Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

The Demon God Technique not only has a high threshold for cultivation and a limit to cultivation, but also has many disadvantages.

Those who practice this method, like the monsters of the same level, have weak spiritual consciousness.

Only by breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage can one control magic weapons from a distance like those transformed monsters, and learn alchemy, talisman making, weapon refining and other cultivation arts.

Before this, cultivators could not practice the cultivation arts, and could only fight with people, and were not good at flying.

Du Yu specially prepared gloves and spears for this purpose, mixed with medium-grade spiritual materials, which were strong and hard, and could resist magic weapons, giving full play to his advantage of great strength.

But in addition to this, practicing the Demon God Technique also has many benefits.

This method does not look at the spiritual root aptitude, specializes in the physical body, has strong combat power, and does not have to worry about the exhaustion of mana, and is extremely durable.

After refining the monster's essence and blood into the body, the cultivator can also learn the monster's innate secrets, and his life span will be at least twice that of the cultivator of the same level.

The white air arrows that spewed out of Du Yu's mouth should be the innate secret technique obtained from the monster beast.

Chen Yuan's thoughts were churning in his mind, and he couldn't make a decision for a long time.

The difficulty of practicing "Demon God Art" is extremely high, but it is very suitable for him.

For other cultivators, the most difficult part of "Demon God Art" is to continuously strengthen the physical body in order to break through the bottleneck.

Cultivators are not monster beasts. They are born with weak physical bodies. Even after being nourished by spiritual energy, they are far inferior to monster beasts of the same level.

The several spiritual medicines that can strengthen the physical body recorded in "Demon God Art" are extremely rare and precious.

Du Yu cultivated to the peak of Qi Refining, and the resources consumed were at least several times that of cultivators of the same level.

If he wanted to break through the foundation, he needed three kinds of five hundred year old spiritual herbs, refined into liquid medicine, soaked in it, and strengthened his physical body.

Only the Ziyang Sect, a ten thousand year old sect, has such a foundation to train a low-level disciple into a physical cultivator.

Lingyun Sect would never consume so many resources on a Qi Refining disciple.

But the most difficult part of practicing the "Demon God Art" is not worth mentioning for Chen Yuan.

He has the jade in his hand, which can lead the starlight to infuse his body, constantly strengthen his body, and break through the bottleneck, just like water coming naturally.

The price of breaking through the barrier easily is that there is no hope of enlightenment.

The future of practicing Taoism with five spiritual roots is bleak, but there is hope of enlightenment.

The "Demon God Art" is very suitable for him, but the essence and blood of monsters are rare, and there is also a limit to cultivation.

It is really difficult to choose between the two paths.

Chen Yuan sat upright in the cave, lost in thought, his expression was solemn, his eyes were like a deep pool, deep and unfathomable.

Suddenly, he shook his head and laughed, with a self-deprecating look on his face, and stood up.

He has not yet successfully built his foundation, but he is entangled in the path after building his foundation. Isn't it too ambitious?

The most urgent task is to build the foundation.

Chen Yuan no longer entangled this issue, and put away the "Demon God Art" jade slip together with other things.

In Du Yu's storage bag, in addition to gloves and a spear, there were eight or nine magic tools and more than a dozen talismans, which should have been obtained after robbing and killing other cultivators.

Among them, three magic tools were full of yin energy and should have been used by the disciples of Mingyin Valley.

In addition, there were dozens of spiritual herbs, some monster materials, spiritual materials for refining tools, and more than a hundred spiritual stones.

After Chen Yuan entered the secret realm, he killed many cultivators, but he did not get many spiritual stones, only more than 400 in total.

The other five major sects all had good deeds similar to Lingyun Sect, and the disciples rarely used spiritual stones.

Moreover, in order to prepare for the trip to the secret realm, even if they had spiritual stones, they were all spent on magic tools, talismans, and elixirs.

After Chen Yuan sorted out the spoils, he moved the huge stone blocking the cave entrance, walked out of the cave, and continued to walk eastward.

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The inner ring of the Dongxu Mountain Secret Realm covers a vast area, thousands of miles in radius. After thousands of years, there are still many places that no one has set foot on.

There are three entrances to the inner ring, two in the west and one in the south.

When the disciples of each sect enter the inner ring, they all explore to the north and east to collect spiritual herbs.

In the center of the inner ring, there are a large number of Yin Yang Zhi, Angelica dahurica, Seven Star Grass, and several five hundred year old spiritual herbs that are extremely precious in the outside world, which are coveted by Jindan cultivators.

Therefore, the disciples of each sect finally gathered here to snatch spiritual herbs and fight fiercely.

Further east and north, the number of disciples of each sect is much less.

Although there are many five hundred year old spiritual herbs in the east and north of the inner ring, the only thing missing is the three main medicines for refining foundation-building pills.

The first task of the disciples of each sect after entering the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain is to collect these three spiritual herbs in exchange for foundation-building pills, and the second is to collect five hundred year old spiritual herbs for the Jindan elders of their own sect.

Moreover, there is no exit from the inner ring in the east and north. If you go too deep and encounter some accidents, and fail to return to the outer ring in time, you will not be able to leave the secret realm, and you will die under the impact of the spiritual storm.

Only a very few lucky people hide in the remaining restrictions in the inner ring of the secret realm and survive, but their cultivation is also destroyed and they become useless.

Therefore, not many disciples would come to the east and north of the inner ring to collect spiritual herbs in the past.

Most of them are some disciples who feel that they are not strong enough and dare not go to the center of the inner ring to try their luck.

In addition, there are a few disciples of Ziyang Sect who come to these two places to collect spiritual herbs.

Every time the secret realm is opened, Ziyang Sect will send at least 70 or 80 disciples to enter, which is the sum of the other two or three sects.

In addition to gathering in the center of the inner ring to snatch spiritual herbs, they also have spare energy to go to other places to collect spiritual herbs, and the harvest can at least match that of two sects.

Over time, the foundation-building cultivators within the Zi Yang Sect have always been far ahead of those of other sects, firmly sitting on the dominant position in Qi State's cultivation world.

During this trip to the secret realm, Ziyang Sect joined forces with Guiyuan Sect to block the disciples of the other four sects outside the ring mountain range, gaining at least two days of advantage.

They took the opportunity to kill monsters in the center of the inner ring and collect spiritual herbs, which was extremely fruitful.

After Qin Xuanning separated from Du Yu, he led six elite disciples and gathered the strength of everyone to hunt down five or six second-level monsters, harvesting more than twenty five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, more than thirty white angelica flowers, more than twenty seven-star grasses, eight or nine Yin-Yang mushrooms, and countless other three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs and one-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs.

However, they did not stay in the center of the inner ring for too long. After two days of looting, they left here and headed east of the inner ring.

At this time, three days had passed since the opening of the Dongxu Mountain Secret Realm, and the secret realm would be closed in less than four days.

Qin Xuanning only looted a small half of the center of the inner ring and resolutely left, leaving the remaining spiritual herbs here to his disciples.

The reason why Qin Xuanning made this decision was because he met three disciples of Mingyin Valley.

He led the Ziyang Sect to kill the three disciples of Mingyin Valley, and then realized that the three passages had been lost, so he stopped searching for spiritual herbs and immediately set off to the east of the inner ring.

The other six disciples were very puzzled by this, but Qin Xuanning was a true disciple of the Ziyang Sect. When he gave an order, the others had to obey.

What made them even more puzzled was that Qin Xuanning told everyone not to provoke monsters along the way. He passed by the place where spiritual herbs grew several times, but he turned a blind eye to it. He just focused on the road, as if he was in a hurry to get to a certain place.

One day later, everyone went deep into the inner ring of the secret realm for hundreds of miles and came to the foot of a mountain peak hundreds of feet high.

This mountain has a soft outline, covered with green pines, and is connected to the surrounding hills and mountains. There is nothing surprising about it.

But Qin Xuanning stopped at the foot of the mountain, took out a jade slip, probed into it with his spiritual consciousness, and then took it back, raised his head to observe the surrounding terrain, and after several comparisons, a smile appeared on his face.

Then, he turned around and said:

"My fellow apprentices, follow me up the mountain!"

Everyone dared not neglect and followed Qin Xuanning up the mountain.

This mountain is not high, there are no steep cliffs, the spiritual energy is not very strong, and there are no monsters. After a quarter of an hour, everyone came to the halfway point of the mountain.

Qin Xuanning suddenly slowed down, released his spiritual sense, and carefully explored the surrounding environment.

Everyone slowed down their pace. They all saw that Qin Xuanning was looking for a secret place, and this place was on this mountain.

After a while, Qin Xuanning's eyes lit up, and he used the light body technique to rush to the left.

Everyone followed closely behind him, walked more than 20 feet, and came to a mountain wall.

This mountain wall is five or six feet high, covered with vines and weeds, and there are several agile yellow monkeys playing on the mountain wall.

These monkeys exude a faint demonic aura, but they are not even as good as the first-level lower-level monsters, and cannot be considered monsters.

They have lived on this mountain for generations and have never seen a monk. When they saw Qin Xuanning and others coming, they all showed curiosity.

There was a half-grown ape, holding a vine in his hand, swinging in front of everyone, calling a few times, and waving, as if inviting everyone to play with it.

Qin Xuanning frowned slightly, raised his hand and waved, and a fire crow flew out, pecked at the half-grown ape, and a raging fire burst out, burning it to ashes in an instant.

The remaining apes saw this and showed horror and fled in all directions.

One of the female monkeys let out a shrill scream, grabbed a green vine, and swung towards Qin Xuanning.

But just as it swung halfway, the fire crow flew in front of it, pecked it lightly, and the female monkey was wrapped in flames and turned into ashes.

Then the fire crow flapped its wings lightly, flew a circle, burned all the remaining apes to death, and then pounced on the mountain wall, burning all the vines and weeds on the wall to ashes.

Qin Xuanning looked at the bare and charred mountain wall, smiled with satisfaction, stroked his storage bag, and took out a pair of jade rings.

One of the jade rings was red and carved with Vermillion Bird patterns, and the other was ice blue and carved with Chilong patterns. They hung above Qin Xuanning's head, emitting a faint spiritual light.

He raised his hand and pinched his fingers, and shouted softly:

"Go!"

The jade rings made a buzzing sound, each emitting red and ice blue colors, suddenly flew out, and hit the mountain wall.

At this moment, the mountain wall suddenly turned into a transparent light shield, and the jade rings hit it, causing ripples, and then flew back.

Everyone was shocked and looked closely. They saw that behind the light shield was a flat land covering several acres, with many exotic flowers and plants growing.

A handsome Ziyang Sect disciple asked:

"Brother Qin, this is..."

Qin Xuanning smiled and said:

"This is a spiritual medicine garden. Come with me and break the restrictions here!"

Thanks to Shenri Laozi for the reward!