Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

After sending Mo Jingchun and Yi Jin away, Chen Yuan meditated all night and came to the Alchemy Pavilion the next morning.

He needs to take the alchemy test and refine a furnace of foundation-building elixirs before he can enjoy the treatment of an alchemy master.

In the Lingyun Sect, hundred-year-old spiritual grass is extremely scarce. Only alchemy masters can spend good deeds or spiritual stones to purchase spiritual grass from the alchemy pavilion. Other foundation-building monks can only spend a high price to purchase the elixir directly.

If Chen Yuanruo passes the alchemy test, he can purchase three Breitling Herbs every five years.

This may not seem like much, but there are too many monks and too little food. The Lingyun Sect has at least twenty alchemy masters and more than two hundred early-stage foundation-building monks, all of whom need hundred-year-old grass. Three plants can be exchanged for them every five years, which is a lot.

In addition, he can also accept the task of refining elixirs for the sect. As long as the elixir success rate is above 40%, he can keep the excess elixirs for himself.

However, according to Yi Jin, such alchemy tasks are self-announced to those alchemy masters, and Chen Yuan, an outsider, cannot even hope to receive them.

Chen Yuan didn't care about this. He took the alchemy assessment just to have another way to buy spiritual herbs. He didn't take the one or two elixirs seriously.

After he arrived at the Alchemy Pavilion, he explained his purpose and was led by the disciples on duty to the second floor to receive the token for the alchemy assessment.

The person in charge of this matter was the white-faced monk whom Chen Yuan met when he was taking the third-level alchemy test twelve years ago.

He still had an impression of Chen Yuan. When he saw him coming to take the alchemy master's assessment, a look of astonishment appeared on his face: "You are already an alchemy master? How is that possible?!"

But this time, Chen Yuan was not as respectful as before, and said calmly: "Why, can't Chen become a master of alchemy?"

He is already a foundation-building monk, and there is no need to act like a junior in front of this person.

The white-faced monk also knew that he had made a mistake, and there was a sense of shame and annoyance in his heart. He took out a storage bag, raised his hand and threw it over, then turned to look at the disciple on duty next to him: "You order to go down and let the guard The disciples of the Fire Palace must check carefully and make sure nothing is missed.”

The disciple on duty responded respectfully, but Chen Yuan had no expression on his face, as if he didn't hear the words specifically directed at him.

According to Yi Jin, these alchemy masters are in charge of the alchemy pavilion and do not need to fight with others. On weekdays, many people come to ask for alchemy. They are aloof and unreasonable, and cannot tolerate any disobedience.

Chen Yuan still wants to buy spiritual grass from the Alchemy Pavilion, and he doesn't want to break up with him, so he can only endure it for the time being, but his attitude will naturally not be very good.

He caught the storage bag, turned around and left without saying a word. Accompanied by the disciples on duty, he went to the Earth Fire Hall, handed the storage bag to the person guarding the Earth Fire Hall, and entered a second-class Earth Fire Room. , open the furnace to make alchemy.

The storage bag contains a spiritual herb for the Yuan-Zeng Dan. Chen Yuan only needs to refine three Yuan-Zeng Dan to pass the alchemy test.

This was not difficult at all for Chen Yuan. Although he had never refined the Yuan-Zeng Dan, he was able to refine the Foundation-Building Dan, which was equivalent to the late-stage Foundation-Building Dan. He just recalled the recipe and was confident.

Twelve days later, Chen Yuan opened the pill furnace in front of him, and five white pills flew out from it, and a dense fragrance of pills slowly dispersed.

The Zengyuan Pill is only an early stage elixir for foundation building. It is much simpler to refine. It takes three days less than the time needed to refine the foundation building pill.

He walked out of the underground fire room, took back his storage bag, and then went to the second floor of the Alchemy Pavilion. He gave the three Yuan-Zeng Dan that he had refined to the white-faced monk, while he kept the other two pills privately.

The white-faced monk stared at the Zengyuan Pill in his hand, checked it over and over again, and finally reluctantly took out a wooden plaque symbolizing the alchemy master and handed it to Chen Yuan.

He wanted to find some faults in the elixirs, but these three Zengyuan Dans were surrounded by a dense aura of elixirs. They were obviously elixirs that had just been released within three days. Yuan passed the alchemy test.

After Chen Yuan obtained the alchemy master's token, he immediately spent three hundred spirit stones in exchange for three hundred-year-old spirit grass used to refine the Yuan-Zeng Dan.

Later, he received three Yuan-Zeng Dan by virtue of his status as a core disciple.

According to the rules of Lingyun Sect, core disciples who are in the early stage of foundation building can receive three Yuan-increasing Pills from the Alchemy Pavilion every ten years for cultivation.

Once you become a deacon disciple, you will lose this benefit.

However, if your cultivation level increases, the number of pills you receive will gradually decrease.

According to Shen Danmei, she can only receive two mid-stage foundation-building elixirs every ten years, and Sun Congyao can only receive one.

As for Elder Jie Dan, it takes five hundred years of spiritual grass to refine the elixir, which is extremely rare. Even if you include the output of the Dongxu Mountain Secret Realm, you can get one or two pills every ten years, which is pretty good.

Moreover, this is an elixir refined from all the five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs of the Lingyun Sect. In the later stages of foundation building, disciples can exchange the elixir for the elixir with good spiritual stone skills. If the elixir-forming monks want to obtain another elixir for cultivation, they can only find it on their own.

That's why Ji Bin couldn't wait to accept Chen Yuan as his disciple. He could get ten eight-hundred-year-old spiritual grass and dozens of five-hundred-year-old spiritual grass at once, which would save him decades of hard work and was extremely important for the alchemy monks.

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After Chen Yuan received the elixir, he went to the Earth Fire Palace and spent one hundred and fifty spirit stones to rent a second-class Earth Fire Room for three months.

He came to take the alchemy assessment not only to redeem the spiritual grass, but also because only a master of alchemy could rent a second-class earth fire chamber.

The earth fire in the second-level earth fire chamber is more pure and stable, and is more suitable for refining foundation-building elixirs.

Chen Yuan promised Sun Congyao and Yi Jin that they should refine their elixirs as soon as possible.

He first refined Yi Jin's Qing Ning Dan in the order of first easy and then difficult.

Qingning Pill is more difficult to refine than Zengyuan Pill, but Chen Yuan still maintained a 50% success rate.

He told Yi Jin before that maintaining a 40% success rate was a bit conservative.

When Chen Yuan refined the Foundation Establishment Pill, he was not yet a Foundation Establishment cultivator, his mana was thin, and his consciousness was not condensed enough.

Now that he has successfully established his foundation, it has become much easier to refine Foundation Establishment Pills.

The pure and stable earth fire reduced Chen Yuan's mana and consciousness consumption, and also increased the success rate.

A month later, after refining two furnaces of Qingning Pill, Chen Yuan put eight of them into a jade bottle and put the other two pills away separately.

After that, he did not start refining Yuliang Pill immediately, but took out the spiritual herbs of three furnaces of Nanguang Pill, carefully studied the pill formula several times, and then started refining the pill.

Like Qingning Pill, Nanguang Pill is a Foundation Establishment Mid-stage Pill, and the difficulty of refining is much lower than that of Yuliang Pill.

Chen Yuan planned to practice with Nanguang Dan first, and then refine the furnace of Yuliang Dan.

Sun Congyao gave him a piece of black iron essence when they first met. Regardless of the friendship between fellow disciples, he really owed this favor.

He wanted to refine one or two more pills from this furnace of Yuliang Dan to repay Sun Congyao's favor.

With the experience of refining Qingning Dan, Chen Yuan became much more skilled when refining Nanguang Dan.

It took him only 26 days to refine the first two furnaces of pills, and the success rate was 50%.

When refining the third furnace of Nanguang Dan, Chen Yuan became more familiar with it, and the success rate increased to 60%.

After refining three furnaces of pills, a total of 16 Nanguang Dan were obtained, plus the three bottles of Zengyuan Dan before, which was enough to support his practice for several years.

Chen Yuan smiled, put away the Nanguang Dan, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath for a day, constantly pondering the recipe of Yuliang Dan in his mind, and when his condition recovered to the peak, he took out the spiritual herbs and started refining the pill.

He refined thirty-one furnaces of foundation-building pills in a row in the secret realm, which was an unrepeatable experience. It would be impossible for him to squander hundreds of three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs in the future.

Every time he refined the late-stage foundation-building pills, it was a valuable experience that should not be neglected.

Moreover, this furnace of pills was requested by Sun Congyao, so he had to be treated with more care.

During the process of refining the pills, Chen Yuan was fully focused and extremely cautious in every step. After fifteen days of sleepless nights, it was finally time to condense the pills.

He suddenly opened his eyes and pointed a point. A bright spiritual light flew into the pill furnace, split into ten paths, and injected into the pills.

Six pills trembled slightly and turned into pill gas and drifted away.

But the remaining four pills, however, shone brightly and slowly solidified into shape.

Chen Yuan showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, raised his hand and waved, the furnace cover was lifted, and four pills flew out and fell into Chen Yuan's hands.

The four pills were the size of a thumb, bright yellow, with strange patterns on them, a misty air floating, a pill fragrance curling, and a strong spiritual energy.

Chen Yuan's success rate in refining the late foundation-building pills has increased to 40%!

He was in a good mood, took out three of the Yuliang pills, put them into a jade bottle, and put the last pill away separately.

It was worth it for him to practice with three furnaces of Nanguang pills first. The extra Yuliang pill can at least save Sun Yaocong several years of hard practice, enough to repay the favor of Xuan Tiejing.

It happened that the lease of the Earth Fire Room had expired at this time. Chen Yuan left the Earth Fire Hall and returned to the cave, sending a sound transmission note to Sun Congyao.

It happened that Sun Congyao was inside the mountain gate, and in less than two quarters of an hour, he arrived at Yunyin Peak.

Chen Yuan took out the jade bottle and handed it to Sun Congyao, smiling and saying, "Brother Sun, I have fulfilled my mission. Please take a look at these three Yuliang Pills."

"Three?"

Sun Congyao's face changed slightly, he took the jade bottle, opened the cork, poured out three bright yellow pills, and carefully examined them, and couldn't help showing joy.

He had previously asked an alchemy master to refine Yuliang Pills, but this time the pills refined by Chen Yuan were much better than those refined by the alchemy master, exceeding Sun Congyao's expectations.

But he immediately remembered the previous agreement with Chen Yuan, frowned and said, "Brother Chen, I have agreed with you that after refining the Yuliang Pill, you can keep one pill for yourself. Why did you give all three pills to me?"

According to the rules of alchemists, they will not work in vain when refining pills for others, and usually leave one pill as alchemy funds.

Sun Congyao has an upright character. Even though it is not easy to raise spiritual herbs, he does not want to let his fellow junior suffer.

Chen Yuan smiled slightly, stroked his storage bag, took out a jade bottle, poured out a bright yellow pill, and said, "Brother Sun, please look, I have refined four Jade Beam Pills this time, and I have kept one. These three pills should belong to you."