Before the Dao Stele in his sea of consciousness.
Mo Hua gazed at the terrifying, bright-yellow Earth Miasma Poison Array he had outlined before him and sank into deep thought.
The scenes he had witnessed across the Azure Fields State Boundary surfaced in his mind again.
Rotting earth, a thousand miles of barren land, soil like pus, human corpses everywhere, all festering together...
The more Mo Hua thought about it, the more absurd it seemed.
"...Surely they wouldn't... be that utterly depraved..."
Were they really not afraid of suppression by the Dao Court, of the masses turning against them, of provoking the wrath of heaven and the fury of humankind?
Mo Hua's expression shifted. In the end, all those horrifying concerns dissolved into a deep sigh.
"Whatever the case, I should learn this Earth Miasma Poison Array first..."
Whatever the truth might be, learning the array diagram and understanding its principles would at least let him mend the roof before the rain came.
Mo Hua put his other concerns aside, calmed himself, and began earnestly studying the third-grade, twenty-eight-pattern Earth Miasma Poison Array.
In terms of array patterns alone, a twenty-eight-pattern array was already very difficult to learn.
Ordinarily, only array masters in the Feather Transformation Realm could comprehend such things.
An array master who could draw twenty-eight-pattern arrays at the golden core peak stage would already count as a supreme genius by the secular world's standards.
And in terms of the array's inherent nature, it was likewise extremely difficult.
It was a poison array, an Earth Formation, and an Earth Array all at once.
Combining all three made its underlying principles staggeringly complex.
But Mo Hua himself was even more extraordinary.
His divine sense was too powerful, his attainments in arrays too profound, and his range of study too