Chapter 154: Spirit Stones

Elder Yu had originally thought the Jinjia Zhen (Gold Armor Array) would be a bit stronger than the Tiejia Zhen (Iron Armor Array), but he hadn't expected it to be so much stronger. This was directly Grade 1 already...

When he had asked Mo Hua to draw array methods before, hadn't he only drawn six array lines?

How long had it been, and he could already draw a Grade 1 array method?!

Elder Yu hesitated for a while, then asked a nonsensical question:

"Is it really a Grade 1 array method..."

Mo Hua felt Elder Yu was a bit strange, then took out a newly drawn Jinjia Zhen, counted it for Elder Yu to see:

"One, two, three... nine. See, there are nine array lines in total."

Elder Yu hadn't looked carefully at the Jinjia Zhen before, and at this moment, he didn't even dare to blink. He counted them one by one again.

Indeed, there were nine array lines. Nine lines meant it entered Grade 1!

Elder Yu's hand holding the Tengjia Zhen (Vine Armor Array) trembled slightly. It was hard for him to believe in his heart.

"Then aren't you... a Grade 1 Array Master already?"

A Grade 1 Array Master!

For how many years had they, these rogue cultivators, these poor demon hunters, not even had one ordinary Array Master?

And now, a Grade 1 Array Master had appeared!

Mo Hua was a little embarrassed and said humbly: "I can only draw Grade 1 array methods alone, it doesn't count yet. I need to pass the Dao Court's grading before I can be a Grade 1 Array Master."

Elder Yu let out a breath, "So that's it, you can just draw Grade 1 array methods..."

Elder Yu carefully savored the words again: you can just draw Grade 1 array methods... alone?

Drawing Grade 1 array methods, could that be called "alone"?

Elder Yu's expression was complex.

How old was Mo Hua, and he could already draw Grade 1 array methods? Then in the future?

Grade 2? Or... Grade 3?

Elder Yu spent a long time calming his emotions. He forced himself to pretend to be calm, praised Mo Hua a few times, and told Mo Hua to draw array methods well. Afterward, he summoned Yu Chengyi, Mo Shan, and several other demon hunters at the ninth layer of Qi Gathering.

"This child, Mo Hua, cannot have any accidents!"

Several people looked at each other, and Yu Chengyi said: "Dad, we understand, we will take care of him."

"No, you all don't understand."

Elder Yu shook his head and said, "What Mo Hua is drawing now is already a Grade 1 array method!"

Yu Chengyi and Mo Shan's expressions were shocked.

Yu Chengyi looked at Mo Shan and couldn't help but say:

"It's fine for us to be shocked, but you, as his dad, why do you also have a surprised look on your face?"

Mo Shan was helpless, "I just found out too..."

Yu Chengyi didn't know what to say.

"I only knew he helped me draw array methods..." Mo Shan said.

"You didn't ask?"

"My son gave it to me, I was just busy being happy, I forgot to ask."

Elder Yu said: "This matter cannot be known by the Qian family. You all tell the other demon hunters, regarding the array methods, you must keep your mouths shut like a bottle."

Several people all nodded, but their hearts were still surging like waves, unable to calm down for a long time.

Mo Hua, who was wholeheartedly drawing array methods, suddenly felt that someone was always silently watching him recently.

Mo Hua frowned, released his divine sense, and then shouted through the wall:

"Uncle Yu."

Yu Chengyi immediately popped his head out from behind the wall, "What's wrong?"

Mo Hua couldn't help but say: "Uncle Yu, what are you watching me for?"

Yu Chengyi was slightly stunned, "How did you know?"

He had hidden well behind the wall and also concealed his breath.

"I knew as soon as I swept with my divine sense..."

Yu Chengyi was surprised, "You can discover this?"

Mo Hua nodded.

Yu Chengyi's eyebrows twitched. He couldn't help but think in his heart, your divine sense is a bit outrageous, isn't it...

But thinking of Mo Hua being able to draw Grade 1 array methods, it was reasonable for his divine sense to be strong.

"I'm afraid you'll encounter danger, so I'm watching here for a bit," Yu Chengyi said.

Mo Hua looked around, puzzled: "What danger could there be here?"

This was a mine cave, and all the surrounding demon hunters were familiar.

Yu Chengyi coughed, "Just in case."

Mo Hua said: "Uncle Yu, you should go and be busy. Aren't you going to deal with the Qian family? You should still have quite a few things to do, right?"

If there was really nothing to do, digging a few pieces of spirit ore would also be fine. Why watch him...

Yu Chengyi thought silently in his heart: "Nothing is as important as you. If we lose spirit ore, my dad will only feel the pain for ten years. If we lose you, he probably has the heart to kill me..."

"It's nothing, you draw your array methods, just pretend I'm not here."

How could a big living person be treated as not here...

Mo Hua's eyes lit up, "Uncle Yu, if you have nothing to do, take me to look at the spirit ore inside."

He had been drawing array methods since entering the mine cave and hadn't seen what spirit ore looked like yet.

"Aren't you drawing array methods?"

"I'll draw after resting for a while."

Yu Chengyi thought for a bit and nodded: "Alright, I'll take you to see."

Mo Hua couldn't help but feel his spirits lift.

Yu Chengyi led Mo Hua and walked deeper into the mine cave.

The further they walked inside, the more humid it became, the earthy and fishy smell became heavier, and the spirit energy became richer and richer, almost condensing, appearing a faint blue color.

The mine cave echoed with the sound of "ding dang ding dang" everywhere.

This was the sound of mining picks digging for spirit ore.

Spirit stones grew together with mountain stones inside the spirit ore. To mine out the spirit stones, they had to rely on Body Cultivators using mining picks to chisel them out little by little.

The mined-out ore was raw ore. Its shape was irregular, and some contained mountain stones and other impurities. Generally, it couldn't be used directly, and cultivators couldn't refine it directly either.

These raw ores could be traded with the Dao Court department. According to a certain proportion, they could be exchanged for purified, standardized spirit stones.

These standardized spirit stones were the spirit stones used by cultivators for daily cultivation and transactions.

And the raw ores would then be uniformly processed and refined by the Dao Court.

Refining spirit ore into spirit stones was considered a special category of refining tools. The procedures were tedious, the methods were complex, and according to Dao laws, only the Dao Court had the qualification to refine spirit stones.

Any other families, sects, or individual cultivators were not allowed to refine them privately.

Violators would be held responsible by the Dao Court department. Serious cases would be considered rebellion and would suffer the suppression, or even extermination, of the Dao Court!

As Yu Chengyi walked, he introduced spirit ore-related cultivation knowledge to Mo Hua.

Mo Hua listened and suddenly realized that the Dao Court seemed to control spirit stones quite strictly.

For spirit mines occupied by families and sects, the Dao Court couldn't intervene, so it could only monitor and balance various major forces by controlling the refining procedures of terminal spirit stones.

Spirit stones were the lifeblood of cultivators. Controlling spirit stones could control the entire cultivation world.

Mo Hua asked again: "The spirit energy is so rich here, can I cultivate directly?"

"You can't," Yu Chengyi said. "The spirit energy here looks rich, but it's not pure. It's mixed with moisture, a fishy smell, and various accumulated mixed gases and foul gases over the years. Cultivating directly is easy to cause problems."

Mo Hua didn't quite understand, "What are moisture, a fishy smell, mixed gases, and foul gases?"

Yu Chengyi was stumped by the question. He thought in his heart, this child, Mo Hua, asks so many questions, and they are all so tricky...

He could only try to recall and explain according to his own understanding:

"Qi is similar to a kind of original power for cultivation. Spirit energy is the kind of qi closest to the origin and most pure among them. It can be absorbed by cultivators and is non-toxic and harmless. Cultivators' spirit power is obtained by refining spirit energy."

"Besides this, there are various other qis in the cultivation world. These qis are generally mixed, evil, or even filthy. Once cultivators refine them or suffer them entering their bodies, their blood energy, qi sea, or meridians will have all sorts of problems."

"More specifically, I'm not very clear, but you must be careful later and don't absorb other qis except spirit energy, otherwise you will have trouble."

"Okay." Mo Hua nodded repeatedly, silently remembering it in his heart.

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