The Quest for Immortality

This mystery might be a kind of Taoist Meaning, perhaps a type of Divine Sense spell method, or perhaps an insight into the rules of a Formation Method.

The Formation Diagram of the Five Elements Spirit Formation is merely the frame.

This mystery is the essence of the heritage.

And this mystery must lie within the Shrine.

Otherwise, no one in the Five Elements Sect would be able to learn the Five Elements Spirit Formation!

—Although now, no one in the Five Elements Sect can learn it anymore...

Mo Hua pondered again and nodded his head.

It must be so!

It wasn’t that he was arrogant.

In terms of studying and comprehending an Ultimate Formation of the first grade, there were probably few others whose experience was as rich as his, nor were there many first-grade Formation Masters whose Divine Sense was stronger than his.

Now even he could not learn it.

Let alone the younger disciples of the Five Elements Sect.

Therefore, within the Shrine, there must still be something hidden...

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The Chief Elder, as always, burned incense, offered worship, and then closed the door.

Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi took turns sitting on the meditation cushions, pondering the Shrine Taoist Field.

It was to consolidate the Formation Patterns they had learned before, to check for leaks and fill in gaps, and also to see if they had missed any details.

Mo Hua, as always, neither meditated nor engaged in contemplation.

Because he couldn’t contemplate anything.

It seemed that the Shrine didn’t want to show him anything.

Mo Hua was doing something else.

He was examining the layout, formations, and the specific construction and purpose of the Shrine on the fourth floor of the Formation Pavilion.

While examining, Mo Hua thought to himself:

If he were the founding ancestor of the Five Elements Sect, how would he arrange the formations, how would he construct the Shrine, and how would he design the form of inheritance in such a way as to allow his disciples to learn the true teachings of the Five Elements Sect?

And at the same time, prevent disciples from other Sects with ill intentions—like himself—from stealing these teachings?

The first would be the formations.

Defensive, sound-isolating, and consciousness-obstructing formations would certainly be indispensable.

Mo Hua looked around at his surroundings.

There were some extremely abstruse, profound, and powerful sensations of formation energy around, which should be the measures laid down by the ancestral founders of the Five Elements Sect.

Mo Hua’s experience was limited, but he blindly guessed that these formations were at least of the Third Grade.

Third Grade formations were beyond Mo Hua’s comprehension.

Mo Hua could only choose to ignore them for now.

Next, the Shrine.

Mo Hua stared at the Shrine for a long time, combining his musings from the day before, and gradually began to understand some issues:

The Shrine built by the Five Elements Sect might not necessarily worship ancestors.

A family’s Shrine worships ancestors, revering the bloodline.

A Sect venerates the transmission of teachings, so what it should worship is the heritage itself.

Therefore, within this Shrine, although there are the names of ancestors and the Formation Master Wooden Carving,

The core is the Taoist Field.

The implication of the Taoist Field is the transmission of teachings.

Its purpose is to allow all disciples of the Five Elements Sect, when facing the Shrine, to feel as if they are present in the Taoist Field, hearing the teachings of the ancestors, listening to the true explanations of formations, and understanding the mysteries of the Great Dao.

But how to listen?

Mo Hua looked again at his Junior Brother and Junior Sister.

They just sat upright on the meditation cushions, looking at the Shrine, contemplating the Formation Diagrams that emerged within the Taoist Field.

The meditation cushions...

Mo Hua then examined the meditation cushions further.

This meditation cushion was just an ordinary one.

Although the material was special and Mo Hua could not understand it, its interior had no formations, and Divine Sense scanning revealed no anomalies, meaning the meditation cushion itself was not key.

"But when contemplating, one must indeed sit on the meditation cushion..."

Mo Hua then recalled what the Chief Elder said:

"All furnishings must not be moved..."

Mo Hua’s heart shivered.

Not to be moved implies that the meditation cushions shouldn’t change position, which in other words, suggests that the most critical aspect of the meditation cushion lies in its position...

His master once said that all things in the world have a surface and an inside, both emptiness and solidity.

The appearance of the meditation cushion is solid; the reality is empty;

The emptiness of position is solid.

It’s not by sitting on the meditation cushion that one can contemplate the Shrine and comprehend the Ultimate Formation.

It is by sitting in the position of the meditation cushion that one can see the essence of the Shrine.

The Five Elements position...

These five positions are used to learn the Formation Patterns of the Five Elements Spirit Formation.

Could it be that there are other positions?

By sitting at these positions and contemplating the Shrine, could one see the true mystery of the Shrine and comprehend the real Taoist Meaning hidden within the Formation Patterns of the Five Elements Spirit Formation?

Inspired, Mo Hua began to take out pen and paper to mark out all the positional layouts on the fourth floor of the Formation Pavilion.

That included the Shrine and the five meditation cushions corresponding to the Five Elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Mo Hua looked at the diagram, his gaze sharpening.

The meditation cushions correspond to the Five Elements.

Each meditation cushion corresponds to a set of the Five Elements Spirit Formation.

These Five Elements Spirit Formations seem to share a special formation relationship with the Shrine.

This relationship, imbued with formation principle, seems like something that can be derived from Divine Sense Calculation...