Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 1205: Chapter 714: Bottleneck

After returning to the Sect, Mo Hua pondered over Master Gu’s words once more.

Without delving into the intricate divisions of the Tao Cultivation industry, in a certain sense, Formation media is a Spiritual Artifact, and a Spiritual Artifact is also Formation media.

As his own Cultivation advanced and his Divine Sense grew stronger, his understanding of Formations deepened, and the technique of Drawing Ground into Formation using “earth” as the medium became increasingly skillful.

The reliance on common “Formation media” wasn’t that great.

Spiritual Artifacts are such that if you have them, you use them; if not, it doesn’t really matter.

Mo Hua was not particularly dependent on them either.

However, if one wishes to broadly expand the use of Formations, or to bring out the utmost function of Formations, one has to consider the compatibility between Formations and external “media.”

The scope of this is quite broad.

It encompasses common Formation media, includes Standard Spiritual Weapons, and naturally, most importantly, customized spiritual tools.

Mo Hua recalled the small fishing village.

The Fish Cultivators of the small fishing village lived in hardship, eking out a difficult existence, using crudely crafted boats, nets, and harpoons, to say nothing of Formations.

Although the Cultivation World has proliferated for over twenty thousand years, and the skills of Artifact Refining and Formations are both very mature.

Yet, of these cultivational skills, less than one or two in ten could truly be employed by these grassroots Cultivators.

The Cultivation World has developed, but the inheritance has been monopolized.

The skills have been updated, but only to be used for exploitation.

Not only in the small fishing village, but this is also the general situation in Tongxian City, South Yue City, and the conditions of the lower class in various Immortal Cities that Mo Hua saw during his itinerant travels.

Mo Hua’s expression was complex, touched by deep feelings.

Cultivators perceive the Heavenly Dao to benefit all living beings.

Formations are a manifestation of the Heavenly Dao.

Coming from humble origins and having gained so much opportunity along the way, comprehending so many Formations, naturally, I should also uphold the will of the Heavenly Dao, using my learned knowledge to benefit all living creatures of the world.

This is the “Dao” that I’ve currently grasped.

It is the Dao of Cultivation, as well as the Dao of Formations.

Mo Hua looked up at the sky.

The sky is vast, encompassing all things, breeding life, infinite and ceaseless in its pursuit of self-improvement.

In the midst of obscurity, Mo Hua feels that this too should be the Dao of “Longevity.”

But this is just a faint enlightenment I have, whether it is truly so still requires my own active verification.

One must personally practice the Great Dao.

This too is what Master has taught me.

To comprehend the Dao without practicing it is the same as not comprehending it at all.

Only by personally practicing the “Dao” that one has comprehended can one know whether one’s “Dao” is correct or not.

If it’s right, persist; if it’s wrong, correct it.

By proceeding step by step in this manner, continuously gaining insight and putting it into practice, can one ultimately aspire to the true Longevity Road.

Mo Hua’s gaze was clear, his Taoist Heart suddenly became enlightened.

Whenever he had some free time, he began to consider in his heart the issue of compatibility between Formations and Formation media.

Thinking about how to broadly apply Formations to Standard Spiritual Weapons, and how to maximize the power of Formations through customized spiritual tools…

Mo Hua made many drafts of Formation Diagrams, but unfortunately, he can’t leave the Qianxue State Boundary for now and needs to concentrate on learning Formations.

Therefore, these drafts of Formation Diagrams can only stay at the conceptual level, without a chance to try them out in practice.

Mo Hua felt a bit regretful.

And as time gradually passed, a few more months quickly went by.

Mo Hua’s Divine Sense had not grown in the slightest.

This was because the Heavenly Dao Laws loomed in his Sea of Consciousness, continuously “taxing,” keeping his Divine Sense Realm below the Eighteen Patterns, preventing his Divine Thought from growing limitlessly and breaching some kind of threshold.

Mo Hua felt somewhat helpless.

When he had the time, he also studied this crevice of Law within the Sea of Consciousness, but it was so profound, unseen and unheard of by Mo Hua, that he couldn’t unravel anything in a short time and could only let it be for the time being.

There’s a long time ahead, and rushing to exploit the Heavenly Dao’s loopholes isn’t urgent.

While Divine Sense was stuck, his Cultivation had clearly progressed.

Mo Hua could distinctly feel that his Spiritual Power was gradually becoming saturated, reaching a bottleneck period of an intermediate Realm.

A few days later, one morning while Mo Hua was meditating and cultivating, his Qi Sea suddenly trembled, and an extraordinary phenomenon abruptly occurred.

Just like the initial time, with the Qi Sea saturated, Spiritual Power suddenly transformed into threads like quicksilver, overflowed through the meridians, traveled along the collateral channels, and gathered towards the Bahui Meridian at the top of his head.

When passing through the Heavenly Gate Point, the threads of Spiritual Power stitched through, permeating into the Sea of Consciousness of Mo Hua, and eventually, within the Sea of Consciousness, a Spirit Screen was woven.

This time, the Spirit Screen was more condensed than during the Qi-refining Realm.

In the Qi-refining Realm, the Spirit Screen was like a mist; this time, it was like a curtain of water.

Within the Spirit Screen, Formation Patterns circulated.

These Patterns were all Second Grade, with a faint luminosity, intricate and complex, forming an extensive Mystery Formation.

Mo Hua was very familiar with this process.

It is the ordinary process of reaching the Mystery Formation bottleneck produced by Heaven Yan Jue.

However, Mo Hua noticed that this time the Spiritual Power in his Sea of Consciousness displayed a faint silvery-white color, just like real mercury.

This was an indication of a Quality Change in Divine Thought.

Mo Hua recalled Lord Yellow Mountain saying that the color of Divine Marrow signifying Divine Rank begins with silver.

Mo Hua breathed a sigh of relief and felt somewhat fortunate.

I guessed correctly; at the Foundation Establishment Realm, to break through the bottleneck of Heaven Yan Jue not only requires the Realm of Divine Sense as the foundation, the mastery of Formations as the means but also the level of Divine Thought as qualification.

The Mystery Formation before me, completely formed by silvery Divine Marrow-like Telekinesis, is resplendent like pouring silver, dazzling in its brilliance and mysteriously profound within.

Without a sufficient Divine Rank, one has no qualifications to unravel the Mystery Formation.

If one’s mastery in Formations is not high, the Mystery Formation cannot be unlocked.

Without an adequate Divine Sense Realm, one might not even have the power to face this bottleneck.

All these requirements are somewhat bizarre and extraordinary.