Proving the Dao of Hunyuan from the Age of Witches

Looking at the Frostmourne that had burned out on the ground, Luo Xi felt it was time to pick up her supreme swordsmanship again.

In her previous life, when she first grasped the peerless sword she found on the road and cut down all the roadside weeds, she felt she was the best in the world.

Later, she realized she was being foolish; she was just a broken tree branch, what could she possibly cut?

But having grasped the peerless sword once again today, she felt that she was still the best in the world.

Time seemed to rewind to that afternoon, the sunlight was shattered by the leaves, and she, in turn, shattered the leaves.

Scattered leaves, dappled sunlight, a shattered childhood.

She possesses a sword heart, just like her Dao heart!

She wants to prove the Dao of Hunyuan, whether it's through force, the Three Corpses, or merit. With her extraordinary talent, she'll probably try everything.

If all else fails, it doesn't matter. Now she has found another way: to enter the Dao through the sword and prove the Dao through the sword!

In the quiet town, on the quiet streets, in front of the dilapidated house, Luo Xi's magic surged, and a longsword made of magic appeared in her hand.

The longsword was almost transparent, with shimmering light flowing across it.

This sword will sever the past; severing the past means no longer being swayed by it.

This sword will sever the present, and by severing the present, one will no longer be troubled by the mortal world.

Luo Xi gently raised her hand and slashed out with her sword.

The entire dilapidated house was chopped up.

However, the sword energy did not disappear. It continued to crisscross, destroying everything in its path, and a huge gash appeared on the hillside a hundred meters away.

Shui Lin stood to the side, looking dazed.

Is this an F-rank witch? Is this really an F-rank witch? This has probably barely reached the level of a D-rank witch. No, purely in terms of destructive power, this has already reached the strength of a D-rank witch.

"Amazing! Our youngest witch is so amazing!" Wei Ying stood to the side, clapping vigorously. Although there was surprise on her face, she was clearly not as shocked as Shui Lin.

Seeing the effect of his first sword strike, he swung it a few more times, but the cutting effect only reached a dozen meters, far less than the effect of the first strike.

Luo Xi quietly recalled that sword strike, reflecting on the state of mind that led to its execution. After a long while, Luo Xi shook her head.

The opportunity for sudden enlightenment is rare. Luo Xi withdrew her magic, and the sword formed by magic in her hand disappeared.

Suddenly, Luo Xi remembered a saying from her past life: "A gun is fast when it's seven steps away, and accurate and fast when it's within seven steps!"

If the principle of a gun is to use gunpowder explosion to generate enormous kinetic energy in an instant to propel the bullet, then...

Using magic, could she also recreate the magic spear?

Luo Xi has always been a person of action; she does what she says she will do.

With magic already gathering in her hand, Luo Xi first used magic to simulate a tube, and then at one end of the tube, she controlled the magic to compress it wildly...

Then, the barrel exploded.

Silently using her magic to repair her hands damaged by the explosion, Luo Xi couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly.

This is a world of the extraordinary, and she's using extraordinary power—magic. What kind of science is she trying to pull off? She even wants to create a magic gun based on the law of conservation of energy.

Luo Xi, you must persevere in comprehending the way of the sword! You must hold fast to your own Dao heart.

Get out of my way, all those inconvenient things!

"How are you? How are you? My lovely teammates, are you all alright?" Wei Ying skipped over, looking at her and Shui Lin, her gaze sweeping back and forth between them.

"Yao Yao is gone. I'm sorry, Captain Wei Ying, I couldn't save her..." Luo Xi tried to show a sad expression, but gave up after a moment's thought. She could only say sincerely, "I personally saw her off. She begged me. She was in so much pain."

"I received Yao Yao's last conscious message and I already know what happened," Wei Ying said, a hint of sadness flashing across her face, but it was quickly replaced by a gentle forgiveness. "It's not your fault."

"And Bei Qi," Luo Xi paused, organizing her thoughts, "she... I took care of her too."

"Huh?" Wei Ying blinked, looking confused. "What's going on?"

"She attacked me under the pretext of avenging Yao Yao. Not only that, she also threatened me with my family."

Luo Xi was initially reluctant to explain, but after thinking about it, she realized that the priority was to clear out the abnormal illusions and resolve the abnormal events. In addition, Wei Ying was a D-rank witch, so she decided to explain anyway.

"I see..." Wei Ying drawled out her words, nodding thoughtfully, then suddenly turned to Shui Lin, "Little Shui Lin, is that so?"

"Yes," Shui Lin nodded quickly, her tone tinged with helplessness, "Bei Qi is too arrogant, I can't stop her, she just wants to bully our Luo Xi."

"I see..." Wei Ying lowered her head. "She... has abilities that are not recorded in the files. Theoretically speaking, witches of your level cannot kill her."

"Being defeated by Xiao Luoxi means that the one who participated in this operation was not her true form," Wei Ying seemed to know Bei Qi very well. "Since she became a witch, she has indeed been too arrogant, often attacking ordinary people for any reason."

"This time she kicked a cotton ball and had one of her clones taken down by Luo Xi, which will teach her a lesson." Wei Ying nodded.

What cotton...

Luo Xi's lips twitched as she listened to Wei Ying's words.

Judging from Wei Ying's words, Wei Ying seems to know a lot of information about Bei Qi that Wei Ying doesn't know. It seems that Bei Qi is not an F-rank, or even a beginner witch.

Is she a mid-level witch?

Luo Xi calmed down.

This is a huge hidden danger.

A slight shift in his eyes—perhaps this is a tremendous opportunity!

"Yao Yao, I remember you were with Captain Wei Ying at the beginning." Quickly regaining her senses, Luo Xi immediately changed the subject and looked at Wei Ying.

"I rushed into the mall as soon as I realized something was wrong, and as soon as I entered, I was teleported to a strange room full of traps!" Wei Ying patted her chest. "That was so close! It took me all night to escape, I'm exhausted!"

"What about the action team? The special operations team?" Luo Xi asked, puzzled. "According to the original plan, after arriving in the town, I thought that ordinary people were too vulnerable in the face of abnormal events, so I took the initiative to enter the town to investigate. After that, I lost contact with the special operations team."

"Me too," Wei Ying said innocently.

"Same." Shui Lin nodded.

"So, we still have three witch teammates. Does Captain Wei Ying know anything about them?" Luo Xi sighed.

Luo Xi thought of Le Tong from Nuchuan City, the witch whose magic was restorative.

Because Yue Tong acted alone when they split up, and Luo Xi had greeted Yue Tong at the temporary command post before, Luo Xi had a certain impression of her.

Yue Tong doesn't seem to be as simple as the records suggest.

As for the other two witches, Luo Xi didn't remember their names, but she did remember their magical properties.

One witch's magical property is to change the hardness or softness of objects, while another witch's magical property is telekinesis!

In particular, the magical property of telekinesis was a very powerful ability in novels or movies in my previous life.

"The telepathic communication has been lost," Wei Ying said, looking dejected and listless. "There's no news at all, and we don't know if they're alive or dead."

"I'm sorry, it was my idea to split up in the first place," Luo Xi said expressionlessly. "If we hadn't split up, things might have turned out differently..."

"It has nothing to do with you. Besides, even if you hadn't brought it up," Wei Ying pouted, "our staff officer Wang Xuan would have proposed this action plan anyway, and in the end, we would still have acted this way."

Yes, initially, Luo Xi genuinely wanted to prioritize resolving the abnormal events, which is why she proposed this most efficient method.

When the time comes, whoever defeats the monster and then tries to seize its inner core will have to rely on their own abilities.

Ordinary people don't need to get involved.

She was utterly disappointed with the Witch Council of this world. In such an extraordinary event involving more than 200,000 people, they were still scheming and plotting against each other.

A moment of silence fell. Luo Xi looked at the dilapidated house she had slashed, then took the initiative to change the subject, "There should have been a demonic beast in the house just now... an unusual phantom form. Did I shatter it?"

"The anomaly isn't so easy to deal with. If it's really broken, it will definitely leave behind the core," Wei Ying said, putting away her disappointment. She simply shook her finger, tilted her head to the other side, and looked at the ruined house. "Shui Lin and I just checked, and there's nothing there."

Luo Xi fell into deep thought.

"Let's share some intelligence now, and then decide on the next step." Wei Ying clasped her hands together, her face showing a pleading expression. "Leave the intelligence analysis and action planning to you, Luo Xi! Thinking too much is tiring!"

……All right.

"After absorbing the magical properties left by Yao Yao, I can sense the approximate location of the abnormal illusion. Besides that," Luo Xi said, although she was a little helpless about Wei Ying's hands-off approach, she still spoke up, "and most importantly, I've confirmed that this world is not a normal world, but a world of consciousness."

"The world of consciousness is layered!" Wei Ying immediately chimed in, a look of realization dawning on her. "No wonder I spent all night fighting the abnormal phantoms and didn't get a single core; the abnormal phantoms must be in other layers of consciousness!"

"After Bei Qi lost her ability to move, I used the abnormal phantom that Bei Qi attracted to break it and kept the core." Luo Xi hesitated for a moment before speaking cautiously.

"That's right," Shui Lin also spoke, her words light and quick, "For the anomaly to devour the core, its true form must appear."

"According to Captain Wei Ying, if consciousness is layered, the abnormal entity is likely in another layer, which explains why mental communication and consciousness transmission were interrupted."

“Yes, yes,” Wei Ying nodded vigorously. “Based on my experience last night, I guess this world of consciousness has at least three layers. We are currently in the first layer.”

"Inside the building, on the second floor, there will be various traps. But calling them traps isn't quite right. It's more like an abnormal phantom randomly copying our magical properties, trying to devour us."

"In the third floor, you'll be randomly teleported. I entered the mall from the county center, and when I came out, I had no idea where I was. I'm definitely not in the county center now," Wei Ying recalled.

"Of course, none of these are the most important pieces of information. The most important piece of information," Shui Lin cleared her throat and added, "is that this anomaly may have been deliberately created."

"Man-made?" Wei Ying's eyes widened, and her expression became genuinely serious.

"Yes, our analysis suggests that this anomaly was man-made." Shui Lin stopped fidgeting and became serious.

"Yes, it's most likely a man-made anomaly." Luo Xi glanced at Shui Lin, nodded, and began to add.

"I speculate that the Witch Council might kill a few low-level witches, causing their abnormalities to erupt and create new anomalies."

"Then, since witches have a natural ability to suppress anomalies, if a high-level witch were to take action, the scope of the anomaly should be limited."

"From the very beginning, this unusual event may have been part of a plan targeting the witch."

"More likely, it's just part of a larger plan."

"What evidence do you have?" Wei Ying tilted her head and thought for a moment, then suddenly spoke up, "Besides dealing with abnormal events and rescuing the survivors in Qianhe County, I also received a mission to deal with the Zero Witch."

"It's just a possibility," Luo Xi thought for a moment, then shook her head. "There's no direct evidence."

Actually, for Luo Xi, it was more of an intuition; she always had a feeling that things weren't so simple.

The worst-case scenario may not have been the worst-case scenario after all.

Now, this intuition led Luo Xi's thoughts in an even worse direction.

"Do you know the characteristics of anomalies?" Luo Xi suddenly asked, having thought of something.

"I know, I know! First, only anomalies can fight anomalies!" Wei Ying immediately raised her hand to answer, like someone answering a question in class.

"Secondly, anomalies attract each other and aggregate," Shui Lin quickly added.

"Anything else?" Luo Xi frowned.

"Um... I don't know," Wei Ying blinked, her face showing an innocent expression that said, "That's all I know."

Shui Lin also shook her head.

Another characteristic of the anomaly is the top-secret information left to her by Yang Jian after his death: latent anomalies will turn into explicit anomalies, and this is irreversible.

What is a latent abnormality? What is a dominant abnormality? Luo Xi was never clear about the difference between latent and dominant abnormalities.

Could this operation be related to this characteristic?

Yang Jian, you've really brought us some incredible intelligence.

Let's analyze it again from the beginning.

Only anomalies can fight against anomalies. Anomalies attract and aggregate with each other, and latent anomalies will transform into explicit anomalies, which is irreversible.

Now that it has been confirmed that this operation is aimed at witches, then, in the worst-case scenario, it is highly likely that these characteristics will be used to eliminate witches.

No, if the witch is destroyed, new anomalies will inevitably occur. Then, the anomalies in these anomalies will all converge, leading to completely unpredictable consequences.

Therefore, the ultimate goal could never be to kill the witch.

It's more like... trying to artificially create a more powerful and controllable witch.

By deliberately triggering an abnormal disaster and using the loss of control as a springboard, the user uses controllable witches and out-of-control abnormal events as raw materials to ultimately forge a god or ultimate weapon that possesses destructive power and obeys their commands.

The Witch Council has huge ambitions!

But there's something strange about this: what makes them think they can control a witch? Can they control a mid-level, or even a high-level, witch?