Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Suzhou, Huanyue Mountains.

Tall trees blocked out the sun. These ancient trees, which had survived for who knows how many years, were at least a dozen feet tall, stretching their branches and leaves as much as possible. There was no sunlight under the trees, and it was dark and quiet.

Chen Yuan gathered his energy, performed the Light Body Technique, ran through the forest, spread his consciousness, and paid attention to the movements around him.

He gently grasped the jade in his left hand, hid it in his sleeve, and searched for the descendants of the true spirit that might exist within a thousand feet.

Suddenly, a tiger demon that quietly passed through the forest broke into Chen Yuan's consciousness range and ran towards Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan frowned, changed direction slightly, and walked to the left front.

This tiger demon was only a second-level demon beast, with brisk steps, gently swinging its thick tail, and a lazy look. It should have just been patrolling the territory and did not notice his existence.

Fortunately, Chen Yuan did not want to waste time on it, nor did he look down on its demon pills and demon beast materials. The tiger demon escaped death without realizing it.

The two sides were more than 200 feet apart, which was quite far away. After Chen Yuan changed his route, he quickly got rid of the tiger demon.

The Huanyue Mountains were the same as Mingcang Lake. After the demon cultivators invaded Qi, the number of casual cultivators who went into the mountains to hunt demons decreased a lot, and the demon beasts were no longer as hidden as before.

Level 2 demon beasts like tiger demons used to only move in the depths of the Huanyue Mountains, but now they appear on the edge of the mountains.

The map obtained from Ren Man is probably useless.

When Chen Yuan asked Ren Man to help lure Li Ju to death, he waited for a few days and took action after Cao Xianji returned to Huanyue Market.

During this period, in order to facilitate the search for the descendants of the True Spirit, he asked Ren Man for a map of the Huanyue Mountains.

When Chen Yuan left Huanyue Mountain Range to attend the Ascension Conference, Cao You and Ren Man gave him a map of Huanyue Mountain Range, but their cultivation was not high at that time, and the map was relatively rough.

This map was the experience accumulated by Cao You and Ren Man after he left Huanyue Mountain Range for many years of hunting monsters. It covers most of the places outside Huanyue Mountain Range, as well as the distribution of monsters, and is extremely detailed.

A month ago, after Chen Yuan met Jin Luoheng, he left Lingyun Sect and entered Huanyue Mountain Range with this map to look for traces of the descendants of the True Spirit.

Huanyue Mountain Range is only half the size of Mingcang Lake, and there is no lake water hundreds of feet deep. Chen Yuan only took one month to travel around the periphery of Huanyue Mountain Range, but Yu Jue did not react at all.

In addition to this second-level tiger monster, he also encountered several second-level monsters, and even two third-level monsters.

Among them, there was a third-level rat monster. After sensing Chen Yuan's consciousness, it became ferocious and took the initiative to attack Chen Yuan, and was killed by him.

But this also reminded him that the monsters were extremely sensitive. If he completely dispersed his spiritual sense, it was very likely to disturb the higher-level monsters.

He was not afraid of these monsters, but he had less than a year left to find the descendants of the true spirit, and he had no time to waste on monsters.

So Chen Yuan took the initiative to reduce his spiritual sense to more than two hundred feet. In this range, his spiritual sense was very condensed, and it was difficult for monsters below level five to sense it.

After that, Chen Yuan encountered a level three leopard monster, but the leopard monster did not sense his spiritual sense, so he was able to avoid it in advance, saving a lot of trouble.

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After avoiding the tiger monster, Chen Yuan entered the depths of the Huanyue Mountains.

The peaks here became taller, all of which were more than a thousand feet, towering and extremely steep.

Within the thousand-foot peak, there were several giant peaks more than two thousand feet. The higher you go, the shorter the trees become, until they become meadows. At the highest point, the snow never melts all year round.

In the center, there is a three thousand-foot towering giant peak, and the top of the mountain is hidden in thick clouds all year round.

It is said that several Jindan cultivators climbed this towering peak, but returned with serious injuries. Since then, no one has set foot on the mountain top.

Yujue can sense the true spirit blood within a thousand feet. It seems that the range is very large, but each of these peaks covers a very large area. Chen Yuan took two days to walk through a thousand-foot giant peak, and Yujue still did not respond.

He was not discouraged and continued to climb the second thousand-foot giant peak.

Perhaps because this place is close to the outer edge of the Huanyue Mountains, there are not many monsters on the first peak, and there is no fourth-level monster, only two third-level monsters.

With his powerful spiritual sense, Chen Yuan easily avoided these monsters without wasting any time.

The second peak is higher, the spiritual energy is much richer, and the monsters are much stronger.

Chen Yuan just climbed halfway up the mountain when he encountered two third-level monsters.

When he approached the top of the mountain, the concentration of spiritual energy here is comparable to a miniature spiritual vein.

Chen Yuan immediately slowed down and carefully investigated the surrounding scene.

Along the way, he had never seen a place with such rich spiritual energy. There must be a powerful monster on this mountain.

Chen Yuan walked slowly, and when he was only two hundred feet away from the top of the mountain, his spiritual sense saw a giant eagle.

The feathers of this giant eagle were light gray, but it had a pair of black wings. It was lying in a huge wooden nest, closing its eyes to rest. The whole body was full of demonic energy. It was actually a fourth-level monster.

This was the first time Chen Yuan encountered a fourth-level monster after entering the Huanyue Mountains.

This giant eagle was unusually majestic, and it was known that its bloodline was extraordinary at a glance.

But it had already entered within five hundred feet of Yujue, but Yujue did not react at all. This giant eagle was not a descendant of the true spirit.

Chen Yuan did not want to alarm the giant eagle, so he stopped and turned to the left.

At this moment, the giant eagle suddenly opened its eyes, and looked at Chen Yuan through a huge rock and dense forest, more than two hundred feet away, with a cold and sharp look. It seemed to pierce Chen Yuan's body.

When it was sleeping, it suddenly felt a cold feeling passing through its body, and suddenly woke up. Then it found that a cultivator had entered its territory, and it was extremely angry.

The giant eagle made a sharp cry, stood up, spread a pair of black iron wings, which were three feet long, and suddenly flapped its wings, flew out of the wooden nest, and rushed straight to Chen Yuan!

Chen Yuan had never expected that the giant eagle's perception was so sharp that it could sense his consciousness.

But he avoided the giant eagle before, just because he didn't want to waste time, not because he was afraid of this fourth-level monster.

He snorted coldly, sacrificed the Silver Gang Sword, pointed at one point, and shouted: "Cut!"

The Silver Gang Sword made a clear sound, turned into a silver stream of light, and shot out at a speed that was no less than that of the giant eagle.

Chen Yuan and the giant eagle were only two hundred feet apart, and the giant eagle swooped over again, shortening the distance between the two sides.

In the blink of an eye, the Silver Gang Sword arrived in front of the giant eagle.

After Chen Yuan sacrificed the Silver Gang Sword, he revealed his cultivation in the late stage of foundation building. The giant eagle's originally cold eyes became much more solemn.

Seeing the silver light coming in front of him, it screamed, and suddenly flapped its wings. Four feet-long black iron feathers flew out and shot at the silver light.

A series of crisp metal collisions sounded, and the Silver Gang Sword cut off three black iron feathers in succession, but it was also unable to continue and was stopped.

These iron feathers have been cultivated by the giant eagle's spirit for many years. They are extremely hard, no less than ordinary medium-grade spiritual materials, and barely blocked the Silver Gang Sword.

Seeing that three of its own iron feathers that it had carefully cultivated for many years were destroyed, the giant eagle screamed angrily, bypassed the Silver Gang Sword, and its pair of sharp claws flashed with a faint black light, grabbing Chen Yuan.

These iron feathers are extremely difficult to cultivate. The giant eagle has only six of them. They are usually used to fight against enemies, but today half of them were destroyed. If he doesn't kill Chen Yuan, he will not be able to get rid of the hatred in his heart.

Chen Yuan did not fight the giant eagle head-on. He stroked his storage bag, sacrificed the Xuanshui flag, and laid down the Xuanming water curtain to protect himself. Then he urged his true essence, circled the silver sword, and continued to slash at the giant eagle.

The thousand-year-old ice silk gloves have not been re-refined. Even if he uses the secret technique of the giant spirit body, his physical strength is not as good as the giant eagle's claws that absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and warm it for hundreds of years.

The giant eagle pounced in front of Chen Yuan, grabbed the Xuanming water curtain, and tore off streams of water, almost tearing the water curtain.

But the defensive ability of the Xuanshui flag is comparable to that of a top-grade spiritual weapon. It defended the giant eagle's offensive to the limit. The black tortoise beast shadow continuously sprayed out streams of Xuanming water to replenish the Xuanming water curtain, causing the giant eagle to return empty-handed.

Chen Yuan felt the rapid consumption of his true energy and shook his head slightly.

After all, the Xuanming Water Curtain was only a top-grade spiritual weapon. Although it had extraordinary defensive capabilities and an endless effect, as his cultivation level increased, it became increasingly difficult to fight with it.

The giant eagle almost broke through the Xuanming Water Curtain with one claw just now, forcing him to use the secret technique of the giant spirit body and risk getting injured to fight the giant eagle.

He now had no shortage of spiritual stones, so it was time to change to a defensive spiritual weapon.

The giant eagle was blocked by the Xuanming Water Curtain and became furious. It was about to attack Chen Yuan again, but the Silver Gang Sword had already flown back and slashed at the giant eagle, so it could only flap its wings to avoid it.

The giant eagle only had six life iron wings, and three of them had been cut off by the Silver Gang Sword. It did not dare to fight the Silver Gang Sword and destroy the remaining three iron wings.

But the Silver Gang Sword was so flexible that it changed direction and continued to slash at the giant eagle, forcing it to resist with its claws.

Ding!

The giant eagle's claws were slashed by the silver sword, but there was no trace of injury, but the layer of dark light covering it became a little dim.

The silver sword was hit by a huge recoil force, flew back, drew a semicircle, and slashed again.

Under Chen Yuan's command, the silver sword went back and forth, leaving a series of silver light afterimages in the air, turning into a flickering silver light net, surrounding the giant eagle in the middle.

The giant eagle was huge, and its pair of sharp claws could not stop the slash of the silver sword. It was slashed with wounds on its body, and blood was spilled in the sky.

It was terrified, screamed, and suddenly flapped its wings. Three iron feathers of its life shot towards Chen Yuan, and it flapped its wings and flew away.

These three iron feathers of its life condensed most of the giant eagle's demon power, and the speed was extremely fast. Chen Yuan had no time to dodge, and the Xuanming Water Curtain was directly shot through, and the Xuanwu beast shadow let out a wail.

Chen Yuan immediately used the secret technique of the giant spirit body. His body suddenly grew to about eight feet. His muscles swelled and turned bronze. He raised his arms, crossed them together, and blocked them in front of him.

Puff puff puff!

The black iron feathers shot at Chen Yuan's arms, leaving three deep wounds, almost halfway into his arms, and were about to shoot through his arms.

Chen Yuan felt the severe pain on his arms, his eyes turned cold, and the speed of the silver sword increased by one point, slashing at the giant eagle.

The giant eagle used most of its demon power and all the remaining iron feathers, but still failed to kill Chen Yuan and fell into a desperate situation.

Its demon power was almost gone, and only a thin layer of black light remained on its claws. After blocking two swords, it completely disappeared and was cut off by the third sword.

The hardest claws couldn't stop the silver sword, let alone other places.

The Silver Sword struck the giant eagle twice, severely wounding its wings. The eagle wailed and fell heavily, but before it hit the ground, the Silver Sword slashed down and pierced into the giant eagle's vitals, ending the monster's life.

Chen Yuan dispersed the Mysterious Water Curtain, and the light of the Mysterious Water Flag dimmed a lot, with three holes appearing on the flag.

With a thought, he put the Xuanshui flag into the storage bag, then dispersed the giant spirit body secret technique, pulled out the three black iron feathers on his arms, and blood flowed out from the wound, soon dyeing Chen Yuan's green shirt red.

The giant eagle's desperate attack caused him considerable injuries.

Chen Yuan frowned slightly, stroked the storage bag, took out a jade bottle, poured out a healing pill, swallowed it, and the bleeding slowly stopped. Then he took out a new set of green shirts and put them on, regaining the image of a handsome young man.

He used the power of the Zhoutian stars to cleanse his bones and marrow, tempering his body, comparable to the peak level 4 monster beast. After performing the giant spirit body secret technique, he could even be comparable to the level 5 monster beast, but due to the natural defects of human cultivation, he was still not as good as the monster beast.

Only by refining the essence of the true spirit and blood and refining the first level of the "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit" can one make up for the defects of the human body, and the physical body can be comparable to the royal monster beast. After stimulating the blood of the true spirit, one can kill the giant eagle with a wave of his hand, and even have the supernatural power of the true spirit.

Unfortunately, the descendants of the true spirit are hard to find. Chen Yuan searched all over Mingcang Lake, but found nothing.

The Huanyue Mountains are smaller than Mingcang Lake, and the possibility of finding the descendants of the true spirit is also smaller.

Chen Yuan sighed lightly, dug out the demon pill in the giant eagle's body, put the giant eagle's body into the mustard ring, crossed the top of the mountain, and went down the mountain, sensing the true spirit blood that may exist within a thousand feet.

One day later, he walked all over this thousand-foot mountain, and Yu Jue sensed all places on the mountain, but there was still no response.

Getting nothing is the norm. Chen Yuan has become accustomed to setbacks. Without any waves in his heart, he went to the third mountain.

Between the two peaks is a low hill, only a few dozen feet high, with dense vegetation and many first-level monsters.

Chen Yuan climbed over a hill and suddenly stopped, stroked his storage bag, took out something, and looked at it carefully.

This is a white jade talisman with a lifelike mandarin duck painted on it, about three inches in size.

This jade talisman was given by Ren Man as a return gift for his foundation-building pill. It can resist the attack of a cultivator in the early stage of foundation-building. It has never been used, but it suddenly shone brightly just now.

Suddenly, a mandarin duck phantom flew out of the jade talisman, making a pleasant cry and flying to the east.

Chen Yuan then remembered that there were two mandarin duck jade talismans, one for Ren Man and one for Cao You. Within three miles, they have a mutual induction effect.

Cao You took another black jade talisman into the mountain and disappeared. Ren Man also took this talisman into the mountain to look for it, but found nothing.

The jade talisman is now in such a strange state, could it be that it has sensed the other jade talisman in Cao You's hand?

Chen Yuan's face was slightly tense, and he followed the mandarin duck phantom and headed east.