Asking about longevity

This is the fourth year that Mo Hua has entered Taixu Sect.

It is also the school year of the middle stage of foundation building.

Starting from this year, Mo Hua will study the cultivation courses of the middle stage of foundation building, and get in touch with the cultivation categories of the second-grade intermediate-level refining, alchemy and talismans.

And, he must learn the second-grade high-level formation step by step.

Strive to improve the spiritual consciousness to nineteen patterns within three years.

This is the small goal that Mo Hua set for himself.

He originally wanted to set twenty patterns, but he knew in his heart that this was impossible.

Twenty patterns are the spiritual consciousness of the Golden Core Realm. With his current cultivation and the speed of spiritual consciousness growth, he can't achieve it in the short term.

Everything is normal after that.

Although the cultivation courses have changed, the overall inheritance framework has not changed.

The elders and teachers who teach have not changed.

So Mo Hua quickly adapted to the school year of the middle stage of foundation building.

After two months, when the cultivation of all the disciples has stabilized and everything is on the right track, the sect told Mo Hua and them:

The Demon Refining Mountain is open.

The elder monk stood in front of the preaching room and said to all the disciples:

"Lian Yao Mountain, as the name suggests, is a place for disciples to hunt monsters, hone their Taoism, and train themselves."

"This is also the most important source of merit for you in the middle stage of foundation building, in addition to rewards."

"Some rewards are even for you to hunt monsters."

"The monsters in Lian Yao Mountain are of various species, special bloodlines, and powerful strength. Many rare monster materials cannot be bought even if you have spirit stones."

"Therefore, any sword cultivator, weapon refiner, alchemist, or disciple who needs to refine a high-grade spiritual weapon must go to Lian Yao Mountain."

"However, monsters are different from cultivators..."

The elder monk paused slightly. He raised his eyes slightly, looked at the disciples and said:

"You are born in aristocratic families, and have been pampered since childhood. Most of the spirit beasts you see are docile. You know about demon beasts, but not many disciples have seen demon beasts with their own eyes."

"Demon beasts have strong blood and powerful demon power. They are very difficult to deal with, and they are cruel and often feed on humans."

"Even if the demon beasts eat spiritual grass and drink nectar, they will kill people if they don't eat people."

"Therefore, hunting demon beasts requires at least five people and at most ten people. And you must be extremely careful to avoid falling into the mouth of the demon."

"You go out to do bounties, and the sin cultivators will not reason with you, but these evil demons are afraid of the sect and the aristocratic families behind you, and may not dare to kill you. hand."

"But once you enter the Demon Refining Mountain, the monsters are ferocious and inhumane, and there is really no reason to talk to them."

"If you are careless and negligent for a moment, you are very likely to be buried in the monster's belly."

"What's more, the monsters that can be captured by the ancestors of various sects and thrown into the Demon Refining Mountain are not ordinary monsters, and they are more difficult to deal with..."

The elder of the cultivation pondered for a while and said slowly, "Although the Demon Refining Mountain is now open, according to general practice, at least in the second half of the year, or next year..."

"When your cultivation is more solid, and the spiritual weapon and Taoism are almost in line with your cultivation, it will not be too late to consider entering the Demon Refining Mountain to hunt monsters, extract materials, and earn merits."

"Sharpening the knife is not late Woodcutter, don't be greedy and reckless, otherwise you may suffer the consequences. "

"I have said this. As for when to enter the Demon Refining Mountain, you can decide for yourself..."

The elder of the cultivation sect looked down and glanced at the disciples under him, "I will say one last thing to you..."

"If you enter the Demon Refining Mountain and are harmed by your fellow disciples or disciples of other sects, even if the opponents are the four major sects, our sect will definitely find an explanation."

"But if you die in the mouth of a monster simply because of stupidity and recklessness, the sect will not be responsible."

"It is not only the Taixu Sect, but also the practice of the entire Qianxuezhou world."

If the children of the aristocratic family want to degenerate, they can live a luxurious life.

But if they really want to make progress, the pressure is also great and there is more competition.

But even so, raised in a deep family, the wind can't blow in, the rain can't beat in, some open and secret struggles are only around the interests of the clan and personal future, not involving life and death, and have never been exposed to the real dangers of the cultivation world.

Therefore, after entering the sect, you must start to change appropriately.

The bounty is one point, to let the disciples learn to deal with the sinners and know the evil of human hearts.

The second point is the Demon Refining Mountain, to let the disciples know the viciousness of the monsters.

So back then, an old ancestor of the Qianxuezhou realm, against all odds, set this rule:

In the Demon Refining Mountain, if you die in the mouth of a monster, it is a waste of death.

This rule is to let the disciples in the sect have some risk awareness, know that life is not easy, and experience the horror of death.

The disciples under the seat heard this, and their faces were solemn and their hearts were awe-inspiring.

Mo Hua was also a little nervous.

But his nervousness was because of expectation.

Hunting monsters!

He only felt that the "blood" of the monster hunter in his body was stirring.

There are many things that can be done in the Demon Refining Mountain, where the mountains are high and the forests are deep, and monsters gather.

But I don't know whether Mr. Xun will agree to let me go into the mountain.

Mo Hua pondered silently.

On the surface, Mr. Xun confined himself to prevent him from leaving the Qianxuezhou realm.

The Demon Refining Mountain is in the Qianxuezhou realm, within a limited range, there should be no problem.

But Mo Hua knew that Mr. Xun's purpose was to prevent him from taking risks and to allow him to learn the formation in peace.

The Demon Refining Mountain was dangerous, and Mr. Xun might not agree to let him go in.

Mo Hua thought about it and decided to ask Mr. Xun first.

Mo Hua went to find Mr. Xun, and as expected, he was rejected as soon as he opened his mouth.

Mr. Xun had a stern face and a stern tone, but also revealed concern, "Why are you going to join in the fun, kid?"

"You don't know how dangerous the monsters in the Demon Refining Mountain are."

"Besides, you are not a physical cultivator, your body is weak; your spiritual power is low, and your magic is not superior; you don't refine spiritual tools, so you can't use the monster materials; you draw formations every day, and you don't lack merits..."

"What are you going to the Demon Refining Mountain for?"

Mr. Xun asked Mo Hua.

Although Mr. Xun's words are somewhat different from the actual situation.

Although his body is weak, his body skills are good; his spiritual power is low, but his magic is fast; although he doesn't refine spiritual tools, he has Master Gu to help him refine them.

It's true that he draws formations every day, but how can he not lack merits?

Merits are always the more the better.

You can not use them yourself, but you can't save them.

Money makes heroes brave.

The more merits he had, the more at ease Mo Hua felt. He wished he could accumulate 10,000 or 20,000 merits, so that he could look through the Taixu Order when he had nothing to do, and it would be pleasing to the eye.

But what Mr. Xun said made sense.

At present, these are not necessary.

It's just that Mo Hua was somewhat unwilling.

Mr. Xun saw it and shook his head slightly, thinking that although Mo Hua was a good-natured and calm child, he looked a little grown up. In the blink of an eye, he had become a handsome and lovely boy.

But after all, he was still a little childish and liked to join in the fun.

And the hundreds of disciples from the Refining Demon Mountain gathered together to form a team to hunt monsters, which was indeed very lively.

But this excitement, can you join in?

"Your talent is in the formation. One beauty can cover a hundred ugliness. If you can bring your talent to the extreme, you can also walk your own way in the future, without having to learn from others..."

"There are some roads you can't walk, and you don't have to walk at all. The formation itself is a smooth road!" Mr. Xun said earnestly.

"Oh..." Mo Hua nodded slightly.

Seeing that Mo Hua was still a little unhappy, Mr. Xun thought for a while, turned his wrist, and took out a thick stack of formation diagrams.

"You have almost learned the inheritance of the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams of the Seventeen Patterns of the Taixu Sect. Now learn my set..."

Mo Hua was slightly stunned, "Old sir, isn't yours from the Taixu Sect?"

"Somewhat different..."

Mr. Xun said, "The inheritance of the formation of the Taixu Sect focuses on 'inheritance', which is used for teaching and imparting knowledge..."

"What I am giving you now is the real 'research' of the formation."

"Although these formation diagrams are also Five Elements and Eight Diagrams formations, they are much more difficult than the previous ones..."

Mo Hua's eyes lit up, "Much more difficult?"

He hurriedly took these formation diagrams respectfully, and glanced at them roughly, and his eyes became brighter and brighter.

These formation diagrams are actually similar to the formation inheritance of the Shangguan family and the Wenren family. And it looks even more advanced.

"Thank you, old sir!" Mo Hua said with a smile.

Seeing that Mo Hua was happy, Mr. Xun breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand, saying:

"Go, learn the formation."

"Yeah."

Mo Hua immediately put the formation diagram in his arms and ran away.

Mr. Xun looked at him with a smile and shook his head slightly.

In the following time, in order not to disappoint Mr. Xun's kindness, Mo Hua temporarily forgot about the Demon Refining Mountain and focused on learning new formations.

But there will always be a day to finish learning new formations.

After Mo Hua finished learning, he ran to Mr. Xun and said that he wanted to enter the Demon Refining Mountain.

In order to appease Mo Hua, Mr. Xun had to give him more formation diagrams to keep him busy and calm his restless heart.

In this way, nearly half a year passed.

Mo Hua used the Demon Refining Mountain as an excuse to "blackmail" Mr. Xun a lot. He should not have taught Mo Hua the formation diagram at this time.

Cheng Mo and his companions, with a solid foundation of cultivation and adapted to the battles in the middle stage of foundation building, have already started to enter the Demon Refining Mountain in teams of five.

Mo Hua, an orthodox demon hunter, could only watch helplessly.

After dinner, Cheng Mo and his companions gathered together and chattered about the Demon Refining Mountain.

"Disciples and demon beasts are everywhere in the mountain..."

"Tigers with claws longer than their necks, bears that stand like a hill, wolf demons with green hair, and phoenixes with fiery red bodies..."

"When fighting against demon beasts, you can use all your strength, and you don't have to hold back on martial arts or spells, and you can fight to your heart's content."

"A second-grade initial demon pill is worth three hundred merits."

"There are also some furs, bones, blood essence, liver and gallbladder, all of which are very valuable..."

Cheng Mo spoke vividly and excitedly.

But after ten days or so, Cheng Mo went to the Demon Refining Mountain several times and became a little dejected.

Mo Hua asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Cheng Mo sighed, "Most of the people in the Monster Hunting Mountain are senior brothers and sisters in the late stage of foundation building. They are experienced, skilled, and have profound cultivation. Their spiritual weapons are also top-grade."

"It's impossible to get into their team..."

"The five of us also formed a team and wanted to kill a wolf demon in the early stage of the second grade to try our hand, but the wolf demon was really cunning. We spent half a day and finally found it..."

"Then what?"

"I never beat it..."

Cheng Mo looked very depressed.

Mo Hua nodded, not surprised.

Monsters are very strong.

Especially for Cheng Mo and other sect disciples who have never actually hunted monsters and have almost zero experience, it is inevitable to suffer some hardships in the first confrontation.

It is difficult for newcomers to get into the monster hunting business.

Mo Hua can only tell them some precautions for monster hunting and remind them.

He couldn't give too many suggestions now.

Because specific problems require specific analysis.

Most of Mo Hua's experience in hunting monsters came from Dahei Mountain.

Dahei Mountain is a second-grade mountain range in Lizhou. Mo Hua was born and raised there, and is very familiar with the environment and monsters there.

But now he is in the Yao Lian Mountain in Qianzhou.

Mo Hua has never been to Yao Lian Mountain in person, and knows nothing about the situation there. Naturally, it is not good to use the Dahei Mountain method to hunt the monsters in Yao Lian Mountain.

He can only pick out some common monster hunting methods and talk about them briefly.

Such as the habits of monsters eating, hibernating, ambushing, living, and faking death, as well as the methods commonly used by monster hunters to ambush, surround and kill monsters.

Cheng Mo and others nodded repeatedly after listening.

Hao Xuan's eyes lit up, "Little Senior Brother, you know a lot..."

"Not bad." Mo Hua said modestly.

Cheng Mo listened to Mo Hua's suggestions.

But listening is one thing, but actually hunting monsters is another.

Cheng Mo and his friends had a bumpy process of hunting monsters.

But after a while, they gradually persevered.

After all, they were able to study in Qianxuezhou and became disciples of Taixu Sect, one of the eight major sects. They were all favored children in their respective families, and they had their own temperament and pride.

Some time passed like this.

Everything was going well until Mo Hua saw Cheng Mo wrapped in bandages, with his arm hanging, bruised and swollen, unable to move...

"He was slapped by a bear."

Situ Jian said.

Mo Hua had a complicated expression, and he didn't know whether to laugh or sympathize.

Cheng Mo was very tough, "I was careless this time. It was just a second-grade initial stage bear. When I recover from my injuries, I will fight this beast for 300 rounds and chop off its paws to wipe out this shame!"

Situ Jian said silently: "If the bones in your body were half as hard as your mouth, eight of them would not be broken..."

When Situ Jian said this, Cheng Mo really grimaced in pain.

"Situ, you must have learned bad things from your junior brother! You didn't talk so irritating before!"

But Situ Jian didn't want to pay attention to him.

Mo Hua asked: "How long will he take care of it?"

Situ Jian shook his head and said: "Elder Murong saw it and said that the bear was too strong. This big fool was injured and needs to be taken care of for at least half a month. We will see the situation later."

"Then you are hunting monsters, aren't you missing one person?" Mo Hua said.

It's okay to be missing an ordinary person.

But Cheng Mo has a strong blood and a powerful axe. He is a physical cultivator who can resist and fight.

Now that he is injured, it is not easy to find a substitute.

Situ Jian sighed, "Let's take it easy. Now that we are not strong enough, it may be too early to go to the Demon Refining Mountain. We have not earned any merits these days, and we are not making enough money..."

"Make some more preparations, and try to go to the Demon Refining Mountain next year when our cultivation is more solid."

Mo Hua asked again, "What about the other fellow disciples?"

Situ Jian shook his head, "They are all the same. It is difficult to survive in the Demon Refining Mountain anyway. The job of a demon hunter is really not good."

Situ Jian sighed again.

Mo Hua shook his head secretly.

There is no way, it seems that I, the "little senior brother", still have to take them to play.

Mo Hua thought about it for a while, and went to find Mr. Xun again.

"Going into the mountain again?"

Mr. Xun frowned.

Mo Hua then brought out the prepared words: "I have learned a lot of formations, and I want to put them into practice. I want to draw them on spiritual weapons and try the effect. The Demon Refining Mountain is the most suitable place."

"Where did the spiritual weapon come from?"

"The Gu family has a third-grade refiner, Master Gu, who will help me refine it."

Gu family?

Mr. Xun was a little surprised, his eyes were thoughtful, but he didn't say anything.

Mo Hua then said: "I only draw formations, improve spiritual weapons, hide behind the crowd, and won't do it myself."

Mr. Xun still had some concerns, "In the Demon Refining Mountain, the monsters are ferocious..."

"It's okay," Mo Hua raised his head and chest, proudly said:

"Old sir, to be honest, I was actually a monster hunter. I have been dealing with monsters since I was a child, and the experience of hunting monsters is inherited from my ancestors!"

Mr. Xun was stunned by what Mo Hua said.

What the hell...

Monster hunter?

He glanced at the white and tender Mo Hua with thin arms and legs, and didn't see that he looked like a "monster hunter" at all.

"Monster feeding master" is more like it.

Feeding myself to the monsters...

Mo Hua saw that Mr. Xun didn't believe him, so he swore and emphasized: "Really!"

Mr. Xun looked at Mo Hua silently. Although he still didn't believe it, he thought that with the character of Mo Hua, he wouldn't tell such a ridiculous lie in front of him.

It's a bit outrageous, it shouldn't be fake.

"Okay." Mr. Xun sighed.

The main thing is that he doesn't have other formations to appease Mo Hua.

The formations of the seventeen patterns have been given, and Mo Hua has learned all that he can learn. The others either require high spiritual consciousness, and Mo Hua can't learn them.

Or...those formations that can't be passed on to others.

After all, he has to find something for him to do.

And formations are really "learned and applied". If you don't use them after learning, you will be the same as those old pedants and old antiques.

Mr. Xun suddenly remembered that the man had discussed the formation with him back then and said something like:

The formation depends on learning and thinking, and "learning and applying" is the key to the formation.

"Learning" is the threshold to enter the Dao, and "use" is the foundation of practicing the Dao.

Learn to use, use to promote learning.

Learning and use complement each other, and knowledge and practice are unified.

Only in this way can one be impartial, persevere, and seek the most essential path of the formation...

These words are still ringing in my ears, but the person with extraordinary talent and envy is no longer here...

Mr. Xun felt a little disappointed for some reason. When he turned his head to look at Mo Hua, he was suddenly startled and felt a little emotional in his heart:

"It really looks a bit like..."

Mo Hua didn't think so much, but said with bright eyes:

"Thank you, old man!"

Mr. Xun nodded slightly, but still reminded: "Be careful, remember to follow others, only study the formation, don't do it yourself."

"Yeah!"

Mo Hua agreed, then bowed respectfully, and stood up to say goodbye.

After Mo Hua left, Mr. Xun's eyes sank slightly, thought for a moment, and then called the Taoist boy and told him: "Call Ziyou."

The Taoist boy took the order and went down.

After a while, a handsome man wearing the Taoist robe of the inner sect of Taixu Sect came over and saluted to Mr. Xun: "Ancestor." Mr. Xun nodded slightly and asked, "You know Mo Hua, right?" The man said respectfully, "Yes." Mo Hua may not know him, but he knows Mo Hua. With the relationship with Mr. Xun, all the elders of Taixu Sect taught him. Who could not know Mo Hua, who was closer to Mr. Xun than his great-great-grandson? Mr. Xun nodded, "Mo Hua is going to the Demon Refining Mountain. That's where you are on duty. Take good care of him..." After saying that, Mr. Xun glanced at the man, "If he loses a hair, you will kneel in the ancestral hall." The man was stunned, and then his scalp numbed. He just felt that a big trouble had fallen from the sky and fell on his head. And this big trouble might become a "big black pot". Seeing that there was no one around, the man lowered his voice and asked a question he had wanted to ask for a long time but had never dared to ask:

"Grandmaster, Mo Hua... won't he have the same surname as me, 'Xun'?"

Mr. Xun looked up, glanced at him coldly, and said calmly:

"I can see that you are relatively idle. After this matter is done, I will assign you some more tasks to train you more..."

Mr. Xun said the word "training" meaningfully.

The man immediately felt bitter as if he had eaten Coptis chinensis.

If he had known earlier, he would not have been so mean and asked this question.

Can the tasks assigned by the ancestor be easy to do? I'm afraid he will lose a layer of skin if he doesn't die...

Seeing that he was honest, Mr. Xun brushed his sleeves and said, "Go, remember what I said, it doesn't matter if you break an arm, but the child can't lose a single hair."

The man sighed deeply and said helplessly:

"Yes..."

He now confirmed that the child must not have the surname "Xun". Because those with the surname "Xun" don't have this treatment at all.

After the man left, Mr. Xun thought of another thing and couldn't help thinking:

Born as a demon hunter?

How could he be born as a demon hunter?

Where can a demon hunter born as a casual cultivator learn the formation?

Mr. Xun frowned slightly.

Lizhou is a long way from Qianzhou.

Mo Hua is just a casual cultivator.

Mr. Xun didn't think about checking Mo Hua's background before, and he didn't care at all.

A hero doesn't ask about his origin.

Being able to enter Qianxuezhou and join Taixumen is a destined opportunity.

As long as Mo Hua has a good character, talent, and can learn the formation well, it's fine.

Mr. Xun doesn't have a family background, nor does he judge people by their background. Moreover, as an ancestor, he is busy with affairs and will not ask about the origin of a disciple.

But now, he suddenly became very curious.

What did this child grow up doing?

What did he do to become a formation master and have such a deep foundation in the five elements formation?

Mr. Xun pondered for a moment, called the Taoist boy again, and said in a deep voice:

"You call a disciple from the inner sect who can move thousands of miles."

"Yes, ancestor."

The Taoist boy withdrew, and soon, a disciple wearing the inner sect disciple's Taoist robe, with a figure as fast as the wind and agile steps came over.

"Ancestor!" The disciple bowed.

Mr. Xun nodded and ordered: "Pack up, set off as soon as possible, rush to Yundu City, and then take the Yundu to Lizhou, to a second-grade state boundary called Daheishan State Boundary, and find out some things for me..."