The Elder sighed, "I am old and can still feel these things, but the children born in the village after me don’t know anything at all."
"I still remember, when I was young, my grandfather told me, he said the soil hundreds of years ago was much more fertile than it is now."
After speaking, the Elder’s eyes showed longing, "At that time, everyone just had to quietly farm the land, and they could all have had enough to eat..."
Mo Hua felt complicated and then his gaze grew heavy as he gradually figured it out.
The purpose of this Ultimate Formation was supposed to make the soil fertile and the Spirit Fields abundant.
The layout of the Spirit Fields itself was the Formation Pivot of the Formation.
After the Old Ancestor of the Sun Family died, the incompetent descendants of the Sun Family, for the sake of convenience in their Formation Painting, reorganized the Spirit Fields, changing the layout of the fields.
As a result, they affected the Formation Pivot, causing the Ultimate Formation to gradually fail.
Latterly, the Sun Family descendants, in order to exploit the Spirit Farmers, drew some inferior Formations on the field ridges, which constantly broke and needed repairing.
Because the Formations were constantly breaking and repairing, the Spiritual Power supplied by the Spirit Farmers for the Cultivating Soil Formation was intermittent.
This led to the Spirit Power supply of the entire Ultimate Formation also being unsustainable.
Decades, even a hundred years later, the Ultimate Formation was completely ineffective.
Mo Hua sighed.
The Old Ancestor of the Sun Family had once established a family rule:
Any descendant of the Sun Family must not encroach upon a single field in Thousand Families Town for their entire life. Otherwise, they will be stripped of their surname, eradicated from the family records, and expelled from the household!
This rule was first to ensure that the Spirit Farmers had a means of livelihood.
Secondly, it was to restrain the descendants from changing the layout of the Spirit Fields after encroaching upon them, which would consequently disrupt the Formation Pivot of the Formation.
But he probably never imagined that the Sun Family descendants would be so incompetent.
Out of greed, they did so many foolish things that they forfeited the benefits of the Formation and also cut off the transmission of the Formation.
As the Spirit Fields changed, the Formation Pivot shifted position.
Consequently, it was impossible to calculate a complete Formation Diagram anymore.
Mo Hua frowned, but then his eyes flashed with inspiration, and he asked again:
"Elder, do you have the diagram of the Spirit Fields from hundreds of years ago?"
The Elder hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "There is, indeed..."
"May I see it?"
The Elder found it difficult, as such documents are considered confidential and are generally not shown to outsiders.
Mo Hua then said, "I want to find the Formation that the Old Ancestor of the Sun Family drew back then."
Upon hearing this, the Elder was startled and exclaimed in a trembling voice:
"The Formation of the Old Ancestor of the Sun Family...?"
Mo Hua nodded.
The Elder quaveringly said, "But the Old Ancestor of the Sun Family, he was a Second Rank Formation Master..."
He looked at Mo Hua, his eyes filled with disbelief.
Could this young gentleman comprehend the Formation drawn by a Second Rank Formation Master?
Mo Hua replied, "The Old Ancestor of the Sun Family was a Second Grade, but the Formation he left behind was actually First Grade, it’s just a little difficult to paint, that’s all."
The Elder did not understand, but was greatly shocked nonetheless.
Just being able to comprehend such a Formation was already a remarkable feat.
After thinking it over for a long time, the Elder said with determination, "Alright, I’ll give you the diagram!"
If this young gentleman could indeed find the Formation the Old Ancestor of the Sun Family had painted, it would be an immense blessing for them, the Spirit Farmers, and naturally, they would be immensely grateful.
A few diagrams were not enough to fill their stomachs; they were barely surviving, so what was there to treasure?
The Elder went into the inner room, opened the lowest box in the corner of the wall, and then drew a stack of yellowed parchment from the very bottom, handing it to Mo Hua.
Mo Hua saw that each piece of parchment depicted segments of Spirit Fields in a scale-like pattern.
The Spirit Fields were naturally distributed, with orderly intersecting ridges.
In addition, the parchment also recorded the Taoist Calendar years.
Details such as the Spirit Farmer household registers, the distribution of fields, the fertility of the Spirit Fields, etc., were also clearly documented.
This information indeed belonged to confidential records.
No wonder the Elder had been hesitant before.
Mo Hua flipped through a few more pages, compared the diagrams with the former layout of the Spirit Fields, and after some consideration, his expression gradually brightened.
He hadn’t guessed wrong.
The real Ultimate Formation was hidden within these, within the centuries-old Spirit Field diagrams!