After that, besides practicing swordsmanship, Mo Hua had many more Array Techniques to learn.
Every day, Elder Xun set fixed times and quotas, urging him to study all kinds of Five Elements Eight Trigrams Arrays.
At first, they did not advance too far ahead. Instead, they began with Sixteen-Pattern Arrays, following an Array Technique catalogue Elder Xun had compiled at some unknown time, sorting through them one by one to fill in gaps and remedy omissions.
Elder Xun went through from the beginning every Array Technique in the catalogue that Mo Hua had never learned, was unfamiliar with, or had failed to fully understand, using them to solidify Mo Hua's foundation in Array Techniques.
The Arrays were not of a high grade, nor were they especially difficult. Most were Arrays he had learned before, so they were not much of a challenge, though studying them was somewhat tedious and dull.
But Mo Hua understood Elder Xun's painstaking intentions, so he settled down and studied with great seriousness.
Without accumulating half-steps, one could not reach a thousand miles.
Without gathering little streams, one could not form rivers and seas.
No matter what one learned, the foundation was most important. The firmer the foundation, the higher one could climb in the future. Otherwise, if one only aimed too high, even if a lofty tower was built, it might collapse in an instant.
Mo Hua's foundation in Array Techniques was already solid enough.
But since he had the chance, he wanted it to be even more solid.
And so, during the day, he studied Array Techniques with Elder Xun.
At dusk, he went to the Lecture Hall to practice sword qi.
After practicing sword qi, he returned to the Disciple Quarters at night and studied the copy of Introduction to Sword Dao Old