Chapter 477: Little Zombie

Mo Hua wants to hide from Lu Xingyun and Zhang Quan, and secretly sneak into the altar of the Wan Shi Zhen. He needs to pass through two doors. One door is the main hall's door. The other door is the mural inside the main hall. The main hall's door is easier to handle, but the mural is very tricky. Firstly, he doesn't know exactly what hand seals Zhang Quan pinches and what incantations he recites. Zhang Quan also won't reveal them. Even if Zhang Quan tells him, Mo Hua is not sure if he can really open the mural by simply copying him.

That zombie mural, like the withered ink screen in Xing Shi Cun, should both be a type of door lock spiritual tool. Since it's a spiritual tool, it should have an array inside. This type of array is not a Five Elements array, and it's not within Mo Hua's area of expertise. Even if Mo Hua wants to solve it, he has no way to do so. Even if he could solve it, Lu Xingyun would definitely know. He managed to solve the visible dust array at the entrance, and Lu Xingyun discovered it, let alone this highly confidential door lock array on the zombie mural at the entrance of the altar outside the Wan Shi Zhen.

Forcibly breaking the array is even more impossible. The screen in Xing Shi Cun was smashed to pieces by Mo Hua with a thousand-jin rod. But this place is different from Xing Shi Cun, he can't do that kind of smash-and-grab job. Moreover, the corpse mine is sealed, so he can't run away either. If he smashed the mural and rushed into the altar, even if Lu Xingyun was a pig, he would know that Mo Hua had malicious intentions and was hiding something bad.

"What to do?" Mo Hua was a bit troubled. How to bypass the mural and enter the Wan Shi altar? When he had free time, he would just think about this problem. But he thought for a long time and couldn't find a good method, until one day, after he entered the mural, he discovered that Zhang Quan used a mechanism and the mural's door closed. Mo Hua was startled. A mechanism? This mural has a mechanism? He hadn't discovered it before. Mo Hua looked a few more times and found that the mechanism was a stone gate, simple and ordinary. If Zhang Quan hadn't used it, he wouldn't have noticed it. Mo Hua frowned. This means that coming in from outside this mural is very difficult. You need to know the method, you need to pinch seals, you need to recite incantations, you need to open the mural, and the zombie's big mouth needs to appear. But going out from the inside is very simple, just pull down the gate. Defend the outside but not the inside...

Mo Hua thought about it and felt it made sense. The only people who can come in are not Lu Xingyun, but Zhang Quan. Even Mo Hua, this half-outsider, is under their watch, so there's no need to worry. So they only need to guard against outsiders coming in, but they don't need to guard against people who have already come in. It's natural to set up obstacles outside. Setting up obstacles inside is unnecessary. Mo Hua is an array master, and his mind is always on complex arrays, so he didn't think that there could still be this kind of simple mechanism. This is like not seeing what's right under your nose. Mo Hua nodded and secretly reminded himself. He shouldn't have a biased view just because he is an array master, always only focusing on arrays. Complex problems can sometimes have simple solutions. If you want to enter the Wan Shi altar, you just need someone to pull down the gate... But Mo Hua was startled again. This problem seems simple, but... How to pull the gate? Who will pull the gate for him? He can't ask Lu Xingyun to help him open the gate, right? Mo Hua thought about it and realized again that he is an array master, and in most situations, he can only use arrays... This seemingly simple problem seems to still only be solvable with complex arrays.

In the following days, Mo Hua was always looking for an opportunity. Finally, one day, Lu Xingyun's array painting was halfway done, and he had some matters to attend to, so he went out for a while. Mo Hua immediately stood up and distanced himself from Zhang Quan. Zhang Quan frowned and said, "What are you doing?" "Distancing myself from you," Mo Hua said. Zhang Quan's gaze darkened, "What do you mean?" "I'm afraid you'll harm me," Mo Hua said righteously. Zhang Quan's hatred for him is not new, even a blind person could see it. Zhang Quan snorted coldly, "I'm not that petty." "That's hard to say. You know a person by their face but not their heart. Just by looking at your face, your heart is not right, and your belly must be hiding evil intentions." Zhang Quan's gaze was cold, "Little brat, you'd best not anger me." "What if I anger you?" Mo Hua snorted coldly, then in front of Zhang Quan, he cast a concealment technique, and his figure gradually disappeared. Zhang Quan was startled, then shocked. What did this little brat want to do? He looked around several times, but there was no sign of Mo Hua. His divine sense scanned, but there were no traces of Mo Hua either. He waited for a long time, and there was no movement in the surroundings. It seemed like he really just cast concealment to hide from him and not let him discover him.

Zhang Quan secretly hated, "This little brat, his vigilance is really too strong, he won't give me any opportunity!" Zhang Quan gritted his teeth and said to the surroundings, "Where are you?" "Come out!" "I will listen to Brother Lu's words and won't make things difficult for you, rest assured..." "Quickly come out..." Mo Hua naturally wouldn't pay attention to him. At this moment, in a remote corner of the Wan Shi Zhen, the hidden Mo Hua quietly opened a coffin. Although the Wan Shi Zhen is just a sub-array, it is derived from the Wan Shi Da Zhen, and its scale is very large. Inside the array, many coffins are still arranged. On top of the array, there is still a luxurious altar. Mo Hua is young and small, hidden, his breath concealed, and with the cover of the coffins and altar, Zhang Quan fundamentally couldn't find him. Inside the coffin, there was a small zombie, which Mo Hua had observed for several days and specifically selected. This zombie was not very old, estimated to be only seventeen or eighteen years old. It was just refined by Zhang Quan a few days ago, and the spiritual hub array on its chest had just been painted not long ago, and the array patterns were still very new. A seventeen or eighteen year old cultivator... He didn't know if he died in vain, or was harmed by corpse cultivators, or by the Lu family. After death, he was still refined into a zombie by them, doing evil deeds and being a lackey. Mo Hua sighed slightly in his heart.

Time was limited, so Mo Hua didn't sigh anymore and started to calm down and work on the spiritual hub array at the small zombie's heart pulse. Inside the spiritual hub array, there were some special array patterns. Mo Hua hadn't discovered this before. Because the spiritual hub arrays he painted himself were roughly all of the same type. After seeing the complete spiritual hub array diagram, he had been secretly watching Lu Xingyun paint arrays these days when he had free time, comparing them several times, and only then did he discover that he had overlooked some things in his previous understanding of spiritual hub arrays. Some detailed places he hadn't realized. This detail was the array patterns. Different types of spiritual hub arrays, or different spiritual hub arrays within the same type, all had a special array pattern that was different from others. Mo Hua had noticed it before, but hadn't thought deeply about it. Because this array pattern had no special meaning. No matter how it was painted, it seemed to not affect the operation of the spiritual hub array. But through his research these days and comparing it with most of the spiritual hub arrays inside the Wan Shi Zhen, Mo Hua gradually understood. This array pattern is very important, it is a sequence array pattern used to identify the identity of the spiritual hub array. It's similar to a kind of array pattern "code". The same spiritual hub array has the same type of sequence array patterns, namely the array pattern "code". Sequence array patterns of the same type have the same main body, but there are differences in details, or the strokes are increased or decreased, or the positions are forward or backward, used to distinguish sequences. The array pattern "code" is similar, and the spiritual hub array can be controlled in layers according to weights. Walking corpses, iron corpses, and the zombies inside bronze coffins all use the same type of "code" array patterns, but they advance layer by layer and divide weights, so they can be controlled uniformly.

However, the small tigers that Mo Hua painted were different. Mo Hua did indeed follow the body arrays of walking corpses and iron corpses at first. But Lu Xingyun used evil array methods, while Mo Hua used orthodox array methods. So the sequence array patterns on both sides were invisibly different. Lu Xingyun can control zombies, but he cannot control Mo Hua's small tigers. While Mo Hua can control small tigers, he similarly cannot control the zombies inside the corpse mine. Unless... he alters the sequence array patterns on the zombies' bodies. Altering sequence array patterns means altering the code, which is equivalent to altering permissions. What Mo Hua wants to alter now is the special sequence array pattern on the small zombie's body, which is used to distinguish weights and identify identity. Mo Hua only chose one small walking corpse. A walking corpse is not an iron corpse. Inside the corpse mine, there are numerous walking corpses, and there are also numerous bottom-layer array patterns in the sequences of spiritual hub arrays. One more or one less, Lu Xingyun fundamentally will not discover it. Of course, the more important reason is that Lu Xingyun fundamentally doesn't think that there will be other cultivators who can learn spiritual hub arrays. And who can secretly sneak into the corpse mine under his nose and tamper with his array pattern "code" in the Wan Shi Zhen. Those who can do it don't find it difficult; those who cannot, find it difficult. Altering a bottom-layer spiritual hub array pattern is as easy as turning a hand for Mo Hua. Mo Hua moved his small hand, and with three strokes and two brushes, he altered the array pattern. He removed this small zombie from the spiritual hub sequence of the Wan Shi Zhen. Then he added another array pattern. This array pattern is the sequence array pattern he uses on the body of the small tigers. By altering this array pattern, this small zombie is now like the small tigers, receiving the control of the spiritual hub array on the big tiger's body from Mo Hua. On the surface, it is still a zombie. But in the sequence of the spiritual hub array, it is no longer a "small zombie", but a "small tiger". Mo Hua finished altering the array pattern, then returned to his original position as if nothing had happened, picked up his pen, and continued to paint the array eye of the Wan Shi sub-array. He had been dragging the painting of this array eye, delaying it for a while. Now it was finally about to finish.

Zhang Quan was still shouting for Mo Hua to "come out". He looked again, and Mo Hua was already in his original place, concentrating on painting the arrays. Zhang Quan's gaze froze, "You didn't run?" Mo Hua said disdainfully, "Why would I run? You don't dare to touch me anyway." Zhang Quan was angry, "Then just now..." Mo Hua smiled and squinted his eyes, "I was a bit bored, just playing a trick on you." Immediately, he pouted again, "Who knew you were too stupid, like a fool, you couldn't find me at all, it was really not interesting." Zhang Quan was just about to get angry. Lu Xingyun had already appeared at the doorway. Zhang Quan could only suppress his anger and wanted to say bad things about Mo Hua to Lu Xingyun, but when he thought about it, as long as his words targeted Mo Hua, Lu Xingyun definitely wouldn't believe them. And Mo Hua seemed to have really not done anything... Hiding himself to tease him? Zhang Quan felt embarrassed saying such words. Zhang Quan could only reluctantly close his mouth. Lu Xingyun saw that their expressions were not harmonious, but he was not surprised and acted as if nothing had happened. And in a remote corner of this huge Wan Shi Zhen, in an ordinary coffin, the sequence array pattern on a small walking corpse's body had been tampered with. Lu Xingyun fundamentally had no way of knowing about this kind of matter.

In the evening, Mo Hua shook off Lu Xingyun's divine sense peek, then hid his figure again and quietly came to the main hall. The main hall's door was locked. Mo Hua released his divine sense, saw that there was no one around, then secretly controlled the big tiger with his divine sense. He had thrown the big tiger in the corner of the main hall during the daytime. At this time, receiving the guidance of Mo Hua's divine sense, it jumped onto the big door, pushed open the bolt, and opened the door for Mo Hua. The main hall's door was very simple. Opening the door from the inside would not trigger the array. Mo Hua walked into the big door, then came to the front of the mural. Then he controlled the big tiger with his divine sense again, and through the spiritual hub array on the big tiger's body, he connected with the spiritual hub array on the small zombie's body inside the Wan Shi Zhen. The sequence array patterns on both sides matched, and the array pattern "code" was similar. The big tiger could control the small zombie. This kind of indirect control was more obscure and not easy for Lu Xingyun to discover any clues. After a while, Mo Hua's divine sense moved slightly. He could perceive the connection between himself and the small zombie's array. Mo Hua then controlled the small zombie to push open the coffin lid, slowly climb up, then walk to the entrance and pull the gate on the wall. At the same time, on the mural, the ink traces became messy again, the layers gradually cleared, and it revealed a half-human, half-corpse face. This human face was majestic and harsh, its gaze greedy, revealing ferocity and terror. It opened its big mouth, forming the entrance to the mural. Mo Hua stared at this human face for a while, silently remembering this face, then his eyes lit up, and he stepped into the Wan Shi altar. Inside, there was the Wan Shi sub-array, a golden yellow altar, and bronze corpse coffins... During the daytime, there were people watching, and he was tied up. This time coming in at night, without anyone knowing, he could do as he pleased.

(End of this chapter)