Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 262: Dan Jue
When Chen Yuan stepped into the narrow door on the green jade, a dazzling white light flashed, followed by a familiar feeling of dizziness.

After a while, the feeling finally disappeared and the vision became clear.

After experiencing the tremendous oppressive force of the ancient teleportation array, the squeezing force of the space magic weapon seemed so insignificant.

After the white light disappeared, what appeared in front of Chen Yuan was a flat land, about a thousand acres in size, much smaller than the Wentianding Secret Realm. It was surrounded by a gray light curtain, and ten feet above the ground was a pale white dome, giving people a feeling of oppression.

The flat ground was divided into more than a dozen different spiritual plant gardens with ridges like fields, covered with all kinds of spiritual herbs, numbering thousands. However, as no one had taken care of them for a long time, these spiritual herbs were lush and messy, emitting rich spiritual energy, and a large number of seeds fell to the ground.

Chen Yuan looked carefully and couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. Most of these spiritual herbs were only fifty or eighty years old. The most precious ones were only hundred-year-old ones. There wasn't even a single three-hundred-year-old spiritual herb, let alone the five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs that Chen Yuan needed the most.

In the center of the spiritual garden is a fenced courtyard with an open wooden door. In the courtyard there are stone tables and stone benches, as well as a thatched house with a closed door. It looks like a farmer's house in the mortal countryside.

Chen Yuan was relieved at this time. The Lu family did not have a Nascent Soul cultivator, so it was impossible to break the restrictions of the space magic weapon in a short period of time. Therefore, he was not in a hurry. He raised the Golden Dragon Sword and the Wind and Cloud Bell, spread his spiritual sense, and walked forward slowly.

The jade map only recorded how to enter the place of inheritance. It did not even mention that the place of inheritance was a space magic weapon, let alone what the specific content of the inheritance was. He could only act with caution.

Chen Yuan's spiritual sense easily covered the entire secret space, but he was unable to penetrate into the thatched hut. There were only low-level spiritual herbs and a thatched hut, nothing else.

Chen Yuan walked into the farmer's yard, and only then did he discover that the branches used for the fence were actually an unknown century-old spiritual wood, and the wooden gate was actually a thousand-year-old spiritual wood, comparable to top-grade spiritual materials, shining with a faint luster.

Chen Yuan was very excited and walked into the courtyard. At this moment, an old voice sounded in his ears: "I am Dan Jue. I have been pursuing the way of alchemy for my whole life and have made some achievements. As I feel that my life is coming to an end, I will leave my legacy here. If the younger generation of cultivators can refine the demon essence pill, they can inherit my alchemy skills..."

Chen Yuan was shocked. Ever since he saw the map hidden in the recipe of Youyun Pill, he knew that the inheritance must be related to alchemy. However, he did not expect that this inheritance was actually left by old man Dan Jue.

Nowadays, not many cultivators may know Elder Dan Jue, but more than a thousand years ago, Elder Dan Jue was well-known in Yuqing Sea.

This person was a Nascent Soul cultivator of the same period as True Man Qing You. His real name had long been unknown, but because of his superb alchemy skills, he was called Old Man Dan Jue. Over time, he used this name.

Before True Man Qingyou formed his elixir, Old Man Danjue was very active in the Yuqing Sea and had a wide range of contacts. Even the Nascent Soul cultivators from the three major sects at the time asked him for help. He was a famous figure of the time.

If it were only because of his superb alchemy skills, Elder Dan Jue would not have such a great reputation. His cultivation was also extremely high, reaching the peak of the middle Nascent Soul stage, and he was only a step away from becoming a great cultivator.

Moreover, old man Dan Jue hated monsters to the core and often invited other Nascent Soul cultivators to enter the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters to hunt transformed monsters in exchange for Nascent Soul elixirs.

The monks and monsters of Yuqing Sea have always been mortal enemies. The monks need the monster cores and monster materials from the monsters, and the monsters covet the wealth of Yuqing Sea. They have been fighting each other for tens of thousands of years and have developed a blood feud.

But monsters are more valuable to low-level cultivators. For Nascent Soul cultivators, they need more spiritual herbs to improve their cultivation, and ordinary magic weapons are no longer of interest to them.

The transformed monsters can also be used to refine magic weapons and practice human supernatural powers, so they are difficult to deal with. The monster core and monster materials on their bodies can only be used to refine tools and talismans. Spending a lot of effort to hunt monsters is not worth the effort, and it may also intensify the conflict between the Ten Thousand Monsters Sea and the Yuqing Sea. Naturally, people become much more cautious.

But old man Dan Jue was willing to take out the Nascent Soul elixir and ask for help in hunting monsters. No matter they were from the righteous or evil paths, they all respected him very much.

It was also with the coordination of old man Dan Jue that the Yuqing Sea's immortal cultivation world was able to defeat several beast tides over the past few hundred years, and launched several consecutive offensives against the Ten Thousand Demons Sea, expanding the sea area a lot.

The Wentian Sect also participated in it. At that time, True Man Qingyou had only the foundation-building stage. He obeyed the sect's orders, hunted countless monsters, and established many meritorious services, thus becoming a true disciple of the Wentian Sect.

It is precisely because of this that Qing Youzhenren has great respect for Old Man Dan Jue and knows his past deeds very well.

After the great battle to conquer the Ten Thousand Demons Sea, True Man Qing You succeeded in forming a pill very quickly, but Old Man Dan Jue suddenly disappeared, completely vanishing from the Yuqing Sea cultivation world.

At that time, Elder Dan Jue had been active in the Yuqing Sea cultivation world for hundreds of years. People at the time speculated that he was nearing the end of his life and had passed away, which made the Yuqing Sea cultivators very sad. Without his leadership, the offensive against the demon clan came to a standstill.

Many people coveted the alchemy inheritance of old man Dan Jue, and searched everywhere in Yuqing Sea, but found nothing. Gradually, they stopped wasting their time, and the name of old man Dan Jue was gradually forgotten by the monks of Yuqing Sea.

Chen Yuan only found out today that old man Dan Jue’s inheritance was hidden here, on an inconspicuous small island.

He breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that all his hard work over the past few years had not been in vain, and he was extremely happy.

The inheritance of a Nascent Soul cultivator should include quite a few elixirs and magical weapons, right?
Chen Yuan quickened his pace and came to the stone table. On the table was a pure white jade slip, exactly the same as the jade slip containing the map, and an exquisite storage bag.

The jade slip should contain the "Yaoyuan Pill" that old man Dan Jue mentioned. Only by refining this kind of pill can one enter the thatched hut and obtain the inheritance.

Chen Yuan didn't think he could break through the obstacles set by a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, so he didn't make any other moves and just picked up the jade slip obediently.

Since it is a legacy left to future generations, the difficulty should not be too high. After all, he is a master of alchemy, so the chances of success should not be too low.

Chen Yuan's spiritual consciousness probed into the jade slip to check the recipe of the Yaoyuan Pill. His joyful expression quickly turned into surprise, and then into admiration.

After a long while, he put the jade slip down and sighed, "What a genius!"

The recipe for the Yaoyuan Pill recorded in the jade slip was different from all the recipes he had seen before. It was actually made with Yaoyuan Pill as the main ingredient!
Chen Yuan is now a master of alchemy. He has refined hundreds and thousands of pills and has mastered more than thirty kinds of pill recipes, but all of them use spiritual herbs as the main ingredient.

However, this Yaoyuan Pill is made with Yaodan as the main ingredient, supplemented by low-level spiritual herbs, which completely overturned Chen Yuan's understanding of alchemy.

Every alchemist knows that the reason why spiritual herbs can be used to make pills is because they contain the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and can be refined by cultivators.

However, the demon pill contains impure demonic power, which cannot be purified or refined at all, so no alchemist has ever thought of using the demon pill to make medicine.

But old man Dan Jue is worthy of his name Dan Jue. His attainments in alchemy have reached an unprecedented level, and he even developed a recipe for an elixir with demon pill as the main ingredient.

No wonder Elder Dan Jue seemed to have an irreconcilable hatred with the demon race, repeatedly invading the Ten Thousand Demon Sea to cause trouble for those transformed demon beasts. Chen Yuan was amazed, raised his hand and flicked the storage bag, and three light blue demon pills emerged out of thin air, flashing a faint light.

These are three level five black water snake demon pills. With these as the main ingredient and five kinds of fifty-year-old spiritual herbs as a supplement, they can be refined into level five demon essence pills, which can be used by cultivators in the early stage of forming a pill to improve their cultivation.

He checked the three Black Water Snake Demon Pills and found that they were all intact and had sufficient spiritual energy, so they could be used as the main ingredients for alchemy.

The demonic power in these three demon pills has all been transformed into spiritual energy. The method to purify and transform the demonic power is in the thatched hut.

As long as Chen Yuan can refine a fifth-level demon essence pill, he can open the restriction of the thatched hut and obtain the inheritance of old man Dan Jue.

But if the refining fails, the jade will self-destruct, and old man Dan Jue's inheritance will disappear.

Chen Yuan's expression became more serious. He turned and walked out of the courtyard, looking for five kinds of spiritual herbs to serve as auxiliary medicines.

These five kinds of spiritual herbs are all grown in the secret realm. Chen Yuan picked a few of each, collected enough spiritual herbs for three furnaces of elixirs, and returned to the courtyard.

Since the green jade restriction blocked the three Jindan cultivators of the Lu family, there was no need to worry about them breaking in. Chen Yuan did not rush to refine the elixir, but continued to figure out the recipe for the Yaoyuan Pill.

Three days later, he finally put down the jade slip, took out the alchemy furnace, and began to refine the elixir.

The process of purifying the spiritual herbs went smoothly. In just two days, Chen Yuan had purified all five kinds of spiritual herbs into pure spiritual liquid.

The difficulty lies in the next step. He needs to mix the Black Water Snake Demon Pill with five kinds of spiritual liquids. These two ingredients are: one is the spiritual energy contained in the spiritual herbs, which is pure and gentle; the other is transformed from the demonic power, which is violent and ferocious. Their natures conflict with each other.

In order to refine the Demon Yuan Pill, one must use the mild spiritual energy in the spiritual herbs to harmonize the violent spiritual energy in the demon pill. This process is extremely delicate and does not allow for any mistakes. It also requires extremely high spiritual awareness from the alchemist.

This is probably the reason why Elder Dan Jue hid the map in the Youyun Pill recipe. Only cultivators with extremely strong spiritual awareness can detect the abnormality of the jade slip.

Chen Yuan carefully recalled the recipe of the Demon Yuan Pill and waved his hand. A black water snake demon pill flew into the alchemy furnace by itself, slowly spinning in the burning flames, emitting pure yet violent spiritual energy, and rushing left and right in the alchemy furnace like an unruly dragon or snake.

Chen Yuan closed his eyes slightly, but his spiritual awareness was spread throughout every inch of space in the alchemy furnace, controlling the spiritual liquid purified from the spiritual herbs, and penetrating little by little into the violent spiritual energy flying out from the demon pill, calming these irritable dragons and snakes.

Chen Yuan's efforts paid off. The two spiritual energies with completely different properties mixed together. The violent spiritual energies became milder and milder until they became the same as the spiritual liquid purified from spiritual herbs.

To refine the Demon Yuan Pill, it is not necessary for the two kinds of spiritual energy to be completely balanced. Just add a little bit of mild spiritual energy, and the violent spiritual energy in the demon pill will be assimilated and finally condensed into a pill.

Chen Yuan's spiritual awareness was comparable to that of a cultivator in the middle stage of the Jindan stage. It was not difficult for him to refine the fifth-level Yaoyuan Pill. He was extremely careful and cautious during the process, gradually transforming most of the violent spiritual energy contained in the demon pill.

But it was his first time to refine the Demon Yuan Pill, and he had no experience. After converting 80% of the demon pill's spiritual energy, something went wrong. The spiritual energy was in turmoil, and the Black Water Snake Demon Pill and the purified spiritual herbs and liquids all turned to nothing.

Chen Yuan carefully summed up his experience, and after his consciousness recovered, he began his second attempt at refining the elixir.

He was more careful this time and finally did not make any mistakes. It took him a month to refine two level five demon essence pills.

Looking at the two longan-sized light blue pills in front of him, Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, put one away, held the other in his left hand, stood up and walked to the thatched hut.

He stretched out his left hand forward, and a level five demon Yuan Dan flew out. An invisible light curtain suddenly emerged from around the thatched hut. The demon Yuan Dan slowly merged into the light curtain, creating ripples like water waves.

After a moment, the fifth-level demon Yuan Dan disappeared, and the invisible light curtain covering the thatched hut also dissipated, and the door opened silently.

Chen Yuan walked into the house. A pure white jade slip was hanging in the middle of the thatched house. There was a cushion underneath it, and nothing else.

Chen Yuan frowned. How could old man Dan Jue's inheritance be so simple?
He raised his hand and took the jade slip in his hand. His spiritual sense probed into it. The old man Dan Jue's old voice sounded in his ears: "Young cultivator, I will give you all the alchemy skills I have gained in my life. I don't ask for anything else, but I ask for the inheritance to continue..."

The voice faded away, and the method of purifying and transforming the demon power of the demon pill was revealed. Chen Yuan was fascinated by it, and his admiration for old man Dan Jue reached an unprecedented level.

In addition, old man Dan Jue also left behind dozens of Yaoyuan Pill recipes, telling the process of how he found this method and the reason for leaving behind the legacy.

Thousand-year-old spiritual herbs are extremely scarce in the world of immortal cultivation. Most Nascent Soul cultivators can only bury their heads in hard practice, absorbing the thin spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Their cultivation level remains at the early Nascent Soul stage throughout their entire lives.

Only a few lucky Nascent Soul cultivators can find thousand-year-old spiritual herbs from ancient secret realms and various dangerous places, or they are cultivators from large sects with deep foundation and can cultivate some thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.

Elder Dan Jue was just a casual cultivator, and his alchemy skills were not recognized. Few Nascent Soul cultivators asked him to make pills. After more than ten years of hard training, his progress was extremely slow. If he continued to practice step by step, he could only barely break through the mid-term bottleneck before he died.

This was because he had no shortage of elixirs before he formed his Nascent Soul, and his cultivation speed was extremely fast. He formed his Nascent Soul in just three hundred years, so he was so confident.

When most cultivators reach the stage of infant formation, they have already practiced for more than three hundred years, or even more than four hundred years, but they cannot even reach the mid-term bottleneck until their death.

Elder Dan Jue had no choice but to look for opportunities everywhere, hoping to get some thousand-year-old spiritual herbs to improve his alchemy skills to the level of a great alchemy master.

There is a dangerous place in the Yuqing Sea, called "Jueling Island", which contains many rare treasures. Even Nascent Soul cultivators who enter it will be in danger of life and death. It opens once every hundred years. Old Man Dan Jue entered it twice and accidentally got a broken prescription.

This is a residual recipe for a Yuanying stage elixir, but its main ingredient is the demon elixir. However, the steps for refining the elixir have been destroyed, so it is impossible to get a glimpse of the full picture.

Inspired by the incomplete recipe, old man Dan Jue devoted himself to studying it. After a lot of attempts, he actually developed a method to purify and transform the demon power of the demon pill based on this incomplete recipe. He then used low-level spiritual herbs to refine the pill and improve his cultivation.

(End of this chapter)