"The Cultivation World esteed Formations."
"While Cultivation emphasizes slaughter, only empowering oneself, Formations, on the other hand, can influence thousands of Cultivators."
"This is even more so for those Cultivation clans with significant strength and a multitude of Cultivators."
"Five Elents Sect, skilled in Formations, settled here, drawing nurous Cultivators, clans, and Sects to seek Formations, with so Cultivators even choosing to reside here permanently."
"So Cultivation powers, in order to curry favor with Five Elents Sect, would station an Elder here, presenting gifts and paying visits during holidays and festivals."
"As interactions increased, the price of the residences here soared."
Mr. Zhuang spoke with so emotion, "Don't be fooled by its remoteness; the caves in this city are really beyond what ordinary Cultivators can afford."
"The high cost of caves leads to soaring prices for everything else."
"The Loose Cultivators of Li Mountain City rely on the blessings of their ancestors, barely scraping by in shelters, barely getting by; otherwise, they would not survive."
"In the long run, the number of Cultivators in the whole Li Mountain City has dwindled…"
Mo Hua expressed his doubts, "I see the streets bustling though."
Mr. Zhuang shook his head, "Cultivators live long lives, so one shouldn't just look at the present but must take a longer view."
"Hundreds of years ago, I ca here, and there were many more Cultivators than now."
"These days, the number of Cultivators is fewer…"
"The bustling pavilions and towers are only surface-level prosperity; without people, they are ultimately just as fleeting as the moon reflected in water or flowers in a mirror."
Mo Hua nodded thoughtfully. Explore more stories with My Virtual Library Empire
Then he asked, "But all this has nothing to do with Five Elents Sect, right? They can't control others buying caves at high prices…"
Mr. Zhuang shook his head, "Five Elents Sect has been fanning the flas..."
"Fanning the flas?" Mo Hua didn't quite understand.
Mr. Zhuang explained, "Hundreds of years ago, Five Elents Sect had fallen into decline. It was the founder of Five Elents Sect who, wanting to revitalize the Sect, moved the Sect to the remote Li Mountain City."
"Li Mountain City is remote and free from disturbances."
"The founder of Five Elents Sect wanted the disciples to focus on their studies of Formations without distraction and also attract other Formation Masters to exchange and study Formation knowledge, making Li Mountain City a place for Formation Masters to pursue their studies, truly a city of Formation Study."
"Indeed, this move had a significant effect."
"Five Elents Sect steadily grew stronger, the atmosphere of Formation Study intensified, and Li Mountain City flourished, becoming a favored place among Formation Masters."
Mr. Zhuang sighed, "But later on, it was no longer so..."
"As Formation Masters gathered, the value of residences skyrocketed, and Li Mountain City beca worth its weight in gold."
"Their founder's painstaking efforts ultimately proved of less importance than real Spirit Stones..."
"The later generations of Five Elents Sect disciples began to have other ideas; they tore down buildings that were once for the use of Formation Masters to study and exchange ideas, and built luxurious caves instead, which they sold and rented out at high prices to make enormous sums of Spirit Stones."
"They didn't have to do anything, Spirit Stones simply rolled into their accounts."
"This abundance of easily acquired Spirit Stones led the Sect's disciples to beco indolent and indulgent, no longer devoted to studying Formations or seeking the truths of the Heavenly Dao."
"However, while Five Elents Sect seed to profit imnsely from this, that wealth was bought with the hardships of their ancestors and their prospects for the future."
"The lifework of their ancestors was also lost in the process."
"Caves beca too expensive, ordinary Cultivators couldn't afford them, and gradually left."
"And the talented Formation Masters from modest backgrounds who couldn't afford such expensive residences had no choice but to leave as well."
"The disciples of Five Elents Sect, being all too rich in Spirit Stones and indulging in luxury, also stopped bothering to learn Formations."
"The Formation atmosphere in the entirety of Li Mountain City thinned as well."
"The standard of Formations at Five Elents Sect declined ti and again, and so Formations were lost..."
Mr. Zhuang's expression turned grave as he remarked:
"Whether it's Formation Masters or Formation Sects, in the end, they must root themselves in Formations and not be short-sighted in the pursuit of profit; otherwise, once prosperity fades, what remains is desolation."
Mo Hua also felt a chill in his heart.
A place where Formation Masters converged to study… What kind of scene that must have been...
Mo Hua both longed for and regretted it, prompting him to ask:
"Teacher, didn't Five Elents Sect think about changing?"
A Sect that large, with so many Formation Masters—you'd think that while so may be profit-driven, there would still be those who could see the bigger picture.
Mr. Zhuang sighed:
"It's too late to turn back now..."
"The entire Sect, accustod to making Spirit Stones with ease, from top to bottom, is entrenched in their interests; whoever thinks about change, faces the opposition of the whole Sect."
"They lack both the courage and the ability to do so."
"Even if there is soone with the ability to change, they might not wish to, because those with the power to make a change are likely those who have profited the most..."
Changing longstanding habits is a painful process that starts with oneself.
Mo Hua couldn't help but sigh.
The affairs of this world are indeed complex.
Still, one matter weighed on his mind.
Mo Hua inquired, "Teacher, you ntioned that Five Elents Sect was in decline, and it was the old founder who moved the Sect to Li Mountain City..."
"What was Five Elents Sect like before its decline?"
Mr. Zhuang's deanor beca solemn as he reflected:
"That was thousands of years ago..."
"Back then, even if Five Elents Sect wasn't considered the top Sect, it was still one of the paramount Formation Sects in the entire Cultivation World."
Mo Hua's mouth hung open in surprise.
He had never imagined that the ancestry of Five Elents Sect was so illustrious!
A premier Formation Sect in the entire Cultivation World.
That level of prestige...
"Was their inheritance that formidable?" Mo Hua asked in amazent.
"Indeed," Mr. Zhuang nodded:
"What Five Elents Sect was best known for, and what they relied upon, was a complete set of Formations ranging from low to high grade, capable of amplifying the Spiritual Power of the Five Elents!"
Mr. Zhuang looked at Mo Hua with a grave expression:
"And it is precisely the set of first-grade Thirteen Patterns Five Elent Ultimate Formation that you must go learn and master."
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