Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 144 Grudges
Sun Congyao was stunned for a moment when he saw Chen Yuan took out another Yuliang Pill, then he said solemnly: "I see, Junior Brother Chen is an excellent alchemist, I admire you. And Junior Brother could have kept the pill, but you told me the truth, I will accept this favor."

It is customary in the world of immortal cultivation that alchemists only need to give out the promised elixirs. If the amount of elixirs produced is large enough, they will often keep some of them privately.

Chen Yuan could have left the two pills without anyone noticing, and Sun Congyao would still have to owe him a favor.

But he chose to tell the truth, which was a big favor to Sun Yaocong.

Chen Yuan said, "Senior Brother Sun, you are too kind. This is my responsibility. When you first met me, you gave me the black iron essence and other spiritual materials. Since I promised to make pills for you, how can I not do my best?"

Sun Congyao nodded and said, "Junior brother, what you said is very true. You and I are both disciples of our master, so we should support each other. If you need my help in the future, just ask. As long as I can do my best, I will not refuse."

Afterwards, the two chatted for a while before Sun Congyao said goodbye and left.

Before leaving, Sun Congyao told Chen Yuan that Jin Luoheng had something to discuss with him and asked him to go to Jin Luoheng's cave abode tomorrow.

Chen Yuan agreed and sent a sound transmission note to Yi Jin. After waiting for half an hour, Yi Jin finally arrived at Yunyin Peak.

He was quite surprised to see Chen Yuan take out eight Qingning Pills, and became more friendly towards Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan has only just broken through to the foundation building stage, but his alchemy skills are so superb, which shows his extraordinary potential.

Moreover, the alchemists that Yi Jin had invited in the past would only give him three pills for each furnace of spiritual herbs, and it was unknown how much they had withheld privately.

But Chen Yuan used one furnace of spiritual herbs to give Yi Jin four pills without any deduction. The quality of the pills was also excellent. Naturally, Yi Jin would rather ask him to make pills.

Before leaving, Yi Jin said with a smile: "Junior Brother Chen, your alchemy skills are so extraordinary, and you don't skimp on the pills. You are much better than those people in the Alchemy Pavilion. I will tell a few friends about you. They are all cultivators from the lineage of independent cultivators. They have accumulated a lot of spiritual herbs and are unwilling to have their pills withheld. They are worried about not being able to find a reliable alchemy master."

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Thank you very much, Senior Brother Yi. Senior Brother, please tell those senior brothers clearly that I will only take one pill as the capital for alchemy, and I will not deduct any money."

This matter is of great benefit to him. When others ask him to refine pills, they have to offer the recipe. Moreover, it takes no more than half a month to refine a furnace of foundation-building pills, but he can get a cultivation pill in return, which is extremely cost-effective.

He does not withhold the elixirs, and can also make friends with his fellow disciples. In the upcoming catastrophe, he will have someone to help him, and his chances of getting through it will be better.

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After Yi Jin left, Chen Yuan waited until late at night, came to the stone chamber with the skylight, took out the jade pendant, and drew the starlight into his body.

Over the past three months, he had been refining pills in the underground fire room, unable to draw starlight into his body, and had wasted a lot of time.

But spiritual herbs are hard to come by, and after refining these batches of pills, Sun Congyao and Yi Jin will not ask him to refine pills for a long time.

Yi Jin is going to introduce several fellow disciples to Chen Yuan. They should not have many spiritual herbs in their hands. Once Chen Yuan refines the pills in their hands, they can concentrate on practicing.

According to Jin Luoheng, after the demonic cultivators destroyed the Wu Kingdom, they would need to annex and digest the Wu Kingdom's immortal cultivation world. They would not invade the Qi Kingdom in the short term, and they should have at least ten years to improve their cultivation.

However, before he went into seclusion to practice, he still had one thing to do, which was to sell all the monster materials and various magic weapons in his hands in exchange for spirit stones to buy a suitable spiritual weapon.

Although Luo Yansha is a top-grade spiritual weapon, its defensive capability is only equivalent to that of a low-grade spiritual weapon. It is also afraid of sharp flying swords, making it difficult to use it to fight against others.

Although Chen Yuan's body is strong, he is still unable to block the spiritual weapon with his bare hands.

The pair of strange gloves, as thin as a cicada's wing, were only made with medium-grade spiritual materials. In essence, they were still a top-grade magical weapon and were equally unable to resist spiritual weapons.

He needed at least a mid-grade defensive spiritual weapon so that he wouldn't be at a disadvantage when fighting with others.

If possible, he also wanted to upgrade this pair of gloves into a spiritual weapon so that he could engage in close combat with others.

In addition, Chen Yuan plans to buy some Silver Gang Stones to upgrade the Silver Gang Sword to the level of a spiritual weapon.

Although the Lingzhu Sword is good, it is only a low-grade spiritual weapon after all.

The Silver Gang Stone is a top-grade, mid-grade spiritual material that can be used to refine flying swords. If there is enough of it, the Silver Gang Sword can be upgraded to a top-grade spiritual weapon, which is enough to serve as Chen Yuan's trump card.

However, Silver Gang Stone is hard to come by, and Chen Yuan is not sure that he can buy it, so he can only try his luck.

The next day, Chen Yuan came to Jiangzhen Peak to meet Jin Luoheng.

Jin Luoheng said calmly, "Chen Yuan, I have received Huang Linye's reply. In the letter, he promised that the Huang family would not trouble you again, but he put forward a condition. He wants to buy two foundation-building pills from you for four thousand spirit stones. Are you willing?"

Chen Yuan said without hesitation: "Disciple is willing!"

The Foundation Establishment Pill was no longer useful to him, so he could naturally accept it if it could be exchanged for four thousand spirit stones.

If put up at an auction, the Foundation Establishment Pill should be able to sell for a higher price, but one pill can only be sold for an extra four to five hundred spirit stones.

Paying less than a thousand spirit stones, you can settle the feud with the Huang family. This is a very cost-effective deal. Jin Luoheng nodded and said, "Go find Huang Sipei and give him the foundation-building pill. From now on, the feud between you and the Huang family will be written off."

Chen Yuan bowed deeply: "Yes."

He immediately left Jiangzhen Peak, rode on his flying light, and flew towards Shizi Peak.

The valley where Huang Sipei lived was still filled with thick fog.

Chen Yuan sent out a sound transmission talisman and waited for a moment. The fog dispersed to both sides, revealing a passage. Huang Sipei came out to greet him in person.

Compared to the last time Chen Yuan came to visit, Huang Sipei's expression was much more relaxed this time. He took the initiative to greet and said, "Junior Brother Chen."

Huang Linye has already spoken, so the Huang family will naturally not cause trouble for Chen Yuan anymore.

There was no grudge between Huang Sipei and Chen Yuan, and he was not close to the deceased Huang Yundao and Huang Yunshang, and he did not have much resentment towards Chen Yuan.

Moreover, after Chen Yuan came to deliver a letter last time, he investigated Chen Yuan's situation and learned that Chen Yuan had stayed in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain for ten years. Not only was he not dead, but he also refined the foundation-building pill on his own and successfully built his foundation. He was extremely surprised.

Huang Sipei is not afraid of Chen Yuan, a master alchemist who can refine the Foundation Establishment Pill and has Jin Luoheng as his backer. However, he does not want to offend him easily.

Chen Yuan also smiled in response to Huang Sipei's kindness and returned the greeting by bowing his hands: "Brother Huang, I am sorry to bother you."

The two entered the cave and sat down as host and guest. Huang Sipei personally served them Yunlu tea. Chen Yuan took a few sips and praised it a few times.

The two exchanged a few pleasantries before Chen Yuan put down his teacup and got down to business: "Brother Huang, I'm here to obey Master's orders and hand over two foundation-building pills to you. Please have a look."

He touched his storage bag, took out a jade bottle, and handed it over.

Huang Sipei caught the jade bottle that was flying slowly towards him, opened it, checked it, and after making sure it was correct, a smile appeared on his face.

He put away the jade bottle, took out a storage bag, and handed it to Chen Yuan: "Please accept these spirit stones, Junior Brother Chen."

Chen Yuan took the storage bag, probed with his spiritual sense, and found that it contained four thousand low-grade spirit stones.

He frowned slightly, but then relaxed his brows and put the storage bag into his arms.

As expected, Huang would not let him take advantage of him and gave him four thousand low-grade spirit stones instead of twenty medium-grade spirit stones.

Although the exchange ratio between middle-grade spirit stones and low-grade spirit stones is nominally one to one hundred, middle-grade spirit stones are scarce, and the actual exchange ratio in the market is one to one hundred and ten, or even one to one hundred and twenty.

If Huang gave a medium-grade spirit stone, Chen Yuan would get a small advantage.

But the Huang family is a large immortal cultivation family in Qi State, with a Jindan cultivator in the family. In transactions between foundation-building cultivators, they still use low-grade spirit stones to settle accounts, which seems a bit stingy.

Huang Sipei saw that Chen Yuan had a strange look on his face, and it was not difficult for him to guess what he was thinking. He pondered for a moment and said, "Please forgive me, Junior Brother Chen. The clan's secular affairs are managed by my elder brother Huang. He has some opinions about Brother Chen because of the Yun Shang and Yun Dao matters..."

Chen Yuan shook his head and said, "It's okay. I was also wrong in this matter. I was a little too heavy-handed. But at that time on the ring, I didn't want Huang Yunshang's life. I tried to persuade him to admit defeat many times, but he refused to listen and asked me to give up my place in the entrance exam. Brother Huang also knows that blocking someone's path is like killing their parents, which is a life-and-death feud. I had no choice but to kill him. In fact, I have no intention of becoming an enemy of the Huang family. Please tell Brother Huang for me."

Huang Sipei nodded slightly: "Yun Shang has been loved by his father since he was a child. He rarely fights with others. His temperament is indeed a bit frivolous. He can't recognize the situation. It's not Brother Chen's fault. From now on, my Huang family will never target Brother Chen again. The past grudges will be written off."

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "I will not go against Huang. Now that this matter is settled, I will take my leave."

Huang Sipei bowed and said, "Junior Brother Chen, take care."

Chen Yuan stood up to return the greeting, left Huang Sipei's cave, rode on his light of escape, and flew straight to the sect protection formation.

Now that his feud with the Huang family was settled, he could go to Lingyun Market without any worries.

The reason why he went to the Earth Fire Room to refine the elixir after delivering the letter to Huang was not only to deliver the elixir to Sun Yaocong and Yi Jin as soon as possible, but also to wait for Huang Linye's reply.

Chen Yuan was cautious by nature. He had been ambushed and killed by Huang Yundao once before. He would never leave the mountain gate easily before he was sure that Huang would not seek revenge on him.

Jin Luoheng once said that Huang Linye had a bad temper. Chen Yuan didn't know whether he would bear a grudge against him because of the death of his two grandchildren and would not accept Jin Luoheng's mediation.

But now he has sent a reply letter to Jin Luoheng, stating that he will no longer seek revenge on Chen Yuan.

If Huang attacks Chen Yuan again, it would greatly offend Jin Luoheng, and he would definitely stand up for Chen Yuan.

That was why Chen Yuan dared to leave the mountain gate and go to Lingyun Market to sell monster materials and buy spiritual weapons.

(End of this chapter)