In just half an hour, Mo Wuji was completely immersed in the knowledge of the formation dao engraved by Storage Star Sub.
When he saw something exciting, he kept gesturing some formation patterns with his hands.
Initially, when he knew nothing about the Dao of Formation, looking at these formation patterns was like reading a heavenly book, his head was spinning. Now that he had delved into it, he found that every single formation pattern had endless charm and attraction.
If it was said that when he was in closed-door cultivation, Mo Wuji still remembered to fetch the grain-preventing pills to eat, now that he was drilling into these formation patterns and knowledge of the formation dao, he completely forgot about everything until he was almost starved of food, which was when he came to his senses.
Mo Wuji took one of the Cereal Resistant Pills but didn’t eat it, his eyes were somewhat dazed as he stared at one of the formation patterns.
A level 1 surveillance formation pattern that could monitor things within a three feet radius, the biggest feature of a surveillance formation pattern was the pick up, followed by the turn ……
Mo Wuji’s gaze moved away from this formation pattern and even frowned. He vaguely felt that this formation pattern was familiar to him, and he soon remembered that this was the formation pattern on that bracelet. No, this formation pattern was even more concise and clear than the one on the bracelet. Mo Wuji wasn’t ignorant from the time he started reading the Dao of Formation Dao Knowledge left behind by Reserve Star Zi, at this time, he could vaguely perceive that this monitoring formation pattern of Reserve Star Zi was much more advanced than the one on the bracelet, even if it was only a grade 1 monitoring formation pattern.
No, just now, what he was thinking about was not the question of whether the formation pattern was good or bad, Mo Wuji slapped his head and finally adjusted his thinking.
He once again thought of the monitoring formation on the bracelet, the bracelet could be viewed as long as the azimuthal indication formation, why would he need to get a monitoring formation?
The only possibility was that this formation was used to monitor the cultivators entering the Five Elements Desolate Domain, why would they need to monitor the cultivators entering the Five Elements Desolate Domain?
Mo Wuji winced, if this monitoring formation pattern could transmit its contents, then wouldn’t that mean that the fact that he had killed Dong Lun, as well as the fact that he had obtained the Infinite Soul Forging Crystal had already been known?
No, according to the formation knowledge he had just learned, this type of grade one monitoring formation could only be conveyed within a maximum of ten metres. With such a small area of the bracelet, it was absolutely impossible to transmit the image out from the Five Elements Desolate Domain using a grade one surveillance formation. If it was impossible to transmit the image out, then what was the point of using a monitoring formation?
Reasoning to this place, the answer appeared almost logically. That was that the bracelet still had a memory array pattern, and when the crowd of cultivators went out from the Five Elements Desolate Domain, they would have to hand the bracelet in. Then the person who took the bracelet would be able to know what you got in the Five Elements Desolate Domain based on the bracelet you handed in.
Mo Wuji sucked in his breath and was secretly afraid, if he didn’t know about these things and handed in his bracelet, then everything he had obtained would be known.
Thinking of this, Mo Wuji hurriedly skipped the monitoring array and went to look for the memory array on the wall. Not too long after, Mo Wuji found the memory array pattern. His guess was correct, the formation pattern that he had found in the bracelet back then, also had a similar formation pattern like this in it.
The formation knowledge left behind by Star Storage Zi should definitely not be left behind, this thing was very useful to him. Mo Wuji’s heart sank as he looked at the wall carvings that he had yet to finish reading. He should have spent two days even reading and learning, and in the end, he had only read less than one percent of the content.
In other words, if he waited for him to finish reading all of them, then it would take at least two hundred days. This didn’t even include the delay caused by the appearance of things that couldn’t be understood.
Then copy it down.
Mo Wuji made up his mind, even if he delayed all the time he still had left, he would still have to copy down all of this wall engraving.
Taking out a pen and paper, Mo Wuji began to frantically copy it down.
It could be said that other than when he was very young, the madness of copying his summer holiday homework whenever before school started, Mo Wuji had never copied anything so frantically before.
As time passed day by day, Mo Wuji’s pen had copied more than a dozen bad ones.
This made Mo Wuji very worried, he only had a total of twenty pens on him, and this was still because of the habit that was left behind when he first drew the medicinal herbs for Lan Yu. Back then, because the name of the medicinal herb he said was different from what Blue Feather said, he used the pen to draw it for Blue Feather. Since then, Mo Wuji had always carried a few pens on him. After having a storage bag, he even threw twenty pens in the storage bag.
It was reasonable to say that twenty pens would definitely not be used up, but it never occurred to him that twenty pens would not be enough in the Five Elements Desolate Domain.
Luckily, Mo Wuji’s worries were more than far-fetched, by the time he had used up his nineteenth pen, the walls were all copied by him. The piles of paper that were copied were as thick as a few books.
Mo Wuji shook off his somewhat sore wrists, he was at the perfect ninth level of Pulse Expansion, but he was somewhat unable to hold it even after copying for these twenty consecutive days.
The results of his copying would probably take months to copy for any cultivator with a similar cultivation level as him. It was not just that he wrote faster than others, but that he didn’t have to raise his head at all to copy things, his divine thoughts swept to his brain, and his hand just had to keep writing.
It was time to go out, Mo Wuji collected his things into his storage bag. Counting up, it had already been more than two months since he entered the Five Elements Desolate Domain. If he delayed any further, he might not really be able to leave the Five Elements Desolate Domain.
Returning back to the stone door and taking out the copper key and stuffing it into the keyhole, this stone door that had been bombarded by many cultivators for many days and could not be opened, under Mo Wuji’s key, it easily let out a creaking sound before it slowly opened once again.
Mo Wuji withdrew the key and quickly exited the stone door, perhaps he would come back again one day or not.
When the stone door was closed and Mo Wuji was ready to leave, he suddenly remembered something. Cun Xing Zi was locked up in here for many years, and in the end, he left behind his knowledge of the formation dao, what about Cun Xing Zi himself? Didn’t he not get out? Even if he died inside, there were still ashes.
Mo Wuji was certain that the corpse outside wasn’t that of Chu Xing Zi, if it was Chu Xing Zi’s, there was no way he would have the key to this stone door in his hands.
Mo Wuji thought for half a day but couldn’t figure out what was going on, in the end, he could only assume that Chu Xing Zi was underneath that ice step.
It was better to hurry up and get out, these things were not something he could figure out at his cultivation level. If his cultivation level was enough, and he came back here to meet Chu Xing Zi, he would bring his bones out to be buried, at least it would be considered as one of his masters.
Mo Wuji accelerated his steps to leave this passageway and returned to the main hall.
There wasn’t a single person in the main hall, there were just two more corpses, and everything on the corpses had been taken away. Mo Wuji’s divine thoughts swept around for a bit, finally determining that everyone here had gone. He grabbed out the iron rod and looked up to identify the direction before leaping up.
Luckily, there was still a place to land in the hollow, and Mo Wuji changed his Yuan Qi a few times midway, before he grabbed onto the edge of the ice pit where he had fallen down in the first place.
The outside of the ice pit had long been smoothened out by the cold wind, these Mo Wuji wasn’t worried about. This place had been blasted open, even if it was smoothened out, there would only be a thin layer of ice.
The Tian Ji Stick drummed up its Yuan Power and blasted on, and after tens of times in succession like this, the location that had been smoothed out by the cold ice made a clicking sound and a crack appeared.
Mo Wuji’s Tianji Stick exerted another force, and an ice hole appeared in front of Mo Wuji, with the outside being white. Mo Wuji’s divine thoughts swept out, and only after he was sure that there was no one outside, did he unfurl his figure and passed through that ice hole, landing on the mountainside of the ice peak once again.
Lying on the mountainside, Mo Wuji used his sharp knife to dig out two stressful pits in the first instance.
Now that he was the only one, he simply didn’t have the strength to dig out another ice step path. However, this was going down not up, he just needed to keep digging out some stressed ice pits on the ice peak.
It took a full day before Mo Wuji landed at the foot of that tall ice peak. At this time, there had long been no one here, the surroundings were silent, and there was nothing else except for the blinding light that was everywhere because of the reflection of the ice peak.
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At the same time, in the depths of a canyon thousands of miles away from the icy peak, the space was filled with the scent of blood.
Dozens of corpses fell across the ground, and the ground was a mess. Only the vague blades of spirit grass could allow one to guess what had happened here before.
Hou Yuxian slowly wiped the blood on one of the long Xiao’s clean, then hung the long Xiao behind his back, the whole person still appeared to be clean, his body didn’t even carry a trace of dust, even his hair wasn’t messed up a little bit.
As for the rest of the people in the canyon, almost every one of them had bloodstains on their bodies, and their clothes were all a bit messy.
“Senior Sister Wan’er, are you alright?” Only after doing so, did Hou Yuxian smile and inquired about Qu Wan’er, who was not far away.
Qu Wan’er’s hair was slightly messy, and there were a few more drops of blood on her body. She gratefully glanced at Hou Yuxian before shaking her head. After a while, she added, “Thanks to Senior Brother Hou just now, if it wasn’t for you, one of my arms would be gone.”
Hou Yuxian smiled faintly, “We are companions, why should we care too much. When I was in trouble, you would have stepped in to help me too, wouldn’t you?”
Qu Wan’er was silent for a while longer before she continued, “If it wasn’t for my greed for that Condensing Luo Grass, you wouldn’t have had to risk your life to help me.”
Hou Yuxian laughed once again, “Senior sister Wan’er, you’re thinking too much. To me, it matters nothing if I strike out one more time or one less. I’ve said it all, we are now companions ……”
Speaking here, he paused for a moment before sighing and continuing, “Unfortunately, Brother Mo, I don’t know if he came out from underneath that ice peak. Speaking of which, it’s still me who invited Brother Mo to go to the ice peak, if something happened to Brother Mo, my heart would hardly be at peace.”
“Senior Brother Hou seems to be extra concerned about Master Dan Mo?” Qu Wan’er couldn’t help but ask, as Hou Yuxian had mentioned Mo Wuji more than once along the way.
Hou Yuxian looked at the devastated canyon in front of him, and for the first time, he said in a somewhat low tone, “It’s because I feel that he’s an otherworldly person, he’s different from the vast majority of people around us.”
“Even though Senior Hou is in the Devil Sect, isn’t he also different from the people around him? If it wasn’t for me, Senior Brother Hou wouldn’t have even killed that person before.” Qu Wan’er said quietly, she liked Hou Yuxian, but unfortunately, Hou Yuxian was close to her and didn’t seem to have that kind of male-female love.
