Zhen Qing collected his senses, frowned, and said to himself: "This is really a strange thing, it is really unheard of, there is nothing wrong with it, but I can't keep the aura, could it be that something on my body has sucked it away?"

"Little guy, what is unusual about you?" Seeing Shi An's puzzled and vigilant eyes, Zhen Qing said: "Don't worry, I don't want your things", he added a sentence that didn't care about Shi An's feelings, "Your illness is really interesting." ”

"It's nothing," Shi An said as he took out the various things in his arms, "Bigu Dan, a letter, that's all." By the way, there's this," Shi An thought for a moment and took out the jade pendant hanging around his neck, "It's all here." ”

Zhen Qing took a closer look at these things, all of them were extremely ordinary, nothing special, and then returned them to Shi An.

"Let me think about it. Well, you go around the city now, and come to me at this time tomorrow, and maybe then I will know what the illness is. Zhen Qing ignored them and walked away on his own, not knowing what to mumble and mutter.

The two couldn't, looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and left Zhen Yifang.

"Sir, where are we going now?" asked Shi An.

Yuan Miaozi thought for a while, "Let's go to the study, you can find some books that interest you in it, and I'll see if there are any classics on the qi sea." ”

At this time, there are more pedestrians on the road, and the whole city is bustling. The two of them walked through several streets and alleys, and soon came to a shop called Yuxiang Zhai.

"I've been here, it's the largest study in Kaiyuan City, and there are a lot of various materials, so let's go into this place." With that, Yuan Miaozi stepped into the study first, and Shi An followed closely behind.

The study is quite large, with three floors, the first floor is relatively open, and the wide bookshelves are full of paper books, but there are very few customers, only a few people are picking.

"You're waiting for me here. This layer is full of thread-bound paper books, and the content is relatively shallow, which is more suitable for you to read, so you can take a look at it casually. I'll go upstairs and have a look. Yuan Miaozi left the next sentence and went up to the second floor.

The bookshelves on the first floor are divided into several areas, such as the Heart Law Exercise Area, the Refining Pill Making Area, the Fu Formation Area, and the Strange Tales and Strange Tales Area. Shi Anben didn't have any special purpose, just walked around in front of a few bookshelves and looked through them casually.

Most of the people on the first floor are concentrated in the Heart Law Exercise area, and Shi An also started here. The first book in this area is "Gathering Spiritual Heart Method", Shi An knew that this was Sun Lang's current mental method, so he wanted to see the content in it. Directly turned to the chapter on the cultivation of the water spirit root, and after only two glances, he was a little scoffed. The first layer of Zhoutian meridians needs to open up as many as forty-four acupuncture points, and they are all relatively obscure acupuncture points such as Huhuai acupoint and hemorrhoidal stasis acupoint. Shi An also lost the idea of continuing to watch.

Waiting for Yuan Miaozi, Shi An, who was bored, looked at it casually all the way, watched a lot, and had no experience. In the strange and strange area, Shi An stopped for a long time, and there were all kinds of books here, but they were all pastime books such as legends of cultivating immortals and legends of ghosts and gods. A seemingly old but very thin book attracted Shi An, with a rather peculiar title, called "The Record of Experiences in the Human World", and the author claimed to be called Ethereal Mountain People.

When he flipped through it, the words "Chaotic Star Sea" suddenly came into Shi An's eyes. He was busy reading it carefully, and the book introduced that the ancestors of this ethereal mountain man had passed down a jade slip to tell the story of ancient times. In the jade slip, it is said that in ancient times, there was no difference between the immortal world and the secular world, collectively known as the human world, which was divided into a number of huge areas, and their ancestors cultivated in one of the areas called the Chaotic Star Sea, and also took the opportunity of the experience to travel around the human world, and recorded what they saw into the jade slip before they died. The people of this ethereal mountain searched for the footprints of their ancestors according to the places described in the jade slips, and although they did not find the so-called ruins such as the Chaotic Star Sea, the Great Jin Dynasty, and the Tianlan Grassland, they recorded what they saw and heard on the way to find it. Shi An was about to read carefully, when suddenly a hand was placed on his shoulder.

"Division...... "Sir, are you down?"

"Well, can you see the book you want?"

"It's an interesting book, and I want to buy it. Sir, have you gained something too?" asked Shi An.

Yuan Miaozi said solemnly: "It's a little, Zheng'an, let's go." ”

"Man, check out. Yuan Miaozi said, handing the light cyan jade slip in his hand and the book in Shi An's hand to the guy at the door.

The guy said to Yuan Miaozi: "Senior, this jade slip is a medium-grade spirit stone, is this book, it is a pastime reading material itself, and it is not worth a low-grade spirit stone, so I will give it to you." ”

Shi An was a little surprised when he heard this. Without waiting for Yuan Miaozi to answer, he asked anxiously: "This "Record of Experiences in the Human World" is a pastime reading?"

"yes, I don't know what is written in it, it's not as good as other gods and legends, and no one wants it for several years, so I'm thinking about throwing it away, but it happens that you want it, and it's the best use of it. The guy laughed.

Yuan Miaozi didn't bargain, threw out a medium-grade spirit stone casually, and took Shi An out of Yuxiangzhai.

Shi An took the "Record of Experiences in the Human World" handed to him by Yuan Miaozi and put it in his arms, and hurriedly asked, "Sir, do you know what disease I have?"

"I know a little bit about it, and I'll talk about it when I go back to my room. Yuan Miaozi still had a serious face.

Seeing this, Shi An guessed that it would not be good news, and he didn't dare to say more, so he followed Yuan Miaozi back to the inn with anxiety.

"Zheng'an, the situation is not very good, you have to be mentally prepared. Yuan Miaozi sighed lightly, "This jade slip is called "Alien Body Collection", the author is the late Xiu Ye Chunheng, the jade slip lists several very peculiar diseases in this world, in fact, it is not a disease, it is a few special physiques, you are one of them, it is called the soul absorbing physique. According to the symptoms mentioned on this jade slip, the symptoms are extremely similar to yours, they are all spiritual roots that can absorb spiritual energy and can enter the sea of qi, but they are quickly absorbed by the sea of qi after entering. The reason for this is unknown, but the conclusion is that this kind of physique cannot be cultivated at all. ”

"What? I can't cultivate? Then what can I do? How can I avenge my master? Then what's the point of my life?" Shi An couldn't help but shout hysterically when he heard this.

"Zheng'an, don't worry, listen to me. Yuan Miaozi gently patted the top of Shi An's head, sending in a stream of aura to calm Shi An's emotions. "Yu Jian also said that it is not that he is completely unable to cultivate, but the speed of cultivation is extremely slow. This Soul Sucking Physique will absorb all the spiritual energy in the Qi Sea at the beginning, and after a period of time, it will absorb enough, and it will be able to cultivate at a normal speed, but every time it rises to one level, this situation will repeat itself. ”

Hearing this, Shi An calmed down a little and asked, "Then why do you still say that you can't cultivate?"

"Because at each level, the amount of spiritual energy absorbed by the sea of qi is several times the amount of spiritual energy that is promoted to the next level at that level, in other words, the spiritual energy required to upgrade this physique to the next level is many times that of other monks, and the cultivation speed is naturally several times slower than that of other monks. Let me calculate for you, under normal circumstances, a monk with a single spiritual root cultivates with the intermediate mental method, and it takes about twenty days to cultivate to the first layer, and it takes about fifty-seven years to cultivate to the consummation of the qi refining period, even if it is only absorbed by double, so that the cultivation is more than 100 years before the foundation building period, and the lifespan of the qi refining period is 100 years, and if the cultivation is not perfect, it will end its life. It takes about thirty years for the Twin Spirit Root to be cultivated to perfection, and it takes sixty years to absorb it twice, and it is reasonable to say that if it is twice the amount of absorption, it will not be able to cultivate to perfection and die. And this jade slip said that most of the monks with this kind of physique he saw were more than twice as many, so it made sense for him to say that he couldn't cultivate. ”

Yuan Miaozi continued: "Zheng'an, your situation is not very good, you calculate, you count as the four spirit roots, it stands to reason that you should cultivate to the second level in two and a half days, as of today, you have been cultivating for almost three and a half days, and you are still cultivating with water spirit stones, according to the calculation that the speed of using spirit stones to cultivate Zhou Tian is twice as fast, it is equivalent to seven days of cultivation, but there is no sign that the qi sea has stopped absorbing, I am afraid that it is at least three times the amount of absorption." ”

"Sir," Shi An suddenly remembered the condition of the Qi Sea before leaving, and hurriedly said, "On the day I left, I saw that the spiritual mist in the Qi Sea dissipated more slowly, is this a sign of stopping absorption?"

"Really, you can absorb the aura now and let me see. ”

Shi An took out the water spirit stone, meditated into meditation, and began to absorb the spiritual energy.

A week later, the spiritual mist filled the sea of qi.

"It's starting to fade again, and it's a lot slower. Yuan Miaozi's divine sense observed Shi An's sea of qi, and said after a while, "This may be a good sign, let's see what Zhen Qing says tomorrow, and you can rest well tonight." ”

"Sir, I think it's better to practice for one night. "This is the first time that Shi An has not done what Yuan Miaozi tells him.

"It's okay, if the speed of spiritual mist dissipation slows down, it is really possible that you are the kind of spirit absorbing physique, even if Zhen Qing has no way to solve it, we will find other ways to increase your speed of absorbing spiritual energy. ”

After a night of cultivation, early the next morning, Shi An reported to Yuan Miaozi the results of the night, and the elimination of the spiritual mist in the sea of qi had been extended to the time of two teas, so it seemed that Shi An was undoubtedly the so-called spiritual absorbing physique.