Chapter 745: New Body Technique Category – Transformation Spell-Based Body Technique
For a moment, the Body Cultivation Room became lively. Many of the incoming witches responded, realizing that the young girl before them was the little witch “Yang Yuelan,” who had caused quite a stir some time ago.
After this mention, several witches had a vague recollection, some remembering the matter of the expanding realm totem, while others thought about Self-Awakened Body Cultivation and the like.
Most of the witches who came here were Body Cultivation Witches. They spent most of their time in cultivation, so there weren’t many things they were concerned about or information they gathered.
It was only through Sister Bai’s introduction that I realized all these witches brought here by her were Body Cultivation Witches.
Looking at their distinct dressing style, which was different from regular witches, along with the strength of their physiques derived from perception, these witches really could crush incoming spells with a single punch.
However, these Body Cultivation Witches didn’t have an exaggerated muscular type. It seemed that their innate love for beauty, which was rooted in their race, had not been broken by pure strength.
But… there was actually a reason for that.
Body Cultivation belongs to the power system of the extraordinary realm, cultivating the body, and its essence is still extraordinary, rather than exaggerated muscles. The increase in strength from mere muscle gain is completely incomparable to the power attained through an ascent under the extraordinary system.
These Body Cultivation Witches were friends gathered by Sister Bai due to shared ideals.
Many of the witches here had formed bonds during the time when Bai Yu broke through and grasped her sense of time, creating quite a commotion.
Through Sister Bai’s narration, she explained the concept of the Magic Source Body Cultivation Method to these witches.
Although this concept wasn’t readily accepted by all Body Cultivation Witches, many were still willing to spend time researching it with Sister Bai out of curiosity and respect for new things.
Some time ago, I indeed discussed ideas related to the Magic Source Body Technique with Sister Bai. She said she would handle it since she had broader channels and advantages to create such body techniques.
I didn’t expect that Sister Bai would implement it this way!
However, thinking about it, it does seem like a very good approach to gather a group of like-minded individuals to work on something together.
This is indeed the most efficient method.
After briefly explaining the situation to me, I quickly expressed my gratitude, not realizing that this matter had caused so much trouble for many of the witches.
But they didn’t seem to mind.
And I didn’t know if it was due to Body Cultivation, but many of these witches had very straightforward personalities.
Sure enough… among the Witch Race, only witches with such personalities would choose Body Cultivation over spells and techniques…
“Sister Bai, earlier you mentioned you had clues. Does that mean there are results in the body technique?” I asked.
“Yes, it’s barely counted as one. We’ve managed to establish a body technique using the Magic Source as an attack core. I don’t know if this method can inspire you,” Sister Bai explained.
“Hehe~ It’s me who completed it!” one of the witches next to Sister Bai said with a smile, a hint of pride in her tone. “Do you want me to demonstrate it?”
“Is it really okay? Then I would trouble this sister.”
“Oh no~ It’s no trouble at all.”
This witch waved her hand to indicate that it was nothing. She regarded this attempt as a form of communication within body techniques, thus naturally omitted the formalities.
After she finished speaking, she struck a pose to initiate the body technique.
From my understanding of some theoretical knowledge about body techniques, this wasn’t anything special as a starting pose. It seemed that this newly created body technique was indeed quite rough.
Of course, it could also belong to an indeterminate style like the Body Cultivation Secret Techniques.
Then she began her movements. Although they appeared somewhat excessive, in the context of body techniques, they served as a ceremonial structure akin to spell chanting.
Once this body technique is fully mastered, these redundant movements can naturally be omitted, similar to casting spells without incantation.
However, at this moment, the witch’s primary purpose was to demonstrate the body technique, so she showcased the complete set of movements.
I watched intently, continuously analyzing the core structure of this body technique. It wasn’t until a Magic Source was involved in the execution of the technique that I perceived the brilliance of this concept.
It was clearly a strong attack-type body technique, not one of those that manipulate extraordinary energy.
This differed somewhat from what I had, but it wasn’t surprising.
The distinction between these two types of body techniques is significant. In terms of purpose, attack-type body techniques primarily focus on direct attacks and attacking forms, while energy-type techniques center on manipulating extraordinary energy, indirectly using it to achieve other effects.
And this effect isn’t necessarily limited to attacks; it can also involve hindrances, defenses, interferences, and so on.
The demonstration by this witch sister was clearly a series of powerful attack forms based on the Magic Source.
If I had to describe it, it felt as if she had transformed into a spell itself, and she was carrying this spell to attack.
To make a vivid analogy, if her method was akin to “Fireball Spell,” then an ordinary witch would launch a Fireball, but she was different; she was transforming into the Fireball and engaging in close combat with the target. Each of her strikes seemed like a derivative transformation of the spell, the terror of which is self-evident.
As the witch performed her technique, the attack form of the Magic Source manifested like a fire serpent, causing the temperature in the Body Cultivation Room to rise significantly.
It even activated the constant temperature runes in the room for rapid cooling.
“How was it? Xiao Han, did you see anything useful?” The witch stepped forward after concluding her demonstration, smiling as she asked me.
“Um… it was very shocking!” I honestly expressed my feelings.
“Shocking? Actually, I just demonstrated a bit; the power is quite ordinary. However… I must say the body technique model using the Magic Source as an attack core has quite a bit of potential,” she said modestly.
But since she had already downgraded it to just having decent potential, the implication was that while the current power wasn’t great and the model was ordinary, there was hope for future developments.
I anticipated this; although body techniques had not developed as splendidly as spells, it didn’t mean there weren’t formidable body techniques as representatives.
While Sister Bai referred to the Body Cultivation Secret Techniques, she also transmitted a lot of foundational knowledge related to body techniques through the Great Knowledge Seed.
So I was quite clear about the forms body techniques could take.
This fiery technique was actually one that leaned towards manipulating fire element extraordinary energy; the extraordinary energy induced by the body techniques was, in some respects, not inferior to ordinary spells.
It’s just that its “effects” couldn’t compare to spells.
“By the way, is the inspiration behind this body technique similar to the ‘Fire Serpent’ spell?”
“Oh wow~ You caught on? You figured it out just after one look,” the witch admitted slightly surprised, acknowledging my discernment. “After all, it’s a body technique that utilizes the Magic Source, which in my inherent impression is used for spellcasting, so I subconsciously thought of spellbooks. To be honest, I’m not very proficient with spellbooks; Fire Serpent is one of my few.”
“So you based it on the concept of transformation spells to create this body technique?” I asked.
“Transformation spells? That summary you provided is quite good~” she laughed and said, “But after you mentioned it this way, I feel that the Magic Source Body Technique type can even be classified as a separate category! Transformation Spell-Based Body Techniques; this nearly breaks the boundary between body techniques and spells! That’s significant!”
Clearly, this witch’s thinking was quite active. I just casually mentioned something, and she had already come up with so many ideas.
She even proposed a brand new classification for body techniques? Almost breaking the boundary between body techniques and spells?
I thought this claim sounded a bit absurd… but upon hearing it, it didn’t seem wrong?
Unfortunately, it seemed that this wasn’t the kind of body technique I was hoping for, and it didn’t significantly contribute to the Magic Source Body Cultivation Method.
But I had to admit… this was indeed quite a good idea.
According to this witch, this body technique wasn’t complete.
A complete body technique must be something that can be continuously practiced and advanced, ultimately resonating with body cultivation runes; otherwise, it all reduces to mere tricks of combat.
Although the body technique created by this witch didn’t quite meet my needs, I still learned a bit from it because this technique regarding the use of the Magic Source was a skill I needed.
After that, I exchanged some insights on body cultivation with these witches, but compared to their accumulated knowledge, my ideas felt somewhat naive.
They were more concerned about my body cultivation totem.
After all, even among witches, there was a great curiosity regarding things they couldn’t grasp.
Even if they knew that totems couldn’t be spread or learned through teaching, they were still willing to help me perfect and develop the Magic Source Body Techniques in exchange for observing my body cultivation totem.
This was essentially a roundabout way of helping, and I was very grateful to these witches for assisting me in this manner.
With the help of these witch sisters, a brand new category of body techniques began to spread within the extraordinary level body cultivation circle of the Witch Academy.
Transformation Spell-Based Body Techniques.
And with the first successful case, subsequent imitations and ideas opened up suddenly.
I must say, having more witches around certainly made things easier. When everyone gathers, ideas emerge, and capable witches can implement them.
This body technique category quickly became rich, and some witches even considered whether they should offer this technique as an elective course for students next semester.
Meanwhile, I continued immersing myself in the research of Self-Generated Magic.
I hadn’t forgotten the reason I initially chose to study Self-Generated Magic; it was to… understand it more thoroughly!
Whether for promotion or popularization, the ultimate goal was to understand it from the basics. Creating it was merely a task that accompanied that understanding.
“Xiao Han, I’ve organized the materials you wanted concerning the magic topic and Magic Source topic,” at this moment, Sister Bai handed me a shared rune. This was a privilege she had as an extraordinary witch instructor, to access the materials about witch topics for teaching and guiding students in researching witch subjects, laying a foundation for advancing to the extraordinary level.
“Thank you, Sister Bai~”
I took the rune, and the information within was immense.
Such a dense amount of knowledge was challenging to convey through the synchronization of the Great Knowledge Seed, so I had to ask Sister Bai to evaluate it and store the information as data for the Great Knowledge Seed, then “package” it to me via the Great Knowledge Sharing Technique.
“Why did Xiao Han suddenly become interested in topics? Are you preparing for your promotion to the extraordinary level?” Sister Bai asked with a smile.
“The topics for promoting to extraordinary witches are generally the Great Witch Topics, right? Plus, my current level of life isn’t sufficient to ascend to the extraordinary level, so there’s no rush~” I smiled and replied.
As for the promotion to extraordinary… I actually had my ambitions. What topic I embarked on couldn’t possibly be subtopics like magic and Magic Source under the Great Witch Topics?
Principal Mei was right; I was most suited for the Great Soul Topic. After all, my essence is of the soul, and I wanted to understand the essence of the soul after ascending to the extraordinary level through the Great Soul Topic, thereby perfecting the technique of “Soul Drawing” and making the Fool Dream a true life.
Although I hadn’t settled on a specific topic yet—soul, knowledge, wisdom, life… these concepts could all constitute a topic—I didn’t know how to define it, but it felt chaotic and greedy.
However, one thing I was clear about was that my core purpose remained centered around the Great Knowledge Tree.
This was the goal I set from the beginning, and it couldn’t simply be changed.
“Is that so?” Upon hearing that I didn’t have plans to ascend to the extraordinary witch level recently, Sister Bai involuntarily displayed a hint of regret.
“Sister Bai, are you thinking about some strange things? Why do you think it’s a pity that I’m not ascending to the extraordinary?” At this moment, I also caught on to the fleeting emotion of Sister Bai.
“Is there? I just hope that Xiao Han can quickly become my kind. Although I don’t mind, you are, after all, a little witch, and every time I get close to you… I feel like… I can’t proceed, too.”
“Eh? So you are indeed thinking about strange things!” I said, somewhat displeased. Isn’t the current situation quite good? No need to worry about accidentally creating witch eggs…
“Sorry~ It’s just that I’m too eager.”
“Sister Bai, you should cherish the present more. Now is the special edition for little witches; once you truly ascend to the extraordinary witch level, there will no longer be opportunities to experience this.”
“Yes, yes, yes~ I will cherish it well.” Sister Bai affectionately hugged me from behind, holding me tight for quite a while. It seemed like after replenishing her little Han energy, Sister Bai finally spoke again, “So Xiao Han, what do you need these topic materials for?”
“Of course, I’m trying to understand the essence of magic through the magic topic,” I said matter-of-factly. “The Self-Generated Magic Physique is itself a constitution that continuously produces magic. Let’s not forget that I initially decided to study Self-Generated Magic to understand what it really is more intricately.”
“Then, are you not planning to promote the techniques of non-extraordinary Self-Generated Magic Physique anymore?” Bai Yu naturally remembered what I had said before, but…
“Of course, I need to promote it. Who can say that my understanding of Self-Generated Magic hasn’t progressed?” I confidently looked at Sister Bai and said.
It was precisely because my understanding of Self-Generated Magic had advanced that I needed more interdisciplinary and relevant knowledge to continuously enhance my understanding of Self-Generated Magic.
Because I realized that the potential of this innate ability to generate magic… was far beyond that!
