Chapter 107: Progress

Thereafter, Mo Hua had free time to go to Zhuang-mister's Sit-Forget Residence and spar with Bai Ziying on movement techniques.

Bai Ziying's comprehension ability was very high. Each time they sparred, his movement techniques became more proficient, but Mo Hua's progress in movement techniques was even faster.

In the beginning, Bai Ziying had the advantage, but as Mo Hua's Lingbo Weibu became more and more proficient, within twenty rounds, Bai Ziying found it very difficult to snatch the jade pendant from Mo Hua's neck.

The two of them sparred for a while longer, and then twenty rounds changed to forty rounds.

"Something's not right..."

After finishing a spar, Bai Ziying frowned and said.

"What's not right?" Mo Hua asked.

"This movement technique of yours is a bit strange..."

Mo Hua looked bewildered.

"It clearly looks ordinary, nothing special, but it's just too slippery to hold. You see it, and it looks like you're about to catch it, but then the body flashes, and it still slips away from your fingertips. How can you not catch it..."

"Doesn't that just prove that this movement technique isn't ordinary?"

Bai Ziying shook his head, "This movement technique, at its core, is just using spiritual power to guide the body. But there are many movement techniques that use spiritual power to guide the body. I've never seen one so troublesome."

Mo Hua didn't understand, "Isn't it just using divine sense to guide spiritual power, directing spiritual power to certain meridians and acupoints, and then guiding the body to move? Is this difficult?"

Difficult or not difficult, being able to control spiritual power with divine sense, and controlling it so precisely, even meticulously to the extreme, is not simple.

Bai Ziying looked at Mo Hua again.

Mo Hua was currently at the fifth level of Qi Refining, but his divine sense was already sufficient to draw eight array patterns. Moreover, he had seen Mo Hua draw arrays; his pen was like a dragon and a snake, and he drew extremely fast. In a short while, he could draw a set of six or seven array patterns.

Bai Ziying was stunned for a moment, unable to tell whether the strangeness was in the movement technique or in Mo Hua...

But he didn't take these things to heart either. The cultivation world's cultivators and spells were vast like the sea. Some cultivators who cultivated certain types of spells would indeed be more powerful than others.

Mo Hua's movement technique could be hard to distinguish from his own suppressed cultivation; Bai Ziying was happy he didn't have time to dwell on it.

Thereafter, every day, he would finish his homework early, then sit under the big locust tree and wait for Mo Hua to come and spar with him on movement techniques.

Suddenly one day, Bai Ziying asked: "Did you learn your movement technique to dodge cultivators' Dao techniques?"

"Yes." Mo Hua nodded, "Besides cultivators, there are also demon beasts."

He wasn't sure when he would have to enter the Great Black Mountain again. The demon beasts inside the Great Black Mountain might be much stronger than cultivators.

"Then you'd best practice with demon beasts again," Bai Ziying said as he ate a mouthful of meat.

"Ah?" Mo Hua was startled.

Bai Ziying said: "Demon beasts' attacks are different from human cultivators'. You can dodge cultivators, but you might not be able to dodge demon beasts."

"That's right!" Mo Hua suddenly realized.

Demon beasts had huge bodies, strong flesh, sharp claws and teeth, and most were on four feet. Their movement trajectories were completely different from cultivators.

Moreover, some demon beasts were also good at attacking with poisonous tails, thorns, saliva, and cracking teeth, making them even more strange and cunning.

Mo Hua scratched his head, "But I can't find demon beasts to practice with either. If I'm not careful, won't I be eaten by demon beasts again..."

"I'm just saying. You just pay attention yourself," Bai Ziying said casually.

Mo Hua, however, took this matter to heart.

He internally estimated the probability of being killed by cultivators and being bitten to death by demon beasts.

He felt that the possibility of being bitten to death by demon beasts was higher.

The Great Black Mountain was dangerous and unpredictable, and the demon beasts were fierce and treacherous.

As long as he entered the Great Black Mountain in the future, he would have to face demon beasts, and the demon beasts' brute force, speed, and cunning tricks were incomparable to cultivators.

"How to spar with demon beasts? Could it be, I want to try to be a demon hunter?"

Mo Hua thought about it, but still decided against it.

A few days later, Mo Hua was reading an array book in the eatery.

He could already draw the eight-array pattern array. To save some spiritual ink, he just didn't draw it every day, so he only read the array book in his free time.

He couldn't go spar with Bai Ziying every day either.

The matter of Bai Ziying sparring with Mo Hua was known to Xue-aunt. He had let it slip while he was happy.

Xue-aunt was a bit angry, feeling that Bai Ziying was a bit too playful and also disturbing Mo Hua's array learning. She then arranged more homework for him.

Mo Hua went to Xue-aunt to plead, saying that he himself wanted to practice movement techniques, so Bai Ziying only sparred with him.

But Xue-aunt obviously didn't believe it. She knew Mo Hua's innate body was weak; how would he suddenly learn some movement techniques?

She thought Mo Hua was really trying to exonerate Bai Ziying, so she said: "Good child, I know you are good to the young master, but there are no rules without square and round."

After Xue-aunt finished speaking with Mo Hua, she turned around and arranged several more homework assignments for Bai Ziying.

Mo Hua was helpless and could only occasionally bring some food to Bai Ziying, considering it as comforting him.

Zhang Lan, who originally often wandered into the eatery, seemed to have some matters as well and suddenly became busy. It had been quite a few days since he had seen him.

Mo Hua was then suddenly much quieter, only reading array books by himself.

While Mo Hua was reading alone, Jiang-aunt brought over a bowl of chicken soup and told Mo Hua to drink it while it was hot.

Jiang-aunt's given name was Yun, and her husband's surname was Chu. He was also a demon hunter. He had suffered a serious injury while hunting demons before, and there was no other income at home. He still had a child who didn't have enough to eat. Liu Ruyi then let her come to the eatery to help. Now, their family circumstances had gradually improved, and her complexion was also much better.

Although her husband couldn't hunt demons, he was good at using traps and would occasionally go into the mountains to catch some weak demon beasts to sell in exchange for spirit stones, supplementing the household. Sometimes he could even catch spirit beasts.

These spirit beasts should have been raised by families or sects' elders and accidentally ran into the mountains, gradually demonizing. The spiritual energy in their bodies also became much thinner, but the meat quality was still better than demon beasts.

Jiang Yun would stew these spirit beasts into fresh meat soup and specifically leave some for Mo Hua each time.

Jiang Yun was good at pastries and would fry pine nuts. Her cooking skills were learned from Liu Ruyi, and the taste was also very good.

"Thank you, Jiang-aunt!" Mo Hua said happily as he drank the fresh chicken soup.

Mo Hua was happy eating, and Jiang Yun was also very happy, but she was not good with words and only smiled shyly.

"Oh right, the Wood Binding Array I gave Chu-uncle last time, was it useful?"

Mo Hua thought of something and then asked.

"Yes, yes, it was useful." Jiang Yun nodded and said, "Your Chu-uncle praises that array every time he comes back from the mountains. Now, the demon beasts trapped in the traps won't damage their fur."

Demon beasts in traps often damaged their fur by thrashing and biting everywhere, which meant they wouldn't sell for many spirit stones.

After Mo Hua heard this, he found an array called the "Wood Binding Array" in the "Collection of a Thousand Arrays." It could tie up demon beasts. Although it required one spirit stone to activate the array, the demon beasts' fur would be completely undamaged, and they could sell for quite a few more spirit stones.

"Just..." Jiang Yun hesitated to speak.

"Is there a problem with the array?" Mo Hua asked.

"No, no." Jiang Yun waved her hand, "It's not the array. It's that before, your Chu-uncle caught a young demon beast. That demon beast was trapped in the trap for many days and actually didn't die. Your Chu-uncle brought it back, but doesn't know how to deal with it..."

"Young demon beast?"

Mo Hua's eyes lit up.

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