Chapter 24: Supernatural Perception

"Be careful, this thing has become contraband now, it's very expensive!" Sixin saw her hands trembling twice and hurriedly spoke up.

"Oh, okay!"

Hearing the words "very expensive," Yun Mu subconsciously tightened her grip on the bottle in her hand.

"Actually, you can become a Transcendental without this thing, it's just that the speed will be much slower," Sixin looked at Yun Mu and explained.

"You are under the influence of that thing, so the sooner you become a Transcendental, the better."

"What do I need to do?"

Yun Mu first nodded in agreement, then asked.

"First, use your hand to dip into the Tonggan Liquid, then smear it onto your forehead," Sixin looked at her and said.

Yun Mu followed suit; she lightly touched the pale green liquid in the bottle with her hand, then rubbed it bit by bit onto her forehead.

A cool sensation spread from her forehead throughout her entire body, making her shiver involuntarily, and she instantly felt energized.

"Good," Sixin watched her actions, nodded, and continued: "Take a light sip of the Tonggan Liquid. Remember, just a sip, absolutely do not drink too much!"

"Right, take it slow. If you don't feel anything after drinking it, take another sip until you perceive the particles in the air."

Yun Mu strictly followed what Sixin said and cautiously took a sip of the Tonggan Liquid.

She had to listen; drinking too much of this stuff could really cost someone their life!

Just after the first sip, a sour and astringent taste filled her mouth, then she took another sip.

Boom!

It felt as if something had exploded inside Yun Mu's brain; her perception compressed instantly, then swelled violently.

In a trance, many unknown particles appeared in the air. These particles were either entangled with each other or repelling each other, darting around in the air at a speed Yun Mu could not see at all.

"Do you see them? Those particles," Sixin's voice entered Yun Mu's ears, and the other party spoke slowly: "Those things are Ether, or Magic, Spiritual Qi, or even Pheromone. Use whichever term you think sounds better."

"You can look at yourself, and then look at that painting of yours."

After hearing Sixin's words, Yun Mu looked at herself.

Calling it "looking" was actually a very peculiar ability of perception.

At this moment, she could perceive it clearly.

Her body and soul were also composed of countless particles, or in other words, Ether.

Only, compared to the extremely unstable Ether in the air, the Ether composing her body and soul was very stable. When she touched it with her consciousness, she could also perceive a large amount of information mixed within the Ether.

It seemed that it was precisely this information that constituted her, this unique individual named Yun Mu.

And besides the Ether that constituted her person, there were two extremely special types of Ether particles entangled around her.

The moment she saw these two strands of Ether, Yun Mu knew: if these two strands of Ether entwined around her were not the two great Paths of 【Scarlet】 and 【Cat】, what else could they be?

She also noticed at this time that the Ether constituting her body and soul had already been quietly tainted by a small portion of the 【Scarlet】 Path's Ether.

And the area tainted by 【Scarlet】 seemed to have begun to become extremely unstable. When her consciousness tried to perceive that area, she could only feel a large amount of information constantly collapsing within it, then reorganizing, falling into an infinite cycle of collapse and reorganization.

"See? This is your current situation," Sixin saw her serious expression and spoke.

"The area currently tainted is still small, so you don't feel much impact. But when the range of taint expands—it doesn't need to be half, just one-fifth of the area being tainted—your body in reality will collapse, and your soul will uncontrollably fall into worship and madness toward the source of the taint."

"..."

Yun Mu took a deep breath and said nothing.

No pale words could be as impactful as seeing the truth herself.

This also further strengthened her determination to become a Transcendental.

However...

She secretly glanced at Sixin, curious about what the other party would look like in this state.

Yet to her surprise, when she looked at Sixin using this special perception, she found that the particles composing the other party were as normal as could be.

"Heh, don't casually perceive other people's Ether Body in the future."

Sixin noticed Yun Mu's small movement and chuckled softly.

He explained: "After you become a Transcendental, you will be able to conceal the traces of your Ether Body's abnormalities. Unless it is a Transcendental two ranks higher than you or one with some special means, generally, they will be unable to see through your disguise."

"And if someone weaker than you perceives your Ether Body, as long as you want, you can track down the other party's location along their perception at any time and even launch an attack on the Supernatural level against them."

"Therefore, as long as your strength does not exceed others by too much, do not go around perceiving other people's Ether Body."

Having said this, he paused for a moment.

He warned Yun Mu: "Remember, after becoming a Transcendental, you must be cautious, cautious, and damn it, cautious!"

The other party did not know what profanity was said, but after it was translated into Yun Mu's mind, it was automatically understood as a language she was familiar with.

"Sigh, forget it."

Yun Mu originally wanted to complain about something, but she didn't know how to complain, so she could only keep this feeling bottled up inside.

Since nothing could be seen from Sixin's side, she might as well go look at the painting she had made.

She focused her perception on the canvas she had brought.

Surprisingly, this canvas was now just like her, entangled with Ether from several different Paths.

When her consciousness touched these Ether, she knew the names of the Paths these particles represented.

【Oil Painting】, 【Fallen】, 【Young Girl】, 【Darkness】, 【Scarlet】, 【Cat】

"That information is the Spirituality stirred up when you created this painting. As long as you activate this latent Spirituality, it can sublimate into a Supernatural Item."

"Because this painting was created by you, you naturally have a latent connection with it."

"Pour your heart and mind into the painting; do not resist, let nature take its course."

Yun Mu followed Sixin's instructions and deepened her perception into the interior of the painting step by step. Soon, she felt a strange sense of being pulled.

She subconsciously wanted to resist this feeling, but she remembered Sixin's words about not resisting, so she let her perception be pulled into the painting.

"Hoo!"

A pungent smell of blood surged into her nostrils, and withered arms broke through the soil one after another, gripping the Young Girl's body tightly.

Yun Mu wanted to open her tightly shut eyes, but she found her eyelids were Heavy, and no matter what she did, she could not open them even a crack.

Just as she was at a loss regarding the current situation, a familiar cat's meow rang out from the sky.

And in her Perception, the Ether of the Paths of Fallen, Darkness, and Cat that were originally entwined on the painting were trembling incessantly.

When she tried to respond to that meow, the Ether of the Paths of Fallen and Darkness began to vibrate violently, as if they would shatter at any moment.

But if she did nothing and let her body be swallowed by the Darkness, the Path particles of the Cat would become increasingly dim.

"So it's a multiple-choice question!?"

In her desperation, Yun Mu made a choice.

PS: Ether is a type of particle that constitutes all things in the world.

Any vocabulary that can be understood by intelligent life will generate corresponding information that is encompassed by Ether.

Therefore, a person's Ether Body records all the information of this person from birth to death.

This is unique, information that belongs solely to this person, representing this person, this individual.

And the information recorded by Ether is not just information alone.

It also represents the rules of this world, so every time a new concept appears in human history, it is equivalent to the world having one more new rule.

For example, after the steam engine was invented and widely utilized by people, the brand-new rule of steam appeared.

Before the concept of time appeared, time was just there, but once humans defined time, the Ether containing time truly possessed the power to change time!

(End of this chapter)