Chapter 437 Disdain
If you are not sure about something, it is better not to show off and ask Mr. Xiazhuang.
Mo Hua then ran to see Mr. Zhuang in the bamboo room.
Mr. Zhuang was sitting on a bamboo chair, making tea, blowing in the breeze, squinting his eyes slightly, looking at ease.
Mo Hua waited outside for a while, then suddenly looked up and saw Mr. Zhuang looking at him. His eyes lit up, he ran forward, handed over the formation he had restored, and asked:
"Master, can I learn this formation?"
Mr. Zhuang didn’t even look at it. He nodded and said:
"Can."
Mo Hua was slightly startled, "Isn't this an evil formation?"
Mr. Zhuang's eyes were slightly deep and he asked:
"Do you know what's the difference between evil formations and normal formations?"
Mo Hua frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head honestly.
He has never learned the evil formation, and has only briefly seen the patterns of a few evil formations, and does not know the difference between the two.
If you know it, you know it; if you don't know it, you don't know it.
Since he didn't know clearly, he was embarrassed to make nonsense in front of Mr. Zhuang.
"What's the common thread?"
Mr. Zhuang asked again.
Mo Hua pondered for a moment and tried:
"Whether it is a serious formation or an evil formation, the basic framework of the formation is the same, which consists of the formation media, formation eyes, formation pivots, and formation patterns..."
"It's just that the specific composition of the formation is different. The evil formation is more evil and the methods are more bloody and cruel."
Mr. Zhuang nodded slightly, "Not bad."
He picked up the twelve-line formation that was restored from the ink painting, looked at it with admiration, and pointed:
"So this formation, except for the bone formation matchmaker, human blood formation pattern, and human heart formation eyes, the other parts of the formation are indeed manifestations of the way of heaven and are within the scope of normal formations. In other words..."
Mr. Zhuang looked at the ink painting.
Mo Hua's eyes gradually brightened and he continued:
"In other words, this is actually a serious Jue Zhen, but it was drawn using evil means?"
Mr. Zhuang said with satisfaction: "Not bad."
Mo Hua frowned again, "Since it is a serious battle, why don't you use it seriously instead of following these evil heretics?"
Mr. Zhuang said with a dark look:
"Because if he paints seriously, he can't draw..."
Mo Hua was slightly startled.
Mr. Zhuang was silent for a moment, sighed and said:
"It's actually very difficult to take the right path..."
“Although there are many so-called righteous monks in the world who seek fame and reputation and have a sanctimonious appearance, there are also people who are truly upright and resolute in their Taoist heart.
"The character, methods, and ambition of such monks are far beyond ordinary people, and the efforts they put in, the hardships they endure, the hardships they endure, and the criticism they suffer are also different from ordinary people."
"The same is true for formations."
"The deeper you go into the righteous formation, the more difficult it becomes to learn. If you work ten times harder, you will often see only one-tenth or two-tenths of the results."
"So many monks began to look for shortcuts."
"This shortcut is the evil formation."
"If you don't have enough spiritual awareness, you just visualize and blindly borrow the spiritual thoughts of others and other things without any screening and refinement."
"If you don't have enough practice in the formation, just draw it on the skin of someone with spiritual affinity to reduce the difficulty of the formation."
"The formation hub didn't have a deep understanding, so he used human blood as ink and human hearts as eyes to forcefully promote the flow of the power of the formation..."
"The so-called evil formation actually adheres to the same principles as the conventional formation."
"It's just that some monks don't want to think about it, don't want to learn it, don't want to practice it, don't want to understand it, so they use a tricky way, using human life and flesh as the form and hub of the formation to draw things that they couldn't otherwise draw. The formation..."
After Mr. Zhuang finished speaking, he looked at the ink painting and said seriously:
"That's why I didn't tell you the principles of the evil formation before, just so that you can patiently learn the formation, practice it over and over again, don't be impatient, and don't think about taking shortcuts."
"You are very talented and have a high understanding. Once you think of taking shortcuts, learn evil formations, and fall into the devil's path, your level of formations is likely to improve by leaps and bounds."
"But this way, once you taste the sweetness, you won't have to practice the formations hard anymore, and you won't be able to get a glimpse of the true avenue."
"Learning evil formations only encourages the growth of seedlings and cannot last long."
"In front of the formation masters who truly understand the way of heaven, the so-called evil formation masters are just opportunistic and unscrupulous people..."
"The so-called evil formation is just a fake formation with filthy blood and superficial appearance. The evil cannot overpower the good and is vulnerable to attack!"
Mr. Zhuang's eyes gradually became sharper, and his whole body was like a fairy sword with a hidden edge, faintly exuding an astonishing aura.
"You have to remember that for monks like us, it's not that we can't join the evil and heretic ways, it's that we disdain!"
Mo Hua was shocked and admired endlessly.
Not to join the devil's path, it's not that you can't, it's that you disdain!
Mr. Zhuang's words were deeply imprinted in his mind.
It was as if someone had carved these words into his Taoist heart with a sword.
Mo Hua's eyes gradually became firmer, and his expression became more determined.
When he looked at the evil formation in his hand, he felt much calmer. Even though he was looking at the evil formation, which was full of weirdness and evil, he felt calm and had no worries.
"Master, disciple, remember!"
Mo Hua nodded solemnly with his little face.
In the following days, Mo Hua began to study this desperate formation.
Take its principles and get rid of its dross.
Only focus on the most essential principles of the formation itself, and ignore its opportunistic evil methods such as human skin formation patterns, flesh and blood formation hubs, and human heart formation eyes.
As a result, the difficulty of the formation doubled.
The first-grade twelve-line formation and the strength of Mo Hua's spiritual consciousness have only just reached the threshold.
And the spiritual consciousness is just a threshold.
With this spiritual consciousness, you still need to practice the patterns of the formation, analyze the pattern of the formation, and understand the principles of the formation.
This requires a lot of time and a lot of practice.
This process is boring and tedious.
The spiritual consciousness will be exhausted again and again, then slowly recover, and then exhausted again...
The Dao monument has not yet recovered, Mo Hua can only use this method, relying on his own ability, spending more time, more energy, practicing again and again, and comprehending little by little.
He remembered Mr. Zhuang's teachings in his heart. Although the progress was slow, he was not arrogant or impatient.
Cultivation emphasizes water dripping through stone.
This is even more true for practicing formations.
Every practice is a water drop, and every thought is a raindrop falling on a stone.
As long as you persist, the water drop will wear through the stone.
The principle of the formation will also be seen through, and the formation will be thoroughly understood and mastered.
After comprehending for several days, Mo Hua gradually understood the doorway and had some understanding of this evil formation that was apparently "refining corpses".
But this understanding was not profound, it was hazy, as if it was separated by a layer of gauze and could not be seen clearly.
"It seems that I haven't practiced enough, I haven't thought enough, and my understanding is not deep enough..."
Mo Hua sighed in his heart.
Just when he thought he would have to spend more time.
The sea of consciousness suddenly trembled, and the Dao Tablet gradually revived.
Mo Hua was delighted and quickly sank his consciousness into the sea of consciousness.
The gray on the Dao Tablet gradually faded, and the ancient and mysterious aura gradually filled up a little.
Mo Hua tried to draw a few formations and found that the Dao Tablet could be used, but the effect was still much worse than before.
After drawing the formation and then erasing it, only half of the consciousness could be traced back.
Mo Hua felt a little regretful.
It seems that it has not fully recovered.
But it can be used like this, at least it is better than nothing.
Mo Hua touched the Dao Tablet and said distressedly:
"I won't bother you next time."
The Dao Tablet was still silent as always, and seemed to have a temper, and did not accept Mo Hua's apology.
After getting the Dao Tablet, even though it was only an "incomplete" version of the Dao Tablet, Mo Hua's number of times of practicing the Absolute Array increased by two or three times.
His comprehension of the Absolute Array was also much faster.
After a few days, Mo Hua was finally able to draw the Absolute Array.
In the array, the spiritual power turned into fine threads, floating around, responding to each other, and gathering together...
But at the same time, Mo Hua frowned.
Something was wrong...
"This Absolute Array... is incomplete..."
Or, it was only a part of the entire Absolute Array.
Mo Hua drew it, but still felt that something was missing. The spiritual power could flow and there were special changes, but it was quite fragmented, as if it was an abandoned part.
"How could it be incomplete?"
Mo Hua didn't understand.
The array eye, array hub, and array pattern were all intact.
Moreover, what effect did this Absolute Array have?
The spiritual power in the array was split into finer gossamer threads, like silk threads twisted together, but each silk thread had a special flow.
It looks strange, but also confusing...
What is the use of this formation on the heart of the zombie?
Mo Hua didn't figure it out, so he asked Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi for help.
Bai Zixi frowned slightly and said:
"Maybe, it's used to control the corpse..."
"Control the corpse?"
Mo Hua asked in confusion, "The cultivators who refine corpses have their own methods of controlling corpses, why do they need to use the absolute formation?"
If the absolute formation is necessary to control corpses, then there are not many corpse cultivators in this world, and there are not many cultivators who can refine corpses.
After all, there are very few formation masters who can use the absolute formation.
However, refining and controlling corpses is a more prominent school of the magic way.
Corpse cultivators who refine corpses are not uncommon in the magic way.
Bai Zixi thought for a while and said, "Controlling corpses is easy, but there is a problem with quantity."
"Quantity?" Mo Hua was slightly stunned.
Bai Zisheng remembered and nodded:
"That's right, ordinary corpse cultivators can't control so many zombies."
"There is something strange about Zhang Quan controlling dozens of zombies with ease, and he may have refined more zombies, which is not right..."
Mo Hua suddenly realized.
If a corpse cultivator can control so many zombies, then relying on the "sea of corpses" tactics, other cultivators of the same level can't be his opponents at all.
This is obviously too strong.
Bai Zixi said: "Generally, corpse cultivators control a few zombies at least, and more than ten zombies at most. It is impossible to control dozens of zombies."
Mo Hua's eyes condensed slightly.
So, Zhang Quan may rely on the absolute formation to control so many zombies.
Where is the other part of the absolute formation?
Mo Hua pondered for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up:
"That copper bell?"
Bai Zixi and Bai Zisheng also nodded slightly.
Zhang Quan used the copper bell to control the corpses. If the absolute formation was incomplete, it is likely that the other part of the formation was drawn in the copper bell.
As for the principle of this formation, we have to wait until Mo Hua finds the entire formation and studies it to find out.
"It seems that we still have to find Zhang Quan..."
Mo Hua nodded and murmured.
At the same time, he had another doubt.
Could this formation of the corpse control, the first-grade twelve patterns, be... the Lingshu formation of the Xiaolingyin Sect?
Mo Hua frowned and thought carefully.
The first-grade twelve-pattern formation is beyond the limit and extremely rare.
It is not a coincidence that a small wasteland state has two first-grade twelve-pattern formations.
And Lingshu formation, Lingshu, spiritual power hub...
It also looks like the effect of controlling corpses.
If this formation is really Lingshu formation, then who drew it?
Who can master the formation and control corpses for Zhang Quanhua?
Could the person who drew the formation be the traitor of Xiaolingyin Sect?
Or... is it Instructor Yan?
Mo Hua's heart trembled, and his expression became complicated.