The Five Elements Source Pattern resembled five slender, multi-colored pupils, gathered together like flower petals.

Within each pupil were ancient, profound patterns, both beautiful and eerie, and occasionally they would blink as if possessing their own life.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost couldn’t understand why, its pupils wide with inexplicable shock and fear.

“What’s wrong? What’s happening to me?”

“Where am I?”

“Who am I?”

“What’s on my forehead?”

“I…”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s words were cut short by a sudden change.

The strange, eye-like “source pattern” suddenly widened, the patterns inside, like “pupils,” becoming sharp and distinct.

Strip by strip, line by line, dense and intricate array patterns, like five-colored ants, crawled out from within the source pattern, slowly moving downwards from the Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s forehead, over its shoulders, to its limbs, and even its heart meridians, gradually covering its entire body.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s entire body was “crawled” full of array patterns.

From the inside out, dense and numerous, all were array patterns.

Its consciousness was also completely swallowed by the “source pattern,” turning it into a true “Five Elements Puppet.”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost became a puppet.

Its eyes were dark and empty, but the five eye-like pupils on its forehead became brighter and brighter, and finally trembled once, the patterns within like pupils, consistently “looking” towards Mo Hua.

Mo Hua’s expression changed dramatically.

He tapped his foot and immediately retreated.

At the same time, the place where he had just stood was already covered with array patterns.

Mo Hua frowned.

This “source pattern” was like an epidemic. These scattered array patterns were like toxins released by the epidemic. Once they touched a spiritual sense, they would parasitize, swallow, and control it…

Just like that Five Elements Fierce Ghost.

And now this Five Elements Fierce Ghost was completely dominated by the “source pattern,” itself becoming a kind of “origin of the toxin.”

What was more troublesome was that this kind of “epidemic” was now within his own sea of consciousness.

Mo Hua’s expression was solemn.

He manifested a circle of array law at his feet to protect himself, and then tried to activate the Spirit Hub Array in the Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s chest.

The Spirit Hub Array involved the essence of spiritual power.

It was not a Five Elements array law itself, but rather a super-grade absolute array. So, although it was suppressed by the array patterns derived from the Five Elements Source Pattern, it was not erased.

Mo Hua’s spiritual sense moved, and the Spirit Hub Array suddenly shone brightly.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s chest emitted a brilliant light blue light.

Lines of spiritual threads spread out from its chest, like silk threads weaving a cocoon, wanting to trap the Fierce Ghost and seal the Five Elements Source Pattern within its body.

But these spiritual threads, although restraining the Fierce Ghost, could not suppress the array patterns.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost was restrained by the spiritual threads and couldn’t move.

But the source pattern on its forehead, shaped like “five-colored pupils,” was still constantly multiplying and flowing out array patterns, corroding the Fierce Ghost, corroding the spiritual threads, and gradually spreading densely within Mo Hua’s sea of consciousness.

“What to do?”

Mo Hua’s gaze was solemn.

If these array patterns were allowed to spread endlessly until they filled his sea of consciousness, wouldn’t he also become a puppet like this Five Elements Fierce Ghost, parasitized by this “source pattern” and completely turned into a walking corpse?

Master wasn’t wrong.

There was indeed great danger in the sea of consciousness!

And most of it was unpredictable, unforeseeable, and difficult to grasp danger.

Mo Hua controlled the Spirit Hub Array to contend with the Five Elements Source Pattern while forcing himself to calm down, his thoughts racing, thinking of a solution…

This source pattern should just be the result of the Five Elements Sect’s derivation and calculation of the Five Elements array flow.

The problem was, they calculated it.

But was the calculation correct or wrong?

What exactly was this thing they calculated?

How could array law inheritance have its own will?

How could it possibly parasitize?

Wasn’t the Five Elements Sect, which was once a first-class array law sect in the cultivation world, gradually declining because it derived and calculated this thing?

Doubts arose in Mo Hua’s heart.

Mo Hua’s experience was limited regarding such ancient secrets, and he wasn’t clear yet. He temporarily put it aside and continued to think:

The Five Elements Sect used a special derivation and calculation method to derive and calculate the array flow.

They unified and derived all Five Elements array patterns, summarized and changed their styles, turned the many into one, and condensed this “source pattern.”

Turning the many into one…

Although it was only one array pattern, it condensed and contained almost all the Five Elements array laws of the Five Elements Sect’s inheritance.

These array patterns bore its will.

And it was now releasing these array patterns with its will…

If the source pattern was the origin of the toxin, were these derived and calculated “compiled” within it the toxins?

Then, if he wanted to stop the “source pattern” from spreading, he just needed to do the opposite, re-derive and calculate these array patterns, and “compile” them back into the source pattern?

Was this kind of derivation and calculation the special derivation and calculation method of the Five Elements Sect?

Or was it the method of summarizing the array flow recorded in the Five Elements Sect’s inheritance dojo?

Mo Hua frowned.

He was a bit uncertain, but there was no other way now, he could only tentatively try.

The “pupils” of the source pattern were still turning non-stop, and array patterns were also seeping out from within these pupils, flowing into Mo Hua’s sea of consciousness bit by bit.

These array patterns were all of one grade.

The Five Elements array laws contained within the “source pattern” were definitely not only of one grade, but it seemed that the spread of the source pattern was also step by step.

If the one-grade hadn’t finished being released, the two-grade couldn’t come out…

But this was still good. If there were truly two-grade array patterns, Mo Hua would be fundamentally helpless.

There was no time to delay. Mo Hua held his breath and concentrated, beginning to derive and calculate these winding, snake-like array patterns according to his idea.

Mo Hua was fully concentrated, and his derivation and calculation were very fast.

In an instant, he had derived and calculated a small piece of Five Elements array patterns.

What after deriving and calculating it?

Mo Hua frowned, then released his spiritual sense and sensed these array patterns a bit.

These array patterns were not dead.

Neither were they fixed.

The lines of these array patterns were like ink marks, as if they had life.

Spiritual sense could control and change their texture.

Mo Hua hesitated for a moment, then used his spiritual sense to control a small part of the array patterns, changing their shape and twisting the array styles of these array laws.

He made the array styles of these array patterns conform to his method of summarizing and deriving.

The moment the array style changed, the array patterns also changed.

They stopped spreading.

Not only that, they also began to contract and condense.

Like time flowing backward, these array patterns, how they spread before, were now tracing back.

Mo Hua’s spirit trembled.

This method was feasible!

The one who tied the bell must be the one to untie it.

The Five Elements Sect’s “source pattern” still needed the Five Elements Sect’s “derivation and calculation” to be controlled.

There was no time to delay. Mo Hua immediately urged his spiritual sense to the extreme, just like the ancestors of the Five Elements Sect pushing the array flow, he also personally summarized these array patterns into one, deriving them into “source,” bit by bit.

Although it was only a small step, it was the first step of the great path of derivation and calculation.

The array patterns contracted bit by bit…

The source pattern suddenly trembled non-stop, its five-colored pupils ferocious in texture, filled with anger.

There was actually still one?

The ancestors of the Five Elements Sect were all dead.

It didn’t expect that after several thousand years, there would actually be someone who mastered this method of derivation and calculation and could suppress its array patterns!

The source pattern “stared” at Mo Hua with deadly intent.

Within its pupils, array patterns flowed out, more and more, denser and denser.

But Mo Hua’s derivation and calculation also became more and more skillful.

His understanding of Five Elements array laws was originally different from that of ordinary cultivators. Within the category of one-grade array laws, even if he couldn’t compare to the ancestors of the Five Elements Sect, he wouldn’t differ too much.

Coupled with his current spiritual sense at the peak of the Foundation Establishment with thirteen patterns.

And with the Heavenly Derivation Formula assisting, Mo Hua’s derivation and calculation speed was extremely fast.

Within his sea of consciousness, the array patterns spread on one side and gathered on the other, the two sides divided, unable to stalemate.

Mo Hua calculated faster and faster. During this period, he understood the secret pass of the Five Elements Sect’s derivation and calculation method more and more profoundly, and used it more and more skillfully.

Finally, the spreading speed of the source pattern couldn’t keep up with Mo Hua’s derivation and calculation speed.

The spreading array patterns began to trace back.

Mo Hua derived and calculated bit by bit, summarized bit by bit.

Like a small fisherman pulling a net, he would fish back all the fish that jumped out of the fish pond…

The array patterns gradually contracted, finally gathering completely, returning into one, re-condensing, and sealing within the source pattern.

The Five Elements Source Pattern’s pupils dimmed, its luster withdrawn.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost, now a puppet, also remained motionless.

Within the sea of consciousness, it suddenly became much quieter.

Mo Hua sat down on the ground with a sigh of relief.

Within a short period, he had derived and calculated a large number of Five Elements array patterns, and he was exhausted.

But it was good that he had managed to contain the spread of the Five Elements Source Pattern.

Mo Hua relaxed his breath, just thinking of resting for a moment, but suddenly his heart sank. He looked up and saw the Five Elements Fierce Ghost cracking inch by inch. It seemed that this body of spiritual sense couldn’t bear the powerful load.

At the same time, a layer of black covered the five-colored pupils of the Five Elements Source Pattern.

The five source patterns gradually bulged.

It was as if something was trying to break free from its shackles and drill out from within the pupils…

Mo Hua felt a terrifying aura.

This was an extremely powerful and evil spiritual sense aura.

It even felt a bit like a high-grade demonic evil…

This spiritual sense was extremely powerful.

And it held extremely deep malice towards Mo Hua.

Just a tiny bit of aura leaking out caused Mo Hua’s spiritual sense to tremble, his mood to become unstable, and even his sea of consciousness to feel severe pain, faintly having a feeling of breaking apart…

“This source pattern wants to break my sea of consciousness?”

Mo Hua was greatly shocked.

Just at this moment, an ancient and profound aura suddenly appeared.

This ancient aura filled Mo Hua’s sea of consciousness, and also entwined on Mo Hua’s spiritual sense, seeming to protect him and not allow external evil to harm him.

In the center of the sea of consciousness, the Dao Stele stood firm, deep and vast, empty and boundless, suppressing all evil spirits!

The strange and terrifying aura instantly vanished!

The moment the Dao Stele appeared, the Five Elements Source Pattern saw “a ghost,” its “pupils” were greatly shocked, and the pupil-like array patterns all trembled.

It immediately shrank back, restrained all its aura, derived some array patterns to supplement the Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s hands and feet, and then just wanted to run away!

Mo Hua was angry.

“Want to run?!”

He endured the severe pain, stretched his small face, displayed the Passing Water Step, flashed several times, and then rushed towards the Five Elements Fierce Ghost. He stretched out his small hand, just grabbing towards those five eye-like pupils!

His body was stained with the aura of the Dao Stele.

The source pattern was shocked and immediately “closed its eyes,” shrinking into the Fierce Ghost’s forehead.

But it was still one step too late.

Mo Hua was quick and grabbed it directly.

The source pattern was greatly angered and just wanted to resist.

But Mo Hua’s body was supported by the Dao Stele, and its aura was terrifying. As soon as the source pattern “opened its eyes,” it immediately became timid again and closed its eyes tightly.

Mo Hua said with disdain: “Cheap bone!”

The source pattern trembled a bit, daring to be angry but not daring to open its eyes.

After suppressing the “source pattern,” the Dao Stele slowly disappeared into Mo Hua’s sea of consciousness again.

It seemed that for small fights and troubles, the Dao Stele didn’t want to interfere, and Mo Hua should solve it himself.

But if the source pattern wanted to bully the “small” with the “big,” it wouldn’t agree.

With the Dao Stele backing him, Mo Hua’s spine immediately straightened.

He held the palm-sized Five Elements Source Pattern, which was like a jade pendant, in his hand, rubbing it, pinching it, pulling it, and letting out a fierce sigh of relief.

Seeing that it still didn’t react at all, Mo Hua began to examine it carefully.

The Five Elements Source Pattern with its eyes closed was like a jade pendant held in his hand, neither soft nor hard, neither cold nor hot, and both virtual and real.

It was something condensed from spiritual sense.

It was the crystallization of the Five Elements Sect’s spiritual sense calculation power.

Although ordinary spiritual sense bodies were lifelike in image, they were still hazy, like gaseous phantoms. Even Mo Hua’s body shape was solid, but there were still some phantoms.

It just felt like a real person, but not a real person.

But this source pattern was almost a real object.

Infinitely moving from “virtual” to “real”…

Mo Hua frowned.

From virtual to real, perhaps this was the path to powerful spiritual sense? Or was it the path he needed to take to prove the Dao of spiritual sense?

Mo Hua shook his head and decided to go back and ask his master.

The current problem was still figuring out how to deal with this source pattern.

This source pattern seemed to hide many secrets.

It was both a gate’s array flow and the top inheritance of array law, incomparably precious.

At the same time, it definitely also hid the truth of the Five Elements Sect’s decline that year.

Most importantly, within the source pattern, there was that powerful and strange aura.

What exactly was this aura?

And why did this inheritance “come alive,” derive array patterns, parasitize spiritual sense, and dominate the Fierce Ghost?

Mo Hua thought for a long time, still completely confused, and couldn’t help but sigh:

“Indeed, I still need to read more books.”

“Cultivating Dao knowledge is also a part of a cultivator’s strength.”

He looked at the jade-like Five Elements Source Pattern in his hand again, a bit troubled:

“Where should this source pattern be placed?”

It was definitely not okay to put it in his own sea of consciousness.

This source pattern was like an epidemic, it would derive and erode itself, and within it hid unknown fierce thoughts. Although there was the Dao Stele suppressing it, it was still too dangerous.

A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.

He wouldn’t bury a mine in his own sea of consciousness.

If it couldn’t be put in the sea of consciousness, then it could only be put outside.

Deposit spiritual sense?

The Spirit Shrine could.

But the Spirit Shrine belonged to the Five Elements Sect, and he couldn’t take it away. If he stored the source pattern in it, he would be working for nothing.

Moreover, this source pattern had its own will, and it had even entered his sea of consciousness and seen the Dao Stele, so he couldn’t let it run away even more.

Even if he couldn’t “kill” it or “eat” it, he must hold it in his own hands.

Deposit…

Mo Hua propped his chin, pondering, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

Contemplation Map!

Zhang Quan’s ancestor map could deposit spiritual sense.

After Zhang Quan’s family’s zombie ancestors, elders, and disciples, from top to bottom, were “eaten dry and wiped clean” by Mo Hua, they left behind a blank “ancestor map” without any ancestors.

This blank ancestor map seemed to be able to store this Five Elements Source Pattern.

“But how to put it in?”

Mo Hua had no experience, so he thought he would try it first.

His spiritual sense exited the sea of consciousness, and his consciousness gradually woke up.

Mo Hua in front of the Spirit Shrine slowly opened his eyes.

Bai Zi Xi was first overjoyed, then her pretty face slightly sank, her expression serious, and she made a hand knife with her tender small hand, placing it behind Mo Hua’s head. It seemed that if a word was wrong, she would knock Mo Hua down again.

Bai Zi Sheng on the side also had a solemn expression.

Mo Hua opened his eyes and felt the atmosphere was a bit strange, so he asked in a low voice:

“Little senior sister, why…”

Bai Zi Xi stared into Mo Hua’s eyes and found that Mo Hua’s eyes were clear, reflecting her figure within his watery pupils. Then she nodded and said softly:

“It’s junior brother.”

Bai Zi Sheng sighed in relief, and then thought of something, hurriedly asking:

“The Five Elements Spirit Array, did you learn it?”

Mo Hua smiled and nodded.

Bai Zi Sheng was overjoyed, and then doubted:

“What did you encounter inside? Why did it take so long? And just now…”

Bai Zi Xi’s gaze sank slightly and said: “Let’s talk outside.”

Bai Zi Sheng immediately nodded, “Right, let’s go out first.”

“Wait,” Mo Hua said, “I still have one thing…”

He opened his storage bag, fumbled for a long time, and finally found the wrinkled, blank “ancestor map” stained with incense ash and footprints in a corner.

Mo Hua opened the ancestor map, just thinking about how he could deposit the Five Elements Source Pattern into the map, when he felt a pain in his sea of consciousness.

That Five Elements Source Pattern impatiently drilled out of his sea of consciousness and pounced into the blank map.

It seemed that it didn’t want to stay in Mo Hua’s sea of consciousness for even a moment…

The Five Elements Source Pattern was stored in the Contemplation Map.

On the blank map, a five-colored light suddenly appeared, and clearly appeared five lines of five-colored texture. These five lines of texture contained Five Elements array laws and the origin of the Five Elements.

This Contemplation Map also became the Five Elements Array Flow Map, which contained the Five Elements Sect’s array laws of generations and its most top inheritance!

In an instant, the aura of the entire map greatly changed.

An extremely obscure, profound, and thick Five Elements Qi spread out from the map, centering on the Hidden Array Pavilion and diffusing outwards.

The ordinary disciples of the Five Elements Sect were unaware.

But a crowd of sect masters and elders had their expressions greatly changed.

“This is?!”

“What a thick Five Elements Qi!”

“Profound, ancient, mysterious beyond belief!”

“Does my Five Elements Sect still have this kind of inheritance?”

“What kind of inheritance is this?”

The Great Elder who was drinking tea on the third floor was even more violently shocked in his pupils.

He was closer and felt more clearly.

Spirit Shrine?!

What’s wrong?

What happened?

The Great Elder’s heart trembled, he suddenly stood up, and then wanted to go to the fourth floor to see what had happened…

Mr. Zhuang on the side also had a slightly changed expression, stunned and lost in thought, murmuring in his heart:

“Origin of the Five Elements…”

“What exactly did this child Mo Hua find…”

“He wouldn’t have dug up the Five Elements Sect’s thousands of years of array Dao foundation, would he?”

(End of this chapter)