Fantasy was a big word with many uses and one of them was used as a genre in many stories and books.
For those stories with fantasy genre they mainly used many elements that defy logic and the natural order like water is wet, water flowing to the lower place, fire is hot, and many more.
But thanks to a certain element that being used as a universal term to be the reason and cause of such unnatural phenomena was called magic.
Magic uses magical energy to allow the user to rewrite or bend the world around them to their heart wishes.
Watching the characters use various magic to push and liven up the story, it was inevitable the reader would want to try it for themselves.
But some of those readers also wanted to be the best in it.
They began to ask the most crucial question.
What is magic?
"Magic is what your heart defines."
"Magic is the utilization of magical energy through certain calculations and casting to bring changes into the real world."
"Magic is a miracle!"
Various characters have their own definition and various books also have their own definition.
But after reading so many books and stories, the truth showed itself even if someone didn't try to think about it.
There was no need to make simple things difficult, no need to obscure the truth with one's own sentiments and cognition filled with biases.
Magic is fantasy.
Fantasy gave birth to magic.
Fantasy rooted in one's mind.
To bend reality, rewrite the world and challenge logic. Only the wishful mind of an immature mind could do such things.
So to be the best in magic one's only need to have a good mind. A rational yet still fresh mind to see through every falsity and rule the reality with one thought.
But sadly, such a simple thing was slaughtered, shitted on, and spitted in disdain just for the story's convenience.
As for who to blame, that's the real question.
. . .
Niu Chang was playing with his Transformation Energy qi and concluded the last experiment.
'Phew, that was faster than I thought.' Niu Chang took a glance towards the night sky from the small gaps in his room.
It was still dark, nothing was worth mentioning.
As long as Niu Chang felt it was not too late, no matter the night sky situation, he would take as the night was still long.
'As I thought, the qi in general was just energy. An all-purpose kind of energy that can be used as anything to do anything.'
'If not for its small amount, the ability to change the whole reality itself was not an impossible task.'
Recalling his own understanding on what magic or qi is in his previous life, Niu Chang bravely ignored the unknown and locked his own theory as the truth.
'So what if my theory is wrong? Look at the 999th cultivation level, the Ultimate Genesis Primordial Chaos Emperor God Saint isn't at their level, one thought enough to change the concept of reality itself?'
'So what rules or restrictions are there in this world that can shackle their will?'
'With that in mind, how could my own theory be wrong? Just because I can't do it right now doesn't mean my theory is wrong!'
Niu Chang thought of another example in his mind.
Purposely a certified mentally disabled person who was an adult has the 999th cultivation level. No matter how slow and dull his thinking will be, his words will become the rule and his action will dominate everything.
With this kind of thinking and belief, Niu Chang was already set up to create martial skill just by thinking and pondering.
'Since the qi was omnipotent energy from a certain perspective, there was no need to make things difficult. Just use the mind to mobilize them to use a martial skill.'
Just imagine it, he said.
If any martial artist heard the audacity of ignorant Niu Chang. They would raise their eyebrows and hum loudly.
"Humph, the ignorance of youngster?!"
"Such audacity. You don't know the immensity of heaven and earth!"
Niu Chang chose to ignore this ridiculous thought in his mind and started to calm his excited heart.
'Finally it's here! The thing that the reincarnator or transmigrator never did in their story.'
As an avid reader, it was unavoidable for Niu Chang to read stories that were beyond him. The main character was naive, then that's fine. The main character was stupid, that's also fine.
But when he saw the main character who clearly called genius and had a strong reader background in their previous life but never once did they try to open the Pandora box and really made Niu Chang's kidney hurt so much.
If Niu Chang was inside one of those stories, he would already puked a mouthful of blood and then passed away in anger.
With only resentment in his heart, not even hell wad able to contain his frustration.
In the clear minded state without any distracting thoughts, Niu Chang imagined the world in his mind.
The world was blurry and didn't have any clear detail but the sense and nuance were there in Niu Chang's heart.
"Tree."
A tree suddenly emerged in this desolate world, even the sky wasn't properly thought of by its own creator.
With the sudden appearance of the tree, the other elements followed suit. The down direction from the tree, soil and earth bloomed.
The tree was big and reaching towards heaven, when this thought arose, the sky followed suit to exist.
The crown was verdant and lush, standing under the towering tree, Niu Chang could feel the refreshing feeling from it.
The first martial skill that Niu Chang wanted to create was the advanced version of Rapid Leaf Step.
A sudden gust of wind reached the tree crown. But it didn't shake its trunk, only a large amount of leaves started to fall down.
Due to the nature of human's mind, the limitation of focus was there. Niu Chang could only imagine 'leaves' but he couldn't project what kind of leaves in his mind.
Watching the green, inconceivable falling leaves, Niu Chan tried to catch this fleeting feeling of event in his mind and heart.
Feeling the blowing wind on his skin, the bright blue sky, the towering tree, the shade under the tree, and finally the countless leaves falling in front of his eyes.
'The qi followed the thought and the thought followed the mind, the mind followed the heart and the heart followed the will.'
'But the will is sometimes under the control of the heart and vice versa, only the body movement or concrete language can incite both the will and heart at the same time.'
'But this is not what I want. Not limited by any gestures or body movement, not limited by oral command or specific words, I want my heart to be unrestricted!'
'Since the will and heart is fragile, then let it be.'
Hearing the bustling wind carrying the countless leaves around him, Niu Chang slowly grasped the ethereal feeling in his heart.
All he needed was to capture the nuance then he all set.
Niu Chang opened his eyes, he was in his room but the Transformation Energy qi in his body was constantly moving as if following an invisible path inside Niu Chang's body.
Without stopping the instinctual response from his qi, Niu Chang let go all his thoughts and solely immersed himself deep in the nuance of falling leaves.
The dim white qi of Transformation Energy was filled with green spots. As the time passed by, the green spots slowly dyed every qi in the body.
Wind slowly aroused around Niu Chang's body, he was feeling like being carried by the wind just like a falling leaf.
But that's all. He suddenly stopped from the immersion because his qi was exhausted.
Niu Chang calmed down his mind, 'sigh, the amount of third rate stage was too small for this kind of martial skill.'
Niu Chang didn't even create a form on how to utilize the ethereal feeling of nuance in his heart to a specific martial skill.
Calling out the system to check if everything was correct, Niu Chang starred at the system information.
[Skill: Kendo, Rapid Leaf Step, Impact. More.]
Niu Chang chose to explore more in the skill tab.
Then he found it.
[Verdant Tree Under the Bright Sky.]
That was all the information given by the system about the martial skill that Niu Chang came up with.
Staring closely at the short introduction of Verdant Tree Under the Bright Sky, Niu Chang made his deduction.
'Ah, I get it. This martial skill is not only a martial skill but also a cultivation method. The qi transformed according to the rhythm of Verdant Tree Under the Bright Sky. It proves that to use the derivation martial skill from it, one needs to cultivate the qi specific for Verdant Tree Under the Bright Sky.'
Feeling happy for his own success, Niu Chang chose to celebrate his first success to make the second complete cultivation technique, that compiled qi cultivation and martial skills.
'But this is hard, I need inspiration to do it.'
The creation of Verdant Tree Under the Bright Sky was because Niu Chang's mind already has some insight about them.
The proficiency of Rapid Leaf Step was a great idea source for Niu Chang to construct his mind and imagine the essence of Verdant Tree Under the Bright Sky.
He chose not to push it too hard and then laid his back on the bed.
It was hard, but it was softer than the bed in Yellow Village.
The thought wanders aimlessly without any correlation to each other.
In his daze, Niu Chang recalled his first life,
What is the thing that pushed Niu Chang to create the Verdant Tree Under the Bright Sky? It was because he needed a good movement technique.
Thinking this simple reasonable answer, Niu Chang then recalled his Impact skill, his qi-based protection skill and his body cultivation.
But this was not in line with his current mood right now. He wanted to do something that made his heart pounding like never before.
Niu Chang's eyes suddenly brightened up and an idea came up in his mind.
'I know it! I know what I want to create. I want love!'