Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

The sound of sobbing wind echoed in the Demon-Slaying Desert, like the cry of ghosts. The strong wind rolled up the yellow sand all over the sky, and a thick black curtain covered the sky and the earth. It was turbid wherever you looked.

This is a celestial phenomenon called the Black Storm, which appears once a month and ravages most of the Demon-Slaying Desert for two days and two nights. When a cultivator is in it, his consciousness will be compressed by half, and his body will be cut by the strong wind. At this time, both the righteous and the evil will temporarily cease fighting.

The oasis station of the six sects of Qi State was wrapped in a huge light curtain, and it was safe and sound in the black storm. Many foundation-building cultivators flew outside the guarding formation to patrol and prevent the demon cultivators from taking this opportunity to sneak into the vicinity of the oasis and spy on the situation.

A monk from the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain sat on the back of a giant falcon, spreading his consciousness and carefully checking the surrounding situation.

He held a light yellow jade scepter in his hand, emitting a layer of soft light to block the black storm outside.

The giant falcon under him was a third-level demon beast. Its body was strong and it was not afraid of the cutting force of the strong wind. However, it was quite uncomfortable when countless tiny grains of sand hit its body. It occasionally made a shrill cry of dissatisfaction, but was gently appeased by the monk of Wanshou Mountain. Then he took out a piece of bloody beast meat from the storage bag and fed it to the giant falcon.

The monk of Wanshou Mountain rarely dealt with other people. He put all his energy and efforts on cultivating spirit beasts. In front of these ferocious and ferocious spirit beasts, he always put on a gentle face like a mother.

Just after the monk of Wanshou Mountain took out the thirteenth piece of beast meat from the storage bag, his face suddenly changed, and he put the beast meat back into the storage bag, stood up, and stood on the back of the giant falcon.

The meat at the mouth was suddenly gone. The giant falcon was extremely dissatisfied. It made a sharp whistle and suddenly tilted to one side, as if it was going to throw the monk of Wanshou Mountain down.

This is him acting like a spoiled child to his master. Whenever he did this in the past, his master would take out a bigger piece of meat and appease him with kind words, and the giant falcon would calm down and become obedient again.

But this time, his master did not compromise, but looked down at the giant falcon and said sternly: "Stop making trouble!"

The giant falcon heard the dissatisfaction in the words of the monk from the Mountain of Ten Thousand Beasts, cried out in grievance, and its flying posture returned to stability.

Amid the sharp voice of the giant falcon, a giant boat broke through the black storm, came to the front of the monk from the Mountain of Ten Thousand Beasts, and slowly reduced its speed.

This giant boat is about thirty feet long, pure white, with smooth lines, and white cloud patterns carved on the boat, which is very conspicuous in the black storm, like a white cloud floating in the air.

The monk of Wanshou Mountain looked solemn and said loudly: "Where are you coming from, please tell us your name!"

A figure flew out from the giant boat, exuding a faint pressure. He glanced at the monk of Wanshou Mountain, flicked his finger, and a token flew out, saying faintly: "Lingyun Sect Elder Ji Bin, with three Jindan Zhenren and 69 foundation-building disciples, came to help."

The monk of Wanshou Mountain was shocked, took the token with both hands, and looked carefully. On one side of the token was engraved the words "Lingyun" and on the other side was engraved the words "Dangmo". It was the Dangmo Order recognized by the six sects, issued by the elders in charge of the six sects. Seeing the order was like seeing the person.

He bowed and said respectfully: "Please wait for a moment, Elder Ji. I will report to the Jindan Zhenren who is on duty today to open the formation for you."

Ji Bin nodded slightly, and the monk of Wanshou Mountain immediately urged the giant falcon under him to fly to the oasis.

After he left, Ji Bin returned to the bow of the giant boat. Beside him, three Jindan cultivators stood with solemn expressions, looking at the oasis covered by the light curtain below.

Behind the four people, there were sixty-nine foundation cultivators, most of whom were deacons and disciples who had never been to the Demon-Slaying Desert. Seeing the vast oasis, their originally gloomy faces became much more excited.

At any time, great scenes can always inspire people's fighting spirit, and cultivators are no exception.

The six sects of Qi State were able to build this huge oasis in the barren desert, which gave them some confidence in the upcoming decisive battle.

Yi Jin, Chen Yuan, and Wang Ran stood together, silent all the time, and finally smiled at this time: "My six major sects have the power to change the world. Even if we can't win this battle, we should not lose... Brother Wang, do you think so or not?"

Wang Ran stared at the oasis below and sighed softly, but said nothing.

He had been in the Demon-Slaying Desert for two years, and when he was in charge of issuing and verifying tasks, he knew the strength of the demon cultivators very well, and his face was the ugliest along the way.

His reaction made Yi Jin's smile freeze on his face, and then slowly faded away, and turned back to his expressionless and gloomy look.

Chen Yuan glanced at the two people who were afraid, shook his head slightly, and looked at the black storm raging outside the giant boat again, his eyes became much more solemn.

The mentality of the two people can represent the majority of the deacons and disciples in Lingyun Sect. They used to stay in the mountain gate, dealing with various miscellaneous things, and rarely fought with others. When they heard that they were going to fight with demon cultivators, they were extremely panicked.

Lingyun Sect actually summoned these deacons and disciples with mediocre strength and no fighting spirit to fight in the battle. The situation in the Demon-Slaying Desert must be very bad.

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A quarter of an hour later, the monk from Wanshou Mountain rode the giant falcon and returned here again, accompanied by a Jindan elder from Mingyin Valley.

This elder was in charge of guarding the formation today, and he actually had some friendship with Ji Bin.

The two exchanged a few pleasantries, and the elder of Mingyin Valley returned the Demon-Slaying Order to Ji Bin, opened the defensive formation, and the giant boat slowly flew in and landed in front of the Good Merit Hall of the Lingyun Sect.

When everyone left the giant boat, Zhuge Qi was already waiting here. Compared with three years ago, he was a little thinner, but the pressure he exuded was heavier. His slightly dark face still looked indifferent. He looked calm and seemed to have everything under control.

Next to Zhuge Qi, there were several Danjie elders standing, including Jin Luoheng.

Wearing a large black and white Taoist robe, he was quite conspicuous among the crowd of Jie Dan practitioners, but his face was expressionless and his eyes were extremely serious, completely lacking the free and easy temperament of the past.

The other pill-forming monks all had solemn expressions. There was a solemn atmosphere in front of the Shanggong Hall. No one dared to speak. There was only the slight rustle of leaves as they moved with the wind.

Chen Yuan and the others walked off the giant boat at the end of the crowd. He did not dare to let go of his consciousness in front of the Danjie monk. When he saw Jin Luoheng, he quickly bowed and saluted.

Jin Luoheng glanced at Chen Yuan, nodded slightly, then looked away and looked away.

After everyone left the giant boat, Ji Bin put the giant boat into a storage bag and handed the demon-slaying order to Zhuge Qi. A group of alchemy-forming monks took up the escape light and flew to the center of the Lingyun sect's station.

A group of foundation-building monks entered the Shanggong Hall and left their imprints on their identity jade tags so that they could enter and leave the defensive formation in the future. Then, they headed to their residences under the leadership of several deacon disciples.

Zhang Zian personally took Chen Yuan and the others to the residence of the foundation-building monks, and said with a smile: "Junior brother Chen, the small building you lived in three years ago has always been empty. How about we arrange it there this time?"

Chen Yuan cupped his hands and said, "Senior Brother Zhang is interested. Thank you Chen."

The smile on Zhang Zian's face became even stronger: "It's a small effort, nothing worth mentioning."

He still remembered Chen Yuan's achievements. In the past three years, no one from Lingyun Sect had performed like this, and he was in awe.

Yi Jin was also treated politely by Zhang Zian because he was traveling with Chen Yuan, and was assigned to a three-story building with a good location.

The three-story building where Chen Yuan lived was relatively remote. After parting ways with everyone, he came here alone and saw Shen Danmei standing outside the door.

She was dressed in scholar's clothes and wearing a turban. She was full of heroism. She looked at Chen Yuan with a smile: "Junior brother Chen, I have been waiting for half an hour, and you are finally here."

Chen Yuan stepped forward to greet him, bowed his hands, and said apologetically: "Senior Sister, thank you for waiting for a long time. I will come to visit you on my own, so why do you need to bother me, Senior Sister?"

Shen Danmei smiled and said: "Junior brother, why are you being polite to me? Let's go, Master has ordered me to take you to see Senior Brother Lin and Senior Brother Sun."

Chen Yuan's heart moved: "Senior Brother Lin is back?"

Shen Danmei explained: "Senior Brother Lin just came back a month ago. He didn't go back to the mountain gate. He went directly to Danmo Desert to pay homage to the master."

"This month he went into battle three times, killing four late-stage foundation-building demon cultivators. One of them was the eighth murderer on the bounty list. His reputation spread throughout the six sects, and he earned a lot of face for the sect..."

There was an unconcealed reverence on her face, but at the end of the sentence, she paused and glanced at Chen Yuan: "Of course, Junior Brother Chen, you are not bad either. I checked later and found out that Xu Feiqing, the disciple you killed, was actually a true disciple of the Hehuan Sect. He was very powerful. He once competed with Liu Fan of the Blood Spirit Sect, who ranked first on the six sects’ bounty list, for many years. He won the favor of a supreme elder of the Hehuan Sect. favorite."

"But don't worry, I didn't tell anyone about this. Even Master doesn't know about it. Hehuan Sect will never cause trouble for you."

Chen Yuan smiled and said: "Thank you, senior sister, for keeping the secret for me... Let's leave now. I have only heard of Senior Brother Lin's name but not seen him, so I am quite curious."

The two of them didn't waste any more time and took off the light. Chen Yuan followed Shen Danmei and flew towards a three-story building.

This small building is in an excellent location, very close to the courtyard where Monk Jiedan lives.

The two people fell in front of the small building, and the door of the small building slowly opened, and two figures came out.

One of them was Sun Congyao. He looked at Chen Yuan, nodded, and then turned to the person next to him and said: "Senior Brother Lin, this is Junior Brother Chen Yuan who killed seven monks of the same level in one battle... Junior Brother Chen, this is Senior Brother Lin Haolin.”

Chen Yuan looked solemn, bowed to the person next to Sun Congyao, and said, "Chen Yuan has met Senior Brother Lin."

This man seemed to be around thirty years old, short in stature, wearing a black gown, with an unpretentious appearance and a gentle demeanor. He looked at Chen Yuan carefully for a while, then stretched out his hand to help him up, and said with a smile: "Junior Brother Chen, there is no need to be polite, come in and talk. "

The four of them entered the small building and sat down in the living room.

Lin Hao sat on the main seat and looked around. His eyes finally fell on Chen Yuan and said with a smile: "Junior brother Chen, I have been away from the clan for decades. When you became a disciple that day, you were not in the mountain gate. Today I finally see you. I can't No expression."

He touched the storage bag, took out a jade slip, and sent it to Chen Yuan: "Junior brother Chen killed seven demon cultivators of the same level in one battle. His methods are very powerful, so he should have no shortage of spiritual weapons."

"I traveled around various countries this time, and by some chance, I got a few pill prescriptions. I will give them to my junior brother today. I hope they can be of help to my junior brother."

Chen Yuan caught the jade slip with both hands, looked into it with his spiritual consciousness, looked solemn, and said with cupped hands: "Thank you for the generous gift, senior brother. If senior brother needs to make elixirs, just tell me."

This jade slip only recorded three elixir prescriptions, but there was one precious elixir recipe for the elixir formation period, and two other elixir prescriptions for the foundation-building phase, which Chen Yuan had never seen before.

One of the elixirs can even improve the effectiveness of the pill formation by one point, which is no less effective than the pill formation stage.

When they first met, Lin Hao was so generous, which made Chen Yuan feel good about him.

Lin Hao raised his hand and pressed: "Junior brother, you don't have to be polite. Master didn't have many disciples. Since your third senior brother passed away, there are only three left."

"Now that Master has finally accepted another disciple, as the eldest senior brother, I naturally have to take care of him. As long as you respect Master well, it will be worth your kindness."

Chen Yuan nodded and said, "Master Brother taught me that the master's kindness is deep, and I dare not forget it at all."

Lin Hao looked at Sun Congyao and Shen Danmei again, and said, "I have been away from the sect for decades, traveling around the world, collecting pill-forming spiritual objects, and finally gained something. I heard about the invasion of the Demon Sect and just rushed back to Qi. I and my three junior brothers and sisters are finally gathered together."

"It's a pity that the decisive battle between good and evil is imminent, and there is no time to talk. Master has ordered that Junior Brother Chen will go to his house to pay a visit after arriving today. It's getting late now, so let's set off now."

He got up first and walked out the door. Chen Yuan and the other two got up and followed.

The four of them rode on their light and came to the courtyard of a Jindan elder in the center of Lingyun Sect.

Three years ago, when Chen Yuan came to the Demon-Dangling Desert, there were only ten courtyards in the center of Lingyun Sect for Jindan cultivators to live in. Now there are fifteen courtyards.

This courtyard is closest to the small building where Lin Hao lives. It is one of the five newly built courtyards and is located in a remote location.

After the four of them landed on their light, Lin Hao bowed deeply and said respectfully: "Disciple Lin Hao, with three junior brothers and sisters, pay homage to the master."

Chen Yuan and the other two followed suit. After Lin Hao finished speaking, the red lacquer door slowly opened. Lin Hao strode out and walked in first.

Although he was short, he was very imposing when he walked. Chen Yuan and the other two followed closely behind.

The four of them passed the screen wall and came to the main hall. Jin Luoheng sat in the main seat, looking at them with a smile on his face.

The four of them bowed one after another, and Jin Luoheng waved his hand: "Okay, sit down and talk."

The four of them lined up in the order of entry, with Chen Yuan sitting at the end.

Jin Luoheng glanced at everyone and said, "I called you here today because I have a few words to tell you."

"Three days later, the six major sects will have a decisive battle with the two major demon sects. This battle is extremely dangerous. You must be careful and must not be the first to be targeted by the demon cultivators."

Chen Yuan and the other four responded in unison. Lin Hao said solemnly, "Master, is it true that the six major sects have no chance of winning this battle?"