Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

The tenth-level disciple said as he came to a bookshelf next to the stone hall, where ten storage bags were placed.

He picked up a storage bag and handed it to Chen Yuan:

"Brother, please take the identity jade card and leave the storage bag. I will set up a ban talisman and return it to its original owner after you complete the assessment."

This man was short and fat. When he smiled, his face became more round, giving people a sense of harmlessness.

Chen Yuan took the storage bag and probed into it with his spiritual sense. He found that there was an alchemy furnace and a spiritual herb for refining Yuhua Dan.

He took out the identity jade card, untied the three storage bags on his waist, and handed them to the short and fat disciple.

The short and fat disciple took it, took out three white talismans, and pasted them on.

The talismans burned and turned into strands of white spiritual light silk threads, weaving into a fine spiritual net that wrapped the three storage bags.

"Please leave a mark of your power, Junior Brother."

Chen Yuan raised his hand and made a gesture, injecting a trace of power into each of the three spiritual nets.

In an instant, the white spiritual light thread turned into a light red color, flickering.

Then, the short and fat monk placed the three storage bags on the bookshelf and walked into the stone hall.

Chen Yuan followed him, walked through the stone hall, and entered a passage.

A row of night pearls were inlaid on the top of the passage, shining as brightly as day.

Every ten feet on both sides, there was a stone door with a shallow groove on the door.

In the grooves of several stone doors, there were jade cards of the identity of Lingyun Sect disciples.

The short and fat disciple said:

"Junior brother, you can choose any underground fire room to make pills. Just come out after seven days and return the storage bag."

Chen Yuan bowed:

"Trouble you, senior brother."

The short and fat disciple smiled:

"Okay, okay."

Those who can come to participate in the third-level alchemy examination are all top alchemists, and they often have an alchemy master as their master. He, a small chores disciple, dare not neglect them in the slightest.

After the short and fat disciple left, Chen Yuan randomly chose an underground fire room, injected a trace of mana into the identity jade card, and placed it on the groove of the stone door.

The identity jade card gave off a faint light, and the stone door opened silently.

Chen Yuan entered the underground fire room, and the stone door closed behind him.

The underground fire room is not large, only ten feet in radius.

On the ground is a three-foot-sized array plate with complicated patterns.

Next to it is a white jade cushion, and there is nothing else.

When Chen Yuan spread his spiritual sense and touched the wall, he found that there was a layer of prohibition blocking him, so he could not probe his spiritual sense, and others could not probe their spiritual sense into the earth fire room.

He was relieved, looked down at the array plate, pondered for a moment, pinched the magic formula with his hands, and tried to inject a trace of magic power.

The white-faced monk obviously had ill will towards the casual alchemist, and asked him to take the test without saying anything.

The short and fat disciple mistakenly thought that he was a frequent visitor to the earth fire room, and did not tell him how to use the earth fire, so he could only explore it by himself.

After Chen Yuan injected a trace of magic power, the array plate lit up with a faint red light.

He continued to inject magic power, and the red light emitted by the array plate became brighter and brighter.

Huh!

Suddenly, a red flame emerged from the center of the array plate, and the temperature in the earth fire room rose sharply.

Chen Yuan withdrew his magic power, and the flame shook twice, and then stabilized.

Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, took out the alchemy furnace and spiritual herbs, sat on the cushion, and began to make pills.

…

Seven days later, in the stone hall, the short and fat disciple was playing chess with someone.

The cultivator opposite him had been replaced by a new one, who was a master of chess.

The short and fat disciple frowned deeply. He held the black pieces in his hand, a dragon with 64 points, which was already in danger and was about to be surrounded and killed by the opponent.

The disciple sitting opposite him smiled triumphantly:

"Brother Hu, admit defeat..."

"Two brothers, come down to get your storage bags back."

A voice came, and the two looked up at the same time.

The short and fat disciple immediately reached out to mess up the chessboard, and stood up as if nothing had happened:

"Junior brother, you are out, have you passed the alchemy test?"

The person who came was Chen Yuan, he smiled slightly:

"I passed by luck."

The short and fat disciple smiled and bowed repeatedly:

"Congratulations to the junior brother for passing the third-level alchemy test, and from now on you will be the top alchemist in the Alchemy Pavilion!"

As he said that, he hurried to the bookshelf, picked up Chen Yuan's three storage bags, and handed them over respectfully.

Chen Yuan smiled, as if tacitly accepting the compliment from the short and fat disciple, and took the storage bag.

The light red spiritual net on it was intact. He injected mana, untied the spiritual net, probed into his spiritual consciousness, and carefully checked it. The things inside were also intact.

He felt relieved, returned the storage bag containing the alchemy furnace to the short and fat disciple, and left the stone hall.

The short and fat disciple sat down to play chess with another person again. His opponent said indignantly:

"Brother Hu, you are cheating!"

"Hehe, what are you talking about? I just accidentally messed up the chessboard just now. Come on, come on, I will fight him for another three hundred rounds, and I will kill you without leaving a single piece of armor!"

...

Chen Yuan walked out of the passage, returned to the Alchemy Pavilion, found the on-duty disciple who led him to the Earth Fire Room, and went to the quiet room on the second floor together.

The on-duty disciple took out his identity jade card and triggered the ban.

After a while, the ban dissipated, and the voice of the white-faced man came from the quiet room:

"Come in."

The two walked into the quiet room, and the white-faced man looked at Chen Yuan with a smile:

"How is it? Did you pass the test?"

"I have fulfilled my mission."

Chen Yuan took out a jade bottle, bowed slightly, and handed it to the white-faced monk.

The white-faced monk was startled, and then a surge of anger surged up. He raised his hand and the jade bottle flew into his hand.

He pulled out the jade plug at once, poured out four Jade Flower Pills, opened his eyes wide, and examined them carefully.

Chen Yuan looked at the movements of the white-faced monk with a respectful expression.

A full quarter of an hour passed before the white-faced monk raised his head, looked Chen Yuan up and down, and said:

"Master Nephew Wen, go to the Earth Fire Palace and check to see if this person has really completed the alchemy test and whether he has cheated!"

"yes!"

The disciple on duty responded, turned around and left.

Afterwards, the white-faced monk closed his eyes and meditated, ignoring Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan was not worried, his eyes were lowered, and he stood there, waiting for the result.

After a while, the disciple on duty walked into the quiet room and saluted the white-faced monk:

"Uncle Yin, I asked Senior Brother Hu who is on duty at the Earth Fire Palace. Senior Brother Chen has indeed completed the third-level alchemy assessment and handed in the storage bag in advance. There was no fraud."

When the white-faced monk heard this, his expression changed and he said coldly:

"Bring me your identity jade token and alchemy assessment token."

Chen Yuan took out two plaques from his storage bag and handed them to the white-faced monk with both hands.

The white-faced monk took it, put away the alchemy assessment token, injected a trace of mana into Chen Yuan's jade identity token, flicked his finger, and the identity jade token flew towards Chen Yuan.

"I'll give you two options. One is to accept the sect mission issued by the Alchemy Pavilion, and the other is to join the Alchemy Pavilion and become an alchemist, but you need to refine 120 bottles of Yuhua Pill for the sect within ten years. "

Chen Yuan bowed his hands and said:

"The disciple chooses to accept the sect's mission."

When the white-faced monk heard this, the disgust in his eyes was slightly reduced, but his voice was still cold:

"Within one month, hand over a bottle of Jade Flower Pill and you will be rewarded with twenty good deeds."

As he spoke, he took out three pieces of spiritual grass for refining Yuhua Dan and a jade tablet with the word "Ling" written on it from his storage bag, and handed them to Chen Yuan.

"yes."

Chen Yuan caught the spiritual grass and the jade token, put them into his storage bag, saluted the white-faced monk, and turned around to leave.

The door to the quiet room slowly closed, and the white-faced monk frowned and murmured:

"A casual alchemist can actually pass the third-level alchemy test. It seems that the 40% alchemy rate is a bit low and needs to be increased..."

…

After Chen Yuan left the quiet room, he asked the disciples on duty about the rules of the Earth Fire Hall and returned to the Earth Fire Hall.

The pudgy monk was overjoyed when he saw him go and come back. He disturbed the chessboard again and asked Chen Yuan about his purpose.

Chen Yuan paid ten spiritual stones, rented a third-class earth fire room, and started refining elixirs.

There is a fire vein buried under the Earth Fire Palace. Using the Earth Fire to make elixirs can greatly reduce the mana consumption.

Moreover, the earth fire is more stable and purer than the flame transformed by mana, and the elixir produced is of better quality.

There are three levels of underground fire rooms, with the third level being the worst. The monthly rent is ten spiritual stones.

Further up, there are second-class earth fire chambers and first-class earth fire chambers, which can only be used by foundation-building monks and pill-forming elders.

In the Weapon Refining Pavilion, there is another Earth Fire Hall, the fire veins in which are more violent, suitable for refining weapons.

Twenty-one days later, Chen Yuan refined three furnaces of Yuhua Pills, with a success rate of 60%, and a total of eighteen pills were produced.

He exited the Earth Fire Room, returned to the Alchemy Pavilion, and handed over a bottle of elixir and a mission token to the disciple on duty. Twenty more good deeds were added to the identity jade token.

Afterwards, Chen Yuan returned to the cave, waited until late at night, and filled his body with starlight.

There was no daylight in the Earth Fire Chamber, and there was no starlight injection for a month in a row, so the growth of his spiritual consciousness slowed down a lot.

After the starlight infusion ended, Chen Yuan felt his consciousness expand by another inch, and a smile appeared on his lips.

He returned to the training room and took a Yuhua Pill to restore his magic power.

The sect's mission has been completed, and everything is fine.

In the next year, he can concentrate on preparing for the trip to Dongxu Mountain.

In the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain, rare spiritual herbs grow, as well as the three-flavored main medicine of the Foundation Establishment Pill, and the disciples of each sect are fighting fiercely.

Chen Yuan thought for a long time and had to make two preparations.

One is to collect information, and the other is to improve strength.

The Lingyun Sect lets its disciples enter the secret realm to fight for the elixir, and they must give out a map.

Mo Jingchun has been to the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain once and has a deep understanding of the situation inside. The first point is not a concern.

As for improving his strength, he can no longer improve his cultivation level, so he can only work on magic weapons and talismans.

The Qianjun Ax is extremely powerful, but cannot be used frequently.

The Blood Light Sword is just a high-grade magical weapon, but it is somewhat ineffective when faced with top Qi refining disciples from various sects.

In the competition between him and Huang Yunshang, the Blood Light Sword only had a containment effect and did not play the role it should have as a main attack weapon.

The Purple Bee Needle was only suitable for sneak attacks, so he also needed a top-quality flying sword as his main attack weapon.

In addition, the Qing Ning Shield was scrapped and he needed a new defensive weapon.

A fixed light mirror is undoubtedly the best choice, but the cracks on the mirror surface need to be repaired before it can exert its full power.

There is no need to replenish the talismans. In addition to the talismans obtained from Huang Yunshang, he still has more than twenty middle-grade talismans, a dozen high-grade talismans, and four top-grade talismans. The trip to Dongxu Mountain will not take too long, and it is enough. use.

Chen Yuan thought about it in his mind and determined his next goal, which was to repair the fixed light mirror and buy a top-quality flying sword as his main attack weapon.