Chapter 226 Seventh Floor
After the lively New Year, Mo Hua was thirteen years old.
He had grown taller, but only a little. He didn't look much different. He was still the little cultivator.
Mo Hua's mind, apart from drawing some formations every day, was mainly used for cultivation.
He had already perfected the sixth level of Qi Refining. It wouldn't be long before he would touch the bottleneck of cultivation and face the threshold of the middle stage of Qi Refining.
As long as he broke through the bottleneck, he could become a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining.
In the late stage of Qi Refining, he was closer to the foundation building.
The cultivation world was vast, and there were countless cultivators. The Qi Refining stage was just an ant, and becoming a foundation building was the first step to change one's own destiny of cultivation.
The foundation building was to build the foundation of cultivation.
No matter how the heart of Taoism was, if the foundation was not built, everything was empty talk.
That day, Mo Hua got up at the hour of Mao and practiced as usual.
Suddenly, the sea of Qi trembled, and the spiritual power flowed rapidly.
Mo Hua was refreshed, took out the spirit stone, and practiced quietly. These spiritual stones were refined by Mo Hua, forming pure spiritual power, which gathered towards Mo Hua's sea of qi until it overflowed.
Then, it was the same bottleneck that Mo Hua encountered when he first broke through.
These overflowing spiritual powers went up along the meridians and gathered towards Baihui. When they reached the Tianmen acupoint, they penetrated into the sea of consciousness like silk threads, woven freely in the sea of consciousness, and condensed into a spiritual curtain.
This spiritual curtain is the puzzle array, and it is also the bottleneck that needs to be broken through when practicing Tianyan Jue.
Mo Hua was both expectant and nervous. He calmed down and began to comprehend the puzzle array.
After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief.
There are hundreds of array patterns on these puzzle arrays, which are free and disordered, numerous and complex. If it is not a formation master, there is no clue at all.
But Mo Hua looked carefully and found that most of the array patterns, even if they are unfamiliar and constantly changing, do not deviate from the scope of the five elements array pattern, and he can recognize them.
As long as you can recognize them, there is a way to solve them.
Mo Hua recalled the basic points of solving the array, and began to solve them one by one using the rules of the five elements, the melting of the array patterns, and the positive and negative of the spiritual power.
Half a day later, Mo Hua solved more than ten array patterns.
Mo Hua was delighted.
The process of solving the array was smoother than he thought.
Thanks to Mr. Zhuang's teachings and Mo Hua's day and night practice, including the comprehension and application of the first-grade complex array, Mo Hua's current array level, including the experience of array, is already one of the few among the first-grade array masters.
He can already solve these puzzle arrays by himself with his own array attainments.
On the puzzle array, the spiritual power is intertwined, the array patterns are dense, and it keeps flowing.
This puzzle array that makes ordinary cultivators at a loss and makes ordinary array masters change color is already clear in Mo Hua's eyes, and it is no longer a problem.
All the efforts spent on the array before are worth it.
It's just that there are too many puzzle arrays, and it takes some time to solve them.
In this way, Mo Hua forgot to eat and sleep, worked day and night, and devoted himself to solving the puzzle.
Sometimes he would be distracted while eating or walking, frowning, suddenly enlightened, meditating, and his eyes would light up.
The cultivators around him saw this and knew that Mo Hua must be comprehending some difficult problem, so they also stayed quiet and did not disturb him.
Finally, a month later, Mo Hua solved all the puzzles.
The spiritual curtain dissipated, the puzzle was solved instantly, and the spiritual power like a gossamer gradually disappeared, and finally merged into Mo Hua's sea of consciousness.
Mo Hua's sea of consciousness expanded a bit, his spiritual consciousness became deeper, and his spiritual power became more powerful.
He finally broke through the bottleneck and became a cultivator of the seventh level of Qi Refining.
The seventh level of Qi Refining is the late stage of Qi Refining!
Mo Hua was overjoyed. His cultivation finally took another key step forward. Next, he just needed to take steady steps, make gradual progress, and move towards the foundation step by step.
Mo Hua became a late Qi Refining cultivator. The people who were happier than Mo Hua were naturally Liu Ruhua and Mo Shan.
According to custom, they entertained the neighbors around them and some monks with whom they had a deep friendship.
Mo Hua also received many gifts, including those from Elder Yu, Master Chen, Mr. Feng, the demon hunter, Master Luo and other array masters.
After entertaining the guests for a while, Mo Hua calmed down and considered what to do next.
In terms of cultivation, one should practice diligently and persevere, and pay attention to the principle of "water dripping through the stone, and water will eventually become a success". There is no shortcut to this, so there is nothing to say.
In terms of Taoism, Mo Hua wants to learn one or two more spells to prepare for emergencies.
In the late Qi Refining stage, although his strength is stronger, the danger he faces may be greater. It is still necessary to have more skills and one or two more spells.
But Mo Hua doesn't know who to learn from for the time being.
If he learns by himself, there is no suitable spell book.
It's not easy to go to Master Kui, because Master Kui has already taught Mo Hua how to fish, and Mo Hua can't go to Master Kui to ask for fish.
When it's time to find a way, you still have to find a way yourself.
But there's no rush for this, you can take your time.
What makes Mo Hua hesitant the most is the formation.
He is already at the level of a first-grade formation master, and he has also learned the more difficult first-grade formation, but his cultivation is still far from the foundation-building stage. If he can't build a foundation, he naturally can't become a second-grade formation master.
So what formation did he learn during this period?
Always learning the formation?
Mo Hua is already familiar with the general formation, and the more difficult formation is just because the formation core is too strong and Mo Hua's spiritual consciousness is insufficient, so he can't learn it for the time being.
But Mo Hua is already familiar with the principles of complex arrays, especially the five elements array core. If he continues to learn, he will only expand the breadth of the array, and he will not be able to learn anything deeper.
Mo Hua will feel bored as he learns.
So should he learn the big array?
Mo Hua's understanding of the big array is still very superficial. He only knows that the big array is a large complex array, and knows very little about other things.
And even if he wants to learn the big array, Mo Hua can only practice it on the Dao monument in the sea of consciousness at most, and he can't actually draw it.
Because the big array is extremely expensive, it requires a large array medium, a large amount of spirit stones, and a lot of manpower. This is not something Mo Hua can do.
In addition, Mo Hua still doesn't understand one thing, that is, the spiritual consciousness.
Mo Hua's spiritual consciousness is already very strong, stronger than that of the average ninth-level cultivator of Qi Refining. Even the average first-grade array master is far inferior to Mo Hua's spiritual consciousness.
But compared with the spiritual consciousness of the foundation-building period, Mo Hua is still a lot worse.
Mo Hua's consciousness is still growing. With the help of the Dao Monument, his consciousness will be strengthened. Practicing the formation will hone his consciousness. In the future, when he breaks through the realm, his consciousness will still grow.
Will there be a day when his consciousness can be comparable to that of a cultivator in the foundation building period before he has established his foundation?
Where is the boundary between the consciousness of the Qi Refining Period and the foundation building period?
This is beyond the scope of Mo Hua's cognition, so Mo Hua went to visit Mr. Zhuang.
When Mr. Zhuang saw Mo Hua, his expression was calm, but he sighed in his heart:
"This child, his consciousness has become stronger again..."
He didn't know how to teach him.
Mo Hua bowed respectfully to Mr. Zhuang, and then asked: "Sir, should I learn the formation next?"
"Learn as always."
"Oh."
Mo Hua felt that the formation was a bit boring, but he was embarrassed to say it.
Mr. Zhuang asked, "What is the mystery array in your sea of consciousness this time?"
Mo Hua thought for a moment and said, "It's still the Five Elements array pattern, but the mystery array is a little higher in grade. Most of them are first-grade arrays, and they also include some complex arrays."
Mr. Zhuang was silent for a moment and sighed, "In this case, it will be difficult for you to build your foundation."