Chapter 379: Plans

Bai Zi Xi gave up cultivation altogether, propped himself up comfortably against the bed with a blanket, and listened to his senior brother and junior brother talk.

Bai Zisheng and Mo Hua were still whispering.

"The Sun family is too rich!" Mo Hua whispered.

"Where's it rich?" Bai Zisheng didn't understand.

"Such a large mansion, so many servants and maids, even the guest rooms are furnished this well—most of the items in this room are spirit artifacts, engraved with arrays; even if the arrays are crude, they're still very expensive…"

Mo Hua sighed.

These things might be normal in a major Xiancheng, but here in the remote Qianjia Town, they stood out like a sore thumb.

Even the Qian family's mansion in Xiancheng isn't as lavish as the Sun family's.

Bai Zisheng nodded, but he was always careless and had no sense of spirit stones.

Bai Zi Xi, however, fell into thought.

Inside the Sun family estate, spirit rice was planted everywhere.

"You have to learn, but no matter how much you learn, you'll never fully master it."

Yuan Zhenhang steeled himself and decided to speak the truth:

Mo Hua gave me a suspicious glance, "If you're looking for something, and you want to search openly, it'll draw our attention…"

Not to mention mastering it—if Mo Hua and Bai Zisheng hadn't mentioned it, given our Bai family's deep foundation in array theory, I wouldn't have even heard of it.

Mo Hua said he wanted to go out for a walk to find food for the little white horse.

Mr. Zhuang sighed helplessly.

"It's not him who goes to pull grass to feed the little white one…"

"Is he accurate?"

"Fine…"

Mo Hua thought for a moment and said, "You can only learn it after Foundation Establishment with spiritual sense; by then, Master should teach you."

The spirit field mansion was magnificent.

Mo Hua let out a faint sigh.

After all, Yuan Zhenhang had taught him reverse-spirit arrays, spiritual sense calculations, array disintegration—all those extremely advanced array theories.

"Could the Ultimate Array be hidden in Yuan Zhen?"

Of course, most of the talking was done by Mo Hua and Bai Zi Xi; Mr. Zhuang merely listened quietly beside them…

Mo Hua shook his head, "Master didn't say, and I still don't know."

I counted on my fingers:

Meanwhile, Yuan Zhenhang in the next room snapped open his eyes, his gaze filled with longing and relief.

How to investigate, what excuses to use, what the array was, what effects it had, where it might be hidden—things like that.

Mo Hua frowned, lost in thought.

As if existing in two separate worlds.

Mo Hua lowered his voice and whispered:

Sun Zexi, eager to prove himself, volunteered to lead the three of them on a tour of Yuan Zhen's mansion; outwardly he pretended ignorance and spoke endlessly, but his words carried hidden truths that were obvious to anyone listening.

Bai Zi Xi nodded, then asked hesitantly:

Bai Zi Xi paused, then realized it made sense—Mo Hua was only half-baked, but he himself wasn't even half-baked.

When Mo Hua stepped out of Yuan Zhen, the scenery before his eyes changed abruptly.

"It's about perceiving the array's spiritual energy, using that energy to calculate the array patterns, and from there deducing the array's location…"

He then asked, "Mo Hua, do you really want to learn the Ultimate Array?"

These arrays were extremely basic, mostly only seven or eight array patterns—beginner-level apprentice arrays.

Mo Hua nodded, "Besides, my spiritual roots are poor, and I can't cultivate the body—I can only take this path."

The three of them were practically inseparable; Bai Zisheng taught them, yet I had no idea how…

The Feng Lingtian also suggested finding someone to accompany Mo Hua, but Mo Hua declined; other reasons were also rejected one by one, leaving them no choice but to watch Mo Hua slip out alone through the Feng Lingtian's back gate.

"First learn the eleven-pattern Ultimate Array, refine your spiritual sense to seventeen patterns, then seek the seventeen-pattern Ultimate Array to cultivate it further, refine your spiritual sense to eighteen patterns, then find the eighteen-pattern Ultimate Array…"

Bai Zi Xi scratched his head, "Oh, yeah, that's true."

"Master has his own reasons—he must have his own considerations. If he could teach it, he'd have taught you. Since he didn't, there must be a reason."

Mo Hua lay on the soft blanket, thought for a moment, and said:

One by one, neatly arranged between the two mountains.

"No need to trouble them," Mo Hua declined.

"You're worried—you want to learn the Ultimate Array, and I'll find it for you. Isn't this the Feng Lingtian? Tomorrow I'll turn the whole Feng Lingtian upside down!"

Bai Zi Xi said, "I'll help you with Bai Zixi!"

"You're my junior brother—no need to be polite. Just say it outright."

Earlier, he had walked along the main street and toured the whole town.

A one-star eleven-pattern array is already insane—he wants to learn up to eighteen patterns…

But the streets inside were desolate, coated in the weathering of sun and rain.

"This Ultimate Array is either hidden in Yuan Zhen or somewhere in Qianjia Town—we'll split up. You and Sister investigate the Feng Lingtian; I'll check the town—see if there's any clue."

"They took Bai Zisheng as their master—weren't they trying to learn some array? Didn't Master teach them?"

The Feng Lingtian treated Bai Zi Xi and Mr. Zhuang coldly, but ignored him even more.

I'm older—if I go to investigate the Feng Lingtian, they'll just brush me off, probably even mock me, and I won't learn anything.

Mo Hua was about to head back when his peripheral vision caught sight of the Sun family estate.

"So he only learned half of it…"

I'm still some time away from Foundation Establishment.

Mo Hua blinked in surprise, a warmth rising in his heart, but he still shook his head:

The Dao Court's grading standards never included absolute arrays.

Even array masters deliberately study that one.

"Fine." Yuan Zhenhang sighed.

Mo Hua explained it all.

We were fellow students who later secretly learned things behind Mo Hua's back, feeling guilty about it—but now that it's clear, we both feel at ease.

We should ask for a few favors and probe the spirit field's resources—it shouldn't be too hard.

Bai Zisheng merely said softly: "No problem."

The master of this spirit field also appears to be an array master; collecting some ancient, lost array patterns is quite reasonable.

"Then I'll help you!"

Bai Zi Xi and Miss Zhuang subtly revealed they were from a major clan.

"Master said I can't learn this array, so he won't let me see it…"

Now that this array isn't being taught, it probably truly has no restrictions.

Bai Zisheng muttered: "This is troublesome…"

Miss Zhuang's eyes widened in shock, staring blankly at Mo Hua.

But Mo Hua nodded seriously, "I have to learn it."

Bai Zi Xi thought he still harbored resentment, so he said: "If so, I'll teach you secretly?"

Bai Zi Xi nodded: "I taught him."

Qianjia Town isn't large; within half an hour, every array in town was laid bare before him.

Mo Hua laid out his plan.

Bai Zi Xi looked dejected, then his eyes brightened slightly: "Can you learn this derivation calculation…?"

"I suspect Mr. knows where it is, but he won't say—it wants me to find it myself."

Mo Hua suddenly remembered another matter and asked Bai Zi Xi:

Mo Hua was speechless.

The spirit field claimed it had no fodder; Mo Hua found it insufficiently good.

Bai Zi Xi frowned; this kind of thing sounded suspicious at first listen.

"How did he know that?"

"How did he calculate it…?" Bai Zi Xi was curious.

Since that was the case, Mo Hua no longer bothered with formalities.

And above the Sun family, a faint aura of spirit energy hovered.

Moreover, the spirit field's resources are substantial; even if an ancestor passed down an absolute array, it's understandable.

Mo Hua was dumbfounded.

After speaking, he stole a glance at his younger sister, Miss Zhuang.

Sun Yi frowned and said to Bai Zisheng:

Aside from that, there were no ordinary array traces.

Bai Zi Xi was displeased:

Mo Hua sighed, "It's not because the calculation is accurate that I need your help… If I could calculate it precisely, I'd already know where the array is—I wouldn't have to go searching…"

Then the three big heads huddled together again, whispering a long string of words.

The only Foundation Establishment cultivator in the entire Qianjia Town is the current master of the spirit field.

Bai Zi Xi shook his head: "Master didn't say."

Bai Zisheng has treated me well enough—he taught me enough; I can't push further.

On the seventh day, after breakfast, Mo Hua and the others began splitting up to act.

Bai Zi Xi felt his scalp go numb.

With Mo Hua's current abilities, no cultivator within the spirit field could trouble him.

Bai Zi Xi was somewhat uneasy.

"Why can't I learn it?" Mo Hua wondered.

In such a short time, Bai Zisheng had already "lit the big stove" for us…

"Does Mr. know where it's hidden?" Bai Zisheng asked curiously.

Yuan Zhenhang then swore solemnly:

Bai Zi Xi and Miss Zhuang both glanced at Mo Hua in surprise, then both exhaled in relief.

"Nothing…" Mo Hua murmured, thinking to himself:

Absolute arrays are hard to learn—time-consuming, energy-draining, and mentally taxing; some have obscure effects and limited applicability.

Miss Zhuang blinked, pretending not to know.

I have absolutely no idea how to do spirit derivation calculations.

Miss Zhuang also nodded.

"That big brother is old, traveling alone—he might run into danger."

The mountain wind blew, stirring the Sun family estate, like ripples spreading across a green lake.

Mo Hua froze. "When did you teach me?"

It must be because they saw my senior brother and sister had none of the aristocratic aura, and their talent was clearly exceptional, so they went out of their way to curry favor.

Bai Zisheng asked: "So what should we do next?"

"What kind of ultimate array?"

"Can he… learn it?" Yuan Zhenhang worried.

"I need to find the ultimate array hidden in this town."

"You figured it out!"

After speaking, I stole a glance at Mr. Zhuang.

Mo Hua's spiritual sense swept through, and he let out a soft "Huh?" before stepping toward the Sun family, whose aura resembled emerald tides.

Even if Bai Zisheng really was teaching, there wasn't much…

"Even a half-baked one is extremely hard to learn!"

But then Mo Hua thought again—Bai Zisheng had also once set up a "big stove" for him, so his heart felt somewhat balanced.

Yuan Zhenhang's head ached just thinking about it, and with a touch of sympathy, he looked up at his senior junior brother; remembering his duty as a senior brother, he puffed out his chest and said:

Bai Zi Xi said with a hint of apology: