Yesterday, Mo Shan hunted and killed a demon beast. He skinned it, took out the bones, collected the demon core, and packed everything up properly. He was just about to go down the mountain and head home when a demon hunter he had some friendship with found him. The hunter’s attitude was quite polite.

“Brother Mo, I have something I’d like to ask for your help with…” This demon hunter’s surname was Zhou and his given name was Cheng. He was of medium height and somewhat thin.

Mo Shan had always been straightforward. He simply asked what difficulty he was facing and then said, “Say it, I’ll certainly help if I can.”

Zhou Cheng was a bit embarrassed. “It’s not asking Brother Mo for your help with fighting. It’s a small matter I want to ask your son to help with…”

Mo Shan was stunned. “My son, Mo Hua?”

“That’s right, that’s right,” Zhou Cheng said. “Brother Mo and I have some friendship, but as for your son, I’ve never even met him. It wouldn’t be appropriate for me to go find him rashly. So that’s why I came to you, Brother Mo…”

Mo Shan looked at him suspiciously. “My son Mo Hua, he’s only at the fourth level of Qi Refining. What can he help you with?”

“He can! He can!” Zhou Cheng said hurriedly. “I have a young son, he’s fifteen or sixteen years old and at the sixth level of Qi Refining. He just became a demon hunter not long ago. But his talent is average, and he hasn’t learned martial arts very well. I’m just afraid that when he goes into the mountains, he’ll encounter some troublesome demon beast. If something happens, then…”

Zhou Cheng sighed. “He’s lucky right now, he hasn’t encountered any tricky demon beasts and is still safe and sound. But you and I are both fathers and both demon hunters, so we both understand that once you enter the Great Black Mountain, anything can happen. When I think about this, I can’t even sleep soundly.”

Mo Shan deeply related, and nodded.

“A few days ago, I heard that you all have a young array master there who can draw arrays on vine armor. At a crucial moment, it can block a demon beast one more time, and that can save a life. Later, I inquired again and only learned that this young array master’s surname is Mo, and his father is called Mo Shan. I thought this couldn’t be a coincidence, so I came to find you, Brother Mo.”

Zhou Cheng looked at Mo Shan with eager eyes, afraid that Mo Shan would refuse.

Mo Shan hesitated for a moment and said, “It’s not that I don’t want to help you, it’s just… I only know that Mo Hua is learning arrays, but I don’t understand arrays very well and I don’t know how well he’s learned. This array you’re talking about doesn’t sound simple, and Mo Hua might not necessarily be able to draw it.”

“He can, he can, he can draw it,” Zhou Cheng said hurriedly.

“How do you know he can draw it?” Mo Shan asked doubtfully.

“I heard Old Xu say it, the one who went into the mountains with me to hunt demons — Old Xu, who was a bit impolite to you before, wanted to spar with you, and you knocked him down with one punch…”

Zhou Cheng smiled and continued, “He said that Old Meng’s son, Da Hu, had his chest pierced by a scorpion demon a while ago. It was precisely because an array was drawn on his vine armor that his heart pulse wasn’t injured, and his life was saved. He also said you have a good life, giving birth to a good son. His words were a bit sarcastic, but don’t blame him, who told you to beat him up…”

“Oh, Old Xu…” Mo Shan remembered.

He had heard about Da Hu being injured before, but at that time he was also in the mountains. After he came down, he heard that Da Hu was already fine, so he didn’t pay too much attention.

Demon hunters getting injured is common. As long as they don’t lose an arm or a leg, don’t injure their meridians, and don’t lose their lives, it’s nothing major. They eat this bowl of rice after all.

If it was Da Hu, it was really possible. Mo Hua had played with them since they were little. Drawing an array on Da Hu’s vine armor was also normal.

Mo Shan pondered in his heart.

Zhou Cheng grabbed Mo Shan’s hand. “Brother Mo, you absolutely must help me with this. Otherwise, I’m truly not at ease about my son!”

Mo Shan thought for a bit and said, “I’ll go back and ask Mo Hua. If he really can draw the array you mentioned, he’ll definitely help you draw it. But if he can’t, then there’s nothing to be done…”

Zhou Cheng was overjoyed and said hurriedly, “Thank you, Brother Mo! If he can really draw it, any amount of spirit stones is fine.”

Immediately, he looked ashamed again. “But recently… I don’t have many spirit stones on hand. If it’s not enough, can I owe it first? I’ll give it back to you after I go into the mountains to hunt demons next month and the spirit stones are distributed?”

Mo Shan waved his hand. “That’s a small matter, we can talk about it later.”

If it were him helping, receiving spirit stones or not was fine, but this was about finding Mo Hua. He had to go back first and ask his son’s opinion.

However, this armor array, could Mo Hua really draw it?

Mo Shan returned home with doubts and directly asked Mo Hua, “Can you do it?”

“Yes,” Mo Hua nodded.

“Then, are you free these days?”

“Yes.”

“Can you help him draw it?”

“Yes, I can.”

Mo Shan didn’t expect it to be so smooth.

Yesterday, when someone came to him for help, their attitude was extremely earnest, and he still thought it was some difficult matter. How did it seem like a small matter here with Mo Hua?

“How long will it take to draw?”

“Very fast, about half a day,” Mo Hua said.

In reality, it wouldn’t even take an hour. Mo Hua’s divine sense was strong now, and his control over his divine sense was also strong. Mo Hua was already familiar with drawing the Iron Armor Array, and drawing it was basically without any difficulty. But it was always good to reserve a bit more time.

Mo Shan nodded and asked again, “Then… generally, how much is the remuneration for drawing an array?”

Mo Hua saw Mo Shan’s hesitant expression and then said, “Dad, is there anything else you want to say?”

Mo Shan thought for a bit and still said, “Their family situation isn’t good either. As a demon hunter, his young son needs to prepare everything, and I estimate he doesn’t have many spirit stones. It’s fine to receive a little less if you can. But ultimately, you decide this yourself, after all, you’re the one drawing the array.”

Before, Mo Shan thought that Mo Hua’s cultivation wasn’t high, and his array learning wouldn’t be profound either. He could help neighbors repair arrays, and whether he received spirit stones or not was fine. It didn’t matter if he took a small loss.

But now Mo Shan realized it was different. The arrays that demon hunters could use were definitely not simple arrays containing only two or three array patterns.

Mo Hua being able to draw such arrays was almost no different from those ordinary array masters in the Immortal City.

How difficult it was to become an array master, Mo Shan knew. Even the most ordinary array masters had to spend one or two decades studying painstakingly.

While Mo Hua was only eleven or twelve years old now, it was clear that he had used almost all of his available time to learn arrays. While other children were still complaining about cultivation and thinking about where to play every day, Mo Hua was learning arrays day and night.

Mo Shan thought about it. Every time he went into the mountains to hunt demons and returned home, Mo Hua was almost always drawing arrays. Occasionally, he would return late, and the light in Mo Hua’s room would still be on.

Mo Shan felt a bit of heartache and therefore didn’t want his son to suffer a loss.

Mo Hua didn’t notice that Mo Shan was thinking so much. He calculated for a bit and then said, “Bring the vine armor and prepare a bottle of metal-attributed spirit ink, that’s all. If the spirit ink is better, the effect of the array will be better, but if you can’t buy that good spirit ink, using a regular one is also fine. As for remuneration, Dad, you all hunt demons, how many spirit stones can you earn in a day?”

“Probably five spirit stones per person.”

Five pieces per day, but it wasn’t possible to be in the mountains every day of the month, and it wasn’t possible to encounter demon beasts every day. Even if they did encounter one, they might not necessarily be able to kill it. If they encountered a troublesome one and suffered some injury, they would still have to pay for some medicinal pills. So the amount of spirit stones was fundamentally not much, not to mention that hunting demons itself was so dangerous.

“Then just take five spirit stones,” Mo Hua said.

Mo Shan nodded, and then couldn’t help but ask, “Five spirit stones… you won’t be taking a loss, will you?”

Asking an array master to draw an array required a lot of spirit stones. Although Mo Shan had never hired one and didn’t have the spirit stones to hire one, having lived in Immortal City for so long, he knew a little about these matters.

Mo Hua said, “I’m still learning arrays. It doesn’t matter if I earn more or less, as long as I have more opportunities to practice arrays. Moreover, Dad, you often tell me that loose cultivators should take care of each other more. When our family was in difficulty before, these uncles and aunts all helped us more or less. Now that we have surplus power, helping them is also what we should do.”

Mo Hua said with a smile, “I can help others, practice arrays, and still earn a little spirit stones. It’s a matter of killing three birds with one stone, isn’t it pretty good?”

“Good,” Mo Shan couldn’t help but gently touch Mo Hua’s head. “Then I’ll tell him to prepare the things tomorrow and let you draw the array.”

After dinner, Mo Hua returned to his room to rest.

Mo Shan sat alone, feeling more and more gratified the more he thought about it. Thinking about the words his son had just said, and thinking that his son was already considered an array master, even the usually steady and calm Mo Shan couldn’t hide the smile on his face.

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