Nine Transformations of the True Spirit

Old Man Geng saw the change in Chen Yuan's expression, as if he guessed what he was thinking. He smiled, stroked his storage bag, took out a piece of silk, put it on the table, and said:

"Please look at this, nephew Chen, this is the map I drew after leaving Dongxu Mountain. I drew all the things I experienced along the way. You can find the spiritual medicine garden by following the map."

Chen Yuan raised his hand and the silk slowly flew up and fell into his hand.

Looking down, he saw three or four roads, several peaks and valleys, and several rivers drawn on it. At the end of the map, the three words "Spiritual Medicine Garden" were marked, which looked very simple.

Chen Yuan shook his head slightly and was about to put the map down.

He had a sudden impulse to collect some information about the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain, but he didn't expect that what Old Man Geng said was so untrue and the map was also shoddy.

But at this moment, his eyes fell on a certain place on the map, and he suddenly stopped, and his brows slowly frowned.

There is a river here, winding around a hill. For some reason, it gives him an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if he has seen it somewhere before.

He thought hard, but he still had no clue. His brows were furrowed, and he was puzzled.

Old man Geng was overjoyed to see Chen Yuan lost in thought.

The more interested Chen Yuan was in the map, the more money he could squeeze out of Chen Yuan.

"Ahem..."

Old man Geng coughed twice, waking Chen Yuan from his meditation.

Since he couldn't think of it, he simply stopped thinking about it. Maybe it was just a temporary illusion.

He put away the map, and old man Geng bowed and said:

"Thank you for your teaching, uncle. I have benefited a lot. I won't bother you anymore."

After that, he turned around and left.

There were many exaggerated words in old man Geng's words, which were hard to believe. It was futile to listen to him any more.

However, although this map was simple, it recorded a little terrain of the inner ring of Dongxu Mountain, which had some reference value. It was not too bad to buy it with only thirty spirit stones.

But just as Chen Yuan turned around, Old Man Geng stood up and called him: "Wait a moment, nephew, I have something that will definitely be useful to you." Chen Yuan paused, came back to his senses, and looked at Old Man Geng with a smile: "Uncle Geng has a deep fortune. He can find the Spiritual Medicine Garden by just wandering around Dongxu Mountain. But I am not a lucky person. What is useful to Uncle Geng may not be useful to me." Old Man Geng's face flushed slightly, but he soon put on a smile: "This thing is what I brought out from the Spiritual Medicine Garden. A broken stele. If my nephew can crack the secret, he may be able to get a glimpse of the secret of Dongxu Mountain. By then, not to mention the Spiritual Medicine Garden, even the entire secret realm of Dongxu Mountain, my nephew can come and go freely! "

He said this with great confidence, but Chen Yuan knew that he was boastful, so he would not believe it. He bowed slightly:

"My disciple is not blessed and has little luck. I am not blessed with such a great opportunity. Uncle, please leave it to other people with predestined relationships!"

He turned around to leave, and Old Man Geng quickly came to Chen Yuan and stopped him.

He was notorious in Lingyun Sect, and there were fewer and fewer disciples who could be fooled. Finally, there was one who took the bait. How could he let Chen Yuan leave easily?

Chen Yuan saw Old Man Geng's behavior and his face darkened:

"Uncle Master, what do you mean by this?"

Old Man Geng stroked his storage bag, took out a broken stele, and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, nephew. Just take a look at this stele and you will know that I am not lying."

As he spoke, he raised his hand slightly, and the broken stele slowly rose and hung in the air.

This stele is green, about half a foot wide and one foot high. It is broken at both ends and shrouded in a layer of hazy green light. It is obvious that it is not an ordinary thing.

There are thirty or forty unfamiliar characters engraved on the stele. Chen Yuan took a look and found that it was the same as the map just now. He felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

He stared at the inscription in a daze, his thoughts turned rapidly, and suddenly he opened his eyes wide, with a flash of shock in his eyes.

Old Man Geng had been staring at Chen Yuan's face. Seeing this scene, he brushed the broken stele and put it back.

The broken stele suddenly disappeared, Chen Yuan's face changed, and he looked at Old Man Geng:

"Uncle Master, what do you mean?"

Old Man Geng smiled and sat back on the recliner:

"Is my nephew interested in this broken stele now?"

Chen Yuan frowned slightly, knowing that the change in his expression just now had caught Old Man Geng's eyes, allowing him to see some clues.

But he was also very sure that Old Man Geng didn't know the inside story, and said lightly:

"As far as I know, Master Uncle has a grandson who lives in Lingyun Market, right?"

Old Man Geng was startled and nodded:

"Yes."

"I wonder what your grandson's cultivation level is now?"

Old Man Geng was even more puzzled:

"Seventh level of Qi Refining."

Chen Yuan took out a storage bag and took out a jade bottle:

"My disciple is not talented, but I have a rough understanding of alchemy. This bottle of Yuhua Pill will be given to your grandson."

When Old Man Geng heard this, he smiled and raised his hand to wave at the jade bottle:

"Master Nephew Chen is so kind, I would be disrespectful to refuse it."

The jade bottle flew to his hand, and when he opened it, it was indeed Yuhua Pill, and the pill was round and flexible, with excellent quality. His smile became even bigger, and his old face was like a blooming chrysanthemum.

He flipped his hand to put the pill into the storage bag, took out the broken stele, raised his hand and pushed it to Chen Yuan, saying:

"Please look, nephew."

Chen Yuan stared at the words on the stele, his eyes flickered, and nodded slowly:

"This stele is shining with spiritual light, it is really extraordinary, maybe it really hides some secrets, but the words on this stele are obscure and difficult to understand, it seems to be the words of the ancient cultivation world, if you don't know its meaning, it is useless..."

Old man Geng smiled proudly:

"Don't worry, nephew. Since I took out this stele, I can naturally recognize the words on it. Otherwise, it is just like a mountain stone, so what is its use?"

Chen Yuan cupped his hands and said:

"Please ask Uncle Master to teach me."

When Old Man Geng saw Chen Yuan swallowing another bait, he felt even more happy and said with a smile:

"To be honest with my nephew, my grandson's qualifications are too poor. Just to break through the bottleneck in the later stage, I spent hundreds of spirit stones. I am so short of money that I can't even prepare any medicine for him. As a grandfather, I feel guilty. , I can’t sleep at night, if my nephew can take out another bottle of Yuhua Pill, I will tell you all the meaning of the inscription. "

Without hesitation, Chen Yuan took out a jade bottle from his storage bag and put it on the table:

"Please give me some advice, Uncle Master."

With a smile on his face, Old Man Geng hurriedly put away the jade vase, took out a jade slip, handed it to Chen Yuan, and said:

"My nephew's guess is right. The writing on the broken stele is indeed a kind of writing in the ancient world of immortality. It was once widely circulated tens of thousands of years ago. However, with the passage of time, this kind of writing has gradually been lost. Now there are few people. Know."

"However, I was guarding the Sutra Pavilion and took advantage of the convenient location. I rummaged through the ancient books in the pavilion and found an ancient book that recorded this ancient text. I rubbed its contents into the jade slips. , Master Nephew can learn this ancient writing by studying it carefully."

Chen Yuan took the jade slip, closed his eyes slightly, and penetrated it with his spiritual consciousness, looking at it carefully with a solemn expression.

Old man Geng was not in a hurry. He leaned on the recliner with a smile on his face and looked extremely patient.

Although there were many exaggerations in his words, he did not deceive Chen Yuan.

This fragment of stele was indeed obtained by him from the elixir garden in the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain, but it was of no use. Otherwise, it would have been taken away by the elders of the Lingyun Sect, so how could it remain in his hands.

Chen Yuan wanted to get a glimpse of the secrets of Dongxu Mountain through the remaining words on the stele, but he was just wishful thinking.

It had been a long time since he had encountered such a stupid Qi-refining disciple who had a lot of money. He squeezed out two bottles of Yuhua Dan and thirty spirit stones in one go, making a lot of money.

Two quarters of an hour later, Chen Yuan finally withdrew his consciousness, put down the jade slip, and said:

"Thank you for your advice, uncle. Can my disciple make a rubbing of the inscription?"

"Master Nephew, please excuse me."

Chen Yuan touched the storage bag, took out a blank jade slip, pasted it on the broken stele, injected magic power, and rubbed all the words on the broken stele into the jade slip.

Then, he said goodbye and left the Sutra Pavilion.

After Chen Yuan left, Old Man Geng took out the two bottles of Yuhua Pills again, poured out twenty pills, checked them one by one, with a sarcastic look on his face, and said to himself:

"Boy, I don't even know how I entered the elixir garden. If you are greedy and die under the restrictions, don't blame me..."

…

After Chen Yuan walked out of the Sutra Pavilion, he drove the flying boat and rushed back to the cave in only a quarter of an hour regardless of the consumption of mana.

He activated all the restrictions, quickly returned to the training room, and took out the two jade slips and the map he got from Old Man Geng.

Then, he put his consciousness into another storage bag where miscellaneous items were stored, searched for a moment, and took out a scroll.

The texture of the scroll is like silk, but neither silk nor silk. There is a warmth when you touch it, as if you are caressing a rare and ancient jade with a delicate texture. It is extremely strange.

After the scroll was unfolded, there was a map, about a foot long and high, densely packed with mountains, valleys, dense forests, lakes, rivers and other places.

In these places, figures of animals, birds, insects and trees are pointed out, which are extremely vivid, and a few lines of small words are written next to each one.

This map is exactly the strange map he got from the cave where Xie Quan hid the treasure.

The words written on the picture are exactly the same as the ancient words engraved on the ruined stele!

After Chen Yuan got this picture, he could not understand the content on it, so he put it away in a high cabinet for twenty years, almost forgetting it.

But he had a photographic memory. After seeing the words on the remaining stele, he felt a sense of familiarity. After thinking for a moment, he remembered this strange map.

He took a deep breath, placed the simple map that Old Man Geng gave him together with this strange map, took a look at it, and then showed a look of ecstasy.

The terrain depicted on Old Man Geng's map can all be found on the strange map!

No wonder he felt familiar after seeing Old Geng's map. It turned out that he had seen the terrain on the map more than 20 years ago.

This strange map is most likely a map of the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain.

Chen Yuan looked at the extremely detailed terrain descriptions on the strange map and felt extremely excited.

If his guess is true, this trip to Dongxu Mountain will be very different.

Old Man Geng thought he had a trick and defrauded him of two bottles of elixirs, which actually gave him a huge advantage.

Chen Yuan smiled slightly, picked up the jade slip containing the ancient text, and studied it carefully.

I have to go out tomorrow, so the update time may be a little later.