Proving the Dao of Hunyuan from the Age of Witches

"Barefoot?" Luo Xi remained expressionless. After obtaining the two demon beast inner cores, Luo Xi sat down cross-legged and began to refine them.

Although you can refine it while standing, it always feels like something is missing.

Therefore, Luo Xi always maintained a meditative posture when she broke through a barrier.

For example, right now, Luo Xi even put her hands on her knees and made a handprint.

"After the anomaly was broken, something very hidden was revealed," Shui Lin took two steps closer to her and slowly explained, "It's mental, and it looks very much like something man-made."

Seeing Shui Lin slowly approaching, Luo Xi merely gave her a cold glance as a warning.

Shui Lin stopped knowingly, but calmly crossed her arms, tilted her head and smiled, "Humans can emit spiritual fluctuations, but abnormalities cannot."

Seeing that Shui Lin had stopped, Luo Xi continued refining the inner core of the demon beast.

"For example, you have a cold exterior, but inside you are a tenacious and fearless fighting spirit...like a ball of fire." Shui Lin stood to the side with her arms crossed, explaining as she observed her with great interest.

Luo Xi didn't mind, and just listened quietly to Shui Lin's message without saying a word.

"The strange illusion just now seemed to be deliberately guided," Shui Lin paused, then moved to stand directly in front of her, crouched down to look at her, and continued, "like a deliberate mental guidance."

Luo Xi remained silent, focusing instead on the inner core of the demon beast within her body. Although she had shattered the inner core, the demonic power, imbued with unusual properties, raged wildly within her.

Without changing her expression, Luo Xi activated her magic's cutting ability, directly targeting the rampant magic within her body.

It took a long time to tame the raging magic by precisely cutting it horizontally and vertically, allowing it to slowly merge into her body.

Slightly regrettable, even after refining two inner cores, she only managed to break through to the fifth level of the Qi Refining stage.

I carefully felt my own magic, but no new magical properties were added.

Although there was no increase in magic power, Luo Xi still noticed that her cutting ability had undergone more changes.

If we were to describe the cutting process in the past, it would be more like an extremely sharp knife that could only cut objects straight through.

Now, the knife seems to be able to change and bend at her will, cutting objects into different shapes.

Anomalies attract each other and aggregate. Luo Xi suddenly remembered this characteristic, which is one of the three major characteristics of anomalies.

It seems that Beki's metal manipulation is integrated into her cutting, giving her cuts more variety.

Perhaps these characteristics are all related to the interference of matter, because they are similar in essence, which is why they can aggregate.

Luo Xi continued to sense her own magic.

The ability to interfere with consciousness also seems to have become more powerful.

Luo Xi couldn't help but recall the witches she had encountered recently. Their magical properties were varied and could be roughly categorized into several types, such as material interference, energy interference, mental interference, consciousness interference, mind interference, and even fate interference.

Material interference types, such as the magical properties of her and her sister Luo Xin, whether cutting or pulverizing, all destroy matter; the recently deceased Bei Qi, on the other hand, had control over metal; and there's Qiangwei, with her ability to manipulate plants...

Energy interference type, Wei Ying in the file, her magical property is the ability to control flames.

As for the latter types, especially the interference with the spirit, consciousness, and mind, Luo Xi fell into thought, pondering the differences between these characteristics without even looking up.

Energy and matter are objectively existing entities, while spirit, consciousness, and mind are not independent entities, but rather complex functions and attributes of the human brain, a special substance.

It can only be felt with the heart, and cannot be directly perceived with the five senses. In other words, spirit, consciousness, and mind are more subjective 'existence'.

However, one thing is certain: there must be some kind of connection between spirit, consciousness, and mind.

Consciousness interference, mind manipulation, and Shui Lin's mental encouragement... Looking at Shui Lin, is her magical characteristic merely mental encouragement? So-called mental encouragement should just be one application of mental interference, right?

What exactly is magic? Is the nature of magic abnormal? And... what exactly is a witch? Luo Xi's thoughts drifted far away.

Thinking too much was pointless. Luo Xi came back to her senses, looked at her cultivation level of the fifth level of Qi Refining, and smiled.

According to the witch ranking system, she should be classified as an E-rank witch, right? Both in terms of magical reserves and magical properties.

The F-rank Shui Lin in the file must be hiding information; Shui Lin is most likely an E-rank witch!

"Any other discoveries?" Luo Xi stood up and asked Shui Lin.

Shui Lin tapped her chin with her finger, her eyes sparkling as she continued, "Anomalies attract and aggregate with each other, and witches themselves are a kind of anomaly, so any moving anomaly entity or phantom should, in theory, rush towards us~"

Shui Lin spoke lightly, yet each word was clear: "Their absence means... someone is interfering?"

"So you mean the anomalies aren't attracted to us because someone is interfering?" Luo Xi shook her head and scoffed. "Can't anomaly entities or phantoms develop their own sentience and fear my divine power?"

Luo Xi asked in return, but as soon as the words left her mouth, a thought suddenly struck her.

Intelligence, intelligence... spirit, consciousness, mind, perhaps these are just different levels of intelligence!

Perhaps it can also be collectively referred to as spirituality?

"Didn't you notice anything wrong with the abnormal core you just swallowed?" Shui Lin asked, tilting her head, interrupting her thoughts.

"It just feels like the size is a bit small." Luo Xi shook her head.

"That's right!" Shui Lin clapped her hands, her expression becoming even more lively. "A core formed after the death of an F-rank witch, plus the core of an anomalous entity... Logically speaking, how could the core be so weak if it could cover an entire county's anomaly?"

"What do you want to say?" Luo Xi asked, puzzled.

"This anomaly is actually the bait," Shui Lin said, shaking her head. "This anomaly was created by human intervention."

"Can abnormal events be artificially created?" Luo Xi scoffed, but her expression gradually turned serious.

If you kill a few low-level witches, causing them to erupt in an abnormal state...

Due to witches' natural ability to suppress anomalies, if a high-level witch were to intervene, the scope of the anomaly should be limited...

Therefore, it is entirely possible to deliberately create abnormal events!

Luo Xi's eyes were incredibly sharp; she had underestimated the evil in the dark corners of the world!

Is this the Witch Council headquarters? An artificial anomaly...

What exactly is the Witch Council trying to do?!

"Since the unusual event is the bait," Shui Lin analyzed, her voice tinged with cunning, "then we... or rather, the witch is the big fish."

What kind of huge fish is this… Luo Xi felt a surge of burning anger rising in her chest, almost overwhelming her usual composure.

Natural disasters are unavoidable, but man-made disasters can be avoided.

But what if this natural disaster is actually a scheme meticulously planned by those who are supposed to be upholding order?

But the Witch Council headquarters...

Luo Xi sneered, suppressing the anger in her heart.

"I agree to cooperate," Luo Xi stood up. "Let's go deal with the next anomalous entity!"