Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Chapter 207 Clan Situation and Strength Improvement
"There are no suitable spiritual springs in Crimson Smoke Mountain for refining magical artifacts, and the power of spiritual liquid cannot compare with that of a spiritual spring. If I were to use a spiritual spring for refining, the quality of the Golden Feather Sword I forge would definitely be even better!"

After carefully examining the Golden Feather Sword he had forged, Lu Cheng'an couldn't help but sigh softly.

The quality of magical artifacts crafted by a weapon refiner depends not only on their own crafting skills but also on the conditions under which they are crafted.

"Now that our weapon-refining skills have reached the third tier, the conditions at Crimson Smoke Mountain are no longer suitable for refining third-tier magic weapons!"

"Shi Ningyu invited me to go to the Poison Swamp Immortal City to purchase some treasures, but now Chi Liu is preparing to break through to the third level. I will wait until Chi Liu's cultivation breakthrough is successful before going to the Poison Swamp Immortal City with Shi Ningyu."

The master of Poison Swamp Immortal City is the Thousand Poison True Man, who has reached the Golden Core Perfection Realm. Poison Swamp Immortal City is a melting pot of all sorts of creatures, and all kinds of treasures may appear within it.

Shi Ningyu's invitation to Lu Cheng'an to the Poison Swamp Immortal City was not only to purchase the Heavenly Illusion Qi needed for cultivating the Minor Transformation Technique, but also to purchase various treasures needed for cultivating the Jade Soul Immortal Light, Jade Rainbow Divine Transformation Palm, and other techniques.

Chi Liu's cultivation had also long since broken through to the second-tier perfection, and he could break through to the third tier at any time.

However, Chi Liu's foundation was not as solid as Ling Xuan's. It wasn't until so much time had passed since Ling Xuan broke through to the third level that she felt confident enough to attempt a breakthrough.

Currently, there are four third-tier spiritual veins in Chiyan Mountain, which are sufficient to supply Chiliu's needs for breakthrough.

After carefully considering the matter in his mind, Lu Cheng'an left the cave.

A moment later, Lu Cheng'an appeared in Chi Liu's cave, where Ling Xuan was also present.

"Chiliu, first refine this third-grade low-level Xuan Turtle Shield. If it can't withstand the Transformation Lightning Tribulation, then rely on the power of the Xuan Turtle Shield to block it!"

Upon meeting Chi Liu, Lu Cheng'an immediately handed him a dark gray shield, which was a low-grade third-tier defensive magic weapon.

"Thank you, Senior Lu, but Lingxuan has already given me her Five-Colored Spirit Shield!" Chi Liu said.

The five-colored spirit shield also belonged to Lu Cheng'an. When Lingxuan broke through to the third rank, Lu Cheng'an gave this low-grade third-rank defensive magic weapon to Lingxuan to help her overcome the tribulation of transformation.

After Lingxuan's cultivation successfully broke through to the third rank, Lu Cheng'an directly gave her this third-rank low-grade defensive magic weapon, and also gave her a third-rank low-grade offensive magic weapon, the Azure River Pearl.

There are still quite a few low-grade third-tier magic artifacts stored in the Sky Palace, some of which were originally crafted by the ancestors of the Spirit Clam Clan.

"The Five-Colored Spirit Shield has already been refined by Lingxuan, so you should use the Xuan Turtle Shield instead!"

After handing the Xuan Turtle Shield to Chi Liu, Lu Cheng'an asked, "How are your preparations going? When do you plan to attempt a breakthrough?"

"I'm all ready, and I'll try to break through in three days!" Chi Liu said with a smile.

She has no psychological burden now, because Lingxuan's cultivation has successfully broken through to the third level, and their Spirit Clam Clan has also successfully moved away from the Burning Flame Mountain Range, so they will no longer bear any risks.

Even if she fails to break through this time, it will not have any impact on the Spirit Clam Clan.

"Do your best, don't put too much pressure on yourself. Once your cultivation breaks through to the third level, I have one more thing for you to do!" Lu Cheng'an said.

Lu Cheng'an did not stay in Chi Liu's cave for too long. After speaking briefly with Chi Liu, he left the cave.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng'an did not return to his cave, but went to find Lu Wenxing.

"Cheng'an, you've finished your seclusion?" Lu Wenxing's face lit up with joy when he saw Lu Cheng'an.

"I've officially ended my seclusion!"

Lu Cheng'an smiled and looked at Lu Wenxing, asking, "Is there some happy event in the clan? The clan leader seems very pleased!"

“There is indeed good news in the clan. Chengping’s cultivation has now broken through to the Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm, and his two Daoist partners’ cultivation will also break through to the Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm within the next two months.”

The three of them are now highly valued by the Spirit Gu Sect. Chengping and his two partners will be sent to a secret realm controlled by the sect, which contains the sect's most important inheritance. If they obtain a superior inheritance within the realm, the Spirit Gu Sect will dedicate all its efforts to nurturing them into Golden Core cultivators!

Although the Linggu Sect has a considerable number of Foundation Establishment cultivators, few of them have the potential to break through to the Golden Core realm.

Lu Chengping's cultivation talent is even better than that of his two Daoist partners. If he breaks through to the Golden Core realm first, He Huan and He Ying will also be able to break through to the Golden Core realm with the power of the Deep Affection Gu.

It was for this reason that the Spirit Gu Sect had the idea of ​​training Lu Chengping and the other two.

This was only the first happy event for the Lu family. The second happy event was that Lu Jingkun's cultivation successfully broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

"Jing Kun's cultivation broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm half a month ago. Jing Lin and Cheng Bai are also currently in seclusion trying to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm. Cheng Lan, Jing Xiu, and Jing Tong's cultivation is also about to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm."

At this point, a slightly worried smile appeared on Lu Wenxing's face: "The three Foundation Establishment spiritual items you put in the clan treasury before have now been exchanged for by Jing Kun and the other two. If Cheng Lan and the other two break through to the Foundation Establishment realm, they will have no Foundation Establishment spiritual items to assist them!"

"The clan has accumulated enough spirit stones to buy three Foundation Establishment items. Cheng'an, when do you have time to go to the Desolate Ancient Immortal City and buy three more Foundation Establishment items?"

The small spirit stone mine in Linghe Valley is now operating smoothly under the Lu family's management, with nearly 10,000 spirit stones being mined from the mine every year.

After the monster crisis in the Burning Flame Mountains was temporarily relieved, business at the Lu family's Qingling Mountain Market became even more prosperous.

Now, the scale of Qingling Mountain Market has expanded again. Not to mention the cultivation resources earned by the Lu family from selling spiritual items in Qingling Mountain Market, the rent alone can bring in several thousand spirit stones every year.

Because of Lu Cheng'an, the Lu family became a Golden Core power. In addition, the business in Qingling Mountain Market was booming. Lu Wenxing intended to build a celestial city in Qingling Mountain.

The Immortal City is larger than the Market Town and can accommodate more cultivators. Once the Immortal City is established, Qingling Mountain will be able to attract even more cultivators.

Of course, the Lu family also had to invest a lot of resources in the early stages.

The materials used to build the immortal city cannot be ordinary things, and after the immortal city is built, a large number of spirit arrays need to be set up.

Maintaining these spirit arrays for extended periods requires a massive amount of spiritual energy; at least a third-tier spirit vein must be cultivated in Qingling Mountain to achieve this.

The Lu family's resources are currently limited. As Lu Jingkun and others successively break through to the Foundation Establishment realm, the various resources they need for cultivation will greatly increase.

For this reason, Lu Wenxing only ordered the expansion of the Qingling Mountain market, but did not mention the establishment of a celestial city on Qingling Mountain.

"Are Jingkun and the others about to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm?"

A look of surprise appeared on Lu Cheng'an's face. He had been focusing on cultivating his minor supernatural abilities during this time and wasn't particularly familiar with the situation of the cultivators in his clan. "We can't let the matter of Foundation Establishment spiritual items delay Jingxiu and the others' breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment realm. I'll go to the Desolate Ancient Immortal City in a few days to see if I can buy suitable Foundation Establishment spiritual items!" Lu Cheng'an said.

The Ancient Desolate Immortal City is very different from the Poison Swamp Immortal City. The Ancient Desolate Immortal City was established by the Ancient Desolate Sect. The city has strict rules and regulations, so there is no need to worry about encountering danger.

But the Poison Swamp Immortal City is different. There are too many dangers in this immortal city. If you enter it, you will not be able to return in a short time.

Therefore, when Shi Ningyu invited Lu Chengan to the Poison Swamp Immortal City, he asked Shi Ningyu to wait a while until Chi Liu's cultivation breakthrough was completed.

"It's good that you have time!"

Lu Wenxing smiled with pleasure and continued to Lu Chengan, "In the past six months, the clan has been working on spiritual awakening for mortal clansmen, and has discovered another genius like Jingkun. He is very talented in cultivating metal-attribute techniques and spells."

In less than two days, he mastered the basic techniques of the Qi Refining chapter of the Taiyuan Sword Scripture.

The genius of the Lu family that Lu Wenxing mentioned is Lu Ruizhe, a cultivator of the Rui generation in the Lu family. Nowadays, many cultivators of the Rui generation in the Lu family have successfully awakened their spiritual energy and become the latest generation of cultivators.

The Taiyuan Sword Scripture is a fourth-order cultivation technique that can be cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage. The difficulty of cultivating this technique is not low.

The fact that Lu Ruizhe was able to master the basics of the Qi Refining Chapter of the Taiyuan Sword Scripture in such a short time demonstrates his exceptional talent in this area.

Lu Cheng'an felt a slight stirring in his heart, and he could roughly confirm that Lu Ruizhe must also possess some kind of special physique, just like him.

In the world of cultivation, there are all kinds of spiritual entities, and different spiritual entities have different functions.

For example, his original Fire Virtue Spirit Body was immune to flames and provided a certain boost to the cultivation of fire-attribute techniques and spells.

Lu Ruizhe's possible spiritual entity is related to the metal element.

Lu Cheng'an suspected that Lu Jingkun might possess some kind of spirit related to the earth element.

The spiritual entities possessed by cultivators are of various kinds, and cultivators give different names to these spiritual entities according to their different functions.

The Burning Flame Sect once had a classic text that specifically introduced the various spiritual entities in the cultivation world, as well as how to identify a particular spiritual entity.

Lu Cheng'an did not obtain this classic text; he only had scattered memories of it.

Lu Cheng'an was naturally overjoyed to learn that a new genius had emerged in his clan.

However, he did not look at the new genius in the clan. How far a cultivator can go in the future depends not only on cultivation talent, but also on comprehension and resilience.

Lu Chengyue and Lu Chengfeng, who were sent to the Desolate Ancient Sect, are the best examples.

Lu Chengyue's cultivation has now broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining, and he is preparing to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

Lu Chengfeng is currently only an outer disciple of the Desolate Ancient Sect. He has a bad temper and doesn't know how to behave, so he has offended cultivators in the Desolate Ancient Sect who are more powerful than him, and now he is being bullied terribly.

Lu Chengyue helped Lu Chengfeng a few times out of consideration for their shared clan, but later stopped interfering with him.

Lu Chengfeng is currently living a very difficult life in the Desolate Ancient Sect. His cultivation has only recently broken through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining, and he may only be able to linger in the Qi Refining realm for the rest of his life.

"What is the current situation of the demonic beasts in the Burning Flame Mountains? Have those demonic beasts launched any attacks on the human race within the territory?" Lu Cheng'an inquired.

"The third-tier demonic beasts, such as the Azure Flame Lion, have not appeared since. We don't know if they are still in the Burning Flame Mountains."

The Burning Flame Mountain Range is extremely vast, and because of the third-tier demonic beasts such as the Azure Flame Lion, human cultivators dare not enter the Burning Flame Mountain Range now.

The third-tier demonic beasts, such as the Azure Flame Lion, have never emerged from the Burning Flame Mountains, which is why Lu Wenxing had such a question.

"There were some first and second-tier demonic beasts that left the Burning Flame Mountain Range and entered the family's territory, but those beasts did not cause any trouble for the family and were all dealt with by the patrolling cultivators!"

The Lu family doesn't have many Foundation Establishment cultivators. The Xu family that Lu Wenxing mentioned inspecting were partly rogue cultivators and partly second-tier cultivators from the Spirit Clam Clan.

The only second-tier cultivators in the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider clan are Zhu Yan and Zhu Yue, but their offspring are about to break through to the second tier, and there is more than one of them.

However, due to the lack of spiritual objects to assist in breaking through cultivation levels, they dared not attempt to do so.

Zhu Yan wanted to ask Lu Cheng'an for help several times, but due to the difference in their strength, she ultimately did not have the courage to take that step.

Lu Cheng'an was also familiar with the patrol team established by the Lu family, which made him think of the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider clan.

"What is the current situation of the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider clan?"

The Fire-Slaying Earth Spider was of great help to Lu Cheng'an. If it weren't for the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider, Lu Cheng'an would not have been able to break through to the Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm in such a short time.

"Zhu Yan and Zhu Yue's cultivation levels haven't changed at all. However, there are quite a few cultivators in their clan who are at the late stage of the first rank and could break through to the second rank. But because they lack spiritual objects to aid their breakthrough, they haven't been able to break through yet!"

Lu Wenxing glanced at Lu Cheng'an and said, "Cheng'an, you should know what spiritual items help the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider clan break through their cultivation, right? When you go to the Desolate Ancient Immortal City, see if you can buy such spiritual items there?"

Lu Wenxing was also grateful to the Fire-Slaying Spider Clan. When Zhao Wuying and Chen Shiyun, two Foundation Establishment cultivators, attacked the Lu family, Zhu Yan had come to their aid.

Although a long time has passed since this incident, Lu Wenxing has never forgotten it.

It was for this reason that he took the initiative to bring it up, asking Lu Cheng'an to see if he could help the Fire-Slaying Earth Spider clan purchase spiritual items to aid in their cultivation breakthroughs.

"That's exactly what I was thinking. The spiritual item that helps the Fire-Repelling Earth Spider break through to the second tier is the second-tier low-grade Earth Core Fire Jade. This kind of spiritual item is not very useful to us human cultivators. If the Ancient Desolate Sect has this kind of spiritual item, I should be able to easily acquire it."

"Clan leader, please don't tell Zhu Yan about this yet. Let's wait until I return from the Desolate Ancient Immortal City before we talk about it."

When Lu Cheng'an learned that Zhu Yan's cultivation had not improved at all over the years, he couldn't help but sigh.

Zhu Yan and Zhu Yue used secret methods to cultivate a large number of exceptionally talented offspring, but this depletion certainly affected more than just Zhu Yue.

(End of this chapter)