Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

The old man in sackcloth carefully looked at the Huanyin Stone in his hand. After a while, he nodded and said: "This Huanyin Stone is of great weight and of excellent quality, which is enough to upgrade these gloves to a top-quality spiritual weapon."

In front of him, hung a pair of gloves as thin as cicada wings. One of them was intact, but the other had two holes, revealing a few messy white threads.

Chen Yuan was sitting opposite the old man in sackcloth. Hearing this, a smile appeared on his face and he bowed to him: "Thank you, Master Nie."

As he spoke, he touched the storage bag, took out a jade box, took out the Green Mango Snake Demon Pill, and handed it to the old man in sackcloth.

The old man in sackcloth took the demon pill and suddenly shook his head, with a look of regret on his face: "I didn't expect that Fellow Daoist Chen could find such a large piece of Huanyin Stone. The original idea was a bit rough. It's a pity that this thousand-year-old ice silk silk …”

Chen Yuan asked: "Why did Master Nie say this?"

The old man in sackcloth looked at the gloves in front of him and said without raising his head: "Thousand-year-old ice silk is a top-grade spiritual material, which can be used as the main material for refining magic weapons."

"Although the silk used in this pair of gloves is not much, if more silk can be added in the future, it may be able to be made into a magic weapon."

"But if you add the green light snake demon pill and the phantom yin stone and practice it again, these gloves can only stop here. Unless you add another piece of century-old cold jade, it will have the potential to improve again."

Chen Yuan's heart moved: "May I ask Master Nie, what kind of spiritual material is this hundred-year-old cold jade?"

The old man in sackcloth said: "Centennial Cold Jade, like Millennium Ice Silk and Fantasy Yin Stone, are all ice-attributed spiritual materials. Although not as rare as Magic Yin Stone, it is still quite precious. I have only seen two pieces in my life."

"This jade is completely transparent, about the size of a foot. It is like an ice cube, but it is very hard. It contains a ray of ice essence, which can evolve into ice spirits. It is just too thin, otherwise even Yuanying monks will covet it. Three feet."

"This jade also has another characteristic. If it survives for a hundred years, it is a medium-grade spiritual material. If it survives for a thousand years, it is a top-grade spiritual material. If it survives for ten thousand years, it is a top-grade spiritual material."

"If fellow Taoist can find a piece of thousand-year-old cold jade and add it to these gloves, if you have the chance to find a thousand-year ice silk and a thousand-year cold jade in the future, and refine it again, it will definitely be upgraded to a magic weapon."

When it came to refining weapons, the old man in sackcloth became eloquent, describing the characteristics of the century-old cold jade in great detail.

Chen Yuan's eyes lit up, he touched his storage bag, took out an object, and said, "Master Nie, please take a look, is this object a century-old cold jade?"

The old man in sackcloth looked intently and saw that Chen Yuan was holding a half-foot-sized piece of transparent ice in his palm. It was completely transparent and exuded a hint of cold air. There was a dense air in it. It was constantly changing its shape and suddenly turned into a white fox. In the blink of an eye, it turned into an ice phoenix, lifelike.

He said happily: "Yes, this is the century-old cold jade! Since my fellow Taoist has found this object, why not take it out as soon as possible?"

Chen Yuan raised his hand and sent the ice cube to the old man in sackcloth. He smiled and said: "I got this jade by chance. I only knew it was an ice-attribute spiritual material, but I didn't know that it was a century-old cold jade. If Master Nie hadn’t informed him, I don’t know how long he would have stayed in Chen’s storage bag.”

He got this century-old cold jade from Xu Feiqing. It was placed together with another ice-attribute spiritual material. Chen Yuan didn't recognize it, but he kept it because he saw that it was rich in spiritual power and not ordinary.

The old man in linen clothes took the Hundred Years Cold Jade, looked it up and down, and said: "The ice essence in the Hundred Years Cold Jade is too thin, which is why it is so big. The Thousand Years Cold Jade is only the size of a palm. The legendary Ten Thousand Years Cold Jade, It contains a wisp of extremely pure ice essence, only as long as your thumb.”

"This piece of cold jade is only half a foot in size. Before it was picked, it absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for at least eight hundred years. It is also top-grade among the century-old cold jade."

"The person who picked the jade is really wasting the natural resources. If he waits for more than a hundred years, this jade can be turned into a thousand-year-old cold jade that is rare in the world..."

The old man in sackcloth shook his head regretfully, while Chen Yuan and Nie Ruyue just smiled and said nothing.

Who would leave the spiritual materials unavailable and wait for more than a hundred years?

Only someone like the old man in Mai who is obsessed with refining weapons would have such an idea.

The old man in sackcloth sighed and finally turned the topic back: "This century-old cold jade has a long life, and the Huanyin Stone is heavy. It will take at least three years to re-forge the thousand-year ice silk gloves. Fellow Taoist, you can wait." rise?"

When he spoke, his eyes were still firmly fixed on the two spiritual materials, Huanyin Stone and Century-old Cold Jade, and he couldn't stop looking at them.

Chen Yuan bowed his hands and said, "Master Nie, please let go and do whatever you want, don't be in a hurry."

The old man in sackcloth said happily: "Okay, fellow Taoist, please go quickly, I am going to start refining the weapon."

He stared at the two rare spiritual materials in front of him, raised his hand and waved twice.

Chen Yuan didn't take it seriously, bowed his hands to the old man in sackcloth, stood up and left.

Nie Ruyue followed Chen Yuan and walked out of the sack-clothed old man's refining room, closed the door, and said apologetically: "Third uncle will forget himself when he sees rare spiritual materials. If there is any disrespect, please forgive me."

Chen Yuan smiled and said: "Master Nie is making weapons for me, how can Chen care?"

The two returned to the living room and sat down again. Nie Ruyue pondered for a moment and said: "The spiritual materials used in this pair of gloves are all provided by fellow Taoists. Logically speaking, I should not need more spiritual stones."

"But this pavilion cannot do business at a loss. It takes a lot of effort for the third uncle to refine Qi for fellow Taoists."

"Furthermore, it is difficult to refine the three spiritual materials of Thousand-Year Ice Silk, Hundred-Year Cold Jade, and Fantasy Yin Stone. The Earth Fire Formation consumes a lot of money. It requires at least sixty medium-grade spiritual stones. Please understand, Fellow Daoist Chen."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Chen Yuan, her beautiful eyes showing nervousness.

Sixty pieces of medium-grade spirit stones are enough to buy a high-grade spirit tool. Baoguang Pavilion does not provide spirit materials, but only refining magic tools, and it is extremely worthless to charge so many spirit stones.

If it were an ordinary guest, Nie Ruyue would not care so much, but Chen Yuan was backed by Lingyun Sect, with powerful means, and this time he took out a large number of spirit tools for sale, so she dared not offend him at all.

But Chen Yuan did not refuse directly as Nie Ruyue worried, and did not even hesitate: "As long as this tool can be refined, sixty pieces of spirit stones are nothing."

Nie Ruyue felt relieved, a bright smile bloomed on her face, and her eyes moved: "Don't worry, fellow Daoist Chen, the third uncle's action will definitely satisfy you. Please wait for a moment, I will get the spirit stones now."

She stood up, bowed, and walked out of the reception room.

After a moment, Nie Ruyue turned around and handed a storage bag to Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan used his spiritual sense to explore inside. There were 320 medium-grade spirit stones in the storage bag, which was exactly the number she and Nie Ruyue agreed on after deducting 60 medium-grade spirit stones.

He put away the storage bag, pondered for a moment, and said: "Chen has another unwelcome request. I hope that Master Nie can help you."

Nie Ruyue smiled and said: "Fellow Daoist Chen, please tell me. As long as I can help, I will never refuse."

Chen Yuan bowed and said: "Chen is not proficient in refining techniques. I only know the common spirit materials in the world of immortal cultivation. Even if I encounter rare spirit materials, I can't recognize them at a glance. I almost let the treasures be covered in dust. I wonder if Master Nie has a spirit material illustration in his hand, so that Chen can make up for it?"

Hearing this, Nie Ruyue showed a hint of hesitation on her face and frowned slightly.

Since Chen Yuan asked, what he wanted was not an ordinary illustration, but an illustration that included rare spirit materials.

This is the experience and knowledge accumulated by the Nie family over hundreds of years, covering thousands of rare spiritual materials, even many high-quality spiritual materials. Only the direct descendants of the family and the master of refining know about it, and it is never passed on to others.

If she gave it to Chen Yuan, it would violate the family rules, but if she didn't give it to Chen Yuan, it would offend Chen Yuan, which made her very embarrassed.

Chen Yuan saw Nie Ruyue's embarrassment and said, "It seems that Chen is abrupt. If it is inconvenient for Master Nie, just pretend that Chen has never mentioned it."

Nie Ruyue sighed after hearing this: "Well, since Fellow Daoist Chen has brought so many business to our pavilion, I will make an exception this time."

She stroked her storage bag, took out a jade slip, raised her hand and waved it in front of Chen Yuan, saying seriously: "My Nie family makes a living by refining tools. For hundreds of years, we have recorded the characteristics of thousands of spiritual materials, including extremely rare high-quality spiritual materials, and even three kinds of top-quality spiritual materials. Only the direct descendants of the family and the master of refining tools know about it. Please don't disclose this matter."

Chen Yuan took the jade slip and said solemnly: "Chen owes Fellow Daoist Nie a favor. If you need it in the future, just ask."

The Nie family has had Jindan cultivators in every generation. Three hundred years ago, there was also a master of refining tools. He was well-known in the entire Qi Kingdom's cultivation world. This spiritual material illustration is also extremely precious.

He had seen a lot of spiritual materials from the memory of Master Qingyou, but Master Qingyou was not good at refining weapons, and was far from being comparable to the accumulation of the entire Nie family.

When Nie Ruyue saw Chen Yuan change his name, he knew that he had made the right move, and his smile became even brighter, radiant: "Daoyou, you are too kind, as long as Daoyou gives priority to our pavilion when selling spiritual weapons in the future."

The two exchanged a few more pleasantries, Chen Yuan stood up and said goodbye, and Nie Ruyue personally sent him out of Baoguang Pavilion.

After Chen Yuan said goodbye to Nie Ruyue, he did not stay in Lingyun Market for long, but drove the Duyun Boat directly back to the Lingyun Sect's mountain gate.

He came out of the sect this time just to get the sword, and at the same time asked the old man in hemp clothes to refine the thousand-year-old ice silk gloves.

The matter of the ancient teleportation array is not urgent at the moment, and it will not be too late to investigate after his cultivation has improved.

Chen Yuan returned to Lingyun Sect smoothly. After the patrol monk verified his identity, he entered the mountain gate, returned to Yunyin Peak, closed his cave, and meditated.

Spring and autumn changed, cold and hot changed, and a year and a half passed in a flash.

Chen Yuan had been practicing in seclusion in the mansion. During this period, there was a shortage of elixirs, so he opened the furnace to refine two furnaces of Nanguang Dan and one furnace of Heqi Dan, refined the medicinal power, and broke through the bottleneck of the late foundation building in one fell swoop.

In the next six months, he practiced the skills and breathed in the spiritual energy. Until today, he finally stabilized his realm and could fight with others.

At this time, Chen Yuan had run out of elixirs, and only one furnace of Qinglu Dan Lingcao was left, and he had not yet refined elixirs.

In addition to meditating and practicing, Chen Yuan also refined the blood escape technique passed down by Master Qingyou, and his means of saving his life were improved a little bit.

He stood up and went to another spacious and empty stone chamber. His true essence flowed in his body, and his body grew to about eight feet. His muscles bulged, his skin turned bronze, and a fierce aura slowly emanated from him.

He clenched his fists, feeling the surge of strength, and stroked his storage bag, taking out a top-grade magic weapon he had obtained from another cultivator, and squeezed it hard.

Crack!

This top-grade magic weapon only lasted for a moment before it was pinched in half by Chen Yuan, and its spiritual light dimmed.

In the past year and a half, he has been constantly drawing starlight into his body, and his physical body has become much stronger, and there is only a thin line between him and a level five monster.

Moreover, after Chen Yuan's cultivation level broke through, his true essence became more refined. After Chen Yuan used the secret technique of the giant spirit body, his strength exceeded 300,000 pounds, even surpassing some level five monsters that were not known for their physical bodies.

If he faced Xu Feiqing again, he only needed five or six punches to break the seven-story pagoda.

Chen Yuan nodded with satisfaction, dispelled the secret technique of the giant spirit body, and his body returned to normal. He walked out of the cave and spread his spiritual consciousness, almost covering the entire Yunyin Peak.

After the breakthrough in cultivation, his spiritual consciousness can extend more than 600 feet, more than twice that of ordinary late-stage foundation-building cultivators.

Chen Yuan showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, retracted his spiritual consciousness, drove the escape light, and flew to the Good Merit Hall.

Although he had Zhuge Qi's permission to return to the sect for three years, it was not a relief.

At this time of war, the Lingyun sect cultivators who stayed in the sect must complete at least one sect mission every year, otherwise they will be severely punished.

Chen Yuan killed seven demon cultivators of the same level in the Demon-Slaying Desert. His record was brilliant and he made great contributions. He did not have to complete the sect mission in the first year, but he could no longer avoid it in the second year.

For this reason, he deliberately came out of retreat six months in advance to leave enough time to complete the mission.

…

The Hall of Good Deeds was much quieter than before. More than 90% of the core disciples of Lingyun Sect were not in the mountain gate. They were either going to the Demon Desert to participate in the war or taking sect missions and running around.

Only a small number of deacon disciples stayed behind. Some went to the Demon Desert, and some went to Lingyun Market and the spiritual stone veins in various places to handle various chores.

Qi-refining disciples did not have to participate in the war, but they needed to ripen spiritual herbs and dig spiritual mines. Some inner disciples with high cultivation went to Mingcang Lake to hunt monsters.

Chen Yuan knew the situation of Lingyun Sect very well. In the past year and a half, he did not practice hard in seclusion, but often contacted Sun Congyao, Mo Jingchun, and Yi Jin.

Not long after Chen Yuan went into seclusion, Sun Congyao returned to the mountain gate, met Chen Yuan, and went to the Demon Desert.

He was quite confident in his own strength and did not want to waste time on sect missions. He wanted to exchange the heads of demon cultivators for good deeds.

Moreover, he was quite worried about Shen Danmei. If the two of them joined forces to fight the enemy, they could also take care of each other.

Yi Jin had been staying in the mountain gate. He was quite afraid of the Demon-Slaying Desert. Moreover, even if the deacon disciples went to the Demon-Slaying Desert, their merits would not increase much. It was better to stay in the mountain gate and live a peaceful life.

Mo Jingchun killed five cultivators of the same level nearly a year ago and was able to return to the sect to recuperate.

But he only practiced in seclusion for a year and improved his cultivation a lot, so he took the initiative to go to the Demon-Slaying Desert.

According to the rules of Lingyun Sect, those who have returned to the sect for less than a year do not have to complete the sect's tasks.

However, several foundation-building cultivators who returned to the sect at the same time as Mo Jingchun stayed in the mountain gate and have not gone to the Demon-Slaying Desert since then.

According to Mo Jingchun, there are constant battles in the Demon-Slaying Desert every day, and a battle of a thousand people breaks out from time to time. There was even a bloody battle that brought together two thousand cultivators, which was extremely cruel.

Now the two sides are fighting again, and they are no longer like the first battle, where they set up their formations and fight head-on.

Instead, three or two monks formed teams and entered the battlefield designated by the Jindan monks to find their opponents on their own, just like hunting monsters.

However, in this hunting ground, both sides were monsters in each other's eyes.

The rewards offered by Lingyun Sect were getting higher and higher, but there was no longer a reward of 10,000 merits for killing a monk of the same level, as in the first thousand-man battle.

However, compared with the sect missions, those who made military achievements could get more than three times the merit rewards of ordinary sect missions, which attracted many monks like Sun Congyao and Mo Jingchun who were quite confident in their own strength.

Anyway, staying in the mountain gate would also require taking sect missions, and they would also have to fight against demon cultivators, which might be more dangerous, but the rewards would be much less.

Before leaving, Mo Jingchun advised Chen Yuan to go to the Demon Desert as soon as possible so that they could take care of each other.

Chen Yuan had his own plan and was not short of merits, so he declined Mo Jingchun's proposal and continued to practice in the mountain gate until today, when he came out of retreat.

He came to the fourth red lacquer pillar, spread his spiritual sense, looked at the task talismans hanging on the pillar one by one, and took one of them.

These sect tasks are roughly divided into garrisoning spirit stone mines, eradicating demon cultivators, investigating the intelligence of Wuguo Demon Sect, etc.

The sect task that Chen Yuan received was relatively simple, only requiring the killing of two mid-stage foundation-building demon cultivators and handing over their heads and bodies.

Of course, it was because of his high strength that he had such an idea. For ordinary foundation-building cultivators, this task was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

After Chen Yuan received the sect task, he came to Lingzhen Pavilion and exchanged 100,000 good deeds for five high-quality spirit stones.

Lingzhen Pavilion is a place dedicated to exchanging spirit stones. It is located in a remote area and is rarely visited.

In Lingyun Sect, good deeds can be exchanged for elixirs, spiritual tools, spiritual herbs, spiritual materials, secret techniques and magical powers, and do not need to be exchanged for spirit stones at all.

Moreover, when exchanging good deeds for spirit stones, only low-grade spirit stones are not discounted. If you exchange for medium-grade spirit stones or high-grade spirit stones, it is not cost-effective.

One hundred thousand good deeds can be exchanged for one hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones, but only for eight hundred medium-grade spirit stones and five high-grade spirit stones.

This is even more disparate than the ratio of exchanging for high-grade spirit stones in the market, which is obviously to prevent disciples from exchanging with good deeds.

However, high-grade spirit stones are extremely precious and are mostly used by Jindan cultivators. If you want to exchange five high-grade spirit stones at a time in the market, it is extremely difficult. It is hard to say whether it is a loss or a profit to spend more good deeds.

Chen Yuan collected the spirit stones, found Lian Yan, and used the remaining 20,000 good deeds to exchange for twenty three-hundred-year-old spirit herbs to make up three furnaces of Yuliang Pills.

At this point, he spent all his good deeds, and then drove the Duyun Boat, left the mountain gate, and flew south.

After Chen Yuan's cultivation level increased, it became much easier for him to control the Duyun Boat. Two days later, he arrived at Huanyue Market.

He lowered his light of escape and walked along the mountain path into the market.

This place is much more prosperous than Lingyun Market. Lingyun Market is located in the northern border of Qi State, close to Wu State, and is often invaded by demon cultivators. Many independent cultivators flee to other places.

Huanyue Market is far away from the border, and demon cultivators dare not be too presumptuous. Many independent cultivators take shelter here.

Chen Yuan came here to complete the sect mission, and then he can rest assured to investigate the situation of the ancient teleportation array and find the descendants of the true spirit.