Nine Treasures City, Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
All manner of Core Arrays lay across the cluttered workbench, though even more had been ruined by mistakes.
In the half month since Ning Tian had returned home, she had barely rested. Every day, she practiced carving Core Arrays in her room.
It had been more than half a year since she began learning about Soul Tools.
Thanks to the Enchanting Lu Yi had done on her forging hammer, she had saved a great deal of time on metal forging. It had taken her only five months to master the basics.
She was now practicing Core Array carving. Nearly two months had passed since she began studying it and putting that knowledge to work.
At her current pace, another month or two would let her carve a complete Level 1 Core Array on her own and officially become a Level 1 Soul Engineer.
According to the teachers in the Soul Tool Department, students who formally entered the department in their fourth year usually took around a year and a half to reach that point. She was already learning faster than most of them.
Yet she felt no joy at all.
Lu Yi, who had started learning about Soul Tools alongside her, had become a Level 2 Soul Engineer before the holiday even began.
She had also heard that Huo Yuhao had needed only one month to learn how to carve a Core Array and complete one.
Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul was his eyes. His advantage when it came to close observation was understandable, at least.
But she had no idea how Lu Yi had done it. They had studied the same knowledge and performed the same work, yet in a field where Martial Souls had the least influence, she had fallen so