Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Seven days later, Chen Yuan walked out of the small building and looked up. The sky was clear and the spiritual storm had stopped.

The spiritual storm was a manifestation of the rise and fall of the spiritual energy in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain. In the next ten years, the spiritual energy in the secret realm was full, and the restriction of the Tiantai Peak Spiritual Medicine Garden was difficult to break.

It had to wait until ten years later, when the spiritual energy of the spiritual veins subsided and the power of the restriction weakened, before the restriction could be broken.

This was no problem for Chen Yuan. He smiled slightly, walked slowly, and carefully counted the spiritual medicines in the valley.

There were a total of 286 spiritual medicines in the spiritual medicine garden, including 28 Yin Yang Ganoderma, 51 Seven Star Grass, 61 White Angelica Flowers, and the rest were eight or nine kinds of spiritual herbs, each with more than ten plants, all of which were three hundred years old.

Chen Yuan raised his hand and picked two Seven Star Grasses, two White Angelica Flowers, and one Yin Yang Ganoderma.

This was exactly the main medicine needed for a furnace of foundation-building pills. The spiritual herbs in the valley could be used to refine a total of 28 furnaces of foundation-building pills.

However, he got more than a dozen spiritual herbs from Du Yu, Gu Zhaoshi and others, which can be used to refine thirty-one furnaces of foundation-building pills.

In addition to these three spiritual herbs, the foundation-building pill still needs two auxiliary herbs, but they are only eighty-year-old spiritual herbs. Chen Yuan bought a lot of them from the alchemy pavilion before entering the secret realm, which is more than enough for alchemy.

He returned to the small building, put the five spiritual herbs aside, stroked the storage bag, took out the alchemy furnace, and ten portions of Yuhua Dan spiritual herbs.

The foundation-building pill needs three hundred-year-old spiritual herbs as the main medicine, and the difficulty of refining is extremely high, not inferior to the late foundation-building pill.

The highest-level pill Chen Yuan had refined before was the Fuling Pill with a hundred-year-old purple-leaf lotus as the main medicine, which is between the Qi-refining pill and the foundation-building pill.

If he follows the right path, he should start with refining the early foundation-building pill, then refine the mid-foundation pill, step by step, and finally refine the foundation-building pill.

If he tried to refine the foundation-building pill right away without any experience in refining foundation-building pills, it would be extremely difficult to succeed, and most of the spiritual medicines in the valley would be gone.

But in addition to the foundation-building pill recipe, Chen Yuan only had a recipe for the Zengyuan pill, which required a hundred-year-old spiritual herb that was relatively common, but not in large quantities in the secret realm.

Therefore, he could only practice with the Yuhua pill. If he could increase the pill success rate to 80%, and then start refining the foundation-building pill, the success rate should be greatly increased.

Chen Yuan raised his hand and the flames rose under the alchemy furnace. The furnace cover was lifted, and a spiritual medicine flew into the furnace.

After seven days of recuperation, his damaged consciousness was fully restored and would not affect the alchemy.

Chen Yuan closed his eyes slightly, his consciousness spread out, carefully controlled the flames, purified the spiritual medicine, and began to refine the pill.

Before this, he had refined hundreds of furnaces of Yuhua pills and was familiar with them. In less than seven days, he refined a furnace of pills, a total of seven pills.

He immediately took one, closed his eyes and meditated, and after his mana was restored, he began to refine the second batch of Yuhua Pills.

Two months passed, and Chen Yuan refined eight batches of Yuhua Pills in a row, finally raising the success rate to 80%, and his alchemy skills reached a new level.

Crossing this threshold proved that he had the hope of becoming a master of alchemy in the future, and when he returned to Lingyun Sect, the Alchemy Pavilion would no longer dare to reject him.

Chen Yuan put away the two spiritual herbs, took a Yuhua Pill, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath to restore his mana.

Although his alchemy skills had improved, it was not yet time to refine the foundation-building pill.

Chen Yuan had thirty-one spiritual herbs in his hand, so it was not difficult to refine the foundation-building pill.

But he was a cultivator with five spiritual roots, and it was difficult to break through the bottleneck with just a few foundation-building pills.

Chen Yuan didn't know how many foundation-building pills he had to take to successfully build his foundation, so the more pills he refined, the better, and every spiritual herb could not be wasted.

Two hours later, Chen Yuan walked out of the small building and looked up.

It was already midnight, and the sky was full of stars, dazzling.

He reached into his arms and took out the jade pendant hanging on his chest, with a hint of nervousness in his eyes.

Under the shining of the stars, the jade pendant emitted a faint green light, and the stars in the sky shone together, converging into a starlight, passing through the forbidden light curtain and falling on Chen Yuan.

A cool and numb feeling came, and after twenty breaths, the starlight dissipated, and Chen Yuan's mana was consumed.

He immediately released his spiritual consciousness, feeling the spiritual consciousness that expanded by an inch, and his heart was determined, and a smile appeared on his face.

The jade pendant was indeed extraordinary. In the secret realm, it could still draw starlight into the body and enhance the spiritual consciousness.

The success rate of refining the foundation-building pill was increased a little bit.

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Five years passed in a flash.

On this day, Chen Yuan sat on a cushion, his eyes like a deep lake, deep and unfathomable, calming his mind and keeping his mind focused.

In the past five years, he has drawn starlight into his body 613 times, and his spiritual consciousness has expanded to 60 feet, and it is difficult to advance any further.

During this period, he carefully studied the recipe of the foundation-building pill, and was familiar with the process of alchemy. It was time to start the furnace to make the pill.

He waved his sleeves, and two white angelica flowers flew into the furnace, and the flames rose and wrapped around the furnace.

Chen Yuan spread his spiritual consciousness and controlled the flames. The temperature in the furnace rose, and the surface of the two white angelica flowers slowly ooze out spiritual liquid.

A quarter of an hour later, each of the two white angelica flowers oozed a drop of turbid spiritual liquid. Chen Yuan frowned slightly, his expression solemn.

It is worthy of being a three-hundred-year-old spiritual herb, but it is so difficult to purify it.

Three days later, the two white angelica flowers turned into a ball of pure spiritual liquid, flew out of the furnace, and fell into a jade bottle.

Chen Yuan raised his hand and waved, two Seven Star Grasses flew into the furnace, and began to purify the second spiritual herb.

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Seven days later, Chen Yuan opened his eyes, raised his hand and waved, the furnace cover rose, and a ball of black and white spiritual liquid flew out.

During these seven days, he purified the Seven Star Grass, Yin Yang Ganoderma, and two auxiliary medicines, leaving only the last step of condensing the pill.

The five three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs are full of spirituality, and it takes a lot of effort to purify them.

Especially the Yin-Yang Ganoderma, which contains a trace of Qianyang essence and Kunyin turbidity. Although it is a three-hundred-year-old spiritual herb, its spirituality is comparable to that of a five-hundred-year-old spiritual herb, and it is extremely difficult to purify.

Even though Chen Yuan has extraordinary spiritual awareness, he is mentally exhausted after these ten days.

The difficulty of refining the late foundation-building elixir with Qi refining cultivation is still beyond his imagination.

Fortunately, purifying spiritual herbs is just a slow process. Chen Yuan has rich experience in alchemy and will not make mistakes at this step.

The most difficult stage is to condense the elixir.

Refining the elixir of the foundation-building period is different from refining the elixir of the Qi refining period. When condensing the elixir, a trace of spirituality needs to be injected into the elixir to make it.

At this time, the alchemist has to spend a lot of energy, and the opportunity to inject spiritual energy is fleeting and extremely difficult to grasp. If the spiritual energy is too weak a minute earlier, it will not be enough to condense the pill. If the spiritual energy is too strong a minute later, it will invade the medicinal power and destroy the pill, so it is extremely difficult.

Chen Yuan's mind was circulating the method of condensing the pill, his expression was solemn, he raised his hand and waved it, and five jade bottles flew up, pouring five kinds of spiritual liquid into the furnace, and the flames slowly rose and wrapped the furnace body.

Five days later, the five kinds of spiritual liquid mixed into a ball, the size of a fist, in black and white, and slowly rotated in the furnace.

The time to condense the pill has come, Chen Yuan's hand gesture changed, and he shouted softly:

"Condensate!"

The flame outside the furnace turned from red to white, and the spiritual liquid in the furnace trembled gently, divided into ten balls, about the size of a thumb, and gradually condensed.

Just when the ten balls of spiritual liquid were about to turn into pills, Chen Yuan's eyes flashed, raised his hand and pointed, and a bright spiritual light passed through the pill furnace, split into ten beams, and injected into the ten balls of spiritual liquid.

The spiritual light entered the body, and the ten pills paused slightly, and suddenly a burst of brilliant spiritual light burst out, turning into ten pill qi and disappearing into smoke.

Seeing this, Chen Yuan sighed lightly, retracted his magic power, took a Yuhua pill, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath.

After fifteen days of refining the pill, his spiritual consciousness and magic power were consumed too much, and the timing of injecting spirituality was a minute late. The pills were too spiritual, which invaded the medicinal power and failed to condense the pill.

The flame slowly extinguished, and the pill furnace fell to the ground again. The misty air wrapped around the furnace body was obviously thicker.

The pill qi nourishes the furnace. Every time Chen Yuan refines the pill, he is warming the furnace.

This furnace has been with him for many years. Chen Yuan has refined the pill hundreds of times, with success and failure. Every time, more or less pill qi is emitted, which makes the quality of the furnace more outstanding. It has become a rare treasure furnace.

This time, I don’t know how much pill qi will be emitted when refining the foundation pill. The quality of this furnace will be improved a lot.

Three hours later, Chen Yuan's mana was fully restored. He walked out of the small building, picked five spiritual herbs, and began to refine the second batch of pills.

After he took the Yuhua Pill, he only practiced for two hours, and his mana was fully restored.

For the remaining hour, he silently reviewed the first batch of pill refining in his mind, especially the last step of pill condensation. He thought carefully, summed up his experience, and felt that he had gained something before he started the pill furnace again.

Fifteen days later, the second batch of foundation-building pills came to the final pill condensation.

When the ten pills were about to condense, Chen Yuan saw the opportunity, raised his hand and released a spiritual light, flew into the furnace, split into ten, and injected into ten black and white pills.

The pill trembled slightly, and the light on the surface suddenly dimmed, silently turning into ten pill qi, which scattered into the wall of the pill furnace.

Chen Yuan frowned, retracted his mana, the flame went out, and the pill furnace fell to the ground.

He stroked the storage bag, took out a Yuhua Pill, swallowed it, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath.

Chen Yuan learned from the last experience and deliberately injected spirituality in advance, but the timing was a minute too early, and the spirituality of the pill was weak and not enough to condense the pill, and it failed again.

Two hours later, Chen Yuan's mana was fully restored. He silently reviewed the second condensation process several times, went to the valley to pick five spiritual herbs, and began to refine the third furnace of foundation-building pills.

This time, the timing of injecting spirituality was a minute too late.

Chen Yuan was not discouraged. After recovering his mana, he began to refine the fourth furnace of pills.

Then came the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth... until the twenty-second furnace, all failed.

The difficulty of refining foundation-building pills far exceeded his imagination.

When each furnace of pills condensed, the timing of injecting spirituality was different, and it had to be just right, not too early or too late, not too strong or too weak.

Chen Yuan's consciousness was not as good as that of a foundation-building cultivator, and it was not condensed enough. It was extremely difficult to accurately grasp the timing when refining pills for more than ten days and consuming a lot.

But he was not an ordinary Qi-refining cultivator after all. His spiritual awareness was twice that of his peers. After refining 22 furnaces of pills, he had accumulated rich experience and vaguely understood the key to injecting spirituality.

Chen Yuan waved his sleeves, and a Yin-Yang Ganoderma flew into the furnace. The flames rose and wrapped around the furnace, and he began to refine the 23rd furnace of foundation-building pills.