Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 271 Penance
The formation that was just destroyed by the Green-Eyed Eagle was the last high-level spiritual formation in his hands. If he continued to hunt monsters, there would be no formation to stop the enemy.

But if he didn't do this, it would be difficult for him to escape from the iron beak of the blue-eyed eagle.

The Green-Eyed Eagle has a powerful bloodline, with a trace of the blood of the golden-winged Roc, a royal family of bird demons. This Green-Eyed Eagle is also a seventh-level demon beast, making it even more difficult to deal with.

However, Chen Yuan only had the cultivation level of the initial stage of Jindan. After stimulating Zhu Yan's true blood, he could only maintain it for a hundred breaths. At most, he could fight a tie with the Green-eyed Eagle. Once his true energy was exhausted, he would be like fish on the chopping board.

This was not the first time this had happened. Since he entered the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons to hunt monsters five years ago, he had encountered seventh-level monsters with powerful bloodlines several times and had to abandon the formation and flee.

Fortunately, he was cautious in character and did not go deep into the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters. He had been hunting monsters on the edge of the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters close to the human waters and had never encountered a transformed monster.

The demon race is different from the human race. Although the human race is constantly fighting among themselves, they understand right and wrong and have order and laws.

The three major sects had been fighting openly and secretly for thousands of years, but they were able to join forces to fight against the demon clan and open up the Bleeding Island, which served as a bridgehead for the human monks of Yuqing Sea to hunt demons.

The demon race is a pure law of the jungle, and there are also racial divisions. Different kinds of demon beasts fight and devour each other, and many transformed demon beasts don't even regard low-level demon beasts as their own kind.

Only when the demon race raises a beast tide, or when human cultivators invade the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons on a large scale, will the transformed demon beasts, under the leadership of several demon beast royal families, unite to fight the enemy.

Under such circumstances, the demon race naturally cannot compete with the human race.

The transformed monsters dare not approach the human sea areas for fear of being besieged by human Nascent Soul cultivators. Their territories are all in the depths of the Ten Thousand Monsters Sea.

Chen Yuan was extremely careful in his actions and never stayed in one place for too long, so he never fell into danger.

Over the past five years, he has hunted hundreds of monsters, most of which are level five, but there are also more than twenty level six monsters. He has harvested hundreds of monster pills, all of which can be used to refine monster essence pills.

It just so happened that the high-level spiritual formation in his hands was completely destroyed. It would be easy for the monsters to escape if he hunted monsters by himself. Chen Yuan decided to leave the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters first and refine the monster pills in his hands into elixirs to improve his cultivation.

In addition, the mustard ring and storage bag in his hand were filled with various monster materials. There were even some monster materials of little value that had to be discarded because there was no space to put them.

This time I returned to Blood Island just in time to sell all the monster materials I had.

Chen Yuan had made up his mind. He rushed all the way and finally returned to Blood Island after more than a month.

The Blood Island Market became more and more prosperous, and more and more human cultivators entered the Ink Sea to hunt monsters.

On his way back, Chen Yuan met several Foundation Establishment monks who were teaming up to hunt monsters, and he was very nervous in front of him.

But he did not have the habit of attacking low-level cultivators without reason. He just passed by a few people. He even used the Golden Dragon Sword to kill several level four bird monsters that blocked his way, leaving several Foundation Establishment cultivators who were fleeing for their lives stunned. They thanked him repeatedly and were extremely respectful.

After Chen Yuan entered the market town, he first came to Zhengqi Pavilion to sell monster materials.

Since the quantity of monster materials he was selling was not small, the deacon on duty at the Zhengqi Pavilion had no authority to make the decision, and it was the elders of the Zhengqi League who came forward to conduct the transaction with Chen Yuan.

This elder is a cultivator in the middle stage of the Jindan period, named Liu Sitong, about thirty years old. He looks like a weak scholar with a gentle smile.

After the two men introduced themselves to each other, they sat down as host and guest and exchanged a few words of greeting. Then Chen Yuan took out the materials of seven level five monsters.

Liu Sitong was quite surprised to see that Chen Yuan only had the cultivation base of the initial stage of Jindan, but he took out the materials of seven level five monsters. "Chen Daoyou is very tactful. This tiger-headed dragon is not easy to deal with. Even if I encounter it, I will have to work hard and may not be able to keep it."

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Chen was not out to sea alone, but teamed up with another good friend to hunt monsters. We were lucky enough to encounter an injured tiger-headed dragon and killed it."

Liu Sitong laughed and said, "Injured monsters are more likely to go berserk. Fellow Daoist Chen is too modest."

He carefully examined the monster materials very skillfully and nodded, "Yes, these monster materials are well preserved. This tiger-headed dragon has complete tendons, scales, and skin. It can be refined into several top-grade spiritual tools, and there is even a 10% chance of being refined into a magic weapon. I will offer fifty high-grade spiritual stones. What do you think, fellow Daoist?"

The price was very fair, and Chen Yuan agreed immediately.

After the two of them finished the transaction, Liu Sitong ordered his men to put the monster materials into the warehouse, and suddenly asked casually, "Since Fellow Daoist Chen has sold so many monster materials, why don't you sell the monster pills as well?"

Chen Yuan's heart trembled, but his expression remained calm: "My friend Chen's strength is higher than mine. I made an agreement with him that the demon pill belongs to him and the materials belong to me, but I can't sell the demon pill."

Liu Sitong said regretfully: "This is a pity. If Daoyou Chen's friend wants to sell the demon pill, Daoyou can introduce him to me. The price is negotiable. I will never let Daoyou Chen's friend suffer a loss."

Chen Yuan said calmly, "Fellow Daoist Liu, I'll take note of your kindness and will definitely tell my good friend about it."

He stood up to say goodbye, and Liu Shitong ordered someone to escort him out of Zhengqi Pavilion.

After Chen Yuan walked out of the Zhengqi Pavilion, the smile on his face slowly faded.

He and Liu Shitong had just met for the first time, and this man had no ill will towards him. However, the fact that he took out the materials of seven monsters but not a single monster pill still caught Liu Shitong's attention.

For cultivators, demon pills, like other demon beast materials, are mostly used to refine weapons and make talismans. Only a very small number of strange elixirs require demon pills.

He only sold monster materials but not monster pills, which naturally aroused Liu Shitong's curiosity.

He could still get away with it this time, but he still had a large amount of monster materials in his hands. If he sold them all to the Righteousness Alliance, but kept all the monster pills, and then used the excuse of being a friend to get away with it, it would definitely arouse the suspicion of the Righteousness Alliance.

Chen Yuan didn't think that the Righteous Alliance would treat a guest elder as one of their own. They would definitely want to know how a cultivator in the early Jindan stage could hunt so many monsters and why he left all the monster cores behind.

The remaining monster materials must not be sold to the Righteous Alliance. They must be sold in batches, and one's identity must be concealed so as not to arouse suspicion from others.

Fortunately, the thing that is most in short supply in the Blood Island Market is monster materials. As long as we are careful, there shouldn't be any problems...

As Chen Yuan's thoughts flowed, he came to Sihai Pavilion in the market town, which rented out caves, and rented a cave.

Land on Blood Island is very expensive, and the number of caves for rent is limited and the price is very expensive. It costs three high-quality spirit stones a year, which can be rented for three years in Hanxing City. Moreover, the spiritual energy is very thin, far inferior to the cave that Chen Yuan rented in Hanxing City.

But the biggest advantage of this kind of cave is that it is extremely safe and will never be disturbed by anyone, which is something that the residence provided by the Righteous Alliance does not have.

As for the lower-level caves, the prices are extremely cheap, but they can only guarantee safety and require living with other people. Naturally, Chen Yuan would not consider it.

Moreover, although the rent seemed very high for other Jindan cultivators, it was nothing to Chen Yuan.

He chose a slightly remote cave and rented it for fifteen years, spending most of his spirit stones on it.

Afterwards, he purchased a large number of low-level spiritual herbs in batches in the market according to the types and quantities of the demon pills in his hands, enough to refine all the demon pills in his hands into pills.

Because he didn't want to reveal his identity, he spent two days to collect all the spiritual herbs and returned to the cave. Chen Yuan didn't sell any more monster materials. All the monster materials he had came from level 5 and level 6 monsters. Many of them had strong bloodlines and the monster materials on them were quite precious. Even if they were sold in batches, it would not be done overnight, which was too time-consuming.

The most urgent task is to refine pills and practice in seclusion. It will not be too late to deal with the monster materials after coming out.

Chen Yuan made all the preparations. He closed the cave, took out the alchemy furnace, threw a demon pill into the furnace, closed his eyes slightly, and the training room fell into silence.

Spring comes and autumn goes, time passes, and seven years have passed in a flash.

Chen Yuan refined all the level 5 demon pills in his hand into demon essence pills, leaving only twenty-three level 6 demon pills.

After refining dozens of furnaces of fifth-level demon essence pills, his alchemy skills also improved greatly. The success rate of refining early-stage pills reached 50%, surpassing 90% of the alchemy masters in Yuqinghai.

Most of the alchemy masters do not have as much experience in alchemy as Chen Yuan. Due to the limitation of spiritual herbs, they can only refine a few batches of pills a year.

Moreover, in order to refine the Demon Yuan Pill, one must first purify and transform the violent demonic power in the demon pill, which is more difficult than refining pills with spiritual herbs.

Chen Yuan estimated that if he switched to using spiritual herbs to refine pills for the early stage of forming the elixir, the success rate should be able to increase by 10% to 60%.

After Chen Yuan refined all the level five demon pills into elixirs, he refined another batch of the more difficult level six demon essence pills. When the success rate dropped to 30%, he stopped immediately.

The higher the grade of the elixir, the more spiritual energy it contains, and the more difficult it is to refine.

The difference between the elixirs in the Qi Refining Stage is very small, the difference between the elixirs in the Foundation Establishment Stage is larger, the difference between the elixirs in the Core Formation Stage is even greater, and the difference between the elixirs in the Nascent Soul Stage is as huge as heaven and earth.

An alchemist who can refine the third-level Qi-refining elixir can also easily refine the tenth-level Qi-refining elixir.

However, for an alchemy master who can only refine elixirs for the initial stage of foundation building, the success rate of refining elixirs for the later stage of foundation building will drop by 20%.

Chen Yuan's success rate in refining the fifth-level Yaoyuan Pill is as high as 50%. When refining the sixth-level Yaoyuan Pill, the success rate will drop by 20%. If he wants to refine the seventh-level Yaoyuan Pill, the success rate will be as low as 10%.

Nascent Soul Stage elixirs are even more difficult to make. If a grandmaster alchemist has only a 30% success rate in refining Nascent Soul Early Stage elixirs, he won't even be able to refine Nascent Soul Middle Stage elixirs!

The reason why old man Dan Jue is called Dan Jue is because he has only the cultivation level of the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, but he can refine elixirs for the late stage of the Nascent Soul, and his success rate is as high as 30%. His alchemy skills can be said to be the best in Yuqinghai from ancient times to the present.

Because of this, the great monk also treated him with great respect. Although he was only in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, he had an influence no less than that of the great monk, and launched several wars to conquer the demon clan.

Chen Yuan’s cultivation was not high enough, so it was useless to refine the sixth-level demon essence pill. He stopped wasting time and turned to meditation to improve his cultivation.

One year, two years, three years...

The formation curtain outside Chen Yuan's cave residence never dissipated. Flowers bloomed and faded, leaves grew and fell. Over time, it seemed to be forgotten by the world.

Eight years later, a cultivator at the tenth level of Qi Refining came to the outside of Chen Yuan's cave, hesitated for a moment, released a sound transmission talisman, and entered the cave.

He waited for several hours, but there was no movement in the cave. He had no choice but to return to Sihai Pavilion and report the matter to a foundation-building deacon: "The Jindan senior seems to be in seclusion. After I sent out the sound transmission note, there was no response."

Sihai Pavilion is managed by Zhenhai Sect, the largest sect in Yuqing Sea, and is responsible for renting caves to other cultivators. All the cultivators in the pavilion are from Zhenhai Sect.

This deacon's cultivation was only at the initial stage of foundation building, but he had an extraordinary bearing. Upon hearing this, he just frowned and waved away the Qi-refining cultivator.

He pondered for a moment, then came to a small courtyard behind Sihai Pavilion and knocked on the door: "Is Elder Wei here? I have something to report."

A slightly dissatisfied voice sounded in the courtyard: "I am entertaining guests. If there is no urgent matter, please do not disturb me!"

"Yes." The deacon was startled and dared not say anything else, waiting aside.

He waited for three hours before the gate opened silently and a middle-aged monk and a gray-haired old man walked out together.

The middle-aged monk didn't even look at the deacon, but bowed to the old man, his face full of apology: "Brother Lu, don't worry, I will tell Brother Lu about this matter. If there is a reply, I will inform Brother Lu as soon as possible."

The old man looked a little unhappy, but he still managed a smile: "Thank you very much, Brother Wei. After the matter is done, I will definitely reward you handsomely."

He bowed in return, turned to look at the foundation-building deacon, nodded slightly, and then turned and left.

The foundation-building deacon was flattered and quickly bowed deeply to the old man with an extremely respectful expression.

The middle-aged cultivator is a mid-stage Jindan cultivator. Since the old man can be called brother by him, he must not be an ordinary Jindan cultivator. The foundation-building deacon dare not be negligent in the slightest.

The middle-aged cultivator glanced at the foundation-building deacon, then looked at the old man's departing back and sneered, "Haha, you have gained so much benefit from the space magic weapon, but you just want to get something for nothing. How can it be that easy..."

His voice was so soft that the Foundation Establishment Deacon did not hear it clearly. He just said respectfully, "Elder Wei, disciple has something to report."

"Come in and talk." The middle-aged monk turned and walked into the courtyard.

The foundation-building deacon followed in and told Chen Yuan that the lease on his cave residence had expired.

There have been many precedents for this kind of thing, but the Foundation Establishment Deacon had no authority to deal with it, so he immediately reported it to the middle-aged cultivator in charge of the Four Seas Pavilion.

The middle-aged cultivator said calmly, "Put down a soul-touching talisman outside this person's cave. After the cave is opened, I will go and ask for the spiritual stones that are owed to me."

"Yes!" The foundation-building deacon felt relieved and agreed immediately.

After he left the courtyard, he took out a high-level talisman from the Sihai Pavilion's warehouse, came to Chen Yuan's cave, and pasted the talisman in the formation.

Spring and autumn change, cold and heat replace each other, and in the blink of an eye, another three years have passed.

On this day, the door of the cave slowly opened, triggering the talisman.

Chen Yuan walked out, his face seemed to have a layer of bright jade light, his eyes were like stars, and he was in high spirits.

At this time, a beam of light flew over from a distance and landed in front of Chen Yuan. It was the middle-aged cultivator who was in charge of Sihai Pavilion.

He looked at Chen Yuan with a look of doubt and uncertainty, and said with a cupped hand: "My fellow Taoist is polite. I am Wei Changhong from Zhenhai Sect, and I am honored to be the head of Sihai Pavilion."

There was a typo in the above text, which has been corrected. It will take another twenty-three years for Jueling Island to be opened.

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