After returning, Mo Hua cultivated while practicing painting arrays.

According to Mister Zhuang, Mo Hua had learned the Tian Yan Jue, which strengthened his divine sense. Mo Hua also learned the Meditation Technique, which sped up his divine sense recovery.

This meant Mo Hua’s speed in painting arrays during the day increased, and his divine sense also recovered quickly. He could paint more arrays each day, but still felt tired easily.

Occasionally, when he was tired from painting arrays, he would take out the book “Fu Zhen Chu Jie” that Mister Zhuang had given him to read, treating it as a pastime to relieve some fatigue.

This day, Mo Hua was lying on a table in the eatery’s courtyard, looking at the array book, when he saw a man wearing green robes walk in. The man ordered a pot of wine, a plate of beef, and two dishes of fruits and vegetables, then sat down to eat.

Because it wasn’t noon yet, and not mealtime, there were only a few sporadic cultivators eating noodles in the eatery. They all made a living nearby, either as demon hunters or small vendors and merchants, and their clothing and appearance were relatively ordinary.

A man in a set of green clothes, spotless and clean, stood out among this group of people.

Mo Hua sized him up and found the man handsome. He should be over thirty years old, but clearly lived a life of luxury, making him look much younger. The man wore a jade pendant, and his clothes were mainly green. Although the style wasn’t flashy, the material should be relatively expensive. Mo Hua could faintly see that arrays were likely painted on the man’s clothes.

Dao robe fabric was very soft and not easy to use as an array medium. Fabrics that could be used as an array medium were all quite expensive.

The green-clothed man might have also detected that someone was looking at him. He raised his head and looked over, just in time to see a small boy with simple clothing but eyebrows and eyes like a painting, with a pair of clear black and white eyes, sizing him up.

The man smiled slightly and waved at Mo Hua.

Mo Hua closed his book and walked over to him. The man then said in a gentle voice: “Little friend, what do you want to eat? I’ll treat you.”

Mo Hua shook his head, “This is my family’s eatery, I can treat you.”

The man was slightly startled, then immediately looked at the signboard at the entrance and laughed, “You surname Liu?”

Seeing that the man had no ill intentions, Mo Hua said: “My surname is Mo, my mother’s surname is Liu.”

The man nodded, then saw the book in Mo Hua’s hand and asked: “What book are you reading? Don’t understand something? I can teach you.”

Mo Hua looked suspiciously at the somewhat idle green-clothed man and asked: “You know array methods?”

“Of course. Array methods are involved in hundreds of cultivation industries. Even if you don’t walk the path of an array master, you basically need to know the basics. Although I can’t say I’m proficient, I at least understand more than you, little friend,” the man said.

Mo Hua heard his tone was quite confident, not like he was lying, so he handed “Fu Zhen Chu Jie” to him.

The green-clothed man took it, saw the words “Fu Zhen” on the cover, and his eyelids involuntarily twitched.

Mo Hua again looked at him suspiciously and said: “You really know?”

“That’s natural.”

The green-clothed man said calmly, but the fingers holding the book trembled slightly. He couldn’t help but complain in his heart:

“This is ‘Fu Zhen’! Which family’s elder is so idle that they give a ‘Fu Zhen’ book to a child to read? Aren’t they afraid of drying up his divine sense?”

Of course, he couldn’t lose face in front of a child, so he gritted his teeth and flipped open “Fu Zhen Chu Jie”.

“This child should just be looking casually, probably doesn’t understand anything. I’ll just casually answer a few sentences, it should be fine.”

The green-clothed man thought to himself, then flipped open the first two pages and asked: “Where don’t you understand? Ask away.”

Who knew Mo Hua didn’t even look. He directly flipped back two pages and pointed at one place, asking: “‘Collect array patterns to form a single array, collect single arrays to form Fu Zhen’, why not just accumulate array patterns to enhance the array effect, but instead use single arrays and then reconstitute them into Fu Zhen? Isn’t this an unnecessary step?”

The green-clothed man’s heart tightened. He tried hard to recall the words of the array master during the clan’s classes.

Fortunately, he had been quite serious about learning at that time, and these things hadn’t been forgotten.

“Within the same realm, a cultivator’s divine sense is limited. Within the same grade of array, the number of contained array patterns is also limited. Once the number of array patterns in an array exceeds a certain number, a cultivator’s divine sense is insufficient, and they will be unable to paint these arrays. They may even die from their knowledge sea drying up by forcibly painting array methods…”

“And to break through the limit of array patterns, one can only re-combine and link single arrays to form Fu Zhen. This not only enhances the array power but also allows different arrays to interact, producing more diverse effects…”

“Oh, oh, I see…” Mo Hua nodded involuntarily.

The green-clothed man wiped sweat from his heart.

Before he could relax, Mo Hua’s fair and tender small hand brushed back a few pages, pointing at another section and saying:

“‘A single array’s array hub is simple, a Fu Zhen’s array hub is complex.’ What’s the difference between the array hubs of a single array and a Fu Zhen? Array patterns are arranged according to the array hub to form a single array; single arrays are arranged according to the array hub to form a Fu Zhen. The difference between these two kinds of array hubs shouldn’t be big.”

“Cough cough, this… it’s a long story. Demon beasts are different from demon beasts, cultivators are different from cultivators, array hubs are naturally also different from array hubs. You can’t think they’re the same thing just because they’re all array hubs…”

The man said some irrelevant nonsense while his knowledge sea rapidly operated, then said:

“A single array’s array hub is simple, basically only used to link various array patterns; but a Fu Zhen’s array hub is much more troublesome. It not only needs to link single arrays, but sometimes also needs to harmonize the opening and closing of spiritual power… and the conflict between spiritual powers of different strengths and levels, it also needs to… stabilize the entire structure of the Fu Zhen…”

The man racked his brains and finally finished saying this section.

He regretted having too little time to read!

He had lived so long, and now he was being forced by a small cultivator to re-recognize this point!

“Oh oh.”

Mo Hua nodded, then his small hand brushed back again.

Every time he flipped a page, the man’s heart beat faster. He almost wanted to reach out and grab Mo Hua’s hand, telling him not to flip anymore. If he flipped again, he might truly be unable to answer.

Finally, Mo Hua’s hand stopped, his fingertip resting on an array diagram.

The man’s heart turned cold.

It was an array diagram.

He only knew some theoretical stuff, he hadn’t actually painted them! Except for cultivators who truly wanted to be array masters, who would paint these things for no reason?

“Cough, this array diagram… is not something you should be painting at this age…”

The green-clothed man said tactfully.

Mo Hua said: “I tried to paint one, but I don’t know why, the Fu Zhen doesn’t take effect…”

The man’s eyes went dark.

Tried to paint one?

What did that mean?

What realm are you in? What cultivation level do you have? How deep is your divine sense? How bold are you to dare paint a Fu Zhen? Who gave you the courage?!

Mo Hua took out a piece of paper from his storage bag. An array method was painted on the paper. It was obviously painted not long ago. Although it wasn’t lit up, all the array patterns were there, not a single stroke was missing.

The green-clothed man was speechless.

After he calmed down a bit, he carefully looked at the array method in Mo Hua’s hand and was suddenly happy again.

“Although it’s a Fu Zhen, I recognize all the single arrays within it, and they are all very simple, containing only two or three array patterns. They don’t exceed my array method level.”

The young man calmed down, coughed, cleared his throat, and said quite calmly:

“Array method theory is one thing, actually putting pen to paper to paint is not that simple. The problem here is with your array hub. You used a single array’s array hub to set up a Fu Zhen, so the array method naturally couldn’t take effect…”

Mo Hua suddenly realized, nodding repeatedly. He felt he had underestimated the green-clothed man, and then…

His small hand stretched out, preparing to flip back again.

The man’s earlier calm instantly dissolved like snow in hot soup.

Don’t flip…

Fortunately, Mo Hua flipped one page and discovered that he hadn’t read what was behind it either, so he didn’t flip back again. Instead, he closed the book and said in a tone full of admiration: “Uncle, you know so much.”

The green-clothed man breathed a sigh of relief.

Mo Hua pointed at the wine pot on the table with his little finger and said: “This pot of wine is on me.”

The man completely relaxed. He couldn’t help but drink a cup to calm his shock.

The moment the wine entered his mouth, it seeped into his heart and spleen. The man actually felt that he had never tasted such clear, cool, sweet, and wonderful wine in his life.