Chapter 873: The Second Case of a Dream Domain?
Chapter 873: The Second Case of a Dream Domain?
Inside the laboratory.
Bai Yu's soul curled up within the Primal Dream State.
What was originally a handful of controlled Primal Dream State the size of a fish tank was, at this moment, already sufficient to accommodate a single soul of an adult witch.
This widening was not without cost; specifically, through a series of compromises, the laboratory we were in, along with several neighboring laboratories, had been incorporated into the dream overlap buffer zone.
At this moment, dozens of witches had gathered in the reality-safe area of this laboratory.
Even Academy Head Mei Linde had an avatar come specifically to this place, watching this moment that made the witches extremely excited.
It had been nearly half a month since Bai Yu arrived at this laboratory and expressed her desire to conduct verification experiments for a “Dream Domain.”
This special “Primal Dream State laboratory” had already spread among a portion of special witch groups, and the number of witches applying to conduct experiments and data collection here had gradually reached dozens.
But they gathered here today not for the experiments they intended to do, but rather to drop their own experiments and proactively come to witness the birth of a miracle after hearing some rumors.
“Dream Domain.”
A technical term that confused many witches was also gradually spreading among this group.
After all, this portion of the witch group consisted of witches who had already come into contact with Primal Dream State experiments.
Since they could come to this laboratory, Mei Linde had naturally revealed much restricted information to them.
For instance, this special Primal Dream State laboratory in the experimental area was established upon a Lesser Witch who had successfully mastered a Dream Domain.
If an ability like a Dream Domain was merely a unique, non-replicable special ability, then such an ability could at most bring temporary convenience.
But!
If this ability could be learned and mastered...
Then it would be a completely different matter!
This was even more shocking to the witches than the discovery back then that Self-awakened Body Cultivation could derive Self-generating Magic Power.
After all, when that sort of thing happened, the ability benefited the non-Transcendent group, but this ability now was something even Saint Stage Transcendents envied.
Who wouldn't want to master a domain of their own within the Primal Dream State?
The group of witches watched the curled-up Bai Yu at this moment, feeling extremely nervous.
Bai Yu was not in a coma right now, nor was she in a state of lost consciousness; she was very sober and was enduring the baptism from the Primal Dream State at every moment.
Bai Yu was not a Self-awakened Body Cultivator; she herself had merely embarked on the path of Body Cultivation.
However, the soul essence strength bestowed by Body Cultivation was the capital that allowed her to persist within the Primal Dream State.
The core of a Dream Domain was actually constructing a Domain Prototype, which meant shaping a special order.
To give an example, for a spell domain shaped based on a spellbook, its internal order was the spell itself.
Take the Fireball as an explanation.
The order within a Fireball domain was the Fireball, and this order was manifested by the master of the domain.
Therefore, the caster could release the Fireball regardless of the situation within the domain; with a single thought, a fireball could appear anywhere in the domain, even inside the body of an enemy within the domain.
This was a very general description and also the most basic ability and application.
This was the lower limit of a domain's power, while the upper limit depended on an individual's train of thought and ability.
And within the Primal Dream State, a Dream Domain similarly constructed order, but the Primal Dream State lacked all reality-based order and frameworks, so spells were useless here, and spell domains were also incompatible with Dream Domains.
More importantly, a domain also required massive energy.
For example, within the witches' system, a domain required a starting point of one hundred million Magic Power Sources to complete the domain's energy self-cycle; this was also a foundation.
But the Primal Dream State similarly possessed no energy.
Precisely because of this, the Primal Dream State was branded with the inherent cognition that it was impossible to construct a domain.
But Body Cultivation cultivated the life essence.
In the era when soul-substance life was dominant, there was even less room for Body Cultivation to be deployed.
But now, witches mastered the Great Project of the Soul, allowing the Body Cultivation system, which utilized the life essence, to have a place to display its worth within the Primal Dream State.
First were the basic Five Senses.
Accompanying the life essence having a subjective conscious cognition within the dream, order was born.
Therefore, the Primal Dream State was not without order outside of chaos and treachery; being able to be perceived was the most intuitive order within the Primal Dream State.
And the Transcendent system that utilized this order was also very simple: Body Cultivation, or more specifically—Five Senses Body Cultivation.
Five Senses Body Cultivation belonged to the “relatively” niche choices among Body Cultivation, because what Five Senses Body Cultivation majored in was perception channels, and the method of promotion had only the single rank of “Transcendent.”
From Five Senses to True Five Senses, this crossed the boundary of True Time.
The so-called True Five Senses were the contributions made by Five Senses Body Cultivation toward the exploration of True Time.
Therefore, Five Senses Body Cultivation was more often treated as a means to be utilized, rather than a primary power system.
Furthermore, the other promotion method for Five Senses Body Cultivation was even more difficult, which was the birth of the 6th sense, 7th sense...
So this resulted in Five Senses Body Cultivation being the first choice for a minor study, but absolutely not a major system.
Right now, Bai Yu was relying on the five senses power of Body Cultivation to constantly adapt to the environment of the Primal Dream State.
Yes, adaptation.
The stupidest yet most effective means.
If one were to ask what the most powerful ability of a Transcendent life was, perhaps many inherent impressions would be strength, spells, and so on, but the most powerful ability of a Transcendent was “adaptability”!
Even for a person who has not advanced to Transcendent, once her life essence is elevated to a certain stage, she will possess “undying nature,” and this undying nature is the cornerstone for a Transcendent life to dominate its own adaptability!
One should know that a Transcendent can survive in the “Void” outside worlds; this is the manifestation of Transcendent adaptability.
And Bai Yu was acting in this way, coordinating with the power of Body Cultivation to influence her soul essence and adapt to the Primal Dream State.
Before many witches explored the Primal Dream State, they adapted to the Primal Dream State through this method.
The Primal Dream State was merely dangerous and unknowable, but that did not mean Transcendent Witches could not explore it; it was just the difference between being able to return and being unable to return.
And Bai Yu was using the perception channels of the five senses to perceive the “Information” within the Primal Dream State through this method, while utilizing the 6th sense, Heart Sense, to understand this Information.
She did not have a Great Tree of Knowledge and had no way to rapidly process this Information that needed to be understood.
But Big Sis Bai had an advantage other witches did not have, which was... me.
Although only [Transcendent Knowledge] could remain once the Great Tree of Knowledge entered the Primal Dream State, I had already completed the reconstruction of this Grand Spellbook's functions through the Information processing method of the Great Tree of Knowledge.
Otherwise... how could the Primal Dream State version of the Seed of Great Knowledge be born?
How could the Information exchange channels within the Primal Dream State be constructed?
And how could Information be shared between the dream and reality?
Furthermore, Big Sis Bai was not a witch working alone; was I just going to stand by and watch?
Certainly not.
In half a month, for Big Sis Bai to have such progress was already an extremely ideal situation.
If it were changed to another witch with 6th sense Body Cultivation trying it, would they even think about achieving progress through adaptation in half a month?
Don't even think about it!
Furthermore, if that were the case, where would that leave those witches who had been lost in the Primal Dream State for hundreds of years?
Right now, Big Sis Bai had already adapted to the Information of the Primal Dream State by relying on the ability of Heart Sense, turning this “cognition” into an instinct.
Even if Big Sis Bai did not have [Transcendent Knowledge] as another hand of preparation, she was still sufficient to shape her order within the Primal Dream State.
Which was the most basic “Five Senses” order.
However... even if a kind-hearted witch were to provide Big Sis Bai with a portion of [Transcendent Knowledge], I actually would not suggest Big Sis Bai use it at will.
Because Big Sis Bai had no cognition or familiarity with it, much less an understanding of its characteristics.
If the characteristics were unhelpful within the Primal Dream State, then having that portion of [Transcendent Knowledge] would be worse than not having it, and it would even become a burden.
More importantly, Big Sis Bai couldn't handle it... my success actually had a large portion of coincidence, with the assistance of the Great Tree of Knowledge and the characteristics of the Fool's Dream Sacred Object, before the utilization of this power was completed.
As the soul-state of Big Sis Bai opened its eyes, an imagery phantom like an eye flickered past within that local Primal Dream State.
But I understood very well that this was the manifestation of the preliminary successful architecture of the Five Senses order within the Primal Dream State!
I hurriedly prepared to fish Big Sis Bai back from the Primal Dream State.
After all, this was the agreed-upon arrangement: when Big Sis Bai encountered any situation, she would open her eyes, and I would pull her to the shallow area of the Primal Dream State at the first moment.
“Don't be in a hurry yet, Little Han...”
Big Sis Bai's voice spread throughout the Primal Dream State and reached directly into reality.
Actually, this was a very natural transmission of Information; basically, any witch on the side could do it.
But Big Sis Bai's voice had a major problem, because her voice was completing the transmission of Information through a special channel within the Primal Dream State.
“True Hearing”!
This feeling was similar to the logic of hand-crafting a fireball versus a fireball released within a Fireball domain.
Although both were fireballs, the meaning transmitted by the fireball within the domain was higher!
So Big Sis Bai specifically used this method to stop my next movement.
“Successful?!”
My eyes widened in disbelief!
Except for Big Sis Bai completing the order architecture of the Five Senses within the Primal Dream State, this method would have been absolutely impossible to achieve!
At this moment, Big Sis Bai did not respond to my words.
She was once again immersed in her own cognition, completing the things she had envisioned in her heart.
Having reached this step, Big Sis Bai could only rely on herself, and only she could help herself; even I could not interfere with her.
After all, everything I needed to say had already been said.
Only when Big Sis Bai produced her own understanding would she have a breakthrough of her own.
And at this moment, the other witches on the side were also hooked by a heavy curiosity because of my sentence, “Successful?”!
After all, if she really succeeded, then they were essentially witnessing history!
“Really? Bai Yu succeeded?”
“I can't see at all what she actually did. This must be a miracle that can only be achieved after producing one's own understanding following a thorough comprehension of your method......”
“Um... I don't know how to define success either. There is no systematic division for Dream Domains right now, not even a boundary between success and failure.”
I also shook my head to indicate I wasn't clear, but I still tried to explain matters clearly.
“But what I can be certain of is that Big Sis Bai has completed the construction of the Five Senses order. The appearance of order means that... one step further, that is the 'Domain Prototype' in the real world.”
“So... this is success, then? Doesn't that mean... Bai Yu will also be able to stir up a Dream Calamity with a wave of her hand later?”
This witch also sighed with sentiment at this moment, suddenly thinking of many things.
When a means has no way to be countered, then it is a dimensionality reduction attack!
It was like history—no, like those small worlds where spells were just beginning to rise.
In a social system that had just come into contact with Evocation Spells, when everyone was playing with water, fire, wind, and thunder elements, if someone suddenly mastered means of the spiritual illusion type, then without conventional defensive means, that would be a dimensionality reduction attack.
And broadening the vision a bit further.
This was also the reason why Transcendent races needed comprehensive development across all Transcendent systems.
Because... once a vacancy appeared in a certain field, it would be targeted by other races, and then that race would not be far from extinction.
If the concept of a “Dream Domain” was exposed, it would be like the birth of the first “Saint Stage” within the Void back then; it would bring only absolute crushing!
It would only end once a competitor appeared, finishing this endless strife.
“No, Big Sis Bai cannot achieve that level yet.”
I shook my head and interrupted this witch sister's fantasy.
“Setting aside that the characteristics of the order determine what can be done, the current Five Senses order definitely cannot achieve that level. Additionally, Big Sis Bai is not a Self-awakened Body Cultivator, the basic structural nodes of her Dream Domain are unstable, and her degree of order dominance over the dream state is also uncertain...”
“Fine... it looks like it still needs to be done step-by-step?”
“Mhm.”
I nodded and said no more, simply waiting quietly for Big Sis Bai to transform everything she understood into her power.
At this moment, even my experiments regarding Nightmares and dream-state soul-substance were temporarily set aside.
The other four Fool's Dreams were also beside me, looking at what was happening with expectation, as if praying that Big Sis Bai could succeed quickly.
My gaze was fixed tightly on those order imageries around Big Sis Bai.
I could feel that this portion of Primal Dream State that had descended into reality was far from enough for Big Sis Bai to stretch out.
“Academy Head, please help watch over things. I'm taking Big Sis Bai for a trip into the depths of the Primal Dream State. It might not be enough here for her to spread out.”
Accompanying my voice, my physical body collapsed directly in reality, because I had completely cast myself into the Primal Dream State.
“Big Sis Bai... I'm taking you to a larger stage to deploy your power.”
My voice lingered upon the channel of True Hearing constructed upon Big Sis Bai's soul essence.
In the next moment, Big Sis Bai's soul essence and I disappeared within the laboratory.
Leaving behind only a small, empty patch of the Primal Dream State.
“Wait, I'm just an avatar, how am I supposed to watch?”
Academy Head Mei frowned and spoke with some difficulty.
She was only an avatar present, after all.
If she entered into the deep Primal Dream State, it would make this avatar of hers completely finished.
She had to consider even her true body entering the Primal Dream State, much less an avatar.
“I'll do it, Academy Head.”
At this moment, a witch on the side spoke, and subsequently her figure appeared in the Primal Dream State radiation area in the center of the laboratory, bringing Little Han's body to the side.
“I'll trouble you, then.”
“It's fine, just a small matter.”