Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

At the foot of Tianji Mountain Range, in a courtyard.

There is no screen wall in the courtyard, and the door is open.

Chen Yuan, who was wearing a gold hollow mask, was sitting on the main seat in the main hall, looking out the door, his eyes calm, with a hint of expectation.

In the cold winter, the courtyard is full of mottled tree shadows, clusters of flowers, and a delicate fragrance.

Chen Yuan did not disperse his consciousness, but only laid a layer of consciousness barrier around the courtyard.

This is where the Tianjimen Mountain Gate is. There are many Nascent Soul monks and there are also great monks. Do not act in a public manner.

But he didn't have the slightest fear. Putting on the robe of escape, his teleportation skills were greatly enhanced. Even when facing the great monks, he was somewhat sure of saving his life.

Moreover, it is impossible for Tianjizi to spread his spiritual consciousness all the time and check every monk on Tianji Island.

But under the great monk, no one can see through his identity.

Chen Yuan waited for two quarters of an hour before a beautiful figure walked in.

He smiled slightly, stood up, took off his mask, and walked up.

Jing Shuhan's expression changed slightly, and with a wave of her hand, the door closed behind her, and she walked over quickly: "You don't want to die? Put on the mask!"

The smile on Chen Yuan's face grew stronger, but he did not follow the instructions.

"Don't panic, I have set up a spiritual barrier so that no one can pry." He explained.

Jing Shuhan breathed a sigh of relief, walked to Chen Yuan, raised his head slightly, and looked at him steadily.

She blinked her beautiful eyes twice and murmured: "Forty-six years..."

Chen Yuan was startled, then realized and smiled: "Yes, forty-six years."

Forty-six years have passed since he last came to Tianji Island.

Jing Shuhan just looked at Chen Yuan with tenderness in his eyes.

After a while, she whispered: "The arrest warrant for you has not been revoked. This is not the place to talk. Let's leave Tianji Island first."

Chen Yuan nodded and put on his mask again.

The two walked out of the courtyard, and with a flash of light, Chen Yuan followed Jing Shuhan and flew to the south of Tianji Island.

The sky was high and the clouds were light, and the two rays of light followed each other closely. After flying thousands of miles, Jing Shuhan suddenly stopped and landed on a small island.

There are no spiritual veins on the island, so there are no monks, only mortals.

In the center of the island there is a stone mountain more than 100 feet high, which is steep and dangerous and inaccessible.

Chen Yuan followed Jing Shuhan and landed on the top of Shishan Mountain.

He glanced around and said with a smile: "The last time I came to Tianji Island, this island was where you and I met."

Jing Shuhan's face turned slightly red, and he took out the formation flag and set up a phantom formation to prevent others from prying.

Chen Yuan thought for a while, took out a green and knotted ivy from the mustard seed ring, and pointed at it.

There was a burst of greenery on the ivy, countless green leaves suddenly appeared on a bare tree on the top of the mountain, and green grass and wild flowers grew out of the cracks in the rocks.

The cold wind in the cold winter has also become warmer, blowing past my face, giving me a warm feeling.

Jing Shuhan said in surprise: "This is..."

"Ivy is a high-grade wood-type spiritual material." Chen Yuan smiled, "The last time you and I met was in the middle of summer."

Jing Shuhan smiled lightly, stepped forward to hug Chen Yuan, and rested her head on his shoulder, her eyes full of tenderness.

Chen Yuan put the ivy into the mustard ring and hugged Jing Shuhan with his backhand.

The two cuddled together quietly, and after a long time, they separated.

Chen Yuan looked at Jing Shuhan's face and smiled: "Have you broken through the late bottleneck?"

When they met, he could see that Jing Shuhan's cultivation was already in the late stage of pill formation.

Jing Shuhan nodded, spread out his consciousness, and scanned Chen Yuan's body, but found nothing.

She frowned slightly: "I still can't see your cultivation level. You are in the late stage of pill formation. Why is your consciousness stronger than mine?"

Chen Yuan smiled and was about to explain when Jing Shuhan took out a wooden box from the mustard seed ring and handed it to him: "Give it back to you."

Chen Yuan took the wooden box, opened it, and took out the jade pendant with the mandarin duck wrapped around its neck.

Jing Shuhan warned: "Next time you come to see me, just say that an old friend is here to visit. There is no need to take out the jade pendant."

"I only have a few good friends outside Tianji Gate. When they come to visit, they will tell me their names."

Chen Yuan nodded and put the jade pendant into the mustard ring.

Jing Shuhan took out two more wooden boxes, handed them to Chen Yuan, and said with a smile: "For you."

Chen Yuan looked at Jing Shuhan, who was smiling and full of expectation, and slowly reached out to take the wooden box, feeling a little tenderness in his heart.

At this moment, Jing Shuhan does not look like a monk in the late stage of pill formation, but like a young girl who has been in the mortal world for twenty-eight years.

Opening the wooden box, there are two 800-year-old Kunyu grass inside.

The last time they met, Jing Shuhan gave him three body-tempering spiritual grasses, two of which were Kunyu grass.

Chen Yuan was startled and looked up at Jing Shuhan: "Why don't you keep these two Kunyu grasses for yourself?"

Jing Shuhan said: "You are a physical cultivator. You must temper your body in order to improve your cultivation. These two Kunyu grasses are more useful to you."

Chen Yuan's heart warmed, but he still closed the wooden box and handed it back: "You have broken through the later bottleneck and need to prepare for the tribulation. I cannot accept these two spiritual herbs."

Jing Shuhan seemed to have expected this. He raised his hand against the wooden box and said with a smile: "I have obtained a total of three Kunyu grasses. I have already refined one of them into elixirs to temper my body. These two are Specially reserved for you.”

"You are a body cultivator, and the physical body is the top priority. I only need to survive the Yin Fire Tribulation, and I don't need so many body-tempering spiritual herbs."

"When I was controlled by Old Ghost Ji, I didn't dare to improve my cultivation, so I used spiritual energy to nourish my physical body."

"Although the effect is a little less effective, over time, it still has some effect. You'd better accept these two spiritual herbs..."

She explained a lot and tried hard to get Chen Yuan to accept the two spiritual herbs.

Chen Yuan's heart became softer and he slowly released his Qi: "I have formed a Nascent Soul, and I can no longer use these two spiritual herbs."

"You...you have a baby?" Jing Shuhan felt the pressure of the Nascent Soul cultivator, and his eyes widened, his beautiful eyes full of disbelief.

The last time Jueling Island was opened, Chen Yuan was only at the middle stage of pill formation.

Now, only more than sixty years have passed, and he has actually formed a Nascent Soul.

Chen Yuan gathered his energy, and after a while, Jing Shuhan finally calmed down.

She smiled and pushed the wooden box to Chen Yuan: "Since you can't use these two spiritual herbs, then refine them into elixirs and return them to me."

Only then did Chen Yuan realize that he had just thought that he did not need these two spiritual herbs, but he had forgotten that he was still an alchemist.

After the last time the two were warm and affectionate, Chen Yuan told Jing Shuhan everything except the unspeakable secrets such as Yujue, "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", Donghuazhou, Yaoyuan Dan, etc.

Jing Shuhan also recounted her past experiences, but she had been taken under the tutelage of Mr. Ji since she was a child, and was strictly restrained by Mr. Ji. Her step-by-step training was lackluster.

Chen Yuan put away the spiritual grass and said with a smile: "That's fine, I will stay for a while when I return to Yuqinghai this time."

As he said that, he took out six jade bottles: "I also have something to give you. These two bottles of Ice Lotus Pill are made from two eight-hundred-year-old ice spring lotus plants. They have the effect of tempering the body, which is just right. Help you get through the Yin Fire Tribulation.”

"These four bottles of elixirs can help you improve your cultivation and reach the false infant state as soon as possible."

Jing Shuhan did not refuse and directly took the six bottles of elixirs and said with a smile: "Since it is a gift from senior Yuanying, that little girl would be disrespectful to reject it."

Chen Yuan also laughed. He didn't expect that Jing Shuhan had a naughty side.

The two came to the edge of the cliff and sat down, cuddling together like a young man and woman having a tryst in the mortal world.

Jing Shuhan rested her head on Chen Yuan's shoulder and asked, "How did you form the Nascent Soul?"

Chen Yuan held Jing Shuhan in his arms, looked at the rippling blue sea under the sunlight in the distance, and said softly: "It's a long story..."

He borrowed his spiritual bloodline from the Haoran Sect to conceive a baby, but was challenged by Elder Gu and was forced to fight with the true disciples of the Hidden Sword Palace. After conceiving a baby, he was forced by Elder Gu to go to Hanzhou to deal with the lion barbarians, and met Kun Tong. The various experiences such as setting up ambushes were briefly mentioned, but the secrets such as refining Kunpeng's true blood and Tian You were hidden.

Chen Yuan spoke eloquently. Although many details were concealed, Jing Shuhan was very fascinated by what he saw and heard about Renzhou, Hanzhou, and Jingzhou, as well as his battles with Xiong Lie, Shiman, and Kuntong.

After Chen Yuan finished speaking, Jing Shuhan held his hand tightly: "You just had a baby, and you have encountered so many troubles..."

Chen Yuan comforted him: "Don't worry, they are just some local chickens and dogs, nothing to worry about. This time I returned to Yuqinghai just to cause trouble for the Kunyu clan."

Jing Shuhan said: "Then Elder Gu has probably informed the Kunyu clan about your killing of Kun Tong. Now that you are going to the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons, aren't you throwing yourself into a trap?"

Chen Yuan said: "I just gave birth to a baby and disappeared in the past. They must think that I am practicing in seclusion to improve my cultivation."

"At this time, I sneaked into the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons. The transformed demon king of the Kunyu clan must be unprepared and the easiest to succeed."

"Furthermore, I bought two pieces of information about the Demon King of the Kunyu clan from a pill-forming monk from the Zhengqi Alliance. The enemy is overt and we are hidden, and there is no reason to miss."

Jing Shuhan nodded slightly, but she didn't know Chen Yuan's true strength, so she was still a little worried: "This matter should be discussed in the long run and no risks should be taken."

"You wait a few years. Our sect has very close ties with the Kunyu Clan. I'll find out about the Kunyu Clan through the sect. It won't be too late for you to enter the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons."

Chen Yuan was a little surprised: "Tianjimen has always had contact with the Kunyu clan?"

Jing Shuhan said: "Yes, the three major sects of Yuqinghai and the Ten Thousand Monsters Sea Monster Clan have secret transactions. The Zhengqi Alliance has the largest business and has contacts with the three major royal families."

"The Zhenhai Sect has a close relationship with the Jiaolong Clan, and our sect has had close contacts with the Kunyu Clan since at least three thousand years ago."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to find so much Kunyu Grass. These Kunyu Grasses were all traded to our sect by the Kunyu Clan."

Chen Yuan said thoughtfully: "No wonder the leader of the Kunyu clan would ask Tianjizi to do divination..."

Suddenly, he frowned: "Will it cause trouble if you inquire about the Kunyu clan's information? Will my dealing with the Kunyu clan's demon king be detrimental to the Tianji Sect and embarrass you?"

Seeing that Chen Yuan was always thinking about himself, Jing Shuhan's lips curved slightly: "The demon clan is the enemy of our human race. Our sect secretly trades with the Kunyu clan just to exchange what we have."

"Both sides are just trying to make ends meet and take advantage of each other. If there is an opportunity to seriously injure the Kunyu clan, our sect will naturally seek it."

"In order to help you find the body-tempering spirit grass, I deliberately made friends with an elder who was involved in the transaction. It is not difficult to find out the information."

"But this person is currently on Blood Island and will return to the clan in a few years. I can't directly go to Blood Island to inquire about him, otherwise it will be too conspicuous and I will have to wait for several years."

"This matter really cannot be rushed..." Chen Yuan nodded slowly, but he had other thoughts in his heart.

This time he sneaked into the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons not only to deal with the Kunyu clan, but also to hunt demons and obtain elixirs, refine them into Demon Yuan elixirs, and improve his cultivation.

If you wait for several years on Tianji Island without the support of elixirs and spiritual veins, your time will be in vain.

Chen Yuan pondered for a moment and said: "Let's do this. I will enter the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons first and attack the demon king of the Kunyu clan. The news from the Righteous Alliance once helped me ambush Kun Feng. I should not make any mistakes this time."

"When that Danjie elder comes back from Blood Island, you can continue to make insinuations. If you can gain something, I will go to the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons again."

Jing Shuhan said in surprise: "Are you going to enter the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons again?"

"The three major royal families have all issued arrest warrants against me. Naturally, I have to settle this account with them." Chen Yuan sneered.

Jing Shuhan looked worried: "You have just given birth to a baby, so you still have to act according to your ability. When your cultivation level improves, it will not be too late to take revenge on the three royal families."

Chen Yuan nodded: "Don't worry, I have my own sense of discretion."

He actually didn't take the arrest warrants from the three royal families to heart. He mainly wanted to hunt monsters and obtain elixirs to improve his cultivation.

But Yaoyuan Dan was one of his biggest secrets, so he could only hide it and use other reasons to excuse it.

After the matter was settled, the sky gradually darkened.

Chen Yuan then asked Jing Shuhan about her experience in the past forty years. As a true disciple of Tianji Sect, she had no shortage of cultivation resources and no need to take risks. She only completed a few sect tasks without any surprises. Most of the time , all practicing in seclusion in the door.

Jing Shuhan deliberately suppressed his cultivation for decades in order not to be transformed into an incarnation by Old Ghost Ji. It was not all a bad thing.

Her foundation is extremely solid, her true energy is pure and concise, surpassing that of monks of the same level, and she has accumulated a lot of experience. In just over sixty years, she has broken through two bottlenecks in a row without encountering any obstacles.

When he became a true disciple before, he was only in the middle stage of pill formation, and the other pill formation monks in the Tianji Sect were still quite critical of him.

But when she broke through the bottleneck in the later stage and her cultivation progressed rapidly, no one commented on her.

The night is getting darker, and the stars are particularly bright in the cold winter night.

Chen Yuan and Jing Shuhan slowly fell silent, and an ambiguous atmosphere filled the air.

Suddenly, the two of them looked at each other and could no longer look away.

Chen Yuan's hands quietly touched Jing Shuhan's body, his eyes becoming more and more intense.

Jing Shuhan's pretty face turned red, and she lay weakly in Chen Yuan's arms. She closed her eyes slightly, opened her mouth slightly, and looked like she was ready to take what you wanted.

Chen Yuan's breath suddenly became thicker and he kissed her.

…

Three days later, Chen Yuan and Jing Shuhan returned to Tianji Island.

Jing Shuhan returned to the sect, Chen Yuan put on the mask again and rented a cave.

Among the caves rented out by Tianji Island, there are three caves with spiritual energy concentrations comparable to those of medium-sized spiritual veins, and they are exclusively for Nascent Soul monks to live in.

However, the big tree attracts the wind, so Chen Yuan did not reveal his identity, but just rented a cave suitable for alchemy monks.

The next day, Jing Shuhan delivered the auxiliary medicine for refining Kunyu grass to Chen Yuan, and the two of them had a good relationship again.

After Jing Shuhan left, Chen Yuan started to refine the elixir. It took him a month to refine the two Kunyu grass into a body-tempering elixir, a total of eighteen pills.

He refined twelve furnaces of Nascent Soul stage elixirs, and his alchemy skills became even more perfect. The elixirs below Yuanying level had a success rate of 90% without exception.

The two ice spring lotus plants also produced eighteen pills.

There are a total of thirty-six body-tempering elixirs. After Jing Shuhan refines them all, his physical body will definitely be greatly strengthened.

But when Chen Yuan gave these pills to Jing Shuhan, Jing Shuhan did not accept them all.

She only took away eight pills and returned the remaining bottle of Kunyu Pills to Chen Yuan: "I am not a physical practitioner. You have already given me two bottles of Ice Lotus Pills. These eight Kunyu Pills, I It can’t even be refined.”

". Qingshan's talent is extraordinary, and he may not have the opportunity to conceive a baby in the future. You might as well leave this bottle of body-tempering elixir to him, lest he can't find the body-tempering spiritual grass and delay the conceiving of a baby."

The last time Chen Yuan and Jing Shuhan met, he told her about Li Qingshan.

Seeing that Jing Shuhan was so attentive, he felt that it was reasonable and left a bottle of Kunyu Pill.

After not seeing each other for a month, the two lingered for three more days before Jing Shuhan left with great reluctance.

Chen Yuan realized another benefit of cultivating immortals. In his previous life, he must have had a sore waist and weak legs, and was physically weak and mentally weak.

But now, he is still full of energy and even has some unfulfilled ideas.

But he still restrained his inner desires and quietly left Tianji Island.

He has experienced too much in his previous life and will no longer indulge in it, and there will be no shortage of opportunities in the future, so there is no need to rush.

…

Before leaving Tianji Island, Chen Yuan inquired about the situation in the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters in the ghost market, so there was no need to go to Blood Island or Kongyu Island.

Nineteen years ago, the demon clan set off a beast tide. Under the leadership of seven transformed demon kings, they almost broke through Kongyu Island. Fortunately, the three major sects came to help in time and were able to narrowly resolve it.

Since then, the human and demon clans have returned to peace.

This kind of calm is naturally not about peace and quiet, but the absence of large-scale conquests of beasts.

Human monks entered the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons to hunt monsters and obtain pills, and some monsters also entered the human sea to cause trouble.

The Sea of ​​Ink and the Sea of ​​Stones are still the bloodiest hunting grounds. Some people successfully hunt monsters and return to Blood Island with monster pills and monster materials. A single harvest can support decades of cultivation.

Some people were buried in the mouths of monsters, with no bones left.

But these had nothing to do with Chen Yuan. He did not go to the Ink Sea, the Sea of ​​Chaos, or dive into the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters. Instead, he flew to the southeast of the Jade Clear Sea.

He flew very fast. In just a few days, he flew hundreds of thousands of miles and arrived at the border of the Jade Clear Sea.

The Jade Clear Sea is extremely vast, equivalent to the land of two states of the Nine Immortal Continents, and is adjacent to three seas.

Two of them are the Ink Sea and the Sea of ​​Chaos, and the last one is the forbidden area for cultivators and also the forbidden area for monsters - the Silent Sea.

Everything here is dead silent, no living creatures exist, and there is not even a trace of spiritual energy from heaven and earth. It is a rare forbidden spiritual place, and no one has set foot on it.

Chen Yuan looked down at the light gray sea water below, his eyes were very complicated, with memories and a hint of expectation.

Before diving into the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters, he had to repair the ancient teleportation array first.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is forbidden in the Silent Sea, and every ray of true energy consumed cannot be replenished.

When Chen Yuan came to the Silent Sea, he was only at the late stage of foundation building.

It took him more than a month, almost exhausting all the middle-grade spirit stones on his body, before he barely flew out of the Silent Sea.

But now, he doesn't have to worry about the consumption of this little bit of true energy, and his escape speed has not decreased at all.

In less than a day, Chen Yuan crossed more than 12,000 miles and came to the dark stone island, landing the escape light.

Compared with when he left, there was no change on the island. Time seemed to have frozen on this island.

Chen Yuan landed directly in the valley where the ancient teleportation array was located. It was surrounded by dark mountain walls, about tens of feet high. The sky was cloudless and the sun was shining, but there was no warmth.

On the round platform one foot above the ground, black lines of about an inch thick twisted and turned, forming extremely complex lines and tracks, covering the entire round platform, forming a formation with eight grooves around it.

But in a corner of the formation, several black lines broke from it, making the complex and harmonious formation look very disharmonious.

This is the place that Chen Yuan deliberately destroyed after teleporting. It must be repaired before the teleportation array can be activated again.

He took out the jade slip that recorded the method of repairing the ancient teleportation array, probed into it with his spiritual sense, and carefully studied it.

Three days later, Chen Yuan withdrew his spiritual sense, took out the alchemy furnace, and the seven materials bought from Wanling Pavilion, and began to purify and smelt them.

The method of repairing the teleportation array is not difficult, and it is even a little simple. If Chen Yuan was not cautious by nature and read it repeatedly several times, he could master it in one day.

The materials for repairing the teleportation array are not difficult to refine. Ten days later, Chen Yuan melted all seven materials and finally fused them into a ball of black powder.

He carefully placed the black powder on the damaged part of the teleportation array, and performed the spell, injected the true essence, and made it slowly condense, and repaired the broken black lines again.

Chen Yuan looked at the restored real hair and suddenly doubted whether this repair method was true or false.

The ancient teleportation array can connect Donghuazhou and Jiuxianzhou, spanning countless miles. The method of refining has long been lost, but it is so simple to repair, and even does not require a special refiner to do it. It is really surprising.

However, this is also related to Chen Yuan's mercy. If he destroyed the core instead of just a corner of the teleportation array, it would be difficult to repair.

Different parts of the teleportation array require different spiritual materials.

He only bought seven of the most common and simple materials, and the quantity was very small, and he spent 1,200 high-quality spiritual stones.

Some materials are more precious, and there are even several high-quality spiritual materials and top-quality spiritual materials, which are rare in the world and are on the verge of extinction.

Chen Yuan stepped on the teleportation array and flicked his sleeves. Eight high-quality spiritual stones of different colors flew out, with eight attributes of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, ice, wind and thunder, and fell into the groove.

He took a deep breath, took out the Great Teleportation Order, and injected his true essence.