Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Chen Yuan came to the empty house, sat cross-legged, took out the "Zhang Family Alchemy Summary", and read it carefully.

Alchemy is a great test of the cultivator's spiritual control ability. Every alchemist has come out of dozens or hundreds of failures and wasted a lot of spiritual herbs before he could master alchemy.

According to the records of "Zhang Family Alchemy Summary", more than a hundred years ago, Zhang Yu, the most talented alchemist in the Zhang family, also refined thirty furnaces of spiritual herbs before he refined the first pill.

After refining fifty furnaces of spiritual herbs, the success rate of pills stabilized at 30%, and one furnace of spiritual herbs could refine three pills.

After refining hundreds of furnaces of spiritual herbs, the success rate of pills finally stabilized at 40%, making him the alchemist with the highest success rate in the Zhang family.

The success rates of other alchemists in the Zhang family are between 20% and 30%, which is also the success rate of alchemists in most immortal cultivation families.

The alchemy inheritance of the six major sects is better, with a success rate of 30% to 40%.

Chen Yuan did not dare to expect too much, and he would be satisfied if he could achieve a success rate of 20% to 30%.

Unlike those alchemists with inheritance, he was helped by his master early on, observed the process of alchemy, and accumulated experience in advance.

The only thing he could rely on was his spiritual awareness that was beyond ordinary cultivators.

This was also the reason why Chen Yuan dared to spend almost all of his fortune to buy spiritual herbs.

He had no experience at all, and if he had no advantage in spiritual awareness, he would not dare to try it easily even if he had the inheritance of alchemy.

There were many precedents in the world of immortal cultivation. Cao You told him stories of several casual cultivators who invested all their fortunes to learn alchemy, refining, and talisman making, but ended up with no talent and lost everything.

...

Chen Yuan carefully read the recipe of the Juling Pill, which he had already memorized, several times, and the tension in his heart slowly dissipated.

Chen Yuan put down the jade slip in his hand, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath for a moment, then suddenly opened his eyes, raised his hand and waved, and three piles of spiritual herbs, several jade bottles and an alchemy furnace appeared out of thin air in front of him.

He pinched the magic formula with his hand, and the alchemy furnace slowly rose and hung in the air. Then he put his right hand together into a sword finger, pointed it down at the alchemy furnace, and shouted softly:

"Fast!"

A light red magic power shot out from his fingertips, and a ball of fire ignited out of thin air under the alchemy furnace.

Chen Yuan waved his right hand, and the furnace cover opened a small hole, and two silver leaf grass flew into the alchemy furnace.

The furnace cover fell again, and the flames suddenly rose. The alchemy furnace slowly rotated in the flames.

Chen Yuan closed his eyes and carefully controlled the flames with his spiritual sense. The silver leaf grass in the furnace bent little by little, and a little black powder fell.

Six hours later, the two silver leaf grasses in the alchemy furnace finally turned into a ball of silver spiritual liquid, flashing a faint light, without any impurities.

Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, pinched his fingers, lifted the furnace lid, and pure silver powder flew out and fell into the jade bottle.

Silver leaf grass is the easiest to purify among the three spiritual herbs. Chen Yuan concentrated all his attention and carefully controlled the flame without making any mistakes.

Concentrating for such a long time made him feel a little tired.

But he couldn't rest yet. After 30 years of spiritual herbs purification, he had to refine the elixir within three days, otherwise the medicinal effect would be lost.

Chen Yuan waved his right hand, and two white orchid fruits flew into the furnace.

He closed his eyes again, controlled the flame, and slowly burned the alchemy furnace.

Purifying white orchid fruit is more difficult than silver leaf grass, and it is a great test of the alchemist's control of the fire.

Chen Yuan was more careful than before, and did not dare to be careless, for fear that he would burn the white orchid fruit in the furnace to ashes.

Three hours later, the two white orchid fruits had turned into a ball of colorful liquid. The next step was to remove the impurities in it and leave the pure spiritual liquid.

Chen Yuan's spell changed, and the temperature of the flame increased little by little.

Suddenly, the flames suddenly rose, and the colorful spiritual liquid in the furnace could not withstand the sudden temperature change, and all evaporated, turning into a ball of spiritual energy and disappearing.

Chen Yuan shook his head in annoyance. He was very careful, but there was still a mistake, which destroyed the spiritual liquid.

There was no way. This was his first time to make an elixir. He had no experience. Even if he knew what to do, he would still make mistakes.

He did not dare to delay time. With a wave of his right hand, two white orchid fruits flew into the alchemy furnace again, starting the second purification.

This time it was much smoother. After five hours, the spiritual liquid in the furnace gradually turned pure white, but there were still some stubborn gray impurities, which could only be removed slowly.

Suddenly, the flames surrounding the alchemy furnace trembled slightly a few times, and the gray impurities in the spiritual liquid exploded, infecting the entire spiritual liquid into gray and black.

Chen Yuan sighed, urged his magic power, and the flames suddenly surged, turning this ball of waste liquid into spiritual energy.

He waved his right hand, the furnace cover lifted, and two more white orchid fruits flew into the alchemy furnace, starting the second purification.

...

Two days later, Chen Yuan experienced two more failures and finally purified a ball of pure white white orchid fruit spirit liquid.

But because he delayed for too long, the silver leaf grass spirit liquid had lost its medicinal power.

His mana had also been exhausted and he could not continue. The first alchemy ended in failure.

This ball of white orchid fruit spirit liquid could only be wasted. He returned to the practice room, meditated and practiced to restore his mana.

Six hours later, Chen Yuan's mana was fully restored and the sky darkened.

He got up and went to the courtyard, took out the jade pendant, and drew the starlight into his body.

The stars in the sky shone together, gathered into a beam of starlight, and fell on Chen Yuan's head.

Chen Yuan looked at such a magnificent scene, but there was no ripple in his heart.

On the way to Qingyang Town, he tried starlight injection in front of Cao You, but Cao You had no reaction.

This is a scene that only he can see. The stars in the sky shine for him, and no one else can see it.

Twenty breaths later, the starlight disappeared, and the magic power in Chen Yuan's body also dissipated.

He returned to the house and continued to meditate and practice to restore his magic power.

Although directing starlight into the body will prolong the time of learning alchemy, the growth of spiritual consciousness will also be of great help to alchemy.

In the process of purifying silver leaf grass and white orchid fruit, Chen Yuan relied on his exquisite control of flames to avoid the mistakes that many novices easily make.

If his spiritual consciousness was not strong enough, he would never have thought of purifying Bailanguo's spiritual fluid for the fourth time.

After his mana was completely restored, Chen Yuan returned to the alchemy room and continued to make alchemy.

This time, start with purifying coneflower.

He has already mastered the purification methods of silver leaf grass and white orchid fruit. If he purifies these two herbs first and fails when it is Rudbeckia's turn, it will be a waste of spiritual stones.

However, the purification of coneflower is more difficult than silver leaf grass and white orchids. In just five hours, Chen Yuan failed three times.

Just when Chen Run was about to start the fourth purification, Cao You's voice came from outside the hospital:

"Brother Chen, are you in the house? Cao is here to visit."

Chen Yuan put away the alchemy furnace and spiritual herbs, came to the courtyard, took out the Tongxing jade sign, and opened the door.

Cao You stood outside the door. Behind him, there were two monks, a man and a woman.

Cao You cupped his hands and said:

"I'm disturbing Brother Chen."

Chen Yuan replied:

"No problem, please come in, three fellow Taoists."

He raised his hand in vain, and the three monks followed him to the main hall, where the guests and hosts took their seats.

Chen Yuan said apologetically:

"Chen's cave is simple and crude. He doesn't even have a cup of spiritual tea. I ask my three Taoist friends to forgive me for my neglect."

The male cultivator laughed and said roughly:

"It doesn't matter! We, the monks, are convinced and will not talk about those false etiquette. I heard that Fellow Daoist Chen saved Brother Cao's life, and Fan Moute came to express his thanks!"

As he spoke, he bowed deeply to Chen Yuan with a sincere expression.

Chen Yuan returned the gift and said:

"I dare not, this fellow Taoist is..."

Cao You said:

"This is Brother Fan Yigang. That one is Fellow Taoist Ren Manren. I am a close friend of life and death. He just returned from hunting monsters in the Huanyue Mountains yesterday and came here to visit Brother Chen."

Fan Yigang is tall, in his forties, with a beard and a fleshy face. He has a strong spiritual aura and has the sixth level of Qi refining.

At this time, the female cultivator also made a Wanfu salute to Chen Yuan and said:

"The three of us hunt monsters together, and we have a deep friendship. Brother Chen is kind to Brother Cao, and he is kind to me. I owe my Taoist friend a favor."

She was wearing a blue gown. She was in her twenties and had the fifth level of Qi refining. She was slender and beautiful. She looked at Chen Yuan with a hint of scrutiny.

Chen Yuan saluted her again and said:

"Fellow Taoist Ren's words are harsh. It is difficult for casual cultivators to survive, so I should help each other. Fellow Taoist Cao has also helped me a lot. How can Mr. Chen regard himself as a benefactor?"

"What a helper!"

Fan Yigang laughed and said:

"Fellow Daoist Chen has a bad temper towards me. From now on, he will go into the mountains with us to hunt monsters and live and die together. How about that?"

When Chen Yuan heard this, he frowned:

"this……"

Ren Man glanced at Fan Yigang and said:

"Brother Fan served in the army before he set foot on the path of immortality. He was a bit impatient, but he was a righteous and forthright person with no ill intentions. Please forgive me, Brother Chen."

Fan Yigang also reacted and said with a wry smile:

"I've been with a bunch of rough guys for more than ten years, and I'm used to talking fast. Don't be surprised, Daoyou Chen."

Chen Yuan's expression softened slightly:

"It doesn't matter."

Cao You said seriously:

"Brother Fan is outspoken, but he also told us the purpose of the three of us. How have Brother Chen been thinking about it these days? If you want to go into the mountains to hunt monsters, why not join forces with the three of us? The Huanyue Mountains are extremely dangerous, and traveling alone is extremely risky. It’s much safer if everyone gathers together to stay warm.”