Asking about longevity

Master Luo said this, and did not go further.

As the saying goes, only by enduring hardship can one become a master.

If Mo Hua joins the sect of a noble family in the future, joins forces with him and becomes a "human master", then these words will be useless.

If Mo Hua adheres to Taoism and does not change his original intention, with his intelligence, he should also know what he wants to say, and he will naturally have an idea in his heart.

Master Luo looked at the ink painting and saw that the ink painting frowned slightly, looking thoughtful.

Knowing that he understood what he meant, he nodded slightly and said nothing more.

Afterwards, the few people talked about the formation again.

Master Luo said:

"The second-grade formation is divided into three grades: primary, intermediate and high-level according to the division of spiritual consciousness before, during and after foundation building."

"When you first enter the foundation building, the ten lines are the second-level entry formation..."

"The entry-level formation is relatively simple. Although it is the second level, it does not enter the first level..."

"In the early stage of foundation building, the eleventh to thirteenth lines are the second-level preliminary formations;"

"In the middle stage of foundation building, the fourteenth to sixteenth lines are the second-grade mid-level formations;"

"In the later stage of foundation building, the seventeenth to nineteenth lines are second-grade high-level formations..."

"Second-level formation masters are also divided in the same way, divided into elementary, intermediate and high-level formation masters."

"The threshold for a first-grade formation master is very high. It only talks about entering the rank, not the rank. But in fact, all first-grade formation masters should be counted as 'first-grade high-level formation masters'. However, these previous subdivisions are all classified by Dao Ting erased it..."

"When you reach the second-level formation realm, the division becomes more detailed and strict."

"It's not easy to become a second-level formation master, but it's even more difficult to advance to a second-level formation master. Every time you advance to a higher level, you have to take an assessment..."

Master Luo frowned and sighed.

Master Qian was also very helpless.

It's not easy to take the first-grade test, let alone the second-grade...

Mo Hua thought about it carefully and then asked: "As for the second-grade elementary formation master, is it enough if he can draw the second-grade elementary formation?"

Master Luo shook his head and smiled bitterly:

"It's not that simple. The second-grade elementary formations include the eleventh to thirteenth pattern formations. The difficulty is also very different..."

"With each additional line in the formation, the difficulty becomes higher."

"You must master the thirteen pattern formation, which is the most difficult among the elementary levels, and you cannot only have one or two pairs."

"Among the thirteen pattern formations stipulated by the Daoting, you must learn at least four or five of them before you can apply for evaluation and be promoted to a second-grade primary formation master..."

"The same goes for the back."

"Master the sixteen-line formation and be promoted to the second-grade mid-level; master the nineteen-line formation and be promoted to the second-grade high-level..."

"Therefore, the formation masters who can truly advance to the second level of high-level formations step by step through the finalization process are all rare. Array masters who are extremely proficient in the second level formations..."

Mo Hua nodded and said: "So, does it mean that in the early stage of foundation building, one can become a second-grade primary formation master?"

He put it slightly understated.

Because his current spiritual consciousness has already reached the fourteenth level. If calculated according to the formation method, learning the second-level formation with the fourteenth level has already reached the threshold of the second-level mid-level formation master...

Master Luo shook his head and said:

"no……"

"Generally speaking, only in the middle stage of foundation building can one become a second-grade elementary formation master. In the late stage of foundation construction, one can become a second-grade intermediate formation master, and a second-grade high-level formation master..."

Master Luo paused and sighed:

"...Either he has broken through and become a golden elixir, or his cultivation has been stagnant for too long in the late stage of foundation building and cannot improve. He can only spend one or two hundred years studying formations hard and be promoted to a second-grade high-level formation master... …”

Mo Hua opened his mouth, "Is it so difficult..."

"It's difficult..."

Master Luo frowned into the character "Chuan".

He glanced at Mo Hua. Although he felt that Mo Hua, a child, could not be snatched away by common sense, he still had to understand some "common sense" of Taoism.

He is him, others are others.

Not everyone is a little monster.

"Even if the formation level is a small level behind the cultivation level, this kind of monk can be said to be an extremely talented formation master. Ordinary monks will learn first-level formations during foundation building, and only learn second-level formations in the later stages of foundation building, or even golden elixirs. The formations are all normal..."

Mo Hua said: "Is it because the spiritual consciousness is not enough?"

Master Luo nodded and said feebly: "My spiritual consciousness is not enough..."

"Blood energy and spiritual power can be enhanced through exercises, but spiritual consciousness cannot."

"Most monks cannot cultivate their spiritual consciousness. Except for those who are born with extraordinary spiritual consciousness, they usually have different spiritual consciousness according to their realm, and it is only about the same level..."

"In the early stage of foundation building, you can only have thirteen lines of spiritual consciousness at most. If you want to become a junior formation master, you must learn the thirteen lines of formation..."

"It's very difficult to learn like this."

"The spiritual consciousness is extremely consumed and the recovery is extremely slow. Moreover, learning the formation in this way is equivalent to crossing the river by feeling the stones. Be cautious and make no mistakes. If you are not careful, there is even a danger of the spiritual consciousness drying up."

"Even so, if you exhaust your spiritual consciousness for a whole day, you can practice it two or three times..."

"The formation of the second grade and thirteen patterns is complex and difficult. How can it be enough to practice it two or three times a day?"

"When you really understand it, you have to practice until the monkey year and the horse month..."

Master Luo said bitterly.

Mo Hua couldn't help but nodded.

He has a Dao tablet and has practiced a lot of formations. Sometimes he can practice them twenty or thirty times in a night.

Two or three times a day is indeed too little, not enough to fill the gap between his teeth...

With this level of proficiency, it is indeed difficult to understand the formation.

Moreover, monks still have to practice and earn spiritual stones.

Even the monks of the family sect will probably not be idle. They have to be busy with various affairs within the sect. They don't have much time to focus on the formation every day.

"so……"

Master Luo continued, "Whet your sword before chopping wood. First, improve your realm and enhance your spiritual consciousness. Then go back and learn the formation. In this way, your spiritual consciousness will be full and it will be easier to learn."

"I see……"

Mo Hua nodded his little head again, and suddenly his eyes lit up:

"So, if I become a second-grade elementary formation master in the early stage of foundation building, wouldn't it... be pretty powerful?"

"Early stage of foundation building...beginner level of second grade..."

Master Luo was suffocated and didn't want to talk to Mo Hua.

But then he thought about it, it seemed that it was not impossible for Mo Hua...

Master Luo has some expectations in his heart.

If Mo Hua can become a second-grade elementary formation master at a young age and in the early stages of foundation building, he may be able to go further in the future...

Master Qian also praised: "If the young gentleman is in the early stage of foundation building, he can become a second-grade elementary formation master. Even if you look at the big families, he will be a rare formation genius..."

"only……"

Master Qian sighed and said with some regret:

"In Tongxian City, the inheritance and resources of second-grade formations are too scarce..."

Formations are scarce, and pen, ink, and paper cost a lot of money.

Coming from a background that uses ink painting, I really want to continue learning, but there are many difficulties.

Master Luo also felt sorry for Mo Hua.

After talking about the formation, everyone drank some tea.

Near noon, the disciples in the school left school one after another, respectfully bid farewell to Master Qian, and then went home to have dinner.

Suddenly, a five or six-year-old child in the crowd lit up when he saw Mo Hua. He threw himself into Mo Hua's arms and shouted in a milky voice:

"Brother Mo!"

Mo Hua was slightly startled, and then realized that the child turned out to be Zhou'er.

Zhou'er, whose surname is Chu, is a child of Uncle Chu's family who is good at using traps among demon hunters and taught Mo Hua the trap technique.

Zhou'er's mother is Aunt Jiang who helps Mo Hua's restaurant.

A few years ago, Uncle Chu was seriously injured and unable to hunt monsters, so he asked Mo Hua to teach his son some formations so that he could make a living without having to lick blood with a knife in the future.

Later, Mo Hua went out to travel and entrusted Zhou'er to Master Qian.

Seeing Zhou'er's appearance, Master Qian said helplessly:

"There are no rules, it's not decent."

Zhou'er hid behind Mo Hua, with his little head exposed.

Master Qian's tone was strict, but his expression showed no blame. He seemed to like this young apprentice quite a lot.

Mo Hua touched Zhou'er's head and asked Master Qian:

"Master Qian, how are you learning Zhou'er's formation?"

Master Qian said: "He is young and has just learned. He should memorize some books first, understand some formation principles, and just learn one or two formation patterns..."

Mo Hua nodded.

It was noon and Mo Hua had asked all the questions he needed to ask, so he got up and left.

Zhou'er stuck to the ink painting, so Mo Hua took Zhou'er home, picked some delicious and easy-to-digest food from the restaurant, fed Zhou'er until he was full, and then asked Aunt Jiang to take him home. .

…

In the days that followed, Mo Hua began to practice the second-level formation without any distractions.

Whenever night falls, Mo Hua sits upright on the bed, his consciousness sinks into the sea of ​​consciousness, and he keeps practicing formations on the Taoist monument.

The formation he has been practicing these days is the "Second Grade Thorns Formation".

The thorn formation is a wood-type formation.

Once triggered, vines and thorns will grow to trap the enemy. It is a type of Five Elements Trap Formation.

The Thorns Formation contains eleven formation patterns, which is considered a relatively simple second-level primary formation.

This is a formation created by ink painting from the "Five Elements Array Diagram", going back to the source and deciphering it.

This is also the only ink painting so far that is derived from the reverse source and is applicable to the second-grade formation...

The "Five Elements Formation Diagram" uses a strange "Five Elements Origin Pattern" to originate all the Five Elements Sect's Five Elements Formation.

But these formations have condensed into a "source pattern".

This source pattern is very strange and dangerous, but since it was suppressed by the Dao Monument, it has become much more honest...

Despite this, it is still very difficult for Mo Hua to inherit the Five Elements Sect's formations and "decipher" them from the source patterns.

First, this kind of reverse return to the source consumes a lot of spiritual consciousness.

Ink painting also requires learning formations. Although the spiritual consciousness is strong, it is limited after all, so I can only find time, or when I am tired of the formation painting and bored, to "decipher" this source pattern.

The second is that the formation "decoded" from the source pattern is random...

Mo Hua doesn't know what rules or rules the ancestors of the Five Elements Sect used to derive the Five Elements Formation into the Origin Pattern.

Therefore, the formation produced by reversely returning to the source is messy and disorderly.

It's like a "lottery draw"...

The five elements are different, and the first and second grades are mixed.

Mo Hua didn't know what formation he had "deciphered", which attribute of the five elements it was, whether it was the first or second grade, and how many formation patterns it had...

Ink painting can only be masked.

The only thing he guessed was that the upper limit of the "decoded" formation was related to the strength of his consciousness.

The highest level of divine consciousness can "decipher" the formation of as many patterns as there are.

Theoretically speaking, the fourteen lines of ink painting should be able to "decipher" the five elements formation of the fourteen lines.

But theory is theory and reality is reality.

The best formation that Mo Hua has deciphered so far is the second-grade and eleven-line thorn formation that he is practicing.

This is okay, but what makes Mo Hua feel most outrageous is that this "source pattern" is not guaranteed!

Even the lower limit is ridiculously low!

Most of what he has deciphered are first-grade formations, including a large number of inferior formations, and there is even one, the lowest-level open fire formation, which only contains three formation patterns!

Although the Five Elements Origin Pattern includes the Five Elements Formation, it is normal for these low-end formations to be included in it.

But Mo Hua still felt that some formations were used by the ancestors of the Five Elements Sect to make up for the numbers and to "pollute" the source pattern...

Mo Hua sighed, a little helpless.

He could only practice the formation while hoping that one day he would be "lucky" and be able to draw...

No, it was "deciphered" to reveal a second-grade five-element formation with fourteen patterns!

Before that, he could only practice with these ten-line and eleven-line formations...

Mo Hua put away his thoughts and practiced the formation on the Taoist monument all night.

When I wake up during the day, I feel like I still have something to say.

Unfortunately, he has used up the bottles of second-grade spiritual ink that Master Luo and Master Qian gave him, and he can no longer actually draw the formation.

The seven bottles of spiritual ink are too few and cannot be used for ink painting. Even if you save more, they won't last long.

"Put what you learn into practice..."

The ink paintings keep Mr. Zhuang’s teachings firmly in mind.

He has a Taoist monument, so "learning" is no problem.

The spiritual consciousness sinks into the sea of ​​​​consciousness, and the formations are practiced on the Taoist monument without pen, ink, or paper. The spiritual consciousness can be traced back, and you can practice ten times, or even dozens of times more than others.

Thinking of this, Mo Hua felt a little lucky.

"Fortunately, I have a Taoist monument..."

Not only can you practice formations, but you can also hone your spiritual consciousness.

As long as you persevere and keep practicing, you will be able to learn more and more formations, and your spiritual consciousness will become stronger and stronger, so you can learn more and more formations...

He keeps repeating this cycle, "snowballing" to strengthen his spiritual consciousness and formation level.

However, now I can "learn" it, but I can't "use it"...

Not only spiritual ink, pen and paper are also problematic.

Mo Hua bought a few pieces of second-grade "formation paper" from Mr. An, but he was still thirsty and it didn't take long before he ran out of them.

These second-grade formation papers are very expensive.

It’s hard to buy, but too easy to use…

But even so, formation paper is already the cheapest formation media.

Other spiritual weapons, formation disks, formation flags and other formation mediums are more expensive and far beyond what Mo Hua can afford.

In addition to the formation paper, there are also formation pens.

Mo Hua did not expect that formation pens were more expensive than formation paper, and second-grade formation pens were more likely to wear out than first-grade formation pens.

The spiritual power contained in the second-grade spiritual ink and the blood energy of the demon blood are even stronger.

The formation pen is soaked in spiritual ink, which will accelerate wear and tear.

Poor-quality formation pens often become "bald" with constant use...

And those long-lasting top-quality pens are made of extravagant materials and are so expensive that they can’t even afford to sell their ink paintings.

"Is there any way to draw a formation without using paper and pen..."

Mo Hua touched his chin and thought for a moment.

He had some vague ideas in his mind, but he still had to spend time researching them.

But even if you don’t use paper or pen, ink is always indispensable...

"Second-grade spiritual ink is prepared with second-grade demon blood..."

Mo Hua thought of the big tiger.

Drawing the big tiger's blood... would definitely not work. My relationship with the big tiger was still quite good, so I couldn't take advantage of it.

Then...

Find a way to join forces with Big Tiger to kill other second-grade monsters in the Black Mountain?

It eats meat and I draw blood?

Mo Hua nodded silently, feeling that with proper planning, this method was still feasible.

Suddenly Mo Hua was startled again.

Big tiger……

Only then did he remember that the big tiger also gave him some "gifts", which were storage bags whose owners he didn't know.

After Mo Hua returned home, there were so many people who needed to say hello that he forgot about them for a while.

"I wonder what's in the storage bag..."

Mo Hua was a little curious, so he dug out the storage bags from under the bed and opened them one by one.

Some of these storage bags are still stained with blood, some are gorgeous and exquisite, and some are dusty, dirty and a little weird.

Mo Hua opened all the storage bags and sorted them one by one, and then he suddenly realized.

Some of these storage bags are made by serious monks, while others are made by demonic monks.

In addition to the serious spiritual stones, spiritual weapons and elixirs, there are also some magic techniques for sucking blood, absorbing souls, collecting tonic, and magic techniques for absorbing souls and refining corpses...

These demonic skills and techniques are very harmful to people, so they must not be kept. The ink paintings are ready to be burned together to avoid harming others.

There are also some righteous exercises and Taoist methods...

Mo Hua has already learned Tianyan Jue as a skill, so he can’t use it...

As for Taoism, most of it is body-refining monastic martial arts, and a few are spells, which are second-level, but they all seem to be ordinary spells.

However, I am not picky about ink painting, so I can take the time to learn...

There are a lot of spiritual stones, about tens of thousands in total!

If it weren’t for this storage bag, which has limited capacity and is inconvenient to carry, there would probably be more.

There are also many types of elixirs, including ones that restore the spirit, replenish the blood, avoid poisons, remove miasma, and even second-grade Xiaohuandan that can kill one's life...

Mo Hua frowned.

These add up to a huge "windfall"!

Mo Hua was surprised and happy, but also a little confused.

Who is the owner of these storage bags? them

How did you come to Tongxian City, and how did you die? How did the big tiger pick up the storage bag?

Mo Hua rummaged through the storage bag again, trying to find some clues.

After flipping through the ink drawings for a long time, I finally found a few volumes of documents, and saw that they were all written with words such as "personally signed by the head of the family", "received by the head of the family"... After reading it, I suddenly realized.

"These monks came to Tongxian City for Master..."

Some are Daozhou families, or small and medium-sized vassal families, who are sent by their family heads or sects to Tongxian City to inquire about the master's whereabouts...

There are also some people from the Demon Sect.

But it's probably not a big sect, just some small forces.

When they arrived at Tongxian City, the two sides started fighting in Daheishan.

Then in the fierce battle, they either died directly or were seriously injured and were picked up by the big tiger.

Several of the storage bags were torn, with marks of tiger teeth on them.

It was probably a big tiger who tore open the storage bag and ate some spiritual object inside. After refining it, he broke through the realm and became a second-grade monster.

He kept the other storage bags for himself out of gratitude.

Mo Hua thought for a while and felt that this was probably the case. Even if there were some deviations, it probably wouldn't be too different.

"Since you have evil intentions towards Master, then you should die..."

Mo Hua accepted this "windfall" with peace of mind.

After that, he picked and sorted the things in the storage bag, and then he accidentally saw a map.

This map is very large, covering Kyushu.

In the nine states of Taoism, "Daozhou" is the core, located in the center, and is also where the central Taoist court is located.

Except for Daozhou, the other eight states are named after the eight trigrams of "Qian", "Kun", "Kan", "Li", "Gen", "Zhen", "Xun" and "Dui". According to the eight trigrams, the town To frighten the world and defend the Central Daozhou.

"Map of Kyushu?"

Mo Hua was stunned and looked at it carefully.

Although this map covers Kyushu, in other states, only general mountain ranges are marked, and the specific state boundaries are unclear.

Only "Qianzhou" has many state boundaries and meticulous mountains and rivers.

Among Qianzhou, there is a state boundary circled with a red pen, with annotations in small characters:

Qianzhou, Longdao Mountains, the boundary of Wupin Qianxue state.

Jiuzhou monks, a place of study.

There are many sects and many talented people.

The collection of alchemy talismans is the culmination of the inheritance of martial arts skills.

It is the first state in the world of cultivation and the largest state of inquiry and learning!