Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Chen Yuan pondered for a moment and said:

"Chen accepts the kindness of the three Taoists, but Chen does not plan to go into the mountains to hunt monsters yet. If there is an opportunity in the future, he will cooperate with the three Taoists again."

Cao You was startled and asked:

"Brother Chen is planning to rent a spiritual field?"

Fan Yigang and Ren Man also looked at Chen Yuan with surprised expressions on their faces.

Cao You made it clear that Chen Yuan has two middle-grade magic weapons, which are stronger than most casual cultivators in the middle stage of Qi refining.

In addition, Chen Yuan saved Cao You's life and was not a ruthless person, so they came to Chen Yuan's house together and asked him to cooperate in hunting monsters.

How could such a powerful person be willing to be exploited by Guiyuan Sect?

Chen Yuan smiled and said:

"Of course Chen will not become a farmer, but he still has some spiritual stones with him. He plans to practice for a while before making any plans."

Cao You suddenly realized:

"That's right. Brother Chen still has the materials for the wolf demon, so there's no need to rush into the mountain."

A trace of disappointment flashed across Fan Yigang's face, but then he smiled heartily and said:

"Since Fellow Daoist Chen has his own plans, let's discuss the matter of going into the mountains to hunt monsters later."

Ren Man changed the subject:

"Fellow Daoist Chen is able to cultivate to the fifth level of Qi Refining in the mountains and fields, which is really extraordinary. I would like to share my cultivation experience with you, Daoist Chen. What do you think of Daoyou Chen?"

Chen Yuan smiled and said:

"Chen couldn't ask for it."

…

Two hours later, when it was getting dark, Cao You and the other three stood up to say goodbye.

When Chen Yuan and Ren Man exchanged their cultivation experiences, Cao You and Fan Yigang would naturally not be left out.

The three of them sat and talked for two hours, and Chen Yuan benefited a lot.

He practiced hard by himself without anyone to guide him, so it was inevitable that there would be some oversights in his practice.

Cao You and the other three have been cultivating in Huanyuefang City for many years. They often exchange their cultivation experiences with other casual cultivators and have much richer experience.

Fan Yigang, like Chen Yuan, practiced the "Red Flame Jue", and his cultivation level was one level higher than that of Chen Yuan. Chen Yuan felt suddenly enlightened by his words.

He knew in his heart that Fan Yigang had no secrets, not only to help Cao You repay the kindness of saving his life, but also to win over him to go into the mountains to hunt monsters together.

While several people were talking about Taoism, Chen Yuan also asked a lot of questions about monster hunting, and all three of them answered them promptly.

From the three people's mouths, Chen Yuan learned about the levels of monster beasts.

First-level monsters are equivalent to Qi-refining monks, and are divided into low-level, mid-level, and high-level, corresponding to the early, middle, and late stages of Qi refining.

The monsters at this stage cannot use spells, but their monster bodies are powerful. Some monsters with strong bloodline can use one or two innate secret techniques.

The wolf monster that Chen Yuan and Cao You teamed up to kill before was a horned wolf that was very powerful among the first-level intermediate monsters. It could use the secret technique of shape-shifting and was extremely fast and extremely difficult to deal with.

Further up, there are monster beasts equivalent to foundation-building monks, divided into levels two to four.

Level five to level seven monsters are equivalent to pill-forming monks.

Level 8 to 10 monsters are equivalent to Nascent Soul monks.

There are many monsters in the Huanyue Mountains, and there are so many first-level monsters. Sometimes you will encounter second- to fourth-level monsters, and it is even said that some people have encountered fifth-level monsters.

The risk of going into the mountains to hunt monsters is extremely high. Only monks in the late stage of Qi Refining can dare to go into the mountains to hunt monsters alone.

Cao You and the three of them joined forces and only dared to hunt monsters in the outer reaches of the Huanyue Mountains, and they were extremely cautious.

After hearing this news, Chen Yuan immediately gave up the idea of ​​going into the mountains to hunt monsters as a way out.

Before he figured out why the monsters lost their minds when they saw him, he would never enter the Huanyue Mountains and seek death.

Chen Yuan became more and more eager to learn alchemy. As soon as the three of them left, he went to the alchemy room and began to purify Rudbeckia for the fourth time.

…

The purification of coneflower was extremely difficult, and Chen Yuan failed twice more before successfully purifying it the sixth time.

At this time, two days had passed. He put the golden spiritual liquid into the jade bottle and continued to purify the silver leaf grass and white orchid fruit.

Two days later, all three kinds of spiritual herbs were purified.

This is the ninth furnace of spiritual grass refined by Chen Yuan. He has finally reached the stage of condensing the pill.

Chen Yuan carefully controlled the flames. In the alchemy furnace, the silver leaf grass spirit liquid, the white orchid spirit liquid, and the coneflower spirit liquid formed a tripod, slowly moving towards the middle.

Finally, the three spiritual liquids came into contact and began to merge.

Suddenly, the silver-leaf grass spirit liquid and the coneflower spirit liquid merged a little more, and the balance was broken. The three groups of spirit liquid were instantly mixed together, and the three colors were colorful.

Chen Yuan sighed and used his magic power to burn the spiritual fluid into nothingness.

Then he put away his magic spell, closed his eyes to restore his magic power, and prepared to attract starlight to fill his body, and then refine the next furnace of spiritual grass.

Condensing the elixir is ten times more difficult than purifying the spiritual grass. There cannot be a single mistake, otherwise it will fail.

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The next day, Chen Yuan, who had experienced starlight infusion and regained his magic power, began to try to condense the pill for the second time.

This time it was stronger than before. One-third of the three groups of spiritual liquid were fused before the pill condensation failed.

The third time, the three groups of spiritual liquid merged to half.

The fourth time, Chen Yuan was unlucky, and the three groups of spiritual liquid were only fused to a quarter.

On the fifth time, Chen Yuan finally achieved a historic breakthrough, and the three groups of spiritual liquid were fused to 90%.

But the 90% integration level has also become a threshold.

Chen Yuan got stuck on this threshold five times. When refining the twentieth furnace of spiritual grass, he finally stepped over and completely fused the three groups of spiritual liquid together.

The next step is to continue to activate the magic power, further purify the medicinal power, solidify the spiritual liquid into elixir, and the elixir refining is successful.

This step is much simpler than purification and pill condensation, but how many pills can be refined depends on the strength of the alchemist's spiritual consciousness.

Chen Yuan divided the spiritual liquid into ten parts and condensed them into pills separately.

Half an hour later, the surface of three balls of spiritual liquid fluctuated and turned into nothingness under the scorching flame.

An hour later, three balls of spiritual liquid fluctuated again and turned into nothingness.

Two hours later, two balls of spiritual liquid turned into nothingness.

But the last two balls of spiritual liquid finally stabilized, slowly rotating in the pill furnace and slowly solidifying into shape.

Six hours later, Chen Yuan suddenly opened his eyes, the spell in his hand changed, the furnace cover was lifted, and two silver pills flew out of the furnace and fell into the jade bottle that had been prepared long ago.

Chen Yuan retracted his magic power, the flames dissipated, and the pill furnace fell to the ground.

He picked up the jade bottle, poured out two spirit-gathering pills, and said with a sense of relief:

"Finally refined!"

From now on, he is a real alchemist!

Moreover, his first batch of pills had a 20% success rate, and only 19 batches of spiritual herbs were wasted, which was better than Zhang Yu, the strongest alchemist in the Zhang family.

The role of spiritual consciousness in alchemy was greater than he imagined.

Chen Yuan immediately closed his eyes and meditated to restore his mana and prepare for the starlight infusion at night.

If his spiritual consciousness continued to grow, what level would his alchemy skills reach?

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The next day, Chen Yuan's mana was restored to its original state, and he continued to invest in alchemy.

Among the 19 batches of spiritual herbs that were wasted before, eight batches of spiritual herbs were not at the level of condensation, so the consumption of the three kinds of spiritual herbs was different.

At this time, Chen Yuan still had 35 golden chrysanthemums, 87 white orchid fruits, and 89 silver leaf grasses in his hands, which could make another 35 batches of pills.

He stayed indoors and continued to refine pills. He only stopped and restored his mana before and after the starlight infusion every three days.

It takes three days to refine a furnace of Juling Pills. After refining 35 furnaces of pills, plus the time for the starlight to restore mana, it took nearly five months in total.

At the beginning, Chen Yuan's success rate was only 20%.

When refining the tenth furnace of pills, the success rate rose to 30%.

When refining the 24th furnace of pills, the success rate rose to 40%.

In the end, Chen Yuan got a total of 65 Juling Pills.

According to the price of two spirit stones for one Juling Pill, it is 130 spirit stones.

Chen Yuan invested a total of 250 spirit stones, mastered the alchemy, and recovered half of the cost. This deal can be said to be extremely cost-effective.

During this period, Cao You visited Chen Yuan several times to discuss the matter of hunting monsters in the mountains, but Chen Yuan declined.

After mastering the alchemy, he no longer concealed it and told it directly.

He still remembers Cao You's astonished expression.

The next day, he, Fan Yigang and Ren Man came to visit Chen Yuan, and his attitude was obviously more respectful than before.

Although Chen Yuan and they had the same cultivation level, the status of an alchemist was extremely noble, especially among the casual cultivators with incomplete inheritance.

If you make friends with an alchemist, your cultivation level will be guaranteed.

If Chen Yuan agrees to help them refine pills, it will be much cheaper than buying pills directly from the market.

However, Chen Yuan can only refine the Soul Gathering Pill at present, so Cao You and the other two's idea of ​​asking him to refine pills has fallen through.

…

After refining 35 furnaces of pills, the boring and repetitive life of refining pills can finally come to an end.

Chen Yuan took all the Soul Gathering Pills and came to the market, setting up a stall on the street to sell the Soul Gathering Pills.

If he sold them directly to those shops, the price would definitely be lower than selling them directly.

Chen Yuan's stall was very simple, with a piece of gray cloth, a jade bottle on it, and a wooden board with the three words "Soul Gathering Pill" written on it.

But soon, a cultivator in the early stage of Qi Refining came to ask for the price.

In the Huanyue Market, elixirs have always been in short supply.

Chen Yuan directly offered a minimum price of 20 spirit stones and refused to bargain.

Perhaps because he was young and new, several cultivators who asked for the price looked at the elixir and left.

Chen Yuan was not in a hurry. These cultivators were generally young and had little experience. They could not tell the quality of the elixir and believed in the reputation of the elixir shops.

Those experienced casual cultivators did not care whether Chen Yuan set up a stall or not. After asking the price, they would buy a few pills.

Although it was Chen Yuan's first time to refine elixir, the quality of the elixir was not inferior to the elixir sold in those shops.

Two days later, all 65 spirit gathering pills in Chen Yuan's hand were sold, and a total of 130 spirit stones were obtained.

He took out the 20 spirit stones in his hand, made up 150, bought 30 furnaces of spirit herbs, returned to the cave, and continued to refine elixir.