Chapter 679: A Genius’s Epitome – Transcendence into Saint!
After receiving congratulations from the witches and several invitations from them wanting to discuss the sense of time together.
The atmosphere among the group of witches became lively.
Bai Yu, as an extraordinary witch who hadn’t been in the Main World for long and was previously a relatively unknown preparatory student, didn’t know many witches. Witches enjoyed gathering, and taking the opportunity this time, many of them had the intention of making friends and congratulating her.
Even if they just got familiar, they could naturally refer to each other as sisters when they met in the future.
“Oh, look who we have here—a cute little witch.”
“It seems we came at the wrong time; I won’t stay here as a light bulb~”
“Is this your little girlfriend, Bai Yu? Such a cute little one.”
“Here’s my business card; we can exchange professional knowledge when you have time.”
Soon, some attentive witches noticed my presence, and with someone who loved to stir the pot, everyone was categorized as light bulbs.
However… each witch here naturally had her own little thoughts. Since they had mixed in and learned what was happening, and had even heard some gossip, many witches left satisfied.
As for the ones wanting to exchange ideas, they were very few. Among the witches at the Witch Academy, body cultivation witches were not many. The sense of time was something many witches had only witnessed Bai Yu demonstrate just moments ago, so leaving a contact number, becoming familiar, and developing a friendship had already accomplished their goal.
When future tea parties or gatherings happened, it would just be a matter of adding another witch to the invitation list. The current situation was too rushed.
Witches were quite casual in this regard; after all, this was the Main World. They would see faces often, unlike in the Void where meeting even once was difficult, so the witches in the Main World were quite relaxed.
“Um, Sister Bai, I hope I’m not interrupting you from making friends…” I quietly asked as I watched many witches congratulate and leave.
“It’s fine, Xiao Han. There’s no need to think that making friends is difficult or forced. If you are meant to be friends, you will eventually become true friends; it won’t be constrained by this moment,” Sister Bai said, gently patting my head in a very doting manner. “But why did you come back so quickly? Did you return right after the exams ended outside?”
“Yeah, there’s nothing fun outside.” I shrugged and followed Sister Bai into her villa.
Once inside, I intentionally glanced at the wall that had previously been shattered. It showed no cracks; only the Earth Vein recorded its former damaged state.
“Curious about the technique I just demonstrated, Xiao Han?” Seeing my expression, Sister Bai directly brought it up.
“Um… is this really the sense of time?” I asked curiously.
It’s like a time rewind!
But having the sense of time, I understood that time would never reverse. Even if I were to retrace the Earth Vein’s timeline, it would constitute an “illusion” formed by the Earth Vein’s information. However, in reality… time could not partially rewind.
“This is the sense of time; or rather, it is a technique developed from a complete sense of time. Xiao Han, you’re right; the sense of time builds upon the heart sense and is a form of control and application on a deeper understanding.”
I quietly listened as Sister Bai explained, not contradicting her. Now it was time for her to teach me the knowledge I hadn’t grasped yet.
“It may not be very intuitive to say it this way.” As she spoke, her hand raised, and a small fireball emerged. “Let’s use this small fireball as an example; it’s much more straightforward than demonstrating with our villa.”
“Okay.”
“Watch closely.” As she spoke, Sister Bai controlled the fireball to explode with minimal force. The entire condensed fireball transformed into pure flames in an instant, emitting dazzling light.
“This is the explosion process of a small fireball. Now, using the technique from earlier to trace back, can the explosion remnants and derivatives return to an unexploded small fireball?”
Sister Bai inquired with a questioning tone, but at that moment, the flames that had extinguished in the area of the prior explosion reignited, and then, as if played in reverse, transformed back into a fireball spell!
Sister Bai answered the previous question with action.
“Did you understand?”
“This…” I was shocked but also began to understand what it meant, but… I couldn’t do it.
“The sense of time is such a capacity; it is built on the understanding of the essence of things from the heart sense, then derived into the ability to control it. It isn’t time reversal but rather the retrospection or deduction of things.”
Sister Bai held the fireball spell in one hand while the other seemed to wave the strings of time. The fireball and the dancing flames sometimes stopped, sometimes retreated, displaying various explosive forms that this small fireball might produce.
Sister Bai had already constructed the essence and operational framework of this fireball spell through her heart sense. She could determine how it would explode, when it would explode, and even condense after the explosion… all of which were the retrospection and deduction of the fireball spell itself. However, from an objective perspective, the macro time of the fireball spell had always been now; only what the “now” presented were all forms derived from the “past” or “future”!
“This… such a commanding ability over things! What kind of terrifying energy must be involved?!” After grasping the general principle, I still said in disbelief.
“If you merely rely on brute force and common thought to change the form of an object, then it would indeed be laborious and thankless, and it’s impossible to achieve the perfection I demonstrate. But this is a technique derived from the sense of time, and techniques are the levers that pivot consumption and presentation of effects; thus, it seems impossible and not worth the cost, but it’s something I can easily accomplish,” Sister Bai continued to explain.
“I understand. It’s like I mastered the magic power conversion technique. If I release a fireball the size of a building, for others, this action would be unprofitable; but for me, my consumption is merely a normal amount, while for others, it might require hundreds or even thousands. Is that right?” I asked curiously.
“Yes… that’s roughly the understanding…” Sister Bai hesitated slightly. “Xiao Han, you’re not focusing on the key points but rather on these fine details. You already understood, didn’t you?”
“I do understand… but knowing and doing is a chasm.” I said, slightly troubled. I actually understood, even without Sister Bai’s explanation. For someone like me with a budding sense of time, I had a foundational understanding, but… I couldn’t do it.
I could comprehend the structure of a fireball spell through my heart sense, including the five senses, but I couldn’t govern it through the sense of time.
I finally understood why my sense of time still remained in a nascent state; it lacked the most essential capability, which was the foundation, energy, to drive the “control” ability.
The Great Spellbook’s permanent effect could support the effects directly related to the field itself, but that was already the limit. It was impossible for it to provide energy for an ability like the sense of time that had no correlation to the Great Spellbook.
“I understand, Xiao Han. I know your dilemma.”
After hearing my response, Sister Bai believed me; she had no doubt I would deceive her. After all, she could master the sense of time, which actually had a lot to do with Xiao Han. She trusted that if Xiao Han had the same extraordinary foundation as her, she would definitely be able to do better!
“Really? Sister Bai, you know?” I looked at Sister Bai in surprise. “Then please don’t say yet; let me guess, is it because my field itself lacks energy?”
“Yes, it lacks energy. In fact… we are also surprised about how your field can unfold without energy support. But after learning your field is not purely a spell field or a body cultivation heart realm field, we kind of understood the reason.”
“Because… of the Great Spellbook, right?” I asked, even though this was my inner answer, no one had ever told me these.
“Correct! So, your current state is truly a miracle!”
“A miracle? Isn’t that a bit exaggerated?” I said modestly.
“Not exaggerated at all. Think about the conditions of your current field; aren’t they all miracles?”
“With self-awakened body cultivation, not even having transcended to the extraordinary, yet having the sixth sense of heart sense as a foundational groundwork, and constructing the heart realm field with it, and this heart realm field is connected with two Great Spellbooks; the Great Spellbook isn’t something easily obtained, even many extraordinary witches do not have it, yet Xiao Han, you are not even extraordinary and already possess two.”
“In the end, you lack enough energy to unfold your field but, because you have mastered one Great Spellbook, you utilized the Great Spellbook’s permanent effect of the Void Rifts to unfold the field’s effects… isn’t that a miracle?”
“Your kind of exception, just this ability balance would be enough to produce countless papers; do you know?” Sister Bai said with a smile.
“Uh… Being said that way by Sister Bai, it actually seems so?” I scratched my head and said. “Um… can we stop flattering this for now? Since Sister Bai mentioned energy in relation to the field, I actually came here for that.”
“Xiao Han, are you finally unable to hold back your curiosity?” Sister Bai asked with a smile, now that I had directed the conversation here.
“Um? Have you been waiting for me to ask you?”
“Not really. It’s just that the level you can’t access right now, saying it in advance would just be a waste of effort. However, it’s not something that can’t be said, as long as you ask.” Sister Bai shook her head.
“Then I want to ask now. My field lacks energy, right? A lot, a lot of energy!”
“Yes, Xiao Han, your field is simply lacking energy supply; it’s a very direct yet utterly despairing condition.”
“Despair?” I was somewhat confused, not knowing what degree qualified as despair.
“Yes, but before discussing this, you need to understand another concept.”
“What concept?”
“The concept of grading levels,” Sister Bai said.
“Level… grading?” I frowned and asked. “I heard Principal Mei say that the only level recognized by the Void is the boundary of extraordinary; it distinguishes between non-extraordinary and extraordinary.”
“Yes, extraordinary is indeed currently the only level classification of the Void, but Xiao Han, don’t you think this span between levels is too great? Some lives spend their entire lives unable to reach the extraordinary level.”
“So… grading levels means human divisions?” I tentatively asked. “Doesn’t that make it meaningless?”
“Meaningless… how could it be? While humanity indeed cannot define levels in the macro ‘extraordinary’ sense, we can divide levels based on the ‘energy level’; this energy level classification refers to the amount of energy and does not denote combat power, but it can provide a reference description of a life’s combat power, making energy level division a compromise for grading levels.”
“Oh, so it overlooks combat power and defines levels based on energy amounts, right? The amount of energy, when facing characters of typical levels, roughly corresponds to the combat power level, thus it’s called a compromise…” I nodded slightly as I grasped the core of it.
“Yes, you could also classify combat power levels, but it’s too troublesome and cannot be popularized in the Void primarily due to the lack of standardization; each race in the Void refuses to yield to another.”
“After all, Xiao Han, you also understand that there are differences between different energies. Just take the commonly seen magic power, witch power, holy light power, and elements from our Main World as examples; it’s just too troublesome to unify, so we use energy level as a classification.”
“Then can Sister Bai tell me how to classify them? Since it can be popularized, it should be easy to distinguish, right?” I asked curiously.
“Okay, let’s use our witch race’s magic source as the unit for example; one magic source represents a standard energy level unit. If one possesses 1 to 9 magic sources, one can be called an entry-level spell apprentice.”
“Then at 10 sources, it becomes a junior spell apprentice, and it increases tenfold subsequently; then comes intermediate and advanced spell apprentices, while 10,000 sources mark the starting point for an entry-level formal mage, or a formal spellcaster as well. Then it increases tenfold into junior, intermediate, and advanced casters. This is the level classification beneath extraordinary, with the highest level of advanced casters having a threshold of 10 million units, and the upper limit being under 100 million, but not exceeding 100 million.”
“100 million!?” Upon hearing this number, I was also astonished!
“It’s under 100 million; extraordinary cannot exceed 100 million. This is the limit that a non-extraordinary life can carry,” Sister Bai corrected.
“And 100 million corresponds to the existence above the extraordinary level threshold, with the corresponding energy level classification being… the Holy Realm. So ‘transcendence into saint’ describes this level, and extraordinary beings below 100 million energy level achieve only extraordinary status, not transcendence into saint.”
“Uh… so… what does this have to do with my field?” I weakly raised my hand to ask.
“This brings us to the concept of the Holy Realm; it is a threshold and not merely energy reaching 100 million. Or rather, without corresponding methods to ascend to the Holy Realm, a life—even an extraordinary one—cannot exceed this energy level limit.”
“May I ask why?” I spoke again.
“Because the threshold to the Holy Realm is… to shape one’s own field; the foundational energy threshold required for a field formation is precisely 100 million standard units of energy! Only with 100 million energy can a complete field maintain self-circulation,” Bai Yu said, and at this point, she couldn’t help but think about herself.
She clearly understood that the energy for ascending to the Holy Realm was not the key; comprehending the field was the crux of ascension.
When she transcended to extraordinary and comprehended body cultivation heart sense, shaping the heart realm field, energy was hardly a problem. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have completed her field structure in such a short time!
Plus, with Principal Mei’s recommendation letter allowing her to return so swiftly to the Main World, if she hadn’t constructed this field to ascend to the Holy Realm, the difficulties she would have faced in returning to the Main World, along with the obstructions and time delays, would only have multiplied!
But all of this was undoubtedly worthwhile.
And she was especially optimistic about Xiao Han; her little Han had grasped the embryonic form of her field even before ascending to extraordinary, meaning Xiao Han could definitely soar to the top during her extraordinary ascendance, achieving transcendence into saint!
“Transcendence into saint” epitomized genius! Even if she quickly transcended into extraordinary and immediately shaped her field without achieving the significant leap of transcendence into saint, she would still be crowned a genius; all of this was to be expected!
However, I at that moment was already stunned by Sister Bai’s words, with a number echoing in my ears… 100 million!
To shape a complete field actually required 100 million magic sources!
If they packed me up and sold me, they still wouldn’t be able to gather that much, right?
