Chapter 270: Scholar’s Heart (2/2)

Deep inside, Mo Wuji thought to himself. Indeed there’s not a single True God Stage cultivator among them that’s a simple person. The first time that he came here, he could guess that these worms were bred and herded by someone. Who knew that the others were aware of this too, just that no one went to disturb those worms.

The five of them travelled with godspeed, and a few days later, they crossed a large desert.

Once they passed the desert, Feng Zhenqiu requested for them to stop.

What blocked their path ahead was a peakless mountain that wasn’t that tall. On top of the mountain was a wide lake.

Standing on a nearby hill, Mo Wuji could see that the water in the lake was very clear, even with some ripples of movement. The surroundings had a lingering sulfur smell too.

”Dean Feng, let’s go to take a look at the lake on that mountain top,” Mo Wuji took the initiative to ask.

Granny Linglong only left them a rough flying message which did not include her location, so Mo Wuji could only find this place based on the reports of green fire a few days ago.

Solemnly, Feng Zhenqiu replied, ”If we provoked the Tarsal Bone Worms, perhaps we might have a slim chance at survival. But if we go to banks of that green lake, then I believe that not a single one of us will return alive.”

Mo Wuji stared at Feng Zhenqiu in confusion. In Feng Zhenqiu’s eyes, a surge of emotions appeared, then disappeared quickly, ”I’ve been here before. This is a volcano, and after it erupted, it formed this green lake…”

Feng Zhenqiu took a deep breath, ”If my guess is correct, that isn’t water in the lake, but fire, and the fire is the Scholar’s Heart that Sect Head Fang mentioned before…”

”What?” Mo Wuji stared at Feng Zhenqiu in disbelief, ”Dean Feng, there’s still some small ripples on the surface of the green lake, and there’s no heat from it. So how could this be the Scholar’s Heart?”

This time, Feng Zhenqiu did not reply, instead Fang Zhentian spoke, ”Dean Feng is right, that should be the Scholar’s Heart. The Scholar’s Heart appears gentle and calm, without anything frightening about it, possibly even making people yearn for it. However, this is also the scariest part of the Scholar’s Heart. Alliance Head Mo, look at the gentle lake surface with a few ripples, in reality that’s the green fire markings of the Scholar’s Heart. The Scholar’s Heart is so scary because all of its heat is hidden within, and you can’t feel anything outside. But once this fire has been agitated, the whole place can be burnt to ashes.”

Xing Huang also sighed, ”It seems like the green fire that shot to the sky a few days ago was the sign of the birth of this Scholar’s Heart. I’ve heard of people keeping this sort of flame, but that would be its unborn state. Once it is born, this type of fire is a peerless existence.”

Alliance Head, regardless whether Linglong is here, we can’t stay in this place any longer,” Feng Zhenqiu sighed to himself, and took the initiative to speak.

”Wait…” Mo Wuji suddenly walked a few steps forward, lowering his head to look at the ground.

It seemed like Mo Wuji had found something, so the others did not go to disturb him.

A full incense’s time later, he raised his head and said, ”Guys, there’s some traces of array dao here. Defender Xing, help me refine a few location array flags, I’ll check this out.”

Xing Huang instantly agreed, taking out a smithing furnace, and producing a ball of fire with his hands. A few ingredients were thrown into the furnace, and everyone could see Xing Huang’s magnificent hands go to work, hand technique after hand technique landing in the smithing furnace.

Mo Wuji, who was originally inspecting the array base, was also shocked at the sight of Xing Huang’s method of smithing. His face felt a little hot, because while he could create array flags too, compared to Xing Huang, the ones that he made could only be considered as something ordinary blacksmiths made.

On top of that, he did not learn smithing before, and always thought that refining array flags did not require a furnace. Now that he saw Xing Huang make them in a furnace, he knew that he had always been doing things the wrong way.

Xing Huang’s speed was exceptionally fast, and within an incense’s time, he had grabbed a batch of location array flags to pass to Mo Wuji.

After simply refining the array flags, Mo Wuji began to set up an array. Even for Tian Ji Sect’s sect protecting array, it took him two years to complete: one year of researching array dao, mainly studying how to set up the array, then another year to actually set it up.

Now that he had refined Xing Huang’s array flags, he realised how trashy his own were. If he had used Xing Huang’s array flag for Tian Ji Sect’s sect protection array, he wouldn’t have even used a year, and the array would be much better than the one he had made.

This thought flashed through his mind, then Mo Wuji did not think about it any further. No matter how good the array flags that Xing Huang could make were, he could not keep Xing Huang by his side all the time. He could only ask Xing Huang for a few more array flags before he left for Zhen Mo Continent.

Tens of array flags were slowly planted at different positions by Mo Wuji, and the rest of the group could distinctly feel the change in their surroundings, but they could not pinpoint where the change exactly was.

In terms of cultivation level, any one of them would beat Mo Wuji by miles. But in terms of array dao, other than Xing Huang who had a decent level, no one could really match up to Chu Xingzi’s legacy.