Chapter 899: Crossing the Boundaries of Reality and Earth Vein Lock
“Since Xiao Han is busy, how about… I don’t disturb you here? After all, this way you can focus a bit more.”
Sister made this suggestion after experiencing the “Fool Village” journey. Although she felt a bit lost, she also realized her limits.
After all, in this aspect, she couldn’t provide any help to Xiao Han. Her greatest contribution seemed to be doing nothing and not causing trouble.
“Eh? Sister, you’re leaving? I was planning to witness how the Fool Dream and the others will cross the boundary of dreams and reality together with you!”
“Do you want me to stay?”
“Mm! After all… there are many things that are really worth witnessing together with you! If successful, who else could share it with? How meaningless would that be?” Of course, it was about sharing with someone worthwhile, and right now, that person was only her sister.
“Then I’ll stay,” Sister said. After all, if she could provide any insight to Xiao Han… then that would also have value.
Anyway, she truly had nothing urgent to do at the moment.
“Hehe~ Let’s go and witness the miracle together.” I said to the eagerly waiting Fool Dream.
After leaving the dedicated cultivation room, we arrived at another laboratory I often used.
Here, the space was large enough to react quickly if any unexpected event occurred.
Even if an explosion happened here, it could be conveniently cleaned up quickly.
Although helping Dreams cross the boundaries of Dream and Reality didn’t seem like a dangerous experiment, it was filled with uncertainty.
At this moment, the Four Little Ones wandered in the shallow dreamscape. Having gained dream-state souls, Fool Dream seemed to adapt even more to the dream world.
However, she still couldn’t do whatever she wanted.
After all, the information interaction between the shallow dreamscape and reality provided a certain degree of order to the shallow dream, so Fool Dream couldn’t float, fly, or create things out of thin air.
As for the Dream Rewriting Spell… that was actually a spell that could only be used in reality. After all, the foundation for spells, such as energy, runes, and ceremonies, only exists in reality.
Relying on this order and spell rules in reality to rewrite the information between reality and dreams would affect the information in the dreams.
Now looking at this spell, it really had a crude aura from beginning to end.
After all, this spell relied on order, and now, I could directly manipulate and counter the order within the dream!
Returning to the current experiment.
I arrived at a specialized laboratory and began to set up and connect information recording and collecting functions using the Great Knowledge Tree.
At this moment, Sister Bai showed her control over information perception within the realm of dreams.
Of course, it wasn’t that I needed Sister Bai to help me.
I could do this myself; Sister Bai’s actions were merely because the current experiment did not have in-depth observation methods into the layers of the dreamscape, and she didn’t even know what this experiment was doing.
As a professional bystander, her role was merely to do what a spectator should do.
After a setup and preparation, the experiment officially began.
“Miss Sister, let me go first, okay? After all, I have experience with this kind of thing!” Fool Yun suddenly took the initiative to ask.
“Mm… Alright.” I hesitated for a moment but ultimately thought Fool Yun’s suggestion was fine.
Moreover, I could even sense Fool Yun’s reluctance from last time’s attempt. If I didn’t let her go first, she would probably become really obsessed, right?
I wouldn’t want to make it so hard on Fool Yun.
“Take it slow; I’ll say when to start the experiment, and when it’s over, it should end immediately. Don’t be disobedient like last time!” I said before the experiment, agreeing with Fool Yun.
After all, last time Fool Yun had been way too willful!
“Understood! This time I will definitely behave!” Fool Yun excitedly nodded with sincerity in her eyes.
I chose to trust Fool Yun.
I glanced at the constant data monitoring of dreamscape collected by the Knowledge Tree and then spoke, “Let’s start.”
With my voice, Fool Yun no longer hesitated.
At this moment, standing on the experimental platform, her outstretched hand seemed to be tearing apart the barrier between dreams and reality.
But from another angle, entering from reality into a dream didn’t need all that theatrics; the feeling was almost instinctual. Finding the right feeling was just a moment’s affair.
Fool Yun was doing the same thing at this moment.
The laboratory was in a state of overlap between dreams and reality, but my spirit vision at the Floating World level allowed me to easily discern the difference between the dream and reality, so I could clearly “see” Fool Yun’s body gradually becoming “meaningful.”
This indicated the dream-state soul was gradually merging into the order of reality!
Last time, Fool Yun “risked her life” trying to cross the boundary between reality, proving that dream souls could descend into reality, but this new attempt brought completely different excitement!
“How does it feel? Any problems?” At this moment, even feeling a bit nervous, she inquired.
“I’m… I’m fine…”
As Fool Yun finished her sentence, the information gathered on my Great Knowledge Tree was increasing rapidly!
Because this information was a so-called “patchwork” of the dream-state soul interacting and interfering with reality’s order!
The changes involved far exceeded what could be observed with the naked eye.
Soon, Fool Yun felt she grasped a thread, quickly crossing the boundary of reality and thoroughly arriving in reality.
Yes… arrived…
Although… this was just a dream-state soul coming into reality; there was still no entity.
Yet, that was astonishing enough!
I instinctively took a half-step back, but with Fool Yun’s success, there was nothing abnormal.
It was as if… Fool Yun had only done something “insignificant.”
“I… I succeeded!” Fool Yun proudly announced to herself in that moment.
“Yes! You did it!” I hurriedly stepped forward, forgetting about the data for now; after all, it wouldn’t be lost in the Great Knowledge Tree.
Right now, I just wanted to celebrate with Fool Yun! I didn’t want her current happiness to end on a sour note.
After a brief celebration, I began a comprehensive check on Fool Yun’s current state to see if there were any hidden dangers or abnormalities.
After a simple examination, the dream-state soul seemed not to crumble the way it had last time when crossing the boundary of reality.
It was as if Fool Yun’s soul body, after reaching the threshold of crossing the boundary, no longer posed a negative impact on her.
Now, Fool Yun’s biggest issue was the soul fatigue caused during the crossing of the boundary—a common occurrence. After all, when someone goes deep into dreams and then returns to reality, they can also experience soul fatigue, which would self-recover after some rest.
Confirming that there weren’t any significant issues, we began guiding Yu Lan, Yu Guo, and Yu Xing to conduct the crossing experiment.
However, it was evident that Yu Lan, who had never attempted before, did not succeed on her first try.
Crossing from a dream-state soul into reality was a different concept from returning to the dream from reality with dream consciousness.
At this point, Fool Yun discovered her advantage and began to explain prior success.
Though she couldn’t articulate it well, what she was saying also served as encouragement for Yu Lan and the others. After all, Fool Yun had succeeded, so they would too!
But… Fool Yun had risked her “life” when she first tried!
That reckless courage allowed her to find a “slight opportunity” that finally became the key to her success during the second attempt.
This experiment could not be forced.
It was like an ordinary person’s experiment on how to sleep; one cannot immediately fall asleep when they realize they need to.
Fool Yun wanting to cross into reality as a dream-state soul was the same; it required skill, as well as a particular… feeling and state.
And just as Fool Yun was fully immersed in explaining how to enter reality, a change she didn’t notice began to present itself in her dream-state soul body.
Initially, I didn’t notice either, as my attention was entirely on the three Fool Dreams who hadn’t succeeded yet.
It wasn’t until my Great Knowledge Tree performed its routine data anomaly report that I became aware of the issue.
“Fool Yun, wait a moment!” I suddenly called out.
“Huh? What’s wrong, Sister?” Fool Yun was slightly startled, while the other three Fool Dreams and Sister Bai curiously looked at me, wondering what was happening.
Only I noticed the anomaly at that moment.
“Earth vein… what’s happening?” I furrowed my brows as I interpreted the somewhat vague message.
I crossed over to the functional area of Earth Vein identification, directly interpreting the information to reduce “translation distortion.”
But after looking for a long time, I finally realized what the displayed information about “earth veins” meant.
Earth Vein Lock!
On Fool Yun’s dream-state soul, a subtle data feedback emerged that resembled a dying Earth Vein Lock!
“Earth Vein Lock? How could it be an Earth Vein Lock?!” I repeated, emphasizing the phrase.
To ask who understood the Earth Vein Lock better, perhaps no one knew it better than me!
After all, I witnessed the Earth Vein Lock through spirit vision!
I even traced the river of Earth Vein… so my spirit vision could recognize the information about the Earth Vein Lock.
Before I had “witnessed” it, I couldn’t understand the composition of the Earth Vein Lock. My spirit vision couldn’t see it or, rather, could see it but did not realize it.
Only when “I can see” + “I am aware” could I truly understand its existence.
“Xiao Han, what is the Earth Vein Lock?” At this point, Sister Bai also spoke up, having recognized my incredulous expression.
Moreover… she hadn’t seen the Earth Vein Lock herself.
However, it was too much to expect anyone to see the Earth Vein Lock. Even the operation of extraordinary beings cutting off the Earth Vein Lock belonged to an instinctive action of extraordinary life.
Otherwise, if extraordinary beings could see the Earth Vein Lock, they could directly help others cut it off, yet that was not the case.
Even when Principal Mei helped sever it, she used an extraordinary heart and observed the Earth Vein Lock herself to cut it.
Moreover, Principal Mei had admitted she couldn’t see the Earth Vein Lock either; after all… the form of the Earth Vein Lock’s existence was too abstract.
“Hui Yun has feedback of the Earth Vein Lock information from the Main World… I can see the Earth Vein Lock; I won’t misinterpret its information.”
“Earth Vein Lock…” Sister Bai was also somewhat flustered by this situation.
In fact, she had an inherent dislike for the concept of Earth Vein Lock. Perhaps it was just the name that didn’t sit well with her. Of course, primarily it was because the Earth Vein Lock was once one of Xiao Han’s most hated things, so she would also dislike it.
“Xiao Han, what do you plan to do? Cut it off?” Sister Bai asked.
“No… no, wait.” I shook my head in refusal.
As my vision gradually elevated, I began to view some matters more objectively.
For instance… Earth Vein Lock.
Nothing is entirely bad, and the Earth Vein Lock is no different.
When life within the world is detached from the Earth Vein Lock, it is equivalent to breaking free from the world’s rhythm of development and evolutionary order.
While gaining freedom, not all lives have the ability to enjoy this freedom like I do.
The world is a nurturing one for life, and the Earth Vein Lock is like the umbilical cord between every life and the world; this was a metaphor Principal Mei had used on me before.
Its importance is evident.
If Fool Dreams were to present in reality in such a state and showed signs of the Earth Vein Lock, could it be said that… the Main World was accepting the legitimate existence of Fool Dreams?
Yet, I had no way to prove this conjecture.
The reason I didn’t take immediate preventive action was that even in the worst-case scenario, if the Earth Vein Lock trapped Fool Dreams, I could still cut it off.
But I didn’t want to gamble, as I wasn’t certain this might not be an opportunity for Fool Dreams to become life.
I didn’t want to personally end Fool Dreams’ aspirations.
“Xiao Han Sister… so what exactly happened?” Fool Yun was also puzzled by the situation, kneeling on the experimental table with her hands supporting herself, tilting her head as she looked at me, seemingly awaiting an answer.
“Fool Yun…” I softly called her, then glanced at the other three Fool Dreams.
“Here~” Fool Yun quickly responded.
“And you three, Yu Lan, Yu Guo, Yu Xing.”
“Xiao Han Sister, what happened?”
“Just now, an incident occurred. It’s not exactly an accident; it exceeds my expectations. This is a choice; do you want to hear it?” At this moment, my tone grew serious.
“Yes!” *4
The four little Fool Dreams nodded in unison, indicating they wanted to know.
“Then I’ll be straightforward.” My gaze returned to Fool Yun, “Just now, I detected abnormal data from Fool Yun through the Great Knowledge Tree; there was feedback of the Earth Vein Lock reaction on her. I can’t say if this is good or bad.”
“Now, you have two choices; gamble on what will happen because if the Earth Vein Lock is the Main World’s consciousness recognizing your life, then this could very well become a chance for Fool Dreams to become true lives!”
What! Really! At this moment, the most excited was undoubtedly Fool Yun.
But hold on, I wasn’t sure, so this was a gamble.
I shook my head and said, “If you lose the bet, you could very likely be trapped in the Main World. However, don’t worry; if that happens, I will find a way to help you break free from the Earth Vein Lock.”
So… will you choose to accept the Earth Vein Lock or reject it? If you refuse, the Earth Vein Lock isn’t formed yet; I will find a way to clear it in a short time. If you choose to accept… you can treat it as if nothing happened.
This… of course, we accept!” Fool Yun hesitated for a moment but quickly chose to accept without hesitation!
After all, as long as there was a glimmer of possibility, they would be willing to try!
Even if they lost, didn’t Sister Xiao Han say she would find a way?
So was there really a need to hesitate?
