Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

The Mohai Sea is a peculiar sea area. The seawater here is full of black algae, and even dyed the sea light black, as if it were a dead area.

But under the swirling waves, there is a vibrant world hidden. Countless sea creatures gather here, and monsters are born in an endless stream, and the human race follows closely.

The Mohai Sea has been the world of monsters for the past ten thousand years. Only more than a thousand years ago, the human race expanded the border of the Jade Clear Sea to this place, but encountered fierce resistance from the monsters.

In the past thousand years, the Mohai Sea has become a battleground for the human race and the monsters to fight. Endless blood flows into the water, and the black sea seems to be dyed red a little, but the human cultivators have gradually gained the upper hand.

On a medium-sized island occupied by the monks of the Jade Clear Sea, buildings are lined up one after another, and there are escape lights rising and falling at every moment. The market is densely populated and orderly.

This medium-sized island is called Blood Island. It is named so because in order to seize this island a thousand years ago, the monks of Yuqing Sea suffered heavy casualties, and even three Yuanying monks died.

Blood Island is the only medium-sized island in Yuqing Sea. It has a medium-sized spiritual vein, but this spiritual vein does not belong to any sect, but is shared by the monks of Yuqing Sea. Every sect and every independent cultivator are qualified to gain a foothold on Blood Island.

This is the bridgehead for the confrontation between the human cultivators and the demon clan in the Mohai. The market on the island is one of the two largest distribution centers for demon pills and demon beast materials in Yuqing Sea. The other is the Kongyu Island Market in the Luanshi Sea, but its scale is only half of the Blood Island Market.

There are six Yuanying monks sitting on Blood Island. Every day, a large number of monks set out from here to hunt demon beasts, and many monks return with blood.

Compared with the markets on other islands in Yuqing Sea, the markets on Blood Island are much more chaotic, because every once in a while, the demon clan will send a beast tide to attack Blood Island, intending to take back the nail deeply inserted into the center of the Ink Sea.

Usually, the beast tide will not pose any threat to Blood Island, but in a beast tide three hundred years ago, a brilliant ninth-level transformed demon from the demon clan killed three Yuanying cultivators, including a Yuanying mid-stage cultivator, and led the beast tide to break through the island protection formation and slaughtered all the human cultivators on the island. Only some low-level cultivators were able to save their lives, which shocked the entire Yuqing Sea.

According to the rules set by human cultivators and the demon clan, great cultivators cannot attack low-level cultivators at will. After all, the fight between the two sides is for the purpose of competing for cultivation resources, not really to fight to the death.

Although this ninth-level demon cultivator is not yet a great cultivator, he has the strength that is not inferior to that of a great cultivator. With him in charge of Blood Island, the Yuqing Sea cultivators counterattacked twice, but failed to force the monsters back.

But the Blood Island is too important to the human race. Without the Blood Island as a foothold, the Ink Sea will soon become the world of the demon race again.

In the end, the human race had to disregard their face. Three great monks came forward together and invited a great monk from Jiuxianzhou to redeem the Blood Island from the demon race by coercion and paying a large number of precious cultivation resources and treasures.

The demon race naturally did not want to return the Blood Island to the human race, but the situation was stronger than the people, so they had to withdraw with hatred.

But before leaving, the demon race razed the market on the Blood Island to the ground, and the spiritual vein was also severely damaged, almost falling into a small spiritual vein.

After the human race took back the Blood Island, it spent a great price to warm the spiritual vein, but it was still difficult to restore the old state.

The power of the island protection formation has been much lower than before. Since then, the beast tide has broken through the island protection formation twice, and the buildings in the market have become messy and simple.

After all, no one knows whether the shops and caves that they have painstakingly built will be destroyed in the next beast tide.

Only the strongholds of the three major sects on the Blood Island are exceptions. Zhenhai Sect, Zhengqi League, and Tianji Sect are strong. Among the six Nascent Soul cultivators on the island, three of them are from these three forces. The industries of the three major sects have also suffered the least losses in previous beast tides.

Zhengqi League is slightly weaker than the three major sects, but it has the strongest financial resources. The shops and industries in the market are connected together, some are magnificent, some are exquisite and elegant, and the styles are different.

The Zhengqi Pavilion occupies the largest area, but it is not open to the public. Only the cultivators of the Zhengqi League can enter it.

On this day, two cultivators walked into the Zhengqi Pavilion side by side. One of them was thin, white and beardless, and had a somewhat feminine temperament. The other was burly, majestic, and dressed in armor. They were Yuan Lang and Li Luo, who had a good relationship with Chen Yuan.

Li Luo looked indifferent, but Yuan Lang frowned and looked gloomy.

After they left Hanxing City, they came to Mohai to hunt monsters. In the first year, they teamed up to kill a level 5 black turtle and a level 5 ghost fire python.

Moreover, the demon pill of the level 5 ghost fire python contained a trace of red dragon blood. They sold it for thirty high-quality spirit stones, which made the two of them a small profit.

But their luck seemed to have run out in the first year. In the next three years, they got nothing. Even if they found a level 5 monster, they couldn't keep it.

This time, they just returned from hunting monsters, but they got nothing. It took them three months to find a level 5 sea yaksha, but the sea yaksha was very alert. It threw down one of its front claws, dived into the depths of the sea, and escaped.

The two have been working together for a long time, and it is not uncommon for them to have no harvest in three years. Li Luo's mentality is still calm and unmoved.

But Yuanlang was stuck in the bottleneck of the middle stage of Jindan, and his cultivation stagnated for more than ten years. His state of mind became more impetuous than before, which was a little difficult to accept.

He came to the deacon on duty today, showed his guest badge, and asked in a low voice: "In the past three months, has an elder of our alliance named Chen Yuan come here?"

"Elder Yuan, please wait a moment." After the deacon in the middle stage of foundation establishment checked the guest's token, he responded respectfully, then took out a jade slip and started to check.

After a while, he withdrew his consciousness and said respectfully: "Reporting to Elder Yuan, I have checked the records of the past three months, and there is no Elder Chen's name."

Yuen Long's face became even more ugly, he snorted, turned around and walked out of Zhengqi Pavilion.

Li Luo shook his head slightly and followed Yuen Long out.

The two didn't go far, they just turned down an alley, came to a quiet courtyard, and sat down in the main hall.

Xuedaofang City is protected by a large island defense formation. Every inch of land is precious, and the price of renting a cave is extremely expensive.

Even though the two of them were alchemy monks, they couldn't afford it, so they simply lived in the house provided by the Zhengqi Alliance for the elder Keqing. Although it was smaller, it was quieter and safer.

Most of the casual cultivators can only open their own caves outside Fang City and cannot be protected by the island protection formation. Fortunately, the beast tide has not broken out for a long time, and there is no need to worry about being killed by the monsters.

After the two of them sat down, Li Luo looked at Yuen Long, who had an ugly face, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Yuan, hunting monsters depends on luck. The monster clan is so cunning, but there was no harvest in three years. This was a common thing in the past. , why mess up your mood."

Yuan Lang said: "Brother Li, you are worrying too much. How can I take this kind of thing to my heart?"

Li Luo said: "Then why does Brother Yuan look so bad?"

Yuen Long said with a gloomy face: "Chen Daoyou made an agreement with you and me to come together to hunt monsters in Mohai, but now four years have passed and there is still no news from him. Could it be that he has forgotten this agreement?"

Li Luo frowned: "At the beginning, Daoyou Chen and we made an agreement that he would come to Blood Island to join us at the earliest or a few years later. Now only four years have passed. After a while, he will It should be coming soon.”

Yuen Long sneered: "After a while? Then we have to wait three years, four years, or ten years?"

Li Luo's frown deepened and his voice became louder: "Brother Yuan, what do you mean by this? Without Fellow Daoist Chen, we would not hunt monsters or practice cultivation?"

Yuen Long was stunned, and after a while, he smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Li is right, my mood is indeed a little unstable recently."

"In the past three years, the two of us have been traveling around Mohai, and we have encountered several monsters, but in the end we found nothing. It is inevitable that we will have random thoughts in our minds."

"I sometimes thought that if Fellow Daoist Chen were here, not to mention not missing anything, at least I would be able to gain something. However, I felt a little resentful towards Fellow Daoist Chen, which made Brother Li laugh."

Li Luo's expression softened slightly: "Why do you and I have to talk about these lies? I wish Brother Yuan could figure it out."

"Even if Fellow Daoist Chen doesn't come to Mohai, we still have to hunt monsters, but if we are eager for quick success and blame others, and allow external monsters to take advantage of it, it will not be good."

"Cultivation is also about cultivating the mind..." Yuan Lang sighed, "Brother Li, I have thought about it. There are fewer and fewer level five monsters in this sea of ​​ink, and they are all extremely cunning. How about giving it a try in the sea of ​​ten thousand monsters? ?”

Li Luo pondered for a moment and said: "That's fine. Our human race controls the Blood Island and naturally has the upper hand in the Black Sea. The surviving monsters are extremely cunning, so we might as well go to the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters to explore."

Yuan Lang looked happy, and Li Luo added: "It's just that the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters is the world of the monster clan. You and I have shallow cultivation, so we must be careful and don't go deep into it."

"Let's do this. I'll go to the Zhengqi Pavilion tomorrow to buy some news about the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters, so as not to stray into the territory of the transformed monsters."

Yuan Lang smiled and said: "Brother Li is overly worried. Even if we enter the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters, we dare not go deep into it. The transformed monsters are all deep in the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters. How can you and I meet them?"

"I heard that a mid-stage elixir-forming monk from Tianji Sect accidentally discovered a thousand-year-old spiritual grass while hunting monsters in the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons, and was rewarded with two bottles of cultivation elixirs by the sect. If we can also have this kind of opportunity, we can break through The bottleneck is just around the corner.”

Li Luo frowned slightly. He didn't like Yuen Long's ambitious character, but the two of them had a close relationship, so he couldn't say anything. He could only talk about it and continue to discuss the matter of entering the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons to hunt monsters.

An hour later, the two of them finished their discussion, Li Luo stood up and left, and Yuen Long personally sent him out of the courtyard.

Although the two are good friends, they don't live in the same place. Li Luo's residence is nearby, only a few dozen feet apart.

When the two of them walked out of the courtyard, a monk came over from the alley and said loudly: "You two fellow Taoists, you are well."

The person who came was wearing a white shirt, with eyes as bright as stars, sword-shaped eyebrows at the temples, and a smile on his face. He was the Chen Yuan whom Yuen Long and Li Luo had just talked about.

When the two of them saw Chen Yuan's sudden arrival, they were both stunned, and then they rushed forward to greet him.

Yuen Lang's brows were filled with joy and he laughed: "Friend Daoist Chen, you are here well. Brother Li and I have been looking forward to it for a long time!"

A smile appeared on the corner of Li Luo's mouth, he bowed his hands and the heavy armor on his body rattled: "Fellow Daoist Chen, Mr. Li is polite."

Chen Yuan returned the courtesy and said: "I have some trivial matters to deal with. I have been delayed for several years. I came here today to make an appointment. I ask my two fellow Taoists to forgive me."

"You're serious, Brother Li. Brother Li and I just mentioned you, and you came unexpectedly. It really gave us a big surprise." Yuen Long, who had been resentful just now, was now smiling. He welcomed Chen Yuan into the hospital with great enthusiasm in his words.

Chen Yuan did not refuse, and followed the two of them into the main hall. The guests and hosts took their seats, and Yuen Long immediately served them spiritual tea.

Chen Yuan picked up the tea cup, took a few sips of the spirit tea, praised it a few times, then put down the tea cup and said with a smile: "Did these two fellow Taoists gain anything from hunting monsters in the Black Sea for the past four years?"

Yuan Lang shook his head and sighed: "To be fair to fellow Taoists, Brother Li and I had good luck when we first came to Mohai. In the first year, we killed a black turtle and a ghost fire python with red dragon blood."

"But in the next three years, I had bad luck. I finally found a few monsters, but they all escaped."

Li Luo said in a deep voice: "The monsters in this sea of ​​ink are extremely cunning. Brother Yuan and I will work together to defeat the fifth-level monsters easily. If you want to keep them, it depends on your luck."

"Fellow Daoist Chen is here today. From now on, if the three of us join forces, we won't be afraid of the monsters escaping."

Yuen Long nodded heavily: "Yes, I just discussed with Brother Li about entering the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters to hunt monsters. Once Fellow Daoist Chen comes, we won't have to take risks in the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters."

"Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters?" Chen Yuan's eyes flashed: "Since the two Taoist friends are interested, I don't think there is any need to change it. The monsters in the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters are densely packed, making it easier to find traces of monsters."

"this……"

Li Luo and Yuan Long looked at each other, and Li Luo said in a deep voice: "Fellow Daoist Chen, the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters belongs to the world of monsters, and it is far more dangerous than the Sea of ​​Ink."

"Although the three of us join forces, we are all monks in the early stage of forming pills after all. If we encounter a sixth-level monster or a seventh-level monster, the risk is extremely high."

Yuan Lang also advised: "Mo Hai is much better. Most of them are fifth-level monsters. There are not many sixth-level monsters and seventh-level monsters. Although the harvest will definitely be smaller, it is better to be safe and secure."

After all, they are all casual cultivators, and their main mentality is to seek stability. After meeting Chen Yuan, they changed their minds and wanted to hunt monsters safely in the Mo Sea instead of taking risks in the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters.

Chen Yuan changed his words and said: "That's fine. The two fellow Taoists have been hunting monsters in the Mo Sea all year round. They are more experienced than me, so I'll just follow my example."

Seeing that Chen Yuan listened to the advice, both of them breathed a sigh of relief and turned to talk about the specific matters of hunting monsters.

Since they were going to stay in Mohai to hunt monsters, Yuen Lang and Li Luo were experienced. It only took them half an hour to discuss everything. The main thing was that they introduced the situation in Mohai to Chen Yuan and imparted their experience.

The three of them agreed to repair for seven days before setting off deep into the sea of ​​ink. Chen Yuan stood up to say goodbye and came to a courtyard not far from their residence.

After entering the small courtyard, he activated the formation, went to the practice room, meditated and practiced, and restored his true energy.

After he escaped from Wuchen Island a year ago, he let Lu Qing go as promised, fled far away, and stopped on a remote island in the Qingliu Sea.

After recovering from the injury, he refined the remaining Black Water Snake Demon Pill into two Demon Yuan Pills, added the remaining one from before, swallowed them, practiced in seclusion, and his cultivation level increased a little.

After he refined Zhu Yan's true blood, his true essence was pure and thick. Compared with ordinary monks in the early stages of forming pills, his cultivation progress was much slower.

Fortunately, the demonic power of the fifth-level Demon Yuan Pill is comparable to that of Youyun Pill, and is better than ordinary early-stage pills such as Fucen Pill and Linghai Pill. Although there are only three pills, it still has a certain effect.

However, Youyun Pill is also effective for monks in the middle stage of pill formation, but Level 5 Demonic Yuan Pill is not effective.

After leaving the customs, Chen Yuan rushed to Mohai. He had made an appointment with Li Luo and Yuan Long at the Zhengqi Pavilion in Xuedaofang City, so he came directly to inquire about their whereabouts.

The deacon informed Chen Yuan of their residence. He first visited Li Luo's residence, but no one responded. Then he came to Yuen Long's residence and finally saw the two of them.