Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 112 Spiritual Medicine Garden

Not only does the cultivation threshold of "Demon God Art" reach a very high level and there is an upper limit to the level of cultivation, it also has many drawbacks.

Those who practice this method, like monsters of the same level, have weak spiritual consciousness.

Only by breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage can one, like those transformed monsters, control magic weapons from a distance and learn alchemy, talisman making, weapon refining and other arts of cultivation.

Before this, cultivators were unable to practice the various arts of cultivation and could only engage in physical combat, and were not good at flying.

Du Yu specially prepared gloves and spears for this purpose, mixed with medium-grade spiritual materials, making them strong and hard enough to withstand magical weapons and fully demonstrate the advantage of his enormous strength.

But in addition to this, practicing "The Demon God Technique" also has many benefits.

This method does not consider spiritual roots or aptitude, but focuses on cultivating the physical body. The combat power is powerful, and there is no need to worry about running out of mana, so the battle can be extremely long-lasting.

After refining the monster's blood essence into the body, the cultivator can also learn the monster's innate secret skills, and his lifespan will be at least twice that of a cultivator of the same level.

The white gas arrows that spurted out of Du Yu's mouth should be the secret innate skill he got from the monster.

Chen Yuan's mind was in turmoil and he couldn't make a decision for a long time.

The Demon God Art is extremely difficult to practice, but it suits him very well.

For other cultivators, the most difficult part of "Demon God Art" is to constantly strengthen the physical body in order to break through the bottleneck.

Cultivators are not monsters and are born with weak bodies. Even with the nourishment of spiritual energy, they are still far inferior to monsters of the same level.

The several kinds of elixirs recorded in "The Secret of the Demon God" that can strengthen the body are extremely rare and precious.

When Du Yu reached the peak of Qi Refining, the resources he consumed were at least several times that of a cultivator of the same level.

If he wanted to break through to the foundation building stage, he would need three kinds of five hundred year old spiritual herbs, refine them into medicinal liquid, soak in it and strengthen his body.

Only a sect as old as Zi Yang Sect has the foundation to train a low-level disciple into a physical cultivator.

Lingyun Sect would never spend so many resources on a Qi Refining disciple.

But the most difficult part of practicing "The Demon God Art" is not worth mentioning to Chen Yuan.

With the jade beads in his hand, he could draw starlight into his body, continuously strengthening his physical body and breaking through bottlenecks like water would naturally come to fruition.

The price of easily breaking through the barriers is that you will never have the hope of attaining enlightenment.

The future of practicing Taoism with five spiritual roots is bleak, but there is hope of achieving enlightenment.

The "Demon God Art" is extremely suitable for him, but the essence and blood of monsters are hard to come by, and there is an upper limit to his cultivation.

It is difficult to choose between the two paths.

Chen Yuan sat upright in the cave, lost in thought. His expression was solemn, and his eyes were like a deep pool, deep and unfathomable.

Suddenly, he shook his head and laughed, with a self-deprecating look on his face, and stood up.

He hasn't even succeeded in building his foundation yet, but he's already worrying about the path after that. Isn't that too unrealistic?
The most urgent task is to lay the foundation.

Chen Yuan no longer dwelled on this issue and put away the jade slip of "The Art of Demon God" along with other things.

In Du Yu's storage bag, in addition to gloves and a spear, there were also eight or nine magical instruments and more than a dozen talismans, which should have been obtained by robbing and killing other cultivators.

Among them there are three magical instruments with a sinister aura, which should be used by the disciples of Mingyin Valley.

In addition, there are dozens of spiritual herbs, some monster materials, spiritual materials for refining weapons, and more than a hundred spiritual stones.

After Chen Yuan entered the secret realm, he killed many cultivators, but he did not get many spirit stones, only more than 400 pieces in total.

The other five major sects all have good deeds similar to Lingyun Sect, and their disciples rarely use spirit stones.

Moreover, in order to prepare for the journey to the secret realm, even if they had spirit stones, they had spent them all and exchanged them for magical instruments, talismans, and pills.

After Chen Yuan sorted out the spoils, he moved the huge rock blocking the cave entrance, walked out of the cave, and continued to head east.

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The inner secret realm of Dongxu Mountain covers a vast area, thousands of miles in radius. After thousands of years, there are still many places that no one has set foot on.

There are three entrances to the inner ring, two on the west and one on the south.

The disciples of each sect entered the inner circle and explored to the north and east to collect spiritual herbs.

In the central position of the inner ring, there grow a large number of Yin-Yang Ganoderma, Angelica dahurica, Seven-Star Grass, as well as several five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs that are extremely precious in the outside world and are coveted by Jindan cultivators.

Therefore, disciples from various sects eventually gathered here to snatch spiritual herbs, fight and use magic in an extremely brutal manner.

Further east and north, the number of disciples from each sect becomes much smaller.

Although there are many five hundred year old spiritual herbs in the east and north of the inner ring, the only thing missing is the three main ingredients for refining the foundation-building pill.

The primary task of the disciples from various sects after entering the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain is to collect these three kinds of spiritual herbs in exchange for foundation-building pills. The second task is to collect five hundred year old spiritual herbs for the sect's elders who have reached the stage of forming the golden elixir.

Moreover, there are no exits to leave the inner ring on the east and north sides. If one goes too deep and encounters some accidents, and fails to return to the outer ring in time, one will not be able to leave the secret realm and will die under the impact of the spiritual storm.

Only a very few lucky ones hid in the remaining restrictions of the inner ring of the secret realm and survived, but their cultivation was destroyed and they became useless. Therefore, not many disciples would come to the east and north sides of the inner ring to collect spiritual herbs.

Most of them are disciples who feel that they are not strong enough and dare not go to the center of the inner circle to try their luck.

Apart from these, there are only a few disciples of Zi Yang Sect who would come to these two places to collect spiritual herbs.

Every time the secret realm is opened, Zi Yang Sect will send at least seventy to eighty disciples in, which is the sum of the number of disciples from the other two or three sects.

In addition to gathering in the center of the inner ring to snatch spiritual herbs, they also have the energy to go to other places to collect spiritual herbs. The harvest is at least equal to that of the two sects.

Over time, the foundation-building cultivators within the Zi Yang Sect have always been far ahead of those of other sects, firmly sitting on the dominant position in Qi State's cultivation world.

During this trip to the secret realm, Zi Yang Sect teamed up with Gui Yuan Sect to block the disciples of the other four sects outside the circular mountain range, gaining a head start of at least two days.

They took the opportunity to kill monsters in the center of the inner ring and collect spiritual herbs, reaping a rich harvest.

After Qin Xuanning separated from Du Yu, he led six elite disciples and, with everyone's strength, hunted down five or six second-level monsters and harvested more than twenty five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, more than thirty white angelica flowers, more than twenty seven-star grasses, eight or nine Yin-Yang Ganoderma, and countless other three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs and one-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs.

But they did not stay in the center of the inner ring for too long. After two days of looting, they left and headed east of the inner ring.

At this time, three days have passed since the Dongxu Mountain Secret Realm was opened. In less than four days, the secret realm will be closed.

Qin Xuanning only plundered a small half of the area in the center of the inner ring and left resolutely, giving the remaining spiritual herbs in this area to his disciples.

The reason why Qin Xuanning made this decision was because he met three disciples from the Mingyin Valley.

He led the people of Ziyang Sect and killed the three disciples of Mingyin Valley. Then he realized that the three passages had been lost, so he stopped searching for spiritual herbs and set off immediately, heading towards the east of the inner ring.

The other six disciples were extremely puzzled by this, but Qin Xuanning was a true disciple of Ziyang Sect, so when he gave an order, the others had no choice but to obey.

What made them even more confused was that Qin Xuanning told everyone not to provoke monsters along the way. Several times when they passed by a place where spiritual herbs grew, he turned a blind eye to them and just focused on getting on with the journey, as if he was in a hurry to get to a certain place.

One day later, the group went hundreds of miles deep into the secret realm and came to the foot of a mountain hundreds of feet high.

This mountain has a soft outline and is covered with green pines. It is connected to the surrounding hills and mountains, and there is nothing surprising about it.

But Qin Xuanning stopped at the foot of the mountain, took out a jade slip, probed his spiritual sense into it, then retracted it, raised his head to observe the surrounding terrain, and after several comparisons, a smile appeared on his face.

Then he turned around and said:

"My fellow disciples, follow me up the mountain!"

Everyone did not dare to delay and followed Qin Xuanning up the mountain.

The mountain was not high, there were no steep cliffs, the spiritual energy was not very strong, and there were no monsters lurking there. A quarter of an hour later, they arrived halfway up the mountain.

Qin Xuanning suddenly slowed down his pace, released his spiritual sense, and carefully investigated the surrounding environment.

Everyone slowed down their pace. They all realized that Qin Xuanning was looking for a secret place, and this place was on this mountain.

After a while, Qin Xuanning's eyes lit up, and he used the light body technique to rush to the left.

The crowd followed closely behind him, and after walking for more than twenty feet, they arrived in front of a mountain wall.

The cliff was about five or six feet high and covered with vines and weeds. There were several nimble yellow monkeys playing on the cliff.

These monkeys exude a faint demonic aura, but they are not even as good as the first-level lower-class demon beasts and cannot be considered demon beasts.

They have lived on this mountain for generations and have never seen any cultivators. When they saw Qin Xuanning and others coming, they all showed curiosity.

There was a half-grown ape, holding a vine in its hand, swinging in front of the crowd, calling out a few times, and waving, as if inviting everyone to play with it.

Qin Xuanning frowned slightly, raised his hand and waved it. A fire crow flew out and pecked at the half-grown ape. A raging fire burst out and burned it to ashes in an instant.

Seeing this, the remaining monkeys became terrified and fled in all directions.

One of the female monkeys let out a shrill scream, grabbed a green vine and swung towards Qin Xuanning.

But just when it swung halfway, the fire crow flew in front of it and pecked it lightly. The mother monkey was wrapped in flames and turned into ashes.

Then the Fire Crow flapped its wings lightly and flew around, burning all the remaining monkeys to death. It then pounced on the cliff and burned all the vines and weeds on the wall to ashes.

Qin Xuanning looked at the bare and charred mountain wall, smiled with satisfaction, stroked his storage bag, and took out a pair of jade rings.

The pair of jade rings, one is bright red and carved with Vermillion Bird patterns, and the other is ice blue and carved with Chilong patterns. They are hung above Qin Xuanning's head, emitting a faint spiritual light.

He raised his hand and made a gesture, then shouted softly:
"go!"

The jade rings made a buzzing sound, emitting scarlet red and icy blue colors, and suddenly flew out and hit the mountain wall.

At this moment, the mountain wall suddenly turned into a transparent light shield. The jade ring hit it, causing ripples, and then flew back.

Everyone was shocked and looked carefully, only to see that behind the light shield was a flat land covering several acres, with many exotic flowers and plants growing on it.

A handsome Ziyang Sect disciple asked:
"Senior Brother Qin, this is..."

Qin Xuanning smiled and said:
"This is a spiritual medicine garden. Follow me and break the restrictions here!"

Thanks for the reward from Shenri Laozi!
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(End of this chapter)