Seeing Mo Hua’s appearance of sudden enlightenment, Gu Changhuai was slightly startled, “What else have you figured out?”

Mo Hua thought for a moment, then spoke concisely and comprehensively:

“If I’m guessing correctly, inside this Demon Hall, there should be a Yuan Magnetic Composite Array, used to coordinate the Yuan Magnetic Arrays throughout the entire Demon Cave, while also monitoring the spiritual power fluctuations inside the hall, and any other movements…”

Gu Changhuai and the other two had grave expressions.

“That is to say…” Mo Hua continued, “We are not only being watched by these patrolling Demon Cultivators and their Demon Dogs, but also being monitored by the Yuan Magnetic Arrays in the shadows, and the invisible ‘Magnetic Flow’…”

“If we are careless, we could trigger the array and be discovered by the Demon Cultivators.”

“And it’s very likely, we won’t even know how we were discovered…”

Gu Changhuai frowned, “Is there a way to crack this Composite Array?”

Mo Hua shook his head, “The Yuan Magnetic Composite Array should be an array of at least seventeen patterns. It’s a bit beyond the curriculum, I still can’t crack it…”

Gu Changhuai was a little disappointed.

Gu An and Gu Quan also found it somewhat hard to believe.

There was no time to waste, so Mo Hua began to determine the location of the Yuan Magnetic Composite Array’s array hub.

Yuan Magnetic Composite Array, array monitoring…

Gu Changhuai thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement:

“Good, we’ll do as you say!”

The Demon Hall’s buildings were strictly arranged, and the paths were intricate and complex.

These Yuan Magnetic Arrays were classified, each different.

The plan to kill Huofo within seven days went up in smoke just like that.

The essence of arrays was still spiritual power.

But this didn’t have much impact.

Array Masters… could they still have this kind of ability?

Gu Changhuai looked up, gazing again at the heavily guarded Demon Hall ahead, and said solemnly:

“If that’s truly the case, then we can only retreat first and plan for the long term…”

Although it couldn’t be seen on the surface, the obscure trajectory of the array’s spiritual power was still clearly discernible with divine sense.

These Yuan Magnetic Arrays were only used for “positioning”; they were used to observe the flow direction of the array hub through the array layout.

Mo Hua frowned.

Mo Hua’s eyes lit up, “We can even turn the tables and use the monitoring arrays inside the Demon Hall for our own purposes…”

“If we can control the array hub…”

Following the “secondary thunder patterns” left by the magnetic flow, tracing back to the source, the entire outer hall’s Yuan Magnetic Arrays would be uncovered one by one, like pulling up a radish and bringing out the mud.

More than seven days, I have to return to the sect for classes, and I won’t be able to get the Huoluo Jue either…

Gu Changhuai was startled when he heard this.

He really thought Mo Hua knew all arrays.

Occasionally, clues would break, and he would then use deduction to sense the weak magnetic flow in the air.

This way, it would inevitably take more time.

Mo Hua released his divine sense to scout the Yuan Magnetic Arrays, feeling the connections between the arrays, and thus determining the entire Yuan Magnetic Array system.

“Okay.”

Like commonly used small Yuan Magnetic Arrays, or beacon fire Yuan Magnetic Arrays, etc…

On the surface, there were no systematic Yuan Magnetic Arrays.

“The central hub of the Composite Array?” Gu Changhuai asked.

He didn’t expect there was something he didn’t know…

But some array patterns were obscure, beyond Mo Hua’s divine sense realm. Although Mo Hua could find them, he couldn’t see the details or distinguish what kind of arrays they were.

After finding the positions of all the Yuan Magnetic Arrays inside the outer hall,

He immediately changed his mind and felt that something wasn’t right.

A bit… “beyond the curriculum”?

Gu Changhuai couldn’t help but inwardly complain.

Can it be so “beyond the curriculum”?

Does this child have some misunderstanding of the words “beyond the curriculum”?

But along the way, he had already experienced enough shocks and was somewhat accustomed to strange things.

Mo Hua then used the array patterns to deduce backward, searching for places where Yuan Magnetic converged.

Some Yuan Magnetic Arrays, Mo Hua could distinguish.

“Yes.” Mo Hua nodded, “A Composite Array contains multiple single arrays and needs to be coordinated and controlled by a core array hub. The larger the array, the more obvious the central array hub and the more concentrated the array’s functions…”

Early stage of Foundation Building, arrays above seventeen patterns…

“Destroying the array hub will disable the Yuan Magnetic Composite Array, and our actions will be much more convenient, without needing to worry about the front and back, hindering our hands and feet…”

“It’s not entirely impossible…” Mo Hua thought, slowly saying: “We can try to find the central hub of the Yuan Magnetic Composite Array…”

Retreat first, plan long-term…

But the array medium was only a medium, and array patterns were only a form.

The place where Yuan Magnetic converged was also the total control position of the array hub.

Only this process consumed both divine sense and time…

Gu Changhuai stood by, silently watching Mo Hua, his heart a little confused.

In his view, Mo Hua was just running around, occasionally stopping to look at the sky.

Or like a “little spirit dog”, sniffing everywhere, then “very seriously” finding out a certain array and distinguishing the position of the array hub…

But no matter how Gu Changhuai looked, the surroundings were just ordinary buildings, without any special traces.

If he hadn’t known that Mo Hua’s array level was indeed extraordinary,

He would have almost thought that Mo Hua was “without real objects” and just pretending to deceive him…

Gu Changhuai was very puzzled.

After a while, Mo Hua pointed to a small path inside the outer hall and said decisively:

“The Yuan Magnetic is converging towards there.”

Gu Changhuai finally couldn’t hold back and asked: “How do you see that…”

Halfway through the question, Gu Changhuai stopped.

He knew without thinking that Mo Hua would definitely say: “I can see it at a glance…”

Gu Changhuai changed the way he asked: “Why can’t I see it?”

After all, I am a Golden Core cultivator, my divine sense should be stronger than his.

Mo Hua said with a matter-of-fact expression:

“You are not an array master, of course you can’t see it.”

Gu Changhuai: “…”

He felt that this shouldn’t be a problem of being an array master, but that Mo Hua had a problem.

But Mo Hua had already stopped paying attention to him, instead taking the lead, walking along the small path towards the place where the Yuan Magnetic converged.

Gu Changhuai’s gaze solidified, he sighed, and could only follow silently.

At the end of the small path was a wall.

The wall was built with hard stones, carved with demonic patterns, and reinforced with arrays, but it looked no different from the walls elsewhere.

It was secluded here, and there was no one around.

Mo Hua touched and knocked again, checking the entire wall inch by inch.

Then he walked to a wall brick carved with an eye, stood and pondered.

There was something wrong with this wall brick…

Mo Hua and the “eye” carved on the wall brick looked at each other for a moment, then he took out a pen and ink, drew array patterns around it, and dismantled the reinforced earth and stone array on the wall brick.

Cracks then appeared around this entire wall brick.

Gu Quan stepped forward, took down the wall brick, and revealed a black and dark passage behind it.

The passage was narrow, only half a person high, and there was thick and rough blood ink inside.

These inks were the traces of the array hub.

Mo Hua’s eyes lit up slightly.

He guessed correctly.

Just like when he built the Wuxing Fumo Great Array, since he wanted to use the array hub to control all the single arrays, then the array hub’s ink “trunk” must connect the inner hall and the outer hall.

At the same time, these array hubs had to be hidden inside the building and couldn’t be exposed.

Lest they be stared at by “interested people” like himself.

Only, no matter how hidden, they still didn’t escape his clever self…

Mo Hua nodded proudly.

Next, as long as he followed the vine, through the array hub “vine”, he would find the total control of the Composite Array’s central hub…

The problem was…

Mo Hua sized up the cave entrance, then turned back and said to Gu Changhuai and the other two: “You are all too tall, it seems you can’t get in…”

Gu Changhuai and the other two had complex expressions.

They couldn’t possibly deliberately grow shorter just to crawl into this cave, right…

Mo Hua sighed, “No way, I’ll go in and take a look…”

Gu Changhuai frowned, “You go alone?”

“No problem,” Mo Hua said, “This is where the array hub is hidden, I am very familiar with it, there won’t be any danger…”

The array hub needed to be kept confidential.

Not only could outsiders not know about it, but even their own people were forbidden to approach.

The buildings near the array hub only left some warning and protection measures when building the arrays.

But these measures, in the eyes of Mo Hua, who had built the main great array, were simply not worth mentioning.

Gu Changhuai pondered: “We can take a Bone Shrinking Pill, and temporarily shrink our body shape…”

“Bone Shrinking Pill?” Mo Hua was startled.

There was such a thing?

There were really many strange things in the cultivation world.

Mo Hua thought, then still shook his head: “Bone shrinking won’t work either, the spiritual power flow inside the array hub is chaotic, it’s easy to radiate onto spiritual tools and make the arrays on the spiritual tools disordered, causing the effect to fail…”

Mo Hua pointed to the jade pendant on Gu Changhuai’s body, “Your Shuizang Yu will likely be affected and won’t be able to conceal your body…”

Gu Changhuai’s gaze sank slightly.

He hadn’t thought of this…

After all, he wasn’t an array master, and his understanding of these subtle array principles wasn’t deep.

“That’s not right…” Gu Changhuai suddenly reacted, “If our Shuizang Yu fails and can’t conceal our bodies, yours should be the same, right?”

“I am not the same.” Mo Hua said, “I know concealment techniques.”

Gu Changhuai opened his mouth, losing his voice: “When did you learn concealment techniques?”

Mo Hua said with an innocent face, “I’ve always known…”

Always known…

Gu Changhuai had a face of being deceived and couldn’t say anything.

“You didn’t ask me…”

Mo Hua muttered.

This kind of thing, concealment techniques, Uncle Gu didn’t ask, so of course I don’t need to say it…

Gu Changhuai took a deep breath, glanced at Mo Hua, “Then why did you just accept the Shuizang Yu I gave you so conveniently?”

“There’s a lot of subtlety inside…” Mo Hua said reasonably: “According to my research, using a concealment spiritual tool plus a concealment technique together can have a double concealment effect, and the concealment is better…”

“The Demon Cave is so dangerous, I, a small Foundation Building cultivator, am walking on thin ice. Naturally, the more meticulous the life-saving methods, the better…”

For a moment, Gu Changhuai actually felt that what Mo Hua said was very reasonable…

Only, along the way, Mo Hua’s steps were light, and he didn’t see where he was “walking on thin ice”…

Gu Changhuai sighed.

The surrounding Yin Qi array was gloomy with green light.

Under the stone path corridor, sticky and smelly rotten water flowed…

Inside the Demon Hall, it was also not the time to get entangled in this kind of matter.

Moreover, a concealment spiritual tool, no matter how precious, could not be compared to Mo Hua’s safety.

Gu Changhuai said: “Alright, be careful…”

He thought, then added: “After you go in, if you encounter danger, then loudly call for help, I will find a way to save you…”

Mo Hua was a little unexpected, and nodded: “Don’t worry, Uncle Gu.”

Having already let him find the array hub, the danger in this Demon Cave had decreased by a few points.

Then Mo Hua went in alone, bending down to crawl into the array hub passage behind the wall, using both hands and feet, following the veins of the array hub, slowly crawling towards the core of the Yuan Magnetic Array.

The stone path was narrow, the terrain occasionally flat, occasionally vertical and steep.

Above were still carved with Yuan Magnetic Array hubs and some warning arrays.

Mo Hua avoided these arrays, and at the same time transformed his Ling Shui Steps, attaching spiritual power to his hands and feet, guided by his divine sense, sticking to the wall like a “little gecko”, slowly advancing in the array hub passage.

The magnetic flow perceived before was only a weak water flow.

Then the array hub was like a surging river.

The spiritual power flowing veins were very clear.

Mo Hua knew where to go even with his eyes closed.

Following the direction of the spiritual magnetic flow inside the array hub, Mo Hua, like a gecko, kept walking forward, not knowing how long he walked, then he reached the end of the passage.

The passage was dim, and array patterns couldn’t be seen.

But Mo Hua could perceive with his divine sense that the Yuan Magnetic circulation converged at the front end, and then coordinated downward, controlled by a central hub.

And this central hub of the Composite Array, just like the total array hub of a great array, controlled the entire set of Yuan Magnetic Composite Arrays!

Found it!

Mo Hua’s heart was full of joy.

At the end, there was a little light halo.

Mo Hua used both hands and feet to crawl to the end, probing his small head out, looking down from the gap in the building.

As expected, below was indeed a secret room painted with the total control array hub.

Inside the secret room, array patterns were densely packed.

In the middle was a unified array disk, on which the core array hub was painted.

Mo Hua held his breath, operated the Wuxing Yinshen Technique to the extreme, then opened a pair of clear, large eyes again, spying from the gap.

He saw that there was still a person inside the secret room.

This person was thin and tall, wearing an elegant and luxurious black robe, with a pale face, bloodshot eyes, and very deep Dharma lines on his face.

They were of the same kind.

As an array master, Mo Hua could see at a glance that this person was a skilled array master, and his aura was not right, his hands stained with blood color that couldn’t be washed clean.

He was an evil array master.

A second-grade high-rank evil array master!

Mo Hua was slightly startled.

This evil array master was currently sitting in the secret room, painting a blood-colored array for himself, occasionally looking up to examine the total control array disk in front of him, monitoring the movements inside the Demon Hall.

Occasionally, he would pick up a wine cup and sip a mouthful of wine.

The wine was deep red, and a demonic eye was soaked inside.

That eye would occasionally still blink.

Mo Hua found it a little creepy, looked at the evil array master again, then silently withdrew his gaze.

He was afraid of being discovered by this evil array master, so he didn’t look for too long.

After withdrawing his gaze, Mo Hua began to think silently.

“What should we do next…”

This evil array master was in the late stage of Foundation Building cultivation and knew nineteen-pattern arrays.

Mo Hua had originally thought of competing with this array master, but now it seemed he was being too naive.

Second-grade nineteen patterns was already the extreme of a normal second-grade array master.

He was still an evil array master, and definitely had some evil array methods.

Comparing normally seemed impossible.

Moreover, this was in the Demon Hall, where dangers were everywhere, and there were no conditions to let himself “normally” compete with him.

Getting down to business was still more important.

The victory or defeat of trivial arrays could be put aside for now.

Mo Hua pondered for a while, then silently said to himself:

“Since that’s the case, then let’s first think of a way to assassinate this evil array master?”

Not killing him didn’t seem to work.

He was an evil array master, controlling the Yuan Magnetic Composite Array, monitoring any movements inside the Demon Hall.

Wanting to bypass him to enter the inner hall and find Huofo was simply impossible.

Capturing him alive was also not easy.

Since he controlled the Yuan Magnetic Composite Array, he must be proficient in Yuan Magnetic Arrays, with many transmission methods. If they were careless and let him send out a message, it would easily cause extra problems.

Therefore, he needed to first remove this “stumbling block”…

Competing with him in arrays was impossible.

Although I am an array master, I am also a cultivator.

Cultivators seek longevity, and naturally put life and death first.

Knowing I can’t win, and still taking the risk to compete with others, isn’t that having a hole in my brain…

Mo Hua nodded.

A false array master duel is decided by arrays.

A true array master duel first kills the opponent.

Then compare whose arrays are good.

Even if I lose in arrays in the end, the opponent also loses their life.

Stable profit and no loss!

Mo Hua silently made up his mind:

“Think of a way to kill this evil array master…”

But I also can’t seem to kill him.

This evil array master is a cultivator in the late stage of Foundation Building, much higher in cultivation than myself, and I also can’t make too much noise.

Mo Hua thought, feeling that this kind of matter didn’t seem to require him to do it himself.

“I can’t kill him, but I have a ‘bodyguard’…”

Mo Hua then slowly exited the array hub passage.

On the way back, he still released his divine sense to observe the surroundings, combined with his understanding of the Demon Hall’s structure, roughly determining the position of this “Yuan Magnetic Array Hub Secret Room”.

Then Mo Hua followed the array hub passage back to the entrance of the outer hall.

Gu Changhuai and the other two were waiting outside, seeing Mo Hua return, they all felt relieved, and then asked:

“How is it?”

Mo Hua nodded: “Found it! There is a secret room, the secret room has the total control of the array hub, and an evil array master is supervising it…”

“Secretly killing that evil array master will make it easier to deal with the Yuan Magnetic Composite Array…”

Gu Changhuai immediately asked: “Where is the secret room?”

Mo Hua said: “I remember the way, just follow me…”

“But before that, we need to discuss how to ‘assassinate’ that evil array master. The action needs to be fast, and we can’t let outsiders discover…”

Gu Changhuai pondered for a moment and said:

“I have a second-grade superior short knife. The blade is cast with a wind blade array. When stabbed into a cultivator’s heart veins, the spiritual power will turn into wind blades, instantly twisting their heart to pieces.”

Mo Hua nodded.

Uncle Gu is still very reliable in this kind of matter.

But for safety, Mo Hua still suggested: “Uncle Gu, or… can you get some poison again? Very toxic, the kind that seals the throat upon seeing blood, coat the knife with a little…”

Gu Changhuai silently looked at Mo Hua.

Mo Hua said in a low voice: “I haven’t done this kind of thing, just in case…”

Gu Changhuai was silent for a moment, then silently took out a bottle of poison and silently wiped it on the short knife…

This poison wasn’t his, it was confiscated from criminal cultivators.

Their Dao Court Division didn’t use poison.

Generally speaking…

Seeing Gu Changhuai coat the knife with poison, Mo Hua nodded with satisfaction, then said to Gu An:

“Little An brother, do you have a stick?”

Gu An was startled, “What stick?”

“The stick used to hit from behind.”

Gu An shook his head, “No…”

“It doesn’t matter, I have one.”

Mo Hua again took out a thick iron stick from his storage bag, as thick as a bowl.

This was the Qianjun Rod, only it was second-grade.

The first-grade Qianjun Rod forged by Master Chen in Tongxian City could no longer be used after Mo Hua reached the Foundation Building stage.

So he again took the time to buy a second-grade stick spiritual tool outside Taixu Gate in Taixu City for more than a hundred spirit stones.

Although the shape was not the same, this stick also had other names.

But Mo Hua was relatively nostalgic, and at the same time, in order not to forget his original intention and continue on the path of “hitting from behind”, he also named it “Qianjun Rod”.

The stick was similarly painted with the second-grade Qianjun Array by Mo Hua.

Mo Hua handed the Qianjun Rod to Gu An, “Try it, see if it’s smooth.”

Gu An took it with a dull face, swung it a few times casually, and slowly nodded: “It’s okay…”

“Let me tell you, when is the best time to hit from behind…”

Mo Hua began to impart “hit from behind” skills to Gu An, who listened with surprise.

Mo Hua finished and asked:

“Did you remember?”

Gu An nodded blankly, “Remembered…”

“Very good!”

“Also, he is an array master, with keen divine sense. We must pay attention during the assassination…”

Mo Hua then explained other details of “assassinating” the evil array master.

For example, how not to be discovered, how to cover his mouth so he couldn’t make a sound, how to guard against him using arrays, how to prevent him from transmitting messages with Yuan Magnetic…

After preparing properly, Mo Hua nodded: “Let’s go!”

Thus, Gu Changhuai and the three Dao Court Division cultivators, with extremely complex emotions, followed behind Mo Hua and embarked on the road to assassinate the evil array master…

(End of this chapter)