Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

There were bursts of dragon roars, and the flames coming out of the deep well half-wrapped the red cauldron. Six fire dragons surrounded it, and the red color of the cauldron became more and more dazzling.

The air in the stone chamber began to distort, a light blue glow shone on Qin Lian's robes, and there was no trace of sweat on his face.

Chen Yuan could still endure the scorching heat and just watched silently.

About a quarter of an hour later, the red color on the cauldron had become extremely rich. Qin Lian finally took out the Cangming Stone from the mustard seed ring and put it into the red cauldron.

He raised his hand and made a gesture, and the thirty-six formation flags swayed gently. The underground fire that emerged from the deep well became more and more intense. Six fire dragons climbed on the red tripod and slowly closed their red dragon eyes.

The gray Cangming Stone slowly rotated in the red cauldron, emitting waves of space fluctuations and slowly melting.

About an hour later, the Cangming Stone completely melted and turned into a pool of light gray spiritual liquid.

At this time, Qin Lian suddenly said: "Fellow Daoist Chen, please drop a drop of blood essence into the red tripod to infuse the true essence and leave a spiritual imprint. This will save a lot of time when fusing the spiritual materials."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yuan bit his tongue and spat out a drop of blood. It condensed into a bright red blood bead, flew into the red cauldron, and merged with the light gray Cangming Stone Spirit Liquid.

There was a loud hissing sound, and gray bubbles appeared on the surface of the spiritual liquid. Then they burst and wisps of black smoke came out.

At the same time, Chen Yuan pointed and poured his true energy into the cauldron, and probed into his spiritual consciousness, leaving his own spiritual imprint in the spiritual liquid.

But he felt great resistance. The light gray spiritual liquid was like a hard stone, and it was extremely difficult for his spiritual sense to penetrate into it.

After three days and three nights, Chen Yuan finally left his spiritual imprint in the spiritual liquid, and consumed 30% of his true energy.

Qin Lian showed a delighted expression: "Daoyou's spiritual awareness is indeed extraordinary, and your true essence is also extremely pure. It only took three days to complete this step."

"The Cangming Stone is full of spirituality and contains rich spatial power. It will take at least a year to purify it successfully. The next step is to work hard."

"Fellow Daoist, please follow me. I also need your help in refining Chongxuan Peak."

After saying that, he stood up and walked out of the stone chamber.

Chen Yuan stood up and followed, and the two came to another stone chamber, which was half the size of the previous one.

In the middle of the stone chamber, there is also a formation about ten feet in size, and a deep well, surrounded by thirty-six formation flags.

Qin Lian took out a black cauldron from the mustard seed ring, enlarged it to about ten feet in size, and placed it on the formation.

Unlike the red cauldron, the black cauldron is not a magical weapon, but just an ordinary refining furnace.

Qin Lian raised his hand and made a gesture, just like before. The underground fire emerged from the deep well, wrapped around the black cauldron, and the temperature in the stone chamber rose sharply.

About a quarter of an hour later, Qin Lian took out a fist-sized piece of white soil and put it into the cauldron.

After half an hour, the white soil turned into a pile of powder and floated in the black cauldron.

Qin Lian said: "Fellow Daoist Qin, Chongxuan Peak is just being refined again, so there is no need to drop in blood essence. Please inject your true essence into the cauldron and leave a mark of your spiritual consciousness in the cloud soil spirit powder."

Chen Yuan did as he was told. This time it was much easier than leaving the imprint of his spiritual consciousness in the Cangming Stone Spirit Liquid just now. It only took one day.

After he withdrew his spiritual consciousness, another 10% of the true energy in his body was consumed, leaving only 60% of the true energy, and his spiritual consciousness was also greatly damaged.

Qin Lian said: "Cloud soil is only a top-grade spiritual material, and it can be purified in half a year. Daoist friends can wait here, or return to the stone chamber just now."

Chen Yuan shook his head: "With Fellow Daoist Qin taking care of everything, everything will be fine. I will not cause any more trouble. When you need me to take action, just give me a call."

"Do you have any vacant stone chambers in your mansion? I have consumed a lot of my true energy and my soul is a little tired. I need to rest for a while."

Qin Lian showed a smile. The fact that Chen Yuan was not watching him showed that he trusted him very much and he was not worried that Chen Yuan would interfere and steal the spiritual materials.

"There isn't much else in Qin's mansion, but there are quite a few weapon refining rooms. Fellow Daoist, please follow me."

Chen Yuan followed Qin Lian out of the stone chamber, passed through a passage, and came to another smaller stone chamber.

Like the previous two stone chambers, this place has a formation in the middle and a fire well that is a hundred feet deep.

Chen Yuan was surprised and asked, "Why are there so many refining rooms in Fellow Daoist Qin's cave?"

Qin Lian explained: "Qin sometimes needs to refine two magic weapons at the same time, and one refining room is not enough."

"Moreover, there are many weapon refiners in our pavilion, and the weapon refinery rooms in the Earth Fire Hall are in short supply. Qin's disciples often cannot rent a weapon refinery room and can only use true fire to refine weapons."

"So when Qin built the cave, he simply opened up three weapon refining rooms. In addition to using them himself, he could also lend them to several disciples."

Chen Yuan suddenly realized, and then he asked, "Can this earth fire be used to make pills?"

Qin Lian was surprised: "Fellow Daoist Chen also knows alchemy?"

"I have some experience in alchemy."

Qin Lian looked at Chen Yuan, his physical training, teleportation skills, alchemy skills... he felt that this man was becoming more and more unpredictable.

He smiled and said, "Although this underground fire vein has exploded a bit, after being regulated by the formation, the gushing underground fire can also become pure and gentle, and can be used to make pills..."

Qin Lian explained in detail the method of controlling the formation and demonstrated it himself before leaving.

Chen Yuan closed the door, took out a set of formation plates and flags, and set up a formation to prevent spiritual perception.

He took out a cushion, sat cross-legged in front of the Earth Fire Array, closed his eyes and meditated to restore his true energy.

The spiritual energy in Qin Lian’s cave is extremely rich, comparable to a medium-sized spiritual vein.

Chen Yuan's loss of true energy was not that great, and it only took one day for his true energy to recover and his consciousness to return to normal.

He opened his eyes, took out the alchemy furnace that he had carried with him for a long time from the mustard seed ring, and slowly flew above the fire well.

Then he raised his hand and made hand gestures, activating the formation according to the method described by Qin Lian.

Thirty-six formation flags lit up at the same time, and the underground fire rose, but it was much milder than the underground fire in the first two stone chambers. It wrapped around the alchemy furnace, and the temperature in the stone chamber slowly rose.

Chen Yuan's mind moved, and he took out four thousand-year-old spiritual herbs from the mustard seed ring to make Chengyang Pill. With a solemn expression, he recalled the recipe of Chengyang Pill. In the past ten days, he had been pondering the recipe in the cave to prepare for refining the pill.

When refining magic weapons, he doesn't need to stay by the side all the time. Time cannot be wasted. It can be used to refine pills and improve his cultivation.

Now there is also earth fire that can be used to refine pills, which greatly reduces the consumption of true energy and cannot be wasted.

Chen Yuan took a deep breath, raised his hand and waved it. A thousand-year-old spiritual herb flew into the alchemy furnace. He closed his eyes slightly and began to refine the first batch of Nascent Soul stage pills.

The process of purifying the spiritual herbs went very smoothly. Chen Yuan's true essence was pure and rich, and his spiritual awareness was powerful, far surpassing that of cultivators of the same level. After half a month, he had purified all four thousand-year-old spiritual herbs into the purest spiritual liquid.

Then he began to fuse the spiritual liquid, condense the pill and ignite the spirit.

The spirituality of a thousand-year-old spiritual herb far exceeds that of an eight-hundred-year-old spiritual herb, and it is several times more difficult to refine the elixir than before.

But Chen Yuan's spiritual awareness was several times stronger than before he formed his infant, and he was extremely careful and cautious. Although there were some twists and turns, he did not fail and refined two Chengyang Pills.

Looking at the golden pill that was the size of a longan and filled with spiritual energy, Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, his face full of joy.

Although the success rate is only 20%, 90% of the alchemy masters only have a success rate of 10% when refining the first batch of Nascent Soul stage pills.

A master alchemist with weaker spiritual awareness or less experience would need to waste three or four furnaces of spiritual herbs before he could refine a Nascent Soul stage pill.

There are also many alchemy masters who simply cannot refine Nascent Soul stage elixirs and can never become great alchemy masters.

Anyone who can refine a pill with the first furnace of spiritual herbs is a person with extremely high talent in alchemy.

Chen Yuan has a 20% success rate because he has a very strong spiritual awareness and has refined nearly two hundred furnaces of Jindan stage elixirs, giving him extremely rich experience.

He put the Chengyang Pill into a jade bottle, put it away, sat cross-legged in meditation, and restored his true energy.

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Five months passed quickly. When Chen Yuan finished refining the sixth batch of elixirs, Qin Lian's voice rang out from outside the stone chamber: "Fellow Daoist Chen, the cloud soil has been purified. Qin wants to purify the second spiritual material. Please help me."

"Please wait a moment, Brother Qin." Chen Yuan responded and raised his hand.

The lid of the alchemy furnace was lifted, and three lavender pills flew out, filled with spiritual energy.

When he was refining the fifth batch of pills, his success rate increased to 30%.

Chen Yuan put the three pills into the jade bottle and the alchemy furnace, put them into the mustard seed ring, then closed the earth fire formation, stood up and walked out of the stone chamber.

Qin Lian was waiting outside the door. The two of them came to the medium-sized refining room, and the cloud earth spirit powder in the black cauldron had disappeared.

Qin Lian took out a dark brown stone from the mustard seed ring and put it into the black cauldron. After it turned into a pool of spiritual liquid, he asked Chen Yuan to inject his true essence and leave a spiritual imprint.

Chen Yuan did as he was told, and Qin Lian breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, this Feiling Stone will also take half a year to purify, and by then the Cangming Stone will have been purified as well."

Chen Yuan nodded slightly: "Thank you for taking care of me, I will be out tonight and will be back tomorrow."

Qin Lian's eyes flashed with doubt, but he didn't ask anything. He just smiled and said, "Daoyou, please go quickly and come back soon."

As he spoke, he took off the ancient jade pendant from his waist and handed it to Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan took the jade pendant, bowed, turned and walked out of the stone chamber.

He returned to the smallest refining room and sat cross-legged in meditation until late at night. Then he stood up and left Qin Lian Cave Mansion.

Holding a jade token in his hand, Chen Yuan flew out of the mountain gate of Wanling Sect, then left Wanling Market and came to an uninhabited deserted mountain hundreds of miles away, where he escaped.

The stars are shining brightly tonight. Chen Yuan's mind moved and he took out the jade pendant from the space in his body.

The sky was filled with shining stars, gathering into a silver beam of light that descended from the sky and enveloped Chen Yuan's entire body. It dissipated after fifty breaths.

Chen Yuan put away the jade beads, clenched his fists, felt his strength increased, smiled slightly, and flew towards Wanling Market with a flash of light.

Over the past six months, he would leave the Wanling Mountains once a month to draw starlight into his body.

He didn't dare to stay outside Qin Lian's cave because of the starlight filling his body. Although Qin Lian couldn't see the starlight falling, he could see the jade pendant.

After refining the first batch of pills, he asked Qin Lian to take him away from the Wanling Sect's mountain gate, and then he flew out of the Wanling Mountains on his own, drawing starlight into his body.

Later, because Qin Lian had to look after the refining furnace, he lent his elder jade pendant to Chen Yuan and let him leave on his own, and never asked Chen Yuan the reason.

Chen Yuan was very satisfied with Qin Lian's attitude and did not stay outside for long, in case he was not there when Qin Lian needed his help.

After returning to Qin Lian's cave, Chen Yuan returned the jade pendant to him, then went to the smallest refining room, restored his true energy, and continued to refine the seventh furnace of pills.

The thousand-year-old spiritual herbs in his hand were only enough to refine four batches of pills. Starting from the fifth batch, they turned into Yaoyuan Pills.

When he left Qin Lian's cave for the fourth time to draw the starlight into his body, he stayed in the market for several hours and bought dozens of three hundred year old spiritual herbs to gather the auxiliary medicines for refining the Yaoyuan Pill.

Chen Yuan has a total of eight level eight demon pills in his hand. Except for Kun Tong's demon pill, the other seven are from demon beasts in Jiuxianzhou. Old man Dan Jue did not leave any pill recipes.

However, for demon pills of the same attribute but different types, the spiritual herbs required are only slightly different, and there are rules to follow.

Moreover, Chen Yuan has extremely rich experience in refining Yaoyuan Pills, even far surpassing the old man Dan Jue who is in the early Nascent Soul stage, and he successfully deduced the pill formula.

He took out the Lion's demon pill, put it into the alchemy furnace, closed his eyes slightly, raised his hands, made hand gestures, and circulated his true energy.

Under the burning flames, the demon pill slowly rotated, and wisps of violent demonic energy evaporated, gradually becoming calm.

……

Another eight months passed, and Chen Yuan slowly opened his eyes. He raised his hand and opened the lid of the alchemy furnace. Four gray pills flew out. They were restrained in spirit and unremarkable in appearance.

But when Chen Yuan saw this scene, he smiled and murmured, "With these four toughness pills, my body can be strengthened a lot..."

He put the four pills into the jade bottle, put them into the mustard seed ring, stood up and walked out of the stone room. (End of this chapter)