Chapter 874: Dream Calamity… Associated Disasters of Order Conflict
Chapter 874: Dream Calamity… Associated Disasters of Order Conflict
“They are... entering an even deeper layer of the Primal Dream State? Is it really okay?”
Looking at the empty space here, a witch spoke to inquire.
“Sigh... it should... be fine...”
Academy Head Mei Linde sighed and spoke, “But Little Han is still too reckless!”
“It’s fine, it’s fine after all, one is a newly ascended Saint Stage Transcendent and the other is a Lesser Witch; they are at the stage where their passion for the Transcendent hasn't been extinguished yet. Mei, you should be happy for them. Have you never done anything very out of line due to impulse before?”
“I have... maybe...”
After all, she used to have a character that liked to charge ahead, only impulse was always accompanied by a price.
But look at Little Han?
Every time she was impulsive, which time did she pay any price?
Mei Linde looked back at the history of Little Han’s rise and felt that the lowest point of her life... seemed to be that Newcomer Competition upon enrollment, the time she was judged to have lost for going out of bounds, right?
Did that count as a price?
To this, Mei Linde could only give a light laugh.
***
Within the Primal Dream State.
Bai Yu felt a familiar sensation, which was the kind of powerlessness she felt when she first sank into the Primal Dream State.
The soul essence bestowed upon her the right to exist in the Primal Dream State, but it did not give her the ability to save herself.
But now, she was no longer that self who could do nothing at the beginning.
At this moment, she was like a person about to drown; at the moment of falling into the water, she possessed the strength learned in a desperate situation to save herself.
“That’s it Big Sis Bai, face your own fear. I’ll take you to experience another special power within Body Cultivation.”
A voice very familiar to her came to Bai Yu’s ear.
Subsequently, she felt a power overriding ordinary “touch,” reaching her emotions.
Fear, which was clearly dissipating gradually, appeared before her in this moment as if it had been materialized.
“What is... this?”
“Big Sis Bai, use Heart Sense to feel it... ignore the instinctively suppressed fear, accept that fear is also a part of yourself, and transform it... into your own sharp blade!”
“Sharp blade?”
Bai Yu had never felt such a strange power.
Wielding emotions with Heart Sense... this should have been a routine usage within Body Cultivation power, used to control one’s own emotions.
But to transform it into a sharp blade in one's hand like this... she had never thought of it!
“What is this?”
“This is... Emotional Body Cultivation.”
My voice gradually dissipated in Bai Yu’s ear, but the concept of “Emotional Body Cultivation” was deeply imprinted into her heart.
“Alright this was just a small interlude. Regarding Emotional Body Cultivation, even I haven't organized a systematic promotion system yet. Now, what you need to do is complete the construction of your Dream Domain order!”
“Right... that is what I need to do now.”
Bai Yu’s expression quickly became firm.
The anchoring of her will made the soul’s existence within the Primal Dream State more solid.
She didn't ask Little Han why she brought her here.
This place was clearly deep within the Primal Dream State.
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 for her to perform.
Gradually... she recalled the posture Little Han displayed when she was in the Primal Dream State back then.
At that time, Little Han was likely in this kind of mindset, wasn't she?
At this moment, within the Primal Dream State, the place centered around Bai Yu gradually became “meaningful,” because the order of perception gradually solidified, and Information began to spontaneously complete its mission in the form of order.
Different from the way the Primal Dream State was “turned upside down” last time, the Five Senses order originating from the Body Cultivation system was more like an “onlooker,” constructing order using the five senses as a concept, and then deriving perception characteristics from such an order.
Without Self-awakened Body Cultivation as the cornerstone for the architecture of the domain, and without Transcendent Knowledge as an anchor for characteristics, Bai Yu completed the architecture of the Domain Prototype purely with her own Transcendent-level soul essence, the Body Cultivation system, and the perception channels of the five senses.
This made Bai Yu’s dominance over the Dream Domain extremely unstable.
Moreover, the characteristics of the order were merely basic perception.
Her only means of dominating the Dream Domain was “Time Sense.”
After all, Heart Sense represented understanding and cognition; only Time Sense represented control and dominance.
Within the Primal Dream State, the birth of order was bound to startle the perception of the dream consciousness.
When those dream creatures were about to move restlessly, a more terrifying order descended.
Those dark shadows preparing to wait for an opportunity to move instantly dissipated without a trace in the Primal Dream State.
“Hmph count yourselves lucky for running fast, otherwise you’d all be materials for dream-state soul-substance experiments.”
Such a sentence, under the deconstruction of the Knowledge Power order, transformed into cognitive concepts and diffused within the Primal Dream State.
Perhaps those dream creatures didn't understand what this sentence meant, nor did they understand what a dream-state soul-substance experiment was, but that extremely intense threat was like a sharp knife, piercing into the consciousness of every dream creature, strangling the primitive instincts they attempted to release at the very beginning of their birth.
When the Primal Dream State no longer held anything that could threaten Big Sis Bai, I watched as Big Sis Bai’s Dream Domain took shape bit by bit.
Of course, it was not forming a Dream Domain like mine back then, but rather forming a Domain Prototype.
To reach my level of completeness, Big Sis Bai needed more time to constantly adapt.
What I was doing now was waiting for Big Sis Bai to complete her staged success, at least having an “ability” sufficient to be brought out on the application level to display.
Big Sis Bai’s domain order was different from the “omnipotent tendency” I shaped with Knowledge Power; she leaned more toward “perception.”
In other words, once Big Sis Bai completed this Domain Prototype, Big Sis Bai would be the witch with the strongest perception and collection of Primal Dream State data in this laboratory, besides me!
What was most important during the process of an experiment?
Observation and data feedback, naturally!
Because this data was directly related to the construction of the subsequent theoretical framework and the advancement of experiments.
It could be said that from this moment on, Big Sis Bai became a highly sought-after “humanoid Primal Dream State observation instrument” in the field of Primal Dream State research.
Of course, this was only the shallowest usage.
The more primary role of Big Sis Bai’s five-senses observation Dream Domain was the monitoring of the Primal Dream State.
If the Primal Dream State were compared to a massive open-world game, then Big Sis Bai was like the kind of cheat with a full over-the-horizon map, all-around perception, and an appraisal technique leveled up to the maximum with herself as the origin.
Although there was no “combat power,” this elevation of ability was on a dimension overriding combat power.
The only pity was that the exploration of the Primal Dream State by other races was too shallow, which was equivalent to the massive open-world game of the Primal Dream State not having opened its servers yet, making it impossible to display her superiority.
Of course, while the “game” of the Primal Dream State hadn't opened its servers yet, the reality of the Void had opened long ago.
Although the two “games” called reality and the dream state could not interfere with each other, it didn't matter, because there was another concept called—linkage.
And the method of linkage was “reality dream overlap.”
Once Big Sis Bai’s order framework was completed, I also understood it was time.
As the saying goes, eat your meal one bite at a time.
Big Sis Bai’s thought of perfecting the Dream Domain still required more time.
However, even though Big Sis Bai did nothing, I felt a fluctuation originating from the Primal Dream State.
And I was very familiar with this characteristic... it was brewing a small-scale Dream Calamity!
What stirred the Primal Dream State was never so-called power, but the conflict of orders.
Even a perception order without any “destructive” qualities, when colliding with chaotic disorder, would also stir up waves in the Primal Dream State.
Real world.
Primal Dream State laboratory.
Mei Linde, even as an avatar, felt a “familiar” fluctuation.
“Wait... what are Little Han and the others doing?”
Mei Linde’s face instantly changed color!
Because the last time she felt this kind of Primal Dream State fluctuation, what followed closely was... a Dream Calamity!
“Go quickly! It’s a Dream Calamity! Quickly have all the witches in the laboratory evacuate!”
Mei Linde made the choice she believed most correct at the first moment.
And just as she shouted this and was about to run, the appearance of two figures from within the Primal Dream State made Mei Linde daze for a bit.
“Leave it to me to handle!”
When I led Big Sis Bai into reality ahead of time, I knew exactly what kind of commotion Big Sis Bai and I had caused.
We had caused a small-scale Dream Calamity!
Although the technique for dispersing a large-scale Primal Dream State was still in a theoretical state, if I used my domain order to apply suppression on the Primal Dream State, I could suppress the calamity at its inception.
And the more primary reason was... the order conflict Big Sis Bai interfered with was still too weak compared to my order.
But even so, the dream state erupting from the Primal Dream State still caused significant influence on reality.
However, compared to the scale in the Expansion Realm that swept across half the world, this was not worth mentioning.
Furthermore, under my order suppression, the deep Primal Dream State had almost not intruded into reality, but there was still a massive amount of uncontrollable shallow dream state that swept across nearly a small half of the Witch Academy.
“I have to use the academy’s emergency announcement again...”
Mei Linde said, resting her hand on her forehead.
However, after seeing that what swept out was merely the shallow dream state, she breathed a sigh of relief.
If it was merely the shallow dream state, the witches still had the ability to handle it.
After all, the witches were not completely ignorant regarding the dream state; the massive amount of experience and techniques accumulated were enough to deal with most problems of the shallow dream state.
As for why the witches did not handle the shallow dream state of the Expansion Realm, that was because after the Expansion Realm experienced world restoration, it required this process of being picked back up by the Primal Dream State, so they naturally would not interfere.
But the reality and dream state of the Core Realm were in a relatively stable state, so the witches naturally needed to maintain this stability.
With such a large accident occurring in the academy’s experiment, a notification was naturally still required.
The shallow dream state did not possess the same strong impact as the deep Primal Dream State.
Therefore, the number of people affected was theoretically not very many.
Generally, only ordinary people would be caught in it, and even if they were, they would merely display characteristics of deep slumber.
And everyone in the Witch Academy was a Reserve Witch who had come into contact with the Witch Meditation Method, possessing special resistance to the shallow dream state.
But compared to these “inconsequential” accidents, she was clearly more concerned about whether this experiment was successful!
If it truly succeeded, then... the power system of the witch race would need to be redefined!
And the selection weight for the Body Cultivation power system would increase by several points again.
At this moment, looking across the entire Witch Academy, from the experimental area outward, the area affected by this dream overlap was indeed very wide.
After all, the Witch Academy was an entire academy city with fully equipped facilities.
Even though it only affected a small half of the Witch Academy, it nearly encompassed most of the Central Teaching Area.
This was naturally not just to give an account to the students, but similarly to give an explanation to all the witches who were affected.
Although witches would not be trapped by this kind of shallow dream state, Mei Linde, as the Academy Head, needed to take into account every witch’s emotions.
After all, when witches gossiped, it was also quite terrifying.
Just as all the students and witch mentors were looking strangely at this suddenly received emergency announcement, Big Sis Bai and I had already returned to reality, and our soul essences had also returned to our own bodies.
Looking at the pair who appeared as if nothing were wrong, Mei Linde and a crowd of witches also stepped forward.
After all, they were more concerned about whether Bai Yu had actually succeeded!
“Bai Yu, did you succeed? That commotion just now was your doing, wasn't it?”
Mei Linde, as the Academy Head, naturally was the first to ask the question everyone was very concerned about.
“I... can only say it was a staged success, but I still cannot achieve Little Han’s level. As for that commotion...”
“That commotion was indeed caused by Big Sis Bai.”
I spoke out the truth on behalf of Big Sis Bai.
“I finally understand why I caused such a big commotion back then without knowing.”
“Because the so-called Dream Calamity is actually just a secondary disaster of the conflict between the ‘Dream Domain order’ and the ‘Primal Dream State chaotic disorder’ within the Primal Dream State. The principle is just like how a Totem will tear open a Void Crack in reality; it’s uncontrollable...”
The words I spoke were indeed somewhat difficult to understand for witches who had neither a Dream Domain nor a Totem.
But they understood one thing, which was that Bai Yu personally admitted her success!
Even if it was only a staged success, this proved that this method was worth their trying.
“Good!”
Mei Linde also let out a heartfelt exclamation at this moment, because nothing could be better than this.
Even when she first witnessed Little Han’s method, she hadn't been this excited, because the success of a second case carried a meaning far more significant than a unique special case!
However, after the excitement, there was another problem that she, as the Academy Head, needed to face personally.
That was that the witches drawn out by this commotion had already gathered here.
Fortunately, this was the experimental area and required permissions to enter, otherwise even more witches would have gathered here.
But looking at those witches coming out from their laboratories one after another to watch the fun, Mei Linde also felt a bit of a headache.
This matter... involved the Dream Domain concept, which wouldn't be easy to explain.