Inside the high pavilion, the atmosphere was oppressive, and the void seemed to be frozen.
The dense smoke floated in the air, motionless.
The celestial instrument symbolizing the three talents also stopped rotating.
The flow of time seems to have slowed down.
Only in the elder's eyes, the terrifying secrets and dangerous cause and effect were rolling like huge waves at the bottom of the abyss.
After an unknown amount of time, the atmosphere eased slightly.
The void began to flow again.
The smoke began to fill the air again, and the celestial instrument continued to rotate.
Everything is back to normal.
The elder still looked sleepy and confused, and he would suddenly fall asleep at any time.
But the ripples caused by the ups and downs in his heart have not yet subsided.
"Rebirth..."
"That person's...rebirth?"
The elder found it a little unbelievable.
The dead cause and effect began to slowly grow again.
The already confusing and shocking chess game has unknowingly produced terrifying variables.
"The Yin-Yang Rebirth Formation reverses yin and yang, changes life and death, subverts ethics, and disregards the principles of the Tao..."
"This formation cannot be learned..."
"People these days are really bold. They dare to think of anything and do anything... I don't know if they are ignorant and fearless, or if they really have... unfathomable talents."
"Why did it have to be... this formation..."
The elder was silent for a long time and sighed.
As a cabinet minister, he knew very well how terrifying the four words "Yin and Yang Rebirth" were.
Once released, the consequences will be so great that even those old creatures in deep sleep will probably come back to life.
If the incident gets out of hand, he might even lose his position as cabinet minister.
The elder was silent for a moment.
Change the bait or change the fish?
Use this "bait" to catch the big fish.
Or should we change the "fish" to revitalize the situation?
Even a fool knows which choice to make.
This "bait" is a vast array formation, containing the secrets of yin and yang and rebirth, and even related to the position of the elder.
Not to mention one fish, even a hundred or a thousand fish are not worthy of eating this "bait".
Even the golden arowana is not acceptable.
"This fish is really hard to catch, so just try another one."
After the elder thought for a while, he made a move to put away the Yin-Yang Rebirth Formation, but his mind flashed and he suddenly stopped.
The elder pondered in his heart:
"Even a fool knows how to choose this question..."
I am a great minister, and I am going to do something that even a fool can do?
The minister's eyes narrowed slightly and he fell into a deep silence.
Those who seek the truth, with their hearts enlightened by the mysteries of Heaven, should be concerned with things rather than being controlled by them.
Explore the limits of physics without being limited by it.
Don't limit yourself to the framework of fame and fortune in the world. Keep a "childlike" heart and look at everything equally. Only in this way can the original appearance of the cause and effect of heaven be reflected in your heart.
The elder thought along this line of thought...
"Tianji has put this choice before me at this point in time. It is not only letting me choose, but also...giving me a revelation?"
"What is this revelation..."
The elder sat in front of the chessboard, thinking silently, as motionless as a clay statue.
All kinds of divine causes and effects constantly flow in one's heart.
The choice of fate is also constantly swinging.
Time passes by little by little.
The incense burns out bit by bit.
The moon sets and the sun rises, the east turns white, then gradually gets darker until the sun sets, the sunset glow covers the sky, and night is approaching.
The old man sat on the cushion, thinking for a whole day and night, and then he slowly made up his mind.
This decision made even he himself feel horrified.
But at the same time, it also made him feel relieved.
In everything in the world, there is no loss or gain, everything is a revelation of the cause and effect of heaven.
When you think of this, the world suddenly becomes wide.
There was a gleam in the elder's eyes, and he took out the "Yin Yang Rebirth Array" with golden cause and effect from the void. With a point of his finger, his spiritual power broke through the reality and illusion, and condensed into densely packed patterns. On top of the array jade slip, he put on another layer of "array pattern" to cover it.
Finally, he personally wrote five more words on the jade slip:
Yi Wood Rejuvenation Formation.
After doing all this, the elder called the boy and ordered, "Call the supervisor."
The boy took the order and left.
After a while, the half-white-haired, handsome supervisor came and bowed, saying, "Master, you called me."
The elder waved his hand and said, "Come, play chess with me."
The supervisor was stunned.
The situation in Qianxuezhou is very complicated.
Following Dao Ting's order, he, as the Supervisor, had a lot of things to prepare and was very busy, so he had no time to play chess with the elder.
What's more, the elder is a "bad chess player"...
But he didn't dare to refuse.
"yes."
The Supervisor bowed, sat down respectfully opposite, and started playing chess with the elder.
Sure enough, in a short while, the elder's chess pieces were killed and the scene was in a mess.
This was the result of the supervisor showing mercy.
The elder was very unhappy and said, "You are not good at playing chess."
The supervisor sighed secretly.
As everyone knows, the most difficult thing in Tianshu Pavilion is to play chess with the elders.
It's not that playing chess is difficult, but it's difficult to guess his thoughts.
No one knows what the elder is playing. It is obvious that his chess skills are terrible, but he always says that others play badly.
When you played chess with the elder seriously and beat him to pieces, he said that you were not a good chess player.
You gave him a perfunctory response and he said that you had a bad attitude.
If you deliberately let the minister win, he will say that you have a bad character and are fawning on your superiors, and he will scold you harshly.
It's really difficult to please.
"I wonder what kind of person can play chess with the Lord..."
The Supervisor secretly complained in his heart, but he did not dare to be negligent and still tried his best to play chess with the elder.
After a while, the elder suddenly asked:
"Do you know about the affairs of the Young Master Pavilion?"
These words came so suddenly that the guard's fingers holding the chess piece trembled.
The chess piece fell onto the board and landed on a "dead eye".
The supervisor wanted to reach out to pick it up, but then he remembered that "once you make a move, you cannot regret it", so he hesitated for a moment and slowly withdrew his hand.
The elder seemed not to have noticed his move and was still staring at the chessboard, considering where to place the piece.
The supervisor said softly, "Some things that children...play with..."
The old man did not comment, but said: "The word 'ge' should not be used lightly."
"Yes..." the supervisor said slowly, "the child doesn't know the seriousness of the matter..."
The elder stopped talking and focused on playing chess.
The supervisor was worried.
The two continued to play chess, black and white pieces falling one after another.
The elder was still at a disadvantage in the chess game. He made many stupid moves and all the pieces in his hand were eaten.
As the rain was falling, the elder suddenly asked, "Do you want my position as the elder?"
This sentence was like a bolt from the blue.
The supervisor dropped the chess piece and knelt down in fear, "Master, I…"
The elder waved his hand and said, "Just chatting casually, why are you so nervous?"
The warden knelt there, not daring to move.
The old man looked at him with a cloudy gaze, which showed both admiration and a hint of disappointment, and he sighed slowly:
"Even if you don't want the position of Grand Lord, sooner or later, I will give it to you..."
The Supervisor said in a bitter tone, "Master, you are too kind. I..."
The elder waved his hand.
The supervisor couldn't continue.
The elder looked at him and said meaningfully,
"You need to figure out what you want. Once you figure it out, pursue it with determination."
"It doesn't matter if you seek the truth, or immortality, or fame, or power, or the position of a minister, but you must think it through..."
"Don't be lost in confusion, don't be carried away, just move forward step by step."
The supervisor said sincerely, "Disciple understands."
The elder sighed inwardly and shook his head with a little disappointment.
"Have all the preparations for Qianxuezhou been completed?" the elder asked again.
"yes..."
The elder took out a jade slip and handed it to him, "Please add this formation to the reward for first place in the sword contest as a reward from the Tianshu Pavilion of the Dao Court."
The Supervisor stood up respectfully and took the jade slip with both hands. He glanced at it and saw the words "Yi Mu Rejuvenation Formation" on it. He asked,
"Master..."
"This is in the pavilion." said the elder.
The Supervisor paused, then said, "Master, forgive my ignorance. I don't know what the deep meaning of this formation is."
The elder showed a compassionate look:
"In the sword-fighting meeting, the desire to win and kill is too strong. We must make the disciples understand that the ultimate goal of the sword-fighting meeting is to save people with the sword, not to bully others or even kill people."
The supervisor bowed, "Master is kind and compassionate."
The elder had already started to put away the chessboard and muttered in a low voice, "Playing chess with you is really boring..."
After he finished the chess game that he would lose in less than ten rounds, the elder waved his hand and said, "Go down."
The supervisor had no choice but to carefully put away the Yimu Rejuvenation Formation, bowed and said, "Student, I'm leaving."
The elder ignored him and began to doze off again.
The elder slept soundly during this nap.
It was as if he was no longer a powerful minister, but just an ordinary old man who liked to play chess and take naps.
The supervisor retreated respectfully, left the pavilion, returned to his own room, stroked the ancient formation scroll in his hand, and frowned.
"Rather than teaching the disciples of Lunjian, it would be more accurate to say that the elder is...giving me some advice?"
"If you have good intentions, dead trees will come back to life. Saving others is also saving yourself?"
"Is it really that simple?"
The supervisor's eyes darkened slightly, and he had several thoughts in his mind, wanting to open the jade slip and take a look.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
But when he thought of the elder's gaze as deep as the sea and his warning just now, the little thoughts in his heart were immediately extinguished.
Just because the elder doesn't say it doesn't mean he doesn't know.
Don't even think about fooling him.
Otherwise it would be like trying to cover up one's mistakes, which is something only a fool would do.
The Supervisor placed the jade slip with the words "Yi Mu Rejuvenation Formation" in a jade box, wrote a seal, stamped it with his own seal, and then called a confidant and ordered:
"Pass my seal, in the name of Tianshu Pavilion, send this jade box to Qianxue Prefecture as an extra reward for the Qianxue sword contest champion."
"yes."
The confidant respectfully took the jade box, retreated, and acted in accordance with the rules and regulations of Tianshu Pavilion.
Just like that, this seemingly luxurious but ordinary jade box was sent to the border of Qianxuezhou along with the order from Tianshu Pavilion.
There is an order from Tianshu Pavilion.
With the seal of the supervisor.
A sealed jade box.
Everything is normal.
But no one knows what is really inside this jade box, what kind of thing that disrupts the great principles and yin and yang is really inside...
…
"Yi Mu Rejuvenation Formation?"
"What?"
Inside Taixu Sect and in the dining hall, Cheng Mo and other disciples also received the news, but they were all somewhat puzzled.
"Idiot, if I said it's the Yimu Rejuvenation Formation, it must be a formation."
"Nonsense, how could I not know that this is a formation? What I want to say is, what kind of formation is this that is worthy of the Dao Court's special reward?"
"It sounds like an ordinary formation."
"What grade?"
"No, there is only the name of a formation."
"Speaking of the Yimu Rejuvenation Formation, I think I have one hidden at home..."
"Don't think about it, it's definitely different. What you hide at home must not be a good thing."
"There are formations with the same name. Daoting's Yimu Rejuvenation Formation is definitely not on the same level as yours."
"That's right. If it's something that's really sold out, wouldn't it be embarrassing to use it as a reward?"
"Why do you want to create such a formation? It would be much better to use a sword formation, a killing formation, or a heaven, earth, and man formation as a reward..."
"Didn't I tell you? I don't want you to have the idea of 'killing and winning'... Besides, if Dao Ting dares to give you the Three Elements Formation of Heaven, Earth and Man, do you dare to learn it?"
"That's true…"
"I still find it a little strange..."
The disciples were discussing the matter.
As they chatted, Cheng Mo looked at Mo Hua and asked, "Junior Brother, you are good at formations. Do you know what formation this is?"
Mo Hua frowned and shook his head. "Yi Mu Rejuvenation Formation, it sounds like a healing formation... but formations are extensive and profound, and there are many formations with the same name. Without seeing the specific formation diagram, I can't be sure."
"Oh..." Cheng Mo nodded.
After chatting for a while, everyone stopped paying much attention to it.
Among the rewards for the sword fight, the formation has the weakest appeal to them.
Kung Fu, Taoism, treasures, elixirs, etc. are all much more practical.
What's more, only the first place in the sword-fighting contest can get this reward, which is too far away for them.
When people are in a good mood, they will chat about it for a while, but when the mood wears off, they will forget about it.
Mo Hua was still thinking about the formation in his heart.
He felt very strange.
"Yi Mu Rejuvenation Formation"...
Yi wood belongs to the category of five elements, and rejuvenation is the purpose of the formation.
According to the theory of formation, it should be a formation for healing.
Healing formation...So far, Mo Hua has not learned much about this kind of formation.
He had dabbled in killing formations, trapping formations, sword formations, industrial formations... and so on, but the only thing he had hardly come into contact with was the healing formation.
Healing formations are very rare, and there are not many inherited formations.
But this does not mean that the formation is difficult, but most of the formations used for healing have been "eliminated".
What eliminated the healing formation was not the formation, but the alchemy.
With the development of the monastic industry and the maturity of alchemy techniques, most of the injuries and illnesses of monks can be treated directly by preparing elixirs and alchemy drugs.
Generally, cultivators prefer to use elixirs to heal their wounds, which is not only cheap, but also simple and quick.
If you get hurt, you can just take a pill and it will be fine. Why do you need to go through the trouble
of setting up a formation? Therefore, there are very few situations where you need to use formations to heal injuries.
The healing formation once had a special name, called "medical formation".
This is what Mo Hua saw when he was reading some history books on formations.
However, the formation was not circulated, so the name "Medical Formation" was naturally rarely mentioned.
This is what makes ink painting strange.
After all, it was the reward for winning the first place in the sword contest, so why did they choose such a remote, unpopular, and "eliminated" formation?
This question had been lingering in Mo Hua's mind.
The four words "乙木回春" seem to have a magical power that has been stirring the heartstrings of ink painting.
At night, Mo Hua sat at the table in the disciples' quarters and read the book on formations for a while. He couldn't help but think of this matter again.
"Yi Mu Rejuvenation Formation... There must be something strange hidden in it..."
"What could it be?"
Mo Hua thought about it again and again, but couldn't figure it out, and couldn't let it go, so he finally decided to do the math.
This was something from the Tianshu Pavilion of the Daoting Court. He didn't dare to get to the bottom of it, so he just took out the copper coin, intending to "touch the edge" to see the cause and effect.
Cause and effect copper coins, the flow of breath.
Mo Hua silently recited "Yi Mu Rejuvenation Array", and in just a moment, his heart suddenly shrank.
In the hazy eyes, a handsome, elegant, and immortal figure emerged.
This figure stood proudly between heaven and earth, sharp as a sword, revealing an unparalleled and unruly spirit.
When he turned around, he retracted all his sharpness, his expression was gentle, with a hint of smile between his brows, and he looked at the ink painting reluctantly.
Mo Hua couldn't believe it and was dazed for a moment.
"Master…"
Shrouded in a layer of pale yellow memories, tracing back from cause and effect.
The ink painting seemed to reveal every bit of Tongxian City's past.
He saw the master smiling at him gently.
I saw him standing outside the bamboo house, waiting for the master to rest, and then I went to ask him about the formation.
I saw him and his junior brothers and sisters doing their homework under the big locust tree. The master was sitting in the bamboo house, watching them from afar...
I also saw the people and things he experienced while traveling, sleeping in the open air and the people he encountered along the way.
I saw the last time he and his master saw each other when they parted ways in the Five Elements Sect, when the magic sword was suspended in the air and the bloody banners covered the sky, and the earnest instructions he gave to his master...
The sour pain fills my heart.
The ink painting has moist eyes.
A tear fell down the cheek.
After an unknown amount of time, Mo Hua slowly came back to his senses, his eyes gradually brightening.
"The Yimu Rejuvenation Formation...is related to Master's cause and effect..."
"This formation...can it save Master?"
Mo Hua's expression gradually became firm.
If so...
Then this formation must be obtained at all costs.
All obstacles in front of us will be pushed down.
All enemies, even the top talents in the four major sects of Qianxuezhou, will be killed!
In Mo Hua's eyes, there was a dazzling sword light of pure gold, revealing a terrifying edge.
"This formation must be mine!"
…
At this time, in Daozhou, thousands of miles away.
Tianshu Pavilion.
The elder who was dozing off suddenly woke up, opened his eyes, and saw a black chess piece in front of him flashing with extremely pure golden light, interspersed with the sound of dragon roars, and felt relieved.
"Finally... you caught it..."
The elder said in a low voice, and then sighed.
"It seems to be... a big dragon..."
The elder stared at the black chess piece, at the golden light on it, and at the dragon shape inside.
As he watched, the elder's expression suddenly changed slightly.
There seems to be a dragon in the black spot, but there is also a vague and ferocious aura that traps the dragon inside.
"No... this isn't a dragon?"
The elder was startled, his eyes became increasingly deep, revealing a sinister aura.
(End of this chapter)