Chapter 881: Dream Life Experiment
Chapter 881: Dream Life Experiment
“Big Sis Xiao Han, Big Sis Xiao Han, is there progress?”
The Fool's Dreams I brought along followed behind me.
Although the Fool's Dreams did not participate in the core steps of the purification method experiments, they were not completely ignorant.
As the Fool's Dreams following me at the forefront of the life experiments, they actually knew very well what was being done and what needed to be done; naturally, they also knew exactly how important the purification of Dream-state Soul-substance was.
“Mhm, come follow me to the Constant Dream Laboratory over there.”
I spoke.
Within this ultra-large laboratory, although the deep Primal Dream State only occupied that one piece in the core area, I did not waste the other areas within the laboratory covered by dreams either.
Some places were used for the constant cultivation of the shallow dream state, used for capturing and collecting dream creatures, Nightmare stripping, and other operations.
Although the current Primal Dream State was called “controlled,” it did not mean everything about the Primal Dream State itself was controlled.
Therefore, to conduct experiments stably, they needed to be performed in areas of dream constancy.
And my taking the Fool's Dreams to this place was naturally not to retrieve experimental materials, but to start the experiment directly.
Don't mention things like theory collection and then simulation analysis; those are all hollow.
Getting hands-on with experiments directly—this data was far more valuable than analysis.
Of course, my being so willful was primarily because I also had the Great Tree of Knowledge assisting with data analysis.
The first-hand data collected from the experiments could be brought in directly, subsequently supporting the next step of experimental corrections rapidly.
Furthermore... the materials did not cost money, and one might not even be able to buy them with money.
After all, without the continuity of dream overlap, even if they were caught, they were not easy to transport or trade, so I could only catch them myself.
After arriving at the Constant Dream Laboratory, my soul consciousness detached from my shell.
After all, the experiments to follow were operations conducted on the dream level.
However, after my soul consciousness left my body, my shell still remained active.
One could say the physical shell in reality at this moment was an avatar dominated by me; it could be counted as a two-way synergy between the dream and reality, providing great convenience for me to do experiments in the dream aspect.
“Now, I have here a portion of Nightmare that, according to theoretical analysis, is most likely to be Dream-state Soul-substance.”
I spoke, holding this pure Nightmare in my hand.
The reason I did not call it Dream-state Soul-substance was for the sake of rigor.
After all, I had not yet verified the accuracy of Dream-state Soul-substance, and... currently, within the experiments of soul-substance being devoured and converted by dream creatures, there was no direct evidence indicating that Nightmares were the converted soul-substance.
Current progress only proved that the two were inseparable.
Even now, if I compared the normal-state soul-substance with this purified Nightmare, I could distinguish obvious differences.
“According to the conception of the dream life experiment, this is the basic material for shaping a dream-state soul for you all. But the experiment is full of uncertainty; are you willing to cooperate with me for the experiment?”
“We are!”
The four little Fool's Dreams spoke with total agreement, having no idea what risk meant.
Within their tone, there was only indescribable excitement and impatience.
“Don't be in a hurry yet you four discuss it first. I will first sample and reserve a portion of this mass of things, then make a specimen. The remaining amount afterward... won't even be enough for one Fool's Dream to conduct the experiment. So you decide first who goes first; don't fight over it if you really can't decide, you can play rock-paper-scissors.”
“Mhm! Mhm!”
Seeing them agree so readily, I was relieved.
Actually, I was also a bit worried that they would all want to be the first Fool's Dream to sublimate into a life based on Dream-state Soul-substance and get into a fight over it.
But looking at it now... I suppose I was overthinking?
I began to reserve samples step-by-step, then turned them into special pure specimens.
If this thing could advance the dream life experiment, then this sample would be the very first portion of Dream-state Soul-substance!
It held great collection and commemorative significance.
Although it was said for the sake of rigor, since the experiment had already reached this step, I actually already knew in my heart whether I was confident or not.
I just feared that this Primal Dream State would play a joke on me.
While organizing this specimen, I had already begun constructing the experimental flow to follow.
Sublimating a Fool's Dream into a soul essence—the required process was simply too much.
It wasn't as simple as just smearing Dream-state Soul-substance onto a Fool's Dream's dream consciousness and completing it by shaping with Soul Depiction.
Rather, more things were needed, such as... the Fool's Dreams' memories.
I hadn't forgotten a similarly very important segment of the dream life experiment, which was the Wisdom Seed.
With the Wisdom Bestowal technique as the core, unifying memory and consciousness, plus Soul Depiction, and unifying the soul sublimated from soul-substance as the most suitable “soil” for the Wisdom Seed.
Of course, within this, there were also the very important “racial concept” and “bloodline information” and so on.
These... all needed to be constantly scouted within the experiments to follow.
After all, this was also a first for me.
Only constant experimentation could allow me to understand how the knowledge I understood, learned, and realized could be put into use.
Precisely because this experiment did not just involve Dream-state Soul-substance, but also the memories of the Fool's Dreams and so on, the place where this experiment was conducted was actually within my Soul Dream State.
My coming to this Constant Dream Laboratory was, first, to not be disturbed, and second, for a more stable environment to avoid accidents.
“Have you chosen?”
After satisfactorily making this “Dream-state Soul-substance” specimen and placing it within the precious material storage box of the Constant Dream Laboratory, I subsequently came before the four little ones.
“Mhm! We ultimately chose Fool's Luck.”
“Yes, her.”
Seeing me come over, several Fool's Dreams immediately spoke.
“Is it Fool's Luck?”
I beckoned with my hand, and the Fool's Dream sat upon my forearm within the dream state.
“Mhm it's me! I won at rock-paper-scissors.”
Fool's Luck spoke very excitedly.
“Was it really rock-paper-scissors?”
I rubbed Fool's Luck's small head and said dotingly, “Come, let us return to Fool's Village together.”
“Are we going too?”
Fool's Blue asked.
“Of course. After all, the experiment we'll do next will be conducted there. We'll definitely all go together. Or does Fool's Blue have something else to do?”
“No, no, I want to follow along too!”
“Alright it's just an experiment. Once the technique of the Gestation Purification Method matures and the amount of Dream-state Soul-substance increases, the experiments will be conducted together then!”
I drew a pie in passing, then brought them into my Soul Dream State.
The Soul Dream State is the blessing born after a soul life embarks upon the Great Project of the Soul.
Actually, calling it a blessing is also inaccurate; it should be said that after contacting the Great Project of the Soul, it is a usage derived from a fundamental development of the soul essence.
Most Transcendent Witches treat this blessing as a personal consciousness space.
It can unify cognitions of the mental consciousness type, just like my Sea of Consciousness and Sea of the Dream State back then.
I heard this can also interface with the witch race's “Primal Dream State” project, generating a personal private space within the Primal Dream State.
But my Soul Dream State had, at this moment, become a paradise for the Fool's Dreams.
They were constantly developing and decorating this originally empty world outward, transforming this place into a dreamlike fairytale paradise.
The Soul Dream State theoretically has no boundaries, but in actual experience, it does.
For example, where the “gaze” reaches, there will be existences; the place recognized by consciousness is its boundary.
But right now, this place has turned into a paradise for Fool's Village, passively and constantly expanding the boundaries of the Soul Dream State that could be recognized.
Within the Soul Dream State, there were two trees.
One was the Great Tree of Knowledge, and the other was the Tree of Fool's Dreams, symbolizing the beginning of the Fool's Dreams.
The Great Tree of Knowledge was, at this moment, constantly growing stronger.
I don't know how many Seeds of Great Knowledge were constantly sharing memories, knowledge, and Information; all of these would turn into its nourishment.
However, the current Great Tree of Knowledge had already reached its limit for the current stage.
Although it still grew stronger without stopping every moment, when performing addition, the further it went, the slower the numbers moved.
In contrast, the Tree of Fool's Dreams had some faint trend of catching up.
This Tree of Fool's Dreams was born from the foundation of the Fool's Dreams, namely the “Dream Picture Scroll.”
One could say the birth of the Tree of Fool's Dreams was inseparable from two portions of [Transcendent Knowledge].
First was the Fool's Dreams' Sacred Object, which derived the Dream Picture Scroll sharing the same origin as the Sacred Object.
It was the memory the Fool's Dreams seized from the Primal Dream State, the cornerstone maintaining their own existence.
One should know that the Primal Dream State was very overbearing.
For dream creatures, even the “memories” shaped by dream experiences belonged to the Primal Dream State itself.
Therefore, the act of the Fool's Dreams using the Sacred Object to possess their own memories was itself proof of their uniqueness.
Next was that the finished Dream Picture Scroll, through the special technique of the Great Tree of Knowledge, became the Fool's Dream Seed.
One could say that while the Fool's Dream Seed itself did not have the level of [Transcendent Knowledge], it possessed the capital to grow back-to-back with the Great Tree of Knowledge, which was not simple in itself.
Upon entering Fool's Village, I was met with a warm welcome from the Fool's Dreams, but we still quickly turned our energy toward the experiment this time.
This experiment involved the Fool's Dreams' most precious memories.
The Tree of Fool's Dreams was the foundation of all Fool's Dreams, just like the Dream Picture Scroll back then.
“Come, begin the experiment.”
After explaining my purpose for coming here clearly to the enthusiastic Fool's Dreams, the Fool's Dreams also quickly and consciously cleared a large experimental site for me at the Tree of Fool's Dreams.
At the edges, they watched me with longing gazes, for they understood what I was doing.
Their Sage Sis was working constantly toward the sublimation of the Fool's Dreams into lives!
Holding Fool's Luck, I arrived beneath the roots of the Tree of Fool's Dreams.
As my hand lightly stroked the sturdy imagery exterior of the Tree of Fool's Dreams, its essential memories bloomed like flowing water!
Instantly, with the Tree of Fool's Dreams as the center, countless memories drifted out, finally solidifying into the appearance of picture scrolls.
Such a massive and spectacular scene could be seen regardless of where one was in Fool's Village.
And I also quickly searched for Fool's Luck's memories from within this.
It had to be said that the Tree of Fool's Dreams could be described as having fully inherited the characteristics of the Great Tree of Knowledge; its organization of the Fool's Dreams' memories was even clearer and more concise than the original Dream Picture Scroll.
But what was a bit regretful was that Fool's Luck's memories were not very numerous.
The first batch of Fool's Dreams had lost many memories; even during the period when they were taken over by Academy Head Mei, memories were lost, because Academy Head Mei's methods did not take many things into account as mine did.
Therefore, Fool's Luck's memories only consisted of the segment after I took them over.
Basically, it was all life within the academy.
It wasn't just Fool's Luck; it was the same for all Fool's Dreams called Heroes.
But regardless, at least things had not developed to the worst-case scenario.
However... even this portion of memory mostly originated from my Seeds of Great Knowledge.
And now... I was attempting, via Wisdom Bestowal, to shape these memories and Fool's Luck's consciousness into a Wisdom Seed, then bestow it with a soul through Soul Depiction, to carry Fool's Luck's Wisdom Seed while waiting for it to “sprout.”
These methods, whether Wisdom Bestowal or Soul Depiction, were fundamentally derived as derivative techniques of the “Sacred Object.”
And during the process of conducting the experiment for the Fool's Dream, I could feel the connection between the Sacred Object and me deepening.
When all of this was completed, Fool's Luck's posture changed.
Her encircling memories, under Wisdom Bestowal, used consciousness as a carrier, the two interweaving together.
This was a core concept within the Wisdom Bestowal technique, the Wisdom Prototype.
It was the prerequisite for the birth of a Wisdom Seed.
At this moment, watching this scene Fool's Luck had transformed into left me somewhat dazed.
Originally, this should have been a flow that could have been achieved long ago, but it was only after recognizing the uniqueness of “Dream Consciousness” that all of that within the Primal Dream State followed.
Fool's Luck in the posture of a Wisdom Seed would not encounter any accidents.
Even if this experiment ended in failure, Fool's Luck could still remain as she used to be.
The three little Fool's Dreams who first followed me—I had completed a simple soul construction for them using the “Mimetic Soul” technique.
Possessing a Mimetic Soul, they could more conveniently possess and detach from the physical bodies of the Fool's Dreams in reality.
After all, aside from being unable to become true lives, the Mimetic Soul technique was itself shaped based on the characteristics of the soul essence.
Therefore, Fool's Luck could still return to her usual posture in the form of a Mimetic Soul.
During the period the Wisdom Seed was being shaped, I simultaneously began shaping the composition of Fool's Luck's dream-state soul using the Soul Depiction technique.
This process was extremely smooth, described as a matter of course.
Until Fool's Luck's Wisdom Seed “took root” within the soul essence shaped by Soul Depiction... that dream-state soul, fresh as a living being... accepted Fool's Luck!
Her consciousness bloomed within a soul for the first time.
That was a type of new world never experienced before, constantly striking Fool's Luck's cognition.
Rather than calling it a strike, I preferred to call it a... baptism.
The entire process was seen entirely by me.
This experiment was also an attempt.
It allowed me to recognize many deficiencies and also recognize the naivety of some ideas.
But I did one thing right, and that was the decision to perform this experiment!
Having the first attempt, I no longer feared unknown situations during the experimental process.
The smoothness of the experiment similarly represented that the framework of the experimental flow had been roughly settled.
Then the next step was to add bricks and mortar to this framework.
“Do you feel... okay? Fool's Luck.”
I called softly to Fool's Luck.
As long as any uncontrollable accident occurred, I would absolutely deconstruct the experiment at the first moment.
After all, compared to that precious experimental data, I cared more about the existence of the Fool's Dreams.