Volume 8: Demon Suppression Chapter 3 Kaifeng
But this is not the end, because after the peach blossom, Lu Qingshan still has a sword to practice.
Heart sword.
He closed his eyes and could see a vague flame the size of a chicken egg flickering inside his sea of consciousness.
And in the extremely hot fireworks, there is a small, exquisite, crystal clear sword of fetal light.
This is the sword of the soul, designed to kill the soul.
Lu Qingshan's mind was calm and experience points poured out.
"【Heart Sword】——Sword of Fetal Light, upgraded to the second level!"
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"【Heart Sword】——The Sword of Fetal Light, upgraded to the ninth level of refinement!"
For each level of refinement of the Sword of Taiguang, one million experience points are required.
To upgrade from the first level to the ninth level, Lu Qingshan will have to spend another 8 million experience points.
The effect of the huge amount of experience points was obvious. The fire in his soul suddenly shot up as if it were poured with oil.
The raging fire embraces the sword of fetal light.
Lu Qingshan used his heart as a hammer and his spirit as a furnace, causing the small sword to constantly deform and emit clanging sounds, as if someone was really holding a hammer to forge the small sword.
clang clang clang!
The sound of hammering iron continued to be heard, and he concentrated his attention, watching the sword of fetal light transform rapidly.
The small sword burned fiercely in the flames, and then a dazzling light appeared on the Taiguang Heart Sword.
This ball of light slowly condensed, and soon it turned into a black ripple that was imprinted on the sword body.
This means that the sword of the heart has been refined one more time.
Flames continued to rise up, gathering towards the fetal light, and continued to be hammered, with clanging sounds ringing in the ears.
In this way, every half a quarter of an hour, a black pattern would appear and be engraved on the heart sword.
This was repeated eight times, and finally, the clanging sound stopped and the flames went out.
At this moment, Lu Qingshan looked inward at his soul and saw a heart sword that had reached a perfect form taking shape.
Simple and natural, magnificent and sharp, the nine black lines on the sword body faintly convey the idea of the mundane world and purity - Taiguang is the sword to cut off worries.
At this point, Lu Qingshan’s practice this time came to a temporary end.
As for the remaining experience points, he will keep them to improve his cultivation.
The reason why he didn't ascend to a higher realm for the time being was because he had just broken through to the realm of refining emptiness.
If he hadn't even left the sect, and had broken through to the middle or even late stage of the Void Refining Realm just a few days later, it would have been too exaggerated.
This would inevitably lead to various discussions from other people, so he decided to keep it in reserve for now.
There is no rush to cultivate your abilities for now.
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In half a month, Lu Qingshan completely consolidated his advancement gains.
At this time, Xia Daoyun finally returned to the peak.
This time, Xia Daoyun returned to the sect specifically for Lu Qingshan because she received the news that Lu Qingshan had advanced to the realm of refining emptiness.
According to the tradition of the Sword Sect, once a disciple of the Sword Sect breaks through the realm of refining emptiness, he can leave the main peak and open a small peak as his own training ground.
This is a very meaningful thing.
Just like the coming-of-age ceremony in the previous life, parents always have to participate. Once the disciple leaves the main peak, the master will usually witness this scene in person like a parent.
So far, Xia Daoyuan has only accepted Lu Qingshan as his disciple.
How could she miss the first disciple's inauguration ceremony?
A beam of light flashed through the thousands of outer peaks of the Sword Sect and flew straight into the Jianlai Peak.
It was Xia Daoyun.
Xia Daoyun, who seemed to be in a good mood because of Lu Qingshan's improved cultivation, had just landed on the cliff of Jianlai Peak and was about to enter his residence when his steps suddenly stopped.
"Huh?" Xia Daoyun looked at the two wooden buildings standing quietly by the small lake, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
If I remember correctly, there should be three wooden buildings on the main peak of our home town...right?
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After knowing that Xia Daoyun had returned to the peak, Lu Qingshan took the initiative to come forward and pay his respects.
"Master." After being able to enter the building, Lu Qingshan met Xia Daoyuan.
The woman sat on a high seat, wearing a green robe. She had an unparalleled beauty, as gorgeous as the fragrant clouds reflecting on the clear pond, and as divine as the musk moon shining on the cold river.
Xia Daoyun looked at Lu Qingshan quietly.
"I heard that you were attacked by cultivators from the sixth realm of the underworld earlier?" Xia Daoyun finally spoke and asked calmly until Lu Qingshan felt his scalp tingling.
"Yes, I was careless." Lu Qingshan said ashamedly.
"Can a person at the fourth level kill a person at the sixth level?" Xia Daoyun blinked.
"It was just luck that I exchanged six hundred years of life for three swords," Lu Qingshan said self-deprecatingly, "Luckily I am still young, so I have a lot of life left."
"Six hundred years of lifespan..." Xia Daoyun frowned slightly, thinking for a moment, and then asked: "How many Dao seeds did you condense with your artistic conception in the end?"
"The four true meanings of the origin," Lu Qingshan did not hide , "cause and effect, extinction, destruction, and immortality."
Xia Daoyun's clear and bright eyes immediately flashed with undisguised admiration, and he commented: "Incredible, no wonder Tianji Temple gave you the title of the strongest in the four realms."
She looked at Lu Qingshan carefully.
Before this, although Lu Qingshan performed well, in Xia Daoyun's heart, that was all he meant.
But this time, Lu Qingshan surpassed her who was in the Nascent Soul stage - even she only broke through to the Refining Void stage with two original true meanings.
This gave Xia Daoyun a very strange feeling, but she couldn't tell what it was.
"Now that you have formed the original Dao Seed, you can strive to bloom the Nine Flowers." Xia Daoyun gave a suggestion leisurely, "Using the Nine Flowers to enter the Transformation God, the benefits are not small."
Of course, this is just a suggestion. Whether Lu Qingshan listens to it or not depends entirely on himself.
A cultivator of the Void Refining Stage can barely be considered a great cultivator and does not need to have his parents hold his hands and teach him how to write stroke by stroke like a child learning to write. He should have his own ideas about what to choose.
"Disciple thinks so too." Lu Qingshan replied, and at the same time curiously asked: "Master, at what level did you enter the Divine Realm?"
"Jiuhua." Xia Daoyun glanced at his disciple and replied calmly.
For her, if there are nine flowers, then there must be nine flowers.
This answer was also within Lu Qingshan's expectations.
Xia Daoyun is the woman with the highest attainments in swordsmanship among the current generation. It is natural for her to reach the pinnacle in every realm.
"Disciple should take Master as an example." Lu Qingshan replied with a fist salute.
Xia Daoyun nodded with satisfaction, then rested her elbows on the table, held her chin with one hand, looked at Lu Qingshan, and asked in a gentle voice: "Is there anything else you haven't told me?"
In this posture, Xia Daoyun's robe hung down at her arms, revealing a small piece of her fair wrist.
"I was just about to tell Master," Lu Qingshan's heart skipped a beat, he swallowed and smiled awkwardly, "That day, His Majesty Taiping called me to meet him on the pretext of enlightening the mind..."
Xia Daoyun raised her eyebrows slightly, "Xia Daojing?"
Lu Qingshan nodded, but he felt a little confused - why did he feel that his master seemed very surprised?
"What does she want from you? Is she causing you any trouble?"
Seeing the master asking the question, Lu Qingshan did not think any more and quickly replied: "I don't know what it is. As for the embarrassment... I thought it would be a Hongmen Banquet, but after seeing the disciple, this prince chatted with me for a few words and let me leave."
Xia Daoyun immediately became interested and said, "Tell me the details."
Lu Qingshan immediately told the whole conversation that took place in the villa that day.
Of course, he wisely concealed Xia Daojing's ridicule of Xia Daoyun.
I didn’t mean to hide it, I was just afraid that Master would be unhappy after hearing those words.
How can a disciple make Master unhappy?
Well, that's right.
"Heh..." Xia Daoyun let out a cold smile and snorted, "If someone is too nice to you, then he is either a traitor or a thief. She lent you such a precious item as the Bodhi bracelet just to make me think that you are colluding with her, so as to sow discord between you and me."
"Master, you are wise!" Lu Qingshan showed an expression of admiration, and said with lingering fear: "I didn't expect this princess to be so insidious. Fortunately, Master saw through her conspiracy at a glance. Otherwise, not only would I have suffered an unjust injustice, but I would also have made Master angry and affected Master's mood..."
In fact, he knew Xia Daojing's purpose and all the twists and turns in it very clearly.
He was just pretending to be ignorant in front of Xia Daoyun.
Because if you say this yourself, even if it makes sense, it won't be credible.
But if these words were spoken by Xia Daoyun, it would truly prove his innocence and would not create a rift between him and Xia Daoyun...
"Who told you that I'm not angry?" Lu Qingshan, who was secretly praising himself, suddenly heard Xia Daoyun ask softly.
Lu Qingshan, who was still secretly delighted, was stunned for a moment, and saw Xia Daoyun staring at him with a dangerous look in his eyes.
Not everything in the world can be explained - it's like you meet with a girl your girlfriend hates in private. Even if you didn't do anything and it's innocent, your girlfriend will definitely be angry.
But the most contradictory thing is that this phenomenon seems unreasonable, but in fact it makes sense?
"It was my greed that made me fail to resist the temptation of the Enlightenment Bodhi," Lu Qingshan admitted his mistake without hesitation, "Please punish me, Master."
First, admit your mistake decisively and make your attitude clear.
In this case, attitude is more important than reason.
Then, he attributed all the reasons for his meeting with Xia Daojing to the Bodhi of Mingxin, and euphemistically stated that he had nothing to do with Xia Daojing.
Xia Daoyun then glared at Lu Qingshan and said, "Isn't it just the Enlightenment Bodhi? Just tell your master and he will get it for you. Why would you go see that woman?"
"It was my fault that I was confused." Lu Qingshan admitted his mistake, but he was very upset in his heart.
I know you are a rich woman, but if I ask you for everything, what kind of person would I be?
"She is an eighth-level master, of noble status. She wants to see you, and I understand that it is difficult for you to refuse. But if this happens again in the future, you can see her, but you are not allowed to accept her benefits." Xia Daoyun snorted again, raised her head slightly, revealing the curve of her slender white neck, and said proudly: "As my first disciple, Xia Daoyun, is there anything I can't give that I need her to give?"
Lu Qingshan became happy and responded, "Disciple will definitely remember Master's teachings."
It was not because he was happy about Xia Daoyun's generosity, but because Xia Daoyun started to criticize him, which just showed that she had calmed down and no longer blamed herself.
"Has the location of the new peak been decided?" Xia Daoyun asked.
"Disciple has been consolidating his realm recently and has just started to look for a suitable mountain." Lu Qingshan replied.
"The demons have been making a lot of moves over at Tianshan recently, so I can't be away for too long. You should decide on the location of the new peak as soon as possible. I will have to rush back after you finish the ceremony of opening the peak." Xia Daoyun said softly.
Lu Qingshan's heart was slightly moved, "Over at Tianshan, are the demons making big moves?"
"Maybe they want to cause unrest again, so as to send their people into our territory." Xia Daoyun nodded and mentioned it casually without going into details.
However, Lu Qingshan kept this news in mind.
"Then I will withdraw first and go to explore the location of the new peak." Lu Qingshan was ready to say goodbye.
Xia Daoyun nodded, "Go and do your thing."
Lu Qingshan was about to turn around and leave when Xia Daoyun suddenly remembered something and stopped him.
"Oh, and one more thing," she looked at her first disciple with a half-smile, and said calmly, "I just wanted to ask you, why is there one less wooden building in our Jianlai Peak..."
...Lu Qingshan was instantly confused.
No wonder after he explained his meeting with Xia Daojing, he felt that Xia Daoyun seemed a little surprised.
It turned out that it was not an illusion, because Xia Daoyuan actually knew nothing about it.
Well, I have confessed myself...
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There are many peaks in Jianzong, scattered all over the place, with the main peak as the center, like a group of stars embracing the moon.
There are so many mountains and there are few disciples in the Sword Sect, so there are many vacant mountains.
In the next few days, Lu Qingshan flew on his sword and took the King of the Western Rat to visit all the ownerless mountains within the Sword Sect.
To be honest, most of the sword cultivators in the Sword Sect are very casual about choosing their new peaks. It is rare to find someone as serious in choosing as Lu Qingshan.
The reason why Lu Qingshan was so patient was not because he had any special intention, but purely because of inertia - in his original world, buying a house was one of the things that people valued and cared about the most.
Except for a few big guys from "ordinary families", "easy-earning money" and "nothing", who doesn't look at seven or eight houses before comparing and choosing the best one when buying a house?
This idea has been deeply rooted in people's minds, and now it has just changed from looking at houses to looking at mountains.
The Sword Sect is a blessed land with abundant spiritual energy. Relatively speaking, the mountains here are also extremely beautiful, which is very much in line with Lu Qingshan's aesthetic taste.
If each of them were taken out and placed in the previous life, it seems that they could become a tourist attraction?
So after looking at all the mountains, Lu Qingshan was a little undecided.
Since it is difficult to tell the good from the bad of the scenery, we can only start with Feng Shui.
Choose a seat with good feng shui.
Lu Qingshan made a decision.
"Look at which mountain you like?" Lu Qingshan summoned the King of Western Rat.
"Why let me choose?" The King of Western Rat was caught off guard and a little confused.
"After the new peak is selected, it will also be your place of practice, so your opinion will naturally be considered." Lu Qingshan said righteously.
In fact, it was because he didn’t understand the so-called Feng Shui at all, which is the field of spiritual practice.
In this situation, he could only settle for the second best and let the King of Western Rat choose the location of the mountain - the mountain chosen by the Rat Demon, who always had very good luck, would probably have good feng shui.
He didn't know that he had become a tool rat in the rat-shaped Feng Shui plate. He was quite moved by Lu Qingshan's respect. He shook his little head and thought very seriously.
After a long time, the little mouse demon tried: "Why not go to the first mountain we saw."
Lu Qingshan's heart moved and he flew up on his sword.
Half an hour later, Lu Qingshan arrived at the mountain that the Western Rat King mentioned.
This is a mountain with very beautiful scenery. The whole mountain is covered with green trees and lush green. When the wind blows, it can create a huge green wave.
After a careful survey of the surroundings, Lu Qingshan suddenly understood why the King of the Western Rat liked this mountain.
——There is no water flowing in this mountain.
The little mouse demon has always been very afraid of water.
Lu Qingshan was a little speechless, but he still decided on the location, then quickly went to the Foreign Affairs Peak, completed the formalities, and registered.
The next step is the opening ceremony.
