Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 155 Middle Stage of Foundation Building
I have been practicing for countless years, and there are no years in the mountains.

Spring and autumn change, winter comes and summer goes, and in the blink of an eye, eight years have passed.

On this day, a golden talisman was sent out from the Hall of Good Merits, flew to the sky above the Yunyin Peak, and then descended. After flying through the mountains for a while, it came to a secluded cave. It trembled slightly, passed through the restrictions of the cave, and the talisman paper became empty and went straight into the stone gate.

In the training room inside the cave, Chen Yuan sat upright on a cushion with his eyes closed in meditation. His spiritual energy rose and fell like the tide. He was breathing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and accumulating true energy and magical power.

When the sound transmission note entered the cave, he seemed to sense something and slowly opened his eyes with a gleam in his eyes. In the dim stone room, a light that seemed white and green and difficult to distinguish suddenly lit up, as bright as daylight, but disappeared after a moment, as if it was an illusion.

After a while, the ups and downs of his spiritual energy slowly subsided, becoming obscure, restrained, and profoundly unfathomable.

Chen Yuan spread his spiritual consciousness, which instantly covered the entire cave. When he came into contact with the sound transmission talisman, an indifferent voice rang in his ears: "Core disciple Chen Yuan, you have been building your foundation for nine years, but have not contributed a bit to the sect. You are required to complete a sect mission within one year, otherwise you will be severely punished. I hope you will take care of yourself..."

Hearing this, Chen Yuan's eyes flashed, and he raised his hand. The sound transmission note slowly flew over and landed in his hand.

After this talisman completed its task of transmitting sound, its inspiration faded and it became useless.

Chen Yuan looked up and saw a word "Shan" painted on the lower left corner of the sound transmission talisman, surrounded by white cloud patterns. Judging from its shape, it was a sound transmission talisman used exclusively by the Hall of Good Deeds.

He snapped his fingers, and a tiny flame condensed from the tip of his finger, landing on the sound transmission note and burning it to ashes.

After this retreat, his cultivation had greatly improved and he had now reached the middle stage of foundation building. When he used low-level spells such as fireball, he could do it as he pleased and was no longer bound by convention.

"It's finally time to leave..."

Chen Yuan whispered to himself, slowly stood up from the cushion and walked outside the training room.

Now that the Hall of Good Deeds has sent a reminder note, we can no longer delay and must complete a sect mission to avoid punishment.

Chen Yuan came to the stone chamber that was filled with starlight. He raised his sleeve and stroked the skylight. The huge stone blocking the skylight slowly fell to the ground, revealing a sky full of stars on the dark sky behind it.

It was late at night, and even if the Hall of Good Deeds did not send any sound transmission notes, Chen Yuan would have to temporarily interrupt his cultivation and let the starlight fill his body.

Chen Yuan reached into his bosom, took out the brocade bag, opened it, and revealed the jade pendant inside.

Under the shining starlight, the jade beads emitted a faint green light. The stars in the sky twinkled together and gathered into a beam of silver light, which shot obliquely through the skylight and landed on Chen Yuan.

The silver light was like water, Chen Yuan's body was immersed in it, slowly absorbing the essence.

After thirty breaths, the originally rich silver light column turned pale white and slowly dissipated.

Chen Yuan looked inward at his body and found that the lake of true energy in his dantian was completely gone.

He smiled slightly and clenched his fists lightly. At the same time, his spiritual consciousness circulated within his body and a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.

After practicing "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", Chen Yuan's body became more condensed and he was able to sense the strength of his body. He was no longer like before, when he could only vaguely know that he had great strength and a strong body, but had no idea to what extent he had practiced.

During these eight years, when he was in seclusion and practicing hard, the starlight never stopped infusing his body.

However, it took him at least fifteen days to refine a pill, so in the past eight years, he had only experienced starlight infusion more than two hundred times, wasting a lot of time.

But even so, Chen Yuan's current physical strength is comparable to that of a peak level four monster, and even the best magic weapons cannot hurt him at all.

A low-grade spiritual weapon could only cause extremely limited damage to Chen Yuan. It would take at least a mid-grade spiritual weapon to cause significant damage to his body.

In addition, his strength has grown to more than 100,000 pounds. Except for a few powerful monsters known for their strength, ordinary fourth-level monsters can hardly match him.

It is only at this point that the cultivator needs to make further breakthroughs. His physical body will be comparable to that of a fifth-level monster, which will usher in earth-shaking changes and will be extremely difficult.

For ordinary physical cultivators, they would either have to practice hard for hundreds of years and constantly temper their bodies with spiritual energy, or take rare spiritual medicines that can strengthen their bodies, before they can overcome this difficulty.

Like the dragon scale fruit that appeared at the treasure gathering before, one has to take at least hundreds of them before there is a chance to break through the bottleneck.

But Chen Yuan had the jade beads with him, which could draw the power of the stars in the sky to temper his body, so there was naturally no need for such trouble.

According to his estimation, as long as he experiences another six or seven hundred times of starlight infusion, which is about twelve or thirteen years, his physical strength will be comparable to that of a fifth-level monster.

If he can find the essence of the true spirit and blood by then, he can start to refine it into his body, then accumulate true energy, reach the peak of the late foundation building stage, and break through the bottleneck of forming the elixir.

Among the three difficulties in practicing "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", finding the essence of the true spirit is undoubtedly the first.

Tempering the body ranks second, but its difficulty is almost the same as finding essence and blood.

Accumulating true essence is the simplest. Even if you don't have elixirs in your hands, you can still absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and accumulate it slowly. This is the last one.

But Chen Yuan had the jade beads in his hand, so he didn't need to draw spiritual energy into his body to temper his flesh as recorded in the "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit". He also didn't need to expend energy searching for rare spiritual medicines that could strengthen his body, saving a lot of time and spirit stones.

The next thing to do is to find the descendants of the true spirit, while accumulating true essence and improving cultivation.

It is not difficult to accumulate true energy. It is nothing more than completing sect tasks, accumulating good deeds, exchanging for spiritual herbs, and refining pills.

But it is difficult to find the descendants of the true spirit, and there is no shortcut. Fortunately, Yu Jue can sense the descendants of the true spirit within a thousand feet, so Chen Yuan does not have to look for a needle in a haystack.

He planned to first travel to all the places where monsters gathered within the territory of Qi State and use the jade beads to sense the descendants of the true spirit. If he could not find them, he could only try his luck in the places where monsters gathered and the dangerous secret places in the neighboring countries.

This matter depends on Chen Yuan's luck. If he is lucky, he may be able to find the descendants of the true spirit within the territory of Qi.

If you are unlucky, you may waste decades, or even travel all over Donghuazhou and gain nothing.

However, Chen Yuan does not have to worry about this now. He must save his life from the devil's calamity before he can continue to climb the path.

Chen Yuan suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his mind, returned to the practice room, sat on the cushion, slowly closed his eyes, absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and restored the true energy in his body.

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Five days later, Chen Yuan's true energy was fully restored. He walked out of the cave, rode on the light of escape, and headed straight for Jiangzhen Peak.

Because the starlight infusion had exhausted the true energy in his dantian, he had no true energy to guide him when he meditated, so the speed at which he absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was extremely slow. It took him five days to fully recover.

If he still had a little true energy left in his body, he could draw on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and he would be able to fully recover by just meditating for half a day.

After breaking through to the middle stage of foundation building, Chen Yuan's escape speed was much faster than before. In just a quarter of an hour, he reached the top of Jiangzhen Peak.

After he came out of seclusion, the first thing he did was to perform the duties of a disciple and pay a visit to Jin Luoheng.

Chen Yuan fell from the light of escape, took out a sound transmission talisman, moved his lips slightly, said a few words, then raised his hand and threw it out, waiting quietly.

The sound transmission note flew into Jin Luoheng's cave. After a while, the stone door opened slightly. Chen Yuan walked in and came to the narrow stone hall.

Jin Luoheng sat upright on the jade bed as usual, wearing a black and white Taoist robe, with his hair loose, looking at Chen Yuan with a free and easy temperament and a smile on his face.

Eight years passed, and it seemed that there was no trace left on him.

In fact, the same is true for Chen Yuan. He practices both Dharma and body, and his body is full of vitality. He does not need to take any anti-aging elixirs. Eight years have passed, and his appearance has not changed at all.

He bowed respectfully to Jin Luoheng and said, "Disciple Chen Yuan, I have come out of retreat today to pay my respects to Master."

Jin Luoheng smiled and said, "Yes, in just eight years, your cultivation has grown to this level. It seems that you have gained a lot in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain."

With his realm, he naturally saw through Chen Yuan's cultivation in the middle stage of foundation building at a glance.

Chen Yuan explained: "My disciples hunted many level 2 monsters in the secret realm and obtained a batch of monster materials..."

Jin Luoheng raised his hand to stop him: "You don't need to tell me in detail about your chance. Now that you have come out of retreat, what are your plans?"

Chen Yuan said: "I have received a message from the Hall of Good Deeds reminding you that the ten-year period is coming to an end and you must complete a sect mission, otherwise you will be punished by the sect."

Jin Luoheng nodded slightly: "This matter cannot be delayed. The invasion of the demonic cultivators is imminent. If you violate the sect rules at this time, your situation will be extremely bad."

Chen Yuan's heart trembled. He had been in seclusion for eight years and knew nothing about the situation in the outside world. It seemed that something unexpected had happened in the world of immortal cultivation in Qi State again.

But he couldn't ask Jin Luoheng about this matter, so he could only respond respectfully: "Yes, I will definitely not neglect it.

Jin Luoheng said calmly: "You have been in seclusion for several years without anyone to guide you. You must have many doubts when practicing. You can tell me in detail and I will answer them one by one."

Chen Yuan showed a look of joy, and immediately told all the difficult problems he encountered during cultivation.

"Nine Transformations of the True Spirit" is a supreme martial art, and its contents are extremely mysterious. Chen Yuan had great difficulty understanding it, and was even confused about some of the details. It was at this time that he turned to Jin Luoheng for advice.

However, he did not state the problem directly. Instead, he changed the way he put it. He told Jin Luoheng what he encountered and thought while practicing, rather than what was written in the technique. This way, Jin Luoheng would not suspect that he possessed advanced skills.

This round of consultation lasted for three hours, and Chen Yuan's doubts were finally dispelled.

Jin Luoheng smiled and said, "Yes, you can ask these questions, which shows that you have some understanding of the way of cultivation. It is rare. Before I formed the elixir, I did not have your understanding."

Chen Yuan said respectfully: "I am ashamed, these are just some random thoughts, how dare I boast in front of Master."

Jin Luoheng laughed and said, "You are the same as Yao Cong, always being so humble in front of me... Go, complete the sect's mission well, and practice diligently. In the next few years, I will have to leave the sect. If you have anything to do, you can look for Yao Cong and Dan Mei."

Chen Yuan bowed deeply and said, "Yes, I wish you all the best in your journey."

After saying this, he bowed and exited the stone hall, then turned and left Jin Luoheng's cave residence.

Behind Chen Yuan, the stone door of the cave slowly closed.

He stood on the top of Jiangzhen Peak, pondered for a moment, and instead of returning to the cave directly, he picked up two sound transmission notes, moved his lips slightly, said a few words, and raised his hand to send them out.

(End of this chapter)