Mo Hua returned home and immediately started to read the jade slip of the Five Elements Slaughter Demon Great Formation without waiting.
But he had been reading until evening and hadn’t finished a single jade slip.
There were ten jade slips in total for the entire set of the Large Formation.
Mo Hua couldn’t help but sigh, acknowledging that a Large Formation truly deserved its name—its complexity was enormous, and even just the jade slips recording the construction methods were so numerous.
Time was of the essence, yet Mo Hua couldn’t hurry.
The Large Formation was of great importance, and there couldn’t be a single error.
He had to be patient and study diligently, without any carelessness.
If he made a mistake due to negligence, it could lead to a domino effect and cause the entire Formation to collapse.
But if he studied this way, it would indeed take too much time...
After considering for a moment, Mo Hua decided to prioritize and focus on the essentials, starting with the most important parts.
He first spent some time briefly scanning through all ten jade slips from start to finish.
Then he extracted the main Formation Pivots and Formation eyes, leaving the remaining contents, including Formation Patterns arrangement, Single Formation compatibility, and Formation Media Construction, for later consideration.
Mo Hua started with the Formation Pivots.
The Formation Pivots of the Great Formation were much more difficult compared to the Compound Formation Pivots he had learned before.
The difficulty of these Formation Pivots had reached the pinnacle among the pinnacles of First-grade Formation Methods.
The Formation Pivots of the Great Formation had to be robust, resilient, stable, and inclusive due to their role in orchestrating the entire set and connecting numerous Single Formations.
Inside the Formation Pivots, there needed to be a pathway for the trajectories of various spiritual powers, controlling their opening and closing, direction, initiation, and flow.
On the outer edges of the Formation Pivots, interfaces had to be left to accommodate Single Formations with varied effects.
In the Great Formation, if Single Formations were likened to capillaries, then the Formation Pivots would be the major veins; if Single Formations were the flesh, then the Formation Pivots would be the bones.
The Formation Pivots were the skeleton of the entire Great Formation, the hub of the spiritual power flow.
Mo Hua had understood these principles before, but now that he was truly beginning to study them, he gained a deeper insight.
Mo Hua first memorized part of the Formation Pivots of the Great Formation, and at night, his Divine Sense sank into the Sea of Consciousness to practice on the Taoist Stele.
After practicing twice, Mo Hua discovered something unbelievable:
His Divine Sense was far from enough!
He had only memorized part of the Great Formation’s Formation Pivots, and even so, his Divine Sense was exhausted before he could finish drawing them.
The requirement for the strength of Divine Sense was absurdly high...
Was this really a First-grade ten-patterned Great Formation?
For a moment, Mo Hua found it hard to believe.
But on second thought, if it wasn’t that difficult, the Formation wouldn’t be known as the Ultimate Formation, wouldn’t be revered as the strongest Formation Method, nor would it be the lifelong pursuit of all Formation Masters.
Thus, however difficult, it all made sense.
Instead of complaining here, it was better to practice a few more times.
Formation studies require persistence, and as long as one was relentless, there would eventually come a breakthrough.
If it didn’t work the first time, then draw it ten times; if ten times wasn’t enough, then a hundred...
Even if in the end, he still couldn’t learn it, at least he would have no regrets.
Mo Hua thus forced himself to calm down.
Not worrying about the difficulty of the Great Formation, not concerned about whether he could ultimately learn it or not, he began to learn bit by bit, practicing over and over again.
Mo Hua would draw a Formation Pivot, his Divine Sense would be exhausted, he would erase what he’d done, and then continue drawing.
The patterns on the Taoist Stele went from nonexistence to existence, then from existence to nonexistence, cycling through this process repeatedly.
Time passed, and Mo Hua seemed to sense a subtle and indescribable charm emerging from the Taoist Stele.
This touch of charm was elusive and hard to describe, but it made his mood more peaceful, his mind more focused, and his understanding of the Formation Pivots gradually deepened.
The Formation Pivots of the Great Formation, compared to Compound Formations and Single Formations, were of the same origin but entirely different.
The Formation Pivots of Single Formations were extremely simple, consisting only of a few strokes.
Even the simplest Formation Pivots didn’t require any specific strokes; they relied solely on the structure of the Formation itself to serve as the Pivot.
If a Formation Pivot was needed, then the Formation Pivot of a Compound Formation was more challenging, with thicker strokes and greater consumption of Divine Sense.
However, the Great Formation’s Formation Pivot was much more complex.
The Formation Pivot of the Great Formation wasn’t composed of a single stroke but a multitude of fine strokes that combined to form a single unified pattern, which then constituted the Pivot.
The unified pattern was the direction of the Formation Pivot, and the numerous fine strokes that formed the pattern indicated the precise trajectories of spiritual power flow.
This unified pattern, on the surface, appeared as a thicker stroke than that of a Compound Formation Pivot, but in reality, it was filled with countless fine strokes, each complying with specific lengths, shapes, and pathways.
It was like braiding a rope from fine hemp.
However, each strand of hemp had to be woven in a precise shape, angle, and sequence.