Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Sun Congyao retracted his gaze and sighed: "This is a long story."

Seeing that he didn't want to talk any more, Chen Yuan stopped asking questions. He stroked his storage bag, took out twenty medium-grade spirit stones, raised his hand and waved them to Sun Congyao, saying: "Thank you for your help. Please accept these spirit stones."

Sun Congyao frowned and said unhappily: "Junior brother, do you think I am a broker?"

Chen Yuan said seriously: "Senior brother, you misunderstood. How dare I have such an idea."

"But Senior Brother Asking for help from Senior Sister Lian for my matter obviously violates Senior Brother's smile. These few spiritual stones are just to express my guilt. "

"And when Senior Brother asked me to make the elixir, he also followed the rules and asked me to keep one elixir. How could I let Senior Brother work for nothing?"

Sun Congyao's expression eased a little, and he nodded and said, "Well, the rules cannot be broken, so I will accept these twenty spiritual stones."

He raised his sleeves and put the spiritual stones into the storage bag. Chen Yuan then bowed and said goodbye, drove the escape light, and returned to the cave of Yunyin Peak.

Late that night, Chen Yuan drew the starlight to infuse his body to strengthen his physical body and consciousness. In the next two days, he has been meditating and practicing to restore the true essence in his body.

On the morning of the third day, he received a sound transmission note from Lian Yan, and learned that the exchange of spiritual herbs had been completed. He immediately rushed to the Alchemy Pavilion, handed over the black condensing grass and cliff incense flower to Lian Yan, and then used 12,000 merits and 180 medium-grade spiritual stones to exchange for ten three-hundred-year spiritual herbs and thirty hundred-year spiritual herbs.

Jin Luoheng had given him dozens of hundred-year spiritual herbs before, and now there were still some left. Together with the spiritual herbs obtained from the middle-aged scholar, the consumptive ghost, Ningbi, and Zhuang Ji, he gathered nine furnaces of elixirs, including two furnaces of Nanguan Dan, four furnaces of Qingning Dan, and three furnaces of Heqi Dan.

Together with the original two furnaces of Heqi Dan and one furnace of Nanguan Dan, it was enough for Chen Yuan to practice to the late stage of foundation building.

But after this incident, all the 12,000 merits in his hand were spent, and there were only 33 medium-grade spiritual stones left, and his wealth was greatly reduced.

After getting the spiritual herbs, Chen Yuan came to the Earth Fire Hall, rented a second-class Earth Fire Room for half a year, and began to refine pills.

With Chen Yuan's current alchemy skills, it would take at least twelve days to refine a furnace of mid-stage foundation-building pills.

He did not plan to refine Yuliang Pill and Zengyuan Pill this time. He had to refine a total of fifteen furnaces of pills, which would take just half a year.

After entering the Earth Fire Room, Chen Yuan followed his habit of refining the easy ones first and then the difficult ones, starting with Qingning Pill, then refining Heqi Pill, and finally refining Nanguang Pill.

Two and a half months later, Chen Yuan refined six furnaces of Qingning Pills, each with a success rate of 60%.

Two months later, he refined five furnaces of Heqi Pills, also with a success rate of 60%.

After refining eleven furnaces of pills, Chen Yuan's alchemy skills improved a lot, and he vaguely touched the threshold of a 70% success rate.

He adjusted his breath a little and began to refine Nanguang Pill.

Among the three kinds of pills, Nanguang Pill is the most difficult to refine. The three hundred-year-old spiritual herbs used are very spiritual, and four hundred-year-old spiritual herbs are needed as auxiliary medicines, one more than Qingning Pill and Heqi Pill.

After the first batch of Nanguang Dan was refined, the success rate was still 60%.

But Chen Yuan had some realization, and without adjusting his breath to recover, he began to refine the second batch of Nanguang Dan.

Twelve days later, Chen Yuan, who was sitting in front of the alchemy furnace, suddenly opened his eyes, raised his hand and waved, the furnace cover rose, and seven shining pills flew out of the alchemy furnace and fell into the jade bottle beside him.

Chen Yuan smiled. He refined thirteen batches of pills in a row, and his alchemy skills finally reached a new level. The success rate of refining the mid-stage foundation-building pills finally reached 70%!

He was in a good mood, put away the jade bottle, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath.

After refining two batches of pills in a row, his true essence was greatly depleted, and his spirit was also quite tired, and he needed to rest well.

Two days later, Chen Yuan's true essence was fully restored, and his spirit was full of energy, and he continued to refine the third batch of Nanguang Dan.

A month later, the last two batches of Nanguang Dan were refined, and the lease of the earth fire room was also up.

Chen Yuan left the Earth Fire Hall, rode on the light of escape, and came to Wang Ran's cave, handing him ten Qingning pills and six Nanguang pills.

Wang Ran saw that there were six pills in the jade bottle containing Nanguang pills, and was surprised: "Brother Chen didn't leave a Nanguang pill?"

Chen Yuan smiled lightly and said: "Brother, don't worry. When I was refining this furnace of Nanguang pills, I occasionally realized something, and my alchemy skills improved a little. I refined seven pills and left one."

Wang Ran heard this and looked at Chen Yuan more kindly: "Brother Chen's alchemy skills are indeed extraordinary. In just a few years, his alchemy skills have improved again. He is expected to become an alchemy master in the future..."

Chen Yuan smiled and did not take Wang Ran's compliment to heart.

To become an alchemy master, you need to increase the success rate of refining late foundation-building pills to 80%, only then there is a glimmer of hope, and reach 90%, only then there is a 30% chance, and you also need a lot of 500-year-old spiritual herbs to practice, he is still far away.

As for the 100% success rate of the pill, very few alchemists have ever reached this level.

The moon is full and then it wanes, and the water is full and then it overflows. If you pursue perfection in the process of alchemy, you will only fail.

...

Chen Yuan handed the pill to Wang Ran, said goodbye and left, and flew back to Yunyin Peak.

He opened the formation restriction, walked into the cave, and saw a sound transmission note hanging in the air.

Chen Yuan raised his hand and took the sound transmission note in his hand, listening attentively. It turned out that Shen Danmei returned to the sect three months ago, saw the sound transmission note he sent, and replied to tell him.

Chen Yuan was delighted, walked out of the cave, drove the escape light, and flew to Caixia Peak.

He hadn't seen Shen Danmei for eight years, and he missed this senior sister very much.

Caixia Peak and Yunyin Peak are not far apart. In just two quarters of an hour, Chen Yuan came to the outside of Shen Danmei's cave, lowered the escape light, and threw out a sound transmission note.

After a while, the restrictions in the cave were lifted, the stone door opened, and Shen Danmei walked out.

She is still dressed in scholar's clothes, wearing a turban on her head, and is full of heroism.

Chen Yuan cupped his hands and said, "Senior Sister Shen!"

Shen Danmei said: "Junior brother, there is no need to be polite, come in and talk."

The two walked into the cave and sat down respectively. Shen Danmei waved his hand and the teapot flew up on its own, pouring some spiritual tea for Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan picked up the spiritual tea, took a few sips, and said: "I have been refining elixirs in the Earth Fire Palace for the past six months. I just returned to the cave today and found out that my senior sister has returned to the sect and came to visit me."

Shen Danmei looked at Chen Yuan carefully twice, frowned and said, "I heard from Senior Brother Sun that you have reached the middle stage of foundation building and have completed a sect task?"

Chen Yuan nodded and said: "Yes, I am familiar with Wang Ran, the deacon of Shanggong Hall, and I received a relatively simple sect task. It only took a month to complete it."

Shen Danmei's expression softened slightly, but then he raised his eyebrows again: "You are so courageous. You dared to accept the sect's mission alone just after you came out of seclusion."

"There are demon cultivators all over the Qi Kingdom. Aren't you afraid of meeting those demons on the reward list and losing your life?"