Chapter 971: Ling Yi’s Friend Never Existed…
Under Ling Yi’s great expectations, Bai Jie and I accompanied Ling Yi to meet her “friend.”
Since the magic formation I set up, which gathered the essence of plants, was relatively close to the He Ya Tree, Ling Yi directly arranged it right before this tree.
“This is the spot…” Ling Yi lifted the flourishing plants, revealing a mass of plant essence inside. It was evident that after being moved to a new place, this mass of plant essence had become richer.
I gently probed this mass of plant essence and could sense the embryonic form of a sprite inside. This very form led the naive Ling Yi to believe that her friend was still alive.
However, this was merely the life aura of the plant essence, which naturally allows the easiest birth of a wood elemental sprite, due to the closeness of plant essence to life aura.
From what I know in the history of Life Interpretation, the first interpretation was the concept of life energy.
Although it has been overthrown, the interpretations of life continue to be absorbed and refined by subsequent theories.
Within this embryo, I could also sense the presence of soul material, the product of the third Life Interpretation.
As for the “memories” of the second life, this embryo currently does not possess it.
Although the subsequent life cycle had some promoting effect at the time, the primary purpose was still to strike against the “evil” forces of life depletion rituals.
For me, helping Ling Yi “revive” this friend is not primarily about shaping life itself, but rather… consciousness.
In my view, consciousness should be the derivative of soul material or soul becoming life.
The existence of Fool Dreams also shows that consciousness can exist independently from the lifecycle of the soul, but this does not prove that consciousness can be born independently from soul material or the essence of life.
After all, Fool Dreams belong to dream state consciousness, which brings to mind the concepts of Dream State Soul Material and even Dream State Soul.
The earliest dream creatures, including the original Fool Dreams, essentially belong to the Primordial Dream, which allows for independent consciousness.
In reality, I have not seen consciousness existing independently from souls or soul material.
At most, soul material or souls have a base existence, with consciousness briefly separating, such as… during disasters in the dream world causing this situation.
But that ties back to the Primordial Dream.
Currently, I have no skills to create consciousness; even the most complex means or techniques involve soul drawing, wisdom endowment, etc.
Even wisdom endowment involves consciousness, but it is also pre-existing consciousness.
I cannot create consciousness from nothing.
At least… I do not have that skill yet.
But it cannot be denied that consciousness is certainly related to the essence of life.
As I pondered these questions, I had already been standing there for a while.
The most anxious was undoubtedly Ling Yi.
Sister Bai silently waited by the side, believing in Xiao Yuan regarding the research related to life, so she stretched out her hand to comfort Ling Yi, gently reassuring this anxious little one.
After waiting for a bit longer, I finally took a soul crystal from my storage equipment. After all, the soul crystal, obtained in exchange for a Heart of Cold Wave, has been accumulating since that time.
The plan was originally to use the soul crystal to shape Si Meng’s soul; however, the discovery of Dream State Soul Material completely disrupted that plan.
Now, it can only be piled up for enhancing my life level. I can say I am constantly touching the boundaries of the extraordinary every moment.
Compared to passive witch transformation, the speed is multiplied by who knows how much.
“What is this?” Ling Yi asked curiously about the item I picked up.
“Oh, this is a soul crystal, an unstable crystalline body formed by the aggregation of high-precision soul material,” I explained to Ling Yi. “Isn’t your friend still in the embryonic stage? Using soul material to make up for her celestial life source…!”
“Um… I don’t understand, but Sister definitely won’t harm her, right?”
“Of course! So you need to be quiet and not disturb me. Just watch me operate quietly.” I looked up at Bai Jie and Ling Yi, mainly directing my words at Ling Yi.
After all, the most naive person is the one who can easily cause trouble.
Once Ling Yi was reassured, I began to operate. Reviving such a special wood elemental sprite is indeed very difficult.
After all, it died before it became a true life; reviving it would mean saying, “wait for death, there is no saving it.”
The deeper I understand the composition of life, the more I understand the simplicity of resurrection spells.
Now, I need to use the Reincarnation Rebirth Spell and soul drawing; if all goes well, I might need to perform some derivation to make it suitable for this special case.
If I were carefree, I could simply use the wisdom endowment method, combined with other consciousness and my own fabricated memories, to shape a Seed of Wisdom, using the outdated idea from when I created Fool Dreams to directly “revive” the wood elemental sprite.
At that time, this wood elemental sprite would have already been the essence of the soul, and although consciousness would be that of another life, the memories would be formed from the earth vein memory of this mass of plant essence in accordance with Ling Yi.
Ling Yi could not distinguish the difference at all.
Furthermore, she would never know about this secret…
But I chose not to do that.
After all, it would be akin to… consciousness possession.
Even though this wood elemental sprite has never even been born as a true life, how could we talk about possession…
However, in doing things… my inner self cannot avoid having some insistence.
Or to say that directly replacing with pre-existing consciousness is too lacking in challenge; what I care more about is… how the soul gives birth to consciousness.
This seems to promote my mastery of brand new techniques, “consciousness creation” or “consciousness derivation.”
If everything fails in the end, then I can consider that matter.
After all… Ling Yi’s friend never existed from the beginning; perhaps there was some existence, but it was only in Ling Yi’s heart.
Such a tragic truth, I do not think revealing it to the naive wood elemental sprite is a good decision.
With the involvement of soul drawing and soul essence, the mass of plant essence before me gradually showed traces of life.
Then, under the Reincarnation Rebirth and life evolution, all this plant essence transformed into the basis of life.
After this operation, I reflected on how rich means dealt with various complex situations with such ease.
Without combining life evolution with the Reincarnation Rebirth Spell, guiding the target’s evolution with the bloodline information of the wood elemental sprite depends on reincarnation as the foundation of body and soul.
The bridge must go through a special derivation to reach this level.
At this moment, the emerald green plant essence seemed to become somewhat different, turning more vibrant, and the body of the sprite being shaped within became clearer.
Yet I clearly understood that everything was still not over.
Its soul has just been formed; without consciousness taking over the essence of life, it was naturally impossible to discuss the possibility of awakening.
I could only rely on the natural nurturing mode to accelerate this process, allowing the soul to give birth to consciousness. With the new soul paired with the new body, when consciousness made its first response, life would begin to shine with its own brilliance.
But… no one knows how long this will take.
Finally, I placed it back into its original place of nurturing, which was arranged by Ling Yi for it.
“Um… Sister Xiao Han, is my friend about to awaken right now?” After seeing that I seemed to have handled everything, Ling Yi was the first to rush forward and ask.
No wonder she was so excited!
After all, she could sense that her friend, still in the embryonic stage, seemed to be on the verge of awakening!
Even her form had become clearer.
“I don’t know exactly when she will wake up. I just removed some hidden dangers for her, but she still does not want to wake up.”
“Huh? She still doesn’t want to wake up? This… is just too much sleep, isn’t it?”
“Being able to sleep… is also a blessing, right? I have given her a chance, and if she awakens, she will have a talent more powerful than an ordinary wood elemental sprite.”
“Really! Sister Xiao Xi is that amazing!”
“Of course! However, for the time being, I’ll need you, Ling Yi, to take care of her. You can spend more time with her, talk to her, share your own stories, and care for each other.”
“Ah? I understand!” Ling Yi nodded earnestly.
After reassuring Ling Yi, the remaining matters could be left to time.
And the remaining time belonged to Bai Jie and me.
Since the wooden house built on Lake Heart Island is in the center of the island, with the growth of the He Ya Tree, the wooden house is about to merge with the tree.
So Bai Jie and I planned to build a lakeside house by the lake.
Well… it’s not because we want to avoid staying on the He Ya Tree with Ling Yi to do some very private things!
However, building a house is no small task; even without doing it entirely by hand as before, it will still take several days.
So for these two days, we plan to spend time in the original wooden house.
At least it can add some soundproofing and privacy protection spells~
After sending Ling Yi away, Bai Jie then embraced me and entered the wooden house.
“Miss, do you really have a way for Ling Yi’s friend…?”
“Sigh~ I knew Sister Bai cared about Ling Yi’s matters too, but this was a misunderstanding. ‘Do we? But one point needs to be clear…’
Ling Yi’s friend has only ever existed in her heart, not by her side.”
“So… even if the wood elemental sprite is eventually born, isn’t it still not her friend?”
“How could that be? From the moment of life’s birth, they were friends; how could she not be a friend? Friendship… is sharing together, bearing together, and experiencing joy together, not a form of obsession for probing or doubting. Doubt arising causes the friendship to fracture.”
“Is that so?” Bai Jie pursed her lips and ultimately chuckled lightly, “Miss, what you say… seems to be more than just friendship, right? Such an ideal state of friendship is hard to find…”
“I know…” Once inside the house, I had no reason to keep hiding. After responding, I nestled back into Bai Jie’s embrace, “What I said is naturally not just friendship, but whether it’s friendship or something else… it’s all for mutual comfort… Sister Bai… I want it…”
“You…” When I lunged at her, Bai Jie already sensed this emotion. Then she felt the restless little hands pulling at her clothes behind her.
“Have you really gotten a taste of sweetness that you can’t stop?”
“Isn’t this the normal frequency between couples?”
…
In the Jun Luo Wilderness.
The temporary placement site for the unstable relocation of secret realm cores, the core of the Ice Snow Throne secret realm has been simply established here.
Due to the existence of this secret realm, the Jun Luo Wilderness area has already been under martial law, and ordinary people cannot reach it.
Only those from the Extraordinary Academy can stay here as protectors, primarily members of the Witch Secret Realm club.
This time, several teams returned to the Jun Luo Wilderness.
As the owners of the Ice Snow Throne secret realm, the witches naturally warmly welcomed them.
However, during the reception, they discovered that the other Extraordinary Academy members present were clearly not resembling a united counter-offensive combat team.
Instead, they exuded an air of pressure and accusations.
And it really was the case.
At first, there were common interests within families, and more families were willing to work for those from the Extraordinary Academy, especially the Wizard Academy, collecting 【Extraordinary Knowledge】 fragments for them.
However, this ultimately led to this situation.
Now, the witch side’s families even accepted the witch’s grace, gaining the qualification for extraordinary power!
How could the other families sit still?
Reflections among family members from various schools naturally led to this scenario.
And counter-attacking the secret realm together?
Isn’t the number of people dying in the secret realm enough?
After statistics, they discovered that the people who died in the ancient ice gates within the secret realm were mostly not from the Witch Academy.
This raised questions; was the witch side’s family cooperating with the Witch Academy to target their families?
But they hadn’t come to reason it out! The reality was in front of them, regardless of whether the other side was dull, the dead were real, and without an explanation and compensation that everyone could accept, this matter could not end well.
Thus, their move was akin to rallying troops, demanding compensation, preferably obtaining the core of this secret realm.
After all, that ancient ice within contains almost all the extraordinary fragments.
Handing this over is absolutely no problem.
They do not believe that extraordinary power can’t handle such a character!
“This is impossible! We don’t have the rights to hand over the secret realm core to you!” The witch side’s student directly refused, stating that it was simply impossible!
The secret realm belongs to the academy; what they represent is merely a club, and daring to hand it over means they truly have no desire to mix in anymore!
“It’s just a secret realm that doesn’t produce any resource materials; it’s not a World Fragment. Your witch families have already become the targets of public criticism. Is it excessive for us to want a secret realm?”
“If you can’t agree to such conditions, then your family should prepare to be refined!”
“You! Are you going to make such a fuss? Do you want to unite to sanction us… Is this trying to start a family war?”
“So hard-line… Do you really think that just by mastering some extraordinary power, you can talk about family wars?” At this moment, they no longer concealed their remarks, bringing the matter out into the open.
Families are like the dogs of the Extraordinary Academy; dogs cannot master the power that their masters hold.
Now there are groups from families they once looked down upon, and even those who are not dogs at all.
Yet because of a chance, they are about to turn the tables and could soon become their masters; how could they not be anxious?
