Walking to almost noon, he could vaguely see that the top of the mountain was approaching, Shi An couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, waiting for this mountain to be almost a flat road at the top of the mountain, and it was only thirty or twenty miles away from Shentang Gorge, so it shouldn't be a problem to arrive before evening.

Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps from the top of the mountain, interspersed with the voices of two people. Because he didn't know who was coming, Shi An hurriedly hid behind a big tree and let out his sense to listen.

"It's all your fault, what happened at this time, and he let him run away, right?" said a woman's disgust.

"Jiaojiao, it's okay, that guy has been injured by us, and he can't run far. A man with an urn voice said.

"If that person runs away, be careful that the old lady will clean you up!"

"Pick me up, just clean me up here, hahaha!" the man said with some lewdness.

"Dead ghost, what do you think, I'll treat you well when I grab his things. The woman said in a coquettish voice.

"That's what you said. But let's talk about it first, you take the spirit stone, and I'll take other things. These experienced sect disciples, each of whom is not thin and pretentious, is really cheap for you and me. ”

The two of them walked down the mountain laughing all the way, not paying attention to Shi An, who was twenty or thirty feet away.

Shi An came out from behind the tree and had already guessed the identities of the two, they must be the villains in this mountain, doing murder and overselling goods. Shi An couldn't see their cultivation, and he knew that he was far higher than himself. Although he was jealous and hateful, he also knew the severity, so he let go of his divine sense of vigilance and ran towards the top of the mountain at the same time.

In the evening, Shi An had already arrived at Shentang Gorge.

Shentang Gorge is in the north vein of Zijun Mountain, it is forty miles long, the river surface at the mouth of the gorge is more than 60 zhang wide, the cliffs on both sides of the bank are like axes and machetes in general, the mountain is steep, the Tuotuo River water rushing waves are high on the way, the clouds and the sky are first, I don't know who writes the three big characters of "Shentang Gorge" on the cliff, it is extraordinarily dazzling. The mountains on both sides of the canyon are endless, and the peaks are like screens, deep and beautiful. Shi Anxin sighed in his heart, this magnificent and picturesque scene, but it is a pity that it has become a shelter for fierce beasts in the forest and villains in the mountains.

The water aura here is extraordinarily abundant, far better than the meditation lake of the Four Elephants, and it is very good to be able to cultivate here. On the way, Shi An had already thought about it, first cultivating with the Spirit Gathering Array, and at the same time imagining how to earn the rest of the Water Spirit Stones he needed next. If there is no way, the most important thing is to move the Spirit Gathering Array out and use the abundant water aura here to cultivate, and only need to find a place where others can't find it.

The only place to camp is to be as close to the water as possible, and at the same time not to be noticed, so you can only find a place to stay on the cliff between the top of the mountain and the river.

As Shi An walked, he released his divine sense to search, and it didn't take much time to walk west along the cliff, and he really found such a place. More than 20 zhang away from the top of the mountain, more than 10 zhang away from the river on the cliff, you can see a big stone sticking out of the cliff, and there are a lot of messy trees and weeds growing around.

"Well, that's a nice place. Shi An'an said, since he was a child, he and his master have been looking for medicine in the mountains, and climbing rocks and rocks is not a problem, so with the help of the convex and concave places on the cliffs and grass trees, he quickly stood on the stones. This stone is approximately semicircular, about one zhang long, the widest part is about two zhang more, the stone is very flat after many years of wind and sun, Shi An called it "rooftop".

Taking advantage of the darkness of the sky, Shi An placed the jade pendant on the rooftop near the cliff, and as soon as his divine sense was sent, he entered the cave stone.

In Kaiyuan City, it took a lot of time to find the relevant information of Sangong, Shi Anke. There is a more detailed explanation in this jade slip in his hand:

There are two ways to disperse the energy, one is by releasing the aura until it is exhausted, and the other is when it is greatly damaged, the aura repairs the damage on its own until it is exhausted. Neither of these methods is realistic for Shi An. Especially the second method, how to cause huge damage, do you have to jump off a cliff like last time and fall yourself half to death? Last time, Dongtian Stone could guarantee that he would not die, but this time it will not work, what can he do if he unfortunately falls to his death?

Shi An smiled bitterly and shook his head. Why don't you cultivate to the fourth layer first, and then find a way to release the exhaustion? This is also not feasible, not to mention that more than ten Water Spirit Stones will be wasted, even if it consumes a lot of time, Shi An's time is not wasted now. What can I do?

Is it possible to solve it with a formation? Shi An thought hard in his mind for a long time, and read the "Formation Tips" again and again, but did not find any method that could consume the spiritual energy in the body, only the Gathering Spirit Array was infused with spiritual energy. Hey, infuse the aura? Wouldn't it be a gasp for the aura if it was reversed? Shi An had a flash of inspiration in his mind, yes, try to reverse the spirit gathering array.

When arranging the Spirit Gathering Array, Shi An didn't simply copy it according to what was written in the Jade Slip, he had already figured out all the principles of the formation in this formation, so it was not difficult to reverse the function. He adjusted the positions of the flow receiving array and the drainage array symbol, and adjusted the orientation of several array flags. Looking at the rearranged formation, he carefully thought about and deduced the operation of the new formation, and finally made up his mind, "Anyway, I am only a second-level Qi refining cultivator, how bad can the situation be?"

He took out eight water spirit stones and placed them in the eight spirit source slots, then sat on the drainage array in the middle of the formation, and took out a low-grade spirit stone and placed it in the spirit source trough that drove the formation on the right hand.

The moment it was put into the lower grade spirit stone, the formation "buzzed" and started to work. Eight blue rays of light appeared from the eight corners of the array, converging diagonally upwards to form a blue cone, which completely enveloped Shi An.

Shi An suddenly only felt that the pores of his whole body were all open, and a huge suction force was sucking the spiritual energy in his body, he hurriedly looked at the sea of qi, only to see that the spiritual mist in the sea of qi faded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then faded, and when the aura disappeared completely, the volume of the sea of qi began to shrink, and then shrink. And when the sea of qi disappeared without a trace, the suction of the formation did not become smaller at all, Shi An immediately felt that the whole person would be torn apart by this suction, and the internal organs were displaced, clinging to the border of the chest and abdomen, resulting in severe pain all over the body, the blood in the whole body flowed backwards from the inside out, and the small blood beads quickly soaked through the clothes, and the eyeballs seemed to be about to burst out.

Shi An secretly complained to himself, he didn't expect that this formation would not only absorb his spiritual energy, but also absorb his own body. Enduring the pain, he desperately moved his right hand, which was unable to move, and reached out to the lower grade spirit stone that drove the formation to run. The trembling fingers pushed the spirit stone away, and the suction disappeared suddenly.

Shi An collapsed to the ground all of a sudden, straightened up in front of him for a long time, sat for a while, took a breath, and shed his wet blood-soaked clothes.

Looking inward at the sea of qi again, it was as if he had just started cultivating, empty.

The gong has already dispersed, so the real cultivation has just begun.

After resting for an afternoon, he restored the formation to a real spirit gathering array, and carefully put in eight water spirit stones and one lower grade spirit stone again, or the blue vertebrae appeared, but it changed from sucking spirit to filling spirit.

The taste of gasping for aura dispersion is not acceptable, Shi An knows it, and the taste of aura infusion is also very uncomfortable. The powerful spiritual pressure once crushed Shi An to the ground and couldn't move, and he barely straightened up after holding on a few times. After slowly getting used to this pressure, he began to practice the Fog Sea Spiritual Water Technique of the "Fog Sea Infinite Method".

The first layer is the ** formula, a total of thirteen acupuncture points, what puzzles Shi An is that these thirteen acupuncture points are actually part of the middle of the eighteen acupuncture points in the first layer of the Guihai Water Jue, and even the mantra for controlling the acupuncture points is the same, which only lacks five Tiantu, Yutang, Dovetail, Jianli, and Shui. The thirteen acupuncture points had already been smoothed, and the mantra had already been ripe in the chest, so Shi An only took less than a moment to open Zhou Tian. Once the meridians were unblocked, the spiritual pressure outside had a place to be released, and it was poured into Shi An's body with a bang, although the pain was still continuous, but the pain was very comfortable. Under the guidance of the mantra, Zhou Tian was quickly completed, and Shi An could see that the spiritual mist was already filled with a sea of qi.

Of course, it was the same as when he began to cultivate, the spiritual mist entered and disappeared quickly, and the spiritual mist dissipated in an instant. It's just that Shi An is no longer panicked and disappointed at this time, he already knows that the continuous absorption of the inhaled water spiritual energy is because the newborn wood spirit root is constantly nourishing itself, so he has been looking forward to the wood spirit root being absorbed as soon as possible to improve himself again.

In the blink of an eye, more than a day passed, and Shi An returned to the second layer of qi refining.