The original repairer

Chapter 182 Exploring Water Veins

The underground river is interconnected in all directions, and following the river with spiritual consciousness, one can find many tributaries.

We could only explore slowly, and even after exploring the underground river for more than ten miles, we still found no trace of the spiritual vein.

After searching in various tributaries, no water-attributed spiritual veins were found. The water in the underground river is rich in spiritual energy. It is certain that somewhere in the underground river, there is a treasure or spiritual object that gives the river water spiritual energy.

Shi Chen had already felt that the spiritual energy in the water of the dark river had decreased a lot, which meant that this place was quite far away from the spiritual object he had guessed.

Returning along the original route, two hundred feet away from the spring, we found that the river water here has the highest spiritual energy content. There are more than a dozen tributaries around it. This is a branch point of an underground river.

Going against the flow of the underground river, we checked each tributary one by one.

A narrow waterway, only two feet wide, can only accommodate one person. Even if the spiritual sense is probed in, it can only detect a distance of more than ten feet.

The spiritual energy of the river water in the waterway is thicker than that in other places. It should be that the water here is mixed with the water from the underground river, which then becomes the river water rich in spiritual energy.

Shi Chen entered the waterway and found that it was becoming narrower and narrower, only enough for half a person to enter.

After walking about seven or eight feet, I found a stone house about ten feet square in front of me.

Entering the stone house, there was a stone table in the middle with a fist-sized bead on it. He recognized it as the Water Spirit Bead.

The formation at the entrance of the stone house separates the water of the underground river. There is no other exit of the stone house, and a formation diagram is carved on the wall.

This should be the center of the formation. As long as this center is broken, the illusion formation, concealment formation, and soul-locking formation outside will become ineffective.

The formations carved in the stone house, including the Soul Locking Formation, the Psychedelic Formation, and the Concealment Formation, were probably carved in modern times, judging by the age of the formations.

There is a tiny crack in the array pattern carved on the smooth stone wall. It should be this crack that makes the soul-locking array ineffective, and the water spiritual energy gathered here leaks out, resulting in water spiritual energy in the dark river water.

The purple-flowered Phoenix Leaf Lotus has only grown in recent years, so it is certain that the spiritual energy here has only been leaked in recent years.

In the natural composite formation, a soul-locking formation was carved to lock the spiritual energy released by the water spirit bead, making it difficult for outsiders to discover this stone house.

The purpose of the natural formation arranged outside is not to hide the spring, but more likely to protect the things inside the stone house in the underground river under the spring.

It is the Water Spirit Pearl on the stone table.

The formation arrangement here would have been destroyed by that tiny crack, rendering the formation ineffective and leaking the spiritual energy, which would have allowed Shi Chen to find it.

Whether the natural formation at the spring was formed naturally is still a matter of investigation. At least with Shi Chen's current attainments in formation, he cannot set up such a formation. The formation is in line with nature from beginning to end.

The stone house is full of water spiritual energy, and the soul-locking formation seals the spiritual energy in the stone house. Over the years, the spiritual energy in the stone room has reached the density of mist.

The spiritual spring has been discovered, and there may be people with the same knowledge as him who have gone down to the underground river to look for spiritual objects. This is not a suitable place for retreat.

Before taking the Water Spirit Pearl, he first studied the formation here. His formation techniques and skills were many times better than his own. He was able to arrange a formation that even he thought was a natural formation. Shi Chen admitted that he was not as good as him.

In a month, Shi Chen completed the analysis of several formations here, and the new formation methods and ideas collided with existing experience and insights.

So that's how it is. The person who set up the formation had some strange ideas and created a new branch, forming his own school.

Shi Chen was immersed in his new understanding of the formation. He found that this unique formation idea and method had many potential integration points with the formations he had learned.

He began to think deeply about how to combine these two different formation systems to create a more powerful and unique formation of his own style.

Through constant attempts and practice, Shi Chen gradually realized that new insights into formations could add more variations and flexibility to his existing formation skills.

He learned how to use new ideas to adjust the layout and operation of the formation so that it can better adapt to different scenarios and needs.

Not only that, Shi Chen also discovered that after integrating his understanding of the new formation with what he had learned, he was able to create more complex and sophisticated formations.

These formations not only have powerful defense and attack capabilities, but can also be adaptively adjusted according to actual conditions to maximize the effect.

As time went by, Shi Chen's attainments in formation became increasingly profound.

And all of this stems from his understanding and integration of the formation in that mysterious stone house.

Three months later, Shi Chen emerged from the spring and saw Cheng Shan lying listlessly beside the rock beside the well. The transformed demon beast transformed into a middle-aged male cultivator and stood by the spring.

"Who are you? Why are you here?" Seeing Shi Chen emerging from the spring, the demon beast asked in surprise.

Shi Chen looked at the divine beast with a cold gaze, and a sense of vigilance surged in his heart.

He slowly said, "It doesn't matter who I am. What's the meaning of you capturing a human cultivator like me?"

A hint of doubt flashed across the eyes of the Divine Beast, but he quickly regained his composure. He said in a deep voice, "I am the Demon King of the dangerous peak of Qingming Mountain. I have guarded this place for many years. This spring is my place of protection and no one else is allowed to intrude. Hand over the spiritual object you have obtained, and I will spare you. Otherwise, you will suffer the same fate as this woman."

Shi Chen sneered and said, "Humph, spiritual objects are originally ownerless, so how can you say they are being invaded? Whatever spiritual object I find is also an opportunity for me. Do you want to take it away from me?"

After hearing this, a trace of greed flashed in the eyes of the demon beast. He only saw that Shi Chen was only at the middle stage of the Nascent Soul stage after concealing his cultivation level, so he should be as easy to control as this human female cultivator.

"Since you are unwilling to hand over the spiritual object, don't blame me for bullying the weak!" The divine beast roared, revealing its divine aura, and rushed towards Shi Chen with a surging momentum.

He made hand gestures repeatedly with both hands, and finally waved the flag, and the environment under the well immediately changed.

The divine beast was trapped in an illusion array, with countless phantoms appearing before his eyes. He saw his past, and those past failures and pains kept replaying before his eyes.

The surrounding scenery was constantly changing, sometimes turning into a sea of fire, sometimes into a glacier. The monster struggled hard in the illusion array, but could not escape.

Shi Chen walked over to Cheng Shan, pulled her up, and quickly exited the well. With the well as his center, he constructed a complex formation, incorporating his newfound understanding of formations. The formation blended seamlessly into the surroundings.

A strange light flickered in the formation, the formation patterns flickered, the aura flowed, and in a few breaths it merged into nature.

Cheng Shan was surprised to find that when Shi Chen first set up the formation, she could still discern some clues. The more the formation was laid out, the more vague it became. But once it was complete, it seemed to blend in with the surrounding environment, without any flaws.

She couldn't help but admire Shi Chen's attainments in formation even more.

Shi Chen stared at the formation, his eyes flashing with confidence.

He was well aware of the power of this compound formation and believed that it would be able to withstand the attacks of the incarnation monsters. Combined with his own strength, he had a great chance of killing the monsters in the early stage of incarnation here.