Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

In the past year, Chen Yuan had nothing else in mind, and was immersed in alchemy. He refined 22 furnaces of foundation-building pills in a row. Although all of them failed, he had accumulated a lot of experience over time, not inferior to the master of alchemy.

It should be noted that the three spiritual medicines of foundation-building pills are extremely precious. Ordinary alchemy masters cannot refine a few furnaces in ten years.

In this year, Chen Yuan experienced 22 kinds of changes in the timing of pill condensation, and he had some insights. When refining the 23rd furnace of pills, his heart was like a calm lake, without waves, and he was free and easy.

Fifteen days later, it was time to condense the pill again. A fist-sized spiritual liquid in the furnace slowly turned.

Chen Yuan raised his hand and said:

"Condensate!"

The spiritual liquid was divided into ten balls and gradually condensed into pills. Chen Yuan closed his eyes, sensing the changes in the qi in the furnace, and suddenly raised his hand to release a bright spiritual light, which flew into the furnace.

The spiritual light split into ten rays and injected into the pills. The eight pills trembled slightly and turned into pill qi and drifted away.

But the remaining two pills spun around and solidified.

Chen Yuan raised his hand and waved, the furnace cover lifted, and two pills flew out and fell into Chen Yuan's hands.

The two pills were the size of a thumb, black and white, like Tai Chi, black with white, white with black, extremely mysterious, exuding a strong spiritual energy.

"After a year of hard work, the pills are finally made!"

Chen Yuan laughed, put the two foundation-building pills into the jade bottle, took out a Yuhua pill and took it, and restored the mana in his body.

Two hours later, he got up and walked out of the small building, picked five spiritual herbs, and continued to open the furnace to refine the pills.

The success rate of this batch of pills is still 20%, and the same is true for the next few batches.

When Chen Yuan refined the 29th batch of pills, the success rate increased to 30%.

Until the last batch of pills was refined, Chen Yuan refined a total of 21 foundation-building pills.

Afterwards, Chen Yuan meditated for three days, holding the Yuan and guarding the One, concentrating his mind and calming his breath, and took a foundation-building pill to impact the foundation!

After swallowing the foundation-building pill, it turned into two huge spiritual energies, one burning like fire, and the other cold like ice.

The two spiritual energies entangled together, hot and cold intertwined, Chen Yuan felt like he was in the magma of the earth fire, and sometimes he felt like he was in the black ice of ten thousand years, which was extremely uncomfortable.

Fortunately, his physical body was strong, and he quickly adapted to this feeling, guiding the two huge spiritual energies to circulate the qi.

After thirty-six cycles, the two spiritual energies flowed like rivers and poured into the dantian.

A burning spiritual energy was on top, and a cold spiritual energy was on the bottom, infecting the mana in Chen Yuan's body and assimilating it completely.

After an unknown period of time, half of Chen Yuan's mana turned into burning spiritual energy, and the other turned into cold spiritual energy, like Tai Chi, circling around, but clearly separated.

According to the foundation-building method, Chen Yuan squeezed the mana in the middle, trying to condense the qi into liquid and break through the foundation.

But no matter how hard Chen Yuan tried, the two spiritual energies had no intention of blending. After a while, they returned to their reddish color, but were more condensed than before.

The first attack on the foundation failed.

Chen Yuan remained calm, took the second foundation pill, and continued to attack the bottleneck.

As expected, this time it also failed, but it made Chen Yuan's mana more refined.

Chen Yuan took a breath for a moment and took the third foundation pill.

He wanted to see how many foundation pills he, a cultivator with five spiritual roots, needed to take before he could successfully build his foundation!

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There is no time in the mountains, and the years of cultivation are unknown.

A year later, Chen Yuan woke up from his meditation and slowly opened his eyes.

It was midnight at this time, and the small building was pitch black, and you couldn't see your fingers when you stretched out your hand.

When Chen Yuan opened his eyes, it seemed that a white light flashed, and the room was as bright as day.

But the next moment, the brilliance in Chen Yuan's eyes converged, and what he saw just now seemed to be an illusion.

He stood up and walked out of the small building. He looked up. The moon was high in the sky, the Milky Way was across the sky, and the stars were shining brightly, just like Chen Yuan's mood at this moment.

He took 17 foundation-building pills in a row, and finally broke through the bottleneck and successfully built the foundation!

Chen Yuan stood with his hands behind his back, and the mana in his body turned. A layer of red light appeared outside his body, slowly rising to the sky, and came to the top of the valley, under the forbidden light curtain.

This is the escape light that only foundation-building cultivators can have. From now on, Chen Yuan can travel in the sky without fear of the strong wind, and can also go deep into the abyss of thousands of feet without fear of the pressure of deep water.

He smiled slightly, dispersed the escape light, and fell back to the ground.

He raised his hand and waved, and the mana surged, condensed into a fire crow, circling and dancing in the air, with agile eyes, like a living thing.

Before Chen Yuan built the foundation, it took three breaths of time and consumed a lot of mana to perform the fire crow technique, but now it was done by thinking, and it was sent and received by the heart.

He raised his hand again and the fire crows cried and slowly dissipated.

Then, Chen Yuan released his spiritual sense and took in the entire valley!

After ordinary Qi-refining cultivators build their foundation, their spiritual sense coverage will expand from thirty feet to one hundred feet.

But after Chen Yuan built his foundation, his spiritual sense was one hundred and fifty feet, just covering the entire Tiantai Peak Spiritual Medicine Garden. Every blade of grass and tree in the valley was under his control.

Not only that, his spiritual sense became much thicker and could sense more subtle changes.

If he were to refine the foundation-building pill now, the success rate would definitely not be only 30%.

With a smile on his face, Chen Yuan retracted his spiritual sense, stroked his storage bag, took out the silver sword, and threw it forward.

The silver sword flew into the air, shuttled back and forth, and its flying speed was several times faster than before.

After Chen Yuan built his foundation, the mana in his body condensed into liquid true essence, becoming deep and pure, and the consumption of controlling the magic weapon was greatly reduced.

In the past, when he fought with others with all his strength, his magic power would be exhausted in less than a quarter of an hour. Now, even if he fought for several hours, he still had some strength left.

However, the Silver Gang Sword is only a top-grade magic weapon. If it is replaced with a spiritual weapon, the consumption will be greater.

Chen Yuan carefully experienced the many changes after the foundation building and began to consider the next path.

He overcame this difficulty, and his life span increased to 200 years. His cultivation, which had stagnated for more than ten years, could continue to grow. The most urgent task was to find a cultivation method.

Chen Yuan now has two methods in his hands, one is the nameless water method obtained from Luo Zhenwu, and the other is the "Demon God Sutra" obtained from Du Yu, both of which can be cultivated to the late stage of foundation building.

But he has a fire power and cannot switch to the water method.

"Demon God Sutra" is a physical cultivation method. Although it is not limited to spiritual root qualifications, it requires refining the essence and blood of monsters, and it cannot be cultivated.

However, even if Chen Yuan has the essence and blood of monsters, he will not practice "Demon God Sutra".

If you can't live forever, what is the difference between Yuanying and Qi Refining?

But without the technique, he couldn't circulate his energy and transform the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into mana. He had a large spiritual vein but couldn't improve his cultivation. It was really a waste of natural resources.

But there was no way to solve this problem. He could only wait for the secret realm to open and return to Lingyun Sect to find a suitable technique.

However, these years would not be wasted. He had the jade pendant in his hand, which could lead the starlight to infuse his body and enhance his spiritual consciousness.

Chen Yuan reached into his arms, took out the jade pendant, and placed it under the starlight.

The jade pendant emitted a faint green light, and Chen Yuan closed his eyes slightly, waiting for the starlight to come.

But at this moment, the surface of the jade pendant suddenly shone brightly, and a suction force surged out, and began to devour the true essence in Chen Yuan's body!

Chen Yuan was shocked and subconsciously wanted to throw the jade pendant away.

But the jade pendant was firmly attached to Chen Yuan's hand, and the speed of devouring the true essence was also very fast. In a few breaths, it devoured all the true essence in Chen Yuan's body.

During this process, the green light emitted by the jade became more and more dazzling, competing with the stars in the sky.

After all the true essence in Chen Yuan's body was devoured, the green light on the surface of the jade suddenly gathered into a beam and shot into Chen Yuan's forehead.

"Ah!"

Chen Yuan screamed in pain, closed his eyes, and knelt on the ground. He felt a splitting headache, and it seemed that many things were stuffed into his soul out of thin air.

But in a moment, he fainted and fell to the ground.

The green light on the surface of the jade slowly faded, and it fell from Chen Yuan's palm and fell to the ground. Under the shining of the stars, it glowed faintly.

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Three days later, Chen Yuan slowly opened his eyes, and what he saw was a dark blue forbidden light curtain, and the azure sky behind it.

His eyes were dazed, and he blinked a few times, just then he remembered what happened before, and hurriedly looked inside himself, searching for the thing that was inexplicably stuffed into his soul.

The next moment, he entered a gray space and turned into a light red transparent shadow, which was exactly the same as the situation after taking the Heart-Searching Pill when he joined Lingyun Sect.

This is Chen Yuan's soul space. After building the foundation, his soul has transformed and he can enter it actively.

Originally, this place was empty, with only Chen Yuan's soul sitting cross-legged.

But now there is a golden jade disk standing in front of the soul.

Chen Yuan stared at it, and his heart was shocked, and then a burst of ecstasy surged into his heart.

This turned out to be a practice, an extremely profound practice!