Elder Yu pondered in his heart and suddenly thought of something, asking,
“How did you learn the Concealment Technique?”
He had been very concerned about it before but didn’t have the chance to ask.
If he remembered correctly, the Concealment Technique was supposed to be a Spell that only those with a pure Water Spirit Root, or a very special Yin Spirit Root, could learn.
Mo Hua had the Small Five Elements Spiritual Root; with the Water Series being mixed, he shouldn’t have been able to learn the Concealment Technique.
Mo Hua smiled mysteriously, “I drew a Formation.”
“Oh.” Elder Yu suddenly understood.
Mo Hua was a Formation Master, and naturally, he would rely on Formations to solve problems.
“Is this Formation very rare?” Elder Yu asked.
In his memory, he had never heard of a Formation Master capable of drawing a Concealment Formation, nor had he seen a Spiritual Artifact with concealing abilities.
He had only seen a few Cultivators who knew the Concealment Technique, like that Diao Laosi, but such Cultivators were rare.
Mo Hua nodded, “Yes, it’s difficult to learn.”
Although the Concealment Formation was a Ninth Pattern Formation, the technique required for drawing it was special, needing almost nine and a half Patterns worth of Divine Sense.
A typical first-rate Formation Master’s Divine Sense wouldn’t reach this threshold, so naturally, they couldn’t learn it, which was why it was rare.
Elder Yu nodded slightly.
If Mo Hua said it was difficult to learn, then the Formation must indeed be challenging, which was no wonder he had never seen it before.
Filled with curiosity, Elder Yu asked,
With this Formation covering, can you really not see anything at all?”
Mo Hua then activated the Concealment Formation on its own, and his body became invisible, but his hands and small head still retained a faint outline.
Seeing this, Elder Yu felt somewhat disappointed,
“This Formation still has some flaws; its concealing effect isn’t good.”
“Yes.” Mo Hua agreed, “That’s why I learned a half-baked Concealment Technique, and only by combining it with this flawed Concealment Formation was I able to become invisible.”
The two methods of hiding, used separately, were ineffective, but together they could achieve invisibility.
“This is a double Concealment… well, let’s say one and a half.” Mo Hua said.
Elder Yu stroked his chin, contemplating, “When you combine these two, the effect seems to be better than just the Concealment Technique alone, especially at night.”
At night, the darkness made it difficult for others to see; even if one layer of concealment was penetrated, Mo Hua still had another layer that wouldn’t be noticed by people.
A normal Cultivator wouldn’t expect someone to be cloaked in two layers of concealment.
Mo Hua smiled somewhat proudly.
Being praised by Elder Yu of the Foundation Establishment Stage for the effectiveness of his concealment was surely not a waste of all his effort.
As the two chatted and the sky grew dark, Elder Yu suddenly slapped his forehead, “I forgot, there’s still something I haven’t done.”
“Is it something important?”
“A trivial matter.” Elder Yu smiled, “It’s getting late; let’s head back.”
“Okay.”
Elder Yu then led Mo Hua back, and when they reached the intersection on South Street, Elder Yu gave Mo Hua a few reminders before turning to the Refinery Shop.
Mo Hua walked home alone, in high spirits.
Having learned the Concealment Technique, whether for sneak attacks, escaping, or ambushing, he now had more options at his disposal.
After all, no one else could see him.
Mo Hua couldn’t help but laugh out loud, humming a tune. As he walked along, he suddenly stopped, his heart trembling at a thought that struck him.
Unseeable…
Elder Yu’s words from before echoed in his ears,
“With this Formation covering, can you really not see anything at all…?”
The Formation covering… unseeable…
In Mo Hua’s mind, the image of that cliff and the bottomless abyss below it suddenly surfaced.
“It couldn’t have been… concealed by the Concealment Formation, could it…”
Mo Hua’s pupils constricted as he muttered to himself.