Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

There were bursts of dragon roars, and the flames emerging from the deep well half covered the red cauldron. Six fire dragons surrounded it, and the red color on the cauldron became more and more dazzling.

The air in the stone chamber began to become distorted, Qin Lian's cassock shone with a light blue luster, and there was no trace of sweat on his face.

Chen Yuan could still endure the heat and just watched silently.

About a quarter of an hour later, the red color on the cauldron was extremely rich. Qin Lian finally took out the Cang Ming Stone from the mustard seed ring and threw it into the red cauldron.

He raised his hand to seal the secret, and the thirty-six pole formation flags swayed gently. The earth fire emerging from the deep well became more and more fierce. Six fire dragons clung to the red tripod and slowly closed their red dragon eyes.

The gray Cang Ming Stone slowly rotated in the red cauldron, emitting bursts of space fluctuations and slowly melting.

After about an hour, the Cangming Stone completely melted and turned into a pool of light gray spiritual liquid.

At this time, Qin Lian suddenly spoke: "Fellow Daoist Chen, please drop a drop of blood essence into the red cauldron to infuse the true essence and leave a mark of spiritual consciousness. When the time comes to fuse the spiritual materials, it can save a lot of time."

When Chen Yuan heard this, he immediately bit the tip of his tongue and spit out a drop of blood, which condensed into a bright red blood bead, flew into the red cauldron, and merged with the light gray Cang Ming Stone spiritual liquid.

There was a loud scoffing sound, and gray bubbles emerged on the surface of the spiritual fluid, then burst, and traces of black smoke emerged.

At the same time, Chen Yuan pointed at one point, pouring the true essence into Ding's body, and probed into his spiritual consciousness, leaving his own spiritual imprint in the spiritual liquid.

But he felt great resistance. The light gray spiritual liquid was like a hard stone, and it was extremely difficult for his spiritual consciousness to penetrate into it.

It took three days and three nights for Chen Yuan to finally leave his mark of consciousness in the spiritual liquid, using up 30% of his true energy.

Qin Lian's face was filled with joy: "Fellow Taoist, your spiritual consciousness is indeed extraordinary, and your true energy is also extremely pure. It only took three days to complete this step."

"The Cangming Stone is full of spirituality and contains rich spatial power. It will take at least a year to successfully purify it. The next step is to grind it with water."

"Fellow Taoist, please come with me. I need help from fellow Taoist to refine Chongxuan Peak."

After that, he stood up and walked out of the stone room.

Chen Yuan stood up and followed, and the two came to another stone room, which was half smaller than the one before.

In the middle of the stone chamber, there is also a formation about ten feet in size and a deep well, surrounded by thirty-six formation flags.

Qin Lian took out a black cauldron from the mustard seed ring, expanded it to about ten feet in size, and placed it on top of the formation.

Unlike the Red Cauldron, the Black Cauldron is not a magic weapon, just an ordinary refining furnace.

Qin Lian raised his hand to seal the secret, just like before, the earth fire emerged from the deep well and enveloped the black tripod, and the temperature in the stone chamber rose sharply.

About a quarter of an hour later, Qin Lian took out a fist-sized piece of white soil and threw it into the cauldron.

Less than half an hour later, the white soil turned into a pile of powder, floating in the black cauldron.

Qin Lian said: "Fellow Daoist Qin, Chongxuan Peak is just re-refined and does not need to be dripped with essence and blood. I also ask you to inject true energy into the cauldron and leave a mark of divine consciousness in the cloud earth spiritual powder."

Chen Yuan did as he was told. This time it was much easier than leaving the mark of consciousness in the Cangming Stone Spiritual Liquid just now. It only took one day.

After he withdrew his spiritual consciousness, another 10% of his true energy was consumed, leaving 60% of his true energy. His spiritual consciousness was also depleted.

Qin Lian said: "Yuntu is just a high-grade spiritual material. It can be purified in half a year. Fellow Taoist can wait here or go back to the stone room just now."

Chen Yuan shook his head: "With Fellow Taoist Qin taking care of me, everything will be safe. I won't cause any trouble. When I need to take action, just call me."

"There is still a spare stone room in the Fellow Taoist Mansion. I have consumed a lot of my true energy, and my soul is also a little tired and needs some rest."

Qin Lian had a smile on his face, and Chen Yuan was not watching. This showed that he had great trust in him, and he was not worried that he would get in the way and secretly use his spiritual materials.

"There are not many other things in Qin's mansion, but there are many weapon refining rooms. Fellow Taoist, please come with me."

Chen Yuan followed Qin Lian out of the stone chamber, passed through a passage, and came to another smaller stone chamber.

This is the same as the previous two stone chambers, with a formation in the middle and a fire well a hundred feet deep.

Chen Yuan asked curiously: "Why are so many weapon refining rooms built in the cave of fellow Taoist Qin?"

Qin Lian explained: "Qin sometimes needs to refine two magic weapons at the same time, and one refining room is not enough."

"Moreover, there are many refining masters in our pavilion, and the supply of refining rooms in the Earth Fire Palace exceeds demand. Qin's disciples often cannot rent a refining room, so they can only use real fire to refining their weapons."

"So when Qin built the cave, he simply opened three weapon refining rooms. In addition to his own use, he could also lend them to several apprentices."

Chen Yuan suddenly realized, and then he suddenly felt something in his heart, and asked: "Can this earth fire be used to make elixirs?"

Qin Lian looked surprised: "Fellow Daoist Chen is still proficient in alchemy?"

"I have gained some experience in alchemy."

Qin Lian looked at Chen Yuan, thinking about physical cultivation, teleportation skills, alchemy skills... he felt that this person was becoming more and more unpredictable.

He smiled and said: "Although the underground fire veins have exploded a bit, through the formation control, the underground fire that emerges can become pure and gentle, and can be used to make elixirs..."

Qin Lian explained the method of controlling the formation in detail and demonstrated it himself before leaving.

Chen Yuan closed the door, took out a set of formations and flags, and set up a formation to guard against prying eyes.

He took out a futon, sat down cross-legged in front of the Earth Fire Formation, closed his eyes and meditated to restore his true energy.

The spiritual energy in Qin Liandong Mansion is extremely rich, comparable to a medium-sized spiritual vein.

Chen Yuan's loss of true essence was not too great. It took only one day for his true essence to recover and his consciousness to be restored as before.

He opened his eyes, took out the alchemy furnace that he had carried with him for a long time from the mustard seed ring, and slowly flew to the top of the fire well.

Then he raised his hand and pinched the seal, and activated the formation according to the method described by Qin Lian.

Thirty-six formation flags lit up at the same time, and the earth fire rose up, but it was much milder than the earth fire in the first two stone chambers, wrapping the alchemy furnace, and the temperature in the stone chamber slowly rose.

Chen Yuan's mind moved, and he took out four thousand-year-old spiritual herbs from the mustard seed ring to refine the Chengyang Pill. With a solemn expression, he recalled the recipe of the Chengyang Pill.

In the past ten days, he has been trying to figure out the recipe in the cave to prepare for alchemy.

When refining magic weapons, he does not need to stay by the side all the time, and time cannot be wasted. It is just right to use it to refine pills and improve cultivation.

Now there is still earth fire that can be used to refine pills, which greatly reduces the consumption of true essence, and it cannot be wasted.

Chen Yuan took a deep breath, raised his hand and waved it, a thousand-year-old spiritual grass flew into the alchemy furnace, closed his eyes slightly, and began to refine the first batch of Yuanying stage pills.

The process of purifying the spiritual grass was very smooth. Chen Yuan's true essence was pure and rich, and his spiritual consciousness was powerful, far exceeding the cultivators of the same level. Half a month later, he purified all four thousand-year-old spiritual herbs into the purest spiritual liquid.

Then he began to fuse the spiritual liquid and condense the pill.

The spirituality of the thousand-year-old spiritual grass far exceeded that of the eight-hundred-year-old spiritual grass, which was several times more difficult than before the alchemy.

But Chen Yuan's spiritual consciousness was also several times stronger than before the infant, and he was extremely careful. Although there were some twists and turns, he did not fail and refined two Chengyang pills.

Looking at the golden pills the size of longan and full of spiritual energy, Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, his face full of joy.

Although the success rate was only 20%, 90% of the alchemy masters only had a success rate of 10% when refining the first batch of Yuanying stage pills.

A master of alchemy with weaker spiritual awareness or insufficient experience needs to refine three or four furnaces of spiritual herbs before he can refine a Yuanying-stage pill.

There are also many master alchemists who cannot refine Yuanying-stage pills at all and will never become great alchemy masters.

Those who can refine a pill with the first furnace of spiritual herbs are all people with extremely high alchemy talent.

Chen Yuan has a 20% success rate because of his strong spiritual awareness and the fact that he has refined nearly two hundred furnaces of Jindan-stage pills and has rich experience.

He put the Chengyang Pill into a jade bottle, put it away, and sat cross-legged to restore his true essence.

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Five months passed quickly. When Chen Yuan refined the sixth furnace of pills, Qin Lian's voice rang out outside the stone chamber: "Fellow Daoist Chen, the cloud soil has been purified. Qin wants to purify the second spiritual material. Please help me."

"Fellow Daoist Qin, wait a moment." Chen Yuan responded and raised his hand.

The lid of the alchemy furnace was lifted, and three lavender pills flew out, filled with spiritual energy.

When he refined the fifth batch of pills, his success rate increased to 30%.

Chen Yuan put the three pills into the jade bottle, along with the alchemy furnace, into the mustard ring, then closed the earth fire formation, stood up and walked out of the stone room.

Qin Lian was waiting outside the door. The two came to the medium-sized refining room, and the cloud earth spiritual powder in the black cauldron had disappeared.

Qin Lian took out a dark brown stone from the mustard ring and put it into the black cauldron. After it turned into a pool of spiritual liquid, he asked Chen Yuan to inject true essence and leave a spiritual mark.

Chen Yuan did as he was told, and Qin Lian breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, this Feiling Stone will also take half a year to purify, and by then the Cangming Stone will have been purified."

Chen Yuan nodded slightly: "Thank you for your care, fellow Daoist. I will go out tonight and come back tomorrow."

Qin Lian's eyes flashed with a trace of doubt, but he didn't ask anything, just smiled and said: "Fellow Daoist, go quickly and come back quickly."

As he said that, he took off the ancient jade pendant from his waist and handed it to Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan took the jade pendant, bowed, turned around and walked out of the stone room.

He returned to the smallest refining room, sat cross-legged and meditated until late at night, then stood up and left Qin Lian's cave.

Chen Yuan held a jade token, flew out of the Wanling Sect's mountain gate, and then left the Wanling Market, and came to an uninhabited deserted mountain hundreds of miles away, and fell into the light of escape.

Tonight, the stars are bright, and Chen Yuan's mind moved, and he took out the jade from the space in his body.

The sky was full of starlight, gathering into a silver beam of light, which descended from the sky and enveloped Chen Yuan's whole body. After fifty breaths, it dissipated.

Chen Yuan put away the jade pendant, clenched his fist, felt the strength increased a little, smiled slightly, and flew to Wanling Market with a flash of light.

In the past six months, he would leave the Wanling Mountains once a month to draw the starlight into his body.

He did not dare to let the starlight fill his body outside Qin Lian's cave. Although Qin Lian could not see the starlight falling, he could see the jade pendant.

After refining the first batch of elixirs, he asked Qin Lian to take him away from the Wanling Sect's mountain gate, and then flew out of the Wanling Mountains on his own to draw the starlight into his body.

Later, Qin Lian had to take care of the refining furnace, so he lent his elder jade pendant to Chen Yuan and let him leave on his own, and never asked Chen Yuan the reason.

Chen Yuan was very satisfied with Qin Lian's attitude, and did not stay outside for a long time, so as not to be absent when Qin Lian needed his help.

After returning to Qin Lian's cave, Chen Yuan returned the jade pendant to him, and then went to the smallest refining room to recover his true essence and continue to refine the seventh batch of pills.

The thousand-year-old spiritual herbs in his hand were only enough to refine four batches of pills, and from the fifth batch on, they became demon Yuan Dan.

When he left Qin Lian's cave for the fourth time to draw the starlight into his body, he stayed in the market for a few hours and bought dozens of three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs to gather the auxiliary medicines for refining demon Yuan Dan.

Chen Yuan has a total of eight eighth-level demon pills in his hand. Except for Kuntong's demon pill, the other seven are monsters from the Nine Immortals Continent. Old Man Dan Jue did not leave any pill recipe.

However, between demon pills of the same attribute and different types, the required spiritual herbs are only slightly different, and there are rules to follow.

Moreover, Chen Yuan has extremely rich experience in refining Demon Yuan Dan, even far surpassing Old Man Dan Jue in the early Yuan Ying stage, and he successfully deduced the elixir recipe.

He took out Shiman's demon elixir and threw it into the alchemy furnace. He closed his eyes slightly, raised his hands to make secrets, and circulated his true energy.

Under the burning flames, the demon pill slowly rotated, and traces of violent demon energy steamed out, gradually becoming calmer.

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Another eight months passed. Chen Yuan slowly opened his eyes, raised his hand, and opened the lid of the alchemy furnace. Four dusty pills flew out. His aura was restrained and his appearance was not surprising.

But when Chen Yuan saw this scene, he smiled and murmured: "With these four toughness pills, the physical body can be strengthened a lot..."

He put the four pills into the jade vase, put them into the mustard seed ring, stood up and walked out of the stone room. (End of chapter)