Mikey Reynolds was a peak foundation student of the array class. He had Black hair like the majority of the people in the sect but he had silver eyes something he had inherited from his grandmother. These eyes of trained well can see the flow of qi in objects and people. His love for arrays began with his grandmother she had shown him many attack arrays and qi-gathering arrays. His favorite was defensive array arts.
His love for them was born when an enemy cultivation faction attacked his home and the arrays activated showing many beautiful patterns while protecting them from danger.
He wanted to study and create arrays that are economical and defensively strong so that people can protect themselves from danger.
Veronica Steele a tall and slender woman she had waist length black hair and bangs, her eyes were green she had a very lazy looking appearance because her eyes always had a tired look in them. Her love for arrays came from her mother. When she was a child of 5 years old her mother would accompany her into illusion arrays. These arrays had always been beautiful.
Her mother Stella had made them for her daughter's entertainment.There had been arrays that looked like the beach, a forest ,and many other mundane locations but her love for them really manifested when her mother would make some fantastic locations like floating skies , underwater locations with plenty of sea animals and other unique locations that she had seen with her father on their courtship journey. Her mother had told her that she was an average array master of the second level and her sworn sister was very high and she didn't know what level she was.
On her 14th birthday her mother had invited Lucy and elder from the Dao life sect. Apparently they had met while traveling and had a passion for Arrays formation from the ancient era. How symbols were used differently and the arrangements of and how the interacted with the world. It seemed to be that modern array symbols are simplified versions of ancient ones. They had been streamlined because of the amount of qi and different materials available now.
Lucy looked at Veronica and smiled gently and decided to give her a gift that would change her life. It was a custom illusion array. It not only had visuals ,but sounds and smells too something mother's had lacked. Her favorite part was seeing animals and being able to touch them and interact with them.
Lucy and Stella both looked happily at Veronica. They had both remember their first encounter with arrays and seems like she had also fallen in love with them.
In time Lucy would bring her to the sect to cultivate and become an array master.
The third student was wildly different in experience with arrays.
Vanessa Chambers and her family encountered devil cultivators. These beings followed a path of evil they cannibalized mortals and cultivators alike and used their flesh and blood to cultivate.
Her parents were above average cultivators. They fought as they ran and randomly encountered a cultivation ruin hidden by an illusion array.
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They managed to hide and recover while exploring but they knew that they would be found. Her parents found the array master room and fed some of the arrays spirit stones.
Vanessa watched it all happen at a young age of 9 years old. Being in the center of the master room she had seen so many different arrays interact with each other. Illusion with killing arrays were the most basic.
She had seen Defensive arrays stacked with trapping arrays, that had illusion and poison.
Some were paradise arrays where they gave the person the illusion of having everything they wanted they didn't even know that their cultivation was being drained to fuel them. The room was filled with all sorts of drugs that numbed the senses and gave pleasure combining that with illusions and tactile sensations of a high level array they had been lead with a story of success until drained.
She fell in love with the variety of ways to capture and kill enemies. She had even found it fascinating watching so many different arrays work together and making them stronger.
She had found her path early in life and her parents had found the best sect with array teachers for her.
She thrived at the sect. She absorbed knowledge better than most students but she spent most of her time crafting unique array disks. Most ended up failures but one made her secretly wealthy.
From her time in the ruins to her breakthrough to foundation she had spent most of the sect allowance crafting and experimenting. even with all her experimenting she had never made the same error twice. The amount of notes and books in her room could put most tiny sects to shame.
Her first successful array had been the most basic qi gathering array. This was the most basic array from here she modified it with different node structures and positions. She had also tried different materials for the array disk.
Her success came in a slightly weaker qi array but the cost was a measly one fourth of a normal one. This was the most suitable for essence accumulation Cultivators 1-4 the rank after that it wouldn't become more useless as time went by.
Her second one was the most basic qi gathering arrays. it rivaled the one the sect sold but it was 1/2 the price because she was able to make it from local resources which were more abundant than what was used before. This array was useful for all qi essence accumulation Cultivators of all ranks.
Her third was more extravagant it was about 15 percent more expensive but it was 25 percent more powerful. which made it useful for foundation cultivators.
After thoroughly mastering the qi gathering array she decided to branch out to the qi accumulation array. This array gathered the qi in the environment and liquefied it. It was useful for alchemy, forging, growing plants and even cultivation but the process was time consuming I. order to get one full cup it would take a month
She had managed to merge the two arrays into something new. She called it the liquid qi array. She was unsatisfied with this array so she studied other arrays from the sect library. she had found something interesting a compression array. It would force things together under pressure.
When she had made this array the first thing she did was to see what would happen if the qi liquid would solidify like water turning to ice. She knew that qi was very mailable and had many ways to be utilized after all she had seen many different cultivation techniques.
After a few years of trial and error she had made a breakthrough in array formations and created the first spirit crystal formation disk. Every Cup would make 10 inferior grade crystals. This was the most basic array and she knew within time she could make improvements.
She was very proud of herself creating arrays was fulfilling. She decided to report her findings to her teacher because she was not naive to the dangers of owning such an array.
When the Elder found out what she had made she reported it to the Sect master along with a blue print on how to make one. He was thrilled to receive such good news.
Lucy and the sect master both decided to make this top secret and placed such things in a hidden area and cast many restrictions and arrays around it. The sect master told Lucy to reward the student with an inner disciple medal and increase her monthly stipend.
She did as the sect master decreed and Vanessa was pleased with the increase in status, since it meant she could read more books about arrays.
Two months go by and Vanessa continued to research Spirit crystal formation disk. She had wanted to improve it but she had received a message from Elder Lucy and had to respond. She had gone to see her in her office.
It was there she found out that she had a mission with the elder and the two top students to investigate the formation of the cultivation habitat. She of course was greatly excited along with the other two students as this was one of the top arrays in the sect.
She was slowly achieving her dream of viewing all the arrays in the sect.