The Quest for Immortality

The two seemed to be studying the Five Elements Spirit Formation...

Mo Hua didn’t want to bother them.

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

Then he tilted his head to the left, staring at Bai Zixi for a while, and couldn’t help but feel:

The little martial sister is really beautiful!

With her fair skin, delicate brows and eyes, her eyes were like the stars in the sky, serene and sparkling.

This was even after she had changed her appearance, hiding her true face.

If it were her original appearance, she would be even more beautiful...

Mo Hua watched for a while longer, then snapped back to reality:

"I almost forgot, the important thing is the Five Elements Spirit Formation..."

Mo Hua began to concentrate again, pondering the Shrine.

But no matter how he contemplated, the Shrine didn’t show the slightest change.

Even when he tried to "play dumb" by sealing his Divine Sense and silently chanting, "Come and bewitch me, I won’t see through you," it was useless.

The Shrine still ignored him.

Mo Hua sighed. He looked at the Shrine for a while longer and a doubt inevitably arose:

Is there any connection between this Shrine and the Contemplation Map?

Within a Contemplation Map, some Divine Thoughts reside.

These Divine Thoughts come in all varieties.

They contain both the understanding of the Great Dao, the perception of the Heavenly Dao, and also some cultivators’ Divine Sense remnants after death, as well as the evil thoughts of ghosts, zombies, etc.

Till now, Mo Hua hadn’t seen a proper Contemplation Map.

The ones he’d seen were all improper ones.

And those maps were all inhabited by dirty and unclean spirits.

So, could this Shrine be a proper "Contemplation Map"?

Mo Hua also remembered his master mentioned that the so-called Contemplation Map is just a general term. Not all objects of contemplation are "maps." Every grass and tree, every brick and tile, Spiritual Artifacts, Magical Treasures, all may contain the Great Dao, or house Divine Thoughts, or be parasitized by evil spirits.

"So does this mean, this Shrine is an alternative type of ’Contemplation Map’"?

"Only, while other Contemplation Maps are ’maps,’ this one is a ’shrine’"?

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"Could it be that there is something residing within this Shrine?"

"Is it some kind of Divine Thought? Or is it the spell point of the Five Elements Spirit Formation?"

"Whatever it is, it’s a good thing..."

Mo Hua’s eyes brightened, followed by some disappointment.

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

"And the Five Elements Sect certainly won’t let me move it."

Mo Hua murmured to himself:

"If I could move the Shrine, everything would be solved. I could study it every day, contemplate day and night, and I would definitely learn the Five Elements Spirit Formation..."

Alas, that was just wishful thinking.

To move the Shrine of the Five Elements Sect’s ancestors would indeed be going too far...

But the current problem is, how can I learn the Five Elements Spirit Formation...

Mo Hua was a bit troubled, staring blankly at the Shrine.

Inside the Incense Burner, the smoke gradually dissipated.

Time also passed little by little...

Unconsciously, the hour had arrived.

The incense in the burner was also slowly burning out.

It was only then that Mo Hua realized that four hours had passed, and he hadn’t learned a single Formation Pattern...

It was like being in an exam, with time running out to hand in the paper, but he hadn’t written a single word...

Mo Hua’s heart trembled.

He then realized that this trial lasted five days, and if he hadn’t learned it today, there were still four days left. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

The incense had burned out.

All of the misty scent had dissipated.

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

They simultaneously glanced at Mo Hua and found that he looked like he had sat through a class and learned nothing, and then simply gave up, which startled them for a moment.

At that moment, the Chief Elder opened the door.

His gaze swept over the faces of the three Mo Hua, asked nothing, but simply said:

"The time for today has come. Come back tomorrow."

Mo Hua and the others respectfully bowed and followed Mr. Zhuang out.

Back in the room, Mo Hua said with some guilt:

"Master, I didn’t learn anything..."

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

"What did you see?"

Mo Hua replied truthfully: "I saw the Formation Patterns on the Array Plate, and I heard an old man speaking. Then habitually, I brushed aside all distractions, and after that... I couldn’t see anything..."

Apart from spending a little time sneakily watching the little martial sister, the rest of the time was spent contemplating the Contemplation Map and daydreaming...

"Why is that, master?" asked Mo Hua.

Mr. Zhuang pondered for a moment, then sighed: "Perhaps your Divine Sense is too strong..."

A Divine Sense too strong sees through the essence.

A Taoist Heart clear and undisturbed, immune to bewitchment.

But as a result, he couldn’t see the illusion of the Shrine, nor could he 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 way to pass down the Ultimate Formation..."

Mr. Zhuang looked at Mo Hua in silence, thinking it wasn’t the Five Elements Sect that was outrageous, but his Divine Sense.

In the Qi-refining Realm, to have Thirteen Stripes of Divine Sense.

The ancestors of the Five Elements Sect probably had never anticipated this...

Mr. Zhuang then asked Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi, "How about you two?"

Both nodded their heads.

Bai Zisheng said: "We’ve both learned. Sitting on the meditation cushion, pondering the Shrine, Formation Patterns would appear on the Array Plate at the center of the Shrine Taoist Field..."

"There was also an elder speaking about the key points of learning the Five Elements Spirit Formation..."

Mr. Zhuang said, "Draw it for me to see."

Bai Zisheng hesitated, "I didn’t learn it all..."

"No matter," Mr. Zhuang said, "Draw as much as you can."

"Alright."

Bai Zisheng nodded, then took out paper and ink and started to draw the Five Elements Formation that he had learned from the Shrine.

Bai Zixi, with a graceful posture, held the brush and followed suit in drawing.

After finishing, they handed their drawings to Mr. Zhuang.