Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

After Chen Yuan accepted the Chilong Pendant, Jin Luoheng said: "You go down first."

Chen Yuan bowed and said, "Yes, disciple, please leave."

He exited the hall, went to the first floor of the tower, randomly selected a room, walked in, sat cross-legged on the floor, closed his eyes and meditated.

Under the pressure of the alchemy monks at the top of Dongxu Mountain, Chen Yuan had consumed most of his mana. At this time, he finally had time to restore his mana.

With a thought in his mind, he took out the Chilong Pendant, tied it around his waist, and injected a trace of true energy into it.

The chilong pendant emits a faint white light, and there is a refreshing coolness that pours out from the jade pendant and enters Chen Yuan's body. It travels around in a circle, calming his mind instantly, and he successfully enters samadhi in a moment.

At the same time, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth seemed to be attracted by this cool feeling, and it poured into Chen Yuan's body faster than usual.

Chen Yuan perked up. It was indeed a low-grade spiritual weapon. This should be what Jin Luoheng said about calming the mind and absorbing spiritual energy. The effect was so obvious.

Although this speed does not increase much, over time, it can also speed up the progress of cultivation a lot.

Moreover, the Chilong Pendant only needs to be injected with true essence to work. Compared with taking elixirs, it will save a lot of spiritual stones.

Its calming effect is comparable to that of some precious spices, allowing monks to quickly enter the state of cultivation. It is indeed a rare auxiliary spiritual weapon.

Chen Yuan was extremely satisfied with the Chilong Pendant. He touched the storage bag, took out a jade bottle, poured out a Jade Flower Pill, and swallowed it.

The elixir turned into a faint spiritual energy, and after a moment, it was absorbed completely. The true energy in Chen Yuan's body only recovered slightly.

He shook his head slightly and put away the jade bottle.

After he broke through the foundation building, the effectiveness of the elixir during the Qi refining period dropped greatly, and it no longer had the effect of assisting cultivation, nor could it help restore mana.

Chen Yuan could only meditate silently with the help of Chilong Pei to restore the mana in his body.

At the same time, thoughts were rolling in his mind, thinking about his apprenticeship today.

In fact, after Chen Yuan left the secret realm, he wanted to worship Jin Luoheng as his teacher.

He broke through the foundation building in the secret realm and obtained so many spiritual herbs. The tree was so big that it attracted the wind, so he had to find a backer for himself.

Jin Luoheng, who has a reputation of supporting the younger generation and comes from a lineage of casual cultivators, is undoubtedly the best choice.

But Chen Yuan didn't expect that Ji Bin would want to accept him as his disciple.

But he quickly realized that Ji Bin's move must be for those rare spiritual herbs.

Otherwise, it is impossible for an elder to accept a disciple for no reason.

Since Ji Bin wants spiritual grass, Jin Luoheng should also have the same intention.

And this meaning was also revealed in the conversation between the two.

Therefore, Chen Yuan boldly rejected Ji Bin and chose to worship Jin Luoheng as his disciple.

Chen Yuan was not familiar with Ji Bin, but he had seen Jin Luoheng's actions with his own eyes. He also learned from the Ziyang Sect female cultivator that Jin Luoheng had killed a pill-forming cultivator. Knowing that he was very powerful, he naturally wanted to Worship him as your teacher.

This move was actually a bit risky. If Jin Luoheng had no intention of accepting him as his disciple, he would have offended Ji Bin.

But he made the right bet and succeeded in worshiping Jin Luoheng as his disciple. From then on, he had the Dan Jie monk as his backer and was no longer a rootless person.

I just don’t know what Jin Luoheng’s character is like, but if he is as generous as the rumors say and likes to support the younger generations, then he is a good master.

But if the rumors were not true and Jin Luoheng was cold-hearted and unkind to his disciples, Chen Yuan wouldn't care.

Along the way, he was self-reliant, never relying on others, and never thought of borrowing the power of Jin Luoheng.

As long as he can use the name of Elder Jiedan and have a stable cultivation environment, he will be satisfied.

However, looking at what Jin Luoheng did today, he protected himself several times and did not seem to be a mean person, which made Chen Yuan feel at ease.

If you can have a good master, the journey of cultivation will be much easier.

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One day later, the giant boat finally returned outside the Lingyun Sect's mountain gate formation.

Chen Yuan came to the deck and looked at the wall of clouds covering the sky and the sun with awe in his eyes.

Ten years ago, when he left the mountain gate, he was just an ordinary Qi refining disciple.

Ten years later, he returned to the mountain gate. He had successfully built the foundation and lived to be 200 years old.

But over the past ten years, not a single trace has been left on this wall of clouds that connects the sky and the earth.

After Chen Yuan broke through the foundation building, he felt more and more the power of creation hidden in this cloud wall.

It was the supreme power that could tear him apart easily. After Chen Yuan broke through the foundation, his slightly swollen mentality returned to its original state, and his desire to seek the truth became more determined.

He has just taken the first step on the path of cultivating immortality. There is still an extremely long way to go before he can achieve immortality, so he must not feel any sense of pride.

At this time, Jin Luoheng flew out from the third floor of the tower, came to the bow of the boat, pinched the magic formula with his hand, and shouted:

"open!"

The white clouds slowly flowed to both sides, revealing a passage dozens of feet in size, into which the giant boat slowly sailed.

A quarter of an hour later, the giant boat flew out of the cloud wall and landed on the top of Lingyun Peak.

At this time, there were already several alchemists in the square, waiting to inspect the spiritual herbs in everyone's hands.

One of the middle-aged monks has foundation-building cultivation and is the only alchemy master, while the others are all Qi-refining disciples.

Everyone got off the giant boat. Jin Luoheng put away the giant boat and said, "Take out the spiritual herbs in your hands."

Everyone immediately took out the spiritual grass and let everyone check it.

At the same time, Jin Luoheng touched the storage bag and took out all the hundreds of rare spiritual herbs that Chen Yuan brought out from the secret realm.

The alchemists were all shocked when they saw this.

They had seen countless spiritual herbs in the Alchemy Pavilion, but this was the first time they had seen so many five-hundred-year-old and eight-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs.

The middle-aged monk's eyes were even more ecstatic. He had harvested so many spiritual herbs from this trip to the secret realm, and the Alchemy Pavilion would be able to produce a few more alchemy masters.

Jin Luoheng looked at the middle-aged monk and said calmly: "Master Nephew Qi, please check these spiritual herbs, sort them into categories, and put them away properly."

The monk surnamed Qi stopped talking and began to examine it carefully.

During this period, Chen Yuan and twenty-one Qi Refining disciples all stood aside, quietly waiting for the results.

Half an hour later, these alchemists finished counting all the spiritual herbs, stamped the results on jade slips, and handed them to Jin Luoheng.

Jin Luoheng read the jade slip presented by the monk surnamed Qi, and said: "During this trip to the secret realm, Chen Yuan collected the most spiritual herbs and gave him three foundation-building pills, a top-grade spiritual weapon, three bottles of Yuan-increasing pills, One middle-grade spiritual talisman and ten middle-grade spiritual stones!”

Chen Yuan stepped out from the crowd and bowed deeply: "Disciple Chen Yuan, thank you for the sect's reward!"

Jin Luoheng nodded slightly, took out a storage bag from his arms, raised his hand and sent it to Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan took the storage bag and penetrated it with his spiritual consciousness. After a brief exploration, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes and he retreated into the crowd.

Everyone was not surprised by this result. After Chen Yuan received the reward, they all stared closely at Jin Luoheng, waiting for him to announce the next reward.

In this trip to the secret realm, the top three will receive generous rewards.

Even if Chen Yuan takes away the most generous reward, others are not without hope.

The monk surnamed Qi's eyes widened. There was actually a foundation-building monk among this group of qi-refining disciples!

But seeing that everyone present had no objection to this person receiving the reward, he naturally wouldn't say anything.

But in the following time, he kept looking at Chen Yuan with doubts in his eyes.

Two quarters of an hour later, Jin Luoheng handed out all the rewards, and this trip to the secret realm was completely over.

Yun Fang and Duan Changyu stayed with Chen Yuan the longest and harvested the most spiritual herbs. Their contributions were ranked second and third. They both received two foundation-building pills, a low-grade spiritual weapon, a bottle of Yuan-increasing pill, and a Rewards of low-grade spiritual talismans and ten mid-grade spiritual stones.

Before the two left, they specifically found Chen Yuan and expressed their gratitude to him.

After spending a few days with the two of them, Chen Yuan found out that they were both Three Spiritual Root monks. They had entered the sect since they were young and had good talents. Now that they had received such generous rewards, foundation building should be a piece of cake.

Among them, Yun Fang was born in a small Immortal Cultivation Family that was attached to the Lingyun Sect. The patriarch was a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator and had a solid foundation.

Therefore, he did not put on the airs of a senior in front of the two of them, and said with a smile: "I wish the two nephews will break through the foundation building as soon as possible, and then I can discuss friendship with you as equals."

According to the rules of the world of immortality, age is not valued, only seniority is judged based on cultivation.

Now the two of them are still junior nephews in front of Chen Yuan, but if they wait for them to break through the foundation building, they will become Chen Yuan's junior brothers.

Yun Fang and Duan Changyu didn't know that Chen Yuan had worshiped Jin Luoheng as their teacher, but they admired his generous and righteous character and treated him with great respect.

Duan Changyu said: "Master Uncle Chen's life-saving grace, I will keep it in my heart and I will be rewarded."

Yun Fang said: "Senior Brother Duan and I were able to harvest so many spiritual herbs because of Master Chen's support. After I return, I will inform the clan of this matter. From now on, Master Chen will be a distinguished guest of my Yun family. If you need anything, just ask. I, the Yun clan, will do my best to help.”

Chen Yuan's heart moved and he said: "Chen does have something to do to trouble Junior Nephew Yun, but the matter is not urgent. Senior Nephew Yun will focus on breaking through the foundation first. After the success is achieved, I will pay you a visit."

When Yun Fang heard this, he immediately looked happy and told Chen Yuan the address of his cave before saying goodbye and leaving.

At the same time, other qi refining disciples also left the Lingyun Peak one after another. Only Jin Luoheng, Ji Bin, a few alchemists and Chen Yuan were left here.

The monk surnamed Qi bowed to Jin Luoheng and Ji Bin and said, "Two master uncles, can I bring these spiritual herbs back to the Alchemy Pavilion now?"

Jin Luoheng shook his head and said, "Master Nephew Qi, wait a moment."

He left half of the spiritual grasses that Chen Yuan brought out, including twelve eight-hundred-year-old grasses, fifty-two five-hundred-year-old grasses, one hundred and twenty-three three-hundred-year-old grasses, and sixty-five hundred-year-old grasses.

Then he took out more than twenty 500-year-old spiritual herbs and handed them to Ji Bin, then pointed at the remaining spiritual herbs and said, "You can take these spiritual herbs with you."

The monk surnamed Qi was stunned: "Uncle Jin, what does this mean?"

Jin Luoheng said lightly: "These spiritual herbs were all brought out by Chen Yuan from the secret realm. I have accepted him as a disciple. According to the rules, half of the spiritual herbs can be kept. What's the problem with this?"

The monk surnamed Qi was unwilling to have half of the spiritual herbs taken away. He looked very ugly and said, "Junior brother Chen is a foundation-building monk. How can he enter the secret realm and collect the spiritual herbs?"

Thanks to Shuangxiu Dao Ancestor Mohun for the reward!