Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Tian You's Yuanying was wrapped in white flames, his face was full of pain, he was listless and about to collapse.

Chen Yuan's mind moved, and the broad black wings behind him folded and disappeared, taking back the Zhuyan True Fire. The dark light covering his arms disappeared, and the pain on Yuanying's face subsided slightly.

The yellow cow let out an anxious moo and looked up at the Nascent Soul held in Chen Yuan's hand, but did not dare to make any move.

Thousands of feet away, the green light on the four-winged flying snake had long disappeared, and it flapped its flesh wings and flew towards this side.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, let's talk it over. No matter what you want, I will give it all to you. I only ask you to be merciful and spare my life..." Tian You's Yuanying looked at Chen Yuan with horror on his face, his voice extremely weak.

But he was extremely anxious in his heart. The white flame had exhausted all his spiritual power. At this moment, he couldn't even break up his soul on his own, let alone control two level eight spirit beasts to deal with Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan said calmly: "Fellow Daoist Tian, ​​please stop joking. Now that things have come to this, how can I let you go?"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and took the mustard seed ring on Tian You's wrist and the brocade bag on his waist into his hands. The Zhuyan True Fire rose up and poured into them.

Tian You felt that the mark of his consciousness had been erased, and his heart sank, but he smiled and said, "It's easy for Brother Chen to kill me, but I left my life essence lamp in the sect. As long as I die, the sect will know immediately."

"Yesterday my fellow Daoist and I were competing for the opportunity to refine a magic weapon in the Wanling Market, and the next day we died in Jingzhou. Your fellow Daoist definitely cannot escape."

"As far as I know, you are just a casual cultivator, and you haven't even started refining those two high-level magic weapons yet."

"Just to kill me to vent your anger, you have to give up those spiritual materials and offend our sect. It's really not worth it!"

Chen Yuan put away the mustard seed ring and the brocade bag, a look of sarcasm appeared on his pale face, and he nodded slightly: "Fellow Daoist Tian is right. I don't want to give up the spiritual materials, nor do I want to offend the Jiuli Sect."

“That’s why I let you escape for half an hour. I would rather suffer a great loss of my true essence than not let Jiuli Sect know about your death.”

He is cautious by nature. How could he rashly offend the giant Jiuli Sect just for a momentary pleasure and a few top-grade spirit stones?
When Chen Yuan got the chance to refine the magic weapon, he became murderous and would never let Tian You return to Jiuli Sect alive.

Although this incident was caused by Tian You, he failed in the end and must have been holding a grudge against me.

After all, he is just a casual cultivator, while Tian You is the elder of one of the ten major sects.

If you don't cut the grass at the root, it will grow again when the spring breeze blows. Tian You doesn't seem to be a magnanimous person. Chen Yuan doesn't know what means he will use to deal with him, so he simply strikes first.

But he had just had a conflict with Tian You, and Tian You died unexpectedly, so the Jiuli Sect would definitely come to him.

No matter how strong Chen Yuan is, he is only an early Nascent Soul cultivator and is no match for the ten major sects.

Moreover, he also had to refine magic weapons and could not leave Wanling Market.

Therefore, he planned to use the same method he used against Kun Tong, using the Zhuyan True Fire to consume Tian You's spiritual power, and then capture his Nascent Soul.

As long as the Nascent Soul is still alive, Tian You is still alive, and the natal Yuan Lamp he left in the Jiuli Sect will not go out.

However, the monks of Jiuli Sect are proficient in the art of taming beasts. If one wants to tam spirit beasts, one must have a strong soul, so that he can control the many spirit beasts, demon birds, strange insects and monsters.

Chen Yuan knew that Tian You's soul was stronger than Kun Tong's, but he did not expect that his soul would be so strong and the power of his soul would be so pure and abundant.

In order to prevent Tian You from falling into despair and destroying his own soul, Chen Yuan only used the teleportation technique once to enter within ten feet around Tian You and sent the Zhuyan True Fire into his soul space. From then on, he just forced Tian You to escape.

But under the burning of Zhu Yan's true fire, Tian You persisted for nearly half an hour before his spiritual power was finally exhausted, and Chen Yuan's true energy was also greatly consumed.

Although his true essence was extremely pure and rich, he had only just formed his Nascent Soul stage, which was equivalent to a cultivator who had cultivated to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage.

At the same time, he stimulated the blood of two kinds of true spirits and continuously infused true essence into them to support the Zhu Yan true fire, but it still consumed 80% of his true essence.

However, if other Nascent Soul cultivators knew that a casual cultivator who had just formed his Nascent Soul stage captured the elders of the ten major sects alive by consuming only 80% of his true essence, it would be no less than killing a Nascent Soul middle-stage cultivator by crossing levels.

Even if a great monk took action, it would be difficult to prevent Tian You from destroying his soul.

Chen Yuan was able to achieve this entirely by relying on the Zhu Yan True Fire.

But unfortunately, Zhu Yan's true blood was obtained from a fourth-level white ape after all, so its power is still a little weak against Nascent Soul cultivators.

If the Zhu Yan's true blood in Chen Yuan's body was as pure as Kunpeng's true blood, he would be able to capture Tian You alive in less than a quarter of an hour.

……

When Chen Yuan finished speaking, Tian You's heart sank again, but his Yuanying face was full of joy: "Thank you for not killing me!"

Chen Yuan said calmly, "Fellow Daoist Tian, ​​you are too polite. I am only after the spiritual stone treasure in your hand. Please condescend to me for a hundred years. After a hundred years, I will send you to reincarnation and you will walk the path of immortality in the next life."

As he spoke, he raised his hand, made hand gestures, muttered something, and pointed his right hand at Tian You's Yuanying.

True energy gushed out from Chen Yuan's fingertips and turned into a large net, tightly binding the Nascent Soul, flashing a faint green light.

Then he took out a jade bottle from the mustard seed ring, opened the stopper, and was about to put Tian You's soul in.

Tian You's expression changed, and he said loudly: "Wait a minute, Taoist friend, listen to me!"

Chen Yuan's eyes flashed, and he stopped what he was doing: "Fellow Daoist Tian, ​​do you have any other advice?"

At this time, the four-winged flying snake flew back and stopped in front of Tian You's Yuanying, constantly spitting out its tongue and making a hissing sound, its eyes full of anxiety.

Tian You said: "The four-winged flying snake in my hand has an extremely hard body, a very fast escape speed, and is extremely poisonous."

"And this moss-backed bull, it's very fast in flight and has strong defensive capabilities."

“Although these two spirit beasts are no match for you, they are more than enough to deal with ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators. I am willing to give them to you!”

"Oh?" Chen Yuan frowned, "I wonder what Fellow Daoist Tian wants?"

Tian You smiled and said, "I don't want anything, I just want to serve you."

"I have spent hundreds of years carefully nurturing these two level eight spirit beasts. I have planted the demon blood ban on them several times, and it has long been impossible to remove it."

"But as long as you help me recover my Nascent Soul, these two level eight spirit beasts can be used by you."

"In addition to these two spirit beasts, there are several spirit beasts in my spirit beast bag, with different functions, but I have also planted the demon soul blood ban on them..."

"I appreciate your kindness, Fellow Daoist Tian." Chen Yuan's voice turned cold, "But I don't trust you. No matter how good a spirit beast is, if you can't control it directly, it will eventually backfire."

Tian You said anxiously: "Daoyou, you can plant the soul and blood prohibition in my Nascent Soul. I will definitely not betray you..."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Yuan put his Nascent Soul into the jade bottle, covered it with a stopper, and affixed a soul-sealing talisman on it.

Tian You's Nascent Soul was sealed, and the four-winged flying snake's eyes suddenly became manic. It let out a sharp hiss, and with a flash of its flesh wings, it pounced towards Chen Yuan.

The yellow ox also let out a mournful cry, shook its body, shook Chen Yuan off, and lowered its head to butt against Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan's eyes became fierce. He put the jade bottle into the mustard seed ring, spread out his black wings behind him, teleported in front of the yellow ox, and punched it several times in succession, beating the yellow ox to death.

The four-winged flying snake has a hard body and can escape at an extremely fast speed, but it is not as fast as Chen Yuan who has mastered the art of teleportation.

He seized the opportunity, grabbed the head and tail of the four-winged flying snake with both hands, and pulled it hard. An immense force surged out, directly tearing the four-winged flying snake into two pieces!
Chen Yuan took out two eighth-level demon pills and put the bodies of the four-winged flying snake and the yellow cattle into the mustard seed ring.

Then he snapped his fingers, and a firebird flew out, burning Tian You's body to ashes, leaving no trace.

After doing all this, Chen Yuan flew back in the direction he came from.

Tian You seemed very sincere in his surrender, and was even willing to let him plant the Soul Blood Prohibition, but he would not consider it at all. The Jiuli sect monks were proficient in the art of taming beasts and knew the Soul Blood Prohibition best.

Chen Yuan didn't know whether Tian You had the method to break the soul blood ban, but he was cautious by nature and would never raise a tiger to cause trouble.

He flew for more than 1,500 miles, slowed down, and scanned the ground below with his spiritual sense. Suddenly, he lowered his light and landed in a mountain range.

On the top of a low mountain several dozen feet high, lay the tattered body of a mountain tiger.

Chen Yuan snapped his fingers and a firebird flew out, burning the corpse of the mountain tiger into ashes. The flowers, plants and yellow earth on the top of the mountain that were dyed red also disappeared without a trace.

After clearing all traces, Chen Yuan nodded with satisfaction. He flew into the sky with a beam of light and headed towards the Wanling Mountains.

Chen Yuan's escape speed was a generation faster than Tian You's. When the sun rose, he quietly returned to the cave on Wanling Peak.

He was not in a hurry to recover his true energy, but took out Tian You's spirit beast bag and mustard seed ring and checked them.

There were two level seven monsters and one level six monster in the spirit beast bag, but Tian You had planted a soul and blood ban on them and they could not be controlled. Chen Yuan killed them all and took the monster pills and materials.

Tian You is worthy of being the elder of one of the ten major sects, and his wealth is richer than Kun Tong.

First, there were eight top-grade spirit stones and more than fourteen hundred high-grade spirit stones, which completely made up for Chen Yuan’s loss in spirit stones.

There is also one top-grade spiritual material and three superior-grade spiritual materials, all of which are wood-attributed spiritual materials. They are compatible with Tian You's martial arts and should be what he prepared for refining magic weapons.

What made Chen Yuan most satisfied were the five Nascent Soul early stage pills and six thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.

Among these five pills, three are cultivation pills, and the other two are the Yunlu Pill for healing, and the Huiling Pill which can restore 50% of the true essence within ten breaths.

These two kinds of elixirs are even more precious than the elixirs for cultivation. Among them, the Huiling Pill is made with a few drops of hundred-year-old spiritual milk as the main ingredient, and was carefully kept by Chen Yuan.

Tian You was also unlucky as he met Chen Yuan, who could control the Zhuyan True Fire.

He had sufficient true energy and his body was intact, but his soul was burned, so the Yunlu Pill and Huiling Pill were of no use.

Among the six thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, there is a body-tempering spiritual herb, which should have been prepared by Tian You for the spiritual beast.

There is also a spiritual herb, which is the main ingredient for refining the elixir for the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.

The remaining four thousand-year-old spiritual herbs are divided into two types, which just match the one thousand-year-old spiritual herb in Chen Yuan's hand, and can be made into a furnace of pills.

In addition, there were some miscellaneous items that were collected by Chen Yuan.

Finally, he activated Kunpeng's true blood, a dark light appeared on his hands, and he destroyed Tian You's mustard seed ring and spirit beast bag, then he meditated and restored his true energy.

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The spiritual energy on Wanling Peak was rich, and it took Chen Yuan three days to recover his true energy.

Exactly one month had passed since the last time he drew starlight into his body. He came out of the cave, took out the jade beads, and drew the power of the stars in the sky to temper his body.

After fifty breaths, the starlight faded. Chen Yuan clenched his fists, feeling his strength increase a little. He nodded with satisfaction, returned to the cave, continued to meditate, and restored his true energy.

More than ten days later, Chen Yuan, who was pondering the Nascent Soul stage elixir formula in the practice room, was awakened by Qin Lian's voice.

He stood up and walked out of the cave, welcoming Qin Lian in.

The two of them sat down as host and guest. Chen Yuan took out the teapot and teacup, gathered some clear water, filled them with spiritual tea, and handed them to Qin Lian.

Qin Lian picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said, "Fellow Daoist Chen, Qin's magic weapon has been restored. We can start refining the treasure now."

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "There is no time to lose. I will follow you back to the mountain gate."

Qin Lian nodded, took out a jade slip from the mustard seed ring, raised his hand and sent it, and the jade slip slowly flew towards Chen Yuan.

He said, "Before refining the magic weapon, please accept this jade slip. It contains the method of repairing the ancient teleportation array."

Chen Yuan took the jade slip and probed his spiritual sense into it. It was half an hour before he withdrew his spiritual sense.

The methods recorded in the jade slips are quite abstruse, and extremely complicated and lengthy.

He took out five hundred high-grade spirit stones and handed them to Qin Lian, smiling apologetically: "I didn't expect that this repair method would be so profound. I was so absorbed in it that I read it through without realizing it. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long."

Qin Lian took the spirit stone and said in surprise, "In order to let fellow Taoists who are not familiar with the art of refining understand the method of repairing the teleportation array, our predecessors specially expanded the originally very brief method into a very detailed one."

"It would take at least a day for an ordinary Yuanying early stage cultivator to understand it."

"Daoyou only took one hour to comprehend it. Your spiritual awareness is extraordinary. It seems that the time for refining the magic weapon this time can be shortened by at least one year."

Chen Yuan smiled, put away the jade slip, and thought back to the corner of the teleportation array that he had destroyed. He said, "To repair the teleportation array, I need tungsten iron powder, Ulsan jade, and paulownia wood..."

He listed seven materials in a row, and finally asked, "Can your Excellency provide these materials?"

Qin Lian said: "Among these seven materials, three are relatively rare, but this pavilion has preserved them all. It seems that the ancient teleportation array that Daoyou found is not seriously damaged."

"Qin will go to Wanling Pavilion and get these seven materials."

Chen Yuan felt relieved and stood up: "I will go with Fellow Daoist Qin."

The two left the cave and came to Wanling Pavilion. Under Qin Lian's instructions, Elder Feng brought seven kinds of materials.

Chen Yuan checked carefully and made sure there was no problem. He took out 1,200 high-quality spirit stones and handed them to Elder Feng.

The materials he needed were not large in quantity, but of many types. Three of them were more common in ancient times, but are now relatively rare and very valuable.

After the transaction was completed, Chen Yuan felt relieved. Led by Qin Lian, they entered the mountain gate of Wanling Sect and came to the hot valley full of red soil.

The two of them landed on the light of escape, walked into Qin Lian's cave, came to a spacious stone room, and sat cross-legged.

This stone chamber is about ten feet in size. The walls are not covered with solid ice formed by the thousand-year-old ice marrow. In the center is a formation about ten feet in size, with thirty-six formation flags planted around it.

In the center of the formation, there is a dark deep well about a foot in size. Looking down, it is about a hundred feet deep.

Everywhere he looked, there was red and fire rising, but for Chen Yuan, it was still bearable.

Qin Lian sat opposite the formation, his robes glowing with a faint light, and he remained calm despite the scorching heat.

He looked solemn and said, "Fellow Daoist Chen, Qin is going to start refining treasures."

Chen Yuan nodded and his expression became serious.

Qin Lian pointed his finger and a small red tripod flew out, turning into a size of about ten feet, just enough to completely cover the formation.

Then he raised his hand and made a gesture, the formation flags all lit up, and the six red dragon shadows on the tripod rose into the air.

Suddenly, a red light came out from the deep well, and a red flame rose up, flew out of the deep well, split into six paths, and merged into the red dragon's phantom.

Six fire dragons howled to the sky and circled around the red tripod, causing the temperature in the stone chamber to rise sharply. (End of this chapter)