Chapter 828: Primordial Dream World and Fool Village Within…
“What… is this place?”
After breaking free from the shallow rules of reality my field interfered with, I entered a place I had never been before.
But without a doubt, this must be the Primordial Dream World!
After confirming that my consciousness anchor placed in the shallow layer of reality had not encountered any issues, I found my confidence growing.
Everything here was strange, like a junkyard; all that I could see were concepts formed by gathered information. As I looked at those conceptual pieces of information, they transformed into concrete things in my subjective perception.
Moreover, these things constantly changed with my understanding, as if I had eaten a poisonous mushroom—everything connected smoothly without any sense of incongruity.
Even I couldn’t define exactly what these creations were, but it was just such existences that constituted this vast “dream world.”
“All of this is the information accumulated from dreams obtaining data from reality… the source is… the dreams of life, perhaps?” I was somewhat surprised by the manifestation of the dreams.
This led me to a possibility—that the Primordial Dream World might be like a junkyard, and those who sleep and dream are like garbage disposers, constructing dreams with their own understanding, which then becomes part of the Primordial Dream World after experiencing it…
Just as I was about to explore further, I felt the dream creature I was holding struggle at that moment.
“Oh, I almost forgot about you.” Looking at the dream creature I had brought here, I remembered what I needed to do.
“What was I… going to do? Can this Primordial Dream World even influence my understanding?”
However, regardless, memories are continuous. After clarifying my memories, I logically deduced what I needed to do.
“I need to use these dream creatures for an experiment, then go back… wait, what experiment was I going to do?”
Upon realizing that I could not resolve this key issue, cold sweat broke out involuntarily on my body.
No, wait!
I’m a consciousness body, how can I sweat?
When I touched upon a question that exceeded my understanding, it immediately triggered a memory.
“No… Sister Bai is still waiting for me…”
When this memory awakened my instincts, I felt myself being forcibly pulled out of this unknown dream world.
Reality.
At that moment, I felt like a lucky person who had been rescued from drowning, gasping for breath to relieve the oppression and fear within my soul.
After a brief moment of calming down, I started to organize the situation from my prior plunge into the Primordial Dream World.
Firstly, one thing was confirmed: I had encountered no dangers from the outside world. Secondly… memory recollections came back, and none were damaged…
So the danger lies within the Primordial Dream World itself!
It had put me in a state of cognitive shielding in a different way, much like how one cannot realize they are dreaming when they are in a dream.
After entering the Primordial Dream World, I surprisingly began to discard my original understanding and plans, as specific memories were enveloped in a mist I could not recall. Related memories could only yield very limited logical inferences.
What frightened me was… upon instinctively recognizing this, I feared that the memory anchor for returning might also fade from my mind!
If that happened, I would be lost within the Primordial Dream World!
Such consequences were unbearable, which is why I returned so decisively.
“Sister Xiao Han, are you feeling better?” At that moment, Yu Lan stepped forward with concern.
“I’m fine—after all, it was my first attempt at entering such a deep Primordial Dream World; I just needed to take a breather.” I patted Yu Lan’s small head and smiled.
With the comfort from Fool Dream, I quickly devised a solution: to reconnect my consciousness with the Great Knowledge Tree, using the Great Knowledge Tree as a safeguard for my understanding and memories.
Although this still may not overcome the effects the dream had on me, it would be sufficient for me to do what I wanted to do.
“Sister Xiao Han, shall we accompany you next?”
“You all want to go too?” I looked at the three small ones from Fool Dream, and although I knew they were dream creatures familiar with the Primordial Dream World, I still worried about them encountering accidents.
“Well… okay then…”
After much hesitation, I recalled my brief experience in the Primordial Dream World and ultimately nodded.
However, agreeing didn’t mean I didn’t have other requirements and preparations, like ensuring that the memory point anchoring awakening communicated with the consciousness of Fool Dream; otherwise, if Fool Dream couldn’t return… that would truly make me cry.
After preparing all of this, an hour had already passed. Don’t underestimate the time required for modifications to the runes of the Primordial Dream World, especially since it involved connecting the consciousness of Fool Dream. This was my first attempt with no prior experience, relying solely on my own exploration.
Fortunately, everything went fairly smoothly.
When I once again plunged into the depths of the Primordial Dream World, I encountered the earlier situation once more.
My own memories and understanding were being “interfered” with by the dream itself.
“Great… Knowledge Tree…”
I called upon the connection between myself and the Great Knowledge Tree. Soon, a massive tree-shaped phantom appeared in my line of sight.
“I recalled…” After sorting through the reserved understanding and memories from the Great Knowledge Tree, I quickly completed the reconstruction of my understanding.
“Fool… Yu Lan? Yu Yun…”
“Sister Xiao Han, we are here!” Suddenly, a voice rang in my ears, but I couldn’t see their figures until they actively touched my “body,” when I suddenly became aware of their existence.
It was as if I had just recognized them; their forms reshaped into those of Fool Dream in my “vision.”
“Was that what you looked like in the Primordial Dream World?” I asked curiously.
There were too many unknowns in the Primordial Dream World that made me feel terrified and uncomfortable.
Just earlier, Fool Dream was right beside me, but I hadn’t perceived them until they made contact with my consciousness body, completing the “touch” of information, allowing me to “see” their existence.
In other words… this dream seems to be not empty, but there are so many things I can’t reach, observe, or know of their existence.
They passed by me in the dream in another form.
Just thinking about this was utterly terrifying.
What if a terrifying dream creature brushed past me?
“Yu Lan… just now… how did you find me? I didn’t see you at that moment.” I began to inquire.
“That’s how I saw Sister Xiao Han!” Yu Lan tilted her head, as if curious why I would ask such a strange question.
“Instinct, perhaps…” I muttered.
Then I noticed where I was; it seemed to be high up on a ruin, with broken pieces from reality all around. In the distance… was an expansive area unimaginably large.
The shattered objects drifted in a bizarre manner yet harmoniously integrated into this place that felt like a “ruin” to me.
My “vision” was somewhat blurry, occasionally clear.
Suddenly, at one moment, I seemed to realize that this area was perhaps a city; the fragments and undulations felt like the towering buildings and skyscrapers within a city.
Once I had this thought, everything before my eyes seemed to become clearer, and the scene in front of me… actually transformed into a bustling metropolis!
“This is… the dream world,” I couldn’t help but reflect.
When I regained my senses, I realized that I was standing beneath the phantom of the Great Knowledge Tree.
The phantom emitted golden light, radiating countless fine golden electric currents, which inadvertently enveloped my entire body with knowledge power. Yet, a strange feeling unexpectedly arose in my thoughts.
That was… I felt out of place here.
“Hmm~ Sister Xiao Han, this is the Primordial Dream World. Many places here don’t follow rules; it’s very absurd and strange,” Yu Lan chimed in beside me.
“So… Yu Lan, how do you see the Primordial Dream World?”
I now had a guess: that dream creatures like Fool Dream might not see the dream world as I did.
This distinction felt similar to how a person without spirit vision perceives real time differently than someone with it.
“What is it like here?” Yu Lan looked at me somewhat curiously, then began to describe earnestly, “It’s a very prosperous city… I can’t see far, but many people live here…”
“Many… people?” Among the lengthy speech from Fool Dream, I caught the one thing that concerned me most.
Because, I see no ‘living creatures’ other than Fool Dream here!
Is this a ghost sighting?
“Well… they should be people, right?”
“Could they be dream creatures?” I inquired.
“Maybe?”
“Yu Lan… silly, this is the Primordial Dream World; they must all be dream creatures!” At that moment, Yu Yun corrected from the side.
“Right!”
I looked at the city “desolate” before me; I couldn’t see the dream creatures Fool Dream mentioned. Perhaps this was the gap.
But I decided to make a bold decision; I was prepared to go and see what the situation really was.
After I made this request, Fool Dream happily led me forwards.
There was not a hint of hesitation.
“By the way, aren’t you afraid that the dream creatures will surge at you?” Halfway there, I suddenly asked.
“Not at all! We still have Sister Bai, right?”
“But… I can’t see them, hence can’t protect you.” I shook my head.
“But we can go back!”
“True! We can return with Sister Xiao Han!”
“Yes, you can follow me back.” I nodded, accepting this explanation.
But I felt like I seemed to forget something…
Why can Fool Dream follow me back, but these dream creatures can’t?
Upon this thought, I suddenly stopped in my tracks.
I exerted myself to seek the answer to this question within the Great Knowledge Tree. From my impression, I had previously explored the answer: Fool Dream could come to reality because of… the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell!
Once I arrived at this answer, it felt like a sudden revelation hit me.
However, the next moment, this “world” abruptly reversed… and I fell into the sky.
“Sister Xiao Han!”
The sudden occurrence sent three little ones from Fool Dream into a panic; watching me fall upside down into the sky, they felt utterly powerless.
Yet my feeling at that moment was rather peculiar; I felt as if the sky was like a mirror—earth and sky had flipped. This sensation I had experienced before.
That was a transition between my Sea of Consciousness and the Sea of Dreams.
I steadily fell into the sky, the sky resembling a reflecting surface. When I plunged into it, it created ripples.
When I turned back around, the tree behind me was still there.
But it was no longer the Great Knowledge Tree.
Instead, it was… the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Tree!
“Sure enough… does the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell have a connection with dreams?”
At this moment, I felt like I had pierced through to a peculiar world; the previous sense of incongruity had vanished, and the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Tree behind me no longer felt out of sync with the Primordial Dream World.
And I… seemed to blend into this place.
Everything felt almost too smooth… I stared at the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Tree behind me, sensing it somehow pulse with a peculiar energy.
“Sister Xiao Han! Are you alright?”
“Sister Xiao Han… just now, you really scared me!”
“I’m fine; sorry to worry you.” I scooped up the three little ones from Fool Dream; what had just occurred was indeed unexpected even to me, yet the peculiar circumstances of the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell had indeed yielded unknown effects.
After soothing Fool Dream, I continued walking.
Towards that… city?
When I gazed again at the “city,” it had already lost the image I originally perceived.
At that moment, within the dream, distance seemed to lose its original meaning; what had once seemed tremendously far away—the gigantic city—was now pulled close to my eyes.
And now… it was no longer a so-called city but a massive village, shedding the outer appearance that had been draped over it by dreams, as if everything I had seen before was merely an illusion.
It wasn’t far from me; in reality, it was very close.
It was not a gigantic city, but a vast village.
Like playing a visual illusion game, I had triggered a peculiar “switch,” presenting it to me in another form.
This is the Primordial Dream World that defies logic and reason.
As I stood at the entrance of this village, I felt a peculiar sense of familiarity wash over me.
Because, this truly resembled the Fool Village Secret Realm I had experienced before!
“Yu Lan… Yu Yun, Yu Guo, do you know where this is?”
“Uh… not sure…”
The three little ones looked hesitant; they indeed seemed unaware of where this was.
But the inherent curiosity and closeness in their eyes inadvertently revealed a special significance.
“But there’s a strangely comforting vibe here…”
“A feeling of comfort?” I echoed the critical phrase, feeling as though I had ventured into an extraordinary place.
I should discuss more with Principal Mei about what happened when she encountered Fool Dream…
Otherwise, I wouldn’t be so clueless now.
Just as I was dazed together with Fool Dream, the big gate of this village suddenly opened, and countless blurry shadows surged out.
When I saw “them,” their forms gradually shifted into discernible shapes.
And the form they presented now was astonishingly similar to the image of Fool Dream I had shaped!
“Welcome back… our hero, we’re glad to see you return… Are there only three of you left…? Have you found the sage who can save our Fool Dream Clan?”
Though I couldn’t understand the words they spoke, their intended meaning clearly imprinted itself in my mind.
Hero? Sage?
“Who are you…?”
