Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Under the nourishment of Chen Yuan's spiritual consciousness, the jade slip carrying the recipe of Youyun Pill was like a piece of beautiful jade covered with dirt soaked in warm water, gradually washing away the dirt, the intervals between flickering glimmers became shorter and shorter, the yellowish color on the surface slowly faded, revealing a pure white jade slip with delicate texture.

After a full hundred days, Chen Yuan had injected his spiritual consciousness into the jade slip eight times, and the jade slip finally completely changed its appearance, with a faint warm light on the surface.

When he injected his spiritual consciousness into the jade slip again, an old voice sounded in his ears: "Young man, you have devoted yourself to studying the recipe of Youyun Pill for a hundred days, and your heart is tough. All that I have passed on is hidden in Qianlang Island, you can take it yourself..."

This sentence sounded in Chen Yuan's ears once, and then disappeared. The recipe of Youyun Pill in the jade slip was also gone, leaving only a map.

This map was very rough, depicting a sea area with an island marked in the center.

Chen Yuan had seen the map of Yuqing Sea and the memory of Master Qingyou, but he could not recognize the place indicated by the map. He did not even know whether the sea area in the map was in Yuqing Sea.

The "Qianlang Island" mentioned by the old voice was the only valid information. Chen Yuan kept this name in mind, retracted his consciousness, and breathed a sigh of relief.

The continuous consumption of consciousness for a hundred days made him very tired, but fortunately, he gained something in the end and his efforts were not in vain.

There is no doubt that this jade slip of Youyun Pill recipe is the inheritance of a senior cultivator. The condition for opening the inheritance is to study the jade slip for a hundred days.

But the senior cultivator who left the jade slip was not too harsh. He did not require continuous study of the jade slip for a hundred days, leaving time for the recovery of consciousness, otherwise only the Nascent Soul cultivator could find the map in the jade slip.

But even so, this way of opening the inheritance is extremely difficult. No matter how difficult it is to refine the Youyun Pill, a master of alchemy can master it in just a few days. The time for a master of alchemy is longer, but it only takes more than ten days.

If Chen Yuan's consciousness had not been strong enough to detect the abnormality of the jade slip, it would have been impossible to find the map hidden in the jade slip.

He was quite puzzled. Why did the senior cultivator who left the jade slip choose this method?

Hiding a map and a sentence in a jade slip, even the Liandan cultivator could not detect it. It needed to be continuously injected with consciousness for a hundred days before it would reveal itself. This method was unheard of by Chen Yuan and was definitely not something that ordinary cultivators could master.

Chen Yuan thoughtfully put the jade slip into the mustard ring, closed his eyes and meditated to restore his consciousness.

Three hours later, he took out the alchemy furnace and spiritual herbs and began to refine the Youyun Pill.

He was very interested in the inheritance mentioned by the old voice, but the inheritance of the cultivator who left the map in such a secret way must not be so easy to obtain, and he also had to find the location of Qianliu Island, which could not be rushed.

The most urgent task was to refine the elixir, improve the cultivation, and have a greater chance of obtaining the inheritance.

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Compared with Fu Cen Dan and Ling Hai Dan, the difficulty of refining You Yun Dan has indeed increased a lot. Chen Yuan spent a month to successfully refine the first batch of pills, but the success rate was only about 20%, and he almost only condensed one pill when condensing the pill.

When refining the second batch of You Yun Dan, Chen Yuan accumulated a lot of experience and made fewer mistakes. Although he still only refined two pills, he was much more relaxed in the process of refining pills.

So far, the thirty-two five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs in his hand have been used up, and a total of ten pills have been refined, including two Fu Cen Dan, four Ling Hai Dan, and four You Yun Dan.

The spiritual energy of the pills in the Jindan stage is magnificent, and the pressure on the meridians is extremely great. It takes several months to refine a pill, but it can be equivalent to several years of hard practice.

The hard practice here refers to meditating and practicing in a small spiritual vein day and night. If there is no spiritual vein, it takes more than ten years of practice to be equivalent to one pill.

A Jindan cultivator needs to accumulate a large amount of true essence from the beginning of Jindan cultivation to the peak of the initial stage. It takes hundreds of years to simply absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

This is only when the cultivator has extraordinary qualifications and has spiritual veins for cultivation. For cultivators like Chen Yuan, whose qualifications are equivalent to four spiritual roots, the time will be doubled.

Moreover, after he refined Zhu Yan's true blood, his true essence was extremely pure, and he needed to absorb more spiritual energy from heaven and earth.

After Jindan, Chen Yuan deeply understood why cultivating immortals is against the will of heaven. If he does not rely on external forces, even if he is a cultivator with heavenly spiritual roots, it will be difficult to cultivate, and he will never be able to condense into a Yuanying.

This is only the Jindan stage, and qualifications can still play a big role. Cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots and earthly spiritual roots can cultivate faster, and the bottlenecks they encounter will be less difficult.

For Yuanying cultivators, because the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is too thin, qualifications have become dispensable, and it is difficult to accumulate true essence and mana by burying your head in hard work.

But it is said that in ancient times, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was extremely abundant, and cultivators did not need elixirs at all for cultivation, and there was no distinction between qualifications. There was no difference between cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots and cultivators with five spiritual roots in cultivation, and foundation-building did not require foundation-building elixirs.

But later, for some reason, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth became increasingly thinner, and cultivators gradually became divided into different qualifications. Without foundation-building elixirs, it was impossible to build a foundation, and the role of elixirs became increasingly important.

Low-level spiritual herbs were relatively common, and it was easier for low-level cultivators below the stage of forming a elixir to cultivate.

But starting from the five hundred year spiritual herbs, they became extremely rare, and most of the casual cultivators of forming a elixir stayed in the early stage of forming a elixir throughout their lives. After finally cultivating to the peak of the early stage, there was still a solid bottleneck blocking them.

Fortunately, Chen Yuan was a physical cultivator, so he did not have to worry about the bottleneck in his cultivation.

He refined the ten elixirs one by one, saving more than thirty years of hard work, and his cultivation improved a lot.

Thanks to his strong body, Chen Yuan's meridians are extremely tough. It only takes two months for him to refine a Jindan stage pill, and less than two years for him to refine all the pills.

In addition to practicing, he also refined the Golden Dragon Sword and Fengyun Bell from True Man Qingyou.

Top-grade spiritual weapons play a small role in the battles of Jindan cultivators. As long as the Jindan cultivators are not particularly poor, they will refine a life-long magic weapon.

But magic weapons also have high and low levels, just like magic weapons and spiritual weapons, they are divided into low-level, medium-level, high-level, and top-level.

Most Jindan cultivators have low-level or medium-level magic weapons. High-level and top-level magic weapons consume a lot of true essence, and only Yuanying cultivators can control them at will.

But there are also some Jindan late-stage cultivators with strong true essence who can control high-level magic weapons against the enemy.

This was the case with True Man Qing You. He had a high-level magic weapon, the Soul-Breaking Hammer, and later he took the space magic weapon, the Heaven-Breaking Cauldron, from the Heaven-Breaking Sect. This was also a high-level magic weapon, which greatly increased his strength and even enabled him to successfully escape from the pursuit of Yuanying cultivators, but the Soul-Breaking Hammer was also damaged.

Later, when he went to the secret cave of the Heaven-Breaking Sect, he encountered an ambush by several Jindan cultivators and set up a formation. He had to pay the price of the destruction of his life magic weapon before he escaped. Only four magic weapons were left in his hands: the Heaven-Breaking Cauldron, the Golden Dragon Sword, the Wind and Cloud Bell, and the Whisk.

True Man Qing You's life magic weapon was a mid-level magic weapon. After years of nurturing, it was extremely powerful. It was the destruction of this magic weapon that severely damaged True Man Qing You's soul and poisoned him, and he eventually died of his injuries.

The Heaven-Breaking Cauldron also collapsed after a thousand years, leaving only three low-level magic weapons, which were left in the mustard ring and fell into the hands of Chen Yuan and Liu Fan.

Chen Yuan's true essence was now strong, and he easily refined two magic weapons, stored them in his dantian for warming, and was able to use them in the battle.

The Golden Dragon Sword looked very extraordinary, but in fact it was only average among low-level magic weapons, and even more ordinary in Yuqing Sea.

This was taken by True Man Qingyou from a middle-stage Jindan cultivator of Ziyang Sect. The cultivator's natal magic weapon was destroyed when he died, leaving behind this Golden Dragon Sword.

Fengyun Bell was better, and it was taken from a late-stage Jindan cultivator. It was considered a top-grade magic weapon among low-level magic weapons.

The late-stage Jindan cultivator was very powerful, and his natal magic weapon had been cultivated to the middle level, and it was also destroyed when he died.

The natal magic weapon was connected to the cultivator's soul. Unless the cultivator cut off the connection himself, it could be destroyed in a thought, and it was extremely difficult to be taken away.

True Man Qingyou successively killed five Jindan cultivators of Ziyang Sect in Qi State, but did not get a single natal magic weapon.

After Chen Yuan refined the Wind and Cloud Bell and the Golden Dragon Sword, he left Hanxing Island, rode on the escape light, and flew far away.

On the way, he spread all his spiritual sense, taking all the movements within a radius of 20 miles under his control, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The spiritual sense of ordinary cultivators in the early stage of Jindan only covers a radius of 10 miles. Chen Yuan's spiritual sense is more than double theirs, and can already be on par with cultivators in the middle stage of Jindan.

When fighting with cultivators of the same level, he will have the upper hand.

Unfortunately, the water of Yuqing Sea has been nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for countless years, and it is extremely difficult for spiritual sense to penetrate. It can only explore a thousand feet into the seabed, and it is difficult to go deeper.

Chen Yuan flew hundreds of miles all the way and came to a remote sea area. He raised his hand and grabbed it, and the Golden Dragon Sword and the Wind and Cloud Bell appeared out of thin air.

After the cultivators have formed the Dan, they can store the magic weapon in the Dantian for warming, and it is also very convenient to sacrifice the magic weapon. As long as the mind moves, it can fly out of the Dantian.

"Cut!" Chen Yuan pointed his right hand, and the Golden Dragon Sword turned into a golden stream of light and shot out, as agile as a swimming dragon, leaving golden traces in the air.

Suddenly, the Golden Dragon Sword turned into a three-clawed golden dragon about ten feet long, roaring, and slashing its claws, crushing a reef into pieces, with an extremely shocking momentum.

But Chen Yuan shook his head. This Golden Dragon Sword looked very good, but it was not as sharp as a flying sword. Instead, it was mixed with the essence of a dragon, and took the path of illusion. It was neither fish nor fowl, and its power was also average.

He raised his hand and grabbed it again, and the Wind and Cloud Bell appeared out of thin air, trembling a few times. No bell sounded, but countless dead fish and shrimps floated to the surface of the sea within a thousand feet. The sea water was dyed red, attracting more than a dozen sharks, feasting in the sea.

The Wind and Cloud Bell is a magic weapon specifically for souls. It is quite rare and its power is also extraordinary. Even a Jindan cultivator cannot get any good from this magic weapon.

If not, the Fengyun Bell would not have been favored by the late Jindan cultivators of Ziyang Sect as a common magic weapon.

After all, this is just a low-level magic weapon. The late Jindan cultivators usually use mid-level magic weapons to fight against the enemy, and ordinary low-level magic weapons are simply not available.

Chen Yuan tested the power of the Fengyun Bell and was quite satisfied. He put it into his Dantian together with the Golden Dragon Sword.

The two magic weapons slowly rotated around the golden elixir, slowly absorbing the pure true essence in the sea of ​​true essence, and resonating with the soul source contained in the golden elixir, and the connection with Chen Yuan became closer and closer.

The Fengyun Bell was full of spirituality and was closer to the golden elixir. The Golden Dragon Sword was outside the Fengyun Bell, swallowing and spitting out a trace of sword energy.

Chen Yuan descended the escape light on a deserted island, stimulating Zhu Yan's true blood, trying to control the explosive power gushing from deep in his body, and realizing the mystery of Zhu Yan's true fire.

This was a very difficult process. The Zhuyan True Blood in the white ape's body was very thick, and Chen Yuan had no experience in stimulating the True Blood, so he was very embarrassed at the beginning.

After stimulating the Zhuyan True Blood, his physical strength increased again, almost comparable to that of a seventh-level monster. When he punched, he had a force of nearly one million pounds. Even though he was a physical cultivator, it took him some time to gradually adapt.

This was more difficult than when he first mastered the secret art of the giant spirit body, because stimulating Zhuyan's true blood consumed a lot of true essence, and it could only last for nearly a hundred breaths. If Zhuyan's true fire was activated, the consumption of true essence would be even more intense, and it could only last for thirty breaths.

It took Chen Yuan nearly two years to fully master Zhuyan's true blood, extending the time of stimulating true blood to more than a hundred breaths, and he could activate Zhuyan's true fire at will, greatly reducing the consumption of true essence.

At this time, nearly five years had passed since Chen Yuan successfully formed the elixir. He finally transformed all his gains into strength. If he continued to retreat, he could only absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and transform it into true essence bit by bit, which was extremely inefficient.

On this day, Chen Yuan was meditating and practicing to restore the true essence that was consumed by the starlight infusion, and the cave formation was suddenly triggered.

He stopped practicing and walked out of the cave to greet the guests. It turned out that Yuanlang and Li Luo came to visit.

In the past few years, Yuanlang and Li Luo visited Chen Yuan several times, and they had a good chat with each other, and their friendship deepened day by day.

Chen Yuan also agreed to go with them to hunt monsters in Mohai, but the two of them still needed to practice in Hanxing City for a while, and Chen Yuan also needed time to master Zhuyan's true blood, so he had not set off.

This time, the two of them came to visit, but they were going to Mohai and invited Chen Yuan to go with them.

Chen Yuan said apologetically: "I have another thing to deal with, why don't you two Taoist friends go first, at the earliest a year, at the latest several years, I will definitely go to Mohai to meet up with you two Taoist friends."

Li Luo and Yuan Lang naturally could not force Chen Yuan to hunt monsters with them, so they could only agree, agree on a meeting place, and then say goodbye and leave.

After the two left, Chen Yuan did not delay any more time. When the true essence in his body was restored, he left the cave and came to Yuchu Hall in the market of Hanxing City.

He did not show his Jindan cultivation. Liu Yuan received him and said with a smile: "Fellow Daoist Chen is a rare guest. Do you want to buy spiritual herbs again this time?"

Chen Yuan had previously bought three pill recipes at once, confirming his identity as a master of alchemy. Liu Yuan thought that he bought spiritual herbs just to make pills for sale.

Chen Yuan smiled slightly, his aura leaked out, and the pressure of a Jindan cultivator descended. He said lightly: "Is Daoist Yuhuanzi here? Chen has something to ask."

Thanks to the Godly Father for the reward!