Chapter 166: Earth and Stone Array

The next day, Qian Hong met with Elder Yu.

From inside the mine tunnel, Mo Hua poked his head out and secretly observed. He recognized Qian Hong at a glance.

Qian Hong was Qian Xing's father. Mo Hua had exploded Qian Xing with the ground fire array. Mo Hua knew what Qian Xing looked like, and since father and son had similar appearances, Qian Hong was also very easy to recognize.

Moreover, even without looking at their faces, among the Qian family cultivators, the only two Foundation Establishment cultivators were easily identifiable.

Qian Zhongxuan just stood beside Qian Hong. Although both were Foundation Establishment cultivators, Qian Hong clearly had a more superior demeanor.

Qian Zhongxuan's facial lines were just deep, making him look serious. In terms of presence, he was far less imposing than Qian Hong, the high-ranking head of the Qian family.

Mo Hua then asked curiously: "Elder, why do you say Qian Hong is an 'old turtle'?"

At least based on his appearance, Qian Hong could be considered arrogant and handsome, with an extraordinary demeanor.

Elder Yu said: "You want to know?"

Mo Hua nodded.

"Alright, just watch later."

Watch? Watch what?

Mo Hua was a little confused.

After a while, the two sides confronted each other. Elder Yu held his saber and stood in a horse stance at the entrance of the mountainside cave, directly scolding Qian Hong and Qian Zhongxuan.

He scolded the two of them from head to toe.

Qian Zhongxuan was so angry that he trembled, but Qian Hong's expression remained as usual, as if he hadn't heard anything.

Elder Yu stopped to rest when he was tired of scolding. He said to Mo Hua: "Understand now, right?"

Mo Hua nodded and exclaimed:

"He really is an 'old turtle'. He can really endure!"

Being scolded by Elder Yu like that, his expression was unexpectedly unchanged, not making a sound, and not even moving his eyebrows slightly.

"To put it nicely, this is called deep scheming. To put it not nicely, it's shameless," Elder Yu said.

Mo Hua then said: "Elder, won't provoking him like this be bad?"

Elder Yu said disdainfully: "It's the same whether we provoke him or not. As long as there are benefits, he is heartless. Don't think that if you don't provoke him, he will show mercy."

Mo Hua nodded and asked again: "Are we going to fight them next?"

Elder Yu sighed: "It's best not to fight. We've fought for too long, and the long war has worn us out. Yet they change wave after wave. If we start a direct war again, it will be unfavorable to us. Moreover, we don't have much food left, nor many pills for healing."

"Do you want to run?"

"That's right."

"How do we run? There are many Qian family cultivators now. We can't easily escape, can we?" Mo Hua furrowed his brow.

"Originally, I thought that if we defeated the Qian family, we could openly and justly transport the spiritual mine out. Now the Qian family cultivators are like locusts, wave after wave, and the old turtle Qian Hong has personally come. This way is impossible."

Elder Yu said, "Our only way is to dig another mine path and quietly slip away."

Mo Hua was stunned for a moment, "Mine path? Can we dig it in time now?"

Elder Yu sighed, "Hard to say. We need to try to hold the cave entrance and drag out more time."

Mo Hua nodded, but felt that it would be difficult to hold.

The mine tunnel was indeed not easy to hold.

Thereafter, the Qian family attacked at irregular intervals every day, neither seeking merit nor lingering in battle. They were purely trying to wear down the demon hunters' fighting spirit.

At the same time, they held the demon hunters, not allowing them to have any other actions.

Elder Yu needed to have people defend the cave entrance, have people mine spiritual mine, and also have people dig another mine path for escape.

For a while, he was a bit overwhelmed.

Mo Hua was also a little worried, but there was no good way.

One day, Elder Yu suddenly found Mo Hua and asked somewhat helplessly: "Mo Hua, is there any array that can seal the mine cave?"

Since they couldn't hold it, it was better to completely seal it. This way, the Qian family couldn't get in, and they could dig out the mine path and get out.

"Completely seal it?"

"Just leave one or two openings."

Mo Hua thought for a moment, his eyes lit up, and he said: "Yes!"

He thought of an array that could reinforce soil and stone and seal the cave entrance. He had seen it in the array book given by Mr. Zhuang.

Elder Yu's spirits lifted, "Can you draw it now?"

"No," Mo Hua shook his head, "I haven't learned it yet."

Elder Yu sighed, "Then I'll let everyone persist a little longer. You learn first, don't need to rush..."

Elder Yu was actually very anxious in his heart.

A short time was still okay, but if it was for a long time, consuming like this with the Qian family, every day would be torment. The Qian family had supplies and manpower, but they didn't.

But Elder Yu didn't want to put pressure on Mo Hua. Mo Hua had already helped a lot.

Elder Yu also knew that arrays were not easy to learn. Many array masters learned arrays, and it was normal for it to take ten days to half a month. Otherwise, array masters wouldn't be so rare.

Elder Yu was a little hesitant in his heart.

He didn't know how long it would take for Mo Hua to learn this array. If it took ten days to half a month, they might not be able to persist. Perhaps they still needed to think of other ways.

Elder Yu got up to leave, but in the end, he couldn't hold back and softly said:

"Mo Hua, I'm not rushing you, I'm just asking, how long will it take you to learn this array?"

Mo Hua thought for a moment, pondered, and said:

"At the earliest, tomorrow morning. At the latest, the morning after tomorrow."

It was not an obscure first-rank array. Mo Hua learned quite quickly now. He memorized the array patterns during the day and practiced on the Dao Stele in the evening. If he couldn't learn it in one night, two nights would be enough.

Elder Yu's mouth opened.

He felt that his many earlier thoughts were a bit redundant, and his mood fluctuated greatly. For a while, his expression was complex, "You array masters, do you all learn arrays so fast?"

Mo Hua chuckled a bit, "Probably not all."

"Then it's this child Mo Hua who learns fast..." Elder Yu looked at Mo Hua and said silently in his heart.

No matter what, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, there was enough time.

Elder Yu relaxed a breath, "Then you learn slowly. I won't disturb you." After that, he left with a relaxed expression.

Mo Hua then opened the Thousand Arrays Illustrated Record and flipped through it to find an array. This array contained nine earth element array patterns and was named the first-rank Earth Stone Array.

The Earth Stone Array was a type of first-rank earth element array that could make soil and stone melt and solidify together, becoming harder.

The array patterns were not difficult. Mo Hua looked at them a few times and roughly remembered them. And at this time, it was still early in the day, with several hours until Zi Shi.

At Zi Shi, Mo Hua could enter his sea of consciousness and practice arrays on the Dao Stele.

"What should I do now?"

Mo Hua propped his small cheek and thought.

He was already familiar with the array patterns. Looking at them a few more times was just that.

Mo Hua simply took out paper and brush, wanting to draw the first-rank Earth Stone Array on paper a few times to see.

Usually, when Mo Hua learned arrays, he would first practice on the Dao Stele to become familiar, and then draw on paper, so as not to waste paper and ink.

But now it seemed not the time to care about this paper and ink.

Mo Hua directly started drawing the first-rank Earth Stone Array on paper.

Sure enough, as expected, the first one he drew failed.

Mo Hua was a little regretful, but not heartbroken. After all, he had previously saved more than a thousand bottles of demon blood, so he was not lacking in spirit ink now.

Mo Hua started drawing the second one, which still failed.

The third one failed again.

Mo Hua summarized a bit, calmed his mindset, continued to draw, and then as he drew, he unexpectedly succeeded naturally...

Mo Hua tried to inject some spiritual power, and the array patterns also lit up, emitting a faint gray light.

He just succeeded?

Mo Hua was happy for a moment, and then felt a little... bland.

He originally wanted to spend an evening practicing the Earth Stone Array, but the result was that evening had not yet arrived, and he had already learned it.

"Then what should I learn tonight?"

Mo Hua scratched his head, flipped through the messy array books beside him, and unintentionally saw an array:

First-rank Earth Wood Restoration Array.

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