Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 125 Demonic Troubles Rise Everywhere, Generosity and Mercy
The tall monk took a deep breath, and another disciple from Wanshou Mountain also forgot the fear in his heart and raised his head.

He had narrow eyes, thick eyebrows, and a somewhat strange appearance, with a look of shock on his face.

In the past, there were many monks stranded in the secret realm, but most of them died in the spiritual energy storm. Even if there were some who survived by chance, their cultivation was destroyed and they became useless.

It was the first time they had seen someone stay in the secret realm for ten years, not only remaining unharmed, but also breaking through to the foundation-building stage!

Chen Yuan met their gazes and frowned slightly: "Answer my question."

The tall cultivator was startled and quickly replied, "Senior, the Qi Kingdom's cultivation world has been generally peaceful over the past ten years. There was only one major incident, which was the rise of demonic troubles. The six major sects organized their disciples to encircle and suppress the demonic cultivators."

Chen Yuan was surprised: "Demon cultivator? Tell me the details."

"Yes, this story started eight years ago..."

Afterwards, the tall monk slowly told Chen Yuan about the surge in the number of demon cultivators.

It turned out that eight years ago, around the northern border of Qi State, demon cultivators began to slaughter mortal villages and towns, collect flesh and blood and souls, improve their magic skills, and refine magic weapons.

In the past, there were demon cultivators in Qi State’s world of immortal cultivation, but they were not powerful enough and did not dare to openly massacre mortals.

The six major sects also needed some magic materials, so they turned a blind eye and ignored it.

But this time, the demon cultivators were extremely arrogant and massacred all mortals. There were even two small immortal cultivation families that were attacked by the demon cultivators and their entire families were wiped out.

The Lingyun Sect immediately dispatched its disciples to eliminate the evil cultivators, and issued a bounty, calling on the independent cultivators in the Lingyun market to kill the evil cultivators together.

At the beginning, the Lingyun Sect achieved remarkable results and wiped out dozens of demon cultivators in one fell swoop. It seemed that the demonic atmosphere was wiped out, and the northern border of Qi State returned to peace.

But not long after, demonic cultivators began to appear again in the southern part of the Chimang Mountains, attacking and killing independent cultivators, looting small immortal cultivation families, and massacring mortal towns.

There is only one large sect in the southern part of the Chimang Mountains, the Tiangang Sword Sect, and the number of disciples is small. Although they immediately sent out disciples to wipe out the evil cultivators, they were unable to do so and had to ask for help from the other five major sects.

These demon cultivators are at most at the Foundation Establishment stage, and most of them are Qi Refining cultivators. The Tiangang Sword Sect cannot allow the Jindan elders to go around exterminating demons.

The six major sects in Qi State all claim to be righteous sects, and it is their duty-bound responsibility to wipe out the evil cultivators. Other sects immediately sent their disciples to help.

But what is surprising is that the five major sects did not just go through the motions this time, but sent out their elite disciples.

But even if the six major sects took action together, they were unable to eliminate this demonic disaster.

In the following years, the figures of demonic cultivators appeared throughout the Qi State's cultivation world.

The six major sects spared no effort and sent disciples to clear out the rebellion, but they could only contain its momentum but could not eliminate the evil spirit.

To this day, independent cultivators have already been in a state of panic, and cultivators have begun to be stationed in the prefectures and counties of the mortal world to guard against attacks from the evil cultivators.

In order to prevent evil cultivators from sneaking into the sects, the five major sects also suspended the Ascension Conference two years ago and no longer recruited independent cultivators as disciples.

The disciples from various sects who entered the secret realm this time were all elite disciples who had entered the sect to practice since childhood, or those who had failed to collect enough spiritual herbs to exchange for foundation-building pills the last time they entered the secret realm.

When the tall monk spoke of this, Chen Yuan remembered the Heart-Self-Searching Pill he had taken when he first became a monk.

In the past, Lingyun Sect's conscience test was always conducted in the Heart-Searching Formation, but twelve years ago, it was suddenly changed to the Heart-Searching Pill.

Could this matter be related to the evil cultivators?

It was also after that Ascension Conference that the Lingyun Sect began to have two Jindan cultivators escort disciples to the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain.

In the past, trips to the secret realm were always led by a Jindan cultivator. Why was there suddenly another one ten years ago?
Moreover, during the last trip to the secret realm, each sect suddenly sent their elite disciples to participate, and also gave generous rewards to recruit disciples to enter the secret realm and collect spiritual herbs.

In the past, the six major sects also attached great importance to the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain, but they only regarded it as a huge spiritual medicine garden that opened every ten years. They recruited a small number of independent disciples to enter the secret realm, collect spiritual herbs, and make steady progress.

But now, the six major sects are exhausting their resources in order to collect as many spiritual herbs as possible, and are not hesitant to let their most talented Qi-refining disciples take risks.

In the past ten years, demonic troubles have appeared and spread throughout the Qi Kingdom's world of immortal cultivation. Even the combined efforts of the six major sects have not been able to completely eradicate them.

These things were like dark clouds, hanging over Chen Yuan's heart.

The world of immortal cultivation is likely to undergo major changes, and one must improve their cultivation as quickly as possible to cope with this disaster.

Chen Yuan felt a sense of urgency in his heart and looked at the two disciples of Wanshou Mountain: "Bring your storage bags here."

"Yes, I will... eh?"

The tall monk opened his eyes wide in shock, then took off the three storage bags from his waist, handed them to Chen Yuan, and stared at his feet anxiously.

Another disciple from Wanshou Mountain was much more agile and handed his two storage bags to Chen Yuan before the tall monk could.

He was about to hand over the spirit beast bag, but was stopped by Chen Yuan, so he put his hand down.

Chen Yuan raised his hand and took the two people's storage bags. He probed his spiritual sense into them and ignored the elixirs, spirit stones, jade slips, monster materials and other things. He just took out the spiritual herbs and put them into his own storage bag.

Then, he returned the storage bags of the two people and said, "Although I have stayed in the secret realm for ten years, I still have to collect spiritual herbs according to the requirements of the sect. I will accept these spiritual herbs. But I will not take the lives of you two juniors." The tall monk took the storage bag, not only was he not angry, but he was ecstatic.

As long as one can save his life, what does it matter if the spiritual herb is taken away?
Moreover, Chen Yuan only took the spiritual herbs, and did not touch the rest of the items. Instead, he felt grateful to Chen Yuan, and immediately bowed deeply: "Thank you for not killing me!"

Another disciple from Wanshou Mountain also had an expression of ecstasy on his face, and bowed to Chen Yuan repeatedly to express his gratitude.

Chen Yuan smiled slightly, took the storage bags and magic weapons of the two disciples of Mingyin Valley, rode on the light of escape, and flew to the east.

When the two saw the escaping light from Chen Yuan, the last trace of doubt in their hearts completely disappeared, and their faces were filled with relief at surviving the disaster.

The tall monk heaved a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, the senior I met this time was not a murderer, otherwise you and I would have died without a burial place!"

The monk with thick eyebrows nodded repeatedly: "This senior not only spared our lives, but also only took the spiritual herbs. He is really kind and generous. If he had taken away the spiritual beast bag and storage bag, we would have no chance of leaving the inner circle safely even if we were to keep our lives."

The tall monk said solemnly: "We should quickly inform our fellow disciples about this senior and tell them to be careful. If they encounter the senior, they should not resist, otherwise they will die on the spot like the two disciples of Mingyin Valley!"

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When the two disciples of Wanshou Mountain were talking, they were still within the range of Chen Yuan's spiritual sense.

When he heard the words of the tall monk, he smiled and his escape light slightly accelerated.

The reason why Chen Yuan did not kill the two people was, firstly, that he did not want to make enemies with Wanshou Mountain, and secondly, to reduce the difficulty of snatching spiritual herbs.

He was confident that he could kill every Qi Refining disciple he met and snatch the spiritual herbs.

But after he left the secret realm, he was unable to hide his cultivation level in front of the Jindan cultivators from various sects.

If the survival rate of the disciples from various sects was too low, he would take out a large number of spiritual herbs. As long as these Jindan cultivators were not fools, they would know that he had killed the disciples from various sects and snatched the spiritual herbs.

Even if Chen Yuan didn't do this, he would still be blamed.

Because he has the foundation-building cultivation, he has an overwhelming advantage when facing Qi-refining disciples.

Therefore, from the very beginning, he had no intention of wantonly killing disciples from various sects in order to avoid creating life-and-death feuds with them.

Otherwise, even if the Lingyun sect wanted to keep him, it would face great resistance, and might even be forced to hand him over under pressure from the Jindan cultivators of various sects, leaving him to be dealt with by the other five sects.

But Chen Yuan had to snatch the spiritual herbs, otherwise the fact that he had been stranded in the secret realm for ten years without any harm and had even broken through to the foundation building stage would surely attract the attention of various factions.

The secret realm of Dongxu Mountain is the largest treasure land in the world of immortal cultivation in Qi State. The six major sects are salivating over the rare spiritual herbs and large spiritual veins in the secret realm, and will not miss any opportunity to explore the secrets of the secret realm.

Only by grabbing enough spiritual herbs so that Lingyun Sect has a reason to protect him can he protect himself.

Not only that, Chen Yuan also wants to use this to exchange for a large amount of cultivation resources, so just searching for spiritual herbs on his own is not enough.

The secret realm had only been open for seven days. He had to search for dangerous places one after another and fight against the second-level monsters, which all took time. It was not as convenient and quick as robbing the disciples of the four sects.

Chen Yuan originally planned to snatch the spiritual herbs from the disciples of the five sects, but since the Tiangang Sword Sect has formed an alliance with the Lingyun Sect, he naturally would not attack the disciples of the Tiangang Sword Sect.

But the disciples of the other four sects have no hope of escaping this disaster.

However, the secret realm had only been open for one day, and even though the disciples from the four sects had tried their best to travel, they had only just entered the inner ring and had not gained much.

He only snatched thirty hundred-year-old spiritual herbs and eight three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs from the two disciples of Wanshou Mountain.

The disciples of Mingyin Valley traveled with them, so the spiritual herbs they obtained should not be many.

It would be a waste of effort to try to grab it now.

After they have collected spiritual herbs in the inner ring for two days, it will be the best time to take action.

During these two days, Chen Yuan plans to continue hunting second-level monsters and collecting five hundred year old spiritual herbs, as well as obtaining some monster materials.

The second-level monsters in the outside world are extremely cunning and difficult to find.

The second-level monsters in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain had never encountered a foundation-building cultivator, so they were not on guard enough. They were lured by the power of the stars in Chen Yuan's body and went crazy, making them very easy to hunt.

Moreover, these monsters often have powerful bloodlines, and some are extremely rare species in the outside world. Their monster cores and monster materials are very valuable and can be exchanged for a large number of spirit stones.

How could Chen Yuan miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

He traveled eastward, passing through many "dangerous places" marked on the map, hunting second-level monsters and collecting spiritual herbs.

A day later, he crossed the central area of ​​the inner ring, and his storage bag contained twenty-eight second-level monster cores, monster materials, more than eighty five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, and more than three hundred three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs.

Then, he turned back west, changed his route, and continued hunting the second-level monsters.

(End of this chapter)