I tried my best. I was straight forward, I gave him the cup, and then I left.

But the more I avoided being vague, the more I understood its necessity. You could teach facts and numbers. You could quantify the very basis of the universe and filter it through a machine making it comprehensible, but you couldn't teach experiences. It was like trying to describe colors to a rock or music to a germ.

Some things had to be figured out. Some experiences had to be puzzled over and only then would you get the answer. To tell someone a truth or an idea was in a way to tell them to ignore other truths and ideas. And while that worked greatly for facts, it was horrible for experiences.

Because the way I saw things wasn't the only way to see them, and there certainly wasn't a right way to see most things. So in the end, I had been vague, if only just a little.

The cup would reflect its user and since Cai had drunk from it first, he was its user now. I had used a bit of that river water Forn had given me, and even though I had diluted it, it was still a lot of water law.

I looked at my cup of water. I had only given Cai a drop and even that might be a bit much, but he would grow into it sooner or later.

Most of the water had immediately lost some of its quality as soon as it had left the river. It was of the fourteenth rank now, much lesser in nature. In the same way you couldn't take the ocean in a bucket, you couldn't take a river in a cup. But it was still condensed law of the higher form.

I swirled it in the cup and it sounded like an ocean. That was how laws worked in the higher realms. A punch from a God-Imperium would feel like the collective concepts of force, damage, breaking, strength, movement, and many other concepts rolled up into one.

It would be a punch in the truest form. An absolute attack.

Every punch outside of it would be just a cheap imitation. And this water, was in the same way, qualitatively more water than anything else in this realm.

I wondered what arrays I could make out of it.

I grabbed the cup and went out behind my house. It was a large house built into a hill facing the village. I was too far for them to reach me through the forest but the path would allow a mortal to get here in ten minutes.

But I stopped that now.

I was alone here. No mortals, no Chin, and no Nai. Not even the girls were here.

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I removed a chunk of dirt out of the ground and stuck a small sapling in it. A tree.

The great thing about being an array master was that you understood what needed to happen when laws collided. Most people knew that light and darkness were opposites but what about a shadow. That was defined by both light and darkness. The light was blocked but was still present and the darkness gave substance, but was still encased.

In my mind, I could see how things worked. I could see all the parts of a universe ticking in synchrony and see how the gears pushed and pulled against each other.

But that had always been with lesser things. Smaller laws of lesser quality. I knew water as it dripped and drained and quenched and fed.

I didn't know water like this. I couldn't understand it. I couldn't predict it.

It did the same thing, fundamentally, but it was more.

I held my breath.

The interactions shouldn't be anything different. After all, whether a spark or house fire, water would quench both.

I raised the cup above the plant, and I poured.

The earth wasn't nearly suitable enough for the plant and the air was practically empty for it to try to breathe from it. But the water, the water I hoped would help it.

And it did. The stick drank and grew leaves of green, one after another. It grew taller and taller and taller, past my height and above me.

Then it woke up, but just for a moment.

We talked a quick chat, and it nodded, understanding the situation before going back to sleep.

To plants, consciousness was an annoying thing. They used it sometimes, if only to communicate when they needed to. But most of the time, they would rather not think and only grow.

And this tree was no different.

Forn had given it to me as a reference point. It would be a tree that was closer in connection to the Cosmic Forest and would allow me an easier time traversing to that part of the Cosmic Forest near her grove. And she was right, the tree was alive and growing, and of the tenth rank.

I didn't name it, it wouldn't care for a name. Unlike the myths, dryads were half human and half plant. A true tree found consciousness to be a burden.

Of course we had set out some ground rules and it was willing to obey them and it existed in a small area separate from the rest of the forest, living all its own.

I left the small space relieved.

Well that was one part done.

Now that I had easy access to the Cosmic Forest, I could go train.

That thought still filled me with fear, but whatever that old man had left in me felt somewhat excited by it. I could practice now. I could also die and end up a corpse on the forest floor.

But now, I could cultivate.

But first some things needed to be done. One was the sect.

I was no longer hiding because I was already hidden from Tai Jey. And if I hid even further, then the end of existence would get me before he does.

So if I was no longer hiding, then what was the point in servitude.

I'd expose myself slowly. Bit by bit, both in Ah-Marin and outside of it.

I was dead, technically Dane was dead. They should have chosen a new Array King by now and the process for that was extremely challenging.

I couldn't apply, but I did want to visit my fellow workers, if only to see them.

I also wanted to work again, be an Array Master again. Ofcourse, with my dao there would be certain things I couldn't build, but I would like to try making something.

I'd have to get stronger before then. I'd have to gather materials and I'd have to do that carefully, unlike my last trip to the Divine Beast Emporium.

I didn't know if I trusted myself for any of that though, so for now I would fix my soul and cultivate.

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