Chapter 387: Thick Earth

In the following several days, Mo Hua was constantly poring over acre maps, researching the changes in the spiritual fields, and then comparing them with the current state of the spiritual fields. He was calculating the array structure.

Bai Zi Sheng and Bai Zi Xi were also helping.

The three of them each took a portion of the acre maps and restored them.

After restoring them, they would compare notes together, and finally, Mo Hua would analyze and calculate to confirm.

This saved a lot of effort.

Inside the spacious main room, the three of them set up a table, drawing on one side and calculating on the other.

After five or six days of effort, they finally preliminarily organized and calculated the array diagram of this formation.

And this formation indeed contained eleven array patterns.

It was a genuine, first-grade, eleven-pattern absolute array!

The array patterns were mainly earth-elemental, and the brushwork differed from ordinary standard array patterns, having a sense of ancient, clumsy profoundness.

The array hub structure was also much more complex than ordinary first-grade arrays.

Bai Zi Sheng looked on with admiration, "This is an absolute array..."

Bai Zi Xi also watched intently, unconsciously tracing a few lines with her fair fingers, but as she watched, she felt a wave of dizziness. Her brows furrowed slightly, and her body slowly swayed.

Mo Hua quickly supported her, saying with concern, "Little senior sister, are you alright?"

Bai Zi Sheng also hurriedly asked, "Zi Xi, what's wrong?"

Bai Zi Xi came back to her senses, her face slightly red, and said softly, "Divine sense is excessively consumed..."

She had never seen an absolute array before, and Mr. Zhuang had not taught her, so she was temporarily curious and sketched a bit in her mind.

But she hadn't expected that absolute arrays consumed so much divine sense.

She had only comprehended up to the ninth array pattern, and then comprehended half of one more, and her divine sense was almost exhausted.

Afterwards, Bai Zi Xi's beautiful eyes shifted slightly, looking at Mo Hua, and she asked curiously, "This array... can you learn it?"

Mo Hua blinked his eyes, "I also can't learn..."

Bai Zi Xi silently looked at Mo Hua, "Tell me the truth."

Mo Hua then said somewhat awkwardly, "Reluctantly, I can learn a little..."

That meant he could learn it...

Bai Zi Xi sighed softly in her heart.

This little junior brother of hers, his divine sense was already frighteningly deep.

His array comprehension was also very good; he could calculate this kind of absolute array based on clues.

It was no wonder Master valued him so much.

Seeing Mo Hua's concerned eyes, a warmth was born in Bai Zi Xi's heart again.

She had grown up this big, and besides her elder brother and Aunt Xue, this was the first time someone looked at her with such clear, concerned eyes.

Mo Hua was her only little junior brother.

He was also the first person to call her "senior sister."

She felt she needed to fulfill the responsibility of being a senior sister.

Bai Zi Xi hesitated a bit, stretched out her fair, tender hand, patted Mo Hua's shoulder, and said with earnest words, "You must learn arrays well."

Mo Hua and she had become apprentices together, learned things together, and spent quite a long time together.

Bai Zi Xi was also very familiar with Mo Hua.

She knew that in other cultivation paths, even if her little junior brother put in the effort and spent time researching, he wouldn't make much progress.

But arrays were different.

In the future, Mo Hua might truly be able to rely on arrays to have his own place in the cultivation world, which was like a forest of geniuses.

He could rely on himself to cultivate continuously and seek longevity.

Bai Zi Xi had changed in appearance, looking delicate and pretty, and although not as absolutely beautiful as before, her eyes were still just as good-looking.

In her ethereal gaze, Mo Hua's figure was reflected, containing several parts concern and expectation.

It was the eyes of a little senior sister concerned about her little junior brother.

Mo Hua was momentarily speechless.

Bai Zi Sheng also chimed in from the side, "Listen to your senior sister, she's right!"

Mo Hua gave him a glare.

Bai Zi Sheng had a look of indifference.

He silently looked at the array diagram again; just one glance and he felt a headache.

Eleven array patterns, the divine sense strength catching up to a second-grade array, he really didn't know what it was for.

Bai Zi Sheng furrowed his brows, realizing a problem, and he asked Mo Hua:

"Old ancestor of the Sun family, was he a second-grade array master?"

"Yes," Mo Hua nodded.

"Then why didn't he draw a second-grade array in the spiritual fields? A second-grade array should have a stronger effect," Bai Zi Sheng asked.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and explained:

"A second-grade array has a stronger effect, but it requires more spiritual power to operate and consumes more spirit stones. Ordinary Qi Refining loose cultivators fundamentally cannot afford it."

"Moreover, the effect of this array is special. General second-grade arrays do not have this function."

"Even if they do, that would also have to be a second-grade absolute array, and a second-grade absolute array is even more difficult..."

Bai Zi Sheng suddenly understood, nodded, "Then you quickly learn it and see if this array is useful."

"Mm."

In the following days, Mo Hua began to learn this absolute array.

But this array seemed a bit special.

Mo Hua practiced several times during the daytime, but his progress was very little.

Only when comprehending on the Dao Stele in the evening did he seem to be able to feel the flow of qi within the array, gaining a deeper understanding of the array.

After several days, Mo Hua could already completely sketch out the array on the Dao Stele.

But during the daytime, as soon as he put pen to paper, the entire array seemed to lose its rhythm.

His divine sense was indeed consumed, and the array patterns were all drawn correctly.

But the array on the paper seemed to have form but no spirit, and he couldn't perceive the flow of spiritual power either.

The three of them were all a bit puzzled.

Bai Zi Sheng propped up his chin, "Could it be that the array was calculated incorrectly?"

Bai Zi Xi shook her head, "Not wrong."

"Then is it drawn wrong?" Bai Zi Sheng guessed again, then he denied it himself, "Not right, not drawn wrong."

Mo Hua's array drawings were always precise; there would be no mistakes.

Moreover, the three of them had all checked it, and they hadn't found any problems.

The three of them looked at each other.

Mo Hua sighed, "It seems I can only ask Master."

Mr. Zhuang was in the courtyard, sitting on a bamboo chair, basking in the sun.

This chair seemed to be the bamboo chair that Mr. Zhuang often sat on in the Sitting and Forgetting Dwelling; Mr. Zhuang was nostalgic and brought the chair along all the way.

In the spacious courtyard, Mr. Zhuang closed his eyes to rest, or perhaps he was comprehending the Dao.

Mo Hua did not disturb Mr. Zhuang and stood waiting by the side for a while.

In less than a moment, Mr. Zhuang opened his eyes and gently beckoned to Mo Hua.

Mo Hua's eyes lit up, and he then stepped forward and handed the drawn absolute array to Mr. Zhuang.

Mr. Zhuang took it, looked at it once, his expression slightly surprised, and his eyes showed praise, saying:

"Not bad."

"Master, is this the array?"

"Yes," Mr. Zhuang nodded.

Mo Hua's expression brightened.

Mr. Zhuang saying so meant that he hadn't calculated incorrectly.

"But why, I clearly drew it out, but this array seems to have no effect?"

Mo Hua said puzzled.

"That is because..." Mr. Zhuang smiled slightly, "You still don't know the name of this formation."

Mo Hua was slightly startled, "Name?"

The Sun family's inheritance didn't mention it, or rather, the Sun family fundamentally didn't have the inheritance of this absolute array, so it was naturally impossible to know the name of this array.

Inside and outside Qian Family Town, there were also no related records whatsoever.

"Master, what is the name of this array?" Mo Hua couldn't help but ask.

Mr. Zhuang didn't keep him in suspense and slowly opened his mouth, saying:

"This array is named... Thick Earth Array."

"Thick Earth?"

Mr. Zhuang nodded slightly.

Mo Hua was a bit confused, "Why is it called this name?"

Mr. Zhuang's gaze became slightly serious, and he said with deep meaning:

"The array contains the ultimate principles of heaven and earth."

"Heaven operates with ceaseless self-strengthening; the Earth is in the position of Kun, with thick virtue carrying things."

"This array is named Thick Earth Array; it takes the character 'thick' from 'thick virtue carrying things'."

Mr. Zhuang looked at the continuous spiritual fields in the distance and the sprouting spiritual rice, and sighed, saying:

"Heaven gives birth to all things, and earth nurtures all things."

"Heaven is the Dao, and earth is also the Dao."

"This Thick Earth Array, what it upholds, is the earth dao of 'earth nurtures all things', which can make the land fertile and nourish all things."

Mo Hua suddenly realized, then immediately frowned again:

"But what does this have to do with the array not taking effect?"

"Think again?" Mr. Zhuang did not answer.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and slowly said, "Thick Earth Array... That is to say, it must use 'earth' as the array medium?"

Mr. Zhuang nodded slightly:

"Accurately speaking, it uses 'ground' as the array medium."

"In an array, the array medium is the easiest to overlook. Even array masters often don't pay too much attention to the array medium, thinking that the array medium is purely just the carrier of the array..."

"But an array is originally a whole; the array medium is also an inseparable part of the array itself and also contains certain array principles."

"Especially using 'ground' as the array medium, it itself is a kind of comprehension of the great Dao; not all array masters can comprehend it."

"What covers one is heaven, and what carries one is earth."

"Cultivators born in the world, without exception, have heaven above their heads and earth beneath their feet."

"If you can learn the Thick Earth Array, and through this comprehend the principle of 'thick virtue carrying things', and know how to use 'ground' as the array medium, then from now on, any array you draw will have a carrier."

"The array medium of the array will not restrict you."

Mr. Zhuang's eyes showed anticipation as he spoke.

Mo Hua was suddenly enlightened, and his heart was shocked.

He originally thought it was just an absolute array for nourishing the land in the spiritual fields, but he hadn't expected that the array principles contained within it were actually so profound.

Things within things contain arrays, and within arrays, the great Dao is hidden.

The earth is in the position of Kun, with thick virtue carrying things.

The great earth carries all things and can also carry arrays.

Comprehend the Thick Earth Array and understand the principles within it; then the boundless great earth can all be used as an array medium.

Heaven's covering, earth's reaching, all can be used to draw arrays!