Chapter 3: Array Master

After getting up at 11:00 a.m., Mo Hua began his routine practice.

After an hour, he finished his practice and went to the teaching room, waiting for the teacher.

Teachers are the general term for teachers in the sect, who teach outer disciples specific lessons such as practice, formation, alchemy, and refining. They are also responsible for supervising and guiding outer disciples in their practice.

Like other sects in the cultivation world, Tongxian Sect also divides disciples into three categories: direct descendants, inner sects, and outer sects.

The outer sect of the sect is open to the outside world, mainly teaching and learning, and teaching people to practice. It relies on collecting tuition fees from disciples as income. Outer sect disciples learn part of the inheritance that is open to the outside world. After graduation or retirement, the disciples have feelings with the sect, but no actual connection.

The inner sect is the main body of the sect. The inner sect disciples are attached to the sect. In addition to practice, they will manage the various industries of the sect, such as spiritual mines, spiritual lands, caves, and businesses.

Inner disciples can learn the skills and magic that are not generally passed on to the outside of the sect. With the master-disciple relationship as the bond, they are closely related to the sect and cannot be separated. If an inner disciple commits a crime outside, the sect can be held responsible. If an inner disciple betrays the master, it is often regarded as a great treason and the consequences are serious.

The direct disciples of the sect are the direct descendants of the inner disciples. These disciples are either blood-related to the head or elders, or have a very deep master-disciple relationship. Direct disciples are the core of the sect and will often succeed to very important positions such as the head or elders of the sect in the future.

Direct disciples learn the most core skills of the sect, as well as some other unique skills that are forbidden to be passed on to outsiders. If a direct disciple betrays the sect, he will be hunted down to death.

The "Dao Law" prohibits monks from lynching and killing indiscriminately. Hunting down direct disciples who betray the sect is against the Dao Law and will be held accountable by the Dao Court. However, most of the betrayal matters are under the jurisdiction of the local Dao Court. The Dao Ting has the greatest power, but the Dao Ting Division, which is in charge of various states, circles, and even cities, does not have powerful cultivators in charge.

The betrayal of a direct disciple is related to the core inheritance of the sect, which is of great importance. Generally, the Dao Ting Division will not intervene. Especially for a large sect that is a giant in one area, the local Dao Ting Division dare not intervene.

However, these have little to do with Mo Hua.

He is just a disciple of the outer sect of the first-grade Tongxian Sect, not an inner sect, let alone a direct descendant. Even if he wants to be hunted down, others will not look down on him...

Mo Hua wants to enter the inner sect, but he has no spirit stones and no connections. It is estimated that it is unlikely in this life, let alone being a direct descendant of the sect.

Mo Hua calmed down and sat on the seat for a while, and then saw Yan Jiaoxi walked in with a serious face.

Yan Jiaoxi is about 40 or 50 years old, a serious person, and has the cultivation of the ninth level of Qi Refining.

In Tongxianmen, Instructor Yan has a high status, because among all the instructors, only Instructor Yan knows the formation, and it is said that in a few years, he may become a first-class formation master through the fixed grade.

Instructor Yan teaches the formation of all the disciples in the Qi Refining Period of Tongxianmen. Regardless of whether they are family disciples or ordinary casual practitioners, Instructor Yan treats them equally. If they make a mistake, he will not give face to anyone. He will blame them if they should be blamed, and punish them if they should be punished.

Therefore, the disciples of Tongxianmen respect and fear Instructor Yan.

The sect's salary is paid once a year, so the teaching is also once a year.

Today is the last day of the annual practice of Tongxianmen. After today, it will be a year-long holiday of more than half a month. The assessment results of the various homework of the sect disciples will also be issued today.

Instructor Yan holds a stack of report cards in his hand.

The disciples are uneasy. Mo Hua is not worried at first, but seeing the disciples around him looking like they are facing a great enemy, he becomes nervous.

After a while, Mo Hua received his sect assessment results.

As usual, the formation assessment was graded A, which was what Mo Hua was best at. In Tongxianmen, there were not many disciples who could get graded A in formation, and Mo Hua was one of them.

Mo Hua's cultivation was only graded B, not because he didn't work hard in cultivation, but because his roots were limited. He had a medium-grade, second-rate, small five-element spiritual root, so no matter how he cultivated, it was still the same, not as good as the best, and not much better than the worst.

For the other courses, if you spend time to learn well, such as the history of Taoism and the general theory of refining qi, you can basically get graded A. And those that require spending spirit stones to buy materials to learn well, such as alchemy and talisman making, are either graded B or graded C.

Mo Hua's family was poor, and he couldn't even afford to borrow an alchemy furnace, so naturally he didn't learn well. During the assessment, he could only practice blindly based on his feelings. Whether he could succeed or not depended on his face. The results not only depended on luck, but were also erratic and unstable.

But overall, the results were still good. As the saying goes, one beauty can cover up a hundred ugliness. After all, formations are difficult to learn, and getting graded A in formations is already quite good.

Teacher Yan said a few words and left temporarily. The disciples in the room looked at each other's grades and whispered.

"Mo Hua, you got an "A" in formation again!" A disciple secretly glanced at Mo Hua's report card and sighed.

"Another A..."

"I've always been a B..."

"I'm still a C."

"Formation is so difficult to learn, I feel a headache when I see it..."

"..."

The disciples gathered around Mo Hua.

"Humph!" A disciple of the Qian family wearing a silver-white Taoist robe was dissatisfied with this and snorted coldly, saying:

"What's so great about it? You can only get an "A" by drawing these simple formations of the sect."

"Then what did you get?" A disciple asked back unconvinced.

"Why should I tell you?" The Qian family disciple was disdainful.

Another disciple secretly glanced at his report card and laughed: "He got a C!"

The disciples were stunned for a moment and burst into laughter.

"You got a C, but you still laugh at someone else who got an A. How shameless!"

"Thicker than a refining furnace!"

"You are still a disciple of the Qian family. You are so stupid. You are not as good as me. I even got a "B"."

The disciples of the Qian family were so angry that they said, "So what about Grade A? Rogue cultivators without formation masters, do you understand?"

He pointed at them and painted them with ink, "You bunch of casual cultivators, frogs in the well, have no inheritance. For the rest of your life, listen carefully, you will never be able to produce an formation master. Bah, you are still in the first class! Remember, among casual cultivators, you will never be able to become a formation master." It’s impossible to create a real formation master! If you don’t understand, I can say it again.”

"Rogue cultivators are never worthy of being formation masters!"

The surrounding disciples remained silent.

Mo Hua looked at him like a fool, then stood up, saluted behind the Qian family disciple, and said:

"Teach me well!"

The Qian family disciple turned his head stiffly as if struck by lightning, and sure enough he found Yan Jiaoxi standing behind him, his face ashen.

"The sect is for preaching and practicing Taoism, not for you to compare with and slander fellow sects!"

"My knowledge of formations is so terrible that I still have the nerve to laugh at my fellow disciples?"

"Now go and stand outside until dark."

"Draw the basic Five Elements pattern a hundred times and show it to me when you enter school next year. If you can't draw it, you won't use it..."

The disciples of the Qian family were ashen-faced, but they did not dare to refute even a word.

Yan Jiaoxi has a high status and can train even direct disciples of the Qian family, let alone a branch of his family with a lower bloodline.

The Qian disciples stood dejectedly.

Yan Jiaoxi stood in front of Mo Hua, silent for a moment, reached out and patted Mo Hua's thin shoulder, sighed and said, "Don't care what others say, study hard."

Mo Hua looked as usual and bowed respectfully to Yan Jiaoxi, "Disciple, please remember this."

Yan Jiaoxi nodded, then walked to the teacher's seat, gave a few instructions to the disciples, and then announced that the sect was on annual leave and could go home.

The disciples suppressed their excitement, saluted to the teacher, thanked him for his teachings in practice over the past year, and then dispersed with a loud crash like birds and beasts.

The sect is retired for the year, and the disciples are rejoicing.

Mo Hua looked at it but felt complicated.

Most of these disciples in the Qi refining period are still young and carefree, and are far from knowing the hardships of monastic life.

Thinking of the scars all over his father's body after hunting monsters and his mother's haggard face, Mo Hua felt sour and couldn't help but sigh.

Becoming a first-level formation master is still far away, but within his ability, he wants to make his parents live a better life.

Mo Hua put away his transcripts and carried twelve spiritual stones in his arms. He did not go home after leaving Tongxian Sect, but walked to Fangshi.

Regarding the setting of the protagonist’s time travel:

Awakening memory, non-traditional soul penetration, the body is his own, and he is also related to his parents by blood.

The protagonist is a ten-year-old child in the monastic world, but he has some modern thinking and cognition.