Chapter 957: Dream Demon Workshop
Because the spatial passage torn by Sister Bai was not a fixed-point teleportation channel, no one came to greet us immediately upon our arrival.
However, it was fine; this matter had already been discussed in advance with Ninglan Qiuyue. After entering Ninglan New City, her secretary, Lan Ning, would come to receive us.
Originally, Ninglan Qiuyue intended to come herself, but I persuaded her otherwise.
After all, Lan Qiuyue is already a City Lord and has many things to attend to. It’s unnecessary to waste so much time because of uncertain visitors like us.
The people brought by Millien had mostly visited during the last opening of the Expanding Realm.
However, with the passage of time, the development of Ninglan New City had greatly broadened their horizons.
The Expanding Realm is developing at a rapid pace; it can be said that here, almost every day there are constant changes.
“Teacher Xiao Han, Teacher Bai Yu, and everyone, welcome to Ninglan New City.” Upon seeing this group, Lan Ning hurriedly stepped forward with warmth and concern.
After all, she had learned from the City Lord that Teacher Xiao Han was visiting again, which surprised and delighted her.
Under Lan Ning’s enthusiastic guidance, we again arrived at Ninglan Township Fort.
Ninglan Qiuyue regarded us as distinguished guests, of course, requiring a grand reception.
However, my sister and I came to the Expanding Realm just to relax, so upon seeing Ninglan Qiuyue, we only exchanged pleasantries before allowing her to engage in formal discussions with Millien and the others.
Even though the main text was urgent, Ninglan Qiuyue still repeatedly expressed her willingness to introduce a few familiar guides of the Ninglan Realm to help us experience this rapidly developing world, but we ultimately declined politely.
Although I’m not very familiar with some upcoming professional negotiations, it was evident from the conversations between Millien and Ninglan that the current situation in Ninglan New City is somewhat unsatisfactory.
As the core area of the Expanding Realm, which the Witch Academy has high hopes for, the city is responsible for connecting various disaster refuges.
To become a leader, one must first take on responsibility. Even though Ninglan New City is not the only city in the Ninglan Realm, being crowned with the prefix “Ninglan,” it must become a lighthouse for the Expanding Realm.
And being a lighthouse… is not an easy task.
After politely bidding farewell to Ninglan Qiuyue and the others, my sister and I left.
As for the place in the Expanding Realm where we halted, that had long been arranged.
Our message of arrival hadn’t spread widely in the Expanding Realm; just as my sister said, since the people of the Expanding Realm have elevated me to a pedestal, the best way to maintain that relationship is to keep a distance from them. “Sister Bai~ I heard that Ninglan New City has also developed the underground city. Shall we go take a look?” As I spoke, I saw that distinctive building not far ahead. That building was the location of the elevator connecting Ninglan New City and the underground city.
In the underground city, I would consider it a vast and exposed world vein. During the repair of the Expanding Realm, it was anchored to this exposed fracture of the world vein.
“Sure~” Sister Bai, recalling it, also fell into a wave of memories. She was one of the outsiders when Ninglan New City was first established. Even her impressions of the underground city were numerous, including witnessing different aspects of the ordinary and the diversity of humanity, each point seemingly closely related to her becoming extraordinary.
As we approached, we found that this seemed to have turned into an open ticketing place. The former underground city seemed to have been the main site for the Extraordinary Research Base. However, since it’s now open, the place for cutting-edge research on extraordinary techniques has likely long since changed. I wonder what the Extraordinary Research Association, which used to be a grassroots interest group, has transformed into now. Regardless, engaging with extraordinary techniques will likely result in Ninglan Township Fort integrating it, right?
After purchasing tickets, my sister and I quietly blended into the elevator.
There were many changes compared to before. Take this elevator; I remember it used to feature techniques for carving runes, and now it seems to be driven by connections to the power network, with the root network in charge, combining runes and carving techniques to achieve other applications.
I must say, the extraordinary techniques in the Expanding Realm exemplify fusion.
Perhaps it is mainly due to the significant influences it has undergone.
But as the saying goes, what is convenient for some, the extraordinary techniques are such inconvenient things?
The extraordinary techniques in the Expanding Realm are still in their initial development stage, and chaos is a normal phenomenon. Once they reach a certain development phase, and a genius emerges, they can integrate them all to form a style of inclusive extraordinary techniques unique to the Expanding Realm.
—Time, I seem to understand this feeling a bit now.
If I were to integrate these chaotic techniques, I could certainly do so, but that would take up my precious time, so I wouldn’t do it.
Since it aligns with the perspective of development, it is inevitable that someone will emerge to integrate them; should we not strive in these fields?
In the past, I discovered that the more powerful witches were closer to omnipotence, but now I find that the closer they are to omnipotence, the less they tend to act on everything.
As long as a seed is crossed, with fertile soil and a suitable environment, a towering tree will naturally grow!
From my current perspective looking back at the past, the runic foundations that were unintentionally imparted have been absorbed into the rune system of the Expanding Realm, giving rise to a special extraordinary runic technique.
The power network and root network go without saying.
The plant technology world once invaded by the game world has now seen its Wanlian Main Network Tree planted into the native soil of the game world.
Such changes are truly remarkable.
As the elevator descended to a certain level, the overall view of the underground city came into view.
With the astonishment from those around me, I also turned my gaze to that colossal world vein.
This world vein has become vastly different compared to before; even the rhythmic energy of the world vein releases vibrant illusions of diligent life.
Now, it no longer resembles the “withered” state it once had, as the massive energy of the world vein blurs the visible boundaries.
This stunning scene, I would like to call it… the pulse of the world!
At this moment, the tourists surrounding Sister Bai and I gasped, then immediately took pictures together or whispered their prayers.
The so-called prayers seem to stem from the rumor that wishing upon the miracle of this world may have a chance of coming true, and perhaps even allow them to glimpse into the future.
Thus, this place attracted many visitors to take their photos.
Although I don’t particularly like disrupting beautiful narratives, these rumors are indeed absurd. Perhaps some tourists inadvertently touched the information radiation of the world vein, reflecting special memories formed within the vein.
In such a scenario, Sister Bai gently leaned against me from behind, her hands resting on my shoulders. She then turned her head and whispered in my ear, “Xiao Han~ do you want to take a photo for a memento?”
“Sure~” After I agreed, I threw all rational analyses in my mind aside.
At this moment, there was no talk of high-precision world vein energy gathering channels, only the magnificent miracle radiating colorful brilliance.
Perhaps to allow viewers to admire such beauty for longer, the elevator also began to descend slowly during this part.
I shaped my hands into two ‘eights’, framing a shot that included myself and Sister Bai.
Then, the scene seemed to freeze in that moment.
“How does this one look?”
“It looks pretty good~ Change your pose?”
“How about this?” I withdrew one hand and made a peace sign.
“Sister Xiao Han lacks selfie experience~” My sister smiled calmly, seemingly accepting my poor selfie skills as Xiao Han.
“What should I do instead?”
“It should… be like this!” As she spoke, my sister raised my face at the moment of taking the photo~
“Wow wow~!”
……
This continued for three days.
My sister and I explored many places in the Ninglan world. However, according to the travel guide connecting the root network to the plant network, there are still many places we have not visited.
But we do not plan to rush to these places.
After all, we are not here just to check in; swiftly traveling to multiple spots in a short time does not constitute a true journey. There is no enjoyment or leisurely sedimentation to feel what beauty truly is.
Rushing in and out is merely a money-spending trip, not a relaxation journey.
During this period, my sister also accompanied me to the former disaster refuge, which, even now, has not changed its original name despite being a developed city.
Here, I returned to the Wanlian Main Network Tree laboratory. Though this is not the largest Wanlian Main Network Tree in the Expanding Realm, it is the first one and holds significant commemorative value, including the laboratory beneath it.
The witches in the laboratory also set aside their work to warmly welcome my arrival.
After all, the establishment of this laboratory has a strong connection to me, and it still dedicates itself to developing the Wanlian Main Network Tree, continuously enriching the root network and power network.
The value of the Wanlian Main Network Tree system is substantial. Once a mature system is established, this type of modified seed can be rapidly spread throughout a world.
Previously, families within the Core Realm were worried that the Witch Academy would resort to violent means to restructure their world.
However… I must say, the Witch Academy has indeed not abandoned this idea.
Now outside the academy, there are already several core area pilot projects for the Wanlian Main Network Tree.
Three days have already passed.
Millien has also bought a piece of land for me in the outskirts of the Ninglan Earth.
Or rather, this is a piece of land offered by Ninglan New City. Even if it’s still remote, Millien has completed everything according to my requirements.
Including the planning and construction of the factory area, to meet my needs, Millien also has a clone of mine accompanying her.
And the reason she could complete these requirements so quickly is primarily because… the money has arrived.
Plus, there’s the development of professions on the power network.
The extraordinary professions in the power network have been continuously evolving since I let go, and now they are no longer limited to combat professions.
Professions like architects have emerged, and various basic constructions can even be further subdivided into job levels.
With the architect endowed with extraordinary skills to master the power network, completing a factory framework in three days is not a challenge at all.
In fact, large engineering machinery isn’t even necessary.
Extraordinary power is indeed remarkable.
If an ordinary person were to manage it, constructing a factory from planning to production would take at least a dozen or even several dozen months.
However, with extraordinary techniques, progress is swift.
Although this is just a factory framework, large-scale equipment for preparing dream state soul material hasn’t been set up yet, the progress in these three days is still astonishing to me.
“Sister Xiao Han, do you know what name you want to give this place? It would help us handle follow-up reports and procedures.” Millien asked.
“Hmm… a factory for purifying dreams and preparing dream state soul materials… let’s simply call it the Dream Factory.” After all, because this factory involves techniques derived from the Great Spellbook, it is destined not to have a large number of workers.
“Workshop… ah! Alright!”
Millien found the name a bit awkward but still agreed to it.
Although she felt it might not be suitable to call such a vast place a workshop, since Sister Xiao Tu wants it this way, she has absolutely no problem with it!
After all, the original meaning of a workshop refers to a small-handcraft production unit, like a workplace composed of a master teaching a few students.
Millien doesn’t quite understand what this factory is going to do; if she knew more, understanding purification laws and concepts of dream state soul materials, she would realize that even in such a large space, finding a “student” who knows dream purification techniques is impossible, not even extraordinary witches can do it.
So the only way to make this factory operational… is me.
Isn’t that considered a small workshop?
“Sure, next, have those architects leave my factory, and keep any idlers away. Afterwards, report to the Wanlian Main Network Tree laboratory that I will take over the permissions for the root network and power network in this area.”
“Alright, is there anything else you want to instruct, Sister Xiao Tu?”
“Nothing for now, just that. If there are any problems, I will contact you directly.” I said.
After all, the Expanding Realm is nominally under the Witch Academy. The Wanlian Internet Laboratory leads the root network and power network of the Expanding Realm, primarily maintaining and updating it, along with some permission adjustments.
Since the regulations are in place, even with privileges, I don’t need to cause trouble for myself or other witches.
Taking over the root network and power network in this area is to ensure complete independence.
The equipment for my upcoming clone production, etc., needs to connect to the power network, while connecting to the root network is for building unmanned and automated frameworks.
After Millien left, Miss Bai also returned from a tour around the area.
“Xiao Han, it seems you haven’t mentioned the purpose of the factory you plan to open to Principal Mei yet?”
“Huh? Haven’t I?”
“Have you? I recall you used the excuse of making money to stuff it over, right? If this is built, it won’t just be money that you earn.” Miss Bai said with a smile.
The factory produces dream state soul material!
One could say, currently, any extraordinary witch involved in primordial dream research would spend a large amount of precious resources for a pure dream state soul material!
