Mo Hua felt trusted and a little moved.
"You can rest assured, I will tell no one," Mo Hua nodded solemnly.
Seeing this, Elder Zheng nodded:
"It’s good you understand, the underlying principles of the Sect Token, I will now teach you, you can start researching, but before reaching the Golden Core, don’t waste too much thought on this."
Then Elder Zheng paused, took a sip of tea, organized his thoughts, and began to explain:
"The Zheng Family inherits the ancient Thunder Formations, and studies the Dao of Eight Trigrams Thunder Skill."
"This ’Thunder’ character, is truly profound, the knowledge too deep. Our Zheng Family has researched the Thunder Dao for so many years and roughly divided it into two sources: one is Thunder, and the other is Thunder Magnetism."
"Above the Ninth Heaven, Thunder is transformed, with boundless power, capable of obliterating all things, with a power to destroy heavens and earth."
"Between Heaven and Earth, Thunder Magnetism is everywhere, pervasive, yet traceless, able to transmit messages over thousands of miles, transmitting thoughts with a single idea."
"The world only knows our Zheng Family researches the ’Thunder’ Dao."
"But this Thunder Dao is so fiercely yang, and its slashing power so significant, that those who cultivate must have an unafraid Taoist Heart, upright and unyielding, and only a minority can cultivate it. Even if they do, it can’t be used lightly."
"Actually, the livelihood of most formation masters in our Zheng Family, is the ’Thunder Magnetism Formation’."
"The Thunder Magnetism Formation is also an offshoot of the Thunder Dao, widely applied, and most disciples of the Zheng Family can learn it..."
Mo Hua nodded.
Zheng Fang once challenged him for the junior brother position, with a family-inherited basic Thunder Magnetism Formation Diagram to test him.
"However," Elder Zheng’s gaze darkened, "most cultivators in this world, including many formation masters, misunderstand the Thunder Magnetism Formation."
"Every field is like a mountain apart, especially so in formations. A single category of formation can be like a mountain range apart..."
"Basic Five Elements and Eight Trigrams are fine, there are commonalities, but esoteric Eight Trigrams, like the Qian Formation, Kun Formation, Thunder Formation, are very profound knowledge, hardly understood without study."
"As for others, Yin and Yang, Three Talents, Four Symbols, Seven Stars, etc., there’s even less to say."
"Those who study formations are called formation masters, but the differences between formation masters can be as vast and formidable as the difference between humans and dogs."
"The Eight Trigrams Thunder Formation lineage, especially Thunder Magnetism, is also like this."
"Common formation masters who are not proficient in this field often confuse Yuan Magnetism with Thunder Magnetism, but they fundamentally do not understand that Yuan Magnetism and Thunder Magnetism are actually two completely different frameworks."
"’Yuan Magnetism’, at most, is something on an application level, whereas ’Thunder Magnetism’, these two words, involve truly unspoken and forbidden formation secrets..."
Mo Hua listened with rapt attention.
Elder Zheng taught with utmost seriousness.
Unbeknownst to him, Elder Zheng was opening for Mo Hua a door to perceive the world, to master thunder and magnetism, and to gain insight into the origin of it all...