Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

At dusk, the Demon-Slaying Desert was shrouded in a layer of dark yellow light, and everything became dim. The huge crescent-shaped sand dunes stood quietly on the vast yellow sand, like ancient relics frozen in the long river of time.

A hungry lizard went out to look for food, winding forward, squinting his eyes, and carefully looking for poisonous scorpions and insects to fill his stomach.

Suddenly, a green misty light passed almost close to the ground, bringing a gust of wind, raising huge sand waves, almost sweeping the world.

The lizard quickly retreated to its nest buried in the yellow sand, and the yellow sand became dead silent again.

In the green misty light, it was Chen Yuan who was driving the Duyun Boat to escape from the battlefield.

He ignored the backlash of Fengluan's demonic power and continuously activated the full escape speed of the Duyun Boat in a short period of time, comparable to the early stage of Jindan cultivators, and quickly escaped from the battlefield.

But the Demon-Slaying Desert is hundreds of miles in radius, and he flew for half a quarter of an hour before reaching the edge of the desert.

He did not follow Jin Luoheng's instructions and return to the oasis, but made a detour and left the Demon Desert from another direction.

Being targeted by Liu Fan and Elder Qi at the same time, the secret of the physical cultivator was also exposed, and he could no longer stay in Lingyun Sect.

If it were only Liu Fan and Elder Qi, Chen Yuan would not be too afraid, after all, Jin Luoheng was a late Jindan cultivator, enough to protect him.

But he could not explain how he could go from the initial foundation-building cultivation to the late foundation-building stage in just over twenty years, and he was still a physical cultivator who had a particularly difficult time improving his cultivation.

He knew that Jin Luoheng would not covet the opportunity of his disciples, and was extremely protective of his shortcomings, so he dared to rescue Lin Hao.

But he did not dare to bet whether other Jindan cultivators of Lingyun Sect, or even the head of the sect Xuanyuanzi, would be interested in his way of strengthening his body.

The moment he rescued Lin Hao, he had already decided to leave Donghuazhou.

But before that, he had one most important thing to do.

…

After leaving the Demon-Slaying Desert, Chen Yuan did not sleep and flew day and night. It took him two days to finally reach the Fantasy Moon Mountains.

As the six major sects of Qi State started a decisive battle with the demon cultivators, Guiyuan Sect dispatched a large number of foundation-building cultivators to the Demon-Slaying Desert to participate in the battle. There were only a few foundation-building cultivators left in the Fantasy Moon Market, with only one Jindan Zhenren and a dozen Qi-refining disciples stationed there.

But with this Jindan Zhenren in charge, no demon cultivator dared to come here to make trouble.

Chen Yuan changed into a complete white gown, walked quickly into the Fantasy Moon Market, came to the Fantasy Moon Pavilion, and rented a first-class cave.

The deacon of the Fantasy Moon Pavilion, who was at the tenth level of Qi Refining, could not see through Chen Yuan's cultivation, but he was deeply impressed by his generous behavior of spending forty low-grade spirit stones to rent a cave for a year.

Everyone knew that the situation in the Demon-Slaying Desert was getting worse and worse, and many casual cultivators had fled Qi State and gone far away. It had been a long time since anyone had acted so generously.

Chen Yuan ignored the strange look of Deacon Huanyue and came to the rented cave. He sat on the cushion with the spirit gathering array engraved on it, took a healing pill, closed his eyes and meditated, absorbing the meager spiritual energy emanating from the underground spiritual veins.

He first fought a battle with the demon cultivators, and then flew here day and night. His true essence was almost exhausted, and he was affected by the aftermath of the fight between Jin Luoheng and Elder Qi. His meridians were damaged and needed to be recuperated.

However, his injuries were not serious. It only took two hours for the meridian injuries to recover as before, and the true essence lake in his dantian became full again.

At this time, Chen Yuan had time to deal with the blood-colored light spots left by Liu Fan in his body.

The blood-colored light spots were like a carbuncle attached to a small meridian. There was no abnormal movement and no effect on Chen Yuan.

But as long as the light spots existed, Liu Fan could sense his position within a certain distance.

This is an extremely sophisticated tracking method, which is extremely difficult for ordinary foundation-building cultivators to crack.

But Chen Yuan is different. He has obtained all the memories of Master Qingyou and has at least three secret techniques to crack the tracking method.

If Liu Fan was not a Jindan cultivator, he could have eliminated this blood-colored light spot, which was obviously a method of the devil, by relying on the power of the Zhoutian stars in his body.

Chen Yuan thought of a secret technique that would work the fastest. He raised his hand and made a gesture. The true essence flowed into this meridian, like a rushing river, constantly washing away the blood-colored light spot. Every time it left the meridian, it would take away a trace of imperceptible blood-colored light.

But after an hour, Chen Yuan stopped, frowned, looked inward, and stared at the blood-colored light spot in the meridian.

He continued to use his true essence to wear away the blood-colored light spot, but the effect was minimal. The blood-colored light spot was almost not damaged.

If it were at this speed, it would take at least a month to completely wear away the blood-colored light spot.

But the six sects of Qi and the two demon sects may have already decided the winner, or will soon decide the winner, and the demon sect has a great advantage and is very likely to defeat the six sects of Qi.

If the demon cultivators take control of the Qi cultivation world, Liu Fan will definitely keep tracking his tracks, and it will be very difficult for him to enter the Fantasy Moon Mountains to hunt the white ape.

He must enter the Fantasy Moon Mountains and hunt the white ape while the Qi cultivation world is still in chaos.

Chen Yuan made up his mind, and the spell in his hand changed. The true essence flowed into the meridians, wrapping the blood-colored light spots layer by layer.

This is another secret technique he got from the memory of Master Qing You. Although it cannot erase the blood-colored light spots, it can hide them. Unless Liu Fan comes within ten miles of Chen Yuan, he cannot detect his position.

At this distance, Chen Yuan has entered the coverage of Liu Fan's consciousness, and the tracking of the blood-colored light spots is meaningless.

After hiding the bloody light spot, Chen Yuan closed his eyes and adjusted his breath for a moment, then took out the jade bottle containing the wild man's soul.

He opened the bottle stopper and took out the soul. After two days, the wild man's soul had become listless and his eyes were dull.

Chen Yuan closed his eyes slightly and performed the soul-searching technique to check the wild man's memory.

A quarter of an hour later, he opened his eyes and casually released a wisp of true energy to crush the wild man's soul, frowning.

He saw his past experiences from the wild man's memory, but did not get the answer he wanted.

The wild man was not a physical cultivator, but a human-demon hybrid!

This person was called Black Tiger, a casual cultivator from Yunling Country, the home of the Blood Spirit Sect. He had poor aptitude and possessed the four spiritual roots of gold, fire, earth and wood, but he had a strong tiger demon bloodline in his body. As his cultivation level improved, his body would also be strengthened.

But because of this, his power was halved when he used ordinary spiritual weapons, and he usually used his physical strength to fight the enemy.

However, Black Tiger's tiger demon bloodline is quite strong. As he broke through the bottleneck of the late stage, he obtained a kind of innate secret technique from his bloodline.

According to this secret technique, Black Tiger hunted a fourth-level tiger demon, extracted the tiger bone from its body, integrated it into the demon pill and his own blood essence, and refined it into a bone knife equivalent to a top-grade spiritual weapon, but only he could control it. He could use the bone knife to perform the art of displacement, which greatly increased his strength and made a great reputation in Yunling Country.

This time, the Blood Spirit Sect invaded Qi State and offered a generous reward, including several spiritual medicines that increase the probability of forming a pill. Black Tiger was jealous and joined the Blood Spirit Sect and came to Qi State, but he met Chen Yuan, a real body cultivator, and died in one day.

Chen Yuan shook his head and put away the jade bottle.

He wanted to get some body cultivation secrets and his way to strengthen his body from the wild man, but he didn't expect that the wild man was half human and half demon, not a body cultivator at all.

He checked the contents of the Black Tiger storage bag. There were more than 200 middle-grade spirit stones, a bottle of late-stage foundation-building pills, several healing pills, several three-hundred-year-old spirit herbs, and some sundries, but not a single spirit jade slip.

He collected these things by category, then quietly left the market and flew to the Fantasy Moon Mountains.

…

In the Demon-Dangling Desert at night, the wind was cold and the full moon was hanging high. The stars in the sky could not cover the brilliance of the bright moon. In the galaxy across the sky, countless stars were floating up and down. The starlight and moonlight sprinkled together, covering the endless yellow sand with a layer of white frost.

But in the next moment, thousands of escape lights passed through the clear and clean night sky, breaking this frozen and beautiful picture.

These escape lights were not fast, and they passed quietly in the air, as if they were depressed. Many of them were swaying, as if they would fall to the ground in the next moment.

Through the light of escape, every cultivator's expression was particularly gloomy, and some cultivators had distorted facial features, as if they were enduring great pain.

After almost three days and three nights of fighting, the cultivators of Qi State were still defeated.

Twenty-three Jindan True Immortals died, and more than 600 foundation-building cultivators were killed. In order to stop the pursuit of the demon cultivators, Leng Hui True Immortal of Ziyang Sect and Qu Laoguai of Wanshou Mountain killed six Jindan demon cultivators and died on the spot. The remaining Jindan True Immortals led the foundation-building cultivators and retreated in panic.

Fortunately, the demon cultivators abided by the agreement and did not kill them all, which gave the cultivators of Qi State a chance to breathe and prevented them from being wiped out.

The foundation-building cultivators were very grateful, but only the Jindan True Immortals knew that this was the deterrence of the Yuanying cultivators of Qi State. The demon cultivators only chased for more than 40 miles before calling it a day.

The demon cultivators did not dare to slaughter all the low-level cultivators of the six major sects in Qi State, otherwise the six sect leaders would lose their scruples and seek revenge, and even the two major demon sects would not be able to withstand the wrath of the Yuanying cultivators.

The defeated Qi cultivators retreated all the way back to the oasis and returned to their respective sects.

They only had one night to rest and recuperate, and they had to withdraw from the Demon Desert and return to their sects the next day.

The six major sects had already sent Jindan Zhenren back to the sects to inform the elders who stayed behind in the sects of the defeat, gather the disciples in the sects, and pack up the cultivation materials.

They only had five days to withdraw from Qi State, and would not leave any spiritual stones to the two major demon sects, but according to the agreement, the six major sects were not allowed to destroy the spiritual veins and mineral veins.

The cultivators of various immortal cultivation families did not even return to the oasis, but led their children directly to leave the Demon Desert. Only the cultivators who were too seriously injured to fly away followed the cultivators of the six sects back to the oasis to heal their wounds first.

The six major sects must leave Qi and give up their resident sites, but if these immortal cultivation families are interested, they can stay in Qi, but they will become vassals of the two demon sects.

It is related to the fate of the entire family, and the clan leader cannot make a decision alone. He must discuss with the cultivators in the clan and dare not delay at all.

For the cultivators who returned to the oasis, this was destined to be a lively night. From time to time, there were escape lights passing silently from the sky, landing in courtyards and small buildings, and they were worriedly discussing the future shrouded in a fog.

In the center of the Lingyun faction, Lin Hao, Sun Congyao, and Shen Danmei landed in front of Jin Luoheng's courtyard.

Lin Hao bowed deeply, and just as he was about to speak, the gate of the courtyard slowly opened, and Jin Luoheng's voice rang in the ears of the three disciples: "Come in."

The three disciples stepped in, came to the main hall, and saw Jin Luoheng, who looked tired.

He fought a late Jindan demon cultivator for three days and three nights in the battle, severely wounding him and consuming a lot of his true essence and spirit.

Lin Hao asked with concern: "Master, are you okay?"

He, Sun Congyao, and Shen Danmei followed Jin Luoheng's instructions and focused on saving their lives in the battle. They were only slightly injured and were not seriously injured.

Jin Luoheng shook his head slightly: "Have you seen Chen Yuan?"

The three disciples all shook their heads, and Sun Congyao said in a deep voice: "The disciples asked several monks on duty, but none of them saw Junior Brother Chen."

Shen Danmei looked extremely nervous: "Will Junior Brother Chen be secretly intercepted and killed by those two people?"

The two heard about Chen Yuan from Lin Hao. Sun Congyao was shocked when he learned that Chen Yuan was a physical practitioner. However, Shen Danmei had known about it for a long time and was just worried about Chen Yuan's safety.

Jin Luoheng said: "After Chen Yuan left the battlefield, my master has been keeping an eye on Qi Yuanshan and Liu Fan. They had no chance to make a move."

Shen Danmei breathed a long sigh of relief and murmured: "That's good, that's good..."

Lin Hao showed hesitation on his face and said: "Master, before Junior Brother Chen left, he handed several wooden boxes to the disciple and asked the disciple to hand them to the master on his behalf..."

He touched the storage bag and took out eight wooden boxes with talismans attached to them.

Jin Luoheng raised his hand and took the wooden box over. He looked at the talisman that firmly stuck the lid and body of the box together, and frowned slightly: "What's in the box?"

These wooden boxes are made of hundred-year-old wood, which has the effect of sealing spiritual energy and isolating spiritual consciousness. Jin Luoheng cannot see what is stored in them.

Lin Hao shook his head and said: "Disciple, I don't know. Junior Brother Chen just said that this thing is of great importance and there must be no omissions."

At this point, he paused: "Junior Brother Chen also... has one more sentence, asking the disciple to tell the master that he cannot fulfill his filial piety in front of the master. He can only honor the master with this thing and ask the master for forgiveness."

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of Shen Danmei and Sun Congyao changed, Jin Luoheng's eyes also condensed slightly, and the atmosphere in the main hall instantly became solemn.

After a while, Jin Luoheng said: "Then let me see what is in this wooden box, which can fulfill his responsibilities as a disciple!"

He raised his hand a little, and the talismans on the eight wooden boxes all broke. The lids of the boxes opened, and the rich spiritual energy filled the air instantly.

The three disciples stared intently, and saw eight well-preserved spiritual grasses of different shapes rising slowly. The dewdrops on the grass blades were still rolling slowly, reflecting the soft light of the night pearl.

Jin Luoheng's eyes swept over the eight spiritual grasses and landed on one of them, which was about a foot tall and as green as emerald. His expression was solemn: "Is this... the Qingxuan Spirit Cleansing Flower?"

When the three disciples heard this, they all looked confused. They had never heard of this kind of spiritual grass.

Not only that, they didn't even know the other seven spiritual grasses, but the three disciples had all entered the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain and had seen five-hundred-year-old spiritual grasses, which were much inferior to these seven spiritual grasses.

"Chen Yuan is interested..." Jin Luoheng suddenly sighed, raised his sleeves and put the eight spiritual herbs back into the wooden box.

Shen Danmei couldn't help but ask: "Master, are these spiritual herbs all eight hundred years old?"

Jin Luoheng shook his head slightly: "These seven are eight-hundred-year-old spiritual grass, but this Qingxuan spiritual-washing flower is a thousand-year-old spiritual grass. Even among the thousand-year-old spiritual grass, it is quite precious."

The expressions of the three disciples changed drastically. They were in disbelief when they saw Chen Yuan handing Jin Luoheng eight eight-hundred-year-old spiritual grasses. They never thought that he could actually produce a thousand-year-old spiritual grass that even Yuanying monks regarded as treasures!

Jin Luoheng put the eight wooden boxes into his storage bag and said in a deep voice: "This matter must not be known to outsiders. Chen Yuan was already being targeted by Liu Fan and Qi Yuanshan. If people knew that he had taken out the thousand-year-old spiritual grass, his situation would be terrible. More dangerous."

The three disciples agreed in unison, and Lin Hao said: "Disciple, I have one more thing to report. Before Junior Brother Chen left, he gave me a jade slip and asked Master to see it."

He touched the storage bag, took out the jade slip that Chen Yuan gave him, bowed and handed it to Jin Luoheng, and then took out two top-quality spiritual weapons and handed them to Sun Congyao and Shen Danmei: "This is Junior Brother Chen Please accept what I entrusted to you."

The two of them hesitantly took the spiritual weapon. Jin Luoheng raised his hand and took the jade slip over. His consciousness penetrated into it. After a moment, he withdrew his consciousness and his eyes were filled with surprise and uncertainty.

He handed the jade slip back to Lin Hao and said: "The experience of forming pills recorded in this jade slip is extremely exquisite and brilliant. Even my teacher found it refreshing after reading it. It is definitely not what ordinary monks can get. You can understand it carefully." , the chance of forming a pill should be increased by three points.”

Lin Hao felt happy and took the jade slip, but then he remembered that Chen Yuan was homeless and his life and death were unknown, and his face darkened.

He did not have a close relationship with Chen Yuan, but Chen Yuan saved his life and gave him a jade slip, which made him very grateful.

Sun Congyao and Shen Danmei looked at the top-quality spiritual weapons in their hands, with complex expressions on their faces. Shen Danmei's eyes turned red, and she shed two lines of clear tears, saying softly: "Junior brother Chen, why are you leaving?"

Jin Luoheng raised his eyes slightly, looked into the distance, and said calmly: "Chen Yuan has many secrets. He must have had concerns, so he ran away."

"But you must remember that no matter how much trouble Chen Yuan causes, he is still your master's disciple and your junior brother!"