Void Gate.
Not long after Mo Hua returned to the Disciple Quarters, an elder from Ta'a Mountain came to his door in person and presented him with an Array Diagram.
The Ta'a Mountain-Opening Sword Array Diagram.
Mo Hua was delighted. The Ta'a Sect Master truly lived up to his title: decisive, generous with good things, and even willing to deliver them to his door.
Mo Hua accepted it solemnly and bowed in heartfelt thanks.
"Thank you, Elder! And please thank the Sect Master too!"
The Ta'a elder smiled and nodded. After a few pleasantries, he took his leave.
Once the elder was gone, Mo Hua shut the door, lit incense, washed his hands, and eagerly opened the Ta'a Sword Array Diagram.
The moment he laid eyes on it, its Sword Patterns looked ancient and unadorned. The vast, overwhelming force of a heavy sword surged toward him.
Mo Hua swept his gaze across the Sword Patterns, taking them all in, and grew happier still.
A Second-Grade Nineteen-Pattern Sword Array.
Short of an Absolute Array, this was about as good as a Second-Grade Array could get.
The Ta'a Sect Master was even more generous than Mo Hua had imagined.
Mo Hua had actually obtained a Mountain-Opening Sword Array from Ta'a Gate long ago.
He had "extorted" it from Sword Bone.
Sword Bone had once been a disciple of Ta'a Gate. Later, he strayed deep into Monster Refining Mountain, where Demon Cultivators captured him and took him to the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons. Forced to become an Evil Sword Master, he spent every day refining Evil Swords for them.
Part of his inheritance consisted of Ta'a Gate's Sword Casting arts, including its Sword Arrays.
Mo Hua had learned the Mountain-Opening Sword Array.
That was something he could never hide forever.
His real