Mo Hua began drawing the Sinan Parent-Child Compound Array on the Dao Stele.
A single array was drawn starting from the Array Patterns, with the Array Hub connecting and linking each independent Array Pattern. A compound array, however, had to be drawn starting from the Array Hub, using it as the master bond to coordinate the different single arrays.
When drawing a single array, the brush could pause slightly, but Divine Consciousness could not break.
Once Divine Consciousness broke, one could no longer connect with the profound mysteries of the Heavenly Dao contained within the array. The array would fail, and the Array Patterns drawn would be rendered useless.
According to Mr. Zhuang, Array Masters called this "One-Thought Completion."
It meant keeping one's Divine Thought unbroken and drawing the entire array in one continuous sweep.
A single array had to be completed in one thought, but compound arrays were different; they did not need to be entirely completed in one thought.
Otherwise, a compound array containing several single arrays and dozens of Array Patterns could not possibly be drawn all at once by a Qi Refining cultivator.
Compound arrays were composite arrays conceived by ancient cultivators who had comprehended the mysteries of creation. They circumvented the limits of a cultivator's Divine Consciousness to enhance an array's effectiveness.
When cultivators could not increase their Divine Consciousness or comprehend more Array Patterns, they linked individual arrays together to achieve stronger array effects.
That was what a compound array was.
Thus, compound arrays were relatively separable and combinable. Within a compound array, only the Divine Thought connecting the Array Hub and each individual array needed to remain continuous; the entire compound array did not need to be completed in one thought.
Mo Hua's Divine Consciousness phantom stood before the Dao Stele. Using his