Female Novel
Chapter 366
“Formation Arrays are inscriptions, which are carved into a weapon. Different shapes have different effects on Energy. Of course,the basic Formation Arrays only have a very subtle effect on Energy. For example, you can't convert Energy into an element withjust the basic Formation Arrays," his father explained.
"There are Formation Arrays that absorb Energy, some that move it around, some that store it. Some other Formation Arraysinfluence the will, Spirit, element, or awareness. The last one isn't relevant to forging weapons."
"I'm going to teach you the relevant Formation Arrays for manipulating Energy, will, Spirit, and lightning. Energy is the base, whileyou need to know the ones for manipulating will and Spirit for your Lightning Crescent."
"Contrary to the expectations of beginners, carving the Formation Arrays into a weapon is one of the easier parts. Yet, itbecomes more difficult the further you progress until it becomes the most challenging part in the end."
"How come?" Gravis asked.
"The initial Formation Arrays are only basic. As | said, they only manipulate the Energy in very simple ways. Yet, such a simpleformat clearly wouldn't be enough for more powerful cultivators. After all, they have comprehended their Laws, and using basicFormation Arrays wouldn't do justice to these Laws," his father explained.
Gravis nodded. He had already guessed that the Laws would most likely become the strongest weapons of the cultivators in thefuture. Merely storing and unleashing an element or Energy from a weapon seemed too basic and weak for such powerfulpeople. There were surely ways to make a weapon harness the power of a Law.
"The basic Formation Arrays are used in smithing up to the peak of Nascent Nourishing. As soon as you start comprehendingLaws, such basic usage becomes useless. At that point, you would need to transcribe the concept of your Law into the languageof Formation Arrays. At that point, inscribing Formation Arrays becomes difficult," his father explained.
“Formation Arrays tailored to specific Laws are sold at a high price. Not everyone has the money, time, guidance, knowledge, orsafety to practice forging. Therefore, forgers start becoming more important and sought after the more powerful the cultivatorsget."
"Theoretically, to inscribe a Law specific Formation Array doesn't require the forger to understand said Law. It's as simple ascopying something onto a weapon. Since cultivators all understand different laws, it becomes important for business to know theFormation Arrays for more Laws. That's why these Formation Arrays are so expensive."
Gravis rubbed his chin. "So, theoretically, | could find and ask a forger to create a weapon specifically made for my PunishmentLightning, right? You said that it is a Law."
His father nodded. "Correct. Punishment Lightning is a popular element. So, a lot of forgers know the required FormationArrays."
Gravis snorted. "But the more advanced and complex the Laws become that a cultivator can understand, the harder it is to findthese Formation Arrays, right?"
His father nodded again. "Also correct. Even though the weakest Laws are, by a huge margin, the most numerous, they still havethe most public Formation Arrays. After all, they're comparatively not that hard to understand. The more powerful the Laws, thefewer people are able to create or recreate the relevant Formation Arrays until only a select few know them. Such powerfulFormation Arrays are highly valued in trade."
Gravis scratched his chin. "| guess the Divine Forger, Linus, knows a lot of them."
His father nodded. "He is one of the very few people that actually know Formation Arrays for more than one of the most powerfulLaws. The other people that know as much as him or more are very secluded. Most of them are just acting as ancestors for PeakSects, and they don't forge weapons for others since they think it's beneath them."
Gravis nodded but kept quiet.Whoop!
Asmall book appeared, making Gravis furrow his brows. Did he need to read even more now? Reading the small booklet hadalready been time-consuming. How long would it take him to read this book?
"This book has all the relevant basic Formation Arrays noted down," his father said as the book floated over to Gravis.
Gravis opened it and was immediately surprised. The size of the writing was large enough that even mortals could read it. Thiswas way less information than Gravis had anticipated.
"As | said," his father said, "the basic Formation Arrays aren't difficult, and even people in the lower worlds can use them. Youshould be done in about three hours or so."
Gravis had already started reading. Going through this book was a piece of cake. His Spirit had been tempered, which hadincreased his comprehension ability way past what a mortal could do. Completely memorizing the book from front to backwouldn't take much time.
Sure enough, in about two hours, Gravis finished the entire book. This was nothing in comparison to all the properties of all thematerials found in the middle worlds. As he finished reading, Gravis realized that the Formation Arrays were really simple.Inscribing them was also straightforward and logical.novelbin
When Gravis had gotten his new weapons on his journey, he had always marveled at how great and mysterious they were. Suchweapons could store Energy or lightning? This had been wondrous.
Yet, after knowing all the background information, Gravis realized that inscribing the Formation Arrays was probably even easierthan creating the edge of a Spirit Weapon. No wonder Old Man Lightning had been able to create a fitting weapon for Gravis’peculiar technique in nearly no time.
Right now, Gravis could take the Core Ore, or Low Ore, to create a Peak Spirit Weapon. This meant that he was already at thesame level as the forgers of the Heaven Sect.
Yet, Gravis had also trained with many different Unity Rank materials. Together with his knowledge, his forging was alreadysuperior to everyone inside a lower world.
When Gravis realized that, he sighed. 'I shouldn't forget that | didn't fully achieve that by myself. Without all these calculations,information about the materials, and endless supply of ore, | wouldn't have been able to become that good so fast.’
‘On top of that, my inherent control over lightning makes it many times easier to control it finely. Others probably need years andyears of practice to reach such fine control.
Yet, Gravis wasn't deterred. ‘Luckily for my ego, these are only the advanced basics of forging. Similar to my combat trainingbefore going to the lower world, this is just a starting boost. Every future progression will depend on me.’
After that, Gravis started practicing the whole process of creating a weapon. In the beginning, Gravis often wasn't detailedenough in inscribing the Formation Arrays. It required a lot of control and feeling. If the Formation Arrays weren't perfect, theweapon would become weaker.
Like this, Gravis practiced with a lot of different weapons and Formation Arrays for another two months.
After these two months, Gravis was able to make the edges for new materials after only around four failures. Yet, he felt like hisfeeling for the materials had increased by a lot. He started being able to feel some of the peculiarities of materials without tryingto remember what the booklet had said.
Gravis realized that he had gotten closer to understanding the concept behind them. Yet, he had no idea how much more he hadto learn to understand the concept. He remembered that he had thought that he been at the cusp of understanding the conceptbehind the materials after just reading the booklet.
Yet, after so much practice, he felt his knowledge increase crazily, but that one small step looked even harder to take now."Heh, I've been naive,’ Gravis thought. 'l thought | was close to understanding a Law, but, obviously, I'm not.’
After such a long time, Gravis had a completion rate for weapons of about 98%. Sadly, since he could only use the grindingmethod for the edge, all the weapons he finished were one grade lower than their Rank.
Yet, he had also managed to forge many weapons with Early Unity Rank materials, which would create an Initial Unity Weapons.Such a weapon would be even useful to Gravis now.
But didn't Gravis have the Void-Stone Saber?
Yes, he did, but Gravis now finallyknew about Void-Stone. It was amaterial of the Early Nascent mNourishing Ranks ityoight- Stilt beupefal dN hat Realm, but then itwould become useless. Even more,Gravis couldn't really save a LightningCrescent in it. He could only infuse itwith one, but a lot of the lightningwould get wasted inside the saber.The content is on NovelDrama.Org!Read the latest chapter there!
The Void-Stone Saber didn't have therequired Formation Arrays, and theLightning Crescent was also morepowerful than Gravis’ CeOof that, ingpthe light ng Crescentwae! infused into the Void-StoneSaber, it had an even moredestructive effect on it. Gravis wassure that the Void-Stone Saber wouldstart breaking down at the MiddleUnity Realm. On top of that, it didn'teven have as much utility as a properUnity Weapon. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
After thinking about all this, Gravis decided to stop practicing. ‘I've been learning how to forge for a little less than a year now.Soon, I'll be 23."
Then, Gravis rememberedsomething. ‘Speaking of, nearly ahundred years should have pas
for my friends, Lwordédndw theyake, \Gr iSthought in nervousness. Ahundred years was a long time. Itcould very well be that all of hisfriends had already died, and hisfather just kept quiet to not distracthim from forging. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
"Father," Gravis said. "How are my friends?" he asked.
His father looked at Gravis with his usual, even look.