Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 198 Three Years
The years do not live, the seasons flow.

Three years passed in a flash.

One day, Chen Yuan was refining the medicinal power of a Nanguan Pill when suddenly a deep bell sounded in his ears, waking him up from his meditation.

He frowned, ignored it and continued practicing.

But then another bell sounded, overlapping with the first bell sound, and then the third, the fourth... a total of six bell sounds overlapped, deep and distant, and directly transmitted into Chen Yuan's soul, making him unable to calm down and meditate anymore.

The huge medicinal power of the Nanguan Pill in the body was eliminated by the sound of bells coming from the six paths, and was directly transformed into the purest true essence, which flowed into the dantian along the meridians.

Chen Yuan slowly opened his eyes, and the grand and deep bell sound in his ears suddenly disappeared, as if it was an illusion. The training room was dark and silent.

He looked inward at his body and saw a lake of true essence suspended in the sea of ​​qi in his dantian. Three hundred and fifty-eight drops of liquid true essence flowed slowly, flashing with a faint light.

This is the result of Chen Yuan's three years of hard training in seclusion. If he condenses two more drops of liquid true essence, he will be able to cultivate to the peak of the middle stage of foundation building. After that, he can take a bottle of Nanguan Dan to condense spiritual energy and break through the bottleneck of the late stage of foundation building.

But the bell rang at this moment, interrupting his plan.

Chen Yuan frowned, but did not dare to waste time. He stood up and walked out of the cave, riding on the light and flying towards Lingyun Peak.

What just rang in his ears was the Xiyi Bell, a magic weapon of the Lingyun Sect. Although the sound of the bell is not obvious, it actually goes straight into the soul of the cultivator. As long as they are within the mountain gate, they will be awakened immediately.

When the six bells rang, all the foundation-building cultivators in the sect had to rush to Lingyun Peak within one hour. Those who violated the order would be severely punished.

If nine bells sound, it means that the Lingyun Sect is facing a life-or-death situation, and all disciples must gather at Lingyun Peak.

However, since the founding of the Lingyun School, the Xiyi Bell has never been rung nine times, and the situation of six bells ringing in succession has only occurred twice.

Half an hour later, Chen Yuan arrived at the top of Lingyun Peak, landed on the edge of the square, and walked towards Lingyun Palace.

At this time, dozens of foundation-building cultivators had arrived at the top of Lingyun Peak. Chen Yuan spread out his spiritual sense, looking for the traces of Sun Congyao, Shen Danmei and others.

For the past three years, he has been confined to his cave, practicing hard in seclusion, and has never stepped out of the cave. He knows nothing about the outside world.

The sounds of the Six Paths Xiyi Bells were heard one after another, which should be the invasion of Qi by the demon cultivators. However, the specific situation needed to be understood from someone familiar with the matter.

The top of Lingyun Peak was not very large. Chen Yuan quickly saw a familiar figure with his spiritual sense and walked over quickly, saying in a voice transmission, "Senior Brother Mo, please stay!"

Mo Jingchun heard the cheers coming into his ears, stopped, turned around, looked at Chen Yuan who was walking towards him, and said with a smile: "Junior Brother Chen! It's been many years since we last met, and you are still as charming as ever."

Chen Yuan came to Mo Jingchun and carefully looked at this senior brother with whom he had the deepest friendship.

After not seeing each other for twelve years, a few wrinkles appeared at the corners of Mo Jingchun's eyes, and his face became more mature, looking like a mortal man in his forties.

When Chen Yuan first participated in the Ascension Conference and met Mo Jingchun in the Recruiting Valley, he looked to be only about thirty years old.

But although a foundation-building cultivator has a lifespan of 200 years, he is not immortal.

If you don't take anti-aging pills or practice any techniques that can help you stay young, you will still age slowly.

However, the price of anti-aging elixirs is very high. Unless they are female cultivators who love beauty or people with a lot of wealth, ordinary cultivators will not go out of their way to buy anti-aging elixirs.

Mo Jingchun obviously didn't care about his appearance. Nearly twenty-five years had passed, and time had left its mark on him.

Three and a half years ago, Chen Yuan had asked Yi Jin about Mo Jingchun's recent situation and learned that he had been accepting sect missions, receiving rewards for good deeds, and then exchanging them for elixirs for cultivation, and he was extremely diligent. However, the sword cultivation inheritance that Mo Jingchun had received in the past was incomplete. After successfully building his foundation, he worshipped Elder Wang Xian as his teacher and changed to another sword cultivation method. His foundation was not solid and needed to be improved. Until three and a half years ago, his cultivation was still in the early stage of foundation building.

Chen Yuan naturally would not bring up such a disappointing matter. He just bowed and asked, "Senior Brother Mo, I just came out of retreat and the Xiyi Bell suddenly rang six times in a row. Did the Demon Sect cultivators invade Qi?"

Mo Jingchun nodded and said, "Yes, the Demon Sect monks invaded Qi State a month ago and stopped at a desert on the border between Qi State and Wu State."

"The sect rang the Xiyi Bell this time to summon the core disciples to go to the battle together with the cultivators from the other five major sects."

Chen Yuan was surprised: "The demon cultivators actually set up a battlefield to confront the six sects of Qi?"

Over the past decade or so, demon cultivators have continuously sneaked into the State of Qi, causing chaos everywhere. Their methods are cruel and bloody, and they use every possible means. Unexpectedly, when they launched a large-scale invasion, they changed their previous ways and became upright.

Mo Jingchun shook his head and said, "How is that possible? In the past few years, there have been more and more demon cultivators in Qi State, and the number of criminals on the six sects' bounty list has increased to twenty-four."

"However, the six sects have also increased their efforts to eliminate the demon cultivators. At least hundreds of foundation-building demon cultivators die every year."

"Although the Demon Sect's army did not stop at the border this time, the harassment of spirit stone mines, immortal cultivation families, and small markets has not only not decreased, but has intensified."

Chen Yuan's expression became serious when he heard this.

There is a large army of demon cultivators invading from the front, and experts are harassing everywhere. The cultivators of the six sects still dare to fight head-on. Aren't they afraid of falling into a trap?
However, these were not the most important things. Chen Yuan asked the most concerned question: "Have the Nascent Soul cultivators in the Demon Sect shown up?"

"I heard that there are two great cultivators in the five major demon sects. If they attack together, how can the six sects of Qi resist?"

Mo Jingchun smiled and said, "Junior Brother Chen, you don't know that the sect has already issued an order that in this war, the Nascent Soul cultivators of both sides will not participate."

"And it wasn't the five major demon sects that invaded Qi, only the Blood Spirit Sect and the Joyous Union Sect. We just need to drive the demon cultivators out of Qi, and within a thousand years, the five major demon sects will not invade again."

Chen Yuan felt relieved and regained some fighting spirit.

If the five major demon sects invade Qi together, he has no intention of being buried with Lingyun Sect.

But they only need to face two major demon sects, and the Nascent Soul cultivators will not join the battle. With the combined efforts of the six sects of Qi State, they may not be without a chance of winning.

Chen Yuan and Mo Jingchun talked as they walked, and now they had arrived in front of Lingyun Hall, standing together with other foundation-building cultivators who had arrived at Lingyun Peak.

At this time, a voice came into Chen Yuan's ears: "Junior Brother Chen!"

Chen Yuan looked back and saw Shen Danmei walking towards him with a smile on her face.

Chen Yuan went up to her and bowed, "Senior Sister Shen."

Shen Danmei returned the greeting with a bow and said with a smile: "Junior brother, you have been in seclusion for three years. Have you made any breakthroughs in your cultivation?"

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Sister, please stop teasing me. In just three years, I have only made some progress. How can I talk about a breakthrough?"

It took Chen Yuan three years to go from the initial stage of the middle foundation building stage to the peak of the middle foundation building stage. This was too shocking, so he did not show it.

Not everyone is like him, who can easily withstand the impact of the elixir's spiritual energy on the meridians, and continue to refine the elixir to improve his cultivation.

(End of this chapter)