Chapter 3: Formation Master

After getting up at 11:00 a.m., Mo Hua began his routine practice.

After an hour, he finished his practice and went to the teaching room to wait for the teacher.

Teachers are the general term for teachers in the sect, who teach outer disciples specific lessons such as practice, formation, alchemy, and refining. They are also responsible for supervising and guiding outer disciples in their practice.

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

The outer sect of the sect is open to the outside world, mainly teaching and learning, and teaching people to practice. It relies on collecting the tuition fees for the disciples to enter the sect as income. The outer sect disciples learn part of the inheritance that the sect opens to the outside world. After the disciples graduate or retire, they have feelings with the sect, but no actual connection.

The inner sect is the main body of the sect. The inner sect disciples are attached to the sect. In addition to practicing, they will manage the various industries of the sect, such as spiritual mines, spiritual lands, caves, and businesses.

Inner disciples can learn the skills and magic that are not generally passed on to the outside of the sect. With the master-disciple relationship as the bond, they are closely related to the sect and cannot be separated. If an inner disciple commits a crime outside, the sect can be held responsible. If an inner disciple betrays the master, it is often regarded as treason and the consequences are serious.

The direct disciples of the sect are the direct descendants of the inner disciples. These disciples are either related by blood to the head or elders, or have a very deep master-disciple relationship. The direct disciples are the core of the sect and will often succeed to the head or elders of the sect and other very important positions in the future.

The direct disciples learn the most core skills of the sect, as well as some other unique skills that are forbidden to be passed on to outsiders. If a direct disciple betrays the sect, he will be hunted down to death.

The "Dao Law" prohibits monks from lynching and killing indiscriminately. Hunting down the direct disciples who betray the sect is against the Dao Law and will be held accountable by the Dao Court. However, most of the betrayal matters are under the jurisdiction of the local Dao Court. The Dao Ting has the greatest power, but the Dao Ting Division, which is in charge of various states, circles, and even cities, does not have powerful cultivators in charge.

The betrayal of a direct disciple is related to the core inheritance of the sect, which is of great importance. Generally, the Dao Ting Division will not intervene. Especially for a large sect that is a giant in one area, the local Dao Ting Division dare not intervene.

However, these have little to do with Mo Hua.

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

Mo Hua wants to enter the inner sect, but he has no spirit stones and no connections. It is estimated that it is unlikely in this life, let alone being a direct descendant of the sect.

Mo Hua calmed down and sat on the seat for a while, and then saw Yan Jiaoshi walked in with a serious face.

Yan Jiaoshi is about 40 or 50 years old, a serious person, and has the cultivation of the ninth level of Qi Refining.

In Tongxianmen, Instructor Yan has a high status, because among all the instructors, only Instructor Yan knows the formation, and it is said that in a few years, he may become a first-class formation master through the fixed grade.

Instructor Yan teaches the formation of all the disciples in the Qi Refining Period of Tongxianmen. Whether they are family disciples or ordinary casual practitioners, Instructor Yan treats them equally. If they make a mistake, he will not give face to anyone. He will blame them if they should be blamed, and punish them if they should be punished.

Therefore, the disciples of Tongxianmen respect and fear Instructor Yan.

The sect's tuition is paid once a year, so the teaching is also once a year.

Today is the last day of the annual practice of Tongxianmen. After today, it will be a year-long holiday of more than half a month. The assessment results of various homework of the sect disciples will also be issued today.

Instructor Yan holds a stack of transcripts in his hand.

The disciples are uneasy. Mo Hua is not a big deal, but seeing the disciples around him looking like they are facing a great enemy, he becomes nervous.

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

As usual, he got A-grade in the formation assessment, which was what Mo Hua was best at. In Tongxian Sect, there were not many disciples who could get A-grade in formation, and Mo Hua was one of them.

Mo Hua's cultivation was only rated as B-grade, not because he didn't work hard in cultivation, but because his roots were limited. He had a medium-grade and inferior five-element spiritual root, so no matter how he cultivated, it was still the same. He was not as good as the best, but not much better than the worst.

For the other courses, if you spend time to learn well, such as the history of Taoism and the general theory of refining qi, you can basically get A-grade. And for those that need to spend spirit stones to buy materials to learn well, such as alchemy and talisman making, they are either B or C.

Mo Hua's family was poor, and he couldn't even afford to borrow an alchemy furnace, so naturally he didn't learn well. During the assessment, he could only practice blindly based on his feelings. Whether he could pass it depended on his luck. The results not only depended on luck, but were also erratic and unstable.

But overall, the results were still good. As the saying goes, one good look can hide a hundred uglinesses. After all, formations are difficult to learn. It is already quite good to get an A in formations.

After saying a few words, Teacher Yan left temporarily. The disciples in the room looked at each other's grades and whispered.

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

"Another A..."

"I have always been a B..."

"I am still a C."

"Formations are so difficult to learn. I feel overwhelmed when I see formations..."

"..."

The disciples gathered around Mo Hua.

"Humph!" A disciple of the Qian family wearing a silver-white Taoist robe was dissatisfied with this and snorted coldly, saying:

"What's so great about it? You can only get an A by drawing simple formations of the sect."

"Then what did you get?" a disciple asked in disbelief.

"Why should I tell you?" The Qian family disciple was disdainful.

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

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

"You got a C, and you still laugh at others who got an A, you are so thick-skinned!"

"Thicker than a refining furnace!"

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

The Qian family disciple was embarrassed and angry, "What's the matter with an A? There are no formation masters for casual cultivators, do you understand?"

He pointed at them with his finger, "You are a bunch of casual cultivators, frogs at the bottom of the well, without inheritance, a lifetime, listen carefully, a lifetime, you can't produce a formation master. Bah, you still get an A! Remember, there will never be a real formation master among casual cultivators! If you don't understand, I can say it again."

"A casual cultivator is never worthy of being a formation master!"

The surrounding disciples were silent.

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

"Hello, Instructor Yan!"

The Qian family disciple turned his head stiffly as if struck by lightning, and found Instructor Yan standing behind him, his face livid.

"The sect is for preaching and practicing, not for you to compare and slander your fellow disciples!"

"Your formation is so terrible, and you still have the nerve to laugh at your fellow disciples?"

"Now stand outside as punishment until dark."

"Draw the basic five elements formation pattern a hundred times, and show it to me when you enter school next year. If you can't draw it, you don't have to come..."

The Qian family disciple looked ashen, but didn't dare to refute a word.

Instructor Yan has a high status, and he can even discipline the disciples of the Qian family, let alone his insignificant branch.

The Qian family disciple stood in disgrace.

Teacher Yan stood in front of Mo Hua, silent for a moment, then patted Mo Hua's thin shoulder with his hand, sighed and said, "Don't worry about what others say, just study hard."

Mo Hua looked normal, and bowed respectfully to Teacher Yan, "Disciple will remember this."

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

The disciples suppressed their excitement, bowed to the instructor, thanked the instructor for his teaching in cultivation for a year, and then scattered like birds and beasts.

The sect was on annual leave, and the disciples were happy.

Mo Hua looked at it but felt complicated.

Most of these disciples in the Qi Refining Stage were still young and carefree, and they had no idea of ​​the hardships of cultivation life.

Thinking of his father's scars after hunting monsters and his mother's haggard face, Mo Hua felt sour in his heart and couldn't help sighing.

Becoming a first-class formation master is still a long way off, but within his ability, he wants to make his parents live a better life.

Mo Hua collected the report card, put the twelve spirit stones in his arms, and did not go home after leaving Tongxianmen, but walked towards the market.

About the setting of the protagonist's time travel:

Awakening memory, non-traditional soul travel, the body is his own, and he has a blood relationship with his parents.

The protagonist is set as a ten-year-old child in the cultivation world, but with some modern people's thinking and cognition.