Chapter 649: What Kind of Life Does the Fool Dream Want to Become?
“Good~ Yes, just like that, I bestow wisdom upon you so that you can better survive in the Expanding Realm, and you need to ascend to a higher level in return for this to the world…”
After completing the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell on the last mutated beast of the clan, I directly let them go.
Faced with my existence that was far beyond their understanding, their only emotion at this moment was fear, and under the Heart Sense, this perception was particularly evident.
Moreover, after bestowing them with wisdom, their expression of fear became more “concrete.”
Then, I looked at several sickly individuals that they had abandoned. They followed the instinct of racial continuity, voluntarily staying behind as bait to buy time for the clan. I did not use the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell on them, but… I gave them a final journey.
Not long after, their bones and flesh gathered to form a new, healthy mutated beast. It did not cause a scene but instead flashed a clarity in its eyes that was unlike that of a wild beast, and then it went after the direction where the clan had fled.
During the time I used the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell on those mutated beasts, I was also pondering.
Life is not composed of elements such as wisdom, memory, emotion, cognition, or soul; rather, these characteristics manifest because of the existence of life.
The essence of life is an irreversible miracle. It is precisely because of the wonder and complexity of life that these attributes can be summarized and expressed.
Life is the foundation, and the subsequent concepts can only unfold from the point of life.
The mutated beasts made me realize that life does not have all the qualities. For example, among the many mutated beasts I’ve encountered, there was not much wisdom, but they could have wisdom.
Some mutated beasts have no memory, but they can have memory.
Some mutated beasts have no perception, but they can have perception…
Some qualities I can help them acquire, while there are others I cannot. However, I know there will definitely be a way to achieve them.
Therefore, I often revisit the Great Spellbook I possess—the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell.
I once doubted whether the name of this spellbook was correct, and Principal Mei thought my idea was quite good.
But that doesn’t mean the name is wrong; the act of “doubting” is the rare and “correct” thing.
When I reexamine this Great Spellbook, I also stop my study of Rune Literature and turn to understand the materials that the Principal sent me.
Although only a few months have passed, compared to the Principal’s hundred years of accumulation, a few months is indeed a drop in the bucket.
However, I define this information as “reference.” Only when I understand and comprehend it myself can it truly belong to me.
Moreover, I have mastered the sense of time; I am not short of time. I have mastered clones; I equally do not lack the energy to think.
Thus, I reaffirmed that the name Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell is indeed correct.
This great spell does not purely help me create life from nothing; it is merely strongly correlated with the “Fool Dream, this dream creature,” and the “Fool Dream’s strong desire to become life.”
After understanding this spell again, I also formed a hypothesis.
“Intelligent Life”
This is a concept that is closely related to this great spell.
It does not help shape a true form of life; it only shapes intelligent life, bestowing wisdom upon life.
Thus, the Great Spellbook created by this Extraordinary Knowledge is called the “Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell.”
And “Mimetic Soul” as well as the still incomplete “Soul Drawing” do not belong to the sequence derivations of this great spell; this is not even a spell; it is a skill of “shaping.”
In the past, I was too obsessed with the “perfection” of life, but the mutated beasts provided me with a new insight.
Life is also not perfect; even humans are not perfect.
Let alone perfect life?
So I ponder the concept of intelligent life; could life with wisdom also be an insight, interpret as… life born for wisdom.
What kind of person seeks the meaning of wisdom?
Perhaps it is the confused or the seeker who considers themselves a fool, so does that mean the Fool Dream is a group of fools wandering in the Primordial Dream World in search of life?
They bear the key to become life without even realizing it…
So who gave them the name Fool Dream?
Principal Mei…
But this seems to have no meaning now because I also received a subtle insight from the name, but this insight is a question.
That is… “What kind of life does the Fool Dream want to become?”
From my interactions with so many mutated beasts, I have obtained too much information about their races and bloodlines.
From this information, I can understand the tendencies, advantages, and abilities of these races; that is why I know that truly perfect life does not exist.
Flaws shape their races.
Strengths weave their bloodlines.
So what kind of life the Fool Dream wants to become will require a choice to abandon some qualities.
At this moment, I traverse the Space Maze beneath the foothills rather than directly flying over the ridge to reach the sky’s cracks.
Because I am experiencing and searching for a glimmer of insight into the sense of space.
“Come on, stop wasting time here. After you missed the opportunity to touch the sense of space last time, the threshold you need to reach this skill has already increased again. Just merely observing the material space maze generated by these extraordinary materials of spatial attributes, if this works, then body cultivation experts would have long made the sense of space a common ability.” The Knowledge Shadow accompanying me unhesitatingly remarked.
And what she said is indeed a fact. I am very clear that the probability is extremely slim; not only the material space here but also the spatial cracks connecting the Core Realm and Expanding Realm are the same.
“But… the result is not important; what matters is the process, the experience. You are my subconscious, how come your awareness can’t keep up with my subjective consciousness?” I chuckled lightly.
“Who knows? Maybe it’s just in your nature? People will ultimately be trapped for a lifetime by what they couldn’t obtain in their youth. The stages of being underage in both the last life and this life are ultimately what you will use everything to make up for in the rest of your life. Even if the time stretches longer, it will only affect you less, but it cannot be erased.”
“Yeah, regrets. I have given up too much to avoid regrets, afraid of making choices, afraid of facing life’s crossroads, afraid of everything that exceeds my cognitive limits… but hasn’t everything clearly recognized in this journey of the Expanding Realm attempted to break through?”
“Really broken through?” the Knowledge Shadow scoffed.
“…… Well, at least a crack has opened.”
After saying this, I stopped wasting time on this topic.
Instead, I continued my journey on foot. If I encounter a mutated beast clan, I will bestow them a blessing of the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell.
And I continue forward, climbing to reach the highest peak closest to the sky’s horizon!
Just standing here, I can feel a kind of oppression from the spatial crack. Clearly, on the other side of the crack lies the Core Realm’s Horasso Swamp, a very ordinary but not frequently visited place.
Yet this crack itself has a kind of invisible pressure.
This feels completely different from the void rift formed by perfecting the great spell. The void rift is a crack that penetrates the void, and its inherent danger even extraordinary witches cannot ignore.
Whereas this rift penetrating space is not a matter of one level; it feels like any extraordinary witch could jump around on it.
However, I was somewhat surprised that this crack had not been smoothed over. For someone of the Principal’s level, it should be possible to smooth it out by hand, right?
Setting aside these meaningless questions, I took out my flying broomstick and flew towards the spatial crack.
In fact, I have spells for direct flight, hovering, and acceleration, and I have quite a few. However, I am currently a Little Witch, so I chose the most fitting way of flight.
The closer I got to this place, the more I could feel a wonderful thrill.
“Stop thinking; this thrill is not the perception of the sense of space.” The Knowledge Shadow timely reminded me.
“Oh.” I didn’t respond much to the Knowledge Shadow but focused on feeling the enormous spatial crack.
This is a rare opportunity. Previously, I had only heard about the spatial crack opening above Horasso Swamp, and I remained at the knowledge level. However, now standing here experiencing and feeling it, the sensation is far beyond that fleeting thought and imagination from before.
With a wave of my hand, my field covered part of this spatial crack. Although I could completely encompass this entire spatial crack, it is unnecessary. I just want to use a higher-level power to perceive the crack itself.
So there is no observational method better than integrating with the Heart Realm Field perceived through the five senses.
As for Earth Vein Identification Technique… that could also work, but for information at this world level, it would show disconnection unless this spatial break crossed an Earth Vein; otherwise, it would provide no useful information. Therefore, the Earth Vein Identification Technique still has many limitations.
After a brief contact, I quickly discovered that this crack was slowly healing itself at a rate, but at present, I could not see what force was driving this healing.
However, I knew what was stopping their healing—it was the world’s primal soil.
But… I was surprised to find that the method of spatial healing was not pushing the world’s primal soil to heal but rather “transforming” the world’s primal soil into other extraordinary materials and then relying on the compressive force of space for slow healing.
So from time to time, many extraordinary materials would fall from above.
After understanding the form of the spatial crack’s healing, I also roughly understood the power related to this healing.
It seems to be related to transforming the world’s primal soil, and it doesn’t take a guess to know it is related to the world itself.
However, at this moment, I am observing how the world itself transforms the world’s primal soil, looking to see if I can learn, but I quickly discovered… I simply cannot understand.
It is like an ordinary person who has never encountered any extraordinary power watching an alchemy master performing transmutation on materials.
This isn’t just a matter of not understanding; it is a complete lack of support from cognition to thinking processes, principles, power, and so on.
If I must scrutinize it, I can only see the very stable world’s primal soil suddenly transforming into other materials. The process is invisible, the participating force is invisible, the technique used is invisible, and information, imagery, perception, and even spiritual vision cannot help me comprehend how this is accomplished.
After seriously observing for several hours, I finally chose to give up.
If… even just a hint, I actually wouldn’t want to give up. Even knowing that those at the extraordinary level cannot manipulate the world’s primal soil, I still unreservedly and without a doubt continued attempting for several uninterrupted hours.
So I think that giving up like this is not wrong.
Recognizing one’s level is also an important ability.
Although I cannot understand how the world’s primal soil is transformed, this crack itself still has many other aspects to study.
In fact, it also provides me with significant insights into the spatial teleportation spell I mastered. This spell is also important and has become one of my currently indispensable means.
Just as I was preparing to continue my research, I suddenly received a message.
It was a message from the Great Knowledge Tree, realized through the Great Knowledge Sharing Technique. After all, there is no academy network around me, and to contact me, they can only use this method.
It seems they have deeply researched my Great Knowledge Sharing Technique and have shared their findings with my Great Knowledge Tree. Therefore, I naturally know about the development progress, but I lack the energy to delve into it.
“Is it Sister Mei? What happened? You usually don’t take the initiative to contact me.” After confirming who was trying to reach me, I directly connected.
“Xiao Han, are you wandering in the Expanding Realm now?” Principal Mei asked.
“Yeah, is there a problem? Surely you don’t think I’ve gotten lost?”
“It’s nothing, just that after I contact you, you might need to be cautious for a while. The main world… how should I put it? Some incredible characters have come. You understand, with the repair of the Expanding Realm, the main world’s accommodation capacity for extraordinary levels has certainly increased. However, precisely because of that, all sorts of characters have arrived, and of course, your deeds have spread.”
“Ah? What?” I listened attentively but suddenly felt flummoxed that it had something to do with me. “What does this have to do with me? Sister Mei, can you please clarify? What deeds of mine have spread?”
With my inquiry, a commotion came from Principal Mei’s end, followed by something about discovering who, and the connection was cut.
Leaving me still feeling bewildered.
But not long after, I received another response from Principal Mei.
“It’s nothing; I helped eliminate the hidden danger. Consider what I said earlier as if I never said it, I was being chatty.”
I slowly sent a “?,” but Principal Mei did not reply.
“There shouldn’t be a problem… right?”
…
Core Realm.
Witch Academy.
With a bell signaling the end of class, the students in the physically demanding training process staggered back.
Bai Yu tidied up her belongings, and then another figure walked over from the side.
“Hey~ All tidied up, you can leave directly now~”
“There’s really no need to trouble Xiao Han for this.” Sister Bai sighed as she said.
“This is just a clone, there’s no need for you to be so precious about it, Sister Bai. I’m not tired at all with a clone doing the work…”
“Hehehe~” Bai Yu chuckled lightly, “I’m still not quite used to you speaking like that; it feels very disconnected.”
“Are you not sure how to interact with this clone? Don’t worry, this is my clone; whatever you do to her is what you are doing to me. This is a clone I created to accompany you at any time and also one that can fulfill teaching assistant duties whenever needed. Isn’t that great?”
“Well, it’s great… but…”
“There’s no but. Come on, you finished class relatively early today. As far as I know, Sister Bai, you have grasped the main points of your true editing technique. You don’t need to follow along in class; just self-study should be enough, right?”
“Right.”
“Then take the time to go outside and stroll around, just like what my main body is doing in the Expanding Realm, and by the way… experience some ordinary practice.”
“But… don’t always think about practicing…”
“How about experiencing a bit of ordinary romance instead?”
“Okay.” Sister Bai immediately changed her tone.
