Chapter 110: 【The Fire of Inner Demons, A Truly Wonderful Person】(First update, seeking)

"Fellow Daoist, be careful!"

The sparring began, and Huozhezi immediately employed his sect's unique Spell.

In an instant, Lu Runping saw a mass of purple-black flames fly out, transforming into a sky full of sparks that enveloped him.

Immediately after, the flames converged.

Lu Runping immediately activated a standard Spell, the Spirit Origin Shield, to defend, only to discover that the purple-black flames seemed to encounter no resistance at all, flying directly into his body.

This thing was already flying toward his divine soul.

The Qingyang Demonic Fire is, in truth, a fire of inner demons.

All cultivators have inner demons; it is merely a matter of whether they are large or small.

It is impossible for a person to be without distracting thoughts; even after becoming an immortal, they will still exist.

However, he was currently facing a clone.

A clone whose consciousness was entirely bestowed, equivalent to a high-precision machine—could it still have inner demons?

Unless the Treasure Mirror's Supernatural Power had malfunctioned.

Therefore, after the flames entered his body, Lu Runping felt no harm at all; on the contrary, the tempering of the flames made his physical body feel very comfortable.

The clone's primordial spirit was also purified and refined.

"Eh? What is going on!?"

Upon sensing the problem, Huozhezi was extremely astonished.

It seemed that the sect disciples who used the Qingyang Precious Pill to trade for the opportunity to spar with others were suffering a huge loss, acting as if they were performing a great act of kindness.

In reality, this was not the case.

For the Qingyang Demonic Fire to be cultivated into something powerful, it needs to devour a sufficient amount of sufficiently strong inner demon power.

They seek out different opponents precisely to obtain the other party's inner demon power and strengthen the might of their own Spells.

If it were merely the extraction of inner demon power, then this should be considered a very good thing.

But in fact, after the Qingyang Demonic Fire enters a cultivator's body, it first incites the cultivator's inner demons, strengthens them, and only after nourishing them once does it proceed to devour and absorb them.

And once a cultivator's inner demons are incited, they can never be completely eliminated; they can only be suppressed.

The Qingyang Immortal Sect gifting the Qingyang Precious Pill as compensation is, in reality, a way to use the effect of the precious pill to temporarily remove the inner demons generated by the sparring partner.

To a certain extent, this offsets the karma.

Seeing that the Qingyang Demonic Fire had no offensive power against him, Lu Runping used his own means of attack: the Yuan Magnetic Divine Light!

The essence blood containing this Spell was specifically left behind by the Ancestor Lu Chengtong.

The innate Spell of this demonic beast was absolutely at the level of a top-tier Spell in terms of power, but restricted by the original demonic beast's bloodline, it could not be mastered deeply.

But after Lu Chengtong obtained it, he had been using it, and he had recorded all his insights regarding its cultivation.

This Spell was not intended for the main body; after all, the main body has many great Supernatural Powers at its disposal. It was prepared specifically for the clone.

A clone can only possess one Supernatural Power. For the sake of convenience, it must be given the 【Embryonic Transformation】 Supernatural Power to change forms, which requires a powerful means of attack.

The Yuan Magnetic Divine Light was the preparation made by Lu Chengtong.

Lu Runping has only lived for twenty-some years now, and he still trusts the arrangements of an ancestor who worked diligently for the family for hundreds of years.

He is still continuing to study this Spell now. With the essence blood talent as a foundation, he can easily enter the threshold, and by absorbing the insights and realizations, he is mastering it even more deeply.

At this moment, Lu Runping used the Yuan Magnetic Divine Light, directly forcing Huozhezi to use a Dharma Treasure to defend.

Just by being lightly brushed by it, Huozhezi felt his divine soul suffer damage. He immediately understood the power of this Spell, and thus did not dare to be careless.

Lu Runping was only sparring and did not use lethal force; he only used the Yuan Magnetic Divine Light at critical moments. At other times, he used other Spells to experience the changes in Spells and the rhythm of spiritual power mobilization during combat.

After fighting for half an hour, both sides stopped.

"Fellow Daoist's mastery of Spells is profound; all kinds of Spells are used with ease. Impressive."

Huozhezi flattered him.

Lu Runping, in turn, flattered him back:

"Fellow Daoist specializes in fire-type Spells, using the Qingyang Demonic Fire as a foundation, changing in a thousand ways—this is the true path to establishing oneself. I am but a rogue cultivator who has learned things a bit too broadly and failed to master them. I hope you will forgive my clumsiness."

Upon hearing this, Huozhezi smiled and said:

"Even if I am proficient in this Qingyang Demonic Fire, I cannot cause any harm to you. It seems you have a unique art to rely on. I feel like I have known you for a long time; why don't you stay here and discuss the Dao with me for a few days?"

"I am but a rogue cultivator; since you do not despise me, how could I refuse? However, if the spirit tea is neglected, I will not be happy."

Lu Runping said jokingly.

"Haha, Fellow Daoist is truly a wonderful person! My real name is Tong Enlin; I wish to make a friend!"

Huozhezi took the initiative to become closer.

Lu Runping also said without changing his expression:

"My real name is Guan Sheng."

He was not lying; this face of the clone was indeed called Guan Sheng.

Lu Runping approached Tong Enlin for the sake of sparring, and he was naturally willing to continue sparring here.

Over the next few days, he also had a few bouts with Tong Enlin's other fellow disciples.

According to what the main body of Lu Runping outside the Immortal Sect saw through the 【Round Light Manifestation】 Supernatural Power, he knew that Tong Enlin letting these people spar with him was to test whether his so-called secret method of resisting the Qingyang Demonic Fire was real.

The result was naturally that it was real.

They discovered that no matter who it was, they could not incite the inner demon Qi of Lu Runping.

Later, Tong Enlin 'casually' asked about his ability to resist the Qingyang Demonic Fire, and Lu Runping went along with the flow and replied:

"In my early years, I once apprenticed to a master who brought me onto the path of cultivation. He once told me that I possess a 'heartless body.' Perhaps because of this, having no heart, there are no inner demons. Therefore, your Qingyang Demonic Fire is ineffective against me."

This answer made Tong Enlin very satisfied.

Things like physical constitutions indeed possess all kinds of characteristics.

If what Lu Runping possessed was a secret technique, they would certainly be on guard; although as a righteous sect they would not kill him outright, they would absolutely place him under surveillance to prevent him from spreading the secret technique, as otherwise, it would be a very bad thing for the Qingyang Immortal Sect.

Of course, in the current situation, they would not easily let Lu Runping leave either.

Lu Runping was truly in no rush to leave.

After sparring with Tong Enlin and the others for a few days, Lu Runping felt that his control over his own power had reached the level it should be.

Next was to focus on cultivating his divine soul, with the goal of digesting the Transformation Spirit Realm demon medicine within his body in a year's time, and then, with the help of this energy, breaking through to the Transformation Spirit Realm in one go.

Among the legacies left by the Ancestor, the most complete cultivation path was a heritage technique called the Shenzhao Heavenly Scripture, which could be cultivated to the perfection of the Dao Integration Realm.

Lu Runping was currently cultivating this technique, and its method for tempering the primordial spirit was very exquisite; it involved drawing upon Sun True Fire to refine the spirit, which could itself be cultivated as a defensive skill.

Sun True Fire could refine the spirit, and it could also harm others.

The characteristic of this cultivation process was that it consumed a great deal of Divine Soul Power, and if one were the least bit careless, one would injure oneself.

However, Lu Runping possessed the 【Soul-Bewitching Soul-Snatching】 Supernatural Power; he only needed to walk through a group of cultivators to snatch a large amount of Divine Soul Power for replenishment, and coupled with the ability to nourish his divine soul using the 【Spring Breeze Turns to Rain】 Supernatural Power, he could boldly cultivate using this method.

In the blink of an eye, three months passed.