Chapter 71: [Shengling Lineage, Plotting to Seize Treasures] (First update, please follow)

Killing a Golden Core cultivator is not a difficult matter for him.

But what he has to consider is not just the killer promotion mission, but also the influence, consequences, and benefits it might bring to himself.

Therefore, after some selection, he chose 【Kill Jiang Liuyun, the Ninth Son of the Seventh Young Master of the Shengling Lineage of the Tianling Sect】.

The Tianling Sect has three main lineages, which are the Shengling Lineage, the Gu-ling Lineage, and the Artifact Spirit Lineage.

The latter two are self-explanatory and easy to understand.

Gu-ling is refining Gu insects, and Artifact Spirit is cultivating dharma treasures with intelligence.

And the Shengling Lineage is cultivating spirit bodies similar to ghosts.

Ghosts are yin objects.

They cannot be exposed to sunlight, but after special secret techniques or specific environmental transformation, they can become spirit bodies.

Spirit bodies have commonalities with a cultivator's primordial spirit.

They do not fear sunlight, absorb Spirit Qi to cultivate, can call upon Spirit Qi to cast spells, and are almost immune to physical damage.

But they also have a fatal weakness, which is that they have almost no resistance to soul attacks.

A cultivator, due to the obstruction of the flesh, will have the power of soul attacks weakened, but spirit bodies have no obstruction.

A Golden Core Realm spirit body, even a Foundation Establishment Realm soul attack can hurt the other party.

But a powerful spirit body also has many benefits, and the Shengling Lineage also has methods specifically for using spirit bodies to assist in cultivation; in any case, it must have its unique features.

Since it is a promotion mission, this mission has no reward.

Although his purpose is for promotion, he doesn't want to take such a risk for nothing.

He must get enough benefits.

The Tianling Sect is very large and is the ninth sect force in the Beihuang Region; each of the three main lineages has a Transformation Spirit True Monarch sitting in town, and the three take turns sitting in the position of Sect Master, rotating once every hundred years.

Currently, it is the Shengling Lineage that is in charge of sect affairs, and it has only been twenty years since it started.

The mission time limit to kill Jiang Liuyun is half a year, so there is no rush; Lu Chengtong first used the 【Circular Light Manifestation】 supernatural ability to check information about Jiang Liuyun for a full month.

Tianling Sect, the so-called "Young Master" is a position; the three main lineages each have a Lineage Master, and the Lineage Master is at least a Nascent Soul Realm cultivation; now the Lineage Masters of the three lineages are all mid-stage Nascent Soul Realm.

Below the Lineage Master are the Young Masters.

To become a Young Master, one needs the identity of a direct blood relative, and the second condition is to reach the mid-stage of the Golden Core Realm cultivation.

The Seventh Young Master of the Shengling Lineage is named Jiang Junhe, and he has over a dozen children, among whom the one with the best talent is Jiang Liuyun, with dual Wood and Earth Spirit Roots, Earth superior and Wood medium, only seventy-two years old, formed the Golden Core last year, and is now at the First Layer of the Golden Core Realm.

After Jiang Liuyun reached the Foundation Establishment Consummation, he basically never left the Shengling Mountain, the residence of the Shengling Lineage; the Shengling Mountain has Transformation Spirit Realm True Monarchs, Nascent Soul Realm Young Masters, and numerous Golden Core Realm cultivators.

Wanting to kill someone there and then escape safely is a very difficult thing.

Of course, most assassination missions are not simple; otherwise, those who can afford this fee could take action themselves.

Having figured out Jiang Liuyun's daily itinerary, Lu Chengtong sent his clone to take action.

Arriving in the territory of the Tianling Sect, after exploring for five days, he chose a suitable replacement target.

Jiang Qiuzhi, one hundred and seventeen years old, Foundation Establishment Consummation, failed to break through four years ago and damaged his foundation, and has been recuperating.

His failure was entirely of his own making.

This person has triple Spirit Roots with superior Earth talent; the Shengling he cultivated since childhood was a three-tailed spirit fox, and when he grew up, he was a handsome man with a dignified appearance, attracting the favor of many female cultivators.

He would not refuse anyone; as long as they were not ugly, he could have a round with anyone.

Of course, with his identity, if he took a fancy to someone, he would also directly get them.

It was only after the breakthrough failed that he calmed down.

He looked very much like he had turned over a new leaf.

But according to Lu Chengtong's observation, he was actually practicing a kind of harvesting and supplementing technique in secret, in order to make up for his own foundation.

The number of young girls who died in his hands was at least eight hundred, if not a thousand.

Eliminating such a person can also be considered doing a good deed.

Lu Chengtong chose him at the beginning just because he appeared less often, and in order to practice the harvesting and supplementing technique, he even moved away from Shengling Mountain to live in the nearby Bailing City.

The clone arrived in Bailing City, found a small courtyard to live in; at night, he took out an array disk, input spiritual power to activate it, threw out eighteen medium-grade Spirit Stones, and the array started.

The next moment, Lu Chengtong's main body teleported over from Qiling City in Yuyang Prefecture.

A teleportation array is a very convenient thing; although this thing consumes a lot, it is indeed convenient and safe.

Wanting to completely replace Jiang Qiuzhi, not only does one need to refine his essence blood, but one also needs to control his Shengling.

And to do this, one needs to use the 【Bewildering Soul Seizure】 supernatural ability; the clone only possesses the 【Embryonic Transformation】 supernatural ability; according to the Treasure Mirror's information, apart from the host of the Treasure Mirror, other individuals can only fuse with one Dao Seed.

So he needs to come over to assist.

Both of them are in the Golden Core Realm, so they still have some confidence in this Bailing City.

Because he had been observing the situation around for several days, Lu Chengtong had long seen everything inside and out and very easily arrived in the underground secret room of Jiang Qiuzhi.

Jiang Qiuzhi's secret room is very strict, surrounded by special materials and forbidden arrays to isolate, soundproof, prevent Spirit Qi diffusion, and gather blood energy.

Lu Chengtong very easily captured him; Jiang Qiuzhi's Shengling rushed out and was immediately frozen by Lu Chengtong using the 【Bewildering Soul Seizure】 supernatural ability.

Memory washing, this three-tailed spirit fox Shengling was like a blank sheet of paper, sinking into sleep.

At the same time, the clone extracted several drops of Jiang Qiuzhi's essence blood, refined and absorbed it, and turned into his appearance.

After doing all this, Lu Chengtong put him into the Spirit Beast Bag and did not kill him directly.

Like disciples of such large families or large sects, they likely established Life Soul Tablets; if they died, the sect would know at the first moment.

Lu Chengtong completed the refining of Life Soul Tablets for family members five years ago, so if there is a problem, it can also be handled as early as possible to prevent causing greater trouble.

After completely absorbing Jiang Qiuzhi's memories, Lu Chengtong immediately began to take action.

First, he packed up all the wealth that Jiang Qiuzhi could mobilize and put it into his main body's storage bag.

Then, he re-controlled the three-tailed spirit fox Shengling that had turned into a blank sheet of paper overnight.

Early the next morning, he headed to Shengling Mountain.

The safest way to kill Jiang Liuyun is actually to use 【Nail-Head Seven Arrows】; Lu Chengtong thought about a lot over this month, such as using the 【Bewildering Soul Seizure】 supernatural ability to control a person, and then giving him the 【Nail-Head Seven Arrows】 supernatural ability to consume his lifespan to kill people.

This method is good, but the disadvantage is that one cannot get the other party's property.

Taking this promotion mission was not for a reward in the first place; if one cannot get anything, it would really be too much of a loss.

He painstakingly plotted to enter Shengling Mountain, not just to kill one person.

Shengling Mountain has a treasure called 'Spirit-Nurturing Stone'; this thing is the key to the production of Shengling; obtaining it, combined with secret techniques, can one manufacture Shengling.

Lu Chengtong's goal is this thing. ===== CHAPTER 72 =====