Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Liu Fan had not seen the sunrise for twenty-eight years.

He walked out of the cave slowly, looking at the formation curtain that went straight into the sky in the distance, and the demonic energy that rolled endlessly behind the formation curtain, as if it had vitality, and a trace of irritability surged in his heart for no reason.

He flew to the cave where his master Xiao Lingzi was.

The formation curtain was ten thousand feet high, more than six thousand feet higher than the highest Huo Lao Mountain in Donghuazhou.

The fierce gale at a height of ten thousand feet could wipe out the demonic energy, otherwise the formation curtain would be even higher.

The demonic energy must not be allowed to escape, which is the consensus of the nine major sects, even the demon cultivators who rely on demonic energy for cultivation.

When the demon domain just began to expand, Liu Fan was only a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building and did not know about this.

He only knew that the Lingxu Mountains, which originally only occasionally had demonic energy escaping, suddenly had a lot of pure demonic energy, which caused the five major demon sects to fight for it and even set off a war.

Liu Fan had not yet been accepted as a disciple by Xiao Lingzi, and he also went to the Lingxu Mountains to compete for demonic energy.

He defeated the elite disciples of the Demon Yuan Palace, the Hehuan Sect, and the Yin Hai Sect, and was noticed by Xiao Lingzi, who was in charge of the war, and was accepted as his personal disciple. He also became a true disciple of the Blood Spirit Sect, and he was in the limelight.

But soon, things began to go wrong.

The expansion of the Demon Realm became larger and larger, and the dissipated demonic energy became more and more, and more and more pure.

This was originally a good thing. Demon cultivators need demonic energy to cultivate magical powers and improve their cultivation. The larger the Demon Realm and the more demonic energy there is, the greater the benefits the five major demon sects will gain.

But the Demon Realm expanded too fast. Within ten years, it expanded from the original size of a hundred miles to a radius of ten thousand miles.

And wherever the Demon Realm passed, it devoured spiritual energy and corroded living beings, turning cultivators, demons, mortals, and beasts into demons without intelligence and only knowing how to kill, causing considerable losses to the cultivators of various sects.

Liu Fan had fought with demons before. He claimed to be invincible at the same level and had never been defeated, but facing demons, he felt powerless.

Monsters don't care about life or death at all. They are all in groups. After being eroded by demonic energy, their magical powers are strange and powerful, and they are extremely difficult to deal with.

Many foundation-building cultivators died at the hands of monsters. Soon, the Blood Spirit Sect stopped foundation-building cultivators from dealing with monsters.

Liu Fan returned to the mountain gate and practiced quietly. In less than a few years, he broke through the bottleneck of the late stage and cultivated to the false pill realm.

After he became a true disciple, the sect issued a lot of cultivation pills, and Xiao Lingzi was also very caring for him, so there was no shortage of cultivation resources.

In the Demon Realm, he was accompanied by demonic energy and fought with monsters day and night, which deepened his understanding of the magic way and regarded bottlenecks as nothing.

Not only him, as long as the cultivators entered the Demon Realm, their cultivation level improved very quickly.

As soon as Liu Fan came out of retreat, the head of the sect issued an order for the five major demon sects to cease fighting and jointly invade the territories of the southern countries!

Liu Fan was very puzzled. Why didn't he collect the pure demonic energy in the Demon Realm, but instead dealt with the righteous cultivators?

He asked Xiao Lingzi about this matter, but Xiao Lingzi was very secretive and asked Liu Fan to sneak into Wu Kingdom to find the spiritual objects of Dan, which was a test for him.

Liu Fan had no choice but to agree and sneak into Wu Kingdom with his fellow disciples to cause chaos in the world of immortal cultivation.

Later he learned that during the years he was in seclusion, the Demon Realm had expanded another 10,000 miles.

A Yuanying cultivator in the Demon Yuan Palace found the record of the ancient cultivators sealing the Demon Realm in the ancient books.

The five major demon sects then realized that the expansion of the Demon Realm was not an opportunity for the demon cultivators, but a catastrophe.

Demon cultivators are also cultivators, and spiritual energy is the foundation.

At the same time, the spiritual veins of the five major demon sects began to decline little by little.

The Demon Realm continued to expand, the demonic energy dissipated, and devoured the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. As the formation base of the sealing formation, the five large spiritual veins were the first to bear the brunt.

The five major demon sects finally panicked. The spiritual veins are the foundation of a sect. Without large spiritual veins, the five major demon sects will also disappear.

They tried every possible way to stop the demonic energy from escaping, but they failed.

Fortunately, the Demon Realm did not continue to expand, maintaining a radius of 20,000 miles.

But in the long run, the five large spiritual veins will still be completely exhausted under the erosion of demonic energy.

The five major demon sects made a decision to invade the territory of the righteous path and seize several medium-sized spiritual veins first, just in case.

Due to the hidden dangers of the Demon Realm, they did not dare to go to war with the four major Xuan Sects, and sent several treasures in exchange for the four major Xuan Sects to give in.

Liu Fan did not know what those treasures were now, and even Xiao Lingzi did not know. Only the heads of the nine major sects knew.

The four major Xuan Sects accepted the treasures and gave in as agreed. The five major demon sects successfully destroyed the five countries, seized more than a dozen medium-sized spiritual veins, and had a way out.

Liu Fan was already a Jindan cultivator, and followed Xiao Lingzi to stay in Qi.

The strength of the Blood Spirit Sect is much stronger than that of the Hehuan Sect, and it has obtained the spiritual veins of the Ziyang Sect, Lingyun Sect, and Guiyuan Sect. The Hehuan Sect has obtained the spiritual veins of the Tiangang Sword Sect, Wanshou Mountain, and Mingyin Valley, which is inferior.

Liu Fan did not go to the Ziyang Mountains, where the spiritual energy is the most concentrated, but took the initiative to choose the Lingyun Mountains, where the spiritual energy is a little thinner.

He will never forget Wei Wuding from the Lingyun Sect, no, it should be Chen Yuan.

Liu Fan is gifted, and he has been smooth sailing since he embarked on the road of cultivation. Among the cultivators of the same level, there are few rivals.

Only this Chen Yuan made him suffer a great loss, and he almost died in his hands.

A cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building from a medium-sized sect can be on par with him in fighting, which Liu Fan is deeply ashamed of.

Later, when they entered the Secret Realm of Heaven, most of the treasures left by True Man Qing You were also divided up by this person and Yu Qing, and Liu Fan hated him even more.

After Jindan, Liu Fan deliberately looked for Chen Yuan's traces, but he could not find any.

Although he was a true disciple of the Blood Spirit Sect, the cultivation resources for Jindan cultivators were far less abundant than before.

Xiao Lingzi almost ignored him and let Liu Fan practice on his own. He did not give him any magic weapon, but only said that he would find a spiritual object for Jinying for him.

Liu Fan knew that Xiao Lingzi needed a Yuanying disciple to improve his status in the sect, and Jindan cultivation was far from enough.

In this case, he was even more jealous of the treasures that Chen Yuan took from the Secret Realm of Heaven.

Liu Fan did not know Chen Yuan's true identity at this time, he only knew that his name was Wei Wuding.

He came to the front line of the Demon-killing Desert and participated in several battles with the Six Sects of Qi.

But among the foundation-building cultivators sent by the Six Sects, there was no Chen Yuan.

He also used the secret line planted by the Blood Spirit Sect in the Lingyun Sect to inquire about Wei Wuding's news, but still got nothing.

Slowly, Liu Fan gave up the idea of ​​looking for Chen Yuan.

Maybe he had always stayed in the mountain gate of the Lingyun Sect and never left.

Maybe he had betrayed the sect and fled from the Lingyun Sect.

This situation is not uncommon. As the war went badly, many disciples of the Six Sects of Qi fled Qi.

Compared with being hunted down by the sect, they were more afraid of fighting with the cultivators of the Demon Sect.

However, such disciples are a minority after all. As long as they are foundation-building cultivators, they will leave their natal Yuan lamps in the sect, and the sect can follow the natal Yuan lamps to find their traces.

But doing so requires a considerable price. The Six Sects of Qi have to fight against the two major demon sects and have no time to care about other things.

Before these disciples fled the sect, they would also find ways to destroy their natal Yuan lamps.

In Liu Fan's opinion, Chen Yuan got so many treasures and spiritual herbs from the Questioning Heaven Secret Realm that he could practice until he formed a pill. He might have fled Qi.

He could only remember Chen Yuan in his heart and wait until the war was over before trying to find him.

But unexpectedly, in the decisive battle with the six sects of Qi, he actually found Chen Yuan's trace.

This person actually wore a mask to fight with others. No wonder he couldn't find him after participating in the big battle several times.

But he was looking for death, and he used the body cultivation secret technique that could transform into a bronze giant, so that Liu Fan had no doubts and attacked!

He knew that Chen Yuan and himself were the same kind of people, and would never give the opportunity to others. The treasure obtained from the Questioning Heaven Secret Realm must still be in Chen Yuan's hands.

Liu Fan personally took action, so Chen Yuan could only flee in panic.

But what surprised Liu Fan was that Chen Yuan was already in the late stage of foundation building at this time. In just a few years, he had broken through the bottleneck of the late stage.

This made Liu Fan's murderous intention against Chen Yuan even heavier. The strength of physical cultivation was already strong, and Chen Yuan's cultivation progress was even faster than his. This person must not be left.

But what made Liu Fan angry was that Wang Xian, the elder of Lingyun Sect, had been pestering him, and Chen Yuan was about to escape.

But at this moment, a Jindan cultivator suddenly attacked Chen Yuan. Liu Fan also recognized this person. It was Qi Yuanshan, the late Jindan elder of Ziyang Sect.

This person had profound cultivation and was very experienced. He was quite famous among the Jindan cultivators of Qi State.

Liu Fan was secretly happy. Chen Yuan actually provoked this person. He would definitely die here.

But then another Jindan cultivator took action and blocked Qi Yuanshan, allowing Chen Yuan to escape.

Liu Fan also recognized this person. Jin Luoheng, a late Jindan cultivator of Lingyun Sect, was very powerful. Even Xiao Lingzi praised him.

He became suspicious and kept this in mind. He turned around and fought fiercely with Wang Xian, but in the end, there was no winner.

The magical power of the Blood Spirit Sect is very strange, but Wang Xian has been in the Dan formation for nearly two hundred years, and his cultivation is even deeper. His sword cultivation magical power is mature and sharp, so Liu Fan can't take advantage.

But the two demon sects joined forces, even if the Yuanying cultivators did not take action, their strength was above the six sects of Qi.

After a great battle, the six sects of Qi were defeated.

Liu Fan had no time to care about Chen Yuan at this time. He was ordered to take over the Guiyuan Market, but he met Chen Yuan unexpectedly.

This time, he would never miss the opportunity and chased him with all his strength, forcing Chen Yuan to use the blood escape technique several times in a row, and he was already in a desperate situation.

But at the last moment, Chen Yuan fled into the barren mountains, activated an ancient teleportation array, and disappeared in front of him.

Liu Fan was extremely furious, but he could do nothing.

After Chen Yuan escaped, the teleportation array could no longer be activated, and the other end should have been destroyed.

And even if he could teleport, Liu Fan would not dare to try.

He only had the cultivation of the early stage of Dan formation, and without the transfer order to protect his body, he would be torn to pieces by the teleportation power immediately.

At least a Nascent Soul cultivator must be able to withstand the pressure of the ancient teleportation array.

When Chen Yuan teleported, there was a huge momentum, but there were no Nascent Soul cultivators around at that time. Only two foundation-building cultivators noticed it and came to investigate, but were killed by Liu Fan.

After thinking it over, he decided to report the matter to his master Xiao Lingzi.

The other end of the teleportation array had been destroyed and had little value, so he simply exchanged for some benefits.

Xiao Lingzi was indeed very interested in the ancient teleportation array. He personally went to the barren mountain, copied the formation, and sent a Jindan elder to sit in the barren mountain to prevent Chen Yuan from teleporting back again.

At this time, Liu Fan had already found out Chen Yuan's identity and knew that Wei Wuding was just his alias.

He sent the Blood Spirit Sect cultivators to sneak into the southern part of Donghuazhou to look for Chen Yuan's traces, but found nothing.

Time passed quickly. After a hundred years, there was no movement in the teleportation array, and Liu Fan also put Chen Yuan's matter behind him.

As the Demon Realm continued to expand and the demonic energy dissipated, the entire Donghua Continent was affected, with natural disasters continuing and spiritual energy declining.

The five major demon sects dared not hide it any longer, and told the whole story of the Demon Realm, and took the initiative to withdraw from the occupied five countries' territories, in exchange for the help of the four major Xuan Sects and the five countries' Yuanying.

The four major Xuan Sects also returned the treasures, and the righteous and the demonic sides joined forces to deal with this disaster.

When the Blood Spirit Sect was completely in Qi, Xiao Lingzi suddenly ordered Liu Fan to destroy the ancient teleportation array.

Liu Fan then remembered that there was an ancient teleportation array, and when he came to the barren mountain, there was no one stationed there.

He casually released two blood spirits, destroyed most of the teleportation array, and then followed Xiao Lingzi, left Qi and returned to the mountain gate.

In the past hundred years, his cultivation has made great progress. Fifteen years ago, he successfully broke through the bottleneck of the late stage, was highly valued by the sect, and became famous in the entire demon path.

At this time, the Demon Realm had expanded beyond the mountain gates of the five major demon sects. Monsters were rampant, and low-level cultivators had already evacuated.

But Liu Fan, as a late Jindan elder, had to stay in the mountain gate to kill monsters.

The monsters rushing out of the Demon Realm were almost endless. Even with the help of formations, Jindan elders died almost every day.

Liu Fan was terrified. For the first time, he realized that Jindan cultivators were so fragile.

If you don't become a Yuanying, you are all ants.

The only benefit is that you can use pure demonic energy to practice.

Liu Fan was getting closer and closer to the false infant realm.

Fortunately, with the nine major sects joining forces, they successively laid two improved ancient formations, and the demonic energy no longer dissipated, and the Demon Realm stopped expanding.

Liu Fan finally didn't have to deal with monsters anymore, but he couldn't use demonic energy to practice anymore, and his cultivation stagnated all of a sudden.

In order to lay the two ancient formations, the Blood Spirit Sect almost exhausted the sect's foundation, and the cultivation resources distributed to the elders were greatly reduced.

The last time Liu Fan received spirit stones and elixirs from the sect was three years ago.

Moreover, as one of the few late Jindan cultivators in the sect, he had to stay at the mountain gate and could not collect cultivation resources on his own.

Liu Fan was very annoyed when he saw the demonic energy rolling and swimming like a giant python.

He was outside the formation, but he seemed to be trapped in it. He didn't know when he could escape from this cage.

A month ago, four great cultivators led two formation masters and thirty Yuanying cultivators to go deep into the demonic realm to wipe out the source of the demonic energy, but they were trapped in it. Only Gu Zuo, a great cultivator from Tianxuan Sect, led four Yuanying cultivators to escape.

The four great cultivators joined forces and were trapped in the demonic realm. How could they wipe out the source of the demonic energy and eliminate this disaster?

He didn't know how long he would have to stay here. His stagnant cultivation had no hope of growth.

Before Liu Fan arrived at Xiao Lingzi's cave, a blood bat hanging upside down in front of the door flew into the cave to report.

Liu Fan waited silently. He came here today on the orders of Xiao Lingzi, and he didn't know what errand he had.

Outside the Blood Spirit Sect, he was a respected Jindan Zhenren.

But in front of more than a dozen Yuanying cultivators, he was just a junior with low cultivation.

After the ancient formation was set up, the spiritual energy in the mountain gate of the Blood Spirit Sect was too rich.

When the formation fluctuated, the spiritual energy was even more turbulent.

The cultivators below the Jindan stage could not adapt at all and had to leave the mountain gate.

Liu Fan was a late Jindan cultivator, but he was no different from a low-level cultivator in charge of miscellaneous tasks.

Usually, he was responsible for patrolling the formation, and obeyed the dispatch of Yuanying cultivators from various factions, killing monsters that accidentally escaped from the formation, and repairing the damaged formation base. It was boring.

After a while, the blood bat flew out again and asked Liu Fan to go in and pay homage to Xiao Lingzi, with a sharp and unpleasant voice.

But Liu Fan had no dissatisfaction. This blood bat was a spirit beast that Xiao Lingzi had raised for hundreds of years. Xiao Lingzi trusted it very much and its status was not lower than that of his direct disciple.

Liu Fan walked into the cave, and Xiao Lingzi was sitting in the main hall with an indifferent expression.

He said indifferently: "The headmaster, the headmaster Daoxuan, the headmaster Chu, and the fellow Daoist Gu have agreed that at noon tomorrow, the Yuanying cultivators will gather in the Blood Shadow Hall of our sect to discuss the plan."

"Several fellow Daoists have arrived in the past two days, and they don't know about this yet. You are asked to report it, and you must not be disrespectful."

Liu Fan was shocked and bowed deeply: "Disciple obeys the order!"

He knew that there were Yuanying cultivators coming to the mountain gate of the Blood Spirit Sect, but he didn't know that they were going to go deep into the Demon Realm to rescue the trapped Yuanying cultivators.

After all, he was just a Jindan cultivator. Such a big thing would never be known to him, and Xiao Lingzi would not reveal it casually.

Liu Fan left Xiao Lingzi's cave, overjoyed.

Four great cultivators entered the Demon Realm, and with the trapped cultivators, the monsters were no match for them.

As long as the Demon Realm was wiped out, he would not have to patrol everywhere.

He would not have to serve as a errand boy in front of these Nascent Soul cultivators.

Liu Fan came to Yingke Peak and learned from the head of the Jindan that seven Nascent Soul cultivators had arrived in the past two days.

He asked about the location of the caves of the seven Nascent Soul cultivators and went to report one by one.

These Nascent Soul cultivators were either the masters of various sects or the elders of the four Xuan Sects, and Liu Fan was respectful to them.

A Jindan cultivator was a Jindan cultivator. Even if he was a true disciple of the Blood Spirit Sect and had cultivated to the late Jindan stage in less than three hundred years, and had the hope of forming a Nascent Soul, he did not dare to be disrespectful in front of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

But every time he saw the indifferent look of a Nascent Soul cultivator, he could not help but feel a desire in his heart, the desire to form a Nascent Soul.

In Donghuazhou, only Nascent Soul cultivators can truly control their own destiny.

However, these Yuanying monks will become much kinder after learning that he is Xiao Lingzi's direct disciple.

It is normal for the Dan Jie monk to worship the Yuanying monk as his teacher, but Xiao Lingzi is a mid-stage Yuanying monk with considerable strength and is quite famous throughout Donghua Continent, so the Yuanying monk has to give him some respect.

Liu Fan left the cave of Tang Jiu Gongzi, a casual cultivator, and came to the residence of the last Nascent Soul cultivator.

According to the person in charge of the pill formation at Yingke Peak, this senior arrived the day before yesterday and is the Supreme Elder of the Lingyun Sect of Qi State.

Liu Fan was quite confused. He had met Xuan Yuanzi, the head of the Lingyun Sect, but he didn't know when another supreme elder came out of the Lingyun Sect.

In the past twenty years, he has been staying at the gate of Blood Spirit Sect, fighting monsters, and knows very little about the world of immortal cultivation in Donghua Continent.

Liu Fan stood in front of the door, composed himself, clasped his fists and bowed, and said loudly: "Junior Liu Fan, on the order of Master Xiao Lingzi, I came here to pay homage to my senior. I have something important to tell you."

He waited for a long time, but there was no movement from the cave.

Liu Fan frowned and was about to speak again, when two stone doors suddenly opened silently.

"Fellow Daoist Liu, please come in." A long voice came out, sounding very young.

Liu Fan's heart moved. This voice seemed familiar. He seemed to have heard it somewhere.

Monks have a photographic memory. Everyone they meet will be remembered in their hearts, even if they want to.

This should be the Danjie Elder of Lingyun Sect whom he had met, but he only heard his voice but not his person, but he couldn't remember who it was for the moment.

As Liu Fan's thoughts turned around, he walked into the cave without stopping, passed through a deep passage, and came to a stone hall.

A monk in white clothes stood with his hands behind his back, his back to Liu Fan, looking at a landscape painting on the stone wall.

Since joining forces with the four major Xuanzongs, the Blood Spirit Sect has rebuilt the cave abode on Yingke Peak, specially prepared for the Yuanying monks of each sect, with exquisite and elegant furnishings.

I don’t know who painted this landscape painting. It is so close that it has the potential of thousands of miles. It is said that "the ink sinks to leave the shadow of the river, and the brush strokes convey the spirit of the stone". It is a work of art.

Liu Fan admired in his heart, but showed great respect on his face. He cupped his fists and bowed: "Senior, the master of our sect, Master Daoxuan of Tianxuan Sect, Elder Gu, and Master Chu of Jiangxian Mountain have agreed to invite everyone at noon tomorrow. Send seniors to gather at the Blood Shadow Palace of our sect to discuss the big plan, and please go there on time."

The monk in white raised his head slightly and looked at the landscape painting, his figure motionless.

Liu Fan felt a little strange in his heart and asked tentatively: "Senior?"

The white-clothed monk finally turned around, looked at Liu Fan, and smiled slightly: "Friend Liu, long time no see."

Liu Fan looked at the face of the monk in white and froze on the spot.

A name that he had forgotten emerged from the bottom of his heart. He never imagined that he would meet this person here.

Liu Fan, who had always been alert, had a blank mind at this moment.

The white-clothed monk said calmly: "Why, Fellow Daoist Liu doesn't remember me anymore?"

Liu Fan suddenly came back to his senses, subconsciously took two steps back, and his expression changed drastically: "You are Wei Wuding, no, you are Chen Yuan?!"

Chen Yuan frowned, and the pressure of the Nascent Soul cultivators instantly dissipated, and he said calmly: "Do the Pill Formation cultivators of the Blood Spirit Sect not know the superiority of others?"

Liu Fan's face turned pale, and the pressure of the Yuanying monks was all concentrated on him, as if he was carrying a mountain on his back.

This won't cause him any harm, but it will put great pressure on the soul, making people unconsciously fearful.

This is the oppression of low-level monks by high-level monks. Although both are human beings, they are actually not the same creature.

Liu Fan was shocked as he felt the powerful pressure emanating from Chen Yuan's body and the early stage of Nascent Soul's cultivation.

He took a deep breath, forced a smile, cupped his fists and bowed down: "Junior, I'm rude, please forgive me...Senior Chen..."

There was already a huge wave in his heart. The foundation-building monk who was being hunted down by him turned into a real person of Yuanying! (End of chapter)