Parents (Fourth Update)
After talking with Zhang Lan during the day, Mo Hua took the Collection of Thousand Arrays Mr. Zhuang had given him and spent the entire day flipping through it. He found several arrays that might come in handy and planned to learn them over the next few days, then draw a few sets to keep on him in case of emergencies.
One must not harbor a heart that harms others, but one could not be without a heart that guarded against them.
Mo Hua currently had too few means to protect himself. Relying on arrays alone was clearly not enough.
What happened with Qian Xing had served as a warning to Mo Hua. Although the Dao Court had laws, cultivators might not all obey them. The Heavenly Dao had granted cultivators power, and slaughter and power had always followed each other like shadow and form.
After all, he was a cultivator now. Body cultivators fought and killed with martial arts, while spirit cultivators took lives with spells. If he knew nothing at all, then in this crisis-ridden cultivation world, he would never live to see the day when he could provide for his parents in their old age...
Of course, Mo Hua could focus on becoming an array master, find a safe place, neither fight monster beasts nor clash with other cultivators, and devote himself solely to studying arrays, passing his life steadily and peacefully.
But placing one's life in the hands of another person's kindness was ultimately not a good choice.
After all, Mo Hua did not know whether, at some time and place in the future, some cultivator he encountered would develop killing intent toward him. Once a cultivator wanted to kill him, and he had no power to protect himself, then aside from stretching