Endless Dao Formation

As Mo Shen turned to the instructor, he discovered she was looking at him. Her eyes revealed a surprised expression. It seemed to be her first time seeing a man giving her such a cold look like she was totally insignificant.

What many people didn't know was that that was Mo Shen's natural eye look. Unless he deliberately tried to control it otherwise, it will remain so cold like it looked down on the world. And Mo Shen would never deliberately try to control it except he was with his family.

"Seeing as we have some new students with us, we'll be starting this class afresh. For the old students, it is a time to review your basics, and strengthen your foundation." The instructor said.The first thing she talked about was the Zither instrument, precisely the guqin. The zither is a long stringed instrument that produces sound by plucking the strings with the fingers. It usually have about 7 strings which can produce thousands of sounds depending on which part of the string was plucked.The next thing Zi Yue, the zither instructor talked about was Zither making. It didn't necessarily require the aid of an artifact refiner to make a common Zither. It was only those that were used by the strong that could be made as artifacts. She also told them about the materials for making it.

Mo Shen immediately started to think of making one himself. For the board, he would take out of the mountain in his small crystal world. The material of the mountain was a condensed spiritual crystal mixed with pure fire and metal essence. It was just perfect for refining artifacts. the instructor had said that some beasts tendons could be used for the strings, but Mo Shen had a better material for that.

The most suitable material to him would be his hair. It was strong, flexible and was connected to him. Even if he plucked out some strands of his hair, as long as he refined it properly with his blood, it would still be fully connected to him and would grow stronger as his body strength improved.

After about an hour of talking about making of a zither, the instructor began teaching how to play it. She first talked about refining the hearing. Only with good hearing could one produce good notes.

Mo Shen was already imagining himself creating and playing some notes. In the future, if he wasn't in a very serious fight, he would use it as a weapon.

At the end of the class, Mo Shen was filled with smiles for what he learnt. He was already looking forward to the artifact refining class, so he could learn how to refine artifacts and make his Zither.

***

On the 6th day of his class, after the final class, which was Alchemy, he returned home by creating a space portal in the academy. When he returned, he saw his parents waiting for him like they were expecting him.

"Dad, did you make some changes to the class schedule? I knew it was all too coincidental that it would just fit me." Mo Shen said after greeting his parents. When he first saw the schedule, he already suspected that it must have been the work of his father. He never believed in luck coming for you. One could only create their own luck.

"Ha Ha Ha!" Mo Wudi laughed knowingly. "I requested your aunt to tweak the schedule a bit for it to fit you. I knew you would notice it. Any normal person would believe he was lucky." Mo Wudi said with a proud look on his face, showing he was proud of his son's wisdom and cleverness.

"I don't believe in luck, one has to create their own opportunities." Mo Shen said with a shrug.

His parents questioned him about the events that went on in the academy. He told them everything, from how he met his aunt in the library and getting the dao stones to how his classes went and how he learnt a lot of things.

"These are the Dao stones I got from aunt Qianyue." Mo Shen said as he brought out 2 pieces of Dao stones.

"Hope you weren't cold to her." Gu Xian'er said as she glared at her son. She understood her son's character and knew how cold he could be sometimes.

"Mhm mhm!" Mo Shen coughed guiltily. "Let's enter the small crystal world."

The small crystal world had similar spiritual energy to the Dao Universe. Although the spiritual energy there was relatively smaller, the size of it was like 0.01% of the main Dao universe, so the spiritual energy there was quite concentrated. But the Dao aura there was quite thin compared to the Dao universe.

Mo Shen intended to change that with the Dao stones he got. He wanted to create a formation that could extract the energy from the Dao stones into the small crystal world.

His current mental state was quite high, so the way his brain worked and made calculations was at an unprecedented speed. It also made his comprehension unmatched, as his mental state was a lot higher compared to his cultivation. As he was working his brain to think, a formation suddenly popped up in his mind. It was a common formation, the spirit gathering formation.

The formation could gather spiritual energy from the surroundings and concentrate it unto a place. As he thought up to that point, he suddenly remembered another formation. It could be regarded as an upgraded version of the Spirit gathering formation. Actually, the word 'upgraded' was too subtle to describe it's prowess.

The formation was called World Reviving formation. It got it's foundation from the spirit gathering formation. Only the supreme powers of the 9th Heaven knew about this formation. It was created by one of the masters of the Ancient God heart, the owner before the previous owner. It was created about 12 million years ago, and was related to his death, and even the previous owner's death. The man was the greatest formation master in the 9 Heavens even up till now. The World Reviving formation was one of his top 10 creations.

The formation could be used to revive a world void of spiritual energy, and at the same time could permanently increase the concentration and quality of spiritual energy in any world below the 9th Heaven. The supreme powers of the 9th Heaven never wanted the formation to spread to the lower Heavens, if not, their spiritual energy quality might rival the 9th Heaven.

The formation required at least a billion supreme grade spiritual crystals. It extracts the essence of the spiritual crystals to a core. The core is then responsible for the regulation of the spiritual energy around the world. The core will also be connected to the void working with laws of the world. The caster of the formation must have a good comprehension of the Infinite space dao to the first level and about 2 other supreme dao: Billion Stars Dao and Myriad Formation Dao.

Mo Shen had the knowledge of the formation, and he had thoroughly comprehended the Infinite Space dao and the Billion Stars Dao to the first level. And his soul power was quite high. He wanted to create another formation in his small crystal world, taking its foundation from the World Reviving formation. Instead of regulating spiritual energy, it will regulate Dao energy. He believed with his mental state he could make accurate calculations creating a new formation.

Luckily he had taken the formation class in the academy and already understood the basics, if not he might have already been stumped on the first step.

But even after meeting all those conditions, he still needed to comprehend the Myriad formation dao. That was the true foundation for the formation.

After telling his parents all his findings and what he wanted to do, he sat cross-legged on air and began studying the formation. Even with his mind, it took him 6 hours to study the formation thoroughly. Then he spent another 6 hours to create a new formation that worked like the World Reviving formation, taking Dao energy as its basis, in his mind. He made various simulations as he prepared to create his own 'Endless Dao Formation'. He could do all this without comprehending the Myriad formation dao because they were all in his mind.

Before he knew it, it was already time for his next class. He bid his parents bye and went for the next class. It was the swordsmanship class located in the Swords hall.

Mo Shen was a bit taken back by the population. They were less than 1000 attending the class which was the smallest population he had come across in all of his classes.

After thinking it through, he had an understanding. Most demons fight with their fist and body. When Demons fight, they undergo Demon transformation and revert to their Demon body with two long horns and scales covering their body. The colour of their skin and scales show their bloodline power. The royal family and some others with perfect bloodlines had purple horns, ranging from light purple to dark purple.

Mo Wudi's horns were black. He currently had the thickest demon bloodline in the empire other than Mo Shen. Mo Shen possessed the Demon Bones that had been refined to his body, so his Demon bloodline was thicker than anybody's in the 9th Heaven. His Demon horns were a mix of black and gold.

The color range was from yellow, blue, green, red, purple, black, gold, then Mo Shen's black and gold colour. Even the previous masters of the Demon bones only had dark Golden horns. A great chasm existed between the darkest golden coloured horns and black and gold coloured horns. The difference was even greater than from yellow to gold.

Demons were born with strong bodies especially at their transformations. Their bodies were able to rival weapons, so they basically didn't need weapons. So most of them didn't take weapon classes. There were only 3 weapon classes: Sword class, blade class and spear class.

Mo Shen only registered for the sword class. It was not like he didn't feel his body wasn't powerful enough, after all he currently had the strongest body in the Dao Universe, and maybe even in the 3rd Heaven it was located. What he wanted was just to learn about the sword. It was out of pure curiosity.

The instructor of the sword class was a young looking lady. Her face seemed cold as ice. Although it wasn't as emotionless as Mo Shen's face, it was a bit blank. It was like no other thing could enter her eyes other than the sword in her hand.

"Instructor Mo Wuxue is still as cold as ever." Mo Shen could hear some male students talking in the class. "Yes! I wonder when we'll be able to see her smile."