Chapter 386: The Inheritance of Dutian Liehuo Zushi

In such a crisis of the Dharma Realm, only Huogong Toutuo was caught in a daze at this moment.

Huogong Toutuo knew nothing, only seeing a pair of large hands pinch him up and place him onto a Demon Refining Platform, his Dutian Liehuo Sword following along as well.

Xu Jia said: "You are here on this Demon Refining Platform to kill enemies with your flying sword. After killing them, the Dharma nature they represent will provide you with a boost to aid your cultivation. But if you let them break through the Demon Refining Platform and they kill you, you will become an idiot and die from a cultivation deviation."

It was effectively turning this place into a "tower defense" game, with Huogong Toutuo placed inside.

Huogong Toutuo's heart tightened; seeing these sand ghosts and dried corpses rushing over, he immediately wielded his flying sword to slash at them.

Fortunately, these dried corpses and sand ghosts were only at the cannon fodder level, basically one per sword strike. At the same time, Huogong Toutuo felt the spirituality of his flying sword increase, and his insights into the "Dutian Liehuo Jianfa" deepened a little more.

He suddenly understood that this was the so-called "Dharma nature," and thus he worked even harder.

After those dried corpses and sand ghosts were killed, they turned into yellow sand and gray powder, and a stream of energy was instead swallowed by this Lüzhou Fudi, making the Fajie Jingtufutian become purer, with a faint intent to expand outward.

……

The night ended and dawn arrived.

The monsters in the Dharma Realm retreated, and Huogong Toutuo's consciousness returned to his physical body, feeling incomparably exhausted.

The first half of the night was fine, with only some sand ghosts and dried corpses, but the second half was troublesome; there were giant scorpion monsters, giant sand worms, and sand corpses capable of controlling sandstorms, all of which were very hard to fight. If it weren't for the fact that every time he solved a big monster, the Dharma nature of the Dutian Liehuo Sword increased, he would have almost felt like he was going to be killed by these monsters.

Xu Jia did not let him off, however, and spoke: "The Dutian Liehuo Fa you practice is best suited to gathering Sun True Fire. The fire you gather is either underground poison fire or wood fire; you don't even have lightning-struck fire. Take this opportunity to practice breathing toward the sun and draw the Sun True Fire into your body!"

"Drawing Sun True Fire into the body will cause spontaneous combustion and death; unless one has attained the Golden Core, it must never be done!"

"You just listen to me!" Xu Jia sneered: "Could it be that you don't want to listen to my words anymore?"

Huogong Toutuo could only complain bitterly; he had done manual labor all night and was now mentally and physically exhausted, yet he was being forced to gather Sun True Fire to his death.

But he could only yield to the overwhelming power and began to gather Qi facing the sun.

Seeing him begin his practice, Xu Jia said: "Gathering Qi is not done by breathing through the nose and mouth, but by using your eyes, your crown, and your Baihui acupoint. Imagine your eyes are a mouth, imagine your crown is an oil lamp, and imagine your Baihui acupoint is a spring-fed funnel..."

"The opening and closing of your eyes is like the inhalation and exhalation of the mouth and nose. Gather the divine fire to light the oil lamp of your crown; there is boundless light shining inward. This fire is not fire, but a mass of warm liquid, red fluid. The red fluid flows down from the Baihui acupoint through the funnel, down the Twelve Heavy Buildings—that is, through the throat—perform a swallowing motion, enter the spleen and stomach, warm the Qi of the five viscera, and transport it into the Southern Palace, the palace of the Zhu Ling Fire Mansion, which is the heart. In this way, the Sun True Fire is already gentle; ignite it again and use your Dutian Liehuo Sword Formula to fuse the Sun True Fire's Dharma nature into it."

Huogong Toutuo did as Xu Jia said, and sure enough, not only did he not feel the fierce fire burning his body, but his whole body felt hot. Any cold Qi within his body was forced out, all forty-eight thousand pores opened at once, his blood seemed to become lamp oil and boiled together, his soul became the lamp wick, and all dark thoughts were burned clean, leaving only righteous thoughts behind.

"Follow me and chant: Sun Divine Incantation!"

Xu Jia uttered a sound, and this Huogong Toutuo uttered a sound. After chanting about three times, a Taiyang Xingjun appeared in Huogong Toutuo's sea of consciousness. This Taiyang Xingjun actually looked somewhat similar to Xu Jia; it was the appearance of the Internal Scene Body Deity Appearance of the Taiyang Xingjun in Xu Jia's left eye.

Just now, in the midst of his words, Xu Jia had provided guidance; this time, he had truly taken control.

After all, this method was not some ordinary technique; if he committed evil after he left, he feared it would be counted against himself.

From sunrise until the Chen hour, as the fierce sun grew stronger and the fire Qi grew more vigorous, Xu Jia told him to conclude his practice.

After concluding, Huogong Toutuo opened his eyes, and it was as if there was a ball of fire in them, so scorching, though it flashed and vanished.

He looked at Xu Jia with burning eyes and thought secretly: "Anything this big shot reveals from between his fingers is more vast than that so-called Buddha Kingdom opportunity."

Xu Jia said: "Your hidden injuries have now been healed, and your flying sword has recovered its grade after a night of tempering by Dharma nature; it can now barely count as a second-rate flying sword. Now that you have obtained a wisp of Sun True Fire to temper your Dutian Liehuo True Qi, you are already much stronger than before. I will let you go seek your fortune, but you also have a task: whether by abduction or deception, bring me more people."

The slight goodwill Huogong Toutuo had just felt was directly extinguished: "Does the Ancestor want to bring people back to drink human blood for practice, or to detain souls to refine artifacts?"

"Those are all low-class methods. It is simply that you alone are no longer enough. You fought in the Dharma Realm last night; don't you understand? The further you go, the more powerful the monsters become. After today passes, when night falls, there will be more and more powerful monsters, and you will have a helper."

"Good, good, this is good!" Huogong Toutuo nodded repeatedly, but thought in his heart: He Yu Langjun, I didn't beat you last time, this time I'll make you wait. I have a thick thigh to lean on now, and I'll make you taste the flavor of being a servant too.

Huogong Toutuo immediately took his leave, driving the Dutian Liehuo Sword, and departed as a ball of firelight.

Xu Jia pinched his fingers to calculate and figured that this Huogong Toutuo would definitely suffer a setback this time. There was no other reason: Huogong Toutuo was ugly, while He Yu Langjun was handsome. Among the heterodox paths, those who were handsome were rare; many practiced until they became strange-looking.

But he would still catch some people and bring them back for him, so there was no need to worry about that.

Xu Jia operated the Thick Earth Method, slowly transforming the soil quality under these two-plus acres of land. Not only was the sandy soil devoid of nutrients, but it also couldn't retain water. Last night, he killed many dried corpses and sand ghosts in the Dharma Realm; their Dharma nature nourished the soil, and combined with the refining of the Thick Earth Method, it had the effect of increasing fertility.

"The work of Thick Earth is truly hard to use to refine a flying sword, but if there were a treasure of Earthly Extreme Profound Magnetism, one could indeed refine a flying sword that restrains other flying swords—a Profound Magnetic Heavy Sword."

However, there were no materials for this, though there were plenty of scorpions, venomous snakes, spiders, and the like here; he had already seen them last night.

Xu Jia immediately conceived the idea of refining a type of Gu insect and engaging in sand scorpion farming; that wouldn't be bad. He immediately arranged some Gu Technique and implanted Gu Technique Talismans into some of the vegetation. Just as Xu Jia was "farming," a female sword immortal suddenly descended from the sky, about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a charming appearance. She was curious: "How did such a small oasis grow in this uninhabited desert? And there is only this one Daoist; it is truly suspicious."

"I am Gongye Lingxue of the Sword Casting Villa, Sword of the Morning Moon. Fellow Daoist, why are you here all alone? Do you know where that Buddha Kingdom secret realm is?"

Xu Jia took a look and didn't want to bother, but thinking of "Sword Casting Villa," this name sounded very much like a fixed NPC sect in a xianxia world. The flying sword forging technology inside might not be the highest level, but they certainly took many orders. Xu Jia was still quite interested in the methods of refining flying swords in this world.

The flying sword refining methods Xu Jia mastered were actually very few. Aside from his own life-forging method, using Body Gods to gather and refine, there was actually only the "Ten Thousand Blade Sword," which took the blades of ten thousand swords and re-forged them—also a heterodox flying sword. Then there were the Golden Flood Dragon Sword and Silver Flood Dragon Sword, which were refined in imitation of the Beheading Evil Jian. Beyond that, there was only the Innate Killing Sword forged by heart-refining Internal Scene Body Deity Appearance. These were all too high-level, or too demanding. How could they be like Huogong Toutuo's Dutian Liehuo Sword, which could be refined by combining red copper, red iron, red gold, cinnabar, sulfur, and the like? The threshold was too low; it was like the method of lead and mercury external alchemy fused with the method of flying sword refining...

What Xu Jia wanted was "technological cultivation"; an industrial revolution in artifact refining was the top priority. The artifact refining in the Sanqing Mountain world also had a high threshold; it was nothing like here, where basically anyone who cultivated could refine a sword. This technology was worth learning.

Thus he said: "I am here reclaiming the desert and planting trees and grass. I am not alone; I have a laborer, but like you, he also went to some Buddha Kingdom secret realm."

Gongye Lingxue's mouth opened slightly. She could not see through Xu Jia's reality; after all, he had the Daoist Practice of the God Immortal Realm and was not afraid of being seen through at all.

"Senior has a good hobby. This desert stretches for ten thousand miles, and apart from a few sparse oases that can provide a stop for merchant caravans, I have never heard of anyone who could successfully plant trees. However, seeing that Senior's cultivation method is filled with the two Qi of Mysterious Yellow, and the aura is ancient and natural, perhaps you really can succeed. In that case, this little woman will not disturb Senior."

She flew away immediately. After this person flew away, others landed here one after another, but none could see through Xu Jia's reality, and they generally left after asking a couple of questions.

Seeing so many people passing by, Xu Jia thought secretly: "I really should set up a kitchen and open a stall."

Then he heard sounds of: "Help!"

Huogong Toutuo was fighting and retreating in the sky. Chasing behind him was a white-clad figure with a crane-feather flying sword, black and white in color, with extremely fast speed, and the other was the aforementioned Gongye Lingxue. They seemed to be a pair of immortal lovers.

Huogong Toutuo stumbled and hid behind Xu Jia, then put his hands on his hips and cursed at the two: "You two adulterers, teaming up to bully me! If you have the ability, come down here!"

After speaking, he looked at Xu Jia flatteringly: "Master, I followed your instructions and, through much persuasion and deception, managed to lure two here. Please hurry and capture them."

He Yu Langjun, with a jade face and red lips, eight feet tall, upright and handsome, looked at Huogong Toutuo with frost on his face. Gongye Lingxue, however, pulled him back: "The Daoist below has some mystery. That Huogong Toutuo lured us here; we must not fall into his trap."

"What is there to fear? I recognize that set of clothes; he is a Yellow Lotus Sect disciple who was driven out of the Central Plains years ago, went to the grasslands, and ended up failing there, slinking off to the North Desert. A few hundred years ago, they still had some face, but now they are all swindlers mixing in the mortal world. You can't see his cultivation, but he is just putting on an act; he has no cultivation at all!"

Ignoring the persuasion, he sent his flying sword ahead to behead Huogong Toutuo, paying no mind to Xu Jia.

Xu Jia patted Huogong Toutuo: "You brought this on yourself!"

Huogong Toutuo had no choice but to parry. However, since Gongye Lingxue was not attacking, he was not at a disadvantage against He Yu Langjun alone.

Xu Jia began to appraise He Yu Langjun's flying sword and the corresponding sword formula.

He Yu Langjun's sword formula was clearly taken from the dance of a crane; the sword moves were very beautiful, but they were not just for show. It felt somewhat like the "White Crane Boy under the seat of Yuanshi Tianzun," only He Yu Langjun himself had not reached that realm. The quality of that flying sword was indeed better than Huogong Toutuo's second-rate flying sword. Although it hadn't reached the level of a first-rate flying sword, the black and white colors faintly had yin and yang circulating, and it must be considered top-tier among second-rate flying swords.

If it weren't for the fact that Huogong Toutuo had received some pointers from him, he would never have been able to beat He Yu Langjun.

After watching for a dozen rounds, He Yu Langjun saw that he still hadn't taken him down and said repeatedly: "Lingxue, why don't you help me take him down? This Toutuo's Dutian Liehuo Sword is the inheritance object of the Dutian Liehuo Zushi. By using this sword to go to Huashan, one can open the Dutian Liehuo Dong and obtain the inheritance of the Dutian Liehuo Dazhen. Once this array is obtained, your Sword Casting Villa's artifact refining level will surely be elevated. I only want that gourd of Dutian Liehuo Ya."

Huogong Toutuo's expression changed; this was the greatest secret he carried, yet he had not expected it to be spoken aloud to his face. It would be one thing if they just said it, but that old demon behind them—this was truly bitter. Having hidden it from him, he feared what bitter fruit he might have to swallow.

His thoughts were indeed correct; Xu Jia was precisely looking for the top-tier Daoism of this world to use as a reference for reforms in preparation for the coming of the Great Era of cultivation.

He struck immediately, and as a sweep of mysterious yellow profound Qi passed, He Yu Langjun's flying sword felt as if it had been weighted with hundreds of pounds of heavy iron; his true Qi could not maneuver it, and it fell straight down.

Seeing this, Gongye Lingxue hurriedly maneuvered her sword, cursing He Yu inwardly for being too stupid—how could he speak of such an important secret to someone's face, causing a senior like this to be tempted to take action?

Gongye Lingxue's flying sword was even better than He Yu Langjun's, counting as a first-class flying sword; it could be called "Dawn Moon," its sword light clear and bright white, and its movement possessed the changes of waxing and waning, truly beautiful.

Although Xu Jia possessed an Innate Killing Sword, his sword-wielding techniques were only the basics: hacking, stabbing, sweeping, splitting, and parrying.

Now, seeing the flourishing sword immortal culture of this world, he felt inspired and thought to himself: "I have already cosplayed as Tongtian Jiaozhu; not having an Executioner of Immortals Sword Array is truly substandard. This world's sword Dao is prosperous, so there must be immortal swords. While they may not be of the Innate Killing Sword type, I imagine the top-tier flying swords are not bad either. Even if they aren't at the Heavenly Immortal level, having flying swords at the God Immortal level would be fine. If I sacrifice them to my true self, I could really create a youth-castrated version of the Executioner of Immortals Sword Array..."

With a thought and a wave of his hand, the two flying swords belonging to He Yu Langjun and Huogong Toutuo had already fallen to Xu Jia; it was the same as when he had controlled the Golden Flood Dragon Sword and Silver Flood Dragon Sword. The two swords twisted together, locking the Dawn Moon sword, and with another sweep of mysterious yellow profound Qi, Gongye Lingxue was also swept to the ground.

Huogong Toutuo stood up stiffly: "Little slut, little adulterer, why haven't you knelt down to pay respects to our ancestor?"

Xu Jia said: "It seems your skin is itching, using me as a raft."

He immediately operated the Taiyang Xingjun; Huogong Toutuo's soul was visualizing Xu Jia's Body God, and as the Xingjun operated, he immediately felt the sensation of being burned by raging fire and hurriedly knelt to beg for mercy.

This transformation left the two people whose flying swords had been twisted away stunned, not knowing what kind of situation this was.

(End of chapter)