Asking about longevity

"I, the Five Elements Sect, keep my word and am willing to admit defeat."

The First Elder glanced at Mo Hua with fear, and then continued, "My friends, you can learn the highest inheritance of my Five Elements Sect here - the Five Elements Spiritual Formation."

"The Five Elements Spiritual Array, with the first grade and thirteen lines, is the top ultimate array."

"I don't need to say more about the preciousness of this array."

"But to learn this formation, there are some rules that must be followed..."

"First, you can only learn for five days, two hours a day. If you can learn it, my Five Elements Sect will have nothing to do with it. But if you can't learn it, please take care of yourself..."

"Second, during the period of learning the formation, no brick or wood in this house may be damaged, and all furnishings must not be moved;"

"Third, you must not be disrespectful to the shrine or insult my ancestors of the Five Elements Sect;"

"Fourth, no matter whether you have learned this formation or not, or how much you have learned, it must not be passed on to others!"

"fifth……"

The great elder was rude again, talking a lot of nonsense and talking about a lot of rules.

Mo Hua sounded boring, but for the sake of the Five Elements Spiritual Array, he tolerated it.

After the great elder finished speaking, he looked at Mr. Zhuang again and said tactfully:

"The precious Lishan Yunwu Tea is prepared on the third floor. Sir, please move over and take a rest to taste it."

This is an order to expel guests.

When learning formations, no outsiders are allowed in front of the shrine.

Mr. Zhuang nodded, glanced across the faces of the three Mo Hua people, and said, "Study hard." Then he brushed his sleeves and went downstairs to drink tea.

The great elder also left behind Mr. Zhuang.

When the great elder left, he burned the incense burner, glanced at Mo Hua and the others with obscure eyes, then locked the door before leaving.

In front of the silent and solemn shrine, only Mo Hua and the other three were left.

They only have five days, two hours each day, to comprehend the Thirteen Patterns and Five Elements Spiritual Formation of the Five Elements Sect.

We must hurry up.

In front of the shrine, there are five futons.

"Sit on the futon, visualize the shrine, and understand the formation."

This is what the great elder said.

And he also specifically said that "sitting" on a futon means "sitting on one's knees".

But sitting on your knees is impossible.

The ancestors of the Five Elements Sect have nothing to do with Mo Hua, so they are not worthy of Mo Hua's kneeling.

Mo Hua sat cross-legged on the futon.

Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi glanced at Mo Hua, and like him, sat cross-legged on the futon.

Mo Hua sat in the middle, Bai Zixi sat on the left, and Bai Zisheng sat on his right.

The three of them began to concentrate on visualizing the shrine.

The shrine is made of black wood and gold paint, which is magnificent, yet simple and solemn.

There are gilded reliefs on it, including sculptures of ancestors, spiritual animals, chariots and horses, exotic flowers and plants, carved beams and painted buildings, and various magic weapons...

The ink paintings looked dazzling, but I didn't quite understand what these carvings were for...

Only in the middle of the shrine seems to be a dojo.

In the middle of the dojo, a huge formation disk is displayed.

Array masters gathered around, looking respectful.

Above the dojo, there is an old man with a solemn expression, pointing to the sky, as if he is preaching.

Sermon at the shrine.

Dojo array.

This is the place in the entire shrine that is most closely related to the formation.

"Could it be that the Five Elements Spiritual Formation is engraved on the formation plate in the middle of the shrine?"

Mo Hua guessed, then he calmed down, visualized the shrine, and put his mind on the array disk in the middle.

Sure enough, after a while, a Buddhist bell seemed to ring.

From the incense burner in front of the shrine, curls of incense floated in front of the ink painting, and wisps of them shrouded the front of the shrine, condensing into lines and manifesting on the array disk.

Mo Hua was refreshed.

"As expected!"

He was about to concentrate on looking at the formation patterns, but at this moment, another old voice sounded in his ears:

"I'll teach you the formation..."

This feels all too familiar.

When Mo Hua was in Nanyue City, he snatched Zhang Quan's picture of the ancestor. When he was imagining it, there was this ethereal, old voice in his ears, which kept saying, "I will teach you the great way" and "help you become an immortal." , "Longevity and long-term vision"... words like that.

Ink painting instinctively rejects it.

Another liar!

His eyes flashed, his consciousness moved, his mind was pure and concentrated, and he abandoned illusions.

After a while, everything disappeared.

Above the incense burner, smoke curled up.

But this smoke is just ordinary smoke, without formations or appearance.

The old voice in my ears also disappeared.

The shrine remains as before.

There is nothing on the formation disk.

It seems that everything has disappeared because of the abandonment of ink painting...

When I looked at the ink painting again, the shrine was still a shrine.

Without the formation, there is nothing...

Mo Hua was stunned.

He meditated for another long time, but nothing changed.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and murmured in his heart:

"Would it be self-defeating..."

"That voice just now really wanted to pass on my formation?"

"In the incense burner, the smoke is thick, and what is condensed is indeed a profound five-element pattern..."

"In the end, I saw through the illusion and the ancestors of the Five Elements Sect were unhappy, so they stopped teaching me?"

"No way……"

Mo Hua tried several more times, but in vain.

It seems that this shrine really doesn't want to teach him the formation.

Those smokes are just ordinary smokes that no longer condense into formations...

Mo Hua was helpless and sighed.

Do you have to blame yourself? Your spiritual consciousness is too strong, your Taoist heart is firm, and you are too sensitive to the changes in your spiritual thoughts?

Mo Hua turned his head and looked at his junior senior brother and junior senior sister.

Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi were both sitting cross-legged, with straight postures and serious eyes, staring at the formation disk in the center of the shrine.

In his eyes, a pattern of light flashed, as if he was comprehending something.

The two of them seemed to be learning the Five Elements Spirit Formation...

It's not easy to disturb them with ink paintings.

Mo Hua tilted his head to the right and glanced at Bai Zisheng.

Then he tilted his head to the left, stared at Bai Zixi for a while, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

The little senior sister is so pretty!

She has fair skin, delicate eyebrows, and eyes like stars in the sky, quiet and crystal clear.

This is because she changed her appearance and covered up her original appearance.

It would look better if it looked like it originally...

Mo Hua looked at it for a while and then came back to his senses:

"I almost forgot, business is more important, the Five Elements Spiritual Array..."

Mo Hua began to concentrate again on visualizing the shrine.

But no matter how he visualized it, the shrine didn't change at all.

Even if he wanted to "pretend to be stupid", close his consciousness, and silently say to himself, "You are here to bewitch me, I won't see through you anymore", it was useless.

The shrine still ignored him.

Mo Hua sighed. He looked at the shrine for a while, and he couldn't help but wonder:

Does this shrine have anything to do with the visualization diagram?

In the visualization picture, some spiritual thoughts will be lodged.

These divine thoughts are of various kinds.

It includes not only the understanding of the great road, the perception of the way of heaven, but also the residual spiritual thoughts of some monks after their death, or evil thoughts such as ghosts and zombies.

Ink painting Nowadays, I have never seen a serious visualization picture.

The ones I have seen are all improper.

There are also some unclean evil spirits in the pictures.

So is this shrine just a serious "visualization picture"?

Mo Hua also remembers that Master said that the so-called visualization picture is just a general term. Not all things visualized are "pictures". Every plant, every tree, every brick, every spiritual weapon and magic weapon may contain the Great Way, or something. There are spiritual thoughts, or evil spirits are parasitic.

"So, this shrine is a different kind of 'visualization map'?"

"It's just that other visualization pictures are 'pictures', but this is a 'niche'?"

"Is there something lodged in the shrine?"

"Is it a certain divine thought? Or is it the method of the Five Elements Spirit Array?"

"No matter how you say it, it's a good thing..."

Mo Hua's eyes lit up and he was a little disappointed.

"It's a pity that it's too big to move..."

"And it's impossible for the Five Elements Sect to let themselves move away."

Mo Hua muttered in his heart:

"If I can move the shrine away, it will be settled once and for all. If I study it every day and meditate morning and night, I will definitely be able to learn the Five Elements Spirit Array..."

Unfortunately, this is all I can think about.

Moving the Five Elements Sect's ancestors' shrines is indeed too much...

But the question now is, how can I learn the Five Elements Spirit Formation...

Mo Hua felt a little troubled and stared at the shrine in a daze.

In the incense burner, the smoke gradually dissipated.

Time passes little by little...

Before you know it, the time has arrived.

The incense in the incense burner gradually burned out.

Only then did Mo Hua realize that two hours had passed, but he hadn't even learned a single formation pattern yet...

It's like he's taking an exam and the paper is about to be handed in, but he hasn't written a word yet...

Mo Hua's little heart trembled.

Then I realized that this exam would last for five days and I didn't learn anything today. There were still four days left, so I felt a little relieved.

The incense burner burned out.

All the lingering breath has disappeared.

Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi came back to their senses, blinked, their eyes brightened slightly, and they withdrew from the state of contemplation.

They glanced at the ink painting at the same time, but they were stunned when they found that the ink painting looked like they had just taken a class, learned nothing, and then simply messed it up.

At this moment, the great elder opened the door.

His gaze passed over the faces of the three people in Mo Hua. He didn't ask anything, he just said lightly:

"The time has come today, come again tomorrow."

The three people in Mo Hua bowed politely and left with Mr. Zhuang.

After returning to the house, Mo Hua said with some guilt:

"Master, I haven't learned at all..."

Mr. Zhuang was a little surprised and curious, and said with interest:

"What did you see?"

Mo Hua said truthfully: "I saw the formation patterns on the formation disk, and heard an old man talking, and then habitually abandoned distracting thoughts. After that...I couldn't see anything..."

Except for spending a little time peeking at the little senior sister, the rest of the time was spent pondering the visualization pictures and being in a daze...

"Master, why is this?" Mo Hua asked.

Mr. Zhuang pondered for a moment and sighed: "Maybe your consciousness is too strong..."

The spiritual consciousness is too strong to understand the essence.

The Taoist heart is clear and free from deception.

But because of this, if you can't see the illusion of the shrine, you can't see the inheritance of the Five Elements Sect.

Mo Hua muttered: "The Five Elements Sect is too outrageous. How could they use such a strange method to inherit the Jue Formation..."

Mr. Zhuang silently looked at the ink painting and thought, It's not that the Five Elements Sect is outrageous, it's that your spiritual consciousness is too outrageous.

At the first level of Qi refining realm, there are thirteen lines of spiritual consciousness.

The ancestors of the Five Elements Sect probably didn't expect that...

Mr. Zhuang asked Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi again, "Where are you?"

Both nodded.

Bai Zisheng said: "We have all learned how to sit on a futon and visualize the shrine. The formation pattern will appear on the formation disk in the center of the shrine's dojo..."

"There is also an old man who will tell you some key points in learning the Five Elements Spiritual Formation..."

Mr. Zhuang said: "Draw it and show it to me."

Bai Zisheng murmured, "I didn't learn everything..."

"It doesn't matter," Mr. Zhuang said, "I can draw as many as I know how to do."

"Um."

Bai Zisheng nodded, then took out a pen and paper and began to draw the Five Elements Formation he learned from the shrine.

Bai Zixi, with a pen in hand and an elegant posture, also started drawing.

After finishing the painting, they handed it to Mr. Zhuang together.

Mr. Zhuang only glanced at it, then nodded and said: "It is indeed the Five Elements Spiritual Array of the First Grade and Thirteen Patterns."

Mo Hua also came up to take a look.

What Bai Zisheng drew was a fire element formation. It was not completely painted, but it should be the fire spirit formation among the five elements.

What Bai Zixi drew was a wood elemental formation with thirteen formation patterns, every one of which was perfect. It was a complete wood spirit formation.

Obviously Bai Zixi's formation talent is much better than Bai Zisheng's.

A complete first-grade and thirteen-pattern wood spirit formation...

Even though Immortal Formation was used, it was completely memorized in two hours.

Mo Hua couldn't help but praise: "Little senior sister, you are so awesome!"

Bai Zixi nodded and accepted Mo Hua's compliment, her eyes shining brightly.

Bai Zisheng curled his lips. Although he was dissatisfied with the "sweet words" of the ink painting, he still worried:

"Junior brother, if you can't see the dojo formation diagram, doesn't it mean that you can't learn the Five Elements Spirit Formation?"

The Five Elements Spiritual Array was actually just the icing on the cake for him and Zi Xi.

They don't rely on formations.

But ink painting is different.

Ink painting must follow the path of formations, and we must continue to learn formations and continuously enhance our spiritual consciousness.

The Five Elements Spirit Formation is crucial to ink painting.

Mo Hua sighed again.

He didn't have any good ideas.

If the formation diagram never appeared in the shrine dojo, then there was really nothing he could do.

He can't smash the shrine...

Bai Zixi thought for a moment, her beautiful eyes brightened slightly, "My brother and I will teach you!"

Bai Zisheng was stunned for a moment and understood:

"That's right, I'll learn from Zixi. After I learn it, I'll teach you."

Mo Hua was startled for a moment, then thought about it for a moment, and his eyes lit up.

It seems...it's not impossible.

Wherever you learn, you learn.

It is only natural that his junior senior brother and junior senior sister teach him the formation.

"But, does this count as a side story?"

According to the great elder of the Five Elements Sect, you can only learn and practice by yourself.

Bai Zixi shook his head and said, "It's not considered a side story."

Mo Hua thought for a while, nodded, and felt that it was right. They were all from the same sect, and they were all qualified to learn Jue Zhen. They communicated with each other, so naturally it was not considered as external knowledge.

So Bai Zixi and Bai Zixi began to teach Mo to draw the Wood Spirit Array and the Fire Spirit Array.

Bai Zixi looked calm.

Bai Zisheng's face was full of excitement. It was rare that he could teach Mo the painting formation.

While the two were teaching the formation patterns, they also told Mo Hua all the key points they heard from the old man.

Mo Hua concentrated on learning, memorizing formation patterns, listening to the explanations, and asking questions if he had any.

Until night, Mo Hua finally mastered the patterns of the Wood Spirit Formation and the Fire Spirit Formation.

It's just that this formation pattern can be drawn with ink painting, but it is of no use.

Like other Jue Zhen, it seems that something important is missing. It only has the shape of the formation, but not the charm of the formation.

This was unexpected by Mo Hua.

But there is another issue that he cares about:

"Why are there only the Wood Spirit Formation and the Fire Spirit Formation?"

Where are the other three series of Five Elements Spirit Arrays?

Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi looked at each other and shook their heads.

"The only thing I saw was this spiritual formation..."

"You learn one thing at a time. After you learn it, can you learn other things?"

"If it goes step by step, why is the order different? There is wood and there is fire. How was this order determined?"

None of the three could figure it out.

Mo Hua sighed: "I can only look at it tomorrow..."

Bai Zisheng also said: "This is the only way."

Bai Zixi also frowned, looking confused.

Mr. Zhuang looked at the three of them, smiled slightly, and said nothing.

…

At this time, on the fourth floor of the Tibetan Formation Pavilion, in front of the simple and majestic shrine.

The great elder lit three incense sticks and inserted them into the incense burner.

Cigarettes curl up.

After a while, the three incense sticks became shorter and longer.

The incense stick on the left burned the most and stayed the shortest, but there was still a long length left.

The incense on the right came second, burned a little, but not too much.

The incense stick in the middle was not moved at all.

The great elder was delighted, nodded and said:

"I haven't learned it yet, so..."

Not only have I not learned it, but I have not learned it at all!

The Great Elder was a little relieved and a little emotional.

I have talent, I have a solid foundation in formations, and I know the right skills, but after all, I am too young, I have to learn a lot, and my understanding is also a little bit worse...

He didn't understand the Five Elements Absolute Formation at all.

It seems that I guessed correctly.

His senior brothers and sisters are indeed stronger than him.

But no matter how strong you are and how talented you are, you still have a long way to go before you can truly understand the Five Elements Spiritual Formation...

Of the three sticks of sandalwood in the incense burner, except for the middle one, there are only two left. There is still a long way to go before they are completely burned out...

The great elder breathed a sigh of relief.

Facing the shrine, he bowed his hands and said piously:

"... bless my Five Elements Sect, that the inheritance will not be lost, and that the formation will prosper!"

There was no response from the shrine.

But the wooden sculpture of the old man in the dojo opened his eyes.