Chapter 1055: “Ordinary” and “Perfect Being”
Success.
I looked into the eyes of this Magic Life before me; its pure life instinct held no desires.
It was so fragile that a single thought from me could determine its life.
Because it was both life and the magic in my hands.
With just one thought, I could instill or dispel its fear of death, its pursuit of glory, its contemplation of life’s meaning…
Such an “outcome” shattered the heaviness of my perception towards creating life.
For a brief moment, I experienced a shift in perspective from enjoying life as an “individual” to creating life as a… “deity”!
But in that moment of consciousness transcending into divinity, I forcefully suppressed this surge.
God… what an arrogant self-reference.
But how could I not like it?
At that moment, the Elder also noticed my change in just that fleeting instant, but quickly, that change returned to normal, like an illusion.
“Indeed, it succeeded.”
“That’s amazing… the existence of such life, its life sequence is actually open.”
I looked at the Elder and spoke.
Then, I voiced my question: “So… does this mean this life form has appeared before?”
“Without a doubt, yes.” The Elder nodded affirmatively, “However, I have lived for so long, yet I have never heard of anyone being able to do such a thing. It may have appeared in another form, but never has it been governed like you have.”
“After all, geniuses in this world are as numerous as stars…” I sighed.
“Are you thanking me for not having opened up a brand-new life form, Xiaoyuan? You really don’t need to be like that. The opening of life sequences isn’t always man-made; much of it is still nurtured by the great power of the Void itself. The endless Void is not an exaggerated description, but truly endless. Even if each world nurtures only one life race, the infinite void worlds can also use exhaustive methods to give rise to the vast majority of life sequences.”
“No, I was just simply expressing my feelings. You see, even I, a Little Witch who isn’t even extraordinary, can do this. The endless Void can’t have no one accomplishing anything, right?” I focused on the Elder’s explanation, which hinted at something reasonable, and I quickly clarified!
I truly didn’t care about this; I was merely expressing a simple sentiment!
The Elder was interrupted by my eager explanation and soon understood, smiling in relief: “Well, what you say…”
What do you mean by “even you, a Little Witch who isn’t even extraordinary?”
This remark could easily stir up hatred, wouldn’t it be a way of belittling extraordinary powers?
However, the Elder didn’t mind this because, in her eyes, Xiaoyuan indeed had the right to say so.
A simple conversation defined what I was doing at the moment.
But the Elder was much clearer about this.
“Xiaoyuan, why don’t you give this type of life a name?”
“Eh? Me? Let’s skip that… after all, life that has existed doesn’t need me to name it.” I shook my head, rejecting the proposal.
What a joke! I’m terrible at naming!
Before coming to the Forging World Courtyard, I even named a Wood Elemental Sprite Ling’er!
“Generally speaking, a brand-new life form or race’s birth has an initial name in its life sequence. If not, it means it is not a man-made life sequence. As the discoverer of a new race or reviver of a race, you have the right to inscribe the mark of your discovery upon them—like the Ancient Ice race. When they were revived in the Main World, we immediately knew their race name.”
“Ah? It can be done like that?” Hearing the Elder’s words, I felt incredible but also thought… it was indeed feasible!
After all, no one could stop anyone from doing so. Just like climbers at the peak of the highest mountain can leave a sign saying “I was here.”
This isn’t about damaging the environment but a testament to the conquest of life!
“Why can’t it? If you, Xiao Han, don’t want to define their lives, why not try naming them based on their essence?”
“No name… their existence in the life sequence is as clean as white paper.” I shook my head.
“Well, what are you waiting for?”—the Elder urged, and after speaking, she unnoticeably withdrew her trembling hand from earlier excitement as if nothing had happened.
“Okay, but I really am a bit hopeless at naming…” I sighed.
“How will you know without trying?” At this moment, Sister Bai encouraged from the side.
“That’s true. Then this type of life… shall be called—Magic Life?” I spoke out, as this was my default classification for it due to its birth in magic.
But this type of life, in my view, was not solely born from magic. Since no one had discovered it… it meant this type of life had indeed been born in some corner of the endless void, perhaps it still existed… or perhaps it was fleeting.
“Magic Life? Sounds good, simple and easy to remember.” —The Elder commented on it.
Thus, this pure life now had a name of its own.
At this moment, I focused again on the magic effects of the Elemental Sprite.
On the “Magic Life” I created.
Then I gave it language endowment, just like I did with Ling’er in the Instance Realm, this memory was pure information, and the memory wouldn’t alter the guidance of life’s perceptions.
“Master…”
A very faint call issued from the ethereal form of the sprite in front of me.
This “master” it spoke came from its reverence for the creator, which was me; all meaning behind its existence stemmed from me, so it naturally was willing to give everything, including its life, to me.
“I’m here.” I looked at it with complex feelings. It couldn’t understand my current mood; I felt as though I stood behind an insurmountable “theory of lifespan.”
But… life is merely a span of time.
“Can it talk now?” The Elder looked at it with surprise.
“Yeah, I created the simulated memory using the language contract template.” I explained.
“Does it desire to live a little longer?”
“No, while I could make it, I wouldn’t do that.” I shook my head.
“Is that true? A right choice. I thought you would treat it like you do with Fool Dream.”
“Fool Dream is special.” “Special? Indeed~” —The Elder didn’t say anything further. In her eyes, if Xiaoyuan harbored special thoughts and persistence towards these Magic Lives, which were destined to vanish, that could be a bad thing. Even though she maintained a mindset of not interfering too much with Xiaoyuan’s choices, she still needed Xiaoyuan to grasp the relationship in this. But now it seems… that didn’t seem necessary anymore. Next, I practiced each element of the Elemental Sprite’s protective spells repeatedly, trying again and again, making constant tweaks to achieve the most perfect synergy. However, I only tried this one technique; if I attempted every other spell, time would become an issue. Ultimately, after bidding farewell to the Elder, Sister Bai and I left together.
“Sister Bai, how did you come to the Engraved World Courtyard to meet the Elder?” As soon as we came out, I was very curious to ask.
Sister Bai didn’t seem to have entered like I did when I was brought in by the Academy Head, as there was only Sister Bai, a witch, present there.
“I? I was contacted by the Elder through the Great Knowledge Seed. Before reaching there, I never expected I would end up there.” Sister Bai recalled a bit and was seemingly lost in thought at that moment.
I had mentioned the Forging World Courtyard to Sister Bai but hadn’t gone into too much detail, after all, it concerned someone like the Elder.
“Ha? Is it so plain and unremarkable?”
“Yeah, so I didn’t expect it either. The Elder also told me that my contact information was obtained through Principal Mei.”
“Then… what did the Elder actually want from you? Is it really about the Dream Realm Order?” I asked.
This meeting, after a little interlude, was basically just an exchange between me and the Elder; if it hadn’t been for this incident where I actively contacted Sister Bai, I would have thought the Elder had sent Bai for me.
“Initially, yes. She was very interested in the concept of the Dream Realm and liked listening to my understanding of the Primordial Dream. She listened to me the whole time without interfering or correcting me, just letting me speak.”
“Is that acceptable? Perhaps not intervening is right. The concept of the Primordial Dream is very abstract; it can be said that different individuals have different perceptions of it, which will manifest in corresponding forms. The Primordial Dream is like a white cloth; any perception of it is merely a perspective on it, not a viewpoint that can be denied as wrong.”
“Really? What if I think the dream is reality?” Sister Bai instinctively breached a gap listening to my explanation.
“Not impossible~” I looked at Sister Bai, and my body shrank entirely, transforming into the form of Fool Dream.
An unfinished Great Fool Dream Transformation technique!
In the next moment, my body became dreamlike, and my physical form existing in reality entered the Primordial Dream.
But in the absence of dreams invading reality, Sister Bai could still see me in my “dream form”!
Once I entered the dream, my body floated up effortlessly without any aids, until I was at about the same height as Sister Bai.
“Sister Bai, can you guess what posture I am in?”
“This is the Dream Transformation you mentioned before…” Sister Bai’s eyes widened.
“Exactly~ It should be called Reality Dream Transformation, but this talent is not yet fully developed, and it also cannot perfectly explain the question you just mentioned. But I feel… it’s still something to look forward to.”
“Really amazing, the more I look, the more incredible it is.”
“Isn’t that what being extraordinary is about? Turning the impossible into the possible, perhaps that’s my initial perception of the extraordinary.”
“Turning the impossible into the possible? What a peculiar viewpoint. At the time, it wasn’t just me; many classmates thought that extraordinary was simply about great power. Yet from your words, power has instead become a byproduct of possibility, perhaps that’s the difference between genius and the ordinary?”
“Which—extraordinary can also be power. Did you forget that phrase I often say!”
“The way you understand the extraordinary will determine how the extraordinary responds to you.” Sister Bai chimed in.
“Right! That’s it!” I happily replied, “Let’s not talk about this anymore, Sister Bai, did the Elder mention anything else to you?”
“Other things… hey… she also talked to me about my major topic of the ordinary, and then…”
“What about?”
“Well, Xiaohan, have you ever heard the Elder mention the concept of the Perfect Being?” Sister Bai suddenly asked.
“Eh? Perfect Being? How could the Elder bring this up with you?” I responded incredulously.
—The Elder also mentioned this to me, and told me that even Principal Mei didn’t understand it much; she had learned about it from the Elder.
Is it now the norm for a witch to mention it once she appears?
“It seems Xiaohan knows.” Seeing my reaction, Sister Bai quickly realized many issues, “That’s right, the Elder did mention this concept to me.”
“Why? Just curious, doesn’t the Perfect Being symbolize a perfect life? Sister Bai, are you secretly studying topics related to the domain of life?” The Fool Dream form of me circled around Sister Bai, thoroughly curious.
“This… shouldn’t count as such, according to the Elder, she brought this up mainly in relation to my witch topic.”
“Topic? Ordinary?”
When I placed the words “ordinary” and “Perfect Being” together, I suddenly felt an indescribable sensation; two almost unrelated terms made me associate them with a multitude of possibilities and impossibilities.
“That’s right, the Elder said that in the Soul’s Great Topic, there is a branch attempting to explain the inaccessible domain of humanity, which is the ordinary. What is a Perfect Being? What kind of existence does a Perfect Being look like from an ordinary perspective? The Elder said many things that were hard for me to understand, and between the lines, she was asking me what kind of witch I would become.”
“…… As I listened to Sister Bai express herself like this, at a certain moment, I seemed to understand!
The ordinary topic, when not linked to the Perfect Being, is merely a “catch-all” stepping stone topic. The ordinary topic provides a platform to explore perspectives on other topics, especially when one hasn’t decided on their life path. The ordinary topic allows witches to calm down and ponder how they should realize their values and goals.
The ordinary topic does not necessarily imply a subject that one can delve into forever… the Perfect Being is also a theoretical concept, entirely unreachable.
Perhaps the Perfect Being presents itself in diverse forms in everyone’s heart, thus, the premise of the ordinary must be established to decide how to “incubate” one’s path.
