Chapter 244
It’s no wonder that Xia Er was angry.
Because of a single suggestion from the system, Xia Er had nearly lost her life in the other realm. She had fought tooth and nail to resolve the issue with the feather quill in that more dangerous world, separating the "uniqueness," and now she was being told that the "uniqueness" was still detected by the outside world?
【I didn’t lie… If you separate the uniqueness in reality, they can directly trace it back to you.】
【In the other realm, they can only flail around like headless flies searching for special events worldwide. Isn’t that a good thing? ^^_】
“Xia Er?”
Noticing Xia Er’s silence, Ai Wei Na turned to look in her direction and found her still clutching the note, her emotions clearly off-kilter.
Ai Wei Na’s call brought Xia Er back to her senses. She didn’t say anything, just placed the note on the table. After a moment of silence, she spoke up:
“Ai Wei Na, how many people know about this?”
“You mean the ‘uniqueness’?”
Ai Wei Na countered.
“Yeah.”
“The Church of the Saintess should know… and possibly some secret cults and hidden organizations.”
After pondering for a moment, Ai Wei Na continued, “Globally, there shouldn’t be more than ten organizations aware of it, and this information would only circulate among the higher-ups. Besides the organizations, it would be those transcenders.”
“This information… is it really that important?”
Xia Er asked.
“Yes.”
Ai Wei Na nodded, considering her words carefully before explaining:
“If a ‘uniqueness’ item appears in the world or is contained by a certain organization, that news will be tightly sealed. If it leaks, the consequences would be severe, both for ordinary people and for the transcenders; the impact would be deadly.”
“Those transcenders who have been dormant, thinking they had no hope in this lifetime, would start to become active again, doing everything they can to complete the previously impossible replication ritual, or they would begin to frantically search for information about the ‘uniqueness.’”
At this point, Ai Wei Na paused briefly, shaking her head before continuing, “Just the fact that transcenders want to complete the replication ritual is already catastrophic, not to mention how many transcenders are eager to do so.”
“Especially some of the pathways…”
“War, disease, disaster, slaughter…”
As she spoke, Ai Wei Na paused again, then reached for the note, placing it on a nearby candlestick to ignite it, watching as the paper slowly burned away in her hand.
Xia Er, hearing all this, momentarily froze… She had considered the significant impact of the “uniqueness,” but she hadn’t expected it to be this severe.
“Why do they want the ‘uniqueness’ so badly?”
Xia Er asked.
Ai Wei Na looked at her, puzzled.
Just a moment ago, after seeing Xia Er’s expression, she had braced herself for Xia Er to reveal a shocking secret—Ai Wei Na had been guessing whether the “uniqueness” was in the hands of the organization behind Xia Er.
But now it seemed that Xia Er had no idea what the “uniqueness” was…
This actually relieved Ai Wei Na.
If Xia Er had said, “The uniqueness is in my hands,” it would have likely knocked Ai Wei Na out cold—she wouldn’t be able to protect Xia Er, not even if the entire Russell family were involved.
“You know there are sixteen pathways, but do you know how many tiers each pathway has? And what the endpoint of the pathways is…”
Ai Wei Na asked tentatively.
“I don’t know.”
Xia Er shook her head honestly.
Indeed, Xia Er had no clue what the upper limit of the transcendent levels was.
In her imagination, it should be that tiers one to four were transcenders, and once you broke through tier four to tier five, you were called a transcender. Beyond that… Xia Er had no idea what it would be.
“(Ancient Ansu language) Fourfold metamorphosis, fourfold ascension, the final transcendence.”
Ai Wei Na spoke, reciting a line in Ancient Ansu that sounded like poetry, then added, “One of the books I gave you should have recorded this description, but with so many books, you probably haven’t seen that one…”
“I did see it,”
Xia Er nodded and replied, “But isn’t that a poem about the Chaos Era? That’s the thirty-ninth stanza.”
Ai Wei Na was momentarily stunned by Xia Er’s words, then looked up at her.
How did she even know which stanza it was? Just like those church followers who could recite the scriptures backward.
At this moment, Xia Er began to rethink that poem.
For such poetry, Xia Er usually skimmed over it. She had been forcefully memorizing vocabulary without deliberately considering the meanings, focusing on practicality.
After all, the previous situation had been urgent; she needed to grasp more Ancient Ansu vocabulary quickly, leaving no room for deep contemplation.
Now that she thought about it, the system had indeed mentioned the term “ascension”…
If transcenders corresponded to ascension, then transcenders would correspond to metamorphosis.
Fourfold metamorphosis corresponded to transcenders at tiers one to four, while fourfold ascension corresponded to transcenders at tiers five to eight?
And the final transcendence would be tier nine?
“A total of nine tiers?”
Xia Er asked.
“Yes.”
Ai Wei Na nodded, lowering her voice unconsciously as she said, “I’ve heard that to advance to tier nine, you must have ‘uniqueness’ as a potion ingredient, and ‘uniqueness’ is singular…”
“Only one tier nine can appear per pathway?”
Xia Er seemed to grasp something vaguely.
“Yes.”
Ai Wei Na nodded, instinctively lowering her voice further, “The final transcendence is…”
“God.”
Xia Er interjected, completing Ai Wei Na’s final word.
God…?
No wonder those transcenders were so frantic; they all wanted to obtain the “uniqueness,” all wanting to become gods…
“But…”
Xia Er couldn’t help but ask, “How do they know if the ‘uniqueness’ that appears belongs to their pathway? What if they end up with a ‘uniqueness’ that isn’t from their own pathway? Wouldn’t that be a waste of effort?”
To Xia Er’s surprise, her question left Ai Wei Na, who had been explaining, momentarily speechless.
She blinked, hesitating for a moment before looking at Xia Er and asking, “There’s not just one ‘uniqueness’?”
Huh?
Xia Er realized.
Did these transcenders and transcenders think that the ‘uniqueness’ was a one-of-a-kind item or material in the world?
One piece of “uniqueness” material… wouldn’t even be enough for Xia Er to fix a watch.
The “uniqueness” certainly wasn’t limited to the “exceeding gear” she had in her possession.
“No, I was just saying that casually.”
Xia Er shook her head.
Ai Wei Na was half-convinced by Xia Er’s explanation.
No matter how outrageous Xia Er’s words were, Ai Wei Na would choose to believe at least half of it—perhaps that was the impression Xia Er had left on her before—she wouldn’t speak about things she wasn’t sure of.
The organization behind Xia Er likely held a lot of undisclosed secret information.
“Be sure to pay attention to your personal safety in the coming days.”
Ai Wei Na reminded her, “If it’s not necessary, don’t go out alone.”
This was also Ai Wei Na’s way of warning Xia Er, to prevent her from disappearing somewhere without a word.
Usually, Ai Wei Na rarely engaged in conversations with so many people at a party, but after learning about the note’s contents, she felt a sense of urgency.
Even if it wasn’t for herself, for Xia Er’s sake, Ai Wei Na wanted to gather more wealth while the turmoil hadn’t yet arrived, just in case.
“If there’s nothing else, I’ll continue handling these matters.”
After saying this, Ai Wei Na shifted her focus back to the notebook in front of her.
“Good luck.”
Xia Er nodded, then picked up a dip pen from the table and moved to the sofa, her hand shimmering with silver light as she took out the “Endless Manual of Forgetfulness,” beginning to ponder.
She planned to conduct a simulation after midnight.
And this time, the goal of the simulation was quite simple; she didn’t even need her simulated self to do anything special.
She just wanted to see how things would develop after separating and merging the “uniqueness.” If there were no significant changes, Xia Er wouldn’t go looking for trouble herself.
If possible, it would be best to use this long stretch of time to gather some hard-to-collect potions, so that when she went back, she could attempt to complete the replication ritual and collect data.
After writing all this into the Endless Manual, Xia Er opened the system panel and began to browse.
She opened the system warehouse and looked at the items inside.
At that moment, there were four items displayed in the system warehouse.
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