Chapter 686: Death Is Another Level of Living

“This! This, this! Isn't this the plant weaving material that those Wizards in the Fourth Sanctuary created?!”

At this moment, someone suddenly recognized the object.

Brought up by this girl, many people also reacted.

They had indeed paid attention to these things, but they had never seen the material formed like this!

After all, they had collected many casting materials and naturally seen various novelties shaped by Plant Technology.

And the materials science branch of Plant Technology also contained information in this regard.

Some people still had an impression of these materials.

“Something like that. As long as it works.”

I waved my hand.

Soon, more people gathered here.

Due to their mutual communication, many who hadn't come to the rooftop also came over.

Seeing Yi Rui busy setting up some protective measures, many people also helped out.

While chatting, they learned that Yi Rui was going to be the first to serve as an experimental subject and set an example for everyone.

“Everyone, be mentally prepared. This experiment is different from any experiment I have conducted before. In the initial stage of data collection and correction, even the best possible outcome is death.”

“What? That terrifying? The best outcome is death? Then... what's the worst?”

“Still death.”

Yi Rui said with a smile, as if trying to alleviate the atmosphere of fear.

“That’s why I need to be the first to try. If possible, I will use my death to help everyone pass through the most difficult preliminary stage, but... I think my energy should also be quite limited...”

“We understand! How could we let only Sister Yi Rui go and die?”

“Exactly! If Sister Yi Rui dares to do it, why wouldn't we? Although I'm a little scared... don't we have the Resurrection Spell as well?”

After everyone had set up the surrounding measures, I was still in the process of making equipment bare-handed.

Although I said this equipment was auxiliary, who wouldn't want to cut corners and save unnecessary wasted energy in places where equipment could substitute?

“Little Han, how much longer will it take?”

“Oh, not long now. I am making a Earth Energy Display and Image Light Screen Generator bare-handed. Since we are cooperating on this experiment, I think I can share some real-time data with you all, even if you might not fully understand it.”

“If it's body data and such, I have studied Biological Alchemy. I might be able to understand.”

At this moment, a girl named Cen Tan spoke up.

“Oh? Biological Alchemy?”

I looked at the girl. I didn't have a deep impression of her, but I knew most of the people in this club, including their names.

I remembered her name, Cen Tan.

“Mm. Do you need my help? Although... I haven't been involved much in Human Transmutation... most of my contact has been with general biological corpses. Researching the human body is a bit too much for me...”

Cen Tan said with some hesitation.

“I understand. When I was researching the Resurrection Spell to reshape the body, I also felt a sense of physiological discomfort. Just overcome it.”

I comforted her.

After all, experimenting on the body generally belonged to the category of forbidden experiments, involving ethics and morality.

In this world, no, among all the races in the Void, a witch could always find a race that wouldn't make her uncomfortable.

“Then do you need my help?”

“Hmm... the experiment I'm conducting might be a little different from the Biological Alchemy you attempted. Just watch for now. If you have any thoughts, you can communicate with me, and I will try to understand what you want to express.”

“Mm, I will.”

After a brief interlude, I also shared the details of the Self-generating Magic Power experiment with them.

Back then, my Great Tree of Knowledge was merely the Memory Bookshelf Spellbook, so it was naturally impossible to record the data from that time.

However, as the person involved and the main conductor of the Self-awakened Body Cultivation experiment, I was very clear about the experiment process.

Furthermore, Academy Head Mei had organized this experiment into a thesis with my name on it, even publishing it on the Academy Network.

However, I retrieved it after my Great Tree of Knowledge interconnected with the Academy Network.

And this "easy-to-understand" thesis was much more eloquent than my poor expressive ability.

So, I shared this thesis with them, allowing them to gain a general understanding of what we were about to do.

It wasn't that they couldn't search for and read this thesis themselves, but they didn't have the permission.

The high level of permission required for a thesis published by the Academy Head on the Academy Network was self-evident.

My permission was higher than theirs.

After quite a bit of effort, everyone roughly finished reading the thesis, albeit with some difficulty, as there were many concepts involved.

The main concepts were "Self-awakened Body Cultivation" and "Metamorphic Incubation."

Of course, a part of the original experiment was not documented in the thesis, which was my cognition of Magic Power and the Magic Power Source, and the final ritual.

The entire process was essentially pushing the process of "body Witchification" to the limit, reaching a terrifying level.

It relied on Witchification and the adaptation to Magic Power, coupled with the inverse analysis and understanding of the Magic Power Source technique, and was finally executed using Self-awakened Body Cultivation.

At the moment of my success back then, I could only sense "a trace of Magic Power."

It was just that now, my Self-generating Magic Power talent was continuously approaching perfection.

And this experiment lacked Self-awakened Body Cultivation in the experimental subjects, which meant a lack of the ability to control the expression of their own bodies.

This experiment naturally could not be perfectly replicated, so all of this needed "external force" to help them achieve it.

“Then I will begin the attempt.”

Yi Rui had also roughly finished reading the thesis and understood the general meaning.

She was also very curious about the difference between herself and the so-called "Self-awakened Body Cultivation," especially the nature of that absolute dominion over the body.

Without experiencing it firsthand, she felt she had no right to comment.

“So fast?”

“Haven't you finished your preparations?”

Yi Rui asked back with a smile.

“I am naturally prepared. Even if I wasn't, I have at least two complete methods for recording every detail of this experiment.”

I said with a smile.

This was certainly not a boast; I did have two methods.

One was the device that simulated the academy network's Earth Vein Control System to record Earth Vein Energy information during the college entrance examination.

The other was the Earth Vein Appraisal Spell to acquire information.

Although both information channels were the Earth Vein, the angles and methods were different, and to some extent, they complemented each other.

The Earth Vein Control System was to interfere with Earth Vein Energy to acquire information, which was direct and highly efficient, but easily caused distortion of Earth Vein Information.

The Earth Vein Appraisal Spell was to directly acquire information, which was less likely to be distorted.

Furthermore, with the data collected by the Earth Vein Control System, it could also help the Earth Vein Appraisal Spell accurately locate the anchor point of the Earth Vein Information.

To say they were complementary was no exaggeration.

“Then I will begin. I hope I didn't die for nothing this time.”

“Mm, wait. Let's first establish a Consciousness Communication Spell. That way, if you want to express anything later, you won't have to communicate with us using a low-efficiency method like speaking.”

I said, having thought of something.

“Consciousness Communication Spell? You even have that spell?”

Yi Rui was a little surprised.

She felt that this Little Han Teaching Assistant truly had every rare spell!

Although they weren't spells that enhanced combat power, this was the most terrifying thing!

Many matters weren't decided by combat power and destructive force.

“Mm.”

I nodded and didn't say much more.

After all, this spellbook was given to me by Academy Head Mei before I went to the Small World.

Recalling it now, I always felt that I had been calculated... because everything was too coincidental.

Without further ado, after performing the Consciousness Communication, I also gained the ability to communicate with Yi Rui across the language barrier.

The other party might have been trying it for the first time, causing me to continuously receive all sorts of random information running through her mind.

However, I didn't try to dissuade her but merely comforted her, as she was very clear about what she was about to face.

It was... death.

Life instinctively feared death.

This was a primal instinct that could not be suppressed, unless... one had experienced death and understood that death was merely another level of living.

When Yi Rui stood on the special experimental platform, transparent plant-derived constructs sealed her off.

This step was mainly to prevent unnecessary damage to the body during resurrection.

Otherwise, I would need to add extra equivalent casting materials; otherwise... her resurrected body might be... slightly smaller than before.

Perhaps this ability could be developed and operated for weight loss?

But Witches... probably didn't need to lose weight.

“We can start now, right? I remember the first step is to use a high concentration of Magic Power to catalyze the body, allowing Magic Power to erode the body and increase the body's Magic Power adaptation.”

Yi Rui had transformed into a chatterbox in my mind, speaking.

Although she wasn't usually like this, perhaps she was the type with a rich internal monologue.

“Correct.”

I nodded in agreement.

The first reaction when Magic Power comes into contact with a living organism is... erosion.

I remembered back when I was an ordinary person, I was inserted with a Magic Power Source, and my entire body was eroded by high-intensity energy.

That happened at that time because the body didn't have Magic Power adaptation yet.

But clearly, the Magic Power Source must also possess a certain "body reshaping" technique.

Otherwise, it wouldn't change the male's appearance and physical structure.

This was also one of the reasons why I inversely disassembled the Magic Power Source back then.

It originated from the witch constitution, so it would naturally come with the physical information of the witch race.

The idea for the Self-generating Magic Power technique that suddenly popped up when I was learning the Magic Power Source condensation technique with Big Sis Bai also stemmed from this.

It was just that Big Sis Bai hadn't explained this technique very clearly, or rather, even Big Sis Bai didn't know what it meant, but simply learned that this was what she needed to do.

And it was not the primary structural component of the Magic Power Source, but that structure must be a systematic technique that could help a person complete the metamorphosis into a Prospective Witch.

The first Magic Power Source back then had a terrifying effect, enough to completely change a person's physical structure.

And now, what I needed to do was increase the Magic Power concentration, exceeding the body's affinity limit for Magic Power again, causing Magic Power to erode the body!

At this point, the body reshaping technique within the Magic Power Source was already insufficient.

So, this required me to understand what Magic Power was.

To make the body shape it, adapt to it, conform to it, and use the ability of Self-awakened Body Cultivation to dominate the body and complete this physical metamorphosis.

Unfortunately, Yi Rui did not have Self-awakened Body Cultivation.

But she had one advantage, and that was that I had Self-awakened Body Cultivation and... Self-generating Magic Power.

With the result, to deduce the process backward—Academy Head Mei must have done the same thing back then, right?

They had the result and deduced the process. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

They were quite certain it could be successful, but they didn't know how to achieve success, otherwise, that experiment wouldn't have been dominated by my idea.

At this moment, due to the high concentration of Magic Power, Yi Rui's body had lost its original appearance.

Her body was being eroded by the Magic Power, and the sight made the people next to her scalp tingle!

However, the real-time information was displayed on the Earth Energy Light Screen in front of them.

It could be seen that Yi Rui's Magic Power adaptation was improving with a "vengeful" speed, and the process of physical Witchification was also soaring.

The result of this abnormal state was... Yi Rui completely lost her original posture!

At this moment, she was like a monster!

As her body couldn't withstand the Magic Power erosion of her flesh, her blood also stained all the visible surfaces.

As the experiment progressed to this point, I released the Reincarnation Spell at an opportune moment.

“Everyone, please pay attention. We are entering the final stage ahead of schedule.”

I looked at the value display.

It seemed to have reached a certain threshold.

Back then, I didn't know how long I lasted, but clearly, Yi Rui reached it quickly.

After all, she was a senior student, so her Mental Power and Witchification processes were very high, so the experiment had to be moved up due to the influence of these variables.

With the release of the Reincarnation Spell, I did not immediately reshape the body.

Reincarnation Spell was a resurrection derivative spell that was more efficient than Academy Head Mei's "Metamorphic Incubation."

But precisely because of this, it skipped the middle "shaping" stage and became a resurrection primarily guided by me.

However, the Reincarnation Spell was a spell I mastered, so I maintained communication with Yi Rui even during the stage of using her body as the resurrection material.

But I quickly noticed an anomaly!

Her Soul-substance could not be sustained for long and was quickly being guided by the Earth Vein into the Earth Vein cycle!

And Yi Rui had already begun to feel an irresistible pulling force tearing at her "consciousness."

This was actually the Earth Vein forcefully guiding her Soul-substance into the cycle.

“Don't panic... there will be a way.”

I comforted her.

“Can the Dream Spell work? Didn't you do it that way?”

Yi Rui reminded.

“The Dream Spell... also won't work. Although the Sixth Sanctuary is still in a state of Dream State Overlap, the Dream State can sustain the soul because the soul is related to the Authority of the Dream State, but the Soul-substance might not be... be careful not to become food for a Dream State creature.”

I warned.

Although I hadn't dispelled the Dream State in the Sixth Sanctuary, they used Sorcery Tools from the Wizard Academy to dispel Dream State creatures, so there was no need to worry.

“What Authority of the Dream State? What?... Then what should I do?”

“Mimetic Soul. I can temporarily shape your Soul-substance essence into a Mimetic Soul. This way, you might be able to stay a little longer by relying on the Dream State.”

I said.

“Mimetic Soul? What does that mean...”

At this moment, Yi Rui's consciousness was already a little blurry.

But it was fine as long as my consciousness was clear.

Actually, the best method was Soul Description, but I lacked the cognition of the metamorphosis of Soul-substance into a soul.

This technique was still incomplete, so I could only keep Yi Rui in a Mimetic Soul state.

It would also be easier for her to return to a Soul-substance state later.

After all, Mimetic Soul was ultimately not the true path.

Soon, Yi Rui's Mimetic Soul returned, and she woke up as if from a "great dream," but only a "Mimetic Soul level" waking.

“I... what is this?”

At this moment, Yi Rui felt as if she was free.

With one subconscious drift, she floated right through the transparent experimental partition, leaving the experimental platform!

“Mimetic Soul state.”

I looked at Yi Rui and fell into contemplation.

It seemed that there was something about the Mimetic Soul state that I hadn't noticed: the Dream State actually sustained the Mimetic Soul!

Could it be that even a Mimetic Soul had some connection with the Dream State...

Well, that made sense.

After all, the Mimetic Soul was shaped using my own soul as a "template," it was just on the wrong path.

“This... is this the state after death? It's completely different from the feeling of complete loss of consciousness after death before!”

At this moment, Yi Rui fell into another level of excitement.

The others also curiously gathered around Yi Rui, but since they didn't have the Consciousness Communication Spell, they couldn't clearly hear what Yi Rui was saying.

However, I had underestimated them.

Some of them actually knew sign language and lip-reading.

Well, it seemed communication was not a problem for them.

“Alright Sisters, don't interrupt the experiment. And Yi Rui, the experiment has entered a crucial moment. What we are currently exploring is how to take the next step without the ability of Self-awakened Body Cultivation. Every attempt we make is a correction toward the right path. I hope you can treat this seriously and solemnly.”

I clapped my hands and said to the crowd.