Chapter 981: Absolute Array

By utilizing large-scale refining industry to catalyze the derivation of array patterns, providing ample data on law changes, he could accelerate array research. This also counts as one of Mo Hua's attempts. If this attempt succeeds, it could save a lot of manpower, conserve a large amount of time, and reduce the burden on divine sense computing power. Later, when conducting the "return to source" of array origins, there would also be a "model" for reference. Through large-scale cultivation production and extensive array applications, he could provide samples for the evolution of array patterns, conduct the return to source for arrays, and comprehend the origins of the array path. In this way, learning and application would be integrated, benefiting ordinary people. There would be no need for array masters to exhaust their mental power on paper-based research and study, unlike the initial situation at the Wuxing Sect. Of course, this is just Mo Hua's idea. Whether it's feasible or not still requires step-by-step verification.

Up until now, the large furnaces in the Gu family's refining workshop, including the hidden "Cimo Furnace" with its arrays, have all been constructed according to Mo Hua's plan. Mo Hua checked them again from beginning to end, confirmed there were no problems, and then handed them over to Master Gu. As for how to seal the furnace, light the fire, produce, refine, and keep it secret, all were to be arranged by Master Gu himself.

Master Gu looked at the grand furnaces before him and the profound and complex arrays engraved on their inner walls. His heart was filled with inexpressible gratitude and admiration, and his attitude towards Mo Hua became increasingly respectful. Cultivation is used to kill people, but arrays can be used to save people. Although Mo Hua is only in the Foundation Establishment stage, he has accomplished many things that Golden Core and even Nascent Soul true individuals could not. With a single thought, he has aided the world and built a fundamental basis for survival for the cultivators of one city. He was indeed correct in his initial assessment; this Young Master Mo is truly their "noble person." But even so, Master Gu did not expect this noble person to be so "noble" to this extent... For Guyu City, this is almost equivalent to half an "immortal."

Master Gu invited Mo Hua to the side and personally served him tea. The two of them sat in the courtyard, looking at the now completely different Guyu City. Master Gu's heart was filled with emotion, and he couldn't help but say, "Many thanks to Young Master Mo, the days of Guyu City will surely get better and better."

Mo Hua pondered for a moment, but shook his head. "Not necessarily."

Master Gu was startled.

Mo Hua said, "Whether it's the mine veins or the furnaces, these are all external things, given by others. Relying on these might bring prosperity for a while, but over time, problems are bound to arise. At that time, the loose cultivators of Guyu City may not be able to protect these foundations."

Master Gu's brows slowly furrowed. These worries were also buried in his heart; he wasn't unaware of them. He was just too excited for a moment when he saw the changes around Guyu City, so he didn't think carefully.

Master Gu thought for a moment and slowly said, "Then... urge the loose cultivators of Guyu City, especially those children, to cultivate diligently and learn refining. If they gain ability in the future, they can protect everything they have now."

Mo Hua nodded and took out another booklet. On the title page of the booklet, the handwriting was neat, but the charm was profound, and it read "Array Introduction." It looked ordinary. "This is a small booklet I compiled. It contains basic array patterns, common arrays, and some advanced array knowledge and array principles, making it convenient for those children to use for array enlightenment, going from nothing to something, from shallow to deep, learning arrays step by step."

"The arrays in this booklet are tailored to the environment of Guyu, with practicality as the main focus. Even if they only learn a few array patterns, they can still use them in their daily lives..."

Master Gu received the booklet. It was light in his hands, but he felt it was as heavy as a thousand *jun* in his heart. He said solemnly, "I will certainly teach this to these children, and I will also make them remember the young master's grace, so that they do not disappoint the young master's expectations and properly learn arrays."

After thinking for a moment, Mo Hua shook his head again. "You cannot say it like that."

Master Gu was startled. "Cannot say it like that?"

"Um," Mo Hua nodded. "You cannot let them have the idea of learning arrays 'for me.' Arrays cannot be learned for others."

"Then..." Master Gu pondered. "Learn for themselves?"

Mo Hua still shook his head. "That's also not good. If they learn like that, they can easily become selfish and narrow." If they learn for themselves, once they succeed, they will easily feel that everything they have is obtained through their own efforts. They will look down on others and despise those who are not as good as them. Most likely, after they succeed, they will also leave Guyu City, seek out sects to join, marry into families, pursue their own fame and profit, and it is even possible that they will turn back and exploit the interests of Guyu City's cultivators.

People are easily blinded by temporary success, thus ignoring that the reason why they can "rise above others" is actually because they have received help from many people and benefited from the silent efforts of many people behind the scenes. Therefore, telling these orphans to cultivate for themselves, the future of Guyu City will most likely not be good. Talented children will utilize Guyu City's cultivation resources, and after succeeding, they will dislike their origins and abandon Guyu City like old shoes. In this way, they are no different from Shen Shouhang.

Master Gu's expression was solemn, and he also fell into deep thought. After a moment, he asked, "Then... how should I tell these children?"

Mo Hua's eyes lit up slightly, and he slowly said, "Tell them that they are learning arrays for 'Guyu City.'" "They can eat their fill, have spirit stones to cultivate, and learn arrays because of this city." "After they succeed in their studies, they should also give a portion of their heart to Guyu City, to the cultivators of the whole city, and make Guyu City better." "As long as Guyu City is better, they will live better, and their descendants will also have a good future."

"And the most important point..." Mo Hua said with a solemn expression, "Everything in Guyu City, whether it's Guyu Mountain or the mine veins, and even everything profited from them, all belong to the entire body of cultivators in Guyu City." "No cultivator is allowed to privately occupy or sell them." "Once they are tempted by profit and sell the foundation upon which they stand, they might gain huge profits for a time, but in the long run, there will be big troubles." "The matter of the Shen family will repeat itself." "These loose cultivators will be exploited and bullied again, like before, suffering hardship a second time, enduring sins a second time..." "All previous efforts will be wasted..."

Master Gu was stunned for a long time, his heart surging with emotion. Then he bowed deeply to Mo Hua and sighed, "Young master... you deeply understand the great righteousness."

Several days later, Mo Hua prepared to set off and return to Taixu Sect. The matters in Guyu City were roughly planned, and the arrays were almost completed. He still had many things to do and couldn't stay for long. Master Gu and all the refining disciples from the refining workshop came to see him off. Fan Jin also came.

The affairs of the Dao Court Office were busy, in addition to the Shen family, there were also personnel arrangements and resource scheduling related to the Guyu mine veins, as well as the review of regulations, etc. There were few personnel in the Guyu City Dao Court Office, and Fan Jin was also extremely busy, but he still specially came to see Mo Hua off. This was both to see him off and to express his thanks.

"For the previous matters, many thanks for the young master's promotion," Fan Jin said solemnly.

Mo Hua had a rough idea in his heart and asked, "Have you seen Supervisor Xia?"

"Yes," Fan Jin nodded and said, "Supervisor Xia gave this humble official an opportunity for promotion. All of this is due to Young Master Mo."

Mo Hua shook his head. "This is the opportunity you seized yourself." Opportunity is seized by oneself, but if no one gives the opportunity, he wouldn't be able to seize it even if he fought for it. The more humble one's origins, the more one knows how difficult it is to come by opportunities. Fan Jin cupped his hands and said with a sincere expression, "Great kindness needs no words of thanks. Hereafter, should Young Master Mo have any instructions, I, Fan, will not hesitate."

"Registrar Fan is too polite," Mo Hua smiled. He only gave an opportunity. As for how far Registrar Fan could ultimately go, that depended on him. "It's getting late, I should return to the sect. Registrar Fan, take care," Mo Hua said.

Registrar Fan saluted and said in a deep voice, "Young master, take care!"

Master Gu and his group also cupped their hands and said, "Young master, take care!"

Mo Hua stepped onto the carriage, waved his hand towards them, and said with a smile, "You all take care too."

The carriage gradually went far, and Master Gu and the others stood at the entrance of the refining workshop, gazing at Mo Hua's retreating figure until the shadow of the carriage disappeared at the road junction, still unwilling to leave for a long time. As the carriage continued to drive forward, passing through the streets of Guyu City and leaving the city gate, it finally also embarked on the long mountain road. Mo Hua looked back. The dilapidated Guyu City, relying on the desolate Guyu Mountain, vaguely sat in the mountain mist. Spirit machines stood tall, mine veins were neat, and in the middle of the city, one could vaguely see huge refining furnaces, their firelight flickering, emitting wisps of white smoke.

Although it was still dilapidated and desolate, it already had a different scenery and regained human spirit and vitality. Mo Hua's gaze was gratified. And to the side, Xun Ziyou also silently watched Mo Hua. He was Mo Hua's "bodyguard." He had silently witnessed everything in Guyu City. As a late-stage Golden Core elder, Xun Ziyou at this moment actually felt admiration and astonishment towards a Foundation Establishment disciple for the first time in history. In Xun Ziyou's heart, there was a kind of shock that was difficult to describe.

He always had a premonition that if this child, Mo Hua, continued to uphold his dao heart and cultivate like this, even if his origins were low and his spirit root was poor, he would certainly become an extraordinary and great cultivator who would shock ancient and modern times in the future. And on Mo Hua's body, he also clearly saw the essence of two ancient Daoist sayings passed down from the Qian Xue State: "Heaven's movement is vigorous, the gentleman strives for self-improvement without rest." "The earth's position is humble, the gentleman carries things with thick virtue."

"Such a seedling really cannot have any mishaps..." Xun Ziyou sincerely thought. Then he withdrew his gaze and began to concentrate, seriously acting as Mo Hua's "bodyguard"... The rest of the journey was uneventful. Upon returning to Taixu Sect, Xun Ziyou wanted to find Old Mr. Xun to "report for duty," and there was no need to follow Mo Hua anymore. Mo Hua then returned to the disciple residence alone. The matters of Guyu City were considered concluded, and Mo Hua also felt relieved. He had done everything he could; the matters that followed would depend on them themselves. A person's fate can ultimately only be grasped by oneself.

Mo Hua continued to learn arrays. Foundation Establishment cultivation, twenty patterns of divine sense, breaking the laws of heaven, stepping into the super-grade domain. Naturally, this also meant that he could formally begin to put all his mind into studying the absolute arrays above the two grades and twenty patterns. He had now learned one absolute array. The secondary thunder flow array of two grades and twenty patterns. This array was also engraved by him on the Guyu Cimo Furnace, used to generate magnetic ink and simultaneously derive a large amount of secondary thunder patterns for his own return to source. But this absolute array, in a sense, was considered "given for free." He didn't spend much mental effort learning it.

Mo Hua also didn't have the feeling of exhausting his mind, thinking bitterly, writing a thousand times, and then having a sudden divine comprehension of an absolute array. Mo Hua always felt a little lacking when learning things without consuming his mind and exhausting his thoughts, and his comprehension was not profound enough. But there was no way, after all, the secondary thunder flow array was already learned, and he couldn't unlearn it to learn it again. He could only continue learning.

Mo Hua carefully took out an ancient leather paper from his storage ring. On the leather paper, ancient and obscure patterns were drawn, which were nearly in the same lineage as the one-grade reverse spirit array. The two-grade twenty-pattern reverse spirit array diagram! This was something he had obtained after many twists and turns, using the thunder magnetic array to control a demonic cultivator disciple and steal it from the demonic sect's merit treasury. In the Qi Refining stage, Mo Hua learned his first absolute array, which was the reverse spirit array. And now, he had reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment, with twenty patterns of divine sense, and finally had the qualification to learn this two-grade reverse spirit absolute array.

Mo Hua gently stroked the array diagram on the leather paper. In the eyes of others, this was just an obscure, ancient, and unclear old array diagram. But in the eyes of Mo Hua, who had mastered the one-grade reverse spirit array, it was completely different. He could almost see the laws of spiritual power reversal flowing within it. This law of reversal was like a wisp of flame; once something was ignited, it could trigger a violent drastic change in laws and produce unbelievable killing power. In the Qi Refining realm, he had once used this reverse spirit array to collapse a large array and exterminate a great demon of the Dao and Evil. And now that he was in Foundation Establishment, once he learned the two-grade reverse spirit array, his array killing methods would go up another level. If there was a two-grade large array to lead and let him collapse it, how strong the power produced would be, Mo Hua simply dared not think.

Of course, he could only think. Where would there be a two-grade large array for him to collapse? A two-grade large array, ah, how much manpower and resources it would consume, how many spirit stones it would cost, how much spirit ink it would use... Mo Hua, as an array master, how could he not know? Even if others were willing to let him collapse it, he might not be willing. Of course, even if he didn't collapse a two-grade large array, collapsing an ordinary two-grade array, especially a high-rank two-grade array, with a reverse spirit array, the killing power would definitely not be bad. Even if it couldn't kill a Golden Core, it could at least severely injure one. In this way, he would have another trump card for dealing with Golden Cores.

Mo Hua was excited in his heart and began to concentrate, comprehending the reverse spirit array diagram before him. One by one, the array patterns were remembered in his heart. The laws of reversal flowing on them, although obscure and profound, were also penetrated by Mo Hua's divine thoughts little by little, understood little by little, and comprehended. The difficulty of the reverse spirit array was just much higher. Mo Hua had already learned the one-grade reverse spirit array, and in the array discussion assembly, he had again comprehended that final array that contained some reverse spirit laws, so learning it was twice the result with half the effort. But even so, this profound comprehension was absolutely not a matter of one day and one night. Mo Hua still needed to persevere in practicing and comprehending every day. Accumulating over time, water drops through stone. Perhaps one day, he would become skilled through practice and have a sudden enlightenment, truly mastering the reverse spirit array.

Learning arrays is like this; it requires a large amount of time, persistent effort without cease, and perseverance in comprehension. Besides this, there are no shortcuts. Fortunately, Mo Hua was already accustomed to this kind of thing. After comprehending the reverse spirit array for a while, Mo Hua felt it was enough, and then put away the array diagram. After that, he began to consider another matter: the life array diagram.

Mo Hua was somewhat disappointed in his heart. In the Guyu tomb, he had spent so much effort wanting to get the Four Symbols Azure Dragon array diagram, but in the end, heaven did not fulfill his wishes, and no matter how he calculated, he was still intercepted by the long-premeditated Mr. Tu. He had only calculated for one or two years on this matter. But Mr. Tu might have been scheming for hundreds of years. It was not surprising that he couldn't outcalculate him, and Mo Hua could accept it. But in this way, his own "life array diagram" had no direction again.

Mo Hua sighed and took out several array sketches from his storage ring. Among these diagrams, many array patterns were scattered and recorded. These array patterns all appeared in the shape of a dragon, or like dragon scales, or like dragon claws, or like dragon fins, or like a dragon body... Some of these array patterns were derived by Mo Hua himself. Another part was copied by Mo Hua from Shen Tu Ao's body. But these array patterns were all incomplete. Some were not finished deriving, and some were only copied halfway.

Mo Hua looked at these incomplete array patterns of dragon scales and dragon claws, and couldn't help but frown. After a moment, a bold idea suddenly jumped out in his heart: "Why must I have Mr. Tu's dragon diagram?" "Can't I... derive a 'dragon' myself?" The Four Symbols demonic patterns in the Wan Yao Valley, such as dog patterns, wolf patterns, snake patterns, bear patterns, tiger patterns... etc., he had all kept in mind and recorded when he roamed the Wan Yao Valley. The gathering of demonic patterns to nurture into dragon patterns, and the various changes in the array patterns within, he had also personally seen on Shen Tu Ao's body. Mr. Tu could take these demonic patterns, take their essence, and nurture them into a dragon diagram. Then why couldn't he?

Copying Mr. Tu's "homework" didn't count as ability. Deriving it himself was the real power. This was a necessary array literacy for a powerful array master. Mo Hua felt more and more reasonable the more he thought about it. Giving fish is not as good as giving fishing. Mr. Tu didn't give him the "fish," but the process of his "fishing" was actually all clearly seen by him. If he could nurture a dragon, he could certainly do it too! Moreover, he had the heavenly mechanism derivation, the heavenly mechanism trick, and the Wuxing Sect's return to source algorithm combined. In the path of derivation, there was no reason to be inferior to Mr. Tu...

Mo Hua's eyes gradually lit up, and his idea gradually firmed in his heart. He also wanted to use demons to nurture a dragon. Deeply analyze the Four Symbols arrays, research the various changes of the demonic patterns, and thereby "create" a dragon himself! "Dragon..." Mo Hua's mind moved, and he just remembered that he still had a "dragon vein" in his hand. He climbed to the head of the bed and flipped out the dragon vein wrapped in black cloth from under the pillow. Mo Hua untied a corner of the black cloth, exposing a section of the dragon vein. A strong Azure Dragon aura immediately surged out. Mo Hua was startled and immediately used the black cloth again to wrap the dragon vein, not letting the dragon qi expose itself. Subsequently, he frowned. This dragon vein's aura was really too strong, and he fundamentally couldn't research it. He also didn't dare to touch it. In the Guyu shrine, Shen Shouhang, who had peak Golden Core cultivation, only grabbed this dragon vein once and immediately lost an arm. Mo Hua, even if he had the guts of a bear and a leopard, would not dare to touch it with his own hand. He was clearer than anyone else about the strength of his physical body. Moreover, he indeed did not have the bloodline of the Great Wilderness Royal Clan. Mo Hua stared at the dragon vein again for a while, still unable to understand it, and just put it aside for the time being. "Don't worry about the dragon vein for now. Anyway, it won't run away. It's more important to derive the dragon diagram first..."

Mo Hua took out array paper and re-copied all the demonic patterns he had obtained in Wan Yao Valley one by one. After that, he officially began to conduct the grand plan of "creating" a dragon. Taking the essence of ten thousand demons, drawing the dragon diagram of the Great Wilderness. And this, naturally, was also a vast array project. But Mo Hua was not anxious, nor was he discouraged. The process of deriving these array patterns could deepen his understanding and application of the Four Symbols arrays step by step. Even if he ultimately couldn't "create" a dragon, in this process, he would constantly try to disassemble, combine, evolve, and integrate the demonic patterns... and he would also gradually become an array master proficient in Four Symbols array patterns. No matter how he thought about it, it was not a loss.

Mo Hua calmed down and began to compare the incomplete dragon diagram, researching the changes in the Four Symbols demonic patterns stroke by stroke. Time passed little by little, and the night was quiet. The candlelight on the table also swayed little by little. The demonic patterns also constantly changed under his pen. He didn't know how long it had been, but Mo Hua, who was always full of spirit, actually broke his routine and felt a trace of drowsiness. His eyelids were very heavy, and the array patterns before his eyes also became fuzzy. The dragon vein beside him was slightly warm. One by one, the demonic patterns began to distort, melt together, forming a vague shadow. Mo Hua looked at these shadows, his spirit becoming more and more difficult to concentrate, and he actually unconsciously lay on the table and fell into a deep sleep. After falling asleep, Mo Hua had a dream. In the dream, he saw a dragon.

(End of this chapter)