Chapter 432: Advanced Ceremony Battle Dance and Earth Vein Magic
Morning.
After completing my body cultivation, I felt that the benefits brought by this primary ceremony battle dance had decreased compared to before. Perhaps it was time to switch to a new one.
After all, this was just a primary ceremony battle dance, marking a completion of a certain stage; it wasn’t the type that can be infinitely enhanced.
“It’s time to go to the library,” I thought as I picked up my bottle and took a few small sips of water.
“Are you leaving?” At this moment, Tao Ling quickly approached when she saw me packing my things.
“Yes,” I nodded.
Regarding this senior I met at the body technique practice hall, I could tell she was pursuing body techniques. Her ability to master the energy of Qi was enough to witness her efforts.
“I didn’t expect you to leave so soon?” She seemed surprised. After all, it had been over a month since we last met, and it was only now that we met again, but I found that the time she spent on body techniques had decreased, which naturally puzzled her.
“Yeah, the primary ceremony battle dance is a bit behind my pace now,” I replied.
Of course, the main reason was that I had learned to control time now, no longer spending half a day meditating and cultivating my body like before. Everything has its limits; suitable is enough.
After a simple conversation with this not-so-great communicator senior, I left directly.
I don’t know why, but I always have some inexplicable goodwill and desire for communication with socially awkward people. Perhaps we all have common topics as people who are not good at interacting?
After all, talking to such people means you don’t fear saying something wrong, because they probably think similarly. Any mistakes can be actively tolerated by the other party…
So… thinking this way, was I too harsh on everyone in the past?
Especially to Tan Han…
So, is this what Sister Bai meant when she talked to me? Not being able to tolerate even a slight mistake from others, perhaps afterward I wouldn’t have any friends at all.
But in the end, I still didn’t say much to Tao Ling and simply said goodbye before leaving.
My destination was the library.
The monthly exam was tomorrow, so my time was quite limited, but I wasn’t anxious about it; those who panic usually have empty minds, while those who are prepared should be eager to try.
Although I had never attended classes, I had learned quite a bit. The teaching and testing at the Witch Academy were not the type that just gets you a degree.
The learning of extraordinary-related knowledge had an intense positive feedback feeling; the things learned could be used as skills. At least for me, this temptation was irresistible and, to some extent, addictive.
When I arrived at the library, perhaps it was the last day before the monthly exam; it was already crowded with people, most of whom looked young, exhibiting a certain level of naïveté like college students from a previous life.
These should mostly be newcomers, at most a couple of years my senior.
Maybe they thought the learning atmosphere here was quite good.
Although I could tell that some were just pretending to study, there were indeed some who were genuinely learning.
After all, the Witch Academy is a very famous extraordinary academy; who enters here was not once a genius?
I silently walked into the sea of books, heading straight to the area containing books on body techniques based on my earlier experiences.
It was here that I discovered the primary ceremony battle dance technique when I first found it.
After a short while, I found the advanced version of the ceremony battle dance, still named the ceremony battle dance, but this was the advanced version.
When I wanted to see if there were any similar subsequent books around, I found no more in the series; it seemed that the one in my hands was the last part.
Realizing this outcome… without the subsequent ceremony battle dance, I could not quickly borrow from this technique for rapid body enhancement. Perhaps afterward, I could only learn certain specific body techniques to indirectly improve my physical qualities.
After all, fundamentally, although I was a body cultivator, I had not learned any formal body technique.
This was indeed not quite right, but who made me a self-awakening body cultivator? Others practice body techniques to acquire Qi forces, or to say, strength; but I go step by step to practice the technique.
Perhaps this is why I don’t value things that come too easily…
I didn’t dwell overly on this but noted down the advanced ceremony battle dance.
Not long after, I finished reading a book that deeply analyzed the advanced ceremony battle dance.
I must say it was much more complex than the primary ceremony battle dance, and with the integration of the knowledge tree, I quickly dismantled the bodily movements of the advanced ceremony battle dance back to the essence as runes, then used these runes to understand in another way why the ceremony battle dance had such movements.
One could say this learning method of mine was a severe dimensional strike against ordinary students.
While they were still struggling to practice and discerning if their movements were standard, the significance of those movements, and so forth, I had already broken down and analyzed them fundamentally based on my own understanding and perception, then reverse-engineered the movements, equivalent to reviewing the creative process of this ceremony battle dance.
What is a dimensionality reduction strike, if not this?
Thinking outside the box is indeed a superior choice.
However, I soon frowned again because the advanced ceremony battle dance required the accompaniment of an advanced body cultivation ring, which means the ring that Sister Bai gave me had already been “eliminated.”
But I couldn’t bring myself to take it off; I’d buy a new one when I had the chance; after all, it’s a more practical alchemical item, and its price wouldn’t be cheap.
After organizing my thoughts, I put down the book on the advanced ceremony battle dance along with its annotations and supplementary readings, feeling I already had a deep understanding of it, just needing to give it a try tomorrow.
Next, I prepared to look into and understand some books related to earth veins.
After all, when I was in the small world, I hoped to return to the academy precisely to understand knowledge related to earth veins!
My research on the knowledge tree had been stuck here for a long time, whereas the connection between the knowledge tree and the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell didn’t even have a clue at the beginning.
After searching for a while, I finally found books related to earth veins.
Recalling things related to earth veins, Tan Han had once organized relevant materials for me, but regrettably, those materials did not provide enough descriptions of the earth veins for me to understand them better; I needed to delve deeper into their nature and characteristics.
As of now, my understanding of earth veins had stopped at the carrying capacity and inclusiveness of earth vein energy.
It could carry basically the vast majority of energies and extraordinary energies, including matter, extraordinary materials, memories, information, and data…
Moreover, the worlds born in the void are centered around earth veins, akin to worlds being the fruits produced on the earth veins.
I was preparing to find a secluded corner to sit down with a stack of books, but after searching for a while, I couldn’t find one. There were unexpectedly many people in the library today, and corner spots had already been occupied; after all, not many people notice if there aren’t many people around, so it’s convenient for doing questionable things.
Earlier, I saw two seniors sitting face-to-face in a corner, each holding a book, their eyes exchanging ambiguous gazes, as one extended her leg wrapped in black stockings, gently teasing the skirt of the senior opposite her with her toes.
The challenged senior had a half-pink remote control peeking out between the pages of the book she was holding…
Tsk tsk… that’s quite the game.
After that remark, I went back to the shelves. In any case, the library here was very clean, and many seniors were simply sitting on the ground; sitting on the floor in the library was not uncommon.
After all, there are many who enjoy being quietly alone, and the seating area of the library often has a lot of people, which can indeed affect those who want to read seriously.
Not to mention those seniors who play strange games directly in the library.
The area on earth vein-related books had few people; after all, knowledge related to earth veins is somewhat niche, and the nature of earth vein energy destined it not to be easily controlled extraordinary energy.
Its unique “world locality” meant that beings who transcend their original world with power systems can’t adapt to the void outside the world.
If it’s all just people who don’t like to leave the world, then it doesn’t matter.
But I can’t be so short-sighted; I wouldn’t treat earth vein energy as my relied-upon source of strength; I see it merely as a tool I can utilize—one that I can discard or pick up whenever I want.
Time flew by quickly, and I read more and more books, gaining a deeper understanding of the earth veins.
However, so far, the books I could find related to earth veins didn’t perfectly resolve the dilemma I was currently facing.
Essentially, earth vein energy is also extraordinary energy, so life theoretically has a notion of “affinity” for earth vein energy. However, this affinity is not only tied to mental power but also relates to earth vein shackles. The deeper a person is bound to this world, the higher their affinity for earth vein energy. Of course, it also means that the earth vein shackles bind that person more thoroughly.
Based on my understanding, this kind of person mostly consists of children of fortune and those deeply entrenched in scripts. Although the book didn’t describe terms like “children of fortune” or “scripts,” I could infer it based on my knowledge. So… are scripts related to earth veins to some extent?
I always thought scripts were indeed related to fortune.
No wonder severing earth vein shackles can fundamentally break free from scripts; it turns out it’s based on such reasoning. And for someone like Qiu Ruxin who can sever earth vein shackles, yet is still a child of fortune… it’s likely due to helplessness, right?
After all, fortune and earth veins seem to be two separate systems, and a child of fortune being expelled from the script probably means those excavators mastered the world’s script; to ensure they don’t annihilate the children of fortune, they acted this way. Furthermore, this child of fortune is merely a prop for 【Extraordinary Knowledge】 to take effect; the world’s will only needs to ensure she doesn’t perish.
As for why Qiu Ruxin still has a curse of misfortune… I don’t know. At most, I could attribute this problem to the world will of the small world, not the world consciousness of the main world.
Back to the issue of earth vein energy.
Earth vein energy is also extraordinary energy, so it can also be utilized; the earth vein system of the main world is like that. Not only this, but many devices within the Witch Academy, such as earth vein projection, earth vein imaging, etc., utilize earth vein energy.
Thus, earth veins can be utilized.
However, I can’t utilize them.
Must I rely on external items?
I was somewhat puzzled and could only continue to search.
“Huh? Wait! Found it!”
After browsing countless books related to earth veins, I finally found what I wanted to know in a relatively inconspicuous spot!
“Earth Vein Magic! There’s actually such a special classification of magic?” I was excited, very interested in this category of magic I had never come across before.
But soon, I was disappointed…
“Earth Vein Magic is an innate spell possessed by earth vein life… it is one of the spells that is almost impossible to learn…”
Seeing this description made my heart ache. I found out that I couldn’t learn this spell!
Although the text says it’s almost impossible to learn, suggesting there might still be hope, in fact, this situation was even more despairing.
After all, someone who can publish a book surely has considerable knowledge, and if the person who published it claims it’s nearly impossible to learn, then for me, it’s practically the same as impossible.
However… one thing mentioned on it surprised me, and that is earth vein life, which means life! And not merely a biological entity.
This made me think of dream creatures; that group of cute fool dreams is like this.
According to the description of earth vein life, those who discovered earth vein life also found it incredible, and perhaps at that time it wasn’t even life as defined in life interpretation.
And now ending with “life”… does that imply earth vein life has a corresponding transformation technique?
If there’s a transformation technique, can I not attempt to learn earth vein magic?
But this thought flashed through my mind and vanished due to being too unrealistic.
The academy likely doesn’t have this kind of magic, or if it does, acquiring it would undoubtedly be quite difficult.
Although my guess is likely correct, perhaps earth vein life transformation technique is the threshold for learning earth vein magic, this sort of precious and rare magic certainly wouldn’t circulate in the academy. I might ask the academy head; she might know, but I can’t just reach out to the academy head asking for this spell.
Even though I’ve thickened my skin a bit now, I’m not thick enough for such purpose; moreover, this is a favor owed.
“There must be other ways. If all else fails, I can attempt to use alchemy in conjunction with magic to use the Earth Vein Identification Technique…” I muttered to myself.
After all, I already have such a path before me—the earth vein system. I can reference how it’s utilized for earth vein energy, but ultimately it’s still an external resource rather than a magic I can master.
But even if it means momentarily compromising, I can indeed try this route first; after all, I cannot afford to be halted by a single obstacle on the path derived from the knowledge tree.
However, I now also have some thoughts; using earth vein magic as a breakthrough point, since what I need is not to completely master earth vein energy but to use the knowledge tree to borrow information and insights from the earth veins.
With this thought, I continued reading this book.
“Oh… turns out earth vein magic really can use earth vein life transformation as a threshold for learning… huh? There are actually other learning pathways!”
