Chapter 174: The Land of the Nine Netherworlds, the Place of the Other Shore of Reincarnation

Water Virtue Astrology: Yellow Springs, this is one of Lu Chen’s current trump cards.

However, his "Huangquan" is naturally not the real Huangquan, but a special power that imitates Huangquan.

In other words, it is a special magical power that carries the way to the underworld.

Just as there are different levels of swordsmanship and non-level swordsmanship, there is actually such a division of realms among supernatural powers.

However, the conditions for achieving the state of supernatural powers are different from those for swordsmanship, which only depends on one’s comprehension.

When it comes to supernatural powers, one actually places more emphasis on physique and bloodline.

Although Lu Chen’s previous five magical powers were only at the realm-breaking level.

But after experiencing the baptism of the 'Dragon Pool'.

All of his five realm-breaking magical powers have undergone a qualitative change and reached the "entry level".

Gold Virtue Star Sign: Bailian Wood Virtue Star Sign: Qinglian Water Virtue Star Sign: Huangquan Fire Virtue Star Sign: Zixia Earth Virtue Star Sign: Houtu The five virtue stars correspond to the five elements, and the five elements correspond to his original five magical powers.

The reason why he was able to acquire these supernatural powers was after experiencing the Dragon Transformation Pool, allowing him to step into the realm of Taoism.

This brings us to the particularity of the divine power.

It is different from the 'skills' such as swordsmanship and boxing.

The magical power belongs to the category of "technique".

And the art attaches great importance to bloodline.

Therefore, if one wants to reach the realm of Taoism through supernatural powers.

It is not enough to rely solely on your own mastery of supernatural powers.

It also requires that your body's blood vessels meet certain requirements.

This is also why the same supernatural power may produce very different effects after being practiced by different people.

This is because most of the supernatural powers are actually learned by cultivators by imitating the strange beasts of heaven and earth, which is commonly known as the visualization method.

But the physiques of cultivators and exotic beasts are always different.

No matter how much you imitate, it is impossible to completely imitate the power of those strange beasts when they display their magical powers.

This has nothing to do with the cultivator's understanding, it is purely because of the differences in the body structure and bloodline power of both parties.

And it is precisely because of this that all the skills and magical powers of the Immortal Alliance have the concept of "compatibility".

This was also the reason why Lu Chen was able to use this to explain why he was able to practice the "Purple Cloud Health Preserving Technique" to perfection and even break through the realm so quickly.

Before the Dragon Transformation Pool, breaking through the realm was already the limit of what Lu Chen could achieve with these five techniques.

After all, what is broken through is the realm of "skills".

The reason why Lu Chen was unable to further improve his magical powers was not because he lacked understanding.

It was because his original physique lacked the necessary conditions to support further qualitative changes in these supernatural powers.

But after experiencing the baptism of the Dragon Pool, Lu Chen's body has completely merged with the qualitatively transformed properties of these magical powers.

Without the limitations of his physical condition, his level of supernatural powers naturally improved.

This is how the special form of the Five Elements astrology came into being after the qualitative change.

The reason why Lu Chen chose to use the 'Water Virtue Astrology - Huangquan' to deal with Taotie instead of using the power of other astrology.

Of course it’s because of Huangquan’s special effect.

[Special magical power: Water Virtue Astrology - Yellow Spring]

[Realm: Entering the Dao]

[Effect 1. Wangchuan: The water of Wangchuan is the place where lonely souls reside. When cast, it can directly attack the soul of the cultivator and shorten his life span.]

[Effect 2. Carrying: Greatly increases the speed of spiritual power recovery and weakens the power of the enemy's magical powers]

[Special Effect: Huangquan: Can reverse yin and yang, control some dead things, turn dead air into living air, and live towards death.]

Compared to other astrological powers, the biggest advantage of 'Water Virtue Astrology·Yellow Spring' is that it can absorb dead air and its terrifying spiritual power absorption speed.

After all, the essence of Huangquan is also water, and water is the softest of all attributes, moistening everything silently.

It allows Lu Chen to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy like water without any hindrance.

Although the immortal breath in Lu Chen's 'Great Blessing·Immortal Lotus Embryo' also has a similar effect of enhancing the speed of spiritual power absorption.

Moreover, the Haoran Qinglian Sword Domain can also enhance the speed at which he absorbs spiritual power within the domain.

But Lu Chen felt that this was far from enough.

Because it is necessary to deal with a creature like Taotie that can domineeringly devour the spiritual power of heaven and earth.

There are undoubtedly two best ways.

One is to crush with absolute strength, which is undoubtedly impossible for Lu Chen to do without using the magical talismans of the Spirit Transformation Period.

Another way is to find a way to cut off its swallowing channel.

In other words, what Lu Chen is doing right now is actually competing with Taotie for all the spiritual power in this world.

In disguise, it reduces the speed at which Taotie's spiritual power recovers.

While reducing the recovery speed of Taotie, try to suppress it, so as to buy time for Di Ting to repair the Four Symbols Seal.

This was the plan Lu Chen made after he understood the power of Taotie's fate.

After all, with the triple spiritual power absorption enhancement, Lu Chen is currently plundering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth at a very fast speed.

It is not much weaker than the Taotie who has only reached the perfection of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

The reality is that it is not only Taotie that can absorb Lu Chen's attack.

Lu Chen can also absorb Taotie’s attacks!

'Devouring the greed of gluttony.'

Lu Chen was not just talking.

And after feeling that the spiritual power around him was being snatched away by Lu Chen at an astonishing speed.

Taotie also began to face the enemy in front of him.

This enemy is much more troublesome than it imagined.

The Taotie, which had struggled half way out of the underground prison, slowly opened its eyes under its armpits.

The next second, a scarlet light gathered around Taotie.

Soon, these spots of light turned into living creatures that had been devoured by Taotie.

Some of these creatures are exotic beasts, some are monks, and they have all kinds of strange appearances.

In ancient times, there was a saying that "accomplices" were accomplices of a tiger. The "accomplice" here refers to a "ghost accomplice".

"A goat's body and a human face, eyes under the armpits, tiger teeth and human claws..."

The eyes under the armpits of Taotie are not just for decoration.

Its greedy eyes can control the creatures it devours.

Due to the current limitation of strength, Taotie can only summon the "ghosts" at the foundation-building stage for the time being.

But even so, hundreds of Foundation Establishment ghosts are still not something that ordinary people can deal with.

But Lu Chen is not an ordinary person.

Lu Chen looked at these ghosts and said disdainfully: "You are using the power of ghosts to deal with me. It seems that you have been sealed for too long and can no longer see the situation clearly."

As he spoke, the environment around Lu Chen changed.

The next second, a special scene full of red flowers appeared around him.

These flowers are as red as blood, and each one seems to be watered with blood.

They... are the legendary red spider lilies.

Lu Chen's skeleton-like water virtue star Huangquan stood among these red spider lilies, weird but with a bit of Buddha nature.

The land of the underworld, the place of reincarnation on the other side'.

The artistic conception is revealed, which is a unique sign of entering the realm of Tao.

Of course, Lu Chen did not unfold this artistic conception just to let Taotie see the scenery on the other side of the underworld.

"You have the ghosts who help you do evil, and I also have the ghosts of the underworld to help me."

As he spoke, the white bone star behind Lu Chen clasped his hands together.

Immediately afterwards, the large amount of death energy that permeated the sealed area was absorbed by the White Bone Astrology.

This also includes the death aura of two Jindan stage cultivators, Chouniu and Wuma, who died nearby.

Not long after, a bull-headed ghost soldier and a horse-faced ghost soldier walked out of Lu Chen's otherworldly realm.

Except for the fact that they look exactly the same as the previous Ox and Horse.

The two ghost soldiers were holding similar 'mourning sticks' and 'beheading knives' in their hands.

After all, Gu Qie's magic weapon is not just a magic weapon, it is also a kind of alternative creature.

When they are broken, there is no difference between them and the death of a living being.

There is also death and soul in nature.

Lu Chen looked at the pair of Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons, and an idea suddenly occurred to his mind.

Originally, he had not figured out how to use the two golden elixirs of Chou Niu and Wu Ma.

It would be a waste if it is not used, and it would also increase the strength of the Black Lotus Sect.

But if you use it yourself, there will be significant side effects.

But now the problem has been solved.

"go."

Lu Chen took out the two golden pills and threw them directly into the new body of the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Monster.

The next second, the Bull-Head and Horse-Faced Demon, who were originally only at the Foundation Establishment Stage, began to rapidly increase in cultivation.

After a while, he reached the realm of false elixir stage.

And this is the limit they can reach for the time being.

After all, the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons at the moment are like puppets.

Without self-awareness, it is naturally impossible to reach the true golden elixir realm.

But Lu Chen had a feeling that he should wait until his water virtue astrology was improved, or until they absorbed enough dead energy.

Perhaps one day these two Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons will really be able to reach a level comparable to the real Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons.

And Lu Chen suddenly thought of it.

At present, he has already initially mastered the power of the underworld, and has also contracted with Di Ting, the divine beast that is the seat of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in the legend of his previous life.

If we count the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced...

Then when he mastered the power of reincarnation, wouldn't he be able to create a real 'Netherworld' on his own? Combined with what he had learned before, the gods and Buddhas in the game only found a way to fight against Gu Qie after they created the real reincarnation.

Lu Chen had a vague feeling.

This matter may have something to do with me...

Although his current Yellow Spring power can only absorb death energy.

But this doesn't mean it will be the same in the future.

If he could absorb the souls of monks in the future, and even the legendary cause and effect, merit and karma.

Then perhaps he could really create the underworld on his own.

Just as Lu Chen was thinking about this, his two Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons seemed to be spied on by some existence, so that their bodies began to shake constantly.

But this kind of peeping comes and goes quickly.

It soon disappeared.

However, the strange power at this moment was immediately captured by Taotie and Lu Chen.

Taotie didn't know what that power was, but Lu Chen understood it very well.

There is no doubt that it is the power of the Black Lotus Buddha Mother.

I think the Black Lotus Buddha Mother sensed the existence of the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons and mistakenly thought that they were new believers who had accepted the "Power of the Twelve Earthly Branches", so she wanted to come here to bestow blessings.

But after discovering that these two guys were just puppets, the Buddha Mother no longer paid attention to them.

As for the power of the twelve Earthly Branches remaining in their bodies, the Buddha Mother doesn't care at all.

This is because the relationship between the Black Lotus Sect and the Black Lotus Buddha Mother has never been binding.

The Black Lotus Sect is like a group of bootlickers, trying their best to please the Buddha Mother in order to gain more gifts.

As for the Buddha Mother, if the sacrifices made by the Black Lotus Cult satisfy her, she would not mind giving them some sweet benefits.

If He is not satisfied, He will simply ignore these guys.

Therefore, for the Buddha Mother, it does not matter to Her who obtains the power of the twelve Earthly Branches.

Because these things have already been sent out by Him.

If something is lost, it is lost. He will not help the Black Lotus Cult to get it back.

And when the breath of the Black Lotus Buddha Mother disappeared.

The Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons completely returned to normal.

They looked at the ghosts summoned by Taotie not far away and rushed forward with weapons in hand.

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In response, Taotie just looked at them coldly and let the surrounding ghosts come forward.

Soon, the two sides collided with each other.

Although in terms of numbers, the Bull-Headed Horse is at an absolute disadvantage.

But in terms of quality, the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons completely crush these ghosts who are only in the foundation-building stage.

These minions could not even harm the protective elixir of the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons, let alone pose a threat to them.

Not only that, the weapons in the hands of the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons seem to have a strong inhibitory effect on evil spirits.

So much so that every time they attack, they can easily kill a Foundation Establishment Stage ghost.

After the death of these ghosts, half of the death energy will enter the bodies of the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons.

The other half entered into the Yellow Springs realm unfolded by Lu Chen.

Originally, this part of the dead energy would all return to the Taotie's body.

Let it summon these dead minions again.

This will make these minions almost immortal.

However, Lu Chen is currently in the state of absorbing triple spiritual power.

Taotie actually couldn't compete with him.

As a result, the death energy of these ghosts after their death could not return to Taotie's body, but instead entered Lu Chen's Huangquan and the bodies of the Ox-Head and Horse-Face.

Snatching food from Taotie's mouth, this is the first time in Taotie's history that he has encountered such a strange situation.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer ghost minions around him, Taotie, who originally wanted to let the ghost minions test Lu Chen's strength, became a little restless.

Because it feels like it's going to continue like this.

Not to mention it consumed Lu Chen's spiritual energy.

Who knows, Lu Chen might become stronger and stronger.

Taotie had never thought of losing to a human monk in a war of attrition.

However, although Taotie is a ferocious beast with a violent temper, it is not a brave but foolish creature.

When the first plan failed, Taotie immediately changed his strategy.

"roar!"

Taotie roared angrily, and the eyes under its armpits opened immediately.

Then, the ghosts that were scattered all around immediately returned to the body.

Immediately afterwards, Taotie used force to pull his body out of the seal again, until it had reached two-thirds.

It looked at Lu Chen who was not far away, and Di Ting who was repairing the Four Symbols Seal behind Lu Chen.

Understand that there is not much time left for it.

Because in addition to Lu Chen and Di Ting, Taotie could also sense that some of his clones in the valley were also dying quickly.

Although that clone is just its backup.

But if all these clones died, Lu Chen asked Di Ting to repair the four symbol seals around them.

Then he would undoubtedly return to the dark underground prison.

Just thinking about such a day was hard for Taotie to accept.

With this thought in mind, Taotie decided to take real action against Lu Chen.

Since ordinary magic and supernatural powers can't do anything to this strange human cultivator.

Then use the most primitive method!

The flesh of the strange beasts... is their most proud weapon! Taotie looked at Lu Chen, raised his claws directly, and then slapped towards Lu Chen.

Before Lu Chen could react, Di Ting, who had been keeping an eye on Taotie, became anxious.

"Brother Lu, stop it!"

Lu Chen glanced at Di Ting, who looked timid, and nodded calmly.

Then he took a step forward, and a blood-red magic sword appeared in his hand.

At the same time, his huge water virtue star Huang Quan also grasped the huge lotus spirit sword condensed from the Haoran Qinglian Sword Domain with both hands.

The next second, Lu Chen swung out with a sword.

In contrast, the White Bone Astrology, representing the power of the underworld, held the hilt of the sword with both hands and slashed fiercely at the claws of Taotie.

Bang! The sword and claws collided, and a terrifying wave of air immediately rolled up in the valley.

And the Lotus Spirit Sword, which was invincible and could easily suppress the Jindan stage, was actually held up by Taotie's body.

Moreover, at this stage, Taotie has only reached the perfect level of foundation building.

It can be seen that Taotie's status is very high, comparable to that of an ordinary cultivator who has established his foundation in the Heavenly Dao.

Not only that, Lu Chen also discovered that the spiritual power in his Lotus Spirit Sword was being devoured by the Taotie at an alarming speed.

If you look closely, you will find that the Taotie's claws are covered with tiny mouths.

And they are the ones that are constantly gnawing on the Lotus Spirit Sword and absorbing the spiritual power from it.

But all this was within Lu Chen's expectations.

From the beginning, he never thought that his sword could cause any substantial damage to Taotie.

The biggest function of this sword is actually just to hold back Taotie.

"My spiritual power is not something that anyone can consume."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Chen's figure instantly teleported above the Taotie.

The lotus-shaped pupils of his eyes kept spinning and soon found a weakness on Taotie's body.

These are the eyes of Taotie located under the armpits.

Then he grasped the bloodthirsty spirit sword in his hand, his figure disappeared again, and he teleported in front of the man under his armpit and slashed with the sword.

Ding! The sharp bloodthirsty spirit sword was unable to break through the flesh of the Taotie at once, and a crisp metal collision sound was emitted.

It seemed as if he was mocking Lu Chen's arrogance.

Taotie did not attack Lu Chen's body, but focused on absorbing the huge spiritual power contained in Lu Chen's Lotus Spirit Sword.

This is the ferocious beast Taotie, a greedy creature.

As long as there is a chance, it will not give up any 'food' that comes to its mouth.

However, Lu Chen didn't seem surprised by this.

He looked at the only weak point on Taotie, turned around, and began to accumulate strength again.

Only this time, a strange sword intent began to be released from Lu Chen's body.

This atmosphere is full of 'desolation'.

After sensing this strange sword intent, the smile on Taotie's face disappeared.

Because it sensed danger from Lu Chen's sword intent.

This sword intent was comprehended by Lu Chen using his experience points before entering the Mountain and Sea Realm. It was called... Eight Desolations.

[Eight Desolations Sword Intentions: Entry Level (Cannot be upgraded)]

[Effect: Gathering the power of the Great Wilderness on the sword body, one can compress one's own spiritual power to the extreme, forming the purest sword pressure, and slashing the Eight Wastelands with the sword.]

The Eight Desolate Sword Intent originated from the skill that Lu Chen acquired when he defeated Ji Yuan, the Holy Son of the Black Lotus Sect in the Jindan stage in the Great Yan Dynasty... the Great Desolate Sword Technique.

[Great Wilderness Sword Technique]

[Practice requirements: Possess at least top-grade gold and earth attribute spiritual roots, and mastery level or above (sword/knife skills)]

[Effect: Wilderness Sword Skill, mainly for killing, can cut through the eight wildernesses if fully mastered]

With Lu Chen's current realm, he has already reached the point where he can integrate his knife skills and sword skills.

Therefore, after practicing the Great Wilderness Sword Technique to the entry level.

This Great Wilderness Sword Technique naturally became the Eight Wilderness Sword Technique.

The spiritual power compressed by this sword technique can not only cover the surface of the spiritual sword, but also be compressed within the sword body.

Therefore, this Eight Desolations Sword Technique can be regarded as the ultimate sword energy.

It can also be used as an ultimate physical attack.

If Taotie wants to devour the sword, it must bite through Lu Chen's bloodthirsty sword.

Perhaps sensing the danger of Lu Chen's sword, Taotie immediately slapped over with its other claw.

Just at the moment when the claws passed across Lu Chen's body, Lu Chen's body turned into lotus petals and disappeared in mid-air.

The Taotie's claw fell into empty space.

When Lu Chen's body condensed again, he had already arrived at the position under the Taotie's armpit.

Or it could be said to be the mark of sword energy remaining on the eyelids of Taotie's armpits.

That’s right, Lu Chen’s first sword strike was not only a test, but also intended to leave a sword energy mark on Taotie’s weak point to facilitate the next attack.

Facing the Taotie, which had no time to make any unnecessary moves, Lu Chen swung the bloodthirsty sword in his hand.

The sword landed on the eyelid of Taotie's armpit, and a sharp metallic cutting sound was immediately heard.

Lu Chen held the sword with both hands, with most of the sword inserted into it, and slashed with force.

The sharp bloodthirsty sword broke through the Taotie's skin and directly hurt its eyes.

Although Taotie is huge in size, its eyes are the source of its power.

"roar!"

Taotie screamed miserably, and even stopped absorbing the spiritual power from the Lotus Spirit Sword. It slapped Lu Chen with its two claws, wanting to kill him on the spot.

But when the two claws were about to arrive, Lu Chen disappeared again.

When it appeared again, it had already arrived at the back of Taotie.

That’s right, he was preparing to fight a war of attrition with Taotie.

Use the sword domain and water virtue astrology to limit the speed at which Taotie absorbs spiritual energy.

Use the Eight Desolations Sword Technique and the special effects of the Bloodthirsty Spirit Sword to launch pure physical attacks on Taotie.

Lu Chen, who has many methods, never sticks to one fighting style.

Use different tactics according to different enemies.

To regard the absence of law as the presence of law, and to regard the infinite as the finite.

Adapt to local conditions and be flexible.

Only in this way can we anticipate the enemy's moves and defeat them!

Looking at the back of Taotie, Lu Chen swung the sword again without any pause.

He...found the Taotie's weakness!

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