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3.43% Absolute Choice / Chapter 20: Inverse Sourced World

章 20: Inverse Sourced World

Riko's tiny scheme naturally succeeded, and its effects were outstanding. The moment Shi Xiaobai realized that he could awaken a superpower that surpassed [High Frequency Vibrokinesis] when he reached the fourth level of the Psionic Mortal Realm, he immediately felt his blood surging. The flames of infinite fighting spirit burned in his eyes.

"Hurry up and begin. This King can no longer wait!" Shi Xiaobai said with an eager look.

Riko chuckled deep down, but continued giving an oblivious expression. She said, "Calm down first. The first step to Cogitation is meditation. You need to empty out your mind and body. You can't get anywhere with this impetuous state of mind."

"Oh." Shi Xiaobai nodded his head despite having only a hazy notion. He began imitating the meditating old monks from his memories and began to sit with his legs crossed on the sofa. He closed his eyes and attempted to empty out his mind and body.

Riko sighed seeing him do so. She remembered how she had depressingly spent several hours to enter her first meditative state many years back. Even the present her would need about ten minutes to completely empty out her mind and body to enter a meditative state. She did not know how long Shi Xiaobai would take to enter the meditative state.

"I will recite Teacher One-Pun's cultivation technique a few times. Remember it by heart after ruminating over it. After you enter a meditative state, then imagine the scenes in accordance to what I say. Remember that the imagery has to be as realistic as possible. The more thorough the details, the better."

Riko explained in great detail the key points of Cogitation, but suddenly, she realized something amiss.

"Eh? It can't be?"

Riko focused her eyes and was surprised to realize that Shi Xiaobai had not only long and rhythmic breathing, his body was also in a completely relaxed state.

"How is it possible. He entered a meditative state so quickly?"

Riko was flabbergasted, as she could not resist to reach out her hand to poke Shi Xiaobai in the cheeks. She did not expect Shi Xiaobai to topple the moment she prodded him. His body began to topple, frightening Riko. She hurriedly rushed forward to hug the falling Shi Xiaobai. She was horrified to find Shi Xiaobai's eyes still closed, and his body completely relaxed.

"Holy shit, a deep meditative state?"

Riko could not help but burst out. She carefully righted Shi Xiaobai's body and took a few steps back. Seeing the Shi Xiaobai who looked asleep, she could not help but depressively curse in her heart.

"How simple is this fool's brain? It hasn't even been a minute and he has entered a meditative state, and it's even a deep meditative state."

"Back then, I took hours to enter a meditative state! Wu Wu, it's so unfair. Why is this idiot so fast?"

"Hai, I'm beginning to doubt life."

"..."

Riko was dealt a mental blow. Only after a long series of cussing did she regained her composure. She took a glance at Shi Xiaobai, who was in a deep meditative state, and sighed, saying, "Being in a deep meditative state means he can't hear anything. The cultivation technique I wanted to impart to you is now useless. A deep meditative state is a state ordinary people dream of. You fool, without knowing any cultivation technique, what's the point of entering a deep meditative state. Wu Wu, what a pity~"

Riko became more depressed the more she thought about it. After staring at Shi Xiaobai for a while, with her lips pursed, she suddenly found the sleeping Shi Xiaobai to be abnormally cute. She could not help but pinch Shi Xiaobai's cheeks and revealed a smile. She then got up and returned to her room. It was time to sleep.

"Today sure was long. So, so many things happened, but in general, it was quite a happy day."

Riko threw herself in bed, and tossed around while hugging a pillow. Moments later, she fell deep asleep, with a sweet smile on her lips.

...

...

At the moment Shi Xiaobai closed his eyes, he told himself in his mind to "relax body and mind". Then...the scene in his head went blank.

An endless expanse of white filled his imaginary world. His body and mind seemed completely imbued in the emptiness.

After a few seconds of panic, Shi Xiaobai calmed down. He recalled the details of Cogitation Riko had mentioned.

"Isn't it just to how wild your thoughts can run? It's a piece of cake for This King."

With this thought in mind, Shi Xiaobai immediately began to imagine. An inexplicable thing happened, as the moment he imagined the sky, a blue sky would immediately appear above the white world.

Shi Xiaobai was delighted as he immediately went wild with his fanciful imagination.

In an instant, nine different colored suns appeared in the sky. Numerous iridescent clouds floated in the sky, and following that, land appeared in this world. Sea water began spraying out of the holes in the ground, filling more than half the landmass.

Then it was followed by mountains, plains, deserts, canyons, forests, rivers, streams, fountains... Shi Xiaobai felt like he was the sovereign of the entire world, as he excitedly shaped every corner of this world according to his own imagination. Inverted mountain peaks that fell from the sky, plains that rose up, a desert in the depths of an abyss, a large, inverted V-shape valley, and an endless deep abyss that stretched across the world. All over the lands, there were forests that sprawled with towering ancient trees that had five different colors as crowns...

Shi Xiaobai did not seem to perceive the passage of time, much less feel exhausted. He constantly created his own world with his own imagination.

After a long period of time, Shi Xiaobai felt that his world was complete. He decided to—create life.

"What should I create? Humans? Gods? Fiends? Demonic beasts? Or..."

Shi Xiaobai hesitated again and again, when suddenly his eyes lit up. "This King has to be created first after all!"

With a thought, a gigantic Shi Xiaobai who towered high into the heavens was born, with one foot on the ground. The gigantic Shi Xiaobai wore a magical robe, and had a crown on his head. In his left hand he held the Staff of Heaven Punishment, and his right hand held the Axe of Annihilation. He stood there quietly, as if the Heavens and Earth were subservient to him.

Shi Xiaobai was pleased as he began to create life that gigantic Shi Xiaobai would lead. First were the Western Gods such as Zeus, then were the Eastern immortals like the Jade Emperor. The Twelve Legions of Angels, the Eighteen Demon Gods of the Demon World, the Nine Wraiths of the Underworld, as well the numerous heroes of the mortal world. Then it was the Yamanato no Orochi, the Frost Wyrm, the Nine-Tailed Fox, Cerberus...

After Shi Xiaobai constructed every legendary being he could think of, he began to create things that did not even exist, such as a devouring beast that masqueraded as a mountain range, a fat worm that spat out numerous red butterflies, a dress-wearing white cat, about the size of a palm, which stood on its hind legs, a black skeleton that could speak...

Shi Xiaobai taxed his ingenuity, as he imagined his subjects. After an unknown period of time, he felt like the inhabitants in this world had reached a barely acceptable number.

"Next, This King has to set the laws of this world. Eh~ Then there is a need to set a world view, the power system, the history. Oh, some legendary stories are necessary. Then, it will be national wars, ethnic conflicts, the opposition between good and evil..."

Just thinking of the fact that he could create a world that belonged to him made Shi Xiaobai feel a blood rush. All sorts of strange ideas began to flow incessantly out of his mind.

A Will might not be Eternal, but it could create a temporary world.

And with reality as the source of his imagination, to mold this completely inverted world, maybe it should be named—Inverse Sourced World?

  1. Ye Jiaquan (叶家拳) translates to Ye Family Fist.

章 21: Shi Xiaobai, you need to keep a low profile

One could not sense the passage of time in an imagined world, nor would he feel a hint of exhaustion at all. However, there was always the point when one would awake from it. The only difference was that waking up from a meditative state would not result in too much mental confusion. Everything would appear extremely calm, as if imagination and reality was just separated by a thought.

And with that, Shi Xiaobai woke up.

After Shi Xiaobai slowly woke up, he immediately sensed his body covered in a sticky substance, making him feel extremely uncomfortable. Nearly instantly, he caught a whiff of a pungent smell. As he opened his eyes blearily, he was surprised to discover himself lying in a bathtub. He was only wearing a pair of shorts, while the rest of his exposed skin was covered in a black viscous layer of an unknown substance.

"It stinks!"

Shi Xiaobai hurriedly held his breath, nearly throwing up. As he resisted the feeling of vomiting, he looked up and scanned the surroundings. Immediately, he saw a shower head in the bathroom, and quickly grabbed at it. Turning it on, refreshing cold water immediately ejected out of the shower head, drenching his body.

Being bathed in clean, cold water, the sticky black substance was like mud being nourished by the rain. Upon turning wet, it coagulated to form an even more disgusting blob. With a swipe of his hand, layers of black blobs fell off his body, mixing into the clear water that turned into sticky, smelly black mud.

"What happened?"

Shi Xiaobai's mind was filled with questions. As the water rinsed off the black mud from his body, he was finally cleansed moments later. Immediately, smooth, white translucent skin that looked like a charming woman's skin appeared. If he stretched out his hand, a clench made it seem like water would flow out.

"This is This King's body?"

Shi Xiaobai hurriedly came out of the bathtub and walked to a mirror in the bathroom that went from the floor to the ceiling. Standing in front of the mirror, it reflected himself that looked the same, be it his facial features or body figure. The only difference was his skin, and for that, he heaved a sigh of relief. Turning around, he saw a set of male underwear and a white towel hanging in the bathroom.

"This must be prepared by Violent Girl."

Shi Xiaobai used the shower head to cleanse himself thoroughly and then washed away the smelly muddy substance in the bathtub. He then used the towel to dry himself and began wearing the clothes.

The white t-shirt and trackpants Riko prepared for him were slightly loose, while the black underwear was slightly tight, but Shi Xiaobai could do nothing about it. After dressing up, he stretched and loosened his muscles, slowly getting adapted to it.

Shi Xiaobai left the bathroom and wandered around the house several times, but he realized that Riko was not home.

"Odd, where did Violent Girl go?"

Shi Xiaobai shouted a few times but there was no response. Suddenly, he felt an intense sense of hunger burgeoning from his stomach. This sense of hunger felt like he had repressed it for an extremely long period of time. It was like a tightly-compressed spring that rebounded up his head.

"Holy shit! So hungry!"

Shi Xiaobai nearly lost his mind due to the intense hunger pangs. He crazily rushed to the kitchen and forcefully opened the refrigerator. The refrigerator that was filled to the brim with food began pouring its contents out immediately. Clearly, Riko had prepared this early on. Shi Xiaobai gulped down a mouthful of saliva, and reached his hand into the refrigerator to grab some food to stuff food directly into his mouth.

As Shi Xiaobai chewed on cooked meat that was both cold and hard, he stuffed rice balls into his mouth. The way he devoured his food made it seem like he had been starving for months.

Only after his stomach was somewhat satiated did Shi Xiaobai contentedly close the refrigerator door. He casually walked back into the living room, and saw a white piece of paper pressed down by a television remote control on a table.

Shi Xiaobai curiously picked up the piece of paper, and saw beautiful handwriting written on it.

...

"Shi Xiaobai, I have something on, so I'll be leaving first. I'm not sure how long your Cogitation will last, so who knows when you wake up. But first, I have to congratulate you. You have already broken into the first level of the Psionic Mortal Realm. I am curious what you were imagining after you entered a meditative state that allowed you to enter the Psionic Mortal Realm so quickly. It's so unscientific!"

"Oh right, when you first enter the Psionic Mortal Realm, you will experience your first metamorphosis—'Psionic Flushing'. Your body would automatically flush out the impurities accumulated in your body over the years. In summary, your body would be covered in a layer of smelly and sticky substance. As for how smelly it is, you probably have experienced it. Anyway, after I threw you into the bathroom, I could still smell the stench in the room. I couldn't stand it, so I'm taking off first!"

"After you wake up, the suppressed hunger will suddenly rebound. I've already placed food in the refrigerator, but make sure not to eat too much, or your stomach will not be able to handle it. Oh yes, the clothes I prepared for you was handpicked by me. Tsk tsk, go ahead and cheer as much as you like!"

"Alright, it's time to talk about serious matters! Although you are already at the first level of the Psionic Mortal Realm, from what I understand, you don't even have the most basic offensive skills. In short, you are still very, very weak, extremely weak! Although amongst this batch of [Annihilation] rookies, you are the only one above A Class, as well as a Psyker, there are many rookies who are at or above the second level of Psionic Mortal Realm. There are even some who have reached the fourth level! Xiaobai, I have to tell you currently, you have no superpower advantage at the moment. Your Psionic Ability realm is considered terrible, and without knowing any combat skills, you will be ranked last amongst this batch of rookies!"

"So, you must be mentally prepared that you would be lining the back! [Gaia]'s first principle is 'reward the strongest, punish the weakest'. Even for rookie training, there still exists a cruelest elimination mechanism. Your instructor will randomly test you, and every time, the weakest would be eliminated. So, Xiaobai, do your best!"

"Also, make sure not to call yourself 'This King'! Your strength won't do, so you must learn to keep a low profile! [Gaia] encourages rookies to engage in one-on-one duels to resolve conflicts, so don't you seek death for yourself! You must now learn with a humble heart to keep a low profile, to become stronger. Never become the last person, and on this foundation, work hard to climb higher. Xiaobai, with your talent, falling behind is just temporary, so don't be discouraged if you encounter difficulties, much less give up!"

"Alright, the rookie training begins on July 1. There is a clock on the wall in the living room that displays the date. Make sure to take a look at it when you wake up. Make sure not to be late on the first day, much less play truant. The instructor for this [Annihilation] batch is quite a redoubtable guy, and he is very peculiar. Anyway, don't break any rules, don't leave a bad impression on your instructor, and don't enter conflicts with the other rookies. Remember to keep a low profile, a low profile!"

"As I need to earn Hero points to raise my Hero Ranking, I took on a Hero employment mission that is slightly more complicated. It will probably take me a period of time before I return. When I return, I wish to see a brand new Shi Xiaobai. Make sure not to disappoint me!"

"—Riko Minamiya."

After Shi Xiaobai saw this, he felt mixed emotions. Breaking into the first level of the Psionic Mortal Realm made him extremely excited, yet the situation described in Riko's note gave Shi Xiaobai a heavy heart.

"Isn't getting This King to keep a low profile equivalent to asking for his life?"

The moment Shi Xiaobai realized that he could not call himself "This King", he felt like the world had darkened a few notches. After a long struggle, he stood up helplessly and walked towards the wall in the living room. On the wall, there was a small LCD screen that displayed the time.

Shi Xiaobai wanted to see how many days he had left to the rookie training, because this decided how long he could go to the gaming arcade.

Shi Xiaobai went closer and focusing his eyes, he suddenly froze.

What he saw displayed on the clock was—"July 4, 10:30"!

Holy shit, already late by four days!?

  1. Ye Jiaquan (叶家拳) translates to Ye Family Fist.

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