Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 172: Blood River

Ningbi's soul dissipated, leaving only a corpse, with eyes wide open, unable to close, and a face full of unwillingness.

Although her soul had left her body, it was still closely connected to her body, and her emotions before death were still reflected on her face.

She never understood until her death why the secret technique passed down by Liu Fan was useless on Chen Yuan.

Ningbi certainly didn't know that Chen Yuan's body was filled with the extremely yang and powerful power of the stars in the sky, which was extremely effective in restraining evil things.

This kind of blood is also a kind of magic secret method. When it comes into contact with his body, it will naturally be wiped out by the power of the stars in the sky.

Chen Yuan dissipated the secret technique of the giant body, and his body returned to normal, but the robe on his right arm was corroded by the water of the blood river, and his arm was exposed, looking a little embarrassed.

He stroked his storage bag, took out a new white gown and put it on, then looked at Ningbi's body.

He pondered for a moment, raised his hand, and the Lingzhu Sword flew over shakily, cutting off Ningbi's head and then her neck.

Then he snapped his fingers and burned Ningbi's neck to ashes, took her storage bag into his hand, and then collected her head and body.

He needed to keep Ningbi's body and hand it over to the sect in order to receive more merits.

But before that, he needed to erase the traces of breaking Ningbi's neck to ensure that no one would know that he had fought Ningbi in close combat.

The spiritual awareness of a foundation-building cultivator can cover at least a hundred feet around him. He can control magical instruments or perform spiritual arts to attack from a distance. Even if he kills someone, he will not break their neck.

Chen Yuan is cautious by nature and will not leave any traces that may expose his dual cultivation of Dharma and body. This is his biggest trump card and must not be known by others.

After dealing with the traces, Chen Yuan looked down at the valley floor that had been corroded into a bare strip, and the blood river water that had gathered into a pool and was still corroding the ground. He frowned, and probed his spiritual sense into the Ningbi storage bag, taking out the jade bottle containing the blood river.

The water of the blood river was extremely overbearing and corroded everything. In just a few moments, the ground in the valley dropped three feet, revealing the hard rocks.

Chen Yuan injected a trace of true energy into the jade bottle and discovered that the jade bottle was only a low-grade spiritual weapon, but it was made of a special material and was not afraid of the filth of the blood river. It had a large space inside and should have been specially selected by Ningbi to hold things from the blood river.

He threw the jade bottle forward and then activated his true energy. The mouth of the jade bottle pointed downward and emitted a suction force. The blood river water on the ground turned into a blood-colored river again and flew into the jade bottle.

But Chen Yuan discovered that the length of this blood river was one-fifth shorter than when Ningbi controlled it just now, and the originally rich blood-colored light in it had also become much thinner.

Soon, the jade bottle absorbed all the water from the blood river, leaving no trace.

Chen Yuan raised his hand, and the Fire Cloud Gourd hanging in the air shone brightly, collecting the 360 ​​grains of Fire Cloud Sand that had fallen on the ground.

He probed his spiritual sense into it and examined it carefully. He found that the Fire Cloud Sand was just a little dim, and there was nothing serious. It only needed to be nurtured for a few days and it would be restored to its original state.

The Lingzhu Sword is a low-grade spiritual weapon, and is less susceptible to damage than the Fire Cloud Sand, so it only needs a little warming and nurturing.

It seems that Ningbi was exaggerating. Although this blood river has the ability to pollute, it cannot turn a spiritual weapon into scrap metal in an instant.

Afterwards, Chen Yuan raised his hand and took Jia Ming's storage bag into his hand. Without stopping, he drove the Duyun Boat and flew towards Changming County.

The cave in the valley was not the Ningbi Cave Mansion, but just a temporary place where she stayed. There was nothing in it and it had no value.

The Duyun boat was traveling at an extremely fast speed. Quarters of an hour later, Chen Yuan arrived at Enji Village outside Changming County and landed at the Ke family manor.

He gave Ke Xiu De and Wei a bowl of clear water made from the Soul Gathering Pill to remove the bewitching spell cast on the two, and then he boarded the Duyun Boat and headed for Lingyang County.

With the death of Ningbi and Jia Ming, the Lingshen Sect in Changming County will be like a tree without roots, and the remaining gods' messengers will disperse on their own without any need to pay attention to them.

He only needed to kill the Qi-refining monks who were spreading the Lingshen Sect in the remaining three counties of Guangqing County, and then he could return to the sect to report.

On the Duyun Boat, Chen Yuan took out Ningbi and Jia Ming's storage bags, probed his spiritual sense into them, and checked them.

In Jia Ming's storage bag there were twenty-one jade bowls containing red beads transformed from the essence and blood of mortals, more than two hundred low-grade spirit stones, several magic tools, some elixirs, spiritual herbs and other sundries.

Chen Yuan took the magic weapon and spirit stone, and left the rest of the things intact.

There were quite a few things in Ningbi's storage bag, including 143 mid-grade spirit stones, three spirit tools, a jade bottle, several cloth bags, hundreds of spirit herbs, two jade slips, and a bunch of sundries.

Chen Yuan first put away the spirit stone, then opened the jade bottle and saw that there were six pills inside.

After a quick identification, Chen Yuan realized that this was a cultivation elixir for the late stage of foundation building, called "Six Strings Pill", with similar power to the Yuliang Pill, and he also put it into the storage bag.

The three spiritual weapons are a top-grade flying boat, a top-grade diamond-shaped gauze, and a top-grade bone-piercing nail.

The flying boat and the diamond-shaped gauze are both ordinary high-grade spiritual weapons, used for flying and defense respectively, but are far inferior to the Duyun Boat and the Xuanshui Flag.

However, the top-grade bone-piercing nail was extremely powerful. Once thrown, it had the effect of destroying spiritual weapons and suppressing the soul. Chen Yuan collected it and prepared to refine it.

Several cloth bags contained tens of thousands of black pills for mortals to take.

Among the hundreds of spiritual materials, 90% were a kind of black spiritual grass, with scorched branches and leaves, and flowers that looked like ghost faces, which were extremely strange. They had exactly the same aura as the black elixir and should be the raw material for refining the black elixir.

The remaining dozen of spiritual herbs were the three hundred year old and one hundred year old spiritual herbs used to refine foundation building pills. After Chen Yuan checked them, he combined them with his original spiritual herbs to make a furnace of jade beam pills and a furnace of combined qi pills. The sundries were some monster materials and magic spiritual materials, which were very valuable, but useless to Chen Yuan and could be used to exchange for spiritual stones in the future.

Finally, there were two jade slips left. Chen Yuan used his spiritual sense to probe into them one by one and checked them.

The content of the first jade slip is the method of refining a magic weapon.

This magic weapon is called "Dirty Blood River". The blood river in Ningbi's hand is a replica of this magic weapon.

According to the jade slips, the Filthy Blood River is made from the essence and blood of thirty-six foundation-building monks and three hundred and sixty Qi-refining tenth-level monks. Once it is sacrificed, it can defile magic weapons and destroy supernatural powers, with incredible power.

However, the cost of refining this treasure is too high, and even a Jindan cultivator would find it difficult to refine it.

However, the jade slip also recorded a shortcut method, which only required the essence and blood of mortals to refine it into a river of foul blood.

This method uses a ten-year-old spiritual herb called Black Blood Grass to refine it into Black Blood Pill, which is then taken by mortals to force out the essence and blood in their bodies.

However, this would cause too much harm to the mortal body. Only one drop of essence and blood could be taken from the same mortal per month.

Moreover, when refining the Black Blood Pill, the alchemist needs to cast a spell that can squeeze out the potential of mortals, giving them the illusion of being full of energy, accelerating the production of essence and blood, and concealing the deficiency of essence and blood.

Every hundred drops of mortal blood can be refined into one drop of foul blood river water. Once thirty-six thousand drops of river water are refined, and then refined with special techniques, it can be refined into a ten-zhang long foul blood river.

However, the river of filthy blood refined by this method is only a top-grade spiritual weapon. Although it still has the ability to pollute, it is only effective against spiritual weapons. If it encounters a magic weapon, it can only be slightly restricted. It is useless for Jindan cultivators.

But for Ningbi, the Filthy Blood River, which is of the highest grade spiritual weapon, is enough to be her trump card. After obtaining the jade slip, she immediately sent people to spread the Spirit God religion in Guangqing County and collect the essence and blood of mortals.

However, the Spirit God Cult has only been around for a short time, Ningbi has not yet accumulated enough blood and essence from mortals, and the Filthy Blood River has not been fully refined. If it is used, the blood and essence from mortals in it will be consumed, and it will need to be replenished.

Moreover, the Filthy Blood River has another disadvantage. It is made from the blood essence of millions of mortals. While it is extremely powerful, it also consumes a lot of your true essence and spiritual consciousness.

In the battle with Chen Yuan, Ningbi controlled the Filthy Blood River and was unable to control other spiritual weapons.

However, the Filthy Blood River is capable of both offense and defense, far superior to the Diamond Gauze and Bone-piercing Nail, so there is no need to use other spiritual weapons to fight the enemy.

What Chen Yuan didn't know was that Ningbi usually felt sorry for the loss of her essence and blood, and would not use the Dirty Blood River to fight the enemy.

But today Chen Yuan came here to investigate the Lingshen Sect, and Ningbi didn't know his background, so she summoned the Filthy Blood River right from the start, hoping to end the battle quickly.

At the same time, she continued to seduce Chen Yuan with words, trying to disrupt his mind, weaken his fighting spirit, and reduce the loss of his essence and blood.

But she didn't expect that although Chen Yuan's cultivation was low, he was able to practice both Dharma and body. He used the power of his physical body to break the river of dirty blood with great brutality.

If it were an ordinary cultivator in the middle or even late stage of foundation building, he would have died long ago under the combined strangulation of Blood River and Blood Shadow.

The second jade slip records a magical technique called "Yin Xue Gong", which can be practiced to the middle stage of Jindan.

This martial art is of no use to Chen Yuan, but he is quite interested in the several secret techniques that come with it.

There are several secret techniques recorded in the Yin-Xue Gong, but most of them require the practice of this technique before they can be practiced. Only the Soul Search Technique and the Blood Escape Technique are not included in this list.

Soul-searching, as the name suggests, can search for memories in the souls of others. The person whose soul is searched will become an idiot. It is an extremely domineering magic secret technique.

This technique is extremely useful to Chen Yuan. If he knows the soul-searching technique, he can directly kill Ningbi, search her soul, and get the answer he wants.

The reason why Chen Yuan stopped when he was trying to kill Ningbi before was that he wanted to find out about her background, report back to the sect, and gain more good merits before he started killing her.

However, the soul-searching technique is not omnipotent. It can only reveal the general memories of the person whose soul is searched, and some details cannot be seen clearly.

Furthermore, if the soul of the person whose soul is being searched has a restriction planted on it, the soul-searching technique will not be able to see this part of the memory.

This was the second time Chen Yuan had seen the Blood Escape Technique, but the Blood Escape Technique that came with the Yin Blood Power was far superior to the one he got from the consumptive ghost. It could increase the escape speed to a level comparable to that of an early Jindan cultivator.

If Chen Yuan learns this technique, he will have another way to save his life.

He put away the two jade slips, and just then the Duyun Boat arrived over Lingyang County.

Chen Yuan spread out his spiritual sense and scanned the surroundings, and found that Lingyang County was the same as Changming County. Most of the mortals in the city were deficient in essence and blood, and would not live long.

He randomly selected a wealthy family's house, got off the Duyun Boat, found the person in charge of the family, used the magic of bewitching, and asked about the whereabouts of the messenger of God.

The jade slip that records the method of refining the Filthy Blood River describes in detail the flaws of the secret technique attached to the Black Blood Pill. When Chen Yuan uses the bewitching technique, he can avoid it without worrying about alerting the enemy.

He soon got the answer he wanted from this person, and flew towards the north of the city.

The person who spread the Lingshen Sect in Lingyang County was also a cultivator of the tenth level of Qi Refining. As long as this person was killed, the Lingshen Sect in Lingyang County would dissipate on its own.

There are only two updates today, and three updates will be resumed tomorrow.

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