Chapter 830: Prepare to Embrace the Punishment of Knowledge and Truth!
“……”
Regarding their request, even I found it difficult to respond immediately.
It’s not that I was unwilling to grant them power; it’s that, even now… I have no power.
This is the Primordial Dream World, where the order and rules of reality do not apply, and I can’t even cast ordinary spells.
Because the rules here do not apply, the concept of runic rituals has been distorted in dreams.
And the power of the two Great Spellbooks… can only influence myself when relying on the ability anchored to reality.
Moreover, these two Great Spellbooks are not offensive spells.
“I’m sorry… I was too presumptuous… to ask you, Sage Xiao Han, for power right away…”
“I truly apologize, Village Head, we’re completely unfamiliar with everything here,” at this moment, Yu Lan spoke up.
“Ah… it’s the three heroes…” The Village Head looked at Yu Lan as she spoke and suddenly realized she had somewhat overlooked the three heroes.
However, the three heroes now seemed as if they no longer recognized her, which truly saddened her.
What kind of determination did these warriors possess back then to step out of the comfortable Fool Village and seek the last glimmer of possibilities in the boundless Primordial Dream World?
As the Village Head, she naturally knew the “scroll story” that took place at that time.
The Village Head had desperately tried to persuade them to stay, yet they were still resolute in seeking the final hope for the Fool Dream Clan.
As the Village Head, how could she not know that stepping out of the Fool Village meant being continuously eroded by endless nightmares? They could only rely on sacred objects to maintain their consciousness and face the distortion of nightmares with unwavering will…
Without the Dream World Scroll to carry their memories, it was inevitable for the heroes to forget all this, but the fact that they found the Sage meant that the instinct-driven persistence had still brought them hope for the Fool Dream Clan!
“I’m sorry, it’s not that I don’t want to give you power, but I just don’t know how to give you power.” I said apologetically, “I come from reality, as I mentioned before, and I haven’t been to this Primordial Dream World many times. The power I originally possessed cannot manifest its proper strength here.”
“But… you wield sacred objects! The power of the sacred objects…” At this point, the Village Head’s voice gradually lowered.
“Yes… I still possess sacred objects.” Hearing what the Village Head said, I thought of a lot, “However… since you honor me as Sage, I certainly will not let you down!”
“As you said earlier, sages have profound wisdom and possess endless knowledge, so wisdom is my power; knowledge is my weapon! But I need time to uncover the mysteries hidden behind knowledge to turn it into actual power.”
“Really?!”
Just moments ago, hearing that I could not aid them had left the Village Head somewhat dejected, but upon hearing my words, she suddenly became filled with hope!
“Yes, it is certainly true.” I nodded in promise.
Regardless of whether I encountered this unexpected Fool Dream group, I would continue to explore the “rules” of the Primordial Dream World and apply them.
It’s just that now I had a group of Fool Dreams along with me who called me “Sage Xiao Han”… truly, no one could withstand that…
“Excellent! I… I will tell everyone in Fool Village this good news and hold a grand feast for you, Sage!”
“There’s really no need for it to be so grand.” I quickly waved my hand.
This reminded me of when, in the Witch Academy’s Fool Village Secret Realm, those lovely Fool Dreams also seemed to enjoy hosting feasts for visitors.
“It is a return gift for your arrival, Sage, and your promise to help our Fool Dream Clan! Otherwise, we wouldn’t know how to thank you…”
“Well then…” I didn’t insist they stop this behavior; sometimes adapting to local customs isn’t a bad choice.
After all, who could refuse such a lovely group of Fool Dreams?
Watching the Village Head leave, even allowing me to stay with the Dream World Scroll atop this Starlight Tower, I couldn’t help but sigh at the naivety of Fool Dreams.
However… I would not betray their trust, for regardless of my reasoning, I would not take away the Dream World Scroll at this moment for the sake of completing my Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Tree.
I merely focused my gaze on the long scroll, lost in thought.
I was contemplating the questions.
For instance… is everything I see now real or not?
Why do the images of these Fool Dreams all look like the ones I fabricated for them?
Or is this just a property of dreams, where not only language bypasses the realm of written comprehension but even sight bypasses the cognitive realm of vision?
Making everything conform to my understanding, just like when I first arrived in the Primordial Dream World, I couldn’t see those dream creatures, but the Fool Dreams could…
Whether one can see or recognize… these concepts have long been confused.
After all, what exists here is just my consciousness, and even my five senses are merely by-products of inertial cognition within that consciousness…
Nothing here can be understood using the logic of reality.
“Sister Xiao Han…”
At that moment, Yu Lan tugged at my skirt.
“What’s wrong?” I squatted down and, patting Yu Lan’s little head, asked, “Are you feeling a bit out of place here?”
“Well… I am somewhat not used to it… but there’s also a kind of instinctive familiarity here…”
“Perhaps Yu Lan, Yu Yun, and Yu Guo, the three of you, along with everyone at the Witch Academy, all came from here?” I suggested.
“Is that true? We have no memory of that… suddenly, there are so many sisters…”
“I understand that you’re a bit uneasy; some facts may indeed be undeniable, but I don’t want you to force yourselves to accept all this. You are still the Fool Dreams I know, and the time we spent together is real. We have just arrived here due to the anchoring of the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell.”
“Then… are they also our sisters, just like us? How should we regard them…”
The three little ones were clearly entangled in confusion at this moment.
It was a kind of bewilderment faced with lost pasts, everything happening felt too magical for them to accept.
“They can definitely be!” I comfortingly patted Yu Lan’s small head, “Once I complete the true life topics, allowing you and the Fool Dream race to become a truly sentient race, then they can also become true Fool Dreams, right?”
“Is that so?”
“Isn’t it? You’re all striving to become true life forms, identifying as Fool Dreams, distinguishing yourselves from ordinary dream creatures. You have a unified goal, a common dream, so why can’t they be your sisters? Even if you forget them and they forget your existence, can’t your relationship start anew?”
“A new beginning?”
“Yes! Along this journey, haven’t you seen many Fool Dreams? They live fulfilling lives here. Don’t you want to be friends with them?” I continued to express.
“But… we want to return to reality with Sister Xiao Han… the dream… we don’t like this dream…”
“Of course, we want to return to reality! However, that doesn’t prevent you from making friends with them! Become friends, and then you can lead them to become true life forms, to truly be a part of the Fool Dream Clan and come to reality. Isn’t that wonderful?”
I tried my best to guide them to understand this matter; perhaps Fool Dreams couldn’t think so deeply, but I could lead them to strive forward.
“Mm, okay!” The three Fool Dreams nodded in agreement, seemingly accepting my perspective.
After all, whether to accept many things comes down to the excuses one makes for themselves and whether they can accept them.
Just as I was comforting the Fool Dreams, suddenly a new scene emerged on the Dream World Scroll above the Starlight Tower where we were located.
The Dream World Scroll is not measured by time, conserving so-called memories for the Fool Dreams in the village. Instead, it focuses on nodes of events; after all, in dreams, the concept of time is quite abstract, and only the event nodes leave a deep impression.
Suddenly, a dark scene was depicted on the Dream World Scroll, then the sky appeared to rip open, and twisted, monstrous creations were sketched upon the scroll.
Even this innocent and cute art style could not save the savagery of the monsters.
They resembled wolves entering a sheep pen, recklessly endangering the safety of every Fool Dream.
“What on earth happened?!”
I stared in shock at the scroll, incredulous that such happenings had suddenly occurred in such a short time.
Approaching it, I discovered there were records akin to a narration.
“The long-peaceful Fool Village has welcomed its distant heroes. The heroes led the Sage into Fool Village, and the Sage promised to protect Fool Village…”
“However, no Fool Dream noticed that after arriving in Fool Village, the arrival of the Sage briefly exposed the concept of Fool Village, attracting countless evil entities to invade it. They opened their savage jaws and attacked the Fool Dreams preparing a banquet for the Sage, marking the beginning of calamity for Fool Village…”
“d*mn… how could there be such a blunder?” Looking at the monologue on the scroll, I understood the situation.
Because of my arrival, the “position” of Fool Village in the Primordial Dream World had been temporarily exposed.
So… those dream creatures came in just like that?
Although these dream creatures weren’t much to me in shallow dreams, at this moment, in the Primordial Dream World!
That could be deadly!
Moreover, I had previously learned from the Village Head about the nightmares carried by those dream creatures; for Fool Dreams, they were the “curses” to be avoided at all costs.
Isn’t this a wolf entering a sheepfold?
At that moment, I lay on the Starlight Tower, gazing at the location we came from.
This is the highest point of Fool Village, allowing one to see the entire village at a glance.
At the far entrance of Fool Village, a visible “chaos” indeed erupted.
“Let’s go! We need to help them!” I decisively said, no longer hesitating, ready to leap from the high tower.
But just as I was about to jump, I hesitated.
This is a dream, not reality; if it were reality, I would have many ways to take off or even teleport directly.
However, within the Primordial Dream World, these spellbooks and spells had no effect whatsoever.
Not even the strength of Body Cultivation…
So ultimately, I didn’t take the risk but instead led the Fool Dreams downstairs.
In the dream, the essence of individual strength doesn’t seem to follow the same principles as in reality.
The strong outer layer must express the strength of essence.
Even spells: the powerful ones are merely energy, and spells can be simply understood as a means or skill utilizing extraordinary energy.
But there’s no extraordinary energy in dreams, nor is there actual matter.
So that’s fundamentally why spells and Body Cultivation cannot be used.
Then, what exists in dreams?
As I hurried over, I urged myself to quickly think of a solution.
If there’s no solution, then even if I get there, I would just be delivering myself.
So ultimately, the spells that could be used in dreams previously were based on a framework grounded in reality as the structural rules of the dream. Once you delve deeply into the Primordial Dream World, the channels of information between reality and dreams cannot establish themselves in such deep layers of the dream.
So… what exists in dreams?
I thought of another spell, the “Dream Rewriting Spell.”
Although this is still within the spell system, what I needed was not the spell itself but the essence that the spell utilized—information!
What is omnipresent in the dream?
Of course, it’s information!
So relating the dream to information is akin to relating reality to matter.
Everything becomes much clearer!
Now, does the dream possess rituals and the foundational runes developed from those rituals?
Even a similar concept would suffice.
Ultimately, I couldn’t find the corresponding concepts.
But suddenly, another concept came to mind!
That is—Earth Veins!
Earth Veins exist even in dreams, which is something we’ve known for a long time.
The overlapping dreams of the Expanding Realm also belong to the world restoration, as the Earth Veins of the Main World still encompass that part of the dream.
So theoretically, the Primordial Dream World also has Earth Veins.
Does Fool Village possess such Earth Veins?
I subconsciously looked toward the Starlight Tower, the most iconic building of Fool Village, and it is reasonable to speculate that perhaps this could be the gathering place of the Earth Veins.
However, I quickly abandoned the idea of Earth Veins.
Due to the regionality of Earth Veins, I could not manipulate their energy.
Then, what methods exist in the Primordial Dream World to utilize information?
Even the simplest, most primitive methods!
At that moment, I was sprinting with all my might as I approached the site of the incident.
Perhaps I was too anxious, causing me to seem to cross spatial concepts as I appeared here, after all, the concepts of space and time in dreams truly feel distorted and fragile.
“It’s… it’s the Sage!” At that moment, I couldn’t tell which Fool Dream suddenly noticed my presence.
“It’s really the Sage! Has the Sage come to save us?”
“Sage!”
As their hopeful voices echoed one after another, it felt as if I had stepped onto the stage of a scripted play, with all the lights directed at me!
In that instant, I felt like an actor who had forgotten their lines, gazing in confusion as the story progressed down this path.
But I noticed everything around me slowed down, as if my strong desire allowed me more time in this hurried moment… a sense of time.
And just now, it seemed I had crossed space from the far-off Starlight Tower to here, but what was this?
A sense of space… but I lacked the energy to discern all of this.
However, it seemed I knew how to navigate the dream.
Perceptual channels!
Isn’t information perceived by consciousness?
Five senses, sixth sense, seventh sense… even mental power!
The derived means include the Witch Meditation Method… and the Enlightenment Meditation Technique…
Everything happened so fast, almost instinctively.
A book appeared in my hand, resembling the Box of Books, but I clearly knew this was not the Box of Books; it was merely the form that information took within the dream.
I held the spine of the book in my right hand, the corner pointed menacingly at the rampant dream creatures before me. I admit… at that moment, I was fully immersed in the scene, blending into this stage play of Fool Village.
And I spoke my lines.
“I… Yang Yuelan! The Sage of the Fool Dream Clan! I will spare no effort in resisting the evil that attempts to invade Fool Village!”
“Prepare to embrace the punishment of knowledge and truth!”
