Chapter 855: Return to Reality and the Trouble to be Faced
Chapter 855: Return to Reality and the Trouble to be Faced
“Little Han! You're finally back!”
Bai Yu was the first to sense this familiar soul fluctuation and rushed forward directly.
In this Main World, nothing was more important to her than Little Han.
With Bai Yu's movement, the other several witches also realized what had happened.
Quite a while had passed from the time Little Han lost contact until now, and no witch knew exactly what Little Han had done.
And now, Little Han had suddenly woken up without any warning, which truly surprised them.
Under a burst of anxious calling from Big Sis Bai, I gradually opened my eyes.
Right now, I only felt this body was somewhat foreign, and even the degree of dominance over the physical frame had shown a significant decline.
There was a feeling of being so heavily injured that even opening my eyes appeared strenuous.
“Um... alright... Big Sis Bai... if you keep shaking me, I won't be able to take it...”
The first person I saw upon opening my eyes was the Big Sis Bai I had expected, which undoubtedly made my mood very good.
“Sorry, Little Han, I was too excited... After all, you lost contact with us for too long. I was truly afraid something had happened to you.”
Big Sis Bai instinctively wiped away the moisture at the corners of her eyes that wasn't easily noticed, and then spoke with emotion.
“Aren't I fine? It was just a small accident. The time order of the dream state and reality is not quite the same, so I didn't manage it well for a moment.”
I wanted to prop myself up with one hand to sit up, but found it was still a bit strenuous.
Nevertheless, I still sat up; after all, my physical strength was still there.
I hugged Big Sis Bai, allowing her to hold me and release her pent-up emotions, while I lightly used Emotional Body Cultivation to guide Big Sis Bai bit by bit to vent her feelings.
After all, being suppressed for too long is not good for the body.
Even though Big Sis Bai was a Transcendent now, I didn't want these unhappy emotions to affect her mood.
Seeing this “warm” scene, the other two witches also awkwardly paused their footsteps.
After all, if they stepped forward further, they would be acting as third wheels.
The most self-aware one took a half-step back.
“Um... I'll go find Academy Head Mei. Why don't you stay here and watch?”
“Bestie, I'll go with you!”
Seeing the other witch about to leave her behind to eat dog food here, she grabbed the other party and left the place as well, using a random excuse.
She didn't want to be a third wheel eating dog food here!
“Hmph hmph.”
Seeing those two witches leave, I instinctively let out a light laugh.
“Big Sis Bai, is that enough?”
“Not enough! Little Han, your behavior this time almost scared me to death! How could this bit be enough? And you were coming back, yet you didn't even notify me!”
Big Sis Bai complained to me for a few sentences, which was rare, but it was mostly a shallow protest issued under the drive of her emotions.
She had always been trying to understand Little Han, even to the point of neglecting her own feelings, but she should have had her own emotions too.
She felt that this time, Little Han... was simply too reckless!
“I'm sorry Big Sis Bai... these were all accidents! See, I didn't even have time to contact you just so I could come back and see you as quickly as possible!”
I lowered my posture and began to admit my mistake.
After all, even though I knew very well that everything I did conformed to my cognition, I truly had neglected Big Sis Bai for a long time... perhaps... this was the willfulness born of being favored by Big Sis Bai?
However, when I was in the Soul Dream State, even I wasn't clear that under the blossoming of the Fool's Dream Seed, the span of time cognition would be so large.
To the point that by the time I once again realized the information transmitted from the Great Tree of Knowledge, so much time had already passed, so I hurriedly returned without regard for anything.
After all…… for the matters to follow, I wouldn't need to conduct them within the Primal Dream State.
They could be conducted back in reality as well, so I chose to return at the first moment.
“Hmph an excuse!”
“This time it's absolutely not an excuse!”
I lightly bit my lower lip and defended myself weakly.
However... the force majeure factor that led to all of this was indeed of my own making.
“But... I forgive you.”
“Really!”
“Of course it's true.”
Big Sis Bai started laughing at this moment.
Having not seen Big Sis Bai for a long time, I was even a bit entranced for a moment; it was the kind of feeling of naturally letting down the inner guard from the bottom of one's heart.
“But you'll have quite a few troublesome matters next!”
At this moment, Big Sis Bai's voice shifted, and her tone became serious.
“I won't pursue the others anymore. Even as to why you lost contact, I won't forcibly press you for answers. But... one matter is very grave, and that is you dismantled the Grand Spellbook the Academy Head gifted you, right? If you cannot give Academy Head Mei a reasonable explanation, the Academy Head has a temper too, you understand?”
“Um... I definitely have a reason too!”
I hurriedly defended myself.
“I'm naturally clear that you have your own ideas, Little Han, and Big Sis Bai will understand you to the maximum extent.”
Big Sis Bai's tone also softened as she comforted me, and then began to explain for me.
“But... even if you have grander ideals and conceptions, if you cannot achieve true results, others won't acknowledge your words, no matter how brilliant they are.”
“Um... I understand...”
I nodded obediently without refuting.
Even without Big Sis Bai saying such a paragraph to me, I actually understood the gravity of this problem.
It was just that when I decided to do it, I understood the pros and cons within it very clearly, so I made the choice I felt was most correct.
But others weren't me... and might not necessarily understand me.
That was the difficulty I had to face next.
Furthermore, the one I had to deal with was Academy Head Mei!
Academy Head Mei had given the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell to me as an investment, and after I accepted this “investment,” I dismantled it in return.
This would naturally give the Academy Head the feeling of throwing a meat bun at a dog.
After all, for an “investor,” letting the investor's expectations fall through is a mistake.
Moreover, the relationship between the Academy Head and me had long since ceased to be a simple matter of interests and investment; it could be described as a situation where one hair's movement affects the entire body.
However... that ultimately wasn't a problem I needed to face right now.
Perhaps feeling that this topic was too heavy, Big Sis Bai and I both tacitly stopped mentioning the matter.
As for me, I lay down again.
After all, I only felt uncomfortable all over right now.
“Big Sis Bai... did you do something strange to my body... why do I feel like something is wrong all over?”
I raised my arm with some effort and nudged Big Sis Bai on the side.
Even if Big Sis Bai didn't say it, I could perceive that my body had definitely undergone repair and reorganization.
I am a Self-awakened Body Cultivator, after all!
Once the soul essence returned to the shell, the dominance of one's own soul essence over the body was absolutely refined to the extreme.
However, combined with my current weakness and my red-faced appearance, saying such words to Big Sis Bai... would really be very misleading... fortunately, it seemed only Big Sis Bai and I were here.
“What nonsense are you talking! How could I possibly do that kind of thing to your body!”
Big Sis Bai immediately defended herself.
“Um, what thing? I just felt my body seemed to have been reorganized... it's not quite a fit...”
I slowly utilized the Reincarnation Spell and the absolute dominance of Self-awakened Body Cultivation over the shell to adjust my body.
Although I admitted the external appearance and internal construction of this shell were nearly identical to the original, when it involved the level of soul-to-shell compatibility, there was a strong “sense of disharmony.”
However, after performing a series of adjustments, I felt I was gradually recovering.
My soul's dominance over the shell was gradually rising, and the perception channels were interfacing with the shell's perception……
This process was very tedious; I reckon only I could achieve this degree.
“Thi... this...”
Big Sis Bai quickly realized she had misunderstood and hurriedly shifted her gaze, then steered the topic.
“This is actually to be blamed on yourself, Little Han! Who told you to dismantle a Grand Spellbook recklessly, causing a Void Crack riot? Even your shell was completely torn apart. If I hadn't known the construction of your body, I might not have been able to save you!”
“So that was it? But I can still feel the disharmony between my own soul and shell. Does Big Sis Bai still not understand my body's construction well enough? Do we need to have a deeper understanding tonight……”
“Ahem, mhm! Mhm……”
Just as I was preparing to issue an invitation to Big Sis Bai for a one-on-one duel in bed tonight, a burst of mismatched coughing broke the peace here.
Both Big Sis Bai and I froze in our expressions instantly.
“Academy Head, why have you come so quickly?”
Big Sis Bai also stood up immediately, breaking the current embarrassment.
“Since I heard Little Han had woken up, as the Academy Head, I naturally had to come and visit.”
Mei Linde spoke while pretending as if she hadn't heard anything just now.
After all, Transcendents tearing through space and transmitting information is actually very fast.
Mei Linde had actually rushed over at the first moment when those two witches came to notify her, but seeing Little Han and Bai Yu like that, there was no need to disturb them; she wasn't a witch without emotional intelligence.
But... if it were to develop further, she felt it might develop into content for the “reproduction project”……
In that case, she didn't know how long she would have to wait outside, and “peeping” like that would also damage her status as the Academy Head.
So she just gave a light cough and subsequently entered.
“Hello, Big Sis Mei.”
At this moment, I also got off this medical table.
After gradually completing the alignment with my shell, my legs and feet were much more agile now.
At most, there was just a bit of discomfort, primarily caused by staying in the Primal Dream State for too long.
“Little Han, you were finally willing to return to reality, huh? How is it? Are you alright?”
Mei Linde instead stepped forward to inquire in a half-joking manner.
“Uh... I'm okay...”
“So... are your matters all finished? If there's nothing else, it would be better to return to the Witch Academy earlier.”
“Um... although the matters are far from finished, it can actually be continued after returning to the academy.”
I spoke.
After all, the things I needed to conduct within the Primal Dream State were basically completed.
The Fool's Dreams that needed to be placed in the Primal Dream State were currently within my Soul Dream State.
It had to be said that although the development of events had some discrepancy from my expectations, overall they were very smooth.
“That's good, then returning to the academy earlier saves me some worry. The Expansion Realm right now is not peaceful; there are too many Transcendents from other academies gathered here.”
Mei Linde sighed as she spoke.
After all, the rescue plan for the Primal Dream State was originally a long process.
With the passage of time, it had gradually reached the point of needing to see people if alive and corpses if dead.
In the context of the Primal Dream State, that meant seeing their soul-substance consciousness.
But regarding current progress, after those people's consciousnesses underwent my Wisdom Wither, they gradually lost their resistance to the Primal Dream State.
Even a Transcendent-level life tier could not withstand the sharing and devouring of such terrifying dream creatures.
Therefore, they could only retrieve some soul-substance fragments, unable even to distinguish who was who through the memory information atop the life essence.
It had to be said that such a result was absolutely unacceptable to the other Transcendent academies, especially after seeing the witches the Witch Academy “rescued” were unharmed, only having some spirit problems.
With the comparison, the hurt was even more profound.
Only, the promotion of the Fourth Interpretation of Life of the Great Project of the Soul remained somewhat slow.
“Eh? Big Sis Mei, has your rescue operation not ended yet? Those fellows still haven't given up?”
Hearing the Academy Head's words, I became somewhat curious as well.
“That is natural.”
“Then since so many Transcendents from other academies are gathered in the Expansion Realm, do you need me to……”
At this point, my voice paused.
Some words didn't need to be said in full for the meaning to be expressed.
“Better not.”
Mei Linde shook her head and stopped my thought.
After all, what the Witch Academy needed right now was stable development and breaking through key technologies to achieve a one-strike victory effect.
To act like that now would be clearly saying the Witch Academy had a problem.
It would expose a trump card like Little Han, and it would be equivalent to directly flipping the table!
“I was just joking.”
I also gave a smile and glossed over the topic.
After all, if the Academy Head truly wanted to do that, I would be the one to object!
For I could not replicate such a Primal Dream State calamity a second time.
Although with my understanding of the Primal Dream State, I also roughly understood the principle, without the fermentation of time, the assistance of means, and the coordination of the right time and place, the current me could not achieve the previous scale.
At most, I could utilize the domain order to complete a Dream Calamity descent for a single area.
After all, previously, I only succeeded by chance, and I haven't really reviewed the principles of that calamity much.
For a second time, I couldn't leave everything to so-called luck.
I only roughly knew that if coordinated with that kind of resonance of the domain order, it seemed I could achieve roughly that scale.
But in the final analysis, I ultimately haven't practiced it.
In this way, I, along with Big Sis Bai, Academy Head Mei, and the other several witch sisters, returned to the Witch Academy with talk and laughter.
During the period, the matter of the Grand Spellbook's deconstruction was not mentioned.
But I was very clear: the more it wasn't mentioned now, the more it showed the gravity of this matter.
Perhaps after arriving at Academy Head Mei's office in a while, we would begin to handle this matter seriously.