Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

In the Lingyun Mountains, a thousand-foot-high wall of clouds connected the sky and the ground, heavy and stagnant.

A beam of light came from the horizon at an extremely fast speed, and slowed down slightly in front of the cloud wall.

It was as if a gust of wind blew, and the cloud wall suddenly began to flow. A passage quickly emerged, and the escaping light went straight into it.

After a long while, a foundation-building cultivator finally came to the passage and looked at the slowly flowing clouds with a look of surprise and doubt.

He spread out his spiritual sense and investigated carefully, but still did not find anything unusual, so he left.

In the mountains of Lingyun Sect, the ray of light passed through the cloud wall and came to the sky above Baiyun Peak, where it finally stopped and Chen Yuan's figure appeared.

He landed in front of the cave, took out a sound transmission talisman, put it to his lips, said a few words silently, raised his hand and threw it, and the sound transmission talisman turned into a stream of light and flew out.

The stone door slowly opened, and Chen Yuan walked into the cave. After waiting in the stone hall for about quarter of an hour, Zhuge Qi walked in.

He walked quickly to Chen Yuan, clasped his fists and bowed: "Welcome the Grand Elder back to the sect."

"Elder Zhuge, there's no need to be so polite." Chen Yuan waved his hand. "During the time I was away, has anything happened in Qi's cultivation world?"

Zhuge Qi stood up and shook his head, saying, "Our sect has been suppressing the Ziyang Sect. Over the past two months, the reputation of the Grand Elder has spread throughout Qi State, and the morale of our disciples is high."

"The Tiangang Sword Sect and Mingyin Valley also followed our lead and made great efforts in dealing with the Ziyang Sect."

"Although the Ziyang Sect has been fighting back, it is of no avail."

"I followed the instructions of the Grand Elder and only targeted Ziyang Sect. I will let go of Wanshou Mountain and Guiyuan Sect for now. Wanshou Mountain and Ziyang Sect have begun to become at odds with each other."

"Only Guiyuan Sect is too deeply involved with Ziyang Sect, so we dare not disobey orders, but we are also just doing the work but not putting in the effort."

Chen Yuan nodded slightly: "Well done, keep up the good work. As long as no Jindan cultivator dies, there is no need to worry."

"Zhuge understands." A hint of joy flashed in Zhuge Qi's eyes, and he agreed immediately.

Chen Yuan asked again, "How are the few things I asked you to do before I left the sect going?"

Zhuge Qi replied, "The sect competition has been prepared. As long as you have reached the late stage of Qi Refining, you can sign up to participate. It does not limit inner disciples, miscellaneous disciples, or outer disciples. The competition format is the same as the previous Ascension Conference."

"The Immortal Ascension Conference has also been widely announced. It will be held in four months, and anyone in the late stage of Qi Refining can sign up."

"All new disciples who joined the sect this year have had their spiritual awareness tested. Those who are different from ordinary people will be sent to various halls and pavilions to learn the various arts of cultivation."

Chen Yuan praised: "Very good, but the format of the sect competition and the Ascension Conference should be changed. After each draw, the winner can advance to the next round."

"But the loser does not have to be eliminated immediately. Instead, they will play against the loser of the second day. Everyone has two chances. If they lose both, they will be eliminated."

Zhuge Qi suddenly realized: "This way, we can greatly eliminate the influence of luck and will not bury the truly capable disciples."

Chen Yuan nodded: "Yes, the sect competition must be held successfully, but the foundation-building pill cannot be used as a reward."

"For the next four years, the exchange of foundation-building pills in the Hall of Good Deeds will also be temporarily suspended."

"If you want to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill, you have to enter the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain, collect spiritual herbs, and exchange them with the sect."

Zhuge Qi was stunned for a moment, then he realized that Chen Yuan was not allowing his Qi-refining disciples to build their foundation and was forcing them to enter the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain.

He was puzzled and wondered what Chen Yuan's intention was. After all, there were very few thousand-year-old spiritual herbs in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain. Even if there were many five-hundred-year-old or eight-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, they would be useless to Nascent Soul cultivators.

But he didn't dare to question Chen Yuan's decision and could only agree.

Chen Yuan pondered for a while and asked, "How many high-grade spiritual materials and high-grade spiritual stones are there in the sect's treasury?" Zhuge Qi was shocked and replied, "There are still seven high-grade spiritual materials and about 2,400 high-grade spiritual stones."

Chen Yuan was a little surprised: "There are so many high-quality spirit stones stored in our sect?"

After returning to Lingyun Sect, he and Zhuge Qi went to the treasury. He remembered clearly that there were nine top-grade spiritual materials in total, but two were missing now. They should have been exchanged by other Jindan elders, but he did not count the top-grade spiritual stones.

Zhuge Qi explained, "When our sect moved away from Qi, our master issued an order that the offerings received by the Jindan elders would be halved. After returning to Qi, the order remained unchanged, and a lot of high-grade spirit stones were accumulated."

"After the Grand Elder returned to the sect, he seized 20% of the Yuyang Mountain mine's share. The annual share of high-quality spirit stones doubled, the offerings from the elders increased, and the remaining was accumulated, which led to this scale."

"How many of these two thousand four hundred high-grade spirit stones can be taken out?" Chen Yuan asked

Zhuge Qi lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said, "The guarding formation, the gathering spirit formation, the guarding formation of Lingyun Market, etc., all require high-quality spirit stones to operate, and consume about 400 pieces every year."

"The offerings from the elders of the sect have not yet been distributed. More than 300 yuan are needed, and about 1,700 yuan can be taken out."

Chen Yuan nodded slightly: "Please trouble Elder Zhuge to fetch all the top-grade spiritual materials and spiritual stones."

Zhuge Qi's heart sank, but he replied respectfully, "Please wait a moment, Grand Elder."

After saying that, he turned and left, walking quickly out of the cave.

Chen Yuan looked at Zhuge Qi's back, wondering how many spiritual materials these spiritual stones and spiritual materials could be exchanged for to repair the ancient teleportation array.

Two months ago, after he left the Dongling Mountains, he went to visit several Nascent Soul cultivators who were on good terms with Master He to purchase spiritual materials.

As an elder of the White Crane Sect, Master He had been in the Nascent Soul stage for a long time and had made friends with many Nascent Soul cultivators.

For Xuan Yuanzi's sake, he accepted two top-grade spirit stones before handing over five letters to Chen Yuan.

These five people were close friends with him and none of them turned Chen Yuan away.

Three of them were similar to Chen Yuan, all of them were the masters of medium-sized sects, or supreme elders. They only took out one kind of spiritual material that Chen Yuan needed, and he bought it for the price of three top-grade spirit stones.

The other two were elders from Zhiyuan Gate and Tianxuan Sect respectively. Chen Yuan first went to Zhiyuan Gate, which was closer, to visit Elder Peng.

When Elder Peng saw Master He's letter, he was quite enthusiastic. Chen Yuan explained his purpose, but Elder Peng did not have the spiritual materials he needed.

Chen Yuan asked Elder Peng to act as a go-between and purchase spiritual materials from other elders of Zhiyuan Sect, and he readily agreed.

Elder Peng spent seven days finding five kinds of spiritual materials, but when he made his offer, he asked for three more top-grade spiritual stones, for a total of seventeen top-grade spiritual stones.

Chen Yuan only had nine top-grade spirit stones left in his hand. He took out two jars of top-grade spiritual water and the last top-grade wood-attributed spiritual material he got from Tian You, exchanged them for these five spiritual materials, and still had three top-grade spirit stones left.

As one of the elders of the ten major sects, the spiritual materials that Tian You used to refine magic weapons were extremely rare in Jiuxianzhou, and were even more precious to the Nascent Soul cultivators of Donghuazhou.

One of the elders of Zhiyuan Sect happened to be a wood element cultivator. He was determined to obtain this spiritual material, so he gave Chen Yuan three top-grade spiritual stones.

The other two jars of top-grade spiritual water, one was the Dark Yuan Water obtained from Kun Tong, and the other was obtained from Kun Song.

After killing Kunsong that day, he fought with the girl from the Zhuyan Baigu Sect and had no time to check the treasures he got from Kunsong.

Later he checked and found that Kunsong did not have many treasures on him. The most valuable ones were a jar of top-grade spiritual water and a piece of space spiritual material.

In addition, there are more than 300 high-quality spirit stones and several 800-year-old spirit herbs. There are no thousand-year-old spirit herbs and top-quality spirit stones, which should have been refined by him himself.

After leaving Zhiyuan Sect, Chen Yuan rushed back to Lingyun Sect, took away the spiritual materials and stones, and then went to visit the elder of Tianxuan Sect. (End of this chapter)