Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Chen Yuan came to the largest refining room and knocked on the stone door gently.

After a while, the light on the stone door dimmed and quietly opened.

Chen Yuan stepped in. Qin Lian sat cross-legged on the side of the red tripod, opened his eyes and looked over: "Fellow Daoist Chen, are you still going out tonight?"

The red tripod was surrounded by earth fire and six fire dragons, and the red light was dazzling. There was a ball of purple-black spiritual liquid in the tripod.

Two months ago, the Cangming Stone had been purified and turned into a ball of pure dark gray spiritual liquid.

Qin Lian put two Kun fish skins and two pairs of wings into the tripod to refine and purify them. Chen Yuan dripped two drops of blood essence and left a spiritual mark.

Kun Tong and Kun Feng are father and son, with the same blood. If they are refined together, the purified spiritual material will be more pure, but like the top-grade spiritual material Cangming Stone, it will also take a year.

The Feiling Stone has also been purified. In the black cauldron in another refining room, the Earth Qi Pearl is being refined. In another four months, the purification will be completed, and then the Chongxuan Peak can be refined again.

"Not bad." Chen Yuan nodded.

Qin Lian took out the jade pendant, raised his hand and sent it to Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan raised his hand to take the jade pendant, bowed, turned and walked out of the refining room, and the stone door slowly closed behind him.

Late at night, Chen Yuan left the Wanling Mountains and came to an uninhabited deserted mountain hundreds of miles away, drawing the starlight into his body.

He did not stay outside for long, and rushed back to Qin Lian's cave that night to return the jade pendant.

Chen Yuan returned to the smallest refining room, put away the alchemy furnace, closed his eyes and meditated to restore his true essence.

Two days later, his true essence was fully restored, and the fatigue caused by refining the elixir also disappeared.

Chen Yuan slowly opened his eyes, took out a jade bottle from the mustard ring, opened the bottle stopper, and a golden Chengyang Pill flew out.

Chen Yuan swallowed the pill and immediately turned into a huge and pure spiritual energy.

He practiced the technique to introduce this spiritual energy into the meridians, and slowly circulated it according to the method of "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit".

More than a year later, he had refined almost all of the thousand-year spiritual herbs and eighth-level demon pills in his hands into pills.

There were only four thousand-year spiritual herbs left, one thousand-year thunder cloud, one ordinary thousand-year spiritual herb, and two main ingredients for the middle-stage Yuanying pill.

There was not a single eighth-level demon pill left. When refining the sixth furnace of demon Yuandan, which was the tenth furnace of Yuanying pills, Chen Yuan's pill success rate finally increased to 40%.

In the last furnace of pills, which was also the last furnace of pills, he took out the most precious thousand-year body-tempering spiritual herb and refined a furnace of tough body pills to strengthen the body.

At this point, Chen Yuan had a total of 58 Yuanying stage pills in his hand, including 52 cultivation pills, four toughness pills, one Yunlu pill, and one Huiling pill. He could finally practice in seclusion and improve his cultivation.

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A month later, Chen Yuan opened his eyes, his eyes flashed with brilliance, his spirit was full, but his face looked a little ugly.

He had completely refined the Chengyang Pill he took, but the growth of his cultivation was far from what he expected.

When he was chatting with Qingliu Jushi and Qin Lian, he had heard them mention more than once that it was difficult for Yuanying cultivators to practice, and he had also seen relevant records in the classics.

Yuanying cultivators only need to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for seven or eight hundred years to practice to the peak of the early Yuanying stage. It is impossible to break through the bottleneck of the middle stage, and they must rely on pill spirit veins.

Ordinary Yuanying early stage cultivators need to take five or six bottles of pills to practice to the peak of the early Yuanying stage and reach the bottleneck of the middle stage.

Millennium spiritual herbs are hard to find, and Yuanying stage elixirs are even more precious. The spiritual veins of Yuanying cultivators in casual cultivators and medium-sized sects are also common. It usually takes four to five hundred years to cultivate to the peak of the early stage.

Yuanying cultivators in large sects have large spiritual veins and more elixirs. They can reach the bottleneck of the middle stage in three to four hundred years.

The ten major sects have a deep foundation, rich spiritual energy, abundant cultivation resources, and it is easier to get millennium spiritual herbs. The elders in the sect only need two to three hundred years to cultivate to the peak of the early stage.

But in front of the bottleneck, all beings are equal. There are many Yuanying early cultivators in the ten major sects, but the number of middle-stage cultivators has decreased significantly, and there are even fewer great cultivators, at most two or three.

This is the top level of the cultivation world of Jiuxianzhou. In the eyes of low-level cultivators, Yuanying cultivators are high above and majestic.

But in order to improve their cultivation and break through the bottleneck, their fights and killings are no easier than those of low-level cultivators.

It is even more cruel because of the thin spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the scarcity of millennium spiritual herbs.

Chen Yuan is an outlier. For other cultivators, the bottleneck is like a natural chasm, but for him, it is as easy as walking on flat ground. As long as the body is strong enough, there is no obstacle.

But there are gains and losses. Although Chen Yuan does not have to worry about being trapped by the bottleneck, he has refined two kinds of true blood. His true essence is pure and rich, far exceeding that of cultivators of the same level. He needs to absorb more spiritual energy to improve his cultivation.

He refined this Chengyang Pill, and his cultivation only improved a few points.

According to Chen Yuan's estimation, he needs at least 20 bottles of Yuanying stage pills to break through the bottleneck of the middle stage, which is more than three times that of cultivators of the same level!

He still has 51 cultivation pills in his hand. If he takes them all, he still needs 15 bottles, which is a full 150 Yuanying pills.

These five bottles of pills are all the wealth he has accumulated after killing three transformed demon kings, two Yuanying cultivators, extorting all the accumulation of a medium-sized sect, and asking for compensation from a Yuanying middle-stage cultivator.

If a Nascent Soul elder of the ten major sects has the lives of one or two cultivators of the same level in his hands, he would be proud of himself even if he is just a casual cultivator.

Chen Yuan killed two Nascent Soul cultivators and three Transformed Demon Kings. Even the mid-Nascent Soul cultivators were rarely matched by such a feat.

For an early Yuanying monk, holding five bottles of elixirs would be enough to reach the early peak, but if placed on Chen Yuan, it would only make his cultivation deeper.

Where will the remaining fifteen bottles of elixirs come from?

He shook his head helplessly, stood up, and walked out of the weapon refining room.

The ruthless avenue, the balance of yin and yang, and the pure and powerful true energy made it more difficult for him to improve his cultivation.

Just like he doesn't have to worry about bottlenecks, the difficulty of refining the blood of the true spirit will make other Yuanying monks discouraged.

We can only take one step at a time. There are many transformed demon kings in the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons, Hanzhou, and Nanzhou. One day, one hundred and fifty Demonic Yuan Pills will be collected.

Chen Yuan put aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, went to the largest refining room, borrowed a jade pendant from Qin Lian, and waited until late at night before leaving the Wanling Mountains and filling his body with starlight.

After returning to the Qin Liandong Mansion, Chen Yuan meditated and practiced, restored his true energy, took the second Chengyang Pill, and continued his hard training.

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The deceased passed away like a man, day and night, and in the blink of an eye, five years passed.

In the refining room of Qin Lian's Cave Mansion, Chen Yuan and Qin Lian sat cross-legged on both sides of the red cauldron with solemn expressions.

Chen Yuan raised his hand to seal the secret, and poured true energy into the red cauldron continuously.

Qin Lian's face was a little pale, and he carefully controlled the formation.

Earthly fire rose, six fire dragons circled around, and the cauldron's body flashed with red light, as if breathing, flickering on and off.

A black gown hangs in the red cauldron, with dark gray light flashing faintly on the surface.

There was only the sound of flames exploding in the stone chamber. Three days and three nights passed before the black gown suddenly shone brightly.

Qin Lian said: "Fellow Daoist Chen, the magic weapon is ready. Please give it a name and imprint your spiritual consciousness as soon as possible!"

When Chen Yuan heard this, he thought about it and left his spiritual mark on the black gown, and two small words appeared on the cuffs - "Escape".

"Go!" The magic formula in Qin Lian's hand changed, and the Dunkong magic robe flew out of the cauldron and went straight to Chen Yuan.

The rising earth fire fell into the fire well, and the six fire dragons roared and returned to the tripod.

The red cauldron slowly fell to the ground, the thirty-six array flags swayed slightly, and the aura dimmed.

The Dunkong robe stopped in front of Chen Yuan, and the surrounding space became slightly distorted.

Qin Lian breathed a long sigh of relief, his pale face full of fear: "Qin still underestimated the difficulty of refining this treasure. These five spiritual materials are all full of spirituality, and there is also a trace of the stars in the sky. Strength, and even more stubbornness.”

"Although I have only trained a high-level magic weapon this time, it is almost comparable to the top-level magic weapon."

"Thanks to my Taoist friend's strong true energy and extraordinary spiritual awareness, he persisted for seven days and seven nights and survived the last difficulty of gathering the spirit. Otherwise, all the efforts would be in vain, and these rare spiritual materials would be wasted."

"Fellow Daoist Qin is refining treasures for Chen, so of course I have to do my part." Chen Yuan stroked the Void Vestment robe in front of him, and it felt smooth and delicate.

The Dunkong robe trembled slightly, as if responding to his gentle caress.

He also felt an extremely vague thought, exuding a strong sense of admiration.

The higher the level of the magic weapon, the stronger the spirituality.

It is said that above the top-level magic weapons, there are higher-level spiritual treasures that can even give birth to weapon spirits.

The Escape Magic Cloak is only a high-level magic weapon, but it can give birth to vague thoughts. Indeed, as Qin Lian said, it is not far from the top-level magic weapon.

From the moment he purified the spiritual materials, Chen Yuan continued to inject essence, blood and true essence, leaving a mark of spiritual consciousness.

Although this treasure is not his natal magic weapon, it is not far different. It does not need to be warmed and nourished, but it is like an arm using a finger, and the mind is connected.

Qin Lian looked at the quivering Dunkong robe with admiration on his face: "This treasure is full of spirituality. It only needs to be warmed and maintained for a hundred years, and after adding a top-quality spiritual material and refining it once, it can be successfully promoted to a top-level magic weapon." ”

With a smile on his face, Chen Yuan stood up, took off his white shirt, and put on the Dunkong robe, and a chilling air emerged spontaneously.

However, he prefers the color white. With a thought, the Dunkong robe turns pure white, with restrained spiritual energy, and looks no different from ordinary robes.

He looked down at the white gown on his body and felt extremely satisfied. He cupped his fists and bowed to Qin Lian: "Thank you, my fellow Taoist, for your hard work in refining this robe of escape and refining the Chongxuan Peak."

"These are the seven top-grade spiritual stones, a thousand top-grade spiritual stones and a piece of thousand-year cold jade that were agreed upon beforehand. Please accept them, fellow Taoist."

With that said, he took out a storage bag that had been prepared, sent it forward, and slowly flew towards Qin Lian.

Qin Lian also stood up, with a smile on his pale face. He reached out to take the storage bag, and when he checked it with his consciousness, the smile on his face became even wider.

There are many rare spiritual materials used in the robe of escape, and it is extremely difficult to refine.

In the past seven days, he had almost exhausted all his true energy, and his soul was extremely exhausted.

However, he succeeded in refining a high-level magic weapon that was almost comparable to the top-level magic weapon. His weapon refining skills were greatly improved, and he also harvested seven top-grade spiritual stones. Qin Lian was in a great mood, and the fatigue on his body was unknowingly reduced. A lot.

He said: "This treasure is generally in line with Qin's idea, but the space power contained in the seventh-level Kun fish skin and the pair of seventh-level Kun fish wings is a bit too pure, even better than the Cang Ming Stone. Slightly better.”

"With the blessing of this treasure, the distance you can perform the teleportation technique will be twice as long as before, and the real energy consumption will not increase. When you use that strange black light magical power, the power will also increase a lot."

"The trace of Zhou Tian star power contained in the star iron is also extremely mysterious, beyond Qin's expectations."

"After the escape robe is refined, it is extremely tough, and its defensive ability is comparable to the top high-level magic weapon. It is invulnerable to water and fire, wind and thunder, and flying swords are difficult to destroy."

"In addition, fellow Daoist, you don't have to worry about space cracks in the future. This treasure contains rich space power, and space cracks can hardly hurt it at all."

Chen Yuan nodded slightly: "Thank you for your reminder, I will remember it."

Qin Lian was relieved and said: "Fellow Daoist has been infusing the magic weapon with true essence for seven days and seven nights. The consumption of true essence should also be considerable. Why don't you rest in the mansion? Qin's true essence is exhausted and his soul is exhausted, so I will leave first."

He bowed and turned to walk out of the refining room.

Chen Yuan also returned to the smallest refining room, meditating and practicing, absorbing spiritual energy, and restoring true essence.

In the past seven days, he has been pouring true essence into the escape robe, which consumes a lot of true essence, and only 30% of true essence is left in his body.

This is the last step of refining the magic weapon. Starting two years ago, the five spiritual materials began to slowly merge, until seven days ago, the fusion was completed and gathered into spirit.

Before that, several spiritual materials were purified one after another.

Among them, the skin and wings of Kunyu took a year, and the golden silk jujube took half a year.

The star iron, which is not a top-grade spiritual material, took a full year and a half.

Star iron is naturally not as good as Cangming Stone, but that trace of Zhoutian star is extremely stubborn.

Qin Lian stimulated the full power of the earth fire array and used 90% of the power of the fire veins. It took a year and a half to finally refine and purify it.

Fortunately, before purifying the star iron, Qin Lian had already refined the Chongxuan Peak again, otherwise he would have no time to be distracted and it would be difficult to take care of both, and the refining would definitely fail.

The re-refined Chongxuan Peak is heavier than before, and the consumption of true essence is greatly reduced when it is used.

Chen Yuan is very satisfied with Qin Lian's refining skills. Except when he starts to purify spiritual materials, he needs to inject true essence and blood and leave a spiritual imprint. At other times, he can practice in seclusion.

In the past five years, Chen Yuan swallowed and refined all 51 cultivation pills and four toughness pills. His cultivation has increased a lot, and his body has also been strengthened a little, but there is still a gap from the ninth level demon king.

This gap may not seem big, but it will take at least a hundred years to cross it by just starlight infusion.

After Chen Yuan refined all the pills, he did not waste time and refined the two eight-hundred-year-old ice spring lotus and several seventh-level demon pills in his hand into pills.

Every month, Chen Yuan would leave the Wanling Mountains to draw starlight to infuse his body and temper his body.

Until seven days ago, Chen Yuan stopped practicing and helped Qin Lian gather the spirit for the escape robe.

Three days later, Chen Yuan's true essence was fully restored. After waiting for another day, Qin Lian came out of the practice room, looking energetic and having recovered from exhaustion.

The two came to the main hall and sat down as host and guest.

Qin Lian smiled and said, "What are your plans next, Mr. Daoist Chen?"

Chen Yuan clasped his fists and bowed, "The two magic weapons have been successfully refined. I have been bothering Mr. Daoist Qin for several years, and it is time to leave." (End of this chapter)