Chapter 538: Array Flow

Array Pavilion, before the shrine.

The incense had already burned out, only ash remained.

Bai Zixi and Bai Zisheng were guarding Mo Hua’s “divine thought out of body” body, feeling somewhat worried and anxious.

“Time’s up, why isn’t Mo Hua awake yet?” Bai Zisheng said worriedly.

Bai Zixi also frowned.

Just then, “Mo Hua” mumbled and opened his eyes.

Bai Zixi and Bai Zisheng’s expressions showed joy.

Bai Zixi softly asked, “Are you alright…?”

“Mo Hua’s” eyes were confused for a moment, then gradually cleared. He slowly sat up, nodded, and smiled:

“I’m fine.”

As “Mo Hua” smiled, Bai Zixi’s gaze suddenly turned cold. She immediately made a chopping motion with her hand, hitting the back of “Mo Hua’s” head and knocking him out.

Bai Zisheng was greatly shocked. “Zixi! Why did you attack Mo Hua?”

Bai Zixi shook her head. “He’s not right.”

“Not right?”

Bai Zisheng was startled. He then carefully examined Mo Hua, his brows gradually furrowing as he also discovered some clues.

“Mo Hua’s” aura had changed…

His face wasn’t as endearing as before.

The smile just now was also somewhat off.

This wasn’t his little junior brother.

Bai Zisheng remembered something Mo Hua had instructed him very early on:

“If you discover I’m not right, immediately knock me out!”

Bai Zisheng nodded slightly, puzzled. “An evil entity invaded his sea of consciousness?”

“Possibly…”

“But that’s not right… How can there be an evil entity inside the shrine?”

Bai Zixi shook her head. “I don’t know…”

“Then where is the real Mo Hua?”

Bai Zixi turned her head, gazing at the shrine with a glass-like gaze that was somewhat profound.

Bai Zisheng opened his mouth. “He wouldn’t still be inside, would he…”

He was somewhat anxious. “The incense has finished burning, the shrine is closed. How can our little junior brother… get out?”

“Or…” Bai Zisheng frowned and thought, “Should we go find that great elder and ask him to burn another stick of incense to open the shrine and let our junior brother out?”

Bai Zixi slowly shook her head. “That won’t work.”

The shrine involves the core inheritance of the Five Elements Sect. The great elder will definitely not agree.

Little junior brother being locked inside must be because he discovered a secret in the shrine…

Otherwise, with his cleverness, it would be impossible for him not to come out.

“Let’s wait a bit longer,” Bai Zixi said calmly.

Bai Zisheng was somewhat worried. “But, the time is already up…”

Bai Zixi’s beautiful eyes slightly narrowed, and her thoughts quickly turned. “The time is up, but the great elder hasn’t come. It must be that Master calculated a change and delayed the great elder.”

“Master is buying time for little junior brother.”

“Let’s wait here, guard junior brother well, and wait for him to come out…”

Bai Zixi’s voice was clear and calm.

Bai Zisheng always listened to his younger sister and knew she was smarter than him, so he followed her advice and nodded.

Inside Mo Hua’s sea of consciousness.

The Five Elements little ghost was stamping its feet in anger.

“What’s wrong?”

“How was I exposed?”

It had just said two words and smiled a bit, yet it was immediately seen through and then decisively knocked out again…

Why?

Why could that little girl tell it was fake at a glance?

Even siblings from the same sect who spent every day and night together couldn’t tell at a glance, could they…?

A bit eerie…

The Five Elements little ghost felt a sense of dread in its heart.

This sect, from top to bottom, from junior brother to senior sister, were indeed not good people. Not only did they have good root bones and high comprehension, but their hearts were also all clever and insightful.

If this continues, it won’t be able to escape…

It hadn’t thought of occupying Mo Hua’s body permanently, because that was fundamentally impossible.

This little ghost’s master has a terrifying origin.

Its own little background would be seen through at a glance.

It only wanted to borrow Mo Hua’s body to escape from the shrine and the Array Pavilion.

But it had never expected that it wouldn’t be exposed by this little ghost’s master, but by his little senior sister.

The Five Elements little ghost was very puzzled.

It impersonated the transmission elder and was seen through by this little cultivator.

It impersonated this little cultivator and was again seen through by his senior sister.

Is its acting really that bad?

The Five Elements little ghost frowned, its heart irritable.

Now it was in a difficult situation.

Trapped inside Mo Hua’s sea of consciousness.

It wanted to leave but couldn’t, and it definitely couldn’t stay.

It didn’t think it could really deceive the heavens and cross the sea.

It could still leave if it wanted to, it would think of another way…

The Five Elements little ghost sat cross-legged and again sized up its surroundings, involuntarily clicking its tongue in amazement:

“This little ghost’s sea of consciousness is truly a blessed land, vast, tough, and its aura is clear. Although the divine thought is out of the body, the remaining divine consciousness is also extremely pure and deep…”

“A refining qi cultivator who can have a sea of consciousness… enough to compare with Foundation Establishment, no, even far surpass general Foundation Establishment…”

“Indeed a little monster…”

The Five Elements little ghost shook its head.

Suddenly, its expression changed.

No, something’s wrong!

This sea of consciousness is not right!

It sniffed the aura inside, and its pupils violently contracted.

The aura of the Great Dao!

This is… an aura closer to the origin of the Great Dao than the Five Elements qi!

What ancient and terrifying thing is hidden within this little ghost’s sea of consciousness!

A trace of greed flashed in the little ghost’s eyes, but then it turned into deep fear.

It had resided in the shrine for hundreds of years and had seen countless array derivations. Vaguely, it had a trace of heavenly machine warning.

This warning then made it inexplicably alarmed.

As if if it stayed any longer, once midnight came, something would “wake up”, and that ancient and powerful Great Dao aura would grind it, little by little, into ashes, completely erase it, and it would never transcend!

The Five Elements little ghost trembled all over, its hands and feet weak.

“It’s over, I’m going to die!”

“Quickly think of a way to run!”

“If I don’t run, I’m finished…”

Although this is an opportunity, it is obviously not something it can handle.

The Five Elements little ghost forced itself to calm down.

Never mind… there’s still time…

Wait a while until I control the little cultivator’s body. As long as I can move, I will immediately run outwards, run out of the Array Pavilion, find a Five Elements Sect cultivator at random to parasitize, and completely leave this terrifying sea of consciousness.

As long as I get out, the sky is high and the sea is wide.

Not being confined inside the shrine, I can also feed on cultivators’ divine thoughts and live a free and unfettered life.

And as long as I eat enough and my divine thought is strong enough, and I digest the Five Elements qi, eventually, I can also achieve enlightenment.

I can even ascend to the position of a heavenly demon, the level of an evil god…

The Five Elements little ghost calmed its mood, its eyes filled with ambition.

And at this moment, inside the shrine, within the true dojo.

After the world was inverted and all things were reversed.

Mo Hua opened his eyes and restored his divine consciousness.

In front of him was still that dojo, but everything was different again.

The surrounding wood carvings and mud statues seemed to have turned into living people, all mechanically, meticulously, following some rule, constantly drawing array patterns.

All the decorations inside the shrine, the spirit beast carriages, strange flowers and exotic grasses, carved beams and painted rafters, various magic treasures…

All shed their forms, revealing the arrays inside.

All appearances were false, only the arrays were true.

Mo Hua felt both shocked and had doubts in his heart:

“This is, the inheritance dojo of the Five Elements Sect?”

Did that Five Elements little ghost really deceive him?

There is indeed a dojo, but is there really the true inheritance of the Five Elements Sect inside?

What is the true inheritance of the Five Elements Sect?

More rare than the arrays of the Five Elements absolute array?

It shouldn’t be…

Mo Hua was somewhat confused.

Also, that Five Elements little ghost, why did it deceive him and trap him here? Was it trying to escape from the shrine?

How should I get out?

Around the dojo, there seemed to be no exit.

Two hours must have passed, something must have happened outside the shrine…

Mo Hua’s thoughts were jumbled. A moment later, he shook his head and calmed his heart.

Worrying about these things now was useless.

Since he had come, he would settle down.

First, he wanted to figure out the details of the dojo.

Mo Hua began to release his divine consciousness, carefully examining the dojo, wanting to see if this dojo was truly an “inheritance” dojo, and whether there was really the true inheritance of the Five Elements Sect inside…

After probing it once, Mo Hua was somewhat thoughtful:

First, there was not a single person inside this inheritance dojo.

Or rather, not a single “living” divine thought, divine consciousness, or even an evil entity.

Although the surrounding array master wood carvings were like living people, constantly drawing arrays, they were still just wood carvings, or rather, more like puppets.

The arrays they drew were numerous in categories, but all were of the Five Elements class.

The array patterns they drew were rigid and precise.

Mo Hua stared at them for a moment, his gaze slightly doubtful:

“Rather than saying they are drawing arrays…”

“It would be better to say they are recording arrays…”

“Meticulously, recording the process of drawing arrays…”

Mo Hua again looked at the array patterns they drew, his expression even more uncomprehending.

Although these array patterns were within the scope of the Five Elements, they were somewhat different from standard array patterns. They seemed to have undergone special processing, evolving little by little, finally summarizing…

And in addition to the arrays drawn by the wood carving array masters, the entire dojo, every scene and object around it, including the large array disk in the center of the dojo, was of this kind of special array.

It was this “summary style” class of array patterns.

Mo Hua furrowed his brows.

What kind of arrays are these?

Or, the arrays are not the key, the “summary” method is the focus?

Mo Hua again carefully, one by one, looked at them.

This look startled him.

He discovered that many of the arrays inside, he fundamentally didn’t understand.

Because these arrays were fundamentally not first-grade arrays!

They were second-grade, third-grade, and even above third-grade arrays!

These arrays contained array patterns whose strokes were more complex, stroke forces thicker, stroke methods more obscure, and the number of array patterns was also much more than first-grade arrays.

Mo Hua just followed along and looked a few times, comprehending slightly, and then felt his divine consciousness pour out like water.

Mo Hua’s heart was stern. He quickly guarded his heart and mind, warning himself:

“Don’t aim too high, don’t aim too high…”

When his thoughts calmed down and his divine consciousness was full, Mo Hua continued to look, but this time he had self-knowledge and specifically picked first-grade arrays to look at.

First-grade Five Elements arrays, Mo Hua was very familiar with.

His understanding of the principles of Five Elements arrays was also very profound.

So looking at them was not effort-consuming.

Mo Hua would compare the Five Elements arrays he had mastered and the Five Elements array styles he had comprehended with the special, variant Five Elements arrays inside the dojo, and carefully deduce.

Again and again, observing the techniques of the wood carving array masters as they drew arrays…

Trying to guess the extensions of the same arrays, the evolutions of array patterns…

He didn’t know how long passed, but Mo Hua suddenly startled, then suddenly enlightened, and lost his voice:

“This is perhaps… derivation calculation?!”

Unlike the divine consciousness derivation calculation taught by Master, this is a completely different derivation calculation technique!

Master taught him to derive calculate spiritual traces through array patterns, and to push deduce the operation time of arrays, and more essentially, the trajectories of spiritual power.

Conversely, he could also derive calculate specific array patterns through the spiritual traces of arrays.

The former is from outside to inside, deepening the understanding of arrays;

The latter is from inside to outside, seeing through real array patterns.

But this derivation calculation method inside the Five Elements Sect inheritance dojo is completely different.

What it derives calculates seems not the relationship between array patterns and spiritual traces.

But purely, the summary derivation calculation of array pattern changes and array variants.

From complex to simple, from two to one, deepening the understanding of the commonalities between different arrays and different array patterns.

Mo Hua suddenly enlightened.

This kind of derivation calculation method, perhaps is the true inheritance of the Five Elements Sect?

Although Mo Hua only half understood, he also felt it was very profound and impressive.

This is derivation calculation ah…

Must learn!

As the saying goes, give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Arrays are “fish”, derivation calculation is “fishing”.

Learning derivation calculation can help him better learn and comprehend arrays.

Mo Hua’s eyes lit up.

A special derivation calculation method!

Worthy of a once first-rate array sect!

Mo Hua’s mood was excited.

But then he was again somewhat troubled, how to learn this derivation calculation method?

Mo Hua again released his divine consciousness, and searched the dojo up and down, inside and out.

Inside the dojo, there were only arrays, and nothing else, similar means of inheritance.

Things like secret books, classics, words, insights and so on, were all absent.

Mo Hua again held his chin and began to think:

According to the various deeds before, the ancestors of the Five Elements Sect, their way of doing things is a bit rigid, a bit stubborn, a bit obscure.

They teach people, not like teaching directly, but like simplifying the complex.

Not like words and texts, but like direct demonstration.

“Demonstrate…”

Mo Hua’s eyes lit up, and he looked at the surrounding wood carving array masters who were constantly drawing arrays. Then he somewhat enlightened.

These wood carving array masters are demonstrating.

Demonstrating exactly how this kind of derivation calculation is calculated.

Step by step, from low to high, from easy to difficult, gradually deriving, changing, and fusing from the variants and iterations of basic array patterns…

The meaning is…

See for yourself, learn for yourself.

How much you can learn is how much you can learn.

If you can comprehend it clearly, then it is clear.

What others say is not yours, but what you comprehend yourself is more thorough.

Mo Hua sighed in his heart.

The ancestors of the Five Elements Sect indeed have the demeanor of masters!

Without further delay, Mo Hua then watched the wood carvings drawing arrays, summarizing and learning this special derivation calculation method of the Five Elements Sect.

The wood carvings draw arrays, not only first-grade.

But Mo Hua can only learn first-grade.

Mo Hua is not greedy either, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. First learn first-grade, higher grades will be said later.

Meals are always eaten bite by bite, how much you can eat is how much you can eat…

Inside the dojo, time passed little by little.

Mo Hua concentrated, immersed himself, and along with the mechanical actions of the wood carvings, little by little, learned the derivation calculation method of the Five Elements Sect.

One by one array patterns, in his heart, were derived and changed…

He didn’t know how long passed, but Mo Hua finally grasped the inside story.

Mo Hua also tried to derive calculate a few array patterns himself, and then compared them with the array patterns on the dojo, and found no errors. Then he nodded in satisfaction.

His divine consciousness was originally powerful, and he also had Master Zhuang’s derivation calculation method as a foundation. He would calculate and play for no reason, calculate arrays, calculate large arrays, calculate absolute arrays, and his derivation calculation was extremely skilled…

The derivation calculation method of the Five Elements Sect, although special, is not particularly difficult.

Mo Hua also learned very quickly.

Speaking of first-grade array derivation calculation alone, he had already learned about seventy to eighty percent. There were still some flaws, which he would slowly polish and comprehend later.

Mo Hua’s eyes were bright and crystalline.

A special derivation calculation method!

Although that Five Elements little ghost had tricked him, it didn’t deceive him. There is indeed a higher array inheritance inside this dojo!

Learning this kind of derivation calculation is also not in vain for this trip.

Mo Hua nodded.

Subsequently, he again involuntarily became curious:

What exactly is this kind of derivation calculation used to calculate?

What use can these derived array patterns have?

Learn it to use it…

If not for use, what is the point of learning it?

Mo Hua held his chin and fell into thought:

“Did I miss something?”

Mo Hua again carefully, from beginning to end, reconsidered this derivation calculation:

Divine consciousness derivation calculation, array variants…

To unify variants, and summarize the various array patterns of complex, different Five Elements arrays into unified, general array patterns…

From complex to simple, from many to one…

Then what?

From many to one… One leads to a hundred?

Mo Hua startled, then as if struck by lightning, his heart and mind were greatly shocked.

One leads to… a hundred?!

Isn’t that just… the immortal heaven array stream?

No, it should be called the Five Elements array stream?

Five Elements array stream?!

Mo Hua’s pupils contracted sharply.

Then this kind of derivation calculation, the derivation calculation he just learned, is the derivation calculation method for summarizing the source stream of arrays?

What is derived and calculated is an array stream?

The true inheritance of the Five Elements Sect is an array stream?!

Mo Hua opened his mouth, his heart shocked to the extreme.

He never would have thought!

The ancestors of the Five Elements Sect had such great ambition!

They built this dojo to analogize the immortal heaven array stream, intending to personally derive, and pass down through generations… the Five Elements array source stream?!

(End of this chapter)