Asking About Longevity Chapter 340

Chapter 340 Checks and Balances

Mr. Zhuang looked in awe and said:

"This formation contains the true laws of heaven. Under the formation, all living beings are equal. As long as you violate the taboos of this formation, regardless of your status or cultivation level, you will be killed without discrimination."

 “That's why this formation is also called: 'The Great Formation of Heavenly Dao'!”

 “The Great Formation of Heavenly Dao…”

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

 He hoped that one day he could draw such a formation that could penetrate the sky and the earth.

Mo Hua couldn't help but ask: "Sir, who drew this formation? Is it an immortal?"

Mr. Zhuang shook his head and said: "This formation existed when Daoting was founded. No one knows the origin of this formation, and no one knows whose hand it was made by. Even if the person who drew the formation is not an immortal, At least he is a powerful monk who has entered the path of immortality."

“So people call this formation, also called the Xiantian Formation, which means it is born from the heaven and the earth.”

“The Daoting demarcates the levels of state boundaries based on this great formation of heaven and earth. The great formation at a certain state boundary will be designated as several levels according to the realm it defines.”

Mr. Zhuang sighed: "There are only a few monks who know the 'Heavenly Dao 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 I don't know?"

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

Mo Hua was slightly startled, "Why?"

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

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

"cloudy…"

 “What else?”

Mo Hua shook his head, "No more."

Mr. Zhuang nodded and said:

"Yes, no more... There is neither formation pattern nor formation pivot. Even the formation media doesn't know anything about it, and there is no formation eye. How can it be called a formation?"

 “Sir, can't you see it too?”

Mr. Zhuang looked at the ink painting and said with a gentle smile: "Like you, I can't see anything..."

“Not only me, but also the monks in this world who are deeper in cultivation than me and have high attainments in formations can't see anything.”

“Since you can't see anything and have nothing, how can you say it's a formation?”

“Isn't it recorded in the Taoist classics?” Mo Hua asked.

“There may be errors in worldly records, and Taoist scriptures cannot be fully trusted,” Mr. Zhuang explained.

 “That's it…”

Mo Hua nodded and looked up at the sky again. He felt that the sky was infinite and the clouds were misty, which seemed to contain boundless and endless mystery.

If the ink painting has some enlightenment, he says with a determined expression:

 “Sir, this must be a formation!”

Mr. Zhuang smiled slightly, "Why?"

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

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

“The formation master's intuition 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 the sky..."

 Mo Hua received Mr. Zhuang's expectations and nodded seriously.

 Then he was confused and said:

“Sir, if there really is a great formation of heaven in the sky, what is the purpose of this formation, or in other words, what is the significance of this law of heaven?”

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

 “The checks and balances of heaven.”

 The ink painting seemed to have some enlightenment, but for a while, I still couldn't figure it out.

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

“Like you, I also believe that the Heavenly Dao Formation exists, but we monks don't have enough spiritual awareness and have little knowledge of the formation, so we can't see it.”

“Assuming that the Heavenly Dao Formation really exists…”

Mr. Zhuang looked at the ink painting and continued:

“Then if the state boundaries are not determined by grade, there are no restrictions on cultivation level, and there is no check and balance from the great array of heaven, what will this monastic world be like?”

Mo Hua thought for a while and then asked, "Will it be too messy?"

 “What's the reason for the chaos?” Mr. Zhuang asked again.

“Because the monk's power is not limited?”

Mr. Zhuang nodded and said:

“Never overestimate human nature. Human beings are a race that will kill for profit, hatred, or even just for fun.”

“If there were no restrictions on cultivation, high-level monks would massacre low-level monks.”

"Human Taoist heart is never tenacious. It is impetuous, wavering, and indulgent. It is like duckweed on the waves, rising and falling with the current, and it is difficult to have a stable place. No matter how upright a person is, there will be births. When you have evil thoughts.”

“Out of a hundred high-level monks, if even one person has evil thoughts, it will be a catastrophe for the low-level monks.”

"Without the checks and balances of heaven, it is easy for high-level monks to massacre low-level monks." "Qi-refining monks may face the slaughter of golden elixir, ascension and even cave-xu monks. In this case, they will have no power to resist."

“It may happen from time to time that Jindan massacres a city, Yuhua massacres an entire realm, and Dongxu massacres an entire state.”

“Some demon giants will act more unscrupulously, perhaps in order to refine magic weapons and refine all the creatures in a state..."

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

“Once all the low-level monks at the bottom are slaughtered and the monks die, the world of cultivation will inevitably decline.”

“If things continue like this, the entire cultivation world will be destroyed by killing.”

“But with the checks and balances of the Heavenly Dao Formation, high-level monks dare not act recklessly, and low-level monks have room to survive. The monks can multiply, and the cultivation world can continue to thrive..."

Mo Hua nodded, gradually understanding the meaning of heavenly checks and balances.

For example, Tongxian City is the boundary of the second-level state. If there is a foundation building to cause chaos, the foundation building will also respond to it. No matter how bad it is, the same enemy will be able to compete with it during the Qi Refining Period.

But if there is no check and balance from heaven and they are invaded by high-level monks, they will not be able to resist it no matter what.

Mo Hua then asked:

“But in this way, if evildoers breed, wouldn't the monks within the same state have no power to resist?”

 Because the blood energy of Dao Ni is too powerful, and it can kill people to replenish blood, it is almost "eternal".

"Yes." Mr. Zhuang nodded and said: "Everything has its pros and cons. The formation of the Heavenly Dao Formation can check and balance high-level monks, but it will also make Dao evil invincible in one world;"

“But there is no Heavenly Dao Formation. Although there are ways to suppress Dao evil, it is easy to let high-level monks indulge in endless evil..."

“The lesser of two evils, Daoist evil is a disaster, and at most it will destroy a state boundary, but monks killing indiscriminately will destroy the entire cultivation world.”

Mr. Zhuang sighed and said meaningfully:

“After all, the ones who kill the most in this world are always humans, not monsters.”

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

Hearing this, Mo Hua felt confused and confused.

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

“Is there any way to deal with Feng Xi?”

He grew up in Tongxian City, and he really couldn't bear to see the monks from Tongxian City move to the wilderness and live in exile.

Can't bear to have Tongxian City destroyed because of the disaster caused by the seal.

Mr. Zhuang looked at the ink painting with some relief in his eyes, "You already have an idea."

"Yeah." Mo Hua nodded, "After much thought, the only way to deal with Feng Xi is to use a large formation..."

In the book record he learned from Zhang Lan, he has a family or ancestral gate, and he has killed the big monster by relying on the fate.

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

Mr. Zhuang's expression was filled with emotion for a moment.

 He thought that such a day would come, but he did not expect that this day would actually come...

An ink painting at the first level of Qi Refining, I want to learn the Grand Formation from him.

 There is nothing in this book.

 Great formation is the ultimate pursuit of formation masters. All formation masters in this world want to learn great formation.

Even if you are not the main formation master of the formation, just participating from the side and adding a few formation patterns, it is already considered a great honor.

 The difference with Mo Hua is that he is really qualified to learn the big formation.

His spiritual consciousness intensity, his spiritual consciousness control, his formation experience, and his formation proficiency are already among the best among first-level formation masters.

 It's just a big formation, not that simple…

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

 “Think it through!” Mo Hua nodded.

“You don't know yet.” Mr. Zhuang shook his head, looked stern, and said slowly:

“The grand formation is the most complex, the most difficult, and the largest type of construction project. It is not something you can learn if you want to learn it, nor can it be built if you want to build it alone.”

“Constructing a large formation requires a lot of manpower and material resources…”

"The formation medium of a large formation needs to be refined by a weapon refiner and built by a craftsman. You can draw the formation hub of a large formation by yourself after learning, but within the large formation, there are thousands of single formations, and you can rely on yourself alone. You can't finish the painting, you must have other formation masters to help you.”

“In addition, there are material resources. The materials to construct the formation medium, the spiritual ink to draw the formation, and the spiritual stones to activate the formation are all extremely huge.”

“What's more, the formation pivot of a large formation is extremely difficult and consumes a lot of spiritual consciousness. It's not that easy to learn it at all.”

"The most important thing is..." Mr. Zhuang looked at the ink painting with a solemn expression and said slowly:

“Even if we try our best to build a large formation, what if we still can't resist Feng Xi?”

"After spending so much material and manpower, and exhausting spiritual stones, Feng Xi still cannot be killed. What should the monks of Tongxian City do? Under such circumstances, it is impossible to move the city. What do they rely on to survive? Going down?"

 “Have you considered these things?”

Every time Mr. Zhuang said something, Mo Hua's heart felt cold. In the end, 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 before you decide whether you want to learn the Grand Formation or build a Grand Formation.”

 (End of this chapter)

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