Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 123: The Fire-Tailed Demon Lion Arrives First
Tiantai Peak, in the magical medicine garden.

Chen Yuan stood in the valley, looking up at the spiritual energy storm surging outside the forbidden light curtain.

Around him were hundreds of spiritual herb seedlings that had just emerged from the soil.

Seven days ago, a spiritual energy storm arose again in the secret realm, which was a sign of the sinking of the large spiritual vein.

When the storm subsides, the six sects will open the secret realm, and Chen Yuan will have the opportunity to break the ban.

About two hours later, the spiritual storm slowly subsided, and when the last ray of colorful spiritual light flew by, peace returned to the world.

Chen Yuan rode the light of escape and came under the forbidden light curtain. Then he stroked his storage bag, took out the array plate, and placed three medium-grade spirit stones on the array plate with a little reluctance.

The spiritual energy in the middle-grade spirit stone is far richer than that in the lower-grade spirit stone, and it has a wide range of uses. It can be used to make pills, refine weapons, set up formations, and practice, but in order to break the restriction, it can only be used here.

Chen Yuan raised his hand and made a gesture, injecting magic power into the array disk. The array disk hummed and emitted seven colors of light: red, white, gold, blue, yellow, green and blue. The lights merged into a beam and shot onto the forbidden light curtain.

The light curtain rippled, and a circular passage slowly emerged.

Chen Yuan's figure flashed and flew into it.

A moment later, he passed through the passage and arrived at the top of Tiantai Peak.

On the lake behind him, a whirlpool was slowly turning and gradually shrinking.

Chen Yuan looked up and saw that the sky was cloudless, blue and clear, and he felt as if he was in another world.

He looked around, identified a direction, rode on a beam of light, rose to a height of ten feet above the ground, and flew away.

He was going to a spiritual medicine garden recorded on the secret realm map. The restrictions there were not too strong and could be broken by a foundation-building cultivator, but the spiritual medicines inside were extremely precious, and they were two five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs.

There was no description of this spiritual medicine garden in the maps from various factions that Chen Yuan obtained. He planned to try his luck. Perhaps this spiritual medicine garden had not been discovered yet.

But Chen Yuan had just flown less than ten miles when he encountered a group of strange black birds.

This bird is called "Yiming Bird". It has black feathers, looks like a swallow, and has extremely sharp claws. It is a high-level monster that lives in groups, has a fierce personality, and has a strong sense of territory.

Chen Yuan kept flying, touched his storage bag, took out five Seven-Star Blades, and threw them forward.

The five short blades transformed into five black streams of light, heading towards the flock of birds. They suddenly separated and attacked together, flying back and forth in the air, cutting all the dozen or so Yiming birds into two pieces.

If Chen Yuan had encountered this group of Yiming birds before he established his foundation, he would have had to flee in panic.

But now, he used his true energy to control the magic weapon, which greatly increased its power and easily killed a first-level high-level monster.

Afterwards, Chen Yuan encountered attacks from two groups of monsters again, but he managed to resolve them with just a wave of his hands.

Chen Yuan deeply realized that every breakthrough in cultivation level meant a world of difference.

Now, unless hundreds of first-level monsters gathered together, they could not pose any threat to him.

About half an hour later, Chen Yuan traveled a hundred miles and came to the place where the spiritual medicine garden was located. He retracted his escape light and stopped in the air.

This spiritual medicine garden is the same as the Tiantai Peak spiritual medicine garden. It is also a valley with deep forests, dense grass and a quiet valley.

Chen Yuan did not act rashly. He first spread out his spiritual sense and probed into the valley to investigate the situation inside.

Suddenly, he frowned, landed on the ground, and walked into the valley.

The valley is about several dozen acres in size, with lush vegetation at the entrance, but the further you go in, the sparser the vegetation becomes, until it becomes completely bare.

Deep in the valley, a monster about ten feet in size, shaped like a lion, with a mane as red as fire and a cluster of flames burning on its tail, was lying on the ground with its eyes closed and sleeping soundly.

Chen Yuan had a map of the secret realm with him and knew the characteristics of all kinds of monsters in the secret realm by heart. He recognized at a glance that this beast was called "Fire-tailed Lion" and was a second-level monster.

Its body is as hard as iron, it has infinite strength, and it can spit fire from its mouth. Among the second-level monsters, it is also an extremely difficult one and very rare in the outside world.

The secret realm of Dongxu Mountain has existed for tens of thousands of years. Most of the monsters and beasts within it are alien species passed down from ancient times and are very powerful.

Beside the fire-tailed lion, there were seven or eight spiritual herbs growing, half a foot tall, bright red all over, with gorgeous flowers blooming on the top. They were none other than the five hundred year old spiritual herbs called "Flame Spirit Flowers" that grew in the spiritual medicine garden here.

Where this flower grows, there is no grass within a radius of five meters. Seven or eight plants gather in one place, and the surrounding area of ​​thirty meters is all red soil.

Chen Yuan shook his head slightly. It seemed that the spiritual medicine garden here had been destroyed long ago and was occupied by this fire-tailed lion, becoming its lair.

The true energy in his body circulated, dispersing the power that was concealing the power of the stars in his body.

After a while, the sleeping fire-tailed lion's nose twitched slightly, and it suddenly opened its eyes, let out a roar, stood up and pounced on Chen Yuan.

The beast had red pupils and looked extremely terrifying. It took two steps forward, opened its mouth wide, and spewed out a stream of fire, attacking Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan stroked his storage bag, took out the fixed-light mirror, threw it in front of him, and pointed: "Quick!"

The fixed light mirror emitted a thick, solid white beam of light, which shot towards the flowing fire. The two collided in the air and were annihilated together.

The fire-tailed lion kept spewing out three or four streams of fire continuously, enveloping Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan stood still, his true energy flowing in his body, and controlled the Dingguang Mirror to emit white light beams, destroying the flowing flames one by one.

After he established his foundation, it became much easier for him to control the top-grade magical instruments, and he could continuously unleash the maximum power of the Dingguang Realm.

After the fire-tailed lion spewed out three or four streams of fire, it pounced in front of Chen Yuan, with red flames burning on its claws, and grabbed him.

This is another innate magical power of the Fire-Tailed Lion. Its claws are already hard, and with the addition of flames, they can cut gold and iron. Even the best magical weapons can be broken with one strike.

But Chen Yuan did not dodge. He raised his hand and grabbed back, grabbing the front paw of the Fire Tailed Lion!
The flames on the fire-tailed lion's claws suddenly jumped up and burned towards Chen Yuan, but failed to burn through even Chen Yuan's palm.

Looking closely, it turned out that Chen Yuan was wearing a pair of transparent gloves as thin as a cicada's wings, which were intact under the burning flames.

If the Fire-Tailed Lion still had some sanity left, it would have become alert when it saw that its own flames were ineffective.

But at this moment he only wanted to eat Chen Yuan, and he fell into madness. When his first attack failed, his other front paw ignited with flames and grabbed him.

Chen Yuan sneered, raised his left hand, clenched it into a fist, and swung it out suddenly, hitting the fire-tailed lion's sharp claws.

With a crisp sound, the fire-tailed lion's front paw broke and it let out a miserable howl.

Although this beast has great strength, it is far inferior to Chen Yuan, whose physical body is comparable to that of a fourth-level monster.

Chen Yuan's left hand was hit by a huge recoil force, but it only trembled slightly, then stretched out like lightning and grabbed the throat of the fire-tailed lion.

The Fire-Tailed Lion had regained some of its sanity at this time, and hurriedly raised its head to avoid being attacked, but its left paw was grabbed by Chen Yuan, and it was unable to dodge and was caught by Chen Yuan.

In desperation, it used its last desperate means. The flame on its tail suddenly grew bigger, and its mane was burning with flames, forcing Chen Yuan to let go.

A wave of heat came towards him, but Chen Yuan ignored it and his gloves were not burned by the flames. He squeezed the throat of the fire-tailed lion with force, crushing it, and then punched its head several times, killing the beast completely.

After the fire-tailed lion died, the flames on its body went out, but the flame on its tail was still burning tenaciously.

Chen Yuan took out the Silver Sword, peeled off its fur, cut off its tail, and put it into the storage bag.

He then cut open the heart of the Fire-Tailed Lion, took out a thumb-sized red round bead, put it into a wooden box, and put it away.

This is the most valuable material on the Fire Tailed Lion. Its fur can be made into talisman paper, and its tail can be used as a spiritual material to refine spiritual tools. The red round bead is the Fire Tailed Lion's natal demon pill that condensed after it broke through to level 2. It contains the essence and blood of its entire body and is the most precious.

In addition, the blood of the Fire-Tailed Lion can be mixed with the blood of several other second-level fire-type monsters and blended with cinnabar to draw fire-type talismans.

But the method of drawing blood is quite troublesome, and the amount of spirit stones that can be exchanged is not much, so Chen Yuan is too lazy to do it.

Then, he condensed a fireball and wanted to burn the body of the fire-tailed lion to ashes.

But at this moment, he suddenly had a thought, dispersed the fireball, and probed his spiritual consciousness into the body of the fire-tailed lion to examine it carefully.

After a moment, he nodded slightly, with a look of understanding on his face: "As expected..."

He discovered an evil aura deposited in the flesh and blood of the fire-tailed lion.

These evil auras have penetrated deep into the Fire Tailed Lion's bones and mixed with its demonic power.

Chen Yuan took out the red demon pill again and found that there was also a very faint evil aura inside it.

He frowned and injected true energy into the demon pill to eliminate the evil aura.

A wisp of gray aura rose from the demon pill and slowly dissipated.

This fire-tailed lion should have just become a second-level demon beast not long ago. In a few years, the evil energy will completely corrode the demon pill and kill it on the spot.

No wonder there are so many level one monsters in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain over the years, but not many level two and above.

Under the erosion of evil energy, the monster can only cultivate to level two at most, and then die.

Chen Yuan became even more wary of the evil aura, so he plucked the seven flame spirit flowers, rode on his escape light, left the valley, and flew to another spiritual medicine garden.

While flying, he was harassed by two demon birds, one of which was a second-level demon bird.

He lured it over with the power of the stars in his body, tore it in half, and continued on his way.

This second-level demon bird had iron feathers that were as sharp as a sword. Fortunately, Chen Yuan was wearing the gloves he got from Du Yu, so he was not hurt at all.

This pair of gloves is transparent, as thin as a cicada's wing, soft and delicate to the touch, but after being injected with true energy, they become extremely tough and are not afraid of water or fire.

Chen Yuan didn't know what material it was made of, but it must be an extremely extraordinary spiritual material.

When he was fighting with Du Yu, Du Yu was wearing this pair of gloves, which was able to block the best magical weapons.

After Chen Yuan practiced "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", he put on the gloves on his hands, taking advantage of his tremendous strength to engage in hand-to-hand combat with monsters, with remarkable results.

If possible, he would also like to use his magical powers to fight the enemy instead of fighting the monster in hand-to-hand combat.

However, "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit" is different from ordinary exercises. It only has the method of cultivation. All the magical powers and Taoist techniques all rely on refining the true spirit essence and blood entering the body.

If Chen Yuan wanted to learn the supernatural power of physical cultivation, he could only collect it separately, or refine a kind of true spirit essence and blood, and he would naturally be able to learn the innate supernatural power.

Fortunately, he had another physical cultivation method, "The Demon God Technique", which recorded a kind of magical secret technique. When Chen Yuan broke through to the middle stage of foundation building, he could practice it.

There are quite a few magical skills in "The Demon God Secret", as many as five or six, but except for this one, the others require practicing "The Demon God Secret" before they can be practiced, which Chen Yuan has no chance of learning.

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An hour later, Chen Yuan arrived at the foot of a mountain with soft contours and covered with green pines.

He stopped his escape, watched for a moment, determined the direction, entered the mountain, and came to a mountain wall.

This mountain wall is about five or six feet high and covered with a thick layer of vines.

Chen Yuan was delighted and spread his spiritual sense to explore the mountain wall.

Behind this mountain wall is the second spiritual medicine garden. Judging from the situation here, it should not have been discovered yet.

But when Chen Yuan's spiritual consciousness touched the mountain wall, he found that this mountain wall looked extremely rigid and stiff, and did not look like a natural creation at all.

His heart sank and he took out a focusing mirror, which emitted a thick, solid white beam of light that shone on the mountain wall.

The mountain wall trembled and shattered like a mirror, turning into a thick fog.

Chen Yuan's expression changed slightly. This spiritual medicine garden had already been taken over by someone, who had even set up the formation again.

His eyes turned cold, and he pinched his fingers to activate the true energy in his body. The fixed-light mirror shot out a second beam of white light, which shot into the thick fog.

Whoosh!
Several golden light arrows flew out from the thick fog and shot towards the fixed light mirror.

Chen Yuan changed the magic spell in his hand, and the Dingguang Mirror shot out three white light beams in succession, destroying the golden light arrows one by one.

He pondered for a moment, then took out the Silver Sword and threw it into the thick fog, continuing to test the power of the formation.

This time, several vines flew out from the thick fog, trying to entangle the Silver Gang Sword, but were easily cut into several pieces by the Silver Gang Sword.

Afterwards, there were meteors, flying fire, water waves, falling rocks and flying rocks, but they were all easily blocked by Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan felt relieved. This was a five-element formation, but it was not very powerful.

He walked into the fog, controlled his magic weapon, blocked all incoming attacks, and reached the deepest part of the fog.

There is a layer of black forbidden light curtain here, blocking Chen Yuan's way.

He threw out more than ten punches in a row, forcing the light curtain open.

The light curtain shattered, the formation collapsed, the thick fog dissipated, revealing the scene behind the mountain wall.

This is also a valley, about several dozen acres in size, with more than thirty spiritual herbs planted on the ground, but they are far from mature and obviously have been planted not long ago.

Five formation flags were stuck in the ground, broken into two pieces, and there was a deep crack on the formation plate in the middle.

The person who discovered this spiritual medicine garden had the same idea as him and regarded it as his own. In order to make a long-term profit, he set up the formation again and planted spiritual herbs.

However, Chen Yuan restored the ban, which was not only powerful but also extremely hidden and difficult to break.

In this spiritual medicine garden, they could only set up a weak five-element formation, which he broke easily.

In the southwest corner of the valley, there is a two-story building that is exactly the same as the Tiantai Peak Spiritual Medicine Garden, with its doors closed.

Chen Yuan walked into the small building and took a look around. It was empty.

He did not stop and did not pick the unripe spiritual herbs. He directly left the valley, rode on the light of escape, and flew to the west.

He was unlucky. Of the two spiritual medicine gardens that he was sure to break the ban on, one had already been destroyed and the other had been taken by someone else.

But the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain lacks everything except spiritual herbs.

At this moment in the secret realm, Chen Yuan is the strongest. If he wants spiritual herbs, he can go and rob them!

Thanks to Tiannu Si Shen Jue and cellma for the reward!
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