Through Unknowns - Volume 1
Chang Xiuying jolted from the sudden notification.
[Let me explain your mental cultivation! First of all, I am called Xue previously AI01. Proceeding, mental cultivation always started on the first chain. You have to give yourself hardsh.i.p.s and mental fatigue to cultivate it to a higher chain. Once you gained 5 chains, you can notice intricate details on a specific object. If a person obtained 100 chains, they would be close to the Harmonious stage and their observations and senses will be top-notch.]
[However, it is not as close to the benefits a harmonious stage cultivation has. The harmonious stage is relatively close to having a complete connection with the world. Once you gained the peak of the said stage, you are now one with the world. You will reap great benefits! But to cultivate it to this penultimate stage is extremely hard that no one has ever achieved it. However, this is achieved by some people who passed through life and death countless times.]
[It is clear that you only died once, don’t doubt it. But how did you obtained this stage easily? Experiencing hell in two dimensions at such a young age are enough to gain 120 chains and your cultivation here in the ‘Beginning of All’ multiplied it twice. You just have to gather more chains to reach the Ultimate Stage. Fortunate, ain’t ya?]
After the voice died down, Chang Xiuying’s mouth stayed agape as she stared into nothingness. She shook her head and smiled warmly, she remembered being accompanied by AI01 in her times of darkness, now AI01 is still accompanying her. She said in her sweetest voice, “Welcome back, 01…”
[Welcome back? I have been waiting for you to cultivate your mentality so that I can be activated. Although it is still a meager choice… how can you forget that for all these times? Anyway, I’m back.]
Chang Xiuying sighed in relief. She didn’t ask any more questions regarding her body but questioned about Xue instead. “So, I should be calling you Xue and not 01? However, you are not this high-grade when I made you with my fellow scientists.”
[Eh… speech recognized. Who knows… and yes, you can just call me Xue.] Xue went silent. Chang Xiuying just stared then she shrugged her shoulders. She thought that if Xue doesn’t want to say it then she won’t insist.
[Fine, I have nothing to hide from you anyway. I was upgraded when I entered the Almighty system after your death, the higher-ups decided to let me accompany you throughout your new journey. They have already constructed my physical body in the higher realm and is waiting for you to be retrieved. Please do your best.]
“Oh! An android?” Chang Xiuying expectantly asked.
[Physical. Body. Of. A. Human. They will transfer my consciousness into the newly built body. Repeating, the flesh of humans. Flesh.]
“Okay, okay. They’ll kill people then?”
[No. Those crafters are not low-grade, they are powerful enough to construct a flesh of a person. But they are not that powerful to fully construct a human in one flick of their fingers. They would just use that little flesh to construct a fetus. Do you understand?]
“Still an android then. No matter what side I look, you would be just like a system inside a human’s body. Without emotions or understanding human behaviors.”
[… I will suggest that to the developer if I had the time.]
Chang Xiuying just smiled. She retrieved a new pair of clothes from her storage bag after drying herself clean with a white cloth. If she has the materials to make a thick towel, she would immediately procure it!
Dressing in a pair of fresh clothes, she started to walk towards the high-grade herb thousands of meters away from her.
[While you walk, I will also explain your physical cultivation. You have been training a vast amount of martial arts but didn’t master any of them. Since you just started at 7, ended the continuous practice by 10 and you started to do some office works by 11. You even rarely go to school or even repeat it. Kids should properly go to school according to the data I gathered on Earth.]
[You still practice martial arts but only as an exercise. However, you achieved the strength of 20 Elephants without moving around so much. Your body is the type that will not forget what it experienced and it will etch it in your mind in eternity. That is also the cause of your high mentality. Furthermore, once you entered ‘Beginning of All’ the gaps in your body were instantly shrouded and gained extreme power. Partnered up with 2x of the gravity from Earth to here.]
[The level of your strength is comparable to A-Rank Dragons. However, your Life Power cultivation is only at Iron-level. If I told you to cultivate your Life Power to a much higher realm, your strength will soar and it will be even higher than the combat level of a Primordial Rank Dragons. After you achieve the high-grade herb, I will give you something since the system would not let me award you without a reason.]
Chang Xiuying stopped in her tracks when she heard Xue. She immediately dashed and arrived 20 meters away from the destination in just 5 minutes. She checked if there were any traps or beasts guarding this herb. When she discovered none, she walked towards it until she reached 10 meters.
She felt the strong medicinal effect of the herb and it stirred her oceanic Life Power. A rumble occurred inside her and the three glows under the ocean shook lightly before calming. However, she just thought of it as a slight disturbance of the Life Power surging through her and is completely unaware of what is inside her body.
When she stepped inside the 10-meter radius, a lightning figure showed up that stood 1 meter high, it’s a big white rabbit just bigger than the white rabbit she encountered earlier. It started at her murderously and is ready to pounce on her if she ever got much nearer to the herb.
Chang Xiuying retrieved a small wooden stick from her storage bag. She planned to just neutralize the white rabbit, pick the herb, escape, and retrieve the reward.
When the white rabbit saw her actions, it dashed towards her at Mach 1. Chang Xiuying was shocked, she quickly dodged to the side but she felt a sting on her right cheek. Gladly, it is just a shallow wound, if she didn’t react on time, her face would have a deep wound or even decapitated.
“Are rabbits this violent?” She thought to herself as she activated her territory range that is obtained from her mental cultivation.
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Two blurred figures keep on appearing and disappearing around the 10-meter radius of the herb. The clash of the sharp claws of the white rabbit and the thick branch that Chang Xiuying held created an outburst everytime it meets. Chang Xiuying already changed her weapon as five of such have been broken.
Both of them stopped and distanced themselves 3 meters away from each other. Chang Xiuying’s body has so many shallow cuts and her fresh clothes looked ragged now. The white rabbit, however, didn’t obtain any damage and is only exhausted as its Life Power have been depleted.
The white rabbit and Chang Xiuying have exchanged blows for an hour already. Chang Xiuying stood there as if the matter is but a play and is not a big deal to her. On the other hand, the white rabbit has been catching its breath. It immediately saw through Chang Xiuying’s intention.
The white rabbit raised both of its arms and sit on the grassy ground. Chang Xiuying tilted her head and approached the white rabbit.
“Phew, that is the most intense fight I had in my entire life. In my world, no one has reached the Mach speed. I have truly overestimated myself ever since I got here.” Since Mach speed can only be reached by machines such as jet planes. If ever she said it in front of the rabbit, it would cause her an irreparable mistake.
“Thank you for sparring with me.” Chang Xiuying said and cupped her hands towards the white rabbit, then she sat in front of it.
The white rabbit waved its hands as if it was nothing. It answered in a mellow tone of a woman, “I completely lost though.”
“I will try my best to obtain that Mach speed. Is it okay if I would like to have one leaf of that medicinal herb you have been guarding?” She is not much shocked when she heard the white rabbit’s answer since she has the memory of her predecessor witnessing the talk between two beasts with Jiang Hao.
“You can even pick the whole lot.” The white rabbit said indifferently.
“Oh… but I can’t. You have children and you wish to give it to them in the near future. I also encounter one of your offspring, how can that child go to a far place.”
“You… how did you know?” The white rabbit widens its eyes and readied her claws. Chang Xiuying noticed its actions and quickly explained,
“I didn’t kill the little one! I just played with it and lets it go. As to how… I just saw this big resemblance to you.”
The white rabbit squinted its eyes as it looked at Chang Xiuying suspiciously. It sighed and said, “Fine, do what you want. After you obtained one leaf, quickly get out of this place.”
“Thank you very much!” Chang Xiuying stood up and whistled as she plucked one leaf from the herb stalk.
After she put the leaf in her storage bag, she bade goodbye to the white rabbit. Arriving at a certain distance, far enough from the medicinal herb, she stopped and contacted Xue. “I have already obtained it.”
[I said herb yet you pick one leaf. Fine, one leaf is enough since the herb is not the original purpose. You have been rewarded with a book. It is called the Great Path of Astral Elements made solely by the system to you.]
