Chapter 886: Creating a Bloodline-Inclusive Fool Dream?
After organizing these onlookers, I also took out the dream state soul material specimen.
Fortunately, I had thought to keep a commemorative sample; otherwise, I would have nothing to show them now.
The next batch of dream state soul material effects might take a while to purify, although it is much more efficient compared to the previous trial-and-error period, it still wouldn’t show results in just a day or two.
“This is the dream state soul material? It’s completely different from the dream demon I captured; it’s hard to imagine they were once the same kind of thing.”
“This specimen belongs to the dream side, right? It’s a pity I can only observe it here. If I could take it out, I would definitely show it to the other witches.”
“It is indeed a specimen located within the dream realm; however, it doesn’t require a deep dream state—the shallow dream state is sufficient for transfer. What does this older sister plan to do with it?” I asked.
“Ah~ I recently have a Witch Academic Tea Party~ I really want to take this over to show them!”
“I see.” I nodded in understanding.
Although the Witch Tea Party is mostly a casual gathering for witches, some special academic meetings are held in this manner, belonging to an invitation-only type with high entry barriers.
In a sense, this is also a characteristic of witches.
Moreover, many of these high-level witch academic tea parties are held in the Primordial Dream World.
After all, many witches cannot traverse the void just for a tea party.
So the Primordial Dream World is just right for it.
Of course, the circle of the Witch Academy in the Main World is much smaller, and it’s not necessary to hold it in the Primordial Dream World; some tea parties can directly invite others since meeting in reality is much more meaningful than in the Primordial Dream World.
“Actually, if you really want to do this, you can directly place it in the Soul Dream and create a small overlap of dreams at the venue to extract it then.” I suggested.
“Uh… can the Soul Dream be used this way?”
“Can’t it? What do you usually use the Soul Dream for, dear sisters? I’m a bit confused.
I really didn’t know.
I also asked Sister Bai, but she obviously didn’t utilize it well.
Sister Bai occasionally sinks her mind into it to practice the Witch Meditation Method, which is less prone to outside disturbances.
“Hmm… tapping into personal space in the Primordial Dream World? I usually use it that way.”
“Advanced techniques developed based on the Soul Dream are very costly and have little practical use, so I generally overlook them.”
“I have filled mine with things from my memories to anchor my distant recollections; the function seems to overlap somewhat with the Great Knowledge Seed.”
Several witch sisters also shared their uses of the Soul Dream, and surprisingly, their experiments with it were rather… ordinary?
But thinking about it, before the Dream Demon inhabited my Soul Dream, and with those two Great Spellbooks missing, I also had little use for the Soul Dream.
It was applicable for research in the dream realm, but in other fields, the Soul Dream was merely an illusory “fantasy dream” that could not be used for real-world simulations.
“In that case, can I borrow it? I really need to use this to create an impact at that tea party!”
“Hmm… of course, but don’t break it; this is the first dream state soul material I made, and I originally planned to keep it. If you want to do some experiments with dream state soul material… you will need to wait; the next batch will be ready soon.”
“Really? That’s great! Thank you, Xiao Han~ Hahaha! Our research field in the Primordial Dream can finally stand up!” At this moment, this witch was so excited she seemed ready to give me two hugs, but I politely declined.
“Ah~ I forgot, Xiaoyuan, you are the proposer and discoverer of the concept of dream state soul material! You are also the first little witch to prepare dream state soul material; I think I need to take you along to that tea party!”
“Me? I’d rather not go, and I haven’t completed the theoretical validation, so I don’t really know what to say…”
“It’s fine, it’s fine! I’ll go up and talk; you just sit there and wait for me to point at you, then you’ll be the focus of the whole event and enjoy their envious gazes! That’s all I need!”
“Huh?” I looked at this witch with a perplexed expression; has her taste for mischief reached the point of a formal academic tea party?
“No, no… I don’t want to be a part of your amusement…”
“Really? What a pity…”
“No pity… In fact, I’m not going because you all know that the original dream laboratory is maintained by me, and I can’t leave here right now.” I had no choice but to use this excuse to avoid going.
If it weren’t for this place, I would want to take a look in the form of a clone; after all, I hadn’t participated in such tea parties much.
“Alright~ I also considered things; then… let’s leave it at that.” This witch also had this style and didn’t push too hard.
But fortunately, she got what can be considered the only specimen of the dream state soul material!
Nothing is more precious than this!
“By the way, Xiao Han, can I borrow that Fool Dream for research?”
“No way.” I shook my head and firmly disagreed; after all, regarding fools, that is my bottom line, and possibly handing it over to her for research is akin to treating it like a test subject.
“Alright~ then… I’d like to ask, if I want to predefine a dream state soul material, what do I need to pay? I’m really eager for one to study!”
“Yes, yes! I also want one!”
“Well… can you describe how to purify it? I also want to try getting dream state soul material through Dream Demon purification!”
“Hehe! Aren’t you being too presumptuous? You think you can just ask for this skill?”
“Ah… I’m sorry; I got too excited and a bit dizzy.”
“Listen, it’s not that I don’t want to teach, but if I teach this technique, you won’t be able to use it.” I also followed their topic and said.
As soon as I said that, they understood.
There’s nothing that can’t be learned; the only issue is that if you learn it, you might not be able to use it, which usually happens with… the derived techniques of the Great Spellbooks.
Speaking of this, everyone understood and didn’t offer to teach any techniques.
Without capital, you can’t really use it.
This is not like those techniques related to great knowledge sharing, which use the power of the Great Knowledge Seed as a medium.
As the concepts of dream state soul material started to be accepted, I returned to my original experimental platform.
Everyone is now mature scholarly witches, and when encountering any novel items, they usually seek to understand them on their own. They only come to humbly ask when they truly don’t understand.
Moreover, the dream state soul material I lent out was only requested not to be damaged; actually, some observational data and experiments on natural properties could still be carried out.
While the other witches were busy doing their own things at this moment, I was talking with the four little ones about significant matters regarding the Fool Dream race!
After all, to let the Fool Dream become a life, it needed to define itself as what kind of life?
Perhaps there are many lives in this world that should not exist, but even so, they have a reason for existence.
So should Fool Dreams.
But compared to discussing these abstract matters, I talked with the Fool Dreams about more practical concepts, such as the underlying racial concepts above their soul essence and the corresponding bloodline information of their entities.
Even the simplest forms of life have racial concepts and bloodline information inscribed on their essence.
Even the simplest Abyssal Serpent—a creature that curls up like a meatball—is still a form of life, which proves how low the threshold for life can be.
However, a low threshold does not mean that newly born life is easy to create; the lower the threshold for life forms, the more spontaneously they will emerge in the void, and from such species, more varied ancestral races will evolve.
These lives aren’t available for others to interfere with their creation.
So, what I understand about creating life is essentially all based on existing species as templates, making racial interventions, thus resulting in new organisms.
I glanced at the Fool Dreams, then looked for the template of Catgirls… actually, using it as a reference isn’t impossible for me.
However, endowing the Fool Dreams with the Catgirl’s cat ear traits is my personal preference; Fool Dreams rarely exhibit traits similar to cats. If I really used Catgirls as a template, it would passively endow the Fool Dreams with certain racial concepts and bloodline information of Catgirls.
Perhaps future Fool Dreams might display feline habits, like… um… speaking with a “meow” inflection?
But the Fool Dreams don’t mind that at all.
After all, for them, as long as they can become life, their threshold can be infinitely lowered.
It can be said that the upper limit of freedom is the upper limit of a person’s understanding.
Fool Dreams are no exception.
This is akin to indigenous groups trying to enter modern society; their baseline is simply to have enough to eat and a place to stay.
When you talk to them about blessings and human rights, they won’t understand a word.
Only through the process of integrating will they experience the hardships after birth and thus come to understand the essence of freedom.
In fact, I was also conceiving a brand new, special race defined not by appearance, bloodline, and other factors.
And the template is the Witch Race.
Due to the external transformation attribute of the Witch Race, many bloodline branches can be seen among witches, such as Elf Witches, Holy Angel Witches, Demon Witches, etc.
Are they elves? Are they Holy Angels?
No, they are witches.
This requires a race to possess a high tolerance for bloodlines.
I want to preserve the Fool Dream’s Catgirl appearance, but I also don’t want to deprive the Fool Dreams of the right to abandon this form.
Even though none of the Fool Dreams would contradict their Catgirl forms now, they would eventually have preferences, and this is not betrayal. Since I choose to give the Fool Dreams freedom, I naturally won’t demand that all Fool Dreams live for me—this is a breaking away from the ideological chains imposed on them!
Theoretically, I should be happy about this.
After preparing my mental expectations and making some simple plans, I began to seamlessly enter a practical state, directly attempting to endow racial concepts.
However, at this stage, I found that the Soul Drawing technique seemed to struggle with this.
After all, every field has its expertise, and the Soul Drawing technique mainly acts on soul shaping, which also includes the process of soul material transitioning to soul, but it falls short in depicting the racial concepts and bloodline information that lie above the essence of the soul.
For instance, soul drawing is like a mobile phone production line, using raw materials (soul material) to piece together a phone (soul), but the phone’s most critical operating system (racial concept) and chip (bloodline information) cannot be manually crafted with these tools.
Of course, this is just an analogy; the real situation may be even more complex.
Faced with this situation, I actually prefer to create an entirely new technique for this purpose.
Initially, I evolved from modal soul to the soul drawing technique, and then to the refinement and birth of the wisdom endowment. I can’t give up at this critical stage, nor can I settle for mediocrity.
I certainly cannot feel satisfied just because I achieved these accomplishments.
The poverty in this aspect can be said to be vividly displayed, and I do this merely to fulfill my commitment: “I want to give the Fool Dreams the best!”
As for creating an entirely new technique… I now have some clues.
If my previous concept of the Soul Drawing technique was to “define soul life,” then this technique’s focus is, on that basis, “refining life concepts.”
How to refine?
I will refine according to how those brand new races refine.
Thus, this unknown life technique originally received its name—“Life Evolution.”
If slowly “editing” a life from scratch may lead to a life that never stops, then when a systematically structured system gradually “evolves” under external forces, individual will can influence this evolutionary process.
This is the reason I previously stated that the Fool Dreams need an existing racial template.
When it comes to creating life, no one dares to say they can start from scratch.
Perhaps only the void itself is qualified to do so, while our lives merely stir its personal will throughout this process; essentially, it is but a mere coincidence of incorporating the void’s evolutionary trajectory.
Even those who claim to have created entirely new life are merely imposing their will on the process of evolution in the void; essentially, it is nothing more than extracting the coincidence of the void’s own evolutionary trajectory.
Naturally, this perspective is too broad, and the so-called significance is that life bestows meaning upon life; there is no need to narrate everything from the perspective of the void to render it meaningless.
Life itself is meaning, as the new progenitors of life represent… the first expansion of the known racial boundaries within the void.
Transforming the unknowable into the recognizable, this is the derivative significance of life’s existence and also the ultimate pursuit life bestows upon itself.
