Chapter 593: Yi Wood Gen Mountain

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Elder Xun stood with his hands behind his back, only needing a single glance at the four sets of arrays on the array disc before they dissolved one by one, leaving no trace.

He walked directly out of the transmission hall and proceeded alone along the jade stone avenue in the middle of Taixu Gate towards the back mountain.

All the disciples along the way bowed and greeted him, saying:

"Good day, Elder Xun."

Elder Xun nodded and replied, "Good day."

Upon arriving at the back mountain, all the inner disciples and even the true disciples, upon seeing Elder Xun, also bowed and greeted him, saying:

"Good day, Elder Xun."

Elder Xun merely gave a slight nod of acknowledgment.

Returning to his elder residence, Elder Xun brewed a cup of tea and instructed the attendant outside: "Go and get me a copy of the household register."

An attendant daoist child outside bowed his hands and said:

"Yes, ancestor."

Then Elder Xun sat in his room, with a cup of tea and a scroll, reading while frowning and pondering something.

The elder residence was vast, solemn, and quiet, completely empty.

There was only one table and one meditation cushion.

The tea also tasted light and plain.

Elder Xun did not feel there was anything special about it.

After the time it takes to burn one stick of incense, the daoist child brought a copy of the household register and respectfully handed it to Elder Xun.

Elder Xun nodded, took it, and his cloudy eyes swept over it once.

"Li State, second-grade Tongxian City, loose cultivator..."

"Middle-lower grade spirit root..."

"Unexpectedly a loose cultivator, and a middle-lower spirit root..."

Elder Xun was slightly surprised, then slightly nodded again, "Accepting talent without sticking to one pattern, there's still some progress..."

Elder Xun looked down again and saw in the special skill column, the four words "skilled in arrays" written.

He pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Indeed, still okay..."

A disciple from Li State, traveling ten thousand miles, coming here to seek knowledge...

"Rare and valuable ah..."

Elder Xun's expression showed a slight emotion, his gaze slightly condensed, not knowing what he was thinking about...

Mo Hua was eating in the disciple residence, with many disciples sitting around him.

Having been in school for over a month, Mo Hua was growing cuter, spoke pleasantly, and was completely innocent and carefree, so he had good interpersonal relationships and was quite familiar with his fellow disciples in Taiyi Residence.

Disciples from secular families were single-mindedly cultivating and matured quite late.

Although most were seventeen or eighteen years old, they were worldly inexperienced, had not seen the world's evil, and had not yet reached the age of "pursuing fame and profit", so their minds were not deep and they valued friendship among fellow disciples.

A disciple then said to Mo Hua:

"Mo Hua, be a little careful."

"You've encountered a big matter..."

"Elder Xun is very stingy..."

A disciple beside him made a "shh" gesture, "You want to die ah, dare to say Elder Xun is not good..."

"I'm saying it here, he probably won't hear it, right..."

"Hard to say..."

"If he heard... then what..."

"Then in the following days, you can personally experience the 'vastness and profoundness' of arrays..."

"Exactly, Elder Xun will specially take care of you, teach you those very very difficult arrays, your sea of consciousness will be exhausted, your hair will fall out, and you still won't learn them..."

"There's such a good thing?!"

"Of course..."

The disciple said half of it, then was stunned, only to realize that in this dialogue, there was one remark that didn't quite fit...

He silently turned his head to look at Mo Hua, somewhat at a loss for words.

Mo Hua softly asked: "Elder Xun will teach me very difficult arrays..."

That disciple's expression was subtle, "Mo Hua, why do you have such an... expectant look?"

"No no." Mo Hua quickly shook his head.

"Nonsense, your eyes are shining!"

"Exactly!"

"My eyes are originally like this!" Mo Hua said confidently.

"But..." A disciple said doubtfully, "Mo Hua, why do you draw arrays so well?"

Mo Hua said shyly: "Well? Generally generally, right..."

Some people said with envy, jealousy, and hatred, gritting their teeth:

"Modesty makes people progress, but excessive modesty will make people get beaten!"

Mo Hua then said: "I just draw arrays a little better, so I entered school with a middle-lower grade spirit root..."

"Middle-lower grade?!"

The disciples at the table were all shocked.

"You are a middle-lower grade spirit root?!"

"No wonder, I was wondering why your spirit power is so weak..."

"Blood essence is also a bit weak..."

"Dao foundation is also not solid..."

"Height is also not tall..."

Mo Hua was unhappy, "That's enough..."

Blood essence, spirit power, saying that is okay, but height is not tall, can this also be said?

The other disciples quickly smiled in apology.

Someone also said strangely: "Not right ah, even if you learned arrays so well, a middle-lower grade spirit root cannot enter the gate, right..."

"Right ah, my family's ancestor wanted to stuff a direct descendant with an upper-lower grade spirit root from the clan into Taixu Gate, found many connections, but all failed..."

"Upper-lower grade is not okay, let alone middle-lower grade..."

"Middle-lower grade, entering the eight great gates..."

The group of people looked at Mo Hua with strange gazes...

After a while, several disciples from a distance walked directly over, stood in front of Mo Hua, their eyes bright, cupped their fists, and said:

"Cheng family of Qian State, Cheng Mo, make friends!"

"Situ family of Li State, my name is Situ Jian, in the future, I must be the first-class great sword cultivator in Nine Provinces, pleased to meet you!"

"Wen family of Qian State..."

"Gen State..."

Mo Hua was confused.

He still thought they came over aggressively to fight.

But they came to... make friends?

What does that mean?

Mo Hua didn't remember incorrectly, he said he had a "middle-lower grade" spirit root, not an "upper-upper grade"...

Perhaps the spirit root ranking in Taixu Gate is reversed?

Middle-lower grade is better than upper-upper grade?

Mo Hua didn't understand.

Disciples from a distance whispered, their voices were small, but they still reached Mo Hua's ears.

"But a middle-lower grade spirit root, why are you going to make friends?"

"What do you understand?"

"If he is really just middle-lower grade, can he enter the mountain gate of Taixu Gate?"

"To enter Taixu Gate, how can it be that simple?"

"Exactly."

"Furthermore, if his middle-lower grade spirit root allows him to enter the eight great gates, his talent for cultivating the Dao must not be too heaven-defying, then his background must be deep enough, and his backstage hard enough!"

"Yes ah... middle-lower grade ah..."

"His Dao foundation is also so shallow..."

"You think, someone like this can enter the gate..."

"Then his background, how deep! His backstage, how hard!!"

When all the disciples thought about this, they all looked at Mo Hua with respect and admiration.

"It's estimated to be an illegitimate child of some great power, perhaps still having some connection with a Taixu Gate ancestor..."

"If so, the spirit root wouldn't be so bad, right..."

"What do you understand, spirit root inheritance is not 100%, there are always some accidents..."

"Parents with lower-grade spirit roots can give birth to children with upper-grade spirit roots, and upper-grade spirit roots will occasionally also give birth to middle-lower grade spirit roots..."

"It's just that the probability is very small..."

"You say that, middle-lower grade... it's really possible..."

"Makes sense..."

Mo Hua's expression was complex, his face speechless, and he emphasized:

"I'm really just a loose cultivator..."

The disciples heard this and were startled, then all nodded, "Um um."

But they all had an expression of having seen through everything but not speaking, "we understand in our hearts."

"Rest assured, we will keep it a secret for you..."

"Guaranteed not to say it out..."

Mo Hua sighed, feeling helpless in his heart.

Another disciple said worriedly:

"Mo Hua, although your background... cough..."

That disciple said meaningfully, "...just a loose cultivator..."

"...But you still cannot offend Elder Xun oh, Elder Xun's seniority is very old, the sect master's face, he may not give..."

"You just entered the gate, and you still have a long time in the sect. If you provoke Elder Xun's displeasure and are punished to draw arrays every day, your future days may be difficult to endure..."

Mo Hua said gratefully: "Thank you."

But in his heart, he was muttering, "I don't know if Elder Xun will 'teach' me more difficult arrays..."

Now, he couldn't find 'difficult' arrays to learn.

His divine sense was also stuck at fourteen patterns, and it hadn't increased for a long time...

Elder Xun...

Mo Hua's eyes slightly brightened, thinking in his heart:

"How about, simply take a nap during tomorrow's class, sleep one sleep?"

"See if Elder Xun will not punish himself and make him draw some more 'difficult' arrays?"

The next day, Mo Hua discovered that he didn't need to sleep anymore.

Because Elder Xun did give him special treatment...

During class time, Elder Xun distributed a copy of array lecture notes to each person, on which was written the essentials of a first-grade nine-pattern fusion gold array, with an array diagram attached at the back.

Only in front of Mo Hua, there was none.

Elder Xun took another copy of lecture notes and gave it to Mo Hua, saying seriously:

"Learning arrays must be solid, the foundation is the most important."

"The better the talent, the more important the foundation."

"You learn this copy..."

The other disciples all looked at Mo Hua with sympathetic gazes.

Mo Hua put on a straight face, but couldn't help but secretly be delighted in his heart.

"There are arrays to learn!"

He quickly opened the lecture notes and found that it contained a first-grade five-elements compound array of the gold and fire systems.

This compound array, Mo Hua had never seen before, but its structure was not complex, and it was still a five-elements array, which could be seen through at a glance.

It was indeed a little difficult.

But it was only a little bit difficult...

It seemed to be stuck in the teeth, that level of difficulty.

Mo Hua was a little disappointed, but still seriously read the lecture notes once, sorted and recorded some knowledge points he hadn't learned before, and then began to draw arrays.

Elder Xun was lecturing above, and he was drawing below.

When Elder Xun finished lecturing and the other disciples began to move their pens to draw arrays, Mo Hua had already finished drawing, looking relaxed, watching the other disciples ponder hard, scratching their ears and cheeks...

Elder Xun's eyelids twitched.

But his expression was solemn, and he didn't say anything.

In the next class, the other disciples still learned a first-grade five-elements system array, while Mo Hua learned something more difficult, this time a three-systems five-elements compound array.

But it was still only a first grade.

Mo Hua still finished drawing quickly as usual...

And after that, it got a little more difficult each time, but not by much each time...

After the difficulty increased by four or five times...

Finally, Mo Hua saw unfamiliar array patterns.

These were related to the five elements but also somewhat different from the five elements array system:

Eight Trigrams arrays!

The five elements are metal, wood, water, fire, earth.

The eight trigrams are Qian, Kun, Kan, Li, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Dui, representing heaven, earth, water, fire, mountain, thunder, marsh, wind respectively.

Eight Trigrams arrays, some parts overlap with the five elements, but the involved laws and great dao rules are broader and more complex than the five elements.

Moreover, Eight Trigrams arrays involve some principles of yin and yang two instruments and six lines hexagrams. Although they do not directly produce yin and yang forces or six lines phases, they take this as a framework and derive different array logic on the basis of the five elements.

Compared to each other, Five Elements arrays are slightly simpler, but they are the most universal and the most common arrays in the cultivation world.

While Eight Trigrams arrays have some variations, cover a wider range, and their inherent array logic is also more profound.

This was what Mo Hua saw in the array textbook "Array Introduction Simple Meaning" distributed when he entered Taixu Gate.

Mo Hua looked at this array book whenever he had free time, and in less than half a month, he had already flipped through it until it was worn out.

It was only a pity that this "Array Introduction Simple Meaning" was, after all, for introductory use, and the content was still too superficial.

Mo Hua fundamentally couldn't learn deeper things. Even the simple Eight Trigrams principles above fundamentally had no complete Eight Trigrams array patterns and the formed Eight Trigrams arrays.

Mo Hua wanted to learn, but there was no way to learn.

But now, "food" was delivered to his own mouth!

On the lecture notes given by Elder Xun, it was a compound array of the five elements and eight trigrams systems, compatible with the five elements and including the eight trigrams.

This kind of compound array was also a form of compound array that Mo Hua had never seen before. It was compatible with two different array categories.

One was a five elements array: Yi Wood array.

One was an eight trigrams array: Gen Mountain array.

So the full name of this compound array is Yi Wood Gen Mountain compound array.

Between the structures of the compound array, some other simple small arrays and fragmented array patterns were mixed in, but they were not the key.

Based on his experience, Mo Hua guessed that this Yi Wood Gen Mountain compound array was an array used on mountains to cultivate spirit trees, spirit plants, spirit grasses, and other "wood" class spirit things.

With Gen solidifying the mountain, with wood nurturing things.

Eight Trigrams class array patterns, Mo Hua had not learned yet. At this time, to learn a compound array, he had to start from scratch and learn the Eight Trigrams "Gen" system array patterns.

New arrays, new array patterns!

Mo Hua's eyes lit up, and he immediately began to study it.

Elder Xun lectured on the platform, glancing at Mo Hua from the corner of his eye. Seeing his small face serious and solemn, beginning to seriously study the lecture notes, he couldn't help but slightly nod.

But soon after, Elder Xun was startled again.

He discovered that this Yi Wood Gen Mountain compound array, Mo Hua seemed to be learning from the "Gen" system array patterns...

Elder Xun was slightly surprised.

"Haven't learned Eight Trigrams arrays?"

"Impossible ah..."

"No matter how much you haven't learned, you shouldn't need to start learning from the array patterns..."

Elder Xun frowned.

"Exactly who taught him arrays, how is he so 'lopsided'?"

First-grade Five Elements arrays, extremely proficient.

Besides that, other categories of arrays, the foundation is estimated to be very shallow...

Haven't learned Eight Trigrams array patterns, let alone those more obscure Three Talents, Four Symbols, Six Lines, Seven Stars categories of arrays...

Elder Xun shook his head, somewhat regretful.

Excellent aptitude, but a pity the foundation is too thin and the vision is also a bit shallow.

The person who taught this child arrays seemed to want him to learn some profound things, so one-sidedly, cramming, "pouring" Five Elements arrays into him, thereby learning in a biased way...

Elder Xun felt regret in his heart but didn't say anything.

He still lectured as usual, and Mo Hua learned arrays by himself, he didn't manage.

Until the end of a class, the other disciples all handed in their "homework" on the lecture notes.

Mo Hua didn't move, still learning, and trying to draw that Yi Wood Gen Mountain compound array.

Elder Xun didn't rebuke him but waited patiently for him.

Other disciples handed in their "homework", looked sympathetically at Mo Hua who was being "embarrassed" by Elder Xun and was still diligently writing, and all sighed.

But they didn't do anything else, just left silently.

In the transmission room, only Elder Xun and Mo Hua were left.

Elder Xun looked at Mo Hua, somewhat pitying.

But in less than the time it takes to burn one stick of incense, Mo Hua suddenly stopped his pen, exhaled a long breath, then held an array paper and respectfully handed it to Elder Xun.

Elder Xun was stunned.

What did this child... hand in?

If he didn't finish drawing, he could continue drawing. If it was really not okay, he could take it back to learn, take it back to practice, and hand it in when he had practiced well.

What could he hand in now?

A scattered, broken, and incomplete array remnant?

Elder Xun was slightly angry. He took the array paper and looked at it, his eyelids suddenly twitched.

Yi Wood Gen Mountain compound array...

This was a neat, perfect Yi Wood Gen Mountain compound array, without a single stroke wrong!

Elder Xun's gaze slightly shrank.

"This child... drew it out?!"

Starting from learning array patterns, in less than an hour, he had drawn out a compound array containing the Eight Trigrams system that he had never come into contact with...

Learn on the spot and draw?

Elder Xun's hand trembled slightly, and his gaze looking at Mo Hua was also somewhat complex and difficult to understand.

"You..."

Elder Xun paused for a while, then slowly said: "Learned Eight Trigrams arrays?"

Mo Hua honestly shook his head, "No, disciple only knows Five Elements arrays..."

He also knew some absolute arrays, which were not in the Five Elements category, but these were inconvenient to say out loud...

Elder Xun was silent for a long time, then slowly nodded, "I know, you go back..."

Mo Hua respectfully saluted and said:

"Pleased to meet you, Elder, disciple takes leave..."

After saying that, Mo Hua relaxed, and then, because he had learned a new array, his heart was joyful, his footsteps were also slightly lighter, he raised his small head, and left the transmission room.

In the transmission room.

Elder Xun stood silently, looking at the Yi Wood Gen Mountain compound array drawn by Mo Hua, his mood long unresolved.

After a long time, he only sighed slightly, and pondered in a low voice:

"It seems... I need to change the teaching method..."

"I want to see, this child... exactly how fast can he learn..."

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