In order to block the news of Shen Yuan's appearance, the Imperial Observatory personally went to Yunzhou to suppress the aristocratic families who were ready to make moves, and even paid the book fairy Gu Lao with the fragment of Langhuan Pavilion as a price.

Just half an hour later, an order was issued from the Golden Palace, collecting all information on powerful beings and immortals related to tigers in the past ten thousand years.

It was obvious that Emperor Xia and the Director of the Imperial Observatory did not realize that the so-called tiger-riding immortal was just an accident.

Qingzhou, on the shore of Dongting Lake.

The tiger-riding immortal who was recorded in the memorial was now sitting on the shore, holding his waist inconspicuously.

"Sure enough, legends can't be trusted!"

"It's already so hard to ride a cat. If anyone says a tiger can be used as a mount, I'll get angry with him!"

Shen Yuan used the Maine Coon as a mount because he felt that traveling was too troublesome and wanted to take a break, but reality dealt Shen Yuan a heavy blow.

As the purest cat species, the Maine Coon's spine moves up and down like a spring when it runs.

If the contact is only short, it is bearable, but if you sit on the back for a long time, the ups and downs of the spine will become a torture.

Especially the Maine Coon cat, which ran at an extremely fast speed, and the undulating arc of its spine made Shen Yuan feel like riding a high-speed roller coaster.

After climbing over mountains and crossing rivers, Shen Yuan felt like he was about to fall apart. Even a cultivator in the Refining Essence Realm whose physical fitness far exceeded that of an ordinary person could not withstand such torture.

Especially since Shen Yuan had not yet developed any magic power and could not use it to protect his body, this torture was even worse.

In the end, Shen Yuan could only find an excuse to practice and let the Maine Coon cat stop by the lake.

Sitting on a huge rock by the lake, Shen Yuan glanced at the white snow on the Maine Coon's head, and finally understood why the white snow had always stayed on the Maine Coon's head.

The Maine Coon, who was unaware of all this, was squatting nearby, looking quite excited.

In past myths and legends, which of the creatures that could become immortals’ mounts was not an ancient mythical beast or a natural immortal?

For an ordinary cat to become the mount of an immortal is definitely a glory to the family.

Thinking of this, the Maine Coon couldn't wait to take Shen Yuan directly to Fubo Lake, and immediately asked:

"Sir, when do we continue our journey?"

Shen Yuan's eyelids twitched subconsciously when he heard that.

He would rather travel on his own two feet than endure the torture again.

“Ahem, now that we’ve arrived at Dongting Lake, there’s no rush to head to Fubo Lake.

Moreover, we only know that Fubo Lake is located in the vicinity of Dongting Lake, but we don’t know its exact location. We will set out again after we find out its exact location.”

Shen Yuan spoke like this, and the Maine Coon naturally had nothing to say. He could only suppress his restless thoughts.

"yes!"

Taking a break by the lake, on the one hand, it was unbearable to ride the big cat, and on the other hand, Shen Yuan was also ready to take some time to digest what he had gained last night.

In fact, in terms of the difficulty of solving the ghost market problem alone, it is undoubtedly far more difficult than the two hidden achievements Shen Yuan had completed before, but Shen Yuan did not get any hints to complete the hidden achievements.

The bottom line is that the Ghost Market is just a kind of alien life that evolved more than three thousand years ago. It is essentially neither ancient nor transcendent, and it does not meet the threshold for the artificial intelligence system to include hidden achievements.

Simply put, the ghost market is not qualified.

This also indirectly shows that the artificial intelligence system treats everyone equally in terms of tasks according to the established logic and will not change because of your current strength or weakness.

"The effort is not proportional to the reward. It seems that I still need to find relevant information from ten thousand years ago to activate the hidden achievement."

“However, there is very little information left in this world, and simply wandering around is not a solution. Perhaps we should start from somewhere else?

For example, the Langhuan Blessed Land that Liu Yao Suan Gui is connected to seems to contain a lot of information.”

Although he failed to take advantage of this opportunity to achieve hidden achievements, Shen Yuan did not gain nothing by solving the Ghost Market.

To a certain extent, what Shen Yuan obtained was even more suitable for him than completing a hidden achievement.

Thinking of this, Shen Yuan took out the soul bead from the storage ring.

Last night, under the moonlight, Shen Yuan could see a light little man dancing in the Yuanshen Pearl, but in the daytime, the whole Yuanshen Pearl was dim and without any of the magic of last night. Shen Yuan knew very well that this was because the Yuanshen Pearl essentially carried some of the characteristics of the Yin God, and the refined fake Yuanshen only had some of the characteristics of the Yin God.

The Yin Spirit can leave the body at night, escape hundreds of miles away, enter and exit the underworld, and possess all kinds of magical powers.

However, there is only one drawback that the Yin God cannot avoid, and that is that the Yin God cannot appear in the daytime. Once the newborn Yin God is burned by the scorching sun, its soul will surely be shattered.

Only by inducing the sun to refine the soul and achieve the state of Yang God can one appear in the daytime. It is not difficult for one to travel to Beihai in the morning and Cangwu in the evening with the body of Yang God.

However, this is a realm that Shen Yuan is far from reaching. For Shen Yuan, being able to refine a fake Yuan Shen with the help of the Yuan Shen Pearl is considered a success.

Holding the Yuanshen Pearl in his hand, Shen Yuan was about to try to refine it, but then he suddenly realized another problem.

"Refining the Yuan Shen Pearl requires the use of mana, but I haven't even finished refining essence into qi, where can I get the mana?"

Given how precious the Yuanshen Pearl is, normally people who can obtain it would not even consider the possibility of refining it without the mana power.

But there happened to be an outlier like Shen Yuan, who directly asked for the Yuanshen Pearl as compensation from the Ghost Market.

After pondering for a long time, Shen Yuan came up with a solution.

“Since the essence of the Yuanshen Pearl is to gather divine thoughts to give birth to characteristics similar to the Yuanshen, why don’t I just use my divine thoughts to wrap the Yuanshen Pearl and refine it?

The seed of swordsmanship has already amplified my spiritual power several times, which is far beyond the reach of ordinary Qi transformation practitioners. Perhaps I can really achieve this."

When Shen Yuan thought of this, he had no hesitation in his heart. He mobilized the divine consciousness in his mind to slowly wrap the Yuanshen Pearl.

After just the contact, Shen Yuan immediately felt an invisible cold aura from within the Yuanshen Pearl slowly seeping into his mind and flowing into his spiritual platform at an extremely slow pace.

As time passed, the big sun in the sky was once again replaced by a bright full moon. The moonlight fell on the surface of Dongting Lake, reflecting the entire Dongting Lake into a silver-white mirror.

Shen Yuan sat on the stone platform, and the refining process had lasted for eight hours.

In his hand, the Yuanshen Pearl that should have appeared like an immortal under the moonlight was now dim and almost the same as it was during the day.

This means that the spiritual essence in the Yuanshen Pearl has been completely refined by Shen Yuan with his divine consciousness.

In Shen Yuan's spiritual platform, a large amount of divine thoughts gathered under the influence of the Yuanshen Pearl, and a vague human-shaped outline vaguely appeared.

The human figure looks like a doll that was forcibly glued together, and it seems that it will fall apart completely if there is a breeze.

Above the spirit platform, the flying sword transformed from the seed of the Disha sword technique was dancing around the human figure, as if it was very curious about the changes before its eyes.

The next moment, the vague human-shaped outline of the divine thoughts moved.

As the seed of sword magic passed by, the human-shaped silhouette grabbed the white flying sword.

The swordsmanship seed instinctively struggled to escape its restraints, nearly tearing the arms that held the humanoid outline together.

But even so, the vague human-shaped outline did not loosen its palm. In this entanglement, the seed of swordsmanship was actually being digested at a weak speed.

On the other hand, the vague human outline began to show signs of solidification.

As the human figure became completely solidified, Shen Yuan, who had been sitting in silence for eight hours, finally opened his eyes. A dazzling cold light flashed in his eyes which were as calm as dead water.

On the spirit platform, the successfully refined fake soul held the seed of swordsmanship magic power, evolved the swordsmanship and slashed forward.

The next moment, the sound of a clear sword chant came from the storage ring. A white light appeared and the sword energy of the Huiming Sword rushed into the sky, slashing towards the surface of Dongting Lake at a speed that was difficult to discern with the naked eye.

The breeze was easily cut off, and a huge sword mark hundreds of meters long tore through the silver mirror lake surface reflected by the moonlight. The waves cut by the sword mark were like a sea split by magical power, and they did not heal for a long time.

Once the fake soul is formed, one can obtain the method of controlling the sword with the soul.

This soul bead successfully enabled Shen Yuan to master the Disha sword technique at the level of refining essence, which could only be mastered at the level of transformation of spirit.

I have just gained a glimpse into the art of Disha swordsmanship.