Chapter 766: Control

The Yuan Magnetic Spirit Vision Array is a second-grade array method with seventeen patterns.

The Yuan Magnetic Spirit Vision Complex Array is a second-grade complex array with eighteen patterns.

Mo Painting's divine sense was just at the peak of seventeen patterns, a little short of eighteen patterns.

Logically, a little short is still short.

If your divine sense doesn't reach eighteen patterns, you can't learn complex arrays with eighteen patterns.

But Mo Painting was a bit special.

His divine sense had undergone a qualitative change, his foundation was deep, he drew array methods every day, his divine thoughts were refined a thousand times, so now he would occasionally "slightly exceed the standard" and learn some array methods that he couldn't originally learn with his divine sense realm.

What's more, the Yuan Magnetic Complex Array in Ten Thousand Monster Valley had a foundation.

They were built well first, then destroyed.

As long as one could re-"repair" them based on the previous foundation and perfect them a little according to their own needs, it would be fine.

The first problem was the array hub.

For large-scale integrated array methods like great arrays and complex arrays, the core is the array hub.

The array hub determines the layout, structure, system, spiritual power flow direction, and so on of the array method.

Controlling the array hub means controlling the overall context of the complex array.

"Let me first find out where the core array hub is..."

Mo Painting deduced in reverse based on several abandoned Yuan Magnetic Spirit Vision Arrays, using the array pattern and the anti-push spiritual power flow direction.

As his mind deduced the spiritual power flow direction, Mo Painting's gaze scanned the stone wall, and finally, in a corner of the wall, he found a sealed opening.

Mo Painting pointed his finger, and spiritual ink, controlled by his divine sense, condensed into a silk thread, wound up to the corner of the wall, and formed a Stone Dissolving Array.

The Stone Dissolving Array is an eight trigrams Gen system array method that can silently dissolve mountain stone.

The mountain stone dissolved, turned into powder, and fell with a rustling sound, exposing a channel inside.

This channel was specially opened and chiseled out to build the array hub of the Yuan Magnetic Spirit Vision Complex Array, making it accessible in all directions and spreading to all corners to monitor the entire Ten Thousand Monster Prison.

When the Yuan Magnetic Complex Array was abandoned, this channel was also covered.

Generally, non-array master cultivators, or array masters who are not proficient in the Yuan Magnetic array method and are not familiar with Daoist architecture and complex array construction, would not discover these things.

But it was obviously impossible to hide from Mo Painting.

Mo Painting thought for a moment and slowly drilled into the array hub channel.

Ten Thousand Monster Valley is very big.

Therefore, the Yuan Magnetic Complex Array built to monitor the entire Ten Thousand Monster Valley was also quite large, and the array hub channel was also relatively wide.

Demon cultivators definitely couldn't drill into this channel.

But Mo Painting could.

Although he had grown a bit and was a small teenager, he was still weak and slender, which was just convenient for drilling into these array hub channels.

Inside the channel was narrow, dark, and smelled a bit unpleasant, and there was a lot of dust.

Mo Painting only crawled along the channel for a while, and his whole body was dirty.

His fair face was also stained black.

However, he didn't mind.

After crawling for a while, Mo Painting took out paper and pen, recorded the direction and pattern of the array hub, and in his mind, simulated the construction of the array method near the entire Ten Thousand Monster Prison.

Then, based on the pattern simulated in his mind, he continued to explore forward little by little.

If he encountered a channel sealed by earth and stone, he would just draw a Stone Dissolving Array to dredge it little by little.

Mo Painting went deeper and deeper...

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, a spacious channel, almost wide enough to stand and walk in, appeared in front of him.

Inside, various Yuan Magnetic array method lines were densely engraved.

This was almost the central hub summary of the Yuan Magnetic flow direction.

Mo Painting's spirit vibrated.

"Found it!"

The array hub secret room.

The core of all array hub summaries and controls in the Yuan Magnetic Spirit Vision Complex Array.

But this secret room was also completely sealed.

It was not only covered with earth and stone, but also reinforced with several layers of array methods inside.

Mo Painting sighed slightly.

"It will take a little effort..."

However, he looked around, and the array methods were not too difficult, and the earth and stone could also be ground away little by little using the "Stone Dissolving Array."

It just required some time and patience.

The thing array masters lack most is not meticulousness and patience.

Mo Painting took out the Taixu Order, sent Xun Elder a heavenly stem earthly branch number "Ding Mao", and after receiving a reply, he began to calm his heart and little by little solve the array, break the wall...

In the dark channel, Mo Painting's expression was focused, his eyes bright.

After probably more than an hour, the array method in front of him flashed, stone chips flew, and the sealed stone wall broke open like paper.

Mo Painting covered his mouth and nose, getting another layer of dust.

When the dust settled, Mo Painting opened his eyes and saw a secret room full of array methods, strange but somewhat familiar.

Strange, because he had never been to this secret room before.

Familiar, because he had seen this kind of secret room pattern before.

The array hub secret room of that "Yuan Master" in Bi Shan Demon Cave was almost carved from the same mold as this one.

This should be the same handiwork.

At least it was the same construction system.

Now Mo Painting could probably confirm that this Ten Thousand Monster Valley was one of the base points of the evil god's minions.

"I just don't know why they clearly built a whole set of Yuan Magnetic Complex Arrays to monitor but then completely abandoned them..."

Mo Painting shook his head and jumped into the array hub secret room.

The secret room was dark and gloomy, full of dust.

The core array hub inside and all the array methods had already stopped being used.

And the big door leading from the secret room to the outside was also sealed even more tightly, as if they wanted to permanently seal this array hub secret room and prevent anyone from entering again.

Mo Painting was a little fortunate.

Fortunately, he had "dug" his way in from the array hub channel, otherwise, if he had tried the front door, he probably wouldn't have been able to get in for a lifetime.

Now everything was ready.

The basic framework of the Yuan Magnetic array hub had already been built by others.

All he had to do was "rebuild" it little by little.

Mo Painting took out some spirit stones, ground them into powder, and injected pure spiritual power into the array hub, stimulating a little array hub cycle.

The array hub lit up a little, then went out again.

Mo Painting exhaled, "Still good, it can be used..."

He sat in his original spot, pondered for a moment, and then gradually came up with a plan.

This array hub was too big, even bigger than the one in Bi Shan Demon Cave.

With his power alone, under the watchful eyes of a crowd of demon cultivators, it was fundamentally impossible to completely rebuild it.

Since that was the case, he could only light it up point by point on a small scale.

Mo Painting again took out the array diagram of the Yuan Magnetic Spirit Vision Complex Array from his storage bag, "reviewed" it again, and then began to start the complex array total control array hub in the secret room.

The total control array hub was built on a large array disk.

Mo Painting injected spiritual power and accessed his divine sense, trying five or six times, and finally, a blue light flashed on the array disk, and the Yuan Magnetic spiritual power silently began to operate.

"Total control array hub activated..."

Mo Painting then returned to the original path along the array hub channel without stopping, found a hidden place, took out his pen and ink, restored a nearby Yuan Magnetic Spirit Vision Array, and connected it to the total control array hub.

After that, Mo Painting crawled back and made adjustments on the total control array hub.

After debugging like this several times, the front suddenly flashed, and a pale blue Yuan Magnetic flow passed by...

Mo Painting could clearly perceive that the total array hub controlled by his divine sense extended a "Yuan Magnetic tentacle", which constantly spread outwards along the array hub structure and finally connected to a terminal.

After that, the magnetic flow in front of his eyes lit up and went out.

The Yuan Magnetic flickered like snowflakes, and then gradually became clear, outlining an illusory image.

In the image, everything was blue.

He could only see the outline of mountains, stones, walls, and prisons condensed by magnetic force.

Occasionally, a remnant shadow would walk by.

This was a patrolling demon cultivator.

"Success!"

A bright smile appeared on Mo Painting's dirty face.

This kind of pale blue Yuan Magnetic vision field is similar to the divine sense vision field, so it doesn't display the external appearance of things, but observes the existence state of many "qi power" inside.

For example, spiritual qi, spiritual power, demon qi, demon power, and the aura of everything in heaven and earth, and so on.

But it's different from peeking with divine sense.

In the divine sense vision field, what is seen is a more direct aura, and the spiritual power is colorful.

While the Yuan Magnetic Spirit Vision Array re-projects these auras with Yuan Magnetic and forms images and screens.

Therefore, everything in the spirit vision array is a reappearance of magnetic patterns and is pale blue.

Indeed, you still need to actually lay out some array methods to see the effect, and your understanding will be deeper...

Mo Painting silently said in his heart.

"Good, this is the first one!"

Next, "rebuild" several more spirit hub arrays.

Come step by step, and strive to include most of the area of Ten Thousand Monster Prison under the monitor of the spirit vision complex array.

In this way, even if he just sits still, the array method can replace his eyes and control the movements of most demon cultivators.

Estimating that the time was probably right, Mo Painting sent another heavenly stem earthly branch to Xun Elder in succession.

Then he set about repairing the second Yuan Magnetic Spirit Vision Array.

Then the third one...

Time passed bit by bit, and Mo Painting crawled back and forth in the array hub channel.

Under the eyes of the demon cultivators, he repaired one by one abandoned spirit vision arrays and then connected them to the array hub.

This system, which the demon cultivators had abandoned and used for monitoring, was being repaired by Mo Painting step by step and turned into his own use.

Although the process was tedious, Mo Painting was busy and happy.

Especially, every time he lit up a spirit vision array, his "vision" would open a little wider, and he could peek at a little more of the enemy situation.

His monitoring of Ten Thousand Monster Valley also became a layer more meticulous.

This seemed like a "monitoring" game.

Mo Painting played with more and more interest, and became more and more invested.

For a moment, he almost forgot that he was in the Ten Thousand Monster Valley, a dangerous place full of fierce beasts and demon cultivators...

Until he lit up nearly twenty more spirit vision arrays.

A small half of the area in Ten Thousand Monster Prison was covered by the array method's monitor, and Mo Painting still reluctantly stopped.

He couldn't help but stop; he was already exhausted.

His divine sense was depleted, his physical strength was also somewhat unsustainable, and worst of all, his spiritual power dried up even faster than his divine sense.

Drawing array methods mainly consumes divine sense, and also consumes a small part of spiritual power.

But as Mo Painting's divine sense became stronger and stronger, his recovery became faster and faster, and the array methods he drew became more and more difficult and numerous.

His spiritual power was consumed even faster than his divine sense, and sometimes it even seemed like he was "catching up and running short."

"An array master who runs out of spiritual power before divine sense when drawing array methods, I guess I'm the first..."

Mo Painting secretly complained in his heart.

Subsequently, he sent another heavenly stem earthly branch to Xun Elder, and then said:

"Elder, I'm a little sleepy, I want to sleep, three hours, four hours... I'll send you a message after that..."

Outside Ten Thousand Monster Valley.

Looking at the blood-colored mountain valley, Xun Zi You, who was worried, uneasy, and didn't dare to close his eyes, saw the message Mo Painting sent, and couldn't help but say in his heart:

"How can this child not have a little sense of crisis?"

"Inside is Ten Thousand Monster Valley!"

"At your age, with your cultivation, in this situation, you're mixed in there, how can you sleep soundly!!"

Xun Zi You sighed deeply, feeling very helpless.

It was really that the little ancestor wasn't anxious, but he, as the "grandson", was anxious...

In Ten Thousand Monster Valley, Mo Painting slept soundly.

Because he was trapped in the valley and didn't know the time, Mo Painting couldn't sink into his Sea of Consciousness and practice array methods on the Dao Monument while sleeping.

After waking up, Mo Painting was full of energy.

His divine sense, spiritual power, and physical strength were all completely restored.

Mo Painting checked the Yuan Magnetic Complex Array again, nodded, and was very satisfied.

Although this Yuan Magnetic Complex Array was "rebuilt" on an existing basis, Mo Painting still learned many things during this process.

Overall, the harvest was very large.

With the preliminary construction of the Yuan Magnetic Complex Array, he could proceed with the next step.

"But... what should I do next?"

Mo Painting was suddenly a little stunned.

There were still quite a few things he wanted to do, but looking at the current situation, none of them seemed feasible.

Either he didn't have the ability yet.

Or he lacked certain conditions.

Or he wasn't familiar enough with the situation in Ten Thousand Monster Valley...

Mo Painting pondered for a moment and said in his heart:

"Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated. Let me first observe a little, see what these demon cultivators do every day, and then consider what to do next..."

Afterward, Mo Painting first took out the Taixu Order and asked Xun Elder:

"Elder, I'm awake."

Then he took out some dried meat and melons from his storage bag and ate them.

After filling his belly, he began to concentrate, accessing his divine sense to the spirit vision array hub to observe the movements of these demon cultivators.

The perspective in the spirit vision array was all composed of pale blue spiritual magnetic forces.

At first, Mo Painting was still not used to it.

But the more he looked, the more he gradually grasped the knack.

He could probably glance at the twenty-odd Yuan Magnetic spirit vision maps and know what the actual picture was in the corresponding spirit vision map and what exactly was happening inside.

In this way, Mo Painting "secretly watched" for a long time with relish, and finally discovered a somewhat unusual trace.

This was a demon cultivator.

In the Yuan Magnetic Spirit Vision Array, he could only see his fuzzy Yuan Magnetic image and couldn't see his face, but he could vaguely judge that he was tall and different from other demon cultivators.

Other demon cultivators were either patrolling, guarding the prison, excavating mountain caves, or feeding demon beasts... they all had things to do.

Only this demon cultivator did nothing; at a glance, he was a "manager."

Moreover, his aura felt very familiar to Mo Painting.

Mo Painting guessed that he was the demon cultivator "manager" who had cut off the little fingers of the three people from Cut off Small Wood and looked very fierce and powerful.

Nearby, at least in the area Mo Painting monitored, there seemed to be only this one "manager."

"Manager..."

Mo Painting's heart moved, and he silently stared at this manager.

He spent some time observing and summarizing the manager's daily route, and then perfected the nearby Yuan Magnetic Spirit Vision Array according to this route.

In this way, every move of this manager was under his "monitoring."

But the Yuan Magnetic Spirit Vision Array could only see, not hear sounds.

Mo Painting then selected the corresponding array hub nodes in the array hub channel that reached in all directions, and squatted nearby in advance to see if he could secretly overhear anything.

But demon cultivators, these things that are neither human nor demon, are a bit abnormal.

They cultivate demon skills and face the problem of demonization at all times, not only active demonization but also passive demonization.

Their divine sense is also constantly affected.

Their humanity is also gradually eroded by demon nature.

This is why they can't speak normally.

Sometimes they talk and talk, then start to laugh coldly, drool, tear and bite each other, and even go inexplicably mad.

This demon cultivator manager had a special identity and considered himself a grade higher than "people."

Most of the words he said were commands, and he didn't seem to like to explain.

Mo Painting listened secretly from the side and could get some information, but it wasn't much, nor was it key, and it didn't help much.

But after observing for a long time, Mo Painting couldn't help but have another doubt:

How exactly does the demon cultivator manager "manage"?

These demon cultivators are crazy and unruly.

If they don't go mad, it's fine; they can still be honest and obey orders.

Once they fall ill, their demon nature bursts out, and they have little reason, how can they still "obey orders"?

It's already good if they don't cause trouble...

Mo Painting put himself in their shoes and thought for a moment, supposing he was a demon cultivator, where would he be willing to be controlled by others?

Once his mad nature erupts, he should kill whoever he should kill, and eat whoever he should eat.

If he dies, he dies.

"These demon cultivators, who are clearly transformed from demon beasts and have wiped out not a little humanity, are still so 'slavish'?"

"There must be a problem..."

Mo Painting stared at the manager demon cultivator.

The secret was probably hidden in the body of this manager demon cultivator.

Since he is the manager, he must have some means to "control" other demon cultivators, otherwise what does he rely on to "manage things"?

Afterward, Mo Painting patiently stared for a long time again, discovering that some Foundation Establishment peak demon cultivators, who were powerful, were also very humble to this "manager," which further solidified his guess.

There must be something fishy about this manager.

Finally, after staring for nearly a whole day, Mo Painting saw the fishy part.

A demon cultivator fell ill.

This demon cultivator was patrolling, when suddenly his whole body twitched, he curled up on the ground, twisted non-stop, and let out an unclear ferocious roar.

Then he suddenly demonized and turned into a "werewolf" with crazy eyes and pus flowing from his mouth.

This werewolf's demon power was quite strong, and the pus flowing from his body carried strong poison. He pounced and killed other demon cultivators everywhere, causing chaos.

The other demon cultivators couldn't suppress him for a while.

Just at this time, the manager came, took out a black banner, and urged his demon power, and the blood patterns on the black banner were full.

At the same time, red lines also flashed on the body of the sick werewolf.

These lines were like spider webs, densely packed, climbing all over the werewolf's back, and then, like branding irons, deeply branded into his flesh.

The "werewolf" seemed to be enduring immense pain, howling non-stop, as if tearing his heart and lungs.

His body's demon power also turned into a cage, binding himself.

The werewolf lay on the ground, still struggling, his fingertips tearing the ground, scratching out paths of cracks.

After a moment, the demonization retreated, and then he fainted on the ground.

The manager spat out a curse and said coldly:

"It must be that they couldn't help but eat too much demon meat, accumulated too much demon power, went to their heads, and couldn't control themselves..."

A demon cultivator beside him then said: "If there's no human meat to eat, it's like this. If you eat a little more human meat to neutralize a little demon power, perhaps it would be better..."

"Human meat? I still want to eat it..." The manager sneered and instructed, "Lock him in the prison, brand him with a branding iron, let him eat a little bitterness, and sober up a little."

"Yes, manager."

After giving the instructions, the manager demon cultivator left with his hands behind his back.

The remaining demon cultivators pressed the "sick" werewolf into the prison to be punished.

Mo Painting was slightly startled.

"Black banner..."

In this Ten Thousand Monster Valley, so many demon cultivators were originally controlled through that black demon banner.

They used the strong force of the demon banner to manage the demon cultivators and prevent them from losing control, rebelling, and disobeying orders.

And just now, when the manager urged the demon banner, Mo Painting could clearly perceive that a very familiar aura was entwined on this demon banner.

"Four Symbols Array Method!"

Moreover, it was a more advanced and complete Four Symbols Array Method than the demon patterns on the bodies of those demon cultivators before!

Finally found it!

Mo Painting's heart rejoiced, his pupils brightened slightly, and he silently said in his heart:

I need to find a way to get the demon banner and research it...

(End of this chapter)