dognovel Chapter 743 : Chapter 743
Chapter 743 : Chapter 743
Chapter 743: The Purity of Researchers
After Yi Rui achieved the second successful case, she proved the universality of the “Witch-transformation Reconstruction Metamorphic Spell.”
However, even this was far from enough.
This was only the beginning of the Magic Power Source Body Cultivation Method; they needed to reach their theoretical limit, which was the upper limit of ten thousand Magic Power Sources, to reach that level.
But this was not so urgent.
Just as I had said, success now was sufficient; a stage-wise success only required a few individual cases as proof.
The ultimate goal for all of us was only one—Self-generating Magic Power.
This was not to say that everyone was forbidden from succeeding in the experiment, much like how I treated the Fool's Dream.
I had no way to make them true living beings.
Back when I first touched upon the “Mimetic Soul” technique, after proving that this technique could not let them take a step further to become life, I only conducted experiments with the Mimetic Soul technology on those like Fool's Blue who were often willing to follow me; I did not promote it on a large scale to all members of the Fool's Dream.
The same was probably true for Yi Rui and her group now.
There was no need for all of them to impatiently complete this modification of their constitution.
Before true success arrived, someone always had to pay the price of waiting.
Furthermore, if everyone succeeded, then who would define the scope of success for this spell through failure?
However, this statement still needed to be phrased tactfully.
If it were too forceful, it would instead give the impression that Yi Rui, as their leader, was blocking the path to success for the remaining people after she had succeeded herself.
Even if no one said it, this kind of atmosphere would actually greatly affect the progress of the experiment.
Therefore, the next day, Yi Rui directly laid the matter bare with everyone.
Yi Rui clearly stated the importance of defining the boundaries of success for the experiment we were currently conducting.
She also explained the universality of the Witch-transformation Reconstruction Metamorphic Spell, which meant that as long as everyone was willing, they could become the same constitution as Yi Rui and the other one at any time and step onto the path of the true Magic Power Source Body Cultivation Method.
I watched the whole process from the side.
With my sixth sense, Heart Sense, I could very clearly feel the emotions of the crowd.
In my view, this choice of everyone working hard together, yet having to consider the big picture by not letting everyone progress together due to various reasons, would certainly result in people feeling dissatisfied.
So I used Heart Sense to perceive such existences and then marked them.
I would not allow such people to appear in the experiment; even if it seemed heartless, I would still do so.
But... there were none.
There were no such people among this group.
This made it very hard for me to understand for a time.
Had I spent too much time with terrible people that I could no longer believe in people with such pure intentions...
Or was it that I always liked to think of every situation in the worst-case scenario, only to be suddenly met with the best situation and feel at a loss?
“Xiao Han? Is something wrong?”
At this moment, Yi Rui walked to my side and asked.
“Hmm? No... nothing.”
I shook my head subconsciously and said, “Have you finished talking?”
“Yes, the arrangements are pretty much settled. Everyone seems to strongly agree with this plan.”
Yi Rui said with a smile.
“Is... is that so?”
My mind had been immersed in Heart Sense just now, and I was also conducting self-reflection.
I hadn't quite paid attention to the solution Yi Rui mentioned.
However, the Great Tree of Knowledge had recorded and summarized the content Yi Rui just said.
Next, Yi Rui decided that everyone would still continue to conduct experiments.
The universality of experimental success already predestined that everyone could obtain this constitution.
But before that, everyone would try to explore the boundaries of failure on the basis of success as much as possible.
Furthermore, they would compile a book titled Detailed Explanation of Typical Cases of Failure of the Witch-transformation Reconstruction Metamorphic Spell.
Failure is failure after all.
Perhaps our so-called exploration of boundaries isn't about clarifying every single boundary.
The failure we need is failure that cannot be avoided by conventional means—that is, the points for attention.
To still commit failures that can be avoided conventionally only proves one is seeking death.
Counter-intuitive, counter-common sense, and other unavoidable boundaries of failure are the cases we should explore.
Yi Rui planned to compile all of these into a systematic set of books and clearly mark who had given their lives for these failure cases.
Yi Rui converted this contradiction of failure into another form of honor.
Those who did not want to experience failure could naturally succeed as a matter of course.
While those who failed had to pay no small price, the contributions they made for everyone and the honor they obtained were similarly worth promoting.
“That's right. Everyone is quite active about this. Xiao Han, are you worried about something?”
“Earlier, I was indeed worried about something, but now... it's gone...”
I shook my head and said.
“Was Xiao Han worried that someone wouldn't want to continue this painful experiment and repeatedly experience failure?”
“More or less...”
“That's why... you still haven't truly integrated into our group regarding this experiment, Xiao Han. None of us feel that failure is a painful experiment. Failure where one cannot see success is the root of pain. So, Xiao Han, you were overthinking.”
Yi Rui said with a smile.
“Is that how it is? I really envy your purity...”
“You must be joking. A genius like you, Xiao Han, actually has times when you envy us?”
Yi Rui asked back with a smile.
“I'm not an absolutely perfect existence. Why can't I envy you?”
I did not tell Yi Rui about the matter of Heart Sense.
“That's true.”
“By the way, regarding the matter of streamlining the Metamorphic Spell spellbooks... how do you plan to arrange it?”
After trying that spellbook yesterday, I knew that streamlining the spellbook was imperative.
“Naturally, it's right now. I must admit, the current Witch-transformation Reconstruction Metamorphic Spell spellbook is far too bloated. Whether for experimental success or the experimental failures we are about to face, sharpening the knife doesn't delay the woodcutting. So we are putting all our energy into streamlining the spellbook now, and the experimental matters are temporarily put aside.”
“Oh? Is the execution power that high?”
I was somewhat surprised.
“Our execution power has always been high. Plus, we've pulled in our mentors. Five spellbooks, and we happened to collectively pull in five mentors, including my mentor Belica. We'll strive to complete the streamlining of the spellbooks in the shortest possible time.”
“That's great.”
I lamented.
“After all, this is also a very good practice. To be honest, even in the past, we rarely had contact with the spell architecture related to the Resurrection Spell. So the streamlining of the spellbooks this time, even setting aside the shell of the Self-generating Magic Power project, just this Metamorphic Spell is very challenging for us. It is also an integration and organization of our knowledge of the Resurrection Spell from this period.”
Yi Rui and the others treated every practice very seriously, and even this time was no exception.
After chatting a bit more with Yi Rui, I also planned to go back.
After going back yesterday, I came into contact with the practice of Heaven-Shattering Force physical arts under the guidance of Big Sis Bai.
Big Sis Bai had also learned about the breakthrough and stage-wise success of the Magic Power Source Body Cultivation Method during the previous gathering.
So I mentioned the concept of physical arts using the Magic Power Source as transcendent energy to Big Sis Bai.
But obviously, this also exceeded Big Sis Bai's cognitive scope.
After all, Big Sis Bai's knowledge reserve was still at the level of a student in the main world.
Even if she achieved Transcendent status and was qualified to touch knowledge at the Transcendent level—even being able to trade for knowledge in the Primal Dream State that she couldn't touch before—the time since Big Sis Bai achieved Transcendent status was still too short.
Many things require study, accumulation, sedimentation, and thinking things through for oneself.
But... Big Sis Bai still took on this idea of mine and prepared to take action for it.
“Big Sis Bai, are you sure you want to do this?”
This was the question I asked Big Sis Bai at the time.
“Of course, Xiao Han. You should also start trying to rely on others. In your plan, no one is more suitable than me to do this, right?”
This was Big Sis Bai's answer, and she also gave her own thoughts.
Big Sis Bai believed that utilizing the Magic Power Source to enter the field of Body Cultivation was a brand-new project.
So she wanted to use some of her spare time to do something meaningful, such as creating new projects.
After all, if helping Xiao Han and both things could be taken care of, that would be even better.
Xiao Han only needed to do what she liked, even if she invested twelve-tenths of her energy into it.
The matter of physical arts was still what she was most skilled at.
Because when the problem turned into her problem, she had far more ways to solve the problem than Xiao Han...
The philosophies of spell and physical arts practice are ultimately different, which leads to a divergence in the paths of the two.
The mutual reinforcement of the two being cultivated together is, in the end, merely a beautiful fantasy.
This level of difficulty is as outrageous as a top science student and a top liberal arts student being the same person in the world of ordinary people.
Even for me, I major in Witch spells and minor in physical arts.
The extra reason I practice physical arts is that I want to make full use of Self-awakened Body Cultivation.
But the ability of Self-awakened Body Cultivation was also born out of a coincidence involving spells, the Grand Spellbook, and my own reasons.
So, after hesitating for a second, I ultimately accepted Big Sis Bai's help.
The field I am skilled in is, after all, Transcendent research.
...
In the blink of an eye, half of this holiday had already passed.
After the previous ruckus by the Witch Academy, followed by a backstab, the other Transcendent Academies in the main world seemed to have fallen into a bout of eerie tranquility.
The tranquil atmosphere was also laced with undercurrents, and the social atmosphere was so stifling that even an ordinary person felt a bit uneasy.
But long-term social peace had already made the people of this world forget what global war and unrest were like.
The brief peace was because the arrival of the holiday allowed many people to catch their breath.
The struggle between Transcendent Academies had already been downgraded, spreading from the will of Transcendents to the students and transferring the contradiction into the scramble for newcomers.
Over such a long period, the scramble for newcomers also began to gradually move toward its end.
The remaining newcomers who hadn't reported could probably safely wait for the normal school opening notices.
The opening of the new semester could be foreseen; that would be a brand-new battle.
Among the Transcendents of the various Transcendent Academies in the main world, none of them expected reform to come so quickly.
In just one year, an ordinary person they hadn't even heard of before had already grown into an existence enough to threaten them.
And how many stupid things had they done during this year?
This new batch, along with this holiday, was a time of reflection not just for the students but also for those Transcendents.
They were thinking: just when did things turn out like this?
It seemed... it was from the time the Main World Script opened.
But no Transcendents would admit that their judgment would be influenced by a script controlled by a world consciousness.
If such words were spoken publicly, it would definitely make people laugh their heads off.
They were Transcendents—Transcendents who had promoted to Transcendent status, detached from the world, crossed worlds, and stepped into the void.
But they had to admit that the concept of the existence of Destiny was still very terrifying.
This was not an interference that one could completely get rid of just by achieving Transcendent status.
As long as one was still within the world, they would inevitably be interfered with.
This coexistence relationship is like someone who knows how to swim staying in a swimming pool.
Promoting to Transcendent status gives one the passive ability to swim, but those in the water can never deny one thing: although the probability of a swimmer drowning in the water is very small, it is definitely not zero.
By the same token, the probability of a Transcendent being calculated to death by Destiny within a world is very small, but the probability is similarly not zero.
Furthermore, they did not die; they just suffered a setback.
But compared to that kind of maneuvering at the Transcendent level.
Yi Rui and the others had already perfected many things during this period.
Under the guidance of their mentors, they had completed the streamlining of the spellbook and the final derivation formulas.
One mentor even took the time to help them organize these processes into a thesis and published this special “Metamorphic Spell.”
Because of the restrictions on the author's name, only the team was written, but in the final acknowledgments, the names of the team members were listed one by one.
Originally, even if this thesis were published, not many witches would pay attention.
After all, a special spell like the Metamorphic Spell would only attract some witches who were curious about such spells.
But the mention of Xiao Han in the acknowledgments of this article caused some witches to notice its existence.
In fact, many witches were also curious about what Xiao Han had been doing during this time.
After all, such a low-key Xiao Han truly made them uneasy.
Every time this happened, she would always pull off something big at some node.
So some witches began to ask around curiously and finally heard about... the project of Self-generating Magic Power.
Furthermore, the Academy Head had specifically approved a whole set of fully equipped laboratories for Xiao Han over in the experimental area!
Emotions so sour with envy instantly submerged those witches whose laboratory applications had failed.
And when these witches truly went to understand what this Self-generating Magic Power project was actually researching, they also fell completely silent... the technique of creating a non-Transcendent level body possessing the Self-generating Magic Power talent and achieving large-scale promotion...
Their first reaction was that it was impossible.
But once they remembered that Xiao Han herself seemed to be the first actual case, they fell silent again.
Was it really impossible?
If this were just an ordinary student team, they would have turned their noses up at it.
But with the addition of Xiao Han's name, this unrealistic idea seemed to have been added with the possibility known as a miracle...