After more than a month, I practiced ink painting with peace of mind, as usual.

One day at noon, while eating in the dining hall where his disciples lived, Cheng Mo kept staring at the ink paintings.

Mo Hua was puzzled, "What are you looking at?"

Cheng Mo touched his chin, "It's nothing. I just feel that, little senior brother, you won the first place in the formation, and you seem to be the same as before you didn't win. Nothing has changed."

He still remembered that at that time in the Formation Dojo, Mo Hua had an indifferent look on his face, and he carried out a massacre with ease, and with an unrivaled appearance, he passed the Formation Examination.

The last sentence, "Is there anything else?", three simple and plain words, made a group of examiners tremble.

That cold and invincible look is simply so handsome that it makes one's head go numb.

Now...

Cheng Mo silently looked at the ink painting.

As if nothing happened, he was in the dining hall again, gnawing on chicken legs...

He always felt that the two scenes before and after this young senior brother were a bit disconnected.

"Senior brother, you are number one in terms of formation and the leader of the formation, shouldn't you show some dignity?" Cheng Mo said.

Mo Hua curled his lips and said, "I am only ranked first in the formation discussion and the leader of the formation path, what does it matter? The formation method is profound and profound, and I cannot delay my progress just because of this small achievement."

The leader of the formation, what does it mean...

A small achievement...

Not only Cheng Mo, but also all the disciples around him were shocked.

But this was what Mo Hua said, and they couldn't refute it.

Cheng Mo sighed: "Senior brother, please don't say this outside, otherwise there is no chance that someone will lose their mind and fight against you..."

Mo Hua nodded, "Don't worry, I'm very humble outside."

Cheng Mo couldn't quite figure it out for a while, what was the standard of "modestness" in ink painting...

Afterwards, everyone ate in silence.

Mo Hua gnawed on the chicken legs for a while, and suddenly noticed something. He was stunned for a moment, looked at Cheng Mo, and said, "Are you in the late stage of foundation building?"

Cheng Mo nodded, "Well, we just made a breakthrough in the past two days."

He turned his head again and asked Situ Jian and the others, "Are you all about to break through?"

Situ Jian nodded: "Well, I still have seven or eight days..."

Hao Xuan also said: "Senior brother, I am the same. I can break through to the late stage of foundation building in as fast as three days or as slowly as ten days..."

Mo Hua suddenly felt pressure.

Until now, he has not yet sensed the bottleneck in the later stages of foundation building...

It takes a lot of time to sense the bottleneck, break it, break through the late stage of foundation building, increase spiritual power, and stabilize cultivation.

And there are only a few months left in this school year.

"Hurry up!"

Mo Hua felt a chill in his heart.

After that, he concentrated more on his practice, but his progress was still very slow.

Especially when he saw Cheng Mo and other "junior brothers" reaching the late stage of foundation building one after another, the sense of urgency in Mo Hua's heart became even stronger.

Logically speaking, foundation building is not difficult - at least for the disciples of the Eight Gates.

Refining qi and laying the foundation, building the foundation and solidifying the path, reaching the golden elixir is the real watershed.

Before the golden elixir, what we were fighting for was actually spiritual roots, inheritance and cultivation resources.

No matter how stupid you are, as long as you persist in practicing, have the guidance of a famous teacher, and feed you with various heavenly materials, earthly treasures and spiritual stones, you can still reach the later stage of foundation building.

After the golden elixir, there are more variables.

In addition to the hard conditions such as spiritual roots, spiritual objects, and inheritance, it also pays attention to illusory things such as understanding, fate, including luck.

Therefore, most sects only teach Qi refining and foundation building courses before the Golden Pill.

These can be taught together in a large class, and the progress can be easily controlled.

When you reach Jindan, there are too many changes, the situation is complicated, and the cultivation methods are more profound. It is time to enter the inner gate, become a one-on-one disciple, and receive specialized cultivation guidance.

As for the disciples of various sects in the Qianxue Prefecture, almost all of them have high spiritual roots, and almost all of them are from aristocratic families. They have family support, sect rewards, and no shortage of resources.

Although aristocratic families are also divided into three, six or nine levels, those who can become disciples of more than a hundred sects of Qianxue, no matter how poor they are and how little their cultivation resources are, are still much richer than the vast majority of casual cultivators in the world.

Therefore, it is not difficult before the golden elixir until the late stage of foundation building.

What is difficult is to cultivate to perfection, to cultivate to excellence, to cultivate to the point of being outstanding, far beyond the foundation of others.

But ink painting is different again.

According to strict standards, he is not actually a "genius".

His spiritual roots are too weak and his physical body is too weak.

When he was refining his Qi, he was very poor. He had no treasures from heaven and earth to nourish him, and no cultivation inheritance to polish the foundation of his blood Qi or spiritual power.

The speed of his Qi refining is not slow, that's because the real geniuses are polishing their foundation, strengthening their foundation and cultivating their strength.

He skipped this step and just kept up with the progress, so he repaired quickly.

But when it comes to foundation building, things are a little different.

If your spiritual roots are poor, you will have less spiritual power to cultivate, and the progress of your spiritual practice will also be slow.

In the early stage of foundation building, it is not obvious yet.

In the middle and late stages of foundation building, the speed of ink painting practice has obviously slowed down, and the further you go, the more so.

In addition, he spent a lot of time and effort on the formation conference.

However, cultivating the Divine Sword, parasitizing evil fetuses, and self-destructing souls consumed a lot of his divine marrow, and his level of spiritual enlightenment also declined to a certain extent.

Mo Hua made an estimate and found that he probably wouldn't be able to reach the late stage of foundation building within this year.

And the late stage of foundation building cannot be reached within this year, which means...

"Want to repeat a grade?"

Mo Hua immediately felt a chill in his heart.

It's over... I am a dignified junior fellow from the Taixu Sect and the leader of Qianxue. I am not really going to repeat the grade, am I?

That would be really embarrassing.

After that, I worked harder and harder on my ink painting practice.

But practice requires that every drop of water penetrates a stone, and it is not something that can be achieved overnight.

And if the spiritual root is not good, it cannot be changed.

The progress of his cultivation is still not very optimistic. Not only has his cultivation not increased much, but he is also far from reaching the bottleneck in the later stages of foundation building...

Mo Hua's heart was completely cold.

But since the problem has occurred, it is a fact and must be faced face to face. There is no point in lying to yourself.

Mo Hua thought for a while and then went to find Mr. Xun.

The elders were in the middle. Mr. Xun was chatting with the head of Taixu. He was a little surprised when he saw Mo Hua.

Mo Hua tactfully told Mr. Xun that because he was preparing for the formation discussion conference and was concentrating on learning formations, his progress in practice had been delayed and he might not be able to break through the late stage of foundation building before the end of the year.

Old Mr.

He didn't say it clearly, but Mo Hua understood.

This means that if you practice hard, even if you cannot break through to the later stage of foundation building, you will not be allowed to repeat the grade.

Mo Hua breathed a sigh of relief, and then silently looked at the leader of Taixu on the side.

The leader hesitated for a moment, looked at Mr. Xun, and nodded: "Don't worry, I will guarantee you."

Even if you break the rules, it doesn't matter.

As the leader of the formation, he deserves this preferential treatment.

Mo Hua was completely relieved, bowed, and left.

After Mo Hua left, the head of Taixu was thoughtful.

Mr. Xun asked him: "What are you thinking about?"

The head of Taixu muttered:

"Ancestor, I suddenly had an idea..."

"If Mo Hua, a kid like this, has been in the middle stage of foundation building, unable to break through, kept repeating grades, and never graduated, wouldn't it mean... that he would be able to continue participating in Taoism conferences?"

"One day when Mo Hua is here, all the four major sects, the other eight sects, and the twelfth stream can only look at his face and compete for second place?"
To be continued...