Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Chen Yuan meditated and cultivated in the spiritual medicine garden until four days later, when the spiritual energy storm broke out and he woke up from his meditation.

He raised his hand and pinched his fingers, injected a wisp of true energy into the stone tablet, and summoned the sand table.

The black demonic energy that cut off the large spiritual vein rolled for a while, like boiling water, spreading violently around.

The colorful barrier on the edge of the sand table lit up, and long crystal ropes extended from the large spiritual veins, interweaving into a large net, surrounding the black demonic energy.

The spiritual energy and demonic energy collided with each other, constantly melting, making a hissing sound, like entangled yin and yang fish, gradually blending into one, forming a strange light gray gas, pouring out from the earth and spreading.

The protective formation became brighter and brighter, emitting colorful spiritual lights, sweeping in like a gust of wind, sweeping away the gray gas.

But the black demonic energy continued to expand, continuing to collide and melt with the spiritual energy, forming a continuous stream of gray gas.

The colorful spiritual energy storm also lasted for seven days, until the black evil spirit calmed down and the protective formation also calmed down.

During these seven days, Chen Yuan silently stared at the sand table, his eyes fell on the black evil spirit, motionless.

He suddenly raised his sleeves and flicked, the sand table disappeared, turned around and walked out of the thatched house, came to the edge of the green light curtain, still did not stop, directly passed through the light curtain, and walked out of the spiritual medicine garden.

After refining the stone tablet, although he could not control the protective formation, nor could he enter and exit the secret realm freely, the restrictions in the secret realm could no longer stop him.

These restrictions were not set up to protect the spiritual medicine garden, but mainly to lock the spiritual energy and ripen the spiritual herbs, and secondly to prevent the entry of the raised monsters.

After the spiritual energy storm subsided, the blue sky was particularly clear, as if it had been washed by water.

All the Qi refining disciples had left the secret realm, leaving only low-level monsters wandering around.

They have lived in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain for tens of thousands of years, and their blood has changed a lot. They have adapted to the spiritual storm that erupts every ten years.

No monster could find Chen Yuan's trace. It only took him a quarter of an hour to reach the western part of the inner ring, above the large spiritual vein shrouded by black demonic energy.

This place is no different from other places in the secret realm, but it is a little dim. Even under the sun, it still gives people a gloomy feeling.

Chen Yuan spread his consciousness and went deep into the ground. Less than a hundred feet, he was completely blocked.

After tens of thousands of years of spiritual energy nourishment, the soil in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain is much harder than the outside world.

But this distance is enough for his consciousness to touch the ground veins and the spiritual veins attached to the ground veins.

The thick black gas wrapped around the ground veins and spiritual veins, like a thorn in the bone. The surrounding rocks and soil have been melted to form a huge hole, like an underground cave.

Chen Yuan pondered for a moment, and then activated Kunpeng's true blood. The black wings behind him spread out, and with a flap of his wings, his figure disappeared from the spot and teleported to a hundred feet underground, next to the ground vein.

At the same time, he used all his strength to operate his true essence, and his flying robes turned pure black, with silver-white light flowing. He then took out the Zixu Sword, held it in his hand, and stared closely at the black demonic energy in front of him.

But the black demonic energy did not move at all, but just attached to the ground veins and flowed slowly.

Chen Yuan felt relieved, but still did not dare to be careless. His true essence kept flowing in his meridians, and the silver-white light on his flying robes became stronger, illuminating this huge underground cave.

He saw the full picture of the ground veins on the sand table. It was a dark yellow stone dragon, covered with rough stone scales and four claws, entrenched in the depths of the earth, lifelike.

But when he got closer, he could only see the rough and uneven dragon body. The huge body was a hundred feet thick, and the head and tail were not visible, let alone the dragon claws and dragon whiskers.

Chen Yuan came to the front of the dragon, and suddenly raised his hand and waved it. The purple sword flashed, and a green sword light flew towards the black demonic energy.

This green sword light was extremely fast, penetrating the demonic energy and falling on the ground vein, leaving a deep scar.

But the next moment, the ground energy surged and smoothed the scar, and the ground vein was restored to its original state.

Chen Yuan put away the purple sword, stimulated Zhu Yan's true blood, and his black hair turned snow-white. On his hands, Zhu Yan's true fire rose.

At this time, he was less than ten feet away from the ground vein. With a thought, a wisp of Zhu Yan's true fire suddenly appeared in the black demonic energy and burned fiercely.

But Chen Yuan waited for a while, only the true essence was lost, and the black demonic energy was still intact.

Chen Yuan frowned and continued to activate Zhu Yan's true fire, but it was still useless.

Then Chen Yuan tried other means, such as black blade, devouring technique, etc., which were of no use to the black demonic energy.

It was not until he bit his tongue and spurted out a drop of blood essence containing the power of the Zhoutian stars that the black demonic energy melted away like dry wood in a raging fire.

But this drop of blood essence could only wipe out a few strands of black demonic energy.

The black demonic energy wrapped around the ground veins was hundreds of feet long. Even if Chen Yuan exhausted all his blood essence, he could only eliminate one percent.

He took a deep look at the black demonic energy, flapped his wings, teleported above the ground, and flew into the sky with a roll of light, but his expression was slightly gloomy.

He had already regarded the Dongxu Mountain Secret Realm as a thing in his pocket, and the existence of this black demonic energy was always a hidden danger.

But this thing had existed for an unknown period of time. Since the Dongxu Mountain Secret Realm had not collapsed and the large spiritual veins were not damaged much, it was better to put it aside for the time being and leave it for later processing.

Chen Yuan recalled the situation on the sand table and came to the nearest spiritual medicine garden. He passed through the forbidden light curtain, swept away all the spiritual medicines, and then went to the next spiritual medicine garden.

Most of these spiritual medicine gardens have spiritual herbs that are three hundred or five hundred years old. There are fewer spiritual herbs that are eight hundred years old, and spiritual herbs that are one thousand years old are even rarer.

Tens of thousands of years have passed since Ziyang Sect found the flaw in the protective formation, broke the ban, and entered the secret realm to look for spiritual herbs.

At least twenty remaining spiritual medicine gardens were found by Qi Refining disciples, and the spiritual herbs in them were also looted.

After the destruction of Ziyang Sect, Dai Qing found the records about the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain in the Sutra Pavilion and gave them to Chen Yuan.

It records three well-preserved spiritual medicine gardens that were discovered by Qi Refining disciples who entered the secret realm in the past, but the ban protection ability was too strong to break.

These three spiritual medicine gardens are marked on the sand table. The ban that is unshakable for Qi Refining disciples has become meaningless after Chen Yuan refined the stone tablet.

When he searched all the preserved spiritual medicine gardens, a day had passed.

Chen Yuan did not simply pick the spiritual herbs, he also left seeds in the spiritual medicine garden. With the nourishment of rich spiritual energy, they will soon take root and sprout. With the cultivation of the formation, they will be fully mature in another hundred years.

Returning to the spiritual medicine garden in the center of the inner ring, Chen Yuan carefully counted them. From other spiritual medicine gardens, he got more than 3,000 three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, more than 500 five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, more than 200 eight-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, and eight thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.

Among the dozen or so remaining spiritual medicine gardens, there are two of the largest scale, which are planted with the main medicines for refining foundation-building pills - Yin-Yang Ganoderma, Angelica dahurica, and Seven Star Grass, adding up to more than 1,400 plants.

It seems that even in ancient times, foundation-building pills were highly valued.

Chen Yuan sealed these spiritual herbs in different categories, leaving behind the eight thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, more than seventy eight-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, and more than one hundred and fifty five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs.

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All the level 8 demon pills in his hand have been refined into pills, and there are still four level 9 demon pills left. Before entering the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain, he has also prepared the corresponding spiritual herbs.

These spiritual herbs are prepared for refining demon Yuan Dan in the future, and they are relatively rare in the outside world.

Among them, more than a dozen eight-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs required for refining level 10 demon Yuan Dan are even as rare as thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.

Elder Dan Jue has never refined a level 10 demon Yuan Dan, but demon Yuan Dans with the same attributes have commonalities.

He derived several recipes for level 10 demon Yuan Dan from the level 8 and level 9 demon Yuan Dan he refined, and left them to Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan has refined dozens of level 8 demon Yuan Dans, and the demon pills he used are even more diverse. It can be said that his experience is richer than that of Elder Dan Jue, and he has derived more than a dozen recipes for level 10 demon Yuan Dan.

With these spiritual herbs, Chen Yuan can save a lot of trouble when refining demon Yuan Dan in the future.

After dealing with the spiritual herbs, Chen Yuan stood up and walked out of the thatched house, and came to the front of the mountain wall on the left side of the valley.

There were two tightly closed stone doors on the mountain wall. Chen Yuan raised his hand and pushed, but the stone doors did not move at all.

Chen Yuan raised his eyebrows and exerted a little force. The stone door trembled and opened backwards, but the speed was very slow.

Chen Yuan exerted force again, using 30% of his strength to force open the two stone doors that required special spells to open.

Amidst the dull rumble, the heavy stone door, which was a foot thick, slowly opened, revealing a stone staircase extending underground.

Chen Yuan stepped in, stepped on the stone steps, and walked underground step by step, his figure disappeared into the darkness.

On the two walls of the passage, there were fist-sized night pearls embedded, but under the erosion of time, they were all broken and lost their function.

Chen Yuan moved freely in the dark environment. After walking for nearly a quarter of an hour, he finally came to the end of the stone steps.

This is a vast stone hall, with a high dome inlaid with night-shining pearls, like a star map in the sky, but it has lost all its light.

On the other side of the stone hall, a huge and rough stone dragon head stretched out, exuding an ancient and vicissitudes of life.

On the top of the dragon head, there is a stone platform with a stone bowl.

This is the source of the earth veins and the source of the large spiritual veins, exactly the same as what Chen Yuan saw in the sand table.

He walked through the open stone hall, and every step he took was echoed by crisp footsteps.

Chen Yuan came to the front of the dragon head, his figure flashed, flew to the top of the dragon head, and took out a jade bottle.

In the stone bowl, there was a ball of milky white spiritual liquid, exuding a faint fragrance, refreshing.

Chen Yuan gently inhaled, and all the true essence consumed on this trip was restored to its original state.

This is the thousand-year-old spiritual milk that can only be condensed by large spiritual veins.

But after tens of thousands of years, there were only seven drops of thousand-year-old spiritual milk in the stone bowl. Chen Yuan frowned slightly, picked up the stone bowl, tilted it slightly, and poured the thousand-year-old spiritual milk into the jade bottle.

In order to prevent the spread of the black evil spirit, the large spiritual vein consumed a lot, and the condensed thousand-year-old spiritual milk was reduced a lot.

As soon as the thousand-year-old spiritual milk left the stone bowl, it exuded an extremely rich spiritual energy, and after falling into the jade bottle, it slowly disappeared.

Chen Yuan looked surprised, looking at the inconspicuous rough stone bowl in his hand, and his spiritual sense carefully scanned it, but found nothing.

He pondered for a moment and put it into the mustard ring.

It will take another thousand years for the large spiritual vein to condense a drop of thousand-year-old spiritual milk.

By then, Chen Yuan will either have made great progress in his cultivation or have turned into a handful of yellow soil. It is better to take the stone bowl away, maybe it will come in handy in the future. (End of this chapter)