Chapter 378: The Enlightened Monk

The moment the magic sword broke, the Fifth Elder had already planned the rest of his life.

Zhou Xin practiced diligently for two thousand years and finally reached a level only one step away from the Tribulation Period. He became the master of Bailian Peak and had countless patents in his hands, bringing huge wealth to the Wendao Sect every year.

It is hard to say whether the money he has accumulated throughout his life is enough to buy a magic sword. Magic swords are extremely difficult to refine, and they are the exclusive weapons of immortals.

The immortal sword is different from the immortal treasure of the Immortal Sect. The immortal treasure of the Immortal Sect is at most a semi-finished immortal weapon, while the immortal sword in Lu Yang's hand is a real immortal weapon, and the power is vastly different.

Legend has it that when the immortal weapon was formed, it was of too high a quality to be tolerated by heaven and earth, and all kinds of hardships were inflicted on it. If left unattended, the immortal weapon would inevitably collapse. In order to preserve the immortal weapon, the immortal had to fight against the great power of heaven and earth. The difficulty was no different from becoming an immortal all over again, and the various dangers were indescribable.

It took many hardships to form this magical weapon, so one can imagine its value. It is something that a mere fusion stage cultivator like him can afford.

Optimistically speaking, he should be able to afford a magic weapon after working for a lifetime.

Seeing the Fifth Elder's interesting expression, Lu Yang coughed awkwardly.

"Fifth Elder, this sword is not as hard as you think. According to my research, this sword must have been specially made by an immortal to overcome difficulties. It looks like a real immortal weapon, but it actually has no power."

This immortal sword was refined by Ying Tianxian, who is in charge of thunder tribulations, specifically to deceive the geniuses of the dragon and phoenix clans, both of whom are semi-immortal-level powerful beings.

If he could fool those two, he could certainly fool the fifth elder.

"Is that so?" Hearing Lu Yang say this, the Fifth Elder breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, he became worried that Lu Yang was trying to excuse himself, so he studied it carefully.

Spiritual consciousness scanning, quenching alchemy, gold forging... After a series of tests, the fifth elder finally figured out the structure of this magic sword.

"Which psychopath made this sword? It scares me to death!"

"First, the two materials, Fire Stone and Mountain Spirit Stone, were mixed and refined into a sword embryo. Then, some unknown method was used to quickly shape the sword embryo into a spirit sword. Finally, fairy gold powder was smeared on the spirit sword to make it look like it had been struck by lightning. Even an experienced person like me would mistakenly believe that this was a real fairy sword. No, not just me. Even someone in the Tribulation Crossing Stage would think it was the same."

"If you don't touch it with your own hands, but only look at it with your eyes or spiritual sense, this sword is an immortal sword!"

The fifth elder turned around and asked Lu Yang, "You just said that this sword was used by a certain immortal to overcome difficulties. What difficulties did he overcome? Was the immortal short of money and wanted to cheat people out of money?"

Lu Yang: “…”

Although Qilinxian tricked me into eating dirt, it would not be good to publicize the fact that Qilinxian cheated on his wife.

Lu Yang believes in unilateral enmity.

And Fifth Elder, did you know that the lunatic you just scolded is the ancient immortal who controls the heavenly calamity?

"You just said you wanted to refine a sword? No problem, leave it to me!" The fifth elder looked at the immortal sword in his hand, furious. He would not be Zhou if he did not refine this broken immortal sword into another form! "This layer of immortal gold powder is useless. It is just used to disguise it as an immortal sword. However, this fire stone and mountaintop spirit stone are the best materials and are most suitable for you."

"What do you mean?"

"You are now in the Jindan stage. With your talent, it will not be a problem for you to reach the Yuanying stage. The Fire Stone and the Mountain Spirit Stone can just be refined into a Yuanying level spirit sword."

Considering the Fifth Elder's status in the weapon refining world, refining a Nascent Soul-level spirit sword would be a waste of his talent. In the past, he always left such tasks to his disciples. In order to vent his anger, he agreed to do it.

"By the way, do you want a spiritual sword or a magic sword?"

The spirit sword is to use the sword directly to fight, and the magic sword is to use magic through the sword. Both belong to the category of sword cultivation. Currently, Lu Yang has only learned the spirit sword.

"Spiritual Sword."

"good."

The fifth elder brought Lu Yang to his own refining room. Before he even stepped into the room, Lu Yang felt the heat wave coming towards him, as if this was not a refining room, but an erupting volcano.

The fifth elder explained casually: "Originally, you cannot enter here with your realm, but you have mastered a kind of true fire that can protect you from the scorching heat in the refining room."

"I have established a rule here that the collision of true fires will not cause an explosion. The cooperation of various true fires can help me refine magic weapons."

The room is large and semicircular in shape, with small bottles of various colors placed on the walls.

The fifth elder casually took down a small green bottle from the wall, opened the stopper, and a ball of flame came out, and the small green bottle turned jade white.

The vial was originally white, but it changed color due to the burning of the flame.

"I traveled around the world and collected eighty-eight of the one hundred and eight kinds of true fire. The true fire seeds were placed in special small bottles. Whenever I refine a weapon, I would take them out."

Please...collect 6...9...books...!

"Later, I collected twelve more kinds of true fire, which led to the scale we have today."

Lu Yang was amazed. The Fifth Elder was indeed a renowned master in the weapon refining world. Just based on his collection of true fire, he must have made countless weapon refiners envious.

The fifth elder added: "Unfortunately, the remaining eight kinds of true fire are either extremely difficult to collect, and no one responded to my high reward, or they are prohibited items and cannot be collected."

"Is real fire considered a prohibited item?"

"For example, the lust fire in the true fire, only a little flame is needed to make people aroused, unable to stop, and if they don't vent, they will suffocate themselves to death. The court thinks this kind of true fire is too dangerous and ordered a ban on its collection."

"Of course, if I want to collect it, I can find it. Some secret brothels use this fire, but this fire is useless for refining weapons, so there is no need to collect it."

The fifth elder held up the green flame and smiled faintly, "I wonder if you have heard of it. This is the True Fire of No Desire, which corresponds to the True Fire of Lust. It comes from the Golden Buddha Kingdom. Lighting this fire in your heart can make you free of desire and have a clear mind, with a single-minded focus on the Tao."

"When I was young, I traveled to the Golden Buddha Kingdom with the third brother, hoping to find the True Fire of Lust in a brothel. Unfortunately, we were unlucky and did not find the True Fire of Lust in the brothel. Instead, we met a great monk in the brothel."

"A high monk saw that the third brother and I had a deep Buddhist nature and felt that we were destined to be together, so he gave me the Desireless True Fire. The high monk also demonstrated the Arhat Fist to the third brother. The third brother had a sudden enlightenment and created the Six Heaven Shaking Styles when he returned."

Lu Yang: “…”

Why do I remember that the Third Elder was beaten with the Arhat Fist in the Golden Buddha Kingdom, and then he went back and worked hard to create the Six Heaven-shaking Styles?

"Wait a minute, why is the enlightened monk in the brothel?"

The fifth elder was not surprised. He had asked the same question at that time, and the monk also answered: "Oh, the monk also explained this point."

"He said it was like being naked in a brothel, with the Buddha in your heart."

The second update will be around 11 o'clock

(End of this chapter)