Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 210 Harvest
In Lingyun’s garrison, Chen Yuan’s flying speed was extremely slow, not much faster than using the light body technique.

A quarter of an hour later, he arrived at the center of Lingyun Sect’s base, descended his light in front of the Hall of Good Deeds, and walked into the hall.

More than a dozen foundation-building monks gathered in the Hall of Good Deeds and lined up in a team.

At the front of the team, there was a square table. Zhang Zian and Wang Ran were standing behind the table, talking with a foundation-building cultivator.

The man touched his storage bag, took out the mission talisman and identity jade card, and handed them to Zhang Zian. A bloody head appeared out of thin air on the square table.

Zhang Zian first checked the mission talisman and the identity jade card, then took out a talisman, injected a trace of true energy into it, stuck it on the identity jade card, and placed it three inches above the demon cultivator's head.

The Lingyun Sect issued a mission to slay the demon cultivators, so naturally there would be no loopholes.

After a cultivator kills someone, a trace of aura will be left on the body of the victim. By simply checking whether the auras match, it can be seen whether these evil cultivators were killed by him.

After a moment, the identity jade token lit up with a faint white light, and Zhang Zian said in a deep voice: "Kill a demon cultivator in the early stage of foundation building, and you will be rewarded with 10,000 good deeds!"

He took out a white jade token engraved with the words "good deeds" and combined it with the jade token of the foundation-building cultivator's identity.

The two jade tokens flashed, Zhang Zian took back the good deeds jade token, and returned the identity jade token to the foundation-building cultivator.

The man took the identity jade card, bowed to Zhang Zian, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Senior Brother Zhang."

Zhang Zian nodded slightly, and the foundation-building cultivator turned and left. Afterwards, the two of them just handed in the task talisman, and they were not able to produce even a single demon cultivator's head.

It wasn't until the fourth foundation-building cultivator came forward that Zhang Zian smiled and took the initiative to bow and say, "Senior Brother Wang."

The man handed the mission talisman and identity jade card to Zhang Zian, touched the storage bag, and three heads appeared out of thin air on the square table. He said calmly: "Junior Brother Zhang, check it out."

Zhang Zian said with a smile: "Brother Wang, wait a moment."

After checking the identity jade card and the mission talisman, he followed the same method, took out a white talisman, injected true energy into it, and pasted it on the identity jade card. He checked the three demon cultivators' heads one by one and said solemnly, "Kill three demon cultivators in the late stage of foundation building, and you will be rewarded with 60,000 good deeds!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the hall focused their attention on Senior Brother Wang, their eyes filled with awe.

A person standing in front of Chen Yuan whispered, "This Senior Brother Wang Ling is said to have reached the peak of the foundation-building stage ten years ago. He is one of the strongest foundation-building cultivators in the sect!"

Another person was surprised and asked, "Why have I never heard of Brother Wang's name?"

“Haha, our sect is full of hidden talents. If it weren’t for this war, Senior Brother Wang would have been practicing in seclusion in his cave, and he wouldn’t have shown up in the outside world…”

The two spoke in very low voices, and if it weren't for Chen Yuan's keen senses, he wouldn't have been able to hear them at all.

He was slightly surprised and remembered Senior Brother Wang's appearance firmly in his mind.

Senior Brother Wang had an ordinary appearance, a medium build, a fair face and no beard. He took the identity jade card handed over by Zhang Zian, closed his eyes slightly, and seemed to check it carefully with his spiritual sense. Then he nodded and turned to leave.

At this time, a familiar voice came into Chen Yuan's ears: "Junior Brother Chen, you came quickly."

Chen Yuan turned around and saw Mo Jingchun walking into the Hall of Good Deeds. Behind him, two foundation-building monks descended from their hiding places and walked towards the hall.

After the death of a foundation-building cultivator, the spiritual energy in his body can remain for three days. During this period, his cultivation level during his lifetime can be identified.

Therefore, Lingyun Sect has a rule that the monks must hand in the mission talisman and the head of the demon cultivator within three days to receive the reward for good deeds. No rewards will be given after the deadline.

But few monks wait until the third day to come. As soon as they return to the oasis, they take a short break and then come to claim the reward for their good deeds.

Chen Yuan went up to him, looked at Mo Jingchun carefully, and asked with concern: "Is everything okay, Senior Brother Mo?"

Mo Jingchun smiled and said, "I was lucky. No mid-stage cultivator attacked me. Instead, I killed two demon cultivators. Junior brother came faster than me, so he must have gained something. How many demon cultivators did he kill?"

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "I was just lucky..."

He spoke vaguely and passed it over with just one sentence. Mo Jingchun said no more. The two of them stood at the end of the line and waited quietly.

Most of the people after Senior Brother Wang just handed in the mission talisman, and only two of them each took out a demon cultivator's head.

Gradually, there were only four foundation-building cultivators left in front of Chen Yuan, and it would soon be his turn.

He suddenly took a step to the side and said to Mo Jingchun, "Brother Mo, I suddenly remembered that I still have some trivial matters to deal with. I will hand in the task talisman later. I am leaving first."

After Chen Yuan finished speaking, he bowed to Mo Jingchun and turned to walk out of the hall.

Mo Jingchun looked surprised, then nodded: "Take care, Junior Brother."

At this time, there were several foundation-building cultivators queuing behind Mo Jingchun. When they saw Chen Yuan suddenly leave, they looked at him with a little surprise.

Wang Ran had been standing next to Zhang Zian. He noticed Chen Yuan when he first entered the Hall of Good Deeds. He was quite surprised and watched Chen Yuan leave.

Chen Yuan walked out of the Hall of Good Deeds quickly, his steps a little hurried, and rode on a beam of light. In just a quarter of an hour, he returned to the small building where he lived.

But after he lowered his escape light, he went straight to the training room on the second floor and sat down.

He didn't encounter anything, he just found an excuse to leave the Hall of Good Deeds.

He had not expected that the Lingyun Sect's arrangements were so crude. A group of foundation-building cultivators actually lined up in the Hall of Good Deeds like ordinary people to hand in their task talismans.

Moreover, most of the other cultivators could not produce the heads of the demon cultivators. The one with the most outstanding performance was Senior Brother Wang, but he only produced three heads of the demon cultivators.

The strength of Lingyun Sect is second only to Ziyang Sect among the six sects, and is on par with Tiangang Sword Sect. With the disciples performing so well, the other five sects are not much stronger.

If he took out seven demon cultivators' heads in front of other people, he would definitely attract a lot of attention, and his fame would spread throughout Lingyun Sect and even reach the ears of disciples from the other five sects.

Chen Yuan has always been low-key and did not want to be in the spotlight, so he left on the pretext of something. He planned to wait for two days before handing in the mission talisman and the demon cultivator's head to receive the reward for his good deeds.

Chen Yuan made up his mind and took out all the storage bags obtained in this battle and counted them one by one.

The seven demon cultivators in the middle stage of foundation building were all wealthy, but in Chen Yuan's eyes, they seemed a little shabby, and he even looked down on the spiritual weapons they used.

He sorted them out carefully and got four high-grade spiritual tools, two medium-grade spiritual tools, three low-grade spiritual tools, 327 medium-grade spiritual stones, six three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, sixteen hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, two bottles of cultivation pills, and several healing pills. The spiritual tools were mainly obtained from the monks of the Hehuan Sect. The monks of the Blood Spirit Sect spent most of their efforts on cultivating blood spirits, so they didn't have many spiritual tools, and the quality was quite poor, and there was no high-grade spiritual tool.

In addition, there are five kinds of mid-grade spiritual materials, hundreds of low-grade spirit stones, several magic cultivation techniques, some sundries that can be used by Qi-refining cultivators, as well as magic materials such as essence, blood, and souls, none of which are worth Chen Yuan's attention.

He put these things away one by one, and finally took out Xu Feiqing's storage bag and took out all the items in it.

Xu Feiqing is worthy of being a cultivator at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage. He has 348 mid-grade spirit stones alone, as well as a bottle of late Foundation Establishment elixir, eight 300-year-old spirit herbs, and two 500-year-old spirit herbs. His wealth is richer than the combined wealth of seven mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Sure enough, a horse will not be fat without night grass, and a person will not be rich without windfall.

The spiritual herbs obtained from these eight demon cultivators can be put together to make two furnaces of Nanguan Dan, one furnace of Heqi Dan, and one furnace of Qinglu Dan. After being refined into pills, they will be enough to support Chen Yuan's practice for several years.

Xu Feiqing left behind three top-grade spiritual weapons, among which the pink gauze had been torn apart by the black sword light, leaving only the jade bracelet and the flying sword usable.

Chen Yuan did not understand the art of refining artifacts, so he could not tell what the jade bracelet and flying sword were made of. Only after a rough refining of them did he learn the purpose of these two spiritual artifacts.

The jade bracelet is transparent, exudes a hint of coldness, and is extremely hard. After being used, it has the power of freezing and can also imprison the opponent.

The flying sword is azure blue all over, and also exudes a hint of coldness. When the sword is swung out, it is sharp and unstoppable, and can freeze everything.

Xu Feiqing should be a cultivator with ice spiritual roots. These two magic weapons are both ice-attribute magic weapons, but their uses are rather simple and quite common among the top-grade spiritual weapons.

Moreover, these two spiritual weapons were severely damaged by the Broken Moon Spear. The flying sword was still intact, but the jade bracelet was left with many scars. Without repair, it could not exert its maximum power.

In addition, there are three kinds of spiritual materials in Xu Feiqing’s storage bag, two of which are ice-attribute spiritual materials, but the last one is quite peculiar.

This spiritual material was a stone the size of a human head, gray and inconspicuous. Chen Yuan did not notice it at first.

But after the stone was taken out and hung in front of Chen Yuan, it slowly became transparent and finally disappeared completely. Even the spiritual consciousness could not perceive it and it could only be touched by hand.

"Could this be... the Phantom Yin Stone?"

Chen Yuan's eyes lit up and he put the stone on his knees again.

The stone slowly turned white, which was also the color of the Lingyun Sect robes that Chen Yuan was wearing.

Chen Yuan was delighted. This stone had the effect of transforming things. It was also icy to the touch, giving off a chill that went right into the bone marrow. It was exactly the same as the phantom Yin stone that the old man in hemp clothes had mentioned.

He already has the Green Snake Demon Pill in his hand. If he gives this Fantasy Yin Stone to the old man in hemp clothes, he can upgrade the grade of the thousand-year-old ice silk gloves. Then he won't have to be afraid to use the power of physical cultivation.

He put the two top-grade spiritual weapons and the Fantasy Yin Stone into his usual storage bag, and the other spiritual materials, spiritual herbs and elixirs into the mustard seed ring.

Xu Feiqing also had a top-grade spiritual weapon, two mid-grade spiritual weapons with pure and upright auras, as well as some miscellaneous items. These items did not look like those used by demon cultivators, so they should have been obtained from other cultivators. They were put into another storage bag and could be exchanged for spirit stones later.

Chen Yuan sorted out all the things in the storage bags of the eight demon cultivators, which took him nearly an hour. By this time, it was already dark.

Chen Yuan stood up and walked to the window, looking up. The night sky in the desert seemed particularly bright, with the moon hanging high and the stars shining.

Today happened to be the day for starlight to infuse the body. Chen Yuan took out the jade pendant, and the starlight passed through the window, covering Chen Yuan's whole body, sharpening his bones and cleansing his marrow. The lake of true essence in his dantian was then consumed.

There might be Nascent Soul cultivators from the six sects of Qi State in the oasis, but Chen Yuan was not worried about being noticed by them.

He had drawn starlight into his body countless times at the Lingyun Sect's mountain gate, and had never been noticed by the Lingyun Sect's protective formation or Xuan Yuanzi. Coming here, he had nothing to worry about.

According to historical records, above the human world, there are the spirit world and the immortal world. After a cultivator has cultivated to the point of becoming a spirit, he will ascend to the spirit world. Only after cultivating to the point of overcoming tribulation can he ascend to the immortal world.

Chen Yuan guessed that the jade beads were most likely treasures of the immortals, or at least rare treasures handed down from the spiritual world. When they drew starlight into the body, they would not be detected by the cultivators in the human world.

After the starlight dissipated, Chen Yuan put away the jade pendant, meditated and practiced, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and recovering his true essence bit by bit.

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Two days later, Chen Yuan's internal energy had mostly recovered. He stood up and walked out of the small building, riding on a light and coming to the Hall of Good Deeds.

It was almost dusk, and Zhang Zian and Wang Ran were still standing under the huge vermilion pillar. There was only one cultivator in the hall who was handing in the mission talisman, but he did not take out the demon cultivator's head. There was no one else.

After this person left the Good Deeds Hall, Chen Yuan came up to the two of them and bowed, "Senior Brother Zhang, Senior Brother Wang."

Wang Ran returned the greeting with a bow and said with a smile, "Brother Chen, how are you? Brother Zhang, this is Brother Chen Yuan, who eradicated the Dingzhou Lingshen Sect and killed the late-stage foundation-building demon cultivator three years ago."

Zhang Zian's eyes lit up. "So it's Junior Brother Chen. Junior Brother, with his mid-stage foundation building cultivation, was able to defeat a late-stage foundation building demon cultivator. This really left a deep impression on me. With Junior Brother Chen's skills, he should have gained a lot in this battle, right?"

Chen Yuan smiled, stroked his storage bag, took out the mission talisman and identity jade card, and handed them over. At the same time, seven demon cultivator heads appeared out of thin air on the table: "Please check it, Senior Brother Zhang."

Zhang Zian was stunned for a moment. He took the mission talisman and the identity jade card and looked at the seven heads deeply. Then he looked at Chen Yuan and said in a deep voice: "Junior Brother Chen, did you kill all these seven demon cultivators?"

Wang Ran sent a voice message: "Junior Brother Chen, you are not using the heads of demon cultivators killed by others to make up the number, are you? This is a serious crime of deceiving the sect!"

Chen Yuan's expression remained unchanged, and he replied in a voice transmission: "Don't worry, Senior Brother, I killed all these demon cultivators with my own hands."

At this time, Zhang Zian had checked the mission talisman and the identity jade card, confirmed Chen Yuan's identity, and then took out a white talisman to check the residual energy on the seven demon cultivators' heads.

Looking at the faint white light emitted by Chen Yuan's identity jade token, Zhang Zian took a deep breath and hid the shock in his eyes: "Junior Brother Chen is indeed very skilled. He killed seven demon cultivators in one battle. I will transfer the merit to you now."

He took out the jade token of good deeds, matched it with Chen Yuan’s identity jade token, and handed it back.

Chen Yuan took the jade token, probed inside with his spiritual consciousness, and found that there were 120,000 more good deeds.

Zhang Zian added: "In addition to the reward for good deeds, Junior Brother Chen can also return to the sect to recuperate for three years, but this requires Elder Zhuge to issue an order, so please wait for a few days."

Chen Yuan put away his identity jade card and said with a smile, "Thank you, Senior Brother Zhang."

Zhang Zian said with a smile: "It's okay, I will report this matter to Elder Zhuge tomorrow and won't let you wait too long."

Thanks for the reward from Shenri Laozi!
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(End of this chapter)