Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chen Yuan flew all the way back to Qingshan Village, and his light fell and hovered above the Li family.

At this time, Li Qingshan had obtained the storage bags of Feng Yongyan and Cheng Zaiming, and had no shortage of elixirs. He was meditating and practicing in the house.

"Qingshan, wake up quickly." Chen Yuan's gentle voice went straight into Li Qingshan's heart and woke him up.

Li Qingshan finished his training, stood up, walked out of the hut, and flew into the air. With a look of surprise on his face, he bowed deeply to Chen Yuan and said, "Disciple greets Master. How come you have time to come to my home?"

Chen Yuan said in a deep voice: "Master has injured an enemy. This person will take revenge for any slight. Master is not afraid of him, but if you run into him, you will be in trouble. Take your parents and leave this place quickly to avoid his revenge."

Li Qingshan was stunned for a moment, then responded, "Yes, disciple understands."

He looked down at the house below with a sad face. This was his home, where his ancestors had lived for generations. He had practiced in this house for twenty years, and now he suddenly had to leave his hometown, feeling very upset.

Chen Yuan said gently: "Qingshan, because of the master, you were forced to leave your hometown. Do you feel resentful?"

Li Qingshan shook his head heavily, his expression solemn: "Once a teacher, always a father. Master taught me sword cultivation techniques, gave me elixirs and spirit stones, and saved me from Feng Yongyan and Cheng Zaiming. I have not even been able to repay you, so how could I feel resentful?"

After he embarked on the path of cultivation, he realized the vastness of the world of immortal cultivation, the ten major sects, Nascent Soul cultivators, transformed demon kings... He was just a small foundation-building cultivator. In front of the truly powerful, he was just an ant. Even his master could not do whatever he wanted.

Chen Yuan nodded slightly: "That person may not come to seek revenge. This is just in case. I will give you half an hour to pack up your belongings and throw away all the heavy things."

"Disciple understands." Li Qingshan agreed, but a trace of worry appeared on his face, "Master, is my sister okay?"

Chen Yuan frowned and said, "My master's enemy shouldn't be so cruel as to inquire about your relatives just to vent his anger."

"But nothing is absolute. It's better to be careful. How about this? You take Qinglan with you and leave."

"Yes!" Li Qingshan clasped his fists and bowed, then disappeared into the distance.

Chen Yuan flew back to the cave, put the formation set up around the cave into the mustard seed ring, and then collected the debris.

Then he used the Fu Hai Ge to destroy the cave and erase all traces. It only took him less than half an hour to return to Qingshan Village.

Many people gathered in the Li family courtyard. Li Dalong and his wife looked at the houses with tears in their eyes, full of reluctance. Li Qingshan and a graceful middle-aged beautiful woman were there to comfort them.

In addition, there were two old men, a middle-aged Confucian scholar, and a teenager of fifteen or sixteen years old, who looked somewhat frightened. More than ten people stood by, all of them were servants guarding the courtyard.

Chen Yuan landed in the courtyard. Everyone looked over. Li Qingshan came forward and said, "Master!"

The rest of the people bowed down one after another, and many of them kowtowed.

"I have met the Immortal Master!"

"Master Chen, I am honored to be here!"

The scene was in chaos. Chen Yuan raised his hand to support everyone, and an invisible gentle force lifted them up.

Li Qingshan clasped his fists and bowed: "Master, my sister's husband's family also wanted to leave with us. I took the initiative to agree to their request. Please punish me, Master."

Chen Yuan said: "It's okay, have you packed all your valuables?"

His eyes swept over everyone, and except for the familiar Li Dalong and his wife, no one dared to look at him and lowered their heads.

Only the graceful middle-aged beauty stared at Chen Yuan in a daze, and between her brows one could vaguely see the delicate appearance of her youth.

Facing Chen Yuan's gaze, she smiled gently and bowed: "Qinglan greets Master Chen."

Li Qingshan nodded: "All the disciples have been put into the storage bag."

Chen Yuan raised his sleeve and flicked it. A beam of light swept up everyone in the yard and flew into the air.

Everyone cried out in surprise, and Li Qingshan frowned and said, "Don't panic!"

But these were all mortals, experiencing their first time riding on the clouds. The novelty was mixed with fear, and they shouted and screamed continuously.

Chen Yuan did not say anything to stop them. After flying in the air for half an hour, they finally calmed down.

After flying for more than two thousand miles, passing through several prosperous cities, and arriving outside an inconspicuous county town, Chen Yuan lowered his escape light.

This county town, like Yunrui County, is also close to the Qingkang Mountains.

"Qingshan, take your people into the county town and settle down. Go to that mountain to find your master tomorrow." Chen Yuan pointed at a mountain dozens of feet high within a few miles and gave the order.

"Yes." Li Qingshan agreed and led everyone towards the county town.

Chen Yuan rode the light of escape, came to the mountain, and sat cross-legged on the top of the mountain.

The next evening, Li Qingshan arrived at the top of the mountain, stopped in front of Chen Yuan, clasped his fists and bowed, and said respectfully: "Master, I have settled my parents, sister, and brother-in-law's family."

Chen Yuan opened his eyes and nodded slightly: "Master will be in seclusion for training from now on. You need to practice diligently and don't slack off."

Li Qingshan said: "Disciple understands. After this incident, Disciple finally realized how stupid I was before."

"The world of immortal cultivation is extremely dangerous. I really shouldn't be greedy for family affection and stay with my parents."

"I have left a large sum of gold and silver to my parents and sister, enough for them to live a life of wealth and luxury. From now on, I will follow Master into the mountains to practice and seek the truth with all my heart!"

Chen Yuan showed an expression of approval: "Very good, you can understand this point, I am very pleased, now follow me into the mountains."

He stood up, and flew into the mountains with a flash of light, followed closely by Li Qingshan.

The two men hid in the mountains for more than a hundred miles and came to a steep mountain hundreds of feet high before they descended their escape light.

Chen Yuan looked around and saw ancient trees, beautiful mountains and clear waters, cascading waterfalls, splashing pearls and jade, and a place with few people and very quiet.

He nodded with satisfaction: "This peak has beautiful scenery and rich spiritual energy. I will open a cave here. Don't go too far. Choose a peak within 30 miles to open a cave."

Li Qingshan immediately agreed and flew back into the sky to find the place he wanted. Chen Yuan summoned the Sea-covering Spear and selected a spot on the mountainside, chopping horizontally and vertically. The hard rock was as fragile as tofu, and soon he dug out a rough cave.

Afterwards, he carefully carved out a stone hall, a practice room, an alchemy room, and a stone chamber with a skylight to allow starlight to fill the body.

Chen Yuan took out the furniture in the mustard seed ring and put them in place one by one. He then took out the formation plates and flags and set up a high-level spiritual formation around the cave. Even if a Jindan cultivator came to attack, the formation could hold out for at least a quarter of an hour.

He bought this set of formation flags in Fanyang Market. Next, he needs to refine pills, practice hard in seclusion, and refine his spiritual essence and blood. He has no time to be distracted, and the cave cannot be without protection.

High-level cultivators are rarely seen in the Qingkang Mountains, and the levels of monsters are not high either. High-level spirit formations are sufficient to protect the safety of the caves.

After Chen Yuan finished arranging the cave, another hour passed and Li Qingshan came to the cave and reported back: "My disciple's cave is 23 miles away to the southwest."

Chen Yuan encouraged Li Qingshan again before letting him retreat. He activated the formation, closed the cave, and went to the alchemy room.

He raised his sleeve and took out the alchemy furnace that had been used for nearly a hundred years, as well as dozens of wooden boxes containing magic pills and hundreds of hundred-year-old spiritual herbs. He placed them on the ground and piled them up into a small hill.

Chen Yuan now only has a bottle of late Jindan elixir in his hand, and he is still a long way from the False Infant realm, so he needs a lot of elixir.

Moreover, according to the previous experience of refining Zhu Yan's true blood, every time after refining the true spirit blood, the true essence will become more refined, and the cultivation level will also decrease as a result, so a large amount of elixirs must be prepared in advance.

Chen Yuan sat cross-legged, a jade pendant appeared out of thin air in his palm. He lowered his head to gaze at it, stroking it gently a few times, his eyes gentle.

This is the jade pendant that Jing Shuhan gave him.

After a while, Chen Yuan put away the jade pendant, his eyes slowly calmed down, his mind was clear, like a calm well.

He raised his hand and made a gesture, and his true energy flew out, transforming into a spiritual fire that wrapped around the alchemy furnace. He raised his hand again and waved it, and a seventh-level demon pill flew into the alchemy furnace and slowly began to rotate.

Chen Yuan closed his eyes slightly, and the training room fell into silence.

A month later, Chen Yuan opened the alchemy furnace, and two gray pills flew out. Rich spiritual energy spread out, forming several wisps of spiritual mist, lingering on the surface of the pills.

Chen Yuan frowned. The first batch of seventh-level Yaoyuan Pills were refined very smoothly, but the success rate was only 20%, which was really too low.

Ever since he refined dozens of furnaces of Level 5 Demon Yuan Pills on the Blood Island more than 20 years ago, with a success rate of 50%, he has never devoted himself to refining pills again, and his alchemy skills have never improved.

Now he skipped the sixth-level Yaoyuan Pill and directly refined the seventh-level Yaoyuan Pill. The success rate could be 20%. This was the result of his cultivation reaching the late stage of Jindan and his spiritual awareness greatly increased. Otherwise, the success rate would drop by another 10%.

Fortunately, he had a lot of demon pills prepared, as well as more than twenty eight-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs. Otherwise, the pills he refined might not necessarily be able to raise his cultivation to the False Infant realm.

Chen Yuan put the seventh-level demon essence pill into the jade bottle, meditated and practiced to restore his true essence.

Two hours later, Chen Yuan's true energy was fully restored. It was also midnight. He got up and went to the stone chamber with a skylight. He took out the jade pendant and drew the starlight into his body.

Brilliant silver light descended, and after forty breaths (note), the true energy that had just recovered in Chen Yuan's Dantian was completely consumed, his physical body was slightly strengthened, and the range of his spiritual awareness also expanded by ten feet.

Compared with the eight hundred year old body-tempering elixir, the effect of strengthening the body by infusing the starlight is minimal, but it is more stable. With the accumulation of time, the effect cannot be underestimated and it is the real foundation of Chen Yuan's practice.

He put away the jade pendant, returned to the training room, meditated and practiced. When his true energy was fully restored, he stood up and went to the alchemy room to start refining the elixir.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, ten years have passed.

Over the past ten years, apart from preaching to Li Qingshan for three days every other year, Chen Yuan spent the rest of his time refining pills, occasionally drawing starlight into his body to strengthen his flesh.

He first refined dozens of seventh-level demon pills into pills. His alchemy skills were greatly improved, and the success rate of refining seventh-level demon pills gradually increased.

His spiritual awareness already surpassed that of cultivators of the same level. At this moment, he had dozens of furnaces of pills to refine. His experience was also extremely rich, far surpassing that of other alchemy masters. After refining the last furnace of Yaoyuan Pills, his success rate had reached 60%.

If he were to go back and refine the fifth-level Demon Yuan Pill at this time, the success rate would be as high as 90%. Even if a grand master of alchemy took action, his success rate would not be as good as this.

However, the demonic power in the demon pill is extremely violent, so the success rate of refining the demon pill is 10% lower.

When Chen Yuan turned to using eight hundred year old spiritual herbs to refine pills, the success rate reached 70%.

When old man Dan Jue was refining the elixir for the late stage of Jindan, the success rate was as high as 80%, which was unprecedented in history.

Chen Yuan is slightly inferior to him, but his skills are already better than 99% of the alchemy masters. There are few people like him in the world of immortal cultivation. As long as he succeeds in forming a Nascent Soul, it will not be difficult for him to refine elixirs for the early stage of the Nascent Soul.

Chen Yuan refined more than twenty eight-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs into elixirs. Only six of them were left because they either lacked auxiliary medicines or could not be used to refine elixirs for cultivation.

The recipe for elixir for the late stage of Jindan is easy to obtain, but spiritual herbs are scarce.

The reason why Chen Yuan was able to gather enough spiritual herbs for several furnaces of elixirs was mainly because he obtained many eight hundred year old spiritual herbs that were rare in the outside world on Jueling Island. They could be used as the main medicine, and he could then buy some auxiliary medicines in the market.

Even so, there were still several kinds of spiritual herbs that were not purchased, resulting in several eight hundred year old spiritual herbs being left unused.

Every time this happened, Chen Yuan would be extremely grateful to old man Dan Jue. If he hadn't left behind the recipe for the Yaoyuan Pill, Chen Yuan would not be able to make the pills he needed for cultivation using only spiritual herbs.

After the eight hundred year old spiritual herbs were used up, Chen Yuan took out a Kunyu grass and began to refine the body-tempering elixir.

The spiritual energy contained in the body-tempering elixir is also quite violent, and extremely tough, making it difficult to purify.

Even though Chen Yuan had extraordinary spiritual awareness and deep and pure true essence, it still took him a month and a half, and consumed most of his true essence and spiritual awareness, before he was able to refine the first furnace of Kunyu Pills.

The time required to refine the Body Tempering Elixir is half a month longer than that of an ordinary late-stage elixir, and the success rate also drops to 60%.

The same was true for the second batch of Kunyu grass. The third batch of Vajra Pills used Vajra Apricot as the main ingredient, and the refining time was extended to two months, with the success rate dropping to 50%.

After refining this furnace of Vajra Pills, Chen Yuan's true essence was exhausted, his spiritual consciousness was depleted, and he had to rest for three days before he recovered.

After ten years of alchemy, Chen Yuan was extremely exhausted, but the harvest was also huge. He refined fourteen bottles of late Jindan elixir and two bottles of body-tempering elixir.
For the next month, he did not meditate or practice, but walked out of the cave and flew in the air. He strolled in the quiet mountains and forests, listening to the cries of monkeys and tigers, the chirping of cicadas and birds, and climbed the thousand-foot-high peaks to overlook the vast mountains.

After a month, Chen Yuan felt relaxed, his fatigue was gone, and his mood improved a bit.

He returned to the cave, activated the formation, closed the stone door, took the elixir, and finally began to practice in seclusion. (End of this chapter)