Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

There are a few white clouds floating in the sky, and the sea water is as blue and clear as the sky, shining like silver brocade. On the sea, which is as calm as if it is sleeping, many ships with white sails are rippling, sailing towards Wuchen Island. Come.

There is a ship moored in the port on the shore of Wuchen Island. The boatmen and laborers are busy loading and unloading the goods. The fishermen are laughing and cleaning up the catch. The ship merchants in luxurious silk clothes are surrounded by guards and wear indifferent expressions. Passing through the crowd and boarding the cargo ship, only when they see another ship merchant will a smile appear on their faces and they exchange greetings.

Above the bustling crowd, a monk was wearing an inconspicuous gray gown and a dark yellow bamboo hat. The front eaves were very low, half of his face was hidden in the shadow, and he flew from a distance.

Mortals on the island have long been accustomed to monks flying into the sky and escaping to the earth, but whenever the escaping light cuts through the sky like a rainbow, some people will always stop and look up.

A young Lifu looked at this escaping light with a look of envy on his face. He even forgot about the heavy sack on his shoulders and the sweat flowing down his neck like a stream.

A wealthy businessman surrounded by guard servants inadvertently saw this escaping light when he was looking at the horizon. A young boy's desire flashed deep in his eyes.

Their status is very different, but at this moment, they are all mortals without spiritual roots, envious of the immortal cultivators who can fly into the sky and escape from the earth.

The escaping light of the monk in the bamboo hat moved across the sky at an unhurried pace, lowered the escaping light in front of the market on Wuchen Island, and walked slowly towards the market.

Wuchen Island is a small island, but its area is similar to that of a medium-sized island. The market on the island is also quite luxurious, covering a large area. The shops on the streets are either elegant and exquisite, or magnificent, comparable to the richest in Yuqing Sea. The mansion of a wealthy businessman.

The monk in the bamboo hat walked slowly in Fangshi and came to a bamboo forest deep in Fangshi.

The bamboo forest is not big, and a three-story building is hidden in the bamboo forest. The three words "Charm Building" are written on the plaque. From time to time, monks come in and out. Most of them go together, but there are also a few people who are like monks in bamboo hats, alone. .

The monk in the bamboo hat walked slowly into the charming building. There were square tables in the building, with chairs and stools beside the tables. They were all made of precious yellow rosewood and were worth thousands of gold. However, in the world of immortality, they had no aura at all. Can be made into the most ordinary tables and chairs.

This is a teahouse, a teahouse specifically for monks to drink tea.

Although the immortal cultivators eat the wind and drink the dew and do not eat the fireworks of the world, every immortal cultivator was once a mortal, with desires for food and drink, and the need for communication.

However, a cultivator with a celestial spirit will naturally not sit in front of a table filled with wine, meat and delicacies to feast. That would be too disgraceful and disgraceful.

They prefer to sit in an elegant and quiet teahouse, sip spiritual tea, taste rare spiritual fruits, talk about mysteries with friends, and relieve the boredom and boredom of ascetic practice.

But more monks still like to entertain friends in the cave. Fengyun Building is the largest teahouse in Wuchendao City. Only half of the square tables are occupied by guests, which looks a bit deserted.

But this is exactly the atmosphere that the monks like here, elegant and distant, cold and leisurely.

Most of these monks have just embarked on the path of cultivating immortals, and their spiritual abilities are surging in their bodies, and their cultivation during the Qi refining period is undoubtedly revealed.

They are not used to decades of hard training, and their mentality is closer to that of ordinary people than the indifferent cultivators.

The monk in the hat is slightly stronger. Judging from the spiritual energy he exudes, he is a monk in the middle stage of foundation building. He is one of the monks with the deepest cultivation in the Feng Yun Tower.

The monks at several tables on the first floor all had Qi refining skills. After seeing the monks in bamboo hats, their voices lowered unconsciously, but there was not much fear on their faces.

Who doesn't know that Fengyun Tower is the property of the Lu family, the overlord of Wuchen Island, and even ordinary alchemy monks would not dare to make trouble here.

The head of the Lu family, Lu Gui, is a monk in the late stage of Jiedan. He is famous throughout the Qingliu Sea. It is said that he is only one step away from Jieying. He has the hope of leading the Lu family to become a medium-sized family. Not many people dare to come to Wuchen Island. Stroke the tiger's beard.

The monk in the bamboo hat kept walking until he walked up to the third floor, and then sat down at a square table next to the window.

A young monk at the third level of Qi Refining walked over quickly and bowed respectfully: "Senior, what do you need?"

The monk in the hat said calmly: "A pot of Liufeng tea."

"Senior, please wait a moment." The young monk respectfully responded, turned and left.

The monk in the hat turned to look out the window and waited quietly. After a while, the young monk came over with a tray and placed the purple pot and porcelain cup on the tray in front of the monk in the hat: "Senior, please use it slowly."

The monk in the bamboo hat nodded slightly. After the young monk stepped back, he raised his hand and picked up the purple pot. He tilted it slightly. The light yellow tea flowed out from the mouth of the pot and poured into the porcelain cup. It rippled slightly and the fresh aroma spread. .

This Liufeng tea is Fengyunlou's signature spiritual tea. It is made from tea leaves from century-old tea trees mixed with Breitling grass Liufeng flower. It has a pleasant fragrance.

The monk in the bamboo hat picked up the porcelain cup, and the clear Liufeng tea reflected his face hidden under the bamboo hat. It was Chen Yuan.

He took a sip of Liufeng tea, put down the porcelain cup, turned his head slightly, and looked out the window at the quiet bamboo forest. However, his consciousness quietly spread out, covering the entire teahouse, and every monk's words were clearly transmitted to his ears. middle.

"Have you ever heard, Fellow Daoist Xi, that the head of the Li family on Maplewood Island returned home from serious injuries last month? He seemed to have encountered a level six blue-eyed eagle in the sea of ​​ink, and almost died..."

"That figure of Fairy Qinglu, tsk tsk, if I could kiss Fangze, I would be willing to die..."

"Fellow Daoist Gongsun, that villain Liu Hao is really abominable. As long as you are willing to help me kill this villain, I am willing to offer a hundred low-grade spirit stones as a reward..."

In Fengyun Tower, there are only three foundation-building cultivators besides Chen Yuan, and the highest cultivation level is only in the late stage of foundation-building. The spiritual barrier they set up cannot stop his prying at all, let alone detect the trace of his spiritual consciousness.

Cultivators in the early stage of Jindan cannot do this, but Chen Yuan's spiritual consciousness is comparable to that of cultivators in the middle stage of Jindan. Only the spiritual barrier set up by cultivators in the Jindan stage can prevent him from breaking through.

He just drank Liufeng tea, listened to the conversations of the cultivators in Fengyun Tower, and collected the information he wanted to know from them.

This is not the first time he has done this. In the past two months, Chen Yuan has come to Fengyun Tower to taste tea every day, but he appears in a different image every time.

Yesterday he was a low-level cultivator of the eighth level of Qi Refining, sitting in the corner of the first floor, drinking a pot of the cheapest spiritual tea. Today he became a mid-stage foundation building cultivator, came to the elegant seat on the third floor, and tasted a pot of Liufeng tea with three medium-grade spiritual stones.

It was not until dusk that Chen Yuan finished a pot of Liufeng tea, left three medium-grade spiritual stones on the table, and walked out of Fengyun Building slowly.

Throughout the day, he heard the conversations of dozens of cultivators, but the words of these cultivators were miscellaneous, most of which were useless. Only a few people mentioned the Lu family, which allowed Chen Yuan to get what he wanted.

Two months ago, Chen Yuan came to Wuchen Island, and six hundred years ago, this island was called Qianlang Island.

The inheritance recorded in the jade slip map is on Wuchen Island, but Chen Yuan cannot take the inheritance away, because the Yanhui Mountain where the inheritance is located is located in the Lu family's land and is protected by the Lu family's protective formation. If an outsider enters, he will be detected by the formation immediately.

The Lu family is a small family that rose more than 600 years ago. Its ancestor Lu Yan was also known as Wuchen Zhenren. After occupying Qianlang Island, he renamed it Wuchen Island.

Today, Lu Gui, the head of the Lu family, has the cultivation of the late Jindan stage. There are also two early Jindan cultivators in the family. They command the sea area of ​​​​a thousand miles in radius and are becoming more and more prosperous.

All this information was obtained by Chen Yuan from the Zhengqi League stronghold on a medium-sized island thousands of miles away.

The Zhengqi League strongholds are spread all over Yuqing Sea, and they are well aware of the rise and fall of forces in various sea areas. Relying on his status as a guest elder, Chen Yuan has mastered all the past experiences of the Lu family without spending spirit stones.

The Lu family is powerful and is protected by the family protection formation. Chen Yuan dare not act rashly.

It is definitely not possible to ask for cooperation openly. The Lu family cultivators have long regarded Wuchen Island as their own property. How could they hand over the inheritance in Yanhui Mountain?

It was impossible to force his way in. He had Zhu Yan's true blood, so he was not afraid of the Jindan cultivators of the Lu family. Even if Lu Gui attacked, he would be able to escape. However, the Lu family's protective formation was so powerful that even Yuanying cultivators could resist it. Chen Yuan could not break the formation at all.

The only way was to sneak into the Lu family, and this required Chen Yuan to have enough knowledge of the Lu family.

The Qingliu Sea was far away from the sea area under the jurisdiction of the Righteous Alliance. The Righteous Alliance and the Lu family did not deal with each other on weekdays and only had the most basic understanding. If he wanted to get more information, Chen Yuan had to do it himself.

It happened that Fengyun Tower was a place where nearby cultivators gathered, so he came to Fengyun Tower every day to drink tea, secretly inquire about the news, and think about ways to sneak into the Lu family.

Two months later, he finally had a clue.

At first, Chen Yuan had thought about making friends with the Jindan elders of the Lu family as a guest elder of the Righteous Alliance, and it should not be a problem to sneak into the Lu family.

But he quickly rejected this idea. The business of the Righteous Alliance spread throughout Yuqing Sea and even had contact with Jiuxianzhou. He still needed to sell demon pills and demon beast materials and buy spiritual herbs through the Righteous Alliance, and he could not abandon the status of a guest elder.

After all, the Lu family was a subsidiary force of the Zhenhai Sect. The ancestor of the family, Lu Yan, was an elder of the Zhenhai Sect. After he founded the family in his later years, the Lu family has always been a vassal of the Zhenhai Sect.

The Zhenhai Sect is the largest sect with the longest heritage in Yuqing Sea. The inheritance of great monks has never been interrupted. When the Righteous Alliance was at its peak, its power was not as strong as the Zhenhai Sect. Now it will not easily provoke a conflict with the Zhenhai Sect.

It is nothing for Chen Yuan to offend a small family, but if he offends the Lu family, which is protected by the Zhenhai Sect, he will definitely lose his status as a guest elder of the Righteous Alliance.

But later, based on the information about the Lu family he got from other monks, he finally came up with a way to sneak into the Lu family.

In the past hundred years, the Lu family has been growing rapidly. Eighteen years ago, they just eliminated another small sect, Haiyan Sect, and expanded the sea area under their jurisdiction by one third.

The expansion of the family has enabled the Lu family to obtain many cultivation resources. Compared with eighteen years ago, the Lu family now has two late-stage foundation-building cultivators, three mid-stage foundation-building cultivators, nine early-stage foundation-building cultivators, and hundreds of Qi-refining cultivators.

The elixirs, spiritual tools, and talismans that were originally in sufficient supply began to become scarce after the scale of the Lu family's cultivators expanded and their cultivation level improved.

Spiritual tools can also be purchased from the market. A cultivator needs at most two or three spiritual tools. The production of talismans is also relatively simple, but elixirs are always in short supply.

But the Lu family is just a small family with only seven alchemists, of which there is only one master alchemist. A large number of hundred-year-old spiritual herbs and three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs are not enough to be refined into elixirs.

There is no way around it. A furnace of foundation-building pills takes at least half a month to refine, and a late-stage foundation-building pill takes even more than twenty days. A master alchemist can refine no more than twenty furnaces of pills a year.

The only alchemy master of the Lu family is named Lu Dongji. His alchemy skills can only be said to be average. The success rate of refining the early and middle foundation-building pills is only 40%, and the success rate of refining the late foundation-building pills is only 30%. At most, 100 pills are produced a year, which is not enough to supply more than 50 foundation-building cultivators of the Lu family.

The Lu family is also trying hard to cultivate alchemy masters, but alchemy masters need strong spiritual consciousness to survive the long alchemy and make no mistakes when condensing the pill. In this small family, very few cultivators have this talent. More than ten years have passed, and there is still no second alchemy master.

The Lu family cultivators can only pay a high price to buy elixirs and spiritual tools in the market, or ask outsiders to refine elixirs and tools. Many Lu family cultivators who come to Fengyun Tower for tea complain about this and are extremely dissatisfied with the people of the Dan Hall, Qi Hall, and Fu Hall.

Chen Yuan saw an opportunity in it. He is proficient in alchemy, which is exactly what the Lu family cultivators need. It should not be difficult for an alchemy master who is proficient in alchemy to sneak into the Lu family.

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The next day, Chen Yuan came to the market of Wuchen Island and bought a simple shop.

This shop is called Yuanfu Hall. It is located in the corner of the market. It is a shop selling talismans. It is not as magnificent or exquisite as other shops in the market. It is no different from the shops on the streets of mortal cities.

The original owner of Yuanfu Hall was Ding Yuan, a talisman maker at the tenth level of Qi Refining. Although he has not been able to build a foundation due to poor qualifications, he is proficient in talisman making. The quality of the talismans he makes is excellent. Yuanfu Hall has a very good business.

Three years ago, Ding Yuan died unexpectedly and left the shop to his son Ding Hao, a cultivator at the tenth level of Qi Refining with mediocre talisman making skills and mediocre talent.

Ding Hao's qualifications are worse than Ding Yuan's. He is considered poor among the cultivators with four spiritual roots, and can almost be compared with the cultivators with five spiritual roots. He has cultivated all the way to the tenth level of Qi Refining, consuming a lot of spirit stones.

It is precisely for the purpose of cultivating Ding Hao that Ding Yuan has not repaired Yuanfu Hall.

Ding Hao spent almost all his time on cultivation. His talisman making skills were mediocre. When he took over Yuan Fu Tang, his business plummeted. Until today, it has been extremely bleak and he has no intention of becoming an elite.

Chen Yuan accidentally learned about this from other people's gossip and kept it in mind. Today, he came here and bought Yuan Fu Tang with the only remaining foundation-building pill and thirty medium-grade spirit stones.

That afternoon, he posted a couplet outside the door and sat in the main hall, waiting for guests to come.

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