So I became a witch

Chapter 40 Engraving

I shook my head and rejected the uncle's kindness: "Thank you for your care during this time, but I hope to see a wider world with my own strength."

"Well, as expected, if you are an explorer, you can't help but yearn for the unknown, right?" The uncle nodded, "What did you just say that you want to ask me for?"

"Actually... do you know the branches of the Xingyan Tree?" I said slowly.

The uncle was taken aback at first, and grabbed my arms suddenly. He was about to say something, but suddenly realized something was wrong, and quickly lowered his voice and asked tremblingly: "Could it be that...you have already planned to start contacting Xingxing?" Did it grow?"

I replied vaguely: "Well, I suddenly had such a feeling recently."

"This is really..." The uncle opened his mouth and didn't know what to say for a long time. After a while, he murmured, "If it's you... maybe, you can really become a great existence like the Star King. "

"Uncle?"

"...Sorry, I was a little distracted just now. In fact, I do have a branch of the tree of stars here, let's take it as a self-reliance gift for you." The uncle patted me on the shoulder, encouraged.

Because of the long life expectancy, human beings in this world usually only live on two special days, one is the independence day when they are seven years old, and the other is the adult day when they are seven years old.

"But, isn't that a very precious existence?" I didn't expect to get it so easily, and I was a little surprised.

"It's nothing. For Xingyan practitioners like me, the branch is at best an icing on the cake, but for those who are new to Xingyan, it is indeed a rare treasure. Speaking of which, the acquisition of this branch, Thanks to you." The uncle said with a smile.

"Is it related to me?" I froze for a moment.

"Did you forget? Four years ago, when you first joined my team, you were still such a little guy, but it was because of your keenness and decisiveness that we didn't suffer too many losses in that mission, and we also gained I received a reward from the twelve clans. Originally, I wanted to keep it and hand it over to you when you will use it. I just didn’t expect that this day would come so soon. No matter what setbacks you suffer in the future, Please don’t forget that pair of firm eyes you once showed me. One day, your spirit of never giving up will not only inspire me, but also inspire more people.”

"……I understand."

A few days later, I sneaked into the underground warehouse of the nursing home with the materials I bought from the black market and the branches of the tree of stars that my uncle sent me.

"Stardust powder, whiskers of star beasts, blazing core, fine gold carving knife...and most importantly, branches of the tree of stars." After I spread out the materials one by one and counted them, I slowly opened the uncle gift box. Come the black box.In an instant, the dark basement was lit up by the starlight, as if I was under the summer night sky. Even though I knew it was an illusion brought by the branches, I couldn't help but lose my mind for a moment for this beautiful scenery.

No, now is not the time to be moved by such things.There is only one chance to get the materials that are hard to get. If you accidentally mess up, you don't know how long it will take to collect the second copy.I took a deep breath, focused my attention on my right eye, and acted like a robot precisely imitating the fragments in my memory.Under the observation from the Void Eye and the precise control of the eighth level of the world, the work of making the engraving pen was finally completed quickly.

However, this is only the first step, and the next steps are the most important.

I lifted the sleeve of my left hand, revealing my flawless white arm. After floating in the air for a while, I finally pressed the engraving pen raised by my right hand.

"!!!!" At the moment when the engraving pen came into contact with the skin, I felt like an electric current suddenly passed through the brain, and the flesh seemed to be torn into several pieces, and then thrown into the meat grinder to be crushed , this pain has surpassed the limit of my tolerance, even the powerful physical fitness of the eighth level of the mortal world cannot be immune.I resisted the urge to throw the engraving pen aside, gritted my teeth, and slowly carved the first character on my arm.

There was a momentary blankness in consciousness, and when I came back to my senses, I realized that I was already sweating profusely, and the strength of my whole body seemed to have been stripped out of my body, as if I had experienced several battles with the king beast.But at the same time, I could also feel a surge of energy that I had never felt before, starting to pour into my body, filling the empty container.

Is this... the power of the stars?The function of the engraving pen made me barely lift my spirits, I picked up the pen tremblingly, and started the work of engraving the second character.

"!!!!!!" Unspeakable pain stirred in my body.Each stroke is not only a trauma to the body, but also a hole in the soul, personality, consciousness, emotion, memory... With the completion of those special astrology, I began to gradually realize , a part of oneself also dissipates at the same time.To get something, you have to give something.The dissolution of the ego is perhaps more frightening than the physical pain.Perhaps when all the engravings are completed, I will no longer be me.

"Even so... so what!" I roared unyieldingly in my heart.

I will never forget it, no matter how many times I repeat it, I will never forget that despair and hatred!

I must live, and then, to those guys who are high above, send the same pain as I have suffered.Until then, no matter what kind of torture I experience, I will never die!

This is, my obsession!

……

When I woke up, the engraving pen in my hand had finished its work and completely shattered. At the same time, my entire left arm was also engraved with special astrological characters.

So, is that level of material only enough to complete the tattoo of such an arm?It seems that in order to engrave the whole body with star characters, more materials must be collected.

Although I was a little reluctant to give up those hard-won materials, after feeling the energy surging in my body, I couldn't help but jump up a little in my heart.Although after losing the protection and screening mechanism of the body, those unprocessed star powers are definitely unbearable pain and poison for ordinary people, but compared to the pain I suffered when engraving, it is still better. It's a lot easier, and with the powerful physical fitness of the eighth level of the mortal world, I don't have to worry about how much damage these violent stars can cause to the body.

Chapter 41 Land of Stars

After finally obtaining the star energy, the next thing is to build the domain and condense the star core.This process varies from person to person and is very long. Some people spend several years, some people spend decades, and some people need hundreds of years. This is one of the reasons why Xingyan people are so rare. A person who has stepped into the Xingyan Realm after more than ten years is already considered an incredible talent.

Referring to the experience of the previous life, the so-called process of building a field is actually to learn and understand the existence of astral energy, which does not belong to this world, and then sublimate one's understanding of astral energy to become a "field". In order to truly control this power.There are many characteristics of star energy. For the convenience of understanding, people divide them into earth (rock), water, wind, fire, metal (mechanical), wood (life), thunder, space, yin and yang, light, darkness, and spirit. A large attribute for latecomers to get started.

To put it simply, if the existence of astral energy is compared to all the truths in the world, people who are good at mathematics will start with mathematics, and those who like painting will choose to start with painting. The category of mathematics can be divided into mathematical analysis, Linear algebra, painting can also be divided into sketches, watercolors, comics... After a long time in this way, you finally learned to understand everything about mathematics, so you became a master of mathematics (Xingyan eighth level), but, in order to master The truth in the world, mathematics alone is still not enough, so you start to learn physics, chemistry, biology, painting from scratch... However, because you are a master of mathematics, you can learn other courses faster than others by analogy. Those noobs who knew nothing were faster.When you finally become a master of the twelve attributes, it means that you have reached that truth (Xingyan Ninth-Rank Divine Forbidden).

According to the normal process, now I should first go to the church in the city, accept the baptism and test there, find the attribute that is most suitable for me to get started, and then enter the relevant attribute school for in-depth study. After listening to the courses and experiences of the predecessors , add their own understanding to complete the construction of the field.But, like I said, I don't have that much time to waste right now.I have to become a Xingyan before the Emperor Selection Ceremony less than a month away, and become an existence that no one can ignore. In this way, even a guy from the twelve clans cannot completely seduce me as he pleases.

"Understand astral power, do you?" I whispered to myself, imagining focusing the energy on my left hand.After a while, my left arm engraved with astrology began to shimmer, and in the palm of my hand, there was a shimmer like a star flickering and flickering.

I decisively opened the Eye of Void, but unfortunately, the Eye of Void, which was originally invincible, was unable to see through the true face of astral energy.

Is it invalid?No, that's not right, I subconsciously suppressed the power of the Void Eye.Since it's impossible to see through to this level, then let's release the bondage of the next layer.

"Ha!!!" The outline of the world gradually disappeared in my eyes, and turned into countless information flows, wandering in my mind.At that moment, I seemed to understand a lot, as if I didn't know anything, and the star energy that didn't exist in shape finally began to reveal its true colors.

No, it's not enough, I have to go deeper, deeper...

……

……

dark.

Before I knew it, my body seemed to be immersed in a boundless sea, sinking continuously.

here is……

Right, I remembered.

In order to understand the truth of the star power, I used the virtual eye excessively, so...

Ahhh, did you accidentally fall into too deep?You have to go back quickly, otherwise...

I twisted my body desperately, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't change the sinking result.

No, there is no strength in the body, if this continues, there will be no way to turn back.

"You really like to make trouble for me." A familiar sigh suddenly came from beside me.It was that female demon. For some reason, after hearing her voice, my tense mood immediately relaxed.

"Where is this place?" I deliberately put on a straight face, as if she didn't notice my abnormality, and asked in a deep voice.

"This is the sea of ​​information, the truth of everything, and the root of everything. The so-called thousands of worlds and time and space are just the projection of the sea of ​​information on the sea. Even a single bubble may contain countless The information of this world." The girl figure replied softly, "As the holder of the Void Eye, more or less, you will have a glimpse of the reality of the world. However, as long as you don't sink to the bottom of the sea of ​​information, it doesn't count Too much trouble."

"The bottom of the sea of ​​information, what is that?" I couldn't help asking.

"yes【】."

"...Um, did you say something just now?"

"I said oh, it's 【】." The girl figure repeated.Unbelievably, I heard what she seemed to say, but I couldn't understand that concept at all, and I couldn't even write its original sound into my memory.

"Don't think about it too much. It's a place where even concepts don't exist. It's a place of fantasy that represents all unknowns. If you accidentally fall into it, not only your life, but even your existence itself will be completely wiped out, becoming a place of fantasy. Part of 【】."

"Huh?! Why is there such a dangerous place?!"

"Even if you ask me this kind of question, I can't answer it. In short, do you want to build a domain? Then come with me." She gently took my hand, which was different from the soft touch I imagined, The girl's hand was as cold and hard as metal. Before I could think about it, the falling of her body suddenly stopped, and instead she started swimming towards a certain place.

"Where are we going?"

"Of course it is the 'Land of Xingyan', and it is also the origin of all Xingyan." The girl replied without turning her head.

"Ha ha!"

Before I could agree or disagree, the girl suddenly accelerated, leading me to swim in this sea of ​​information.I don’t know how long it took before my body finally got rid of the previous weightlessness, and the surrounding scenery was no longer nothingness. It is clear but bottomless, and on the opposite side of the lake, two huge ancient trees are intertwined with each other and grow upwards.Countless branches continuously extend outward from the trunks of the two ancient trees, and each branch seems to be connected to a different time and space.On the top of the ancient tree, there is an indescribable chaos, which seems to lead to another completely different universe, as if all the colors in the world were fused on the palette and then wiped out to form chaos.

Chapter 42 Mortal Road is Broken

"This is the 'Land of Starbursts', the place where the first Star King Lutias planted the tree of Starbursts..." I couldn't help but muttered to myself, distracted by this dreamlike beauty, Then he suddenly came back to his senses, "Wait, if this is really the 'Land of Stars', that means the twelve clans will come here too!"

"Don't be nervous, no one will find out." The girl said calmly, "Compared to worrying about that, you should have more important things to do, right?"

I froze for a moment, then opened the eyes of Xu, looked up at the chaos above the Xingyan tree.

...can see, but cannot comprehend.Behind that chaos, there is another universe completely different from this world - the Star Realm, where the laws, order and even the way of existence are very different.However, these two contradictory universes are connected together because of the power of the "Tree of Star Expansion".

This is the essence of "Xing Yan"... In the haze, I seem to grasp something vaguely.

"Each path may correspond to the evolutionary method of each original universe. Mortal dust corresponds to this world, Xingyan corresponds to the astral world, and holy soul corresponds to gods and demons. Life comes from nothing, from existence to multiplication, and wisdom is born. From disorder to order... In addition to these three roads, are there other original universes and other roads?" Swimming in the world of information, infinite reverie arose in my heart, "Legends, gods and demons The king of the world cut off the road to the mortal world. So far, the creatures in this world have lost the possibility of becoming gods. However, Star King Lydias has borrowed the power of another universe—Xingyan to continue the broken road, and in After Lydias, people imitated the power of gods and demons and created the road of the holy soul. So far, there are three roads, but as creatures in this world, Xingyan and the holy soul are only imitated external forces after all. , its essence and cornerstone is still the road of mortals.”

My eyes became brighter, and the doubts in my heart gradually dissipated: "So, I shouldn't regard Xingyan and Holy Soul as an alternative path independent of the mortal world, but as a way out of the mortal world. The derivation of the road. Since the mortal road has been broken, then use the power of other roads to rebuild the broken road, instead of simply embarking on other paths of practice to find a way out."

"The mortal world can pass through the gods along the way."The purpose of the original star king Lutias leaving these words may be to prevent future generations from going astray. The power of Xingyan is indeed powerful, but only the mortal world is the foundation for us to stand in this world.

"...I seem to understand what to do." I said softly.

"Really? Then go back." The girl clapped her hands, and the scenery in front of my eyes suddenly became blurred, as if someone was calling my name in my ear, and it seemed to be extremely far away.

I wanted to say something, but the strength in my whole body seemed to be taken away by something, and I couldn't do anything.I realized that this was a sign that I was about to wake up, and I finally took the scene in front of me deeply into my mind, then closed my eyes, allowing my own existence to blend into the space.

After returning from the sea of ​​information, I immediately noticed the presence of others around me, and subconsciously wanted to make a counterattack gesture, but after seeing the appearance of the other party, I abruptly withdrew my actions and showed a fake smile: " That, hello?"

"...Hmm." The pure white girl who looked like a snow elf sat beside me and nodded slightly.Not only the long snow-white hair, but also her clothes, skin, eyebrows and even pupils are all white, exuding an inhuman aura from all over her body.The girl, like me, is a child in the nursing home, and her age is also similar to mine. It can be said that she is the largest existence among the children still in the nursing home.However, for some reason, the girl clearly has such an eye-catching appearance, but her sense of existence is surprisingly thin. She always stays quietly and motionless in a corner, and even the teacher often forgets her existence.A few years ago, I casually distributed my lunch to her who was forgotten by the administrator sister and couldn't eat lunch. I just did it casually, but I didn't expect to be targeted by the other party because of it. The share was too thin Even the Void Eye and Fan Chen's high-level perception are hard to detect, and he appeared beside me without saying a word several times, which shocked me a lot.

"Did you wake me up just now, Xing?" I said the girl's name and asked.

"...Hmm." The girl nodded, still as taciturn as usual.

"Yeah, thank you for knowing I'm in the basement," I said.

"...Because, I have that feeling." Xing Lao replied honestly.

"So, did you see anything strange?" I lowered my gaze and asked.

"...No." Xing shook his head and said.

"...Sorry, sorry, I was actually asked by the administrator sister to tidy up the basement. I just planned to be a little lazy, but unexpectedly fell asleep. Please, can you not tell the administrator sister that I am lazy?" I said Deliberately pretending to be pleading, while calmly pulling down the folded sleeve of his left hand, covering the astronomical symbols.

"...Mmm." Xing agreed as expected.Well, anyway, with her personality, even if she finds something, she won't tell others about it, and it will be fine if she just leaves it alone.

"Let's go, it will be our first Independence Day in a few days. It would be bad if the teachers worry about it." I took the girl's hand and stepped up the stairs without looking back, in case the other party If you continue to stay, you will find the traces I left in the basement.

After returning to the ground smoothly, the administrator sister did not preach to me who had disappeared for a whole day and night, but simply asked me some matters about the Independence Day. In her eyes, I am afraid that I am used to my elusiveness. Saved me some explaining words.

In the following days, I did not go out to do tasks, but stayed in the nursing home honestly, hiding in the basement or other unoccupied places whenever I had the opportunity, trying to realize the field of comprehension and understanding that day .With the help of the Void Eye, after more than ten days, my domain construction was finally basically completed.

Next, it is also a crucial step to step into Xingyan, to condense the star core and embellish the stars.It is said that when a person steps into Xingyan, the stronger his talent is, the more stars he can light up.Although I don't think that I, who is only insulated, can make a lot of noise even if I am an achievement Xingyan, but in order to prevent unnecessary troubles, I deliberately asked the administrator sister for leave, and promised to return before the independence day. After arriving at the nursing home, I finally got permission, and I took my own spaceship to the uninhabited land deep in the universe.

Chapter 43 failed

After several days of sailing, I finally found an uninhabited planet. There was no sign of life on the barren land, and there was no atmosphere covering it. I could see the sky full of stars when I looked up.After I parked the spaceship, I disembarked as if nothing had happened, and sat down in an open and flat area.After reaching the eighth level of the mortal world, my body has no fear of the extreme vacuum environment and does not need the supply of oxygen. It has achieved a perfect internal circulation. Although I still need to absorb energy from the outside world, even if I don’t eat, drink or sleep, I can Enough to live in a vacuum for years.And once you step into Xingyan, you can truly reach the realm of "Bigu". With the power of domain and star power, you can travel freely in the universe with your body, and you will no longer be limited by the lifespan of creatures. Of course, you will still die if you are killed. But it also explains why so many people yearn for Xingyan.

"Then, let's start." I subconsciously released my achievements of many days.In an instant, the time around me seemed to stand still, and a mysterious and unique order began to circulate quietly around me.

This is the domain, or it can also be called the field and the rules. Within the scope of the domain, even those violent star energy have to follow the route specified by the user.In other words, only with the help of the power of the domain can the user fully control the power of star power and become a "star".

The next and most important step is to release the star energy in my body and let it integrate into the domain. If it can be proved that the domain can indeed restrain the star energy, it means that my understanding is correct, but if it fails , it is necessary to build the domain again from scratch. Many star-spreaders have been stuck in this step for decades. After countless failures, they finally built the most suitable space that can accommodate star energy. field, however, I don't have that much time to try.

Please, definitely succeed.Because it is the first time to build a domain, I am also a little bit clueless, so I can only hope for the correctness of the eye of the void.I slowly raised my left hand, the astronomical characters engraved on my arm began to shimmer, I clenched my teeth, and released the astral energy that had been raging in my body during this period of time.

"It's started!" I immediately manipulated the field and started to capture the existence of those star energy, but I encountered setbacks at the first step.Although I have already foreseen the uncontrollability of star energy, its rage is still beyond my imagination.No matter how I tried to capture it with domain fusion, the star energy continued to spread out stubbornly, and the huge energy burst out in an instant, leaving a huge crater hundreds of meters deep and wide around me.

"Ahem!" The backlash from the star energy made me spit out a big mouthful of blood. No wonder from ancient times to the present, only those who are above the fourth level of the mortal world are eligible to condense the star core. Otherwise, if the operation is not done properly, even the user himself They will all be blown to death by this berserk force.However, this first failure also made me understand the reason.

The answer comes from the astrology I described.As I said before, for the convenience of future generations, the sages deliberately divided star energy into twelve attributes, and everyone has different affinity for different attributes of star energy. Compared with other attributes , the proportion of star energy of a single attribute will be quite high.However, I am different, because of my innate insulating constitution, I have no affinity for astral energy of any attribute. Although I obtained astral energy under the cheating effect of the special astral text, it also means that I The star energy in the body is not a single attribute, but covers all star energy including twelve attributes.

Although in the previous life, I have heard that many geniuses possessed two or even three or more attribute powers when they stepped into Xingyan. In the middle of the crowd, the possibility of stepping into the ninth level of Xingyan in the future will be much higher than others, but no matter how I say it, I have never heard of anyone who intends to condense when they first step into Xingyan. The power of all twelve attributes.You must know that condensing twelve attributes is not simply twelve times that of a single attribute. With each additional attribute, the difficulty of condensing the star core will increase exponentially. In other words, the difficulty for me to step into Xingyan The level is at least tens of thousands of times that of other ordinary Xingyan.

Generally, it takes at least several decades for Xingyan practitioners to build the domain and achieve Xingyan, and it takes at least several years for the best of them. If the difficulty is multiplied by ten thousand times, that is to say, I think To step into Xingyan, it will probably take... tens of thousands of years?

"..." Shocked by this number, I fell into a moment of speechlessness, but immediately started a new attempt in disbelief.

"I don't believe it..."

"boom!"

"Isn't it just stepping into Xingyan..."

"boom!"

"It's really that difficult..."

"boom!"

"This damn world, how much do you hate me..."

"boom!"

"What are you kidding..."

"boom!"

"Only to this extent..."

"boom!"

"You still want me to submit..."