After a busy day in Hongbang Village, at dusk, Shen Shi said goodbye to the starfish and returned to his cave stone room in Baiyu Bay. Three years later, he is no longer the twelve-year-old boy who first entered the island back then, and he has already cultivated to the middle level of the Qi Refining Realm in the Dao Xing realm alone, and among the rookie disciples who have entered the Lingxiao Sect in this round, he can be regarded as a middle-to-upper talent ranked in the top 100.

In the past three years, after day and night of non-stop spiritual power refining, his physical body has begun to gradually change, and his strength and tenacity have far surpassed ordinary people in the world, and if he compares his strength alone, he is now even enough to compete with two or three ordinary adult men. And as his cultivation continues to deepen, this gap will continue to accelerate and expand, especially if he has the opportunity to learn the Divine Channel Technique in the future, then the gap between him and ordinary human races will be like an immortal, a world of difference.

Three years ago, every time he came back from peeling shrimp from Red Clam Village, he would be half tired to death, but now when he returned to Dongfu, the whole person was still the same as usual, and he couldn't see any special exhaustion. When the stone door closed, the familiar silence came to the stone room where he had lived for three years, Shen Shi pondered for a moment, walked to the bed, reached under the pillow and found a small bag, then returned to the table in the stone room and sat down, and gently poured the contents of the small bag on the table.

"Tick tock" The light and crisp voice echoed as the flickering and crystal clear spirit crystals fell on the table, although Shen Shi was actually very clear in his heart, he still carefully counted the spirit crystals scattered on the table.

A total of five spirit crystals.

Coupled with the three spirit crystals he had spent on the "Water Archery Technique" that he had taken out in the morning, these were all his savings after three years of non-stop cultivation during the daily mission.

The spirit crystal exuded a beautiful and dazzling crystal light, flickering in front of his eyes, Shen Shi stared at these beautiful little stones quietly, gently stroked them with his hand, and thought quietly without saying a word.

Among the five spirit crystals, the color and luster of one spirit crystal looks dimmer than the surrounding spirit crystals, and after careful observation, you can distinguish it, as long as the monk who has practiced for a few days sees it, he will know that this is the spirit crystal absorbed by the monk, and part of the spiritual power in it has been lost, so it will be like this. According to the rules of the cultivation world, only intact and unused spirit crystals can be used as coins for the purchase of all kinds of spiritual materials, so now Shen Shi can get his hands on it, in fact, there are only four spirit crystals.

After three years of penance and hard work every day, there is only so much left, and it is really embarrassing to think about it.

Shen Shi laughed lightly and bitterly with a bit of self-deprecation, and shook his head. Because of the Pure Heart Mantra, the number of spirit crystals consumed by his cultivation was twice as large as that of ordinary Qi Refining Realm disciples under the Ling Xiao Sect, so he had been living a tight life all along. Now that the realm has improved, from the initial level of the Qi Refining Realm to the middle level of the Qi Refining Realm, the consumption of spirit crystals has suddenly doubled, but not long ago, the old guy in the Red Clam Village was extremely traitorous, and for no reason he actually directly reduced the remuneration for peeling shrimp by half, so Shen Shi suddenly felt that his life was about to be overwhelmed.

This was also the fundamental reason why he finally made up his mind to buy the Five Elements Spell and prepare to do other tasks, even if it was said that the demon hunting mission had always brought some risks.

After a long breath, Shen Shi expelled these thoughts from his mind, calmed down, and then picked up the spirit crystal that had been used several times, returned to the bed and sat cross-legged, and began his daily routine of cultivation.

Holding the spirit crystal in his hand, sensing the spiritual power, attracting the spirit into the body, he should practice the secret method steps, he was already familiar with the heart, he cultivated it very smoothly, when the wisp of spiritual power was inhaled from the spirit crystal into his qi veins and stopped safely, Shen Shi soon felt a sense of exhaustion flooding his heart, and even his brain felt a little heavy, and he was dizzy and wanted to lie down and sleep.

This is naturally the usual reaction of mental fatigue after cultivation, in fact, compared to the reaction of many teenagers who had a splitting headache and couldn't sleep all night when they first started cultivating three years ago, this is already a much-reduced fatigue just a little sleepy. Shen Shi reached out and pinched his eyebrows, took a deep breath, and then closed his eyes again.

Another ancient and mysterious spell began to slowly reverberate in his heart, and a strange power seemed to readjust his physical spirit under the control of his mind. And the trace of spiritual power that had just been incorporated into the qi veins in the body not long ago had been quietly calmed down somewhere in the qi veins, but at this moment, it seemed to be suddenly alarmed, and jumped suddenly, and then under the urging of an invisible and inexplicable force, it began to wander slowly again, wandering all the way, and finally came to a mysterious hole deep in Shen Shimei's heart, and soon merged with the many spiritual powers that had been stored here before, and it quieted down.

Different from the ordinary spiritual power scattered in the qi veins around his body, which seemed to be a little scattered and meager in the qi veins around his body, after three years of continuous cultivation of the Heart Purification Mantra, the spiritual power gathered in Shen Shimei's heart at this moment was almost exactly equal to the amount of spiritual power in all the qi veins around his body, but because it was all contained in this narrow acupoint, all the spiritual power was condensed and solid, and it was now formed a bundle of tough and thick qi veins, quietly sinking in the heart of Shen Shimei. But other than that, these spiritual powers never move on weekdays, and there doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary.

After cultivating the Pure Heart Mantra, when Shen Shi opened his eyes again, he only felt that his mind was instantly clear, his mind was sharp, and the original tiredness and sleepiness were swept away.

Looking down at the palm of his hand, the luster on the surface of the spirit crystal seemed to have dimmed a little, Shen Shi calculated slightly in his heart, the spiritual power in this spirit crystal has probably been used up about half, and it can only be used five times at most.

After ordinary Qi Refining Realm disciples cultivated to the mid-level realm, the spiritual power in one spirit crystal could be absorbed by them ten times, which was enough for ten days. However, Shen Shi was in the realm of a middle-level disciple of the Qi Refining Realm, but he had the consumption of the high-level realm of the Qi Refining Realm, and a spirit crystal could only support his cultivation for five days now.

What if one day the spirit crystal can't keep up......

Shen Shi only felt that his toothache for no reason, and shook his head with a wry smile, it was at this moment that he suddenly thought of the Gan Ze who was now a famous person in Qingyu Island and even in the entire Lingxiao Sect, and within three years, he had directly cultivated to the high-level realm of the Qi Refining Realm, and he was only one step away from the Ning Yuan Realm that had entered the hall, and this kind of genius could be said to be rare in a hundred years.

But his current consumption should be the same as his own, a spirit crystal can only support his cultivation for five days, I just wonder if Gan Ze will also be troubled by the spirit crystal?

After staying for a moment, Shen Shi suddenly woke up and smiled self-deprecatingly, thinking to himself what kind of family background Gan Ze is, the only descendant of the Gan family of the Wannian family now, where does such a character need to have a headache and distress for such a trivial matter as Lingjing like himself. ？

Leaving these chaotic thoughts behind, Shen Shi calmed down again, and after a while, he started his second cultivation in one day again.

As before, this time the cultivation was also very smooth, from inducting spiritual power to attracting spiritual power into the body to travel around Zhoutian, basically there was no problem, when a new wisp of spiritual power slowly settled down in the body, the familiar slight feeling of exhaustion struck again, but this time I don't know if it was because the residual power of the Pure Heart Mantra still had a little bit left, and the reaction was lighter than the reaction after the first cultivation before.

Shen Shi let out a sigh of relief, got out of bed and straightened up, stretched, and after some movement, he felt better again. There was no special sleepiness at the moment, he pondered for a while, and decided to try to practice the water archery technique that he had just bought from the Five Elements Hall today.

The secret book of the "water archery" technique, according to the rules, cannot be brought out of the Five Elements Palace, he also according to the requirements of the two senior brothers and sisters in the magic hall, the magic trick was memorized before it came out, at this moment he slowly recited it silently in his heart, and after realizing that there was no omission and forgetting, he began to try to urge the spiritual power in the qi veins in the body, and slowly stimulated it with the magic of water archery.

Heaven and earth Hongmeng, divided into yin and yang, there are five elements, everywhere, everywhere, the five elements are mutually reinforcing, is the cognition handed down from ancient times.

The Five Elements Technique is a method that uses the spiritual power in the body to arouse the resonance of the five elements of spiritual power, and then casts a variety of different powerful spells, which has been known for its complexity and hardship since ancient times. Shen Shi first set foot in this way, and soon felt the difficulty, in addition to almost not being able to sense the water spiritual power in the surrounding air, the most important step was to urge the spiritual power in the body, and use the water arrow technique to operate and excite, but it was particularly difficult.

Although the Water Arrow Technique is only the lowest first-order spell in the Five Elements Technique, the spiritual power required to cast this spell is not small, and the spiritual power of ordinary beginner-level disciples of the Qi Refining Realm is not even enough.

After starting to practice the Five Elements Technique, there were two initial difficulties: one was that the Five Elements Technique itself was difficult and complicated, which could actually be seen from the various incomparably complex rune arrays on the rune box, because the rune was a special embodiment of the Five Elements Technique. People who have not been exposed to this path can easily make mistakes in the operation of spiritual power in the process of cultivation at the beginning, resulting in the loss of previous efforts and having to start all over again;

For ordinary monks, the most difficult point is the first point, and the second point is extremely difficult for Qi Refining Realm monks, because the spiritual power absorbed by Qi Refining Realm monks into their bodies is scattered and walking in the qi veins around their bodies, and it is difficult to concentrate and gather, but once the monks cultivate to the Ning Yuan Realm, it will become very simple, because the Ning Yuan Realm monks have already opened up the dantian qi sea, and all the spiritual power of the whole body is gathered here, and at the same time, as the realm climbs, the control of the spiritual power in the body will greatly improve, so it is easy to do.

However, for Shen Shi, at this moment, because he has practiced the talisman since he was a child, even if he has been worshipping the Lingxiao Sect for three years, although it is useless, but because of habit, he still insists on drawing a few pieces of paper on the Yin and Yang Five Elements Rune every day, so after a long time, he has a good idea of some of the basic trends of the Five Elements Technique, especially the lowest first-order Technique, which is much better than ordinary people, so it is very smooth at the first point, and he has not encountered too many difficulties. In fact, having an understanding of the Five Elements Technique was also an important reason why he chose the task of demon hunting.

However, after all, he was not the kind of superlative person who was a genius in the sky, even if he had some understanding of the Five Elements Technique and took the lead, he still quickly encountered a bottleneck in the second difficulty of cultivating the Five Elements Technique, that is, the problem of operating and regulating the spiritual power within the collective, and it was almost difficult to cultivate.

(The manuscript is almost finished, a little nervous, it seems that I have to work hard to code words...... There is a chapter at seven o'clock in the evening)