Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chen Yuan suppressed all the thoughts in his mind and picked up the black tortoise shell.

He activated Zhu Yan's true blood, and his black hair turned snow-white. A thin layer of white flame appeared on his hands, condensing into a pair of flaming gloves.

The next moment, Zhu Yan's true fire surged into the tortoise shell, erasing all the remaining imprints of spiritual consciousness within it.

The imprint of spiritual consciousness in the black tortoise shell was extremely solid, and much more stubborn than the Feiyun Sword that Chen Yuan had obtained before. However, under the burning of Zhu Yan's true fire, it disappeared in an instant.

This magic weapon is definitely not something that Patriarch Yuntian often uses. Otherwise, even with the Zhuyan True Fire, it would take some effort to erase the imprint of spiritual consciousness.

This black tortoise shell should be a magic weapon of other Nascent Soul cultivators, but now that it has fallen into the hands of Patriarch Yuntian, it is likely to be dangerous.

Chen Yuan took back the Zhuyan True Fire, injected his true essence into the black tortoise shell, and began to refine this magic weapon.

The black tortoise shell slowly grew to three feet in size, and the mottled lines slowly lit up, crisscrossing each other.

After a long time, most of Chen Yuan's true energy was consumed and he finally completed the refining of the magic weapon.

The light in the patterns on the back of the tortoise shell slowly rose and condensed into a shadow of a Yuanluo. A long, low roar was faintly heard in the void.

"Since it is made from the back armor of a transformed Yuan Tuo, I will call you Yuan Tuo Armor..."

Chen Yuan withdrew his true energy, and the shadow of the Yuan Tuo slowly dissipated. The patterns on the back of the tortoise shell dimmed again, shrank to the size of a palm, and disappeared.

The initial sacrifice and refinement of this magic weapon has been completed. After being nurtured in the Dantian for a month, it can be used freely in fighting.

Thanks to the Zhuyan True Fire, he was able to erase the remaining imprint of spiritual consciousness in the tortoise shell so quickly without having to waste time and effort to slowly erase it.

Among the three defensive magic weapons that Patriarch Yuntian took out, the spiritual energy contained in this black tortoise shell was not the most abundant, but it was the purest, and Chen Yuan took a fancy to it at first sight.

Yuanluo is a rather rare monster with a long lifespan, a ferocious character, and extremely strong defensive abilities, comparable to a dragon turtle of the same level.

The Yuan Crocodile Armor is made from a whole piece of Yuan Crocodile's back armor. It is extremely hard and can easily resist the attacks of mid-level magic weapons, and even high-level magic weapons.

After Chen Yuan finished the ritual, the shadow of a Yuanluo appeared on its back, indicating that this treasure had already nurtured a hint of spirituality.

After nurturing it for a while, until this strand of spirituality becomes stronger, and adding some high-quality spiritual materials, it will have a chance to be upgraded to a high-level magic weapon.

However, this period of time may be extremely long, and the spirituality of the magic weapon is the most difficult to increase. It can only be placed in the Dantian and nourished by the essence of the soul and spirit in the golden elixir, or by adding treasures that can enhance spirituality.

But these spiritual objects are all rare treasures and it is impossible for them to be used on a mid-level magic weapon.

However, the spirituality in the Yuanluo Armor is very weak. It will take at least hundreds of years to be nurtured before it has a chance to be upgraded to a high-level magical weapon. There is no need to consider it in the short term.

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After Chen Yuan put away the Yuanluo Armor, he meditated and practiced, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

After his true energy was fully restored, he took out an hourglass, turned it upside down beside him, then opened the jade bottle containing the Golden Scale Pill, poured out a pill, and swallowed it.

The Golden Scale Pill is just a refined version of the Golden Scale Fruit and is essentially no different from the Golden Scale Fruit.

After entering the entrance, it immediately turned into a huge stream of spiritual energy and poured into Chen Yuan's meridians.

The golden scale fruit was not yet fully ripe, and the medicinal power was not strong enough. Chen Yuan easily controlled this huge amount of spiritual energy, practiced his skills, and guided the spiritual energy to slowly flow through his meridians.

Different from ordinary spiritual energy of heaven and earth, this spiritual energy did not enter the dantian after circulating for thirty-six cycles, but instead gradually seeped into Chen Yuan's body.

Chen Yuan felt as if he was in a furnace, being roasted by the raging fire, and his whole body was burning.

All 36,000 pores on his body opened up, and thin streams of gray-black liquid seeped out, emitting a very faint fishy smell.

These were impurities contained in his body, which were forced out by the medicinal power of the Golden Scale Fruit during the bone-cutting and marrow-cleansing process.

There was a Dust Removal Technique engraved on Chen Yuan's robes, which started to work on its own at this moment. The impurities seeping out of the pores dissipated on their own without leaving any trace.

This feeling of being in a fire lasted for a long time before slowly subsiding.

Chen Yuan opened his eyes and looked at the hourglass beside him. Ten grains of sand fell from the bottom.

It took ten days to refine this golden scale pill.

At his current level, he could clearly feel the improvement of his physical body without any experimentation. He was one step closer to becoming a seventh-level demon beast, and his strength had also increased a lot.

A smile appeared on Chen Yuan's lips. The Golden Scale Fruit really lived up to its reputation. It was not yet fully ripe, but its medicinal power was so strong.

This bottle of Golden Scale Pills is enough to help him break through the seventh level bottleneck.

But he did not rush to take the second Golden Scale Pill, but got up and walked out of the cave.

Today is the time to draw starlight into your body, and we can’t waste it.

It was exactly midnight, the sky was cloudless and the stars were shining brightly.

Chen Yuan took out the jade beads and drew power from the stars in the sky to temper his body.

After thirty breaths, his true essence was completely consumed, his physical body became stronger, and his great strength also increased a little.

Chen Yuan put away the jade pendant, returned to the training room, sat cross-legged and meditated, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

The effect of a starlight infusion is far inferior to that of the Golden Scale Pill, but it is more stable. No matter how strong the body is, it will not weaken in the slightest. It is the true foundation of Chen Yuan's enlightenment, and he must not slack off at all.

After his true energy was fully restored, he swallowed another Golden Scale Pill and silently practiced his skills to temper his body.

Two and a half months later, Chen Yuan had refined all seven golden scale pills in the bottle. His physical body was greatly improved and his strength increased greatly. Compared with the seventh-level monster, he was not inferior to it at all.

He took out another bottle of Dragon Snake Pill and swallowed it.

The medicinal power of the Dragon Snake Pill is much more violent than that of the Golden Scale Pill, but Chen Yuan's body is strong enough to withstand it.

This kind of elixir was originally used by Nascent Soul cultivators to temper their bodies. Below the Nascent Soul stage, only physical cultivators and the demon race can withstand such a powerful medicinal power.

It took a few days longer to refine the Dragon Snake Pill than the Golden Scale Pill. Three months later, Chen Yuan finally refined all six Dragon Snake Pills.

His physical body became stronger again, and his strength increased by half, comparable to that of the pure-blooded demon beast royal family.

Monster royals like Jin Yu and Jin Lei, who have impure blood, are also considered strong, but are only slightly better than ordinary level seven monsters. Their strength is mainly reflected in their innate magical powers.

The golden-winged eagle, with its pure bloodline, not only possesses amazing magical powers, but its body is also far stronger than that of ordinary monsters.

His body was only this strong when he stimulated Zhu Yan's true blood before. Now that his body has been greatly improved, I wonder how much stronger it will be if he stimulates Zhu Yan's true blood again.

As his mind moved, his black hair turned snow-white, and Zhuyan True Fire appeared in his hands. He carefully felt the changes in his body in this state.

After the physical body was greatly strengthened, the power contained in Zhu Yan's true blood was further stimulated.

His enormous strength increased by twice as much, almost reaching the limit of a seventh-level monster.

Legend has it that Zhu Yan's true body is as powerful as a mountain, with infinite strength and the power to pluck the stars and the moon. Chen Yuan finally has a bit of Zhu Yan's style at this time. In addition to the great enhancement of his physical body, the power of Zhu Yan's true fire has also increased by at least twice. According to Chen Yuan's guess, it should have some effect even against a Nascent Soul cultivator.

He raised his right hand and placed it on the Dantian acupoint, and the Zhuyan True Fire surged into the Dantian.

Previously, Zhu Yan’s true fire was unable to destroy the blue talisman. Now that the power of the true fire has increased, Chen Yuan wants to try again.

Under the burning of the true fire, the blue talisman shone brightly like last time.

The shadow of Patriarch Yuntian reappeared, much clearer than before, and exactly the same as the real person.

Seeing that the soul of Patriarch Yuntian was about to wake up, Chen Yuan could only take back the Zhuyan True Fire, and the blue talisman returned to calm.

This attempt failed again, but Chen Yuan was not discouraged, instead he felt relieved.

When Patriarch Yuntian visited, he reinforced the blue talisman once more. This was the work of a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. It was extremely difficult for Zhuyan True Fire to achieve the same result.

If his physical body could be further improved and the power of Zhu Yan's True Fire could be strengthened again, it should be able to directly dissolve the blue talisman.

Chen Yuan was very excited. He put down his right hand, suppressed the true fire in both hands, and his white hair turned black again. He meditated and practiced to restore his true energy.

The power of Zhu Yan's true blood was greatly increased, but the consumption of true energy also increased. In just a few dozen breaths, nearly half of the true energy in his body was consumed.

Even if you give it your all, it can only last for a hundred breaths at most. If you don't use the Zhuyan True Fire, it can be extended to two hundred breaths.

This is the disadvantage of having cultivation lagging behind the physical body. It's like when Chen Yuan was still a warrior and was lucky enough to use a long sword. The heavier the sword, the more powerful it is, but if his strength does not increase, the less time he can last.

This is also a happy trouble. Ordinary physical practitioners will never encounter this problem.

They could only use spiritual energy to temper their bodies, but progress was slow and it took a lot of effort to obtain a body-tempering spiritual medicine.

Chen Yuan has the jade beads in his hand, which can draw the power of the stars in the sky to temper his body, but his cultivation is always one step behind his body.

After the two were finally equal, he met Patriarch Yuntian again, and took two bottles of extremely precious body-tempering pills in succession. One of them was a dragon snake pill that a Jindan cultivator could not possibly get, which greatly improved his physical body.

These are opportunities that other physical cultivators dream of, and the minor disadvantages that come with them are not worth mentioning at all.

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After refining two bottles of body-tempering pills, Chen Yuan began to practice in seclusion, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and half a year passed quickly.

One day, he was meditating and practicing when he was awakened from his trance by a sound transmission note.

He stood up and walked to the reception room, grabbed the sound transmission note and saw that it was Wei Changhong who came to visit.

Chen Yuan immediately dismantled the formation and walked out of the cave to greet him.

After the two men exchanged greetings, they walked into the cave and took their seats as host and guest.

Chen Yuan offered a pot of spiritual tea, and Wei Changhong got straight to the point: "Fellow Daoist Chen, I am returning to Blood Island this time. In addition to continuing to be in charge of Sifang Pavilion, I am also following the order of the Grand Elder to give you something."

He raised his sleeve and a wooden box with a spirit-sealing talisman on it appeared on the stone table.

The soul-sealing talisman is a special talisman that has the effect of sealing spiritual energy and is usually used to preserve some precious spiritual objects.

But in addition to this, the soul-sealing talisman has another special feature: once it is removed, the sealed object will be imbued with a trace of pure spiritual energy that will last for a long time.

The monks used this feature of the soul-sealing talisman to deliver some secret things. If it was removed halfway, it would be discovered soon afterwards.

Chen Yuan's heart moved, and recalling the words of Ancestor Yuntian, he had a guess in his mind.

He put away the wooden box and bowed, saying, "I'm sorry to trouble you, Brother Wei, to make this trip. Is there anything else Senior Yuntian needs?"

Wei Changhong shook his head and said, "The Grand Elder just asked me to give this wooden box to fellow Taoist."

The two exchanged a few more pleasantries, and then he stood up, said goodbye and left.

Chen Yuan activated the cave formation, returned to the training room, took out the wooden box, and opened the soul-sealing talisman.

He opened the lid of the box, and found a jade slip inside, just as he had guessed.

Patriarch Yuntian said that he would send someone to deliver the body-cultivation supernatural power. When Wei Changhong took out the wooden box, Chen Yuan thought of this.

Patriarch Yuntian also took away Binghuan, but it would take a long time to upgrade Binghuan from a low-level magic weapon to a mid-level magic weapon, and one year would definitely not be enough.

He picked up the jade slip, probed his spiritual sense into it, and examined it carefully.

After a long time, Chen Yuan withdrew his consciousness, looking a little stunned.

The jade slip records three kinds of body cultivation magical powers, all of which are very suitable for Jindan body cultivation.

The first magical power is called "Burning Blood and Refining Essence Art". After it is used, it can burn the essence and blood of monsters in the body and greatly strengthen the body.

This method has great disadvantages. The burned essence and blood will disappear permanently. In serious cases, there is even the possibility of falling back to a lower realm. It is far inferior to the method of stimulating true blood recorded in "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", so Chen Yuan does not adopt this method.

The second magical power is called "Demon Blade Technique", which is a transformation technique that requires refining a trace of pure true demonic energy. When fighting with others, one can transform one arm into a demon blade, which is extremely sharp and can cut through mid-level magic weapons.

This magical power is incredibly powerful, but also very useless.

The true devil's energy is a magical spiritual object left over from ancient times. Even Nascent Soul cultivators regard it as a treasure. Even if Chen Yuan obtained it, he would not be able to use it to practice this technique.

Only the last magical power is useful to Chen Yuan.

This is an unnamed magical power. After using it, it can greatly strengthen the body and greatly increase strength.

This technique is based on the cultivator's physical body. The stronger the body, the better the effect.

When Chen Yuan saw the nameless magical power, he had an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

After reading this technique from beginning to end, he finally realized that this technique was similar to the "Giant Spirit Body" secret technique he had practiced before.

The mantras and key points of the Giant Body Secret Technique emerged in his mind. After comparing the two, he found that there were indeed many similarities between the two magical powers, and even some of the mantras were exactly the same.

Moreover, the effects of the nameless magical power and the giant spirit body are almost the same, both of which strengthen the body and increase strength.

After casting the giant spirit, the cultivator's body will grow to about nine feet in height, and the surface of the body will turn into bronze.

After using the nameless magical power, the cultivator's body will grow to about ten feet in height, and the body surface will turn silver-white.

Chen Yuan was surprised to see two such similar magical powers after crossing two continents.

However, he quickly calmed down. Since Donghua Continent had an ancient teleportation array connecting to Jiuxian Continent, there might be other ways of communication, allowing the magical powers to be passed on to each other.

But these two magical powers seem to have the same origin. At the end, the nameless magical power, like the giant spirit body, leaves a feeling of being unsatisfied.

Could it be that there is another magical power suitable for Nascent Soul Body Cultivators that can also make the cultivator's body larger and strengthen the physical body? (End of this chapter)