Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 263: Demon Yuan Dan

Yaoyuandan is a general term for elixirs made from demon pills. The spiritual herbs used as auxiliary medicines will change accordingly depending on the demon pill used.

At the beginning, old man Dan Jue only developed a first-level Yaoyuan Pill. After that, he devoted himself to research for nearly a hundred years and developed dozens of Yaoyuan Pill recipes, the highest of which could reach the seventh-level Yaoyuan Pill.

But these pills are of no use to him. The Yaoyuan Pill is different from the pills made from spiritual herbs. For example, five hundred year old spiritual herbs can be refined into pills for the early stage of pill formation, and can also be refined into pills for the middle stage of pill formation.

However, the fifth-level Yaoyuan Pill is only useful for cultivators in the early stage of Jindan. If cultivators in the middle stage of Jindan want to improve their cultivation, they can only take the sixth-level Yaoyuan Pill.

Elder Dan Jue is a cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage. If he wants to improve his cultivation, he must take the eighth-level Yaoyuan Pill, and this requires the demon pill of a transformed demon beast as the main ingredient.

However, transformed monsters are also extremely rare in the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters. Old Man Dan Jue put in a lot of thought and planning, and finally killed an eighth-level Sky-lifting Divine Turtle. He used the turtle's demon pill as the main ingredient and refined the first batch of eighth-level Demon Yuan Pills.

This was all thanks to his mastery of alchemy and his rich experience in developing dozens of kinds of Demon Yuan Pills from scratch. He was able to conceive the recipe for the eighth-level Demon Yuan Pill based on the Demon Yuan Pill made with the seventh-level Sky-lifting Divine Turtle Demon Pill as the main ingredient, and succeeded in one fell swoop.

From then on, in order to refine the Demon Yuan Pill, Elder Dan Jue repeatedly invited other Nascent Soul cultivators to enter the Ten Thousand Demons Sea to hunt transformed monsters, and he was not afraid to reward them with eighth-level Demon Yuan Pills.

During this period, Elder Dan Jue's cultivation, which had stagnated for a long time, finally began to improve.

But the transformed monsters were difficult to kill, and he also needed to reward other Nascent Soul cultivators with elixirs. His progress in cultivation was not fast, and it took him more than two hundred years to break through the bottleneck of the middle stage.

Compared with ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators in the early stage, Elder Dan Jue's cultivation speed is already very fast. After all, most of the Nascent Soul cultivators in the early stage can only stay in the Nascent Soul stage throughout their entire lives.

But old man Dan Jue was not satisfied with this. He had touched the mid-term bottleneck forty years ago and had spent the last forty years breaking through the bottleneck.

The bottleneck in the later stage will only become more solid, and the ninth-level demon pill is more difficult to obtain than the eighth-level demon pill. If he continues to practice at this speed, even if he has the demon essence pill to improve his cultivation, he will not be able to become a great cultivator. Something must be changed.

But old man Dan Jue is just an alchemist after all, and his own combat power is not strong. If he wants to hunt more transformed monsters, he can only use the power of others.

He used the Demon Yuan Pill as a guide to create a huge storm in the Yuqing Sea. He united the three major sects to jointly open up the sea area and launch a large-scale attack on the demon clan.

After the Yaoyuan Pill was refined, it was no different from ordinary pills. Other Nascent Soul cultivators were unable to tell the difference. Naturally, they could not refuse the Nascent Soul pill that Old Man Dan Jue took out.

Under the instigation of Elder Dan Jue, several major battles broke out between the Yuqing Sea monks and the Wan Yao Sea monsters. Beast waves occurred frequently, and countless monks and monsters were killed and injured.

The fight between the two sides lasted for more than two hundred years. Elder Dan Jue got several ninth-level demon pills as he wished, which pushed his cultivation to the peak of the middle Nascent Soul stage. He was only one step away from becoming a great cultivator.

At this time, he still had nearly three hundred years of life left, which was enough time to break through the bottleneck of the late stage, and even had a glimmer of hope of reaching the God Transformation Stage.

Before this, Yuqing Sea had not produced a Divine Transformation cultivator for tens of thousands of years. If it were not for the research on the recipe of the Demon Yuan Pill, old man Dan Jue would never have dared to have such delusion.

However, due to his weak fighting ability, he had been seriously injured several times in previous battles with transformed monsters, which damaged his foundation.

However, the bottleneck of the late Nascent Soul stage was extremely solid. He tried several ways to stimulate the bottleneck, but none of them worked, and his cultivation remained at the middle Nascent Soul stage.

As time passed, more than a hundred years later, old man Dan Jue still failed to break through the bottleneck of the late stage. Seeing that his life was coming to an end, he finally fell into despair and prepared to go to Jueling Island to try and find a way to break through the bottleneck of the late stage.

After developing the recipe for the Yaoyuan Pill, he never went to the dangerous Jueling Island again, and has been using the Yaoyuan Pill to steadily improve his cultivation.

However, the Yaoyuan Pill can only improve his cultivation but cannot help him break through the bottleneck. Jueling Island is his last hope.

This dangerous place, famous for its Jade Purity Sea, is a strange place. No one knows its origin till now. It is suspected to have been left here by a powerful monk in ancient times.

There are many rare treasures hidden therein. In the past, there were many examples of cultivators gaining opportunities on Jueling Island and thus breaking through bottlenecks.

But old man Dan Jue also knew that he was only good at refining pills and not good at fighting others.

This trip is to find an opportunity to break through the bottleneck of the late Nascent Soul stage. One must go deep into the Jueling Island, which is extremely risky. It can be said that one is in danger of death and there is a high possibility of death.

Therefore, before leaving, he left his inheritance on Wuchen Island to prevent the method of refining Yaoyuan Pill from being lost.

Of course, Old Man Dan Jue has never been a righteous cultivator. Everything he did was to seek immortality. For his own selfish reasons, he was able to start a war between human cultivators and demons.

But as the saying goes, "a wild goose leaves its voice behind when it passes by, a person leaves his name behind when he passes by." He had been stuck at a bottleneck for a long time, with little chance of finding the way. On a whim, he wanted to leave behind his own legacy, so that his life's efforts in the way of alchemy were not in vain.

In the jade slip, old man Dan Jue, who felt that he had no hope of achieving his great path, was extremely frank and recounted his life experiences.

He also left a message: "I have been obsessed with alchemy all my life. I once wanted to seek the great Dao through alchemy. However, my supernatural powers are not refined and my foundation is not solid. I am stuck at a bottleneck and cannot move forward. The younger generation of cultivators who inherit this legacy should not indulge in alchemy. You must know that cultivating supernatural powers is the foundation of everything. If you want to seek the great Dao, you must diligently cultivate the means to protect the Dao and must not rely on others!"

At the end of the jade slip were the recipes for hundreds of Yao Yuan Dan that he had researched, ranging from level one to level nine.

There are also three recipes for level 10 Demon Yuan Pills, but old man Dan Jue has never obtained a level 10 Demon Yuan Pill. These three recipes are only deduced based on the same type of level 9 Demon Yuan Pills and level 8 Demon Yuan Pills, and still need to be verified.

Chen Yuan memorized everything in the jade slip. This was the life's work of old man Dan Jue and the essence of alchemy of a great alchemy master. It allowed the demon pills that could only be used as materials for refining instruments to replace five hundred, eight hundred, or even thousand-year-old spiritual herbs. Their value even exceeded the inheritance of a great cultivator.

After a long time, he withdrew his spiritual sense, took a step back, clasped his hands together, bowed deeply to the jade slip with a serious expression.

This bow is a sign of respect to the predecessors of alchemy and gratitude to Mr. Dan Jue for the inheritance he left behind.

After standing up, he put away the jade slip. The thatched hut was empty except for the futon on the ground.

Chen Yuan turned around and walked out of the thatched hut, picking dozens of spiritual herbs from each of the dozen or so spiritual plant gardens. He also picked all the few hundred-year-old spiritual herbs and put them into the mustard seed ring.

These spiritual herbs were planted by old man Dan Jue and are used as auxiliary medicines for refining various Yaoyuan Pills.

Among them, fifty-year-old spiritual herbs can be used as auxiliary medicines for level five Yaoyuan Pills, eighty-year-old spiritual herbs can be used as auxiliary medicines for level six Yaoyuan Pills, and hundred-year-old spiritual herbs can be used as auxiliary medicines for level seven Yaoyuan Pills.

As for the three hundred year old, five hundred year old, and eight hundred year old spiritual herbs needed to refine level eight to ten demon essence pills, they are not planted in the spiritual garden.

This is just a place of inheritance that old man Dan Jue set up on a whim before he went to Jueling Island. Naturally, there won’t be any good things here.

He disappeared after True Man Qingyou formed his elixir, and he must have died on Jueling Island, otherwise he would not have given up this space magic weapon. Due to the limited space in the mustard ring, Chen Yuan did not take away all the fifty-year and eighty-year spiritual herbs. Moreover, these spiritual herbs that could be ripened by Qi-refining monks were everywhere in the market and were of little value, so he was not very interested.

After taking the jade slip and the spiritual herb, Chen Yuan raised his hand and grabbed it. A white jade slip mixed with light green slowly emerged, emitting a faint spiritual light.

In the jade slip of inheritance, old man Dan Jue left behind the method to control this space magic weapon. This jade slip that opens the portal to the secret realm of space is the most important one.

Elder Dan Jue left behind not just this one map, but seven copies, all of which were hidden in the recipes for Jindan stage elixirs.

On his way to Jueling Island, he sold the seven recipes to alchemists in the markets along the way, threw them away on the deserted island, or left them in a temporary cave he had opened up before, waiting for the right person.

As long as someone activates the map, they can use it to find the Wuchen Island, which was then called Qianlang Island, enter the Qingyu Secret Realm, and have the opportunity to obtain the inheritance.

If one wants to take away this space magic weapon, one must also pass through this jade slip, which is considered a part of old man Dan Jue's inheritance.

But after Chen Yuan summoned the jade slip, he shook his head helplessly.

Naturally, he wanted to take the green jade away. Space magic weapons require a large amount of rare spiritual materials to refine. They only exist in large sects and are the foundation of the entire sect. Even great monks cannot take them for themselves.

Elder Dan Jue also had extraordinary fortune. This piece of green jade was obtained by chance after he entered a dangerous place in Jiuxianzhou in search of thousand-year-old spiritual herbs. Even great cultivators rarely have such luck.

The space magic weapon contains spiritual energy. It only needs to be nurtured in the spiritual vein for a period of time every once in a while, and there will be no worry about damage. It is the safest cave.

But Chen Yuan was only at the initial stage of Jindan and did not understand the power of space. It would take him at least a quarter of an hour to take the green jade away. The three Jindan cultivators of the Lu family would definitely not let him take away the space magic weapon easily.

Unfortunately, the first kind of true blood refined was Zhu Yan's true blood. If it was replaced with Tian Feng's true blood, Kun Peng's true blood, Di Jiang's true blood, Taotie's true blood containing the power of space... he would definitely be able to take Qing Yu away successfully.

As Chen Yuan's thoughts turned, he put away the jade slip and returned to his thatched cottage to meditate and practice, restoring his consciousness and true energy.

After he entered the Qingyu Secret Realm, the restriction had not been broken, which showed that the Lu family had not yet invited a Nascent Soul cultivator to take action.

But it took him nearly two months to refine the fifth-level Yaoyuan Pill twice. It is hard to say how much patience the Lu family has left.

He could not waste time and had to leave the secret space and escape from the Dustless Island as soon as possible.

A day later, Chen Yuan slowly opened his eyes. The true energy and spiritual consciousness consumed in the process of refining the elixir had been restored to normal.

It was time to leave the secret realm. He stood up and walked out of the thatched hut. With a thought, he took out the jade slip from the mustard seed ring and held it tightly in his hand with a serious expression.

His original plan was to sneak into the Wuchen Mountains and quietly take away the inheritance, but he didn't expect that the Qingyu Secret Realm would be opened with such a loud noise that it alarmed the entire Lu family.

The Lu family has three Jindan cultivators, plus the help of a large clan protection formation. Even if Chen Yuan activates Zhu Yan's true blood, he is no match for them.

If you want to leave the Lu family, you have to do it by surprise.

Chen Yuan raised his hand and grabbed, the Golden Dragon Sword and the Wind and Cloud Bell appeared, then he raised his hand and threw the jade slip out, the magic formula in his hand changed, and he pointed a point, the jade slip shone brightly, and a narrow green door slowly appeared in front of Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan raised his hand to take back the jade slip, and white light enveloped his surroundings. Then he took a big step forward and walked into the narrow door of green light.

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At noon in the Wuchen Mountains, the sun was high in the sky, the mountain breeze was blowing gently, and it was quiet and peaceful, but the air on Qingling Mountain was heavy and stagnant.

The three Jindan cultivators of the Lu family surrounded Qingyu, their eyes slightly closed, their aura restrained, as if they were three flying swords hidden deep in their sheaths, ready to fly up at the next moment, emitting endless sword energy and destroying everything in front of them.

Suddenly, the three of them opened their eyes at the same time, and a narrow door of green light slowly emerged from the green jade. Inside, it was all white, and it was impossible to tell whether it was real or not.

Lu Gui said: "The Taoist Zi Yang is about to come out, be prepared, and don't let this thief escape!"

He raised his hand and a dark blue spear appeared out of thin air, hanging above the jade, ready to chop down at any time.

This is a mid-level magic weapon named Fu Hai Ge, and it is also Lu Gui's natal magic weapon. After being nurtured by him for more than two hundred years, it has extraordinary power and can be regarded as the top among mid-level magic weapons.

Lu Qing summoned a black flying sword, but the spiritual light it emitted was far inferior to that of Fu Hai Ge.

It has been less than 30 years since he formed his elixir, and he has not yet refined his own magic weapon. This flying sword was left by an ancestor of the Lu family. It is just a low-level magic weapon with mediocre power. It has the shape of a sword, but none of the benefits of a flying sword.

However, Lu Qing had just formed his elixir and had not yet mastered his magical powers or secret techniques, so he could only use this magic weapon to fight the enemy.

Beside Lu Qing, Lu Haiwei held up a formation plate about a foot in size in his left hand, put two fingers of his right hand together in front of his chest, and stared at the narrow door with green light.

Although he has reached the peak of the early Jindan stage, he has not fought with anyone for a long time and is already old. He was arranged by Lu Gui to be in charge of the formation of the clan protection array. If Taoist Zi Yang really has the cultivation level of the late Jindan stage, he will need to activate the clan protection array for help.

Behind the three of them were thirty-six foundation-building monks, each holding a formation flag made of spiritual light. Lu Yuan was among them, with a solemn expression.

These spiritual light flags are condensed from the clan protection formation. Activating the clan protection formation requires the consumption of high-quality spirit stones or the infusion of mana by cultivators.

This time they were only trying to encircle and suppress a Taoist priest named Zi Yang, and it would be a waste to use high-grade spirit stones, so they were asked to hold the spiritual light formation flags and infuse magic power into them when Lu Haiwei activated the formation.

At this time, the narrow green door finally expanded to its limit, and a figure stepped out. He was wearing a Taoist robe, and there was a hideous scar on his left cheek that was very eye-catching. It was Taoist Zi Yang.

Lu Gui shouted, "You thief, give me your life!"

He pointed and gently swung the Fu Hai Ge. Hundreds of misty blue blades slashed towards Taoist Zi Yang. The sound of huge waves rang out in the void. The thirty-six foundation-building monks of the Lu family couldn't help but tremble in their hearts, as if they were about to be swallowed by a tsunami.

This was not the end. After the light blade was slashed out, Lu Gui raised his hand and pointed to the sky. A cloud as blue as the sea suddenly condensed, covering an area of ​​a thousand feet in radius. Endless raindrops fell and condensed into three-inch long sharp cones, shooting towards Taoist Zi Yang.

At the same time, Lu Qing gritted his teeth, raised his hand and made a gesture. The black flying sword grew to about ten feet long, made a whistling sound, and chopped down heavily.

Taoist Zi Yang deceived the entire Lu family, intending to steal the space magic weapon. The monks of the Lu family hated him to the core and were ruthless in their attack, wishing they could kill him on the spot!
Thanks for the reward from the Four Gods of Heaven's Wrath!
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