Chapter 883: Chapter 614: Unsealing_4
Zheng Fang increasingly felt that Mo Hua, this âJunior Brother,â had an extraordinary talent for understanding Formations, and he came to acknowledge it quite a bit.
Taking the opportunity, Mo Hua asked,
âThen suppose I have a Jade Slip that I want to seal and keep others from seeing, how would I do that?â
âSealing a Jade Slip?â
âMhm.â Mo Hua nodded.
Zheng Fang explained, âActually, itâs very simple. Itâs just about covering it with another layer of âFormation Patterns,â concealing the content, and then leaving a âSealing Patternâ to act as the keyâŠâ
âSealing Pattern?â Mo Hua blinked, âIs that a âSecret Patternâ?â
Zheng Fang shook his head, âItâs not the same. Cultivators who donât understand Formations, or Formation Masters who arenât proficient in Prime Magnetic Formation, often confuse them, referring to these types of Formation Patterns as âSecret PatternsââŠâ
âBut in the orthodox lineages, these namings are very strict, and you canât get them wrongâŠâ
ââSealing Patternsâ are used to undo âsealing,â while âSecret Patternsâ are for decrypting âencryption.'â
âWhen a Jade Slip is sealed, you canât see the text in the Jade Slip.â
âWhen a Jade Slip is encrypted, you can see the text inside the slip, but the text you see is actually âdisguisedââŠâ
âBoth methods are based on the same Formation principles, but their forms are quite differentâŠâ
With sudden understanding and admiration, Mo Hua exclaimed,
âYou know so much!â
Zheng Fangâs face flushed slightly, and feeling proud, he spilled everything he knew about âsealingâ and âencryptionâ like pouring beans from a bamboo tube:
âAs for sealing, it involves adding an âUnfixed Magnetic Patternâ over a complete Primordial Magnet Formation, forming a dense and symmetrical âMagnetic Ink Mistâ to cover the real content inside the Jade SlipâŠâ
âEncryption is different. It involves twisting the âMagnetic Streamâ between the Fixed Magnetic Pattern and the Unfixed Magnetic Pattern, that is the âSecondary Thunder Flow,â causing the exhibited text by the Magnetic Ink to become distortedâŠâ
âTo unseal, one must decode the âSealing Patternâ and release the âUnfixed Magnetic Pattern.'â
âTo decrypt, one must decrypt the âSecret Patternâ and correct the âSecondary Thunder PatternââŠâ
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Zheng Fang spoke fluently, finishing his explanation in one breath.
Although some of these things were memorized verbatim, which he himself didnât quite understand, he had indeed learned them extremely thoroughly.
Mo Hua looked at Zheng Fang with new respect.
Indeed, among any three people walking, I can find my teacher.
Being humble and eager to learn, looking more and asking questions, there are always gains.
Mo Hua returned loaded with knowledge, and began excitedly pondering over how to âunseal.â
The Sever Gold Jade Slip from Sever Gold Sect was blank on the surface, covered with mist, but on closer inspection, there were fine specks of Magnetic Ink.
This was the âsealing.â
Understanding the principle, finding the âSealing Patternâ to unseal gave him a direction.
The method was also quite simple.
Both Jade Slips were old, and Boss Jiang definitely consulted them often.
During consultation, he would undoubtedly use the âSealing Patternâ to unseal.
As long as it was unsealed, traces of the Magnetic Stream would inevitably be left.
Other Cultivators might not see these traces, but Mo Hua, with the algorithm fused with the Heavenly secret, could detect some clues.
To detect the trace of the Magnetic Stream is to detect the trace of the Secondary Thunder Flow.
Then, based on experience, simplify the Secondary Thunder Flow to the Secondary Thunder Pattern.
But this Secondary Thunder Pattern was a simplification of Mo Huaâs own making, which might not be precise.
Mo Hua also needed to define some similar Secondary Thunder Patterns from his own âSecondary Thunder Pattern Libraryâ and try them one by oneâŠ
Second Gradeâs Secondary Thunder Patterns all fell within the same category.
Among the hundreds of Secondary Thunder Patterns, there would always be one âSecondary Thunder Patternâ that was the âSealing Patternâ to unseal the Sever Gold Jade Slip.
It didnât matter if it was not found; as long as the category was determined, he could grope for changes and try each one in turn.
And the Secondary Thunder Pattern, not entirely considered a Formation Pattern, had no standardization and was not entirely precise either.
As long as the general context was similar, it could roughly be used as a âSealing Pattern.â
Itâs like two keys, which, despite some differences, can still unlock locks.
The only problem was that this process of deduction could not be done on the Taoist Stele in the Sea of Consciousness.
It had to be attempted in reality, trying to merge Tricky Calculation with Calculation.
Hence, Mo Hua could only proceed with extreme caution, trying a little at a time, avoiding excessive strain on the Sea of Consciousness and the potential for Divine Sense fractures when Computations amplified CalculationsâŠ
Days later, Mo Hua, through the fusion of algorithms, sensed the trace of the Secondary Thunder Flow.
Mo Hua spent half a day simplifying these Secondary Thunder Flows into âSecondary Thunder Patterns.â
After that, Mo Hua took another two days to pick out several âthunder-likeâ Secondary Thunder Patterns from his own Secondary Thunder Pattern Jade Slip.
Mo Hua tried these âSecondary Thunder Patternsâ one by one as âSealing Patternsâ in an attempt to unseal the Sever Gold Jade Slip.
The results were quite smooth.
After more than a dozen attempts, Mo Hua heard a faint âsizzleâ as if a weak Thunder Flow surged and the Magnetic Stream induction circulated.
Simultaneously, the mist in the Sever Gold Jade Slip dissipated.
On the Jade Slip, the Unfixed Magnetic Patterns used for sealing transformed and faded away, revealing the five gilt characters at the top of the Jade Slip:
âGold-Slicing Imperial Sword Technique!â