Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

You don’t know how many years you have practiced, and there are no years in the mountains.

Spring and Autumn change, cold comes and summer comes, and eight years pass in the blink of an eye.

On this day, a golden transmission note was emitted from the Shanggong Hall. It flew to the sky above Yunyin Peak before descending. After walking through the mountains for a while, it came to a secluded cave. With a slight tremble, it passed through the cave's restrictions. The talisman paper disappeared and went straight into the stone gate.

In the training room inside the cave, Chen Yuan was sitting on a futon, meditating with his eyes closed, his body's spiritual energy rising and falling, like the ebb and flow of the tide, he was breathing in the spiritual energy of the world and accumulating true energy and mana.

When the sound transmission sound entered the cave, he seemed to sense something. He slowly opened his eyes, his eyes flashing with light. In the dark stone room, a light that seemed white or green, with an indistinguishable color, suddenly lit up, shining like daylight. But it disappeared after a moment, as if it was an illusion.

After a while, the ups and downs of his body slowly subsided, becoming obscure and introverted, deep and unpredictable.

Chen Yuan emitted his spiritual consciousness, covering the entire cave in an instant. When he came into contact with the transmission notes, an indifferent voice sounded in his ears: "Chen Yuan, the core disciple, has been building the foundation for nine years and has not yet contributed half a cent to the sect. You are limited to one year. , complete a sect task, otherwise you will be severely punished, I hope you will take care of yourself..."

Hearing this, Chen Yuan's eyes flashed, he raised his hand, and the transmission note slowly flew over and landed in his hand.

After this talisman completed its duty of transmitting sound, its spiritual power dimmed and it was useless.

Chen Yuan raised his eyes and saw that in the lower left corner of the transmission talisman, there was a word "shan" painted on it, surrounded by white clouds. Judging from its shape, it was the special transmission talisman for the Shanggong Hall.

He flicked his finger, and a small cluster of flames condensed from the tip of his finger, fell on the transmission note, and burned it to ashes.

After this retreat, his cultivation has improved greatly, and he has now reached the middle stage of foundation building. When using low-level spells such as fireball, he can do whatever he wants and no longer stick to conventions.

"It's finally time to leave seclusion..."

Chen Yuan whispered to himself, slowly stood up from the futon and walked towards the training room.

Now that Shanggong Hall has sent a message reminder, it cannot be delayed any longer. A sect task must be completed in order to avoid punishment.

Chen Yuan came to the stone room that filled his body with starlight. He raised his sleeve and touched it. The big stone blocking the skylight slowly fell to the ground, revealing the stars on the dark sky behind it.

It was late at night, and even if the Shanggong Hall did not send any transmission notes, Chen Yuan would temporarily stop practicing and let the starlight fill his body.

Chen Yuan reached into his arms and took out the brocade bag. After opening it, he revealed the jade jewel inside.

Under the starlight, Jade Jue exudes a faint green light, and the stars in the sky all flash together, converging into a silver beam of light, which slants in from the skylight and falls on Chen Yuan.

The silver light was like water, and Chen Yuan's body was immersed in it, slowly absorbing the essence.

Thirty breaths later, the originally rich silver light pillar turned into a pale white color and slowly dissipated.

Chen Yuan looked at himself, and saw that not a drop of the lake of true energy in his Dantian was left.

He smiled slightly and clenched his fist slightly. At the same time, his consciousness turned around in his body with a look of satisfaction on his face.

After practicing "Nine Transformations of True Spirit", Chen Yuan's physical body has been condensed and he has the method to sense the strength of his physical body. It is no longer like before. He can only vaguely know that he possesses great power and his physical body is strong, but he does not know how far he has cultivated.

During these eight years, while he was in seclusion and practicing hard, he never stopped receiving starlight.

However, it takes at least fifteen days for him to refine a single pill. Therefore, in the past eight years, he has only experienced more than two hundred starlight injections, and many times were wasted.

But even so, Chen Yuan's current physical strength is comparable to that of a level four peak monster, and top-notch magical weapons cannot harm it at all.

A low-grade spiritual weapon can only cause extremely limited damage when attacking Chen Yuan. It must be at least a mid-grade spiritual weapon to cause considerable damage to his physical body.

In addition, his huge strength has increased to more than 100,000 kilograms. Except for a few powerful monsters known for their huge strength, ordinary fourth-level monsters can hardly compare with him.

But after reaching this step, if there is a breakthrough next, the monk's physical body can be compared to a fifth-level monster, and it will undergo earth-shaking changes, which is extremely difficult.

For ordinary physical practitioners, one must either practice hard for hundreds of years and continuously temper the physical body with spiritual energy, or take rare elixirs that can strengthen the physical body in order to break through this difficulty.

For example, for the Dragon Scale Fruit that appeared at the treasure gathering before, you have to take at least hundreds of them to have a chance to break through the bottleneck.

But Chen Yuan is pregnant with a jade that can use the power of the stars in the sky to temper his body, so there is no need for such trouble.

According to his estimation, as long as he undergoes another six to seven hundred starlight injections, that is, in twelve or three years, his physical body will be as strong as a fifth-level monster.

If he finds the true spirit blood at that time, he can start refining it into his body, and then accumulate true energy to reach the peak of the later stage of foundation building and hit the bottleneck of pill formation.

Among the three difficulties in practicing "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", finding the essence and blood of the true spirit undoubtedly ranks first.

Tempering the physical body ranks second, but its difficulty is almost the same as finding blood essence.

It is the easiest to accumulate true energy. Even if you don't have a magic pill in hand, you can also absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, slowly accumulate it, and rank at the bottom.

But Chen Yuan has the Jade Jue in hand, so he does not need to introduce spiritual energy into the body to temper the physical body as recorded in the "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit" technique, nor does he need to spend energy looking for rare elixirs that can strengthen the physical body, thus saving money. A lot of time and spiritual stones.

The next thing to do is to find the descendants of the true spirit, and at the same time accumulate true energy to increase cultivation.

It is not difficult to accumulate true energy. It is nothing more than completing sect tasks, accumulating good deeds, exchanging spiritual herbs, and refining elixirs.

But true spirit descendants are hard to find, and there is no shortcut.

Fortunately, Yujue can sense the true spirit descendants within a thousand feet, so Chen Yuan doesn't have to look for a needle in a haystack.

He planned to visit the places where monsters and beasts gathered in Qi State first, and use the jade to sense the descendants of the true spirits. If he could not find them, he could only try his luck in the places where monsters and beasts gathered in the neighboring countries, and in dangerous secret realms.

This matter can only depend on Chen Yuan's luck. If he is lucky, he may be able to find the descendants of the true spirit in Qi State.

If you are unlucky, you may waste decades or even travel all over Donghua Continent without finding anything.

But Chen Yuan doesn't need to worry about this yet. He must save his life from the evil calamity before he can continue to climb the road.

Chen Yuan suppressed the distracting thoughts in his heart, returned to the practice room, sat on the futon, slowly closed his eyes, absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and restored the true energy in his body.

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Five days later, all the true energy in Chen Yuan's body was restored, he walked out of the cave, took up the escape light, and headed straight for Jiangzhen Peak.

Since the starlight infusion exhausted the true energy in his Dantian, there was no true energy to guide him when he meditated. Therefore, the speed of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was extremely slow. It took five days to fully recover.

If he still has half of his true energy in his body, he can draw the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and he can recover all of it in just half a day of meditation.

After breaking through to the middle stage of foundation building, Chen Yuan's escape speed was much faster than before. In just a quarter of an hour, he reached the peak of Jiangzhen Peak.

After he comes out of seclusion, he must first pay homage to Jin Luoheng as a disciple.

Chen Yuan dropped his escape light, took out a transmission note, moved his lips slightly, said a few words, then raised his hand and threw it out, waiting quietly.

The telepathic talisman flew into Jinluoheng Cave Mansion. After a while, the stone door opened vaguely, and Chen Yuan stepped in and came to the narrow stone hall.

Jin Luoheng was sitting on the jade bed as usual, wearing a black and white Taoist robe, with disheveled hair, free and easy temperament, and looked at Chen Yuan quietly with a smile on his face.

Eight years of spring and autumn seemed to have left no trace on him.

In fact, the same is true for Chen Yuan. He has practiced both Dharma and Body, and his physical body is full of vitality. He does not need to take any beauty-preserving pills. Eight years have passed, but his appearance has not changed at all.

He bowed respectfully to Jin Luoheng and said, "Disciple Chen Yuan is out of seclusion today and is here to pay homage to the master."

Jin Luoheng smiled and said: "Yes, your cultivation has grown to this point in just eight years. It seems that you have gained a lot from being in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain."

With his level, he could naturally see through Chen Yuan's cultivation in the middle stage of foundation building at a glance.

Chen Yuan explained: "The disciple hunted many second-level monsters in the secret realm and harvested a batch of monster materials..."

Jin Luoheng raised his hand and said, "There is no need to tell my teacher about your opportunity in detail. Now that you have come out of seclusion, what are your plans?"

Chen Yuandao: "Disciples have received a message from the Shanggong Hall to remind them that the ten-year period is approaching and they must complete a sect task, otherwise they will be punished by the sect."

Jin Luoheng nodded slightly: "This matter cannot be delayed. The invasion of demonic monks is imminent. If you violate the sect rules at this time, the situation will be extremely bad."

Chen Yuan was shocked. He had been in seclusion for eight years and had no idea about the outside world. It seemed that another change had occurred in the world of Qi's immortality.

But he couldn't ask Jin Luoheng about this matter, so he could only respond respectfully: "Yes, my disciple will definitely not neglect it.

Jin Luoheng said calmly: "You have been in seclusion for several years without anyone to guide you. When you practice, you should have many doubts. Please tell me in detail and I will answer them for you one by one."

Chen Yuan looked happy and told all the difficult problems he encountered when he was about to practice.

"Nine Transformations of the True Spirit" is a supreme skill, and it is very mysterious. Chen Yuan had a hard time understanding it, and some details were even vaguely understood. At this time, he happened to ask Jin Luoheng for advice.

But he did not state the question directly, but changed it in a different way, turning it into what he encountered and thought when he was practicing, rather than what the technique contained, so that Jin Luoheng would not suspect that he possessed profound techniques.

This consultation lasted for three hours, and only then did Chen Yuan's doubts disappear.

Jin Luoheng smiled and said: "Yes, you can ask these questions, which shows that you have understood the way of cultivation, which is extremely rare. Before I formed the elixir as a teacher, I didn't have your understanding."

Chen Yuan said respectfully: "Disciple is ashamed, it's just some random thoughts, how dare you boast in front of Master."

Jin Luoheng laughed and said: "You, like Yao Cong, always look so humble in front of my master... Go ahead and complete your sect's mission and practice diligently. In the next few years, my master will need to leave the sect. You If something happens, you can look for Yaocong and Danmei."

Chen Yuan bowed deeply: "Yes, I sincerely wish Master all the best for this trip."

After saying that, he bowed and exited the stone hall, turned around and left Jin Luoheng's cave.

Behind Chen Yuan, the stone door of the cave slowly closed.

He stood at the top of Jiangzhen Peak and pondered for a moment. Instead of turning back to the cave, he picked up two transmission notes, moved his lips slightly, said a few words, and raised his hand to send them out.