Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Liu Fan hasn't seen the sunrise for twenty-eight years.

He walked out of the cave slowly, looking into the distance at the formation curtain that went straight into the sky, and the demonic energy that was rolling behind the formation curtain as if it had life. A sense of irritation inexplicably surged in his heart.

He rode on a beam of light and flew towards the cave where his master Xiao Lingzi was.

The formation was ten thousand feet high, more than six thousand feet higher than the highest Fire Prison Mountain in Donghua Continent.

The fierce gale from thousands of feet high in the sky can wipe out the evil spirit, otherwise the formation will be even higher.

Demonic energy must not be allowed to escape; this is the consensus of the nine major sects. Even for those demon cultivators who rely on demonic energy for cultivation, the same applies.

When the Demon Realm first began to expand, Liu Fan was only a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building and did not know about this.

He only knew that a lot of pure demonic energy suddenly emerged from the Lingxu Mountains, where demonic energy had only occasionally escaped. This caused the five major demon sects to fight for it and even sparked a war.

At that time, Liu Fan had not yet been accepted as a disciple by Xiao Lingzi, and he also went to Lingxu Mountains to compete for demonic energy.

He defeated the elite disciples of the Demon Yuan Palace, the Hehuan Sect, and the Yin Hai Sect, and was noticed by Xiao Lingzi, who was in charge of the war, and was accepted as his personal disciple. He also became a true disciple of the Xue Ling Sect, and was extremely famous.

But soon, things started to go wrong.

The Demon Realm is expanding in scope, and the demonic energy emanating from it is becoming more and more numerous and purer.

This was originally a good thing, as demon cultivators needed demonic energy to cultivate their magical powers and improve their cultivation. The larger the demon domain and the more demonic energy there was, the greater the benefits the five major demon sects would gain.

But the Demon Realm expanded too quickly. Within ten years, it expanded from its original size of a hundred miles to a radius of ten thousand miles.

Moreover, wherever the Demon Realm passed, it devoured spiritual energy and corroded living beings, turning cultivators, demons, mortals, and wild beasts into monsters without intelligence that only knew how to kill, causing considerable losses to the cultivators of various sects.

Liu Fan had fought with monsters before. He claimed to be invincible at the same level and had never been defeated, but when facing monsters, he felt powerless.

The monsters don't care about life or death at all. They travel in groups. After being eroded by evil spirits, their magical powers become strange and powerful, making them extremely difficult to deal with.

Many foundation-building monks died at the hands of monsters, and soon, the Blood Spirit Sect did not allow foundation-building monks to fight monsters.

Liu Fan returned to the mountain gate and practiced in peace. In less than a few years, he broke through the bottleneck of the late stage and reached the false pill realm.

After he became a true disciple, the sect distributed a lot of elixirs for cultivation. Xiao Lingzi was also very caring towards him, so he had no shortage of resources for cultivation.

Being surrounded by demonic energy and fighting monsters day and night in the Demon Realm deepened his understanding of the way of magic and made him treat bottlenecks as nothing.

Not only him, but any cultivator who entered the Demon Realm would improve their cultivation very quickly.

As soon as Liu Fan came out of retreat, the master issued an order, ordering the five major demon sects to cease fighting and join forces to invade the territories of the southern countries!

Liu Fan was very puzzled. Why didn't they collect the pure demonic energy in the Demon Realm, but instead used it to deal with the righteous monks?

He asked Xiao Lingzi about this matter, but Xiao Lingzi was very secretive about it and asked Liu Fan to sneak into Wu Kingdom to look for the spiritual object that could form the elixir. This was a test for him.

Liu Fan had no choice but to agree, and together with his fellow disciples, they sneaked into the Wu Kingdom and wreaked havoc on the world of immortal cultivators.

Later he learned that during the years he was in seclusion, the Demon Realm had expanded another ten thousand miles.

A Nascent Soul cultivator from the Demon Yuan Palace found a record in ancient books about how ancient cultivators sealed the Demon Realm.

The five major demon sects then realized that the expansion of the demon realm was not an opportunity for demon cultivators, but a catastrophe.

Demon cultivators are also cultivators, and spiritual energy is the foundation.

At the same time, the spiritual veins of the five major demon sects began to weaken little by little.

The demonic realm continued to expand, demonic energy dissipated, and devoured the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. As the foundation of the sealing formation, the five large spiritual veins were the first to be hit.

The five major demon sects finally panicked. The spiritual veins are the foundation of a sect. Without large spiritual veins, the five major demon sects would also disappear.

They tried every possible way to stop the evil spirit from escaping, but failed.

Fortunately, the Demon Realm did not continue to expand and maintained a size of 20,000 miles.

But if this continues for a long time, the five large spiritual veins will still be completely exhausted under the erosion of demonic energy.

The five major demon sects then made a decision to invade the territory of the righteous path and seize a few medium-sized spiritual veins first, just in case.

Due to the hidden dangers in the Demon Realm, they did not dare to go to war with the Four Great Xuan Sects and gave away several valuable treasures in exchange for the Four Great Xuan Sects' concessions.

Liu Fan doesn’t know what those treasures are now, and even Xiao Lingzi doesn’t know. Only the leaders of the nine major sects know.

The four great mysterious sects accepted the treasures and made concessions as agreed. The five great demonic sects successfully destroyed the five countries, seized more than a dozen medium-sized spiritual veins, and had a way out.

Liu Fan was already a Jindan cultivator and followed Xiao Lingzi to stay in Qi.

The Blood Spirit Sect is much stronger than the Hehuan Sect, and it has obtained the spiritual veins of the Ziyang Sect, Lingyun Sect, and Guiyuan Sect. The Hehuan Sect has obtained the spiritual veins of the Tiangang Sword Sect, Wanshou Mountain, and Mingyin Valley, so it is inferior.

Liu Fan did not go to the Ziyang Mountains where the spiritual energy was the most abundant, but instead took the initiative to choose the Lingyun Mountains where the spiritual energy was a little thinner.

He will never forget Wei Wuding from Lingyun Sect. No, it should be Chen Yuan.

Liu Fan was gifted and had been going smoothly since he embarked on the path of cultivation. He had few rivals among cultivators of the same level.

But this Chen Yuan caused him to suffer a great loss, and he almost died at his hands.

Liu Fan was deeply ashamed that a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building who came from a medium-sized sect could be on par with him in a fight.

Later, when they entered the Wentian Secret Realm, most of the treasures left by Master Qingyou were taken away by this man and Yu Qing, and Liu Fan hated him even more.

After forming the elixir, Liu Fan went out of his way to look for Chen Yuan, but could not find him anywhere.

Although he is a true disciple of the Blood Spirit Sect, the cultivation resources for Jindan cultivators are far less abundant than before.

Xiao Lingzi almost ignored Liu Fan and let him practice on his own. He didn't give him any magic weapon and only said that he would find a spiritual object for him to form a baby.

Liu Fan knew that what Xiao Lingzi needed was a Nascent Soul disciple to improve his status in the sect, and Jindan cultivation was far from enough.

In this situation, he became even more jealous of the treasures that Chen Yuan took away from the Wentian Secret Realm.

At this time, Liu Fan did not know Chen Yuan’s true identity, he only knew that his name was Wei Wuding.

He came to the front line of the Demon-Slaying Desert and participated in several battles with the Six Sects of Qi.

But among the foundation-building cultivators sent by the six sects, there was no Chen Yuan.

He also used the secret agents of the Blood Spirit Sect that were planted in the Lingyun Sect to try to find out the news about Wei Wuding, but still found nothing.

Slowly, Liu Fan gave up the idea of ​​looking for Chen Yuan.

Perhaps he had been staying in the gate of Lingyun Sect and had never left.

Perhaps he has betrayed the sect and fled from Lingyun Sect.

This situation was not uncommon. As the war went against their will, many disciples of the six sects of Qi fled Qi.

Compared to being hunted down by the sect, they are more afraid of fighting with the monks of the Demon Sect.

However, such disciples are a minority after all. As long as they are foundation-building cultivators, they will leave their natal lamps in the sect, and the sect can follow the lamps to find their whereabouts.

However, doing so would require a great price to be paid. The six sects of Qi State had to fight against the two great evil sects and had no time to take care of other things.

Before these disciples flee from the sect, they will also try every possible means to destroy their natal lamps.

In Liu Fan's opinion, Chen Yuan obtained so many treasures and spiritual herbs from the Wentian Secret Realm that he could practice until he reached the stage of Dan. He might have already escaped from Qi State.

He could only keep Chen Yuan in mind and try to find him after the war was over.

But unexpectedly, in the decisive battle with the Six Sects of Qi, he actually discovered the trace of Chen Yuan.

This person actually wore a mask all the time when fighting with others. No wonder I couldn't find him after participating in the battle several times.

But he was courting his own death by performing the secret physical training technique that allowed him to transform himself into a bronze giant, leaving Liu Fan with no doubts and charging at him brazenly!

He knew that Chen Yuan and he were of the same type of people and would never give the opportunity to others. The treasure obtained from the Wentian Secret Realm must still remain in Chen Yuan's hands.

Liu Fan took action personally, so Chen Yuan naturally had to flee in panic.

But what surprised Liu Fan was that Chen Yuan was already in the late stage of foundation building. In just a few years, he had broken through the bottleneck of the late stage.

This made Liu Fan want to kill Chen Yuan even more. His physical cultivation strength was already strong, and Chen Yuan's progress was even faster than his. This man must not be allowed to stay.

But what made Liu Fan angry was that Wang Xian, the elder of Lingyun Sect, kept harassing him, and it seemed that Chen Yuan was about to escape.

But at this moment, a Jindan cultivator suddenly attacked Chen Yuan. Liu Fan recognized this person. It was Qi Yuanshan, a late Jindan elder of Ziyang Sect.

This person has profound cultivation and is extremely experienced. He is quite famous among the Jindan cultivators in Qi State.

Liu Fan was secretly happy in his heart. Chen Yuan actually provoked this person. He would definitely die here.

But then another Jindan cultivator took action and blocked Qi Yuanshan, allowing Chen Yuan to escape.

Liu Fan also knew this person, Jin Luoheng, a late Jindan cultivator from the Lingyun sect. He was very powerful, and even Xiao Lingzi had praised him.

He became suspicious and kept the matter in mind. He turned around and had a fierce fight with Wang Xian, but in the end there was no winner.

The magical powers of the Blood Spirit Sect are extremely strange, but Wang Xian has been in the Core Formation stage for nearly two hundred years, and his cultivation is even deeper. His sword skills are also sophisticated and sharp, so Liu Fan cannot take advantage of him.

But if the two demon sects join forces, even if the Nascent Soul cultivators do not take action, their strength will be greater than the six sects of Qi State.

After a great battle, the six clans of Qi were defeated.

Liu Fan had no time to care about Chen Yuan's affairs at this time. He was ordered to take over Guiyuan Market, but unexpectedly met Chen Yuan.

This time, he would never miss the opportunity and chased him with all his might, forcing Chen Yuan to use the Blood Escape Technique several times in a row, and he was already in a desperate situation.

But at the last moment, Chen Yuan fled into the barren mountains, activated an ancient teleportation array, and disappeared before his eyes.

Liu Fan was extremely furious, but there was nothing he could do.

After Chen Yuan escaped, the teleportation array could no longer be activated, and the other end must have been destroyed.

And even if he could teleport, Liu Fan wouldn't dare to try it.

He was only at the initial stage of Jindan cultivation, and without the teleportation order to protect his body, he would be torn to pieces immediately by the force of teleportation.

At least a Nascent Soul cultivator was needed to withstand the pressure of the ancient teleportation array. When Chen Yuan teleported, there was a huge momentum, but there were no Nascent Soul cultivators around at that time. Only two Foundation Establishment cultivators noticed it and came to investigate, but were killed by Liu Fan.

After much thought, he decided to report the matter to his master Xiao Lingzi.

The other end of the teleportation array has been destroyed and has little value, so I might as well exchange it for some benefits.

Xiao Lingzi was indeed very interested in the ancient teleportation array. He went to the barren mountain in person, copied down the array, and sent a Jindan elder to guard the barren mountain to prevent Chen Yuan from teleporting back again.

At this time, Liu Fan had already found out Chen Yuan's identity and knew that Wei Wuding was just his alias.

He sent monks from the Blood Spirit Sect to sneak into the southern part of Donghua Continent to look for Chen Yuan, but found nothing.

Time passed quickly. A hundred years later, there was no movement from the teleportation array, and Liu Fan also put the matter of Chen Yuan behind him.

As the Demon Realm continued to expand and demonic energy dissipated, the entire Donghua Continent was affected, natural disasters continued, and spiritual energy declined.

The five major demon sects dared not to conceal the truth any longer, and revealed everything about the Demon Realm. They voluntarily withdrew from the territories of the five countries they had occupied, in exchange for the help of the four major Xuan sects and the five countries' Nascent Souls.

The four great Xuan sects also returned those valuable treasures, and the forces of good and evil joined forces to deal with this disaster.

When the Blood Spirit Sect was completely united, Xiao Lingzi suddenly ordered Liu Fan to destroy the ancient teleportation array.

Liu Fan then remembered that there was an ancient teleportation array. He came to the barren mountain, but there was no one guarding it.

He casually released two blood spirits, destroying most of the teleportation array, and then followed Xiao Lingzi, left Qi State, and returned to the mountain gate.

Over the past one hundred years, his cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds. Fifteen years ago, he successfully broke through the bottleneck of the late stage. He was highly valued by the sect and became famous in the entire demon world.

At this time, the Demon Realm had expanded beyond the mountain gates of the five major demon sects. Monsters were rampant, and low-level cultivators had already evacuated.

But as an elder in the late Jindan stage, Liu Fan must stay in the mountain gate and kill the monsters.

The number of monsters rushing out of the Demon Realm is almost endless. Even with the support of formations, there are Jindan elders dying almost every day.

Liu Fan was terrified. It was the first time he realized that a Jindan cultivator was so fragile.

If you cannot achieve Nascent Soul, you are all ants.

The only benefit is that you can use the pure demonic energy for cultivation.

Liu Fan is getting closer and closer to the false infant realm.

Fortunately, with the nine major sects joining forces and setting up two improved ancient formations, the demonic energy no longer dissipated and the demon realm stopped expanding.

Liu Fan finally no longer had to deal with monsters, but he could no longer use the demonic energy to practice, and his cultivation progress suddenly stagnated.

In order to set up those two ancient formations, the Blood Spirit Sect almost exhausted all its resources, and the cultivation resources distributed to the elders were greatly reduced.

The last time Liu Fan received spirit stones and elixirs from the sect was three years ago.

Moreover, as one of the few late Jindan cultivators in the sect, he had to stay at the mountain gate and was unable to collect resources for cultivation on his own.

Looking at the evil energy rolling and swimming like a giant python, Liu Fan felt very annoyed.

He was outside the formation, yet seemed to be trapped inside it, not knowing when he could escape from this cage.

A month ago, four great monks led two formation grandmasters and thirty Nascent Soul monks, deep into the Demon Realm to wipe out the source of the demonic energy, but they were trapped there. Only Gu Zuo, a great monk from the Tianxuan Sect, led four Nascent Soul monks to escape.

Four great monks have joined forces, but they are all trapped in the devil's realm. How can they eliminate the source of the devil's energy and avert this disaster?

He didn't know how long he would have to stay here. His cultivation was stagnant and there was no hope of any improvement.

Before Liu Fan arrived at Xiao Lingzi's cave, a blood bat hanging upside down in front of the door flew into the cave to report.

Liu Fan waited silently. He came here today on the orders of Xiao Lingzi, and he didn't know what the mission was.

Outside the Blood Spirit Sect, he is a respected Jindan Zhenren.

But in front of more than a dozen Nascent Soul cultivators, he was just a junior with low cultivation.
After the ancient formation was set up, the spiritual energy inside the Blood Spirit Sect’s mountain gate became too dense.

When the formation fluctuates, the spiritual energy becomes even more turbulent.

Cultivators below the Jindan stage are simply unable to adapt and can only leave the mountain gate.

Liu Fan is a cultivator in the late Jindan stage, but he is no different from a low-level cultivator in charge of miscellaneous chores.

Normally, he is responsible for patrolling the formation and following the orders of the Nascent Soul cultivators from various factions. He is responsible for killing monsters that accidentally escape from the formation and repairing damaged formation bases. It is boring and tedious.

After a while, the blood bat flew out again and asked Liu Fan to come in and meet Xiao Lingzi, with a sharp and unpleasant voice.

But Liu Fan had no complaints. This blood bat was a spiritual beast that Xiao Lingzi had raised for hundreds of years. It was highly trusted by Xiao Lingzi and its status was not lower than that of him, his direct disciple.

Liu Fan stepped into the cave and saw Xiao Lingzi sitting in the main hall with an indifferent expression.

He said calmly, "The Sect Master, Sect Master Daoxuan, Sect Master Chu, and Fellow Daoist Gu have already agreed that at noon tomorrow, all the Nascent Soul cultivators will gather in the Blood Shadow Hall of our sect to discuss the plan."

"Several Taoist friends have arrived in the past two days, and they don't know about this matter yet. I want you to go and report it. Don't be disrespectful in the slightest."

Liu Fan was shocked and bowed deeply: "Disciple obeys your command!"

He knew that there were Nascent Soul cultivators coming to the Blood Spirit Sect's mountain gate, but he didn't know that they were going to go deep into the Demon Realm to rescue the trapped Nascent Soul cultivators.

After all, he is only a Jindan cultivator, and he will never know about such an important matter, and Xiao Lingzi will not reveal it casually.

Liu Fan left Xiao Lingzi's cave, feeling overjoyed.

With four great monks entering the demon realm and the addition of those trapped monks, the monsters are no match for them.

As long as the Demon Realm is wiped out, he won't have to patrol everywhere anymore.

There is no need to act as a servant in front of these Nascent Soul cultivators.

Liu Fan arrived at Yingke Peak and learned from the person in charge of the Jindan stage that seven Yuanying cultivators had arrived in the past two days.

He inquired about the location of the caves of the seven Nascent Soul cultivators and went to report to them one by one.

These Nascent Soul cultivators were either the leaders of their respective sects or the elders of the Four Great Profound Sects. Liu Fan treated them all with great respect.

A Jindan cultivator is a Jindan cultivator. Even if he is a true disciple of the Blood Spirit Sect and has cultivated to the late Jindan stage in less than three hundred years and has a good chance of forming an Infant stage, he dare not show the slightest disrespect in front of a Yuanying cultivator.

But whenever he saw the indifferent expression of the Nascent Soul cultivator, he couldn't help but feel a desire in his heart, a desire to form a Nascent Soul.

In Donghua Continent, only Nascent Soul cultivators can truly control their own destiny.

However, after these Nascent Soul cultivators learned that he was Xiao Lingzi's direct disciple, they became much more friendly.

It is normal for a Jindan cultivator to take a Yuanying cultivator as his master, but Xiao Lingzi is a middle-stage Yuanying cultivator with considerable strength and is well-known throughout Donghua Continent, so the Yuanying cultivators have to give him some face.

Liu Fan left the cave of the wandering cultivator Tang Jiugongzi and came to the residence of the last Nascent Soul cultivator.

According to the Jindan master of Yingke Peak, this senior arrived the day before yesterday and is the supreme elder of Qi State's Lingyun Sect.

Liu Fan was quite confused. He had met Lingyun Sect's leader Xuan Yuanzi, but he didn't know when Lingyun Sect had another supreme elder.

Over the past twenty years, he has been staying at the Blood Spirit Sect's mountain gate, fighting monsters, and knows very little about the immortal cultivation world of Donghua Continent.

Liu Fan stood in front of the door, calmed himself, clasped his fists and bowed, and said loudly: "I am Liu Fan, the junior, under the order of Master Xiao Lingzi, and I have come to see you. I have something important to tell you."

He waited for a long time, but there was no movement in the cave.

Liu Fan frowned and was about to speak again when the two stone doors suddenly opened silently.

"Please come in, Fellow Daoist Liu." A leisurely voice came out, sounding very young.

Liu Fan's heart moved. This voice seemed familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before.

Monks have a photographic memory. They will remember every person they meet and cannot forget them even if they want to.

This should be the Jindan elder of Lingyun Sect whom he had met before, but he had only heard his voice but not seen him, so he couldn't remember who he was for a moment.

As Liu Fan's thoughts turned, he walked into the cave without stopping, passed through a deep passage, and came to a stone hall.

A monk in white robes stood with his hands behind his back, his back to Liu Fan, admiring a landscape painting on the stone wall.

Since joining forces with the Four Great Xuan Sects, the Blood Spirit Sect has rebuilt the cave residence on the Welcoming Peak, specially prepared for the Nascent Soul cultivators of various sects, and the furnishings are exquisite and elegant.

I don't know which artist painted this landscape painting, but it seems like a thousand miles away within a short distance. It is said that "the ink sinks to leave the shadow of the river, and the brushstrokes convey the spirit of the stone." It is a work of art that is so exquisite.

Liu Fan admired in his heart, but on his face he was very respectful, clasping his fists and bowing: "Reporting to the senior, the head of our sect, the head of Tianxuan Sect Daoxuan, Elder Gu, and the head of Jiangxian Mountain Chu have already agreed to invite the seniors of all sects to gather in the Blood Shadow Hall of our sect at noon tomorrow to discuss the major plan. Please go on time."

The monk in white raised his head slightly and looked at the landscape painting, his body motionless.

Liu Fan felt a little strange and asked tentatively, "Senior?"

The white-robed monk finally turned around, looked at Liu Fan, and smiled slightly: "Fellow Daoist Liu, long time no see."

Liu Fan looked at the face of the monk in white and stood there in a daze.

A name that he had already forgotten emerged from the bottom of his heart. He never thought that he would meet this person here.

Liu Fan, who was always smart, had a blank mind at this moment.

The white-robed monk said calmly, "Why, Brother Liu doesn't remember me anymore?"

Liu Fan suddenly came to his senses and subconsciously took two steps back, his expression changed drastically: "You are Wei Wuding, no, you are Chen Yuan?!"

Chen Yuan frowned, and the pressure of the Nascent Soul cultivator dissipated in an instant. He said lightly: "A Jindan cultivator from the Blood Spirit Sect, don't you know the difference between high and low?"

Liu Fan's face turned pale. All the pressure from the Nascent Soul cultivators was concentrated on him, as if he was carrying a mountain on his back.

This won't cause him any harm, but it will put a great deal of pressure on his soul, making him unconsciously feel fear.

This is the oppression of low-level cultivators by high-level cultivators. Although both are human beings, they are actually no longer the same kind of creatures.

Liu Fan felt the powerful pressure emanating from Chen Yuan, as well as his cultivation level of the early Nascent Soul stage, and his heart was greatly shocked.

He took a deep breath, forced a smile, and bowed, "I am sorry for my rudeness, Senior Chen... Senior Chen, please forgive me."

A huge wave of emotions had already been stirred up in his heart. The foundation-building cultivator who had been chased and killed by him had unexpectedly transformed into a Yuanying Zhenren! (End of this chapter)