Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 121 Four Years of Hard Cultivation of Evil Spirit
Three years and nine months later, at Tiantai Peak Spiritual Medicine Garden.

Chen Yuan walked out of the small building, raised his head and looked into the distance. Through the forbidden light curtain, he could see that the sky was pitch black, like a black blanket, dotted with thousands of bright pearls, shining brightly.

There was not a single magical herb around him, only some seedlings breaking through the soil.

Chen Yuan stood there quietly for a while before he reached into his bosom, took out the jade pendant, and said with a smile:

"The time has come."

Under the shining of the stars, the jade beads emitted a faint green light. The stars in the sky shone together, forming a silver beam as thick as a thumb, which fell down and enveloped Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan closed his eyes slightly, and a cool and numbing feeling came over him. It disappeared after thirty breaths.

When he opened his eyes again, the green light on the jade pendant had disappeared, returning to its original appearance.

Chen Yuan looked inward at himself and found that all the true energy in his dantian had dissipated, not a drop was left.

He put away the jade beads, clenched his fists, suddenly stomped the ground, jumped more than ten feet up, came under the forbidden light curtain, and punched out!
With a loud bang, the restriction light curtain shook slightly, but was not damaged at all. However, Chen Yuan fell back under the huge recoil force.

He shook his palm with a smile on his face:
"Even if you are a level 4 monster now, don't even think about fighting me in hand-to-hand combat!"

Afterwards, he released his spiritual sense, covering the entire spiritual medicine garden, and still had some strength left.

"This Tiantai Peak Spiritual Medicine Garden is still a little small..."

Chen Yuan withdrew his consciousness, returned to the small building, sat on the jade bed, and thought about his experiences over the past four years.

After he established his foundation, the interval between the starlight infusions was extended to seven days, and the duration of each infusion was extended to thirty breaths. The starlight also changed from white to silver.
In the past, he did not know the details of starlight infusion, but now he understands that this is a sign that the power of the stars in the sky has become more refined, and has a better effect in strengthening the body and soul.

In the past nearly four years, he has drawn starlight into his body a total of 197 times. His physical strength has already surpassed that of an ordinary fourth-level monster, but he is still a long way from becoming a fifth-level monster.

Every time he drew starlight into his body, his spiritual consciousness would expand by three inches. Now it could extend to one hundred and fifty-six feet, covering every corner of the valley.

In the future, when fighting with other cultivators in the early stage of foundation building, Chen Yuan will be able to gain the upper hand just by relying on the power of his spiritual consciousness.

Although starlight infusion is good for the body, it will drain all the true energy in Chen Yuan's body.

After each infusion, it would take two days for him to absorb the spiritual energy and restore his true essence, which slowed down his cultivation speed.

However, there is a large spiritual vein in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain, and a spirit gathering array has been set up in the Tiantai Peak Spiritual Medicine Garden to gather and refine Qi, which is equivalent to a small spiritual vein.

In the Qi State's world of immortal cultivation, only Jindan cultivators can occupy a small spiritual vein, while foundation-building cultivators can only practice in micro spiritual veins.

Chen Yuan has exclusive access to the valley's spiritual energy, a treatment only available to Jindan cultivators. Over the past four years, even if he had to draw starlight into his body, his cultivation had increased a lot, comparable to ten years of cultivation in the outside world.

After he practiced "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", his physical body became the foundation. Even if it would affect the speed of practice, he could not stop the infusion of starlight into his body.

But after leaving the secret realm, without a cultivation environment equivalent to a small spiritual vein, the time to recover true energy will at least double.

If all the time is used to recover true energy, no matter how strong the body is, it will be useless if the cultivation is not good enough.

There will be only two ways at that time. One is to reduce the number of times the starlight is infused into the body, and the other is to take pills to make up for the time spent recovering the true energy.

The first path is not advisable. After Chen Yuan practiced "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", his physical body became the foundation. Even if it would affect the speed of practice, the infusion of starlight into his body could not be stopped.

He could only take the second path, taking pills and improving his cultivation.

After Chen Yuan refined the foundation-building pill, he had become a master of alchemy and could purchase hundred-year-old spiritual herbs from the sect.

But a hundred-year-old spiritual herb would cost hundreds of spiritual stones, which would cost less in terms of good deeds, but still ninety good deeds. The Yuan Zeng Dan, which could be used by cultivators in the early stages of foundation building, required four hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, and to refine one furnace of pills, four hundred spiritual stones, or three hundred and sixty good deeds, would be needed.

Chen Yuan is also a cultivator with five spiritual roots. His cultivation speed is extremely slow and he needs a lot of elixirs, far more than ordinary foundation-building cultivators.

In the past, he could sell pills and earn spirit stones, but after building his foundation, the pills were not enough for cultivation, so how could he sell them?

How to get spirit stones became the primary problem facing Chen Yuan.

"It really doesn't work, this is the only way..."

Chen Yuan's mind turned, and a hint of hesitation flashed in his eyes.

He had a way to get a large amount of spirit stones, but it involved considerable risk.

But if he can do it, he will never lack elixirs before he reaches the late stage of foundation building.

Chen Yuan's eyes flickered, and after a while, he finally became firm.

Fortune and wealth are achieved through risk. He also has to look for the descendants of the true spirit. He cannot waste time and must improve his cultivation as quickly as possible.

On the road to becoming an immortal, one must fight for one's life. There is no reason to be afraid of difficulties and avoid them.

Only by striving to be the first at every step and not missing any opportunity, can you have a chance to succeed!
Chen Yuan made up his mind and stopped hesitating. He closed his eyes and meditated, absorbing spiritual energy and restoring his true energy.

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Two days later, Chen Yuan opened his eyes, exhaled a breath of gray-black air, frowned slightly, and murmured:

"What kind of changes did this blessed land of Dongxu Mountain experience in the past..."

The breath slowly floated upwards, silently corroding a hole in the top beam.

After Chen Yuan established his foundation, the magic power in his body was transformed into true essence, and he then absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. However, he discovered that the spiritual energy that should have been clear and pure was mixed with a trace of imperceptible evil energy.

In the previous five years, he had only cultivated Qi, and his magic power was not pure enough, so he did not notice the evil energy deposited in his body.

Fortunately, his body was strong and these evil spirits did not cause any harm.

But if you ignore it for a long time, it will definitely damage the foundation of your cultivation.

Chen Yuan immediately expelled the evil energy from his body. He was extra careful when practicing afterwards. After each practice, he would expel the evil energy in time and never let it remain in his body.

But over the past four years, he had inhaled too much evil energy. Although it did not stay in his body for long, it entered his dantian each time, and his true essence had already shown signs of being assimilated by the evil energy.

If he stayed for another two years, Chen Yuan's true essence would be corroded by the evil energy in his dantian, and his cultivation would be completely destroyed.

Originally, Chen Yuan planned to live in seclusion in the spiritual medicine garden, using the "small spiritual veins" here to practice until the late stage of foundation building, and then leave the secret realm.

But the evil aura was so strange that he could only give up this idea and leave the secret realm when it opened next time.

Calculating the time, in more than a month, the secret realm will be opened.

Chen Yuan smiled and said to himself:
“I wonder how many disciples the six major sects will send into the secret realm this time?”

I returned to school these days, my tutor held a group meeting, and I also had to prepare for the preliminary defense. There were a lot of things to do, so there might be fewer updates.

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