"Senior Brother Gu, when Senior Brother Sun was here more than three months ago, the aura in our spiritual vein had already begun to decline, and the formation that protected the entire city on the side of Hanshan City also became unstable, after Steward Sun left, the aura in the spiritual vein directly declined by forty percent in less than a month, and the formation outside Hanshan City soon became unmaintainable, and the power of our Red Feather Array here has also declined a lot......

Listening to this mediocre-looking second-layer Qi refining junior disciple who didn't seem to have any merits except for his fate, Gu Qing stood with his hands in his hands.

"Why does the aura in the spiritual veins decline?"

He frowned slightly, and interrupted this junior brother's nonsense in a cold voice.

With the help of the power of the Red Feather Array, Gu Qing did not feel relaxed when he designed to kill more than 100 monks and dozens of barbarians in Jiudazhai.

He can purge these 'evil cultivators' who have impacted the spiritual veins of the Xianhe Sect, but the other survivors of Jiudazhai, he has no reason, let alone find the door, and kill a chicken and dog without leaving behind.

After all, his cultivation was only the fifth level of Qi refining.

With the help of the power of this formation Red Feather Array, and his own huge divine sense, Gu Qing showed a means comparable to the Great Perfection Realm of Qi Refining, out of this formation, he is still a fifth-layer Qi refining, even if the power of the divine soul is extremely strong, he can't do it like a monk in the early stage of foundation building, directly mobilize the power of heaven and earth with his divine sense, I'm afraid that a monk of the seventh layer of Qi refining can make him fall into a bitter battle.

And the power of this Red Feather Array comes from the spiritual veins.

If this first-order spiritual vein was damaged, then he, a deacon disciple who had just arrived, would immediately lose his greatest support.

Now among the survivors of these nine villages, there should be some monks and barbarians, maybe there are some of them comparable to the seventh layer of qi refining or even higher combat power, plus the people who are secretly watching can also sense a few breaths of the late stage of qi refining, if there is no Red Feather Array to rely on, how can he overpower these people? What's more, there are guys with unknown purposes like the Purple Cloud Sect and his party.

Running away is just a good idea.

The deacon disciple of the Xianhe Sect, who would dare to kill him except for the monks and barbarians of the Nine Great Villages?

He had to sing this scene.

Before the spiritual vein collapsed, Gu Qing didn't plan to run away.

"This ...... I don't know, but it's ......."

This junior disciple of the second layer of Qi refining, his face full of black ash showed a trace of hesitation, as if there was something unspeakable.

"Say, dare to say half a lie, and kill the whole clan." Gu Qing's tone was still indifferent, and he was playing with the blue-black formation token in his hand, when this formation token was handed over to him by Elder Sun's grandson that day, he only thought it was an ordinary thing, but now it seems that this thing is a little more magical than the golden sword in the small five-element array on the original Flying Thunder Peak, and it can control the entire Red Feather Array wantonly.

The Red Feather Array arranged by this idle crane faction to protect the spiritual veins has an internal radius of more than 2,000 zhang, and the handwriting is undoubtedly much larger than the small five-element array under the original Liu Gang.

This is also one of the reasons why Gu Qing didn't want to run away so simply.

With this Red Feather Array as a basis, you can't leave so simply! The monks and barbarians of Jiudazhai are just appetizers, if there are people who don't know whether they are alive or dead, and want to come and get a piece of the pie, he will use the power of the Red Feather Array to kill them all, wouldn't it be beautiful?

Hearing what Gu Qing said, the face of the second-layer disciple of Qi refining turned pale with fright.

Kill the whole clan?!

Swallowing his saliva hard, he opened his mouth tremblingly: "Senior Brother really doesn't know the specific reason for the decline of the spiritual veins and spiritual energy, but Senior Brother guesses that it should be related to Senior Brother Sun's continuous bringing people over the past few years to carry spirit stones!" Senior Brother has been here for nine years, Senior Brother Sun arrived six years ago, and the spiritual energy of the spiritual veins has always been very abundant before he arrived, but after he arrived, it was ......"

Gu Qing listened indifferently.

His eyes narrowed, and he pinned the blue-black formation token to his waist, and his divine sense spread out towards the ground.

The Divine Consciousness explored underground, but it was extremely consuming the power of the Divine Soul.

Gu Qing's divine sense spread out for nearly a hundred zhang, and he hurriedly withdrew it.

He looked back and swept through the dark red formation light curtain of the Red Feather Array, the outside world was in the quiet of the night, and the snow reflected through the moonlight.

With a slight groan, Gu Qing walked towards the underground spirit vein.

The two thousand zhang square circle shrouded by the red feather array, on the surface, Gu Qing has taken the opportunity to gather the remnant souls scattered in the array, and explored it, the outside world is icy and snowy, freezing to death I don't know how many ordinary people in the Nine Great Villages, this red feather array shrouded in the two thousand zhang square circle, but the climate is extremely pleasant, from a distance, all kinds of spiritual plants are densely covered, a piece of green, and several exquisite pavilions are built.

In addition to being refined into black ash by Gu Qing's mobilization of the power of the Red Feather Array, the more than 100 monks and dozens of barbarians of the Nine Great Villages scattered on the ground were a little disturbing, and the two thousand zhang square circle above this level of spiritual veins really had a bit of a fairyland on earth.

The outer disciples of the second layer of qi refining followed Gu Qing step by step, pouring beans into a bamboo tube and telling what 'Senior Brother Sun' had done.

Entering the range of the underground spiritual veins, a faint warm shimmer shrouded Gu Qing, he looked at the earth and rocks, like the roots of a tree coiled together, the golden spiritual veins, along the long road, all the way to the deeper underground, the more he walked, the more frowning his brows became.

His divine sense poked out carefully, and quickly retracted his eyebrows.

"In the golden vein, the flow of spiritual energy is extremely slow, and you are inside the spiritual vein, but the concentration of spiritual energy in this vicinity is even inferior to the mountain col in the Idle Crane Sect that is not a place where the spirit gathers, and the spiritual energy of this level of spiritual vein is declining to such a serious point!"

Gu Qing said secretly in his heart.

The two of them turned around in the corridor and came to a hundred feet underground.

Ahead was a blue-glowing stone gate.

Gu Qing stretched out his hand and touched the stone door, with a slight force, he slowly pushed it open, and then a hollowed-out open hole appeared in front of Gu Qing's eyes, the moment he saw this empty cave, Gu Qing's footsteps paused, and he let out a long breath, and his heart was filled with coldness.

His form stopped in front of the hole.

The outer disciple of the second layer of qi refining on the side looked at the empty hole in front of him in confusion, and his eyes flashed with a bit of thought.

He had already reported all the actions of Senior Brother Sun to this newcomer, and he was a little apprehensive at this time.

"Stand down."

Gu Qing's voice sounded in his ears.

This outer disciple of the second layer of Qi refining was like being pardoned, and he was just about to turn around and leave, but he saw a spiritual light smashing over.

He chuckled in his heart.

I'm dying!

For this god-like Senior Brother Gu, he couldn't afford to resist at all, so he closed his eyes and waited for death.

Syllable!

A white square sound-transmitting jade talisman smashed on his cheek, and he subconsciously reached out to catch it, and his heart was slightly relieved.

"Senior brother retires."

He was stunned, clenched the sound transmission jade talisman, respectfully clenched his fists and retreated, disappearing from Gu Qing's sight.

After this person left, Gu Qing entered the cave in front of him.

This empty cave is the core of this first-order spiritual vein, and it is the gathering hub of the nearby heaven and earth spiritual energy.

Originally, in the cave here, there should be a spirit stone vein that can mine thousands of medium-grade spirit stones, but at this moment, not to mention the veins that can mine medium-grade spirit stones, even the spiritual mist has not been condensed here, and the concentration of spiritual energy around it is no longer comparable to the spiritual energy concentration of the cave built on the second-order spiritual vein, compared to what Gu Qing found in the area of the Idle Crane Sect in Huifeng Valley, the spiritual energy concentration of that place of gathering spirit is only four to fifty percent.

The spiritual vein and the spiritual stone vein are interdependent.

As the gathering place of heaven and earth's spiritual energy, a spiritual vein will inevitably derive many spiritual stone veins.

According to Gu Qing's knowledge.

An ordinary first-order spirit vein can probably contain four low-grade spirit stone veins, and one medium-grade spirit stone vein, each of which can reserve 100,000 lower-grade spirit stones, so that four low-grade spirit stone veins can reserve 400,000 low-grade spirit stones.

And the medium-grade spirit stone vein contained in the first-order spirit vein can usually store about a thousand medium-grade spirit stones.

On the premise of not affecting the normal operation of the spiritual vein, a first-order spiritual vein can mine about 40,000 low-grade spirit stones and about 100 medium-grade spirit stones every year, which is enough to supply the monks of several small monk families to cultivate, and as long as the spiritual vein is operating normally, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered in the second year can once again contain the same number of spirit stones, so that a spiritual vein can be inexhaustible and inexhaustible.

And the first-order spirit vein in front of Gu Qing, the middle-grade spirit stone vein has been mined, and the four lower-grade spirit stone veins are probably not much of the reserve of lower-grade spirit stones.

In the empty cave, in addition to the stone gate when you came, there are four deep passages leading to the surrounding area.

Gu Qing's consciousness was scattered and spread out separately.

Soon his consciousness retracted his eyebrows.

"Sure enough, the current spirit stone reserves of the four lower grade spirit stone veins are only more than 1,000 pieces each, and the sum of the four lower grade spirit stone veins can make up more than 4,500 lower grade spirit stones." He opened his eyes, took out the futon, and sat cross-legged in the hole.

His divine sense caught the flow of aura, and his eyes followed the golden veins between the earth and stones around him, and the flow of auras looked towards the top of the cave, where it was the core of this spiritual vein, and a very fine golden crystal was embedded in the earth and stones.

This is the Crystal of the Spiritual Vein.

The monk's mind is imperceptible, and can only be found with the naked eye.

Gu Qing urged the spiritual power to cover his eyes, and carefully looked at the spiritual vein crystal above, only to see that this spiritual vein crystal was no more than the size of a grain of rice, the appearance was diamond-shaped, and the whole body was pure gold, and it was covered with dense cracks, and a light halo was half a foot square, covering this spiritual vein crystal full of cracks, this layer of halo, it is said that the foundation building monks could not break it without damaging the spiritual vein crystal in it.

"With so many cracks covering it, this spiritual vein crystal has not yet collapsed, and it is worthy of being a thing created by heaven and earth."

Gu Qing retracted his gaze.

The spirit stone vein associated with this spiritual vein has been almost hollowed out.

It also stems from this, the flow of the spiritual energy in this first-order spiritual vein has become extremely slow, and the crystal of the spiritual vein is also on the verge of crumbling, once it shatters, the vicinity will immediately turn into a place of absolute spirits.

And the initiator of all this is afraid that Elder Sun Sheng.

Elder Sun Sheng's grandson must have been instructed by himself to be able to hollow out this first-order spiritual vein little by little.

Nearly 400,000 low-grade spirit stones, and more than 1,000 medium-grade spirit stones, are enough to make a monk in the foundation building period crazy, so it is not incomprehensible that Sun Sheng would do this.

What about the loss of a first-order spiritual vein inside the door?

With such a huge amount of spirit stones in hand, up and down, and then pushing out Gu Qing, a substitute for the dead ghost, who in the door will be held accountable for the loss of this first-order spirit vein? Gu Qing had heard of this kind of thing a few times in the past, but without exception, it was all happening in the declining monk family and the declining immortal sect.

His expression was slightly gloomy.

Taking out the fish basket that Sun Sheng gave him that day, he looked at the fish-basket, on the lake-like waters, the bloated cold-patterned spirit dragon the size of dust, and he pressed the killing intent in his heart.

Cultivation is so low, and the only way to accept it is to go against the grain.

Gu Qing closed his eyes, took out a spirit stone, and quietly breathed, the tidal aura flickered, and soon nearly three hours passed, and when he opened his eyes, his complexion had returned to calm.

Looking up, he looked at the Spirit Crystal again.

I don't know if it's his delusion, but he only feels that the cracks on the crystal of the spiritual vein seem to have become one or two less.

Because of the blazing golden light on it, Gu Qing could only see it with the naked eye, so he couldn't be sure whether this feeling was right or wrong, his divine sense spread all over the hole, quietly monitoring the surrounding spiritual qi circulation, an extremely special feeling appeared in the bottom of his heart.

The flow of aura seems to have become faster?

Gu Qing was slightly surprised.

At this time, he noticed something, and his eyes flashed.

He stood up, put the futon into the storage bag, took off the formation token that was flashing red on his waist, and his body turned into a ball of white gas, and he came out of the cyan stone gate when he came out, and flew to the ground.

……

Half a quarter of an hour ago.

"Quickly release my daddy!"

"The surname is Zhao, the third young master of the Xiao family has been invited by us, and he hasn't quickly opened the formation and released the people from my Nine Great Village!"

Outside the Red Feather Array, several waves of monks were still secretly observing, and there were already a few people from Jiudazhai in front of the formation, with a white-clothed young man shouting, this white-clothed young man was handsome, dressed in a thin white dress in the ice and snow, and the folding fan in his hand shook gently, looking noble.

"Master He, if you make a move, how long will it take to break this formation?"

The young man in white asked the black-robed old woman who was standing beside him.

"Ahem...... It only takes two hours. The black-robed old woman smiled indifferently, her wrinkled old face with a bit of pride.

"Since the Daoist friends of the Xianhe Sect are so ignorant of lifting, then Master He, you can take action." The young man in white nodded slightly when he heard this, a chuckle appeared on his handsome face, and he spoke loudly.

The sunlight of the early morning of deep winter fell on the cheeks of the young man in white, making him even more white and flawless.