ATPnovel Chapter 741 : Chapter 741
Chapter 741 : Chapter 741
Chapter 741: Breakthrough in the First Stage of the Magic Power Source Body Cultivation Method
Several days passed.
Originally, the topic regarding the expansion and renovation of the Open-air Arena within the academy was gradually surpassed by another topic.
That was the fact that over a hundred “Teaching Assistant Xiao Hans” had mysteriously appeared within the Witch Academy!
At the very beginning, some people only approached this topic with the attitude of eating melons, and many even questioned the authenticity of the photos on the academy network.
It wasn't until those figures currently circulating online appeared within the Witch Academy, wearing unified uniforms and standardizing the guidance for newcomer enrollment and the entry process...
Only then did those people completely quiet their voices of doubt.
This even triggered a craze of students within the academy going to “check-in” at these spots.
The students who hadn't left the school for this holiday were truly blessed.
Gradually, after repeated check-ins and close-range understanding, many people managed to fish for intelligence, learning that these “Teaching Assistant Xiao Hans” were not the real Xiao Han herself, but rather clones of that legendary Teaching Assistant.
Many people on the academy network were also spreading rumors that these clones were likely “by-products” of the Witch Academy’s attempts to resurrect this legendary Little Witch.
Even... the rumors on the academy network became increasingly outrageous, saying that the real Xiao Han was already dead, and these Xiao Hans were not clones at all; even the first Xiao Han to make an appearance was a replacement!
They were clones of that Little Witch!
Although this claim was full of holes, considering this was the academy network and not reality, those who proposed these claims—and even the students who supported them—could probably be understood.
Although many people proposed that these clones might have existed since last semester, giving evidence for why everyone frequently encountered this Teaching Assistant Xiao Han in the Expansion Realm back then.
However, the posts published by these people who were doing serious analysis didn't have very high popularity.
The students surfing the academy network still preferred those “unhinged” titles that could stimulate the nerves; this kind of atmosphere was more in line with the fun-seeking atmosphere within the Witch Academy.
It’s just that some people would lose their sense of boundaries when they went crazy, but it didn't matter.
The Witch Academy was a very “inclusive” Transcendent academy; even an organization like the “Sorceress Club” that rebelled against the natural order could exist, so what was there that they didn't dare to say?
Would that Teaching Assistant really come looking for them in reality because of these posts and replies they made on the academy network just to give them a few slaps?
They wouldn't; at least they felt that way based on their experiments.
They would only be scolded by the people from the Xiao Han Support Group on the academy network until they almost quit the internet.
After all, many people still remembered one thing: the Witch Academy’s network used a real-name system.
You could hide outside the school during the holiday, but if you have the guts, don't come back once the holiday ends...
This war of words on the academy network also involved Millian's intervention.
Although she currently appeared low-key as she wanted to temper herself, it didn't mean she didn't have a temper.
Moreover, it didn't even need her instruction for a large number of people to spontaneously defend Xiao Han.
With her instruction, it just made those fellows unable to say a single word.
However, the phenomenon of these clones constantly “lingering” in the academy continued.
Because of the existence of such professionals, many seniors even just enjoyed the joy of inserting Magic Power Sources and then handed the remaining mess over to those Teaching Assistant Xiao Hans who called themselves clones.
At most, they would endure a scolding and then they could skip those troublesome processes.
Of course, it wasn't just the seniors remaining in the academy who discussed these topics; those newcomers who had just arrived at the Witch Academy were also curious about this rumored “Senior.”
Although they heard that the one leading them was just a clone, they couldn't tell at all; it was just like a normal senior.
They could talk, communicate, have their own emotions, and have their own thoughts, and so on.
Except for those figures who looked exactly like this senior, only then could it be proven that this seemed... like, indeed, it was a clone.
This undoubtedly gave the newcomers who had just come into contact with the Transcendent a massive shock.
Currently, such a group had also appeared on the academy network, specifically “educating” those students who arrived at the school early or were kidnapped into enrollment.
They generalized the story of this “Legendary Xiao Han” for the newcomers to inspire them.
What was even more of a bombshell was that this “Teaching Assistant Xiao Han” receiving them was a senior only one grade older than them, and she was already a veritable Teaching Assistant now.
She could be described as an absolute genius, unprecedented since the founding of the Witch Academy!
And they constantly incited those newcomers to surpass this legendary genius.
On the academy network, they were all masters who wouldn't let go unless they saw some fun.
They hoodwinked the newcomers into a bout of confusion.
However, what these newcomers didn't expect was that the Director of the grade they hadn't even met yet had already begun planning for the Newcomer Competition shortly after the start of school.
And it was highly likely related to this “Legendary Senior” they were currently accumulating discussions about.
However, these matters rumored on the academy network did not affect me.
After all, I rarely went on the academy network and didn't have the need to vent those trashy emotions.
The Witch Academy was an academy full of nothing but girls.
Even if the majority of students belonged to the relatively normal category, some black sheep were inevitable.
When meeting such types, it was right to have less contact with them.
Spending more time with worthy people and purifying my social circle, I would find that there was actually still a lot of beauty in life.
The hostility of life would ultimately only be a part of one's life, not the whole.
Currently, I was in the laboratory.
And by my side were seven or eight clones just like me.
They were the labor responsible for helping in the laboratory during this period, liberating the experimental efficiency of Yi Rui and the others to a certain extent.
The reason I appeared here now was only because of one thing.
That was the occurrence of the first successful case of the Magic Power Source Body Cultivation Method!
However, this case wasn't Yi Rui; or rather, such an experiment itself carried a full measure of coincidence.
The one who succeeded was named Cen Tan.
I was relatively familiar with her because she had revealed her identity as a Potion Alchemist at the very beginning and displayed a full measure of professionalism.
And now she succeeded.
Although luck occupied more than half of the reason, her own ability similarly could not be ignored.
It could be said that for this success, every factor was indispensable; luck was merely the seasoning for this success.
Everyone truly offered their blessings.
Even I couldn't help but clap and cheer.
However, the cheering within the laboratory was ultimately brief.
Even Cen Tan actively relinquished this honor; after all, this was the result of everyone's hard work together, and the fruits of victory couldn't be entirely plucked just because she was the first to succeed.
But even so, I took the lead and had Millian help book a hotel to have a proper celebration in the evening.
It counted as a congratulation for this stage-wise success of the experiment.
For this gathering, we incidentally brought along Mentor Belica and the others from the laboratory.
Big Sis Bai was also there.
Aside from Big Sis Bai, although the other mentors were nominally there to leech off the laboratory, during this period, the help these Witch mentors provided was not small at all.
I similarly remembered their contributions and attention.
Tonight, everyone rarely indulged themselves for a night.
They were not like me, liking to suppress themselves for a long time.
During this period, they had been continuously conducting experiments and data collection.
Whether it was data analysis or practicing with themselves as experiments, these were all very stifling and energy-consuming things.
Even tomorrow, we set a day off.
Although many people didn't wish to take a holiday during this time, in the end, I still finalized the matter.
The project we were currently undertaking was not mandatory, nor was it time-limited.
We were working so hard merely for the same goal.
But appropriate rest was equally important.
I was even thinking about whether to treat everyone to a trip to relax during the holiday.
“Whew.”
I came to the window, letting the slightly cool night breeze blow, and began to empty my mind.
When I opened my eyes again, a figure had appeared beside me.
“I shouldn't be disturbing you, right?”
Yi Rui held a wine glass to the side.
After seeing me open my eyes, she also revealed a trace of a smile.
“Of course not. Is there something?”
“In this kind of atmosphere... I shouldn't have anything to trouble you with, I'm just concerned about your pressure. It should be very great as well, right?”
“It's fine. I'm different from them. I'm not good at socializing or talking. In any situation, as long as it's chatting, it will always mention serious business. You should have something you want to ask me, right? Something about Self-generating Magic Power?”
“Actually, after getting along for so long, I can see it too. Yes, it is indeed that matter.”
Yi Rui was stunned for quite a while after hearing my words.
In the end, she gave a helpless smile, wanting to gloss over the current atmosphere.
“Do you want to ask if I have a lead?”
“Actually, I didn't plan to ask so directly.”
“Then you still want to know, right?”
I shrugged indifferently.
After all, I haven't been living for free during this time.
I admit the experimental difficulty of this Self-generating Magic Power project indeed exceeded my expectations.
Back then, I had Self-awakened Body Cultivation, and I also had Self-generating Magic Power, plus the Resurrection Spell, so I overconfidently opened this project and pulled them in with a promise.
Looking at it now... although the difficulty still hasn't decreased, it truly proves the saying that just thinking about things is useless.
Only by doing them, and doing them to your limit, are you qualified to say you can't complete the task.
Any other excuse is just a passing cloud.
“Yes. Since you've already spoken, then I'll follow up and ask, even if you say that with our strength we can't comp—”
“These days I have been trying the Body Cultivation path with Big Sis Bai, the normal Body Cultivation path.”
I interrupted Yi Rui's words, and also interrupted that trace of fear before the battle in her heart.
She wasn't the leader of this experiment, so this thought of hers wasn't just her own uncertainty; it was similarly giving me a way out.
But I don't need a way out.
Now, I haven't failed yet.
Just as Yi Rui and the others have now reached success in the first stage, am I not the same?
“Normal Body Cultivation. Practicing physical arts is the only way for ordinary people to step onto the path of Body Cultivation. When physical arts practice reaches perfection, it will resonate with something called a Martial Path Rune. Runes—this thing that basically only appears in spell rituals for you—actually has traces far more extensive than expected.”
“Martial Path... Rune?!”
Yi Rui was also attracted by my words, subconsciously ignoring what was said just now.
In fact, she had also hesitated just now about whether to speak those words.
After all, giving up sometimes only needs a start, and everything will crumble.
But only now did Yi Rui realize that Xiao Han seemed even more determined than she had imagined!
“Physical arts is a means of influencing the torso. The torso is similarly an interconnecting channel that feeds back into the essence of life. Systematic Martial Path Body Cultivation Runes can help me better understand what Body Cultivation is. It is helping me understand Self-awakened Body Cultivation at a deeper level. And the feedback of this cognition can obtain a form of understanding even more unspeakable from the totems.”
“So... you actually already have a lead?”
“Yes. I am constantly deepening my understanding of Self-awakened Body Cultivation. Perhaps you don't understand, but that so-called totem is not a singular totem of Self-awakened Body Cultivation or Self-generating Magic Power, but a Symbiotic Totem born from treating these two as two nodes.”
“Roughly analogous to a compound spell ritual being a whole, constructing a higher-level spell?”
Yi Rui was trying her best to understand this metaphor.
“Um... although I don't want to discourage you, you can use this method to understand it. You only need to know that the deeper my understanding of Self-awakened Body Cultivation, the more I can understand the composition of Self-generating Magic Power. And when I thoroughly know its composition and method of birth, the Magic Power Source Body Cultivation Method will be the carrier for this method.”
“Hearing it like this... in fact, Xiao Han, your progress seems even faster than ours?”
Yi Rui was silent for a long time, seemingly thinking about what I said, or perhaps understanding the metaphor I made.
However, they didn't continue this topic.
Because she didn't understand, there was no need to continue this topic.
Yi Rui herself didn't really like chatting with those people who pretended to understand when they didn't.
Those people's heads were full of 'I think' without any basis, so she felt Xiao Han was the same.
“You seem very surprised by this?”
I asked with a smile, my tone carrying a bit of a joking hint.
“I've found that you value the research of the Self-generating Magic Power project even more than I do. At least in terms of concern and anxiety, it's more obvious than mine.”
“This...”
“Sorry, it seems I made a joke that didn't make you laugh. Actually, what I wanted to express is that it's better to maintain a certain peace of mind for research.”
Seeing Yi Rui's look of wanting to speak but stopping, I could only speak to explain.
“Is that so?”
Yi Rui didn't quite know how to respond.
But the question she wanted to ask when she came over had already received an answer.
Although she couldn't quite keep up with the other party's cognitive rhythm, she didn't produce even a shred of negative emotion.
“So this is the confidence of controlling everything?”
“Of course, you should also be a bit more confident.”
I spoke and smiled, but I told a lie with this sentence.
I haven't reached the level of controlling everything yet.
But if a lie can give Yi Rui some inspiration, I don't mind telling another one.
“For the derivation of the Metamorphic Incubation spellbook, you contributed the most. With the Magic Power Source Body Cultivation Method successfully breaking through to the first stage this time, have you thought of an appropriate name for it?”
“Me? I'm to name it? But you're the one who...”
“If you feel it's hard to handle, then go ask your friends. Are you going to deny that their efforts together with you can't even compare to mine?”
“No...”
Yi Rui shook her head subconsciously.
She knew best exactly how much they had paid for this attempt, going from the initial experimental lab rats to the research branches they shared together... so she instinctively didn't want to deny everyone's hard work.
But soon she started laughing, as if she had reacted to something.
“You're swapping concepts, aren't you? It's true that they and I worked hard together, but... didn't you as well? Why distinguish so clearly? You are also someone who must participate in the naming of this brand-new resurrection spell, and the one who is indispensable!”
“Oh, because I am a naming failure. Personally, I suggest not referring to my suggestions.”
I explained with a smile.