Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chen Yuan withdrew his spiritual sense, sneered secretly in his heart, and completely forgot about the middle-aged scholar.

He had already been ambushed by the middle-aged scholar once, so how could he not be on guard?

Who knows what tricks the Demon King Lianxu has, he will never give the middle-aged scholar any chance to take advantage of him.

Chen Yuan wanted to see if the middle-aged scholar's spirit would really dissipate quickly if he didn't give him the spiritual herbs to nourish his soul.

Being able to obtain the art of gentleness and transformation from the middle-aged scholar and verify the space beacon is already a great gain.

Even if the middle-aged scholar's spirit disappears, it is not a big deal.

Chen Yuan closed his eyes slightly, meditated and adjusted his breathing. After a day, he finally adjusted his state to the peak and slowly opened his eyes.

He flipped his hand and took out a wooden box. After opening it, he revealed the red demon pill given to him by the old man in black robe.

He raised his hand and picked up the demon pill, stimulating Zhu Yan's true blood. His black hair turned snow-white and danced without wind, and Zhu Yan's true fire rose from his hands.

He picked up the red demon pill, placed his hands in front of his chest, one above and one below, and practiced his skills.

The demon pill was suspended in it, wrapped in Zhuyan's true fire, and quickly melted into a fist-sized red blood bead.

In the Zhuyan True Fire, the blood beads shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and wisps of red blood vapor evaporated.

Finally, after half of Chen Yuan's true energy was consumed, the red blood bead was only the size of a walnut, and a weak but powerful pressure slowly dissipated.

There was a glimmer of joy in Chen Yuan's eyes. The Zhu Yan's true blood contained in this demon pill was even purer than he had expected.

He opened his mouth and sucked the red blood bead into his mouth. His white hair turned back to black. He closed his eyes and began to refine this strand of Zhuyan's true blood.

Two months later, Chen Yuan, who was sitting upright on the cushion, suddenly opened his eyes. His black hair turned snow-white, and Zhuyan True Fire rose from his hands.

He raised his hands, put them in front of his eyes, looked at them carefully, and a smile appeared on his face.

He has completely refined that strand of Zhuyan's true blood, and the Zhuyan's true blood in his body has become much purer.

The Zhu Yan's true blood he had refined before mainly came from a fourth-level white ape, and was not pure enough.

When driving the Zhuyan True Fire, it can at most have some effect on cultivators in the early Nascent Soul stage.

A cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul stage would only find it a little difficult to deal with, but a great cultivator could easily resist it.

The Zhu Yan's true blood in this eighth-level demon pill is several times more powerful than that of the fourth-level white ape.

Chen Yuan now looked inward again. The Zhu Yan True Spirit in his dantian was more solid, his eyes were more lively than before, and his aura had greatly increased. It was no less powerful than Kunpeng True Spirit, and even better.

If he were to face a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul again, he could use the Zhuyan True Fire to burn his soul and confuse his mind, which would reduce his strength by half.

The great monk's soul would also suffer from headaches under the burning of Zhu Yan's true fire.

However, it is still difficult to defeat the enemy solely with Zhu Yan's True Fire.

According to the records in "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", Zhu Yan's True Spirit controls the way of killing and destruction. Wherever he goes, Zhu Yan's True Fire sweeps across thousands of miles, confusing all races and causing great suffering to all living beings.

In other words, Zhu Yan's True Fire God is elusive, targeting the soul directly, and is best at group attacks.

Chen Yuan has been refining Zhu Yan's true blood for nearly two hundred years and has the same feeling.

Zhu Yan's True Fire is equivalent to adding a layer of shackles and restraints to the opponent, constantly disturbing his soul and mind.

Low-level cultivators have weak souls, and they don’t have many means to protect their souls, so Zhu Yan’s True Fire is invincible.

But the higher the level of cultivation, the tighter the protection of the soul, and the power of Zhu Yan's True Fire becomes smaller and smaller.

After forming the infant, when Chen Yuan faced a cultivator of the same level again, the Zhuyan True Fire could only weaken his strength but could not play a decisive role.

If facing a cultivator with higher cultivation level than oneself, the effect of Zhuyan True Fire will be greatly reduced.

Even when facing a cultivator who is at a higher level than him, he cannot even shake him in the slightest.

This is naturally not a problem for Zhu Yan's true spirit.

The cultivation of a true spirit is comparable to that of a true immortal, and even above that of a Mahayana. No one can match it. He travels across the heavens and all realms, naturally no one can defeat him.

But for Chen Yuan, who had only refined Zhu Yan's true blood, its effect in defending against the enemy was obviously not as good as Kunpeng's true blood and Kuiniu's true blood.

However, the Zhuyan True Spirit is not only famous throughout the heavens and worlds for his Zhuyan True Fire, but his physical body is also outstanding among the True Spirits.

After refining this eighth-level demon pill, Chen Yuan was equivalent to taking a bottle of body-tempering elixir made from three thousand year old spiritual herbs. His physical body was strengthened a little, and was no less powerful than Jin Feng, a tenth-level demon king who came from a royal family.

The effect of Zhuyan True Fire against true spirits of the same level is definitely not as good as it is against ordinary creatures.

Perhaps it is precisely because of such powerful physical strength that Zhu Yan can rank first among the true spirits.

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The hundred-year deadline was imminent. After Chen Yuan refined the eighth-level demon pill, he only adjusted his breathing for a day, then took out the Changqing Pill given to him by Taoist Cangsong and two bottles of Nascent Soul middle-stage pills obtained from the secret realm, and went into seclusion to practice hard.

But after refining all three bottles of pills, he still failed to break through the bottleneck and improve his cultivation to the late Nascent Soul stage.

Originally, Chen Yuan only needed one or two bottles of Nascent Soul Middle Stage elixir to successfully break through.

But after refining the red demon pill, Zhu Yan's true blood became more pure, and the true essence in Chen Yuan's body also became more pure and thick, and his cultivation level dropped a lot.

Three bottles of Nascent Soul Middle Stage elixir could only allow him to raise his cultivation to his previous level.

In desperation, Chen Yuan had to leave the cave and go to the Earth Fire Palace to refine the elixir.

In the jade token that Wang Xuan Ge handed him was a map of the Taiming Sect's mountain gate. Chen Yuan followed the map and came to a valley in the northwest corner of Fuyu Island, where he escaped.

The fire vein can only exist with the support of the earth vein, and in the entire Zhaoming Lake, only Fuyu Island can carry the earth vein.

Not only the Earth Fire Hall of the Alchemy Pavilion, but also the Equipment Refining Hall of the Taiming Sect is on Fuyu Island.

Since Wang Xuan Ge had already informed the ancestor elder who was in charge of the Alchemy Pavilion, the Jindan deacon on duty in the Earth Fire Hall did not dare to stop Chen Yuan after seeing him and invited him to the largest Earth Fire Room.

Chen Yuan also displayed the demeanor of a master and casually took out a hundred high-quality spirit stones as a reward. The Jindan deacon was ecstatic and was even more respectful to Chen Yuan.

But what surprised the Jindan Deacon was that in the next six months, at midnight on the 15th and 16th of every month, when the full moon was high in the sky, this generous Senior Chen would leave the Earth Fire Palace and would not come back until the next morning.

Half a year later, Senior Chen left the Earth Fire Palace directly.

The Jindan Deacon felt a little disappointed, thinking that he would never have the chance to receive rewards from Senior Chen again.

But a year and a half later, Senior Chen returned to the Earth Fire Palace to make pills.

Still the same as before, he would leave late at night on the 15th or 16th of every month and come back early the next morning.

The Jindan Deacon was very curious, but as a Jindan cultivator, how could he dare to inquire about the affairs of the Yuanying Zhenren? He also accepted the reward from Senior Chen, so he dared not disturb him, and did not even report this abnormal matter to the ancestor elder.

Two years passed in a flash, and it was the night of the full moon on the 15th. The Jindan deacon had been waiting outside the underground fire chamber early in the morning, waiting to pay his respects to Senior Chen.

The Taiming Sect has strict rules. Although the jade token in Senior Chen's hand is the same as that of the Taiming Sect's elders, he is an outsider after all. He must be accompanied by someone when entering and leaving.

To show respect, the Jidan Deacon came here early in the morning to wait, making sure to greet Chen Yuan as soon as possible when he went out.

Sometimes he would wait for two days and one night, and he was happy to do it.

One hundred high-quality spirit stones is not a small amount for an early Nascent Soul cultivator.

For a deacon like him who was in the middle stage of Jindan, it was enough to cover most of his wealth, and he was extremely grateful to Senior Chen.

But this time, just as the Jindan Deacon came outside the Earth Fire Chamber, two heavy stone doors slowly opened and Senior Chen walked out.

The Jindan Deacon was slightly stunned, then immediately stepped forward to salute and asked respectfully, "Senior, are you going out to relax?"

He was very surprised why Senior Chen changed his usual habit and left the underground fire room so early in the morning.

But he knew very well that talking too much would lead to mistakes, so he did not dare to ask more questions and continued to perform the ceremony as usual.

Chen Yuan shook his head: "Chen has finished refining the elixir and will leave here today."

"You have been very respectful over the past two years, so these spirit stones are given to you."

"Practice hard, there is hope for you to have a baby in the future."

After saying that, he raised his sleeve and flicked it. One hundred high-grade spirit stones appeared out of thin air in front of him and slowly flew in front of the Jindan Deacon.

The Jindan Deacon was overjoyed and bowed with his fists: "Thank you for the reward, senior!"

Chen Yuan smiled slightly and walked out of the Earth Fire Hall. The Jindan Deacon followed him and escorted him out of the hall.

Chen Yuan flew up into the sky with a flash of light.

The Jindan deacon bowed deeply three times again until Chen Yuan's figure disappeared into the horizon. Then he stood up, let out a long breath, and walked back to the hall with big strides with a look of joy on his face.

Since this was inside the mountain gate of Taiming Sect, Chen Yuan's flying speed was not very fast. It was only after a quarter of an hour that he returned to the cave in Langao Island.

The inside of the cave was as clean as new. Although Chen Yuan had been refining pills in the Underground Fire Palace for the past two years, he would return to Langao Island every month to draw starlight into his body and then rush back the next day. There was not a speck of dust accumulated in the cave.

He came to the training room, sat cross-legged, raised his sleeves and a dozen jade bottles appeared in front of him.

Chen Yuan glanced at these jade bottles and breathed a sigh of relief as if a heavy burden had been lifted from him.

In the past two years, he has not slacked off for a single day and has refined all the spiritual herbs and magic pills in his hands into pills.

Chen Yuan had previously obtained six three thousand year old spiritual herbs and three level ten demon pills from the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain and the Golden-winged Eagle clan.

Including the gains from the Yuling Sect's secret realm and the spiritual herbs given to him by Wang Xuan Ge, Chen Yuan had a total of twenty-two three thousand year old spiritual herbs (note), thirty-one thousand year old spiritual herbs, three level ten demon pills, ten level nine demon pills, and one level eight demon pill.

Chen Yuan still followed the habit of going from easy to difficult, and spent the first half a year to refine the eighth-level demon pill and five ninth-level demon pills into demon Yuan Pills, obtaining a total of eight eighth-level demon Yuan Pills and thirty-five ninth-level demon Yuan Pills.

Then he returned to the cave in Langao Island and refined two bottles of ninth-level demon essence pills. His cultivation finally broke through the bottleneck of the late stage and became a great cultivator.

After his cultivation level broke through, Chen Yuan found an uninhabited place and practiced the art of locking heaven and earth, then he entered the Earth Fire Palace again to continue refining pills.

With his breakthrough in cultivation, his spiritual power also increased dramatically, enough to cover an area of ​​500 miles in radius, already surpassing the ranks of great cultivators.

However, compared with the Divine Transformation cultivators whose spiritual awareness can extend thousands of miles, it is still far inferior.

But this was enough to take Chen Yuan's alchemy skills to a higher level. The success rate of refining pills for the middle stage of the Nascent Soul increased by 10% to 80%, and the success rate of refining pills for the late stage of the Nascent Soul also reached 70%.

He refined the remaining five level nine demon pills and three level ten demon pills into pills, obtaining a total of forty level nine demon pills and twenty-one level ten demon pills.

At this point the demon pills were running out, so Chen Yuan turned to using spiritual herbs to make pills.

Since he was on the verge of breaking through the bottleneck before refining the eighth-level demon pill, the old man in black robe thought that one bottle of Changqing Pill was enough, so he took away all the thousand-year-old spiritual herbs he used to refine the early and middle stage Nascent Soul pills.

The remaining spiritual herbs in Chen Yuan's hands were all used to refine elixirs for the late Nascent Soul stage.

The elixir for the late Nascent Soul stage uses a three thousand year old spiritual herb as the main ingredient and a thousand year old spiritual herb as the auxiliary ingredient.

Among the twenty-two three thousand year old spiritual herbs, Chen Yuan took out five in front of the black-robed old man. The black-robed old man asked Wang Xuan Ge to give him the missing auxiliary herbs so that they could make five furnaces of pills.

Wang Xuan Ge also gave him two three thousand year old spiritual herbs. Together with the thousand year old spiritual herbs in Chen Yuan's hand as auxiliary medicine, they could make two furnaces of pills.

Of the remaining fifteen spiritual herbs, six were obtained from the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain.

The secret realm of the Yuling Sect is intact, with more than one large spiritual vein, and the spiritual energy is far more abundant than that of the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain where the spiritual veins are damaged.

When the spiritual herbs are placed together with the six spiritual herbs in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain, the difference can be seen at a glance.

Chen Yuan would rather give up the opportunity to ask for auxiliary medicine from the old man in black robe than show it to others easily.

There were nine more plants. Chen Yuan only knew their origins after looking at the spiritual herb illustrations given to him by the old man in black robe.

These fifteen three thousand year old spiritual herbs, plus the thousand year old spiritual herbs in Chen Yuan's hands, can make four furnaces of late Nascent Soul elixir.

It took Chen Yuan two years to refine eleven furnaces of pills, and he finally completed it, obtaining a total of seventy-seven late Nascent Soul pills.

It only takes one month to refine a batch of Nascent Soul early and middle stage elixirs.

However, the main ingredient of the elixir in the late Nascent Soul stage is three thousand year old spiritual herbs, which have more refined spiritual energy. The difficulty of refining has increased a lot, and it takes two months to refine one furnace.

Today is the day when the last batch of pills will be produced, so Chen Yuan left the Earth Fire Palace and returned to the cave.

Looking at the entire Jiuxian Continent, there is probably no alchemist who can refine eleven furnaces of late Nascent Soul elixirs in one breath.

While Chen Yuan was refining the elixir, he was carefully studying the alchemy tradition left by the Yuling Sect.

After all eleven furnaces of pills were refined, his alchemy skills improved a lot and he vaguely touched a new realm.

As long as he could break through this bottleneck, his success rate in refining elixirs for the late Nascent Soul stage would reach 80%, comparable to that of Dan Xuzi, the founder of Tai Ming Sect, and superior to all the great alchemy masters of Jiuxianzhou from ancient times to the present.

But Chen Yuan also knew that this step was the most difficult.

I wonder how many furnaces of late Nascent Soul elixir he needs to refine before he can break through this bottleneck.

Chen Yuan breathed in and out to regulate his breathing, putting the matter of alchemy aside. He did not rush to take the pills to practice, but meditated for three days to regulate his mind.

Only after he had calmed down and regained his peak state did he take a jade bottle, pour out a pill, swallow it, and close his eyes to practice. (End of this chapter)