Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Lu Cheng'an had planned to enter the Netherworld to help the Green-Faced Ghost King after breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm.

After all, the young-faced demon king had helped him a lot over the years.

The fact that the Lu family was able to cultivate so many Nascent Soul cultivators in such a short period of time (nearly a hundred years) is largely due to the Green-Faced Ghost Emperor.

Cultivation resources in the three prefectures of Qing, He, and Tai are limited, and spiritual objects that can assist in condensing a nascent soul are even rarer.

Even though the Lu family now occupies the entire Hong'e Mountain Range, the number of spiritual items they can obtain to help condense a Nascent Soul is extremely limited.

A large portion of the spiritual objects used by the Lu family's Golden Core cultivators to condense their Nascent Souls when breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm came from the Netherworld.

Lu Cheng'an now has a small foothold in the Netherworld. The Huaiyin City occupied by Hei Yang, Gui Mu Yao Wang, and others is also a considerable force.

Furthermore, their connection with the Green-Faced Ghost King, a fifth-tier Ghost King, made it even easier for them to obtain cultivation resources.

Moreover, the Green-Faced Ghost King also knew that Lu Cheng'an needed spiritual items such as the Cloud Water Yuan Pearl to help Golden Core cultivators break through to the Nascent Soul realm, so he would also give some to Lu Cheng'an.

These things are of no use to the Green-Faced Ghost King, and he wouldn't feel any pain even if he gave them away.

Lu Cheng'an had received so many benefits from the Green-Faced Ghost King, and he did indeed have a need to enter the Netherworld.

"You're going to enter the Netherworld to help the fifth-tier Green-Faced Ghost King deal with the ghosts of the Myriad Rivers Palace? Isn't that extremely dangerous!" Shi Ningyu exclaimed in surprise.

"Since the Green-Faced Ghost King is a fifth-order ghost, then the ghosts of his enemy, the Myriad Rivers Palace, must also be at the fifth-order level. You've just broken through to the Nascent Soul stage and you're already entering them; you're really taking a risk!"

Lu Wenxing looked at Lu Cheng'an with a worried expression. The absence of a fifth-order spiritual vein would only delay Lu Cheng'an's cultivation.

However, if Lu Cheng'an enters the Netherworld immediately after breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm, his life may be in danger.

"You don't need to worry about that. I've also had Ghost Wood and other ghosts help me gather information about the Green-Faced Ghost King and the Ten Thousand Rivers Palace. I now have a certain understanding of the Green-Faced Ghost King and other ghosts. Even if I enter the Netherworld, I won't put myself in danger!" Lu Cheng'an said with a smile.

Based on the information he currently possesses, it would be difficult for him to leave his cultivation world through the boundless black river and the vast desert. Entering the mortal world through the Netherworld might be the only feasible path.

Of course, once his cultivation successfully breaks through to the Nascent Soul realm, he will explore the vast desert and the boundless Black River.

If he still can't get through these two areas with his Nascent Soul cultivation, then he can enter the Netherworld.

After learning about the current situation of the Lu family from Lu Wenxing, Lu Cheng'an took Shi Ningyu back to the cave.

“Brother An, I’m going back to the Dan Ding Sect to visit my grandfather!” Shi Ningyu said.

She had been away from Qingzhou for nearly two hundred years, and she hadn't seen her grandfather in a long time.

With Shi Ningyu's help, Shi Mingxin broke through to the Golden Core realm. However, he broke through to the Golden Core realm relatively late, and due to his limited talent in cultivation, he is still only at the late Golden Core stage.

The lifespan of a Golden Core cultivator is between eight hundred and one thousand years. Under normal circumstances, a cultivator in the late Golden Core stage can live for about nine hundred years.

Because of Shi Ningyu, Shi Mingxin consumed some longevity-promoting spiritual items, and his lifespan should be able to reach the limit of a Golden Core cultivator.

Shi Mingxin is now nearly nine hundred years old. Even if he has a lifespan of a thousand years, he only has about one hundred years left. Moreover, he may not be able to live to the lifespan limit of a thousand years.

Previously, Shi Ningyu had been focusing on cultivation and striving to improve her cultivation level, so the time she spent with her grandfather was very short.

She had been away from Qingzhou for nearly two hundred years, and now that her grandfather's lifespan was nearing its end, she wanted to go back and spend some time with him.

"When are you planning to go back? I'd like to go with you then?" Lu Cheng'an said with a smile.

When he heard Shi Ningyu mention his grandfather, he couldn't help but think of his uncle.

His uncle is now over eight hundred years old. In recent years, his uncle has been busy raising offspring and has completely neglected his cultivation.

Lu Cheng'an kept instructing Lu Chengzhuo to supervise his father's cultivation.

Even so, Lu Wenhua's current cultivation level has only reached the late stage of the Golden Core realm. Even with the consumption of longevity-promoting spiritual items, he can only barely reach the lifespan limit of a Golden Core cultivator.

Lu Wenhua is currently living a very comfortable life and is extremely satisfied with his current lifestyle.

This is mainly because he has a son named Lu Chengzhuo, who has top-notch cultivation talent.

Lu Chengzhuo's cultivation has now reached the Golden Core Perfection realm, and he is currently preparing to break through to the Nascent Soul realm.

As Lu Cheng'an's cousin, and with his own top-notch cultivation talent, breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm should be no problem for him.

Lu Cheng'an had already decided that after he accompanied Shi Ningyu to meet her grandfather, he would go and spend some time with his uncle.

When Shi Ningyu heard that Lu Cheng'an wanted to accompany her back, a smile immediately appeared on her face, and she readily agreed.

After the Lu family's mountain gate moved to the Hong'e Mountains, they allocated a region in the Hong'e Mountains to the Dan Ding Sect as its mountain gate.

After all, the area where the Lu family and the Dan Ding Sect used to live was extremely lacking in cultivation resources.

With the help of Shi Ningyu, Dan Ding Sect has now cultivated several Golden Core cultivators, making it a Golden Core force of considerable strength.

The Dan Ding Sect excels at refining pills, and through this skill, they have earned a considerable amount of cultivation resources, which is why they are able to supply the needs of so many cultivators in the sect.

However, they still have too few resources. If they continue to develop, they will definitely face the problem of insufficient resources.

Therefore, after Lu Cheng'an asked Shi Ningyu to inquire with Shi Mingxin whether they wanted to relocate the Dan Ding Sect's mountain gate to the Hong'e Mountains, Shi Mingxin and the Dan Ding Sect cultivators discussed it briefly and immediately agreed.

After Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu made their agreement, they didn't waste any time and set off directly from the Lu family's mountain gate, heading towards the Dan Ding Sect.

The Hong'e Mountains are vast and boundless. Although the Dan Ding Sect's mountain gate is also located within the Hong'e Mountains, it is tens of thousands of miles away from the Lu family.

This distance was nothing to Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu, and the two quickly arrived at Dan Ding Sect from the Lu family.

"Grandfather, why are you waiting for us so far away? Didn't I tell you to wait for us at the sect?" Shi Ningyu said reproachfully.

It's nearly a hundred miles from here to the Dan Ding Sect's mountain gate. If they had arrived any later, her grandfather might have had to walk a little further.

"I just wanted to see you as soon as possible! Tell me, how long have you been gone?"

Shi Mingxin gave his granddaughter a reproachful look, then smiled and said to Lu Cheng'an, "Cheng'an, all these years we've been so grateful to you for taking care of Ningyu!"

"Taking care of Ningyu is what I should do!" "Grandfather, Brother An, let's not talk here anymore, let's go back to the sect!"

After stopping Lu Cheng'an and Shi Mingxin from continuing their conversation, Shi Ningyu urged them to head to the Dan Ding Sect now.

The Dan Ding Sect's mountain gate is located in Liuyun Mountain, a hundred miles away. The environment there is beautiful and the spiritual energy is abundant, making it a superior place for cultivation.

After the Dan Ding Sect's mountain gate was relocated, Lu Cheng'an and Shi Ningyu visited once together, but after that, they went very few times.

The two of them haven't returned for a long time and don't know what the current situation of the Dan Ding Sect is.

A moment later, Lu Cheng'an and Shi Mingxin led them into the mountain gate of the Dan Ding Sect.

The layout inside the mountain gate hasn't changed much, but the concentration of spiritual energy has increased considerably.

Clearly, the Dan Ding Sect has been cultivating spiritual veins within its mountain gates all these years, rather than simply consuming the spiritual energy of those veins.

“Grandfather, the sect has gained five more Golden Core cultivators!” Shi Ningyu said with a hint of surprise.

Shi Ningyu's cultivation has reached the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm, and she has also condensed the Golden Dao Domain, making her much stronger than cultivators of the same realm.

She only needed to slightly mobilize her Nascent Soul power to grasp the entire situation within the Dan Ding Sect's mountain gate.

Before Shi Ningyu left Qingzhou, Dan Ding Sect had a total of six Golden Core cultivators, but now there are eleven Golden Core cultivators in the sect.

With eleven Golden Core cultivators in charge, a Golden Core power is considered a top-tier Golden Core power in Qing and He states.

Unfortunately, the eleven Golden Core cultivators of the Dan Ding Sect were generally at the early to mid-stages of the Golden Core realm, with relatively few at the late stage, and none reaching the perfect Golden Core realm.

“Zhang Qing, Guo Ling, Fu Yunsheng, Qiao Mingyan, and Xu Xuan have all broken through to the Golden Core realm, all thanks to the Core Formation spiritual items provided by Cheng An!” Shi Mingxin said with a smile.

In Qing and He prefectures, Core Formation spiritual items are relatively rare. The Dan Ding Sect is not very strong, and it is difficult for them to obtain enough Core Formation spiritual items on their own.

In recent years, the Dan Ding Sect has been able to cultivate five Golden Core cultivators, and the spiritual materials used for Golden Core formation all came from the Lu family.

The Lu family has no shortage of Core Formation spiritual items. In addition to selling them to the Dan Ding Sect, they also auction off some Core Formation spiritual items in Tai'an City every few years.

The Lu family has two channels for obtaining Core Formation spiritual items: one is to refine Core Formation pills using demonic beasts with excellent talent at the second-order perfect realm, and the other is to obtain Five-Element Spirit Clams cultivated by the Spirit Clam Clan.

The Spirit Clam Clan was originally a spirit race raised by the Burning Flame Sect. Lu Cheng'an obtained the Burning Flame Sect's inheritance through the Spirit Clam Clan and later brought the Spirit Clam Clan into the Lu family's mountain gate.

As the Lu family's strength continues to rise, the strength of the Spirit Clam Clan is also constantly increasing.

There is now a fourth-order spirit clam in the spirit clam clan, and this fourth-order spirit clam is Lingxuan.

Lingxuan has exceptional talent in cultivation, and she has already broken through to the fourth level of cultivation for several years.

If the Spirit Clam Clan had five fourth-tier Spirit Clams, they could work together to cultivate a fourth-tier Five-Element Spirit Clam.

The Five Elements Pearl condensed from a fourth-order Five Elements Spirit Clam is no longer a Core Formation Spirit Object, but rather a Spirit Object that assists in the condensation of a Nascent Soul.

However, it is very difficult for a five-element spirit clam to reach the fourth rank, and it is also not an easy thing for the spirit clam clan to produce five fourth-rank spirit clams.

Currently, among the Spirit Clams, only Qingzhu has the potential to break through to the fourth rank in a short period of time.

Both Qingzhu and Qingliu have reached the third-order perfection level of cultivation. However, Qingliu's talent is slightly inferior, and she has virtually no chance of breaking through to the fourth order.

Qingliu has a good talent for cultivating spirit clams. The Five Elements Spirit Clam, Yuanhua Spirit Clam, and other spirit clams were all cultivated under Qingliu's leadership.

The fact that the Lu family is able to cultivate so many Golden Core cultivators is largely due to the continuous production of Golden Cores and Five Elements Pearls.

Given the relationship between the Dan Ding Sect and the Lu family, obtaining a Core Formation Spiritual Object from the Lu family would be an extremely simple matter.

In addition to the Core Formation spiritual objects, the Lu family also cultivated many Foundation Establishment spiritual objects and spiritual herbs used to refine Foundation Establishment pills.

The highest grade of spiritual herbs used to refine Foundation Establishment Pills is only second grade, and the growth cycle of such herbs is not very long.

Moreover, the Lu family now has Lu Yonghui, a fourth-level spirit plant master, who can greatly shorten the maturation time of various spirit plants.

With a continuous supply of materials for refining Foundation Establishment Pills, the Lu family naturally had no shortage of Foundation Establishment Pills.

“The Lu family is not short of Core Formation spiritual items. If Grandfather needs any, please feel free to ask!” Lu Cheng’an said with a smile.

Lu Cheng'an has always been quite generous to Shi Ningyu's maternal family. Fortunately, Shi Yuxin and other cultivators from the Dan Ding Sect knew their limits and did not do anything under the Lu family's name.

"You can rest assured, Cheng'an. I certainly won't hold back when it comes to this matter!" Shi Mingxin said with a smile.

As the three were talking, they entered Shi Mingxin's cave.

At this moment, Lu Cheng'an took out the gift that he and Shi Ningyu had prepared from his storage ring.

These gifts consist of spiritual wines, spiritual fruits, and other food items, which can enhance a cultivator's cultivation level, but their main appeal is their superior taste, satisfying the cultivator's appetite.

The reason for sending these things is that Shi Mingxin is already very old, and his cultivation level has basically no chance of advancing any further.

Lu Cheng'an stayed at Dan Ding Sect for three days before leaving alone. Shi Ningyu would stay at Dan Ding Sect to accompany her grandfather for a while longer.

After returning to the Lu family, Lu Cheng'an did not go back to his own cave dwelling, but went to his uncle's residence.

Lu Wenhua now has a large number of descendants, and he enjoys the feeling of being surrounded by his children and grandchildren. Therefore, he moved from the cave dwelling to the mansion a long time ago.

The courtyard is much larger than the cave dwelling, but the concentration of spiritual energy is far less than that of the cave dwelling.

The Lu family's mountain gate has built many large residences, specifically for high-level cultivators like Lu Wenhua who have no hope of cultivation and are dedicated to nurturing their descendants.

Golden Core cultivators like Lu Wenhua have a higher chance of having offspring with the potential to cultivate immortality, and their children will also have better cultivation talent.

Take Lu Wenhua for example. Among his descendants, Lu Chengzhuo has the best talent for cultivation. The rest of his descendants also have cultivation talent, and many of them can cultivate to the Golden Core realm.

After learning that Lu Cheng'an had gone to visit his father, Lu Chengzhuo made a special trip back home. Besides catching up with his cousin, he mainly wanted to ask Lu Cheng'an some questions about cultivation. (End of Chapter)