Chapter 70: Chapter 70 Demon Cultivation, Thousand Corpses Array

The Lu Family’s resources are insufficient to nurture a Purple Mansion Cultivator.

Relying on farming, raising spirit beasts, refining elixirs, and so on, the annual income barely remains balanced. Proceeding further seems almost impossible.

The best course is to venture outside to seek various opportunities.

Staying at home, there’s naturally no such thing as fortuitous encounters.

But by wandering outside, one might stumble upon fortuitous encounters and great opportunities.

The Grand Elder said, “Which of those Golden Core Ancestors hasn’t had great encounters and fortune? Those with bad luck couldn’t become Golden Core Cultivators. In this world of cultivators, there are countless individuals, but relying only on farming and arduous cultivation, none have achieved the Golden Core.”

Feeling somewhat reluctant and apprehensive, the Grand Elder still agreed.

Before departing, the Grand Elder reminded about precautions outside and took out a storage bag with five thousand spirit stones inside.

“Grand Elder, this is too much money!”

Holding the bag, Lu Xuanji felt a bit embarrassed.

“It’s not much, only this little!” The Grand Elder reminded, “The spiritual qi outside is thin, to not delay cultivation, you can use spirit stones to cultivate to avoid slowing down. Be careful outside, if you can kill Zhao Wuji, that would be best, if not, it doesn’t matter.”

“If feasible, you may contact Lu Yanping, Lu Xiuxin, and others! They are the Lu Family’s hidden hands outside, handling some grey matters.”

Lastly, the Grand Elder talked about some of the Lu Family’s secret affairs.

Some family disciples of the Lu Family, when committing grave mistakes and being expelled from the family, establish bases in some marketplaces or small spiritual mountains to handle some grey matters for the Lu Family. The Lu Family fears the rules of the Dan Yang Sect and can’t do certain things.

But those expelled disciples can do these things.

Even if discovered, the Lu Family can wash its hands off it.

These are the affairs done by the expelled family disciples, unrelated to the Lu Family.

These expelled family disciples are also the Lu Family’s last resort.

When the Lu Family faces a strong enemy and can’t even guard the mountain gate, these expelled family disciples might become the only chance for the Lu Family’s revival.

“Those three were expelled from the family by Lu Fuping Ancestor, partly because their deeds were significant and the ancestor couldn’t shelter them; partly because Lu Fuping Ancestor sensed some families harbored ill intentions towards the Lu Family, leading snakes out of their lairs and preemptively eliminating some enemies, but they still failed!”

Saying this, the Grand Elder sighed as he spoke of past events.

In places unseen by many, there are thrilling and dangerous gambles.

Before the fall of Lu Fuming Ancestor, a price was paid; communications and exchanges of interests happened with the Ye Family, Wu Family, and others, securing certain care for the Lu Family;

There were also many attempts to lure hidden enemies into action, removing hidden threats for the Lu Family, killing seven or eight Foundation Establishment Cultivators, but regrettably, Yan Yang Ancestor was too cautious and never showed up.

They even expelled three Foundation Establishment Cultivators, preparing for the worst.

Before falling, Lu Fuming Ancestor did a lot, but unfortunately, plans often fall short of perfection,

The Lu Family still encountered an attack from Yan Yang Ancestor and was nearly annihilated.

…

After preparing some things, Lu Xuanji and Ye Feixue silently left Changyuan Mountain, setting off into the distance.

Inside there were tokens, which could connect with Lu Yanping, Lu Xiuxin, and the two Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

But after pondering for a moment, Lu Xuanji gave up because they were unreliable.

First, they arrived at the red copper mine, where dozens of Qi Cultivation Cultivators once stationed here to mine the vein, contributing fifteen hundred spirit stones to the Lu Family annually, an important source of income for the Lu Family. But after being raided by robbery cultivators, this vein suffered violent extraction, and the tunnels were blasted and collapsed, making it unminable.

Dozens of cultivators from the Lu Family bled to death here.

Now, it had become calm.

The culprits, having plundered here, likely fled without a trace. They wouldn’t foolishly remain in the vicinity.

Chu Country is too vast, the world too expansive, as long as the culprits strike once and flee thousands of miles away, or simply hide their tracks in the mountains, there’s no possibility of pursuit.

Leaving here, the two began to patrol the Lu Family’s territory.

The Lu Family’s influence shrank, controlling fewer than a hundred thousand people in Dan Yang County. The decrease in population means a reduction in the birth of new cultivators.

Ten days later, they arrived at a town controlled by the Lu Family. Approaching the town, they suddenly smelled blood; drawing closer, they saw three corpses on the ground.

Approaching this town, a sense of death pervaded immediately.

The town, with approximately three thousand people, had been slaughtered completely, corpses strewn all over the ground.

Several black-armored soldiers also lay on the ground, apparently dying in battle. The scene was somewhat tragic, somewhat terrifying.

They were the Lu Family’s Black Armor Guard, a military force composed of martial artists, responsible for patrolling and maintaining order in the county towns and some small towns.

“Demon Cultivators are causing chaos!”

A flash of killing intent crossed Lu Xuanji’s eyes.

Demon Cultivators lack resources, enjoy slaughtering mortals, pursuing rapid achievement.

In the White Bone Demon Scripture, a demonic secret technique is recorded; by slaughtering ten thousand mortals, a Qi Cultivation Cultivator can step into the Foundation Establishment stage within three years.

Such speed surpasses even Celestial Spirit Roots by ten times or more.

Walking into the town center, they saw an ancient altar set up, atop which was a white bone banner. Skulls were depicted on the black flag, with streams of cold and evil qi spreading, a radius of hundreds of meters filled with Yin Sha Qi. Though it was daytime, sunny skies, this place was chilling cold.

Around the altar, the skeletal remains of countless mortals were scattered, white bones piled like mountains.

On top of the altar stood an elder in black robes, wrinkled face, frail and old, yet exuding terrifying evil qi.

Wuwuwu!

The white bone demon banner swayed, over a thousand mortal souls struggling, roaring, full of resentment, dying unwillingly, venting their resentful qi towards heaven.

“You Lu Family came a bit late; this old man has been waiting here for a day, and you just arrived, a bit slow!” the elder snorted coldly with some disdain, “That old undying one didn’t come. Today this small town will be your burial ground. I plan to use the blood and flesh of two Foundation Establishment Cultivators to blood sacrifice the white bone banner!”

“Thousand Corpses Array, arise!”

Rumble rumble rumble!

In an instant, the altar disappeared.

At this moment, endless fog rose up, gray mist enveloping the town, even the sun in the sky was obscured, misty corpse fog began to erode the surroundings.

“Be careful, this is the Thousand Corpses Array, laid upon thousands of mortal corpses as the foundation. The mist from the array carries corpse poison, silently eroding a cultivator’s true essence, be cautious!” Lu Xuanji reminded, immediately taking out an antitoxic pill and placing it in his mouth.

He then handed another to Ye Feixue, who took it and also placed it in her mouth.

In the White Bone Demon Scripture, it’s recorded that the Thousand Corpses Array, when operated to the extreme, can kill Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

The more the number of corpses, the more powerful the array is.

There were demonic cultivators who used a hundred thousand corpses as the foundation to lay an Annihilation Array, killing Golden Core Cultivators.