Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 255 Inheritance
Under the nourishment of Chen Yuan's spiritual consciousness, the jade slip carrying the recipe for the Youyun Pill was like a piece of beautiful jade covered with dirt soaked in warm water. The dirt was gradually washed away, the intervals between the flickering light became shorter and shorter, and the yellowish color on the surface slowly faded, revealing a pure white jade slip with a delicate texture.

A full hundred days passed, and Chen Yuan had injected his spiritual consciousness into the jade slip eight times. The jade slip finally changed its appearance completely, and a faint warm light appeared on its surface.

When he once again injected his spiritual consciousness into the jade slip, an old voice sounded in his ears: "Young man, you have devoted yourself to studying the Youyun Pill recipe for a hundred days. You have a strong character. All that I have taught you is hidden on Qianlang Island. You can take it yourself..."

This sentence rang in Chen Yuan's ears once, and then disappeared. The recipe for the Youyun Pill in the jade slip was also nowhere to be found, leaving only a map.

The map was very rough, showing an area of ​​sea with an island marked in the center.

Chen Yuan had seen the map of Yuqing Sea and had also seen the memories of Master Qingyou, but he was unable to recognize the place indicated by the map. He didn't even know whether the sea area in the map was in Yuqing Sea.

The "Qianlang Island" mentioned by the old voice was the only valid information. Chen Yuan kept the name firmly in his mind, withdrew his spiritual sense, and breathed a sigh of relief.

One hundred days of continuous consumption of spiritual energy made him mentally exhausted, but fortunately he gained something in the end and his efforts were not in vain.

There is no doubt that this jade slip of the Youyun Pill recipe is the inheritance of a senior cultivator, and the condition for unlocking the inheritance is to study the jade slip for a hundred days.

However, the senior cultivator who left the jade slip was not too demanding. He did not require continuous study of the jade slip for a hundred days, leaving time for the recovery of spiritual consciousness. Otherwise, only a Nascent Soul cultivator could discover the map in the jade slip.

But even so, this way of opening the inheritance is extremely difficult. No matter how difficult it is to refine the Youyun Pill, a master alchemist can master it in just a few days. It will take a longer time for a master alchemist, but it only takes a dozen days.

If Chen Yuan's spiritual sense had not been strong enough to detect the abnormality of the jade slip, it would have been impossible for him to discover the map hidden in the jade slip.

He was quite confused as to why the senior monk who left the jade slip chose this method?

There is a map and a sentence hidden in a jade slip, which even a Jindan cultivator cannot detect. It requires continuous injection of spiritual consciousness for a hundred days before they will reveal themselves. This method has never been heard of by Chen Yuan, and it is definitely not something that an ordinary cultivator can master.

Chen Yuan thoughtfully put the jade slip into the mustard seed ring, closed his eyes and meditated to restore his consciousness.

Three hours later, he took out the alchemy furnace and spiritual herbs and began to refine the Youyun Pill.

He was very interested in the inheritance mentioned by the old voice, but for a cultivator who left a map in such a secretive way, the inheritance would definitely not be easy to obtain, and he also had to find the location of Qianliu Island, which could not be rushed.

The most urgent task is to refine the elixir, improve cultivation, and have a greater chance of obtaining the inheritance.

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Compared with Fucen Dan and Linghai Dan, the difficulty of refining Youyun Dan was indeed much higher. Chen Yuan spent a month to successfully refine the first batch of pills, but the success rate was just 20%, and he almost only condensed a pill.

When refining the second batch of Youyun Pills, Chen Yuan accumulated a lot of experience and made fewer mistakes. Although he still only refined two pills, he was much more calm during the pill-refining process.

At this point, the thirty-two five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs in his hands had been used up, and he had refined a total of ten pills, including two Fucen Pills, four Linghai Pills, and four Youyun Pills.

The spiritual energy of the pills in the Jindan stage is overwhelming, which creates great pressure on the meridians. It takes several months to refine a pill, but it is equivalent to several years of hard training.

The hard training mentioned here refers to meditating and practicing day and night in a small spiritual vein. If there is no spiritual vein, it will take more than ten years of practice to be equivalent to a pill.

A Jindan cultivator needs to accumulate a large amount of true essence from the beginning of Jindan cultivation to the initial peak. It takes hundreds of years just to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

This is only true if the cultivator has extraordinary aptitude and has spiritual veins available for cultivation. For a cultivator like Chen Yuan, whose aptitude is equivalent to four spiritual roots, the time will be doubled.

Moreover, after he refined Zhu Yan's true blood, his true essence became extremely pure, and he needed to absorb even more spiritual energy from heaven and earth.

After forming the Dan, Chen Yuan finally understood why cultivating immortals was against the will of heaven. If one did not rely on external forces, even a cultivator with natural spiritual roots would find it difficult to practice and would never be able to condense into a Nascent Soul.

This is only the Jindan stage, and aptitude can still play a significant role. Practitioners with natural and earthly spiritual roots will practice faster and the bottlenecks they encounter will be less difficult.

For Nascent Soul cultivators, because the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is too thin, aptitude has become dispensable, and it is difficult to accumulate true essence and magic power by burying oneself in hard practice.

But legend has it that in ancient times, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was extremely abundant, and cultivators did not need elixirs to practice, and there was not even a difference in qualifications. There was no difference in practice between cultivators with natural spiritual roots and cultivators with five spiritual roots, and there was no need for foundation-building elixirs to build a foundation.

But later, for some unknown reason, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth became increasingly thinner, and cultivators were gradually divided into different levels of qualifications. Without foundation-building pills, it was impossible to build a foundation, and the role of pills became more and more important.

Low-level spiritual herbs are relatively common, and it is easier for low-level cultivators below the Jindan stage to practice them.

But starting from the time when the spiritual herbs were five hundred years old, they became extremely rare. Most casual Jindan cultivators remained at the early Jindan stage throughout their lives. Even after they had finally cultivated to the peak of the early stage, there was still a solid bottleneck blocking them.

Fortunately, Chen Yuan is a physical cultivator, so he doesn't have to worry about bottlenecks in his cultivation.

He refined the ten pills one by one, saving more than thirty years of hard training and improving his cultivation significantly.

Thanks to his strong body, Chen Yuan's meridians were extremely tough. It only took him two months to refine a Jindan-stage pill, and in less than two years, he had refined all the pills.

In addition to practicing, he also refined the Golden Dragon Sword and Wind and Cloud Bell obtained from Master Qingyou.

Top-grade spiritual weapons play a very small role in the battles among Jindan cultivators. Unless the Jindan cultivator is particularly destitute, he will refine a magical weapon for his own life.

But magic weapons also have different levels. Just like magic tools and spiritual tools, they are divided into low-level, mid-level, high-level and top-level.

Most Jindan cultivators have low-level or mid-level magic weapons. High-level and top-level magic weapons consume a huge amount of true essence, and only Yuanying cultivators can use them at will.

However, there are also some cultivators in the late Jindan stage with strong true essence who can use high-level magic weapons to fight against the enemy.

This was the case with True Man Qing You. During his lifetime, he had a high-level magic weapon, the Soul-Breaking Hammer. Later, he took away the space magic weapon, the Wentian Ding, from the Wentian Sect. This was also a high-level magic weapon, which greatly increased its strength. He was even able to successfully escape from the pursuit of a Nascent Soul cultivator, but the Soul-Breaking Hammer was also damaged.

Later, when he went to the secret cave of the Wentian Sect, he encountered an ambush by several Jindan monks, who also set up a formation. He had to pay the price of destroying his own magic weapon before he escaped. Only four magic weapons were left in his hand: the Wentian Ding, the Golden Dragon Sword, the Fengyun Bell, and the Whisk.

The life treasure of Master Qing You was a mid-level treasure. After years of nurturing, it was extremely powerful. It was the damage of this treasure that caused Master Qing You's soul to be severely damaged. He was also poisoned and eventually died of his injuries. The Wentian Ding also collapsed after a thousand years, leaving only three low-level treasures in the mustard seed ring, which fell into the hands of Chen Yuan and Liu Fan.

Chen Yuan's true energy was now strong, and he easily refined the two magic weapons. He stored them in his dantian to nourish them, and was able to use them as easily as his own arms in a fight.

The Golden Dragon Sword looks extraordinary, but in fact it is only average among low-level magic weapons, and is even more ordinary in Yuqing Sea.

This was taken by True Man Qingyou from a cultivator in the middle stage of the Jindan stage in the Ziyang Sect. The cultivator's natal magic weapon was destroyed when he died, leaving behind this Golden Dragon Sword.

The Fengyun Bell is better. It was taken from a cultivator in the late Jindan stage and is considered top-grade among low-level magic weapons.

The cultivator in the late Jindan stage was extremely powerful. His natal magic weapon had been cultivated to the intermediate level, but it was destroyed when he died.

The natal magic weapon is connected to the cultivator's soul. Unless the cultivator cuts off the connection himself, it can be destroyed in a moment and is extremely difficult to be taken away by others.

Taoist Qing You successively killed five Jindan cultivators of Zi Yang Sect in Qi State, but failed to obtain any of their life-saving magic weapons.

After Chen Yuan refined the Wind and Cloud Bell and the Golden Dragon Sword, he left Hanxing Island, rode on his escape light, and flew away.

On the way, he spread out all his spiritual awareness, taking all the movements within a radius of twenty miles under his control, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The spiritual awareness of an ordinary Jindan early stage cultivator only covers an area of ​​ten miles in radius. Chen Yuan's spiritual awareness is more than double theirs, and is already comparable to that of a Jindan middle stage cultivator.

When fighting with monks of the same level, he will have the upper hand.

Unfortunately, the water of Yuqing Sea has been nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for countless years, and it is extremely difficult for spiritual consciousness to penetrate it. It can only probe into the seabed a thousand feet deep, and it is difficult to go deeper.

Chen Yuan flew for hundreds of miles and came to a desolate sea area. He raised his hand and grabbed, and the Golden Dragon Sword and the Wind and Cloud Bell appeared out of thin air.

After a cultivator has formed his elixir, he can store his magic weapon in his dantian to nurture it. This makes it very convenient to use the magic weapon; it can fly out from his dantian with just a thought.

"Cut!" Chen Yuan pointed his right hand, and the Golden Dragon Sword turned into a golden stream of light and shot out, as agile as a dragon, leaving golden traces in the air.

Suddenly, the Golden Dragon Sword transformed into a three-clawed golden dragon about ten feet long. The dragon roared and swung its claws down, crushing a reef into pieces with an extremely shocking sound.

But Chen Yuan shook his head. This Golden Dragon Sword looked great, but it was not as sharp as a flying sword. Instead, it was mixed with the blood of a dragon, and had the effect of illusion. It was neither fish nor fowl, and its power was rather average.

He raised his hand again and the Wind and Cloud Bell appeared out of thin air. It trembled a few times, but no bell sounded. However, countless dead fish and shrimp floated to the surface of the sea within a thousand feet radius. The sea water was dyed red, attracting more than a dozen sharks, which feasted on the fish in the sea.

The Fengyun Bell is a magic weapon specifically used against souls. It is quite rare and its power is extraordinary. Even a Jindan cultivator will not be able to survive under this magic weapon.

If not for this, the Fengyun Bell would not have been chosen by the Zi Yang Sect's late Jindan cultivators as a commonly used magic weapon.

After all, this is just a low-level magic weapon. Cultivators in the late Jindan stage usually use mid-level magic weapons to fight the enemy, and ordinary low-level magic weapons are simply useless.

Chen Yuan tested the power of the Fengyun Bell and was quite satisfied. He put it into his Dantian together with the Golden Dragon Sword.

The two magic weapons slowly rotated around the golden elixir, slowly absorbing the pure true essence in the sea of ​​true essence, resonating and reflecting with the soul and spirit origin contained in the golden elixir, and the connection with Chen Yuan became closer and closer.

The Fengyun Bell is full of spirituality and is closer to the golden elixir. The Golden Dragon Sword is outside the Fengyun Bell, emitting traces of sword energy.

Chen Yuan descended upon a deserted island and stimulated Zhu Yan's true blood. He tried to control the explosive power gushing from deep within his body and comprehend the mystery of Zhu Yan's true fire.

This was a very difficult process. The Zhuyan true blood in the white ape's body was very thick, and Chen Yuan had no experience in stimulating true blood, so he was very embarrassed at the beginning.

After stimulating Zhu Yan's true blood, his physical strength increased again, almost comparable to that of a seventh-level monster. When he threw a punch, it had a force of nearly one million pounds. Even though he was a physical cultivator, it took him some time to gradually adapt.

This was more difficult than when he first mastered the secret art of the giant spirit body, because stimulating Zhu Yan's true blood consumed a lot of true energy and could only last for about a hundred breaths. If he activated Zhu Yan's true fire, the consumption of true energy would be even more intense and could only last for thirty breaths.

It took Chen Yuan nearly two years to fully master Zhu Yan's true blood and extend the time for stimulating the true blood to more than a hundred breaths. He could activate Zhu Yan's true fire at will, greatly reducing the consumption of true energy.

At this time, nearly five years had passed since Chen Yuan successfully formed the Dan. He had finally transformed all his gains into strength. If he continued to retreat, he could only absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and transform it into true essence bit by bit, which was extremely inefficient.

On this day, Chen Yuan was meditating and practicing, trying to recover the true energy that had been consumed by the starlight infusing his body, when the cave formation was suddenly triggered.

He stopped practicing and walked out of the cave to greet the guests. It turned out that Yuan Lang and Li Luo were visiting.

In the past few years, Yuanlang and Li Luo visited Chen Yuan several times and had very pleasant conversations with him, and their friendship deepened.

Chen Yuan also agreed to go to the Mo Sea to hunt monsters with them, but the two of them still had to practice in Hanxing City for a while, and Chen Yuan also needed time to master Zhu Yan's true blood, so they had not set out.

This time, the two of them were visiting to go to Mohai and invited Chen Yuan to go with them.

Chen Yuan said apologetically, "I have another matter to deal with. Why don't you two go first? In a year at the earliest or several years at the latest, I will definitely go to Mohai to meet you two."

Li Luo and Yuan Lang naturally could not force Chen Yuan to hunt monsters with them, so they could only agree, agree on a meeting place, and then say goodbye and leave.

After the two left, Chen Yuan did not waste any more time. After his internal energy was restored, he left the cave and came to Yuchu Hall in the market town of Hanxing City.

He did not reveal his Jindan cultivation. Liu Yuan was the one who received him. He said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist Chen is a rare guest. Do you still want to buy spiritual herbs this time?"

Chen Yuan had previously purchased three pill recipes at once, confirming his identity as a master alchemist. Liu Yuan thought that he purchased the spiritual herbs only to make pills to sell.

Chen Yuan smiled slightly, his aura leaking out, and the pressure of a Jindan cultivator descended upon him. He said calmly, "Is Daoist Yuhuanzi here? Chen has something to ask you."

Thanks for the reward from Shenri Laozi!
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