Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 888: Chapter 616 List

An encrypted diary…

What could be inside?

Mo Hua’s eyes lit up with curiosity.

Boss Jiang, this man, hid some unspeakable information within the verbose words of his letters…

And he first sealed it, then encrypted it, going to great lengths to keep it from being noticed—there must be something valuable hidden inside!

The corners of Mo Hua’s mouth lifted in a smirk as he squinted in satisfaction.

He wanted to unlock it and take a look.

Zheng Fang had mentioned that encryption was different from sealing.

Sealing involved constructing an Unfixed Magnetic Pattern, creating a blank “fog-like Magnetic Ink” that concealed the text.

Encryption was about “disguising” text.

To be more accurate, it involved distorting the Secondary Thunder Pattern, altering the Magnetic Stream, and changing the “agreements” between Fixed and Unfixed Patterns, causing the presented text to change and form a “disguise”.

What you see is not the true content within the Jade Slip.

“If you want to decrypt it, you have to decrypt the ‘Secret Pattern’, correct the twisted ‘Secondary Thunder Pattern’, and restore the text within the Jade Slip…”

In other words, it’s about correcting the “agreement” between the Fixed Magnetic Pattern and the Unfixed Magnetic Pattern.

The key is still the Secondary Thunder Pattern…

Everything a Cultivator does leaves traces.

The encryption of Jade Slips is no exception.

As long as Boss Jiang used the “Secret Pattern” and saw the true content of the Jade Slip, this Secret Pattern would generate a Magnetic Stream, leaving a trace.

This trace might be invisible to other Cultivators, but Mo Hua, whose Divine Consciousness has undergone Transformation and has fused with Tricky Calculation and Calculation, could perceive it.

This principle was the same as when Mo Hua “unsealed” the Jade Slip.

By sensing the trace, deducing the Secondary Thunder Pattern, and then comparing and matching against known Secondary Thunder Patterns, the true Secret Pattern could be deciphered.

Decoding was more complex than unsealing.

When visualizing the Jade Slip and sensing the Magnetic Patterns, he couldn’t perform his calculations on the Taoist Stele.

Therefore, he couldn’t calculate for too long.

Otherwise, his Divine Consciousness would be torn apart by the burden of Tricky Calculation and Calculation, causing damage.

So it would also take more time.

Mo Hua patiently and methodically calculated each Magnetic Stream slowly.

Fortunately, the “Sealing Pattern” and the “Secret Pattern” for this “diary” Jade Slip belonged to the same category, so after half a month, Mo Hua deciphered the real “Secret Pattern”.

Mo Hua let out a deep sigh of relief.

After successfully deciphering the “Sealing Pattern” for the first time, he had now successfully deciphered the “Secret Pattern” for the first time too!

His Secondary Thunder Pattern Library was also enriched.

His mastery in Thunder Magnetism Formation took a solid step forward.

Just what could he achieve if he kept learning this way, step by step, to the utmost limit?

Mo Hua furrowed his brows in thought.

If he could thoroughly grasp the Magnetic Stream and gain full command of Secondary Thunder Patterns, would he have countless keys?

Then, wouldn’t all the Sealing and Secret Patterns of Heritage Jade Slips in the world be meaningless to him?

Wouldn’t he be able to plunder the heritage of the entire world?

“Too terrifying…”

Mo Hua startled even himself with the thought.

Shaking his head, Mo Hua put away such “delusional” thoughts and continued to fiddle with Boss Jiang’s “diary”.

Zheng Fang had already bluntly shared with Mo Hua the specifics of decoding.

Mo Hua recalled the details, then let his Divine Consciousness sink into the Jade Slip, using scattered Magnetic Ink to condense a painstakingly deciphered Secondary Thunder Pattern.

Using this Secondary Thunder Pattern as a “Secret Pattern”, he overlaid it on each piece of text marked by traces of a Magnetic Stream.

The Secondary Thunder Flow created by the Secret Pattern permeated through the superficial Magnetic Ink, into the Unfixed Magnetic Pattern, and down into the depths, adjusting the distorted Magnetic Stream caused by “disguise”, “straightening what was bent”, and thus constructing a true bridge.

Boss Jiang’s diary text in the Jade Slip began to twist and contort, finally settling and revealing its true nature beneath the “disguise”.

Mo Hua looked eagerly.

As he read, Mo Hua’s expression became increasingly intriguing.

These texts…

Were they a “list”?

Listed in a row, all were pseudonyms known in the Cultivation World:

“Poison Raksha, Fireworker Chief, Gold Arhat, Flower Gentleman, Human Butcher, Blood Woodcutter, Yin Thunder Child, Madam Miao, Ghost Face Sha, Crossing River Dragon…”

Full of the Jianghu spirit and quite unserious.

The Cultivators corresponding to these names were likely, at the very least, Sin Cultivators, and many were probably Evil Cultivators, if not Demon Cultivators.

Mo Hua was greatly surprised, and mumbled to himself,

“People cannot be judged by their appearances after all. Does Boss Jiang really have such an extensive network?”

“But that’s not right…”

These pseudonyms sounded ominous, and these Cultivators didn’t seem to be easy to deal with, not matching someone plain-named like “Boss Jiang”…

“These people might not all be acquaintances of Boss Jiang…”

“So, did he come across this list by chance?”

“Or could it be… he had taken the Evil Path, committing murder, arson, deception, and other crimes, and heard it from others in the underworld?”

“Or maybe, they are from the same organization?”

“What organization would that be?”

…

Mo Hua couldn’t figure it out.

There was also a most critical question.

What use was this “list” to him if he kept it?

“Hand it over to the Taoist Court for Merit Points?”

Without catching the criminals, it’s not an actual achievement, and since no mission was issued, even if he handed it over, there might be no Merit Points awarded.

What if the Court Official asked him how he came across this “list”?

How would he answer?

Coincidentally abducted by traffickers, then killing the traffickers, slaying Boss Jiang, stripping his Storage Bag, taking his Sever Gold Jade Slip, being an expert in Primordial Magnet Formation, having unsealed the “Sealing Pattern”, cracked the “Secret Pattern”, and thus found this “list”?