Is It Weird for a Guy to Apply to a Witch School?-Chapter 582 -

Chapter 582: New Discoveries in the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell

Several days passed in succession.

The students had already accepted the phantom image of the Great Tree of Knowledge that appeared in the Academy.

Recently, quite a few rumors circulated on the Academy Network, some true and some false, but ultimately they only became idle talk over tea and after meals.

Those with a discerning eye could also discover that the Great Tree of Knowledge underwent slight changes every day; endless Power of Knowledge surrounded it, adding to its brilliance of knowledge.

Furthermore, some people firmly believed that staring at it for a while every morning until they felt dizzy was helpful for becoming smarter, and the key was that quite a few people actually believed it.

And in the outside world, which the students ignored, an undercurrent was also brewing.

After the tragedy in Modu, the various Transcendent Academies spontaneously investigated, encircled, and eliminated these guys.

They absolutely could not allow these fellows to stir up a second such tragedy in the Main World!

But even so, it still seemed like a drop in the bucket.

Each time they caught only insignificant minor figures, or they suppressed local riots or demonstrations.

Or perhaps the Holy Angel Academy purged the heretics that recently emerged.

The Main World currently only had one widely propagated faith: the Holy Light Faith.

Any cult that preached doomsday theories or worshipped a savior was considered a heretical cult, requiring the judgment of the Holy Light.

The Main World, this pasture raised by the various Transcendent Academies, became chaotic because of this external factor, like a catfish mixed into a stagnant fish pond, constantly stirring up waves.

Truths never heard before began to circulate in society, proclaiming facts people took for granted.

The exploitation of ordinary people by the Transcendent Academies, their continuous creation of social contradictions, sparking opposition between ordinary people and Transcendent beings.

Behind the instigation of such contradictions seemed to be the shadows of the top wealthy elites of the outside world; they were the very top tier of the external society's pyramid, and the wealth and means of production they controlled were enough to leverage the lifeline of this world.

News not meant to be spread, information concerning the Transcendent Academies, propagated rampantly on the network.

Unheard-of truths and alarming rhetoric were rampant.

But this world was ultimately controlled by the Transcendent Academies.

As long as they wished, they could quickly purge all this information, and the Transcendent Academies indeed did just that.

The wealthy and famous elites of the outside world were basically in the same circle as the Transcendent beings.

This sudden wave of public opinion sweeping across the world meant that people from the Transcendent Academies naturally needed to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.

Simply pinning the hat of colluding with players onto someone allowed them to instantly disappear; everyone understood this clearly.

The swift information lockdown also caused another negative effect.

The concept of conspiracy theories made more people realize that the censored statements might have touched the nerves of certain people.

As long as they were slightly guided, a wave of public opinion that required no extra push could be reignited online.

The players doing this naturally aimed to stir up the waters of this world.

If they could provoke world chaos, that would naturally be best; stirring up trouble was what players excelled at.

…

In the laboratory.

Compared to other relatively rigorous laboratories, the witches here seemed quite relaxed.

Whether human or witch, no one could keep their energy focused on one thing for too long.

Several days had passed consecutively.

I was still methodically perfecting the unification of Order, sometimes needing to take a break midway before planning the next step.

“Little Han Lunch has been brought for you.”

“Thank you.”

I habitually accepted it.

After all, I hadn't reached the stage where I could survive without food.

Even if I reached a point where I could survive without eating, I would still choose to eat on time.

Because… I genuinely couldn't imagine what meaning life would have if it lacked delicious food.

I opened the takeout container packed for me; besides a rich variety of dishes, there was also a fruit platter that looked quite good.

I took this time to chat with the Witch Sisters nearby for a few sentences.

“By the way, sisters, do you know if today is any special day? Or did anything happen in the past two days?”

“Today… today shouldn’t be any special day, right? Why does Little Han suddenly ask this?”

“It really doesn't seem to be any day worth commemorating.”

“But speaking of what happened, yesterday it seemed they announced that the first batch of spellbooks for the Meditation Method of Enlightenment had been completed and were beginning to be promoted.”

“What? Only a few days, and the spellbooks for the Meditation Method of Enlightenment were already manufactured?”

“It was just the fastest batch, sigh I heard that Lady Serina was also on that list of the first batch.”

“Really? No way?”

“Uh… that, who is Lady Serina?”

I asked curiously from the side.

“Lady Serina is also an Academy Head at the Witch Academy. She usually doesn't appear much, but that time the player dungeon descended, she did appear once. Little Han, I should have mentioned her to you, right?”

“Oh, another Academy Head. You didn't mention her name at the time, so I don't recall,” I quickly replied.

“Lady Serina is a true scholar cultivating in seclusion at the Witch Academy. I guess the chance she appeared this time is very high because of the matter of that Small World repairing the Main World?”

“I’ve heard about that. I heard the repair seems to be progressing smoothly, and it might be entering the final stage in a while.”

I listened to them chat about gossip while eating lunch, not speaking again.

Because I had just obtained the information I wanted: the matter of the Meditation Method of Enlightenment being made into spellbooks and promoted.

Perhaps this was just gossip among them, and a trivial matter.

But it wasn't for me.

During this period, I had been continuously trying to complete the unification of Order.

Since this was the first time I attempted it, success and failure were inevitable.

Compared to the success and failure within this step-by-step process, I preferred failure a little more.

Success represented a path opened up; this was just one successful experience.

Failure, however, represented the ability to learn more things—why failure, the choice of trial and error.

Although this consumed more time, I didn't lack time.

The impatience caused by failure largely stemmed from the needless consumption of time.

Once that consumption was disregarded, failure became continuous self-learning and self-research through constant attempts.

The reason I paid attention to the promotion of the Meditation Method of Enlightenment related to another matter.

I needed to unify the Order of the three parties.

The power of Body Cultivation was perfectly mastered, and before the Great Tree of Knowledge continued to be perfected, I also had a very high degree of control over it.

The hardest bone to chew was undoubtedly the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell.

The materials I flipped through the most recently were the research materials on this Grand Spellbook given to me by Academy Head Mei.

I wanted to borrow this unification of Order to complete the derivation of the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell, allowing its main body to derive into the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Tree and completely balance the Dual-Tree Structure.

After continuous attempts over these days, I suddenly understood one thing: no matter how a Grand Spellbook was developed, its function should serve me.

I didn't need to develop the ability of a Grand Spellbook to its extreme, because the effect of a Grand Spellbook developed to its extreme was objective and did not change according to my will.

Therefore, to make it continuously perfect along my line of thought, “Spell Derivation” was the best path.

A Grand Spellbook was a tool.

I shouldn't use it just because it should be used that way; the meaning of it functioning in my hands was using it to accomplish what I wanted to achieve.

But from yesterday until now, I sensed a trace of disharmony from the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell.

It was as if the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell was undergoing some kind of connection, but this connection wasn't the one between the Great Tree of Knowledge and the Seed of Great Knowledge; it was a more ethereal connection.

To make an analogy, the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell seemed to be undergoing a kind of metamorphosis.

This metamorphosis was like… the Great Tree of Knowledge.

The Great Tree of Knowledge, in its spell form, belonged to a spellbook.

It was a Grand Spellbook derived through a clever trick, using the Spellbook Shelf spellbook as a framework.

I still remembered that Teacher Ji Niang once said that spellbooks never truly belonged to me; at that time, I didn't understand what it meant for one to truly belong to me.

It wasn't until I severed the Earth Vein Chains that I, unable to bear the spellbooks myself, experienced for the first time what a truly belonging spellbook meant.

And that spellbook was called the “Spellbook Shelf Spellbook.”

Precisely because the Academy Head used a special method to let me completely own this spellbook, other spellbooks could be stored within the Spellbook Shelf.

The second spellbook that truly belonged to me was… the Tree of Knowledge, and then it transformed into a Grand Spellbook because of [Transcendent Knowledge].

A completely mastered spellbook represented that the spellbook had transformed from a tool into an inalienable part of oneself, and it also represented that this spellbook could no longer be an exchangeable tool.

The current Great Tree of Knowledge was in this state.

Because I constructed it bit by bit, constantly perfecting it up to this point, any spellbook could be completely mastered through this method.

Without a complete understanding of this spellbook, one couldn't achieve this; this was even more so for the students of the Witch Academy, because to achieve it, they needed a prerequisite: severing their own Earth Vein Chains.

And now, the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell was also transforming from a “tool” into a “capability” of mine in a way I couldn't understand.

My Great Tree of Knowledge recorded that the methods for completely mastering different spellbooks were not interchangeable.

Because the transformation of a spellbook into a completely mastered capability was very troublesome, even Transcendent Witches kept large quantities of spellbooks merely as tools because it was convenient, and… they could be discarded, exchanged, or even sold at any time.

A completely mastered spellbook represented that the witch had researched this spellbook very deeply, and it also represented that these spellbooks were the signature techniques of that witch.

After all, was being willing to spend time researching a certain spellbook and completely turning it into one's own capability not a form of favoritism toward that spell?

Different spellbooks, due to their varying difficulty, required different amounts of effort to be completely transformed into one's own capability.

And a Grand Spellbook… even more so!

To me, the existence of the Great Tree of Knowledge was an irreplicable miracle and my current foundation.

It started from nothing, constantly being perfected along with me, and would eventually become the true might of a Grand Spellbook.

But the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell was different; it was a tool, a tool given to me by Academy Head Mei, at best with an accompanying “manual.”

I didn't have the slightest clue about it.

But with such a Grand Spellbook, from yesterday to today, I discovered it was actually forming a connection with me bit by bit.

Even if this connection was very subtle, I still noticed it.

After all, I was currently at the critical juncture of unifying Order, so the observation of the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell needed utmost care.

Therefore, this forced me to take it seriously.

I didn't understand what I did to cause this to happen.

For this, I even summoned the Fool’s Dream here, but I didn't find any abnormality in them.

It wasn't until just now, when I heard about the promotion of the Meditation Method of Enlightenment, that a flash of insight crossed my mind.

But I didn't know if it was really like that; I needed to continue trying to verify it.

The obstacle preventing me from believing this conjecture in my heart was: could the spell of a Grand Spellbook really achieve such a thing?

But when I thought about the propagation of the Seed of Great Knowledge catalyzing the perfection of the Great Tree of Knowledge… I couldn't confirm, but I must also admit that I couldn't falsify it through self-testing.

So… could the wisdom I inadvertently spread through the Meditation Method of Enlightenment actually catalyze the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell as well?

I didn't know.

But I would try.

So now I had a train of thought.

Whether it was right or wrong, I had to try it.

Isn't an experiment constantly proposing a hypothesis based on a phenomenon and then continuously verifying it?

It's just that this matter would require more time and energy to reach a conclusion.

……

Time passed quickly.

Today, an announcement from the Witch Academy once again broke the peaceful daily life of the school.

Mentor representatives from several Transcendent Academies came to the Witch Academy for visits and exchanges, conducting in-depth academic discussions.

In the end, the Witch Academy fostered a series of close cooperations with several Academies and proposed many plans.

Among these, one concept was very noteworthy: exchange students.

Promoting the fusion between different transcendent systems, sparking collisions between different educational philosophies, experiencing the “same destination via different routes” among different transcendent systems…

As soon as these notices were issued, they immediately caused a huge reaction.

However, these matters were still in the announcement phase; specific details hadn't been discussed yet.

But even so, it was enough to excite many students, as the students at the Witch Academy were the most restless ones.

But precisely when this announcement sparked discussions among everyone, the Great Tree of Knowledge standing above the Witch Academy suddenly made an unusual noise!

That aura belonging exclusively to a Void Crack suddenly appeared, and the heart-palpitating power caused all the transcendent mentors to look over.

“Heh heh… You people at the Witch Academy… truly have a wealth of talent.”

The mentors from various Academies staying at the Witch Academy looked at the anomaly in the distance, their expressions slightly changing.

Their faces showed not a hint of joy, only a look of complete apprehension.

“I didn't expect that the visit this time would allow us to see such a sight. It would be best if such a talented student didn't perish midway.”