Proving the Dao of Hunyuan from the Age of Witches

Chapter 111 The Rose Witch's Extraordinary System Explained

"I've lost a part of my memory," she said, looking at Rose without hiding anything. "In Nuchuan City, while I was taking Yue Tong to find her brother, I lost my memory."

Upon hearing her words, Rose fell silent, seemingly deep in thought. After a long while, Rose finally spoke softly, "Xiao Xi, do you believe me?"

"It's not a matter of believing or not believing," she said. After hearing what Rose said, she speculated that her memory loss might be related to Rose. "With your strength, if you have malicious intent, I have no way to resist what you want to do to me. Let alone resist, I might not even be able to ask for death."

Rose seemed taken aback by her words, and simply sighed, "Your memory loss is indeed related to me, but it wasn't me who did it..."

"Witches from other eras have begun to invade this era. They want to attack you because their dimension is too advanced. By the time I realized what was happening, you had already been affected." Rose's tone was apologetic.

Witches from other eras?

This sentence is packed with information!

"Did they come from across the river of time?" Luo Xi instantly thought of the plot of some fantasy novels, where later enemies, unable to fight the protagonist, travel back in time, crossing the river of time, attempting to strike when the protagonist is weak.

But the true protagonist, even if the enemy comes across the river of time with murderous intent, will only help the protagonist and become the cornerstone of the protagonist's growth.

"No..." Rose nodded her head, "It's a bit more complicated than that."

"Rose, you must know a lot of things I don't know," she said, noticing that Rose seemed reluctant to talk about it. "Please tell me what you know."

"Xiao Xi, you must believe me. I would never harm you," Rose said slowly. "Information itself carries weight. Some information, if given to you, can actually cause our destinies to shift."

"So, let's continue with our previous topic and start by classifying witches into different ranks." Rose looked at her with utmost seriousness.

Seeing Qiangwei's reaction, Luo Xi had no choice but to give up on asking further questions.

After resting for a while, the witches gathered together again. Rose continued, "We were just talking about intermediate witches. When a novice witch is promoted to an intermediate witch, there is a crisis: she has to bear the transformation and strengthening of her spirit, mind, and consciousness by magic."

"During this enhancement phase, others are basically unable to interfere. It is a complete test of the witch's inner strength. If she succeeds, she becomes an intermediate witch; if she fails, she dies, becomes an anomaly again, and the incident erupts once more."

Luo Xin, Bai Nuo, and Le Tong all unconsciously sat up straight, and the atmosphere suddenly became heavy.

After all, they were only novice witches, yet they had to face life and death within one to three years, which was a rather cruel reality.

"Sister Rose, what exactly is death?" Luo Xin suddenly asked softly.

Rose didn't answer. Seeing the confusion in her sister's eyes, she took the initiative to explain, "Death means losing everything and never coming back."

"Brother... Fellow Daoist, I understand," Luo Xin lowered his head, his voice filled with resentment, "I just don't understand why we have to face death so early?"

Her question was sudden and profound, leaving Luo Xi momentarily stunned and unsure how to respond. "If you don't want to die, listen carefully and cultivate with us."

After he finished speaking, everyone fell silent again, and the air seemed to freeze.

After a long silence, Rose broke the stillness: "Let's continue talking about the intermediate witch."

"A mid-level witch's ability to interfere with matter and energy can cover a range of hundreds of meters, while interference with the mind, spirit, and consciousness can reach over a thousand meters."

"In addition, the most fundamental change of intermediate witches is that, due to the enhancement of magic, their minds, spirits and consciousness are extremely resilient, and they can exist independently for a period of time even if they lose their bodies."

"In addition, a mid-level witch can possess up to five magical properties."

"I already have more than five magical properties," Luo Xi recalled the magical properties she already possessed: cutting, activation, telekinesis, mental interference, mind interference, consciousness interference, and so on. "But I'm still only a D-rank witch, and a newly promoted one at that."

She looked at the rose, waiting for further explanation.

"The Second Law of Anomalies states that anomalies attract each other and aggregate." A faint smile appeared on Rose's calm face. "The five types of magical properties can theoretically aggregate as well. For example, matter cutting and metal manipulation can aggregate into a kind of matter interference."

"However, this kind of material interference is incomplete, just like my plant manipulation."

Is that so? Luo Xi had already begun to imagine whether, if she possessed the ability to manipulate metal, plants, fire, ice, and earth, these five attributes could be combined to form the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth from her previous life.

The theory of the Five Elements is based on these five basic elements that are mutually generating and mutually restraining, and that cycle endlessly.

But this is not merely the manipulation of five specific substances. At a deeper level, the Five Elements is an ancient philosophy that reveals the connections and evolutionary stages of all things. It is one of the most profound ancient philosophical theories and one of the most exquisite summaries of the laws governing the universe by ancient civilizations.

Besides the Five Elements theory, there is even a more complex Bagua theory, namely Qian for Heaven, Kan for Water, Gen for Mountain, Zhen for Thunder, Xun for Wind, Li for Fire, Kun for Earth, and Dui for Lake.

The Eight Trigrams are not just basic elements; they abstract the myriad phenomena of heaven and earth, the forces of nature, and even dynamic relationships into eight fundamental images that are constantly evolving and transforming into one another!

Everything seems to find its place and metaphor in the overlapping and changing of these eight symbols.

In addition, there is the more easily understood Yin-Yang theory—two opposing yet unified abstract concepts are Yin and Yang!

Just like anomalies and witches, anomalies give birth to witches, and anomalies erupt again after the witches die. The two things cycle endlessly, just as the Yin-Yang theory describes, they are the embodiment of two opposing yet unified abstract concepts.

Whether it's the witch's extraordinary system described by Rose, or the witch's cultivation system she embarked on, the two systems seem to have something in common!

She now has a basic understanding of the Witch's Extraordinary System.

"Rose, I have another question," Luo Xi asked, looking at Rose, "Are the magical properties possessed by witches of different ranks calculated by type or by quantity?"

Yes, since she, as an intermediate witch, can compress and aggregate magical properties by type, so that the magical properties of an intermediate witch are always of five types, then can the same be done for a beginner witch?

"I don't know. There are too few witches now, so there's no sample to refer to," Rose explained. "This information is based on existing data and my experience, and it may not be accurate."

"However, I know your idea: forcibly grouping similar magical properties into one category and treating it as a single magical property seems like something worth trying."