Chapter 340 Checks and Balances

Mr. Zhuang said with awe:

"This formation contains the true laws of heaven. Under the formation, all beings are equal. As long as the taboos of this formation are violated, no matter their status or cultivation level, they will be wiped out equally."

"Therefore, this formation is also called: 'Heavenly Array'!"

"Heavenly Array..."

Mo Hua murmured, imprinting the name deeply in his mind, and at the same time looking forward to it.

He hoped that one day, he could also draw such a heaven-reaching formation.

Mo Hua couldn't help but ask: "Then sir, who drew this formation? Was it an immortal?"

Mr. Zhuang shook his head and said: "This formation existed when the Dao Court was first established. No one knows the origin of this formation, and no one knows who drew it. Even if the person who drew the formation is not an immortal, he is at least a cultivator who has entered the immortal path."

"So people call this formation the Xiantian Great Formation, which means it was born before heaven and earth."

"The Dao Court demarcates the state boundaries based on this Heavenly Dao Great Formation. The great formation of a state boundary will be classified into a certain grade according to the realm it is in."

Mr. Zhuang sighed: "There are only a few cultivators who know about the 'Heavenly Dao Great Formation'."

"Even many formation masters don't believe that the sky is actually a great formation."

Mo Hua couldn't help but ask: "Is it because there is no inheritance, so they don't know?"

Mr. Zhuang shook his head, "Even if there are inheritance records, they don't believe it."

Mo Hua Slightly startled, "Why?"

Mr. Zhuang pointed to the sky and asked Mo Hua: "What can you see from the sky?"

Mo Hua raised his head and looked up at the sky for a long time. His neck was sore, and then he hesitated:

"There are clouds..."

"What else?"

Mo Hua shook his head, "Nothing else."

Mr. Zhuang nodded:

"Yes, nothing... There is neither array pattern nor array hub, and I don't even know what the array medium is. There is no array eye, so how can it be called an array?"

"Sir, you can't see it either?"

Mr. Zhuang looked at Mo Hua and smiled gently: "I can't see anything like you..."

"Not only me, but also the cultivators in this cultivation world who are more profound than me in cultivation and have a higher attainment in array formations can't see anything."

"Since you can't see anything and there is nothing, how can you say it is an array?"

"But isn't there a record in the cultivation classics?" Mo Hua asked.

"The records in the world may be wrong, and the cultivation classics can't be trusted." Mr. Zhuang explained.

"Is that so..."

Mo Hua nodded, and looked up at the sky again, only to feel that the sky was infinite, and the clouds were misty, as if it contained boundless and endless mysteries.

Mo Hua seemed to have realized something, and said with certainty:

"Sir, this must be a formation!"

Mr. Zhuang smiled slightly, "Why?"

Mo Hua shook his head, "I don't know, but I feel it is."

Mr. Zhuang was slightly startled, then touched Mo Hua's head, and said softly:

"The intuition of the formation master is the understanding of the way of heaven, and sometimes it is also very important. I hope that one day in the future, you can really see the formation from this sky..."

Mo Hua was expected by Mr. Zhuang and nodded seriously.

Then he asked in doubt:

"Sir, if there is really a Heavenly Dao formation in the sky, what is the purpose of this formation, or what is the meaning of this Heavenly Dao law?"

Mr. Zhuang's eyes were slightly fixed, and he said four words in a deep voice:

"Heavenly Dao checks and balances."

Mo Hua seemed to have realized something, but for a moment, he still couldn't think it through.

Mr. Zhuang raised his head, looked at the desolate sky, and said slowly:

"Like you, I also think that the Heavenly Dao formation exists, but we cultivators don't have enough spiritual awareness and shallow attainments in formations, so we can't see it."

"Suppose the Heavenly Dao formation really exists..."

Mr. Zhuang looked at Mo Hua and continued:

"Then if the state boundary is not fixed in rank, and there is no limit on cultivation, and there is no Heavenly Dao formation to check and balance, what will this cultivation world be like?"

Mo Hua thought for a while and said, "Will it be very chaotic?"

"Why is it chaotic?" Mr. Zhuang asked again.

"Because the power of the cultivators is not restricted?"

Mr. Zhuang nodded and said:

"Never overestimate human nature. Humans are a race that will kill for profit, for hatred, or even for fun."

"If there is no restriction on cultivation, high-level cultivators will slaughter low-level cultivators."

"People's Tao hearts are never tenacious. They are impetuous, vacillating, and indulgent, just like duckweed on the waves, floating with the flow and difficult to settle. Even the most upright people will have evil thoughts."

"Among a hundred high-level cultivators, even if only one person has evil thoughts, it will be a catastrophe for low-level cultivators."

"Without the checks and balances of heaven, it is easy for high-level cultivators to slaughter low-level cultivators."

"Qi-refining cultivators may face the slaughter of Jindan, Yuhua, and even Dongxu cultivators. In this case, they will have no power to resist."

"Jindan slaughters a city, Yuhua slaughters a world, and Dongxu slaughters a state. It may happen from time to time."

"Some demon giants will act more unscrupulously. They may refine all the creatures in a state in order to sacrifice magic weapons..."

Mr. Zhuang sighed and continued: "The strength of the cultivation world lies in high-level cultivators, but the long-term development of the cultivation world lies in the low-level cultivators."

"Once the low-level cultivators at the bottom are slaughtered, there will be a lack of successors, and the cultivation world will inevitably decline."

"If this continues, the entire cultivation world will be destroyed by killing."

"With the checks and balances of the Heavenly Dao Array, high-level cultivators dare not act recklessly, low-level cultivators have room to survive, cultivators can reproduce, and the cultivation world can also continue to thrive..."

Mo Hua nodded, and gradually understood the significance of the Heavenly Dao checks and balances.

For example, Tongxian City is a second-grade state boundary. If there is a foundation-building rebellion, there will also be foundation-building to deal with it. At worst, the Qi-refining stage can fight against it with a common hatred of the enemy.

But if there is no balance of heaven, they will not be able to resist the invasion of high-level cultivators no matter what.

Mo Hua then asked:

"But in this way, if there is a Dao evil breeding, will the cultivators in the same state boundary have no power to resist?"

Because the blood of the Dao evil is too strong, and it can kill people to replenish blood, it is almost "endless".

"Yes." Mr. Zhuang nodded and said, "Everything has its pros and cons. With the Heavenly Dao Array, we can check and balance high-level cultivators, but it will also make Dao evil invincible in the world;"

"But without the Heavenly Dao Array, although there is a way to suppress and kill Dao evil, it is easy to let high-level cultivators go and create endless killing evil..."

"Choose the lesser of two evils. Dao evil will destroy a state at most, while cultivators killing indiscriminately will destroy the entire cultivation world."

Mr. Zhuang sighed and said meaningfully:

"After all, in this world, the people who kill the most are always humans, not monsters."

The people who kill the most are always humans, not monsters...

Mo Hua heard this and felt inexplicably complicated.

Mo Hua pondered for a long time, hesitated for a while, and finally asked the question he cared about most:

"Is there a way to deal with Feng Xi?"

He grew up in Tongxian City, and he really couldn't bear to see the cultivators of Tongxian City move to the wilderness and wander around.

I can't bear to see Tongxian City destroyed by Feng Xi.

Mr. Zhuang looked at Mo Hua with some relief in his eyes, "You have an idea, right?"

"Yes." Mo Hua nodded, "I think the only way to deal with Feng Xi is the big formation..."

In the records he learned from Zhang Lan, there were families or sects that relied on the big formation to kill big monsters.

Mo Hua looked up and looked at Mr. Zhuang with some hope, "Sir, can I learn the big formation?"

Mr. Zhuang's expression was full of emotion for a moment.

He thought there would be such a day, but he didn't expect that this day would really come...

Mo Hua, who was a first-grade Qi Refiner, wanted to learn the big formation from him.

This is nothing.

The big formation is the ultimate pursuit of the formation master. All the formation masters in this world want to learn the big formation.

Even if you don't become the main formation master of the big formation, just participating from the side and adding a few formation patterns, it is already a great honor.

But what makes Mo Hua different is that he is really qualified to learn the great formation.

His spiritual power, his spiritual control, his experience in formation, and his proficiency in formation are already the best among the first-class formation masters.

But the great formation is not that simple...

Mr. Zhuang sighed, "You have to think it over carefully."

"I have thought it over!" Mo Hua nodded.

"You don't know yet." Mr. Zhuang shook his head, his expression stern, and slowly said:

"The large formation is the most complex, the most difficult, and the most labor-intensive type of formation. It is not something you can learn just because you want to, nor can you build it just because you want to."

"Building a large formation requires a lot of manpower and material resources..."

"The medium of the large formation needs to be refined by a weapon refiner and built by a craftsman. You can draw the formation hub of the large formation by yourself after learning it, but there are thousands of single formations in the large formation, and you can't draw them all by yourself. You must have other formation masters to help you."

"In addition, there are also material resources, materials for constructing the medium, spiritual ink for drawing the formation, and spiritual stones for activating the formation, which are all extremely large numbers."

"What's more, the formation core of the big formation is extremely difficult, and the spiritual consciousness consumption is extremely high. It is not that easy to learn it."

"The most important thing is..." Mr. Zhuang looked solemnly, looking at Mo Hua, and said slowly:

"Even if we do our best to build the big formation, what if we still can't resist Feng Xi?"

"After spending so much material and human resources and exhausting spiritual stones, we still can't kill Feng Xi. What should the cultivators of Tongxian City do? In this case, it is unlikely to move the city. How can they survive?"

"Have you considered all these things?"

Every time Mr. Zhuang said a word, Mo Hua's heart sank, and finally he couldn't help but look disappointed and lowered his head.

Mr. Zhuang gently touched Mo Hua's head again, and said softly:

"Think about these things clearly, and then decide whether to learn the big formation or build a big formation."