Chapter 47: The Secret Law

As if sleeping for an unknown number of years, in the darkness and silence, until suddenly I saw that glimmer of light, the long and unfamiliar memory was a little familiar, although I still didn't know what it was, but there was a strong tremor flowing through the whole body like an electric current, and in an instant shouted out!

"Ah......h

With a shout, Shen Shi turned over and sat up suddenly, gasping for breath, looking around in shock, the familiar scene of the stone room came into his eyes, and after a while, he slowly came back to his senses, and he fell asleep in a daze just now, as if he had a nightmare.

The scene in the dream seemed to be blurry for a while, but after wiping his forehead, he found that he was in a cold sweat, and he didn't know what he dreamed of, so he sat on the bed for a while, and after his mood was completely calmed down, he didn't think about it, but found that his body felt very light, especially full of energy, as if his whole body was full of energy.

Shen Shi subconsciously looked at the edge of the bed not far away, where an old hourglass stood there, and the white sand grains in it flowed silently and silently, and only the last remnants were left at this moment. Shen Shi frowned, a hint of surprise flashing across his face.

This jade hourglass was a small thing given by his father Shen Tai when he was separated from him, as a thought, and the sand in it flowed completely from one side to the other, which happened to be an hour. And Shen Shi clearly remembered that when he started cultivating tonight, he started to clock backwards after putting all the sand in this hourglass at one end as usual.

In other words, from the beginning of cultivation to the present, it has only been nearly an hour?

Shen Shi groaned for a moment, jumped off the bed, moved his body on the ground, turned his head and bent over and waved his arms, and finally jumped a few times, and finally clearly confirmed that he was indeed in good spirits at the moment, as if he was so energetic that he could go to Hongbang Village to peel twenty or thirty ghost shrimp now!

But that's not right......

Shen Shi slowly stopped, his brows furrowed more and more, whether it was the record of the secret method of Xingluo Gong or the admonition of Senior Brother Su He when he taught the exercises, and even what Sun You, He Xiaomei, Jiang Hongguang and other new friends talked about when they chatted with him after they started to practice these days, the meaning of the words was completely the same, that is, after the human race cultivated, especially the newcomers who had just begun to absorb spiritual power from the spirit crystal to attract the spirit into the body, after every cultivation, the whole person must be extremely tired, especially mentally tired.

In the words of Senior Brother Wang Gan, that is, when absorbing spiritual power from the spirit crystal into the physical body, all the methods used in this process are countless in the world, but in the final analysis, they are all consumed by the spirit and led by the mind. Therefore, the reaction of all monks after cultivation is tired, which is also the fundamental reason why monks can only practice at most once a day to attract spiritual spirits into the body, if they are too hasty and practice too many times, people's spirits will not be able to bear it in the first place, and if they forcibly go against the sky, within ten days and half a month, this person will become an idiot.

Even if it is a monk with a higher realm of Dao Progression, the same is true, because although the monks of the Ning Yuan Realm and even the Divine Artistic Conception have advanced in their realm, both physically and spiritually are far superior to the cultivators of the Qi Refining Realm, the spiritual power they absorb from the spirit crystal every time also increases significantly, and the spirit consumed is also a huge increase, at most, they will no longer have such a strong feeling of fatigue after cultivation, but the vast majority of high-level monks still only cultivate once a day.

For a long time, this has been a recognized truth in the Hongmeng cultivation realm, and not long after Shen Shi entered the Lingxiao Sect, he also knew it from the mouths of the senior brothers in the sect.

However, the current situation is obviously not quite right......

The excitement of attracting the spirit into the body for the first time tonight had slowly subsided at this time, and the thick confusion that had replaced it in Shen Shi's heart had taken his place, he pondered for a long time, but still didn't come up with a reason, so he simply sat down on the edge of the bed, closed his eyes, and slowly passed the cultivation process tonight from the beginning to the end, scene by scene in his mind, trying to find some clues or abnormalities.

Spirit crystal, clenching, meditation, concentrating, cultivating, perceiving, dark, glimmering, spiritual power, chasing, attracting spirits, entering the body, all the processes are like cutting through fragments, recalling the past little by little, but until the end, he found that everything was normal, exactly the same as usual, except that there was no sign of physical backlash tonight, and the first cultivation was successful......

Later, when he got tired, he collapsed on the bed, and in the great joy and excitement of completing his cultivation for the first time, he also felt as if an unstoppable exhaustion swept over him quite normally, and then he fell asleep in a daze.

When you are conscious again, it is now when you wake up.

Shen Shi's brows furrowed suddenly, as if he had faintly grasped something, and he concentrated on recalling, trying to remember the fragment where he had just fallen asleep, but everything seemed to be blurry, and his mind was chaotic, or rather a piece of mush......

But I clearly didn't do anything, and now that I think about it, I don't think about anything, I'm just tired and want to sleep well, if there is a refreshing ......

Refresh your mind!

Suddenly, these four words flashed through Shen Shi's mind like lightning, and seemed to suddenly illuminate the dark corner in the darkness, and his body shook immediately, and at this moment, another name slowly surfaced in his mind.

Is the Pure Heart Mantra a Pure Heart Mantra...... The secret he'd been hiding, hesitating to touch?

At this time, Shen Shi's face looked a little inexplicably weird, as if there was a sudden joy, and as if there was confusion, he turned around and hesitated, reached into the innermost part of the bed, groped in a secret corner under the futon, and then when he turned around, there was already a black scroll in his hand.

When he first entered the Lingxiao Sect that day, when he went through the level of the Crystal Swallowing Toad, Shen Shi had already sensed that the seven-leaf golden sunflower coat of arms on the scroll of the Pure Heart Mantra was likely to cause trouble to him, and he didn't dare to carry it with him since then, and it happened that the Lingxiao Sect had assigned a separate cave mansion to each newcomer disciple, and the cloud talisman could not be opened unless he was the one, so Shen Shi carefully hid it in the cave mansion.

After getting this Pure Heart Mantra scroll, Shen Shi naturally secretly read it many times, but he still had a lot of concerns in his heart, and he didn't dare to practice arbitrarily, and after that, there were many things such as physical backlash, shrimp peeling in Red Clam Village, etc., which made him live a full and busy life during this time, and even forgot about this Pure Heart Mantra for a while.

Who knows, just when he finally adapted to the physical body for the first time and successfully cultivated, he actually cultivated a heart-purifying mantra inexplicably.

Shen Shi felt a little uneasy in his heart, stood up and carefully moved his body, checked himself, and finally determined that he really didn't seem to be abnormal, on the contrary, his spirit seemed to be particularly refreshing and full, which was completely different from Sun You and the others who usually complained to him that they were tired like a dead dog after every time they finished cultivating.

Or is this mysterious heart-clearing mantra really just a special exercise to refresh the mind?

Shen Shi had no reason, and his heart suddenly jumped......

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On the twenty-eighth day of April, it was sunny.

In the early morning, when he walked out of the cave, Shen Shi looked up at the sky and found that today's sky seemed to be bluer than usual, there was not even a single cloud in the endless sky, and the sky was clear and transparent like a huge and flawless sapphire. The tide is still surging on the beach of Whitefish Bay, the sound of the waves can be heard in the distance, the sea breeze seems to be a little lighter than usual, and the seabirds that I usually see flying and fishing on the shore are not seen today.

Shen Shi stood at the door of the cave and stretched in the direction of the sea, only to feel that this day seemed to be particularly beautiful, and of course his mood was also very good.

On that night three days ago, he had finally been able to induce the spirit into his body for the first time, and from that time on, he had officially embarked on the path of cultivation, and he could barely be called a monk, although he was still only at the lowest level of the Qi Refining Realm.

But what monk in this world didn't start here?

Now at the initial level of the Qi Refining Realm, the spiritual power in his body is naturally meager, but from today on, as long as the follow-up spirit crystals can keep up and his own cultivation is not slackened, the spiritual power in his body will naturally become more and more vigorous.

As for the many senior brothers and sisters who have been trapped in the Qi Refining Realm for many years and have not been able to enter the realm on this Qingyu Island, at this moment, the young Shen Shi's heart has not remembered it at all.

In addition, there is another reason why he is in a good mood that cannot be explained to others.

After repeated hesitation, deliberation and inner struggle, in the end, he finally couldn't hold back and began to secretly conduct tentative cultivation on the mysterious origin of the Pure Heart Mantra. And after these few days of cultivation attempts, Shen Shi finally preliminarily determined that this Pure Heart Mantra did not seem to be harmful to himself, on the contrary, this mysterious spell had an amazing effect on restoring his spirit, especially after he had cultivated once to attract spirits into his body, and then ran the Pure Heart Mantra again, which had an amazing effect on restoring physical strength and spirit.

Every time you practice the Pure Heart Mantra, all the feeling of mental fatigue will be swept away, and the whole person will be like a person who has just taken a bath and is refreshed, and his spirit is terrible. Even, Shen Shi even had the courage to secretly try to cultivate for the second time in one day, that is, the second time he held the spirit crystal in his hand to attract the spirit into his body.

And he did.

Even he himself didn't dare to have too much hope, but with a one-ten-thousandth chance attempt, he actually, unexpectedly, really, succeeded!

He actually managed to attract the spirit into his body twice in one day, and after this second attempt to cultivate, his reaction was the same as after the first cultivation before, but he simply felt a huge sense of mental exhaustion, but none of the signs of excessive cultivation that they said would cause great damage to the body appeared.

However, the magic of the Pure Heart Mantra seemed to end here, after cultivating twice in one day, no matter how he was running the Pure Heart Mantra, his physical body did not react at all, and it seemed that within a day, the Pure Heart Mantra could only restore his spirit once at most.

Chapter 48 is not a coincidence

Cultivating twice in one day, there is almost no harm at all, even if the strange effect of the Pure Heart Technique can only be effective once a day, but even so, Shen Shi is already satisfied, and he doesn't want to ask for more at all.

What does it mean to cultivate twice in one day? This is simply that as long as the spirit crystal can keep up, his cultivation speed can be twice as fast as that of ordinary people, with such a huge benefit, how can he be in a bad mood?

Looking at the blue of the sea and sky, Shen Shi really had the urge to open his mouth and shout, but of course, in the end, he still held back, smiled, and then reached out and rubbed his eyebrows.

Finger at the center of the brow, paused slightly.

Perhaps, the only thing that made him a little uneasy, a little fly in the ointment was that the Pure Heart Mantra seemed to have a strange sequelae, after each run, although he could quickly recover his spirit, but at the same time, the trace of spiritual power he had cultivated before would inexplicably go from a state of random scattering of qi veins all over his body, and slowly gather and attract to a certain point in the depths of his eyebrows, and stop there.

And the trace of spiritual power obtained by cultivating the spirit into the body for the second time in a day, because the Heart Purification Mantra seemed to be only effective once, but like the vast majority of monks, it was normally scattered in the qi veins in the body.

However, this doesn't seem to be a big deal, the center of the eyebrows is also a place for the qi veins around the body, and it is a little strange that the spiritual power in the body stops there, because it is common sense, only after cultivating to the Ning Yuan Realm and opening up the Yufu Qi Sea in the future, the spiritual power will have signs of converging in one place, and in the Qi Refining Realm, I have never heard of such an abnormality.

But at least there doesn't seem to be anything unusual about it now, the more spiritual power enters the body, the higher the cultivation path will be, and naturally the better! Anyway, in the future, the cultivation will go further, and when it comes to opening up the Dantian Jade Mansion, all the spiritual power around the body will definitely return to the sea and merge into the Jade Mansion.

Shen Shi thought about it excitedly, looking at the blue sky, and only felt that the future was bright.

The sea breeze blows, with a hint of coolness.

Shen Shi turned around and walked in the direction of Qingyuji, preparing to follow that road to Hongbang Village, and he had to work hard for a day today. Now that others are happy, although they can't say anything to others, their hearts are already full of energy, and if they practice twice a day, the first thing is that the consumption of spirit crystals is twice as much as that of others.

Generally speaking, one normal spirit crystal is enough for a beginner Qi Refining Realm cultivator to cultivate twenty times, that is, it is enough for twenty days of cultivation, and after the realm is raised, the monk's consumption of spirit crystal spiritual power will also increase significantly. The speed at which a mid-level cultivator in the Qi Refining Realm absorbs spiritual power is twice as fast as that of the first level, a spirit crystal can only be used for ten days, and when it reaches the advanced level of the Qi Refining Realm, it doubles, and a spirit crystal can only last for five days. As for the great supernatural cultivators of the higher realms, the great reals of the Ning Yuan Realm, the Divine Artistic Conception and even the Yuan Dan Realm, the spiritual crystals and spiritual power they have to consume when cultivating are not what Shen Shi can imagine now.

Although Shen Shi is just starting out in the path of cultivation now, he is only at the beginning of the Qi Refining Realm, and he does not absorb much spiritual power from the spirit crystal every time he cultivates, but he can't stand it now, and now he cultivates twice a day, and the consumption of the spirit crystal is twice as much as that of ordinary people.

The thought that he wanted to use the weak path of the first level of the Qi Refining Realm but had to consume the spirit crystals at the speed of the middle level of the Qi Refining Realm, and if the realm was improved in the future, the demand for spirit crystals would only become more terrifying. As soon as he thought of this, Shen Shi suddenly felt a sense of urgency, and even faintly panicked, earning as many spirit crystals as possible was already Shen Shi's number one priority on Qingyu Island now.

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When Shen Shi was cheering up and was full of energy to go to the big job, he didn't take two steps when he saw the stone gate of the cave next door to him rumbling open, and then Sun You walked out with a decadent and listless face.

Raising his eyes to see Shen Shi, Sun You beckoned to him, closed the stone door with his hand, and slowly walked to Shen Shi's side. Shen Shi looked at him, only to see that Sun You's eyes were slightly dark, his eyelids and cheeks were also slightly puffy, and he looked tired after staying up all night without sleeping, and couldn't help but be stunned: "What's wrong with you?"

Sun You's mouth grinned, and he smiled weakly and bitterly, and said, "It's not about cultivation, I've had a splitting headache every night after cultivation for the past few days, and I can't even sleep well, and that's what I look like when I wake up." Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of something, his eyes showed a little surprise, he looked at Shen Shi carefully, and said strangely:

"Hey, I remember you said a few days ago that you have passed the period of physical body revolt and can start cultivating, why does it seem that your spirit is better than mine?"

Shen Shi was stunned, and subconsciously nodded: "Yes, I can start normal cultivation three days ago and attract spirits into my body." ”

Sun You glanced at him, and saw that although Shen Shi also had a little tired on his face, his eyes were upright, and the situation did look much better than his own, and he frowned: "That's strange......"

Shen Shi was speechless for a while, his brain was spinning, and he was thinking about making up some excuse to perfunctory the past, at this moment, he heard someone next to him snort coldly, with a little disdain in his tone, and said: "Rare and strange! After cultivation, naturally everyone is tired, but with everyone's physical condition is different, and the duration of mental fatigue is also different, he just recovers faster, what's so strange?"

Shen Shi and Sun You both turned around to look, and saw two girls standing not far from them, one fat and one thin, with somewhat similar appearances, it was Zhong Qinglu and Zhong Qingzhu. At this moment, the only person who can say such a mocking thing to Sun You is naturally Miss Zhong Qinglu.

These days are busy cultivating all day long, or they are peeling shrimp in Hongbang Village, getting up early and returning late, except for hearing from Sun You a few days ago that Zhong Qinglu took over the alchemy task and Zhong Qingzhu took over the task of picking up shellfish, Shen Shi really hasn't seen these two girls for several days. When he saw them today, Shen Shi first took a closer look at the two of them, then was stunned for a moment, and then felt a little funny in his heart.

It turned out that these two girls, especially Zhong Qinglu, looked down on Sun You, but it seemed that the situation of the two of them was not very good, and they also looked tired, among which Zhong Qingzhu looked better, and Zhong Qinglu's original white and chubby little face also had two more dark circles, which was very conspicuous.

After Sun You listened to Zhong Qinglu's words, he didn't get angry immediately, but pondered for a moment, turned back to Shen Shi and said, "Don't say it, it's really the truth that the girl of the Zhong family said." However, in the future, as our cultivation time increases, our physical body will become more and more in harmony with our spiritual power, and now it is just some superficial reactions, and it will be fine after a long time. ”

Shen Shi had naturally heard of this truth, but he didn't think about it for a while just now, but let Zhong Qinglu look at Sun You on the side, and directly said it for him, and smiled at the moment: "So you can bear with it for a while." ”

Sun You shrugged his shoulders and said, "That's all there is to it." ”

This Zhong Qinglu took Zhong Qingzhu to the front of the two of them, looking at the backs of the two of them, maybe because Zhong Qinglu inadvertently blocked a level for him just now, Shen Shi actually felt that Zhong Qinglu looked much more pleasing to the eye this time, and couldn't help but whisper to Sun You: "Why do you always quarrel with Zhong Qinglu, I don't think she is particularly annoying?"

Sun You sneered, just wanted to criticize his friend, but Zhong Qinglu seemed to hear something in front of him, suddenly stopped and looked back, just when he saw Sun You's strange expression and looking at himself while wanting to say something to Shen Shi, his face sank, and he sneered: "Second Sun, you are sneaky over there and want to talk about people behind your back, what is wrong?"

Sun You was stunned and didn't speak, Zhong Qinglu's eyes swept over Shen Shi, and saw that he was looking at himself a little blankly, looking stupid, he was angry when he looked at it, snorted coldly, and shouted: "What do you see, haven't you seen a beautiful woman?"

After that, he glared at the two of them fiercely, then ignored them, turned around and shook his head, and floated away, Zhong Qingzhu stuck out his tongue, smiled slightly apologetically at the two of them, and then hurriedly followed.

After a while, Sun You squinted at Shen Shi and said, "What did you just say?"

Shen Shi was silent for a moment and said, "Forget that sentence, just because I didn't say it!"

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The two walked to the herring fish set together, because the halls of the Ling Xiao Sect have special halls distributed on the island on the herring fish island, and the tasks they took over were basically to go to the corresponding places to do things, so Sun You and Shen Shi were separated on the herring fish set, and when they parted, Sun You looked at the spirit and recovered a lot, and said to Shen Shi with a smile: "If I finish my work earlier today, I will go to Hongbang Village to see you peel shrimp." ”

Shen Shi laughed at it, Sun You has said the same thing several times in so many days, but except for the first time without telling him, and then Dan Fan said that he was coming, but he didn't come once.

After walking all the way east from the herring fish set, he walked along the road leading to Hongbang Village for a while, and saw the small village sitting on the beach in the distance, and after walking a little closer, Shen Shi also expected to see the slender figure leaning against the tree at the entrance of the village.

He smiled slightly, strode forward, and greeted the starfish girl: "Morning." ”

Starfish glanced at him and suddenly said, "Hey, I see you're in a good mood today." ”

Shen Shi laughed, touched his face, and said, "Is there one?"

Starfish sneered and said, "Nonsense, look at your mouth is almost laughing to your ears." ”

Shen Shi shook his head with a smile, then rubbed his hands and said, "Okay, don't talk nonsense, take out the shrimp pot quickly, I'm going to do a good job today." ”

Haixing was stunned for a moment, and said strangely: "What's wrong with you today? Look at you, you look weird, you didn't wake up a few days ago, and today you seem to be a different person." ”

Shen Shi laughed and didn't say much, just urged the starfish to quickly get the shrimp pot. In the past few days, after he gradually became familiar with the bloody and dirty and even somewhat lowly job of peeling shrimp on most people on Qingyu Island, the speed of peeling shrimp gradually stabilized at about 20 shrimp a day. However, in the past few days, because of the study of the Pure Heart Mantra, most of his mind has been on it, after all, if this is not done well, maybe there will be problems in cultivation. In the past few days, when peeling shrimp, Shen Shi actually had a distraction from time to time, and the number of shrimp peeled every day dropped from a stable twenty to only twelve or thirteen.

Of course, this obvious abnormality will be discovered by the starfish, and after enduring it for two days without speaking, yesterday the starfish finally couldn't help but say a few words to Shen Shi. But at this moment, Shen Shi has naturally solved that big problem, and at this moment, he is full of joy and just wants to do a good job to earn spirit crystals, and the number of spirit crystals he will use in the future is very large, twice as much as ordinary people!

Thinking of this, Shen Shi was a little impatient, and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I happened to have something to do a few days ago, and now it's all right, take out the shrimp pot quickly!"

Starfish glanced at him with a little regret, sighed, and said, "It's rare to see that you are so energetic, but it's a pity that you can't peel shrimp today." ”

Shen Shi was stunned and said, "What?"

(Both chapters were posted together at 10 o'clock in the morning today)