and shouted, but he also trembled and staggered.
The refined middle-aged man among the five looked at the gray-robed elder and said coldly, “Xiao, you old dog, you poisoned us!”
As he spoke, a spiritual energy shield formed around him to isolate the toxins.
“Fellow Daoist Yao, you actually possess an anti-poison treasure?”
The gray-robed elder looked at the refined man, somewhat surprised.
His Soul Severing Powder was colorless and odorless, and ordinary cultivators wouldn’t notice it without divine sense.
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So the refined man wasn’t poisoned, which made him realize he must have some kind of anti-poison treasure.
Upon hearing this, the other three glared at the gray-robed elder.
But at that moment, they were already unable to speak, swaying and staggering, vomiting blood, and falling to the ground.
“Fellow Daoist Yao, I’m afraid your treasure can’t completely defend against this old man’s ‘Soul Severing Powder’. It’s not too late for you to leave now.”
The gray-robed elder continued, speaking slowly.
“Alright, Yao admits defeat in this matter.”
Hearing this, the refined man knew that he was no match for the gray-robed elder.
With a wary expression, he slowly retreated from the cave.
“Wait.”
Just as the refined man was about to leave, the gray-robed elder suddenly called out to him.
He said, “Fellow Daoist Yao, take these snake eggs. If that’s the case, let’s just let this matter pass, how about it?”
“No need.”
Although Fellow Daoist Yao was tempted, he didn’t dare to stay any longer and quickly left.
However, at that moment.
“Pfft—”
A streak of purple light shot out from the gray-robed elder’s sleeve.
It was a lightning talisman attacking the refined man.
At the same time, a golden cone-shaped magical artifact was unleashed, transforming into a golden light and attacking the refined man.
In this situation, how could he let the man leave?
Once the news leaked, he feared that he would be intercepted and attacked before he even returned to Qingluan Immortal City.
After all, in this Myriad Beast Mountain Range, not only were the demonic beasts dangerous, but one also had to be wary of other cultivators.
This was why many cultivators formed teams to enter the Myriad Beast Mountain Range.
Not only was the mountain range treacherous, but they were also worried about being ambushed by rogue cultivators after leaving the mountain range, exhausted in body and mind.
“Boom, boom, boom—”
Faced with the gray-robed elder’s offensive, the refined man immediately summoned a small, earthy-yellow shield.
But under the bombardment of this offensive, the spiritual energy shield around him dimmed greatly, making him feel that toxins were entering his body.
Just as the elder had said, he had an anti-poison treasure.
But it was just an ordinary treasure and couldn’t continuously defend against the other party’s toxins.
“Pfft—”
The gray-robed elder continued to attack.
The refined man knew that he was no match for the elder and kept retreating, fleeing the cave.
But the gray-robed elder immediately gave chase.
Just as the two of them walked out of the cave, the black-clad man who had been poisoned and fainted opened his eyes.
“What a potent poison, colorless and odorless, without a trace.”
“If I hadn’t cultivated the Xuanjia Body Refining Art, I might have been planted here this time.”
Li Feiyu looked towards the cave entrance, his expression grave.
He had sensed that something was wrong with the elder at the first moment, noticing the abnormality.
He immediately closed his pores and stopped breathing.
But this poison was indeed powerful, colorless and odorless, without a trace.
If his body refinement art hadn’t reached the third level, his physical body comparable to the late Qi Refining stage, with a certain degree of poison resistance, he would have been planted here.
He didn’t delay, taking out a detoxification pill from his storage bag and consuming it to clear the toxins from his body.
Then, he held a talisman in his hand, continuing to play dead, waiting for the gray-robed elder to return.
Not long after, the gray-robed elder returned to the cave.
His aura was slightly disheveled.
In order to quickly resolve the matter and get rid of the refined man, he hadn’t held back either.
“After completing this mission, I can finally stop living this life of licking blood from a knife’s edge.”
The gray-robed elder held the second-order demonic core in his hand, a look of joy on his face.
He was already over sixty years old and had long lost the possibility of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
Now, going out to hunt demonic beasts was also for the sake of his descendants.
However, at that moment, suddenly.
He sensed a surge of heat and a sharp aura.
“Not good!”
The gray-robed elder subconsciously wanted to generate a spiritual energy shield.
But the hastily formed shield was directly broken open by the Fiery Blaze Talisman and the fierce and domineering saber light.
The next moment.
“Pfft—”
The sound of a sharp blade entering flesh rang out.
The gray-robed elder’s vision suddenly spun, falling from the air, seeing a headless corpse.
It was his own corpse.
And behind the corpse stood a fierce man dressed in black, holding a scarlet long saber.
“How is he not dead?”
The gray-robed elder, with shock and unwillingness, fell into endless darkness.
“Phew!”
Li Feiyu let out a long breath after killing the gray-robed elder with one strike.
He had also been very nervous in the situation just now.
After all, the elder had the ninth level of Qi Refining cultivation, while he only had the mid-stage of Qi Refining.
His only reliance was the body refinement technique of the late Qi Refining stage.
He quickly collected the storage bags of the people in the cave.
Then, he used the Fireball Technique to burn the corpses to ashes.
“Now that I’m returning to Qingluan Immortal City alone, I’m afraid there will be danger as well.”
“This demonic core might allow me to break through the bottleneck of the late Qi Refining stage.”
“With the cultivation of the late Qi Refining stage and the body refinement technique, I’ll have more confidence returning to Qingluan Immortal City.”
Li Feiyu looked at the gray demonic core in his hand, a look of ruthlessness on his face.
Most demonic beast crystal cores had violent attributes.
If cultivators directly absorbed them, it would not only waste energy but also easily harm their bodies.
It was completely inferior to the effect of refining them into pills.
But in the current situation, Li Feiyu couldn’t care so much.
The matters of the Black Cloud Mountain Range’s remains and secret realm, apart from allowing Lu Changsheng to make a small profit, didn’t have any impact on his daily life.
He now spent most of his time every day crafting talismans, drawing second-order talismans, to prepare for going to Nine Heavens Immortal City.
After this nearly year of time, he had also saved nearly a hundred second-order spiritual talismans, which could form a talisman array to kill late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, or even pseudo-Core Formation cultivators.
However, to refine talismans into an array, one could never have too many talismans.
The more talismans, the greater the power of the talisman array.
Lu Changsheng wasn’t in a hurry to go to Nine Heavens Immortal City, so he prepared to store more talismans for self-defense.
Moreover, this trip to Nine Heavens Immortal City was a long journey, and it would take a lot of time to go back and forth.
It was estimated that it would take half a year, or even a year.
So he also had to properly arrange the things behind him.
He prepared all the talismans supplied to his family’s spiritual talisman shop and the talismans supplied to the Lu family in advance.
Just like that, in the blink of an eye, three months passed.
“Boom!”
On this day, Lu Changsheng felt a stream of air pouring into his body.
He knew that his son, Lu Quan, had broken through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining.
The children in his family were now all waiting to break through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining, and then go out to train.
Lu Changsheng also returned to Green Bamboo Mountain to give Lu Quan arrangements.
This son had a stronger personality and wanted to venture outside.
So Lu Changsheng didn’t arrange for him to experience life in the market town.
Instead, he sent him to the secular world to follow Hong Yi.
Now Hong Yi had become the Heir Apparent of the Ruyi Marquis.
He was in charge of all the affairs, big and small, in Ruyi County.
Not only the Jianghu martial world, but also the secular cultivation world was in turmoil, and he had to deal with it.
So arranging for this son to go to the secular world could not only see the Jianghu martial world, secular cultivation, increase his experience, but also not encounter any danger.
“Brother Lu, don’t worry, I will take good care of your virtuous nephew, Quan.”
Hong Yi saw that Lu Changsheng had sent his son to let him take care of him, and followed him to train, and agreed in one bite.
Then he said to a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy next to him, dressed in brocade robes, with an extraordinary bearing: “Xuanji, get along well with your brother Quan in the future, be as close as brothers, and support each other.”
This boy was named Hong Xuanji, the sixth son of Hong Yi, who possessed a seventh-grade spiritual root and was deeply loved by Hong Yi.
“Yes, Father!”
Hong Xuanji nodded in response upon hearing his father’s words.
He also knew that his father’s current status was greatly related to this Uncle Lu.
Moreover, the Lu Quan in front of him was only three years older than him, but his cultivation had already reached the mid-stage of Qi Refining. If he made friends with him, it would also be helpful to him in the future.
“Quan, listen to your Uncle Hong more in the future, and if you have anything, write a letter back.”
“Remember to write letters to your mother on weekdays, and go home to see her when you have time, and also go to see your sister.”
Qu Zhenzhen’s eyes were red, and she said to her son with a face full of reluctance.
Although her son was so old, he was still a child in her eyes, and she was very worried about her son venturing into the world.
“Mother, don’t worry, your child knows.”
Lu Quan looked at his mother’s appearance, a few traces of helplessness appeared on his face.
Immediately, he comforted her, saying that he would definitely pay attention to safety, and would write letters home when he had time, and take his sister home to see her, please rest assured.
Lu Changsheng’s mouth twitched slightly as he watched this scene.
He didn’t know how Lu Quan’s temperament was formed.
Although he had taught this son, Qu Zhenzhen had taught him most of the time.
But Qu Zhenzhen, when facing her children, although not doting, was also reluctant to beat or scold them.
Even sometimes, when she taught her children, she would feel wronged herself, feeling that she hadn’t taught them well.
So seeing that his son Lu Quan’s personality was precocious and very opinionated, Lu Changsheng didn’t know how he was raised.
He could only say that some children’s personalities might have some influence from birth.
“Zhenzhen, as long as you want, we can often come to see Quan.”
Lu Changsheng also said to his wife.
After settling his son Lu Quan, Lu Changsheng also brought Qu Zhenzhen to stay in the Lu Mansion for a while.
The eldest son, Lu Ping’an, after training in the Scarlet Whale Gang for a year, went out to venture into the Jianghu on his own, and has not returned yet.
The second son, Lu Wuyu, under the arrangement of Hong Yi, went to a county under Nanyu Prefecture to be a county magistrate.
His daughter, Lu Wuyou, also shouted every day that she wanted to be a female knight and venture into the Jianghu, but her mother, Lu Zier, wouldn’t let her.
And Lu Changsheng was also afraid that his daughter would suffer losses, so he also pretended not to know about this matter, and did not agree to his daughter going out to venture.
Now that Lu Changsheng and Qu Zhenzhen came to the Lu Mansion, his wives Lu Lanshu, Lu Qing’er, Lu Zier, and other concubines also talked to Lu Changsheng about their children’s marriages.
Children like Lu Wuyou, Lu Wuyu, and Lu Xile were all seventeen or eighteen years old, and had reached the age of marriage and should consider marriage.
Lu Changsheng also felt quite emotional about this.
He still remembered when these children were born.
Unknowingly, these children had also grown up and were about to get married.
In this regard, he also let Lu Lanshu, Lu Qing’er, Lu Zier, and others arrange it.
But the marriage had to be agreed to by his children.
After all, with his current situation, there was no need to consider the balance of interests in his children’s marriages.
The main thing was to make his children happy and like each other, and choose for themselves.