Chapter 62: Unusual Phenomenon

The Refining Qi realm is divided into three periods and nine layers. The initial period is the first to third layers, and above the third layer is the middle period of Refining Qi.

Mo Hua originally had a cultivation base of the complete third layer of Refining Qi, and was just a little bit away from breaking through to the middle period of Refining Qi.

After cultivating the Heaven Derivation Art, after only half a month, Mo Hua felt his Qi Sea was full and unable to refine any more spiritual power.

This also meant that Mo Hua was about to break through.

For breakthroughs using general cultivation methods, special heavenly and earthly spiritual objects are needed to stimulate meridians and the Qi Sea during the breakthrough, in order to break through the bottleneck and advance the realm.

The Heaven Derivation Art does not require special spiritual objects to assist cultivation, so it should be fine as long as cultivation continues.

Most of Mo Hua's time was still spent drawing array formations. Every day, he would spend one hour sitting in meditation and cultivating.

Several days later, in the evening, Mo Hua was, as usual, engraving array formations on the Dao Stele in his Sea of Consciousness when he suddenly had an epiphany. His Qi Sea churned.

Mo Hua hurriedly exited his Sea of Consciousness, sat cross-legged in meditation on the bed, then took out two spirit stones and quietly absorbed spiritual power.

After only a moment, Mo Hua felt that all his vital points were open, and his absorption of spiritual power was several times faster than usual. In no time, the spiritual power from the two spirit stones was completely absorbed.

Mo Hua felt a little heartache, but also a little joy.

He was heartbroken by the consumption of spirit stones, but also joyful that he was about to break through his realm and become a cultivator of the middle period of Refining Qi.

Mo Hua took out several more spirit stones and continued to absorb them.

Inside Mo Hua's storage bag were dozens of spirit stones he had saved himself. In addition, there were nearly a hundred spirit stones given by his parents. Because they knew Mo Hua was about to break through but didn't know when, they told Mo Hua to keep them on his person as backup.

These hundred spirit stones should be the earnings of the eatery for more than half a month.

Mo Hua calmed his heart, maintained an unpretentious and patient state of mind, and slowly breathed in and out.

The spirit stones in his hand flickered with a crystalline blue light, then gradually dimmed, and finally the spiritual power was completely exhausted, turning into a grayish-white color.

One after another, after consuming nearly fifty spirit stones, Mo Hua's Qi Sea finally stopped churning. Spiritual power flowed back from the Qi Sea to all the meridians in his body, and the spiritual power throughout his body gradually thickened and stabilized.

Just when Mo Hua thought he was about to successfully break through, some small filaments of spiritual power scattered out, overflowing from the meridians, wandering through some fine collateral channels, and gradually converging towards the Baihui Acupoint at the top.

Mo Hua's heart tightened.

What was this situation?

He had never heard of refined spiritual power overflowing uncontrollably, and also converging towards the Baihui at the top!

The spiritual power did not truly converge at the Baihui Acupoint, but upon reaching the Tianmen Acupoint, like silk threads, it gradually weaved and stabilized, and finally slowly seeped inward. The position it seeped into was exactly Mo Hua's Sea of Consciousness!

Mo Hua suppressed the palpitation in his heart, sank his divine sense into the Sea of Consciousness, and then discovered that there were many fine, faint blue spiritual power filaments inside the Sea of Consciousness.

These filaments were intermittent and disordered, like continuous spring rain, and also like tangled hair, weaving into an intricate, faint blue spiritual curtain.

Mo Hua was completely stunned.

With his short cultivation experience, he had absolutely no idea what had happened.

Mo Hua tried to mobilize his spiritual power and found that it could operate normally.

Holding the spirit stones, Mo Hua tried to absorb spiritual energy to cultivate, but the absorbed spiritual energy, after passing through the Sea of Consciousness at the Tianmen, would be automatically blocked, unable to form a complete cycle, and also unable to refine into spiritual power, unable to accumulate in the Qi Sea, and naturally unable to elevate his cultivation base.

This meant that from now on, Mo Hua would be unable to cultivate and unable to elevate his realm.

Mo Hua sucked in a cold breath and murmured, "How can this be good..."

Mo Hua lay down on the bed, his heart for a time as chaotic as hemp. After a moment, he sat up and forced himself to calm down:

"There is a Dao Stele in the Sea of Consciousness, but when I was cultivating, I didn't enter the Sea of Consciousness to touch the Dao Stele, so it shouldn't be the Dao Stele's problem."

"If it's not the Dao Stele's problem, then it's the cultivation method's problem."

"The cultivation method was fine during cultivation, but there's a problem during the breakthrough."

"During the breakthrough, spiritual power overflowed to the meridians, and finally connected to the Sea of Consciousness, forming a spiritual power curtain."

"The spiritual curtain blocked the complete cycle of spiritual power, making it impossible to continue cultivating. So, as long as the problem of the spiritual curtain is solved and it no longer forms a hindrance, spiritual power can flow, and cultivation will not be hindered."

"So the fundamental problem is to solve the spiritual curtain inside the Sea of Consciousness..."

Mo Hua grasped the key point, then abandoned other factors and only considered the spiritual curtain inside the Sea of Consciousness. He sank his divine sense into the Sea of Consciousness and carefully examined the intricate spiritual curtain.

The spiritual curtain was composed of faint blue spiritual power filaments. These filaments seemed to have a life of their own, wandering slowly and disorderly, sometimes intersecting, sometimes separating, looking disordered and obscure.

After looking for about a cup of tea's time, Mo Hua again sprawled on the bed.

He secretly complained in his heart: "What is this spiritual curtain, I fundamentally can't understand it..."

Mo Hua once again deeply felt the deficiency of his cultivation knowledge.

There is a saying that goes, knowledge is the ladder for a cultivator's progress. Mo Hua didn't know where he heard it, but at this moment, he felt it was very reasonable.

Mo Hua began to recall all the cultivation-related knowledge he had come into contact with in his mind, to see if there were similar things. But various matters presented themselves messily. The more he thought, the more chaotic he became, the more he thought, the more painful he became, and in the end, there was still no clue.

In a flash of lightning, he suddenly thought of a sentence in the Heaven Derivation Art cultivation method:

"Not suitable for array masters to cultivate."

Mo Hua suddenly sat up.

Not suitable for non-array masters to cultivate, then this cultivation method is related to array masters. If it's related to array masters, then could this spiritual curtain be... an array formation?

He again thought of the previous sentence, "Bottleneck in divine sense."

"Bottleneck in divine sense, not suitable for non-array masters to cultivate."

The bottleneck is in divine sense because the spiritual curtain is exactly the bottleneck, and the spiritual curtain exists inside the Sea of Consciousness. Not suitable for non-array masters to cultivate, then it's because this spiritual curtain itself is an array formation, and non-array masters simply cannot understand it!

Mo Hua again sank his divine sense into the Sea of Consciousness and carefully observed the spiritual curtain inside the Sea of Consciousness. He discovered that although the spiritual power on the spiritual curtain looked disordered, it was mutually associated and intersected, faintly forming array patterns.

However, the spiritual power filaments were constantly flowing, and the array patterns were also constantly changing, finally condensing into exactly one piece of endlessly flowing and changing array formation.

Mo Hua suddenly realized.

Then he scratched his head again.

This array formation... he had never seen it before!

The array formations he had learned at most contained six array patterns, but the array patterns within the spiritual curtain before his eyes probably numbered dozens to hundreds.

Even more frightening was that these array patterns were still flowing and changing non-stop, and what was finally formed was an array formation that Mo Hua originally couldn't understand. And after these array formations changed again, they turned into array formations that Mo Hua understood even less...

Just looking at it made Mo Hua's scalp numb.

"Are these ancient array formations cultivated by ancient cultivators?"

"Are these the so-called strange and obscure ancient cultivation methods?"

Mo Hua couldn't help but feel awe in his heart. The wisdom of ancient cultivators was indeed extraordinary. A mere cultivation method of the Refining Qi period could make people look and feel fear to this extent.

At the same time, he also silently mourned for himself. Although he knew this cultivation method was "strange and obscure," he didn't expect it to be "strange and obscure" to this degree.

Mo Hua again silently examined the spiritual curtain for a long time. He looked until his head was dizzy and his eyes were blurry, still without a clue. Finally, he confirmed one realization:

Relying solely on himself, there was no way he could handle this array formation spiritual curtain.

Recognizing one's powerlessness is also a kind of self-knowledge.

Mo Hua sighed, "Tomorrow, I'll go ask Mr. Zhuang."

As if relieved of a heavy burden, Mo Hua pulled up the quilt, lay down, and began to snore and fall asleep.