Inside the Cave Stone.

Shi An walked into the stone room after being shocked, thinking about today's events, there was not much anger, the reason why he became a chess piece in the hands of Yuan Guzi was, in the final analysis, because his cultivation was too low, so the plan for today is to improve his cultivation as soon as possible.

But what should I do, I have already used up one Water Spirit Stone at the first level of the Qi Refining Period, and the more than 1,000 Water Spirit Stones that it takes to cultivate to the perfection of Qi refining are tantamount to an astronomical amount for myself. What's more, if you want to improve your cultivation as soon as possible, you must also make a spirit gathering array, how can you buy a formation flag without a spirit stone, how to buy a rune knife that draws a formation map and a formation talisman?

Master Yuan Miao only left a few low-grade spirit stones for himself, which were far from enough, and after leaving the Four Elephant Temple, there would no longer be any income, and the source of the spirit stones would be completely cut off. Thinking about Sun Lang again, his original advantages and his disadvantages have now been completely reversed, and the desire to avenge his master has gradually become far away from him.

When he was sad, Shi An suddenly thought that he was not a hairy boy who didn't know anything when he first entered the immortal cultivation world, since he was already familiar with the primary formation part of the "Formation Tips", why not find a formation workshop to be a buddy, on the one hand, he could earn some spirit stones, and on the other hand, he could also use the knowledge in the book to practice and make some preparations for completing the Spirit Gathering Array as soon as possible?

Thinking of this, his eyes lit up, Kaiyuan City was in front of him, and there were several formation shops in the city, so let's carry out their own plans there.

Beware that Yuan Guzi was still looking for himself outside, Shi An waited patiently all night, and then used his divine sense to roll himself out of the Cave Heavenly Stone.

With a "poof", Shi An fell heavily to the ground, and only then did he realize that he had fallen from a height of two zhang, and only then did he realize that the Dongtian Stone would stay in place the moment he entered.

"Next time, I must wait until I am close enough to the ground before entering the Cave Stone. Rubbing his sore buttocks, he said with annoyance, stood up and ran over in the direction of Kaiyuan City.

The great pit in the ground outside the west gate was gone, and the walls and gates were repaired as before, and it seems that the monks who guarded the city were not idle all night. There is no difficulty in entering the city, and no one will pay attention to a small second-level Qi refining cultivator. Shi An turned left and right one morning, and finally found a formation shop called "Fang Cun Pavilion" in the north of the city.

There are generally not too many customers in the formation shop, and there are relatively few places where monks, especially casual cultivators, use formations, except for the defense of the cave mansion, the concealment of aura when refining alchemy, and the production trap when catching demon beasts, there is no other demand. As for the mountain protection arrays and enemy trapping formations of the major sects, they often hire more famous middle and senior formation mages to set up the formations on the spot, and it is not the turn of these small formation shops, so the formation shop business in Kaiyuan City has been very cold.

Shi An chose this house because it was far away from "Zhen Yifang", and it was unlikely that he would meet acquaintances.

The shopkeeper Yu is a middle-aged monk in the early stage of foundation building, and he knows by looking at his face that he is a shrewd businessman, and he is lying on a bench at this time with his eyes closed. Hearing that Shi An wanted to come here, the guy was a little surprised, and asked: "Little brother, did you come to this formation shop to support your family?" If this is the purpose, I advise you not to come, the work here is very hard, and the income is not much. ”

"Yes and no, I have been separated from my husband outside the city, I have been looking for him for more than half a month, and now there is no way to find some work to do and earn some spirit stones, and more importantly, wait for my husband to come to me. Shi An had no choice but to tell a lie.

"Then don't come to the formation shop, there will be more people to contact with other shops, the work will be easier to get started, and the spirit stones will earn more. "Shopkeeper Yu doesn't want this guy who doesn't seem to understand anything at all and can only eat for nothing.

"My husband is a formation mage, and I have known a little bit about it since I was a child, so I should be able to earn more by finding a job in the formation shop. Shi An didn't give up.

"Do you know some formations?" Yu Shopkeeper was a little surprised, "This is not common, the formation is very profound, I will test you first, if you can pass, I will accept you." ”

After speaking, the shopkeeper Yu thought for a moment, took out a thread-bound book, and threw it to Shi Andao: "I can't see your level for a while, and I don't bother to think about problems for you, so just look at the formation manual I wrote for the guys in the shop, and tell me when you don't understand it, and I will know your level." Then he began to sleep again.

Shi An took the book, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy in his heart, he really didn't know the depth of the formation level of Kaiyuan City, if he couldn't understand anything, then he had to rethink the future livelihood problem.

I opened the book and read it carefully, at first I still looked through it page by page, but when I looked at it, my brows furrowed, and then I began to flip through the pages and pages, and then I simply turned to the last page, and it took less than a cup of tea from beginning to end. Shi An put the book on the small table next to the bench and whispered, "Shopkeeper, I'm done reading." ”

Shopkeeper Yu opened his eyes and said lazily, "So fast, how many pages did you read?"

Shi Andao: "I've read it all." ”

Shopkeeper Yu sat up straight, "Don't coax me, don't think that I can accept you when you say you're done, honestly how many pages have you read?"

"I'm not lying to you, I've read it all, and I've found a few debatable places in it. In fact, Shi An lied, there are not a few mistakes in the book, but many mistakes, and even the basic theory is full of flaws, if it weren't for the fact that there is really a shop here that is still open, he really thinks that he is talking to a guy who coaxes people to cheat money.

"Are you saying that there is a mistake in the content of the book? This is impossible, we use this book in the entire Kaiyuan City Formation Shop, how can there be a mistake?" Yu Shopkeeper's eyes widened, his face full of incredulity.

This book was not written by him, but a general working book for the formation industry in Kaiyuan City, and everyone made the formation according to the methods and steps written in this book. Therefore, there is not much actual difference in the formation made by each store, and the competition is mostly in terms of service attitude, means of attracting customers and selling price. Over the years, no one has questioned the book's accuracy, let alone pointed out its errors.

Shi An had already heard that the level of formation here was quite low, far from his current level. In fact, he didn't know that his formation introductory textbook "Formation Essentials" had been revised in the Nether, Middle and Upper Realms, so the primary formation mentioned in the book was definitely a world of difference from the so-called primary formation here, and it was not even much worse than the intermediate formation here.

Of course, Shi An did not point out the errors and deficiencies of the theory in the book, but only pointed out a few common errors in the drawing of the array symbols in the book, "The middle strokes of the array that produces fog on this page are crossed up, so the fog produced is extremely thin, and the concealment effect is very small; the speed up formation on this page is missing a circle in the middle, so that it consumes more aura; the concealment array in this page is crossed one more horizontally, so that the concealment time does not reach a month at all; and there are ......" He pointed out six or seven mistakes in the book in one breath, and they hit the shopkeeper's heart everywhere.

"Yes, that's right, the information that my customers give back is the same as what this young man said, I always thought that I was not good at learning and didn't draw a match, it turned out that there was a mistake in the book itself. The shopkeeper immediately stood up from the bench, looked Shi An up and down, and then asked with a respectful look: "Little brother, the contemptible surname is Yu, may I ask what is the surname of your husband?"

"My surname is Miao, just call me Yizhi. My husband has instructed him not to reveal his name and surname, so don't ask. Shopkeeper, can I be your buddy here?" Knowing that reporting his real name or Dao number would bring unnecessary trouble, he borrowed the name of his ancestor and his own characters to form a new name.

"No," said the shopkeeper hurriedly, "you can't be a buddy, I'...... I would like to ask you to come to my house...... My family's ......" He wanted Shi An to point out the mistakes in the formation, but if there was such a position in the shop, he borrowed some nondescript titles from the secular world, "When my family's private school teacher, point out the mistakes in our formation, and give you three every month, oh no, four spirit stones, can you see it?"

Seeing the look of the shopkeeper Yu, Shi An understood his value to this formation shop, and when would he wait if he didn't ask for a sky-high price?

"Forget it, I'd better go and ask somebody. He got up and pretended to leave.

Shopkeeper Yu knew that his own shop in Kaiyuan City was not the largest, and the treatment was by no means the best, if Shi An was retained, he would definitely be able to raise the efficiency of his magic circle to a higher level, and the benefits would naturally be much better than now. Since the formation inheritance of each family is almost the same, and there are mistakes in their own shops, they will also hire Shi An with a lot of money, and the huge income that will be generated immediately will be spent on the side families. How can this work, he hurriedly said: "Then how much do you think is appropriate?"

"Let's do it, I don't want to be a private school gentleman, just be a buddy, you still make the formation according to the previous way, I will modify it for you in the end, first give me a salary according to a water spirit stone a month, and I will increase it according to the degree of improvement after the business improves." Shi An made an offer.

"This ......." Yu shopkeeper hesitated a little, a water spirit stone is ten lower-grade spirit stones, which accounts for nearly half a month's income of his own, he was expected to let him guide his formation level, four spirit stones for him for a few months, it is estimated that he will almost have learned, and he can be dismissed when the time comes. I didn't expect this kid to be a veteran, and he would make such a move.

"You won't suffer, I'll stay here for five years at most, and I won't teach outsiders for five years, but I can ensure that your business is far better than others. In addition, when I leave, I will inform you of all the mistakes in the formation one by one, to ensure that you do not lose your position in the formation industry of Kaiyuan City, what do you think?" Shi An was like a little fox, constantly throwing bait, causing Shi An and the position of the shopkeeper to reverse unconsciously.

Shopkeeper Yu thought for a while, and finally made up his mind, "Then it's decided, Mr. Yizhi, please inside." ”