Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Tong Zhenren was startled, then smiled and said, "I almost forgot that Fellow Daoist Chen has just formed his Nascent Soul and doesn't know about this."

He paused and looked at Cao Xianji beside him: "Elder Cao, you go down first."

Cao Xianji bowed to the two of them and left.

Tong Zhenren then turned his gaze back: "At that time, the Demon Sect had successively conquered five countries and was in full swing. For some reason, they suddenly stopped fighting and took the initiative to give up the territories of several countries they had occupied, allowing the relocated sects to return to their homeland."

Chen Yuan frowned: "Fellow Daoist Tong also doesn't know the inside story?"

Tong Zhenren shook his head slightly: "Weiguo did not fight with the Demon Sect at that time. The old man and the other two Daoists have always stayed out of it."

"There is another thing, which is very strange. After the Demon Sect retreated, all the Nascent Soul cultivators in the sects that moved back to their homeland announced their retreat one after another. In the past 20 years, they have not appeared in front of people again."

Chen Yuan was surprised "Can Daoist Tong confirm it?"

Tong Zhenren said solemnly, "I have always been friends with Daoist Qi Yanzong, the head of the Qichu Sect of Liang State. Three years ago, I went to visit Daoist Qi."

"An elder of the Qichu Sect came forward to greet me and claimed that Daoist Qi was in seclusion for cultivation. I waited for three months but never had the chance to see him, so I had no choice but to turn back."

"And given Daoist Qi's friendship with me, even if he was in seclusion for cultivation, he would never let me wait for three months."

Chen Yuan's heart trembled. The Demon Sect retreated, and all the sects that moved back to their homeland, and the Nascent Soul cultivators disappeared. There must be something strange about this.

Chen Yuan asked another question that had troubled him for many years: "Fellow Daoist Tong, when the Demon Sect's cultivators marched south in large numbers, why did the four major Xuan Sects stand by and watch?"

"You must know that one thing grows while the other shrinks. The stronger the Demon Sect is, the weaker our righteous path will be. Such a simple truth, the four major Xuan Sects will not fail to understand it, right?"

Tong Zhenren sighed: "Fellow Daoist Chen is right. Even the Qi Refining cultivators know the principle of one thing growing while the other shrinks. That's why the four major Xuan Sects stood by and watched."

"Before the Demon Sect marched south, it made a deal with the four major Xuan Sects and gave them several rare treasures in the world, which was more than the gains from conquering countries and destroying sects, so they ignored it."

Chen Yuan was stunned. He thought of many possibilities, but he had never thought that the four major Xuan Sects took the treasures of the Demon Sect and sold several countries including Qi.

He frowned and said, "Aren't the four great Xuan Sects afraid of the righteous sects' disloyalty by doing this?"

Tong Zhenren said, "When I first learned about this, I couldn't believe it. The four great Xuan Sects are the leaders of the righteous sects and have always been famous. In all the previous invasions of the demon sects to the south, the four great Xuan Sects led us righteous sects to resist without exception."

"But this time, it is said that the Demon Sect took out several treasures that made the great monks excited, so the four great Xuan Sects would rather give up their reputation and acquiesce to the Demon Sect's invasion of the righteous country. It's really chilling."

Chen Yuan nodded slowly, "So that's it. If the Demon Sect really took out such a treasure, it would be reasonable for the four great Xuan Sects to do this."

"Fortunately, the Demon Sect Finally, they retreated. Otherwise, our sect would not be able to return to Qi. "

"It was only because the Demon Sect took out the treasure that the four major Xuan Sects stood aside and watched. After conquering five countries, they suddenly retreated. Isn't it a waste of effort?"

He paused and looked at Master Tong: "Daoyou Tong is highly respected and has extensive social connections. Could it be that you didn't get any news?"

Master Tong shook his head: "I have inquired about this matter and even visited an elder of Zhiyuan Sect who I am on good terms with, but he was also vague."

"After Daoyou Chen returns to the sect, you can ask Daoyou Xuanyuanzi about this matter. He should know the inside story."

Chen Yuan was even more confused, but he didn't show it on his face. He just nodded.

He stopped asking about the battle between good and evil and said, "Chen has just formed a baby and needs spiritual materials to upgrade his life magic weapon. I wonder if you have an eighth-level demon pill?"

Tong Zhenren laughed and stroked his short beard: "I am hundreds of years older than you, and I have saved up some treasures. I have an eighth-level demon pill, but I don't know if it suits your taste."

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Chen only needs an eighth-level demon pill, regardless of its attributes."

Tong Zhenren's eyes lit up: "This demon pill in my hand was obtained from an eighth-level swamp crab. Please take a look."

After saying that, he took out a wooden box with a spirit-sealing talisman from the mustard ring, removed the spirit-sealing talisman, and opened the lid.

A fist-sized earth-yellow demon pill came into view. Chen Yuan spread his consciousness and checked it out. It was indeed an eighth-level earth-attributed demon pill with thick demon power.

He nodded slightly and retracted his gaze: "Fellow Daoist Tong, please name your price."

Tong Zhenren pondered for a moment and said: "The transformed demon king is not easy to deal with. I spent a lot of effort to get this demon pill. As long as you take out eight top-grade spirit stones, this demon pill will belong to you."

Chen Yuan frowned: "Fellow Daoist Tong's price is a bit high, how about four top-grade spirit stones?"

Tong Zhenren shook his head: "This is an eighth-level demon pill. Four top-grade spirit stones are not enough for the price I paid back then. At least nine top-grade spirit stones are needed. "

Chen Yuan said with a smile: "Fellow Daoist Tong, you are joking. It is just a swamp crab. You are very powerful and it will be easy to catch it."

"Five top-grade spirit stones. Chen has just formed a fetus and has a meager fortune. I hope you will understand."

Tong Zhenren said: "How about this, six top-grade spirit stones. I will not take advantage of you."

"But the eighth-level demon pill is so rare. I have only got this one in hundreds of years. If it were not for the incompatibility of the five elements, I would definitely not sell it to you."

Chen Yuan hesitated for a moment and said, "Since Daoist Tong has said so, I can't bargain any more."

"It's just that I don't have enough spiritual stones. I am willing to exchange this demon pill with a high-quality spiritual material. What do you think?"

Tong Zhenren's eyes flashed: "It depends on what kind of spiritual material you can bring out."

Chen Yuan smiled, raised his sleeves, and a yellow withered vine and a brown tree root appeared out of thin air on the table.

Tong Zhenren's eyes fell on the two spiritual materials, frowned and looked at them for a while, and suddenly widened his eyes: "Is this... Eclipse Yin Vine? Thousand-year Ironwood Root?"

"Daoyou have good eyesight." Chen Yuan smiled.

Tong Zhenren's eyes lit up, picked up the withered vine and tree root on the table, and carefully examined them.

After a long time, he put down the two spiritual materials: "Sure enough, the Eclipse Yin Vine and the Thousand-year Ironwood Root, I have exchanged them."

As he said, he closed the wooden box again and pushed it towards Chen Yuan.

"Wait a minute." Chen Yuan raised his hand to hold the wooden box, "I didn't say that I would exchange these two spiritual materials for the demon pill of this desert crab."

Tong Zhenren frowned: "What do you mean, Daoist friend?"

Chen Yuan smiled and said: "Daoyou Tong also knows that the erosion vine and the thousand-year-old ironwood root are the top-grade wood-attributed spiritual materials. Any one of them can be sold for four or five top-grade spiritual stones."

"This eighth-level demon pill is only worth six top-grade spiritual stones. If Daoist friends want these two top-grade spiritual materials, they need to take out four top-grade spiritual stones."

Tong Zhenren frowned, his eyes shuttled back and forth between the dead vines and the roots, and finally sighed: "Three top-grade spiritual stones, this is my bottom line."

"If Daoist friends agree, I will make this deal with you, otherwise I would rather give up these two spiritual materials."

"Deal." Chen Yuan pushed the two spiritual materials in front of Tong Zhenren.

Tong Zhenren took out three top-grade spirit stones from the mustard ring, looked at them reluctantly, and handed them to Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan put away the demon pill and the top-grade spirit stone together, with a smile on his face.

Buying this demon pill, he can refine another furnace of demon Yuan Dan, which can improve his cultivation.

Before going to Wanling Pavilion to refine treasures, Chen Yuan thought about buying demon pills from Wanling Pavilion, refining them into pills, and improving his cultivation.

When refining the escape robe, Chen Yuan mentioned this to Qin Lian, but Qin Lian asked for ten top-grade spirit stones for an eighth-level demon pill, which directly shattered Chen Yuan's idea.

After the demon beast transforms, its strength is greatly improved. It is more difficult to hunt demons and get pills, and the price of the eighth-level demon pill is naturally rising.

But in Donghuazhou, spirit stones and spiritual materials are more precious than demon pills, and the price of the eighth-level demon pill is also lower than in Jiuxianzhou.

He also had four kinds of wood-attributed spiritual materials obtained from Tian You. These were spiritual materials carefully prepared by the elders of the ten major sects in order to refine magic weapons. They were extremely rare in Donghuazhou and could even be compared with the eighth-level demon pill.

Chen Yuan talked with Cao Xianji by candlelight yesterday, and did not rest all night. He asked a lot of questions about the market transactions.

Cao Xianji was a little confused, wondering why Chen Yuan asked these common sense questions.

But he did not hide anything in front of Chen Yuan, and answered every question, so that Chen Yuan had a full understanding of the market price of the eighth-level demon pill and top-grade spiritual materials.

Before he left Donghuazhou, he was just a foundation-building cultivator, and his cultivation was too low, so he had never come into contact with top-grade spiritual materials and high-level demon pills.

Tong Zhenren once killed an eighth-level swamp crab, and he also learned about it from Cao Xianji, so he proposed to buy the eighth-level demon pill.

The core inheritance of the Jinwu Sect is the wood-type skills. The sect masters of all generations are wood-type cultivators, and Tong Zhenren is no exception. The spiritual materials Chen Yuan got from Tian You can just come in handy.

After the transaction was completed, Chen Yuan was in a good mood, and Tong Zhenren was even more smiling.

For him, the Eclipse Yin Vine and the Millennium Ironwood Root were much more important than an earth attribute eighth-level demon pill.

The two had a good chat, and talking about interesting anecdotes deepened Chen Yuan's understanding of the Donghuazhou cultivation world.

Then the two exchanged their cultivation experiences. Tong Zhenren was a long-time Yuanying cultivator. Although he could not break through the bottleneck of the middle stage, he was extremely experienced.

Chen Yuan had exchanged cultivation experiences with Qingliu Jushi, Tang Daozhou, and Qin Lian, but they were all cultivators of Jiuxianzhou, and their skills were quite different from those of Donghuazhou.

After a conversation with Tong Zhenren, Chen Yuan broadened his horizons and benefited a lot. He felt that he would be able to absorb spiritual energy and refine pills faster in the future.

Tong Zhenren was also secretly shocked. Although Chen Yuan had just formed a baby, "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit" directly pointed to the Great Dao, and he had refined two kinds of true blood. His insights into the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth were quite profound, which made him dare not underestimate him.

The two of them sat and talked for three days and three nights before they stopped because they were still not satisfied.

They could not reveal the essence of their own skills and supernatural powers, but just some superficial experiences were already very valuable.

Chen Yuan said goodbye and left. Tong Zhenren smiled and said, "Daoyou Chen, if you have time in the future, don't forget to come to Jinwu Sect as a guest. I will prepare a bed for you."

Cao Xianji sent Chen Yuan a hundred miles away and bowed deeply: "If there is anything, uncle, send someone to Jinwu Sect to tell me. I will never refuse!" (End of this chapter)