Chapter 1000: Why Can't the Sacred Relic be a Fool's Dream?
After completing the cooperation with the two large clubs at the Qunluosen Wasteland, I returned once again to the Primal Dream State laboratory in the Experimental Area.
My primary objective was the Fool's Dream.
Out of the three plans for detonating the so-called Ice Throne Secret Realm, two were for the sake of the Fool's Dream.
This was enough to show the importance I placed on the Fool's Dream.
Whether it was the understanding of life sequences or the understanding of [Transcendent Knowledge], it was all for the same thing.
Even Infinite Magic Power had to be placed slightly behind.
These matters were all extremely important to me, and I could not allow myself to waste my own energy by using multiple clones.
Inside the life cultivation room.
As time passed, the time the Fool's Dream stayed awake grew shorter and shorter.
Their dream consciousness and the base that shaped their lives—the dream-state soul—were in a special gestation stage.
The Soul Depiction and Life Evolution techniques I mastered had basically completed the inscription of the initial bloodline information of the Fool's Dream.
And within the life sequence of the Ancient Glacial Ice, I had already learned of the two types of “Authority” nurtured within the life sequence.
The transformation Authority formed based on bloodline information.
And the summoning Authority based on the racial concept as a blueprint.
This just happened to match the Primal Transformation Spell and Primal Summoning Spell that Academy Head Mei Linde had mentioned to me back then.
It seemed that the spells transformed from these two types of Authority, or the spellbooks made from them, were indeed very important, at least for a race... very important.
Although I was not yet clear on exactly how important they were, even if they only had a commemorative significance, I thought of my investment agreement with Academy Head Mei.
I was to give Academy Head Mei a copy of the spell sequences for Primal Summoning and Transformation.
In the past, I did not understand its value, but now, as the bond between me and the Fool's Dream grew increasingly tight, to be honest, I began to hesitate.
However, this “trial” that once came from Academy Head Mei was witnessed by a Witch's Contract.
The only thing worth rejoicing about was... Academy Head Mei did not specify that she wanted the two Primal spells of the Fool's Dream; this was the only loophole I could exploit.
As for finding Academy Head Mei to peacefully dissolve the contract?
I never thought about that.
The initial investment was the most significant assistance; I could not do such an ungrateful thing.
Regardless, after understanding and personally experiencing the concept of life sequences, at worst, I would create a brand-new living race in the future and give that, along with the Primal spells and Primal race, to Academy Head Mei.
After figuring this out, I threw all my energy onto the “Sacred Relic.”
I had already paved the way for everything concerning the Fool's Dream; the final stretch was to pave the road leading to the life sequence!
To achieve all this with the power of the Sacred Relic!
The concept of the Sacred Relic is to create life; the Sacred Relic can point to any kind of life, yet the Fool's Dream can only lead to the Sacred Relic.
I discovered that the concept represented by [Transcendent Knowledge] is the uppermost concept; its essence is the power of the Sacred Relic.
Subsequently, it derived the first concept in my cognition: the Dream Picture Scroll.
The Dream Picture Scroll was the fundamental reason why the initial Fool's Dream was the Fool's Dream.
The current Dream Picture Scroll, after being transcribed by the Great Tree of Knowledge, had transformed into the Fool's Dream Tree within my soul dream state, and finally, the Fool's Dream used this as a core to build the new Fool's Village.
Then Academy Head Mei transformed the Sacred Relic into the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell, endowing it with a brand-new concept: Wisdom's Enlightenment.
Academy Head Mei interpreted the creation of life from another angle, which was to enlighten wisdom.
Wisdom is the flickering spiritual light of life, and also the characteristic of deep-level evolution of life.
After all, the Academy Head had already skipped the process of creating life and focused more on the enlightenment of wisdom.
It could be said that her pragmatism was filled to the brim.
And under the framework of the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell, I derived Wisdom Bestowal, Mimetic Soul, Soul Depiction, and even the current Life Evolution; these basically all belonged to derivative techniques.
Precisely because these were derivative techniques rather than derivative spells, even after I dismantled the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell and returned it to the essential Sacred Relic, these techniques could still be cast by borrowing the power of the Sacred Relic.
It could be said that these techniques of mine were themselves using various concepts to endow the Sacred Relic with interpretation.
[Transcendent Knowledge] seemed like a certain branch of the Transcendent concept itself.
Before this branch, however an individual understood it, it responded to that person in the manner of that understanding.
Compared to the Transcendent concept itself, it was only like adding a framework.
Or perhaps it was precisely because it was a ready-made “0 to 1” that it was easier to utilize than Transcendence itself.
That was why it was endowed with the suffix of “Knowledge.”
After the power of the Sacred Relic was utilized by me, I also endowed the creation of life with a brand-new interpretation: Soul-substance and Soul.
And I leaned more towards the Soul, which was why there were later techniques like Mimetic Soul, Soul Depiction, and so on.
I even further subdivided it into real souls and dream-state souls later on.
And with my deal with the World Consciousness, it also made me realize another concept of life.
Consciousness.
The concept of consciousness was something I should have realized long ago; after all, the initial Fool's Dream was the original dream-state consciousness.
I could be certain that in my subsequent plans, after returning the King of Ancient Glacial Ice to the Main World Consciousness, I should be able to grope my way to the mysteries of consciousness.
Based on my current cognition, I can guess that consciousness is “derived” from the base of life, Soul-substance or the Soul, and consciousness can, to a certain extent, exist independently of the Soul.
At least the initial Fool's Dream was pure dream-state consciousness.
With the Fool's Dream in the posture of a dream-state soul carrying dream-state consciousness and crossing the boundary between dream and reality—this was the proof that the Fool's Dream had truly come to reality in the truest sense!
Previously, it was basically achieved by controlling reality bodies in special ways, which could only be considered a clever trick to a certain extent.
After experiencing so many interpretations and definitions, the Sacred Relic would also eventually usher in its final interpretation.
Admittedly, I said the concept of the Sacred Relic is to create life, but even this definition was endowed by me.
What did this mean?
It meant that... the initial definition and concept of the Sacred Relic, “creating life,” was also inaccurate and one-sided.
Remember the Ancient Glacial Ice?
They transformed into power as a race.
And my ambition was even greater... to let power transform into the Fool's Dream!
So... why can't the explanation for the Sacred Relic be the Fool's Dream itself?
Why can't it be the Fool's Dream?
Asking myself why repeatedly had no meaning.
Practice is the only path to testing the truth!
Since I accepted this concept, the Sacred Relic is the Fool's Dream itself, and the Sacred Relic is the only means to open up a life sequence for the Fool's Dream... then what is the Fool's Dream that opens up the life sequence?
The Primal Fool's Dream!
This idea was absolutely insane, but theoretically, it was feasible.
However, following my experimental style all along, theory was just a form of psychological comfort; only successful practice was true success!
If this idea were heard by other Transcendent Witches, they would absolutely think I was crazy, or rather, engaged in flights of fancy.
But without trying, who knows?
It was like how the concept of the dream domain was also a vain delusion before it appeared.
Now, I also have the right to say to others: those who have not put it into practice have no right to mock me!
Perhaps on the first day I came into contact with Transcendent power, if I said the things in dreams existed and others called me an idiot, I would have been submissive.
But now, I will only beat those who mock me, letting them see whether or not the things in dreams can beat you to death!
And now, looking ahead.
Wanting to make the Sacred Relic become the Fool's Dream also required the most basic methodological guidance.
It wouldn't become so just because I said the Sacred Relic is the Fool's Dream.
I wouldn't think wildly about things without a basis.
Just like how I never said the Sacred Relic was a Fireball; there wasn't much connection between the two.
But ultimately, my saying the Sacred Relic can be a Fool's Dream was also, to a certain extent, a reference to the foundation of “creating life.”
And the “Fool's Dream concept” was a supplement to the “concept of creating life.”
At this point, the relationship between the Sacred Relic and the Fool's Dream was no longer a relationship of a creation and its derivative, but a direct lineage relationship.
As for how I was going to do it.
I planned to start from the two types of Authority in a race's life sequence.
Transformation and Summoning.
Or rather... bloodline information and racial concept.
Using two types of Authority as the power to open up a life sequence was something that could hold up no matter how one thought about it.
And as for how to achieve it, that would depend on my own methods.
In the end, I planned to start from the perspective of the Fool's Dream Transformation Spell first.
After all, the bloodline information of the Fool's Dream was gradually becoming perfect through the continuous extension of Soul Depiction and Life Evolution.
Looking at the Sacred Relic before me, wanting to complete the evolution of the Fool's Dream Transformation Spell for it was undoubtedly as difficult as creating a Grand Spellbook from scratch.
Thinking of this, I suddenly realized a problem.
That was, what would the Grand Spellbook formed by the Primal Authority intervening with [Transcendent Knowledge] be called?
Could it be called... the Primal Great Fool's Dream Transformation Spell?
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Qunluosen Wasteland.
This place was still covered by ice and snow.
The ice crystals and snowflakes scattered at the moment the secret realm disintegrated had been falling for a long time, and ice crystal dust and water mist persisted over the Qunluosen Wasteland for several days.
However, the core realm of the Main World ultimately did not have the conditions for such an environment to persist.
Under the projection of the daytime sunlight, the ice and snow were also gradually melting.
Even so, the sudden temperature change brought by the melting ice and snow also affected the surrounding areas.
The Qunluosen Wasteland and its surrounding areas had completed the blockade and martial law of the Transcendent area, strictly forbidding ordinary people from coming here.
Nevertheless, there were still many stubborn people who came here.
After all, these people were basically those who had originally brushed past the Transcendent Academies; they would never have the right to touch anything related to Transcendence in their lives.
In fact, driving away these ordinary people was a relatively easy task for the club members who came here.
What made them angry was actually people from other Transcendent Academies at the border coming to cause trouble.
This place, the Qunluosen Wasteland, belonged to a buffer zone between the Witch Academy and the Sun Rock Elf Transcendent Academy.
At the very beginning, Witches did not care about these boundaries at all, nor did any conflicts arise.
After all, when the boundary lines of the Witches were initially drawn, no one dared to look for trouble with the Witches, so the definition here had always been very vague.
Mainly, there were no disputes of interest.
But after Wan Shi Wu estimated the reserves of Hexagonal Crystal Amber in this area, the harassment coming this way became very obvious.
That was a regulated material!
Even if it were several times, or even more exaggeratedly, over ten times the equivalent value in ordinary materials, no fool would trade such a good thing away.
Since there was a profit to be made, the profit-seeking nature would naturally urge them to act on it.
Even if they didn't act, just causing annoyance to the people of the Witch Academy made them happy.
After all, at least a hundred people across various academies had fallen in the Qunluosen Wasteland; this lost face definitely had to be recovered!
One must know that those corpses lying there weren't simply dragged back.
These “corpses” were ransomed back in the form of spoils of war, treated as prisoners of war of the Reserve Witch Academy students.
These ransoms were counted into the compensations from the various academies to the Witch Academy.
It could be seen that even if these people returned, they had incurred huge debts to their academies, plus the cost of resurrection.
Taking the Wizard Academy as an example, those Wizard Apprentices would probably become frequent guests in the Wizard Towers, playing the role of experimental subjects for Transcendent Wizards.
The people of the Witch Academy clubs could definitely see that the Sun Rock Elf Academy—this small Transcendent Academy with zero presence, whose members weren't even qualified to enter the Witch Academy during the multi-academy exchange—definitely did not have the guts to provoke the Witch Academy.
But now they were doing it so blatantly.
With such an arrogant attitude, without someone backing them up, they absolutely wouldn't dare to bark.
If the other party were just simply provoking, then so be it; the club could find a few eloquent ones to curse at them to their faces for an entire day without any problem.
But the other party directly used large equipment to snatch their Hexagonal Crystal Amber right in front of them...
Who could endure such a thing!
Even though the place where they were collecting was indeed the Sun Rock Elves' own territory.
Even though they indeed did not cross the border.
Even though they had never taken the initiative to strike the members of the Witch Academy clubs.
But couldn't the Witch Academy cross their border, beat their people, and dismantle their equipment?
Whose logic was this?
When someone acts like a jerk at your own doorstep, can't they be taught a lesson?
Then wouldn't my Witch Academy be called the Witch Academy for nothing?
And most... most importantly, these Hexagonal Crystal Ambers and their associated materials nominally belonged to that Assistant Xiao Han; who allowed them to pick them up?
This was infringing upon another's property!
Therefore, they took action decisively, and they fought fiercely right from the start.
They beat all these people until their faces were bruised and swollen, and they ran away with limping legs.
After all, the power and means of the Sun Rock Elves indeed could not compare to the people of the Witch Academy.
Even though not many strong people from the clubs had come, and only one of them was a high-grade student who came to hold the fort, she hadn't even made a move before they were settled by the other students.
However, whether it was Wan Shi Wu or the Witch's Secret Realm Club, they did not expect that because of this matter, a new round of confrontation would be stirred up once again.
This time, the people who came included not only Sun Rock Elves, but also people from other surrounding Elf Academies.
They held weapons and looked aggressive, with a posture of revenge.
“I am from the Sun Rock Academy's Guard of the Mother God. This time I have come only to demand an explanation! Can you people from the Witch Academy truly do whatever you want and wantonly bully the people of our Academy?!”
As the leading Sun Rock Elf angrily questioned the Witch Academy students with rage...
He did not notice at all that a figure was actually not far from him, staring at him with a full smile.