Volume 7: The Strongest Four Realms Chapter 19: There are flaws in the foundation of Taoism!
"Back then, in order to avoid being hunted down by you human cultivators, I had no choice but to use my incarnation of the god on the newly sprouted Thunder Fruit Tree, thus being trapped here for 20,000 years. The cultivation aptitude of the plant spirits is so dull that I cannot accept it. It took me 20,000 years, a full 20,000 years, to cultivate to my current level!"
The evil voice of the mountain ghost echoed in the valley. "In order to have an incarnation with extraordinary blood that can move freely, I have used all the essence of the sun and the moon that I have absorbed in the past two thousand years to condense this thunder fruit. It is just to attract the great monsters with powerful blood to fight for it when it matures, so as to seize their blood and transform into an incarnation with infinite magical powers. But you, you came to my door at this time and picked the thunder fruit that I have absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon for two thousand years. Since you picked the fruit I reaped, it is only natural for me to take the foundation of the Tao you built!"
The wind was howling as the mountain ghost spoke word by word about his painstaking efforts.
The greatest advantage of the essence of plants is their long life.
Even plants without any cultivation can easily live for hundreds or thousands of years. Once they become spirits, it is not difficult for them to live for tens of thousands of years.
But on the other hand, the cultivation speed of the essence of plants and trees is extremely slow.
Due to factors such as their body structure, plants do not have so-called meridians. They are not like humans or monsters that can actively absorb spiritual energy.
They can only passively swallow and absorb the essence of the sun and the moon.
Moreover, because their roots are deeply rooted in the earth, many of the spirits of plants and trees, like the former master of Qingqiu Mountain and the thunder fruit tree in front of them, cannot move at all.
It is because of these reasons that the mountain ghost has been trapped here for thousands of years and has been unable to escape.
If it wants to move freely, it can only find a way to create a second clone.
The problem is that its magical power of clone can only be used twice in total.
The first time, in order to save its life, it had no choice but to use it on the Shenglei Fruit Tree which had just sprouted at that time.
This was the second and final time it used its magical power of splitting itself into two bodies. How could it be willing to just casually create a clone and be done with it?
If the second clone he created was too weak and died accidentally, he would really have to stay in this canyon for the rest of his life.
Therefore, he must seize a bloodline that is strong enough to create an incarnation with infinite magical powers that will allow him to roam the world.
However, due to the limitation that the Thunder Fruit Tree could not move, he was unable to take the initiative to attack and look for suitable bloodlines to plunder.
Sit back and wait?
Rabbits only appear where there is grass.
The place where it is located is not only desolate, but because of the characteristics of the thunder fruit tree, it also gave birth to this terrifying thunder zone.
Who would come to a place like this for no reason?
In desperation, the mountain ghosts can only plunder the "base" by hunting carnivorous plants.
Just like a Venus flytrap, it first secretes nectar to attract small insects, and then swallows the small insects in one gulp.
It chooses to condense the Thunder Fruit first, and then use the mature Thunder Fruit to lure the surrounding big monsters to come and fight for it, and then choose the strongest bloodline among them and use the magical power of clone.
"I didn't expect you to come to my door before the Thunder Fruit is ripe," the mountain ghost's voice became more and more arrogant. "I originally looked down on you humans because you are too weak! But you are different... Your Dao foundation is flawless! Once I take your Dao foundation, even if your human cultivation system is obscure and profound, with such a perfect Dao foundation as a foundation, why can't I follow this path of cultivation?"
The mountain ghost naturally knew how convenient it would be to create a human clone in the human territory.
The reason why he didn't consider the human clone at the beginning was very simple - the human race's cultivation system was too difficult!
The demons are similar to the monsters in that their bloodline basically determines their achievements. Most of their magical powers are innate rather than acquired through self-cultivation.
This is especially true for the Mountain Ghost Tribe.
If you ask him to practice, how can he understand it easily?
Therefore, the mountain ghost's first idea was to seize the blood of the demon clan and transform himself into a demon.
Until Lu Qingshan, who had built a flawless foundation of Taoism, appeared.
It was like choosing the beginning of life, with two paths before him.
One is the bloodline of a great demon of unknown level, and the other is Lu Qingshan’s flawless Taoist foundation.
The bloodline of a great demon is like a local rich man, who can sit back and enjoy the fruits of his labor while having a guaranteed lower limit.
Wuxia Daoji is a commoner who has already upgraded all his business skills to the maximum level. Although he still has to start from scratch, his upper limit is endless.
How to choose?
It’s true that the mountain ghost is a demon, but he still has to make the necessary decisions.
Without hesitation, he chose to seize Lu Qingshan's "foundation" and create a human clone!
…
A strong pressure was coming from the mountain ghost's nucleus.
Under this pressure, Lu Qingshan felt his whole body stagnate, and the spiritual power flowing in his body was also motionless at this time. Only the soul between his eyebrows could still move.
"Is this the power of the mountain ghost to seize the foundation?!" Lu Qingshan felt a chill in his heart.
According to official background information, this magical power has already been determined to be extinct, but he actually experienced it personally.
Should it be considered lucky or unlucky?
Lu Qingshan could clearly feel that deep inside his body, between his blood vessels and bones, something inseparable from him was trembling slightly. Under the influence of the devouring power of the whirlpool, it seemed that it was about to be pulled out of his body.
Lu Qingshan could not feel these substances activated by the mountain ghost nucleus on a normal day.
Even now, he still couldn't accurately perceive its shape and nature.
But there was a mysterious feeling in his mind, telling him that this was the solid foundation, the basis of the Tao, that he had cultivated after four full years of practice.
"The foundation of Taoism. It took me four full years to cultivate it..." Lu Qingshan's breathing became increasingly rapid.
This was the most important thing on his path of cultivation. He had spent four years of hard work to cultivate this flawless foundation. How could he be willing to just give it to others?
His spiritual power was sealed, his body was imprisoned, and he couldn't move. It seemed that he was unable to resist?
No, he also has a magical power that does not require spiritual power.
A black fish emerged in Lu Qingshan's dark eyes.
The next moment, a sharp sword energy shot out from his right pupil.
Eye technique: Xiezhi!
A magical power that consumes spiritual consciousness.
The sword energy was as fast as thunder and went straight to the black nucleus.
Sizzle!
Faced with this sudden sword energy, complex patterns immediately began to shine on the mountain ghost's black nucleus and began to rotate around the nucleus.
A suppressed aura was suddenly released, forming a tiny black hole, which directly swallowed up the sword energy emitted from Lu Qingshan's pupils.
"Nothing more than that..." The mountain ghost's sarcastic voice had just fallen when a cry suddenly rang out.
Howl!
The mysterious Xiezhi beast suddenly emerged from the void, and proudly raised its majestic horn slightly towards the black nucleus.
The top corner sank into it, and after the Xiezhi drilled into the pronucleus, the extremely powerful devouring and absorbing force suddenly stopped.
Lu Qingshan felt that the restraints he had been under also disappeared at this moment. He suddenly had an idea in his mind, and the dragon bird flashed and rushed towards the vortex formed with the black nucleus as the center.
He wants to break this vortex!
However, after a moment, the suppressed aura was released from the vortex again, pressing Lu Qingshan so hard that he could not move.
The dragon bird also suddenly stopped not far from the vortex.
“Very powerful magical power,” the mountain ghost’s face appeared in the shape of black mist from the vortex, grinning, “It has come to this, and you still have the ability to resist. It’s a pity that my 20,000 years have not been wasted. According to you humans, my soul has grown to the realm of control. Your magical power is not powerful enough!”
No wonder.
Lu Qingshan murmured.
In the realm of primordial spirit, the first level is the state of solidification, and the second level is the state of control.
His Xiezhi pupil technique focuses on the soul, but it is difficult to have much effect on the mountain ghost's soul, which has reached the realm of control.
It’s time to see you again...Yitian!
The next moment, behind the black pronucleus, above the stagnant dragon bird, a ball of red light flew out and turned into a graceful and dancing figure.
It was Qin Yitian who possessed the ability to reach the sky.
Qin Yitian stretched out his white wrist, grabbed the Dragon Sparrow Sword, and his body flashed. Before the mountain ghost could react, he was close to the black vortex.
Lu Qingshan was completely suppressed by the mountain ghost and could not move.
But Qin Yitian is a sword spirit that can fight independently, and she can also hold the sword and fight on behalf of Lu Qingshan.
Qin Yitian's power depends on Lu Qingshan and comes from the Dragon Sparrow Sword.
Therefore, her current strength, which is that of an early Nascent Soul cultivator, seems unable to deal with this mountain ghost.
But it doesn't matter.
There was a coldness in Qin Yitian's phoenix eyes. He raised the Dragon Bird and swung the sword at the black vortex.
"Who are you?" The mountain ghost who just reacted was horrified.
He didn't know where Qin Yitian came from? Why did he appear out of nowhere?
Qin Yitian didn't care and slashed with his sword.
Dragon Bird: Break the law.
The sword that can break all laws can ignore the difference in power.
A sword was slashed down, reaching the vortex, instantly tearing it apart, and even cracks appeared on the black nucleus.
Click, click, click!
After a moment.
The black nucleus was actually shattered directly by this sword.
And in the shattered nucleus, a hideous-looking lightning demon slowly sat up.
He grinned at Lu Qingshan, an ugly, terrifying smile that made people's hair stand on end.
"It can actually cut off my magical power," the mountain ghost's voice was like a sobbing female ghost, which made people's spine cold, "but what's the use of this?"
The shrill voice echoed in the canyon, causing Lu Qingshan, who had just regained his strength to move, to summon the Wangchuan River without any hesitation.
He did not care about avoiding the risk of becoming a human lightning rod, and performed invisible sword escape, merging his body and sword into one, transforming into a sword light, and flew out of the Thunder God Pond at an extremely terrifying speed.
Just as the mountain ghost himself had revealed before, his original body was beheaded by human cultivators 20,000 years ago, and now his incarnation of the Thunder Fruit Tree is trapped in one place and unable to move.
Therefore, as long as he can escape from here, he will be safe!
Watching Lu Qingshan transform into a sword and fly away, the mountain ghost's voice came again, "Even at this point, you still have so many tricks. It's amazing. But unfortunately... the more amazing you perform, the more determined I will be to take your foundation."
The voice seemed to come right next to Lu Qingshan.
Buzz buzz buzz!
A strange buzzing sound followed, and Lu Qingshan's pupils shrank slightly.
The sound actually came from his storage ring!
In a flash, Lu Qingshan realized something.
There is a big problem with that thunder fruit!
He was about to throw out the thunder fruit, but it was too late.
A moment later, he was fixed in place again, unable to move.
Lu Qingshan's eyes shrank slightly at this moment.
He saw in the void a faint but extremely thick silk thread connecting him and the thunder fruit tree that was constantly shaking in the thunder zone.
"The magical power of my first incarnation is the power of cause and effect. I have created this fruit with thousands of years of practice. From the moment you picked my fruit, you have created a cause and effect with me . As a price, you have to pay your 'fruit', which is your foundation of Taoism. How can you refuse the power of cause and effect?" The voice of the mountain ghost came again.
Lu Qingshan looked pale.
This is the Thunder Fruit Tree, a magical power that took thousands of years to develop. It is also the mountain ghost's final back-up plan . It is the trump card that enables him to attract the big monster and have the confidence to seize its "foundation" and create a clone.
Anyone who wants to seize the fruit will have to bear the causal magical power that has accumulated power for two thousand years.
With his current level of cultivation, it is impossible for him to sever the line of cause and effect.
The reason he can see this causal line is because he has realized the true meaning of incomplete cause and effect.
"Come on, hand over your Taoist foundation." This time, the mountain ghost's voice sounded right next to Lu Qingshan's ears, as if it was spoken right next to his ear.
Lu Qingshan wanted to struggle.
But under the power of cause and effect, his body no longer belonged to him and he was completely unable to move.
Hiss hiss hiss!
The power of seizing the foundation, several times stronger than before, erupted again in Lu Qingshan's body.
Golden threads gushed out from his mouth, nose, eyes, brows, and countless pores all over his body, gradually condensing into a ball in front of him.
This is his foundation!
Lu Qingshan felt a pain all over his body, and blood oozed out of his pores.
Soon, he turned into a bloody corpse.
The smile on the mountain ghost's ferocious face became more sinister. He looked at the golden threads flowing out of Lu Qingshan's body with greed in his eyes. He murmured, "What a powerful foundation. It is indeed a flawless foundation. It is indeed... all mine!"
"Young Master!" When Qin Yitian saw Lu Qingshan's miserable condition, a look of anxiety appeared on his cold face.
She moved forward again with the sword in hand, wanting to kill the revealed mountain ghost in order to save Lu Qingshan.
whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Hundreds of green vines, under the control of the mountain ghost, shot out at the first moment.
Each green vine possesses power comparable to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
This is equivalent to hundreds of Nascent Soul cultivators attacking Qin Yitian at the same time.
Qin Yitian's face changed and he raised his sword to block, but it was in vain.
However, the mountain ghost did not seem to be prepared to kill Qin Yitian. Hundreds of green vines entangled with him, only binding Qin Yitian before stopping abruptly.
Qin Yitian's strength is, after all, only that of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Not to mention, she doesn't have Lu Qingshan's level of sword intent and comprehension of sword skills, so how could she possibly deal with a mountain ghost with such terrifying strength?
On Lu Qingshan's side, the attempt to seize the foundation through the power of cause and effect is still continuing.
On the surface of his body, golden threads mixed with the blood were constantly being pulled out.
"From now on, the flawless foundation of Taoism belongs to me!"
"You have been practicing hard for decades or even hundreds of years, but in the end, isn't it just me who gets the advantage?"
"Such a genius can only die in this desolate place. I am glad, glad!"
"With the help of your flawless foundation, maybe I can become a Demon Saint!"
After restraining Qin Yitian, the mountain ghost focused all his attention on Lu Qingshan, and his voice became more and more crazy.
The golden threads flashed with dazzling golden light, filling his eyes, making him obsessed and excited!
Each of those golden threads shone with dazzling divine light, glittering and flawless.
"What a beautiful Daoji..." The mountain ghost gradually became crazy and sick.
Lu Qingshan's cultivation level was rapidly declining as the golden threads surged out.
The ultimate Nascent Soul, the Nine-Patterned Golden Elixir, the perfect foundation, all of these are disappearing.
Lu Qingshan's body suddenly shook, and he kept trying to mobilize the spiritual power in his body to resist.
But apart from making the blood spurt out more violently, it had no other effect and was simply unable to break free from this terrifying power that was taking away the foundation.
"This is my innate magical power. Even I have made so many preparations to activate this magical power. How can you resist it!" said the mountain ghost proudly.
"The last foundation of Taoism!" Shan Gui murmured. He felt that Lu Qingshan's foundation of Taoism was about to be drained away.
Suddenly , at this moment, a gray silk thread, mixed with the golden silk threads, was pulled out together.
"This is..." The mountain ghost's excited and excited face suddenly froze.
"Your foundation has flaws, and the flaws are so big?!" After a while, the mountain ghost's face changed, and he looked ferocious and ferocious, and couldn't believe it. "How is it possible? Why? Why? How could there be such a big flaw in your foundation? With such combat power, how can you tolerate such a big flaw?"
Seeing this scene, Lu Qingshan's pale face also flashed a trace of astonishment. After a moment, he suddenly realized and murmured to himself: "So that's how it is, so that's how it is. I took it for granted at the beginning..."
He has been practicing until now. The foundation-building techniques "Guixu Sutra", the golden elixir techniques "Daozang", and the Nascent Soul techniques "Jietian Sword Sutra" are all Taoist techniques, so the Taoist foundation he has built is naturally flawless.
Only when he was refining Qi, because he was in a life-and-death crisis, in order to escape, he had no choice but to practice the ordinary-level technique "Qi Drawing Technique".
He originally thought that it was just a Qi-refining technique, and even if it had any impact, it would not be that big.
Judging from his later experiences, this was indeed the case. Practicing the "Qi Drawing Technique" did not affect his combat power that was almost invincible among his peers.
However, he did not expect that the hidden danger had always existed and was far greater than he had imagined, but it had not yet manifested itself.
That is, there is a flaw in his foundation.
The disadvantages of flaws in the foundation of the Tao cannot be seen at all at a low level. Only when one achieves enlightenment in the future will one be troubled by the flaws in the foundation of the Tao.
However, most cultivators cannot reach that stage at all, so there is no need to worry about the flaws in their foundation.
But Lu Qingshan is different.
If nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely cultivate to that level, and by that time, it will be basically impossible to make up for the flaws in his initial foundation.
It’s like building a skyscraper. If you don’t lay a good foundation at the beginning, will it be too late to fix the foundation problem when it’s dozens of stories high?
“No!” The mountain ghost looked at the last three gray threads pulled out of Lu Qingshan’s body, screaming and unwillingly, “It’s just the last bit, why is there a flaw?! ”
Even though there were only three gray threads, they were nothing compared to the hundreds of golden threads.
But the foundation of Tao is like this. Once there is a flaw, even just a slight one, it is no longer a flawless foundation of Tao. It is no longer perfect. Compared with a flawless foundation of Tao, they are two completely different things, with a world of difference in levels.
The mountain ghost went madr than ever before, and the thunder shook.
After a long time, the mountain ghost gradually calmed down.
"I'll just have to make do with it..." He murmured as he looked at the extremely weak Lu Qingshan.
His nucleus had been shattered by Qin Yitian's sword of breaking the law.
Now, he has no choice.
Therefore, even if his foundation was flawed, he had no choice but to accept it.
"It doesn't matter. Although there are some flaws in my foundation, I am definitely better than most human cultivators. And if I discover it early, I may be able to find a way to make up for it. It's just that it's quite difficult..." The mountain ghost began to comfort himself.
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
On the other side, seeing that Lu Qingshan's Taoist foundation had been completely taken away by the mountain ghost, Qin Yitian's eyes turned slightly red, angry and worried.
She suddenly jumped up, her whole body was on fire, burning fiercely, trying to burn the green vines that bound her into ashes and escape.
Seeing this momentum, the mountain ghost was not moved at all. He just glanced coldly at Qin Yitian who was still struggling, shook his head, and said expressionlessly: "It's useless. My roots have long been deeply rooted in this land. This land is the source of my power. As long as I am in this area, my power is endless. Unless you can drain the power of this land, then you have a chance to compete with me..."
Before Shan Gui finished speaking, Lu Qingshan's voice suddenly rang out.
"You just said that this land is the source of your power, and you will be dead if the power of the land is drained?" Lu Qingshan, who had originally been pale, suddenly spoke at this time.
Without waiting for the mountain ghost to answer, Lu Qingshan smiled to himself. His smile was filled with ease, satisfaction, and a strong murderous intent.
