Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 195 It’s done
Sun Congyao retracted his gaze and sighed softly: "This is a long story."

Seeing that he didn't want to talk any more, Chen Yuan stopped asking questions and stroked his storage bag, took out twenty medium-grade spirit stones, raised his hand and handed them to Sun Congyao, saying, "Thank you, Senior Brother, for helping me make this connection. Please accept these spirit stones."

Sun Congyao frowned and said unhappily, "Brother, do you think I'm a broker?"

Chen Yuan said sternly: "Brother, you misunderstood me. How dare I have such an idea?"

"But Brother, you asked Sister Lian for help because of my matter, which obviously went against Brother's wishes. These few spirit stones are just a token of my regret."

"And when Senior Brother asked me to make the elixir, he also followed the rules and asked me to keep one elixir. How could I let Senior Brother work for nothing?"

Sun Congyao's expression eased slightly, and he nodded, "Well, the rules cannot be broken, so I will accept these twenty spirit stones."

He raised his sleeve and put the spirit stone into the storage bag. Chen Yuan then bowed and said goodbye, riding on the light and returning to the cave in Yunyin Peak.

Late that night, Chen Yuan drew starlight into his body to strengthen his physical body and spiritual consciousness. For the next two days, he meditated and practiced to restore the true energy in his body.

On the morning of the third day, he received a sound transmission note from Lian Yan, informing him that the exchange of spiritual herbs had been completed. He immediately rushed to the Alchemy Pavilion, handed over the Wu Ningzhi and Ya Xianghua to Lian Yan, and then used twelve thousand good deeds and one hundred and eighty medium-grade spiritual stones to exchange for ten three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs and thirty one-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs.

Jin Luoheng had given him dozens of hundred-year-old spiritual herbs before, and there were still some left. Together with the spiritual herbs he got from the middle-aged scholar, the consumptive ghost, Ningbi, and Zhuang Ji, he was able to collect nine furnaces of elixirs, including two furnaces of Nanguan Dan, four furnaces of Qingning Dan, and three furnaces of Heqi Dan.

Together with the original two furnaces of Heqi Dan and one furnace of Nanguan Dan, it is enough for Chen Yuan to practice to the late stage of foundation building.

But after this incident, all the twelve thousand good deeds he had were used up, and he only had thirty-three medium-grade spirit stones left, and his wealth was greatly reduced.

After obtaining the spiritual herbs, Chen Yuan came to the Earth Fire Palace, rented a second-class Earth Fire Room for half a year, and began to make pills.

With Chen Yuan's current alchemy skills, it would take at least twelve days to refine a furnace of mid-stage foundation-building pills.

He did not plan to refine Yuliang Pills and Zengyuan Pills this time. He had to refine fifteen furnaces of pills in total, which would take just half a year.

After entering the underground fire room, Chen Yuan followed his habit of refining the easy ones first and then the difficult ones, starting with the Qingning Pill, then the Heqi Pill, and finally the Nanguang Pill.

Two and a half months later, Chen Yuan refined six batches of Qingning Pills, with a success rate of 60% each.

Two months later, he had refined five batches of Qi-combining pills, and the success rate was also 60%.

After refining eleven furnaces of pills, Chen Yuan's alchemy skills improved a lot, and he almost touched the threshold of 70% success rate.

He took a breath and began to refine the Nanguan Dan.

Among the three kinds of elixirs, Nanguang Pill is the most difficult to refine. The three hundred year old spiritual herbs used are extremely spiritual, and four hundred year old spiritual herbs are needed as auxiliary medicines, one more than Qingning Pill and Heqi Pill.

After the first batch of Nanguan Dan was refined, the success rate was still 60%.

But Chen Yuanyin had some realization, and without recuperating, he began to refine the second batch of Nanguan Dan.

Twelve days later, Chen Yuan, who was sitting in front of the alchemy furnace, suddenly opened his eyes, raised his hand and waved it. The furnace cover rose, and seven glowing pills flew out of the alchemy furnace and fell into a jade bottle beside it.

Chen Yuan had a smile on his face. He refined 13 furnaces of elixirs in a row. His alchemy skills had finally reached a new level. The success rate of refining the elixir for the middle stage of foundation building had finally reached 70%!
He was in a very good mood. He put away the jade bottle, closed his eyes and began to regulate his breathing.

After refining two batches of pills in succession, his true energy was greatly depleted and his soul was quite tired. He needed to rest well.

Two days later, Chen Yuan's true essence was fully restored, and he was in good spirits and full of energy. He continued to refine the third batch of Nanguan Dan.

A month later, the last two furnaces of Nanguang Pills were refined, and the lease of the Earth Fire Room was up. Chen Yuan left the Earth Fire Hall, rode on the escape light, came to Wang Ran's cave, and handed him ten Qingning Pills and six Nanguang Pills.

Wang Ran saw that there were six Nanguang Pills in the jade bottle and was surprised, "Brother Chen didn't leave a single Nanguang Pill?"

Chen Yuan smiled faintly and said, "Brother, don't worry. When I was refining this furnace of Nanguang Pills, I had some insights and my alchemy skills improved a little. I refined seven pills and have kept one."

Hearing this, Wang Ran looked at Chen Yuan with a more friendly gaze: "Junior Brother Chen's alchemy skills are indeed extraordinary. In just a few years, your alchemy skills have improved. You are expected to become an alchemy master in the future..."

Chen Yuan smiled and didn't take Wang Ran's compliment to heart.

If he wants to become a master of alchemy, he needs to increase the success rate of refining late foundation-building pills to 80%, only then there is a glimmer of hope. If he reaches 90%, he will have a 30% chance of success. He also needs a large amount of 500-year-old spiritual herbs to practice. He is still far from that.

As for the 100% success rate in making pills, throughout history, very few alchemists have reached this level.

The moon will wane when it is full, just as water will overflow when it is full. If you pursue perfection during the process of alchemy, you will only fail.

……

Chen Yuan handed the pill to Wang Ran, said goodbye, and flew back to Yunyin Peak.

He opened the formation restriction, walked into the cave, and saw a sound transmission note hanging in the air.

Chen Yuan raised his hand and took the sound transmission talisman into his hand. He listened attentively. It turned out that Shen Danmei had returned to the sect three months ago, saw the sound transmission talisman he sent, and wrote back to tell him.

Chen Yuan was delighted. He walked out of the cave, rode on his light and flew to Caixia Peak.

He hadn't seen Shen Danmei for eight years and missed this senior sister very much.

Caixia Peak is not far from Yunyin Peak. In just two quarters of an hour, Chen Yuan arrived outside Shen Danmei's cave, lowered his escape light, and threw out a sound transmission talisman.

After a while, the restrictions of the cave dissipated, the stone door opened, and Shen Danmei walked out.

She was still dressed in scholar's clothes, with a turban on her head, looking very heroic.

Chen Yuan bowed and said, "Senior Sister Shen!"

Shen Danmei said: "Junior brother, there is no need to be polite. Come in and talk."

The two walked into the cave and sat down as host and guest. Shen Danmei waved her hand and the teapot flew up by itself, pouring spiritual tea for Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan picked up the spiritual tea, took a few sips, and said, "I have been refining pills in the Earth Fire Palace for the past six months. I just returned to the cave today and learned that my senior sister has returned to the sect, so I came to visit her."

Shen Danmei carefully looked at Chen Yuan twice, frowned and said: "I heard from Senior Brother Sun that you have cultivated to the middle stage of foundation building and completed a sect mission?"

Chen Yuan nodded and said, "Yes, I am familiar with Wang Ran, the deacon of the Good Deeds Hall, and I received a relatively simple sect mission. It only took me one month to complete it."

Shen Danmei's expression eased slightly, but then she frowned again: "You are really brave. You just came out of retreat and you dare to accept the sect mission alone."

"There are demon cultivators everywhere in Qi State. Aren't you afraid of encountering those demons on the bounty list and losing your life?"

(End of this chapter)