Immortality Through Array Formations

The sword bone suddenly shivered in fright.

What careless mistake!

Without thinking, it had blurted out those arrogant words.

It quickly wiped the nonexistent cold sweat from its forehead and chuckled awkwardly:

"Your Formation is truly unfathomable, breaking it was just pure luck, just luck..."

Mo Hua had already stopped paying attention to it, frowning and pondering to himself.

The sword bone silently breathed a sigh of relief, while inwardly grumbling:

"You let me break the Formation, but when it's really broken, you're unhappy."

This little ancestor is so unpredictable, truly hard to serve.

Then it thought again:

"However, the Formation just now seemed strong, the power of Divine Thought was terrifyingly concentrated, almost unlike a human's Divine Sense, but overly rigid structures tend to break, overly strong ones don't last long, like an unyielding stone barrage, seemingly solid, but water drops wear away the stone, eroding bit by bit, it will inevitably collapse..."

Mo Hua realized this issue as well.

On the surface, his Divine Sense was strong and underwent a quality change, forming the "seal" chains through the Divine Patterns, solid as goldstone.

But this type of Divine Thought is "dead", a fixed quantity.

It's hard to withstand the steady erosion by evil spirits over the years, and fundamentally it can't achieve a long-lasting sealing effect.

A mere sword demon couldn't be sealed.

Let alone sealing colossal evil entities like an Evil God.

The "Divine Lock Array" he created has only the form of a seal but lacks the actual essence of sealing.

"But what exactly is the essence of sealing?"

Is it some special Heavenly Dao Laws?

Similar to the Spiritual Power decomposition in the Reversed Spirit Formation.

The Earth Dao Meaning in the Thick Earth Formation.

The Spiritual Power manipulation in the Spiritual Pivot Formation.

And the fusion of Divine Thought and Spiritual Power in the Five Element Ultimate Formation?

What exactly are the laws of sealing?

Mo Hua was somewhat bewildered.

No one had taught him this, and no one had given him any hints, how could he possibly figure it out in a short while?

How could he have a true realization?

Mo Hua sighed with a headache.

Indeed, formations are vast and profound, even with his understanding, sometimes it feels as obscure as being enveloped in fog, with no clue on where to start.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and decided to train at the Taoist Stele to see if he could derive some other inspiration.

But the time was not yet right.

Mo Hua then took out the Taixu Token, transmitted messages to Elder Xun, and disclosed some of the intelligence he's gathered.

Including some internal structures of the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons, and the identities of disciples from Sever Gold Sect – Jin Gui, Jin Yicai, and Jin Yixuan.

Of course, he didn't mention issues about Mr. Tu and the Evil God, as the cause-and-effect was too deep, and hard to explain.

Upon receiving the news, Xun Ziyou's expression was equally solemn.

Beside him, Shangguan Xuanjian couldn't help but sneer coldly, "What a Sever Gold Sect, truly audacious!"

Xun Ziyou remained silent, eventually sighed, "Let's not make a fuss about this matter for now."

Shangguan Xuanjian frowned, and slowly said, "If a cockroach is found in the house, it indicates..."

Xun Ziyou nodded slowly.

Shangguan Xuanjian assumed a stern expression, "Then the trouble might be big..."

Xun Ziyou sighed deeply, looking up into the sky over the Qian Learning State Boundary, recalling the Ancestor's words, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind.

"Three feet of ice, doesn't come from one day of cold."

"Possibly, the troubles were already huge a long time ago..."

Xun Ziyou muttered to himself silently.

...

After conversing with Elder Xun, Mo Hua sat cross-legged for a while, then looked through several Divine Patterns, waited until 1 p.m, and then his Divine Sense sank into the Sea of Consciousness.

Within the Sea of Consciousness, the Taoist Stele stood vast and ethereal, towering.

Mo Hua began to draw the Divine Barrier Array, Divine Mist Array, and Divine Lock Array on the Taoist Stele.

Soon, three faint golden Divine Arrays, purely composed of Divine Thought, emerged on the Taoist Stele.

Mo Hua gazed at the Formation and slightly shook his head.

"It's indeed not working..."

The flow of Thought Power within the Formation was murky.

It possessed only the form, but lacked spirit.

When these patterns were inscribed on the White Bone Evil Sword to seal the sword bone, Mo Hua hadn't noticed.

Now, within the Sea of Consciousness, presenting these patterns on the Taoist Stele, which contains the Dao Laws, the issues became very apparent.

The pattern gloss was dim.

Indicating that the Taoist Stele did not acknowledge it.

Meaning that his understanding of Divine Arrays was still very shallow, and he hadn't yet grasped the essence of formations.

"But what are the Formation Laws inherent in the Divine Arrays?"

Mo Hua frowned and thought hard, but after much meditation, no clue could be grasped, inevitably feeling a bit dejected.

"Seems that Mr. Tu wasn't wrong, these Divine Arrays 'by human knowledge, steal the Divine Ways', thereby mastering the power to seal divinity, are indeed abstruse and complex, not something easily learned."

That Mr. Tu, indeed hadn't spoken falsely.

Mo Hua silently apologized to Mr. Tu.

Previously, he thought he was extraordinarily gifted, that he could learn it easily; but now it seems, he was indeed somewhat naive, had underestimated the world's Formation Masters...

Mo Hua sighed.

What to do now?

The Formation Diagram is in hand, he can already perform the patterns, but the essential mysteries of the formation, the involved Formation Laws, he still doesn't understand.

And even in the short term, he could not deduce any insights.

The situation was somewhat stalled...

Mo Hua furrowed his brows, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, recalling what Mr. Tu said to Jin Yixuan before disappearing:

"You first familiarize yourself with the patterns, the essence of formation, and I will teach you later..."

When Mr. Tu taught Jin Yixuan, could he stealthily learn it himself?

Since Mr. Tu could use these Divine Arrays, it implies he understands the Dao Laws contained within them.

As long as he teaches Jin Yixuan, it's certain he will "teach" Mo Hua as well.

In this way, even if the complete understanding of such laws isn't achieved, Mo Hua would at least know the direction, avoiding being completely clueless.