Chapter 897: Fool’s Village and dream-state soul substance
“What are you doing?”
I slowly approached a Fool's Dream hiding in the grass, pretending to suddenly speak up.
“Wuaa It’s Sage Sister!”
“Is Sage Sister here to play with us?”
“Today isn’t very convenient because Sage Sister(Yang Yeuhan) also brought a friend who is very important to me to Fool’s Village, and I want to take her to see the charm of Fool's Village.”
I squatted down and seriously explained to this Fool's Dream who wanted to invite me to play together.
“Is it this big sister who’s the same as Sage Sister?”
Another Fool's Dream asked, pointing at Big Sis Bai who was standing to the side.
“Right. You can call her Big Sis Bai, to me she is an existence just as important as all of you.”
“Wow Hello, Big Sis Bai!”
“Hello, Big Sis Bai. Do you need me to take you to see the most beautiful place in Fool's Village?”
“Don’t go with her, she’ll definitely take you to the place she created, I’ll be Big Sis Bai’s guide!”
“What’s wrong with the place I created, I think it’s super pretty!”
At this moment, the Fool's Dream had all gathered around Big Sis Bai, each one scrambling to say something, but more than anything they were very curious about this big sister called “Big Sis Bai.”
Since Sage Sister said Big Sis Bai was an existence just as important in her heart as the Fool's Dream, then she could also be a friend!
“It’s okay, it’s okay… no need to make it so troublesome…… mm-hmm…”
At this moment, Big Sis Bai was also a bit overwhelmed by the Fool's Dream’s enthusiasm.
“So even Big Sis Bai had times when she couldn’t handle it.”
I watched from the side and also found it very interesting, after all I rarely saw Big Sis Bai in this kind of state.
“Xiao Han, really, are you just watching the show from the side?”
“Alright, alright little cuties. Big Sis Bai is a friend I brought today, so I’ll personally do it, you don’t need to cling to her like this.”
“Eh? Fine then, it’s actually Sage Sister personally being the guide.”
“Then I’m going to play.”
“If Sage Sister has anything, you can call me anytime.”
After helping Big Sis Bai out of the situation, I also accompanied Big Sis Bai to say goodbye to the Fool's Dream playing hide-and-seek here, and only then did we leave this place.
This belonged to the “outskirts” outside Fool's Village.
Fool's Village was where the Fool's Dream lived, and outside was where they played.
This place was like a world wantonly fantasized by the Fool's Dream, existing together with their casual doodles.
Dream like scenery as beautiful as reality, and creations that were somewhat childish, yet between the two there was still harmony everywhere.
Because one part of the two was the Fool's Dream’s subconscious shaping of the scene, a site born from the sights and information within dreams, while the other part was their own subjective shaping—casual, simple, joyful, but also the most sincere expression.
The place where Big Sis Bai and I fell into was this night forest.
It had undulating high ground and towering giant trees, but these trees departed from ordinary people’s cognition, yet blended very harmoniously into the entire forest.
A man-made woodland path very naturally ran through the entire forest.
Even at night, there was moonlight spilling down, without too much oppressive feeling.
Deep and secluded, yet not gloomy.
“It’s really hard to imagine, Xiao Han, that you actually shaped such a dreamlike world inside your own soul dream.”
This was the line Big Sis Bai sighed the most along the way.
“These were all shaped by the Fool's Dream themselves. To be honest, even I didn’t expect the Fool's Dream could reach this level.”
“So that means even you underestimated these little guys?”
“Yeah.”
“Suddenly I also felt that trading one grand spellbook for such a group of cute little guys wasn’t something I couldn’t accept.”
Big Sis Bai lay with me on the grass.
The tall trees left a blank space in the sky for us to admire the moon.
“There was never anything worth it or not worth it—only wanting to do it and not wanting to do it…… I felt that staying here like this with you, Big Sis Bai, seemed not bad either.”
“Yeah… but what a pity.”
“What was a pity?”
“A pity that you, Xiao Han, wouldn’t let yourself stop, right?”
“You’re right, at least for now, I still wouldn’t stop. I admitted the scenery at this moment was very beautiful, but I knew that on the road ahead of me, the scenery was even more beautiful!”
After I finished speaking, I directly sat up, looked at the strange movement in the distant grass, and called out once:
“Stop hiding. I saw you.”
“Still got found by Xiao Han…”
After the grass shook once, a figure also walked out.
“Fool's Blue came too? Then where was Fool's Luck and Fool's Fruit?”
“Um… Fool's Fruit and Fool's Star were keeping Fool's Luck company resting under the Fool's Dream Tree.”
Fool's Blue said.
“Resting? Did Fool's Luck fall asleep again?”
I stood up and asked.
“Mm, but I’m not here to call Xiao Han over. Fool's Luck’s condition is very stable, we’re watching her!”
“Aiya Since you already told me, how could I not care?”
As I said this, I also directly stood up.
“I’ll go over with you too.”
Big Sis Bai also stood up and came to my side.
Feeling the figure pressed against my back, I also instinctively felt a sense of companionship from Big Sis Bai, and that thread of security.
Of course, right now I was also everything to the Fool's Dream, and I also needed to bring them as much of a sense of security as possible.
I bent down and picked up Fool's Blue, then turned around to look at Big Sis Bai, “Let’s go over together.”
“Mm… mm.”
Big Sis Bai nodded a little hesitantly, and then in the next moment she understood how we went over.
Because in the next moment, the place she looked at kept extending, everything she saw was stretched into lines, and when everything changed back into its original appearance, she was already beneath a huge and unfamiliar giant tree.
Although every witch’s soul dream was like a lucid dream, and every witch could do whatever she wanted inside it, it was obvious that the scene of spatial stretching just now was not the main body of the soul dream achieved by using the authority of a lucid dream.
But just as she wanted to ask, she realized that this big tree in front of her did not seem to be the Great Tree of Knowledge she was familiar with.
“This is the Fool's Dream Tree. It is the root source of the Fool's Dream clan’s memory, and also the cornerstone that links every Fool's Dream.”
Seeing Big Sis Bai’s confused expression, I proactively explained, “The Fool's Dream Tree exists on the other side of the Great Tree of Knowledge. The former Great Tree of Wisdom Enlightenment was dismantled by me. Now… there is only the Fool's Dream Tree.”
“So that’s how it was.”
Bai Yu looked at this Fool's Dream Tree and was a bit dazed.
She discovered that a sense of faith lingered around the Fool's Dream Tree—this point had already been made clear back when we met Principal Mei.
After that, Bai Yu saw Fool's Star and Fool's Fruit currently taking care of Fool's Luck, who was lying beneath the Fool's Dream Tree.
Bai Yu was very familiar with the four Fool's Dream who followed Xiao Han, and so she was comparatively unfamiliar with the newly arrived Fool's Star.
“What happened to Fool's Luck?”
“After Fool's Luck accepted soul depiction, she often fell into…… sleep. Just treat it as sleep. Up to now, I still couldn’t understand what the reason really was.”
I explained to Big Sis Bai.
I still hadn’t really talked with Big Sis Bai about this matter, so Big Sis Bai naturally didn’t know the whole process.
“Then you would have a way, right?”
“Of course! I’m the Fool's Dream’s sage—how could I possibly not have a way?”
I immediately said.
After all, one reason I brought Big Sis Bai into the soul dream this time was because the second batch of dream-state soul substance had already been purified and perfected.
“Fool's Star, Fool's Fruit… and Fool's Blue, go to the constant dream cultivation room outside, and bring the dream-state soul substance that has finished purification to the soul dream here.”
I said.
After all, the amount of dream-state soul substance I prepared in this batch was still quite large.
Mainly because I wanted to complete a full soul shaping for Fool's Luck this time, and also bring the other three little ones along.
That way, they wouldn’t need to fight over it.
They were the pioneers of the Fool's Dream.
They understood the danger of becoming life, yet still pressed forward without hesitation.
Three of them were the earliest Fool's Dream representatives to follow me, and the other one was once the Fool's Dream village chief, also the guardian of Fool's Village.
“Okay We’ll go get it for Xiao Han right away!”
After the three of them received my instructions, their execution was very strong.
As for entering and leaving the soul dream, I gave them a lot of autonomy.
In theory, all Fool's Dreams could come here.
The Fool's Dream Tree was their foundation—how could they possibly be unable to come?
“Sorry, Big Sis Bai, earlier I even said I’d take you to stroll around Fool's Village, but in the end we only strolled for such a short while.”
“What were you apologizing for? Did you really think I came in with you for the sake of strolling around Fool's Village?”
Big Sis Bai chuckled softly, and also sat with me beneath the Fool's Dream Tree, “It’s to accompany you on the stroll. Here, isn’t this also scenery?”
Wasn't the scenery always right by our side…
But Bai Yu still didn’t say this line out loud, because she felt saying it… was a bit mushy.
As long as Xiao Han understood, that was enough.
Before long, Fool's Blue and the others brought clumps of dream-state soul substance into the soul dream.
Dream-state soul substance couldn’t be directly touched by the Fool's Dream—this was learned during the experiment with Fool's Luck.
Dream-state soul substance was essentially nightmare wraiths.
When nightmare wraiths contacted Fool's Dream, it would be like a curse, making the Fool's Dream “fall” into an existence like chaotic dream creatures.
Dream-state soul substance would also have similar traits, but it wouldn’t make the Fool's Dream become that kind of dream creature.
What made the Fool's Dream become that way were those things within the dream-state soul substance that had been purified away.
Those things seemed to contain not only information of negative and conceptual types, but also many other unknown concepts.
This was the main reason my other purification methods repeatedly failed.
Whether it was the information deposition method or other purification methods, they were all based on me targetedly removing things such as negative emotions, malicious intent, and so on.
Only the gestation purification method was an experiment that used soul depiction as a way of indiscriminate purification.
Of course, doing so also had its price, but for the current “having nothing” me, these prices weren’t worth mentioning.
But no matter what, if the Fool's Dream didn’t standardize their contact with dream-state soul substance under my guidance, it was still risky.
The purification preparation experiment of dream-state soul substance had protections made on the outer layer.
This both protected dream-state soul substance, and also protected the Fool's Dream themselves when they were coordinating in the experiment.
I took the dream-state soul substance from Fool's Blue and the others’ hands, then “released” them.
They floated like this in the soul dream, circling beneath the Fool's Dream Tree.
After all, if I didn’t place them like this, there wasn’t anywhere else in the soul dream to put so much dream-state soul substance.
“Fool's Blue, tell the Fool's Dream nearby not to curiously touch these dream-state soul substance, and also… bring all dream-state soul substance prepared with the gestation purification method here.”
“Okay Eh? Wait! Xiao Han, is it all of it?”
Fool's Blue asked a bit hesitantly.
“Mm, the ones prepared with the gestation purification method, all of it.”
I nodded to confirm again.
“But… didn’t Xiao Han say to leave some for those witch to study…”
“If there’s surplus, it will naturally be given to them. Next I’m going to help Fool's Luck make up for the incompleteness of last time’s soul depiction experiment, and also perform the same soul shaping for you. Your matters come first, understood.”
“Understood!”
After Fool's Blue heard my “understood,” she happily went to do it.
As for the matter I mentioned earlier, naturally there had to be surplus for that to happen.
After all… I was going to give the Fool's Dream the best.
That line wasn’t a joke.
Of course, this time I deliberately prepared more dream-state soul substance, so having surplus was definitely a given.
“Freely drifting dream-state soul substance… just like dream bubbles drifting in dreams. Who could have thought that something like this was actually the raw material for deliberately shaping life?”
At this moment, Big Sis Bai looked at the dream-state soul substance drifting beneath the Fool's Dream Tree and sighed.
Soul matter couldn’t be measured by volume, so the dream-state soul substance released from the culture dish quickly expanded, changing shape like a bubble.
They were controlled by my power so they wouldn’t drift too far.
At this moment, Fool's Blue was also busy informing the surrounding Fool's Dream of some precautions.
Actually, I could also directly use forceful means to restrict the Fool's Dream from coming over, but I still didn’t want to be so strict with the Fool's Dream, so I let Fool's Blue go persuade them.
If I encountered little Fool's Dream who didn’t listen, I would let them know that their Sage Sister also had a strict side!
After all… indulging them blindly was also teaching them badly.
I didn’t want them to probe ever more recklessly on unknown roads.
As Fool's Blue and the others brought more dream-state soul substance into the soul dream, a huge amount of dream-state soul substance floating like bubbles also gathered beneath the Fool's Dream Tree all at once.
“Xiao Han We brought all of it!”
Fool's Blue and the others excitedly came to tell me.
“So fast? Such high efficiency.”
I squatted down and patted Fool's Blue and the others’ little heads.
Who could resist the Fool's Dream’s excited look of wanting head pats?
And these dream-state soul substances were the things that would shape the essence of life for them next, so of course they were even more excited.
The situation by the Fool's Dream Tree also drew quite a few Fool's Dream to watch, but they voluntarily advised the newly arrived Fool's Dream not to go forward.
Because those bubble-like things were “dangerous” to the Fool's Dream.
Of course, there were also Fool's Dream who, after seeing these things, would let out sighs of admiration.
“So pretty bubbles I want to make bubbles like this, and then decorate them into the sky! All filled up, I want them all!”
“I want to draw it!”