Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Three years and nine months later, Tiantai Peak Spiritual Medicine Garden.

Chen Yuan walked out of the small building, looked up and looked into the distance. Through the forbidden light curtain, he could see that the sky was dark, like a black blanket, dotted with thousands of bright pearls, shining brightly.

Around him, there was not a single spiritual medicine, only some seedlings, breaking through the soil.

Chen Yuan stood there quietly. After a while, he reached into his arms, took out the jade pendant, and smiled:

"The time has come."

Under the shining of the stars, the jade pendant emitted a faint green light. The stars in the sky shone together, and merged into a silver beam as thick as a thumb, which fell down and enveloped Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan closed his eyes slightly, and a cool and numb feeling came over him. After thirty breaths, it dissipated.

When he opened his eyes again, the green light on the jade pendant had disappeared and returned to its original appearance.

Chen Yuan looked inward at himself, and the true essence in his dantian dissipated completely, without a drop left.

He put away the jade pendant, clenched his fist, suddenly stomped the ground, jumped up more than ten feet, came to the forbidden light curtain, and punched out!

With a loud bang, the forbidden light curtain shook slightly, but it was not damaged at all. Chen Yuan fell back under the huge recoil force.

He shook his palm and smiled:

"Now even if it is a level 4 monster, don't think about fighting me!"

Then, he released his consciousness and covered the entire spiritual medicine garden, and there was still strength to spare.

"This Tiantai Peak Spiritual Medicine Garden is still a little small..."

Chen Yuan retracted his consciousness, returned to the small building, sat on the jade bed, and his thoughts were rolling in his heart, recalling his experience in the past four years.

After he established his foundation, the interval between starlight infusion was extended to seven days, and the time for each infusion was extended to thirty breaths. The starlight also changed from white to silver.

In the past, he didn't know the details of starlight infusion, but now he understands that this is a sign that the power of the Zhoutian stars has become more refined, and the strengthening effect on the body and soul is better.

In the past four years, he has drawn starlight to infuse his body 197 times. His physical strength has surpassed that of an ordinary fourth-level monster, but he is still a long way from a fifth-level monster.

Every time he draws starlight to infuse his body, his spiritual consciousness can expand by three inches. Now it can extend to 156 feet, covering all corners of the valley.

In the future, when fighting with other cultivators in the early stage of foundation building, Chen Yuan can gain the upper hand with the power of spiritual consciousness alone.

However, although starlight infuse the body is good, it will exhaust all the true essence in Chen Yuan's body.

After each infusion, it takes two days to absorb spiritual energy and restore true essence, which slows down his cultivation speed.

However, there is a large spiritual vein in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain. The spiritual medicine garden of Tiantai Peak has set up a spirit gathering array to gather and refine qi, which is equivalent to a small spiritual vein.

In the Qi Kingdom's cultivation world, only Jindan cultivators can occupy a small spiritual vein, and foundation-building cultivators can only cultivate in micro spiritual veins.

Chen Yuan is the only one who enjoys the spiritual energy in the valley, which is a treatment only for Jindan cultivators. In the past four years, even if he needs to draw starlight to infuse his body, his cultivation has increased a lot, comparable to ten years of cultivation in the outside world.

After he practiced "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", his physical body became the foundation, and he could not stop infusing his body with starlight even if it would affect his cultivation speed.

But after leaving the secret realm, there is no cultivation environment equivalent to a small spiritual vein, and the time to recover the true essence must be extended by at least twice.

If all the time is used to recover the true essence, no matter how strong the physical body is, it is useless if the cultivation is not good.

There are only two ways at that time, one is to reduce the number of times the starlight is infused, and the other is to take pills to make up for the time to recover the true essence.

The first way is not advisable. After Chen Yuan practiced "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", his physical body became the foundation, and he could not stop infusing his body with starlight even if it would affect his cultivation speed.

He can only take the second way, taking pills to increase his cultivation.

After Chen Yuan refined the foundation-building pill, he has become a master of alchemy and can buy hundred-year-old spiritual herbs from the sect.

But a hundred-year-old spiritual herb would cost hundreds of spiritual stones, which would cost less in terms of good deeds, but still ninety good deeds.

The Zengyuan Pill that can be used for cultivation by cultivators in the early stage of foundation building requires four hundred-year-old spiritual herbs. To refine one furnace of pills, four hundred spiritual stones, or three hundred and sixty good deeds, are needed.

Chen Yuan is also a cultivator with five spiritual roots. His cultivation speed is extremely slow, and he needs a lot of pills, far more than ordinary cultivators in foundation building.

In the past, he could sell pills to earn spiritual stones, but after foundation building, the pills are not enough for cultivation, so how could he sell them?

How to get spiritual stones has become the primary problem facing Chen Yuan.

"If it really doesn't work, I can only do this..."

Chen Yuan's mind turned, and a hint of hesitation flashed in his eyes.

He has a way to get a large amount of spiritual stones, but it requires a lot of risk.

But if it can be done, he will not lack pills before he cultivates to the late stage of foundation building.

Chen Yuan's eyes flickered, and after a while, he finally became determined.

Fortune and wealth are sought in danger. He also needs to find the descendants of the true spirit. Time cannot be wasted. He must improve his cultivation as soon as possible.

On the road to cultivating immortals, there is no reason to be afraid of difficulties and avoid them.

Only by striving for the first step and not missing any opportunity can there be a chance to achieve enlightenment!

Chen Yuan made up his mind and stopped struggling. He closed his eyes and meditated, absorbing spiritual energy and restoring his true essence.

…

Two days later, Chen Yuan opened his eyes and exhaled a gray-black breath. He frowned slightly and murmured:

“What kind of changes did this blessed land of Dongxu Mountain experience in the past…”

This breath slowly floated upwards, silently corroding a hole in the top beam.

After Chen Yuan established his foundation, his mana was transformed into true essence, and he absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but he found that the spiritual energy that should have been pure and righteous was actually mixed with a trace of imperceptible evil energy.

In the previous five years, he only practiced Qi Refining, and his mana was not pure enough, so he did not find the evil energy deposited in his body.

Fortunately, his body was strong, and these evil energy did not cause any harm.

But if he ignored it, it would definitely damage the foundation of cultivation for a long time.

Chen Yuan immediately expelled these evil energy from his body, and he was also very careful when he practiced in the future. Every time he finished practicing, he expelled the evil energy in time and never let it stay in his body.

But after four years, he inhaled too much evil energy. Although it did not stay in his body for a long time, it entered his Dantian every time, and his true essence had already shown signs of being assimilated by the evil energy.

If he stayed for another two years, Chen Yuan's true essence and Dantian's evil energy would erode his cultivation, and his cultivation would be completely destroyed.

Originally, Chen Yuan planned to live in seclusion in the Spiritual Medicine Garden, and with the help of the "small spiritual veins" here, he would continue to cultivate until the late stage of foundation building, and then leave the secret realm.

But the evil aura was so strange that he could only give up this idea and leave the secret realm when it was opened next time.

Calculating the time, there is more than a month before the secret realm is opened.

Chen Yuan smiled and said to himself:

"I wonder how many disciples the six major sects will send into the secret realm this time?"

I have returned to school these days, the tutor has a group meeting, and I have to prepare for the preliminary defense. There are many things to do, so there may be fewer updates.