A few days later, Mo Hua and the others arrived at Shangtai City.
Shangtai City was merely a Little Immortal City, even smaller than Immortal City, with few Foundation Establishment cultivators within.
Its streets were not particularly bustling either. The cultivators passing through wore shabby clothes, and sorrow marked many of their faces.
Mo Hua sighed softly.
It seemed that it was not only the rogue cultivators of Immortal City who suffered. Most rogue cultivators under heaven were much the same.
And in some places, their hardships might have been even worse.
The group entered the city and found an inn to rest their feet.
Mr. Zhuang kept Mo Hua behind to speak with him alone.
Mo Hua sat respectfully on a little stool, listening intently to Mr. Zhuang.
Mr. Zhuang asked gently, "Do you know what you need to do on this journey?"
Mr. Zhuang nodded. "You differ from ordinary people, and from ordinary array masters as well. The cultivation art you practice is the Heavenly Derivation Art, and the bottleneck of the Heavenly Derivation Art lies in Array Techniques."
"My Dao... is Divine Sense?"
Though Mo Hua knew that was not exactly the case, he was still too shocked to speak.
"You will eventually practice Eleven-Pattern little arrays, but without an opportunity to actually draw them, there is little point..."
"If you do not raise your cultivation, you cannot break through your realm, and you cannot learn higher Second-Grade Array Techniques..."
Divine Sense, if strengthened to the utmost extreme, would be truly, absolutely terrifying.
"You are now at Eleven-Pattern. Practicing the Ten-Pattern Reverse Spirit Array will no longer increase your Divine Sense by much."
Mr. Zhuang said solemnly:
"If you possess Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Divine Sense above Eighteen-Pattern, then once you establish your foundation and your Divine