Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

After Chen Yuan finished practicing swordsmanship, the sky was completely dark, with a bright moon in the sky and dense stars.

He sheathed his sword, returned to the house, and took out the rough cloth bag containing the jade.

In the past three years, in addition to escorting the convoy, Chen Yuan would draw the starlight into his body whenever he had the chance, and his physical strength increased day by day.

He took the jade out of the rough cloth bag, and under the shining starlight, the jade emitted a faint green light.

The stars in the sky flickered together, forming a beam of white light, which fell from the sky and circulated around Chen Yuan.

Compared with three years ago, the white light, which was originally as thin as a hair, became twice as thick and the color became a little darker.

After ten breaths, the white light dissipated.

Chen Yuan opened his eyes, feeling the sudden hunger, and took out three thumb-sized, black pills without panic, and swallowed them with water.

After a moment, a warm feeling flowed into his limbs and bones, and his whole body was relaxed. The feeling of hunger slowly dissipated.

"Huh..."

Chen Yuan exhaled a long breath, feeling the strength increase a bit, and murmured:

"It's a pity that there is only one Yangjing Pill per month. If I can take it every day, I can attract the starlight at will and infuse it into my body..."

This black pill is called Yangjing Pill, which is a benefit given by the Fuhu Gang to the bone refining warriors, one pill per month.

But as a disciple of Li Guanshi, Chen Yuan can get a Yangjing Pill after breaking through the skin refining realm. In two years, he has received a total of 24 pills.

Yangjing Pill has the effect of strengthening the foundation, strengthening the blood, and strengthening the body. After taking it, the bone refining warriors will have active blood and qi in the body within the next three days, and the effect of martial arts training will be doubled.

But after Chen Yuan broke through to the marrow refining realm, three Yangjing Pills can make up for the energy gap after the starlight infuse the body once.

The rest of the time, he can only replenish energy slowly to avoid attracting the attention of others.

After Chen Yuan realized the wonderful effect of the Yangjing Pill, he was excited and asked Zhao Shan about the origin of the Yangjing Pill. He gave up the idea when he learned that the market price of the pill was two taels of silver per pill.

The price of the Yangjing Pill was too high. He had to send one tael of silver to his family out of his monthly salary of four taels of silver, and he had to give the old scholar five hundred coins, so he could only buy one pill.

Including the pills distributed by the gang, Chen Yuan took a total of 48 Yangjing Pills in two years.

Now Chen Yuan's physical strength has greatly increased. He has a thousand pounds of strength, strong meridians, and sensitive five senses. Not a feather can be added, and mosquitoes and flies cannot land. Within five feet, no sound can be heard.

When escorting the convoy, Chen Yuan saw Zhang Jinkui fighting with another mountain bandit leader who was at the peak of marrow refining.

Although the two did not fight to the death, they also used at least 70% of their strength, and their strength was far less than his.

This huge strength is Chen Yuan's biggest trump card.

He usually only shows two or three tenths of his strength in front of outsiders, and he is regarded as a natural supernatural power.

If he goes all out, I wonder how powerful it will be.

Chen Yuan has no chance to test it, but he is confident that he can crush the peak marrow refining warriors, and even compete with the inner strength warriors. It is not impossible.

It is precisely because of the power of self-protection that he dares to show his bone refining strength and strive for the opportunity to enter the county city general gang.

When he entered the Chimang Mountains three times with the convoy before, he was very brave every time he encountered bandits robbing the road, and he made a lot of contributions, which was quite appreciated by Manager Li.

But that was on the edge of the mountains, the bandits were weak, and they were all safe in the end.

This time, he entered the depths of the Chimang Mountains, the road was dangerous, and there were many bandit camps.

Chen Yuan made up his mind to be careful along the way and not to be the first bird.

The leader of the bandit camp that can gain a foothold in the depths of the Chimang Mountains is at least a peak marrow refining warrior, and there are many inner strength warriors, and even masters of Gangjin and Huajin realms.

If Chen Yuan rushes and kills as bravely as before, it will attract the attention of the bandits, and the risk is too great.

Even if Zhao Shan didn't tell him today, he would find a reason to hide behind Manager Li.

…

The next morning, Chen Yuan got up early, had breakfast, put on a black suit, packed his luggage, took a long sword, and came to a large house in Xingyefang.

In the courtyard was a vast training ground, about an acre in size.

More than 30 black-clad guards had gathered on the training ground, carrying luggage on their backs and holding ring-handled swords in their hands, divided into three teams, standing loosely.

In front of the crowd stood two black-clad leaders, one of whom was Zhao Shan.

Chen Yuan came to Zhao Shan and saluted:

"Senior brother."

Zhao Shan waved his hand:

"Join the team."

Chen Yuan came to the end of the third team and stood quietly.

A quarter of an hour later, all sixty guards and three guard team leaders arrived.

Another quarter of an hour later, Manager Li, who was also dressed in black, walked in with another burly middle-aged man.

The two men came to the front of the crowd, and the three commanders bowed and saluted:

"Hello, Manager Li, Manager Zhang!"

The middle-aged man was another manager of the Baibing Hall in Leping County, Zhang Jinkui, who used a ring-handled sword and was known as Mang Jin Gang in the Jianghu.

Zhang Jinkui waved his hand impatiently and said loudly:

"Today, this batch of goods will be delivered to the mountains. Manager Li and I will support you. Be careful on the way. If anyone makes a mistake, I will skin him alive!"

"Yes!"

The guard team responded loudly, and Zhang Jinkui turned to look at Manager Li:

"Do you have anything else to say?"

Manager Li stepped forward and said:

"Since Manager Zhang has spoken, I will say a few words... This deal is very important. If anyone makes a mistake in the middle of the journey, all the monthly wages will be deducted next month! But if this deal can be successfully completed, after the team returns, each member of the guard team will be rewarded with three taels of silver!"

Everyone's expressions changed when they heard about the monthly deduction, but when they heard about the silver reward, their eyes lit up again.

The guards of Baibing Hall in Leping County are all skin-refining warriors, and their monthly salary is only one tael of silver. For them, three taels of silver is already an extremely valuable reward.

As soon as Manager Li finished speaking, Zhang Jinkui stared at his face and asked:

"Why do you deduct my escort team's monthly payment?"

Manager Li said with a smile:

"Manager Zhang, don't be impatient. This is what Shopkeeper Sun wants. If you have any objections, I will report it to Shopkeeper Sun."

Zhang Jinkui's face darkened, he snorted coldly, but said no more.

Manager Li smiled slightly:

"The fleet has been loaded up, let's set off now!"

…

The Chimang Mountains stretch across the territory of Qi State, stretching for tens of thousands of miles, thousands of miles deep, with thousands of rocks and ravines, mountains and mountains, deep forests, luxuriant leaves, and wild beasts.

On a mountain trail, Baibingtang's convoy formed a long queue and passed slowly.

The mountain road was narrow and difficult to navigate, so the coachman drove the horses carefully. There were twenty guards in front of the convoy to clear the way, twenty guards in the rear to cut off the rear, and more than ten guards on both sides, patrolling back and forth.

Chen Yuan followed Zhao Shan and walked silently. The black uniform on his body was stained with many stains and had several torn holes.

Today is the third day since the convoy set off from Leping County. It has only traveled sixty miles in the Chimang Mountains.

The roads in the mountains were difficult to travel, and the deal with the bandits was shady. The convoy did not dare to take the flat and wide Yuanpingxing. It could only take the mountain trails, through the forests and valleys, and the journey was slow.

During this period, we also encountered bandits blocking the road. Fortunately, the flags of several large bandit villages in the Chimang Mountains were hung in front of the convoy, and the escort team was large, so those small villages were afraid and did not take action.

However, many ferocious beasts were disturbed by the convoy. In panic, they became ferocious, were surrounded and killed by the escort, and entered the stomachs of everyone.

When Chen Yuan faced the bandits who were robbing Dao, he was submissive and huddled behind Zhao Shan, but he was extremely brave when encountering ferocious beasts.

A bone-refining warrior can kill ligers and tigers. Chen Yuan also had great strength. He killed a tiger without the help of others. His clothes were also scratched at that time.

He originally didn't want to take action, but he wanted to maintain his stupid personality and couldn't keep shrinking.

But he did not forget to show his flaws deliberately, and his clothes were scratched by the tiger, making the scene look quite dangerous.

After setting up camp at night, Zhao Shan scolded:

"Junior brother, you are too reckless. You don't have any finesse in your sword skills. You are just fierce. You killed a tiger and almost got injured. If you were scratched and infected by tiger poison, there is no doctor in this mountain to treat your injuries!"

Chen Yuan touched his head and said sarcastically:

"I'm sorry, senior brother, as soon as I took the knife, I forgot everything..."

Zhao Shan shook his head helplessly:

"This is just a beast. If you encounter bandits... From now on, you can't do anything without me saying anything!"

"Yes, senior brother!"

The two guard commanders watching Zhao Shan scolding Chen Yuan showed sarcasm on their faces.

One of the thin commanders laughed strangely:

"Junior brother Chen, don't listen to Zhao Shan. You are a bone-refining warrior and you are extremely powerful. The bandits are no match for you. Just kill them bravely. I will ask for credit for you in front of Master."

Zhao Shan suddenly changed color, made a clang sound, and half unsheathed his sword:

"Zheng Jun, don't go too far! Last time you encouraged Junior Brother Chen to rush into battle, I haven't settled the score with you yet. If you talk nonsense again, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

Zheng Jun did not expect Zhao Shan to react so fiercely, and his expression changed. However, facing Zhao Shan's fierce gaze, he did not dare to say anything, so he could only say angrily:

"I asked Junior Brother Chen to make more contributions. Is it wrong? I don't understand good people's hearts!"

Then, he and another commander turned and left, complaining:

"Master doesn't know what he's thinking. If we haven't expelled Zhao Shan from the escort team, he's already riding on us!"

Another short and stocky commander smiled sinisterly and said:

"Haha, please don't be angry, Senior Brother Zheng. Li Yong is extremely cunning and very popular with Shopkeeper Sun. He inserted Zhao Shanan into the matter, which gives Master a headache. But this Chen Erniu is simple-minded. We can find an opportunity to attack him first..." "

The two people's voices were extremely low and could not be heard clearly by others, but they reached Chen Yuan's ears without any loss of words.

A sharp look flashed in his eyes, but there was a simple and honest smile on his face:

"Senior Brother, Senior Brother Zheng is not a good person, I will listen to you!"

Zheng Jun and another commander, Ma Yaozong, were both disciples of Zhang Jinkui. They had always been at odds with Zhao Shan and had no good intentions towards Chen Yuan, especially after he broke through to the bone refining realm.

But Chen Yuan never fought back, he just pretended to be dumbfounded, and Zhao Shan blocked it for him.

Zhao Shan sheathed his sword and said angrily:

"You know how to listen to me, can I control you for the rest of your life? When will you be more careful, so that I can rest assured!"

Chen Yuan nodded heavily:

"I listen to my senior brother and I must try my best to be more attentive so that my senior brother can rest assured!"

"You kid..."

Zhao Shan shook his head and laughed, speechless for a while.

While the two were talking, several guards were not far away and heard their conversation.

An inconspicuous guard left quietly, found Manager Li, and told the whole story.

Manager Li said in a deep voice:

"Okay, I understand, you continue to keep an eye on the movements of those commanders."

"yes!"

After the guards retired, Manager Li looked at the vast mountains shrouded in the sunset, gently stroking his beard, and a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.