After Mo Hua went back, he cultivated while drawing arrays.
According to Mr. Zhuang, Mo Hua had learned the Heavenly Derivation Art, which strengthened his control over his divine sense; Mo Hua had also learned the Meditation Technique, which made his divine sense recover faster as well.
This led to Mo Hua now drawing arrays faster during the day, recovering his divine sense quickly too, and so the number of arrays he could draw each day increased, while he also found it easier to feel tired.
Occasionally, when he grew tired from drawing arrays, he took out the Elementary Explanation of Compound Arrays that Mr. Zhuang had given him and read it, treating it as a pastime to ease his weariness.
That day, Mo Hua was sprawled over a table in the eatery courtyard reading an array book when he saw a man in a blue robe walk in. The man ordered a pot of wine, a plate of beef, and two small dishes of fruit and vegetables, then sat down and began to eat.
Because it was not yet past noon and not mealtime, there were only a scattered few cultivators eating noodles in the eatery. They were all people making a living nearby—either demon hunters, peddlers, traveling merchants, and the like—and their clothes and manner of dress were all fairly ordinary.
A man in a spotless suit of blue clothes stood out like a crane among chickens amid this crowd.
Mo Hua sized him up and found that the man was handsome. He should have been in his thirties, but he had clearly lived in ease and comfort, so he looked much younger. The man wore a jade pendant, and his clothes were mainly blue. Though the style was not ostentatious, the materials should have been rather expensive.