"This...what is this?"

Looking at the hole in front of him with a diameter of about half a meter, Fang Yi couldn't help but be stunned. He picked up the beads in his hand and looked in. It was dark and deep inside, and the aura he felt just now disappeared.

"What's going on?" Fang Yi put his nose on the hole and sniffed it hard, but except for the stench that had not dissipated on his body, he had never smelled anything else.

"What is the purpose of pressing the stone bed on top of such a hole?"

Fang Yi sat down and looked at the dark hole for no reason. There were too few clues left in the stone house, not even a single word, and Fang Yi could not make any inference at all.

"We need to start with the beginning..."

Fang Yi's mind was a little confused. He took a deep breath and calmed down his mind. "This is a place where Qi Refiners live in seclusion, and there is no doubt that it would be necessary to set up a formation outside, and there are fields and houses inside, but it turned into a snake cave outside, which also shows that this place has been abandoned by the Qi Refiners..."

After clarifying his thoughts, Fang Yi began to infer that judging from the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Array arranged outside and the situation inside, even if this place is not a blessing in the world, it must be a place for a Qi Refiner to practice.

But for some reason, the Qi Refiner finally abandoned this place and was later regarded by the giant anaconda as his own snake cave. However, due to the protection of the formation, the giant anaconda and the group of snakes were unable to enter the core position here until Fang Yi came here.

"I don't know how many years have I been abandoned here?"

Fang Yi sighed in his heart, the years have changed, and even if the Qi Refiner left something, it has long been weathered into dust by the years.

Of course, the clean and spotless place here means that the Qi Refiner is not a rich man. Before leaving, he really scraped the ground three feet away, and he didn't leave any clothes, books, or even pots, pans, or spoons. This is the most harassed thing that Fang Yi was most worried about.

"But why did that Qi Refiner abandon this place?"

Fang Yi was puzzled to understand this problem. Although this cave was stinky by Peng Bin's skunk potion, it was undoubtedly a good place to practice before this, otherwise it would not have been occupied by giant anacondas as a snake cave.

"What seems to be missing?"

Fang Yi suddenly thought of a relatively vague word in his mind, but he couldn't remember what it was. He scratched his head with his hand. Fang Yi knew what key points he had forgotten, but the more he thought, the less he could remember it.

"Forget it, let's see what's inside this hole?" Fang Yi shook his head, then lowered his body and looked at the hole, but the hole was bottomless. With the luster emitted by the beads, nothing could be observed at all.

Fang Yi raised his head, thought for a while, waved his right hand and cut a fist-sized stone from the stone bed with a short blade. Anyway, he had checked it. The stone bed was cut out from ordinary stone materials, not a treasure. Fang Yi obviously did not mean to protect it as a cultural relic.

"There is no white snake inside, right?"

Looking at the dark hole, Fang Yi threw the stone in. After throwing it in, Fang Yi immediately turned his ears over. The sound of the stone colliding with the hole rock wall clearly came into Fang Yi's ears.

After more than ten seconds, a dull "thump" sound reached Fang Yi's ears, but the sound of the stone falling into the water. However, the distance between the hole was probably at least hundreds of meters away from the water surface.

"This...is this a spring?"

Hearing the sound of water, he looked carefully at the traces suspected to be left by moss around the hole, and Fang Yi immediately understood. He had such speculation in his mind before, but now it was just confirmed.

"Putting the stone bed above the spring means that there must be something extraordinary about this spring. Perhaps the mist I absorbed is emitted by this spring..."

After confirming that this was the spring, some of the previous confusion gradually became clear in Fang Yi's mind. When Fang Yi climbed onto the stone bed just now, he sensed that kind of qi, which means that the qi emitted from the spring can be spread through the stone.

In this way, it is easy to understand the behavior of the Qi Refiner pressing the stone bed on the spring. He should have sat on the stone bed every day to practice, absorbing the qi emitted from the spring into his body. In other words, this spring should be a spiritual spring that helps the Qi Refiner practice.

"What will arise in the spiritual spring? Will the spiritual spring water rise in the sun? No, this Qi Refiner pressed the stone bed on it, probably the things emitted by the spiritual spring are not liquid but mist..."

Fang Yi's mind was opened for a moment, and he fantasized about what effect this long-dried spiritual spring would have in the past. Suddenly, Fang Yi was stunned and blurted out: "I... I understand, spiritual energy, this spiritual spring can produce spiritual energy!"

As Fang Yi said, he couldn't help but stand up. He finally thought of what the mist he had absorbed before was, and it should be... spiritual energy.

According to ancient sayings, all things are spiritual, but if you want to practice, there must be spiritual energy between heaven and earth. This is the basis for all living things to practice. No matter how powerful a Qi Refiner is, his cultivation is achieved through spiritual energy.

The theory of spiritual energy has been recorded in Taoism and Buddhism, but to this day, there is no spiritual energy in the world.

When Fang Yi's master raised his spiritual energy, his face was full of melancholy, because he had traveled all over the mountains and rivers of the country and the so-called blessed lands, but he was unable to see the spiritual energy. According to the old Taoist priest, it is probably that after ancient times, the spiritual energy had disappeared from this world.

The disappearance of ancient Qi Refiners should have a direct relationship with the disappearance of spiritual energy. Heaven and earth are no longer suitable for Qi Refiners to practice, but they don’t know where they are going. This is always a mystery that later generations can’t figure out.

"I understand that the Qi Refiner built the cave here because there is a spiritual spring here that can breed spiritual energy!"
Chapter completed!