Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

The glacier fissure was a hundred feet deep, and the deepest part was dark, but to Chen Yuan, who had amazing eyesight, it was as bright as day.

He found the entrance to the Lion Cave at a glance. The emerald green moss glowed slightly, which was very conspicuous in the darkness.

Chen Yuan dropped the escape light and walked into the cave along the rough stone steps.

The further he went down, the flatter and more spacious it became, and the glowing moss became denser and denser, until two huge stone doors blocked the way.

Chen Yuan pushed open the stone door and walked into a wide cave. Two wide chairs made of ice were placed in the middle. There were pale white thick animal bones scattered on the ground. The surrounding stone walls were rough and uneven, and there was no other furnishings.

After all, monsters are monsters. Even if it is a transformed monster king, the interior of the cave is extremely simple.

Chen Yuan spread out his spiritual sense, but found nothing. He pushed open a stone door, walked into another cave room, and continued to explore.

He walked through seven or eight cave rooms in a row and finally found something.

The original appearance of the underground cave is completely preserved here. In front is a narrow cave entrance, covered by a layer of light purple curtain, shielding Chen Yuan's consciousness from the outside.

This is the only place in the Lion Man Cave Mansion where a formation is set up. Chen Yuan sacrificed the Fuhai Spear and slashed it. The light purple curtain of formation cracked silently, turned into dots of light, and dissipated in the air.

The coverage of this formation is not large, and its defensive ability is also weaker than the formation outside the cave, so there is no need to use the Chongxuan Peak to break the formation.

After the curtain of formation dissipated, the sound of gurgling water appeared in Chen Yuan's ears. Chen Yuan's heart moved and stepped out.

The Lion Man Cave Mansion is extremely cold, but there is flowing water in this underground cave, and there is also a formation guarding it. There should be treasures.

Chen Yuan walked into the cave entrance, and his eyes suddenly opened up. A vast underground cave came into view, which was several acres in size. The stalactites hanging down were in various shapes, and the cave walls were covered with glowing green moss.

There is a lake in the center of the cave. An underground river flows out from a low and narrow river channel in the distance and flows into the lake, emitting an amazing chill.

In the center of the lake, two ice-blue lotuses float up and down, as if they were condensed from ice. There is a faint ice mist around them, and the light emitted by the moss shines on them, reflecting colorful light, which is magnificent.

Chen Yuan looked at the two spiritual herbs, his eyes lit up, and he immediately focused his consciousness on the two lotuses, but then frowned.

These two lotuses are called Bingquan Lotus, which only grows in ice springs and is a kind of spiritual herb for tempering the body.

But the age of these two Bingquan Lotuses is only more than 800 years, and their effect on Chen Yuan is minimal.

He shook his head, waved Fu Hai Ge, picked the two spiritual flowers, put them in two wooden boxes, and put them away.

If it is an Bingquan Lotus that is more than a thousand years old, it must have been taken by the Shi Man to temper the demon body. It is not bad to get two Bingquan Lotuses that are 800 years old.

There was nothing else in the cave, so Chen Yuan turned and left. He did not destroy the roots. In another hundred years, two new ice spring lotuses would grow here.

…

There is a medium-sized spiritual vein in the crack of the glacier. After the death of Shiman, perhaps other transformed demon kings will come here to open caves.

After walking out of the Shiman cave, Chen Yuan used Fu Hai Ge to destroy all the underground caves, and flew south with a flash of light.

Shiman was finally executed, and I don’t know what attitude Haoran Sect has towards him now. I must rush back to Renzhou as soon as possible.

Chen Yuan flew all the way, passing through Hanzhou, Weizhou, and Yuezhou. It took him nearly a month to finally return to Chongde City.

He did not visit Qingliu directly, but put on a mask to hide his identity, quietly entered Chongde City, and bought a copy of Haoran Sect’s wanted list.

The gate of the Haoran Sect's spiritual vein was damaged, but he failed to bring back the body of the cold jade lion within the three-year deadline, violating the order of the head of the sect. He was very likely to be charged with "fleeing for fear of crime" and be on the wanted list of the Haoran Sect.

Chen Yuan was not worried. As long as he took out the body of the cold jade lion, he could settle the matter.

It was just that Elder Gu was interfering, so he could not show up openly and had to visit Qingliu in secret.

Otherwise, Elder Gu might take the initiative, just like in the illusion of the heart demon, and lead the Yuanying elders of the Haoran Sect to surround and kill him.

But what surprised Chen Yuan was that his name was not on the wanted list.

Chen Yuan thought about it and immediately understood that it should be Qingliu who helped.

In the entire Haoran Sect, only Qingliu would speak for Chen Yuan.

And he was targeted by Elder Gu because of Qingliu.

Chen Yuan was relieved and came to the outside of the Sifang Pavilion.

Although he was not on the wanted list of Haoran Sect, he did not make a big fuss. He still wore a mask and stood with his hands behind his back in a bamboo forest hundreds of feet away from Sifang Pavilion, spreading his spiritual sense and waiting quietly.

Chen Yuan waited for half a day until the sun set in the west. A young Confucian scholar walked out of Sifang Pavilion. He walked out of the bamboo forest and followed him quietly.

To the north of Chongde City is the courtyard of Sifang Pavilion and the residence of Haoran Sect monks. There are courtyards scattered among the hills and forests.

The young Confucian scholar only has the cultivation of the initial stage of foundation building, which is nothing in Chongde City. He walked into an inconspicuous courtyard, which should be his residence.

Chen Yuan followed him and pushed the door open.

The formation covering the courtyard was extremely simple, and it had no effect in front of him, a Yuanying cultivator.

Chen Yuan did not hide his tracks. The young Confucian scholar had just walked into the main hall and heard the sound of the door opening behind him. He looked back and saw a masked monk walking in. His pupils shrank and he was horrified.

But he knew that the formation covering the small courtyard was connected to the Chongde City defense formation, which was enough to withstand a blow from the Danjie monks, and could even block the spiritual consciousness of the later Danjie monks.

The fact that the masked monk was able to walk in quietly showed how advanced his cultivation was, and that he was no match for him at all.

He suppressed the panic in his heart, forced a smile, and bowed his hands: "This... this senior, what do you want to teach me?"

Chen Yuan took off his mask and said with a smile: "Little friend Jiang, do you still remember Chen?"

The young Confucian scholar was stunned for a moment, then his face showed joy and he bowed deeply: "It turns out to be Senior Chen. Congratulations to Senior on the success of the birth of the baby and a thousand years of life!"

This person was the young Confucian scholar named Jiang Yu who reported the news to Zhang Wushan when Chen Yuan first came to Chongde City.

Chen Yuan gave Jiang Yu two high-grade spiritual stones at that time, and Jiang Yu was extremely grateful to him.

Before Chen Yuan went into seclusion to have a baby, he lived in Chongde City for several months. Jiang Yu was extremely respectful and helped him do several things.

Chen Yuan looked surprised: "Little friend Jiang also knows about my pregnancy?"

Jiang Yugong said: "Senior is very popular about the birth of a baby. Everyone in this sect knows it. I have also seen the spiritual mist condensed by my senior."

"Later, it was spread among the disciples of our sect that it was a casual cultivator who borrowed the spiritual veins of our sect to conceive a baby, and Elder Qingliu was the guarantor."

"The junior remembered that the senior had a close personal relationship with Master Zhang and that he had advanced cultivation in the late stage of pill formation, so he boldly guessed that the senior had successfully formed a baby. However, the junior never made it public, and no one else in the Sifang Pavilion knew about it."

Chen Yuan nodded slightly and said with a smile: "You have a keen mind. I have something I want to ask you to do. I wonder if you are willing?"

Jiang Yu cupped his fists and bowed again, with uncontrollable joy in his voice: "Senior, no matter what you say, I will go through fire and water without hesitation!"

Chen Yuan smiled and said: "This matter is very simple for me. Please hold this jade plaque, return to the mountain gate, go to Mingliu Lake, and report to layman Qingliu that Chen Yuan is visiting and invite him to Chongde City." Moyun Mountain, seven hundred miles east."

As he said that, he took out a jade medal and ten high-grade spiritual stones from the mustard ring, handed them to Jiang Yu, and warned: "These ten high-grade spiritual stones are just for you, please don't Speak up and don’t let others know about it.”

Jiang Yu stretched out his hands, took the jade tablet and spirit stone, and said solemnly: "Senior, don't worry, I will leave now and I will never reveal anything."

After that, he put the jade tablets and spiritual stones into his storage bag, bowed with his fists in his hands, and turned to leave.

Chen Yuan waited for a while, then put on his mask again, walked out of the small courtyard, left Chongde City, flew more than 700 miles to the west, and landed on the top of a 300-foot peak, which is Moyun Mountain.

He spread his consciousness, covering a radius of two hundred miles, and concentrated on alert.

An hour later, a ray of light flew from the east, and a smile appeared on Chen Yuan's lips.

The escaping light flew by quickly and landed on the top of Moyun Mountain, revealing the figure of layman Qingliu.

Chen Yuan cupped his fists and bowed, and said with a smile: "Fellow Taoist Qingliu, you are well."

layman Qingliu returned the gift with a very pleased look in his eyes: "Fellow Taoist Chen has been away for five years and there is no news at all. The disciples in the sect reported it, and they were still a little doubtful. I didn't expect that it was really Taoist friend."

"It makes fellow Taoist worry." Chen Yuan said with a smile.

Qingliu layman shook his head: "It's my fault, otherwise Junior Brother Gu wouldn't have targeted fellow Taoist like this... Fellow Taoist, it's better to leave Renzhou as soon as possible, and don't stay in Chongde City for a long time."

"Don't worry, fellow Taoist, I have killed the lion barbarian. This time I came back to hand over the monster's body to your sect." Chen Yuan raised his sleeves and flicked his sleeves, and a huge cold jade lion appeared out of thin air beside him.

Seeing the body of Han Jade Lion, layman Qingliu looked happy: "I haven't heard from my Taoist friend in five years. I thought that my Taoist friend couldn't do anything because he had fled far away."

"Since Taoist friend has killed Shiman and completed the task entrusted by this sect, Junior Brother Gu can no longer be Taoist friend."

"It seems that Elder Gu has taken great care of me in the past five years." Chen Yuan narrowed his eyes.

layman Qingliu sighed: "As soon as the three-year period passed, Junior Brother Gu held a meeting of the elders of our sect and wanted to put you on the wanted list. I argued hard and forced him to give up."

"But two months ago, Junior Brother Gu held a meeting with the elders and raised the matter again."

"I refuted it again, but you haven't returned yet, and the elders also complained a lot. Finally, a one-year deadline was set. If you still don't come back next year, you will be included in the wanted list..."

"By the way, since Taoist friend killed the lion barbarian, why did you ask me to come here to meet you?"

"You are not on the wanted list yet. As long as you reveal your identity and hand over the body of this cold jade lion, the elders in the sect will naturally no longer be friends with you, and the matter of fellow Taoist destroying the Lingmai Mountain Gate will be revealed. "

Chen Yuan explained: "I just don't want to alert others..."

He entered the ice field, monitored Shiman's cave, and discovered that Kuntong and Shiman had joined forces, but he only omitted the details of the fight.

The face of layman Qingliu changed: "Junior brother Gu actually colluded with the Demon King in disguise to murder fellow Taoist?"

Chen Yuan nodded: "Yes, I have captured Kun Tong's soul. As long as I use the soul-searching technique, the truth will be revealed immediately."

Qingliu layman frowned: "Can I take a look at Kuntong's soul?"

Chen Yuan immediately took out a jade bottle from the mustard ring, opened the cork, and took out Kun Tong's soul.

Kun Tong's soul was nurtured by the spiritual jade and recovered a little, but he was still dying and on the verge of collapse. Chen Yuan also planted a restriction on him, so he could not self-destruct his soul, but he could not perform the soul-searching technique either.

Qing Liu Lay Buddhist spread his consciousness and scanned Kun Tong's soul carefully, muttering: "It is indeed the soul of the Kunyu Demon King... Junior Brother Gu actually colluded with the demon clan and murdered the human Yuanying. He is so unscrupulous that he is not worthy of being a Confucian and Taoist cultivator!"

Chen Yuan was not surprised by Qing Liu Lay Buddhist's reaction. Back then, in front of the Tongtian Palace, he wanted to kill Kun Feng, a human-monster hybrid, and naturally could not tolerate the Yuanying cultivator and the demon king secretly colluding.

Qingliu said solemnly: "Fellow Daoist Chen, Kuntong is the transformed demon king of the Kunyu clan. There must be a prohibition in his soul to prevent soul searching. You and I are powerless."

"Please follow me back to the sect and hand over Kuntong's soul to the head of the sect. Ask him to use the soul-searching technique to severely punish Junior Brother Gu!"

Chen Yuan said solemnly: "Fellow Daoist Qingliu, don't worry. This matter needs to be considered in the long run.""

"It is still unknown what the head of your sect thinks. If you directly hand over Kuntong's soul to him, it may alert the enemy."

"Why not convene the elders to discuss matters first, settle the matter of the cold jade lion, and then take out Kuntong's soul in public, and ask fellow Daoist Chengli or fellow Daoist Xinzhai to report to the head of your sect. In this way, Elder Gu will be caught off guard."

Qingliu nodded heavily: "Just as you say!" (End of this chapter)