Chapter 620: Dream Authority, Soul Abode, Dream Space
Not long after, Elena, having revived these people, cast a cleaning spell and air purification spell to clear away the bloodstains and the smell of bl**d, after all, her afternoon tea time had not yet passed.
“What are you still doing here?” Elena looked at the few people beside her; they had already been revived, yet they still did not plan to leave?
“Um… we are a bit curious about that earlier scene. Can the instructor understand each student’s situation in real time?”
“Not really; Xiao Han just actively opened the livestream, so I could see it.” Elena shook her head and spoke, but… aided by the academy network’s manipulation of the earth vein, it is quite simple for witches to learn about areas covered by the academy network.
“Livestream? Xiao Han is livestreaming? How did she do that?”
“Well… it’s a bit complicated. To put it simply, it was accomplished through the Great Knowledge Seed, but I can’t be bothered to explain what the Great Knowledge Seed is. If you have the ability to find out, that is also your capability.”
“Great Knowledge Seed… I seem to have heard of it.”
“I heard it mentioned by that teaching assistant; it circulates only among a few groups.”
“But I heard my instructor say she has one too; it seems like the instructor group all has one…”
As for the concept of the Great Knowledge Seed, these upper-grade students naturally had some understanding since they were studying with their instructors, and being influenced naturally made them curious.
At this moment, the few witch students remaining were taken aback by the mention of the Great Knowledge Seed and stepped forward.
“Teacher Elena, is the Great Knowledge Seed you mentioned that one? Recently, our academy’s instructor exchanged ideas with your school and also mentioned cooperation regarding the Great Knowledge Seed.”
“Oh? You know quite a lot. Did your instructor speak to you so soon?” Elena turned her gaze to this boy, and though she said that, she showed no signs of surprise. “It’s indeed similar, but we have to wait a bit longer; the technology has not yet reached the level to be widespread. You also saw that this thing hasn’t been popularized even among the students of Witch Academy.”
“I see…” The witch student looked at the scene displayed in front of Elena. Naturally, they were aware of the matters regarding the Great Knowledge Seed since they were here to communicate; after all, they had delved into Witch Academy, and they would likely be among the first batch to obtain such a thing.
So they understood that having the Great Knowledge Seed would endow a person with unforgettable abilities and many other powers, making it naturally enticing.
Elena was currently unfazed, surrounded by several affectionate students, and adjusted the livestream visuals and sounds to an external speaker format.
Compared to the abilities of the Great Knowledge Seed, the students of Witch Academy were more concerned about the content within the screen since the earlier flash of the scene seemed to reveal… a gigantic extraordinary crystal!
“Teacher Elena, where is Xiao Han? It’s such a strange place.”
“It looks like it’s still in a state of weightlessness.”
“Xiao Han is over at the Seed Vault; you all should know that, right? Isn’t your intelligence network quite informed?” Elena spoke.
“Seed Vault… oh, that spatial maze!”
Soon, someone responded.
“But how did Xiao Han end up there? She shouldn’t be studying that tree, right?”
“Wait, shouldn’t we be curious why there’s such a strange place in the spatial maze? Also, that extraordinary crystal is so huge; is Xiao Han going to get rich?” spoke a somewhat financially-minded girl.
“By the way, I heard you say earlier, Teacher Elena, that Xiao Han is doing something significant. If you call it significant, then it must be really big… so what exactly is Xiao Han doing?”
“She is testing something and risking her life for the experiment. She wants to experience the boundary of dream and reality.” Elena simply explained to them.
“This… the boundary of dream and reality? What is that?”
“I don’t know, because I have never tried it either.” Elena shrugged and candidly admitted this fact.
“What? Teacher Elena hasn’t tried it either? Isn’t Xiao Han looking for d*ath?”
“Aren’t you all just looking for d*ath when you have nothing to do? And you still criticize others.” Elena shot them a glance.
“This… uh, it’s not quite the same…”
A few of them immediately hesitated; if facing a comprehensible d*ath, they naturally would not fear it, as they knew as long as their soul material was alive, the resurrection spell could bring them back. However, probing the boundary of dream and reality… that operation was genuinely intimidating.
The important thing was not d*ath, but loss!
The more they understood, the more they realized that d*ath can be categorized in many forms. Some types of d*ath cannot even be reversed by the resurrection spell.
And dreams are even more so; dreams may not k*ll a person but can cause one to become lost in the dreamscape, leaving them alive yet functioning as if they were dead.
Thus, the more they learned, the more they feared the unknown of d*ath. They were not afraid of dying; with the resurrection spell as a safety net, they knew they had never truly died. But they still feared absolute d*ath.
Suddenly, the atmosphere here seemed a bit off, and the only sound remaining was from the livestream, but the narration from Xiao Han had ended, and everyone could only see what she was doing.
They could see the barrage of comments flashing across the screen, discussing professional issues they couldn’t understand.
What was the connection between the soul and dreams, the bodily consciousness and dream consciousness clones, the soul convergence caused by deep dreaming, and the absolute soul deprivation in the state of d*ath, and so on.
They didn’t even have time to be astonished that Xiao Han actually had such a means as resurrection spells; instead, they witnessed the place where the earth veins converged in the dream, seeing a corner of the primordial dream that resembled a lonely sea.
They could not comprehend the resonance of field order, nor did they understand the significance of the segment of knowledge power Xiao Han demonstrated; they only roughly understood that Xiao Han seemed to compare the dreams and reality to two parallel lines…
“Can’t understand, right? That’s okay. This is the extraordinary; extraordinary is not just about hitting and killing, but also involves academic subjects and research.” Elena chuckled lightly, her eyes full of admiration.
“Although Xiao Han’s actions are somewhat unorthodox, if I were to summarize the topic of her current experiment, I would call it ‘Resonance of Dream and Reality: Dream Overlapping Phenomenon Under the Resonance Theory of Field Order.’ The segment of knowledge power she displayed earlier is the theoretical basis for her attempts—it’s a rough theory, but it’s clear that it’s derived from very basic theoretical formulas, filled with fundamental yet violent aesthetic formulas.”
“This…” Upon hearing this, the group of boys and girls fell silent; what else could they say?
They simply couldn’t understand, okay?
Moreover, it seemed the academy hadn’t taught this at all, and their instructors hadn’t explained such things to them… but they overlooked one detail.
Xiao Han had yet to have a true mentor; she only had a supervisor, who had already left the class, and as for that tutor she followed… she belonged to the purest new witch instructors.
At this moment, Elena was watching attentively when suddenly she saw a comment, and looking at the content and formulas being discussed, she became rather upset, even cursing aloud without caring for her image.
“Oh, that’s just damnable! How did you leak it to Xiao Han beforehand! Xiao Han could have simplified it herself; who is this idiot who has no brains, or is this extraordinary witch just trying to show off her knowledge reserves in front of a little witch?!”
……
In the place where the earth veins converge.
At this moment, I severed the shackles of my physical form, and my soul traversed between dreams and reality.
Under the “knowledge donations” from numerous witch sisters, coupled with my personal experiences in practice, I understood the terror of the soul.
I also came to understand why, after ascending to extraordinary witchhood, the soul material needs to undergo a transformation and sublimation into the soul.
Because the soul is the cornerstone of traversing between dreams and reality, and I also learned from the Great Knowledge Tree a concept, which is… every sublimation of the soul represents the enhancement of dream authority.
This means that each soul possesses a certain capability, akin to a talent at the moment of its birth, which is… the authority of dreams.
When the Soul Witch ascends to the seat of the Truth Witch, she announces loudly, “The soul’s life has the right to dream freely,” soothing witches to sleep with her gentle voice, bestowing blessings upon every life that embarks on the path of returning to the soul with the means of truth contribution, granting them the authority to freely govern their dreams.
Thus, the advancement to witchhood, accompanied by becoming a soul existence, also signifies receiving the blessings of the Soul Witch.
And the place where my soul currently resides… is called the Dream Space.
This is one of the blessings bestowed upon every soul existence at the moment it touches the essence of the soul, a dream space birthed within the consciousness of the soul, governed by one’s own soul!
This is also a manifestation of the power of dream authority within the soul, capturing the primordial dream to transform it into the soul’s abode.
The “Primordial Dream” that the Primordial Witch possessed was also obtained in this manner; however, at that time, there were no Truth Witches, so the Primordial Witch, in order to connect with every extraordinary witch, preventing them from becoming lonely and falling into corners of the void, used great power to seize the force of the primordial dream and refined it into the Primordial Dream.
At this moment, after the birth of the Soul Dream, I seemed to feel that something of mine had reached completion.
My Sea of Consciousness and Dream World, opened in a state of entwined yet separate space within consciousness, relied on the intertwined phantoms of the Great Knowledge Tree and the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Tree.
And now, the Soul Dream, born from a higher dimension, directly unified the consciousness space and the dream space!
The two appeared to still be independent of one another but were genuinely unified.
The blessings of the soul also allowed me to gain an insight from the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell…
Perhaps the phantom of the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Tree, forming a dual tree structure with the Great Knowledge Tree, could become the true body of the spellbook!
My consciousness was poised between the Soul Dream, watching two mutually dependent great trees continually grow and merge in the vast emptiness of the dream space.
This was the first time I touched the essence of the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell so intuitively.
In my free time, I would look through the research Principal Mei provided me regarding this grand spellbook, “Extraordinary Knowledge”; I understood I still lacked the qualifications to wield this spellbook.
But now I had the qualifications to approach this book, which I had “deliberately ignored,” because today it was going to become the embodiment of another derived sequence—The Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Tree!
If asked what this would bring about, I would say it has no effect.
But if asked what significance it holds…
Then the significance is… if it is the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell, then it has always been the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell; if it becomes the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Tree, then this is my first step towards shaping it into a force I can command!
Making a change to a spell is the first step to controlling it, even if that change is utterly useless, its symbolic significance far exceeds the practical significance.
I have a very clear understanding of power.
Whatever I want to do, the power can do it; it is not that what the power can do, I will do.
I am the master of power; it should be done as I say!
The only compromise I make regarding power is that if you cannot do it, I won’t force you to do it.
Just like using the fireball spell to extinguish fire; it itself cannot achieve that, so I naturally won’t press for it. But one day when my understanding level rises, and I realize I can use the fireball spell to extinguish fire, then when I want to extinguish the fire, the fireball spell must be able to do so.
At this moment, returning to reality, the rewards gained from this attempt were truly immense.
The Soul Dream, understanding of the soul, understanding of dreams, and the information derived from that segment of knowledge power unveiled the theoretical boundary of dreams.
With theoretical guidance, I could accomplish even more!
So now, only… no, two matters remain.
One matter is to unify the theoretical boundaries of the communication between the dream earth vein and the reality earth vein, confirming the accuracy of my understanding of the boundary between dreams and reality.
The second matter is to rescue that unfortunate dream creature, so it can cooperate with me in researching its innate abilities.
And now, I am only missing one thing, which is the “Primordial Runes” that govern the boundary between dreams and reality, which is also the dream creature’s innate ability. I want to express it through a runic ritual, and this composite rune, I call “Primordial Runes,” just like when I originally created the Nightmare Spell.
Then, through knowledge power, I can complete the derivation of this Primordial Rune, integrate it into the field order, and align it with the field resonance rules I have explored, thus artificially creating the environment for dream overlapping!
Not just creating; if the skills mature, I could even smooth the overlapping of dreams!
After all, based on the relationship between dreams and reality, I have distilled four states.
The first state is the initial expansion realm of ruins; at that time, there was only a flat material space with no dream to complete this world into a whole.
The second state is the dream overlap initiated by dream creatures, but this relationship is shallow; it helps the primordial dream reclaim the material space and world.
The third state is a strong correlation overlap between dreams and reality, which is where my Dream Rewriting Spell can be cast; the intrusion of dreams into reality is too severe, and the information from reality flows into the dream, allowing the dreams to give birth to an environment similar to reality.
The fourth state is when the primordial dream has already reclaimed this world, and the dreams and reality return to a state of tranquility, with no further interference or overlap between them; the two are akin to two parallel lines that do not overlap.
This is the utilization of the relationship between the concepts of dreams and reality, and what I am currently doing is mastering methods to utilize it.
“Alright, my friend, I was just experimenting with some preparations, and thank you for the unintentional assistance you provided earlier. Now, it’s time for me to rescue you; remember to fulfill your promise!” I smiled at the trapped dream creature; it must be eagerly waiting too.
