Chapter 539: Pastries

Mo Qing realized then how limited his perspective had been.

The inheritance of the Wuxing Sect far exceeded his expectations!

But the doubts in his heart did not decrease, they only grew:

What is the difference between Wuxing Zhen Liu and Xian Tian Zhen Liu?

Xian Tian Zhen Liu coordinates all the array methods under heaven, and is aligned with the Great Dao of array methods. Does it simply encompass Wuxing Zhen Liu?

Does Wuxing Zhen Liu contain some array principles that Xian Tian Zhen Liu never involved?

Or are they completely different inheritances?

Mo Qing was a bit confused.

Besides, there was still the most crucial question:

The Wuxing Sect built a shrine, established a dojo, derived array methods, simplified the complex, reduced many to one, attempting to derive the most profound array flow within the array method inheritance.

Did they succeed?

If they did, where is this Wuxing Zhen Liu now?

Or, what exactly is this Wuxing Zhen Liu, and in what form does it exist?

Mo Qing was stunned again for a moment.

He then realized that he fundamentally didn't even know what an array flow was.

He hadn't learned or even seen Xian Tian Zhen Liu; he only had a vague concept, half-understood.

Mo Qing frowned, the doubts in his heart intensifying:

"What kind of inheritance is a so-called 'array flow'?"

"A cultivation technique? A Dao technique? A formation diagram? A passage of mental flow? An insight? A venerable divine thought?"

"Or, like the Wuxing Ling Zhen, is it a manifestation of some array principle?"

Mo Qing carefully searched the dojo again, but still found nothing. The only unusual thing was the array patterns in the central dojo.

He hadn't noticed it before, but now having learned the Wuxing Tui Yan method, he derived again and discovered that many array patterns in the dojo were actually incomplete.

It was as if there was only deduction, but no result.

Only derivation, but no array flow.

Mo Qing sighed, feeling a bit regretful.

It seems they didn't succeed in deriving it...

But thinking about it, this was also normal.

If the Wuxing Sect had truly derived Wuxing Zhen Liu and used it as their inheritance, their array Dao would have flourished greatly, immediately becoming a top-tier array method sect, and their future generations would not have declined to this extent.

It seems that deriving an array flow is still extremely difficult.

It's estimated that the Wuxing Sect, wanting to achieve it in one go, consumed enormous human and material resources and the divine sense calculation power of their array masters, but ultimately failed. Not deriving the array flow wasted the sect's time, emptied its foundation, and severely damaged its vitality, leading to its gradual decline...

They wanted to gamble their fate, but they lost...

What a pity...

Mo Qing sighed with emotion.

He really wanted to see what the true Wuxing Zhen Liu was like.

But then he thought, being able to learn the Wuxing Sect's derivation method was already very good.

One cannot be too greedy.

Moreover, having learned this derivation method, does it mean...

In the future, when his divine sense is strong enough and his array learning is profound enough, he can try to derive an array flow himself?

Derive his own array flow?

Mo Qing's heart leaped, his eyes sparkling brightly, full of anticipation.

Mo Qing looked at the dojo again.

This dojo, which recorded the array flow derivation method, was the true inheritance dojo of the Wuxing Sect.

But he could only learn up to this point.

After all, the shrine belonged to the Wuxing Sect, not him. He couldn't keep learning here forever.

He had to find a way to leave.

Mo Qing circled around again and found that the key to leaving was still the meditation mat.

Mo Qing had noticed upon entering that there were array patterns drawn on the meditation mat in the inheritance dojo, but these array patterns were also variant array patterns.

He didn't understand them at first.

Now that he had comprehended the Wuxing Sect's special derivation method, he understood.

The derivation method was just the method to open the door.

He flipped the meditation mat over and began to derive and calculate, summarizing the array methods on the meditation mat into a single array pattern, and drew this array pattern in the center of the meditation mat.

The surrounding scenery fused and distorted, inverting positive and negative.

Mo Qing felt a burst of dizziness. When he reopened his eyes a moment later, he found that he had come out of the inheritance dojo.

His current location was the Transmission Gong Dojo.

Around him were the surface decorations of wood carvings, clay sculptures, carriages, spirit beasts, treasure bottles, flowers, and plants, no longer the true form of the dojo constructed by array patterns.

It was empty around him.

That little Wuxing ghost was also nowhere to be seen.

"Ran away?"

Mo Qing's gaze narrowed slightly.

It trapped him in the dojo, and then it planned to escape to freedom?

He would remember this!

Mo Qing surveyed his surroundings again.

The current Transmission Gong Dojo was dead silent.

Two hours had passed, the incense had burned out, the shrine was sealed, no one could enter from outside, no one could go out from inside, and he couldn't see the scenery outside either.

Mo Qing walked along the outer edge of the dojo to the great door of the shrine.

He had entered through this great door before.

Now the great door was tightly closed, surrounded by a dense network of array methods, like heavy chains, completely locking the great door, isolating the inside and outside of the shrine.

Mo Qing breathed a sigh of relief.

For him, the problem of array methods was simply not a problem.

Trying to trap him using array methods was impossible.

Mo Qing frowned in thought.

"Which method is best for opening the door?"

Breaking the array?

A bit too much effort.

Solving the array?

The array methods on this great door were from the hands of the Wuxing Sect's ancestors. It's estimated that it was for inheritance, so it was only of the first grade, but the methods were also very special and very ancient.

To really solve each array method one by one would also be quite time-consuming.

Time was limited, so he would change the method of solving.

Mo Qing's eyes lit up.

Array method collapse solution!

Since using the great array collapse solution to eliminate Feng Xi, Mo Qing hadn't tried the array method collapse solution for a long time.

His master had instructed him not to easily use collapse solution and, even more so, not to be discovered by people.

But now he was inside the Wuxing Sect's shrine, with no one else around, not even "ghosts." He could secretly "collapse solve" it once, and no one should discover it.

Of course, he didn't have to use it.

Mainly, his hands were a little itchy.

Keeping the noise down, secretly, collapse solving one panel of the great door shouldn't have any impact...

Moreover, Mo Qing also wanted to see what a divine sense-manifested array method would look like after being collapse solved.

Mo Qing familiarized himself with and derived the array methods on the great door of the shrine, then based on the array hub and the spirit traces of the array methods, he set up a reverse spirit array.

Afterward, he immediately hid far away and cast a fireball technique to bombard the great door.

When the great door of the shrine was impacted by the fireball technique, the array method automatically activated.

The array methods on the shrine were manifested by divine thought and driven by divine thought.

The power of divine thought flowed along the array patterns, flowed through the reverse spirit array, triggering the collapse solution. Then, array patterns dissolved one by one, and bits of divine thought gradually reversed, collapsed, and annihilated in the void.

The scale of the collapse solution was not large, but the power of the collapse solution after reversing was silently terrifying, making people's hearts tremble.

The great door of the shrine, like a monstrous beast in the void, swallowed a mouthful, leaving a large black hole.

Divine thought collapse solution!

Mo Qing's heart was startled.

This was the true power of "divine extinguish, Dao vanish."

Spirit power could collapse solve, and divine sense could also...

Spirit power and divine sense were different, but it seemed they also had common points.

Wuxing Ling Zhen required fusing spirit power with divine sense;

Array method collapse solution, both spirit power and divine sense could be used as the medium for collapse solution...

Mo Qing also thought of the four words spoken by that very, very old elder of the Wuxing Sect:

Divine sense transforms into Dao.

These four words seemed to have deeper meanings, which he couldn't understand with his current cultivation and insight...

"Never mind, I'll think about it later."

The great door of the shrine was opened by collapse solution, and he could go out.

He wanted to go find that little ghost and settle the score.

Mo Qing licked his lips.

Moreover, he was hungry...

Hidden Array Pavilion, third floor.

Mister Zhuang, Puppet Old, and the great elder of the Wuxing Sect were still drinking tea.

The great elder of the Wuxing Sect suddenly felt a pang in his heart.

He always felt as if something extremely precious had suddenly disappeared...

"The shrine... won't have a problem, right?"

The great elder's heart tightened, then he secretly relaxed.

"Impossible, how could the shrine have a problem?"

"That's something built by the old ancestors, with dense array patterns, profoundly mysterious..."

"Moreover, there's still that thing guarding inside..."

"Impossible to have a problem..."

The great elder gradually calmed down, secretly raised his eyes, and looked at Mister Zhuang and Puppet Old with some dissatisfaction.

But he dared not act rashly, only coldly snorted in his heart:

"If you can't learn, you can't learn!"

"Absolute arrays, without accumulating day after day and month after month, without deep thinking and hard study, are fundamentally impossible to understand clearly. How can you comprehend them in such a short time?"

"You really don't take my Wuxing Sect's inheritance seriously..."

Mister Zhuang and Puppet Old sat upright, drinking tea, unmoved by the great elder's attitude.

But this tea tasted somewhat bland.

Puppet Old then asked, "How is it?"

He asked directly, without avoiding the great elder, but the great elder on the side, like a fool, fundamentally couldn't hear or see anything.

Mister Zhuang pinched his fingers to calculate, his pupils slightly bright: "Not bad."

"Learned?"

Mister Zhuang's gaze narrowed slightly, "What should be learned, has been learned, what shouldn't be learned... is also quickly being learned..."

Puppet Old was startled to hear this and said curiously, "The Wuxing Sect really has other inheritances? What is it?"

Mister Zhuang shook his head, helplessly saying:

"This, I really don't know..."

Mister Zhuang's mind stirred slightly, and he suddenly frowned.

True inheritance...

Perhaps that year, the old ancestor of his faction "took advantage of others' misfortune" for this inheritance, and then repaid the favor and set this agreement with the Wuxing Sect?

Mister Zhuang fell into contemplation...

Puppet Old raised an eyebrow, glanced at Mister Zhuang, and asked, "Didn't you see it back then?"

Mister Zhuang paused, "This... people make mistakes, it's unavoidable."

Puppet Old's gaze held some disdain.

Mister Zhuang coughed, "Moreover, the Wuxing Sect's ancestors were too cunning. I was young at that time, so it's understandable that I couldn't see it."

"Mo Qing saw it," Puppet Old said lightly.

Mister Zhuang paused again, then his mind turned, and he righteously said:

"Mo Qing is my direct disciple. If he saw it, it's the same as me seeing it!"

Puppet Old said indifferently, "Really thick-skinned."

Mister Zhuang remained unmoved, self-sufficiently drinking tea, his expression indifferent.

But as he drank, Puppet Old's words still made him feel a bit doubtful.

Mo Qing saw it...

Was this because this child was intelligent, naturally good, and had good opportunities...

Or... was there a will of heaven in the dark?

Mister Zhuang sighed slightly, his gaze somewhat obscure.

And at this time, Mo Qing, having collapsed the great door of the shrine, disappeared in a flash and returned to his sea of consciousness.

As expected, the little Wuxing ghost was currently occupying his sea of consciousness.

Mo Qing didn't startle the snake by beating the grass, but hid himself and secretly walked behind it to see what it was doing.

The little Wuxing ghost was squatting on the ground, drawing some complex patterns, while its face was gloomy and uncertain, sometimes happy, sometimes angry, and its mouth was also muttering non-stop.

Either complaining, or cursing, or calculating...

"... Why hasn't it woken up yet?"

"It can't be midnight. I want to escape earlier..."

"I've been trapped for several hundred years in that barren dojo. I don't want to go back even in my next life..."

"Fortunately, I haven't lost out."

"I want to go out and eat and kill to my heart's content... to make up for all the consumption of the past several hundred years..."

"Sooner or later, I will comprehend Wuxing..."

The little Wuxing ghost smiled sinisterly and didn't say anything more.

Mo Qing was quite curious and asked aloud:

"Comprehend Wuxing, then what?"

In the silent and empty sea of consciousness, a voice appeared out of nowhere. The little Wuxing ghost was immediately startled and jumped up, looking around in a panic, saying sternly:

"Who?!"

Mo Qing didn't hide either and slowly showed his body.

The little Wuxing ghost widened its eyes, "It's you?! You... how did you get out?"

It shook its head and said to itself:

"No, impossible! The incense burned out, the shrine was sealed. You should still be trapped in the dojo. How could you possibly come out?"

Mo Qing's expression was indifferent, "I am an array master. Don't think about using array methods to trap an array master."

The little Wuxing ghost's eyelids twitched rapidly, and it said angrily:

"Nonsense!"

What did that have to do with being an array master?

Even an array master, if locked in the shrine and trapped in the dojo, would be a hundred percent unable to escape.

Clearly, you, this little cultivator, have a problem!

It had lived for so long, but it had never seen such an absurd little array master.

Actually able to solve the mystery of the dojo and break the lock of the shrine's door, escaping from the shrine even after the incense burned out...

Was the way of array methods that profound?

Could just a first-grade array master know so many things?

The little Wuxing ghost's heart sank, no longer dwelling on this, but counter-asked:

"What do you want?"

"What do you think?"

Mo Qing smiled kindly, his eyes revealing a fierce light.

The little Wuxing ghost was greatly alarmed and hurriedly said, "Let's talk it over. I won't stay here. As long as you let me go, everything is negotiable..."

Mo Qing didn't comment.

The little Wuxing ghost pleaded:

"I was also forced. I was trapped in the shrine for several hundred years, guarding the dojo to death, bored and enduring hardship. This taste, how uncomfortable, how uncomfortable..."

"I just want to escape and see this vast world, by the way..."

"By the way, 'eat' some people?" Mo Qing said lightly.

The little Wuxing ghost was startled, then its expression gradually turned cold, "You heard everything?"

Mo Qing nodded, "Don't pretend. You are a demon and evil sneaky. How can you have a human heart? I can tell at a glance what kind of goods you are."

The little Wuxing ghost restrained its timidity and pleading expression, revealing its fangs and smiling sinisterly:

"This is you forcing me."

"I originally planned not to use this move until I left the Wuxing Sect..."

Before it finished speaking, the little Wuxing ghost's momentum suddenly increased.

Its body grew larger, its skin and flesh as hard as iron, its veins bulging.

At the same time, array methods actually appeared on its body!

And they were exactly the Wuxing Ling Zhen!

The Wuxing Ling Zhen strengthened the five elements, amplified spirit power, and simultaneously greatly amplified the evil power of the five elements on the little Wuxing ghost's body.

The five elements transformed and were born, and the evil spirits were powerful.

Using metal as claws, wood as bones, water as blood, fire as qi, and earth as flesh.

The little Wuxing ghost, amplified by the Wuxing Ling Zhen, transformed and was born into a huge, fierce Wuxing evil ghost with stern evil qi!

The little Wuxing ghost roared at Mo Qing.

But it didn't know that no matter how fierce it was, it was still just a minor scene.

Mo Qing's expression was as usual, not afraid at all.

Not only was he not afraid, but Mo Qing's gaze also held a thoughtful expression.

He looked at the little Wuxing ghost transforming into a fierce Wuxing ghost and nodded, saying:

"You are not right!"

The fierce Wuxing ghost was startled.

Mo Qing thought for a moment and said slowly:

"You cannot use array methods!"

"But now, you are manifesting array methods..."

"Manifesting array methods requires extremely strong comprehension of array methods. How can you, a sneaky who doesn't understand array methods, is unfamiliar with array patterns, and doesn't grasp array principles, rely on that to manifest array methods?"

"Moreover, it's not just any array method, but the Wuxing absolute array..."

Mo Qing's gaze sank, and he asserted:

"You have a big problem on your body!"

The fierce Wuxing ghost felt a bit guilty, and cold sweat dripped.

Mo Qing thought for a moment and continued, "Not only that..."

"You have been trapped in the shrine for several hundred years. It's impossible that you know nothing..."

"That inheritance dojo..."

"You definitely entered it before!"

"Otherwise, you wouldn't have designed to trick me in and trap me inside..."

Mo Qing frowned.

"But after you entered, how did you get out?"

"You don't understand array methods, and you don't know derivation and calculation. It's impossible to get out..."

"But you came out... that means you must have taken something to escape from the inheritance dojo."

Mo Qing suddenly understood.

This little Wuxing ghost was a thief!

"You..."

Mo Qing's gaze was like a sword, "From the dojo, you stole something?"

The fierce Wuxing ghost was greatly alarmed and hurriedly said:

"No, I didn't!"

But its sophistry was pale and powerless.

Mo Qing's gaze was clear and sharp, staring at it.

The fierce Wuxing ghost felt uncomfortable all over being stared at by Mo Qing.

It only felt that this gaze was bright and transparent, like a demon-reflecting mirror, shining on its true form, completely exposed, nowhere to hide, unable to keep a single secret.

Array methods were profound, wisdom close to that of a demon.

What kind of small monster was this?

How was it so difficult to deal with?

Just at this moment, Mo Qing's gaze suddenly froze, as if thinking of something, and he muttered:

"No, it's still not right."

"No thing can suddenly make a little ghost who doesn't understand array methods comprehend the Wuxing Ling Zhen..."

"Unless this thing is..."

The source of Wuxing Zhen Liu!

Mo Qing's heart was shocked.

So that was it...

Not only did he underestimate the vision of the Wuxing Sect's ancestors, he also greatly underestimated their achievements in array methods!

The Wuxing Sect actually succeeded in deriving it!

With the power of the entire sect and the divine sense calculation power of all the array masters up and down the sect, they did indeed derive Wuxing Zhen Liu!

And this Wuxing Zhen Liu, although he didn't know what form it took, it was very possible that it was stolen by this little Wuxing ghost from the dojo and was now on its body.

And now, this little Wuxing ghost and this Wuxing Zhen Liu were all in his sea of consciousness...

Mo Qing's eyes, like stars, grew increasingly bright.

He looked at the fierce Wuxing ghost and involuntarily licked his lips again.

He hadn't expected...

He originally thought this was just an ordinary pastry.

But he hadn't expected this pastry to actually be filled!

And it was a five-colored assorted fresh meat filling!

(End of chapter)