Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

After the true essence in his body was restored, Chen Yuan walked out of the cave and came to the market of Hanxing City.

More than ten years have passed, and there has been no change in the market of Hanxing City. Time seems to have frozen in this huge city.

Chen Yuan came out of retreat this time not only to buy three hundred years of spiritual herbs, but also to buy several pill recipes.

He got a large number of rare spiritual herbs from the space secret realm of Wentian Ding, and gave eight to Jin Luoheng and two to Lian Yan. There were still thirty-two five hundred years of spiritual herbs, ten eight hundred years of spiritual herbs, and two thousand years of spiritual herbs.

But he only had one recipe for the Jindan period, which was the recipe for the "Flying Swallow Pill" given by Lin Hao.

And the spiritual herbs needed for this pill were not among the thirty-two five hundred years of spiritual herbs. He had to buy a new recipe to refine the spiritual herbs into pills.

After Chen Yuan refined Zhu Yan's true blood, it was a foregone conclusion that he would form a pill. After all, refining the true spirit blood was much more difficult than impacting the Jindan period.

He needed to prepare for the cultivation after the Dan formation, and these thirty-two five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs were the best capital, so the Dan formation period pill formula became the top priority.

Fortunately, these spiritual herbs were produced from Yuqinghai, and it should not be difficult to buy the pill formula in Hanxing City.

He came to Yuchutang, the shop where he had bought three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs before. This is a shop specializing in the business of elixirs and spiritual herbs. It ranks among the top three in the market of Hanxing City. It has a great background. It is rumored that it is backed by the Righteous Alliance. The business is very prosperous. There are several foundation-building cultivators in the store who are selecting pills.

A young cultivator of the sixth level of Qi Refining came up to him. Chen Yuan's aura leaked out, revealing his cultivation in the late stage of foundation building. The young cultivator's attitude immediately became respectful and invited him into a quiet room in the back hall.

Even in this Hanxing City, late-stage foundation-building cultivators are rare. No matter where you go, you will be treated with courtesy.

Chen Yuan sat down and waited for a while. An old man walked into the quiet room, bowed his hands, and smiled: "What do you want to buy from my shop this time, fellow Daoist Chen?"

The old man's name is Liu Yuan, a steward of Yuchu Hall, with a cultivation level of mid-stage foundation-building. The last time Chen Yuan came to Yuchu Hall to buy spiritual herbs, he was also received by this man.

Chen Yuan bowed his hands in return and said lightly: "I need thirty spiritual illusion grass, twenty Mingchun fruit..."

He named several spiritual herbs, a total of 120. After hearing this, Liu Yuan showed a happy face: "Fellow Daoist, wait a moment, I will get the spiritual herbs now."

Chen Yuan raised his hand to stop: "Does your hall have the recipes for Fu Cen Dan, Ling Hai Dan and You Yun Dan?"

Liu Yuan's eyes flashed with a trace of surprise. Could it be that this wealthy fellow Daoist Chen is also an alchemist?

He smiled and said, "This hall has the recipes for Fu Cen Dan and Ling Hai Dan, but I have never heard of You Yun Dan."

Chen Yuan said, "How much do these two recipes cost?"

Liu Yuan said, "These two recipes are for the Jindan period. One recipe costs three high-grade spirit stones. But if you have a recipe that this hall has not included, you can exchange it for another one. The difference in price can be discussed later."

Chen Yuan stroked the storage bag, took out the recipe for Fei Yan Dan, scanned it with his spiritual sense, erased most of the content, and handed it to Liu Yuan: "This pill is called Fei Yan Dan, can you exchange it for a recipe?"

Liu Yuan took the jade slip, probed into the jade slip with his spiritual sense, and carefully checked it. He said, "This hall does not have the recipe for Fei Yan Dan, but I am not proficient in alchemy, so I need to ask the alchemist in the hall to check it out. Please wait for a moment."

Chen Yuan had erased the main tricks of Fei Yan Dan, and was not afraid that Yu Chu Tang would get something useful from the incomplete recipe, so he agreed immediately.

Liu Yuan left with the recipe for Feiyan Dan and came back a quarter of an hour later, accompanied by a young monk.

He handed the jade slip to Chen Yuan and said with a smile: "This is Yu Huanzi, the alchemy master of this hall. He has checked the recipe and it is correct. This recipe can be exchanged for the recipe for Fu Cen Dan. Please complete the recipe."

Chen Yuan nodded, closed his eyes slightly, probed into the jade slip with his consciousness, completed the erased recipe, and handed it back to Liu Yuan.

Liu Yuan handed the jade slip to Yu Huanzi again. The latter took a quick look, nodded, and smiled: "There are many wonderful ideas in the recipe of Feiyan Dan, which makes me feel refreshed. Have you ever refined Feiyan Dan?"

Yu Huanzi looks only in his twenties, but there is a hint of oldness on his face, and he has the cultivation level of the late foundation building period.

Chen Yuan shook his head and said, "I am exchanging for the recipe for the Jindan stage this time to challenge the realm of the alchemy master."

The smile on Yu Huanzi's face faded a little. Yuqinghai is full of spiritual energy and has no shortage of spiritual herbs. Alchemy masters are more common, and there are also many casual cultivators. Only the alchemy master is worthy of attention.

In the Qi Kingdom's immortal cultivation world, there are very few alchemy masters, all of whom are Jindan cultivators.

But in Yuqinghai, there are many alchemy masters with only foundation building cultivation.

Liu Yuan took out a jade slip from the storage bag and handed it to Chen Yuan: "This is the recipe for Fu Cen Dan, please take a look, Fellow Daoist Chen."

Chen Yuan took the jade slip, carefully checked it from beginning to end, nodded slightly, and put it away.

Although he was only at the realm of the alchemy master, he could tell whether the recipe for the Jindan stage was complete and usable.

Afterwards, he bargained with Liu Yuan and bought 120 three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs and the recipe for the Spirit Sea Pill, spending a total of more than 70,000 low-grade spiritual stones and five high-grade spiritual stones, using up all the low-grade spiritual stones in his hand.

Chen Yuan bought more three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs this time than last time. After refining Zhu Yan's true blood, his true essence became more refined, and the effectiveness of Qinglu Pill and Yuliang Pill weakened a little. He needed more pills to return to the peak of foundation building.

While he bargained with Liu Yuan, Yu Huanzi had been waiting quietly beside him, smiling and saying nothing.

It was not until the two of them completed the transaction that he interrupted and said, "I heard from Deacon Liu that Fellow Daoist Chen needs the recipe for Youyun Pill?"

Chen Yuan said, "Yes, does Fellow Daoist Yuhuan have this recipe?"

Most of the five hundred year old spiritual herbs he got from the secret realm of Wentian Ding are relatively common species, which can be refined into Fucen Pill and Linghai Pill. These two recipes are widely circulated in Yuqing Sea and can be easily purchased.

But eight of them are relatively rare spiritual herbs, which are the raw materials for refining Youyun Pill.

The medicinal power of Youyun Pill is stronger than Fucen Pill and Linghai Pill, and the spiritual herbs used are relatively rare and not widely circulated in Yuqing Sea.

Yu Huanzi nodded and said with a smile: "I happen to have the recipe for Youyun Pill in my hand. Daoist friend only needs to pay two high-grade spirit stones."

This is a very fair price. The five-hundred-year-old spirit herbs required for Fucen Pill and Linghai Pill are relatively common, and the price of the recipe is higher. The spirit herbs for refining Youyun Pill are relatively difficult to find and have a narrow scope of application. Although the refined pills are more powerful, the price is lower.

Chen Yuan did not bargain, and handed the two high-grade spirit stones to Yu Huanzi and bought the Youyun Pill recipe.

Yu Huanzi smiled and handed a yellowed old jade slip to Chen Yuan. His movements were very fast, as if he was afraid that he would regret it.

More than 20 years ago, he spent a lot of money to explore a cave of a Jindan cultivator, but he only got a Youyun Pill recipe and a few sundries. He lost all his money, and he had not gathered the spirit herbs for refining Youyun Pill for many years. Now he finally sold it and finally recovered some of his capital.

Chen Yuan took the jade slip and frowned. The jade slip was dark yellow and had several tiny cracks. It must have been in existence for a long time and was on the verge of being damaged.

He probed into it with his spiritual sense and carefully checked the contents of the pill formula. He was relieved to make sure that the pill formula was complete.

After all three required pill formulas were obtained, Chen Yuan could refine all 32 500-year-old spiritual herbs into pills after forming the pill. His cultivation should be improved a lot.

He stood up and said goodbye and left, returned to the cave, and started to refine the pill.

He had refined more than 20 furnaces of Yuliang Pill and Qinglu Pill before, and he was very handy when refining these two pills. After refining more than 20 furnaces of pills, the success rate of refining the late foundation-building pill rose to 70%.

This is a very scary number. The success rate of most alchemy masters in refining late foundation-building pills is only 50%. Those who reach 60% have the opportunity to impact the realm of alchemy masters.

Chen Yuan's success rate of making pills reached 70%. After forming the pill, he would definitely become a master of alchemy.

After refining the pill, he began to practice in seclusion. Ten years passed quickly, and Chen Yuan's cultivation level was once again raised to the peak of foundation building.

But at the same peak of foundation building, Chen Yuan's current strength is far better than before. The pure and thick true essence slowly surges in the meridians. He will never be as easy to exhaust his true essence as before.

Chen Yuan closed his eyes and adjusted his breath for three days. In his mind, he recalled the experience of True Man Qing You when forming the pill, as well as the method of forming the pill recorded in "Nine Turns of the True Spirit". He calmed his mind and began to form the pill.

The true essence lake in the dantian slowly rotated, and the true essence droplets gathered in the middle under great pressure and gradually solidified.

The process from refining qi to building the foundation, and then to forming the pill is the process of constantly compressing the mana and true essence in the body to make it more and more pure.

This step was not difficult for Chen Yuan. After he refined Zhu Yan's true blood, his true essence had been purified once and became extremely pure. At this time, he just operated the method step by step, and the true essence droplets gathered into a ball, forming a bumpy sphere, which was constantly compressed in the middle.

This process consumed a lot of true essence. Chen Yuan let go of his hands and feet and absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth with all his strength. A large group of colorful spiritual clouds quickly formed outside the cave.

Gradually, Chen Yuan's cave was completely covered by the spiritual cloud, and the spiritual energy of the entire mountain range gathered.

In the cave closest to Chen Yuan, a Jindan cultivator who had cultivated to a critical moment suddenly found that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth he absorbed was greatly reduced. He woke up from his meditation and was extremely angry. He walked out of the cave with a fierce momentum and was about to go to ask for punishment.

But when he saw the spiritual clouds gathered outside Chen Yuan's cave, he shook his head helplessly and gave up the idea.

This was a sign of Jindan. Although he had been Jindan for many years, he didn't want to provoke an opponent of the same level for no reason.

In addition to him, several other Jindan cultivators walked out of the cave. Seeing someone was forming a pill, they just smiled and went back to the cave.

Hanxing City gathers tens of thousands of casual cultivators. Every year, there are peak foundation-building cultivators forming a pill here. They are already accustomed to it.

But not long after, these Jindan cultivators walked out of the cave again, staring at the spiritual cloud outside Chen Yuan's cave with a solemn look, and their eyes were full of doubt.

When ordinary foundation-building cultivators form a pill, the spiritual cloud is only a hundred feet in size, and it can only condense for a quarter of an hour at most. Whether it succeeds or fails, it will dissipate.

But the spiritual cloud outside Chen Yuan's cave is three hundred feet, wrapping up half of the mountain. More and more Jindan cultivators walked out of the cave and watched.

Half an hour passed before the spiritual cloud slowly dissipated.

Two Jindan monks came together. One of them was thin, white and beardless, with a somewhat feminine temperament, while the other was burly, majestic, and dressed in armor, like a mortal warrior.

The thin monk looked at Chen Yuan's cave from afar and exclaimed: "This man's Jindan momentum is so great, it's really unheard of."

The armored monk's eyes flashed, and he said in a deep voice: "This fellow Daoist has such an extraordinary Jindan momentum, his strength must be not weak, you and I can make friends with him."

The skinny monk nodded in agreement: "Brother Li is right. When he stabilizes his cultivation, we will pay him a visit!"

Thanks for the reward from Tian Nu Si Shen Jue!

There will be another chapter in the evening.