Chapter 826: Re-Entering the Expanding Realm
Principal Mei’s words kept me pondering for a long time. The Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell is indeed a great breakthrough, but for now, I mainly use it more as a tool for derivative spells and techniques.
“Well… Sister Mei, may I ask one more question?” After a long while, I spoke again.
“Of course, go ahead.”
“What kind of existence is recognized as life by the Void? Is it soul material? Soul? Consciousness? Or is it a race concept and species bloodline that is perfectly self-contained? But those lesser beings have not matured intelligence, do not have functioning five senses, and even lack emotional expression and memory retention… How can such beings be counted as life… Why?”
I continued to speak at length, then glanced at Principal Mei, hoping she would provide me with the answer I was looking for.
However, upon hearing my question, Principal Mei appeared momentarily stunned.
“I’m sorry, Xiao Han, but even I can’t give a definite answer to your question. Although a large part of it is due to my lack of knowledge in this area, to my understanding, no one has been able to define life.”
“It’s not that life is such a complex thing, but sometimes life can be so simple that it’s hard to believe. Even Life Interpretation only summarizes the essence and commonalities of life; of course, it is mixed with the positions, beliefs, and ideological disputes among extraordinary races within the Void.”
“……”
I remained silent for a long time. Principal Mei’s response made me realize once again that creating entirely new life is truly an open-ended question!
It does not matter whether the answers are right or wrong; what matters is the logical coherence of the answers.
Seeing my thoughtful expression, Mei Linde felt a bit embarrassed. After posing several questions that she either didn’t know or was unclear about… It indeed tarnished the image of someone in her position as the principal.
A little witch who hasn’t yet advanced to extraordinary is exploring questions that even she can’t answer; although there’s also the reason of differing specialties, she has indeed witnessed the girl before her gradually stepping onto a path she couldn’t comprehend.
“However, I can tell you another piece of information.”
“What information?” I suddenly looked up and asked in surprise.
“Do you know why I brought the Fool Dream to the Main World back then?” Mei Linde asked.
“Um… Because Sister Mei wanted to be the principal in the Main World?”
Upon hearing my response, Mei Linde couldn’t help but laugh. This kind of off-the-wall answer sometimes really hits the funny bone.
“That is indeed one reason, but it’s definitely not the reason I was hoping you’d say.” After laughing, Mei Linde began to explain, “The main reason is that… the uniqueness of the Main World makes it easier for beings like the Fool Dream to become true life, or in other words, it makes it easier to gain the recognition of the Void.”
“Easier to gain the recognition of the Void?”
“Yes, are you familiar with the situation in the Abyss World? This has been shared in the Great Knowledge Seed, so I’ll assume you know about it.”
“The reason those Abyss Demons want to settle in the Main World is to expand the life cradle of the Abyss World’s large market into the Main World. Given the Main World’s characteristic of giving birth to new life more easily, this alleviates the plight of the Abyss World, where there are no more primordial ancestral races being born. After all, the benefits represented by an entirely new race are enormous.”
“So… why does the Main World have this characteristic?” I asked in curiosity.
This explanation merely rationalized their greed for the Main World, but I wanted to know why.
“The Main World is a world built upon the main vein of the Void. It is the cradle of life, so to speak; the connection between the Main World and the Void is very close, which is why the life born in the Main World is more easily acknowledged by the Void.”
“Then… is it the Void that recognizes life or the world that recognizes it?” I still found it difficult to grasp.
“Is there a difference? It seems you haven’t yet understood the meaning of the phrase ‘the world is the cradle of life nurtured by the Void.’ Isn’t the world a part of the Void?”
“I see.”
“Yes, many things shouldn’t be overthought. Of course, this is just my understanding. I’ll say it again; I haven’t researched much in this area. If you, Xiao Han, find any loopholes in this statement, feel free to correct me at any time.”
“Okay, I will.”
I nodded. Since Principal Mei said this, it meant she had faith in me.
After discussing a few more topics with the principal, I said my goodbyes.
After all, this was merely a report, simply describing what I was going to do, what might occur, as well as remedial measures and emergency strategies for unforeseen circumstances.
I was going to conduct a life experiment involving soul drawing, which was a bit sudden.
After leaving the office, I didn’t go to the Expanding Realm right away.
I planned to wait until the principal notified Ninglan Qiuyue and the others, giving them some mental preparation before I went over.
Before that, I also needed to inform Sister Bai, otherwise, she wouldn’t even know where I had gone.
Even Sister Bai was somewhat surprised by this sudden experiment.
After all, I had been conducting those life experiments in the Instance Realm quite well in recent days, yet suddenly I was to move to the Expanding Realm for experiments, and it was on the level that needed to be reported to the principal. This indeed came as a surprise.
However… inspiration doesn’t come by often, and the same goes for execution.
When I develop interest in something again, the drive generated by this interest is frighteningly powerful!
Moreover, I have gradually understood myself; if something is already set in stone, like the current self-generated magic topic, I’ll fully immerse myself in it, and the soul drawing life experiment can effectively stimulate my interest. However, overly desperate situations can extinguish my motivation.
It was just like not long ago when I realized that my past self had over-simplified everything, and when the path didn’t work out, that feeling of disparity and the unexpected despair… was really unpleasant.
So what truly ignites my interest is something I know I can do, something I have a rough idea about, but can’t see the end immediately.
It’s like the concept of infinite magic; I know this possibility exists. Although I can’t achieve it now, I’m confident I can do it in the future.
This continuous interest is my greatest driving force.
After bidding farewell to Sister Bai, I also decided to check on the self-generated magic experiment before preparing to leave the Witch Academy.
After all, it was a topic I had personally fostered, so I was naturally very concerned about it.
However, I didn’t go directly to find them; instead, I observed quietly from the shadows, without disturbing them.
Seeing everything proceeding smoothly, and no unexpected incidents occurring, I even witnessed more people completing the self-generated magic framework. I felt very gratified before leaving.
It seemed it wouldn’t be long before the self-generated magic process was nearly perfected.
That’s how techniques to be promoted work—overcoming key elements takes a lot of effort, but once it gets down to the techniques and methods that everyone needs to complete, it feels very simple.
It gives one the illusion that they could do it too.
This isn’t about techniques falling from grace; it’s about the fact that it should be like this, and that’s where its value lies.
“Yu Lan~ Yu Yun~ Yu Guo~ It’s time to go.”
I called out slightly, and then a spatial rift opened before me.
Of course, I wouldn’t take the regular teleportation route to the Expanding Realm; that would be too troublesome.
Moreover, going that way would certainly reveal my arrival to others, not to mention that area was already closed. Opening it up again would be akin to informing everyone that I was using privileges to head into the Expanding Realm.
What a bad influence!
Therefore, the only way for me to reach the Expanding Realm was to tear open a space passage with my magic.
I had plenty of teleportation magic marks reserved in the Expanding Realm.
They were like teleportation anchor points in a game map, with important main cities, shelters, and significant landmark areas all marked by me.
The area I reached now was the least populated one.
It was the location of the largest spatial rift in the Expanding Realm, corresponding to the Horasso Swamp in the Core Realm.
The rift had been attached by one of the three elemental origins of the world, the World Primordial Substance, causing it to remain unhealed for a long time.
And to this day, no one has bothered to check on it.
It was incredibly dangerous, so no one built cities or lived in that area.
Even the shelter I built was distancing itself from this place.
Moreover, I still remembered that there were mutated beasts granted intelligence here using the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell.
When I appeared in this area, I saw a group of them.
However… the next moment, they were scared away.
After all, the dozens of meters high fireball emerging above my head meant that if they dared to pounce at me, it would be necessary for me to clear out those dim-witted creatures.
Otherwise, I would find it embarrassing to say I had granted them intelligence, failing them even in the simplest sense of self-preservation and danger avoidance!
But after the fireball dissipated, it created an area dense with fire elements around, and fortunately, this area was composed entirely of the World Primordial Substance and various spatial materials, so it wouldn’t ignite a forest fire.
“Sister Xiao Han, where is this? The Expanding Realm?”
“Yes, this is a certain part of the Expanding Realm. After all, the experiments we’re conducting aren’t suitable for crowded places,” I reassured the Fool Dream who had come with me.
Although it was a bit rushed, it wasn’t a problem for me.
It was simple to establish a permanent location for my experiments here.
As for the sleeping arrangements?
That, of course, would be in the Instance Realm! I wouldn’t shortchange myself when it comes to sleeping.
As for the experiment location, a harsh environment helped me understand that I was conducting extraordinary experiments.
So after some simple arrangements, we prepared a large stone, cutting out a flat surface to serve as our experiment site.
And the first thing we needed to do was… to verify the possibility of dream state souls.
The place I was in was shrouded by dreams, but the incursion of dreams into reality was still insufficient, so I planned to expand the domain to deepen the intrusion of dreams into reality.
Since everything in the Primordial Dream is void, only by anchoring it to reality can the entire structure of reality be completely traced in the dream world, making my spells and techniques meaningful in the realm of dreams.
I wanted to use the soul drawing technique to verify the possibility of dream creatures and the hypothesis of dream state souls, and constructing a logically coherent system in the dream world was very important.
What system has no holes at all and is extremely stable?
That would naturally be the framework of reality!
As I gradually expanded my domain, the dreams around me began to deepen their “plunder” of information from the real world, which is the source of the Dream Rewriting Spell.
However, for now, I didn’t need this means. Everything rewritten by the Dream Rewriting Spell held no significance; it was more like a projection of reality within the dream and could be very orderly or completely chaotic.
The more it can break the order and rules, the less meaningful it becomes.
Establishing order in the dream is the beginning of significance.
At this moment, with the help of Dream Demon Spells, my consciousness entered the dream world, and under my practiced skills, my current state was one where my physical body and the dream were in synchronized awareness.
If my soul directly entered the dream, then my physical body couldn’t maintain the domain, so I had to take this approach.
“Sister Xiao Han, do we need to enter the dream as well?” Yu Lan tugged at my skirt, curiously asking.
“You can join me if you want. Um… wait a moment.” I took out a blanket from my storage equipment and spread it on the ground. “You can lie on this; the ground is rather dirty.”
After I completed this action, the three Fool Dreams had also entered the dream, and their physical bodies in reality seemed to fall into an eternal sleep, retaining only the most primitive basic bodily activities.
This state was already familiar to the Fool Dreams, and even this method could facilitate remote delivery in the dream.
After all, the Primordial Dream does not adhere to the so-called “distance concept” like reality does.
At this moment, what I lacked was only one thing: a dream creature.
As long as I got the test subject, the experiment could begin.
As for how to attract a dream creature, in this Expanding Realm, there’s no dream creature that a Soul Crystal can’t handle!
With this in mind, I took out a sealed Soul Crystal from the Box of Books. After all, the crystalline state of a Soul Crystal isn’t stable, and only the seal of the Box of Books can properly preserve it.
As the Soul Crystal appeared, I quickly sensed the “abnormality” in the dream.
After realizing the Fool Dream’s remote delivery capability in the dream, I understood exactly what this abnormality was.
This was the omen that those dream creatures were about to appear, signifying they were going to self-transport to the location of this Soul Crystal.
“It seems I need to create a dream maze in the dream for capturing dream creatures…” I mumbled to myself.
After all, I couldn’t waste time capturing dream creatures.
Dream creatures can teleport between dreams significantly slower than the Fool Dream, so at this moment, I was already considering how to design a dead-end maze in the dream specifically for capturing dream creatures.
Moreover, this maze would need to protect the bait Soul Crystal, preventing them from consuming it while still ensuring they are drawn to it; otherwise, if they couldn’t reach it, they could also use this method of transport to escape the maze’s predicament.
In such a case, the dream maze would be meaningless.
Just as I was contemplating, the figure of the first dream creature appeared!
“Hehe~ The first little greedy cat has emerged… Be a good little experimental material for me!”
