Asking About Longevity

Chapter 32 Restaurants

 Use the Dao tablets in the sea of ​​consciousness to continuously hone your formations and enhance your spiritual consciousness.

Although this method is stupid, it is also the only method currently available for ink painting.

“Fortunately, there is a Taoist monument in the sea of ​​knowledge, otherwise it would be impossible to use this stupid method.”

 Mo Hua thought with some relief that in reality, the formation method consumes too much spiritual consciousness and the recovery is too slow. If you want to enhance your spiritual consciousness through this method, you must spend several times more time and energy.

In this case, Mo Hua calmed down and practiced the molten fire formation on the Taoist monument without any distractions.

As long as you keep practicing, you will eventually learn it.

 First try your best to draw the first four formation patterns in ink painting. When your spiritual consciousness is almost exhausted, erase the formation patterns.

 After resting for a while, continue drawing and then erase again.

 Just repeat this cycle until you feel that your spiritual consciousness has a little more strength, then after finishing the four formations, draw one more stroke.

  A whole night passed, and the ink painting only had two more strokes than at the beginning, but these two strokes at least showed that his spiritual consciousness was indeed growing.

 Woke up the next day, Mo Hua went to Fangshi to buy some ink needed for the molten array.

 The ink is made from the blood of fire monsters and mixed with some herbs. It is not particularly expensive. I bought more than ten copies of the ink painting at one time.

Because there are few formation masters and there are not many monks who can draw formations, there are also few monks who buy ink. It was rare for the boss to meet Mo Hua, a big customer, and he even gave some extra copies of Mo Hua.

 After returning home, Mo Hua began to practice drawing molten fire arrays with ink.

 Because the ink was bought with spirit stones, the ink painting was done with great care, every stroke was drawn with great care.

Of course, with limited spiritual awareness, ink painting can only be done with two more strokes after the four formations are drawn, and it is impossible to draw a complete molten formation with five formations.

 After finishing painting in this way, you need to stop writing and rest for an hour to recover your consciousness. After your spiritual consciousness is full, you can continue to paint.

 This kind of efficiency is much worse than painting on the Taoist monument of the Sea of ​​Knowledge. It also consumes ink and spiritual paper, which means spending spiritual stones. But in order to learn the molten formation as soon as possible, Mo Hua didn't care anymore.

After practicing the formation day and night like this, after half a month, in addition to the four formation patterns, the ink painting can draw an additional ten strokes, which is roughly equivalent to half a formation pattern.

According to this progress, it is estimated that in another half a month, Mo Hua's spiritual consciousness will be enough to draw a complete molten formation including five formations.

Mo Hua breathed a sigh of relief silently.

 Considering that refining a stove also takes time, some things need to be planned early.

During the day, Mo Hua went for a walk on the street. In the evening, he went home and had dinner with his parents.

Under the flickering candlelight, there were fragrant rice porridge, white and soft steamed buns, two plates of fresh vegetables, and a small plate of pickled pickles on the table.

This is already quite rich on the dining table of an ordinary casual cultivator, and it is basically impossible to have meat.

Liu Ruhua is a good cook. Although the food is simple but delicious, Mo Hua eats it very well.

It’s just that although the food was made by Liu Ruhua, it was the fire provided by Mo Shan’s spiritual power.

Liu Ruhua's expression was the same as usual, but when he looked around, there was always a little loss in his eyes, and occasionally he would be stunned.

Mo Hua ate a steamed bun in three strokes, five divided by two, puffed out his cheeks and suddenly asked: "Mom, have you ever thought about opening a dining room?"

Liu Ruhua, who was drinking porridge carefully, was stunned and said with a smile: "Why do you suddenly ask this?"

“Mom, your cooking is so delicious, you will definitely earn a lot of spiritual stones by opening a restaurant.”

"It costs money to open a dining room. How can we, casual cultivators from such a wealthy family, get the spiritual stones to open a dining room?"

Liu Ruhua said with a smile, then tapped Mo Hua's nose with his plain finger, and joked: "When you grow up in the future, your cultivation level is high, and you can earn a lot of spiritual stones, we will open another one."

Mo Hua whispered: "Then let's open a small business first."

 “What’s so small?” Liu Ruhua was stunned for a moment.

"Restaurants," Mo Hua said, "I took a look around the street and found that there are many restaurants selling drinks, dishes, snacks, noodles, etc., and the business is quite good."

Liu Ruhua hesitated to speak, looking a little downcast.

Seeing this, Mo Shan said softly: "Hua'er, your mother...can't use spiritual power." If you can't use spiritual power, you can't make fire or make food for the monks.

Even if you can use your spiritual power, you can have customers coming and going in restaurants and cook a lot of dishes. This is not something that a monk in the Qi Refining Stage can support.

Mo Hua raised his delicate brows and said proudly: "Let's build a stove."

 “Stove?”

 Mo Shan and Liu Rushian looked at each other.

 Mo Hua took out a large drawing from the storage bag.

"This is the design drawing of the stove. I asked Master Chen from the refining shop what materials to use, what size, and how many spiritual stones are needed. I will figure out the formation. This stove is well refined, and it doesn't matter. The monks need to use their spiritual power to activate it, and they only need to put in the spiritual stones to continuously supply fire, making it much more convenient to cook dishes and stew ingredients."

Mo Shan and his wife did not expect to take out all the drawings of their son, and were a little stunned for a moment.

“It takes a lot of spiritual stones to refine a stove…”

“Let’s make a small stove first. I’ve asked Master Chen, and it doesn’t require too many spiritual stones. For a small restaurant, a smaller stove will be enough.”

 “What about the formation?” Liu Ruhua asked.

Mo Hua pretended to be calm, but his expression could not hide his pride, "I'll just draw it. I've already brought the formation diagram to Steward Mo, and the formation is not difficult..."

 I spent a few nights exhausting my consciousness and practicing hard over and over again, but I still didn’t fully master the ink painting of the molten fire formation. I felt a little guilty at the end.

Liu Ruhua looked at the ink painting suspiciously, "Is it really not difficult?"

Mo Hua chuckled and said, "Although I haven't learned it yet, if I practice for a few more days, it will be no problem."

There is no way. The formation of five formations is not that easy to learn.

Liu Ruhua also nodded, thinking that Mo Hua was young and hadn’t learned the formation for long. If he could learn it, it shouldn’t be a particularly difficult formation.

But after thinking about it, she shook her head and said, "How can it be so easy to open a shop? Even if it is a small restaurant, the store must be rented and people need to be hired to help. There are still many things to take care of, and it costs a lot of spiritual stones. If you can't make ends meet, it will be harder for the family to make ends meet. The most important thing now is to leave some spiritual stones for you to practice well..."

Mo Shan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "We will open this restaurant. I will take care of the store and manpower. You don't have to worry about it."

Mo Shan took out another storage bag and handed it to Mo Hua, "There are more than a hundred spirit stones in here. I earned them from hunting monsters in the past few months. I know you also earned money by drawing formations for others." There are a lot of spiritual stones, but the spiritual stones needed to refine the stove should be deducted from here first..."

Just as Mo Hua was about to refuse, Mo Shan thrust the storage bag into his hand.

Mo Hua held the storage bag. Thinking that the spirit stones in the bag were earned by his father and the monsters fighting desperately, he felt that it was heavier than ordinary spirit stones.

Mo Shan has already agreed, and the matter of opening the restaurant has been basically decided. After Mo Hua finished eating, he went back to the house and continued to practice drawing the molten formation.

Liu Ruhua still looked worried.

Mo Shan comforted him: "Okay, don't think too much. Opening a restaurant is just a small business. Even if you lose, you won't lose much."

Liu Ruhua sighed, "Hua'er is talented and smart. In the future, he will practice and learn martial arts and Taoism. He also wants to be an array master. Learning the array will cost a lot of spiritual stones. Now that he has used all the spiritual stones, in the future What should I do if I don’t have enough spirit stones for Hua’er’s cultivation?”

Mo Shan said warmly: "Don't underestimate Hua'er. He can now help the merchants draw formations. Although they are simple formations, they are still impressive. Maybe in ten or twenty years, the formations will be refined again." With practice, he can really become a battle master."

Mo Shan smiled and said, "By then, we may have to rely on our son to support us."

Liu Ruhua smiled, but still felt uneasy.

Mo Shan held Liu Ruhua's hand and said, "Then do a good job in the restaurant business, save more spiritual stones, and then find a way to find a wife for Mo Hua in the future, and watch him get married and have children."

Liu Ruhua thought about what Mo Shan said and smiled, but she still felt uneasy: "What if..."

"Even if something happens, I'll still be there. No matter how difficult the life is, there will always be a way. It's just a matter of working harder and killing more monsters."

Mo Shan’s tone was gentle but firm.

Liu Ruhua stopped talking and silently nestled in Mo Shan's arms.

 (End of this chapter)