Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

The next morning, Chen Yuan arrived at Sun Congyao's cave at the agreed time.

Sun Congyao personally went out to greet him and led Chen Yuan into the cave.

The two sat down as host and guest. After a few pleasantries, Chen Yuan got to the point: "I just returned to the sect yesterday and have not yet paid my respects to Master. When I came out of retreat before, Master said that he would leave the sect for a while. I wonder if he is still in the mountain gate?"

Sun Congyao shook his head and said, "Junior brother came back a step late. I was summoned by Master a few days ago, and then Master left the sect."

Chen Yuan frowned slightly. He had been away from the sect for only one month this time. He thought Jin Luoheng was still in the mountain gate and wanted to offer him the five-hundred-year-old spiritual grass, but he didn't expect that he had already left the sect.

Without Jin Luoheng, where could he get the three-hundred-year-old spiritual grass?

More than 90% of the three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs in Qi's cultivation world are in the hands of the six major sects. Even if you want to buy them in the market, they are priceless.

The Alchemy Pavilion stipulates that the Alchemy Master can only exchange three hundred-year spiritual herbs every five years. If you want to exchange more hundred-year spiritual herbs, you need to get the approval of the two heads of the Alchemy Pavilion.

The more rare three hundred-year spiritual herbs can only be exchanged by the Alchemy Master. The disciples of Lingyun Sect can only exchange for the middle and late foundation building pills, and the required merits are extremely high.

Chen Yuan is qualified to exchange for spiritual herbs, but he is a casual cultivator and has no friendship with the two heads of the Alchemy Pavilion. Even if he has no lack of merits, he cannot exchange them.

Sun Congyao saw that Chen Yuan looked different and asked, "Brother Chen, do you want to see Master for something?"

Chen Yuan suppressed his turbulent emotions: "I do have a small matter that I want Master to help me with."

Sun Congyao said seriously: "Brother Chen, if you have any questions, just tell me."

"Before Master left, he specifically told me that if you and Sister Shen have any problems, you can come to me directly."

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Then I will speak frankly. I completed the sect mission this time and got a good deed. I want to exchange a batch of three hundred years old spiritual herbs and one hundred years old spiritual herbs from the Alchemy Pavilion for alchemy. Senior brother, do you have a way?"

Sun Congyao frowned: "How many spiritual herbs do you want to exchange?"

Chen Yuan lowered his head and thought for a moment, and said: "Ten three hundred years old spiritual herbs and twenty one hundred years old spiritual herbs."

Now he has five furnaces of spiritual herbs for elixirs. Among them, Zengyuan Dan has little effect on the cultivators in the middle stage of foundation building. The remaining four furnaces of spiritual herbs can be used for cultivation after being refined into elixirs.

Chen Yuan's current cultivation is at the beginning of the middle stage of foundation building. If he simply absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it will take about eighty years to cultivate to the peak of the middle stage of foundation building.

This is the impact of aptitude on cultivation. Chen Yuan is a cultivator with five spiritual roots. If he does not rely on elixirs, he will never be able to form a golden elixir even if he practices in seclusion day and night.

These four furnaces of elixirs can be equivalent to about twenty-five years of hard practice. Together with the three elixirs obtained from Wang Ran, it is only about twenty-eight years.

There is also a furnace of Yuliang Dan. One elixir can be equivalent to two years of hard practice for Chen Yuan. The three hundred-year-old spiritual herbs required are more and more difficult to exchange.

If you practice with Qingning Dan, Nanguang Dan, and Heqi Dan, the three middle stage elixirs of foundation building, you need to refine at least nine furnaces of elixirs.

These three elixirs use one three hundred-year-old spiritual herb as the main medicine and two to three hundred-year-old spiritual herbs as auxiliary medicines. A slight estimate will give the answer.

Sun Congyao was surprised when he heard this: "So many spiritual herbs require at least 30,000 merits. Junior brother just completed a sect mission and got so many merits as a reward?"

Chen Yuan said: "I still have some medium-grade spiritual stones in my hand, which can be exchanged for merits, enough to exchange for spiritual herbs."

According to the rules of Lingyun Sect, two low-grade spiritual stones can be exchanged for one merit, one medium-grade spiritual stone can be exchanged for 100 merits, and one high-grade spiritual stone can be exchanged for 10,000 merits.

Sun Congyao suddenly realized: "Brother, I forgot that Junior brother is an alchemist, so he naturally has no shortage of spiritual stones."

Chen Yuan smiled without saying anything, picked up the spiritual tea and took a sip.

Some alchemists not only intercept the elixir for others, but also collect spiritual stones. Sun Congyao obviously thought that he would do the same when he made elixirs for outsiders.

Chen Yuan put down the teacup and said, "Brother, you just asked me how many spiritual herbs I want to exchange. Do you know how to get them?"

Sun Congyao hesitated and said, "Brother, I happen to have some friendship with Lian Yan, the junior sister of the Alchemy Pavilion, but the number of spiritual herbs you want to exchange is too large, which is a bit difficult to handle. I can only speak for you. Whether it can be done depends on you and Lian. "

Chen Yuan's eyes lit up and he bowed and said, "Brother, please help me make a connection. I will discuss the specific conditions with Lian."

Sun Congyao said, "I will tell Lian that you will come to my house again at noon tomorrow."

Chen Yuan immediately agreed and stood up to say goodbye.

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The next day, Chen Yuan arrived at Sun Congyao's cave house two quarters of an hour early. Sun Congyao welcomed him into the house and said, "Junior Sister Lian has not arrived yet. Please wait for a while."

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "It's okay. I came a little early."

The two sat down and waited. Sun Congyao poured spiritual tea for Chen Yuan and said, "Junior Sister Lian is one of the two masters of the Alchemy Pavilion. She is very skilled in alchemy. You can have some exchanges with her."

Chen Yuan was puzzled and said, "Since you know Senior Sister Lian, why did you ask me to make alchemy before?"

Sun Congyao was stunned, took a few sips of tea, and remained silent.

Chen Yuan knew that he had said something wrong, so he took the initiative to change the subject: "I encountered a difficulty when I was practicing before..."

The two drank tea and chatted, exchanging their experience in practice.

While talking, Chen Yuan did not forget to spread his spiritual consciousness, covering an area of ​​more than 300 feet in radius, so as to avoid being unable to greet Lian Yan in time when she arrived.

Suddenly, Chen Yuan's expression changed. After a moment, Sun Congyao suddenly said, "Junior Sister Lian is here. Junior Brother, follow me out of the house to greet her."

The two stood up and walked outside the house. A beam of light happened to fall, revealing the figure of a female cultivator.

Chen Yuan stared at her. The woman had a pretty face, a single spiral bun, and a lavender pleated Liuxian skirt. Her eyes were big and bright. After landing, she slowly walked towards the two of them.

Sun Congyao took the initiative to greet her, expressionless, and bowed, saying, "Junior Sister Lian, thank you for making this trip."

Lian Yan looked at Sun Congyao, bowed, and said softly, "I haven't seen you for five years. Senior Brother Sun is still as elegant as ever."

Chen Yuan took a step forward and bowed, "I am Chen Yuan, and I meet Senior Sister Lian."

Lian Yan looked away and saluted Chen Yuan in return, "Junior Brother Chen is polite."

After saying that, she turned her gaze back and looked at Sun Congyao.

Sun Congyao coughed lightly and raised his hand to invite her: "Junior Sister Lian, please come in."

Lian Yan nodded slightly and walked towards the cave.

The three of them walked into the cave and sat down as host and guest. Sun Congyao poured spiritual tea for Lian Yan and said expressionlessly: "Junior Sister Lian, please come in."

Lian Yan raised the teacup and drank the tea in the cup, but her eyes never left Sun Congyao.

Chen Yuan looked at Sun Congyao, then at Lian Yan, and felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange.

Sun Congyao said expressionlessly: "Junior Sister Lian, Junior Brother Chen wants to exchange some spiritual herbs from the Alchemy Pavilion. I wonder if Junior Sister is convenient?"