"Senior Brother Gu, when Senior Brother Sun was here more than three months ago, the spiritual energy in our spiritual veins had already begun to decline, and the formation protecting the entire city in Hanshan City had also become unstable. After Manager Sun left, , in less than a month, the spiritual energy in the spiritual veins has declined by 40%. The formation outside Hanshan City will soon be unable to maintain, and the power of the Red Feather Formation here has also declined a lot..."
Gu Qing stood with his hands behind his hands as he listened to the ramblings of this second-level Qi Refining junior fellow who seemed to have no other merits except his great fortune.
"Why does the spiritual energy in the spiritual veins decline?"
He frowned slightly and interrupted the junior brother's nonsense in a cold voice.
With the help of the power of the Red Feather Formation, Gu Qing did not feel relieved when he designed to trap and kill more than a hundred monks and dozens of barbarians from the Nine Dazhai.
He can eliminate these 'evil cultivators' who have impacted the spiritual veins of the Xianhe Sect, but he has no reason to kill the other survivors of the Nine Dazhai, let alone come to them and kill them all.
After all, his cultivation level is only at the fifth level of Qi refining.
With the help of the power of this formation, the Red Feather Formation, and his huge spiritual consciousness, Gu Qing showed a method comparable to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining. Without this formation, he was still at the fifth level of Qi Refining, even if his soul Although he is extremely powerful, he cannot directly mobilize the power of heaven and earth with his spiritual consciousness like the monks in the early stage of foundation building. I am afraid that a monk at the seventh level of Qi refining can put him into a difficult battle.
The power of this Red Feather Formation comes from spiritual veins.
If this first-level spiritual vein is damaged, then he, the newly appointed deacon disciple, will immediately lose his greatest support.
There should still be some monks and barbarians among the survivors of the Nine Villages. Maybe among them there is a combat power comparable to the seventh level of Qi Refining or even higher. In addition, those watching in secret can also sense it. A few breaths of late-stage Qi refining, how could he overwhelm these people without the support of the Red Feather Formation? What's more, there are guys with unknown intentions like the Ziyun Sect and his party.
Running away is just the last resort.
As a deacon disciple of the Xianhe Sect, with this status, except for the monks and barbarians from the Nine Villages, who would dare to kill him?
He had to keep singing this scene.
Before the spiritual vein collapsed, Gu Qing had no intention of running away.
"This...junior brother doesn't know, but..."
This junior fellow who was on the second level of Qi Refining had a trace of hesitation on his dark and gray face, as if he was hiding something unspeakable.
"Say, if you dare to lie even a little bit, I will kill the whole clan." Gu Qing's tone remained indifferent, and he played with the blue-black formation token in his hand. When the grandson of Elder Sun gave this formation token to him that day, he only thought it was An ordinary thing, but now it seems that this thing is a bit more magical than the golden sword in the small Five Elements Formation on Feilei Peak. It can control the entire Red Feather Formation at will.
The Red Feather Formation arranged by the Xianhe Sect to protect the spiritual veins has an internal radius of more than two thousand feet. It is undoubtedly much larger than the small Five Elements Formation set up by Liu Gang.
This was one of the reasons why Gu Qing didn't want to run away so easily.
With the Red Feather Formation as a support, we cannot leave so easily! The monks and barbarians in Jiudazhai are just appetizers. If there are still those who don't know life and death and want to come here to get a share of the pie, he will use the power of the Red Feather Formation to trap and kill them all. Isn't that right? Beautiful?
After hearing what Gu Qing said, the disciple on the second level of Qi Refining turned pale with fear.
Kill the entire clan? !
Swallowing hard, he spoke tremblingly: "Junior brother does not know the specific reason for the decline of spiritual veins and spiritual energy, but junior brother guesses that it should be related to the fact that senior brother Sun has been bringing people here to carry spiritual stones in the past few years! Junior brother! I have been here for nine years. Senior Brother Sun arrived six years ago. Before he arrived, the spiritual energy in his spiritual veins was always very abundant, but after he arrived..."
Gu Qing listened indifferently.
He narrowed his eyes, pinned the blue-black formation token to his waist, and spread his consciousness toward the ground.
Exploring the underground with your spiritual consciousness consumes the power of your soul.
Gu Qing's consciousness spread out for nearly a hundred feet, then he hurriedly retracted it.
He looked back and scanned the dark red formation light curtain of the Red Feather Formation. The outside world was in a quiet night, with the white snow reflecting the moonlight.
After thinking for a moment, Gu Qing walked towards the underground spiritual veins.
Gu Qing had already taken advantage of the opportunity to gather the remaining souls scattered in the formation to explore the two thousand feet area covered by the Red Feather Formation just now. The outside world was filled with ice and snow, and countless ordinary people from the Nine Villages had frozen to death. The area covered by the Red Feather Formation was It has a radius of two thousand feet, but the climate is extremely pleasant. From a distance, it is densely covered with all kinds of spiritual plants, it is a green area, and there are also several exquisite pavilions built there.
In addition to being turned into black ash by the power of the Red Feather Formation mobilized by Gu Qing, the hundreds of monks and dozens of barbarians from the Nine Dazhai scattered on the ground are a bit unpleasant. The two thousand feet square above this level of spiritual veins is really a bit like a fairyland on earth. feel.
The outer sect disciple on the second level of Qi Refining followed Gu Qing step by step, talking about what 'Senior Brother Sun' had done like he was pouring beans out of a bamboo tube.
Entering the range of the underground spiritual veins, a faint warm light enveloped Gu Qing. He looked at the earth and rocks, like tree roots entangled together, golden spiritual energy veins, walking deeper underground along the long corridor. , the further he walked, the more he frowned.
His consciousness carefully probed out, then quickly retracted his eyebrows.
"In the golden veins, the spiritual energy flows extremely slowly. Inside the spiritual veins, the concentration of spiritual energy nearby is even worse than any mountain col in the Xianhe Sect that is not a place for spiritual gathering. This level of spiritual veins The decline of spiritual energy is so serious!"
Gu Qing thought to himself.
The two of them turned around in the corridor and came to a place a hundred feet underground.
Ahead is a stone door glowing with green light.
Gu Qing stretched out his hand and touched the stone door. With a little force, he slowly pushed it open. Then an empty cave that had been hollowed out appeared in front of Gu Qing. The moment he saw the empty cave, Gu Qing's footsteps paused, and he took a long step. He took a breath and felt a chill in his heart.
His figure stopped in front of the cave.
The outer disciple on the second level of Qi Refining on the side looked at the empty cave in front of him in puzzlement, with a hint of thinking flashing in his eyes.
He had reported everything that Senior Brother Sun had done to this new evil star, and he was feeling a little uneasy at this time.
"Just back off."
Gu Qing's voice rang in his ears.
The outer disciple of the second level of Qi Refining seemed to have been pardoned. He was about to turn around and leave when he saw a spiritual light coming towards him.
His heart skipped a beat.
My life is at risk!
He couldn't bear the slightest thought of resisting this god-like Senior Brother Gu, so he closed his eyes and waited for death.
Snapped!
A white square sound-transmitting jade talisman hit his cheek. He subconsciously reached out to catch it, feeling slightly relieved.
"Junior brother, please retire."
He was still in shock, tightly grasped the sound transmission jade talisman, respectfully clasped his fists and stepped back, disappearing from Gu Qing's sight.
After this person left, Gu Qing entered the cave in front.
This empty cave is the core of this first-order spiritual vein, and is the gathering hub for the spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven and earth.
Originally, there should be veins of spiritual stones capable of mining a thousand pieces of middle-grade spiritual stones in this cave, but at this moment, let alone veins capable of mining medium-grade spiritual stones, not even the spiritual mist has condensed here, and the concentration of spiritual energy around it has already... It is not as good as the spiritual energy concentration of the caves built on the second-level spiritual veins. Compared with the spiritual energy concentration of the spiritual gathering place that Gu Qing found in the Xianhe Sect area of Huifeng Valley, it is only four to five times worse. become.
Spirit veins and spirit stone veins are dependent on each other.
As a gathering place for the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, one spiritual vein will surely produce many spiritual stone veins.
According to what Zhao Qing knows.
An ordinary first-level spiritual vein can probably contain four low-grade spiritual stone veins and one medium-grade spiritual stone vein. Each low-grade spiritual stone vein can store 100,000 low-grade spiritual stones. In this way, four low-grade spiritual stone veins can Reserve 400,000 low-grade spiritual stones.
The middle-grade spiritual stone vein contained in the first-order spiritual veins can usually store about a thousand pieces of medium-grade spiritual stones.
Without affecting the normal operation of the spiritual vein, a first-level spiritual vein can mine about 40,000 low-grade spiritual stones and about 100 medium-grade spiritual stones every year, which is enough to supply the cultivation of several small monk families. As long as the spiritual veins function normally, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered in the second year can once again cultivate the same number of spiritual stones. Only in this way can a spiritual vein be inexhaustible.
As for the first-order spiritual vein in front of Gu Qing, the middle-grade spiritual stone veins have been mined out, and the four low-grade spiritual stone veins may not have much reserve of low-grade spiritual stones left.
In the empty cave, in addition to the stone door where you came from, there are four deep passages leading to the surroundings.
Gu Qing's consciousness spread out in all directions.
Soon his consciousness retracted between his brows.
"As expected, the four low-grade spiritual stone veins currently only have more than a thousand pieces of spiritual stone left in reserve. The four low-grade spiritual stone veins combined can produce more than 4,500 low-grade spiritual stones." He opened the door. He took out the futon and sat cross-legged in the hole.
His consciousness captured the flow of spiritual energy, and his eyes followed the golden veins among the surrounding earth and rocks. The flow of spiritual energy looked towards the top of the cave. There was the very core of this spiritual vein, a very fine golden crystal. Embedded in the earth and rocks.
This is the crystal of spiritual veins.
The monk's spiritual consciousness is not detectable and can only be found with the naked eye.
Gu Qing used his spiritual power to cover his eyes and carefully looked at the spiritual vein crystal above. He saw that the spiritual vein crystal was no more than the size of a grain of rice. It was rhombus-shaped in appearance, and the whole body was pure gold. It was covered with dense cracks. , a layer of light halo with a radius of half a foot, covering the cracked spiritual vein crystal, this layer of halo, it is said that even the foundation-building monks cannot damage the spiritual vein crystal within it. Break down.
"With so many cracks covering it, this spiritual vein crystal has not yet collapsed. It is truly a creation of heaven and earth."
Gu Qing withdrew his gaze.
The vein of spiritual stone associated with this spiritual vein has been almost hollowed out.
Because of this, the spiritual energy in this first-order spiritual vein flows extremely slowly, and the crystal of the spiritual vein is on the verge of collapse. Once it collapses, the surrounding area will immediately turn into a place of extraordinary spirituality.
And the initiator of all this is probably Elder Sun Sheng.
Elder Sun Sheng's grandson must have received his own instructions to empty out this first-order spiritual vein bit by bit.
Nearly 400,000 low-grade spiritual stones and more than a thousand medium-grade spiritual stones are enough to drive a monk in the foundation-building stage crazy. It is not difficult to understand that Sun Sheng would do this.
So what if the door loses a first-level spiritual vein?
With such a huge amount of spiritual stones in hand, and after taking care of them, Gu Qing was introduced as the scapegoat. Who in the sect would pursue the loss of this first-order spiritual vein? Gu Qing has heard of this kind of thing several times in the past, but without exception, it happened in the declining monk family and the declining immortal sect. He never thought that now he has experienced this kind of thing first-hand. By.
His expression was slightly gloomy.
Taking out the fish basket that Sun Sheng gave him that day, he looked at the bloated cold-patterned spirit dragon the size of dust on the lake-like water in the fish basket, and suppressed the murderous intention in his heart.
With such a low level of cultivation, I can only accept it.
Gu Qing closed his eyes, took out a spiritual stone, and quietly adjusted his breath. The spiritual light flashed like a tidal wave. Nearly three hours passed quickly. When he opened his eyes, his expression returned to calm.
Raising his head, he looked at the spiritual vein crystal again.
He didn't know if it was his imagination, but he felt that the cracks on the spiritual vein crystal seemed to have decreased by one or two.
Because the golden light above was so intense that Gu Qing could only see it with his naked eyes, he couldn't be sure whether this feeling was right or wrong. His consciousness filled the entire cave, quietly monitoring the flow of spiritual energy around him, a kind of An extremely special feeling appeared in his heart.
The circulation of spiritual energy seems to be faster?
Gu Qing was slightly surprised.
At this time, he noticed something and his eyes flashed.
He stood up, put the futon into his storage bag, took off the formation token that was flashing red from his waist, turned into a ball of white air, and flew to the ground through the blue stone door when he came out.
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Half an hour ago.
"Release my father quickly!"
"The third young master of the Xiao family, surnamed Zhao, has been invited by us. Why don't you quickly open the formation and release the people from my nine villages!"
Outside the Red Feather Formation, several waves of monks were still observing secretly. There were several people from the Nine Villages in front of the formation, leading a young man in white who was shouting. This young man in white was handsome, wearing thin white clothes in the ice and snow, and holding a folding fan in his hand. Shake it gently, looking dignified.
"Master He, if you take action, how long will it take to break this formation?"
The young man in white asked the old woman in black robe standing aside.
"Ahem...it only takes two hours." The old woman in black robe smiled lightly, her wrinkled old face showing a bit of pride.
"Since fellow Taoists from the Xianhe Sect are so ignorant of praise, then Master He, please take action." The young man in white nodded slightly when he heard this, with a chuckle on his handsome face, and said loudly.
The early morning sunlight in late winter fell on the cheeks of the young man in white, making him look flawless and indifferent.
