Chapter 743: The Purity of Researchers
After Yi Rui achieved her second successful case, she proved the popularity of the “Demon Transformation Transmutation Technique.”
However, this was far from enough; it was merely the beginning of the Magic Source Body Cultivation Method. They needed to reach their theoretical limit, which was the maximum of ten thousand Magic Sources, to truly advance.
But this did not need to be done urgently. As I mentioned earlier, achieving success now was sufficient. A few cases of success were enough as proof; our ultimate goal was singular — Self-Generated Magic.
This does not mean that everyone should not strive for success, similar to how I treated Fool Dream.
I couldn’t ensure that they became true forms of life. When I first touched upon the “Mimetic Soul” technique, I proved that this technique could not further them into true life. Therefore, I only conducted experiments on Fool Dream and a few of the willing ones, like Yu Lan, rather than promoting it on a larger scale.
Now, it seemed Yi Rui and her group were in a similar situation.
There was no need for everyone to eagerly complete the transformation of their physiques; some had to bear the cost of waiting before true success could be achieved.
Moreover, if everyone succeeded, who would define the boundaries of failure for this spell?
However, this sentiment needed to be conveyed delicately. If stated too harshly, it might give the impression that Yi Rui, as their leader, had blocked the remaining paths to success after achieving her own.
Even if no one spoke about it, this atmosphere would still affect the progress of the experiments.
So, the next day, Yi Rui directly confessed this matter to everyone.
Yi Rui explicitly stated the importance of defining the boundaries of success for the experiments we were conducting while also explaining the universality of the Demon Transformation Transmutation Technique. This meant that as long as everyone was willing, they could become like Yi Rui and her companion, embarking on the true path of the Magic Source Body Cultivation Method.
I watched from the side, acutely aware of the emotions of the crowd due to my sixth sense and heart sense.
In my view, the choice to have everyone work together yet not allow everyone to progress at the same time would certainly lead to discontent among some individuals.
So I used heart sense to perceive such existences and marked them; I wouldn’t allow anyone like that to be part of the experiment, even if it seemed ruthless, I would still do it.
However… there were none.
There was no one among this group who fit that description.
This left me momentarily puzzled. Had I spent too long around such unpleasant people that I could not believe there were such pure-minded individuals?
Or was it that I always liked to envision the worst-case scenarios, yet suddenly encountered the best possible situation and felt lost?
“Xiao Han? What’s wrong?”
At that moment, Yi Rui approached me and asked.
“Uh? It’s… nothing.” I instinctively shook my head, “Have you all finished discussing?”
“Yes, we’ve about arranged everything, and everyone seems to agree with this plan,” Yi Rui said with a smile.
“Is… is that so?” I had been immersed in heart sense and reflecting on myself, somewhat inattentive to the solution Yi Rui mentioned.
However, the Great Knowledge Tree recorded the summary of what Yi Rui just said.
Next, Yi Rui decided that everyone would continue conducting experiments. The universality of successful experiments had determined that everyone could gain this physique.
Before that, everyone would try to explore the boundaries of failure on the basis of success, and they would also draft a detailed case analysis on “Typical Failures of the Demon Transformation Transmutation Technique.”
Failure was ultimately failure; perhaps the exploration of boundaries did not mean clarifying all boundaries; the failures we needed were those that could not be conventionally avoided, which would be our advisories.
Failures that could be avoided through conventions only reflected self-destructive choices; the boundaries of unavoidable failures that defied intuition and common sense were the cases we should explore.
Yi Rui was preparing to compile all this into a systematic book and clearly mark who had paid the price of life for these failure cases.
Yi Rui transformed the contradictions of failure into another form of honor; those who did not want to experience failure could naturally achieve success, while those who failed would pay a significant price but also gain merit and honor for their contributions, which was something worth promoting.
“Yes, everyone is quite proactive about this; are you worried about something, Xiao Han?”
“I was indeed worried earlier, but now… I’m not…” I shook my head.
“Are you worried that someone would want to stop participating in this painful experiment after repeatedly experiencing failure?”
“About that, yes…”
“That’s why… you really haven’t integrated into us yet; we don’t see failure as a painful experiment. The real pain comes from seeing failure without perceiving success, so you’re overthinking it!” Yi Rui said with a smile.
“Is that so? I really envy your purity…”
“Just kidding! A genius like you actually envied us?” Yi Rui answered back with a laugh.
“I’m not perfect; why can’t I envy you?” I didn’t mention heart sense to Yi Rui.
“That’s true.”
“By the way, regarding the simplification of the Transmutation Spellbook… what’s your plan?” After attempting the spellbook yesterday, I realized that the simplification of the spellbook was imperative.
“Of course, it has to be done immediately! I must admit that the current Demon Transformation Transmutation Technique spellbook is excessively cumbersome. Whether for successful experiments or the failures we’re facing, sharpening our tools doesn’t hinder our work — so we’re focusing all our energy on simplifying the spellbook and temporarily setting aside the experiments.”
“Oh? Is the execution so high?” I was somewhat surprised.
“Our execution capacity has always been high, and we even brought in our mentor. We teamed up with five mentors, including my mentor Belika, to complete the simplification of the spellbook in the shortest time possible.”
“That’s great!” I exclaimed.
“After all, this is a valuable practice. To be honest, even in the past, we rarely touched on the spell structures related to the Resurrection Spell. Thus, this simplification of the spellbook is challenging in itself, even without the shell of the Self-Generated Magic topic. It’s also a consolidation and organization of our recently acquired knowledge of Resurrection Spells.”
Yi Rui and the others approached each practice very seriously, and this time was no different.
After chatting with Yi Rui for a while longer, I planned to head back.
After returning yesterday, I engaged in the practice of Breaking Heavens Force under Sister Bai’s guidance.
Sister Bai had also learned about the breakthroughs in the Magic Source Body Cultivation Method during the previous gathering.
So I shared the concept of Magic Sources as Extraordinary Energy with Sister Bai.
However, this was clearly beyond Sister Bai’s understanding.
After all, Sister Bai’s knowledge base was still at the student stage of the Main World; even though she had achieved extraordinary feats and had access to extraordinary-tier knowledge, she could trade for knowledge she had never accessed before in the Primordial Dream World, her time of achieving extraordinary status was still too short.
Many things needed to be learned, accumulated, settled, and clarified on her own.
Yet… Sister Bai accepted my idea and was ready to take action.
“Sister Bai, are you sure you want to do this?” This was my question to her at that time.
“Of course, Xiao Han, you also need to start relying on others. In your plan, there’s no one more suitable than me to do this, right?”
This was Sister Bai’s response, and she also presented her thoughts.
Sister Bai believed that utilizing Magic Sources in the field of Body Cultivation was a new topic. Thus, she wanted to use some of her spare time to do something meaningful, like creating new projects. After all, helping Xiao Han would be great, and if both could be balanced, that would be even better.
And Xiao Han only needed to focus on doing what she liked, even if it required all her energy.
Sister Bai excelled in Body Techniques, as once the problem transformed into her problem, she had far more ways to solve it than Xiao Han…
The ideologies behind magic and body techniques were fundamentally different, which caused divergences on their paths.
The complementary nature of dual cultivation would ultimately remain a beautiful fantasy.
This difficulty was as absurd as having a science genius and a liberal arts genius as the same person in the world of ordinary people.
Even I, who majored in Witch Magic and minored in Body Techniques, pursued Body Techniques partly to fully utilize the Self-Awakened Body Cultivation method. Yet this ability arose from spells and the Great Spellbook, along with my own human factors, coincidentally formed.
So ultimately, after hesitating for a second, I accepted Sister Bai’s help.
What I excelled in was ultimately research in the extraordinary field.
…
In the blink of an eye, this holiday had already passed halfway.
The other extraordinary academies in the Main World, after being stirred up by the Witch Academy followed by a betrayal, seemed to fall into a strange calm.
The atmosphere of peace was mixed with undercurrents; societal trends had become so repressed that even an ordinary person felt somewhat uneasy.
However, the long-standing peace had allowed people in this world to forget what world wars and turmoil were.
This temporary calm was due to the holiday, allowing many to catch a breath. The conflicts among extraordinary academies had downgraded, spreading from the will of the extraordinary to students and transferring the conflicts to the competition for new students.
After such a long time, the competition for new students was gradually nearing its end. The remaining unreported new students could safely wait for the normal school opening notice.
The new academic year would foreseeably be a brand new battle.
No one from the extraordinary beings of the various academies in the Main World expected that change would come so swiftly.
In just a year, a once-ordinary person, whom they had never heard of, had grown to a level sufficient to threaten them.
And how many foolish things had they done in that year?
This new cohort, alongside this holiday, was not only for the students to reflect but also for those extraordinary beings. They pondered when they had become this way.
It seemed… it began when the script of the Main World opened.
Yet no extraordinary being would admit they were influenced by a world consciousness controlling the script affecting their judgment. If such words were publicly spoken, they would certainly be laughed at.
They were extraordinary beings who transcended the world, crossed over realms, and walked into the void.
However, they had to admit that the concept of fortune was still terrifying; it was not something that could be thoroughly escaped once one achieved the extraordinary. As long as they remained in this world, they would undoubtedly be interfered with.
This coexistence was akin to swimmers in a pool; becoming extraordinary passively granted swimming ability. However, a person in the water could never deny one fact: while a skilled swimmer has a very low probability of drowning, it is not zero.
Similarly, extraordinary beings within a world have a very small chance of being foiled by fortune, but it is also not zero.
Moreover, they were not dead; they simply faced setbacks.
But compared to the extraordinary-level competition,
At this moment, Yi Rui and the others had indeed perfected many things during this time.
Under the guidance of their mentor, they had completed the simplification of the spellbook and the final derivation formula.
One of the mentors even took the time to help them organize this process into a paper, publishing this special “Transmutation Technique.”
Due to the limitations of the title, only the team name was written, but in the final acknowledgments, they listed all the team members one by one.
Originally, this paper would not attract much attention among the witches, as the special spell known as the Transmutation Technique only drew interest from those curious about such spells.
However, the paper’s acknowledgment mentioned Xiao Han, which drew the attention of some witches.
Many witches were also curious about what Xiao Han had been doing during this time. After all, such a low-key Xiao Han made them uneasy, and whenever such things happened, she would always provide something large at a certain point.
Thus, some witches inquired curiously and ultimately learned about… the topic of Self-Generated Magic.
Moreover, the Academy Head specifically allocated a fully equipped laboratory for Xiao Han in the experimental area!
The emotions of envy instantly drowned those witches who could apply for failure in other labs.
When these witches truly began to understand what the Self-Generated Magic project was about, they fell silent… creating a skill of possessing Self-Generated Magic Physique without being extraordinary and achieving large-scale promotion…
Their first reaction was disbelief, but then, recalling that Xiao Han herself seemed to be the first actual case, they fell silent again.
Could it really be impossible?
If this had been merely an ordinary student team, they would have scoffed, but with Xiao Han’s name added, this implausible idea seemed to have been infused with the possibility of a miracle…
