Sometimes, once you knew something could not be changed, the only thing left to do was to forcedly enjoy it.
Bai Tang was currently in exactly such a state.
It must be this hell world constantly influencing her subconsciously. Not only had it made her grow accustomed to death, it had even stripped away the sense of shame she once had on Earth.
Recalling the past, Bai Tang finally acknowledged a post she had seen on a forum back on Earth.
—The essence of humanity is chaos, yet it has been molded into the appearance of a ‘human’ by countless strict rules and dogmas from childhood.
The so-called politeness, moral nobility… are all essentially ‘disguises’ in the face of unchangeable rules.
Only when one is certain that those rules no longer pose any threat to them will humans reveal their truest selves beneath the disguise.
The post didn’t focus on good and evil, right and wrong. It only explored the true self hidden under everyone’s facade.
It posed a soul-striking question to every person who read it:
[Ignoring all other circumstances, if you suddenly gained the ability to pause time, would you try streaking once?]
Bai Tang remembered that at the time, she had chosen “Yes.”
Now that she was in this world, while it wasn’t that she completely disregarded those things, the lack of laws and moral standards, combined with the constant possibility of losing her life, was indeed gradually blurring that ‘line’ in Bai Tang’s heart.
It wasn’t about turning into a bad person or anything. Was there anything wrong with the rewards being a bit more frequent and the methods a bit more elaborate?
Setting aside her initial resistance, once the Witch teacher had truly gotten on top of her…
What was wrong with holding on a little tighter?!
“Guh…”
Like a person on the verge of suffocation greedily taking one last breath of air, Bai Tang’s body collapsed onto the bed, completely drained of strength, like a puddle of high-temperature melted cotton candy.
Warm yellow light filtered through the narrow gap between the back of her hand and her eye sockets. The light felt exceptionally harsh right now, stinging her eyes so she couldn’t open them.
The Witch teacher sat on the edge of the bed.
“How was it? How did relying on your teacher feel?”
Why ask this kind of question!
“Mm…”
It had to be said that in terms of efficiency alone, it was indeed much faster than when Bai Tang did it by herself. It had truly achieved the Witch teacher’s goal of saving time.
Of course, whether there were any other thoughts involved was unknown.
“Take your time to recover. Don’t fall asleep. Come help me later.”
With that, the Witch teacher left the room to prepare the materials for the upcoming potion brewing in advance.
At the same time.
[Your teacher has issued you the quest ‘Assist’. Please cooperate with your teacher to complete the magic potion brewing shortly.]
[Quest Rewards: Ghost Coins ×500, Potion Brewing Knowledge Proficiency +1, Mental Strength Breakthrough Potion ×1 (Can break through current level limit).]
Bai Tang’s body twitched violently. The drowsy, exhausted state after losing strength was completely swept away. She propped herself up with both arms and sat up directly.
“Break through the level limit?”
The girl’s eyes widened. Did the so-called breaking through the level limit mean breaking past the Wandering Soul Level 10 cap as she understood it?
She had been anxious about her level being stuck, and now a solution had appeared after just one time. For a moment, Bai Tang didn’t know whether to cry or be happy.
“Mental strength…”
As far as Bai Tang knew, the power systems in this world were extremely varied: magic power, bizarre power, idealism, curses, puppets, parasitism… and so on. There were too many to count.
Mental strength was one of them.
Was the mental strength path suitable for her, or was it the only path humans could walk?
At least one thing Bai Tang could be sure of: without the Eye of Breaking Delusions providing rewards, she would probably be fumbling around blindly for who knows how long.
“Better to complete the quest and get the items first. I’ll get up right… hiss~~”
Ouch, ouch. Considering her physical condition, she should just lie down and recover for now.
……
About twenty minutes passed in the blink of an eye. Outside the window, the blood moon still hung alone in the pitch-black sky.
Under the blood moon, not only would bizarre creatures of the [Chaos] alignment become even more chaotic, but the activity of certain materials would also reach its peak. This was why some magic potions could only be made during Long Night.
Bai Tang walked out of the room and saw that the Witch teacher had already finished all the preparations and had been waiting for some time.
The scarlet light of the blood moon poured in through the only window into the back kitchen. Under that light, all the materials gained unprecedented vitality.
With her right eye’s gray pupil identification, Bai Tang could tell what those things were.
Contained in glass dishes: eye rabbit tear gland secretions that seemed to be boiling and bubbling, blood-colored moss that came alive and bloomed into chicken-blood-red strip-shaped spore flowers, fluorescent translucent pitcher plants with their lids open, from which hair-like jet-black tiny vines continuously poured out of the bottle-like mouths, waving wildly in the air like tentacles…
Chaotic, disordered, indescribable, mad, and twisted.
Just one glance made one’s sanity plummet, scalp tingle, and instinctively want to scream.
“Have you rested enough?”
Noticing Bai Tang’s arrival, the Witch teacher’s expression remained the same, showing no particularly notable change.
It was as if she didn’t care at all about the crazy things that had happened with her student not long ago.
“Yes, Teacher.”
“If you’ve rested enough, come help. This potion’s brewing process is very complicated and will take quite a bit of time. We need to hurry.”
The Witch teacher said.
“Alright.”
At first, Bai Tang didn’t know why the Witch teacher wanted her to assist. She thought it was just to make things easier.
She mostly treated it like completing a task, focusing only on not making mistakes and doing it casually.
But after doing it more times, Bai Tang gradually realized that the Witch teacher was teaching her.
Just like right now.
The Witch teacher used magic power to precisely control the heat, when to add materials, when to stir, how to judge the fusion degree of the materials and decide which direction and how many times to stir accordingly…
She taught all of it verbally and had Bai Tang follow along.
It could be said that except for the stages requiring magic power—which Bai Tang still couldn’t do—she handled almost the entire process.
“Even if you don’t have magic power, as long as you understand the principles and knowledge, you can still make potions. You’ll understand this later.”
Bai Tang nodded half-understandingly from the side.
Unlike previous potion brewings that were usually controlled within two hours, this time the process was exceptionally complicated. Even while ensuring there were no errors throughout, it still took nearly seven hours.
In the blink of an eye, Long Night had passed. They finally completed it just before the blood moon completely disappeared!
Bai Tang personally witnessed a large pot of potion materials, after seven hours, ultimately transform into a single bottle of magic potion no larger than half a palm.
After pouring the liquid into the bottle, the entire potion presented a cobalt blue color.
Just as Bai Tang was relieved that she could finally rest, that bottle of potion was suddenly placed into her arms without warning.
“This bottle of potion was made for you. Drink it when you find the time. I’ll go back to my room to rest first.”
The Witch teacher yawned and was about to return to her room.
“Haa~~ So sleepy, so sleepy. Remember not to wake me before dinner.”
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