Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chen Yuan frowned: "One thousand high-grade spirit stones? Such a high price can buy a mid-level magic weapon. Can it be lowered?"

Cheng Xianmo shook his head: "This is already a reduction of 100 spirit stones because you hold the order of Junior Brother Pei."

"How precious are mid-level magic weapons? One thousand high-quality spirit stones can only buy the most common mid-level magic weapons."

"And Daoist friend, you need to repair two mid-level magic weapons, and the damage is quite serious. It will take at least several years. The weapon refining master needs to watch over them all the time, which is very troublesome."

"Fellow Daoist needs five bundles of thousand-year-old ice silk (note). It is not easy for our pavilion to take out so much silk at once, so the price will naturally be higher."

"Of course, if you provide the thousand-year-old ice silk yourself, this pavilion can repair these two magic tools for you with only three hundred high-grade spirit stones."

"To be honest, thousand-year-old ice silk is extremely rare. I need to apply to the General Pavilion. If fellow Taoist can provide the spiritual material on his own, that would be great."

Chen Yuan asked, "Fellow Daoist Cheng, do you know where in Fanyang Market that sells thousand-year-old ice silk?"

Cheng Xianmo said, "In two months, the three sects behind Fanyang Market will hold an auction held every ten years. Daoist friends can try their luck at the auction. Maybe a cultivator will bring out thousand-year-old ice silk."

"As for other shops in the market, it is impossible for them to have such spiritual materials."

"By the way, fellow Daoist, you can also try your luck in Chongde City. There must be thousand-year-old ice silk for sale there, but the price will probably be higher than ours."

Chen Yuan pondered for a moment, then bowed and said, "One thousand high-grade spirit stones is not a small amount. Please allow me to consider it. I will visit you again at this time tomorrow."

Cheng Xianmo returned the greeting and said with a smile, "Then I will be waiting for you, Taoist friend."

After Chen Yuan left the Treasure Pavilion, he went to several other shops that sold magic weapons, but none of them had thousand-year-old ice silk for sale.

The next day, he came to the Fanyang Pavilion established by the three sects behind the Fanyang Market to inquire about the auction.

A foundation-building deacon respectfully handed Chen Yuan a jade slip, which recorded the various treasures that would appear at this auction.

The auction in Fanyang Market is held once every ten years. Every time it is held, it attracts at least thousands of cultivators above the foundation-building stage to participate. There are many treasures, including mid-level magic weapons, thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, infant-forming spiritual objects and many other rare treasures.

However, after a careful check, Chen Yuan was slightly disappointed and found no thousand-year-old ice silk.

The foundation-building deacon was very good at observing people's expressions. Seeing the change in Chen Yuan's expression, he smiled and said, "Senior, have you not found the treasure you want? In the next two months, many cultivators will continue to bring out treasures and participate in the auction. Maybe what you need is among them."

Chen Yuan nodded, took out five medium-grade spirit stones, handed them to the foundation-building deacon, then turned and left.

The foundation-building deacon took the spirit stone, feeling delighted, and bowed behind Chen Yuan with his fists clasped: "Senior, take care!"

After Chen Yuan walked out of Fanyang Pavilion, he strolled in the market town for a while, then turned around and walked towards Baibao Pavilion.

Thousand-year-old ice silk is rare and the chance of it appearing at an auction is not high. Cheng Xianmo's asking price seems a bit high, but Chen Yuan did not suffer any loss by being able to buy this top-grade spiritual material with spirit stones.

He arrived at the Treasure Pavilion, and Cheng Xianmo was already waiting for him in the courtyard behind the pavilion.

Chen Yuan took out two damaged magic weapons and the tortoise shell of the ferocious beast without giving any spirit stone.

The damaged mid-level magic weapon is still a mid-level magic weapon, far more precious than spirit stones. The Treasure Pavilion is not afraid at all that Chen Yuan will default on his debt.

Cheng Xianmo handed a jade slip to Chen Yuan, which recorded the content of the transaction and left his own spiritual imprint.

This is the rule of Baibao Pavilion. If Cheng Xianmo wants to steal these two mid-level magic weapons and the beast tortoise shell, Chen Yuan can use this jade slip to ask Baibao Pavilion for the magic weapons.

Baibao Pavilion has branches throughout all the major markets in Renzhou. It has its own set of rules and regulations and enjoys an excellent reputation.

It takes a long time to repair intermediate magic weapons. It will take six years before Chen Yuan can come to Fanyang Market to retrieve these two magic weapons.

He didn't care about it, agreed, said goodbye, and flew to Qingshan Village.

When Chen Yuan returned to Qingshan Village, just four days had passed since he left.

He spread out his spiritual sense and found that Li Qingshan was chanting Taoist scriptures in the valley, very seriously.

Li Qingshan was very happy when Chen Yuan fell into the light of escape, but he suppressed his excitement, bowed deeply, and said respectfully: "Disciple welcomes Master back!"

Chen Yuan said calmly: "No need to be polite. Have you been slacking off during the few days when I was away?"

Li Qingshan said sternly: "My disciple has been studying hard all day long and has not dared to slack off for even a moment."

Chen Yuan said: "Then let me test you..." He asked several questions in a row, and Li Qingshan answered most of them fluently. Only two questions were too difficult for him to answer.

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Yes, you have laid a basic foundation. In the next ten days, I will teach you three volumes of Taoist scriptures. After that, I have something important to deal with. You can study on your own first. If you have any questions, please write them down first. I will answer them for you in the future."

Li Qingshan was slightly disappointed, but still agreed: "Yes, Master."

Chen Yuan took out a more difficult Taoist scripture, handed it to Li Qingshan, and began to explain it from the beginning.

Ten days later, he entered the mountains and opened up a cave on a peak twenty miles away from Qingshan Village.

This cave is as simple as the one he opened in the Huangling Sea, but it is extremely hidden and has an illusion array set up, making it extremely difficult for outsiders to discover.

After entering the cave, Chen Yuan took out the alchemy furnace and the prepared spiritual herbs, and started to make the elixir.

Pills that can restore essence and blood are extremely rare, but mainly because spiritual herbs are precious, the recipes for the pills are easy to obtain.

The rarer the elixir, the harder it is to find the spiritual herbs, the harder it is to refine, and the less valuable the elixir recipe is.

On the contrary, some elixirs with mediocre efficacy are not easily available because spiritual herbs are easy to obtain and the elixir recipes are quite precious.

Chen Yuan refined hundreds of Yaoyuan Pills, and his alchemy skills had reached perfection. It took him two months to refine several pills that could restore essence and blood, and not a single spiritual herb was wasted.

He swallowed the pills, and his body's essence and blood recovered by 30%. The remaining 50% could only be slowly restored by the starlight infusing his body.

After Chen Yuan came out of retreat, he returned to Qingshan Village and continued to teach Li Qingshan Taoist scriptures.

Before his essence and blood recovered, he could not improve his cultivation and practice would be useless. He could only wait patiently for the starlight to infuse his body once every half a month, which would be used to teach Li Qingshan.

Time flies, and a year goes by in a hurry.

Chen Yuan's teachings were extremely strict, and Li Qingshan was extremely diligent in order to embark on the path of cultivating immortals as soon as possible. He spent eight hours out of the twelve hours a day memorizing and studying Taoist scriptures.

However, every half a month, he would go into the mountains with Li Dalong to hunt wild animals to supplement the family income.

Just when Chen Yuan left the Li family and went into the mountains to open a cave, Qinglan was a little distraught.

But she slowly came out of it, and He, the matchmaker from Qingshan Village, helped her find a good family and got married.

She is already seventeen years old. All the girls of her age in Qingshan Village had married two or three years ago.

Qinglan could have gotten married a long time ago, but because of Li Wenju's obsession, others did not dare to propose marriage to her.

After Chen Yuan drove Liao Yanlun away from Zhouyang Academy Mountain, the Li family was frightened and soon moved away from Qingshan Village.

Without Li Wenju's harassment, Qinglan had a pretty face and a gentle personality, so it was not difficult for her to find a husband.

She was also literate, which was rare among rural women, so she married the eldest son of a small landlord in a neighboring village.

Her husband is a young scholar, one year older than Qinglan. He entered an academy in the county four years ago and had no time to get married. Recently, he has made some academic achievements and finally has the idea of ​​starting a family.

After being introduced by matchmaker He, he fell in love with Qinglan at first sight because she was gentle, simple, well-educated and well-mannered.

In addition to learning Taoist scriptures from Chen Yuan, Li Qingshan would also teach Qinglan some Confucian classics every once in a while to broaden her horizons.

This young scholar had a very simple character. He got along well with Qinglan and fell in love with her at first sight. They quickly arranged the marriage and, after the six rituals, he married her in a formal ceremony.

On the day of Qinglan's wedding, Chen Yuan did not show up, but when Qinglan and her husband were in the bridal chamber at night, he put a low-level pill in each of the cups of wine they drank.

After the two drank the wine, they were free from all diseases and remained in good health. This could be considered as his blessing to the newlyweds.

Chen Yuan knew very well that Qinglan had some feelings for him, but he only treated Qinglan as a sister.

There is a natural chasm between immortal cultivators and mortals.

Fortunately, after he revealed his identity as an immortal cultivator, Qinglan slowly walked out, and Chen Yuan felt relieved.

After a year, Chen Yuan's blood and essence were fully restored, and Li Qingshan had also read dozens of Taoist scriptures, laying a solid foundation.

On this day, Chen Yuan said to Li Qingshan: "Qingshan, from today on, I will begin to teach you the method of cultivation. I have the method of five elements, the method of body cultivation, and the method of sword cultivation. Which method do you want to practice?" (End of this chapter)