Chapter 686: d*ath is Another Level of Living
“Isn’t this the plant weaving material created by those wizards from the Fourth Refuge?!”
At this moment, someone suddenly recognized this item. With this young girl mentioning it, many others reacted as well.
They had indeed paid attention to these things, but they had never seen this material look like this!
After all, they had collected a lot of spellcasting materials and had naturally encountered various novel items created by plant technology.
There was also information related to this in the materials science branch of plant technology.
Some people had some impressions of these materials.
“Seems about right, as long as it’s usable,” I waved my hand and said.
Soon, more people gathered here, as word spread among them, and many who hadn’t come to the top floor also arrived.
Seeing Yi Rui, she was setting up some protective measures, and many others began to get busy. While chatting, they realized that Yi Rui was actually going to be the first experimental subject and set an example for everyone.
“Everyone, please prepare yourselves mentally. This experiment is different from any I have conducted before. In the initial data collection and correction phase, even the best outcome is d*ath.”
“What? So scary? The best outcome is d*ath? Then… what’s the worst?”
“Still d*ath～,” Yi Rui said with a smile, as if trying to lighten the fearful atmosphere.
“That’s why I need to be the first to try. If everything goes well, I will use d*ath to help everyone through the most difficult early phase, but… I believe my stamina is also quite limited…”
“We understand! How could we let you, Sister Yi Rui, go to your d*ath alone?”
“Right! If Sister Yi Rui dares to do it, why shouldn’t we? Although I’m a bit scared… but we have the Resurrection Spell!”
After everyone had set up their surrounding measures, I was still in the process of manually refining the equipment.
Although I said these devices were auxiliary, who doesn’t want to be a bit lazy and save unnecessary energy on things that devices could replace?
“Xiao Han, how much longer do we need?”
“Oh, it won’t be long. I’m manually refining a device to display the image curtain generator. After all, we’re conducting a collaborative experiment, and I think some real-time data can be shared with you, even if you might not fully understand it.”
“If it’s bodily data, I’ve studied biological alchemy, so I might be able to understand it,” a young girl spoke up.
“Oh? Biological alchemy?” I looked at the girl; I didn’t have a deep impression of her, but I was familiar with most of the people in this club, including their names.
I remembered her name: Cen Tan.
“Do you need my help? Although… I haven’t been involved in human transmutation much… I’ve mostly dealt with general biological corpses, studying the human body is a bit too much…” Cen Tan said hesitantly.
“I understand. When I was researching the Resurrection Spell to reshape a body, I also felt some physical discomfort; just overcoming it is enough,” I comforted her.
After all, conducting experiments on the body usually falls under the category of taboo experiments, involving morality and ethics. In this world, no, in the entire void race, there are so many beings; witches can always find a race that wouldn’t make them uncomfortable.
“Do you need my help?”
“Well… the experiment I’m conducting might be quite different from the biological transmutation you’re trying; just watch. If you have any thoughts, you can communicate with me, and I will try to understand what you want to convey.”
“Hmm, I will.”
After the brief interlude, I also shared the experiment regarding self-generated magic with them.
Back then, my Great Knowledge Tree was still just a memory shelf spellbook, so it couldn’t record the data from that time. However, as the person involved and the lead researcher of self-awakened body cultivation, I clearly remember what the experiment process was.
Additionally, Principal Mei had compiled this experiment into a paper featuring my name and even published it on the academy website. However, it was still retrieved by my Great Knowledge Tree after interconnecting with the academy network.
This “easy-to-understand” paper was far superior to my poor expression ability.
So I shared this paper with them, giving them a general understanding of what we were about to do.
This paper wasn’t meant to prevent them from searching and reading on their own, but they didn’t have the permissions. After all, the permissions required to access papers published on the academy network by the principal are self-evident.
I had higher permissions than them.
After much effort, they stumbled through the paper until they had a decent grasp of it, as it contained a lot of information.
The main focus was on the concepts of “Self-Awakened Body Cultivation” and “Metamorphic Hatching.”
Of course, part of it wasn’t recorded—my understanding of magic and the magic source, along with the final ritual.
The entire process was actually pushing the “witch transformation” of the body to the limit, reaching a terrifying level. Relying on the transformation into a witch and the adaptability to magic, combined with the reverse analysis and understanding of the magic source skills, ultimately completing the use through self-awakened body cultivation.
At the moment of my success, I could only feel a “thread of magic.”
However, now, my talent for self-generated magic is continuously approaching perfection.
In this experiment, the subjects lacked self-awakened body cultivation, which meant they also lacked a kind of ability to control their physical expression. This kind of experiment naturally couldn’t be replicated again, so all of this required “external force” to help them achieve it.
“Then I’ll start trying.”
Yi Rui had roughly finished reading the paper at this point and understood its general meaning. She was also curious about the difference between herself and the so-called “Self-Awakened Body Cultivation,” especially what it meant to have absolute control over the body.
Having never experienced it, she felt she had no right to speak.
“Are you starting so soon?”
“Are you not ready yet?” Yi Rui replied with a smile.
“I’m naturally ready; even if I wasn’t, I have at least two complete methods to record every detail of this experiment,” I said with a smile.
This wasn’t bragging; I indeed had two methods.
One simulates the academy network’s earth vein control device used during the college entrance exam to record earth vein energy information.
The other is information obtained from the Earth Vein Identification Technique.
Both channels of information pertain to earth veins, but they differ in angles and methods, and they complement each other to a certain extent.
The earth vein control system interferes with earth vein energy to obtain information, which is efficient but can easily distort that information. The Earth Vein Identification Technique obtains information directly, which is less prone to distortion, and with the data collection from the earth vein control system, it can help precisely pinpoint the anchor points of earth vein information. Saying they complement each other is no exaggeration.
“Then I’ll begin. I hope this time I don’t d*e in vain.”
“Hmm, wait a moment; let’s establish a Mind Communication Magic first. That way, if you want to express something, you won’t need to communicate with us using such an inefficient method as speaking,” I seemingly thought of something and said.
“Mind Communication Magic? You have that too?” Yi Rui appeared surprised.
She felt that this teaching assistant, Xiao Han, really had all sorts of rare spells! Although none of them enhance combat power, that’s what makes them most terrifying! Many things are not decided by combat power and destruction.
“Hmm.” I nodded without saying much more.
After all, this spellbook was given to me by Principal Mei before I went to the small world. Looking back now, it all seems a bit too coincidental…
Without any further ado, after establishing the mind communication, I gained the ability to communicate across language barriers with Yi Rui.
Since it was probably her first attempt, I kept receiving various chaotic thoughts from her mind, but I didn’t dissuade her; I just comforted her, knowing full well what she was about to face.
It was… d*ath.
Life instinctively fears d*ath; this is an indomitable instinct, unless… one experiences d*ath and understands that it is merely another level of existence.
When Yi Rui stood on the special experimental platform, transparent plant-derived creations sealed her in. This step primarily aimed to prevent unnecessary damage to the body during resurrection. Otherwise, I would need to add extra equal spellcasting materials; otherwise… her revived body might end up smaller than before.
Perhaps this ability could be developed for weight loss?
But witches… probably don’t need to lose weight.
“Can we start now? The first step, if I remember correctly, is to use high concentration magic to catalyze the body, allowing magic to erode the body and enhance its adaptability to magic.”
At this moment, Yi Rui transformed into a chatterbox in my mind, talking away. Although she usually wouldn’t do this, perhaps she’s the type to have a lot of inner monologue.
“Right.” I nodded in agreement.
Magic, when interacting with living beings, first erodes.
When I was still an ordinary person, I was infused with a magic source, and my body was eroded by high-intensity energy during that time, as my body hadn’t yet developed magic adaptability.
But clearly, the magic source must have some kind of technique for “reshaping the body”; otherwise, it wouldn’t alter the appearance and structure of a male.
This was also one of the reasons I reverse-engineered the magic source. It originates from the witch’s physique and naturally carries information about the bodies of the witch race.
At that time, while learning magic source condensation techniques from Sister Bai, the sudden idea of self-generated magic also stemmed from this.
It’s just that Sister Bai didn’t explain this technique clearly, or perhaps even she didn’t know what it represented; she simply learned to do it.
Moreover, it wasn’t the main structural element within the magic source, but that structure must be a systematic technique, helping someone complete the preparations for the metamorphosis of a witch.
The first magic source had a terrifying effect that could fundamentally change a person’s bodily structure.
Now, what I needed to do was to increase the magic concentration and once again surpass the body’s affinity limit for magic, causing magic to erode the body!
At this point, the technique of reshaping the body within the magic source was already somewhat inadequate.
So I needed to understand what magic was.
Let the body mold itself to fit, adapt to it, and use the ability of self-awakened body cultivation to dominate and complete this body metamorphosis.
Unfortunately, Yi Rui did not possess self-awakened body cultivation.
However, she had one advantage: I had self-awakened body cultivation and… self-generated magic.
With results in hand, it could be backtracked; Principal Mei must have done something similar back then, right?
They had the results and worked backward; they were sure of success but didn’t know how to achieve it. Otherwise, that experiment wouldn’t have been led by my thoughts.
At this moment, with high concentrations of magic, Yi Rui’s body had already lost its original form. Her body was being eroded by magic, and this sight made those watching feel a chill down their spines!
However, the earth energy light curtain in front of them displayed real-time information, showing that Yi Rui’s adaptability to magic was increasing “retaliatorily,” and the body’s witch transformation process was soaring; the result of this abnormal state was that… Yi Rui had completely lost her original appearance!
At this moment, she resembled a monster!
Her body couldn’t bear the physical erosion of magic, and her bl**d stained the entire visible area.
As the experiment progressed to this point, I released the Reincarnation Rebirth Spell at the right moment.
“Everyone, please pay attention; we are entering the final stage ahead of time.” I looked at the displayed values, as if a certain threshold was reached. Back then, I didn’t even know how long that lasted, but clearly, Yi Rui was quickly reaching it. After all, she was a senior student, so her mental power, witch transformation, and other processes were quite formidable, so the impacts of these variables required the experiment to be advanced.
With the release of the Reincarnation Rebirth Spell, I didn’t directly reshape the body.
Reincarnation Rebirth is a resurrection derivative spell more efficient than Principal Mei’s “metamorphic hatching,” but precisely because of this, it skips the intermediate “shaping” phase, becoming a resurrection directly controlled by me.
However, the Reincarnation Rebirth Spell is a spell I have mastered, so during the phase of using Yi Rui’s body as the resurrection material, I still maintained communication with her.
But I quickly noticed an anomaly!
That was, her soul material could not remain for long and would soon be forcibly guided into the earth vein cycle!
Moreover, Yi Rui was starting to feel an irresistible pulling force tearing at her “consciousness,” which was actually the earth vein forcibly guiding her soul material into the cycle.
“Don’t panic… there will be a way,” I reassured her.
“Can the Dream Demon Spell work? Isn’t that how you operate?” Yi Rui reminded me.
“Dream Demon Spell… also won’t work. Although the Sixth Refuge is still in a state of dream overlap, dreams can beherald the souls because of their connection with dream authority, but soul material doesn’t necessarily. Be careful not to become food for dream creatures,” I warned.
Even though I didn’t dispel the dream in the Sixth Refuge, I used wizard academy’s items to dispel dream creatures, so there was no need to worry.
“What dream authority? What?… What should I do then?”
“Mimetic Soul. I can temporarily reshape your soul material into a mimetic soul. This way, you might be able to stay longer through the dream.” I said.
“Mimetic Soul? What does that mean…” At this moment, Yi Rui was beginning to feel somewhat dazed.
But as long as my consciousness was clear, that was sufficient.
The best method is actually soul drawing, but I lack the understanding of how to elevate soul material to the level of soul. This technique is still in an incomplete state, so I could only keep Yi Rui in a mimetic soul state for the time being, making it easier to return to her soul material state later.
After all, a mimetic soul is ultimately not the proper path.
Quickly, Yi Rui’s mimetic soul returned, and she seemed to awaken as if from a “big dream,” but it was just an awakening at the “mimetic soul level.”
“I… what is this?” At this moment, Yi Rui felt as if she were free. Even a subconscious drift carried her through the transparent barrier of the experiment and away from the experimental platform!
“Mimetic soul state.” I observed Yi Rui lost in thought, noticing that there was an aspect of the mimetic soul that I hadn’t paid attention to: dreams could actually carry the mimetic soul!
Could it be that even a mimetic soul has some kind of connection to dreams…
Well, after all, the mimetic soul was sculpted using my own soul as a “template”; it was just that the path was incorrect.
“This… is this the state after d*ath? It feels completely different from the sensation of having no consciousness after dying before!” At this moment, Yi Rui was immersed in excitement from another level.
The other participants were also curious and approached Yi Rui, but without the Mind Communication Magic, some couldn’t quite hear what she was saying.
However, I underestimated them; among them, quite a few knew sign language and lip-reading. Alright, it seems that communication isn’t difficult for them.
“Alright, sisters, let’s not disturb the experiment. Yi Rui, the experiment is entering a critical moment. What we’re exploring now is how to achieve further progress without the ability of self-awakened body cultivation. Each of our attempts is a correction toward the right path, and I hope you take it seriously and with gravity,” I clapped my hands and spoke to everyone.
