Chapter 22 Clue
Teacher Yan left the Formation Pavilion and returned to Tongming Peak in Tongxian Gate.
The teachers of Tongxianmen have separate living rooms on Tongming Peak, three bedrooms and one living room, and a small courtyard where you can plant some spiritual flowers and herbs or raise spiritual beasts.
The living room of Yan Teach was clean and tidy, and the walls were neatly covered with array diagrams, and there was no other decoration.
He read the basic formation scripts, prepared several formation patterns that he would teach in the late month, and then began to correct the formation homework handed over by the disciples in the Qi Refining Stage.
There are nearly a thousand disciples in Tongxianmen Tongxuan Peak Qi Refining Stage, and he will correct all formation homework one by one and mark them incorrectly.
This takes time and patience, but the strict teaching still does it meticulously.
This is his habit and he also follows the teachings of his master over the years.
His master also corrected the formations of these disciples in this way, and was meticulous and patient.
Teacher Yan’s master is a first-class formation master, and may not be considered an amazing formation master in the entire world of cultivation. But even so, throughout his life, he has been doing his best to preach and receive knowledge, and passing on the formation that upholds the laws of heaven.
Now that the master has passed away, he has become a teacher and can also understand his hard work.
As the sky was getting late, Yan Teach lit the lights and continued to correct the formation.
Tongxian Sect is still a remote small sect, with a weak Taoist tradition. Among the nearly 1,000 disciples, there are not many who can draw the basic formation patterns in a very good manner.
Those who draw better are usually taught by family, or have wealthy families and are willing to cultivate flower spirit stones, such as the children of monks who work in the Daotingsi, children of sect elders, or disciples of Taoist families in the city.
There are very few who are truly poor and scattered cultivators who can draw formations well.
However, no matter how you come from a background, Yan Teaching treats everyone equally and only looks at the formation.
If you don’t draw well but have serious attitude, you will make more annotations to explain; if you don’t draw well and have a careless attitude, the annotation will be more severe, and the name will be recorded by Yanshuo;
Occasionally, if there are those who are well-drawn, the teacher will feel relieved. He will write the word "大" next to the formation to show encouragement.
Teacher Yan was correcting it tirelessly, and when he turned to a formation, his eyes lit up.
The brushwork is very skilled, obviously has worked hard, and has a little bit of structure. Even if it is used to draw formal formations, this formation pattern is qualified.
Teacher Yan looked up at his eyebrows, wrote two words ink painting, and nodded, and then wrote the word "you" next to the formation.
The word "you" is written a bit bigger than other "you".
Strict teaching has been reviewed and continued to correct.
As he changed, Teacher Yan turned back again and found the pattern of the ink painting and couldn''t help but frown.
The brushwork of this array pattern is too proficient, and it even looks a little... easy to deal with?
It would be good if a monk at the second and third levels of Qi Refining can draw a formation pattern intact.
Thinking of the ink paintings in the Form Pavilion today, Yan Xuexi was meditating and silent, a question suddenly emerged:
"Mo Hua, does he have any brother?"
"If his brother is good at drawing formations and he is good at drawing them, he should have a family education, but remember correctly. This child Mo Hua is obviously a poor scammer. If he has a family education with some formations, his family background will not be too bad..."
"His brother can help the formation pavilion to draw formations. At Tongxian Sect, he should have a talent for formations. I have been teaching in Tongxian Sect for nearly ten years, and it seems that I have never taught this person..."
"In other sects? It is unlikely that brothers in the family will usually join the same sect, not to mention that Tongxian Sect is already the largest sect in the city..."
Teacher Yan tapped his fingers on the table and thought, then temporarily suppressed all kinds of thoughts and focused on correcting the formation.
The next day, the teacher Yan got up very early. He found Tongmingfeng''s manager and asked for a disciple''s hometown. He looked through the column of the ink painting and saw that it said:
Ink painting: ten years old, three levels of Qi refining, middle and lower grade small five elements spiritual roots...
Father: Moshan, demon hunter; mother: Liu Ruhua, mealist.
Apart from parents, there are no other relatives and no brothers at all.
Teacher Yan had a vague guess in his mind, but he also felt it was unlikely.
When he was in formation class in the morning, Teacher Yan announced that he would add a temporary homework, draw all the five elements formation patterns he had learned, and hand them in three days.
The disciples here suddenly heard the bad news, and they all looked like eggplants made from frost.
The ink painting doesn’t matter. He has helped the formation pavilion draw the formation. Now he is just drawing a few formation patterns, which is not much trouble.
But why did the teaching student suddenly assign these homework temporarily?
This is not like what teachers do on weekdays.
Ink painting is a little confused. Then An Xiaopang asked for the ink painting.
"Mo Hua, you must help me!" An Xiaopang almost cried.
Who knows why the teacher suddenly assigns homework? It usually takes several months to assign homework to assess the disciple''s formation level.
An Xiaopang was caught off guard. He couldn''t even draw a pattern of formations. Time was tight, so he could only come and ask for ink paintings.
Ink painting doesn’t matter. These basic array patterns are no longer difficult for him now.
Mo Hua helped An Xiaopang draw the formation, and even only charged a friendly price. Several other fellow disciples who came from good families but were not good at formations came to Mo Hua, and Mo Hua agreed.
Ink paintings have formation paintings and spiritual stones, so they have no intention of thinking about anything else.
Three days later, the formation homework was handed over. Teacher Yan picked out the formation patterns of the ink painting, looked carefully, and then put them in the storage bag. When he arrived at Youyuanzhai, he found the fat manager.
The fat manager saw Teacher Yan, and was a little wary, "Did you come to me for tea this time, or did you ask me to do the work?"
Teacher Yan said, "I don''t drink tea, and I won''t let you do anything, I just ask you something."
The fat manager breathed a sigh of relief, "Oh, that''s OK."
"Is there any other array picture given to you by ink painting?"
"Mo Hua?" The fat manager was slightly stunned, "Oh, that little brother, what are you doing?"
“How many pairs are there?”
"There are several pairs of the open fire array and the solid earth array, so I will keep them for spare."
The fat manager each took out a piece of the open fire array and the solid earth array delivered by the ink painting and handed it to Teacher Yan.
Teacher Yan looked through it, then took out the formation homework handed in Mo Hua and compared it with the several array patterns on it one by one.
After reading it, Teacher Yan took a deep breath.
The fat manager stretched his neck to look at it and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Teacher Yan pointed to the formation patterns and several formations at hand and asked:
"Do you think these formation patterns and these two formations were drawn by one person?"
The fat manager took the formation pattern and formation, frowned and looked carefully, nodded and said:
"The brushwork is quite similar, nothing unexpected happens. It should be done by one person..."
The fat manager thought for a while and suddenly said, "Have you seen Mo Hua''s brother?"
"Mo Hua has no brother."
"No brother? Then who drew these formations?"
Yan Teach looked at the fat manager with an intriguing look.
The fat manager was stunned for a moment, "You won''t say that he drew it himself, right?"
Teacher Yan nodded.
The fat manager was silent for a moment, then sneered.
"What are you talking nonsense?"
"Not mentioning this open fire array, it is a bit possible for him to draw it. There are four array patterns in this solid earth formation. Where did he get so many spiritual consciousness? Could it be that he has two heads and two seas of consciousness?"
The fat manager looked at Teacher Yan suspiciously and continued:
"You want to say that you have taught a genius who can draw formations with the third level of Qi refining? You don''t want to deliberately gild yourself in the face... I have known you for so many years, and you are not such a person!"
Yan Zhixi looked at him coldly, pointed to the formation in front of him and said, "These formation patterns and these two formations were from the same person. You said this yourself. These formation patterns were painted by ink, so who should have painted these two formations?"
The fat manager was blocked and couldn''t speak.
After staring at the formation pattern on the left and the formation on the right, he murmured, "No way..."
(This chapter ends)