Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 482 Retreat
Zhuge Qi was stunned for a moment, then looked at Qi Yuanshan and said hesitantly: "This..."

It was hard for him to believe that the elder of Ziyang Sect suddenly became the inner supporter of Lingyun Sect.

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, Elder Zhuge. Fellow Daoist Dai is loyal to our sect. The information he gives you will not be wrong."

Qi Yuanshan bowed and said sincerely, "Dai has already turned from darkness to light. Elder Zhuge, no matter what news you want to know about Ziyang Sect, please feel free to ask. Dai will tell you everything he knows."

Zhuge Qi then agreed: "I understand. I will discuss this matter with Fellow Daoist Dai later."

Chen Yuan nodded, and suddenly remembered something. He looked at Qi Yuanshan and whispered, "Where did you get the Demon God Secret?"

Qi Yuanshan was startled, then he replied in a voice transmission: "After I formed the elixir, I went into an ancient cultivator's cave with a few fellow Taoists and found the corpse of an ancient cultivator."

"The skeleton was wearing a mustard seed ring on his hand, which had already decayed. Inside it was a jade slip that recorded the "Demon God Art" and the secret technique of possessing another's body."

"Several other fellows unfortunately died under the protective formation of the cave. Only I survived and took the jade slip."

Chen Yuan frowned: "Do you know the identity of that ancient monk?"

Qi Yuanshan said: "I don't know that except for the jade slip, everything else in the mustard seed ring has decayed and cannot prove the identity of the ancient cultivator."

Chen Yuan stopped transmitting his voice and said, "Daoyou Dai, please withdraw first and wait outside the cave for a while."

"Yes." Qi Yuanshan clasped his fists, bowed, and turned to leave.

After he walked out of the cave, Chen Yuan raised his hand and waved, and the stone door slowly closed.

Zhuge Qi hesitated for a moment and said, "Dai Qing is highly regarded by Taoist Du Kun. Even if the Supreme Elder has the means to control him, it is best to be on guard against him."

Of course he knew that Chen Yuan would never believe Dai Qing for no reason, but inciting the elders of Ziyang Sect to rebel was too unbelievable, so he was still a little worried.

Chen Yuan said: "I know what Elder Zhuge is worried about. Dai Qing has been subdued by me and dares not rebel."

"But you are right. We should not be careless. Does our sect have any hidden agents lurking in Ziyang Sect?"

"Of course, it's not just the Ziyang Sect. The other four sects all have hidden agents lurking." Zhuge Qi took out a jade slip from his storage bag and presented it with both hands. "This is the list of our sect's hidden agents who have infiltrated the other sects. Please have a look, Grand Elder."

Chen Yuan waved his hand and said, "Just keep it to yourself. Don't expose all the hidden players of Ziyang Sect to Dai Qing. If something really happens to him, it won't affect everyone."

Zhuge Qi was relieved to see that Chen Yuan was not careless, and put away the jade slip: "Zhuge understands, what else does the Grand Elder have to say?"

Chen Yuan pondered for a while and said, "Pass on my order to the disciples and elders in the sect to keep an eye out for thousand-year-old spiritual herbs and eighth-level demon pills, especially thousand-year-old body-tempering spiritual medicines, as well as several spiritual materials. If there is any accurate information, there will be a generous reward."

After saying that, he took out a blank jade slip, probed his spiritual sense into it, left a mark, and handed it to Zhuge Qi.

Zhuge Qi took the jade slip, glanced through it, and frowned: "These spiritual materials are extremely precious. Even for Jindan cultivators, it is rare to see them. I'm afraid..."

“Let the monks in our sect pay attention to it while they travel in the world of immortal cultivation.” Chen Yuan said lightly.

He left behind eighteen kinds of spiritual materials in the jade slip, which were relatively common among the twenty-four kinds of spiritual materials needed to repair the ancient teleportation array.

The remaining six kinds of spiritual materials are all rare treasures, and among them there are three top-grade spiritual materials that are absolutely not seen by Jindan cultivators, so they are simply not included.

However, these eighteen spiritual materials that are relatively common in Jiuxianzhou are also extremely rare in Donghuazhou.

Chen Yuan just casually left a piece there. It would be best if the monks of Lingyun Sect could find it, but it didn't matter if they couldn't. It mainly depended on him.

Zhuge Qi felt relieved and put the jade slip into his storage bag.

Chen Yuan said calmly: "I will be in seclusion for a while. You will be in charge of all the affairs of the sect. If it involves Nascent Soul cultivators, come and ask me. Go ahead."

"Yes." Zhuge Qi clasped his fists and bowed, then turned and left, breathing a sigh of relief in his heart.

He has always been worried that Chen Yuan was just trying to appease people's hearts, and one day, he would take back the seal of the leader, or ask him to hand over the seal of the leader to Jin Luoheng.

Especially after the Nascent Soul Ceremony, Chen Yuan preached to the disciples and his prestige increased. The people in the sect, from top to bottom, supported him and he had completely taken control of the sect.

He only needs to say one word to take away the leader's seal, and the other elders will never express any dissatisfaction.

But Chen Yuan did not do so. Instead, he continued to let him be in charge of the affairs of the sect and even refused to let Jin Luoheng share the power.

He was completely relieved and wholeheartedly convinced by Chen Yuan.

……

After Zhuge Qi left, Chen Yuan returned to the training room, took out the jade slip that Qi Yuanshan had given him, and examined it carefully.

After a long time, he withdrew his spiritual consciousness, pondered for a moment, put away the jade slip, stood up and walked out of the cave, rode on the light of escape, and arrived at the top of Baiyun Peak.

There is mist lingering here all year round, covering the Millennium Spiritual Medicine Garden and Xuanyuanzi's cave, making it impossible for others to peek in.

The jade slip recorded the complete practice of "Demon God Art", which directly pointed to the late Nascent Soul stage. Compared with the fragments he had obtained before, it had four more magical powers above the Jindan stage.

These four magical powers are incredibly powerful. One of them is the technique of demonization, which can transform one into a demon. It is somewhat similar to the true spirit that is transformed after practicing "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit" to the fusion state, and can greatly enhance one's strength.

There is also a blood-burning technique that can burn the essence and blood of monsters in the body, greatly purifying it and greatly increasing the power of innate magical powers.

These two kinds of magical powers do not require any practice, and can be used as long as there is the essence and blood of monsters in the body. They are specially prepared for physical practitioners who practice "The Art of Demon God".

Chen Yuan followed the method recorded on the jade slip, raised his hand, made hand gestures, circulated his true energy, and performed the technique of demonization, but he failed after several attempts.

He turned to perform the blood burning technique, and the true spirit blood in his body remained motionless.

Chen Yuan shook his head, gave up helplessly, and returned to the cave.

These two magical powers should only be useful for the essence and blood of monsters, and cannot activate the blood of true spirits.

In addition to several magical powers, the "Demon God Sutra" is also quite mysterious. Although it is far inferior to the "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", for Chen Yuan, who is only in the early Nascent Soul stage, this simple practice is more inspiring.

He spent seven days and seven nights carefully studying the Nascent Soul stage exercises in the Demon God Sutra and benefited greatly from it. He gained a deeper understanding of the physical cultivation methods and the mysteries of the flesh.

He also mastered several secret techniques, which, although unable to improve his cultivation strength, could help him better refine body-tempering elixirs and utilize his tremendous strength.

What surprised Chen Yuan the most was that "The Demon God Sutra" recorded the methods of refining thousands of demon pills, with detailed introductions from level two to level ten.

Chen Yuan had a deeper understanding of the demon pill, and it became easier for him to study the recipe of the demon pill.

He had previously worked out the recipe for the Howling Moon Wolf Demon Pill, but there were still a few problems with the recipe for the Bone Crocodile Demon Pill.

After reading the record of the Bone Crocodile Demon Pill in "The Demon God Secret", these doubts were easily resolved.

Chen Yuan walked out of the cave and came to the Alchemy Pavilion. The foundation-building deacon was very respectful when he saw Chen Yuan coming.

After the Yuanying Ceremony, Chen Yuan's appearance had been deeply remembered by all the disciples of the Lingyun Sect.

Chen Yuan took away several three hundred year old spiritual herbs needed to refine the Yaoyuan Pill, and then came to Jiangzhen Peak to meet Jin Luoheng.

He took out the remaining nine Kunyu Pills, the experience in forming a baby he had gained from the Yuan family, and the insights he had gained after forming a baby himself, and gave them to Jin Luoheng.

Jin Luoheng only kept four Kunyu Pills and returned the remaining five: "Master is not a physical practitioner, and I have taken several body-tempering pills in the past. These four pills are enough. Too much is as bad as too little." Chen Yuan said: "Disciple dares, can I use a secret technique to check Master's physical body?"

Jin Luoheng naturally agreed. Chen Yuan came in front of him, stretched out his hand to hold his wrist, injected a trace of true energy, and slowly circulated it throughout his body.

This is a secret technique recorded in the "Demon God Sutra" that can be used to check the physical strength of a cultivator and whether he is suitable for practicing the "Demon God Sutra".

After a while, Chen Yuan withdrew his hand, took out another Kunyu Pill, and handed it to Jin Luoheng: "Master, you can refine five more body-tempering pills."

Although the Body Tempering Elixir can strengthen the body, its medicinal power is extremely overbearing and can damage the meridians.

Since Dharma practitioners have not practiced physical cultivation techniques, it is difficult for them to cover all aspects when refining body-tempering elixirs, and strengthening the meridians is particularly difficult.

If you take too many body-hardening elixirs, your meridians may be torn before your body is strengthened.

Jin Luoheng left four Kunyu Pills out of caution.

After Chen Yuan examined him, he gave him another pill that could strengthen his body to the maximum extent without tearing his meridians.

Jin Luoheng trusted Chen Yuan very much and accepted the Kunyu Pill. Chen Yuan said goodbye and left.

He returned to the cave and came to the alchemy room. He took out the alchemy furnace and two level eight demon pills and started to make the alchemy.

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, half a year had passed, and Chen Yuan finally walked out of the alchemy room.

Before the Nascent Soul Ceremony, he gathered four furnaces of elixirs.

At the ceremony, monks from various sects presented thousand-year-old spiritual herbs as gifts. Together with Huang Linye’s two Mingyin grasses, there were a total of seven thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.

Together with the thirteen spiritual herbs obtained from the Lingyun Sect's treasury, two more furnaces of elixirs were made up.

During the past six months, Chen Yuan not only focused on drawing starlight into his body, but also refined pills.

There were six furnaces of pills in total, and the success rate of each furnace was 40%. A total of 24 Nascent Soul stage pills were obtained, and there were six thousand-year-old spiritual herbs left.

They are a thousand-year-old thunder dragon and two main herbs for refining the Nascent Soul stage elixir. One of them is the sunflower as the main herb, and the other three thousand-year-old spiritual herbs are added to make a furnace of Nine Yang Pills.

This is a elixir for the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. After Chen Yuan got the sunflower from Tang Daozhou, he intended to collect the recipe for Nascent Soul elixir. He found it in a shop in Wanling Pavilion and bought it for ten high-quality spirit stones.

The difficulty of refining the Nine Yang Pill is much higher than that of the Nascent Soul early stage pill. With Chen Yuan's current alchemy skills, the success rate is extremely low, and it is not yet time to refine this pill.

However, after refining six batches of pills, Chen Yuan vaguely felt that his alchemy skills had reached a new level. As long as he refined a few more batches of pills, the success rate should be able to increase again.

Perhaps his wife is not far from refining the Nine Yang Pill.

There are not many alchemy masters like him who have refined eighteen furnaces of Nascent Soul stage elixirs in just over ten years since he formed his Nascent Soul stage.

Even for the most skilled alchemist in the ten major sects of Jiuxianzhou, it would take at least a hundred years for the alchemist to refine so many pills.

Thousand-year-old spiritual herbs are rare, and it is impossible for the ten major sects to have only one grand master of alchemy, and fellow monks will not necessarily ask him to help refine pills.

Chen Yuan was extremely powerful. By chance, he obtained dozens of thousand-year-old spiritual herbs and mastered the method of refining the Demon Yuan Pill, which allowed him to frequently open the furnace to refine pills.

His experience in alchemy was too rich, and his alchemy skills improved rapidly. His 40% success rate already ranked him among the top among the alchemy masters.

……

After Chen Yuan finished refining the elixir, he did not start practicing immediately, but waited until late at night and came out of the cave.

He took out the jade beads, drew the starlight into his body, and a dazzling silver beam of light descended.

A warm feeling enveloped the whole body. Chen Yuan looked inward and saw countless silver spots of light merging into his limbs, bones, meridians, blood and flesh.

Fifty breaths later, the silver beam of light slowly dissipated, and his physical body became stronger again, bringing him one step closer to breaking through the bottleneck of the ninth-level demon king.

Chen Yuan put away the jade pendant and returned to the training room. He closed his eyes and meditated, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to restore the true energy consumed by alchemy and starlight infusion.

Three days later, he slowly opened his eyes, his true energy was restored, his mind was peaceful, his fatigue disappeared, and he felt refreshed and full of energy.

He took out a jade bottle from the mustard seed ring, tilted it slightly, poured out a pill, and put it into his mouth.

The pill entered his throat and turned into a huge and pure spiritual energy, flowing into his meridians.

Chen Yuan closed his eyes slightly, concentrated his mind and calmed his breath. According to the method recorded in "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit", he slowly mobilized the spiritual energy, circulated it in his meridians, removed impurities bit by bit, made it more pure and rich, and finally entered into his dantian and merged into the sea of ​​true essence.

Looking at the sea surface where the true energy had slightly increased, Chen Yuan shook his head helplessly, stood up and walked out of the cave, took out the jade pendant, and drew the starlight into his body.

After fifty breaths, feeling that his body had been strengthened a little more, Chen Yuan returned to the training room, absorbed spiritual energy, restored his true essence, and then took another pill to improve his cultivation.

This cycle repeated itself over and over again. After two and a half years, Chen Yuan had refined all twenty-four pills and his cultivation level had improved significantly.

After forming the Nascent Soul stage, he refined a total of seventy-six Nascent Soul stage pills, which, when given to other Nascent Soul cultivators, were enough to cultivate to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage.

But his true essence was too pure and strong, and he needed at least twelve bottles of pills to reach the mid-term bottleneck.

However, compared with other peak cultivators in the early Nascent Soul stage, Chen Yuan's true essence is not inferior at all, and is even more refined.

After more than thirty times of infusion of starlight, his body has become much stronger and he is only one step away from breaking through the ninth level bottleneck.

After three years of hard training, Chen Yuan's mood became somewhat desolate.

He put aside his cultivation, walked out of the cave, and lingered on Baiyun Peak, focusing on admiring the beautiful scenery of the mountains.

Seven days later, Chen Yuan's mood was harmonious and his yin and yang were balanced, and then he returned to the cave.

He sent out a sound transmission note, and within a quarter of an hour, Zhuge Qi walked into the cave, clasped his fists and bowed: "Welcome the Supreme Elder to come out of seclusion."

"Elder Zhuge, there is no need to be so polite. Has anything major happened in our sect in the past three years?" Chen Yuan went straight to the point.

Zhuge Qi replied: "Since the end of the Yuanying Ceremony, our sect has been thriving, and the Ziyang Sect has retreated everywhere and no longer dares to bully our sect."

"I have sent elders from the sect to recover the mines and spiritual plant gardens that were occupied by the Zi Yang Sect. I have also teamed up with the Tian Gang Sword Sect and Ming Yin Valley to seize several spiritual material mines from the Zi Yang Sect."

Chen Yuan nodded slightly: "Well done, go ahead and do it. If Taoist Du Kun comes forward, don't resist, report to me quickly."

"Zhuge understands." Zhuge Qi nodded, took out a few spirit stones from his storage bag, and presented them with both hands. "The mine in Yuyang Mountain has been opened. Since it has been sealed for twenty years and the spirit formation has been used to nourish the origin, it only took two years to mine thirteen pieces of top-grade spirit stones. Our sect will receive eight pieces. Please accept them, Grand Elder."

Chen Yuan smiled, raised his hand, took the spirit stone into his hand and put it away.

He thought for a moment, took out a mustard seed ring from his bosom, raised his hand and sent it slowly to Zhuge Qi, saying lightly: "I got this mustard seed ring by chance, you can accept it."

Zhuge Qi's eyes flashed with joy, and he took the mustard seed ring: "Thank you for the reward, Grand Elder."

Chen Yuan asked again: "Is there any movement from Dai Qing?"

(End of this chapter)