Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Yu Hai Zhenren snorted coldly, glanced at Ye Mingchen, then retracted his gaze, stared at Chen Yuan, and said slowly: "It seems that you have already expected what happened today."

Chen Yuan put down his hand and said calmly: "After Chen released the news, I have been waiting for you at Tianji Island for a long time. Daoist friend, you are still a little late."

Master Yu Hai's face darkened. His plan was seen through, and he felt a faint sense of shame and anger from the bottom of his heart.

But as a great cultivator, he was also very experienced and cunning, and he did not show it at all. He said expressionlessly: "Our sect has been looking for you for more than a hundred years, but you did not try to hide, but exposed yourself, and did not take our sect seriously at all. I don't know what the confidence is. Could it be that you are asking Tianji Sect for help?"

Chen Yuan said calmly, "Fellow Daoist, you are joking. My name is still on the wanted list of Tianji Sect. How can Tianji Sect help me?"

"However, Chen is facing off with fellow Taoist today. I think the Tianji Sect will not make things difficult for me just for the life and death of an old ghost like Ji."

Yu Hai Zhenren snorted coldly: "Our sect and Tianji Sect have stood on Yuqing Sea for thousands of years. Although there are occasional conflicts, there is also a lot of cooperation. Are you so sure that Tianji Sect will not join forces with our sect?"

Chen Yuan smiled slightly: "Whether it will be as you said, we will know after a try."

After saying that, he took out a white pearl and crushed it.

When Master Yu Hai saw this, his eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he became wary: "Have you teamed up with the Tianji Sect?"

He naturally recognized this pearl. Before asking Ye Mingchen to lure Chen Yuan off the island, he personally gave one to him.

This bead is produced by the monster "Yin Yang Bei", and is divided into two pieces, one black and one white. After the white bead is crushed, as long as it is within ten thousand miles, the black bead can immediately sense and guide the direction, which is a hundred times faster than the sound transmission note.

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist, wait a moment and we will see the result."

……

Tianji Mountains, Bixia Peak.

In a cave at the top of the mountain, Zhenren Ningbi was sitting in the training room with his eyes closed in meditation, with a pitch-black pearl hanging in front of him.

Suddenly, the pearl glowed white and began to tremble slightly.

Zhenren Ningbi opened his eyes, his expression changed slightly, he raised his hand to grab the pearl, stood up and walked out of the training room in a hurry.

He walked out of the cave, and with a flash of light, he arrived at the top of a small mountain only about two hundred feet high, and dropped the light of light.

The land veins on Tianji Island are peculiar. This is the place with the most spiritual energy in the Tianji Mountains, and it is also where the leader Tianjizi lives.

Halfway up the mountain, there are two ancient stone doors covered with green vines. In front of the doors lies a green-haired lion with thick mane. Even when lying on the ground, it looks majestic.

Master Ningbi fell into the light of escape and said, "Hurry and report to the master master. I have something important to discuss with you."

The green-haired lion opened its eyes as big as copper bells, stood up, lowered its huge head slightly, and replied in a deep voice: "Elder Ningbi, please wait a moment. I will report to you right away."

After saying that, he turned around, raised one of his front paws, and pressed it against the stone door, and the stone door of the cave slowly opened.

Seeing that Master Ningbi was quite anxious, the green-haired lion squeezed in before the stone door was fully opened and soon disappeared in the passage.

After a moment, the blue-haired lion walked out of the cave again, prostrated himself on the ground, and said respectfully, "Master, please come in and see Elder Ningbi."

Zhenren Ningbi nodded slightly and walked quickly into the cave.

After passing through a slightly narrow passage, we arrived at a spacious stone hall.

A young monk sat on the main seat. He had a handsome appearance and black hair draped over his shoulders.

He was wearing a grey Taoist robe embroidered with hideous skulls of wronged souls, densely stacked together, but it did not look eerie at all.

Seeing Master Ningbi approaching, the young cultivator smiled and said, "Junior sister, why did you come here today to see me?"

True Man Ningbi bowed and said softly, "I was asked by someone to ask you to go see someone..."

……

In the sea outside Tianji Island, Chen Yuan and Yu Hai Zhenren were a hundred feet apart, confronting each other from a distance, but did not take action.

At this time, about half a minute had passed since Chen Yuan crushed the white bead.

Master Yu Hai stared at him, his eyes flickering constantly, his hands in his sleeves sometimes clenched and sometimes loosened, but in the end he did not take direct action.

According to his original plan, after luring Chen Yuan out of Tianji Island, he would immediately take action and capture him alive with lightning speed, bring him back to Zhenhai Island, and force him to tell him the white spiritual fire power and the death of Ancestor Yuntian, and whether Chen Yuan was involved.

But unexpectedly, Chen Yuan took the initiative to expose his whereabouts and led him here. Master Yu Hai couldn't help but feel apprehensive and then hesitated.

If we act rashly, will we fall into Chen Yuan's trap?
After much deliberation, Master Yu Hai decided to wait and see.

He wanted to see who was standing behind Chen Yuan.

If he is really Tianjizi, Master Yuhai would not be afraid.

When one cultivates to the level of a great monk, he has already stood at the top of the human world and will not be defeated easily.

He and Tianjizi fought several times, but there was no winner each time. There was no formation set up here, so even if Tianjizi led the elders of the sect to come to the rescue, they would not be able to stop him.

And most importantly, Master Yu Hai found that he could not see through Chen Yuan's cultivation level.

After seeing Chen Yuan, he spread out his spiritual sense to explore Chen Yuan's cultivation, but it was like exploring a bottomless abyss and found nothing.

Chen Yuan always behaves like an ordinary person, with a restrained aura.

True Man Yu Hai was secretly shocked. He was a great cultivator, and although his spiritual awareness was not very strong, it was not weaker than that of cultivators of the same level.

In the entire Yuqing Sea, apart from Tianjizi, only the old Kuixing ancestor who has practiced the secret art of the soul can put up a slight challenge. Apart from him, no other cultivator should be able to escape his spiritual detection.

But he was completely unable to see through Chen Yuan's cultivation level. This person either had a spiritual awareness comparable to that of a great cultivator, or had a rare treasure to protect him.

Chen Yuan had been well prepared and was mysterious. Master Yu Hai was so surprised and suspicious that he did not dare to act rashly and simply waited and watched what would happen.

But he did not wait any longer, and asked, "Does Senior Brother Yuntian's death have anything to do with you?"

Chen Yuan said calmly, "Daoyou Yuntian teamed up with Gu Shaowen, Yang Liqian, and Kun Tong to set an ambush against me in the Demonic Plains. I killed them all."

Yu Hai Zhenren was stunned for a moment, then laughed sarcastically, "What a big tone! If we can kill all four of them at once, then a great cultivator is no more than this."

"You have only been in the Nascent Soul stage for a few decades. Could it be that you have already cultivated to the late Nascent Soul stage?"

Chen Yuan did not comment, and said calmly: "Everything I say is true. It is up to you whether you believe it or not."

True Man Yu Hai naturally would not believe such absurd remarks. He just thought that Chen Yuan was bluffing and exaggerating.

He turned to look at Ye Mingchen: "How did you get discovered?"

Ye Mingchen stood beside Chen Yuan, clasped his fists and bowed to Master Yu Hai, and said with a wry smile: "I don't think I have revealed any flaws. I really don't know how Senior Chen saw through me."

Master Yu Hai's eyes turned cold: "So something went wrong with Han Mu?"

Ye Mingchen's heart trembled. The person who designed and forced him to become a hidden man of Zhenhai Sect was none other than Han Mu.

He knew that Han Mu was trusted by Yu Hai Zhenren and was a vicious person. If they offended him, the Ye family would be in trouble. He said quickly: "Friend Han is careful in his actions and will never make mistakes..."

Chen Yuan said slowly: "Fellow Daoist, please don't blame others. I go to the ghost market every few days to give you a chance to lure me out of Tianji Island."

"The thousand-year-old spiritual herb is so rare that it suddenly appeared in the ghost market. It must be for me." Yu Hai Zhenren said coldly: "The ghost market has endless treasures. Even high-level magic weapons have appeared more than once. What is the thousand-year-old spiritual herb?"

Chen Yuan said calmly: "Thousand-year spiritual herbs are not rare in the ghost market, but body-tempering spiritual herbs are extremely rare, and thousand-year dragon snake grass is even rarer to come across in a hundred years."

“Fellow Daoist Yuntian once gave me a few Dragon Snake Pills to temper my body. When I saw the Dragon Snake Grass again, I naturally thought of your sect.”

Master Yu Hai snorted coldly, but his expression softened.

He naturally knew that Patriarch Yuntian asked Chen Yuan to seize the Fulong Chizhen Vine, but he did not know that Patriarch Yuntian had also given Chen Yuan the Dragon Snake Pill.

However, as long as Han Mu did not make any mistakes, Master Yu Hai would feel relieved.

He looked at Ye Mingchen and said calmly: "What happened today is not your fault, but since you failed to do it, it is your fault. You can end it yourself."

Ye Mingchen was stunned for a moment, then took a deep breath and bowed deeply to Master Yuhai: "I have failed to do my job well and failed to live up to the trust of my predecessors. I deserve to die."

"But the Ye family is innocent. Can you please, senior, consider that I have worked hard for the Zhenhai Sect in the past and move the Ye family members away from the Fengze Sea and resettle them elsewhere? I will be very grateful."

Master Yu Hai frowned and said, "It seems that you are not willing to accept my toast and will have to drink the wine for punishment..."

Before he finished speaking, he snapped his fingers and a water spike flew out, as fast as a flying sword, and in an instant, it shot into Ye Mingchen's Dantian.

Ye Mingchen lost all hope of survival, and even his golden elixir didn’t have time to escape. He died on the spot, his body falling down.

Chen Yuan sighed in his heart, raised his hand and took Ye Mingchen's mustard ring into his hand, then snapped his fingers and shot out a fireball, burning Ye Mingchen's body into ashes and scattering them into the sea.

When Master Yu Hai attacked, he could easily block it.

But Ye Mingchen was ordered to lure him out of Tianji Island. Although this was part of the plan, he would not rescue him at this moment.

When Master Yu Hai saw this scene, a trace of contempt flashed in his eyes.

A casual cultivator is a casual cultivator, and he will not even let go of the mustard seed ring of a Jindan cultivator.

Chen Yuan didn't care at all. He swept his spiritual sense and wiped out the spiritual sense restriction left by Ye Mingchen in the mustard seed ring. He reached inside and gave it a rough inspection.

There was no thousand-year-old dragon snake grass in the mustard seed ring, but Chen Yuan was not disappointed. He did not touch anything else and put the mustard seed ring away.

True Man Yu Hai also saw what Chen Yuan was thinking. He sneered in his heart, and the contempt in his eyes became even stronger.

How could he give the Millennium Dragon Snake Grass to Ye Mingchen?

The restriction that Han Mu left in Ye Mingchen's soul is not impossible to remove. If he cruelly abandons the people of the Ye family and offers the spiritual herbs to Chen Yuan, asking him to remove the restriction, Zhenhai Sect will be self-defeating.

Master Yu Hai was about to speak, but suddenly his expression changed and he turned to look towards Tianji Island.

Two bright and condensed rays of light rose from Tianji Island and headed straight here.

This place is only a hundred miles away from Tianji Island. Even True Man Yu Hai noticed the two beams of light, so Chen Yuan naturally noticed it as well.

He turned his head and saw the two beams of light travelling at an extremely fast speed. In just half a minute, they had cut through the sky, crossed a hundred miles, and stopped in front of the two men.

The escaping light faded away, revealing the figure of Zhenren Ningbi.

Next to her was the young monk wearing a Taoist robe embroidered with skulls and ghosts.

Master Yu Hai stared at this person, slowly raised his hand, and bowed: "It's been many years since we last met, and Fellow Daoist Tianji is still as elegant as ever."

The young monk raised his hand in return and said with a smile, "Dear Daoist Yu Hai, why don't you come to Tianji Island and have a seat?"

This person is none other than the leader of the Tianji Sect, Tianjizi.

Yu Hai Zhenren said calmly: "I am not here to visit you, but I have something else to do, so I won't bother you anymore."

Tianjizi looked at Chen Yuan and said with a smile: "I have also heard a little about the feud between your sect and fellow Daoist Chen."

Master Yu Hai was startled. Could it be that Chen Yuan had joined forces with the Tianji Sect?

He said coldly: "Chen Yuan killed Fellow Daoist Ji of your sect with his own hands back then, and he is still on your sect's wanted list. Do you want to protect this arrogant murderer?"

Before Tianjizi could answer, Chen Yuan said, "The grudge between Chen and your sect should be settled by Chen himself. It has nothing to do with Tianji Sect."

Master Yu Hai's eyes flashed: "In this case, please ask Fellow Daoist Tianji to join hands with me to capture this murderer and avenge Senior Brother Yuntian and Fellow Daoist Ji!"

Tianjizi said: "Senior Brother Ji's death happened more than 120 years ago, and he died on Jueling Island. Whether he was killed by Daoist Fellow Chen is still open to discussion."

"I have ordered people to remove Daoyou Chen's name from our sect's wanted list. After we find out the truth, it will not be too late to avenge Senior Brother Ji."

"I will not interfere in the feud between Daoyou Chen and your clan. Please resolve it between yourselves."

Master Yu Hai was stunned. He had never expected that Tianjizi would have this attitude.

He looked at Chen Yuan with a slightly suspicious look in his eyes.

Chen Yuan took the initiative to expose his whereabouts and lured him to Tianji Island. He must have something to rely on.

He originally thought that this person could only be Tianjizi.

But Tianjizi made it clear that he would not take action. Could it be that Chen Yuan was confident that he could stop this great cultivator by himself?

Master Yu Hai never looked down on Chen Yuan, otherwise he would not have taken action against him personally.

But he also absolutely did not believe that a casual cultivator who had only been in the infant stage for a few decades at most could compete with a great cultivator.

What trump card does Chen Yuan have? Is it an ancient puppet that can rival a great monk, or some ancient treasure of astonishing price?

Yu Hai Zhenren's thoughts turned, but Chen Yuan's expression remained normal. He clasped his fists and bowed to Tian Jizi: "Daoyou Tian Ji is very perceptive. Chen admires you."

After saying that, he turned around and flew towards Jade Sea Immortal. He no longer restrained his aura, and the pressure from his middle Nascent Soul stage slowly dissipated.

At the same time, he took out a jade token, showed it, and said coldly: "Ancestor Yuntian was killed by Chen himself. Today, Chen invited fellow Taoists to come here to settle this grudge!"

Feeling Chen Yuan's cultivation level in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, Tianjizi's expression changed slightly and he stepped back, followed closely by Zhenren Ningbi.

In the cave, Tianjizi already knew that Chen Yuan had the cultivation level of the middle Nascent Soul stage, but now seeing it with his own eyes, he was still quite surprised.

True Man Yu Hai's expression changed drastically. Chen Yuan had formed his Nascent Soul in such a short time, but he had already reached the middle stage of the Nascent Soul!
The jade token in his hand was the elder token of Patriarch Yuntian. Since it fell into Chen Yuan's hands, what he said before might not be false.

Could it be that the four people including the Yuntian Patriarch really all died at the hands of this man?

There was no longer any contempt in Master Yu Hai's eyes when he looked at Chen Yuan.

He said solemnly, "Middle Nascent Soul Stage... No wonder you dared to expose yourself and lure me here."

“But the gap between a great cultivator and a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator is much greater than you think.”

Chen Yuan put away the jade token and said coldly: "Whether it is big or small, we will know it after a try. Please teach me, fellow Taoist!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his black hair turned snow-white, and black wings stretched out from his back. In a flash, he teleported in front of Master Yu Hai, covered his hands with a layer of dark black blades, and punched out! (End of this chapter)