Chapter 129: Spices

The effect of the Ground Fire Array is unexpectedly good.

Yu Chengyi's expectation was not wrong. Setting up the Ground Fire Array only requires a few sixth-layer Qi Refining demon hunters to hunt and kill a first-grade mid-stage demon beast. As long as they are a bit careful, there are basically no major casualties.

Before, the demon hunting team was old leading new, with several experienced hunters leading some new ones. This way, the new hunters could be protected, get familiar with the environment, gain experience, and temper their Dao methods, while also dividing some spirit stones to subsidize household expenses. But this method of dividing teams greatly reduced the hunting efficiency of some experienced demon hunting veterans.

Now with the array, as long as they teach the new hunters some basic techniques, they can hunt independently. Because the Ground Fire Array directly blasts the demon beast into heavy injury, damaging its meridians and slowing its demon power operation, many troublesome methods cannot be displayed, making these new hunters relatively safer.

Benefiting from the Ground Fire Array, new hands can earn spirit stones, and old hands are also more relaxed. The demon hunters' days are also a bit more comfortable.

However, Mo Hua is only one person. Although he draws arrays very quickly, the number of Ground Fire Arrays he can draw in a day is still limited. Yu Chengyi thought for a bit and decided to save a few Ground Fire Arrays and send more manpower.

Five Ground Fire Arrays require three or four demon hunters to finish off. Now they use three Ground Fire Arrays, but have six or seven demon hunters to finish off. The result is about the same.

Mo Hua has become thoroughly familiar with the Ground Fire Array, drawing it faster and faster. As he draws more and more, the number of demon hunters using the Ground Fire Array drawn by Mo Hua to hunt demons also increases. Over time, basically most mid-stage Qi Refining demon hunters have become familiar with Mo Hua.

Some are wearing vine armor with the Iron Armor Array drawn by Mo Hua; some are using the Ground Fire Array drawn by Mo Hua to hunt; there are also some demon hunters whose home doors and windows have arrays all drawn by Mo Hua. And late-stage Qi Refining demon hunters also mostly know Mo Hua.

Some have a life-and-death friendship with Mo Shan, so they are naturally familiar with Mo Hua; some have entrusted Mo Shan to ask Mo Hua to draw arrays; some, even if they have no connection with Mo Hua, have heard of Mo Hua, this little array master, from relatives and Dao friends. There are also some who were instructed by Yu Chengyi one by one to take more care of Mo Hua inside the Great Black Mountain.

Just like this, Mo Hua spent over a month mixing in the mountain and discovered that almost the entire outer mountain is full of acquaintances. Often, as he is walking, familiar faces of cultivators greet him. There are also some cultivators who pick wild mountain fruits to offer him. They are sour and sweet, crisp and tasty. Besides wild fruits, dry rations, dried meat, pine nuts, rice wine and the like are also offered. Mo Hua can enter the mountain one day without bringing anything and still return full and satisfied.

Reciprocity is proper etiquette. Mo Hua thereafter, every time he entered the mountain, would entrust his mother to put several jin of well-cut beef of various flavors in his storage bag. When encountering others offering him food, he would also offer them beef. Coming and going, some people even wished to encounter Mo Hua in the mountain. Especially some old demon hunters who have a fondness for alcohol but no meat to go with it. Previously, when they weren't hunting demons, they didn't want to stay in the mountain for a moment. Now that they have free time, they even specifically squat on the mountain roads of the outer mountain, eagerly waiting for Mo Hua. Then they invite Mo Hua to eat snacks and wild fruits, and Mo Hua treats them with meat to go with their wine.

These demon hunters were all entrusted by Yu Chengyi to take care of Mo Hua a bit. Sometimes when Mo Hua encounters difficulties in the mountain, they will also help out. Mo Hua remembers their favors. So sometimes, for no particular reason, Mo Hua will also bring some meat up the mountain and sit with them on the large stones in the mountain, looking at the mountain scenery while eating meat and listening to them chat about demon hunting stories. Occasionally, they will also offer some opinions on the beef. For example, it's not spicy enough, cooked too soft without chew, the fishy smell is too light and it doesn't have that flavor, and so on. While commenting, they eat more fragrant than anyone else.

There are also demon hunters who will offer some suggestions, saying that some spices in the mountain are very good and make the meat taste more fragrant when cooked. Mo Hua's eyes light up, and then he asks where these spices are.

"There are many in the mountain, you have to find them yourself." That demon hunter said, taking out a thin booklet. The booklet drew various flowers, grasses, and trees, and also marked which parts of which plants could be used as spices. Some are flowers, some are leaves, some are branches, some are grass dew, flower paste, tree resin, etc. There are dozens of varieties.

That demon hunter gave the booklet to Mo Hua with only one requirement: if the meat tasted good, let him taste it. Mo Hua nodded busily as if he had obtained a treasure. Afterwards, Mo Hua would pay attention to whether there were spices from the booklet on the way in the mountain. If there were, he would pick them and give them to his mother after returning home.

Liu Ru Hua was also pleasantly surprised. She originally dedicated herself to researching various Dao cultivation foods. With these spices, the cooking of food could be enhanced like adding flowers to brocade. Liu Ru Hua used spices to make some meat dishes. Mo Hua tasted them, and indeed, the taste was better and the aftertaste richer. Mo Hua, as promised, sent these meats to that demon hunter to taste. That demon hunter ate them and afterwards had a calm and open-minded expression, as if he had a feeling of "now I can die without regrets"... The expression was too exaggerated, and Mo Hua didn't know what to say.

Mo Hua also sent some to the Zuowang Residence. Bai Zisheng tasted it and felt the taste was better, envyingly saying:

"Mo Hua, your mother is really good!" After finishing, he had a sudden thought and said: "Or you ask your mother if she's willing to accept me as a godson?"

Mo Hua gave him a glare.

Bai Zixi also couldn't help but smash a paper ball on Bai Zisheng's forehead.

The beef Mo Hua gave to Mister Zhuang was the best. The presentation was also good, with a total of five or six dishes, garnished with either green onions, or spicy red onions and peppers. The taste of each dish was different. Mister Zhuang tasted a mouthful and frowned. After a moment, he couldn't help but sigh:

"The desires of the mouth and belly harm the heart's will!" After finishing, he couldn't help but eat another mouthful.

The spices were very good, and the food shop's business was also better. Mo Hua was very happy. Afterwards, when picking spices, he felt that he might as well pick some medicinal herbs and other things along the way. After all, setting up arrays and hunting demon beasts actually didn't require him. He only needed to draw the arrays well, and then finally go and bleed them. For the rest of the time, he generally wandered around the outer mountain. Picking spices is picking, picking medicines and picking ores is also picking.

Mo Hua found Old Mister Feng and asked for a copy of "Dao Cultivation Materia Medica." He then found Master Chen and asked for a copy of "Dao Cultivation Mineral Record." He then searched for medicinal herbs and various ores according to the descriptions in the two books. Both could increase his Dao cultivation knowledge and also allow him to pick some medicinal herbs and ores. Anyway, these were all convenient matters, so he might as well pick them.

He gave the picked medicinal herbs to Old Mister Feng, and the dug ores to Master Chen. They were not polite with Mo Hua, just told Mo Hua to come to them for whatever pills or spirit tools he needed. Mo Hua continued like this, drawing maps in the outer mountain of the Great Black Mountain, finding spices, picking some medicinal herbs, digging some ores, and then waiting for other demon hunters to kill demon beasts before running over to bleed them and stockpile the blood to mix spirit ink.

Until one day, he discovered that more and more demon hunters were using the Ground Fire Array. Often, a demon beast was killed on the south side, and before he had finished bleeding it, another demon beast was killed on the north side. By the time he found out, the demon beast on the north side was already cold and couldn't be bled. Ten bottles of demon blood were just gone like that.

After this happened several times, Mo Hua frowned and thought:

"I need to think of a way, otherwise it's too wasteful..."

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