Mo Tiange did not immediately enter the formation. She had long since devised a plan on how to break this Seven Absolutes Formation and had been preparing for it over the past few months. Now, she directed the two Stone Sculpture Puppets into the formation, triggering its mechanisms one by one through her spiritual sense.
These two puppets were not living beings, and their material was extremely special, rendering them completely unaffected within the formation. By manipulating them with her spiritual sense, Mo Tiange could clearly perceive the changes in the formation.
She manipulated them with great care. Each time she discovered a suspicious point, she would repeatedly use the puppets to probe it until she had calculated the interplay of the Five Elements and Yin-Yang within.
This process consumed a full two days. Truly, this Seven Absolutes Formation was too vast and complex.
Two days later, Mo Tiange had the two Stone Sculpture Puppets exit the Seven Absolutes Formation.
She had roughly grasped the Five Elements and Yin-Yang transformations within the Seven Absolutes Formation and already had a method to counter it in mind.
She still did not enter the Seven Absolutes Formation. Instead, she directly entered the Void Heaven Realm and began diligently refining a Magical Treasure.
Regarding the art of artifact refinement, she was still quite clumsy. However, what she intended to refine this time was not an ordinary Magical Treasure, but a formation tool. Formations and Magical Treasures were originally completely different fields, but under special circumstances, they could intersect. When it came to crafting formation tools, Mo Tiange was as familiar as one could be. Even if she wasn't proficient in artifact refinement, her chances of successfully refining it into a Magical Treasure wouldn't be too low.
The inspiration for this method of breaking the formation came from Qin Xi. Qin Xi possessed a Magical Treasure called the Dingyue Lamp. This lamp had miraculous effects for breaking restrictions, and restrictions and formations were fundamentally connected. While using a Magical Treasure to break a formation wasn't very common, it wasn't unheard of either.
Of course, Magical Treasures specifically for breaking formations were rare. Firstly, different formations required different methods to break. Secondly, such treasures placed extremely high demands on the creator's mastery of formations. Formation masters were exceedingly rare in the current world of Immortal cultivation. Those with high-level formation skills were mostly Nascent Soul Cultivators with abundant lifespan and time on their hands. However, with their transcendent cultivation, they could usually break formations on the spot, and few were idle enough to bother crafting formation-breaking Magical Treasures.
The reason Mo Tiange wanted to craft this treasure was precisely because this Seven Absolutes Formation was too formidable. Mo Yaoqing had hidden the jade slip so deeply, originally intending it to be accessible only to Nascent Soul Cultivators, while Mo Tiange was merely at the Core Formation stage. After probing with the Stone Sculpture Puppets earlier, she understood that if she personally entered to break the formation, she would inevitably suffer some injuries. Therefore, it was better to use a safer method.
Another month passed in this refinement.
The art of formations, in essence, was about understanding the Five Elements and Yin-Yang, coupled with precise calculations. This Seven Absolutes Formation was Mo Yaoqing's masterpiece, containing an immense amount of data, making the calculations an extremely exhausting task.
If she hadn't read Mo Yaoqing's Journal, Mo Tiange admitted that even if she had fully comprehended the Profound Mechanism Formation Book, it would have taken her at least several months to fully deduce the Seven Absolutes Formation. However, Mo Yaoqing's Journal contained scattered records of this formation, so she spent only a month fully understanding its data.
Once the data for the Five Elements and Yin-Yang was clear, crafting the formation-breaking tool became a simple matter.
Several days later, the formation-breaking Magical Treasure was finally completed.
This Magical Treasure, which Mo Tiange named the Dingxing Disk, resembled a compass but was more sensitive to Yin-Yang and the Five Elements.
With the Dingxing Disk completed, Mo Tiange rested for a day within the Void Heaven Realm. Refreshed, she emerged to face the Seven Absolutes Formation once more.
This time, the two Stone Sculpture Puppets went first again.
Once the two puppets entered the formation, the Seven Absolutes Formation instantly erupted with dazzling radiance. The five-colored lights of gold, azure, blue, red, and yellow appeared, while black shadows and white glimmers flickered incessantly.
Simultaneously, the moment the Seven Absolutes Formation activated, the Spiritual Qi of the entire small island became chaotic.
After the formation was fully triggered, Mo Tiange unhurriedly summoned the Dingxing Disk. The Dingxing Disk flew into the Seven Absolutes Formation, emitting a soft white light. Under this white light, the surrounding Five Elements gradually stabilized.
Of course, the Seven Absolutes Formation wasn't so easily broken. Sensing this stabilizing force, the Five Elements around the Dingxing Disk twisted and immediately transformed into another elemental combination.
The Dingxing Disk continuously emitted its white light, methodically sorting out the surrounding Five Elements. Meanwhile, Mo Tiange had already set up a small Spirit Gathering Formation outside the array and sat down cross-legged, circulating the Taiyuan Record.
After obtaining Yang Spiritual Qi, a complete Hunyuan had formed within her body, allowing her to directly cultivate the Taiyuan Record without major issues.
While the Dingxing Disk could sort the Five Elements, stabilizing Yin-Yang had a simpler method: using the Taiyuan Record to mobilize the surrounding Yin-Yang Spiritual Qi, forming a Hunyuan. Thus, with Yin-Yang under her control, it would no longer fall into disorder.
Time passed bit by bit. No matter how the Seven Absolutes Formation changed, the Dingxing Disk consistently emitted a steady white light, twisting the surrounding Five Elements back into order. The Yin-Yang polarities, driven by Mo Tiange, had already formed a cycle.
After a period of stalemate, the Seven Absolutes Formation gathered a massive force and surged toward the Dingxing Disk within the formation.
Mo Tiange's expression turned grave. She formed hand seals, gathering a stream of Spiritual Qi in her palm, and directed it toward the Dingxing Disk.
Inside this Dingxing Disk, she had used several high-grade Spirit Stones as a Spiritual Qi source, but this was still insufficient against the Seven Absolutes Formation.
This formation had existed here for so many years and could still operate, likely because, like the Purple Micro Loose Immortal, it directly utilized the spiritual vein itself. Thus, unless the spiritual vein dissipated over a long period, the formation would not fail.
But now was clearly not the time for it to fail. Its power might have weakened, but its strength remained immense. Mo Tiange could only continuously channel her own Spiritual Qi into the Dingxing Disk, while she relied on the Spirit Gathering Formation, Spirit Stones, and Spirit-Restoring Pills to replenish her energy.
This was a contest of Spiritual Qi. As long as her Spiritual Qi was sufficient, breaking the formation was only a matter of time.
The stalemate of spiritual power lasted a full three days. After three days, a loud explosion erupted from within the Seven Absolutes Formation—the Dingxing Disk had suddenly absorbed a massive amount of Spiritual Qi and exploded!
Simultaneously, the power of the Seven Absolutes Formation finally dissipated.
Mo Tiange sat cross-legged on the ground for a long time without moving. Three days of continuously outputting Spiritual Qi had left her utterly exhausted.
After meditating for half a day, she finally recovered her energy. She stood up, retrieved the puppets, walked into the now-broken Seven Absolutes Formation, picked up the Dingxing Disk from the ground, and sighed.
This Dingxing Disk had used quite a few rare materials, yet it was still destroyed. If she had personally entered to break the formation, she truly didn't know how perilous it would have been.
Passing through the remnants of the Seven Absolutes Formation, Mo Tiange saw a narrow entrance.
This entrance seemed like merely a crack between rocks. Through the crack, all that was visible was an extremely small valley, nothing else.
Mo Tiange took out the jade slip, compared it, confirmed this was the place, and walked in.
Entering the valley and proceeding to its depths, she formed a hand seal and struck the mountain wall. The wall opened with a sound, revealing a hole about one person's height. She stepped inside.
The cave was very dark, with almost no light. Presumably, even if there had been Moonlight Stones, they would have lost their glow over these thousands of years.
She took out a Moonlight Stone Mother from her Qiankun Bag, hung it at her waist, and proceeded slowly.
The path ahead was smooth. Occasionally, there were a few tests, but Mo Yaoqing had held back. Mo Tiange, having prepared beforehand, passed them one by one.
Finally, after walking through a stone passage, the space ahead suddenly opened up. Mo Tiange looked around. It was a ring-shaped valley with lush green grass and bright sunshine.
She found it somewhat unbelievable. When she descended from the sky, she hadn't seen this valley at all. It seemed to have been hidden by a restriction, yet she hadn't detected any trace of a restriction. If so, the reason her journey had been so smooth was simply that Mo Yaoqing hadn't intended to make things difficult for her descendants. Otherwise, just this restriction alone would have made her spend who knows how long just to find the entrance.
Within the valley, although the grass was lush and vibrant with life, weeds grew everywhere, long since abandoned. Occasionally, there were a few spirit herbs, but Mo Tiange paid them no mind. After all, the Spiritual Qi here wasn't excellent, and the spirit herbs grew quite spindly. Even if they were old, they were completely inferior to those in the Void Heaven Realm.
Several cave openings were carved into the mountain walls surrounding the valley. Mo Tiange proceeded with caution, taking out Mo Yaoqing's jade slip to carefully compare. After understanding the purposes of these caves, she entered them one by one.
These caves were nothing more than cultivation chambers, alchemy rooms, spirit beast chambers, and the like. The spirit beast chamber was empty; Mo Yaoqing had released her spirit beast when she passed away. In the alchemy and artifact refinement rooms, she looked around, found a few rare tools, and selected one or two she needed, storing them in her Qiankun Bag—Mo Yaoqing had left the jade slip, firstly for the descendants of the Mo family, and secondly for the inheriting disciples of the Bixuan Pavilion. If she took everything, then future Bixuan Pavilion disciples who reached the Nascent Soul stage and came searching would find nothing. She wasn't greedy and didn't intend to cut off others' paths.
Finally, she entered the cultivation chamber.
This cultivation chamber was winding and narrow, piled haphazardly with all sorts of things: various materials, books, jade slips, and some strange objects whose purpose she couldn't even guess.
Mo Tiange looked at each one, finding it hard to believe. Not because of the rarity of the materials, but because of the disorderly placement. With a Qiankun Bag, these things certainly didn't need to be piled up in the cave abode. Leaving them scattered like this could only mean one thing: Mo Yaoqing was very lazy, tossing things aside after use, too lazy to tidy up.
Sighing, she continued inward. Was this the cave abode left behind by that gentle-voiced, charming and peerless Lady Yaoqing, as Yuan Bao described? This was really—
Just as she thought this, she turned into the depths of the cultivation chamber, saw the jade platform at the very end, and instantly lost her words, completely speechless.
On the jade platform sat a woman. She sat cross-legged, her posture dignified, her eyes closed, her face serene. Her eyebrows were like distant mountains, her face like an autumn moon, her skin like snow, her black hair like clouds. She was just sitting there casually, yet one felt that every part of her was beautiful.
Since embarking on the Immortal path, Mo Tiange had seen many beautiful women. Even she herself, though not one to cause fish to sink or geese to fall, was elegant and handsome. But never had one made the phrase "capable of toppling cities and kingdoms" involuntarily spring to her mind.
This woman's beauty was truly the most extraordinary she had ever seen in her life.
After a long while, Mo Tiange regained her senses and let out a breath.
Although this woman looked lifelike, as if alive, she knew it was merely a corpse.
Within this cave abode, the corpse sitting cross-legged could be none other than Mo Yaoqing.
Thinking this, Mo Tiange found it incredible. Her ancestor, a female cultivator who lived over five thousand years ago, possessing a Pure Yin constitution and astonishing talent, was actually such a stunningly beautiful woman?