Chapter 132: Disassembly and Modification of the Spellbook
“Hehe, what are you talking about? Ordinary people can’t cast spells as simply as you think. For example, Foresight-level Spirit Vision doesn’t bring any convenience. Why not try casting it again without relying on Spirit Vision and see how easy it is?” Teacher Ji said with irritation.
Indeed, people from different worlds don’t share the same perspective.
“Uh… Should I try now?” I cautiously asked, adopting Teacher Ji’s suggestion. I hadn’t deliberately used Spirit Vision just now, had I?
I watched the fireball still caught in the spell; it twisted and released hot flames, stirring the air behind it with a long tail flame, consuming a lot of time with every slight movement.
Every moment of it was laid bare before me, with no secrets.
“You can try. I’ll be watching. Even if you fail, it won’t endanger your life,” Ji didn’t deny my casual request and spoke with interest.
“Okay, I’ll give it a shot.” I took a deep breath to adjust my state. I had just drained one of my Magic Sources casting a fireball spell, which also consumed quite a bit of my Mental Power.
But casting another wasn’t a problem. However, I needed to reflect on this; I hadn’t paid much attention to meditating on my Mental Power, resulting in little improvement. Now it seemed that the amount of Mental Power was indeed very important.
Even if I had many Magic Sources, those were external; Mental Power was my own strength. At this moment, I thought of Tan Han. With so many Magic Sources, could her Mental Power handle it?
Just as I was preparing to use my Mental Power to draw on the spellbook within me like last time…
“Wait, hold on a second.”
“Huh?” I opened my eyes in confusion and looked at Ji, unsure of what was happening this time.
“How did your Mental Power accurately perceive the position of the spellbook within you and use the spell?”
“Ah?” I looked at Ji in confusion. This question felt like asking how I could accurately slap my thigh with my hand. How could I explain this?
“Uh… The threads of Mental Power extend and feel the position of the spellbook to release the spell?” I responded, confused, instinctively pointing at my chest.
“It seems you didn’t understand. I just said to try again without relying on the effect of Spirit Vision. You think you can control the opening and closing of Spirit Vision, right?” Ji facepalmed and sighed before asking.
“Well… sort of.” If I couldn’t control the opening and closing of Spirit Vision, I wouldn’t be able to distinguish between the normal world and that eerie, terrifying Spirit Vision world.
“In fact, Spirit Vision doesn’t have such convenient distinctions as opening and closing.”
“You are an Innate Spirit Vision User. I can’t imagine what you went through when you were just born, but you must have inadvertently done something to force the degree of Spirit Vision to decrease.”
“Perhaps you think this is closing Spirit Vision, but that might just be the world seen after blocking most of the Spirit Vision information. So, the world you see from the beginning is different from what the rest of us see.”
“Uh…”
I fell silent. I really hadn’t considered this possibility. I was a transmigrator; I’d experienced what the normal world was like. How could I… wait.
Maybe it was possible. When I was casting spells, the perspective I saw while drawing on the spellbook with Mental Power, I had always thought was a mental perception… Or could this be a cognitive error? Was it a method of utilizing Spirit Vision?
“It seems you’ve figured something out. It’s okay; I’m not trying to correct you. You can construct your own coherent worldview, which is a reasonable way to understand things. I’m just presenting a possibility, giving you an angle you haven’t considered.” Ji hurriedly tried to reassure me.
But a flicker of tension crossed her expression. In her view, Yang Yuelan was a child who had just come of age, who had been sent to a mental hospital when she was younger. Surviving to now must mean she had her own understanding. If this understanding was undermined by a few casual words from herself, it probably wouldn’t matter.
But the other party was a Floating World-level spirit seer, which could trigger a series of cognitive dissonance. A life that hadn’t reached the extraordinary level wouldn’t suddenly understand all the possibilities of the extraordinary.
So she might unintentionally cause serious consequences through careless words.
Her aim was to liberate Yang Yuelan’s Spirit Vision to the greatest extent possible, not to completely unleash it at once, which would lead her to become a madwoman like other Innate Spirit Vision Users.
It seemed she had to speed up the process to help the other achieve extraordinary status, even if it was just to elevate the life level. Ji silently thought.
Then she softly asked me, who was still in shock, “Are you okay? Yang Yuelan, Xiao Han?”
“Ah? Oh, it’s fine, just thinking of some possibilities. I’m good.” I looked at Ji’s fleeting panic and responded with a smile.
Did Ji think I would suffer from cognitive dissonance?
Caring about me this much?
Her tone earlier had been so cautious that I was a bit unaccustomed to it.
I already recognized myself as an adult. When encountering incomprehensible matters, I would just deal with it nonchalantly. What cognitive dissonance? Even if you told me this world was fake and my existence was meaningless, I would ignore it and continue to enjoy myself. The fact that I could enjoy was the greatest significance!
“So… do you still want to try casting a spell?” I pointed at the fireball still trapped in that spatial spell.
Since it was pointed out that my attempt seemingly had no significance and I couldn’t completely “close” Spirit Vision, there was no need to waste my Magic Power. After all, I only had three Magic Sources.
Calculating carefully, that was just enough for three fireball spells.
“No, normal spell casting has no threshold for you anymore. Let’s try the advanced spellbook technique.” Ji said as a smile of excitement crept onto her lips.
This showed that although she had spoken so casually earlier, what she was about to do was a significant attempt for someone like her, an extraordinary witch.
“Alright, so what should I do?” I nodded obediently, eager to try that so-called advanced technique. What would the effect be?
“Just follow my instructions.” Ji was pleased with my cooperation. With a wave of her hand, the slowly floating fireball in the spell space suddenly extinguished as if it had run out of energy.
Then she moved to a side experiment table, opened the Earth Vein Operating System, and casually pulled out a huge screen.
“By the way, do you still remember everything I explained to you before?” Ji operated the screen, adjusting it to an analysis graph.
“Yeah… I remember some of it.”
“How about this? Do you remember what structure I told you about?” Ji placed the screen in front of me.
“Yeah… I remember.” I differentiated and recalled the content Teacher Ji had mentioned earlier; this was part of the internal ritual structure of the fireball spellbook.
It was also the core of the spellbook.
Typically, the internal structure of a spellbook is centered on a ritual, using various structures based on extraordinary theory to serve the internal ritual. One could say that the ritual of a spell determines the effects it produces.
Of course, some spellbooks do not have rituals and are simply formed by relying solely on extraordinary theoretical constructs. Such spellbooks without rituals are called minor spells to distinguish them from those with rituals.
Moreover, the power or effect of minor spells is generally the lowest among spells of the same level, but they are the easiest to use and consume little magic.
“This is the part of the array ceremony within the fireball spell.” Rituals are divided into many types, for example, the array ceremony within the fireball is similar to a magic array, which is what coalesced in front of my hand when casting it earlier.
It’s referred to as an Array Ceremony, along with categories like Chanting Ceremony, Action Ceremony, etc. If one were to categorize them in detail, it might take forever to explain.
“That’s right, now I’ll teach you how to use Mental Power threads to disassemble a spellbook!”
“Ah? Disassemble? Spellbook?” I asked in surprise. Why would we disassemble a good spellbook?
“Only by disassembling and prying open the protective layer of the spellbook can your Mental Power threads enter to modify the ritual inside. This is the modification of the spellbook.” Ji noticed my confusion and kindly explained.
“Don’t think it’s easy just because you have a talent that others can’t match. You can easily cross thresholds that others can’t reach in a lifetime just by relying on your talent.”
This was not the first time Ji expressed such envy; she might have felt she had said too much and quickly moved on to a different topic.
“Come, let’s try to disassemble it, using the fireball spell I gave you. If it accidentally collapses, I’ll give you another spellbook. Don’t be afraid to take bold actions because of this,” Ji pulled the screen in front of me and started explaining the steps using images.
Using Mental Power as external force and Spirit Vision as feedback, I quickly learned how to disassemble the energy shell of the spellbook.
The spellbook had this energy shell, which allowed it to exist temporarily without a carrier and remain intact. While one could say it’s fragile, it could also create terrifying killing spells; saying it was solid, it might collapse when without a carrier.
So modifying it would be a difficult task.
“Yes, take it slow, just like that. I’ll prepare some experimental records; detailed disassembly of the fireball spellbook energy shell, first experiment.”
Ji spoke softly, and then the Earth Vein Operating System began to record the current scene. Whether it was successful or failed, this would be a very memorable video.
An extraordinary witch disassembling a spellbook without any tools!
If this video were uploaded to the video site of the Witch World, it would receive countless likes from witches, who would then start tearing down and denigrating and @ some witch.
But she couldn’t be bothered with such boring things.
Spellbooks are things that can only be created at the extraordinary level.
That being said, not every extraordinary life can do it.
It’s like how college students can write papers, but not every student’s paper can pass plagiarism checks; that’s roughly the idea. Some have professional content, while others fill their papers with fluff.
Creating spellbooks by extraordinary witches is about the same.
Moreover, due to input from foreign races, such as witches converted from other races, they have become the majority of the witch population, which has lowered the thresholds for extraordinary witches.
Thus, not all extraordinary witches can produce spellbooks.
For example… Ji, she can create spellbooks, but they’re all minor spells without rituals as their core. If she had to make a spellbook with rituals, she would need to find a lot of specialized materials and specific experimental cases to compare carefully.
There’s no way around it; even extraordinary witches have disparities.
But many simple-minded extraordinary witches can’t even produce spellbooks by comparing them to actual cases, which is why Ji considers herself to belong to the genius category; at least she can make them, right?
