Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chen Yuan's escape speed was much faster than Jing Shuhan's, and he caught up in a moment.

But he didn't say anything, just followed Jing Shuhan silently.

The two flew in silence all the way to Wulan Peak and landed in front of the cave.

Jing Shuhan raised his sleeve and flicked it, and the stone door of the cave opened with a bang, hitting the stone wall with a dull sound.

Chen Yuan's expression froze, but Jing Shuhan remained calm and walked in slowly.

Chen Yuan sighed lightly, took a step forward, and with a wave of his hand, the stone door slowly closed.

After passing through a long and narrow passage, the two came to a stone hall. The walls were smooth and plain, and the light cast by the night pearls was soft and bright.

Jing Shuhan turned around and said expressionlessly: "My cave is simple and small. Apart from a training room, there is only one empty room."

"You are a great monk, so you cannot live in an empty room."

"I'm giving you the training room. I hope you don't mind."

Chen Yuan didn't answer. He took a few steps forward, hugged her in his arms, and whispered, "I'm sorry."

Jing Shuhan turned away and looked to the side, saying coldly: "You and I have not yet held the dual cultivation ceremony, so please respect yourself, husband."

Chen Yuan lowered his head and smiled bitterly: "I didn't mean to avoid you. I have my own difficulties."

Jing Shuhan turned his head, two lines of coldness slowly sliding down his face: "What are your difficulties? Can't you explain it to me first?"

"You haven't been heard from for twenty years, but as soon as you showed up, you brought out four Divine Transformation cultivators. You're really impressive."

"I don't know whether he is here to propose marriage or to force me to marry you."

"Do you know how anxiously I have been waiting for your news all these years?"

"Although my cultivation is not as good as yours, I am not a pawn that you can manipulate at will!"

Chen Yuan looked ashamed. In his previous life, he had dated many women, but they were all obtained after he became successful and spent money on them. In fact, he did not understand women's minds. Now he tried it according to his habit, but ended up making things worse.

He raised his hand and gently wiped away the tears on Jing Shuhan's face: "I was inconsiderate. I heard from Qingshan that you were very angry, so I specially invited Senior Lu and three fellow Taoists to come to your house to propose marriage. Who knew that it would backfire..."

Jing Shuhan couldn't help but burst into tears when she heard this: "I'm angry because you left without saying goodbye and never came back again."

"If you really care about me, I will marry you even if you come alone."

"If you don't care about me, it will be useless even if you really invite four Divine Transformation cultivators to come in person."

Chen Yuan raised his hand to wipe away the tears on her face and whispered, "Then why did you agree to marry me today?"

Jing Shuhan's expression froze, and he turned his head away without saying a word.

Chen Yuan sighed and said slowly: "Do you know why there has been no news from me in the past twenty years?"

Jing Shuhan remained silent. Chen Yuan answered his own question: "In the past twenty years, I first refined ten furnaces of Yuanying late stage elixirs in the mountain gate of Taiming Sect in Tanzhou and practiced in seclusion."

"Then I went to Jingzhou Wanling Pavilion and asked a weapon refining grandmaster to refine three top-level magic weapons."

"During this period, I did not waste time. I borrowed the fire veins in his cave and refined thirteen furnaces of Yuanying late stage elixirs. After refining them all, my cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds."

Jing Shuhan sneered: "I am just a small Nascent Soul cultivator, of course I can't compare to your cultivation plan."

"Now that you are already a great cultivator and have been appreciated by Senior Huashen, why don't you concentrate on cultivation? Isn't it a waste to take out all these treasures to marry me?"

Chen Yuan did not answer, and asked again: "Do you know why those four seniors who have attained the state of incarnation appreciate me so much?"

Jing Shuhan turned around and looked up at Chen Yuan. A hint of sarcasm flashed in her red eyes. She said coldly, "Of course it's because my husband is so talented. He has only been in the Nascent Soul stage for a hundred years, and his cultivation has been raised to the late Nascent Soul stage. He is a cultivation genius that has never been seen before."

“Even if a Divine Transformation cultivator sees you, they will surely be astonished and vie to take you as their disciple.”

"The spiritual herbs you used to make the elixir were all given to you by those four seniors, right?"

"No wonder you completely forgot about me. If I were in such a situation, I would definitely not care about love between men and women."

"Of course, I will continue to practice in seclusion until I reach the Spiritual Transformation Realm, and then break out of it and dominate the whole world. Isn't that wonderful?"

Chen Yuan smiled bitterly: "It would be great if that were the case, but the reason why the four seniors of the God Transformation Realm appreciate me so much is actually for another reason..."

He suddenly raised his sleeves and set up a spiritual barrier in the cave.

Jing Shuhan was stunned, and Chen Yuan continued, "Do you know why I have made such rapid progress?"

Jing Shuhan sneered: "Of course it's because you are a genius..."

Chen Yuan shook his head: "My cultivation progress is so fast because the technique I practice is special and can refine the blood of the true spirit."

Jing Shuhan was stunned: "True spirit blood?"

Chen Yuan nodded slightly: "Yes, it is the blood of the true spirit, and it is the blood of the true spirit that I refined that was favored by the four gods..."

He recounted his experiences after he wiped out the Golden-Winged Eagle Clan, first how he tortured Tian You, sneaked into Nanzhou, and investigated the secret realm of the Yuling Sect.

When he was retreating, he was intercepted by Sun Yuan's distraction, causing the secret realm of Yuling Sect to be opened ahead of schedule, ruining the Jiuli Sect's thousand-year plan and forging a mortal feud with Ye Guihong.

When Jing Shuhan heard this, his face remained expressionless, but not as cold as before, and no more tears fell from his slightly red eyes.

Chen Yuan also talked about how he left the trial site, met Zhang Wushan and Ye Wendi, and came all the way to the core of the secret realm, where he harvested a large amount of spiritual herbs.

But after entering Wanling Peak, his body was secretly taken over by the White Ape Demon King, and his soul shrank into a corner. He could only watch the White Ape Demon King slaughter the elders of various factions. Zhang Wushan also died as a result.

Jing Shuhan's expression suddenly changed, and he grabbed Chen Yuan's arm tightly, his knuckles turning slightly white from holding on too tightly.

Chen Yuan then talked about the white-haired Taoist priest and Wang Xuan Ge arriving one after another, and he took the opportunity to counterattack, wipe out the spirit of the White Ape Demon King, and take back his body.

After leaving the secret realm, he confronted Sun Yuan again, and was only able to escape from Nanzhou with the help of Qin Wuya and Taoist Cangsong.

When Jing Shuhan heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, let go of her hand, and turned his head away.

Chen Yuan then briefly recounted how Qin Wuya and Taoist Cangsong took a fancy to the Kunpeng blood he had refined, and asked him to enter the space channel with them a hundred years later to sneak into the spirit world, and thus supported him in achieving the state of incarnation.

Jing Shuhan turned his head again, opened his eyes wide, and stared at Chen Yuan in a daze, completely forgetting the grievances in his heart.

Chen Yuan said slowly: "It is too difficult to transform into a god in a hundred years. In order to improve my cultivation as quickly as possible, I took out a secret technique of the demon essence pill that I acquired in my early years."

"This secret technique can refine demon pills into medicinal pills and improve your cultivation. Most of the medicinal pills I gave you in the past were of this type."

"After the four seniors saw this secret technique, they sent out the elders from their sect to help me destroy the two royal families."

"He personally took action to kill Sun Yuan, and summoned the ten major sects to wipe out the demon tribe in Nanzhou, and handed over all the tenth-level demon pills to me."

"For the past twenty years, I have been refining these tenth-level demon pills into medicinal pills, which is why I have made such rapid progress..."

He told all his experiences over the years, but omitted the secrets that must not be known to others, such as the middle-aged scholar, the golden jade disk, and the mysterious jade. When he stopped, Jing Shuhan no longer had any resentment on his face. He hugged Chen Yuan tightly, leaned against his chest, and said nothing.

After a long time, she raised her head, her eyes filled with tears, and murmured, "No wonder there has been no news from my husband for twenty years. It must be so difficult to become a god in a hundred years."

"That space passage is so dangerous that even a Divine Transformation cultivator cannot pass through it."

"They only gave my husband a hundred years. If my husband fails to break through to the Spiritualization stage, wouldn't he be dead if he entered with the cultivation base of the late Nascent Soul stage?"

Chen Yuan sighed softly and stroked Jing Shuhan's back with one hand: "How can I refuse a Divine Transformation cultivator who has spoken?"

"I can only improve my cultivation as quickly as possible and reach the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage as soon as possible, so that I can have more opportunities to impact the Divine Transformation stage."

“If you still cannot break through to the Spiritual Transformation in the end, you must try your best to improve your strength and enter the space channel to gain a chance of survival.”

"But I really shouldn't have focused on cultivation and neglected you..."

Jing Shuhan raised her hand to cover his mouth, her eyes full of guilt: "Husband, don't say anything. It's because I didn't know the inside story and wrongly accused you."

Chen Yuan grabbed Jing Shuhan's wrist, gently moved it away, and stared into her eyes: "I am also wrong. There is only a hundred years left, but I didn't marry you as soon as possible."

“It’s just that after destroying the two royal families, you have been in seclusion to strive for the Nascent Soul stage, and I was anxious to report to Senior Qin, so I rushed back to Taiming Sect first.”

"After that, I was busy refining pills and refining magic weapons. I was careless for a moment, causing you to wait for twenty years..."

Jing Shuhan smiled and said, "It's not too late now. From now on, after we get married, I will no longer be the elder of Tianji Sect. Wherever my husband goes, I will go..."

Her eyes suddenly dimmed, and the hand that was held by Chen Yuan fell down weakly: "But we only have sixty years. After sixty years, my husband will enter the space channel..."

Chen Yuan also fell silent, grabbed Jing Shuhan's wrist tightly and held her in his arms.

There was silence in the stone hall. After a long moment, Jing Shuhan raised his head and forced a smile: "Sixty years is not a short time. A mortal's life span is only sixty years."

"As long as I can be with my husband, even if it's only for one year, it's good..."

Chen Yuan looked at her forced smile, pursed his lips, and after a while, he slowly said: "I once heard a senior say that as long as you cultivate to the Mahayana realm, you can open up a channel of ascension between the spiritual world and the human world."

"After I enter the spirit world, I will improve my cultivation as soon as possible. As long as I cultivate to the Mahayana realm, I will immediately open up a channel for ascension and bring you into the spirit world."

Jing Shuhan's smile became more and more forced, and she lowered her head: "I understand my husband's intentions, but Mahayana is only one step away from ascending to the immortal world."

"Even if my husband is a genius, it will probably take him thousands of years to cultivate to the Mahayana realm. I, your concubine, would have already turned into a handful of dirt..."

Chen Yuan stretched out a hand, held up Jing Shuhan's face, looked into her eyes, and said slowly: "I will do my best. If you can break through to the Spiritual Transformation stage and live for two thousand years, you may have a chance to ascend to the Immortal Realm."

"If you stop at the Nascent Soul stage, or if I die in the space channel, the fate between you and me will be over."

Jing Shuhan looked back at Chen Yuan, her eyes slowly blooming with brilliance: "Okay, I will work hard to practice and wait for the day when my husband returns to this world."

Chen Yuan smiled and said, "It's a deal."

He suddenly exerted force, picked up Jing Shuhan horizontally, and walked into the training room with big strides.

……

The next day, Chen Yuan came to Tianjizi's cave and said goodbye to him, saying that he would invite his teachers and fellow disciples to participate in the dual cultivation ceremony between him and Jing Shuhan.

Tianjizi agreed, so Chen Yuan found Li Qingshan who lived at Yingke Peak, and they left Tianji Island together.

Li Qingshan followed Chen Yuan, his expression slightly similar to Chen Yuan.

Seeing this, Chen Yuan slowed down his speed and asked with a smile, "Do you have a crush on Liu Ye?"

Li Qingshan's expression froze, and he stole a glance at Chen Yuan. Seeing that he was smiling, he gritted his teeth and nodded: "Disciple...Disciple is indeed in love with Fairy Liuye."

Chen Yuan's smile faded: "Did you know that she is your master's wife's senior sister?"

Li Qingshan whispered: "Disciple knows."

Chen Yuan's face darkened and he stopped immediately: "Since you know this, why do you still have this thought?"

Li Qingshan bowed deeply: "Disciple also knows that this is inappropriate, but I can't help it. I have no choice. Please punish me, Master!"

Chen Yuan said: "If I don't allow you to interact with Liu Ye, will you hate me as your master?"

Li Qingshan shook his head: "Disciple dare not hate Master."

Chen Yuan asked: "Don't dare or don't know how to do it?"

Li Qingshan said without hesitation: "I don't dare, and I won't."

"Master, I will never forget your kindness in teaching you."

"Even if Master takes my life, I will never complain!"

Chen Yuan asked: "Are you willing?"

Li Qingshan's expression froze and he lowered his head.

Chen Yuan looked at him quietly without saying a word.

Li Qingshan's expression changed, but he finally became firm. He still maintained the posture of bowing with his fists clasped, and whispered: "Disciple is unwilling, but disciple will never resent Master."

Chen Yuan smiled, suddenly turned around, sped up his escape speed, and said calmly: "If you can make Liu Ye wait for you for sixty years, your master will allow you to practice dual cultivation."

Li Qingshan was stunned for a moment, then he was overjoyed and quickly drove his light to chase after him: "Thank you for your permission, Master. I will do my best!"

Hearing these four words, Chen Yuan stopped suddenly, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.

Li Qingshan came to his side and saw that he had stopped moving. He asked tentatively, "Master?"

Chen Yuan sighed lightly, and suddenly raised his sleeve and flicked it. A ray of light came out, wrapped around Li Qingshan, and flew away.

Chen Yuan's speed of escape was so fast that, at the level of Spirit Transformation, it only took him three days to reach the Silent Sea from Tianji Island.

Li Qingshan looked at the dark grey sea water below that seemed to be solidified, and felt the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him that was so thin that it was almost non-existent, and he felt very confused.

But Chen Yuan did not explain, and he did not want to ask, so he could only suppress his doubts in his heart.

Suddenly, Chen Yuan slowed down and fell down.

Li Qingshan spread out his spiritual sense and discovered that there was a deserted island below him. When his spiritual sense swept over, he found a stone platform on the island, which seemed to be engraved with a formation.

Before Li Qingshan could figure out what kind of formation it was, he had already landed on the edge of it.

He looked at the intricate lines of the formation in front of him and could no longer suppress his doubts and curiosity, so he was about to ask.

At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared in front of the two of them, looked at the formation, and said slowly: "It is indeed an ancient teleportation formation." (End of this chapter)