Chapter 646: Innate Chaos Sword Body Dao Embryo: The Xu Family’s Old Ancestor’s Plot!

Although Lu Changsheng planned to take Nangong Mili and her child back with him,

the situation with the Five Poisons Sect Master was still unstable, so it wasn’t appropriate for him to leave just yet.

Moreover, he had promised to teach her the ‘Ten Thousand Calamities Toxic Spirit Codex,’ and Lu Changsheng was never one to go back on his word.

If Ah Youduo were to switch to cultivating the ‘Ten Thousand Calamities Toxic Spirit Codex,’ not only would her combat abilities rise to a new level, but Lu Changsheng would also have more control over her.

After all, this technique from his system was something only he possessed.

Once the Five Poisons Sect Master switched to this cultivation method, the accompanying secret techniques, artifact blueprints, and subsequent skills would all be in Lu Changsheng’s hands.

Thus, in the days that followed, Lu Changsheng spent his time shuttling between Nangong Mili’s Heavenly Spider Peak and Ah Youduo’s Five Saints Hall.

On odd days, he would teach and guide his son, Lu Minghuang, in cultivation, fostering their father-son bond, or help Nangong Mili nurture her Gold Core. On even days, he would instruct Ah Youduo in the ‘Ten Thousand Calamities Toxic Spirit Codex.’

As a Nascent Soul Grandmaster and sect leader, Ah Youduo’s talent and comprehension were naturally outstanding.

In fact, while teaching her, Lu Changsheng himself gained a few insights.

During this process, Lu Changsheng learned that the Five Poisons Sect Master’s spiritual body was known as the ‘Phantom Poison Body.’

However, the secret art she practiced had transformed it into an acquired spiritual body known as the ‘Gu Poison Body.’

“Gu Poison Body, huh?”

Lu Changsheng was rather curious about the potential child he might one day have with Ah Youduo, this Nascent Soul Grandmaster.

However, given Ah Youduo’s current situation, with enemies lurking all around, it wasn’t the right time for her to get pregnant.

Otherwise, if he brought it up, she might actually agree.

“If the Da Luo Sword Embryo can nurture a Sword Dao Body, and the child also possesses another spiritual body, would it affect the formation of the Sword Dao Body? Could it become something new, like a Sword-Gu Dao Body? Or perhaps… an Innate Chaos Sword Body Dao Embryo?”

Lu Changsheng’s thoughts drifted back to the Da Luo Sword Embryo in his possession.

The main ability of this sword embryo wasn’t its offensive power but its potential to nurture a Sword Dao Body! With a Nascent Soul grandmaster like the Five Poisons Sect Master, Lu Changsheng could use her to create a child with a spiritual body beyond compare!

However, his current ability to contend with Nascent Soul cultivators was entirely due to this Innate Sword Embryo.

If he were to give the sword embryo to Ah Youduo to cultivate a Sword Dao Body, his strength would drop significantly.

Besides, she hadn’t fully surrendered to him yet. Handing over this rare treasure to her didn’t sit well with Lu Changsheng.

If she were to refine the sword embryo and use its essence to sever the intangible ties of the Seven Calamities Love Gu, he’d lose both the treasure and control over her.

A month and a half later, Lu Changsheng passed on the complete Foundation Establishment and Nascent Soul chapters of the ‘Ten Thousand Calamities Toxic Spirit Codex’ to Ah Youduo, before quietly leaving the Five Poisons Sect with Nangong Mili and Lu Minghuang.

However, considering the state of the Five Poisons Sect, he gave Ah Youduo a jade talisman, saying she could contact him if an emergency arose.

Before he left, Lu Changsheng remembered Ling Zixiao, Meng Xiaochan’s artifact, and his daughter Lu Mengchan’s cultivation. Together with Ah Youduo, they visited the Five Poisons Sect’s treasure vault.

The sect didn’t have many items like Condensing Crystal Pills or Nascent Soul materials, and the few Nascent Soul-level items they did possess weren’t particularly suited for Lu Changsheng, so he didn’t ask for them. He only picked some alchemy and artifact refining materials he needed.

The only notable find was a fourth-rank Earth Dragon Heart.

Although the Earth Dragon Heart wasn’t as valuable as a monster core, as the heart of a fourth-rank Earth Dragon, it still held immense nutritional value. Lu Changsheng planned to gift it to the Abyssal Sea Whale King to help it ascend to the next rank.

After all, he was now at the ninth layer of Core Formation and needed to start thinking about his Nascent Soul transformation.

But right now, he had no leads on Nascent Soul materials or the Huaying Pill.

So, the Starry Sea expedition was a must.

Moreover, with him now involved in Nascent Soul-level conflicts, relying on just himself and Ah Youduo wouldn’t be enough. He needed more Nascent Soul-level allies! As Lu Changsheng led Nangong Mili and her son across the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, heading back to the Jiang Kingdom,

news about the Talisman Lu Family sent shockwaves through the Luoxia Sect’s territory.

The Wang Family of Five Elements had lost their old ancestor. Their attempt to break through to Core Formation failed, and now they were being hunted by Master Huang Yuan, settling old scores with them as everyone else piled on.

Amidst this chaos, Wang Yanjing, one of the Wang family’s former Core Formation prospects, had married Changsheng Zhenren’s son and sought the Talisman Lu Family’s help.

However, neither Changsheng Zhenren nor the newly ascended Core Formation Lu Miaoge made a move. Insteaa, they sent their son, along with the family’s spirit beast, to handle the situation.

No one expected that the Talisman Lu Family didn’t just have Lu Changsheng and Lu Miaoge as Core Formation ccltivators but had also quietly raised a third-rank spirit beast! When the couple arrived with the Lu Family’s spirit beast, the Nine Nether Mastiff, to the Five Elements Mountain to resolve the siege, Master Huang Yuan proposed a wager.

If they wanted to take the Wang family’s cultivators away, they could—after the Lu Family’s spirit beast fought his spirit beast, the Yellow Sand Stone Ape.

If the Lu Family’s spirit beast won, the Wang family’s cultivators could leave.

If the Lu Family’s spirit beast lost, they would still give the Talisman Lu Family some face and allow them to take only Wang Yanjing’s direct relatives.

Once the fight began, however, the Yellow Sand Stone Ape was immediately at a disadvantage, its aura suppressed by the Nine Nether Mastiff. In just ten moves, the Yellow Sand Stone Ape was already losing ground.

The crowd watching was stunned.

No one expected the Lu Family’s third-rank spirit beast to be so powerful!

Though the Lu Family’s son quickly called for a halt, claiming it was just a friendly spar and that he didn’t want to risk his spirit beast getting out of control without his father present, ending the match in a draw, everyone knew the truth. This was a terrifying beast with heavenly-tier bloodline, unparalleled in battle.

“Although rumors say that Changsheng Zhenren’s combat abilities are average and he relies entirely on talismans, back when he was in Foundation Establishment, he was already a formidable fighter, able to take on multiple opponents at once. Now, with both him and his wife, Lu Miaoge, having reached Corr Formation, along with this spirit beast, no one at their level can stand against them.”

“Exactly. It’s said that the City Lord of the Immortal City of Da Mengze invited him to become the City Lord precisely because of his dual cultivation techniques with his wife. Together, they might even be able to fight mid-stage Core Formation cultivators!”

“The Lu Ancestor has a son named Lu Chensha. Back at the Purple Nether Secret Realm, he commanded second-rank beasts while still in Qi Refining and wiped out the Shen family’s disciples. This shows that the Lu Family has mastered some top-tier beast-taming techniques!”

“The Lu Family may seem like a recent rising star with little foundation, but their performance has been nothing short of terrifying!”

“Indeed. And then there’s Lu Ping’an, the eldest son of the Lu Family. During the Purple Nether Secret Realm, he used his body cultivation and Dao Soldiers to directly repel the Shen family’s top disciple, Shangguan Jiuyang. He’s been silent for years, but who knows—he might’ve already broken through to Core Formation and is just lying low.”

While Lu Xingchen and Wang Yanjing’s journey with the Nine Nether Mastiff to the Wang Family of Five Elements didn’t draw much attention to them personally,

all eyes were on the Talisman Lu Family.

After all, the world was full of heroes, and over the past few decades, the Talisman Lu Family had undoubtedly produced one of the Jiang Kingdom’s brightest stars in the form of Lu Changsheng.

Born as a son-in-law, in less than a hundred years, he had built the Talisman Lu Family from the ground up! Not only had he broken through to Core Formation himself, but he had also married the Azure Cloud Sect’s Xiao Xiyue and helped his wife, Lu Miaoge, do the same..

Such achievements were nothing short of legendary! Now, the family even had a third-rank spirit beast to guard their clan.

After this incident, many cultivators believed that the Talisman Lu Family was now the top cultivation family in the Jiang Kingdom.

Although the Beast Taming Xu Family possessed three third-rank spirit beasts and had an ancient foundation with their Water Serpent Dao Soldiers and Fire Crow Dao Soldiers, the rise of the Lu Family was too rapid and fierce.

Many thought it was only a matter of time before the Lu Family surpassed the Beast Taming Xu Family, and perhaps they were already on the verge of a clash! Meanwhile, at the Beast Taming Xu Family,

news of the Lu Family’s third-rank spirit beast had immediately reached the Xu Family’s upper echelons.

Several Core Formation cultivators from the Xu Family had been present at the battle on the Five Elements Mountain and had witnessed the Nine Nether Mastiff’s ferocity firsthand.

“A spirit beast with heavenly-tier bloodlines… According to the records, this Nine Nether Mastiff was picked up by Lu Changsheng while he was still living as a son-in-law at Qingzhu Mountain. How is it that in less than a hundred years, it has already reached the third rank?”

“Unless they used some secret technique to accelerate its growth, this kind of rapid advancement is impossible. But this mastiff doesn’t seem like it was artificially nurtured at all!”

“Exactly. No matter how advanced the beast-taming techniques are, it shouldn’t be possible to raise a spirit beast to the third rank so quickly. Besides, just fifty or sixty years ago, that mastiff was barely at the second rank.”

The existence of the Nine Nether Mastiff was no secret, and many were aware of it.

But looking at the beast’s growth trajectory, the Xu Family’s higher-ups were completely baffled.

Outside of the Beast Spirit Sect, they prided themselves on being the foremost experts in beast taming.

But the more they analyzed the situation, the more confused they became, finding it unbelievable.

After much discussion, the Xu Family’s upper echelons decided to report this information to their old ancestor.

“The Nine Nether Mastiff,”

the Xu Family’s Old Ancestor murmured as he looked at the report in his hands. His eyes glowed with strands of golden light, exuding a majestic and intimidating aura.

As a Core Formation ancestor of the Beast Taming Xu Family, the moment he saw this information, he came to several conclusions.

First, the Lu Family must have access to some kind of top-tier beast-taming inheritance! That would explain their Dao Soldiers and the beast-taming prodigy, Lu Chensha.

Second, this Nine Nether Mastiff was likely a result of bloodline regression or mutation.

It couldn’t possibly be an ordinary spirit beast with heavenly-tier bloodlines! Third, Lu Changsheng himself was suspicious!

During the Frontier Wars, he had encountered Lu Changsheng a few times.

Through his life-bound spirit beast, the Earth Dragon Beast, and the family’s third-rank Black Tortoise, he had sensed that Lu Changsheng wasn’t as simple as he appeared. There was even a faint sense of danger radiating from him.

Although he couldn’t pinpoint the exact reason, the fact that, in under a hundred years, Lu Changsheng had single-handedly built the Talisman Lu Family spoke volumes.

This was why he had stayed low-profile all these years, avoiding troubling the Lu Family.

Now, with the emergence of the Nine Nether Mastiff, he was even more certain that there was something unusual about Lu Changsheng. He had likely fed the beast some top-tier, bloodline-compatible heavenly treasures!

Only then could the spirit beast have advanced to the third rank in such a short time! The only thing he couldn’t figure out was why such a savage beast was so obedient and loyal. Lu Changsheng and Lu Miaoge hadn’t even gone thhmselves but had simply sent one of their Foundation Establishment sons to bring it along.

In comparison, the Xu Family’s guardian beasts required years of nurturing and bonding from a young age to be truly loyal. Only he, as a Core Formation ancestor, could command them.

Yet, something about the Lu Family’s spirit beast seemed off.

“The Talisman Lu Family, Lu Changsheng…”

The Xu Family’s Old Ancestor stared at the jade slip in his hand, lost in thought, his eyes filled with caution.

Although the Talisman Lu Family seemed to live in seclusion and didn’t appear to be their enemy, both families were under the jurisdiction of the Azure Cloud Sect, so the Xu Family couldn’t afford to be careless.

As he reflected on the situation, he recalled some events from years past.

For instance, Xu Ge had been sent to ambush Lu Changsheng, only to mysteriously die outside without a trace.

At that moment, the Old Ancestor seemed to realize something. His eyes suddenly shone with a dragon-like brilliance, exuding an aura of majesty and dominance.

“The Holy Maiden of Beast God Mountain possesses a bloodline-regressed Holy Moon Wolf!”

“I’ve heard that this Holy Maiden has been purchasing heavenly treasures to help her Holy Moon Wolf grow.”

“The Lu Family’s Nine Nether Mastiff bears some resemblance to the Holy Moon Wolf. It’s very likely a similar bloodline regression. With it advancing to the third rank in under a hundred years, the Holy Maiden might be interested!”

The Xu Family’s Old Ancestor suddenly thought of a plan to divert the trouble onto someone else, essentially using a borrowed knife to kill.

As the Holy Maiden of Beast God Mountain, a Nascent Soul seed, and a dominant figure in the Liang Kingdom, her power, combat ability, and influence were all things the Xu Family could only look up to!

If the Holy Maiden developed an interest in the Nine Nether Mastiff, she could easily take it away with a flick of her wrist. In fact, with just a thought, she could wipe out the entire Lu Family.

Even if he couldn’t directly contact the Holy Maiden, nor could he easily send word to her, there were countless admirers of someone of her stature. If any of them caught wind of this information and believed it could help the Holy Moon Wolf advance, they’d surely infiltrate the Jiang Kingdom.

“Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!”

The Xu Family’s Old Ancestor felt as though the clouds had lifted, and everything seemed clear.

As he continued to study the image of the Nine Nether Mastiff in the jade slip, he couldn’t help but marvel, “It’s uncanny, the resemblance!”

Previously, he had only thought they looked somewhat alike.

But now, with this new perspective, he was convinced that the Nine Nether Mastiff and the Holy Moon Wolf were practically identical.

Just by appearance alone, it could attract the Holy Maiden’s attention.

After some thought, the Xu Family’s Old Ancestor called over a trusted elder and handed him a jade slip, instructing, “Xiao Jiu, take this message to the Heavenly Capital. See that it reaches Beast God Mountain, preferably into the Holy Maiden’s or one of her admirers’ hands.”

He didn’t embellish the information about the Nine Nether Mastiff too much.

After all, top-tier information channels could verify this kind of thing.

But he did add some exclusive details, speculations, and emphasized that the Lu Family held a top-tier beast-taming inheritance and the bloodline treasures necessary to nurture the Holy Moon Wolf.

As time passed, news of the Nine Nether Mastiff spread from the Luoxia Sect’s territory to the Azure Cloud Sect’s domain and even to the entire Jiang Kingdom’s cultivation world.

Countless people discussed the matter, raising the prestige of the Talisman Lu Family another notch.

By now, most of the families and powers under the Azure Cloud Sect had become desensitized to news about the Lu Family.

After all, the Talisman Lu Family, with both Lu Changsheng and Lu Miaoge as Core Formation ccltivators, was already beyond their reach.

Now, with the addition of a third-rank clan protector spirit beast, all they could do was look up in awe and respect.

It was the Core Formation-level powers of the Jiang Kingdom that started paying more attention to the Lu Family, like the Beast Spirit Sect and the Azure Cloud Sect.

The Beast Spirit Sect, as one of the Four Great Immortal Sects, wasn’t interested in stealing the spirit beast.

But as a beast-taming faction, hearing about the Nine Nether Mastiff naturally piqued their curiosity. They wanted to know how Lu Changsheng had managed to raise a third-rank spirit beast in just a hundred years!

As for the Azure Cloud Sect, they were simply concerned that the Talisman Lu Family was growing too fast.

If this continued, the Lu Family’s strength might even surpass the Beast Taming Xu Family.

In fact, the Azure Cloud Sect’s Sect Leader was already starting to regret agreeing to the marriage between Lu Changsheng and Xiao Xiyue in the first place.

Meanwhile, in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range of the Yue Kingdom,

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

Seven flying swords circled in the air, forming eighty-one beams of sword light that intertwined in a dazzling array, emitting seven-colored Gengjin Sword Qi. The lights filled the sky, trapping a third-rank Lion King within.

The Lion King roared, its body covered in wounds, unable to resist as the flying swords carved deep, bloody gashes into its flesh.

After a long time, from outside the sword formation, a young man with sword-like eyebrows and a tall, imposing stance summoned his sword, which gleamed with the brilliance of countless stars, like a river of light descending from the heavens.

“Slash!”

The third-rank Lion King let out a final wail as its life force was snuffed out, its blood pouring out.

“Not bad. A third-rank demon king, slain with a snap of the fingers!”

Lu Qingshan, holding the Zhoutian Xingdou Sword, raised an eyebrow, his expression calm, but his presence brimming with sharpness. He seemed satisfied with his performance.

“Though its quality isn’t the best, it’ll do. After all, if the quality were too high, others might be able to gauge my strength from the body of this Flame Steel Lion.”

After inspecting the Lion King for a moment, Lu Qingshan tossed out a freezing talisman, sealing the lion’s body in ice before storing it in his spirit beast pouch. He then rode his sword light and flew toward the Jiang Kingdom.

He had broken through to Core Formation five years ago and had now mastered several divine abilities. He was ready to make a name for himself, but with the Liang Kingdom and Yue Kingdom currently in a truce,

he thought it would be a good time to return home to visit his sister, Lu Qingzhu, and perhaps borrow his father’s sword embryo to further temper himself.

But returning home empty-handed after breaking through to Core Formation didn’t feel right.

After some thought, Lu Qingshan decided to head to the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range to test his strength and slay a demon king to bring home as a gift.

After all, what’s the point of wealth if you can’t flaunt it? Bringing home a third-rank demon king as a gift would say everything about his breakthrough to Core Formation.

This third-rank demon king would speak for itself!

I, Lu Qingshan, the unrivaled genius of the Lu Family, hailed as the most monstrous talent in the Golden Sun Sect in a thousand years, have successfully broken through to Core Formation at just seventy-nine years old. With my divine abilities taking shape, I can now effortlessly slay third-rank demon kings! The future of the Yue Kingdom’s sword cultivation lies in my hands!