Chapter 744: Standing at the Peak of Body Cultivation Path with Self-Awakened Body Cultivation
With the spread of the topic related to Self-Generated Magic, many witches have also become interested in it.
It’s not that they were not interested before, but they simply didn’t pay much attention.
This feeling for the witches is like suddenly noticing why they breathe.
The talent of the Self-Generated Magic Physique seems to be instinctual for the witches. After becoming Extraordinary Witches, it naturally emerged.
This feeling is like being reborn; the magic generated by the physique feels like a new life taking its first breath of fresh air in the world.
Many witches privately gathered and invited some of their close sisters to research the topic of Self-Generated Magic. After all, Self-Generated Magic is a foundational concept within the subjects they have studied, such as the grand topic of witches, magic topics, magic source topics, and so on.
However, many witches thought it over and looked for information, only to find that the Self-Generated Magic as a physiological talent is not considered a formal topic, nor is it a subtopic under any major topic.
In other words, this is a basic concept that cannot be researched and has no starting point; it lacks the researchability that generally comes from extending the fundamentals of normal topics, or this topic has always existed but has been hidden.
Why is it hidden?
Soon, the witches who, out of curiosity, went to study Self-Generated Magic provided an answer.
That is, they have no way to engage with the talent of the Self-Generated Magic Physique.
They simply cannot understand it, and they do not know how to comprehend it.
Because many witches even struggle to define this physiological talent of Self-Generated Magic.
Is this a physiological talent?
It appears to exhibit such characteristics, but it cannot be replicated or obtained through physiological research methods.
Since this talent cannot be replicated, is it innate talent?
Even using innate reincarnation spells cannot obtain it…
So it doesn’t mean that promotion to Extraordinary grants it; we cannot say that becoming an Extraordinary Witch is merely a new beginning of life, right?
Is it a spell?
Compared to similar feedback spells or magic, the spell’s effect seems bloodline-related… that, too, doesn’t make sense.
Then is it a body cultivation ability?
Some witches know that witchification essentially belongs to a form of body cultivation and believe that Self-Generated Magic is essentially a kind of body cultivation power, but they cannot prove it, as this answer is only hearsay.
Then what kind of body cultivation power does it belong to?
No witch can answer that either, and only some witches think of Xiao Han’s self-awakened body cultivation, and coupled with the academy head’s paper from last year, they can only weakly prove that there is some “direct” correlation between Self-Generated Magic and Self-Awakened Body Cultivation.
But they are neither self-awakened body cultivators nor body cultivation witches. Naturally, the body cultivation path of witchification is not classified as body cultivation witch.
Many witches gave up at this point, as what pushed them this far was merely a fleeting interest. Continuing to waste time knowing they cannot achieve it would be unwise.
However, many witches were willing to continue exploring deeper.
As for why… it’s because witches have long lifespans, and idle witches are bored.
They looked again at the paper mentioning Xiao Han and even prepared to seek out that Extraordinary Witch for a discussion, but they found her in the experimental area… many idle witches simply did not have access…
They could only return to look at that paper.
The paper mentions “Demon Transformation Transmutation Technique,” a technique that can limit the impact on the essence of life and is derived from the Resurrection Spell.
Currently, this Transmutation Technique has almost no ability to resurrect the dead; its spell effect focuses on the body, using the body as a medium to limit the influence on the essence of life, namely soul material or soul.
The Transmutation Technique spell belongs to secondary derivative spells, as first derivative spells create rebirth spells.
The main purpose of creating this spell is to… create a new type of body cultivation method suitable for the physique.
Currently, this Transmutation Technique has achieved a stage of success in transforming this physique to the first level…
And this body cultivation method is called the Magic Source Body Cultivation Method.
Another concept nobody has heard of.
Looking at these somewhat confusing concepts, many witches were puzzled; after all, they hadn’t encountered this kind of knowledge before, so they naturally could not understand what it meant.
Moreover, in their established thinking… isn’t the magic source used for casting spells?
Has it evolved to the point of being usable for body cultivation?
…
Inside the Body Cultivation Room.
After such a long period of training, my mastery over the body cultivation secret art has been steadily improving.
I have basically tried all nine branches of body techniques, although I haven’t been able to master the martial arts runes for each technique in just a few days.
Thus, my talent in body techniques has certain preferences.
But this preference is not obvious, and in the face of my powerful self-awakened body cultivation ability, the gap has been greatly narrowed.
Rather than saying this is a gap between talents, to me, it seems more like the distance between likes and dislikes.
I am confident that I will resonate with all the martial arts runes, achieving this goal at the latest before the start of the semester.
At this moment, I once again threw a punch, executing the most basic attack technique “Open Sky Break.” Accompanied by the punch, strength converged to the extreme; the punch’s wind, devoid of the previous momentum, ended with a terrifying air explosion, as if the air in front of my fist was compressed by an immense force.
This is merely the power of body techniques, not the general body cultivation momentum.
In the past, I did not know how to control my own strength, so throwing a punch came with momentum effects by itself. But now I understand that this was just due to imperfect distribution of my own strength.
As I practiced Open Sky Break, I increasingly found that this body technique has no fixed forms. It narrates the force of attack and the body’s coordination; the attack techniques depend entirely on the needs of the attack. If there is no need to attack, it is the simplest straight punch, but if there is a need to attack, then it can be any form of attack.
No wonder Sister Bai said that the body techniques in the secret art have no particular bias—this characteristic is probably what she referred to.
After all, most body techniques start with stances; from the most basic movements, one can see the characteristics and styles of these body techniques.
However, the price is that the threshold for learning and understanding is higher.
But all of this does not serve as a barrier for me.
As I continued to throw punches, the movements flowed smoothly as if I were performing in a martial arts show. If there were no explosive air blasts after each punch, it would resemble that even more.
With these continuous movements, the nearly unstructured fist techniques were combined with the speed-representing “Shadow Step” technique. At this moment, I seemed like a fluttering butterfly within the vast Body Cultivation Room, even struggling to display my stance.
Gradually, two phantoms began to emerge, representing the martial arts runes that resonated with the body techniques.
These two phantoms symbolized the attack and speed body technique runes.
Recently, I discovered that if two different martial arts runes achieve perfect synergy during their execution, then they might form “composite runes”!
Of course, this is just my speculation since learning Rune Literature.
So I have been validating this.
Although I have not succeeded yet, I am certain this can be realized.
The primary reason for my current lack of success is that I have yet to form a body cultivation mindset. After all, I am not a martial arts prodigy; I merely possess an advantage with my self-awakened body cultivation cheat.
In the realm of spells, runes can form composite runes by harmonizing their characteristics, achieved through unique circumstances, but the “special way” of martial arts runes is to resonate martial arts runes, meaning reaching perfect synergy among body techniques.
This is certainly not something that can be grasped within a short period of practicing body techniques, right?
After trying again and failing, I sighed and chose not to continue.
In fact, exploring the pathway of combining martial arts runes and studying Self-Generated Magic is not very relevant, which is why I barely skimmed over it.
After all, the desire to explore interesting discoveries during research belongs to human nature; however, such attempts can only be seen as diversions. My main focus cannot be wasted on this.
Focusing on my goals is what I need to do.
Along with the failure of attempting “Martial Arts Body Cultivation Composite Runes,” more complex patterns emerged alongside the body cultivation runes.
These are totems.
The power of totems, rather than being just power, is a kind of sublimation.
Initially, the power of totems spread into my body cultivation territory, even augmenting my five senses.
Or rather, this is not just a mere “augmentation,” but a more wondrous form of “resonance.”
Five-sense perception belongs to the pathways of perception, one of the most primordial abilities of body cultivation, and this is also a kind of understanding of body cultivation.
At first, the self-awakened body cultivation had no abilities. When I became aware of my own body, I gained absolute control over it.
This is both the “extension” of the self-awakened body cultivation power and also a “comprehension” of the self-awakened body cultivation power.
The more I understand, the more a totem can be explained from another perspective.
It’s similar to understanding the concept of “speaking” under normal circumstances; thus, the totem represents the “volume of speech,” “language meaning,” “expressive tone,” “language emotion,” and other concepts.
Totems are an extension derived from this base, and understanding them as “augmentation,” “additional power,” etc., is not the essence of their expression, but merely a form of understanding from one perspective of totems.
Since the power of totems impacts self-awakened body cultivation and its life-extending powers, and body techniques can receive the enhancement of totems, what does this indicate?
This indicates that the power of body techniques directly influences the essence of body cultivation power, which is the self-awakened cultivation of life essence.
Furthermore, I have tried, and only body techniques that have resonated with martial arts body cultivation runes possibly receive totem “enhancements.”
Thus, martial arts runes serve as the “bridge” that establishes a connection between body cultivation power and body techniques.
Therefore… theoretically, continuously practicing body techniques essentially involves using life essence-influencing techniques to construct “self-awakened body cultivation” on top of one’s life essence!
However, this undoubtedly requires nearly endless body techniques and the resonance of martial arts runes to construct this ability.
No wonder innate self-awakened body cultivation is hailed as the capability “standing at the peak of the body cultivation path.”
Self-awakened body cultivation is referred to as the capability “where the starting point is the endpoint of all body cultivation paths”… I seem to have somewhat understood how terrifying the “heaven-defying” nature of this ability is, as described by Principal Mei back then.
And I obtained this ability almost by coincidence through that manner, while to others, it only seems like I “died” once.
At that time, I couldn’t understand why even Extraordinary Witches were willing to experience d*ath just to gamble on an almost impossible feat to achieve again. Now it seems that no matter how low the probability, the cost is only one d*ath. But if successful… that would be self-awakened body cultivation!
This cost-to-benefit ratio is exceedingly frightening, so it’s no wonder Principal Mei mentioned the burden of d*ath.
Because she clearly understands that such success cannot be replicated.
Although it is nearly impossible for an ordinary person to construct “self-awakened body cultivation,” constructing Self-Generated Magic has become possible.
If self-awakened body cultivation is the “origin” that can continuously extend along the body cultivation path, then Self-Generated Magic is a derivative of a capability established on self-awakened body cultivation.
The two have vastly different “rank” and “difficulty” levels.
Therefore, my current question is how to utilize my understanding of these abilities to construct Self-Generated Magic using the Magic Source Body Cultivation Method.
I study body techniques, research martial arts runes, explore totems, etc. All these are not meaningless; I am summarizing foundational laws and establishing basic understandings, thus birthing methods to utilize these laws and understanding.
These methods are the “bridges” that connect Self-Generated Magic, body cultivation methods, and body techniques.
Behind any skill lies countless theoretical knowledge as support; skills are merely the integration of systematic knowledge, expressed and applied in certain ways and means.
Therefore, mastering a skill is essentially inferior to mastering knowledge. This relationship is akin to that between an “alchemist” and a “potion maker.”
Potion makers can prepare potions according to formulas, while alchemists can explore the roots of knowledge based on their mastery of knowledge and alchemical techniques, constantly creating new potion formulas.
Just as I was contemplating, the door of the Body Cultivation Room was suddenly opened.
Hearing this noise, I was slightly taken aback, as this Body Cultivation Room was specifically opened for me by Sister Bai, and only Sister Bai and I have the key.
“Sister Bai?” I saw that the first person entering through the open door was Sister Bai.
Then my attention was drawn to the figures behind her, followed by a crowd of witches pouring into the Body Cultivation Room.
To my surprise, this group consisted of more than a dozen individuals!
And upon sensing, I realized that these were all Extraordinary Witches.
“Xiao Han~ We have a clue!”
At this moment, Sister Bai suddenly spoke to me. She didn’t have time to explain who all these Extraordinary Witch sisters were or why they were here.
However, while I was astonished, the witches who followed her were equally surprised.
They were among the few body cultivation witches in the Witch Academy or witches who had practiced the body cultivation path.
Naturally, they have heard of this witch called Bai Yu, the powerful newly promoted Holy Realm body cultivation witch who masters the sense of time.
Her proposal of the Magic Source Body Cultivation Method and utilizing the magic source to create body techniques attracted them together, and they endeavored towards this goal.
Now, through the collective wisdom of all these body cultivation witches, they had explored some ideas and avenues.
Then, they followed Bai Yu here.
After all, they were eager to meet the witch who proposed this magical idea from Bai Yu.
Now that they were here, their eyes were all focused on the multiple martial arts runes emerging from that figure!
Even the peculiar patterns that pierced through these martial arts runes… no, could this be a totem?
Such numerous body cultivation rune traces…
Not to mention such rare body cultivation totems…
Those things nearly dazzled their eyes!
