Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 261 Jade
"Fellow Daoist Ziyang, what do you think of this Guide Peak?"

On a beautiful peak in the Wuchen Mountains, Lu Yuan descended with a light of escape and greeted warmly.

Chen Yuan followed him, his eyes swept across the Guide Peak, which was about 200 feet high, and nodded slightly: "This peak has beautiful scenery, is elegant and quiet, which suits my taste very well."

Two months have passed since he proposed to go into seclusion for cultivation.

After Lu Yuan's persuasion, he stopped his seclusion and continued to refine pills for the Lu family cultivators until now, when he finally entered the Wuchen Mountains.

Since he was not a cultivator of the Lu family, he could not leave his natal lamp in the Lu family ancestral temple, and the clan protection formation could not sense his spiritual aura. If he wanted to enter the Wuchen Mountains, he had to use a special method to refine the guest token.

Naturally, the Lu family would not tell this method to their guest official. Three days ago, Chen Yuan handed the guest official token to Lu Yuan, and it was only returned to its original owner today. From now on, he can enter and leave the Wuchen Mountains freely.

Lu Yuan did not waste any time and immediately led Chen Yuan to Guide Peak to help him open up a cave.

The Wuchen Mountains are only a dozen miles long, with a tortuous shape and a smaller area. There are also many barren mountains and low hills, so there are not many beautiful places to develop caves.

Over the past six hundred years, the caves of the Lu family's foundation-building cultivators have long been spread throughout the Wuchen Mountains. In addition to the caves where the sixty-one cultivators now live, there are still many that are idle.

Lu Yuan said that he was helping Chen Yuan to open up a cave, but in fact he just chose an empty cave. He just followed the custom and used the traditional saying of the Lu family to show his importance to Chen Yuan.

There are six caves on Guide Peak, which is considered few among the nearly ten peaks in the Wuchen Mountains. Two of them are idle and available for Chen Yuan to choose.

Under the guidance of Lu Yuan, Chen Yuan inspected the two caves one by one and chose a more remote one.

This cave is close to the foot of Guide Peak. Its area is larger than the other cave, but the spiritual energy in the cave is much thinner and it has been idle for more than two hundred years.

Lu Yuan asked in confusion: "This cave has never been visited by anyone. Why did Daoist Fellow Ziyang choose this place?"

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "I want to refine the elixir, and I hate any interference from the outside world. This place is remote and quiet, so it's perfect for me."

Lu Yuan suddenly realized, said no more, and left.

After seeing Lu Yuan off, Chen Yuan took out a set of low-level spiritual formation plates and flags and set up the formation outside the cave.

The Wuchen Mountains are guarded by a large formation to protect the clan, so it is extremely safe. The Lu family will not provide formations for the guest cultivators in the clan, so they have to prepare them themselves.

After Chen Yuan set up the formation, he returned to the training room, took out the pills and spiritual herbs, and continued to refine the pills.

In the past two months, many Lu family cultivators came to ask Chen Yuan to refine pills. He accepted all requests and now there are still five furnaces of pills that need to be refined.

Chen Yuan was extremely fast at refining the Foundation Establishment Pill, but this time he deliberately slowed down the process, making it no different from the speed of an ordinary alchemy master.

Two days later, Chen Yuan had just finished purifying a spiritual herb when Lu Qing's spiritual consciousness suddenly descended and enveloped him, and it took a long time before it dissipated.

Chen Yuan smiled slightly and continued to refine the elixir without trying to find the source of the spiritual consciousness.

He had anticipated that even if Lu Qing allowed him to enter the Wuchen Mountains, he would not let down his guard against him.

Although he didn't have much dealings with Lu Qing, he could tell that this person was meticulous and cautious and would never trust others easily.

However, Chen Yuan's way of infiltrating the Lu family was still a bit crude, and his identity as an alchemy master was too conspicuous, which would inevitably attract Lu Qing's attention.

But he had no intention of spending several years or even more than ten years on an inheritance whose details he didn't know. As long as Lu Gui didn't notice him, there was no need to worry about others.

For the next six months, Chen Yuan continued to refine pills peacefully, and handed the pills to the monks of the Lu family, winning a lot of praise.

During this period, Lu Qing had been using his spiritual sense to investigate his movements, but Chen Yuan did not reveal any flaws. The frequency of Lu Qing's use of spiritual sense to monitor him became lower and lower. The last time he used spiritual sense to investigate was two months ago.

At this time, there were no late-stage or mid-stage foundation-building cultivators looking for Chen Yuan to make elixirs. No matter how many spiritual herbs they had, they were not endless.

However, the number of cultivators in the early stage of foundation building who seek Chen Yuan to make pills has increased a lot. Hundred-year-old spiritual herbs are relatively easy to obtain, and the Lu family has the largest number of cultivators in the early stage of foundation building. Compared with Lu Dongji, who has a lower pill success rate, they are more willing to ask Chen Yuan to make pills.

Lu Dongji was naturally extremely dissatisfied with this situation. He had been spreading rumors unfavorable to Chen Yuan for the past six months, but in the face of real elixirs, it had no effect at all.

Fortunately, the Lu family would not ignore the alchemy master they had trained, and most of the family's spiritual herbs were given to Lu Dongji to make pills.

At the same time, they are also stepping up the training of alchemists, hoping to have one more master alchemist and reduce dependence on Chen Yuan.

This situation lasted for half a year. Since entering the Wuchen Mountains, Chen Yuan has been diligently refining pills. Together with Lu Dongji, the demand for pills among the Lu family cultivators has finally been met, and the number of cultivators who asked him to refine pills has greatly decreased.

After Chen Yuan joined the Lu family, he had been refining pills for others and had accumulated a lot of pills. He immediately announced that he would go into seclusion to practice. There were also two or three Lu family cultivators who had recently returned to Wuchen Island from the outer islands and wanted to find Chen Yuan to refine pills for them, but they could only return in disappointment.

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Five months later, Chen Yuan sat in the dim training room, slowly opened his eyes, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

After he announced his retreat, Lu Qing's surveillance of him became much closer.

In the first month, Lu Qing used his spiritual sense to investigate every two or three days, but Chen Yuan just practiced with peace of mind and there was nothing unusual.

In the second month, the frequency of Lu Qing's spiritual sense investigation slowed down to once every seven or eight days.

In the third month, Lu Qing would use his spiritual sense to investigate only once every half a month.

In the past two months, Lu Qing has not used his spiritual sense to investigate again.

He finally let down his guard and no longer had to worry about being discovered while searching for the place of inheritance. It was time to take action.

Chen Yuan stood up and walked out of the cave. It was late at night. There was not a cloud in the sky. The stars flickered and appeared from time to time, forming a galaxy that ran through the night sky. A full moon hung in the sky, and silver frost covered the earth.

The Wuchen Mountains are peaceful and quiet under the cover of night. The peaks in the distance are hidden in the darkness. As the mountain breeze blows, the low green grass undulates along the ridge of Guide Peak, swaying gently in the moonlight.

Because he was worried about Lu Qing's surveillance, Chen Yuan had not used starlight to infuse his body since he entered the Lu family's territory, and the tempering of his body had stagnated for a long time. He looked up at the starry sky that he had not seen for a long time, but did not fly away. The location marked on the jade map appeared in his mind, and he quietly walked through the mountains and forests.

As he walked, he raised his hand and grabbed, and the Golden Dragon Sword and Wind and Cloud Bell appeared. His spiritual consciousness spread out, covering an area of ​​a hundred feet around him.

There are three Jindan cultivators in the Wuchen Mountains. Chen Yuan doesn't dare to spread his spiritual sense wantonly. He can only be more careful and be ready to take action at any time.

But in the dead of night, all the monks of the Lu family were practicing in the cave. There was no light in the sky, and no human figure in the mountains. Only the sounds of gurgling water and swaying branches reached Chen Yuan's ears.

Guide Peak is located on the edge of the Wuchen Mountains. Chen Yuan followed the marks on the map, crossed half of the mountain range, and came to the foot of a mountain over 500 feet high.

This mountain is called Qingling Mountain, and it is the third highest mountain in the Wuchen Mountains. There are nine caves for foundation-building monks on it, all of which are inhabited.

Chen Yuan became more cautious and even dispersed his light body technique. He carefully climbed up Qingling Mountain, deliberately avoiding the caves of those foundation-building monks.

When he was refining pills for the Lu family cultivators, several of the cultivators' caves were located on Qingling Mountain.

While chatting with them, he intentionally or unintentionally inquired about the situation of Qingling Mountain and knew the distribution of caves on the mountain like the back of his hand.

Quarter of an hour later, Chen Yuan reached the halfway point of the mountain and stopped in front of a rock.

This is a dark gray rock that is two people tall. It has a rough surface and nothing special about its shape. It is inconspicuous on the beautiful Qingling Mountain.

But after Chen Yuan saw the rock, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes. According to the description on the jade slip map, he took out the jade slip and stuck it on the rock!
As soon as the pure white jade slip came into contact with the rock, it immediately emitted a faint light, and the rough stone skin on the surface of the rock peeled off by itself, revealing a crystal green color.

After a moment, all the stone skin fell off, revealing a piece of green jade that was one person tall. It emitted a rich light under the moonlight, and even the white jade slip was dyed with a layer of green.

At this time, the pure white jade slip slowly merged into the green jade, and the light emitted by the green jade became more and more dazzling, until the jade slip completely disappeared, and a green light column shot up into the sky and pierced the clouds.

Chen Yuan's face changed. The jade map didn't say that such an abnormality would happen!

"Who are you, you dare to run wild in the Wuchen Mountains!" An angry shout resounded throughout the entire mountain range like a thunder, and then a divine sense swept across and locked onto Chen Yuan.

Along with the divine consciousness, there was also an incomparably powerful pressure, far exceeding that of Lu Qing when he first met Chen Yuan in the Lingdan Hall. There was only one person in the Lu family who could possess this kind of pressure, and that was the head of the Lu family, Lu Gui!

A moment later, two other much weaker spiritual senses also fell on Chen Yuan. One of them was very familiar. It was Lu Qing who had been monitoring Chen Yuan for nearly a year.

"Zi Yang Taoist!"

Lu Qing's astonished voice rang in Chen Yuan's ears, but he ignored it. After the jade slip was completely integrated into the green jade, an invisible wave spread out, and a narrow door appeared on the surface of the green jade, just enough for one person to pass through. Behind the door was a dazzling white light, and nothing could be seen.

Chen Yuan was very familiar with this invisible wave. It was the power of space that he had felt in the Dongxu Mountain Secret Realm and the Wentianding Secret Realm.

He stepped into the narrow door without hesitation, and his figure was quickly swallowed up by the jade.

"Stop!" A swift beam of light flew from Wuchen Peak, the only thousand-foot-high peak in the Wuchen Mountains, and arrived in front of Qingyu in the blink of an eye.

The escaping light disappeared, and an old man was suspended in the air, looking down at the green jade that had returned to its original state, his face extremely ugly.

This man was tall, with black hair but graying temples, a square face and a majestic appearance.

The next moment, two beams of light flew over, revealing the figures of Lu Qing and another white-haired old man. There were also a dozen foundation-building cultivators who flew out from various mountain peaks and came behind the three people, looking at the dimming green jade in surprise and doubt.

Lu Gui raised his hand and a dark blue spear appeared out of thin air. He swung it lightly and a dark blue blade of light flew out and struck the green jade.

The jade flashed, a subtle spatial fluctuation spread out, the dark blue light blade disappeared without a trace, and the jade was intact.

Lu Gui's eyes flashed with brilliance: "What a thief, it turned out to be a space magic weapon!"

Only Nascent Soul cultivators can refine space magic weapons, or at least they are high-level magic weapons that contain the power of space. Only Nascent Soul cultivators can break them. Even if three people join forces, they cannot do anything to this piece of green jade.

The white-haired old man frowned and glanced at Lu Qing: "Who is that young Taoist? How did he know that there is such a space magic weapon in the Wuchen Mountains?"

He is Lu Haiwei, the second elder of the Lu family. He has been in seclusion for many years to practice. When he first encountered this incident, he was naturally confused.

Lu Gui also turned his head. Lu Qing stared at Qingyu and said with gritted teeth: "Uncle, Sixth Uncle, I was wrong..."

At this point, how could he still not see that Chen Yuan had ulterior motives, so he immediately told him the whole story of recruiting Chen Yuan as a guest official.

After listening to this, Lu Gui's expression was grim, Lu Haiwei shook his head slightly, and those foundation-building cultivators who had gathered one after another were all stunned.

They never thought that Taoist Zi Yang, who was gentle and polite to others and had superb alchemy skills, actually had evil intentions and intended to steal the Lu family's treasures!
Lu Gui turned around and glanced at everyone, then said calmly, "You should all retreat first. This Taoist Zi Yang is acting so recklessly, he must be relying on something. The cultivators on Qingling Mountain should also retreat for the time being."

When the highly respected head of the family spoke, no one dared to disobey. After paying their respects to the three Jindan masters one by one, they dispersed.

Lu Yuan stared at Qingyu intently, and was the last one to turn around and leave, his face as gloomy as water.

It was he who proposed to recruit Taoist Zi Yang as a guest official. Although he was Lu Gui's grandson, Lu Gui was an indifferent person who practiced in seclusion all year round and did not care much about his grandchildren. He was afraid that he would not be able to escape severe punishment and hated Taoist Zi Yang to the core.

After all the foundation-building cultivators left, Lu Gui said coldly: "This space magic weapon must have existed on Qingling Mountain before my Lu family was established. It has not been nurtured by spiritual veins for more than 600 years. It will definitely not last too long. We will guard it here and wait for it to come out!"

Lu Hai stroked his long beard and asked hesitantly, "Could this person be a Nascent Soul cultivator?"

His life is almost over, and he just wants to spend his last years in peace. He is conservative and cautious, and doesn't want to get into trouble.

"Impossible!" Lu Qing said with a grim expression, "If Taoist Zi Yang was a Nascent Soul cultivator, why would he hide in the Dustless Mountains for so long? He wouldn't be so anxious to enter the space magic weapon and dare not face my uncle directly!"

Lu Gui said coldly: "Yes, this person dared to enter the Wuchen Mountains to steal treasures, so he must have some strength, but he acted so carefully. His cultivation is at most the late Jindan stage. Without the help of the clan protection formation, he can't escape."

"If he keeps hiding and refuses to come out, I will go to Zhenhai Sect and ask Yuanying Zhenren to help break the restriction of this space magic weapon!"

(End of this chapter)