I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 574 Unity (Added 1700 words)

A "pop" sound.

Fang Yu pulled out... the stopper from the bottle cap.

Tilting the bottle, a luminous, transparent liquid flowed down the bottle wall and floated in mid-air.

Liu Feifei stared wide-eyed at the luminous ball of light floating in mid-air, which looked like both liquid and gas, and was too shocked to speak.

What is this?
It looks like a liquid, yet it floats in the air and even glows!?
Although Liu Feifei did not complete nine years of compulsory education, she was well aware that liquids must be heavier than gases, right?
Immediately afterwards, Fang Yu took out six small transparent boxes, each containing what appeared to be a white stone about the size of a little fingernail.

You don't even have underwear on, where did you get that from?
"Lie down and close your eyes."

Fang Yu said calmly.

Liu Feifei tossed her hair and lay down on the examination bed where her brainwaves had been checked. Suddenly feeling a little shy, she wrapped the white sheet around herself.

"Pull the sheet down and don't move."

Liu Feifei pursed her lips, her cheeks flushed, and had no choice but to pull the bed sheet off herself and close her eyes.

Is he trying to come up with some new tricks?

No, Xiaoyu's fate is uncertain right now, and she's about to disappear. He wouldn't joke about something like this, would he?

As Liu Feifei was lost in thought, she suddenly felt a chill between her brows, as if Fang Yu had placed something there.

Immediately afterwards, things appeared to be placed on several other areas, including the chest, ribs, and abdomen.

It must be the white stone from those small boxes?

Liu Feifei's eyelashes trembled slightly, and her eyes moved, her eyes still closed.

Huh? I had my eyes closed, so how could I still see that clump of liquid floating in the air?
After Liu Feifei closed her eyes, she should have been able to see nothing, but she could see that transparent, glowing liquid floating right above her eyes!

What's going on? Xiaoyu, did you see that? It's so beautiful, it looks like a glowing jellyfish!

What on earth is this?
Amazing.

Does such a mysterious force truly exist in this world?

If that's the case, maybe neither I nor Xiaoyu will really disappear?
Liu Feifei's heart was pounding, and then she heard Fang Yu take a deep breath and utter a string of characters that she couldn't understand at all.

"Spiritus purum in cor meum infunditur!"

Just as Fang Yu finished chanting the incantation, Liu Feifei saw the glowing, transparent liquid in the air wriggle and turn into a net of light, which landed on her body.

"Ah!" Liu Feifei couldn't help but scream, her breathing rapid, her chest heaving, panic gripping her heart, yet she felt nothing in her body.

Can they really be combined?

Will there be any accidents?
If I merge with Xiaoyu, who am I? Liu Feifei or Ning Yu?
What does fusion feel like?
With her eyes closed, Liu Feifei was like a terminally ill patient who had just gone through surgery, unable to control her wild thoughts. The more she thought about it, the more frightened and nervous she became.

"This is Spirit Stabilizer, which can stabilize your current state and allow Ning Yu to complete the fusion."

Fang Yu's calm voice came through, calming Liu Feifei's slightly panicked emotions.

"I'm about to begin. Don't panic, and don't move."

After saying that, Liu Feifei felt Fang Yu's finger touch the white stone on her heart.

When a person closes their eyes, their sense of touch is amplified. As soon as Fang Yu's fingertip touched her, Liu Feifei involuntarily shivered, and every pore on her body seemed to tighten.

"In infusion sacra, animae vires auxilium."

If Liu Feifei opened her eyes, she would see that the white stone on her chest had sprouted transparent, spiritual tendrils under Fang Yu's fingertips, which instantly burrowed into Liu Feifei's skin like roots of light!
The originally white stone gradually shriveled, and in less than a minute, it turned into a small piece of dry, shrunken, dark brown hard skin, which fell from Liu Feifei's chest onto the examination bed.

However, the area around the chest remained smooth and tender, with no visible wounds.

During this process, Liu Feifei did not feel any pain at all; she only felt a slight warmth in her heart.

Following that, Fang Yu did the same thing, making the stones in Liu Feifei's ribs and abdomen disappear as well.

Finally, Fang Yu took a deep breath, gently touched the stone between Liu Feifei's eyebrows with his finger, and looked solemn.

This step is the most crucial and also the most difficult.

The Farno Beans, which looked like white stones in the box, are not products of the Prime Material Plane, but rather a specialty of the Astral Plane. They are also one of the essential casting materials for the Primal Resurrection spell.

Farno beans grow in the astral plane. The roots of these beans have a restraining effect on spirituality, just as the roots of trees can stabilize soil erosion.

In primitive times, it was believed that the five internal organs corresponded to Qi, Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire, while the space between the eyebrows was the "spirit." These six places were the dwelling places of the spirit.

Fang Yu placed the Farno Beans on Liu Feifei's internal organs and between her eyebrows to improve the precision of control when merging Liu Feifei's spirituality with Ning Yu's later.

The Primal Resurrection Spell is a large-scale ritual spell composed of dozens of spells. Like the Spirit Fixation Spell that Fang Yu had previously cast, the spell Fang Yu is casting now is also a prerequisite spell for the Primal Resurrection Spell—Spirit Control Spell.

The purpose of spirit fixation is to stabilize the spiritual structure, while the purpose of psychic arts is to precisely manipulate the spirit of the deceased into the body after returning the spirit to the astral plane.

Although Liu Feifei's situation was not exactly the same, Ning Yu's spirituality was too weak.

If Ning Yu's spiritual fusion rate cannot be controlled, her spirituality will be exhausted before the fusion is completed, and in the end, Liu Feifei, still in her bewitching state, will devour Ning Yu.

Therefore, Fang Yu must use spirit control techniques to ensure that the fusion rate of the two is consistent, which requires manual adjustment.

The moment the Farno bean between her eyebrows took root in Liu Feifei's head, Ning Yu felt her faltering spirituality completely stabilize.

"Ready? Let's begin," Fang Yu said softly.

"Verus animae unitas per lux abscondita!"

Fang Yu recited the final incantation and placed his palm on Liu Feifei's forehead.

Liu Feifei felt as if her soul trembled. Then, she felt dizzy as countless fragments of memory converged into a huge vortex, pulling her and Ning Yu's consciousness into it!
As she spun rapidly, she couldn't even distinguish which memories were hers and which were Ning Yu's.

Ning Yu is the same.

Her mother's beautiful face when she was learning to speak, the isolation she faced from other children in kindergarten, hearing her own childish voice calling "Mommy," seeing the neighbor's older sister pulling her along as they ran in the alley, her parents' hysterical arguments, the little boy who fawned over her and the girl who hit her in elementary school, the fear and nervousness of her first trip to Mai with her mother...

Scenes from the past flashed through her mind like a slideshow.

"Past Memories," a 4th-level Enchantment spell, allows the recipient to instantly recall their memories from birth to the present.

The same person can only be targeted by the spell once in their lifetime.

This spell does not improve a person's memory. After casting it, you will not remember what you have learned. Instead, it is like watching a movie from a subjective perspective.

Even after watching a movie, details that should be forgotten will still be forgotten, and the same applies to this.

Of course, for Liu Feifei and Ning Yu, the function of this spell was to "unify" their memories.

Completely unifying Ning Yu's and Liu Feifei's memories is the first step in the spiritual fusion of Liu Feifei and Ning Yu.

Time passed second by second. In just five minutes, it felt like Liu Feifei and Ning Yu had lived through the first twenty years of their lives, finally arriving at the year they split apart.

Completely engulfed in a vortex of consciousness, Liu Feifei's eyes rolled incessantly as she closed them, her brows furrowed and lips slightly parted, seemingly trapped in immense fear and pain.

From this perspective, Ning Yu truly experienced Liu Feifei's unspeakable despair and panic for the first time.

Liu Feifei also experienced Ning Yu's confusion and naivety when she first appeared in her consciousness.

"No, no, I don't want to... Mom, Mom, where are you..."

"That little calico cat I saw today was so pretty..."

"Mr. Zhu, please don't do this, I..."

"Isn't Lingju the same as Diaochan? Why not just call her Diaochan? That's so strange, Zhou Runfa is so arrogant..."

"I didn't mean to..."

"I'm so happy today! I didn't expect Mom to bring Gigi. Is Gigi 12 years old? Mom said a 12-year-old cat is already old..."

Liu Feifei's expression kept changing as she kept her eyes closed. Her left cheek was upturned, maintaining a smile, while her right cheek was full of sadness.

A tear slid down Liu Feifei's right eye and dripped onto the white bed sheet.

Two people with misplaced personalities are experiencing each other's lives.

However, it was clear that Ning Yu's experience was more painful; her right cheek twitched incessantly, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.

Meanwhile, the left cheek began to feel increasingly lost, questioning its own inability to do anything right and what its purpose in life was.

Neither of the two personalities was discovered; the thoughts of one personality have now become the voice of the other.

The two personalities are constantly sinking into the vortex of memories.

Just as they were about to be completely immersed in each other's memories, a voice suddenly rang in their ears.

"It's all in the past. You weren't wrong. You did a great job."

Whose voice is that? It sounds so familiar, so warm, so reassuring...

The voice was like a rope suddenly appearing in the hands of someone about to drown in a whirlpool, and the two personalities instantly grabbed onto it firmly.

He said I did a great job.

Liu Feifei's left and right facial expressions gradually became more coordinated, and her body relaxed instantly.

According to Fang Yu's observation, the overlap between the two spiritual entities has reached 90%. The overlapping part has completely turned into the pale yellow of the normal spiritual entity, and there are countless starlight-like yellow dots in the pale yellow vortex.

Only a few blue and red dots still stubbornly stand in the vortex, teetering on the brink of collapse, yet they remain steadfast.

These are the core aspects of the two personalities.

Fang Yu raised an eyebrow and immediately gained a deeper understanding of why everyone's spirituality comes from the astral plane, yet each person has different personalities, intelligence, and ways of doing things.

After intelligent life is born, the pure spirituality that has been completely washed away by the astral plane will gradually give rise to a spiritual core. There is not one such core, but an indefinite number of them.

Each spiritual core represents a profound experience and change experienced by this intelligent being.

These core elements constitute the different intelligent beings, forming the biggest difference between "I" and "the other".

The remaining few core personality traits likely represent the areas where the two sides have the greatest differences, are most incompatible, and are least likely to accept each other.

Fang Yu didn't have any good solutions to this situation, so Liu Feifei had to face it on her own.

Only by reconciling, compromising, and accepting oneself can two personalities be completely integrated without any hidden dangers.

If these points cannot be integrated, although there won't be a big problem in the short term, since 99% has already been integrated, in the long run, a second and third personality might emerge.

Huh? In that case, wouldn't it be three times the happiness?
Fang Yu stroked his chin and thought for a moment, feeling that it might seem a bit like being a jerk.

Sigh, I should talk to her anyway; maybe it will help her resolve her inner conflict.

Liu Feifei, who was in the world of consciousness, could no longer feel the vortex of memory fragments. She seemed to be sitting blankly in a pure black space, with no light source except for the cold light from the computer screen in front of her.

In the realm of consciousness, the light from the computer screen illuminated Liu Feifei's face, and the content of the screen was reflected in her glasses.

"...Godfather..."

"...Jiangdu Slimming Code..."

“...Americans…” “...toothy…”

"……marketing……"

"...pretending to be innocent..."

"...and her mother..."

"...falsifying academic credentials..."

……

Line after line, overlapping, covering, flashing. Soon, the complete interface was no longer visible on the screen, only countless malicious words frantically scrolling across it.

The words flickered in and out of focus, even overflowing from the screen, as if they were directly pasted onto Liu Feifei's glasses, appearing repeatedly in her pupils.

She felt like she wasn't looking at a computer, but rather like the whole world was nailing her to the wall with those words.

"No, no, it wasn't me! It's not what you're saying!"

Liu Feifei screamed suddenly, her voice trembling so much it was almost shattering.

But deep down, a voice seemed to be telling her: This is you, this is who you are.

No, it really wasn't me... It really wasn't me, I didn't... Why are you all pressuring me?

The light in the space went out completely, and the computer screen vanished into nothingness.

Silence fell all around, with only the slow, clear sound of footsteps echoing in the darkness.

"Why are you here all alone, child?"

The voice was soft, with a familiar tone.

Liu Feifei suddenly raised her head, her eyes brimming with tears, and seemed to see her mother, Liu Mingmei, standing not far away.

"mom, Mom, Mom?"

A long-lost hope flashed in her eyes, and her voice trembled with urgency.

But when the light and shadow appeared, she suddenly felt a tightness in her heart.

The mother's features were blurry, her face distorted and covered by a layer of water ripples. She was clearly smiling, but she didn't blink. That "smiling face" seemed to be a mask fixed to her face, the corners of her mouth always maintaining the same arc.

"Mom, please, tell them I'm not... I'm not like that..."

Liu Feifei lunged forward, reaching out to grab something, but touched nothing. The figure continued to smile, but footsteps echoed around her, as if there was more than one person.

In the darkness, the same mother's voice echoed, as if it came from all directions at the same time.

"Mr. Zhu is still waiting for you, don't be late..."

Liu Feifei trembled all over, curled up in a ball, and stared in terror at that unchanging smiling face: "No, no! Mom! No!"

The "mother" sighed, but still maintained her smile, getting closer and closer: "Silly child, this is how the world is, this is our destiny."

"Fate..."

"Fate..."

"Fate..."

"Fate..."

……

No, don't come any closer, don't come any closer...

Why are you forcing me...?

Why……

Liu Feifei was on the verge of collapse. She curled up into a ball, covered her ears, and kept backing away, but that familiar yet unfamiliar smiling face was getting closer and closer.

And on either side of her mother's head, four more heads actually grew out.

The faces on each head are different.

What kind of monster is this?!
"Fate..."

"Fate..."

"Fate..."

……

All the heads with different faces maintained the same smile, repeatedly saying the words of "mother".

"Don't...don't..."

Just when she was about to despair completely, that reassuring voice seemed to ring out again.

Liu Feifei in the consciousness space slowly stopped crying.

Who is speaking? What is he saying?
"Bullshit destiny!"

Liu Feifei suddenly heard an angry snort from her own consciousness space.

Then, in the pitch-black space of consciousness, a bright white light flashed, and the monster in front of it immediately froze on the spot, stopping its advance.

Rolling around~
The four heads next to Liu Mingmei fell off instantly and rolled three times on the ground.

Even after landing, the four heads continued to laugh unrestrainedly.

"puff!"

A giant hand descended from the sky and smashed the four heads to pieces.

"If I can kill you once, I can kill you a second time."

That familiar yet completely unrecognizable voice rang out again, and a beam of light struck the monster that now only had Liu Mingmei's head remaining.

"As for her, you'll have to deal with that yourself."

"You can do it."

"Everyone's soul is unique. Your soul is complete, and you can do it."

The sound gradually faded away.

"Don't go! Help me! Help me!"

Liu Feifei called out anxiously.

"My dear child, Mom is doing this for your own good..."

Having lost four heads, Liu Mingmei, who had been motionless, twisted her neck, still maintaining that eerie smile on her face: "Be good, Cici is the best girl, isn't she?"

"Women like us have no other choice..."

"Mom is doing this for your own good..."

"Mom is doing this for your own good..."

Liu Feifei lowered her head and covered her ears, but the sound still resounded in her mind without any obstruction.

My childhood attachment to my mother, her hardships, her discipline, her companionship... countless memories flood my mind.

Liu Feifei shook her head in anguish.

"no!!!"

Liu Feifei suddenly lowered her hand, tears streaming down her face, and shouted "Liu Mingmei" at the top of her lungs.

"You're doing this for yourself!!!"

"You were wrong from the very beginning!!!"
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Fang Yu had no idea what had happened in Liu Feifei's consciousness space. At first, he was quite normal, encouraging Liu Feifei who was lying unconscious on the experimental bed. But as he talked, he went off-topic.

"Your acting skills were indeed not very good before. Let's not even talk about the TV series you did before. I couldn't stand watching two episodes of Chinese Paladin. And then there were those bad movies you made later. This is the expression you made when you were angry."

"She still has this expression when she's sad."

"This is the same expression she makes when she's happy."

"I want to ask you, is your face glued on with super glue?"

"You've studied at the film academy for so many years, didn't anyone teach you how to write character biographies? You should at least be able to design movement habits for each character, right? Did you play Nie Xiaoqian as if she were Xiaolongnu...?"

"If all else fails, you could just switch out Liu Feifei's personality and act out that scene naturally, that would work too..."

"...Was the cold-blooded or ruthless character you played? Your acting was completely outshone by Jiang Guyan in that role."

……

Fang Yu was vehemently criticizing Liu Feifei's acting skills, but Liu Feifei couldn't hear him anyway.

This spell has an end time. When the time is up, even if Liu Feifei doesn't assimilate those spiritual cores, she can still wake up, but there will be some hidden dangers.

If there are any problems, we can solve them later.

Everyone says they're thirsty, so they drink a glass of water.

Fang Yu stood up, poured himself a glass of water, and continued to complain as he poured.

"...And that 'Night Peacock' movie you made, ugh, I actually watched that piece of garbage twice, and I still don't understand what Elsa or whatever was thinking. And the middle-aged pretentious guy played by Li Ming is even more ridiculous. He committed suicide after finding out that his son and he were in love with the same woman? Is he brain-dead?"

"Pfft~"

Fang Yu suddenly heard Liu Feifei chuckle from the bed behind him, and turned around in confusion.

"I didn't realize you'd watched so many of my films?"

Liu Feifei looked at Fang Yu with bright, expressive eyes and a smile on her lips.

"Thank you for saving me."

Liu Feifei turned to the side and hugged Fang Yu's waist from behind.

Did I save you?

Fang Yu blinked, puzzled.

What did I save you from? Oh, right, without me, Ning Yu would have lost consciousness.

"What did the woman who was saved in ancient times usually say?"

"I have no way to repay your great kindness," and then what came next?

(End of this chapter)