The Quest for Immortality

Mo Hua released his Divine Sense again to sense the maze and slightly shook his head.

Although it was a Mystery Formation, it wasn’t the Mysterious Heaven Great Formation.

The scale had not yet reached the level of a Large Formation.

It was like a smaller scale Mysterious Heaven ”Compound Formation” that had been disassembled from the Mysterious Heaven Great Formation.

It was nowhere near the vastness and densely packed splendor of the Mysterious Heaven Great Formation he had seen in his Sea of Consciousness during his Foundation Establishment.

Moreover, the style of the Mysterious Heaven Formation in the maze was vastly different from the one in his Sea of Consciousness.

From the same source, but different streams.

It was like a variant of a Formation.

Or perhaps…

It was as if it had been copied from somewhere, restored, and reconstructed…

From the outside, the entire Formation was profound and abstruse, complicated and confusing.

If not for Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness being reconstructed by the Mysterious Heaven Great Formation, with all the Formation Patterns deeply imprinted in his Divine Sense, he might not have recognized that this was the Mysterious Heaven Great Formation…

”But why?” Mo Hua frowned.

The Demon Palace, or what the Demon Cultivators considered a Holy Temple, why would they use the Mysterious Heaven Formation Technique to construct the core building?

Mysterious Heaven Formation Technique…

Did they use this kind of Formation just to build a maze, to confuse and hide secrets?

Or does this Formation inherently contain special meanings?

Moreover, the Demon Cultivators used the Mysterious Heaven Formation Technique to build the maze.

Could this Formation possibly be… an Evil Formation of the Demon Path?

Had his Divine Sense been reconstructed by an Evil Formation from the Demon Path, causing a ”transformation”?

Mo Hua furrowed his brow and thought it over, feeling that it probably wasn’t so…

The Heaven Yan Jue was given to him by his master, an Ancient Skill.

It was very likely that this Formation was just an Ancient Skill, inherently neither good nor evil, and just happened to be discovered by the Demon Cultivators to build a ”Holy Temple”…

Even if he didn’t trust the skill, he had to trust his master…

Mo Hua nodded.

As for the mysteries of this Mysterious Heaven Formation Technique, it seems he would have to delve deep into this inner hall to find out…

Fortunately, even though this is a Complex Formation, it wasn’t too difficult, certainly nowhere near as challenging as the real ”Mysterious Heaven Great Formation.”

Mo Hua glanced a few times and roughly had a measure of it.

”Follow Uncle Gu and the other Enforcement Leaders from the Taoist Court, sneak in and take a look…” Mo Hua silently thought.

But after a long while, there was still no action on the side of the Taoist Court Cultivators.

Mo Hua puzzled, ”Why haven’t they entered yet?”

They had clearly breached the inner hall’s main door, yet they seemed to have ceased all activities.

He turned his head and saw that on the Xiao family’s side, a group was whispering amongst themselves anxiously, seemingly discussing something.

A few of them, looking shocked, kept shaking their heads:

”Inside the inner hall, there’s a maze which integrates a Formation...”

”This Formation… is no trivial matter… Unimaginably complex…”

”Unseen and unheard of before...”

”We only know it’s a type of ancient Mystery Formation, but what specific Formation it is, and what mysteries it holds, we can’t determine…”

”Son… please be cautious, do not rashly enter…”

Xiao Tianquan frowned. ”You can’t handle it?”

Several Formation Masters from the Xiao family shook their heads:

”We need to consult several widely experienced Formation Elders from the Xiao family of Tian Shu Pavilion, or the old ancestors, to unravel these Formations…”

Xiao Tianquan’s face turned ashen. He questioned sternly:

”Our first mission, and we need to go back to consult the ancestors? What will the ancestors think?”

”They will think I lack decisiveness… unreliable. Will they still develop me in the future?”

”And those Elders…”

”The Xiao family isn’t just me in the Direct Lineage, if I don’t show some achievement, they will definitely ridicule and mock me behind my back, and will surely look down on me later…”

”Even if the maze is dangerous, we must enter!”

Xiao Tianquan was unyielding.

Several Xiao family Formation Masters frowned and thought hard, ”If we want to go in, we need some time, to thoroughly ponder…”

”Otherwise, trapped in the maze, we might fall into the Demon Cultivators’ schemes…”

”We need to plan it in the long term…”

…

Mo Hua listened from the side, somewhat in disbelief.

How could these Formation Masters be so incompetent...

Such a level of Mystery Formation, shouldn’t it be seen immediately how to navigate it?

Even if they couldn’t see it, by calculating a bit more, shouldn’t they figure out an approximation?

At the very least, they were operating within the Qianxue State Boundary.

The Xiao family should also be a major family.

If not the inheritance of the Mysterious Heaven Formation, shouldn’t they at least have the inheritance of the general ”Mystery Formations”?

Mo Hua remembered very clearly.

When his master had taught him how to solve the ”Mystery Formations,” he said Mystery Formations were used by family disciples for ”intellectual entertainment.”

Just like solving lantern riddles during the Lantern Festival.

How come now it appeared that these family Formation Masters didn’t seem like they used Mystery Formations for intellectual entertainment?

Mo Hua suddenly became somewhat puzzled.

His master… he wasn’t lying to him, was he?

Or was it just that Xiao family’s standards were too low?

The Xiao family members were still whispering and discussing...

Mo Hua felt anxious.

If it hadn’t been for not wanting to steal the show publicly, he would have already come forward to lead the way...

With only three days left, he was still hoping to capture Fire Buddha, depending on this group of ”rookies,” how much longer would they delay…

Then Mo Hua glanced at Gu Changhuai.

Gu Changhuai also heard the conversation of the Xiao family Formation Masters, and was frowning, when he suddenly saw Mo Hua next to him, his gaze shifted subtly.

Gu Changhuai was already quite familiar with Mo Hua. Seeing this kind of gaze, he hesitated, then asked in a low voice:

”You don’t happen to know this maze Formation as well, do you?”

Mo Hua nodded, ”I know a bit about this one too…”

Gu Changhuai was at a loss for words.

You kid, how many Formations do you know?