Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

The three exchanged a glance. The younger cultivator spoke first, his voice weak: "This junior, Liu Tianhan of the Frostsword City's Heavy Vanguard Army, pays respects to senior..."

Chen Yuan frowned, flipped his hand and took out a jade bottle, handing it to Liu Tianhan: "Take this pill."

Liu Tianhan was determined to die, and he hurled insults at Chen Yuan in the square, using extremely foul language.

Chen Yuan had to severely punish those two demon generals.

Although he had shown mercy, Liu Tianhan, a Core Formation cultivator, still found it difficult to withstand the attack, and his soul was severely damaged.

Liu Tianhan took the jade bottle, poured out a cyan pill, and after taking it, the effect was immediate. His soul injury was mostly healed, and he only needed a few more days of recuperation to fully recover.

His eyes regained their brightness, shooting out several beams of light. He clasped his hands and bowed, saying, "Thank you for bestowing the pill, senior. My squad was scattered by the demon race on the battlefield, suffering heavy casualties."

"This junior originally intended to self-destruct, but unexpectedly encountered a level seven three-tailed red fox, fell under its charm spell, and lost consciousness. When I awoke, I had already been captured by the demon race and brought to Silver Tide City..."

Liu Tianhan lowered his voice, a hint of shame appearing on his face, which flushed slightly.

Chen Yuan nodded slightly, then looked at the other two. The pretty female cultivator said, "This junior is Yun Jinyue from Miaohe Sect. I also serve Frost Sword City. Like Fellow Daoist Liu, I was captured by the demon race on the battlefield and bound by the Bewitching Bell. Fortunately, I met you, senior, and only then did I have a chance to live."

The middle-aged cultivator sighed: "I am Huan Yu, a Ghost Owl Army soldier from Frost Sword City. When I went out of the city to spy on the demon race, I unfortunately encountered a low-level demon general and was captured alive. I almost became a slave."

Chen Yuan's heart stirred, and he asked, "Could it be that these hundred cultivators are all from Frost Sword City?"

Yun Jinyue said, "That's right. Frost Sword City has been in a standoff with Moving Mountain City. We were all captured by the demons under the command of Blood Tooth Demon Saint."

Chen Yuan nodded slightly and then asked, "I've been away from the Spirit Realm for a long time. How is the battle on Tyrant Turtle Island going?"

Liu Tianhan said, "This junior's cultivation is low, and I am not very familiar with the situation of other major cities."

“But every one or two months, Frost Sword City would send out an army to fight a fierce battle with the demon race. Even Nascent Soul cultivators would sometimes fall, but even more demon generals were killed.”

“Every two or three years, there will be a major battle involving more than three armies, and cultivators at the Void Refinement stage will personally take action to fight against the Demon King of Moving Mountain City.”

"Within ten years, there will surely be a great battle in which all six armies will be mobilized. The powerful cultivators of Frost Sword City will also appear to face the demon saint of Moving Mountain City."

Huan Yu added, "I am in the Ghost Owl Army, responsible for gathering intelligence. I have made contact with scouts from other major cities. The major cities near Frost Sword City are all similar."

Chen Yuan's eyes flashed, and he asked, "Do you still remember how you left Turtle Island?"

Liu Tianhan hesitated for a moment before saying, "I was seriously injured when I was captured and had already lost consciousness. I only woke up after arriving in Silver Tide City."

"It was only because that Shadow Demon General wanted to get a good price that he was willing to heal me. I don't know how he left Turtle Island."

Yun Jinyue also shook her head: "Like Fellow Daoist Liu, when I woke up, I was already in Silver Tide City."

Huan Yu gave a wry smile: "I was not unconscious when I was captured. After entering the Mountain Moving City, my soul was bound by the Bewitching Bell, so I do remember this incident."

"I arrived in Silver Tide City with other captured fellow Daoists through a giant teleportation array."

Chen Yuan's eyes narrowed, and he pressed, "Do you still remember the specifics of that teleportation array?"

Huan Yu paused for a moment, then said, "The teleportation array used by the Burning Demon Realm is very similar to the teleportation array used by cultivators from the Spirit Realm to enter the Tyrant Turtle Island. It is a thousand feet in size, and the restrictive runes are extremely complex. The compression force during teleportation is enormous. Apart from that, there is nothing special about it."

Chen Yuan then asked, "Did you feel anything unusual during the teleportation?"

Huan Yu recalled for a moment and shook his head: "Please forgive me, senior. I really didn't have any special feeling. It seems to be no different from when I entered Tyrant Turtle Island from the Spirit Realm."

Chen Yuan frowned and fell into deep thought.

Huan Yu looked somewhat nervous, worried that he might say something wrong and displease this senior Bei Ming.

Yun Jinyue suddenly spoke up: "Senior, do you perhaps intend to use the teleportation array to enter the Tyrant Turtle Island from the Burning Demon Realm?"

Chen Yuan snapped out of his daze and looked at Yun Jinyue: "Not bad."

Upon hearing this, Yun Jinyue's body trembled slightly. She slowly lowered her head and said, "Senior, please dispel this idea."

Chen Yuan asked, "Why is that?"

Yun Jinyue raised her head again, her delicate face now calm: "The teleportation array connecting Tyrant Turtle Island and the Burning Demon Realm requires passing through the barrier of the Locking Realm Array."

"The Locking Array contains the will left by the Great Sage of the Tyrant Turtle, and only demons or humans with restrictions placed on them can pass through it."

"The Yin-Yang Ring in your possession can only deceive the Demon King, not even the Demon Saint, let alone the Great Saint's will."

"As soon as you step into the teleportation array, you will be killed by the barrier array and your body will be left behind."

Chen Yuan's expression changed slightly, and Liu Tianhan and Huan Yu both turned to look at Yun Jinyue, surprised, clearly hearing about this for the first time.

Chen Yuan frowned and asked, "How does young friend Yun know such a secret?"

Yun Jinyue glanced at Liu Tianhan and Huan Yu, then remained silent.

Seeing this, Chen Yuan turned to the two and said, "My two young friends have suffered a great misfortune today, and their souls have been injured. You should go and recuperate for a few days to recover from your injuries."

"From now on, you will settle down in the Northern Darkness Cave and cultivate diligently."

"But do not forget that you are now slaves. Do not reveal any weakness in front of the demon general, or don't blame me for being ruthless."

Liu Tianhan and Huan Yu were startled and immediately agreed. Although they were curious about Yun Jinyue's identity, they dared not linger.

Chen Yuan sent out a communication talisman, summoning another Bewitching Demon General who was in charge of affairs in the Northern Underworld Cave, and ordered him to take the two away and make proper arrangements for them.

Only Yun Jinyue remained in the main hall. Chen Yuan asked, "Young friend Yun, may you speak frankly now?"

Yun Jinyue's expression darkened, and she said in a low voice, "My father is an elder of the Miaohe Sect, a mid-stage Refinement Void cultivator."

“I followed my father into Turtle Island. He revealed many secrets about Turtle Island to me, and that’s how I learned about the secrets of the Locking Realm Array.”

Chen Yuan was quite surprised, never expecting that Yun Jinyue had such a background.

But then he frowned: "Why would your father allow your young friend to participate in the war between the two worlds?"

Yun Jinyue smiled bitterly: "My cultivation is low and I have my father's protection, so I didn't need to participate in the war between the two realms."

"But I heard about the war between the two worlds from an elder brother, and I became very curious about it."

"While my father was away fighting, I pestered him to take me to Turtle Island."

“My father has many children, but the youngest is the youngest. My father usually dotes on the youngest, which is why he agreed.”

Chen Yuan shook his head: "If what you say is true, young friend, your father would not have allowed you to participate in the war. He would have kept you in Frostsword City. How could you have been captured by the demon race?"

Yun Jinyue sighed softly: "What you say is true, senior. After I entered Frost Sword City with my father, he strictly forbade me from leaving the city and left a Nascent Soul steward from the sect as a guard."

"But I was extremely curious about the battlefield of the war between the two worlds and couldn't wait any longer, so I begged that Nascent Soul deacon to let me leave Frost Sword City quietly."

"Then we ran into a patrol team of demons, who knocked us unconscious and captured us alive."

Chen Yuan frowned: "How is the Nascent Soul Steward?"

Yun Jinyue said in a low voice, "When he encountered the demon patrol team, he activated a meteor talisman and escaped to a place thousands of miles away."

Chen Yuan said, "So this is a trap set by my brother, specifically targeting you."

Yun Jinyue said softly, "Senior has keen insight. It was only after I woke up in Silver Tide City that I understood why my brother would specifically tell me about the war between the two worlds."

“He knew very well that the younger generation would beg my father to go to Turtle Island together.”

"Looking back now, I realize that even my secret departure from Frostsword City was due to the inducement of that Nascent Soul Steward. He must have already been bribed by my elder brother."

"The reason why my elder brother wants to harm me is simply because my father promised that as long as I reach the Nascent Soul stage, he will give me a treasure."

“My elder brother knew perfectly well that I would give in to him if he asked, but he still wanted to kill me…”

Chen Yuan looked Yun Jinyue up and down: "From what I can see, young friend, you don't seem to be a lively person."

Yun Jinyue said, "I have experienced life and death and suffered all kinds of humiliation from the demon race. I am no longer the naive little girl who was protected by my father."

"All I want now is to return to the spirit world alive and demand an explanation from my elder brother."

Her voice lowered, and a hint of stubbornness shone through her dim eyes.

Chen Yuan said calmly, "Don't worry, young friend. If there is an opportunity, I will take you all back to the Spirit Realm."

Upon hearing this, Yun Jinyue lowered her head slightly and gave a graceful bow: "This junior's cultivation is low and I cannot help you, senior. However, I have been by my father's side for a long time and have some understanding of Tyrant Turtle Island. If you have any questions, senior, this junior will answer them to the best of my knowledge."

Chen Yuan lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then said, "Young friend, you should first meditate and regulate your breathing. Do not reveal any flaws in front of the demon general."

Yun Jinyue bowed gracefully, and not long after, Jiangzhu entered the hall. At Chen Yuan's instruction, she was led away from the main hall.

The look in her eyes as she gazed at Yun Jinyue was quite meaningful, clearly indicating that she believed this woman had already been chosen by Chen Yuan and was about to be taken as a concubine.

Chen Yuan frowned slightly, walked out of the main hall, and returned to his cave. His mind raced as he pondered the events of the day.

It seems that Qin Wuyai was right; he could not have entered the Spirit Realm through the battlefield of the Two Realms War.

Previously, when they were in the Ironwing Cave, the Ironwing Demon General thought that Chen Yuan had never participated in the war between the two worlds, and he was quite boastful, often talking about his experiences in the war between the two worlds.

The battleground between the Spirit Realm and the Demon Realm is on a giant island called "Turtle Island".

This giant island is not a real island, but rather the transformed form of a powerful tortoise from the Demon Realm.

More than 300,000 years ago, cultivators from the Spirit Realm forcibly opened a spatial passage and invaded the Demon Burning Realm.

Forty-three Mahayana cultivators, leading an army of hundreds of millions of cultivators, were invincible, sweeping across two of the three continents of the Demon Realm, and were on the verge of conquering the entire realm. But at this critical moment, all the Great Saints of the Demon Race joined forces and set up a Realm-Locking Array to block the spatial passage opened up by the cultivators of the Spirit Realm.

The foundation of the Locking Realm Array is the body of the Great Sage Turtle.

The Tyrant Turtle is just an ordinary demon beast in the Burning Demon Realm. Apart from being much larger than other demon beasts of the same level, it has nothing special about it.

This Great Sage Turtle is said to possess the true blood of Xuanwu and is a descendant of the True Spirit. After cultivating into a Great Sage, his body became enormous and his strength was extremely formidable, making him a rare rival among the many Great Sages in the Burning Demon Realm.

He sacrificed himself, his body transforming into the foundation of the array, finally isolating the spatial passage from the Burning Demon Realm, creating an independent domain.

After the body of the Great Sage Turtle was transformed into the array base, it was a hundred billion miles in circumference. Although it was not as large as the three boundless continents in the Burning Demon Realm, it was the largest island in the Boundless Sea, and thus it was named Turtle Island.

The demon race also wanted to completely sever the spatial passage, but this spatial passage was opened by a Xuan Tian spiritual treasure, and even the Great Sage could not destroy it.

Chen Yuan only learned from the Iron-Winged Demon General that above the Heavenly Treasure, there was also the Profound Heavenly Treasure.

Such treasures are considered supreme treasures for both Mahayana cultivators in the Spirit Realm and Great Saints of the Demon Race in the Burning Demon Realm, representing the very foundation of an entire realm.

It is said that the reason why the Spirit Realm is so powerful is that it controls several Xuan Tian spiritual treasures, which allows it to conquer several realms without showing any signs of weakness.

However, Ironwing Demon General was ultimately just a mid-level demon general. Although he had heard of the Xuan Tian Spiritual Treasure, he didn't know much about it, and it was unknown how much of his words were just empty boasting.

After the Great Sage of the Demon Clan set up the barrier formation, the army of cultivators from the Spirit Realm, though formidable in strength, lacked the strength to sustain their attacks.

The demon race spared no expense, reportedly even enlisting help from other realms, and finally reclaimed the two continents occupied by the spirit realm. Human cultivators suffered heavy casualties, with several Mahayana cultivators perishing, and very few escaping back to the spirit realm.

Since the spatial passage cannot be severed, cultivators from the Spirit Realm can still enter Tyrant Turtle Island, break the Locking Realm Array, and then re-enter the Burning Demon Realm.

However, the cultivators of the Spirit Realm suffered heavy losses on both continents, and the demon race was also greatly weakened, so the war between the two realms temporarily subsided.

However, the Spirit Realm is far stronger than the Demon Realm, and only some sects from the Spirit Realm have invaded this realm.

In less than ten thousand years, the spirit army returned and invaded Turtle Island.

The demon race refused to retreat an inch and also dispatched a large army to Tyrant Turtle Island to block the cultivator army from the spirit realm.

Neither side would yield, and they have been fighting each other for over 300,000 years.

To this day, cultivators from the Spirit Realm occupy more than half of Turtle Island and have successively built thirty-nine giant cities.

Behind every great city lies a Mahayana cultivator.

The demon race was slightly at a disadvantage, but ultimately did not allow the spirit realm cultivators to enter the Demon Burning Realm in large numbers. Instead, they confronted the demons head-on and built thirty-seven giant cities.

Behind every colossal city lies a great sage of the demon race.

However, the battles on Turtle Island cannot be considered a true war between the two worlds.

Because the cultivators of the Spirit Realm forcibly opened a spatial passage to the Burning Demon Realm using the Xuan Tian Spiritual Treasure, a weak point appeared in the spatial barrier of the Burning Demon Realm.

Every tens of thousands of years, the Spirit Realm and the Demon Realm overlap, creating a spatial passage connecting the two realms.

Originally, these spatial passages would appear randomly between the two realms, but the Great Sage of the Demon Clan set up a realm-locking array that sealed off the weak points of the spatial barrier of the Burning Demon Realm, so these spatial passages would only appear on the Overlord Turtle Island.

At that time, the armies of both worlds will use these spatial channels to invade each other's realms, and this will be the real war between the two worlds.

The cultivators from the Spirit Realm have invaded the Demon Realm in order to obtain demon cores, refine demon essence pills, and improve their cultivation.

Although the demon race cannot consume the golden cores and nascent souls of humans to increase their cultivation, the spirit realm is incredibly rich and has abundant cultivation resources, which the demon race also covets.

Moreover, human cultivators are an extremely sought-after resource for the demon race.

The two sides are sworn enemies. Every real war between the two realms is a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, and even Mahayana cultivators and demon saints will perish in it.

Chen Yuan previously only knew that Tyrant Turtle Island was formed from the body of the Tyrant Turtle Great Sage, but he did not know that the Locking Realm Formation also contained the remaining will of the Tyrant Turtle Great Sage.

This Great Sage was willing to sacrifice himself to seal off the spatial passage between the Spirit Realm and the Demon Realm. Naturally, he hated human cultivators to the bone and would never allow them to pass through the Locking Realm Formation.

Spirit Realm cultivators can enter Tyrant Turtle Island through spatial channels, but Chen Yuan's attempt to enter Tyrant Turtle Island from the Burning Demon Realm will only lead to his death.

No wonder it's so difficult for Shadow Spy cultivators to enter the Burning Demon Realm. Unless they wait for the great war between the two realms after ten thousand years, they cannot pass through Tyrant Turtle Island and must find another way, which is naturally as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Chen Yuan sat cross-legged in the cultivation room, sighed inwardly, and shook his head slightly.

It seems we have no choice but to find another way. Unfortunately, Qin Wuyai encountered an accident before he could reveal the method to return to the Spirit Realm, and his life is now uncertain. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had to go through all this trouble.

Over the next few days, Chen Yuan gleaned a great deal of information about Frost Sword City from the dozen or so determined cultivators, gaining a deeper understanding of the Spirit Realm.

Frost Sword City is one of the thirty-nine giant cities of the human race on Tyrant Turtle Island, and it is supported by the Frostfall Sword Sect.

Frostfall Sword Sect is a top sect in the Spirit Realm. Its sect leader is one of the hundred Mahayana cultivators in the Spirit Realm, known as Frostfall Sword Saint. He is proficient in flying swords and ice-based supernatural abilities, and is renowned throughout the Spirit Realm among these cultivators.

This Frostfall Sword Saint has been a Daoist for over 400,000 years, standing tall and unyielding, with an incredibly long lifespan.

However, Mahayana cultivators seem to have no lifespan limit. Legends in the spirit world even mention Mahayana cultivators who have lived for millions of years, so hundreds of thousands of years is really nothing.

After Qin Wuyai revealed his identity as a Void Refinement cultivator, he no longer concealed the affairs of the Upper Realm. As long as it did not involve the method of returning to the Spirit Realm, he was completely open about them.

The spiritual energy in the upper realm is much richer, and the lifespan of cultivators there is different from that of cultivators in the lower realm.

In the lower realms, Foundation Establishment cultivators have a lifespan of only two hundred years, Core Formation cultivators five hundred years, Nascent Soul cultivators one thousand years, and Deity Transformation cultivators two thousand years.

In the Upper Realm, Foundation Establishment cultivators have a lifespan of up to four hundred years, Core Formation cultivators one thousand years, Nascent Soul cultivators two thousand years, and Deity Transformation cultivators even longer, reaching five thousand years.

If one's cultivation reaches the Refinement of Emptiness realm, one's lifespan will immediately increase to 40,000 years, while the lifespan of a Body Integration cultivator can reach 200,000 years.

However, once one cultivates to the Mahayana realm, five hundred thousand years is nothing special. There are countless Mahayana cultivators and demon saints who have lived for millions of years.

Chen Yuan had also subtly inquired with the Iron-Winged Demon General during a banquet about the rumor that the Mountain-Moving Great Sage had lived for over a million years.

Frostfall Sword Saint's lifespan is not long among Mahayana cultivators, but his strength is not weak. Even if he is not as powerful as these cultivators say, he is by no means weak.

With his support, Frost Sword City has consistently ranked among the top ten in strength among the thirty-nine giant cities of the human race on Turtle Island.

The city has an army of 100,000 cultivators, divided into troops, camps, squads, and detachments from top to bottom.

The group consisted of ten people, all of whom were Foundation Establishment cultivators. The team leader was a Core Formation cultivator, and Liu Tianhan and Huan Yu were both squad leaders.

The team consists of 100 people, and the team leader is a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Each battalion consists of a thousand men, and the battalion commander is a Nascent Soul cultivator.

The army consists of 10,000 men, commanded by cultivators who have mastered the Refinement of Emptiness.

There are only six armies in Frostsword City. The cultivators inside are either Frostsword Sect cultivators or cultivator soldiers trained from childhood.

Liu Tianhan is from Frost Sword City. Both his parents are military cultivators. He grew up in the city and regards the demon race as a great enemy, which is why he is so fearless in the face of death.

In addition, there are tens of thousands of cultivators from affiliated sects and families of the Frostfall Sword Sect who were recruited from the Spirit Realm, including the Myriad Crane Sect to which Yun Jinyue belongs.

However, these cultivators fought individually, far inferior to the six armies of Frost Sword City. Of the hundred slaves that Thunder Mountain Demon King gave to Chen Yuan, eighty percent were such people, and only twenty percent were cultivators from the Frost Sword City army.

Those dozen or so cultivators who refused to surrender were almost all from the 20% of the army.

On Turtle Island, facing Frostsword City is Mountain Moving City.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, the situation on Tyrant Turtle Island has become extremely stable. Almost every human city is opposite a demon city, with them locked in a standoff.

Although the cultivators in the Spirit Realm are all human, they come from different sects and cannot cooperate sincerely, so they naturally build their cities separately.

The same applies to the demon race. In fact, since they do not have sects, demon kings who serve the same Great Sage can be divided into dozens or even hundreds of groups.

Even among every demon saint, demon king, and demon general, there are grudges and internal struggles that far surpass those among the cultivators of the spirit realm.

Frostsword City and Mountain Moving City have been locked in a stalemate for over two hundred thousand years, with each side experiencing victories and defeats, their hatred running deep.

Ninety percent of the human slaves in the Mountain Moving Sacred Domain come from Frost Sword City.

The other thirty-eight giant cities are similar to Frostsword City, except that the number of cultivators varies and the demon race giant cities they face are also different.

As Chen Yuan gained a deeper understanding of Tyrant Island, he felt increasingly helpless.

The island of Tyrant Turtle is a gathering place for the elite of the demon race, making it an ideal place for him to obtain demon cores and find the descendants of true spirits. However, he is unable to enter the island of Tyrant Turtle.

The "Great War Between Two Realms" that occurred more than 600 years later was just what the demon race called it; in reality, it was just the daily fighting between Moving Mountain City and Frost Sword City.

Every demon saint and demon king under the Great Sage Who Moves Mountains must take turns entering Turtle Island to fight.

This time, it just so happens that the Thunder Mountain Demon King is under the command of the Bloodtooth Demon Saint.

The Thunder Mountain Demon King recruited Chen Yuan into his ranks with the intention of using his Kun fish bloodline to deal with the spirit realm cultivators of Frost Sword City on Tyrant Turtle Island.

Before that, Chen Yuan must find a way to enter the Spirit Realm or leave the Thunder Mountain Cave to avoid dying under the Locking Realm Formation.

After several days of questioning and contemplation, Chen Yuan had made up his mind and immediately summoned Jiang Zhu.

He instructed, "Although the King has sent a hundred slaves, the manpower in my manor is still somewhat insufficient."

"Issue my decree that all demon generals search for human cultivators in their territories, capture them alive, and send them to Beiming Island. Depending on their cultivation level, I will bestow treasures upon them."

Jiangzhu immediately agreed and was about to leave when Chen Yuan seemed to remember something and called her back, instructing, "If you find any trace of a Nascent Soul cultivator, you must report back immediately. I am honored by the King's favor and will certainly share the King's burdens." (End of Chapter)