Chapter 649: What Kind of Life Does Fool's Dream Want to Become?

“Good girl Yes, just like that. I bestow you with wisdom, allowing you to survive better in the Expansion Realm, and you need to ascend to a higher level to repay this world…”

After completing the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell on the last Mutated Beast of the pack, I let them run away directly.

Facing my powerful existence, which far surpassed their cognition, their only emotion at this moment was fear, and under the Heart Sense, this perception was especially obvious.

And after I endowed them with wisdom, their expression of fear became somewhat more "concrete."

Following that, I looked at the several sick and disabled individuals they had abandoned.

They were following the instinct of species continuation, willingly staying behind as bait to buy time for the pack.

I did not use the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell on them, but… I sent them on their final journey.

But before long, their bones and flesh gathered together to form a brand new, healthy Mutated Beast.

It didn't make a fuss, only a clarity, unlike a wild beast, flashed in its eyes.

Then, it pursued the direction the pack had fled.

As I used the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell on those Mutated Beasts during this period, I was also contemplating.

Life is not constituted by elements such as wisdom, memory, emotion, cognition, or soul; rather, these qualities are manifested due to the existence of life.

The essence of life is an irreversible miracle.

It is precisely because of the beauty and complexity of life that these attributes are summarized and expressed.

Life is the foundation, and only then can those subsequent concepts unfold with life as the origin.

Mutated Beasts made me realize that life does not possess all qualities.

For example, many Mutated Beasts I encountered did not have much wisdom, but they could have wisdom.

Some Mutated Beasts did not have memory, but they could have memory.

Some Mutated Beasts did not have perception, but they could have perception…

Some qualities I could help them acquire, and some I could not, but I knew there must be a way to achieve them.

Therefore, I would also frequently re-examine the Grand Spellbook I held—the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell.

I once doubted whether the name of this Spellbook was correct.

Academy Head Mei thought this idea of mine was very good.

But that didn't mean the name was wrong; the act of "doubt" was the rare and valuable "correctness."

When re-examining this Grand Spellbook, I would also stop my study of Runology and turn to understand the materials the Academy Head had given me.

Although only a few months had passed, compared to the Academy Head's centuries of accumulation, a few months were indeed a drop in the ocean if I wanted to fully grasp them.

But I defined this material as "reference."

Only what I understood and comprehended myself truly belonged to me.

Furthermore, I had mastered the Time Sense; I was not lacking in time.

I had mastered Clones, and I was equally not lacking in energy to think.

So, I confirmed once again that the name Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell was not wrong.

This Grand Spell was not purely about creating life from nothing for me; it was strongly related to "Fool's Dream, this Dream State creature" and "Fool's Dream's intense desire to become life."

And after I understood this spell again, I also had a guess.

“Wisdom Life”

This was a concept strongly related to this Grand Spell.

It was not about shaping a true life form; it was only about shaping Wisdom Life, bestowing life with the enlightenment of wisdom.

Therefore, this [Transcendent Knowledge] that shaped the Grand Spellbook was called the "Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell."

And "Mimetic Soul" and the yet-to-be-perfected "Soul Portrayal" did not belong to the Sequence Derivation of this Grand Spell; they were not even spells, but a "shaping" technique.

The former me was overly obsessed with the "perfection" of life, but the Mutated Beasts gave me a new Revelation.

Life was also imperfect.

Even among people, there was no such thing as a perfect person in the world.

Let alone perfect life?

So, I considered the concept of Wisdom Life.

Is life with wisdom also a Revelation that can be interpreted as… life born for wisdom.

What kind of people would pursue the meaning of wisdom?

Perhaps it was the confused or the Seekers of the Dao who claimed to be Fools.

Then, could Fool's Dream be considered a group of Fools wandering in the Primal Dream State, pursuing life?

They unknowingly carried the key to becoming life… 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Then who named them Fool's Dream?

The Academy Head…

But this seemed meaningless, because I also obtained a subtle Revelation from the name, but this Revelation was a question.

That is… “What kind of life does Fool's Dream want to become?”

From my contact with so many Mutated Beasts, I also acquired a great deal of information about their species and bloodlines.

From this information, I could know the inclinations, advantages, and abilities of these species.

It was precisely because of this that I knew a truly perfect life did not exist.

Flaws shaped their species.

Advantages wove their bloodlines.

So, what kind of life Fool's Dream wanted to become required a choice of what qualities to abandon.

I was currently traversing the Spatial Maze at the foot of the mountain, instead of flying directly over the ridge to the spatial rift in the sky.

Because I was experiencing, searching for a faint trace of Revelation regarding the Space Sense.

“Give it up. Don't waste time here. After you missed the chance to touch the Space Sense last time, the threshold for you to touch this barrier has already risen again. Just looking at the Material Space Maze generated by these space-attributed Transcendent Materials, if that could work, then Space Sense as an ability would have become commonplace among Body Cultivation powerhouses long ago,” the Shadow of Knowledge accompanying me immediately complained.

And what she said was indeed true.

I was very aware that this probability was very slim, not just for the Material Space here, but also for the spatial rift above that connected the Core Realm and the Expansion Realm.

“But… the result isn't important. What's important is the process, the experience. You are my subconscious. Why is your awareness lagging behind my conscious mind?”

I chuckled softly.

“Who knows? Maybe your nature is hard to change? People are ultimately confined for life by what they couldn't attain in their youth. The unmarried stage of your previous life and this life will ultimately be a regret you spend your entire remaining life trying to compensate for. Even if the time span is longer, it will only affect you less, but it cannot be erased.”

“Yes, regret. In order to no longer regret, I lacked too many things. I was afraid of making choices, afraid of facing life's crossroads, afraid of everything beyond my cognitive limits… But hasn't all of this been clearly recognized and an attempt made to break through it during this journey to the Expansion Realm?”

“Have you really broken through?”

The Shadow of Knowledge said with disdain.

“…Mm, at least a crack has appeared.”

After saying that, I stopped wasting time on this topic.

Instead, I continued my Trekking Journey.

If I encountered a Mutated Beast population, I would give them the blessing of the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell.

And I continued like this, constantly advancing, climbing, and reaching the highest peak of the ridge closest to the heavens!

Just by standing here, I could feel a kind of pressure originating from the spatial rift.

Clearly, the opposite side of the rift was the Horaso Swamp in the Core Realm, a very ordinary place that I hadn't visited much.

But the rift itself possessed an invisible coercion.

This feeling was completely different from the Void Rift formed by my perfected Grand Spellbook.

The Void Rift was a fissure cutting through the Void, and its inherent danger could not be ignored even by a Transcendent Witch.

And this kind of rift that traversed space was not on the same level; it felt like any Transcendent Witch could go up and jump around on it repeatedly.

However, what surprised me was that this rift had not been smoothed over.

Such a spatial rift, at the level of the Academy Head, should probably be able to be erased bare-handed, right?

Putting aside these meaningless questions, I took out my Flying Broom and flew towards the spatial rift.

In fact, I had spells for direct flight, Air Stagnation, and Acceleration, and quite a few of them, but I was currently a Lesser Witch, so I chose the most representative and fitting mode of flight.

The closer I got, the more I could feel a peculiar palpitation.

“Don't bother. This palpitation is not the perception of Space Sense,” the Shadow of Knowledge promptly reminded me.

“Oh.”

I didn't respond much to the Shadow of Knowledge, but rather focused on sensing such a massive spatial rift.

This was a very rare opportunity. In the past, when I heard about the spatial rift opening above the Horaso Swamp, the news merely stayed at the level of knowing.

But experiencing and sensing it personally here now, this feeling was far beyond what a fleeting thought and fantasy could compare to back then.

With a wave of my hand, my Domain covered a part of this spatial rift.

Although I could encompass the entire spatial rift, there was no need.

I just wanted to borrow a higher level of power to perceive the rift itself.

Therefore, no observation method was better than the Mental Realm Domain with its integrated Five Senses Enhancement order.

As for the Earth Vein Appraisal Spell… this could also work, but for world-level, cross-boundary information, it would seem fragmented.

Unless this spatial break spanned an Earth Vein, there would be no useful information, so the Earth Vein Appraisal Spell still had many limitations.

After a brief contact, I quickly discovered that this rift was healing on a spatial level at an extremely slow rate.

However, I couldn't tell what kind of power was driving this healing.

But I knew what was preventing them from healing: World Primordial Soil.

However… what surprised me was that the way space was healing was not by promoting the World Primordial Soil to heal, but by "transforming" the World Primordial Soil into other Transcendent Materials, and then relying on the spatial squeezing force to slowly heal.

Therefore, Transcendent Materials occasionally dropped from the sky above this spatial rift.

After understanding the form of the spatial rift's healing, I also roughly understood what kind of power this healing was related to.

Since it could transform World Primordial Soil, it seemed obvious, without guessing, that it was related to the world itself.

But at this moment, I was observing what technique the world itself used to transform World Primordial Soil, to see if I could learn it, but I quickly realized… I couldn't understand it at all.

This was like an ordinary person who had never been exposed to any Transcendent power watching an Alchemist Master perform material Transmutation.

It wasn't just a matter of not understanding; it was the kind of not understanding that was unsupported from cognition to thinking pattern, to principle, power, and a whole series of factors.

If I tried to look closely, I could only see the very stable World Primordial Soil abruptly changing into other materials.

I couldn't see the process, the power involved, the technique used.

Information, visuals, perception, and even the Spirit Vision information couldn't help me understand how this was done.

After several hours of careful observation, I finally chose to give up.

If… even a slight clue was available, I wouldn't have given up.

Even though I knew that those at the Transcendent level could do nothing to the World Primordial Soil, I still persisted in trying continuously for several hours without any hesitation or doubt.

Therefore, I felt there was nothing wrong with giving up like this.

Recognizing one's own level was also an important ability.

Although I couldn't understand how World Primordial Soil transformed, the rift itself still had many other areas that could be studied.

Furthermore, this rift itself held great Revelation for the Spatial Teleportation Spell I had mastered.

This spell was equally important and had become one of my indispensable means.

Just as I was about to continue my research, I suddenly received a message.

It was a message from the Great Tree of Knowledge, realized through the Great Knowledge Sharing Technique.

After all, I didn't have the Academy Network around me, so they naturally had to use this method to contact me.

It seemed they had deeply researched my Great Knowledge Sharing Technique.

They had already shared their research findings with my Great Tree of Knowledge, so I naturally knew about the progress of the development, but I hadn't had the energy to study it.

“Is that Big Sis Mei? Has something happened? You usually wouldn't actively look for me.”

After confirming who was contacting me, I immediately accepted the communication.

“Xiao Han, are you currently wandering around the Expansion Realm?”

Academy Head Mei asked.

“Yes, is there a problem? You don't mean Big Sis Mei thinks I'm lost, do you?”

“It's nothing. Just be careful for a while after contacting you. The Main World… how should I put it? Some formidable people have come. As you know, with the repair of the Expansion Realm, the Main World's capacity limit for Transcendent-level individuals has definitely increased, but because of this, all sorts of people have come. Of course, your deeds have also spread.”

“Ah? What?”

I listened attentively.

Suddenly, she brought up me for no reason, which left me baffled.

“What does this have to do with me? Big Sis Mei, could you please explain clearly? What deeds of mine have spread?”

Following my inquiry, a noise came from Academy Head Mei's end.

Then I heard something about discovering someone or another, and the connection was cut off.

Ultimately, I was left completely bewildered.

But soon after, I received a reply message from Academy Head Mei.

“It's nothing. I've taken care of the hidden danger for you. Disregard what I said before. Consider it me being talkative.”

I slowly sent a “?”, but Academy Head Mei did not reply to me.

“It should be fine… right?”

……

Core Realm.

Witch Academy.

With the announcement of class dismissal, the students, looking slightly disheveled from the arduous training process of Body Cultivation, returned.

Bai Yu tidied her things, and then another figure walked over from the side.

“Here you go. It's all tidied up. You can leave now.”

“You don't really need to trouble Xiao Han with this,” Big Sis Bai sighed and said.

“This is just a Clone, Big Sis Bai. Why be so careful? My Clone being busy doesn't make me tired…”

“Heh heh.”

Bai Yu chuckled softly.

“I'm still not quite used to you speaking this way; it feels very jarring.”

“Do you not know how to interact with this Clone? Don't worry, this is my Clone. Whatever you do to her, you're doing to me. I created this Clone specifically to be with you at any time, and also a Clone to fulfill my Teaching Assistant duties at any time. Isn't that great?”

“It is great… but…”

“No buts. Let's go. Class is quite early today. From what I know, Big Sis Bai, you've also grasped the key points of the True Editing technique and don't need to attend class, just self-study is enough, right?”

“Yes.”

“Then use the free time to take a walk outside the school, and visit the outside society more often, just like what my Main Body is doing in the Expansion Realm. And while you're at it… experience ordinary cultivation.”

“But… don't always think about cultivation…”

“Then how about experiencing an ordinary romance?”

“Okay.”

Big Sis Bai immediately changed her mind.