Chapter 843: Broad Prospects of the Dream Catastrophe
“Mm?” I looked at Aina in confusion, wondering what she had thought of in such a short time, but I told her the reasons truthfully.
“Because I can communicate with the outside world through the Great Knowledge Tree.”
“What? The Great Knowledge Tree can communicate with the outside world…” Aina started to say, then suddenly realized that the Great Knowledge Tree is a Great Spellbook, and as a Great Spellbook made from Extraordinary Knowledge that can function in the Primordial Dream World, it doesn’t seem difficult to achieve such communication.
However, Aina had never used a Great Spellbook, so she naturally did not fully understand what the Great Spellbook could do in the Primordial Dream World.
Even if she knew a lot and was curious enough to verify with me, I could still give her a satisfactory answer.
Because the Great Knowledge Tree itself is a kind of integrated Great Spellbook that utilizes the concept of “knowledge” as its carrier to process information, so the “reconstruction” of this Great Spellbook within the Primordial Dream World is also the fastest and most convenient.
“Sorry… I might have thought too much just now, I even thought I might be in a special dream constructed by my memory within the Primordial Dream World…” After all, regarding the concept of “Dream Realm” mentioned earlier, she still instinctively felt it was a bit too fantastical.
“Is that so? The Primordial Dream World is indeed quite strange and complex; maintaining vigilance is very important.”
After understanding the reason for her vigilance, I totally empathized. After all, dreams can be extremely terrifying in their deception of consciousness and perception.
However… as we delve deeper into the Soul Great Topic, the understanding and perception of the essence of the soul towards dreams would gradually help distinguish between dreams and reality. Therefore, it is unlikely that one would find themselves confused between the two while dreaming.
Moreover, the witches studying the Soul Great Topic have developed abilities related to resistance against the essence of life concerning dream illusions based on this foundation.
Aina herself claimed to be a practitioner witch of the Soul Great Topic and a powerful Holy Realm witch.
Despite her level, she still doubted her own perception, and it was evident that the torment of the Primordial Dream World had made her too reactive.
After calming Aina, we were temporarily settled in a housing area of Fool Village with the help of the Village Head.
But not long after, Aina actively came to me again.
After accepting everything, she suddenly recalled some matters.
For instance… what was her purpose for coming here?
She originally came to explore the characteristics of the Primordial Dream World because, after all, experiencing many experiments in person is better than just doing them in a laboratory.
However, due to an accident, she ended up here, and the comfortable atmosphere had even begun to influence her to the extent that she almost forgot her purpose.
It wasn’t until she became restless and reflected on everything that she recalled what she wanted to do.
This saved her from being assimilated by the Primordial Dream World regarding her cognition, goals, and purposes.
Additionally, she became aware of something very important…
That was, during her earlier interactions with Xiao Han, she overlooked a crucial detail!
Xiao Han said that her Great Knowledge Tree can communicate with the outside world!
At the time she obtained the “answer” to this question, she explained her inner worries but neglected the value of the answer itself!
After cursing the d*mn Primordial Dream World, Aina immediately sought me out again.
“Xiao Han, I just remembered… your Great Knowledge Tree can contact the outside world, right? It’s reality, isn’t it?”
“Yes, but… due to the developmental reasons of its functions, I can currently only contact Sister Bai, that is, Bai Yu. Do you know her, Sister Aina?” I tilted my head slightly towards Aina, feeling that the witches within the Primordial Dream World seemed a bit slow-witted…
However… if I hadn’t anchored my memories with the Great Knowledge Tree, I might appear even worse than her.
Recalling how I performed during my first deep dive into the Primordial Dream World, even just reminiscing could convey the extremely high dangers of that world.
“Bai Yu… I know her; she’s your girlfriend, right? Can you only contact her?” Aina eagerly asked.
“Yes, because of my relationship with Sister Bai, the only communication channel between the Great Knowledge Tree and the Great Knowledge Seed is this one, but it’s fine; Sister Bai has already informed the Academy Head, and this communication channel is currently the only line of contact between the Primordial Dream World and reality. If Sister Aina wants to contact someone, I can just tell Sister Bai.”
“Help me contact the Academy Head… just the Academy Head, I want to inform her of my current situation… I hope she doesn’t think I’m dying…”
“Ah… that should be unlikely? I also heard that there seems to be more than just you, Sister Aina, among the Extraordinary Witches who entered the Primordial Dream World, right? I remember there should be six? The Academy Head definitely won’t ignore it…” I asked curiously.
“Six? Why so many? Didn’t I think there were just three of us who came down?”
“Perhaps some decided to go after you, Sister Aina?”
“Mm, that’s quite possible.”
Aina and I chatted casually while I acted as the messenger.
“Strange, why has it taken so long, and there’s still no response? Bai Yu shouldn’t have missed my message, right?” Aina thought to herself, finding the waiting time a bit longer than expected. Normally, messages from the Great Knowledge Seed are supposed to be real-time, and it’s hard to overlook…
“She definitely wouldn’t; Sister Bai would usually see my message unless there are special circumstances. The concept of time within the Primordial Dream World is quite complex, so there will be differences in the perception of time flow between reality and dreams. Let’s wait a little longer.”
“Alright…”
Aina playfully fiddled with the dream information creations around her, preparing to start a conversation.
“By the way, Xiao Han… can your technique of communication between dreams and reality work between Great Knowledge Seeds? If it can… that would be a massive help in exploring the Primordial Dream World…”
Feeling the Knowledge Tree within her Sea of Consciousness, it was clear that her Great Knowledge Seed could not communicate with reality at the moment.
Or rather, her Great Knowledge Seed was entirely a decoration, merely a dream creation composed of information within the dream.
Even the Great Spellbook itself, effective only with its Extraordinary Knowledge, means that the spell effects of the Great Spellbook within the Primordial Dream World wouldn’t work; such effects are only reflected in the real world.
But evidently, Aina was still not fully aware of this.
“It might be possible, but the technical hurdles to overcome are too numerous, and it’s not easy to popularize at this stage.” I thought for a moment and provided this answer, but I didn’t say it was absolutely impossible.
This idea is indeed feasible, as all I would need to do is reconstruct a brand new “Great Knowledge Seed” using the Great Knowledge Tree in the Primordial Dream World, creating a dream version of the Great Knowledge Seed that could be generalized for use in the Primordial Dream World.
However, that remains a mere idea and inspiration; the issues that need to be considered are extensive.
For example, how should the Great Knowledge Seeds in reality and dreams interface?
How does a dream Great Knowledge Seed exist in reality?
What techniques are used to convert dream information and reality information?
How do the Great Knowledge Seeds of dreams and reality coexist?
Otherwise, it wouldn’t make sense for me to always provide a dream version of the Great Knowledge Seed for communication…
If it were to be like that, is it even necessary to promote this kind of thing?
Therefore, a simple idea may actually involve enormous difficulties and problems behind it, far beyond an inspired thought!
“Is it again a technology that is hard to popularize? Indeed… if everything were that simple, countless smarter witches than us would have resolved these issues already,” Aina sighed.
Before we could chat for a few more sentences, my Great Knowledge Tree received a message, and surprisingly, this time the response was quite fast.
The message in response clearly indicated that the Academy Head and others saw it as a “miracle” that I encountered Aina in the vast Primordial Dream World.
Afterward, Aina slowly began to relay the current situation back.
Including but not limited to the reasons why this Primordial Dream World incident occurred…
……
At this moment in reality.
A group of witches had gathered like spectators due to Bai Yu’s summons.
Earlier on, many witches discussed the issue of dream catastrophes and ultimately decided that they would not back down.
Until Xiao Han proactively sent a message, informing them that she had encountered Witch Aina, along with the subsequent messages, they began to realize the severity of the problem.
They certainly knew about Aina, being one of the first Extraordinary Witches who foolishly entered the Primordial Dream World; both her courage and degree of recklessness left many witches in awe.
However, no one expected that such an Extraordinary Witch would also “encounter misfortune” in the Primordial Dream World, even… falling into Fool Village.
What surprised them even more was that Aina coincidentally encountered Xiao Han in that situation!
Through the connection between the Great Knowledge Seeds, they had roughly deduced the cause and effect from Xiao Han’s internal descriptions and Aina’s external descriptions.
The culprit behind this Primordial Dream World catastrophe was surprisingly that Fool Village! And Xiao Han seemed to be somewhat implicated in this too…
From Aina’s account, it appeared that Xiao Han’s concerns held a high credibility from the current standpoint.
A special dream world of the Primordial Dream… due to an accident, was continuously inundated with countless dream creatures from the depths of the Primordial Dream!
If such a presence were to reach the shallow dream layers, the massive dream creatures entangled within that dream world and the characteristics of the deep Primordial Dream would be enough to plunge a large area of the Expanding Realm into the Primordial Dream!
They underestimated how far the disaster might reach.
Even subsequent intelligence revealed that those students’ consciousnesses entering the Primordial Dream would go insane… that piece of news felt somewhat trivial.
Since student testing was of no use, the Witch Academy could always suspend student cooperation in experiments.
They might even call for other academies to pause their experiments, but surely other academies would not listen.
The more critical question was… they could not estimate the extent to which this dream catastrophe would affect the Expanding Realm.
Relying solely on Xiao Han and Aina’s descriptions left them at a loss.
Furthermore, most of the witches present lacked experience in dream data calculations, after all, the witches related to the Soul Great Topic has all entered the Primordial Dream World, and those seated were all inexperienced.
Data calculations in the Primordial Dream World cannot reference the real world; they could not even establish a spatial coordinate reference system… naturally making it impossible to estimate the scope of this abstract concept.
So… now they had to face yet again a pressing question.
Should they avoid the conflict?
Unnecessary losses certainly should not be stubbornly endured, especially with such a large-scale dream catastrophe; they might even need the cooperation of the local inhabitants of this region in vacating their original shelters.
Though there were no nearby shelters to rely on, to be cautious, Ninglan Qiuyue still needed to notify them for coordination.
Even if the dream catastrophe did not reach them, the residual effects of the Primordial Dream would still exacerbate dream overlapping phenomena in nearby places, leading to unexpected situations.
But that could also be a blessing in disguise; if the Primordial Dream accelerates collecting the Expanding Realm, then the Expanding Realm could enter a decline phase of dream overlap earlier.
Moreover, the natives of the Expanding Realm would no longer be disturbed by dream creatures from the shallow layers.
However, doing so would undoubtedly bear severe side effects, meaning the spot they occupied would suffer even fiercer dream catastrophes.
It might even lead to the extinction of the regional races.
After all, creatures like mutated beasts in the area would be affected as well.
Even if dreams cannot cause any substantial harm to reality, it does not mean that dream catastrophes would not result in irreversible disasters for lives.
The witches discussing this dream catastrophe also recognized the effects of dreams on reality.
Previously, they held a rather indifferent attitude towards dream disasters, thinking it had no relevance to their reality.
But after truly experiencing such a disaster, they vividly realized—so this is how terrifying the Primordial Dream World is!
This is a method that targets only life, without inflicting any damage to a grain of sand or a speck of dust in reality.
However, after acknowledging this, Sheril’s thoughts diverged from the other witches, and she was suddenly enlightened.
As a Betrayer Witch who participated in a world expedition, she knew how effective such a method could be; it perfectly reap a world without needing to violently destroy an entire world, effectively purifying the environment without needing to explain further!
Sadly, she was not a witch who focused on the Soul Great Topic and could not master such methods.
Yet she was very clear about who the little one that caused all this havoc was.
Yang Yuelan.
The source of the disaster is Yang Yuelan, and she had ample reason to imagine that this little witch must have played a role more significant than just serving as a “fuse.”
She suddenly realized that she seemed to appreciate this little witch; indeed… only when “deeds” are presented can other witches recognize them widely.
After the temporary meeting concluded, Sheril did not rush to leave; she turned her gaze towards Bai Yu, and Bai Yu seemed to have understood what she was about to do after meeting her gaze.
After a while, when the other witches had all left, she finally spoke up: “Now that everyone is gone, shall we chat? About Xiao Han…”
