Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Chen Yuan returned to the cave and came to the practice room. He immediately took out the two jade slips and studied them carefully.

Two hours later, he put down the jade slips, and a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes.

This is an unnamed secret technique that helps to break through the bottleneck of the late stage of Qi Refining, but the cost is very high.

The practitioner needs to transform 90% of the blood and essence in the body into a special blood spirit, temporarily improve the cultivation to a level far beyond the current realm, and break through the bottleneck in one fell swoop.

But after the breakthrough, due to the great loss of blood and essence, it can only be recovered slowly, which takes decades.

During this period, the cultivation will not make any progress.

The practitioner can also use external forces to restore blood and essence, but the things that can restore blood and essence are all extremely precious. Even foundation-building cultivators find it difficult to obtain, let alone Qi Refining cultivators.

But for Chen Yuan, this is not a problem.

He has a jade pendant in his hand, which can lead the starlight to infuse the body and restore the blood and essence in the body.

He was about to leave Huanyue Market, but he didn't expect that he would have a sudden turn of events and a chance to fall from the sky.

But this nameless secret technique can only work in his hands. Even if other cultivators in the middle stage of Qi Refining get it and break through the bottleneck, they can only be trapped in the seventh level of Qi Refining and will never make any progress.

Moreover, this technique is crazy and domineering, full of magic color, and the ending is not enough, there should be a sequel.

Chen Yuan guessed that the main purpose of this nameless secret technique is not to increase the chance of breaking through the bottleneck.

Otherwise, it would be a bit of a loss to spend such a huge price just to break through the bottleneck of the late stage of Qi Refining.

Moreover, the masked monk did not trade with him directly at the Golden Toad Conference, but sent a message to him privately, and traded afterwards, which was also a bit strange.

This nameless secret technique must not be leaked out, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

Chen Yuan made up his mind, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath, concentrated his mind and calmed his breath, and prepared to perform the secret technique.

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Three days later, Chen Yuan adjusted his state to the peak and began to perform the secret technique.

According to the special method, he transformed the blood in his body into blood spirit bit by bit, and his face gradually became pale.

This was a long process, which lasted for thirteen days.

90% of the blood in Chen Yuan's body was transformed into blood spirit.

At this time, he was haggard, his hair was gray, and there was no trace of blood on his face, like a zombie.

But the spirit in his body was extremely rich, far exceeding the level of a sixth-level Qi Refining cultivator, and close to the ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator.

Chen Yuan did not dare to delay time, and immediately guided this huge blood spirit to impact the bottleneck.

With his current cultivation, he could not accommodate such a huge amount of spirit.

But the blood spirit was transformed from the blood in his body, and it had the same origin as the magic power, so it could flow along the route of the practice and circulate in the meridians, like a tide, hitting the bottleneck again and again.

This blood spirit was too huge and had a strong impact, and the originally unbreakable bottleneck soon loosened.

Chen Yuan continued to work hard and kept running the skills, and the bottleneck was shaky.

After thirty-six cycles, the blood spirit was almost exhausted, and the bottleneck was finally broken.

Chen Yuan slowly opened his eyes, his dry lips slightly curved, revealing a hideous smile.

With his blood and spiritual energy exhausted, he became even more haggard, skinny, half human and half ghost.

But he had no time to pay attention to these, feeling the more condensed mana in his dantian, his heart was full of joy.

He spent a lot of effort, not sparingly using the magic secret method, and finally broke through this difficulty, and his cultivation increased to the seventh level of Qi Refining.

Before building the foundation, he will not encounter any bottlenecks.

Qi Refining cultivators will only encounter three bottlenecks at the third, sixth, and tenth levels of Qi Refining. Before that, they only need to absorb spiritual energy and increase their cultivation.

If the spiritual root aptitude is good, the three bottlenecks can be easily broken, such as earth spiritual root and heaven spiritual root cultivators.

Pseudo spiritual root cultivators will encounter two bottlenecks, and the bottleneck of the fourth level of Qi Refining can also be broken in one day.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was abundant, and even pseudo spiritual root cultivators did not have bottlenecks, and could successfully cultivate to the foundation building stage, without even using foundation building pills.

But for some reason, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth became thinner and thinner, and cultivation became more and more difficult. The bottlenecks encountered by cultivators became more and more, and the spiritual root aptitude became more and more important.

Chen Yuan spent such a great price just to break through the bottleneck of the seventh level of Qi Refining. When he was in the tenth level of Qi Refining, the bottleneck he encountered would only be more difficult.

But that was not the problem he had to consider now. If his blood and essence could not be restored, even the eighth level of Qi Refining would be a long way off, let alone building a foundation.

Chen Yuan calmed down, closed his eyes and meditated to stabilize his realm.

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Three days later, Chen Yuan opened his eyes, stood up and walked out of the cave.

In order to facilitate the setting of the spirit gathering array, the first-class cave was built in the mountain wall, but there was a courtyard outside the cave.

It was late at night, and thousands of stars were scattered on the sky, shining with brilliant silver light.

Chen Yuan took out the jade pendant and drew the starlight into his body.

After twenty breaths, the starlight disappeared.

The mana filled in Chen Yuan's dantian dissipated.

His face became a little rosier, his dry white hair had a little more luster, and the roots of his hair were stained with black.

He looked inside himself, felt that his blood and essence had recovered a little, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the speed of blood and essence recovery this time was much slower than after taking the Boiling Blood Pill, he could wait.

The time before blood and essence recovered was just right for refining pills and accumulating spirit stones.

In the past year and a half, he had no other consumption except for the starlight infusion, and all the remaining Bailing Pills were sold, and the spirit stones in his hand accumulated to more than 1,200 pieces.

Buying the nameless secret technique from the masked monk cost 600 spiritual stones, and there were 673 left.

The difficulty of refining the late Qi Refining elixir is much greater than that of the Bailing Pill, and it requires more practice and experience.

The "Zhang Family Alchemy Essentials" records two recipes for late Qi Refining elixirs, namely "Bi Xin Dan" and "Yu Hua Dan".

The Bi Xin Dan has a slightly weaker medicinal power and is suitable for cultivators of the seventh and eighth levels of Qi Refining.

The Yu Hua Dan has a slightly stronger medicinal power and is suitable for cultivators of the ninth and tenth levels of Qi Refining.

Chen Yuan plans to start with the Bi Xin Dan and proceed step by step to avoid wasting spiritual herbs.

He returned to the cave and took a Bailing Pill as usual, closed his eyes and meditated to restore his mana.

Half an hour later, Chen Yuan opened his eyes and took the second Bailing Pill.

Before breaking through the bottleneck, one Bailing Pill could restore all the mana in the body.

But now, two are needed.

After his mana was restored, Chen Yuan put on a loose black robe and a bamboo hat to cover his haggard face and white hair. He went to the market and spent 220 spiritual stones to buy ten furnaces of spiritual herbs for refining the Green Heart Pill.

It takes seven days to refine a furnace of late Qi Refining Pills. Ten furnaces of spiritual herbs are enough for two months.

Moreover, eighty-year spiritual herbs are different from forty-year and sixty-year spiritual herbs. They can only be bought in Guiyuan Pavilion. Very few cultivators set up stalls to sell them.

Cultivators below the seventh level of Qi Refining have low strength and most of them choose to rent spiritual fields and live a stable life.

But cultivators who can cultivate to the late stage of Qi Refining are all outstanding among the casual cultivators. How could they be willing to be exploited by Guiyuan Sect?

Most of them go into the mountains to hunt monsters. Only a very small number of cultivators with low strength or cowardly as mice will continue to rent spiritual fields and seek a stable life.

There were fewer cultivators renting spiritual fields, and the eighty-year spiritual herbs in the market became extremely rare. They could only be bought from Guiyuan Pavilion, and the price was a little higher than buying from cultivators.

Although alchemists had a high status among casual cultivators, they were as small as ants in front of Guiyuan Sect, and there was no room for bargaining.

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After getting the spiritual herbs, Chen Yuan returned to the cave and began to refine the first batch of Bi Xin Dan.

The process of purifying the spiritual herbs was very smooth. He had refined hundreds of batches of pills and was familiar with it.

However, four kinds of spiritual herbs were needed to refine Bi Xin Dan, and the difficulty of the pill condensation process increased a lot.

Chen Yuan accidentally missed the first batch of pills and failed.

He summed up his experience, guided the starlight to infuse his body, and then refined the second batch of pills.

This time he made some progress, but he still failed in the pill condensation process.

In the third batch, Chen Yuan accumulated enough experience and finally refined two Bi Xin Dan.

As long as the first batch of pills was refined, the rest would be easy.

At the same time, after four times of starlight infusion, Chen Yuan's blood and essence were restored by 10%, his hair turned black again, and his dry cheeks became plump.

Cao You happened to visit and saw Chen Yuan successfully break through the bottleneck, and immediately congratulated him.

Chen Yuan's breakthrough in cultivation was also a good thing for Cao You.

He helped Chen Yuan sell Bailing Pills, earning spirit stones while expanding his network of contacts.

Chen Yuan changed to refining late-stage pills in the future, and Cao You sold them on his behalf, so he could make friends with late-stage Qi-refining cultivators, which was of great benefit.

After sending Cao You away, Chen Yuan continued to invest in refining pills.

More than a month later, all ten furnaces of spiritual herbs were refined, and the success rate of pills increased to 30%.

The 20th furnace, the success rate of pills increased to 40%.

The 30th furnace, the success rate of pills increased to 50%.

The 40th furnace, the success rate of pills increased to 60%, and all the blood and essence lost in Chen Yuan's body were restored.

After nearly a year of stagnation in cultivation, it finally ushered in growth.

During this period, Chen Yuan refined more than 130 Bi Xin Dan.

He needed to use four Bi Xin Dan to infuse his body with starlight every month, so after ten months, he had 40 Bi Xin Dan.

He sold three bottles of pills, collected spirit stones, and bought spirit herbs.

In the end, Chen Yuan only had 64 Bi Xin Dan left.

It takes three days to refine a Bi Xin Dan, which is equivalent to one month of hard practice.

At Chen Yuan's current practice speed, he needs to practice hard for seven years without sleep to reach the peak of the seventh level of Qi Refining.

In the next year, Chen Yuan practiced hard behind closed doors, took all the Bi Xin Dan, and with the help of spirit veins, he successfully broke through the eighth level of Qi Refining.

But at this time, there were less than two years before the next Ascension Conference.

Chen Yuan could not fight with other cultivators with the cultivation of the eighth level of Qi Refining and two medium-grade magic tools.

He could only practice in Huanyue Market with peace of mind and wait for the Ascension Conference twelve years later.