Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Feeling the majestic pressure emanating from Chen Yuan, Liu Yuan was stunned for a moment. The smile on his face immediately faded, he lowered his head slightly and said respectfully: "Please Chen...Senior Chen, please wait a moment. I will go and invite fellow Taoist Yuhuan here." Come."

Although Yu Chutang has a background in the Righteous Alliance, he is just a foundation-building monk and does not dare to make any mistakes in front of the pill-forming monks.

Although he was respectful, Liu Yuan also had mixed feelings in his heart, and an unconcealable look of envy flashed in the depths of his eyes.

The Taoist friend who used to be friends among peers has become Senior Jiedan today. He has been a deacon in Yuchu Hall for decades. He has experienced this kind of thing several times before, but every time he feels very awkward.

After saluting Chen Yuan, he turned around and left the quiet room. About a quarter of an hour later, he walked in side by side with Yu Huanzi.

Yuhuanzi had obviously learned from Liu Yuan that Chen Yuan had formed a golden elixir. She looked at Chen Yuan with very respectful eyes. After entering the door, she immediately raised her hands and saluted: "Congratulations, senior, for forming a golden elixir. May you look forward to a great future!"

With a thought in his mind, Chen Yuan took out the token of the guest elder of the Zhengqi Alliance from the mustard seed ring, and said with a smile: "Chen has joined the Zhengqi Alliance, and he and his two fellow Taoists are members of the same family. The two fellow Taoists don't have to be formal."

When Yuhuanzi and Liu Yuan saw the token that Chen Yuan took out, their attitudes became more respectful. Yuhuanzi said, "I wonder what the senior has to do with the junior? As long as the junior can do his best, he will never refuse."

If Chen Yuan was just a casual cultivator, they would still have some confidence as members of the Righteous Alliance, but they would not dare to trust him in the face of the elders of the alliance.

Since Chen Yuan can become the guest elder of the Zhengqi Alliance, he is either strong enough or has friendship with the Danjie elder in the alliance, and no matter what, it is not something that these two little foundation-building monks can offend.

Chen Yuan put Elder Keqing's token back into the mustard ring and said nothing, but turned to look at Liu Yuan.

Liu Yuan immediately understood and said with a smile: "Senior Chen, I still have some trivial matters to deal with, so I'll take my leave now."

After saying that, he bowed his hands and turned to leave the quiet room. Only Chen Yuan and Yu Huanzi were left in the room.

Chen Yuan then said: "Fellow Taoist Yuhuan, please sit down. Chen just has a small matter to inquire about and will not delay Taoist Taoist for too long."

Yuhuanzi felt relieved and sat down politely opposite Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Do you still remember the Youyun Dan prescription that I bought from a fellow Taoist a few years ago?"

Yuhuanzi was a little confused and didn't know why Chen Yuan mentioned this matter, but he immediately replied: "This junior has carefully studied this elixir. Although it has not been refined in a furnace, it is quite familiar."

Chen Yuan sighed softly: "I gathered together two furnaces of Youyun Dan Spirit Grass, then bought the elixir recipe from a Taoist friend, and tried to open the furnace to refine the elixir, and challenge the master of Dan Jie, but it failed."

"This Youyun Pill is extremely difficult to refine. Although I tried to refine it once, I still have a lot of doubts. Even if I open the furnace to refine the second batch of pills, the chance of success is not high, and I feel very distressed. "

Yuhuanzi became even more puzzled and asked cautiously: "Why doesn't Elder Chen refine Fucen Pill and Linghai Pill first?"

Not only is the Youyun Pill very difficult to refine, but the spiritual grass is also extremely difficult to find. Chen Yuan can gather two furnaces of Youyun Pill spiritual grass, so there is no reason why he cannot gather the spiritual herbs of Fucen Pill and Linghai Pill.

Chen Yuan smiled bitterly and said: "I have exhausted all the spirit stones in order to form the elixir. I also got the Youyun Dan Spirit Grass by chance. It is not easy to buy Fucen Dan and Linghai Dan. But I don't have the energy to buy more." Spiritual grass.”

Yuhuanzi suddenly realized that in the world of immortality, elixirs are always easy to obtain but spiritual herbs are hard to find. It seems that Chen Yuan purchased these two elixirs in advance just to prepare for a rainy day and only collected the spiritual herbs of Youyun Dan.

But then he became even more confused. He was just an alchemy master, and his level was not as good as Chen Yuan. Chen Yuan couldn't make elixirs, so why did he come to Yuchu Hall to find him?

He asked: "Is there any way that this junior can help Elder Chen?"

Chen Yuan finally said what he meant: "I think this jade slip recording the recipe for Youyun Dan is quite ancient, and the annotations in the recipe are also very insightful. The person who wrote the recipe must have extraordinary alchemy skills. I don't know about Yuhuan." Fellow Taoist, from whom did you obtain this elixir? If it is convenient, could you introduce it to me?"

Yuhuanzi suddenly realized that Chen Yuan came here because of the pill recipe.

Alchemy recipes are all created by alchemists, and each alchemist has his or her own unique views on alchemy. Even the same kind of elixir recipe will be different under the hands of different alchemists. This difference This is reflected in the annotations of Danfang.

Some extremely talented alchemists can also improve the alchemy formulas based on their predecessors and create new ones.

This is also because the spiritual herbs in the world of cultivating immortals are becoming increasingly scarce, and some of the spiritual herbs in ancient elixir recipes have even become extinct. The elixir recipes must be improved in order to refine these elixirs to meet the needs of monks.

Thanks to the efforts of generations of alchemists, more and more alchemy recipes have been circulated in the world of immortality, and the differences have become wider and wider.

But no matter what, the original elixir formula will not change in any way. After the alchemist obtains these elixir formulas, he can choose to understand the elixir formula according to the annotations, or he can ignore the annotations in the elixir formula and simply make alchemy according to the elixir formula.

Chen Yuan obviously felt that the annotations in Youyun Dan's formula were quite exquisite, and wanted to get to know the alchemist who left the annotations and come to ask for advice.

This is also a common thing. Spiritual herbs are hard to find. Many times, the spiritual herbs in the hands of alchemists do not match the elixir recipe. There is no spiritual herb, but no elixir can be made, or there is no elixir recipe, but there is nowhere to raise the elixir. Grass, often communicate with each other, and also exchange alchemy techniques.

But this recipe was obtained by Yuhuanzi by chance. He didn't know who left it and how to introduce it to Chen Yuan. He could only helplessly say: "I'm afraid I'll disappoint you. This recipe of Youyun Pill was obtained by me by chance from a cave of my ancestors. I don't know its origin."

Chen Yuan's eyes flashed: "Can Daoist Yuhuan tell me more details?"

Yuhuanzi said: "Thirty years ago, I was traveling with two friends and accidentally entered a cave. Its restrictions seemed to be very old and almost collapsed."

"We were very happy. We spent a lot of money to break the restrictions of the cave. We found that it was the cave of Tao Zhu, a famous alchemy master in the Langui Sea area 1,300 years ago."

"But unfortunately, that cave was just a temporary cave opened by Tao Zhu. The three of us only found this Youyun Pill recipe, a few bottles of rotten pills and a damaged spiritual plant garden..."

Yuhuanzi said, with an unwilling look on his face, sighing.

Chen Yuan nodded slightly, his face was normal, but his mind was full of thoughts.

He also knew Tao Zhu. Qing Youzhen had heard of his reputation before his death. He was a casual cultivator with extraordinary alchemy skills, but his cultivation level remained at the early stage of Danjie throughout his life. He disappeared inexplicably for ten thousand years, and no one has found his cave until now.

If the annotations in the Youyun Pill recipe were left by him, it would make sense, but he would never hide a map in the jade slip without being discovered by Chen Yuan.

It seems that the inheritance mentioned by the old voice has another origin.

Chen Yuan asked, "Where is the Taozhu Cave?"

Yuhuanzi was startled, then replied, "It is in a reef 170 miles northwest of Wuxing Island in Langui Sea. It can be easily found."

"But my two friends and I have already turned the cave upside down and found nothing. Moreover, the restrictions of the cave were broken by us. I am afraid it has been submerged by the sea..."

Chen Yuan nodded slightly: "Thank you, Daoist Yuhuan, for telling me this. It seems that I can only study the Youyun Pill recipe by myself."

Yuhuanzi smiled and said, "You are too polite, senior."

Chen Yuan did not get the answer he wanted, and did not waste any more time. He said goodbye and left immediately. Yuhuanzi, the former arrogant master of alchemy, personally sent him out.

After leaving Yuchutang, Chen Yuan walked through two streets and entered several shops in succession. He sold all the spiritual tools and sundries that he didn't need, including the Silver Gang Sword, Luo Yansha, Blue Flying Sword, the small tripod from the White Ape Cave, etc., in exchange for eight high-grade spiritual stones and eighty medium-grade spiritual stones, leaving only the thousand-year-old ice silk gloves.

He had practiced in Hanxing City for more than 20 years, buying spiritual herb recipes and renting caves. The spiritual stones in his hands had been exhausted and he was almost penniless. He had to exchange some spiritual stones for backup.

In addition to the spiritual tools, he also sold almost all the skills in his hands. Only the "Demon God Art" was too eye-catching as a physical training skill, so he kept it.

These skills were taken from Chen Yuan's opponents. They were useless to him, but they were not valuable. Together with many spiritual tools, they were sold for less than nine spiritual stones.

For a foundation-building cultivator, such a fortune can be called rich, but for a Jindan cultivator, it is quite shabby.

However, Chen Yuan will go to Mohai to hunt monsters next, and will not return to Hanxing City in a short time. These spirit stones are enough.

He went to more than a dozen shops selling jade slips and bought detailed maps of most of the sea areas in Yuqing Sea, especially the map of Langui Sea Area. He also bought all the classics that mentioned Qianlang Island, spending three medium-grade spirit stones.

These maps and classics are not skills and magical powers, and the price is very cheap, but Chen Yuan needs too many, and his wealth has shrunk by nearly half.

He asked Yuhuanzi about the origin of Youyun Pill Recipe. He didn't have much hope. It was a gain to know about Tao Zhu's cave.

Although Tao Zhu is unlikely to hide a map in the jade slip, Langui Sea Area has become a place that needs to be paid attention to.

However, other sea areas cannot be let go. If the map of Youyun Pill Recipe was not made by Tao Zhu, then he obviously did not discover the mystery. He may also be like Yuhuanzi, who just got this jade slip by chance.

After Chen Yuan returned to the cave, he began to look up these maps and books to find the location of Qianlang Island.

At the beginning, this matter did not go smoothly. The Yuqing Sea is vast and boundless, and the name Qianlang Island is extremely common. There are dozens of islands with this name.

Chen Yuan needed to compare the maps hidden in the pill recipe with the maps of the major sea areas of the Yuqing Sea one by one. It took him three days to complete the comparison of all the maps, but he still found nothing.

This is because he is a cultivator, energetic, and has a photographic memory. He can compare maps without sleep. If he were a mortal, he would have to work hard for at least two months to barely complete it.

Now there are only two possibilities. One is that Qianlang Island has changed its name, and the other is that Qianlang Island is not in the Yuqing Sea.

The first possibility is very high. If Yu Huanzi is true, this jade slip has been in Tao Zhu's cave for at least a thousand years. It is so old that the Qianlang Island, which was passed down by the old voice, may have changed its name.

Chen Yuan began to look through various books related to Qianlang Island, and found out the islands that were called Qianlang Island in the past but had changed their names one by one, determined their specific locations in the major sea areas of Yuqing Sea, and then compared them with the map in the jade slip.

This is a very complicated matter. The information given by the old voice is too brief, and the map left is also very rough. To be on the safe side, Chen Yuan bought all the books that mentioned Qianlang Island, including a travel note left by a cultivator five thousand years ago.

And he could only look for a needle in a haystack, narrowing the scope little by little.

Fortunately, Chen Yuan is a Jindan cultivator with a strong spiritual sense. He can read a jade slip in less than a quarter of an hour, and he doesn't need to look back, which saves a lot of time.

He spent more than half a month, looking through 70% of the jade slips, and finally found a clue.

The two maps gradually overlapped in Chen Yuan's mind. He put down the jade slip in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief.

Hard work pays off. He finally found the Qianlang Island mentioned by the old voice, and it was exactly the same as the map in the jade slip.

It's just that this Qianlang Island changed its name six hundred years ago, and it is located in a remote area, so Chen Yuan has never found it.

But now, he is finally no longer looking for a needle in a haystack.

Chen Yuan raised his sleeves and put all the jade slips into the mustard seed ring. He returned to the practice room, closed his eyes and meditated to restore his consciousness.

Continuously checking the jade slips consumes less energy than studying the pill formula, but it cannot be ignored. Chen Yuan is now quite tired and his consciousness has been consumed by more than half.

Two hours later, he opened his eyes again, wiped out all the traces left in the cave, came to the Sifang Pavilion, and returned the cave.

He has found the location of Qianlang Island, and it is time to leave Hanxing City.

The foundation-building deacon of the Sifang Pavilion was very respectful in front of Chen Yuan and returned forty pieces of medium-grade spirit stones.

After leaving the Sifang Pavilion, Chen Yuan came to the Zhengqi Building, which is the residence of the Zhengqi League in Hanxing City.

As a guest elder of the Zhengqi League, he must complete a task within his ability for the Zhengqi League every ten years, otherwise his guest elder token will be taken back.

Zhengqi Tower is where the guest elders receive tasks and offerings. A foundation-building cultivator received Chen Yuan with a respectful attitude and listed all the tasks.

These tasks were difficult and easy, and the rewards were also different. Chen Yuan randomly chose a task to hand in a level 5 demon pill, then received an offering of ten spirit stones and a jade slip that recorded the situation of Yuqing Sea in the past three years, and left Zhengqi Tower.

The things recorded in these jade slips were gathered by the cultivators of Zhengqi League scattered all over Yuqing Sea. They were extremely detailed and could be regarded as a benefit for the guest elders.

Chen Yuan took a carriage driven by a mortal, checked the jade slips, left Hanxing City from the nearest city gate, and flew south with a flying light.