: Doing It While It's Going By

It should be understood that one's natal magic weapon is connected to the cultivator's primordial spirit and blood essence, and the cultivation of life and nature is intertwined; it is a tool for extending the Great Dao.

Countless hours and efforts were devoted to its refinement from the very beginning, and its growth is closely related to the cultivator's advancement in realm, like a symbiotic tree.

The destruction of a cultivator's natal magic weapon will not only greatly reduce their combat power, but will also require them to spend decades more to break through to the mid-stage or even late-stage Core Formation realm in the future.

Spiritual practice is like rowing against the current.

If you fall behind even one step, your progress may stagnate.

In addition, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is scarce, and the lifespan of cultivators is limited.

Once one suffers a severe blow or damages their very essence in a struggle, it often means the end of their path.

At best, one's cultivation level will be difficult to advance any further, leaving one with no choice but to wait for death, exhausting one's lifespan and passing away peacefully.

Or they could abandon their physical body and find a suitable body to possess.

For this reason, cultivators in the Tiannan region rarely get into life-or-death situations unless they are forced to or it concerns their own core interests.

Those who reach a higher level of spiritual attainment deeply understand the difficulty of cultivation and the preciousness of lifespan, thus cherishing their lives more and understanding how to seek advantage and avoid harm.

The most typical example is Linghu Laoguai, the only Nascent Soul stage cultivator in Huangfeng Valley.

When the two men, barely managing to suppress their injuries, returned in a disheveled state.

Then I saw the two fellow Daoists, Red Powder and Skull, in such a miserable and wretched state that it was truly astonishing.

The power of that lightning spell was immense, and its elemental advantage was terrifying.

As a physical cultivator, the skeleton was able to rely on its powerful physique to withstand the lightning and barely manage to withstand most of the head-on impact.

The cultivation techniques practiced by the alluring woman were naturally restrained by the extremely yang and powerful Five Thunder Orthodox Method.

If she hadn't risked exhausting her energy in an instant and used her trump card to defend herself, she might have been "dismembered" on the spot.

Now, the two of them can't even fly. Standing on the rocks, they support each other, and their bodies occasionally emit a series of fine blue-white lightning bolts.

Even so, amidst the raging aftershocks, a third of the Ghost Spirit Sect Foundation Establishment cultivators guarding the carriage were instantly reduced to charred ashes, without even uttering a scream.

The adjacent cliffs seemed to have been scorched by an invisible giant net, with scorched black ravines crisscrossing and embedded in the mountain, forming a chessboard imprint.

Wang Chan's enormous carriage remained unharmed.

This was all thanks to the two Core Formation cultivators, Red Powder and Skeleton, who fought desperately to protect the area and withstand the terrifying lightning net.

Otherwise, apart from the two mid-stage Core Formation cultivators who might survive by chance, all the Foundation Establishment cultivators and their followers around the chariot would surely be annihilated without exception.

"Damn it!"

Upon learning that Yan Ruyan had been kidnapped, Wang Chan was filled with shock and anger, and roared furiously.

He roared, "Investigate! Dig three feet into the ground and find out who this person is! I want to see who dares to be an enemy of my Ghost Spirit Sect!"

In the corner, Yan Zhi stood frozen, lost in thought.

She wasn't terrified, but rather shocked by her sister Yan Ruyan's abduction.

Although the Yan Family Fortress was merged into the Ghost Spirit Sect, the fact that the family was able to maintain a certain status and voice within the sect was largely due to the elder sister, Yan Ruyan.

If Yan Ruyan were to disappear... she would lose this irreplaceable value.

In the eyes of the Ghost Spirit Sect, how were these members of the Yan family any different from ordinary cultivators who joined their sect?

At that time, wouldn't all the special rights that Yan Ruyan enjoyed... vanish in an instant?

Not to mention that he is sitting safely on this carriage now, in the future he will probably only be able to follow the flying artifacts at the end of the procession like an ordinary disciple!

On the other side, Lu Jianghe gripped the back of their collars as if they were carrying two insignificant objects, and flew through the air.

Although Yan Ruyan felt a little ashamed, her thoughts were complicated. She was secretly glad to be free from Wang Chan's control, but she also felt helpless about her situation. So she could not say that she was resisting.

After all, the power displayed by the other party and this sudden change made her choose to comply for the time being.

Nangong Wan was both surprised and angry, and felt a mixture of shame and indignation.

A dignified cultivator at the mid-stage of Core Formation, an elder of the Hidden Moon Sect, was treated so rudely by a stranger; it was a great loss of face...

Moreover, the surging spiritual energy emanating from this person enveloped the two of them invisibly. Although he was only holding them by hand, that invisible force had already bound them.

The two women exchanged a glance.

Each of them wore a strange, indescribable expression.

Was the other person there to rescue someone, or was it for her sake?

It seems to be for Senior Nangong, right?

Yan Ruyan thought to herself.

Nangong Wan was being held by the collar, her posture was extremely awkward, and coupled with the fact that her true energy was exhausted and she was unable to break free, she felt even more ashamed and angry.

She forced a facade of cool authority, her voice coming through the veil, "Please, sir, put me down!"

Lu Jianghe turned a deaf ear.

He didn't take the two of them too far. With a turn of his escape light, he headed straight for the spirit stone mine where the ancient teleportation array was located.

Do a good deed to the end, and do someone a favor.

Lu Jianghe remained calm.

This is exactly what Han Li has been longing for.

It would be better to let Nangong Wan go see him in person.

As for the woman with the Heavenly Spirit Root from Yan Family Fortress, whom he was carrying in his left hand...

Lu Jianghe's thoughts stirred slightly. This woman was exceptionally talented, and her character did not seem to be that of a truly wicked person. Keeping her in the demonic path would be a waste.

Although Xin Ruyin has a high talent for array formations, she is ultimately a bit lonely on her path of cultivation.

Both were from Tiannan and were of similar age. One was an expert in array formations, while the other was exceptionally talented. It would be suitable to take them back so they could keep each other company.

It was purely on a whim, done on a whim.

Seeing that the other party remained silent, Nangong Wan's heart sank slightly, and her delicate eyebrows furrowed.

The situation is no better than it was before.

He remains the butcher, and I the fish on the chopping block.

The relief Yan Ruyan felt from escaping the Ghost Spirit Sect melted away as quickly as thin ice in early spring.

She suddenly realized that she was in an unknown situation.

They were controlled by a stranger whose strength was unfathomable and whose actions were unpredictable.

This unknown is far more burdensome than when facing Wang Chan at the Ghost Spirit Gate.

She knew of a secret dual cultivation technique called the Mysterious Moon Absorption of Yin Technique.

Men who practice this technique can forcibly extract the primordial yin energy from a woman's body through a special dual cultivation method, thereby plundering her essence.

This kind of plunder is extremely cruel and domineering towards women. At best, it will cause their cultivation to plummet; at worst, it will deplete their vital essence, sever their life force, and turn them into a furnace.

Generally speaking, once a female cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage becomes the target of a technique, her cultivation and foundation will be almost completely drained after being drained two or three times.

The man who performs the technique can use the pure primordial yin energy he has plundered to forcefully break through his own bottleneck and improve his cultivation.

Yan Ruyan knew she was quite beautiful.

There is a little-known truth in the world of cultivation.

Beautiful women, without formidable strength or the protection of a sect, are easily reduced to vassals or even furnaces of high-level cultivators.