MTL - Asking About Longevity

Chapter 3 Formation Master

 After Mo Hua Mao got up, he started his routine practice.

 An hour later, after finishing the practice, he went to the teaching room and waited for teaching.

At the same time, he is responsible for supervising and guiding outer disciples in their practice.

 Tongxian Sect, like other sects in the world of cultivation, also divides its disciples into three categories: direct descendants, inner sects and outer sects.

The outer gate of the sect is open to the outside world. It mainly focuses on preaching and teaching people to practice cultivation. It earns income by collecting disciples' entrance fees, that is, tuition fees. The outer disciples learn part of the sect's inheritance that is open to the outside world. After the disciples graduate or retire, they have a romantic relationship with the sect, but have no actual relationship.

 The inner sect is the main body of the sect. The disciples of the inner sect are attached to the sect. In addition to practicing, they will take care of the various industries of the sect, such as spiritual mines, spiritual lands, caves, trading houses, etc.

 Inner sect disciples can learn exercises and spells that are generally not taught outside the sect. They are closely related to the sect and are inseparable from the master-disciple relationship. If an inner disciple commits an offense outside the sect, his or her sect can be held accountable. If an inner disciple rebels from the sect, he is often regarded as a treasonous person with serious consequences.

The direct disciples of the sect are the direct lineage among the inner disciples. These disciples are either related by blood to the sect leader or elder, or they have a very deep master-disciple relationship. The direct disciples are the core of the sect and will often succeed to extremely important positions such as sect leader or elder in the future.

 The direct disciples learn the core skills of the sect, as well as other secrets that are forbidden to be transmitted to outsiders. If the direct disciples rebel against the sect, they will be hunted to death.

 The "Tao Law" prohibits lynching and indiscriminate killing of monks. Pursuing and killing direct disciples who rebel against the sect and violating the Tao Law will be held accountable by the Taoist court. However, most rebellions are under the jurisdiction of local Taoist officials. Daoting is the most powerful, and the Daoting Division, a sub-department in charge of all states and even cities, does not always have powerful monks.

The disciples of the disciples of the biography are related to the core inheritance of the Zongmen, and the relationship is great. Generally, Daoting will not intervene. Especially for a giant sect, the local Dao Tingsi did not dare to intervene.

However, these have little to do with ink painting.

He is only a disciple of the outer sect of Yipin Tongxian Sect, not an inner sect, let alone a direct descendant. Even if he wants to be hunted down, others will look down on him...

Mo Hua wants to enter the inner sect, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't have a spiritual stone. It is probably impossible in this life, let alone a direct descendant of the sect.

Mo Hua calmly sat at the table for a while, then saw Yan Jiaoxi walking in with a serious look on his face.

Yan Jiaoxi is about forty or fifty years old. He is a serious man and has reached the ninth level of Qi refining.

Among the Tongxian Sect, Yan Jiaoxi’s status is quite high, because among all the teachers, only Yan Jiaoxi can learn formations, and it is said that it is possible to become a first-grade formation master through the qualification in a few years.

The formations of all Qi Refining Stage disciples of Tongxian Sect are taught by Yan Jiaoxi. Regardless of family disciples or ordinary cultivators, Yan Jiaoxi treats them equally. Anyone who makes a mistake will not be given face. Anyone who deserves blame will be blamed and punished. Just punish.

 So the disciples of Tongxian Sect both respected and feared Yan Jiaoxi.

 The sect's training is due once a year, so the teaching is also done once a year.

Today is the last day of the Tongxian Sect’s annual practice. After today, it will be more than half a month of annual rest. The assessment results of various homework assignments for the sect disciples will also be released today.

 Yan Jiaoxi held a stack of transcripts in his hand.

The disciples felt uneasy. The ink painting was nothing at all, but seeing the disciples around them acting like they were facing a formidable enemy, they became nervous.

 After a while, Mo Hua received his sect's assessment results.

  As usual, the formation assessment was grade A, which is what Mo Hua is best at. In Tongxian Sect, there are not many disciples who can achieve the first level in formation, and Mo Hua is one of them.

Mo Hua's cultivation level is only rated as second-level. It's not that he doesn't work hard in cultivation, but that his bones are really limited. The small five-element spiritual roots of the middle grade are still the same no matter how much he cultivates. many.

 Several other courses, if you can learn them well if you spend time, such as Dao Li General History, Theory of Refining Qi, etc., are basically A-level. And you need to spend spiritual stones to buy materials to learn well, such as refining elixirs, making talismans, etc., either B or C.

 The ink painter was from a poor family and could not afford to borrow an alchemy furnace, so naturally he could not learn well. During the assessment, you can only practice blindly based on your feelings. Whether you can succeed depends on your appearance. Your results not only depend on luck, but are also erratic and very unstable.

 But overall, the results are still good. As the saying goes, one handsome person covers all the ugly ones. After all, formations are difficult to learn. It is already quite good to get a first grade in formations.

Yan Jiaoxi said a few words and left temporarily. The disciples in the room looked at each other's results and whispered.

"Mo Hua, you got an "A" in formation again!" A disciple secretly glanced at Mo Hua's report card, and then sighed.

 “It’s A again…”

 “I have always been B…”

 “I’m still C.”

 “The formation is so difficult to learn, I get a big headache when I see the formation...”

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Disciples gathered around Mo Hua.

"Hmph!" A disciple of the Qian family wearing a silver-white Taoist robe was dissatisfied when he saw this. He snorted coldly and said: "What's the big deal? You can only get an "A" by drawing these simple formations of the sect. "

 “Then what did you get?” A disciple asked in dissatisfaction.

 “Why should I tell you?” The Qian family disciple said disdainfully.

 Another disciple secretly glanced at his report card, then laughed and said, "He got a C!"

 The disciples were stunned for a moment and burst into laughter.

 “You got a C, but you laugh at someone else who got an A, you are so shameless!”

 “Thicker than a refining furnace!”

"You are still a disciple of the Qian family. You are so stupid. You are not as good as me. I even got a "B"."

 The disciples of the Qian family became angry because of embarrassment, "What about Grade A? Rogue cultivators without formation masters, do you understand?"

He pointed at them and painted them with ink, "You group of casual cultivators, frogs in the well, have no inheritance. In your whole life, listen carefully, it is your whole life, you will not be able to produce an formation master. Bah, you are still first-class! Remember, among casual cultivators, you will never be able to produce an formation master." It’s impossible to create a real formation master! If you don’t understand, I can say it again.”

“Rogue cultivators are never worthy of being formation masters!”

 The disciples around him were silent.

Mo Hua looked at him like a fool, then stood up, saluted behind the disciple of the Qian family, and said:

 “Good teaching and practice!”

The Qian family disciple turned his head stiffly as if struck by lightning, and sure enough he found Yan Jiaoxi standing behind him, his face ashen.

“The sect is for preaching and practicing Taoism, not for you to compare with and slander your fellow sects!”

“You’ve learned so much about the formation that you can’t stand it, but you still have the nerve to laugh at your fellow disciples?”

 “Now go and stand outside until dark.”

“Draw the basic Five Elements pattern a hundred times and show it to me when you enter school next year. If you can’t draw it, you won’t use it anymore...”

 The disciples of the Qian family were ashen-faced, but they did not dare to refute even a word.

Yan Jiaoxi has a high status and can train even direct disciples of the Qian family, let alone a branch with a lower bloodline.

 The disciples of the Qian family stood dejectedly.

Yan Jiaoxi stood in front of Mo Hua and was silent for a moment. He reached out and patted Mo Hua's thin shoulder. He sighed and said, "Don't care what others say, study hard."

Mo Hua’s expression was as usual, and he bowed respectfully to Yan Jiaoxi, “Disciple, please remember this.”

Yan Jiaoxi nodded, then walked to the teacher's seat, gave a few instructions to the disciples, and then announced that the sect was on annual leave and they could go home.

The disciples suppressed their excitement, saluted to the instructor, thanked the instructor for his teachings in practice over the past year, and then dispersed like birds and beasts with a loud crash.

 The sect is retired for the year, and the disciples rejoice with joy.

Looking at the ink painting, I feel complicated.

Most of these disciples in the Qi Refining Period are still young and carefree, and are far from knowing the hardships of monastic life.

Thinking of the scars all over his father's body after hunting monsters and his mother's haggard face, Mo Hua felt sour and couldn't help but sigh.

Becoming a first-grade formation master is still far away, but within the scope of his ability, he wants to make his parents live a better life.

Mo Hua collected his transcripts and carried twelve spiritual stones in his arms. He did not go home after leaving Tongxian Sect, but walked to Fangshi.

Settings about the protagonist’s time travel:

Awakening memory, non-traditional soul penetration, the body is his own, and he is also related to his parents by blood.

The protagonist is a ten-year-old child in the monastic world, but he has some modern thinking and cognition.

 (End of this chapter)