Chapter 1103: The Foundation of Perfect Human Body Cultivation Is Actually...
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 1103: The Foundation of Perfect Human Body Cultivation Is Actually...
"Um... Sister Xiao Han, shall we continue?"
The defeated girl left the stage dejectedly, and immediately, another eager girl stepped forward to ask.
"Yes, let's continue," I nodded.
"Hehe! Then watch out, Sister Xiao Han!"
With a sharp cry, a spell began to coalesce in front of her.
I simply shifted my body to the side, and the girl's spell effect missed me entirely.
The first thing anyone has to overcome when facing me is a simple one: actually hitting me.
Spell coverage is the "cheapest" and most effective method they can think of to bridge that gap, but not everyone can pull it off.
More precise casting is the skill that these challengers, who specialize in single-target attacks, need to hone.
"Fast casting, follow up with spellbook pre-casting, and form a specific casting rhythm that only you know. This isn't enough yet. Let me see you improve, or I’m going to start putting real pressure on you."
I explained things to my opponent while effortlessly dodging her attacks.
It wasn't until she had exhausted various means—even sending a basic Fireball Spell flying toward me—that I changed my approach. Instead of dodging, I reached out and caught the fireball.
The moment the blazing fireball touched my hand, I felt its explosive aura.
Generally speaking, an ordinary caster releases a fireball like throwing a ball, letting it hit the target and explode. However, students who have mastered the Fireball Spell can, to a certain extent, make it explode exactly where they want.
A spellbook is a research platform for understanding spells.
Freshmen who have just entered the academy only see it as a tool for casting skills. But once their mental strength reaches a certain level, they discover that the spellbook can be "controlled and influenced" to a degree.
It’s just that they don't have Spirit Vision at my level, so they can't perform micro-modifications at will.
However, one thing must be clear: they also possess the talent for Spirit Vision, so in essence, they can do the same things I do.
Yi Rui and the others are the most typical examples. They have the talent for Spirit Vision and a massive accumulation of knowledge, allowing them to achieve spell derivation.
Upperclassmen have all modified their spellbooks to some extent, and they generally fall into two factions.
One is the Academic Faction, which studies spell-related knowledge and systematically derives specific sequences from the spell framework.
The other is the Combat Faction, which performs unsystematic derivations—essentially "modding"—on the spells they've mastered through practical experience.
Even if their spellbook hasn't birthed a new derived spell, the prototype spell takes on a specific "personal style" that fits the user.
One can only say that the spellbook platform is incredibly versatile.
Back to the training ground.
The fireball in my hand felt like it was on the verge of bursting, but after I pulled it into my palm, it didn't explode as my opponent expected.
One reason was that her research into the Fireball Spellbook wasn't deep enough. After all, the Fireball Spell is a basic spell, and many people stop using it eventually. Thus, the moment the casting ended and the fireball was launched, the connection with the caster was severed.
The other reason... was my attempt at Heart Sense Affinity, extending Flame Affinity through my sense of touch.
The effect wasn't particularly obvious, but in that instant, I "soothed" the unstable, explosive state of the fireball.
But it was only for an instant.
In the next moment, I tossed the fireball back.
Boom!
The explosion of the fireball was inconspicuous amidst the constant blasts from the spell turrets. To others, it looked like I had simply used some trick to play with my opponent, tossing the fireball back without much thought.
But only I knew exactly what I had done in that moment!
Among the five senses, not every sensory channel is compatible with the power of Body Cultivation.
For instance, touch is most compatible with the transmission of power; smell and taste lean toward the analysis of power; and vision focuses more on the interaction of power...
Emotions are also divided into receiving emotions and influencing emotions, and affinity is divided into affinity for external forces and self-adaptation affinity.
Take that fireball just now.
I have an innate Flame Affinity that soothes fire elements. The moment I touched it, I tried to make the fireball have an affinity for me—to adapt to me—but that attempt was somewhat of a failure.
However, that doesn't mean it's impossible.
The ultimate affinity for elements in a living being is a life form with an elemental body, possessing an inherent affinity for fire.
As for the other kind of affinity, though I don't yet know how to achieve it, I have a concrete example.
I use life techniques to shape spell life. When a fireball life form has an affinity for me, it will spontaneously and actively adapt to me, refusing to harm me.
So, in the realm of the Transcendent, nothing seems impossible; it’s just a matter of the wrong method or the wrong mindset.
The battle continued.
My opponent was slowly gaining practical experience, while I was constantly gaining insights during these seemingly playful, ordinary battles.
During this time, more than one person had cautiously asked if this would delay my own cultivation. But my explanation was something they couldn't understand, and naturally, they couldn't believe it.
They preferred to believe that I was exhausting my energy to accompany them in practical training.
At this moment, I gained a flash of realization regarding the "Ordinary Subject" I had slightly touched upon. There is logic even within the ordinary. The Ordinary Subject isn't about purely chasing the mundane; it’s about discovering the miracle of the self within the ordinary.
It didn't seem to restrict a witch on this path from pursuing the Transcendent. "Ordinary" was more of an internal state or an attitude toward life.
In this moment, a firm idea was born in my heart.
Perhaps I should create a unique path of Body Cultivation. Like that time I followed a whim and created Emotion Body Cultivation, though that was an incomplete system.
Now, I had found a much grander framework, one large enough to accommodate all my insights up to this point.
Perfect Human Body Cultivation.
First, I had to define it. What is Perfect Human Body Cultivation?
This was an idea born from the "Perfect Human"—the ultimate description of a life form I encountered while learning about life sequences.
Therefore, Perfect Human Body Cultivation is roughly equivalent to an omnipotent Transcendent path. Precisely because its ultimate goal is impossible to reach, any life form on this path is destined for only one state: constant learning.
Turning the unknowable into the knowable, and the impossible into the possible.
This is a revolution of the mind, using the revelations of the Ordinary Subject as a mental anchor, curiosity and the quest for knowledge as a guide for action, and various Body Cultivation paths as the structural framework.
It is a process of continuous perfection and continuous learning.
So... next, I needed to grant "Perfect Human Body Cultivation" a... foundation to pursue it!
Just as the foundation of the Fool's Dream talent is Dreamification, Perfect Human Body Cultivation also needs a foundation to make it all possible.
And the only foundation I could think of was... Self-Awakened Body Cultivation.
Once I stripped away all the difficult interfering factors, Self-Awakened Body Cultivation was indeed the perfect foundation. It carried all my ideas for the framework of Perfect Human Body Cultivation.
But returning to reality... I had to admit this foundation was absolutely ridiculous.
In the entire Main World, excluding the two Transcendent Witches Dean Mei had deliberately recruited who possessed Self-Awakened Body Cultivation, I was the only one left with this talent.
Isn't that absurd?
However, I wasn't discouraged. It’s like asking: does one need the five senses to practice "Five Senses Body Cultivation"?
In the Myriad Races of the Void, there are plenty of races with incomplete senses. Even with the life creation I currently master, I could use life sequences to create many beings with only four or even three senses.
Yet all these beings can practice Five Senses Cultivation, and I can even help them complete their five senses later!
Don't forget that the root of Five Senses Cultivation is the essence of life. The cultivation targets the life essence; once the sensory channels are completed, the body will birth sensory organs based on its own life essence.
This is the completion of life, a leap in level, and the sublimation of essence.
Therefore, the Perfect Human Body Cultivation I was constructing also needed to build a ladder leading to its sky-high threshold.
A Body Cultivation path that, once practiced to a certain stage, grants the practitioner Self-Awakened Body Cultivation?
If I said that out loud, people would only think it was even more ridiculous!
Ever since I gained Self-Awakened Body Cultivation, I had been fed the notion that it was the end goal for all body cultivators.
That so-called "end goal," I now realized, wasn't the end of strength, but the end of the foundation.
Any body cultivator, in the process of increasing their strength, is constantly approaching the characteristics of Self-Awakened Body Cultivation—such as perfect control over their muscles, the flow of their blood, the beating of their heart, the secretion of hormones, and even the gradual recognition and dominance of their own life essence.
But those who actually achieve Self-Awakened Body Cultivation through training are few and far between. It’s almost always a result of innate talent or some lucky encounter.
And that was the revelation: Self-Awakened Body Cultivation can be induced through certain means.
But those who don't understand it can't research it, and those who have it don't know how to research it.
But I! I am special!
In the eyes of others, I am an outlier among body cultivators, but I prefer to call myself someone who has cast aside some of the prejudices on the path of Body Cultivation.
I admit I can't cast aside all prejudice; after all, the moment you form an understanding of something, prejudice is born.
Creating Self-Awakened Body Cultivation was actually quite simple for me. It was like creating my life clones; my life clones are born with Self-Awakened Body Cultivation.
Just as a clone from a Clone Technique inherently has five senses and can see the colors of the world, Self-Awakened Body Cultivation is almost an instinctive trait for me.
Thinking of this, I realized... I was going to have to reverse-engineer an ability I already possessed again.
I remembered when I first created Self-Generated Mana. Because I couldn't create the talent for Self-Awakened Body Cultivation, I had to settle for second best and structure Self-Generated Mana through a special Body Cultivation method.
This resulted in other people's Self-Generated Mana not being the "Prototype Self-Generated Mana" I possessed, nor did it have the potential to derive into Infinite Mana.
Now, if I wanted to experiment again, I would need a large number of experimental subjects to cooperate with me in this grand experiment.
This was different from the previous Self-Generated Mana experiment. If the previous experiment only structured a talent onto the life essence—and was merely following a talent that would eventually emerge from Witchification—it carried no danger.
But the experiment for Self-Awakened Body Cultivation involved actually tampering with the essence of life.
I remembered that my own Self-Awakened Body Cultivation was brought about by a series of coincidences, and I had even "died" once.
But what was more important was my own understanding of life.
A so-called "coincidence" requires countless foundations to be constantly analyzed.
Just as I was lost in thought, a message interrupted my reflections.
"Ow! Sister Xiao Han, that was a heavy hit!"
"Sorry, I have some important news, so I had to let you off the stage early." I looked at the girl who had been knocked back by my Body Cultivation internal energy along with her spell, and offered a rare apology.
"Important news? What is it?"
The girl scrambled up from the training ground, instantly switching into gossip mode.
"Eh? You're not saying? Is it some very private news?"
The others crowded around as well. Even though they couldn't see the panel of the Tree of Great Knowledge unfolding before me, their gossiping hearts drove them to lean in.
"It's not exactly private. It's about those academies."
I gave a brief explanation and then focused on the information.
The Rebel Witch contacting me was Greta, whom I knew quite well—the first Rebel Witch I had met back in the Emerald Forest World.
She brought me excellent news!
They had discovered Seeds that had left the Main World!
Judging by the style of the vehicle entering the void, it seemed to be a Seed of the Holy Angels.
The Holy Angels... that race of angels that wields the power of Holy Light. However, they wouldn't be foolish enough to keep the Holy Light on full blast while moving in secret; that would be equivalent to telling everyone exactly where they were.
So, the fact that they were discovered by those Rebel Witch sisters was purely bad luck.
Currently, the vehicle for the Holy Angel Seed Migration Plan had been ambushed by the Rebel Witch sisters wandering the void, and the sisters had fled after the strike.
They were now like birds startled by the mere twang of a bowstring.
A damaged vehicle is extremely dangerous in the void domain where the Main World is located. Because there are no surrounding worlds to serve as a port, the void will mercilessly erode it. When that happens, only Transcendents among the Seeds will be able to survive briefly in the void; everyone below the Transcendent level will die!
At this point, they only had one path left: to turn back.
It wasn't that a damaged vehicle couldn't migrate, but the combination of damage and having their trail discovered by hostile entities in the void meant they could no longer carry out the Seed Migration Plan.
Thinking of this, I replied directly.
Yang Yuehan: Sister Greta, can you help send these unlucky guys to the Emerald Forest World in a "reasonable" way?
Greta: No problem at all~
Yang Yuehan: Thank you, Sister Greta.
Greta: Then I'll be waiting to see your show!