Chapter 65: Breaking the Formation

After Mo Hua returned home and finished dinner with his father and mother, he asked his mother to prepare some braised beef, pastries, and rice wine. Afterward, he locked himself in his room and focused on pondering how to break formations.

First, he drew a fire system array pattern on paper. The completed array pattern appeared light red and felt slightly warm.

After that, following the method in the book, Mo Hua drew a water system array pattern adjacent to the Kan position of the fire array pattern.

After drawing it, the red color of the fire array pattern gradually dimmed, and he could no longer see the hazy light red spiritual energy. Touching it with his hand, he no longer felt the slight warmth.

This meant that this fire system array pattern was nullified.

Mo Hua’s spirit was roused. He then tried drawing the other several five elements array patterns one by one. Indeed, they could all rely on the principle of five elements mutual generation and restraint to break formations using array patterns.

Next was array methods. Mo Hua spent a little more time and drew a Bright Fire Array.

The Bright Fire Array is composed of three array patterns and is the simplest type of array method.

When Mo Hua copied and drew array methods for Manager Mo, the first one he drew was also the Bright Fire Array. Now, drawing this array method again was effortless.

In just about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, a standard Bright Fire Array was outlined on the paper.

Mo Hua looked at the Bright Fire Array and thought.

Before, when Mo Hua drew the Bright Fire Array, he just copied it without much deep inquiry. At this time, carefully examining it, he discovered that within the seemingly simple Bright Fire Array, one array pattern was used to gather spiritual energy, while the other two were ordinary fire system array patterns, used to make the array method effectively illuminate.

Mo Hua contrasted them one by one according to what Bai Zi Sheng had said.

The spirit-gathering array pattern is the array eye, the positions of the three talents are the array pivots, and the paper used to draw the array method is the array medium.

Mo Hua tore a gap in the array paper, and indeed, the array method was nullified. Mo Hua drew another Bright Fire Array, then altered the spirit-gathering array pattern that served as the array eye. The Bright Fire Array was similarly nullified.

"This is the so-called, ‘damage its array medium, destroy its array eye, call it breaking the array’..."

"This method is rather... simple and crude. Even without understanding array methods, one can break the array... Hmm, if one doesn't understand array methods, this is the only way to forcibly break the array."

"Then what serves as the array eye and array medium in the mysterious array in my sea of consciousness?"

"The spiritual power in an array method is provided by the array eye, so the Qi Sea is the array eye. The mysterious array is stored in the sea of consciousness, so the sea of consciousness is the array medium? If I want to break the array, then that is..."

"To cripple my Qi Sea, and then also cripple my own sea of consciousness?!"

Mo Hua instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

"Let's forget it..."

Breaking formations in this manner is too simple and crude, lacking the cultivation of an array master and not reflecting the level of an array master.

Mo Hua abandoned his杂 thoughts and drew another Bright Fire Array, then drew a water system array pattern at the Kan position next to one of the fire system array patterns.

After drawing the array pattern, the Bright Fire Array was not nullified, but the luster on the array method dimmed a bit.

Breaking the formation was effective, but not completely effective.

Mo Hua drew a water system array pattern next to the other array pattern, and the light on the Bright Fire Array instantly disappeared. The entire array method was also wasted.

"Broken!"

Mo Hua was a little excited. Immediately he thought again: "To break a fire system array pattern, I need to break two. Then to break the spirit-gathering array pattern which is the array eye, won't breaking just one be enough?"

"Five elements array patterns can be broken through the mutual generation and restraint between five elements array patterns. Then what array pattern should be used to break the spirit-gathering array pattern? Array patterns used for gathering spirits shouldn't have a mutual generation and restraint relationship, right..."

Mo Hua began to search through the array method classics that Mister Zhuang had given him. Finally, he found a page that described the method for breaking a spirit-gathering array pattern.

Mo Hua read it word by word, carefully and meticulously, and only then did he gain a little understanding.

The spirit-gathering array pattern indeed has a mutual generation and restraint array pattern—the reverse spirit array pattern.

The spirit-gathering array pattern gathers spiritual power, while the reverse spirit array pattern makes spiritual power scatter in reverse. One gathers, one scatters, which naturally conforms to the principle of mutual generation and restraint. But Mo Hua had fundamentally not learned the reverse spirit array pattern. Searching through the relevant classics, he found no diagram of the reverse spirit array pattern, only some textual descriptions.

The descriptions said that the reverse spirit array is a profound array pattern, mostly inherited within the internal sects and families skilled in array methods, and not easily spread outside.

Profound array patterns are both difficult to learn and cannot be learned.

Mo Hua temporarily put this aside.

Besides this, there is another way, which is to use a spirit-gathering array pattern to break a spirit-gathering array pattern. One only needs to draw another spirit-gathering array pattern near the spirit-gathering array pattern, and use this spirit-gathering array pattern to absorb the spiritual power of the spirit-gathering array pattern serving as the array eye, thereby causing the array eye to lose power. Naturally, this is equivalent to breaking the array.

Mo Hua's eyes widened. Using a spirit-gathering array pattern to break a spirit-gathering array pattern was something he hadn't thought of before.

However, the description also said that this method has problems. The spirit-gathering array pattern used to break the array can easily accumulate too much spiritual power, unable to release it, leading to the array method losing control and causing unpredictable danger.

Moreover, if Mo Hua's guess was correct, the array eye of the mysterious array in his sea of consciousness is actually his own Qi Sea. Whether using another Qi Sea to absorb the Qi Sea, or carving a reverse spirit array on the Qi Sea to make spiritual power escape, it all sounded like seeking death.

Furthermore, these methods were fundamentally impossible to carry out.

That is to say, currently, he cannot break the array by undoing the array eye.

Mo Hua supported his small cheek and thought:

"Then I can only learn to break array patterns one by one. Indeed, in the end, the only shortcut is no shortcut. The cultivation world has developed for tens of thousands of years; there won't be many loopholes to exploit."

Mo Hua drew another Bright Fire Array, then completely broke it. Suddenly, he realized that his method of breaking formations was too wasteful of paper and ink. Drawing one and breaking one, and if he broke it incorrectly, he still needed to redraw one. It consumed even more paper and ink than when he practiced array methods.

The problem of spirit stones was still very severe. Although his family's financial situation had improved due to the income from the food shop, they were not particularly lacking in general use spirit stones, but it was best to save whenever possible. There would be many places to use spirit stones in the future.

"The Dao Stele in the sea of consciousness is just right for practicing breaking formations..."

While thinking this, Mo Hua sank his divine sense into his sea of consciousness.

In the vast and void sea of consciousness, the mysterious array woven from spiritual power silk threads was still there. The Dao Stele was also in the sea of consciousness and seemed unaffected by the spiritual power silk threads.

Mo Hua, with practiced ease, drew a Bright Fire Array on the Dao Stele, then tried to break it. After breaking it, the Bright Fire Array indeed dimmed.

Mo Hua wiped away the array method and the array patterns used to break the array. His consumed divine sense completely recovered.

"Indeed!"

Mo Hua was overjoyed. This Dao Stele was not only suitable for practicing array methods, but also perfectly suitable for practicing breaking formations.

Drawing it and then wiping it away, his divine sense would recover, which meant no consumption of divine sense. At the same time, it also saved paper and ink.

Mo Hua then concentrated on practicing breaking formations in his sea of consciousness until the Yin hour. Only then did he exit his sea of consciousness and sit in meditation for an hour, becoming full of spirit.

Mo Shan and Liu Ru Hua also got up relatively early. Mo Shan wanted to go hunting demons in Black Mountain, and Liu Ru Hua wanted to prepare for the food shop business.

After eating a simple, tasty, and warm breakfast, Mo Hua carried the food box and headed towards Mister Zhuang's place.