The List

Chapter 616: The List

An encrypted diary...

What could be inside?

Mo Hua's eyes lit up, his curiosity surging.

Jiang Laoda had hidden some unspeakable information amid a heap of rambling notes...

And he had sealed it first, then encrypted it. Going to such lengths to keep others from noticing—there had to be something good hidden inside!

The corners of Mo Hua's mouth curled up as he narrowed his eyes in a smile.

He wanted to unlock it and take a look.

Zheng Fang had said that encryption and sealing were different.

Sealing meant separately constructing Indeterminate Magnetic Patterns to form blank "mist-like magnetic ink" that concealed the writing.

Encryption meant "disguising" the writing.

More precisely, it meant twisting Sub-Thunder Patterns, altering Magnetic Flow, tampering with the "agreements" between fixed formulas and indeterminate formulas, thereby changing the displayed words and creating a "disguise."

The words one saw were not the true contents within the jade slip.

"To decrypt it, one must decipher the 'Secret Pattern,' correct the twisted 'Sub-Thunder Patterns,' and restore the words within the jade slip..."

In other words, it meant correcting the "agreement" between Fixed-Formula Magnetic Patterns and Indeterminate Magnetic Patterns.

The key still lay in the Sub-Thunder Patterns...

Everything a cultivator did left traces behind.

Encrypting a jade slip was no exception.

As long as Jiang Laoda had used the "Secret Pattern" to view the jade slip's true contents, that Secret Pattern would produce Magnetic Flow and leave traces.

Other cultivators might not be able to see those traces, but Mo Hua, whose Divine Consciousness had undergone a qualitative transformation and fused with both Ghost Calculation and Derivation Calculation, could sense them.

The principle was the same as when Mo Hua had "unsealed" jade slips.

He sensed the traces, deduced the Sub-Thunder Patterns, then compared and