Infinite Chimera Creation

Chapter 54 You've gone too far!

As Yuan Yuan had requested, Hongye mastered spiritual power in just half a month, but the level of spiritual power was not so easy to improve.

Szayelaporro and Kamishiro worked tirelessly for half a month, constantly adjusting the training plan according to Momiji's physical condition. They even went so far as to add mental suggestions that could increase spiritual power to Koyo's sleep time, but they only managed to get Momiji's spiritual power to the level of a mid-level Hollow.

This infuriated Kamishiro, causing him to go into a rage and wipe out all his researchers, suddenly filling the long-dormant resurrection pool to capacity. Szayelaporro was in no better mood, unleashing a furious rampage in his research institute, brutally murdering an entire experimental field.

It's important to understand that everything stored in the Seventh Research Institute was independently researched by Yuan Yuan, and no one except Yuan Yuan is qualified to access these materials. Frankly speaking, every researcher in Hell wants to see the materials in the Seventh Research Institute.

Now, the two research fanatics watched helplessly as the precious data they were about to obtain slipped away, and naturally, they went berserk.

In fact, if the consequences were disregarded, these two senior researchers with hundreds of years of research experience could raise an ordinary person's spiritual power level to the level of a high-level Great Void in just two hours, without taking half a month.

However, they clearly couldn't do that because they had to consider Hongye's identity—Yuan Yuan's disciple still in the assessment period. Once that identity was taken into account, any method with side effects or aftereffects couldn't be used on Hongye. Otherwise, if they didn't have to worry about the aftereffects, how could Yuan Yuan simply use his spiritual power to force an ordinary person into becoming a high-level Great Void cultivator?

Having successfully mastered spiritual power, Hongye naturally resumed her studies, which had been interrupted due to spiritual power training. In the mornings, she continued to learn various knowledge that leaders must master, while in the afternoons, the lessons turned to the methods of using spiritual power and how to transform back into a Gastrea. In the evenings, she naturally had time for self-study.

With such a packed schedule, Momiji began her studies filled with a sense of urgency. Because she devoted all her energy to her studies, Momiji didn't notice that certain changes were slowly taking place over the past month. For example, Rentaro's mental state was deteriorating; for example, a series of murders seemed to have occurred that month, silencing the entire Tokyo district, with the perpetrator using extremely cruel methods; for example, Aihara Enju, who was originally hostile to everyone, had inexplicably become close to her and seemed to have developed a great admiration for Yuan Yuan; for example, her talent seemed to have increased significantly over the past month, and political ideas that were previously difficult to understand and the manipulation of spiritual power that was previously difficult to master had become easy for her, making her seem like a genius in people's eyes.

Hongye didn't notice these changes, but some people did, such as Yuan Yuan, who had been paying attention to her, and Siji, who originally didn't care about her at all.

As Hongye's studies continued day by day, Siji's expression towards her became increasingly solemn, and his face grew more and more grim.

Finally, after a month of studying Hongye, Siji seemed to have reached her limit and called Yuan Yuan, who wanted to leave the laboratory, after Yuan Yuan's experiment ended.

"Please wait a moment, Mr. Yuan!"

Hearing the excited shouts behind him, which were a little off-key, Yuan Yuan's lips curled into a wicked smile as he slowly turned around to look at Siji.

Siji clutched her clothes tightly to her chest with her right hand, as if that was the only way to make herself feel better. Her voice was hoarse as she asked...

"When... did Yuan Jun discover this?"

Faced with such a seemingly inexplicable and nonsensical question, Yuan Yuan showed no surprise. He casually pulled up a chair, sat down, looked at Siji with amusement, and chuckled as he spoke.

"I was wondering how long you could wait before asking me, but it seems you don't have much patience."

"Please answer me, Mr. Yuan, when did you discover this?"

Staring nervously at Yuan Yuan, Siji's expression wavered drastically, like a little girl whose last secret had been discovered. She cried out incoherently,

"You couldn't possibly have discovered that! Only I, only our world consciousness, can see those things! How could you possibly have discovered them, Yuan Jun?! That's impossible!!"

Seeing that Siji seemed to have gone mad and lost her mind, Yuan Yuan remained calm. His lips curled into an even wider smile, the malice in it growing stronger.

"Oh? Since you're so convinced that I couldn't possibly see it or discover it, why did you come to ask me?"

With just one sentence, Siji seemed to have lost all her strength, collapsing softly to the ground, unable to utter a single word. The tears that had been welling up in her eyes all flowed out, sliding down her cheeks and hitting the ground, where they were instantly absorbed by the specially designed floor.

If it were the old Yuan Yuan, seeing Siji's performance, he certainly wouldn't feel any sympathy. Instead, he would have intensified his efforts to break down Siji's mental shell layer by layer, until she completely collapsed, and he would have enjoyed watching her break down.

However, Yuan Yuan has changed somewhat. Although he still feels no sympathy, at least he won't try to ruin his collaborators.

However, Yuan Yuan was clearly not the type to offer gentle comfort. He suppressed his smile, looked down at Siji, his expression turning indifferent, and said coldly,

"If you still want to know the answer to the question, stand up within five seconds, wipe away your tears, or you'll miss your chance. Okay, two seconds have already passed."

Upon hearing Yuan Yuan's words, Siji was startled. She quickly got up, wiped her face vigorously to remove her tears, and then sniffed hard, looking at Yuan Yuan with red eyes, waiting for him to answer her question.

In Siji's view, Yuan Yuan slowly opened his mouth. In that instant, in Siji's consciousness, even time seemed to slow down.

"Do you know what? The way you cried just now, and the way your eyes are red right now, I've stored them deep in my memory, and I can export these memories as images at any time. If I show these things to other world consciousnesses, do you think you'll be considered a disgrace to those world consciousnesses? That you were forced to cry like that, how embarrassing."

Siji's expression shifted from tension to surprise, from surprise to shock, from shock to rage, and finally all her emotions coalesced into the phrase, "Yuan Jun, you've gone too far!!!" which echoed wildly in the soundproofed room.

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Chapter Fifty-Five: Let's Look Forward

After calming Siji down with a "gentle" threat of words to stop her from yelling, Yuan Yuan finally began to answer Siji's previous questions.

Instead of answering with words, he explained directly with actions. Yuan Yuan gently made a cut on his arm, letting out a little blood. Then, Yuan Yuan controlled the blood, which, even though it had left his body, still retained its vitality and exuded a strong life force, and condensed it into an extremely complex, irregularly shaped cube that looked dizzying.

Looking at the cube, Siji looked puzzled; she couldn't see how it had anything to do with her problem. But when Yuan Yuan began his next action, her expression changed drastically.

Yuan Yuan condensed countless tiny spheres of spiritual energy in his hand. Although there were many of these spheres, they were all different. Their spiritual energy concentration, additional attributes, contained emotions, and even the basic spiritual particle order were all different.

Then, Yuan Yuan quickly filled these spiritual energy spheres into the gaps he had deliberately left on the cube when he created it, making them fit perfectly.

As Yuan Yuan filled the spirit energy spheres, Shiki's expression grew increasingly shocked. Finally, when Yuan Yuan filled all the spirit energy spheres into the cube and activated it with a subtle soul fluctuation, Shiki looked at Yuan Yuan with the same disbelief and fear as if he were looking at a mortal who had killed a dragon with a toothpick.

"How is this possible? This shouldn't be possible! This is an ability unique to our world's consciousness! How is this possible? This shouldn't be possible! This is an ability unique to our world's consciousness..."

Looking at the cube floating in Yuan Yuan's hand, which was completely different from before, Siji's eyes were empty, as if she had been broken. She kept repeating one sentence, seemingly no longer reacting to external stimuli.

Without waking the four seasons or caring about the time they took, Yuan Yuan silently enjoyed the fascinating expressions on their faces. After an unknown amount of time, when the four seasons finally regained some of their thinking ability, Yuan Yuan spoke with a slight smile.

"Do you remember what I said when I invited you?"

"I hope to become your collaborator. I will assist you in conducting experiments, and you will help me complete my evolution and escape from this world."

Although the shock had left her mentally fogged up and her thinking exceptionally slow, Siji still managed to answer Yuan Yuan's question.

With his smile unchanged, Yuan Yuan looked at the four seasons and asked,

"Do you think that what I mean by 'assisting in experiments' is just the assistant work you do every day? Do you think I need more lab assistants?"

With a glimmer of life returning to her eyes, Siji couldn't help but recall that Yuan Yuan certainly couldn't be without assistants, but since she had been by Yuan Yuan's side, she hadn't done anything other than assisting him.

Siji cast a questioning glance at Yuan Yuan. Although she didn't speak, her desire for an explanation was clearly obvious.

Instead of playing the game of "Tell me, how am I supposed to know what you want to ask if you don't tell me?"—a game that brought him pleasure but drove the other person crazy—Yuan Yuan spoke directly.

"Why do you think I would make you follow me in human form, or rather, in the form of a living being?"

Four Seasons' eyes flickered, suppressing the words that were about to escape her lips: "Didn't you say yourself that you weren't used to communicating with unseen beings, which is why I became human?" She thought about it carefully. Four Seasons wasn't stupid, just a little slow to react. Given time and a hint, she quickly realized what was happening and looked at Yuan Yuan in surprise.

Seeing Siji's expression, Yuan Yuan knew she had already figured it out. A smile played on his lips as he nodded, confirming her guess.

"That's right, it's for observation. After all, the world consciousness is a high-level soul that is close to a perfect soul. If I were to observe it directly, even I would probably find it difficult to achieve anything. But with a body as a vessel and a medium for observation, the observation process becomes much simpler."

Yuan Yuan waved his hand and sprinkled a small amount of magic around Siji. Instantly, to Siji's surprise, a faint red light appeared on her body.

"In fact, the experiment with you began the moment you appeared before me in this form. Because of the limitations of the human body, you may not have realized that every second you breathe, every second you come into contact with energy, every second you come into contact with matter, everything is different, and everything appears around you according to my control."

As he spoke, Yuan Yuan's expression seemed to become somewhat sentimental.

"In order to quickly and accurately deduce the energy and matter needed in the next second, and to accurately allocate the things to your side, I used one-seventh of the calculation power of Alaya, which slowed down all the experimental projects in Hell to varying degrees. Fortunately, it was worth it."

Pointing to the cube floating in the air, emitting an eerie, cold light, Yuan Yuan smiled slightly at Siji, who was clearly overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information.

"Look, I created this thing. By making nearly ten thousand different types of spiritual energy resonate within a specific structure, I successfully simulated the vision of world consciousness, saw the world through the eyes of world consciousness, and saw those..."

Tilting his head and tapping his temple, Yuan Yuan considered his words for a moment before smiling and saying,

"Something interesting."

"You think those things are interesting!?"

Siji became agitated, angrily wanting to question Yuan Yuan, but her fear of him immediately made her voice lower, and she muttered a complaint.

"Do you know that those things are one of the most fundamental secrets of the world? And you actually think they're interesting?"

"One of them? So there really are things I haven't discovered yet? That's really intriguing. Come on, silly boy, tell me, are these secrets related to life?"

Siji was angry and dissatisfied, but Yuan Yuan not only did not comfort her, he became excited and seized on the loopholes in her words to press her for answers.

"It's okay! It's not okay at all!! Really!!"

Realizing that he had inadvertently let slip that this terrible guy was plotting against the world again, he hurriedly waved his hands and loudly denied it, staring directly at Yuan Yuan as if to enhance the credibility of his words.

But soon, Siji couldn't bear the mockery in Yuan Yuan's eyes and turned her gaze away. Yuan Yuan's lips curled into a smile that deepened.

"It seems there is indeed a connection, which is great news. Although I don't know if these secrets that I haven't discovered yet will help me improve myself, discovering secrets is a kind of fun in itself."

"Four Seasons, let's continue to look forward to the days we spend together."

Chapter Fifty-Six Good News

For a long time, Yuan Yuan had been wondering about one question: what makes a protagonist a protagonist? Although he seemed to have found a correct answer in the Inuyasha world—that the more similar a person's physical or spiritual structure is to the world, the more protected they are, thus becoming the protagonist—this answer not only failed to satisfy Yuan Yuan but also made him even more confused.

Because some people are not born to be protagonists, but suddenly become protagonists in some accident, does that mean that their physical or soul structure suddenly changed? This somewhat perfunctory answer did not satisfy Yuan Yuan, so he set his sights on the world consciousness.

Through his research on the four seasons of world consciousness, Yuan Yuan finally imitated the vision of world consciousness and saw the world through its eyes. It was at that time that he saw something different.

When Yuan Yuan viewed everything before him with the vision of world consciousness, energy, matter, and life became simpler and easier to see through. Of course, this was only the most basic ability; more importantly, he could see something special in certain beings.

Those things were neither matter, nor soul, nor derivatives of the soul; they seemed to be something more fundamental, closer to the origin. Yuan Yuan named this thing [Dharma Runes]. Aside from using the perspective of world consciousness, Yuan Yuan had not yet discovered a second means to observe Dharma Runes.

While the various runes seem to be different from each other, they also share some similarities. For example, they all seem to have a certain meaning, which does not need to be deliberately studied; the observer will understand its meaning the moment they see it.

On himself, Yuan Yuan saw three runes: [Arrogance], [Strong Luck], and [Steadfastness]. Though incredible, these three meanings accurately reflected his traits. Arrogance, needless to say, was Yuan Yuan's nature; strong luck, even more so, needed no explanation—Yuan Yuan's luck had never been bad in any world; steadfastness stemmed from his unwavering dedication to the study of life for over five hundred years.

Just as Yuan Yuan was preparing to collect a certain number of runes for mutual reference in his research, he discovered that runes were not common, or rather, extremely rare. Therefore, for a long time, the only runes Yuan Yuan discovered were the three on his own body, the [Calamity] rune on Enoshima Junko, and the [Darkness] rune on Rumia.

Lolo and Yakumo Yukari clearly also had magic runes on their bodies, but whenever Yuan Yuan looked at them with the vision of his world consciousness, all he could see was a bright, blinding light, and he couldn't see what the magic runes on their bodies were at all.

Because of the small sample size, Yuan Yuan's research on magic runes progressed very slowly. He had not yet discovered a way to interfere with magic runes until Yuan Yuan suddenly decided to meet the protagonist of this world, Rentaro Satomi.

When Yuan Yuan first saw Rentaro, he was actually very surprised, because Rentaro not only had magic marks on his body, but the meaning of the magic marks was also that of the protagonist, which was extremely speechless.

The meaning was directly the protagonist's magic mark, which almost made Yuan Yuan dismantle Rentaro to see what was so special about him. Fortunately, Yuan Yuan quickly regained his senses and began to think about how to use this protagonist to accelerate his magic mark research.

When Yuan Yuan thought of the word "protagonist," he naturally thought of Bai Ye, the transmigrator he had initially wanted to groom as a protagonist for fun.

[If I seriously cultivate a protagonist, will he obtain the protagonist's rune? If he obtains the protagonist's rune, will Rentaro's protagonist's rune disappear?] With this in mind, Yuan Yuan originally planned to take advantage of the situation and directly cultivate Bai Ye into a protagonist, but suddenly remembered Bai Ye's identity as a transmigrator.

Yuan Yuan believed that everything he did in each world was worthy of being called a protagonist, but he didn't possess the protagonist's runes, which made him wonder if transmigrators couldn't obtain protagonist runes. Unwilling to waste time on such matters, Yuan Yuan simply changed his training target from the transmigrator Bai Ye to the native Hong Ye.

Having determined the training objectives and formulated the training plan, the next step is naturally to implement the plan.

First, under Yuan Yuan's control, the monsters that had been obediently staying in the forests and deep oceans and never moving towards human settlements because of his suppression began to become active on a small scale. This forced Muroto Sumire and others, who originally planned to conduct steady research, to accelerate their experiments, ultimately failing and having to ask him for help.

Next, no matter who Muroto Sumire sent to deliver the documents, Yuan Yuan would always ask Muroto Sumire to abandon Rentaro's request.

After Rentaro was abandoned by Muroto Sumire, she let Rentaro be hunted down and took him in when he had nowhere to go, letting him live with the protagonist Momiji chosen by Yuan Yuan. Although she didn't know if such a simple act could increase the probability of obtaining magic runes, doing something was better than doing nothing.

Then, Aihara Enju, who is indeed the heroine in the original work but does not have the "Heroine" mark on her body, witnesses Momiji's declaration to save the cursed child. This makes her feel a sense of identification with Momiji and even admiration for her, further increasing the chances of Momiji stealing Rentaro's protagonist mark.

Thus, it becomes clear why Shiki's complexion grew increasingly grim during the month when Momiji discovered her growing talent, when Aihara Enju increasingly admired Momiji, and when Rentaro became increasingly prone to fatigue.

Indeed, in just one month, the protagonist's magic mark on Rentaro's body has begun to appear faintly, and a few incomplete magic marks have also appeared on Momiji's body. It seems that as long as Yuan Yuan puts in a little more effort, he can transfer the protagonist's magic mark to Momiji's body.

At first, Shiki was unwilling to admit that Yuan Yuan was actively interfering with the magic runes. After all, magic runes had always been something only the world consciousness could see; they were one of the world's most fundamental secrets and one of the world consciousness's last resorts for controlling the world's development. Naturally, she was unwilling to acknowledge that something outside the world consciousness could see the magic runes.