In the middle of the night, in the residence of Shi An, Fang Cun Pavilion.

Shi An had already sorted out his things, but they were just some daily clothes, the map of the Summoning Kingdom that he had gone out to buy during the day today, some books and jade slips that might be used, and the upside-down Five Elements Formation stone slab at the door of the house, etc., and put them into the Cave Heaven Stone one by one.

Everything was cleaned up, and Shi An muttered: "Shopkeeper Yu, shopkeeper Yu, if you help me speak today, even if it doesn't work, I will fulfill my promise and leave you information to correct the error of the formation, but you are just a shrewd businessman, since you don't help me, I don't need to dig my heart to help you." It is worthy of you to win today's status and great industry. ”

He gently pushed open the door, tiptoed to the courtyard wall, and saw that no one had crossed the courtyard wall and ran towards the west gate. Outside the West Gate is Shi An's most familiar, and he has walked here several times in and out of Kaiyuan City.

Kaiyuan City walked more than 1,500 miles to the southwest, and arrived at the junction of Zijun Mountain in the north-south direction and the Tuotuo River in the east-west direction, which was a place called Shentangxia, which happened to be out of Wuluobao's sphere of influence. To the north of Shentangxia is the territory of the Jihai School, to the south is the jurisdiction of the Four Elephants, and to the southwest is more than 1,600 miles to the Four Elephants.

He had already inquired, the place in Shentangxia was high and far away, and it belonged to the realm of Sanzhi, so there were many bandits and monsters, except for the disciples who were required by the sect to go to practice, ordinary monks were reluctant to go, and it was just suitable for them to hide and cultivate. With the Dongtian Stone to hide, Shi An was not worried about his safety, but Hall Master Zhan's introduction to Sun Lang's situation in the early morning made him feel a little anxious.

Sun Lang returned to Wuluobao with Luo Jue three years ago, although the lord of the castle, Wu Yu, was quite annoyed that he could not retrieve the so-called "spirit treasure" of Luo Jue, but he was overjoyed to see that the three spiritual roots of Sun Lang brought back were excellent, and he had the experience of killing decisively in the secular world, so he was overjoyed, so he accepted him as his closed disciple.

Not to mention personally instructing him in his cultivation, cultivation resources such as exercises, spirit stones, and pills were open for him to use. Sun Lang is also very hardworking, and the speed of his cultivation is also staggering, in just three years, he has cultivated to the middle of the eighth layer of Qi refining, which is basically the same as the normal cultivation speed of a four-spirit root cultivator, as long as there is no accident, there will be another ten years of work to step into the ranks of foundation building monks.

Shi An has only just started cultivating now, and the resources in his hands are only three hundred and twenty Water Spirit Stones, which is enough for him to cultivate to the ninth level of Qi refining, and there are still more than seven hundred, but how can he get them? Forget it, take one step at a time, if you don't start now, I'm afraid the distance will get bigger and bigger. Thinking of this, Shi An quickened his pace and ran forward.

When it was almost dawn, Shi An stopped, found a nearby grass cave, and saw that there was no one around, so he flew to hide in the cave stone. The reason why this was done was to be wary that if Hall Master Zhan didn't find him in the city, he would go out of the city to look around.

In the morning, the streets and alleys of Kaiyuan City spread, and the newly opened Fangcun Pavilion was smashed to pieces without knowing who had offended. Although the people in the shop were fine, the shopkeeper cried like a dead father, and scolded vigorously, "Miao Yizhi, you bastard, you hurt me so hard", "Miao Yizhi, you have suffered a thousand cuts, you pay me to the store" and so on. People who watch the excitement can't help but guess, what is this "meow one"? Is it a cat? Could it be that the shopkeeper is crazy, and the store is smashed, what should be the cat?

The person who smashed the Fang Cun Pavilion was the Zhan Hall Master, who came over early in the morning to find that Shi An was gone, guessing that he must have escaped from Kaiyuan City, and smashed the Fang Cun Pavilion in a fit of rage. He also secretly complained in his heart, as the master of the Xuanwu Hall, his duty was to protect the perimeter security of Wuluobao. Since three years ago, he encountered several things such as the loss of the spirit treasure, the failure of the elder's advancement and the death of Liu De, his master was stationed in the auction hall of Kaiyuan City, not only did he not catch the culprit for half a year, but even the guest of the auction house also fled, and the sword in the treasury was transferred. The lord of the castle was furious, and under the instigation of Liu Changfeng, Luo Jue and other elders, he vowed to eradicate the Four Elephants Temple despite the ancestral teachings. After three years of intensified deployment, the number of Zhuji disciples has increased a lot, and not long ago, he once again received the support of the Lan Kingdom Yin Demon Sect, just waiting to find the right time to attack.

According to the castle owner's external statement, the formation is used all year round and needs to be maintained and upgraded, but he privately told Zhan Tang Master to find a powerful formation mage and increase the two functions of the mountain protection array as soon as possible: one is to cover up the pivot of the formation, so that the invading enemy cannot see the structure of the formation, so that it is difficult to break the formation according to this; the other is to add some blind formations to trick the enemy into falling into the trap. Hall Master Zhan had been a confidant of the Fort Lord for many years, so he naturally knew that his purpose was to guard against the friendly Yin Demon Sect.

The Yin Demon Sect had promised the Lord of Wu Fort that if he wanted to clean up the Four Elephant Temples, he would send three hundred foundation building monks and ten Jiedan monks to help. The Lord of Wu Fort is not a fool, he has long seen that the Yin Demon Sect is eyeing the entire Zhaoguo, once he sends out his troops, the rear will inevitably be empty, and then fight with the Four Elephants to lose both, at this time, if the Yin Demon Sect wants to use a false way to destroy the enemy, I am afraid that Wu Luobao will be difficult to protect, so he ordered the Zhan Hall Master to search for contemporary formation masters at any cost to prevent the backyard from catching fire.

Originally, several formation masters in Wuluobao and many cities under its jurisdiction had either passed away, or they were not good at this kind of formation, so they had to go to the folk formation shop to find another master. I heard that the formation technique of the Fang Cun Pavilion in Kaiyuan City has improved by leaps and bounds in the past three years, especially the method of covering up the formation talisman, and no one can break it, so I found this place. originally wanted to force Shi An to give in through coercion and temptation, but he didn't think that this guy would run away overnight, how could this not anger him.

Smashing Fang Cun Pavilion was just a relief from his anger, and Hall Master Zhan knew that Shi An would not stand up, and he still had to find it. But there was a wilderness outside Kaiyuan City, and there was no one in a radius of dozens of miles, so how to find it? I had to issue a reward order, and ordered all my subordinates to scatter to find each other, and he immediately returned to Wuluobao, ready to ask Sun Lang, a star disciple, who this Mr. Miao Yizhi was, how could he meet Sun Lang, and where might he flee.

Sun Lang naturally couldn't figure it out, there was no acquaintance in the world with the surname Miao or Yizhi, and he never thought that this person was that Shi An. Hall Master Zhan was looking for other formation masters in the country, the latter request was well realized, and the previous request was not able to be fulfilled, and it took five or six years of work to no avail. The lord of Fort Wu did not have measures to protect the base camp, so naturally he did not dare to attack rashly, so the attack plan was put on hold indefinitely. These are the afterthoughts, and I will not go into details.

Shi An was like this, hiding in the cave stone during the day, or cultivating his divine sense, or reading jade slips and miscellaneous books, or closing his eyes to rest, and at night he hurried towards the Shentang Gorge. In this way, you can advance 150 or 60 miles in a day. Fortunately, when he was in Kaiyuan City, he basically ate with his guys, so the Bigu Dan left by Yuan Miaozi was basically useless, so he didn't have to think about getting food at this time.

When Shi An could see a majestic mountain standing in the distance, it was already early morning on the ninth day.

"Well, the earth and wood aura is really very strong, but it's a pity that I am the water spirit root, otherwise cultivating here will definitely grow rapidly. Now it is only seventy or eighty miles away from Shentang Gorge, and you can't walk at night in the mountains, anyway, now Hall Master Zhan will definitely not find here, so it is better to work harder and strive to get to Shentang Gorge before dark tonight. Shi An muttered to himself.

The Zijun Mountain Range is known as thousands of zhang high and thousands of miles long, and is cut off by the Tuotuo River and divided into two veins, north and south. The northern veins are prolific with spirit grass, and there are also many low-level herbivorous demon beasts. The southern vein, on the other hand, was much more barren, with slightly poisonous plants and trees, lingering miasma, and even more ferocious demon beasts.

When you reach the foot of the mountain, you can see how high the mountain is, and sure enough, as the rumors say, the northern foot of Zijun Mountain is thousands of feet high, the trees in the mountains are full of clouds and mist, and the chirping of birds and beasts is heard from time to time.

The mountain was not steep at first, and Shi An walked slowly along the rugged mountain road, and after two hours, halfway up the mountain, the mountain road gradually disappeared. The trees here are thicker, the fog is heavier, and the spirit grass is gradually increasing.

"Volley grass, blazing phoenix flowers, and scattered vines, although they are ordinary first-order spirit grasses, they will inevitably have some uses, and the number is so dense, but unfortunately there is no place to plant them in the cave stone, and I don't have any utensils to hold them, it seems that I will need to prepare more items that can store medicinal herbs in the future." Shi An'an said.

Without the mountain road, Shi An could only identify the direction and grope forward. From time to time, some small monsters jumped out of the woods, the size of hares and lynxes in the secular world, and they were very afraid of humans, and they turned around and ran away when they saw Shi An. Shi An had never seen these things, and he didn't know if they hurt people, so he didn't dare to stop and move forward quickly.