Chapter 875: Dream Catastrophe… A Co-occurring Disaster of Order Conflict
“Are they… entering a deeper level of the Primordial Dream? Is this really okay?”
Looking at the emptiness around them, a witch asked.
“Sigh… It should… be okay…” Headmaster Mei Linde sighed, “But Xiao Han is still too reckless!”
“It’s fine~ After all, one is an emerging extraordinary in the Holy Realm, and the other is a little witch, at the stage where their enthusiasm for the extraordinary is not yet extinguished. Mei, you should be happy for them. Didn’t you also do something quite outrageous out of impulse?”
“Maybe… who knows…” After all, she used to have a brash personality, but impulse always comes with a price.
But what about Xiao Han?
Has she ever paid any price for her impulsiveness?
Recalling her rise, Mei Linde felt that the lowest point in her life might just have been during that entry-level competition, where she was disqualified.
Is that considered a price?
With that thought, Mei Linde could only chuckle softly.
……
Within the Primordial Dream.
Bai Yu felt a familiar sensation, that sense of powerlessness she had experienced the first time she dived into the Primordial Dream.
The Soul Essence granted her the right to exist within the Primordial Dream, but it didn’t give her the ability to save herself.
However, she was no longer the helpless version of herself; at that moment, she felt as if she were a drowning person, and in the moment of falling into the water, she possessed the strength to learn self-rescue in dire situations.
“Yes~ Sister, face your fears. I’ll take you to experience another kind of special power within Body Cultivation.”
A familiar voice resonated in Bai Yu’s ears.
Then, she felt a power that surpassed normal “touch,” reaching into her emotions.
The fading emotions of fear seemed to materialize before her at this moment.
“What… is this?”
“Sister, feel it with your heart… Ignore the unquenchable fear, accept fear as part of yourself, and transform it… into your weapon!”
“Weapon?”
Bai Yu had never felt such a strange power, driving emotions with her heart sense… This should be a conventional usage of Body Cultivation power, meant to control her emotions.
But the idea of transforming the weapon in her hand like this… she had never thought of!
“What is this?”
“This is emotional body cultivation.” My voice gradually faded in Bai Yu’s ears, but the concept of “emotional body cultivation” was deeply imprinted in her heart.
“Alright~ this is just a small episode. Even I haven’t organized a systematic promotion framework for emotional body cultivation. Now, what you need to do is complete the construction of your Dream Realm Order!”
“Yes… this is what I need to do now.” Bai Yu quickly became determined. The anchoring of will solidified her existence within the Primordial Dream.
She didn’t ask Xiao Han why she brought her here.
It was obvious that this was deep within the Primordial Dream, and her only impression of this place was… danger.
But now, beneath the label of danger, she saw other things… She gradually realized that this was the stage where she could perform.
Gradually… she recalled the posture Xiao Han had exhibited back in the Primordial Dream. At that time, Xiao Han must have shared this mindset, right?
At this moment, the area centered around Bai Yu in the Primordial Dream gradually became “meaningful,” as the order of perception solidified and information spontaneously completed its mission in an orderly manner.
Unlike the last time when the Primordial Dream was thrown into chaos, stemming from the sensory order of the body system, it felt more like a “bystander,” constructing order based on sensory perception and generating perceiving characteristics through this order.
Without a conscious awakened body as the foundation of the domain, and without [Extraordinary Knowledge] as a characteristic anchor, Bai Yu solely relied on her Soul Essence at the extraordinary level and her body cultivation system and sensory channels to complete the framework of the domain.
This made Bai Yu’s control over the Dream Realm quite unstable.
Moreover, the nature of the order was only based on fundamental perception; her only means of controlling the Dream Realm was her “sense of time.”
After all, heart sense represents understanding and cognition, while sense of time represents manipulation and control.
In the Primordial Dream, the birth of order inevitably stirred the perception of Dream Consciousness. When those Dream Creatures started to stir, a more terrifying order descended, and those shadows preparing to act dissipated in an instant within the Primordial Dream.
“Hmph~ You all ran fast; otherwise, you would’ve become materials for Dream State Soul Material experiments.”
This statement, under the deconstruction of Knowledge Power order, transformed into a cognitive concept, spreading throughout the Primordial Dream.
Perhaps those Dream Creatures didn’t understand what this meant, nor what the Dream State Soul Material experiment was, but the extreme threat implied felt like a sharp blade piercing into the consciousness of each Dream Creature, stifling their innate instincts at birth.
When the Primordial Dream no longer had anything that could threaten the sisters, I watched as Sister Bai’s Dream Realm gradually took shape.
Of course, it wasn’t forming a Dream Realm like mine; it was taking on a prototype.
To reach the same completeness I achieved, Sister Bai needed more time to adapt continuously.
What I am doing now is waiting for Sister Bai to achieve phased success, at least to have a “capability” that can be showcased at the application level.
Sister Bai’s domain order is not like my “universal tendency” shaped by Knowledge Power; it is more inclined towards “perception.”
This means that once Sister Bai’s domain prototype is completed, she will be the witch in this laboratory, besides me, with the strongest perception and collection of Primordial Dream data!
What is most important during the experimental process?
Naturally, it’s observation and data feedback!
Because this data is directly related to the subsequent construction of theoretical frameworks and experimental promotion.
It can be said that, from this moment on, Sister Bai became the “humanoid Primordial Dream observer” highly sought after in the field of Primordial Dream research.
Of course, this is just the most superficial usage; Sister Bai’s ability to perceive the Dream Realm is mainly for monitoring the Primordial Dream.
If we compare the Primordial Dream to a large open-world game, then Sister Bai is using herself as the origin point, enabling full mapping and all-dimensional perception, like reaching the highest level of identification techniques.
Although she has no “combat power,” this enhancement of ability surpasses that of combat power.
The only regret is that other races have barely scratched the surface of exploring the Primordial Dream, as if this large open-world game hasn’t yet launched, making it impossible to showcase its superiority.
Of course, although this “game” of the Primordial Dream hasn’t launched, the reality of the Void has already opened up.
Though it is said that the two “games” of reality and dreams cannot interfere with each other, it doesn’t matter because there is a concept called—linkage.
And the mode of linkage is “overlapping reality and dreams.”
Once Sister Bai’s order framework is completed, I also realized that it was time.
As the saying goes, smoke is eaten one bite at a time; Sister Bai’s desire to perfect her Dream Realm needs more time.
However, even if Sister Bai did nothing, I sensed the fluctuations originating from the Primordial Dream.
And this characteristic was very familiar to me… It was brewing a small-scale Dream Catastrophe!
The stirring of the Primordial Dream has never been caused by mere strength, but rather by the conflict of orders. Even a perception order that has no “destructive” characteristics, when colliding with chaos and disorder, can stir up waves in the Primordial Dream.
In the real world.
Primordial Dream Laboratory.
Mei Linde, as a clone, also sensed the “familiar” fluctuations.
“What are Xiao Xun and the others doing?” Mei Linde’s expression changed dramatically!
Because the last time she sensed this kind of fluctuation in the Primordial Dream, what followed closely was… a Dream Catastrophe!
“Quickly leave! It’s a Dream Catastrophe! Get all the witches in the laboratory to evacuate!” Mei Linde immediately made what she deemed the correct choice.
At the moment she uttered this and was about to run, the appearance of two figures in the Primordial Dream slightly eased her anxiety.
“Leave it to me to handle!”
When I arrived in reality ahead of Sister Bai, I figured out what kind of commotion we had caused.
We had stirred up a small-scale Dream Catastrophe!
Although the techniques to scatter a large-scale Primordial Dream were still in a theoretical state, if I suppressed the Primordial Dream with my order, I could contain the disaster at its budding stage.
Moreover, what’s more… the order conflict that Sister Bai interfered with was far too weak compared to my order.
But even so, the Dream unleashed by the Primordial Dream still had quite an impact on reality.
However, compared to the scale of the expanding realm that swept over half the world, this was negligible.
And under my order suppression, the deep layers of the Primordial Dream almost did not intrude into reality; however, a large number of uncontrollable shallow dreams had swept across nearly half of the Witch Academy.
“Looks like we’ll have to issue an emergency announcement for the academy again…” Mei Linde said, rubbing her forehead.
But upon seeing that it was just shallow dreams that had spread, she breathed a sigh of relief.
If it were only shallow dreams, the witches still had the capability to handle it.
After all, witches are not completely ignorant about dreams; they have accumulated a wealth of experience and skills to cope with most issues related to shallow dreams.
As for why the witches did not deal with the shallow dreams in the expanding realm, it was because the expanding realm needed to undergo a process of restoration after experiencing world recovery; naturally, they would not interfere.
Since the reality of the Core Realm and dreams exists in a relatively stable state, witches need to maintain this stability.
An event of such magnitude occurring in the academy’s experiments naturally requires a notification.
Shallow dreams do not impact as severely as deep layers of the Primordial Dream.
So, theoretically, the number of people affected is not many; typically, only ordinary people are drawn in, and even then, they only display characteristics of deep sleep.
All individuals in the Witch Academy have been exposed to the Witch Meditation Method and possess a special resistance to shallow dreams.
However, compared to these “insignificant” incidents, she was obviously more concerned about whether this experiment was successful!
If it really succeeded, then… the power system of the witch race would need to be redefined!
And the weight of choice related to body cultivation within this power system would be further deepened.
At this moment, looking at the area around the experiment district, which was the center of this dream overlap, the area affected was indeed vast.
After all, the Witch Academy is a fully equipped academic city, covering a large area. Even if it affected only a small part of the Witch Academy, it nearly encompassed most of the central teaching area.
This not only provides an explanation to the students but is also a statement to all the witches affected.
Even though witches would not be troubled by such shallow dreams, Mei Linde, as the headmaster, still needed to consider the emotions of every witch.
After all, witches can be quite terrifying when they gossip.
Just when all the students and witch mentors were looking at the sudden emergency announcement with odd expressions, I had already returned to reality with Sister, and our Soul Essences had also returned to our bodies.
Seeing the two of us appearing as if nothing had happened, Mei Linde and a number of witches approached.
After all, they were more concerned about whether Bai Hua had succeeded!
“Bai Hua, have you already succeeded? The commotion just now was caused by you, right?”
As the headmaster, Mei Linde naturally posed the question everyone was concerned about first.
“I… can only say it was a phased success, but I’m not at the level of Xiaopu yet. As for the commotion…”
“That commotion was indeed caused by Sister Bai.” I spoke up to explain the truth for Bai Hua, “I sort of realized why I caused such a big commotion back then without knowing it.”
“Because the so-called Dream Catastrophe is actually a co-occurring disaster of conflict between the ‘Dream Realm Order’ and ‘chaos and disorder’ within the Primordial Dream, much like how totems can tear open void rifts in reality; it is uncontrollable…”
What I said was somewhat difficult for witches who neither had personal experience with the Dream Realm nor with totems to understand.
However, one thing they understood was that Bai Yu had personally acknowledged her success!
Even if it was just a phased success, it proved that this method was worth a try.
“Good!”
At that moment, Mei Linde sincerely exhaled, for nothing could be better than this.
Even when she first witnessed Xiaohan’s method, she had never been this excited, for the second instance of success represented something far more significant than the special uniqueness of the first!
However, after the exhilaration, there was an unavoidable problem that needed her as the headmaster to handle personally.
That was, the witches attracted by this commotion had already gathered.
Fortunately, this was the experiment district, and one needed permission to enter; otherwise, there would be even more witches congregating here.
Yet looking at the witches streaming from the laboratory to watch the spectacle, Mei Linde felt a headache coming on.
This matter… pertains to the concept of the Dream Realm, and it won’t be easy to explain.
