Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 448 Lingering
At the foot of the Tianji Mountains, in a courtyard.

There is no screen wall in the courtyard and the gate is open.

Chen Yuan, wearing a gold-thread hollow mask, sat on the main seat in the main hall, looking out the door. His eyes were calm, but with a hint of expectation.

In the cold winter, the courtyard is filled with mottled shadows of trees, clusters of flowers and a faint fragrance.

Chen Yuan did not disperse his spiritual sense, but simply set up a spiritual sense barrier around the courtyard.

This is the mountain gate of Tianji Sect. There are many Nascent Soul cultivators and some great cultivators here, so we must not act ostentatiously.

But he did not have the slightest fear. After putting on the robes of teleportation, his teleportation skills were greatly enhanced. Even when facing a great monk, he had some chance of saving his life.

Moreover, it is impossible for Tianjizi to spread his spiritual sense all the time to investigate every cultivator on Tianji Island.

And below the great monk, no one could see through his identity.

Chen Yuan waited for two quarters of an hour, and then a graceful figure walked in.

He smiled slightly, stood up, took off his mask, and walked up.

Jing Shuhan's expression changed slightly. With a wave of her slender hand, she closed the door behind her and walked over quickly: "Are you going to die? Put on your mask!"

Chen Yuan's smile deepened, but he didn't do it.

"Don't panic, I have already set up a spiritual barrier, no one can spy on me." He explained.

Jing Shuhan then breathed a sigh of relief, walked up to Chen Yuan, raised his head slightly, and looked at him intently.

She blinked her beautiful eyes twice and murmured, "Forty-six years..."

Chen Yuan was startled for a moment, then he reacted and smiled: "Yes, forty-six years."

Forty-six years have passed since he last came to Tianji Island.

Jing Shuhan just looked at Chen Yuan, his eyes full of tenderness.

After a while, she whispered, "The sect's arrest warrant for you has not been revoked yet. This is not the place to talk. Let's leave Tianji Island first."

Chen Yuan nodded and put on the mask again.

The two men walked out of the courtyard, and with a flash of light, Chen Yuan followed Jing Shuhan and flew towards the south of Tianji Island.

The sky was high and the clouds were light. Two beams of light followed each other closely. After flying thousands of miles, Jing Shuhan suddenly stopped and landed on a small island.

There are no spiritual veins on the island, so there are no monks, only mortals.

In the center of the island there is a stone mountain over a hundred feet high. It is steep and dangerous and rarely visited by people.

Chen Yuan followed Jing Shuhan and landed on the top of the stone mountain.

He glanced around and said with a smile: "The last time I came to Tianji Island, the place where you and I met was this small island."

Jing Shuhan's face flushed slightly. He took out the formation plate and flag and set up an illusion formation to prevent others from spying.

Chen Yuan thought for a moment, took out a lush and twisted green vine from the mustard ring, and pointed.

The green vines exuded a strong green color, and countless green leaves suddenly appeared on a bare tree on the top of the mountain, and green grass and wild flowers grew in the cracks of the rocks.

The cold wind in winter also becomes warm, blowing across your face, bringing warmth.

Jing Shuhan was surprised: "This is..."

"Ivy is a top-grade wood-attributed spiritual material." Chen Yuan said with a smile, "The last time we met was in the middle of summer."

Jing Shuhan smiled faintly, walked forward to hug Chen Yuan, leaned her head on his shoulder, her eyes full of tenderness.

Chen Yuan put the ivy into the mustard seed ring and hugged Jing Shuhan with his backhand.

The two of them snuggled together quietly for a long time before separating.

Chen Yuan looked at Jing Shuhan's face and said with a smile, "Have you broken through the bottleneck in the late stage?"

When they met, he saw that Jing Shuhan's cultivation had reached the late stage of Jindan.

Jing Shuhan nodded, spread out his spiritual sense, and scanned Chen Yuan, but found nothing.

She frowned slightly: "I still can't tell your cultivation level. We are both in the late Jindan stage, why is your consciousness stronger than mine?"

Chen Yuan smiled and was about to explain when Jing Shuhan took out a wooden box from the mustard seed ring and handed it to him: "I'll give it back to you."

Chen Yuan took the wooden box, opened it, and took out the jade pendant engraved with a mandarin duck entwined around its neck.

Jing Shuhan warned: "Next time you come to see me, just say that an old friend is visiting you, and you don't need to take out the jade pendant."

"I only have a few good friends outside of Tianji Sect. Whenever they come to visit me, they will tell me their identities and names."

Chen Yuan nodded and put the jade pendant into the mustard seed ring.

Jing Shuhan took out two more wooden boxes, handed them to Chen Yuan, and said with a smile, "For you."

Chen Yuan looked at Jing Shuhan, whose face was full of smiles and anticipation, and slowly reached out to take the wooden box, feeling a little tender in his heart.

At this moment, Jing Shuhan did not look like a cultivator in the late Jindan stage, but rather like a 28-year-old mortal girl.

When he opened the wooden box, he found two eight-hundred-year-old Kunyu grass plants inside.

The last time they met, Jing Shuhan gave him three body-tempering spiritual herbs, two of which were Kunyu grass.

Chen Yuan was startled, and looked up at Jing Shuhan: "Why don't you keep these two Kunyu grasses for yourself?"

Jing Shuhan said: "You are a physical cultivator, you must temper your body to improve your cultivation. These two Kunyu grasses will be more useful to you."

Chen Yuan felt warm in his heart, but he still closed the wooden box and handed it back: "You have broken through the bottleneck of the late stage and need to prepare for the tribulation. I can't take these two spiritual herbs."

Jing Shuhan seemed to have expected this. He raised his hand to the wooden box and said with a smile, "I got three Kunyu grasses in total. I have refined one into a pill to temper my body. These two are specially reserved for you."

"You are a physical cultivator, so your physical body is the most important thing. I only need to survive the Yin Fire Tribulation, so I don't need so many body-tempering spiritual herbs."

"Before, when I was controlled by old ghost Ji, I didn't dare to improve my cultivation, so I used spiritual energy to warm my body."

"Although the effect is a little weaker, it will still have some effect after a long time. You should accept these two spiritual herbs..."

She explained a lot and tried hard to get Chen Yuan to accept the two spiritual herbs.

Chen Yuan's heart softened, and he slowly released his Qi: "I have already formed a Nascent Soul, and I don't need these two spiritual herbs anymore."

"You...you have formed a Nascent Soul?" Jing Shuhan felt the pressure from the Nascent Soul cultivator and her eyes widened, her beautiful eyes full of disbelief.

The last time Jueling Island was opened, Chen Yuan was only in the middle stage of Jindan.

Now, only more than sixty years have passed, and he has actually formed his Nascent Soul.

Chen Yuan restrained his energy, and after a long while, Jing Shuhan finally calmed down.

She smiled and pushed the wooden box to Chen Yuan: "Since you can't use these two spiritual herbs, refine them into pills and return them to me."

Chen Yuan then realized that he was only thinking that he didn't need these two spiritual herbs, but forgot that he was also an alchemist.

The last time the two of them were intimate, they opened up their hearts to each other. Except for the secrets that could not be revealed, such as the jade pendant, "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", Donghuazhou, and the Yaoyuan Pill, Chen Yuan told Jing Shuhan everything else.

Jing Shuhan also talked about her past experiences, but she had been accepted as a disciple by Ji Laogui since she was a child, and was strictly controlled by Ji Laogui, and practiced step by step, but her achievements were unremarkable.

Chen Yuan put away the spiritual herbs and said with a smile: "Alright, I will stay in Yuqing Sea for a while this time."

As he spoke, he took out six jade bottles and said, "I also have something to give you. These two bottles of Ice Lotus Pills are made from two eight-hundred-year-old Ice Spring Lotuses. They have the effect of tempering the body, which is just right to help you survive the Yin Fire Tribulation."

"These four bottles of elixirs can help you improve your cultivation and reach the False Infant realm sooner."

Jing Shuhan did not refuse and directly took the six bottles of pills, saying with a smile: "Since it is a gift from Senior Yuanying, then I will not refuse it."

Chen Yuan also laughed. He didn't expect that Jing Shuhan actually had such a naughty side.

The two of them came to the edge of the cliff and sat down, snuggling together, just like young men and women having a tryst in the mortal world.

Jing Shuhan leaned his head on Chen Yuan's shoulder and asked, "How did you form your Nascent Soul?"

Chen Yuan embraced Jing Shuhan, looked at the blue sea in the distance under the sunlight, and said softly: "This is a long story..."

He briefly recounted his experiences of using the Haoran Sect's spiritual vein to form a fetus, but being harassed by Elder Gu and forced to duel swords with the Cangjian Palace's true disciples. After the fetus was formed, he was forced by Elder Gu to go to Hanzhou to deal with the Lion Barbarians and encountered an ambush set by Kuntong. He only glossed over the secrets of refining Kunpeng's true blood and Tian You.

Chen Yuan told the story leisurely, and although he omitted many details, Jing Shuhan was fascinated by what he heard in Renzhou, Hanzhou and Jingzhou, as well as his battles with Xiong Lie, Shi Man and Kun Tong.

After Chen Yuan finished speaking, Jing Shuhan held his hand tightly: "You just got pregnant, and you've encountered so many troubles..."

Chen Yuan comforted him, "Don't worry, they are just some chickens and dogs, nothing to worry about. This time I returned to Yuqing Sea to cause trouble for the Kunyu clan."

Jing Shuhan said: "Then Elder Gu may have already informed the Kunyu Clan about you killing Kun Tong. If you go to the Ten Thousand Monsters Sea now, aren't you walking into a trap?"

Chen Yuan said: "I just formed a fetus and disappeared in the past. They must have thought that I was practicing in seclusion to improve my cultivation."

"If I sneak into the Ten Thousand Monsters Sea at this time, the transformed demon king of the Kunyu clan will definitely be unprepared, making it the easiest to attack me."

"Moreover, I bought two pieces of information about the demon king of the Kunyu clan from a Jindan cultivator of the Righteous Alliance. The enemy is in the open and we are in the dark, so there is no reason for us to fail."

Jing Shuhan nodded slightly, but she didn't know Chen Yuan's true strength, so she was still a little worried: "We still need to think about this matter carefully and not take risks."

"You wait for a few years. Our sect has close contacts with the Kunyu Clan. I will get some information about the Kunyu Clan from our sect. Then it won't be too late for you to enter the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters."

Chen Yuan was a little surprised: "The Tianji Sect and the Kunyu Clan have always had dealings?"

Jing Shuhan said: "Yes, the three major sects of Yuqing Sea have secret transactions with the monster clan of Wan Yao Sea. The Righteous Alliance has the largest business and has dealings with the three major royal families."

"Zhenhai Sect has a close relationship with the Jiaolong Clan, and our sect has had close exchanges with the Kunyu Clan since at least three thousand years ago."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to find so much Kunyu grass. These Kunyu grass were traded to our sect by the Kunyu Clan." Chen Yuan said thoughtfully: "No wonder the chief of the Kunyu Clan asked Tianjizi to do divination..."

Suddenly, he frowned, "Will you get into trouble if you seek information about the Kunyu Clan? If I deal with the demon king of the Kunyu Clan, will it be detrimental to the Tianji Sect and cause you trouble?"

Seeing that Chen Yuan always considered himself, Jing Shuhan's mouth curled up slightly: "The demon race is the enemy of our human race. Our sect and the Kunyu clan secretly traded just to exchange what we have."

"Both parties have been pretending to be friendly and using each other. If there is a chance to severely damage the Kunyu clan, our sect will naturally be eager to take it."

"In order to help you find the Body Tempering Spiritual Herb, I deliberately made friends with a Jindan elder in the sect who was involved in the transaction. It is not difficult to find out the information."

"But this person is now on Blood Island and will not return to the sect for several years. I cannot go directly to Blood Island to inquire with him, otherwise it will be too conspicuous and I will have to wait for several more years."

"This matter really cannot be rushed..." Chen Yuan nodded slowly, but he had other ideas in his mind.

This time he dived into the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons not only to deal with the Kunyu clan, but also to hunt monsters and obtain pills, refine them into monster essence pills, and improve his cultivation.

If I wait for a few years on Tianji Island without the support of elixirs and spiritual veins, it would be a waste of time.

Chen Yuan pondered for a moment and said, "How about this, I will first enter the Ten Thousand Demons Sea and kill the demon king of the Kunyu clan. The information from the Righteous Alliance helped me ambush and kill Kun Feng, so I shouldn't make any mistakes this time."

"Wait for that Jindan elder to come back from Blood Island, and then you can try to persuade him indirectly. If you can gain something, I will go to the Sea of ​​Thousand Monsters again."

Jing Shuhan was surprised and asked, "You want to enter the Sea of ​​Thousand Monsters again?"

"The three royal families have issued arrest warrants for me. Naturally, I have to settle this account with them." Chen Yuan sneered.

Jing Shuhan showed a worried look on his face: "You have just formed your infant, so you should do things within your ability. Once your cultivation level is improved, it will not be too late to take revenge on the three royal families."

Chen Yuan nodded: "Don't worry, I know what to do."

In fact, he did not take the wanted orders of the three royal families seriously. His main purpose was to hunt monsters and obtain elixirs to improve his cultivation.

But the Yaoyuan Pill was one of his biggest secrets, so he could only conceal it and make excuses for it.

After this matter was settled, the sky gradually darkened.

Chen Yuan asked about Jing Shuhan's experiences over the past forty years. As a true disciple of the Tianji Sect, she had no shortage of resources for cultivation and did not need to take any risks. She only completed a few sect missions without any danger. Most of the time, she was in seclusion in the sect for cultivation.

In order to avoid being refined into an incarnation by Old Ghost Ji, Jing Shuhan deliberately suppressed his cultivation for decades, which was not entirely a bad thing.

Her foundation was extremely solid, and her true essence was pure and condensed, surpassing that of cultivators of the same level. With her accumulated strength, she broke through two bottlenecks in succession in just over sixty years without encountering any obstacles.

Before he became a true disciple, he had just entered the middle stage of the Jindan period. Other Jindan cultivators in the Tianji Sect had some complaints about him.

But once she broke through the bottleneck in the late stage, her cultivation progressed rapidly and no one complained about it anymore.

As the night deepens, the stars shine brightly in the cold winter night.

Chen Yuan and Jing Shuhan slowly fell silent, and an ambiguous atmosphere filled the air.

Suddenly, they looked at each other, unable to look away.

Chen Yuan's hand quietly touched Jing Shuhan's body, his eyes becoming more and more passionate.

Jing Shuhan's pretty face flushed, and she lay weakly in Chen Yuan's arms, with her eyes slightly closed and her mouth slightly open, looking as if she was ready to be picked by him.

Chen Yuan's breathing suddenly became heavy and he kissed her.

……

Three days later, Chen Yuan and Jing Shuhan returned to Tianji Island.

Jing Shuhan returned to the sect, Chen Yuan put on the mask again and rented a cave.

Among the caves rented out by Tianji Island, there are three caves with spiritual energy concentrations comparable to that of medium-sized spiritual veins, and are specially designed for Nascent Soul cultivators to live in.

But a tall tree attracts the wind, so Chen Yuan did not reveal his identity, but simply rented a cave suitable for a Jindan cultivator.

The next day, Jing Shuhan gave Chen Yuan the auxiliary medicine for refining Kunyu grass, and the two of them were affectionate again.

After Jing Shuhan left, Chen Yuan started to refine the elixir. It took him a month to refine the two Kunyu grasses into body-tempering pills, a total of eighteen pills.

He refined twelve furnaces of Nascent Soul stage elixirs, and his alchemy skills became even more perfect. The success rate of elixirs below the Nascent Soul stage was 90% without exception.

The two Ice Spring Lotuses also produced eighteen pills.

There are a total of thirty-six body-tempering pills. After Jing Shuhan refines all of them, his body will be greatly strengthened.

But when Chen Yuan gave these pills to Jing Shuhan, Jing Shuhan did not accept them all.

She only took eight pills and returned the remaining bottle of Kunyu Pill to Chen Yuan: "I am not a physical practitioner. You have already given me two bottles of Binglian Pill. I can't even refine all of these eight Kunyu Pills."

"Qingshan has extraordinary talent, and he may have the opportunity to form a baby in the future. This bottle of body-tempering pills may be left to him, so that he won't be unable to find the body-tempering spiritual herbs and delay the formation of a baby."

The last time Chen Yuan and Jing Shuhan met, he told her about Li Qingshan.

Seeing Jing Shuhan was so thoughtful, he felt it made sense and left a bottle of Kunyu Dan.

After not seeing each other for a month, the two of them stayed together for another three days before Jing Shuhan left reluctantly.

Chen Yuan realized another benefit of cultivating immortals. In his previous life, he would have been weak in the waist and legs, and his body would have been weak and his spirit would have been exhausted.

But now, he still feels full of energy and even feels a little unsatisfied.

But he still restrained his inner desires and quietly left Tianji Island.

He had experienced too much in his previous life and would no longer dwell on it. Besides, there would be no shortage of opportunities in the future so there was no need to rush.

……

Before leaving Tianji Island, Chen Yuan inquired about the situation in the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons in the Ghost Market and there was no need to go to Blood Island or Kongyu Island.

Nineteen years ago, the demon clan started a beast tide. Led by seven transformed demon kings, they almost broke through Kongyu Island. Fortunately, the three major sects extended a helping hand in time and managed to resolve the crisis.

Since then, peace has returned to the human and demon races.

This kind of calmness is naturally not peace and tranquility, but the absence of large-scale beast conquests.

Human cultivators entered the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Demons to hunt monsters and obtain elixirs, and there were also monsters that entered the human sea area to cause trouble.

The Ink Sea and the Rocky Sea are still the bloodiest hunting grounds. Some people successfully hunt monsters and return to the Blood Island with monster pills and monster materials. One harvest can support decades of cultivation.

Some people were killed by monsters and their bodies were never found.

But these had nothing to do with Chen Yuan. He did not go to the Ink Sea or the Rocky Sea, nor did he dive into the Ten Thousand Monsters Sea. Instead, he flew to the southeast of the Yuqing Sea.

He flew at an extremely fast speed. In just a few days, he flew tens of thousands of miles and arrived at the border of Yuqing Sea.

The Yuqing Sea is extremely vast, as vast as the two states of Jiuxianzhou, and is adjacent to three seas.

Two of them are the Ink Sea and the Rocky Sea, and the last one is the forbidden area for cultivators and also a forbidden area for monsters - the Silent Sea.

Everything is dead and silent here, without any living creatures, not even a trace of spiritual energy from heaven and earth. It is a rare spiritual forbidden place, where no one has ever set foot.

Chen Yuan looked down at the light gray sea below with a complicated look in his eyes, filled with memories and a hint of expectation.

Before diving into the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Monsters, he must first repair the ancient teleportation array.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is forbidden in the Silent Sea, and every bit of true energy consumed cannot be replenished.

When Chen Yuan came to the Silent Sea, he was only at the late stage of foundation building.

It took him more than a month, and he almost used up all of his mid-grade spirit stones, before he could barely fly out of the Silent Sea.

But now, he doesn't have to worry about the consumption of this little bit of true energy, and his escape speed doesn't decrease at all.

In less than a day, Chen Yuan traveled more than twelve thousand miles and arrived at the dark stone island, landing on the escaping light.

Compared to when he left, there was no change on the island, as if time had stopped on this island.

Chen Yuan landed directly in the valley where the ancient teleportation array was located. He was surrounded by dark mountain walls, about tens of feet high. The sky was cloudless and the sun was shining, but there was not a trace of warmth.

On the round platform one foot above the ground, black lines of an inch thick and thin twisted and turned, forming extremely complex patterns and tracks, covering the entire round platform, forming a formation with eight grooves around it.
But in one corner of the formation, a few black lines broke through it, making the complex and harmonious formation look very disharmonious.

This is the place that Chen Yuan deliberately destroyed after being teleported. It must be repaired before the teleportation array can be activated again.

He took out the jade slip that recorded the method of repairing the ancient teleportation array, probed his spiritual sense into it, and studied it carefully.

Three days later, Chen Yuan withdrew his spiritual consciousness, took out the alchemy furnace and the seven materials bought from Wanling Pavilion, and began to purify and smelt them.

The method of repairing the teleportation array is not difficult, it is even quite simple. If Chen Yuan were not naturally cautious, he would have read it over and over again and would have mastered it in a day.

The materials for repairing the teleportation array were not difficult to refine. Ten days later, Chen Yuan had melted all seven materials and finally fused them into a ball of black powder.

He carefully placed the black powder on the damaged part of the teleportation array, and cast a spell, injecting his true energy into it, allowing it to slowly solidify and repair the broken black lines.

Chen Yuan looked at his restored real hair and suddenly began to doubt whether this repair method was real or not.

The ancient teleportation array can connect Donghua Continent and Jiuxian Continent, spanning an unknown number of tens of thousands of miles. The method of refining it has long been lost, but it is so simple to repair that it does not even require the help of a specialized refiner. It is truly surprising.

However, this is also related to Chen Yuan's mercy. If he had destroyed not only a corner of the teleportation array, but the core, it would have been difficult to repair.

Different parts of the teleportation array require different spiritual materials.

He only bought seven of the most common and simple materials, and in very small quantities, and spent one thousand two hundred high-quality spirit stones.

Some materials are more precious than others, and there are even several high-grade and top-grade spiritual materials that are rarely seen in the world and are on the verge of extinction.

Chen Yuan stepped forward and came to the teleportation array. He raised his sleeve and flicked it. Eight high-quality spirit stones of different colors flew out, with all eight attributes of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, ice, wind and thunder, and fell into the groove.

He took a deep breath, took out the Great Teleport Order, and injected his true energy into it.

(End of this chapter)