Chapter 837: Nightmare Purification and Emotional Body Cultivation?
With Bai Yu’s explanation, the place fell into silence for a moment.
Mei Linde didn’t even know whether she should care about Xiao Han’s temporary safety or think about the fact that Xiao Han had already come into contact with the concept of dream-state soul material.
“So when did you discover that you could use the Great Knowledge Seed to connect with Xiao Han?”
In the end, Mei Linde asked such a bland question.
“Not too long ago, I was too focused on Xiao Han and hadn’t had time to find you to tell you about it.”
“Not long ago… Did Xiao Han contact you proactively?”
“Yeah, I also didn’t think the Great Knowledge Tree could communicate across dream and reality.” Bai Yu said, somewhat incredulously.
“In fact, it is possible…” Mei Linde didn’t elaborate, but she was very clear that what could be used in the dream was not the Great Spellbook, but rather the Extraordinary Knowledge.
However, she was also very curious about how Xiao Han managed to retain the Great Knowledge Tree’s functions within the Primordial Dream World.
According to her understanding of that Extraordinary Knowledge, its concepts were similar to plants and growth rather than communication.
It could be said that the Great Knowledge Tree, this Great Spellbook, had been entirely a derivative application of Extraordinary Knowledge, with none applied in the proper way.
There might be some, but those were merely derivative techniques that transformed the Wanlian Main Network Tree.
“Then… would it be convenient for me to see the chat records between you two? If it’s not convenient, could you convey some questions for me?” After hesitating for a moment, Mei Linde decided to ask this.
After all, understanding Xiao Han’s situation now indicated that Xiao Han was relatively safe within the Primordial Dream, and if possible, she wanted to establish contact with Xiao Han and see if she could find out the reason that triggered this breakthrough of the Primordial Dream into reality.
If possible, she even wanted to try and see if she could rescue those witches trapped in the Primordial Dream.
Under such unknown circumstances of disconnection, “being able to establish communication” was undoubtedly top-notch good news!
“Of course, that’s possible. Just wait a moment…” Bai Yu hesitated for a moment, but she understood that the situation was quite special. After filtering out some specific conversations in the chat records, she shared the content.
After sharing this long chat record, Mei Linde was also quite shocked, as she did not expect Bai Yu to have chatted with Xiao Han about so much.
From the beginning, it was indeed Xiao Han who had proactively contacted Bai Yu.
After skimming through and extracting the key points, some events began to take shape in Mei Linde’s mind.
First, it was confirmed that Xiao Han had fallen into a dream called “Fool Village,” which was a very special existence within the Primordial Dream.
There were also a vast number of… Fool Dreams!
Yes, those Fool Dreams she encountered while wandering in the Primordial Dream, this group of Fool Dreams actually had a settled community within the Primordial Dream!
And guiding Xiao Han there was the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell, which she had edited herself.
Currently, Xiao Han had already established herself as a sage over there and was researching nightmares and dream-state soul material.
This series of information was indeed too stimulating for Mei Linde’s understanding; who would have thought the plot would develop like this?
However, learning to accept outrageous things was also an instinct that extraordinary beings should develop. Now, she was still more concerned about the theory of dream-state soul material proposed by Xiao Han.
It wasn’t that she hadn’t heard of it, as witches were at the forefront of the Soul Great Topic!
Not to mention what achievements the nearly invisible Truth Witch of the Soul had made; just being among the extraordinary witches who had ventured into the Soul Great Topic had resulted in many outstanding scholars who had made numerous magical discoveries in the Primordial Dream.
Dream-state soul material was not a term that existed in academia, but literally understood, it meant that there existed a concept similar to soul material in the dreams, which were the opposite of reality.
One had to say this was a very bold hypothesis, and such voices were not uncommon in academic circles. Many scholar witches had similar conjectures, as after all, if one didn’t have the guts, how could one conduct experiments?
Let’s just call this concept “dream-state soul material.” For now, witches had yet to discover such an ideal existence in the Primordial Dream.
However, a similar concept had been discovered, and it already had a formal name.
That was — Nightmare.
Nightmares were once referred to as an obstacle preventing dream creatures from transforming into life, but if nightmares were the ideal state of “dream-state soul material,” that would reverse the original theory.
As for deeper academic concepts, Mei Linde had not delved into them, as she was not an all-rounder who learned everything. Just understanding a few interesting things and having a general grasp was already quite remarkable.
Now, reflecting on Xiao Han’s “self-taught” research into dream-state soul material and nightmares, she began to suspect whether the two were indeed the same existence.
After all, in the field of the extraordinary, many things were not proven theorems, yet they were used extensively. This was the “consensus” of the extraordinary world. Moreover, proving something to be unprovable did not mean one shouldn’t use it!
This was akin to the logic behind mysticism.
“Does Xiao Han still not quite understand what has happened in the outside world?” Mei Linde asked casually while browsing through the chat records.
“She probably really doesn’t understand…” Bai Yu flipped through the chat records and seemed to confirm that this topic had not been mentioned.
She had assumed that a nightmare disaster had occurred in the outside world and was very concerned about Xiao Han’s safety from the beginning.
However, Xiao Han had kept responding with comforting words, telling her not to worry too much and that she was safe, showing no awareness of being at the center of a nightmare disaster in the Primordial Dream…
“Ask her. If Xiao Han doesn’t know, that would mean she inadvertently avoided the natural disaster of the Primordial Dream. Then she should stay in Fool Village and not go wild; it would be best to wait until things calm down before coming back.”
“Okay.”
Bai Yu agreed wholeheartedly and immediately began editing the message to send.
At this moment, in the Fool Village of the Primordial Dream.
I glanced at the message from the Great Knowledge Tree.
“Huh? A nightmare disaster occurred in reality… leading to the Primordial Dream breaking through the boundaries of reality?”
Seeing this message made me pause for a moment.
Even I was somewhat surprised by this news that a nightmare disaster had actually occurred in reality?
The fact that Sister Bai, even as an extraordinary being, had to use the term “natural disaster” to describe such a dream event was enough to illustrate the severity of the situation.
However, I also couldn’t just return to reality just to intentionally see what the natural disaster looked like.
Somewhat regrettable.
After responding to Sister Bai, a while later, she replied to my message again.
Sister Bai asked me to stay in Fool Village and that she would notify me to return once the disaster calmed down.
To this, of course, I accepted.
Moreover, I had already planned to stay in the Primordial Dream for a long time, especially since my experimentation with nightmares had just begun!
It could be said that I now had ample evidence to prove that nightmares were indeed “dream-state soul material.”
Moreover… I had already relied on body cultivation to separate the first trace of “sadness” from the nightmares!
This experiment had proven at least two things!
The first was that… the negative conceptual information within nightmares could be extracted!
This also indicated that nightmares could be “purified.”
The second was that… within the self-awakening body cultivation system, there was also a method using emotions!
And it was a special channel at the same level as “perception.”
In fact, I should have thought of the second point earlier, as I first perceived emotions when achieving the sixth sense, as well as the instinctive ability of body cultivation to control one’s own emotions.
All of this indicated that within body cultivation, there was a special framework of power called “emotions.”
As for what this represented… I could say it didn’t represent much.
For me now, it merely meant that I could rely on the power of body cultivation to complete the “deprivation” of negative emotions from nightmares.
If I left the dream, I could try to understand “emotional body cultivation.”
Perhaps this power of body cultivation could really make someone cry uncontrollably with just one punch.
It might even be possible to make someone depressed with a single punch, as emotional body cultivation could deprive emotions and also guide emotions.
Who knows, maybe after slapping someone, the enemy would laugh at the one who slapped them.
This bizarre ability… just thinking about it felt terrifying, and it was psychologically terrifying.
However, clearly, I was not inclined to focus my energy on emotional body cultivation at this moment.
I was only moderately interested in emotional body cultivation but had no pressing need to master it.
After all, its primary use was against enemies, unlike five senses body cultivation, which could help me better explore the truths of this world.
Initially, Sister Bai had encouraged me to take up five senses body cultivation to adapt to spirit vision and connect to the “real five senses” after promoting to the extraordinary.
But at this stage, I still needed to use the power of emotional body cultivation to complete a technique.
“The technique for extracting negative emotions from nightmares.”
I was very curious to see what would happen after extracting those concepts and information I deemed “杂志” (magazines) from the nightmares.
Of course… I was more concerned with how nightmares ultimately spread.
Dream creatures merely carried nightmares. If the mode of transmission was infection… then why was it impossible to cut ties?
Many questions were constantly troubling me.
But I couldn’t give reasonable answers all at once.
For example, another question was… what are Fool Dreams?
I had once explored what the essence of Fool Dreams was; fundamentally, Fool Dreams were awareness. Upon further refining my understanding, I realized it was dream awareness.
It was a special awareness incompatible with reality, which was why my Soul Drawing technique could not shape Fool Dreams.
If I found “dream-state soul material” in the Primordial Dream, then this special soul material could be used to shape the essence of life for Fool Dreams in the dream.
And this line of thought reminded me of another matter.
Could the dream creatures shaped by dream-state soul material… not be life?
After all, even in reality, soul material essence was still recognized as life.
This puzzled me greatly…
Or perhaps… within the Primordial Dream, it could not receive the Void’s acknowledgment?
Regardless, everything would come clear once I completed the dream-state soul…
Because the nature of the soul resided in the bridge between dreams and reality, thus whether dream-state soul or reality soul, they were, in essence, quite similar.
When endowing Fool Dreams with soul through this manner, they could reach reality via the essence of their souls.
This was essentially not much different from how my soul entered dreams from reality; they were merely reversing the process.
This was the bold prediction I once made surrounding the concept of “dream-state soul material,” and the logic I conceived from it.
Now that there had been significant breakthroughs in the nightmare experiments, everything would naturally develop in a favorable direction.
The only regret was that there were no other people in Fool Village to help me share these tedious and repetitive processes.
As for the Fool Dreams?
Those lovely little ones should happily enjoy their lives.
After all, studying nightmares was something only I could do. Not only because Fool Dreams could not objectively reach nightmares, but also only I, with the Sacred Object and self-awakening body cultivation power, could accomplish this.
As my understanding of the Sacred Object deepened, the more I realized what the Extraordinary Knowledge in the Great Spellbook truly represented.
The first time I learned of this concept was during the awakening of my talents upon entering school when Sister Bai told me.
However, it was evident that Sister Bai also did not know exactly what the Extraordinary Knowledge was or how to define it; she simply knew it was very precious—so precious it could provoke life-threatening peril!
Now reflecting on the Extraordinary Knowledge of the Great Ice and Snow Throne Technique, those fragments were similarly sought after and could indeed provoke fatal danger.
And now… within the Primordial Dream, the Great Spellbook shed its “spell” outer layer and revealed its essence.
And I could perceive its essence from another perspective.
It felt very much like something.
That is… a Totem!
But this does not mean that the Extraordinary Knowledge itself is a totem; I can clearly state that it is not.
It is not a totem.
However, its nature possesses very similar characteristics to a totem.
It resembles a combination of my “self-awakening body cultivation” plus “totem.”
If there is something similar to say…
Self-awakening body cultivation itself holds infinite possibilities; it is the starting point for all body cultivation concepts—five senses body cultivation, body forging cultivation, emotional body cultivation… all these existences seem to be constructed upon self-awakening body cultivation, embodying a special power that encompasses almost all “body cultivation concepts.”
Taking my Great Knowledge Tree as an example, the Extraordinary Knowledge within this Great Spellbook likewise holds infinite possibilities. It can become a plant-based Great Spellbook, just as it can become the current Great Knowledge Tree; these are concepts endowed by choice. However, what it fundamentally represents is likely “plant growth.”
Moreover, plants are not just the ordinary concepts of plants, as the Great Knowledge Tree is constructed from a series of concepts like consciousness, thought, knowledge, and information. The concept of “growth” and “expansion” through the absorption of knowledge, information, and insights almost perfectly aligns with its concept.
Within the Primordial Dream, these almost enlightened concepts all at once enlightened me, allowing me to quickly grasp an abundance of things that even language could not describe.
