Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Chen Yuan frowned: "A thousand high-grade spiritual stones? Such a high price can buy a mid-level magic weapon. Can it be lower?"

Cheng Xianmo shook his head: "This is because Taoist friend holds the order of Junior Brother Pei, and a hundred spiritual stones are reduced."

"How precious is the mid-level magic weapon? One thousand high-grade spiritual stones, but you can only buy the most common mid-level magic weapon."

"Fellow Taoist has to repair two mid-level magic weapons, and the damage is quite serious. It will take at least several years. The master of the weapon refining needs to keep an eye on them all the time, which is very troublesome."

"Furthermore, Fellow Taoist requires five bundles of thousand-year-old ice silk (note). It is not easy for me to produce so much silk at once, and the asking price will naturally be higher."

"Of course, if fellow Taoist provide the Millennium Ice Silk on his own, with only three hundred high-grade spiritual stones, our pavilion can repair these two magic weapons for fellow Taoist."

"To be honest, Thousand-year Ice Silk Silk is extremely rare. Cheng needs to apply to the General Pavilion. If fellow Taoists can provide spiritual materials on their own, that would be great."

Chen Yuan said: "Do you know, Fellow Daoist Cheng, where in Fanyangfang City, you can buy thousand-year-old ice silk?"

Cheng Xianmo said: "In two months, the three sects behind Fanyangfang City will hold an auction once every ten years. Fellow Taoists can try their luck at the auction. There may be monks who come up with thousand-year-old ice silk."

"As for other shops in the market, it is impossible to have this spiritual material."

"By the way, fellow Taoist you can also try your luck in Chongde City. There will definitely be Millennium Ice Silk for sale there, but the price is probably only higher than this pavilion."

Chen Yuan pondered for a moment, then cupped his hands and said, "One thousand high-grade spiritual stones is not a small amount. Please give it some thought and come visit me again at this time tomorrow."

Cheng Xianmo returned the salute and said with a smile: "Then Cheng will be waiting for you, Taoist friend."

After Chen Yuan left Baibao Pavilion, he went to several other shops selling magic weapons, but none of them had Millennium Ice Silk for sale.

The next day, he came to Fanyang Pavilion set up by three sects behind Fanyangfang City to inquire about the auction.

A foundation-building deacon respectfully handed Chen Yuan a jade slip, which recorded various treasures that would appear in the auction.

Fanyangfang City's auction event is held once every ten years. Every time it is held, it attracts at least thousands of monks with foundation establishment and above to participate. There are many treasures, including mid-level magic weapons, thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, infant-forming spiritual objects and many other rare treasures.

However, Chen Yuan checked carefully and found that there was no Millennium Ice Silk in it, and he was slightly disappointed.

The foundation-building deacon was very good at observing words and expressions. Seeing the change in Chen Yuan's expression, he smiled and said, "Senior, you didn't find the treasure you wanted? In the next two months, many monks will continue to take out treasures and participate in the auction meeting, saying The things that seniors need are all there.”

Chen Yuan nodded, casually took out five middle-grade spiritual stones, handed them to the Foundation Establishment Deacon, and turned to leave.

Deacon Ji Zhu took the spirit stone and felt happy. He clasped his fists behind Chen Yuan and bowed: "Senior, walk slowly!"

After Chen Yuan walked out of Fanyang Pavilion, he walked around the market for a while, then turned around and walked towards Baibao Pavilion.

Thousand-year-old ice silk is rare, and the probability of it appearing at auction is low. Cheng Xianmo's asking price seems a bit high, but Chen Yuan did not suffer a loss if he could buy such top-grade spiritual materials with spiritual stones.

When he arrived at Baibao Pavilion, Cheng Xianmo was already waiting for him in the courtyard behind Baibao Pavilion.

Chen Yuan took out the two damaged magic weapons and the tortoise shell of the ferocious beast, without giving him a single spiritual stone.

The damaged mid-level magic weapon is also a mid-level magic weapon, which is far more precious than the spirit stone. Baibao Pavilion is not afraid of Chen Yuan's default at all.

Cheng Xianmo handed a jade slip to Chen Yuan, which recorded the contents of the transaction and left his own spiritual mark.

This is the rule of Baibao Pavilion. If Cheng Xianmo wants to acquire these two mid-level magic weapons and the vicious beast tortoise shell, Chen Yuan can use this jade slip to ask for the magic weapon from Baibao Pavilion.

Baibao Pavilion has branches all over Dafang City in Renzhou. It has its own set of rules and regulations and has an outstanding reputation.

It takes more time to repair the intermediate magic weapons. It would be six years before Chen Yuan came to Fanyangfang City to retrieve these two magic weapons.

He didn't care about it, agreed, said goodbye, and flew to Qingshan Village.

When Chen Yuan returned to Qingshan Village, it had just been four days since he left here.

He dispersed his consciousness and found that Li Qingshan was reciting Taoist scriptures in the valley, extremely seriously.

Li Qingshan was very happy when Chen Yuan escaped from the light, but he still suppressed the excitement in his heart, bowed deeply, and said respectfully: "Disciple welcomes master back!"

Chen Yuan said calmly: "No need to be polite, have you been slacking off in the past few days since I have been away from you as a teacher?"

Li Qingshan said seriously: "This disciple has been studying hard all day long and does not dare to relax even a little bit."

Chen Yuan said: "As a teacher, I will test you..."

He asked several questions in succession, and Li Qingshan answered most of them fluently. Only two questions were too difficult to answer.

A smile appeared on Chen Yuan's face: "Yes, you have laid a preliminary foundation. In the next ten days, I will teach you three volumes of Taoist scriptures. After that, I will have important matters to deal with. You can study them by yourself first. If you have any questions, Please write it down first, and I will answer it for you later.”

Li Qingshan was slightly disappointed, but still agreed: "Yes, Master."

Chen Yuan took out another relatively difficult Taoist scripture, handed it to Li Qingshan, and started explaining it from the beginning.

Ten days later, he entered the mountains and opened a cave on a peak twenty miles away from Qingshan Village.

This cave is as simple as the cave he opened in the Huangling Sea, but it is extremely hidden and has a magic array set up, making it extremely difficult for outsiders to discover it.

After entering the cave, Chen Yuan took out the alchemy furnace and the prepared spiritual herbs, and started to make the elixir.

Pills that restore blood and essence are extremely rare, but the main reason is that the spiritual herbs are precious, and the recipes are easy to get.

The rarer the elixir, the harder it is to find the spiritual herbs, the harder it is to refine, and the less valuable the recipes are.

On the contrary, some elixir with mediocre efficacy, because the spiritual herbs are easy to get, the recipes are also quite precious and cannot be easily obtained.

Chen Yuan has refined hundreds of Yaoyuan Pills, and his alchemy skills have been perfected. It took him two months to refine several pills that restore blood and essence, and no spiritual herbs were wasted.

He swallowed these pills, and his blood and essence in his body recovered by 30%. The remaining 50% of blood and essence can only be slowly restored by the starlight infusion.

After Chen Yuan came out of retreat, he returned to Qingshan Village and continued to teach Li Qingshan the Taoist scriptures.

Before his blood and essence were restored, he could not improve his cultivation, and cultivation was useless. He could only wait patiently for the starlight to be infused into his body every half a month, just in time to teach Li Qingshan.

Time flies, and a year has passed in a hurry.

Chen Yuan's teachings are very strict, and Li Qingshan is very diligent in order to embark on the road of cultivation as soon as possible. He spends eight hours of the twelve hours a day memorizing and studying Taoist scriptures.

However, every half a month, he would go into the mountains with Li Dalong to hunt wild animals to supplement the family expenses.

Just when Chen Yuan had just left the Li family and went into the mountains to open up a cave, Qinglan was a little lost.

But she slowly came out, and He, the matchmaker from Qingshan Village, helped her find a good family and married her off.

She was already seventeen years old, and all the women of her age in Qingshan Village had married two or three years ago.

Qinglan could have married a long time ago, but because of Li Wenju's entanglement, others did not dare to propose marriage.

After Chen Yuan drove Liao Yanlun away from Zhouyang Academy, the Li family was afraid and soon moved away from Qingshan Village.

Without Li Wenju's harassment, Qinglan was pretty and gentle, so it was not difficult for her to find a husband.

Moreover, she was literate, which was even more rare among rural women. She married the eldest son of a small landlord in a neighboring village.

Her husband was a young scholar, one year older than Qinglan. Four years ago, he entered an academy in the county town to study. He had no time to marry. Recently, he had made some achievements in his studies and finally had the idea of ​​starting a family.

After being introduced by matchmaker He, he fell in love with Qinglan, who was gentle, simple, and well-educated.

In addition to learning Taoist scriptures from Chen Yuan, Li Qingshan would also teach Qinglan some Confucian classics every once in a while to broaden her horizons.

This young scholar was also quite simple in character. He got along well with Qinglan and fell in love with her at first sight. He soon decided to get married. After the six rituals, he married her in a formal way.

On the day of Qinglan's wedding, Chen Yuan did not show up, but when Qinglan and her husband were in the bridal chamber at night, he put a low-level elixir in each of their cups of wine.

After the two drank the wine, they were free from all diseases and had strong bodies, which was also his blessing to the newlyweds.

Chen Yuan knew that Qinglan had a good impression of him, but he just treated Qinglan as a sister.

There is a natural chasm between immortal cultivators and mortals.

Fortunately, after he revealed his identity as an immortal cultivator, Qinglan slowly came out, and Chen Yuan was relieved.

After a year, Chen Yuan's blood and blood were completely restored, and Li Qingshan had read dozens of volumes of Taoist scriptures, laying a solid foundation.

One day, Chen Yuan said to Li Qingshan: "Qingshan, from today on, your master will start to teach you the method of cultivation. Your master has the method of five elements, the method of body cultivation, and the method of sword cultivation. What method do you want to practice?" (End of this chapter)