Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

The next morning, the sun rose, casting the first ray of sunlight through the window and falling on Chen Yuan.

He slowly opened his eyes, stopped practicing, stood up, walked out of the cave, and went down the mountain.

Because it was still early, most of the casual cultivators were still practicing in the cave, and there were few people in the market.

But in front of Guiyuan Pavilion, dozens of cultivators gathered and lined up in a long line.

This most spectacular building in Huanyue Market, although it has the word "Pavilion", is actually a large hall covering a large area.

Chen Yuan came to the end of the team, and soon, there were more than a dozen cultivators behind him, extending backwards.

A quarter of an hour later, Chen Yuan finally moved to the door of Guiyuan Pavilion.

Two Qi Refining Tenth Level cultivators wearing light yellow long gowns with a "Yuan" character embroidered on their sleeves stood on both sides of the gate, examining every cultivator who came in front of them.

Chen Yuan took out a jade card with the word "Jing" written on it from his storage bag and handed it over with both hands.

A cultivator took the jade token, scanned it with his spiritual sense, and handed it back, saying:

"Daoyou, please come in."

Chen Yuan took the jade token and walked into the door.

This jade token is the "bidding order" of this auction. Only those who hold this order can participate in the auction. He spent ten spirit stones to buy it from Guiyuan Pavilion three days ago.

This is a method that Guiyuan Sect came up with to limit the number of people participating in the auction.

This is a kind of indirect deposit. Few casual cultivators are willing to spend ten spirit stones to watch the excitement.

…

Chen Yuan walked into the door and found that Guiyuan Pavilion had changed its appearance.

In the lobby on the first floor, all the counters disappeared, and more than 200 chairs were placed, divided into several rows, with great intervals, facing a high platform.

Each chair has a conspicuous number engraved on it.

At this time, half of the cultivators in the field have taken their seats. Several familiar cultivators are talking in a low voice, but most people are closing their eyes and resting, waiting for the auction to begin.

Chen Yuan's bidding order was number 108. He quickly found his seat with a scan of his spiritual sense and sat quietly.

There were two cultivators sitting next to him, both of whom were at the tenth level of Qi Refining.

Using the Sky Eye Technique, most of the people in the field were cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining, and there were more than a dozen cultivators whose spiritual light was dim and whose depth could not be seen. They should be foundation-building cultivators.

There were only more than thirty cultivators in the middle stage of Qi Refining like Chen Yuan.

Needless to say, most of these people came for the Xuepo Pill.

After three quarters of an hour, more than two hundred chairs were filled one after another.

After waiting for another quarter of an hour, the door of Guiyuan Pavilion slowly closed, and more than a dozen Qi Refining cultivators came down from the second floor, surrounded everyone, and stood with their hands behind their backs.

The voices of conversation in the field gradually subsided until it was silent.

Chen Yuan slowly opened his eyes, and the auction was about to begin.

An old man with white hair and a youthful face walked up to the high platform, bowed to the cultivators below the stage, and said lightly:

"Welcome all Taoists to participate in this Huanyue Auction. I remind you not to disrupt the order of the auction, not to bid randomly, and each bid must not be less than ten low-grade spirit stones. The auction starts now!"

Chen Yuan used the Sky Eye Technique to look at the old man. The spiritual light on the old man was dim and it was hard to tell the depth. He was a foundation-building cultivator.

A female cultivator walked up to the stage with a tray. The old man waved his right hand lightly, and a three-inch golden hammer on the tray slowly floated up.

"The first lot is the top-grade magic weapon, the Golden Hammer. It is hard and good at breaking hard shells and shields. It is very effective against turtles, crocodiles, and rhinoceros monsters. The starting price is 300 low-grade spirit stones!"

"I'll bid 310 spirit stones!"

"320 spirit stones!"

"I'll bid 330..."

This rare hammer-shaped magic weapon aroused enthusiastic bidding among the cultivators in the field, and was finally sold for 440 spirit stones.

The female cultivator immediately stepped down with the Golden Hammer and handed it over to the successful cultivator.

Chen Yuan was secretly shocked. It was almost his entire fortune just for the first lot.

However, the magic weapons at the auction are usually fine products, much more expensive than ordinary magic weapons of the same level.

An ordinary top-grade magic weapon costs about 400 spirit stones.

After the Golden Hammer was auctioned, the female cultivator took the second tray with ten talismans on it.

The old man waved his right hand, and the ten talismans slowly rose and lined up in order.

"The second lot, ten pieces of the top-grade magic talisman 'Thunder Strike Talisman', which are extremely lethal to monsters and demon cultivators, with a starting price of 400 low-grade spirit stones!"

"There is a Thunder Strike Talisman? I'll offer 430 spirit stones!"

"I'll offer 450 spirit stones!"

"470 spirit stones..."

After more than a dozen rounds of bidding, the Thunder Strike Talisman fell into the hands of a cultivator at the tenth level of Qi Refining at a price of 550 spirit stones.

"The third lot, a bottle of Blood Purification Pill, can detoxify most first-level monsters, with a starting price of 300 low-grade spirit stones!"

"I'll offer 320 spirit stones!"

"330 spirit stones..."

One after another, exquisite magic tools, talismans, and pills were auctioned, which opened Chen Yuan's eyes.

More than a dozen cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining were fighting for a top-grade magic tool.

A foundation-building cultivator would spend 600 spirit stones to bid for a piece of gray wood.

There were also cultivators who were glaring at each other for a bottle of elixir, but under the pressure of Guiyuan Sect, they did not dare to do anything out of line.

But the Xuepo Pill did not appear, so Chen Yuan could only wait patiently.

…

"The 38th auction item, a Xuepo Pill, will help break through the bottleneck of the late stage of Qi Refining, the reserve price is 300 low-grade spirit stones!"

Chen Yuan stared at the jade bottle hanging in front of the old man and slowly straightened up.

"310 spirit stones!"

"I'll give you three hundred and twenty spiritual stones!"

"Three hundred and thirty spiritual stones..."

Many middle-stage Qi-refining monks who had been keeping quiet shouted out the prices one after another.

The price of this snow soul pill soon exceeded 400 spiritual stones, and was finally sold for 440 spiritual stones.

The next ten lots are all sorbet.

Chen Yuan never made a bid and just watched indifferently.

It was not until the eleventh Snow Soul Pill came on stage that the enthusiasm of these middle-stage Qi Refining monks cooled down, and he participated in the bidding and won it with four hundred and ten spiritual stones.

After receiving the elixir, Chen Yuan felt much more relaxed and looked at the remaining auction items with relish to gain more knowledge.

"The seventy-second lot, a set of "Wind and Fire Formation" formation disks and formation flags, can withstand the full attack of the monks in the early stage of foundation building for a quarter of an hour..."

"The eighty-first lot, a recipe for the late stage Qi refining elixir 'San Ming Dan'..."

"The ninety-fifth lot is an Immortal Ascension Order. With this order, you can participate in our sect's Immortal Ascension Conference. The base price is three hundred spirit stones!"

On the high platform, the old man waved his right hand, and a jade pendant rose from the tray, slowly rotating in the air, and displayed in front of the monks in the audience.

This is a cyan jade pendant. One side is engraved with fairy birds and animals, and the other side is engraved with the word "Guiyuan". The carving is lifelike and ingenious.

Chen Yuan's heart moved. This jade pendant gave him a very familiar feeling, as if he had seen it before somewhere.

Suddenly, his eyes widened and his right hand subconsciously touched the storage bag.

The Lingyun Pendant given to him by the old Confucian scholar before his death has many similarities with the Immortal Ascension Order on the stage!

Thinking of the Lingyun Sect among the six sects, Chen Yuan made a bold guess in his mind. Could it be that the Lingyun Pendant is the Immortal Ascension Order of the Lingyun Sect?

"Three hundred and ten spiritual stones!"

"Three hundred and twenty spiritual stones!"

"Three hundred and forty spiritual stones..."

At this time, bidding began in the field, and the price of the Shengxian Order slowly rose.

After all, the Ascension Order is just an opportunity to participate in the Ascension Conference, not a certificate to directly join the six major sects.

Moreover, the Immortal Ascension Conference is very dangerous, and joining the six major sects does not mean that foundation building will be successful.

Except for the monks who were extremely confident in their own strength, others were not interested in the Ascension Order.

It is more reliable to find the immortal fate and exchange it for the Foundation Establishment Pill from Guiyuan Sect.

Every few years in Huanyuefang City, there will be a lucky person like this, who either discovers a rare spiritual grass or picks up a strange ore, and offers it to the Guiyuan Sect in exchange for a Foundation Building Pill, and successfully builds the Foundation.

Therefore, most of the tenth-level Qi Refining monks in the field were bidding, but there were also a few Foundation-building monks participating.

Among the children of the Immortal Cultivation Family, there are also pseudo-spiritual monks.

If they want to join the six major sects, they can only rely on the Ascension Order.

In the end, this Immortal Ascension Order was sold for 430 spiritual stones, which was only slightly more expensive than the Snow Podan.

Subsequently, the Guiyuan Sect auctioned nine more Immortal Ascension Orders, with an average transaction price of around 400 spiritual stones, similar to a high-grade magical artifact.

Four of them were photographed by the foundation-building monks, and the remaining six fell into the hands of monks at the tenth level of Qi Refining.

Chen Yuan didn't pay attention to the next auction items.

His thoughts were all focused on Ling Yunpei.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Lingyun Pei was the Immortal Ascension Order.

Perhaps it is not a coincidence that an old Confucian scholar possesses the spiritual roots of earth and wood.

He is most likely a descendant of a monk, which is why his qualifications are so amazing.

Ordinary mortals mostly have false spiritual roots in their bodies, and even true spiritual roots are rare.

But for some unknown reason, the Yan family lost the inheritance of cultivating immortals, and only the Immortal Ascension Order was passed down as a family heirloom.

Even though the old Confucian scholar was extremely talented, he had no chance to cultivate immortality, so he gave the immortality order passed down from his ancestors to his only student.

Chen Yuan's mood was complicated, recalling the scenes of getting along with the old Confucian scholar, and finally turned into a sigh.