Chapter 1062: Conceptualizing the Fool's Dream Bloodline Power System
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 1062: Conceptualizing the Fool's Dream Bloodline Power System
"Yulan, Yu Yun, and... Yu Guo, Yu Xing? Do you all want to experience it?"
I looked at Yulan in my arms, then swept my gaze over the other two Fool's Dreams. From their eyes, I could see a flicker of curiosity and longing.
Even Yu Xing, whom I considered the most steady, seemed to have been led astray by the original three little ones.
"Mhm! Mhm! Just like Sister Xiao Han said! You have to experience things you've never tried before!" Yu Yun was the first to speak, setting the tone for the four little ones.
"That's right. We follow Sister Xiao Han, so we need to become Fool's Dreams who are useful to her!" Yulan, who possessed the "big sister" trait among the four, chimed in.
"Being useful doesn't necessarily mean helping me fight..." I sighed, rubbing my temples, though I had no intention of going back on my word. "Where did you all learn this combative streak?"
"Sage Sister, before the Fool's Village rose from the Primitive Dream Realm, I, as the Village Chief, had to be prepared at all times to fall back into the Primitive Dream Realm with the nightmares. So, I know very well that the need for battle is everywhere, whether in dreams or reality."
At this point, Yu Xing, the Fool's Dream with the deepest accumulation of memory and cognition, spoke up to offer her reasoning.
"I want to help Sister Xiao Han beat up the bad guys!" This flighty reason came from Yu Yun.
Though the excuses were a bit forced, it didn't matter to me. When one wants to do something, a reason is merely a convenient justification.
And what I intended to do was pretend I hadn't heard it.
Sister Bai walked over. She had indeed been surprised when she heard the Fool's Dreams wanted to participate in combat, and Xiao Han’s quick agreement had left her somewhat stunned.
After all... aside from mastering the power network, the Fool's Dreams didn't have a power system of their own. They hadn't even become true lifeforms yet... But had they really not?
Bai Yu looked at the lively Fool's Dreams, and her understanding of the concept of "life" began to waver.
"Xiao Han, are you sure you want to do this?" Sister Bai asked, walking to my side.
"Just think of it as an experiment. There's nothing to lose," I said with a shrug.
"Then what do you plan to have them fight with? Their tiny fists?"
"Hmm..." I pondered for a moment. "That is indeed a good question."
I hadn't yet constructed a power system for the Fool's Dreams, but my intuition told me that the source of the power they wielded originated from the Holy Relic.
Specifically, the current Land of Fool's Dream.
The moment the power of the Holy Relic merged into the Land of Fool's Dream, certain things seemed predestined.
From their Fool's Dream life sequence to the Transcendent system they would eventually promote to, the framework had already been established by that one decision.
But a framework is just a framework. Without someone to add the bricks and mortar, it remains nothing more than a castle in the air.
Power... ultimately needs to be manifested through specific means.
So, what could carry that power?
The only thing I could think of was... bloodline.
As a racial inheritance, the simple word "inheritance" was enough to bridge the independence between individuals, allowing for the transmission of power, memory, information, and everything else.
Then again, not every race is capable of such bloodline inheritance—take the Human Race and the vast majority of ordinary creatures, for example.
But in the final analysis, it was simply a matter of power.
Powerful humans can still give birth to powerful offspring; that is the nature of the Transcendent boundary. Between Transcendents, it is possible to give birth to lifeforms that are innately Transcendent.
What about the Fool's Dreams?
Did they have a bloodline?
They did—at least, I had carved one out for them. However, this power wouldn't simply appear out of thin air through some self-taught "life sequence."
Power has its own channels of transmission. As long as there is a foundation of power, it must be learned or cultivated; it can never be born from nothing without effort.
Thus, my path forward seemed to clear up.
I had to teach Yulan and the others to master the power of the Primal bloodline!
The four little ones would be the initial power templates! No... I should be the template, since I was the one who shaped the "Primal Great Fool's Dream Spell."
But that didn't stop the four of them from becoming the pioneers of the Fool's Dream bloodline power system.
"Sister Xiao Han, how about we start with the power network?" Facing Sister Bai's question, Yulan suggested from the side.
"Yeah, yeah! We're very familiar with the power of that system!" Yu Yun nodded in agreement.
After all, having served as my assistants, there were many situations where their small statures required the spells of the power network to help out.
I had even created a specialized portable secondary profession for the Fool's Dreams, which integrated many convenient spells they would use during experiments.
"No. The power network is ultimately an external force with too many limitations. You need to master a power that belongs to the Fool's Dreams!" I shook my head, rejecting Yulan's proposal.
"Eh? We're not using it?" Yu Yun said, sounding a bit disappointed.
Yulan, however, caught the main point and asked, "A power mastered by Fool's Dreams?"
"Exactly."
"But we haven't mastered any power... Or do you have a way, Sister Xiao Han?" Yulan asked curiously.
"Yes, there is a way, but it will be difficult for you. No Fool's Dream has ever tried this before. You are the first batch, the original explorers, the pioneers who will open up the power belonging to the Fool's Dreams."
"We're not afraid of difficulty!"
"Right! Not afraid!" Yu Yun chimed in.
They were like newborn calves, unaware of what they were about to face.
I didn't dampen their spirits. It was a good thing for the Fool's Dreams to have confidence; even in the face of hardship, they would have more patience to keep trial-and-erroring.
"Sister Xiao Han, then what exactly is this power we Fool's Dreams can master?" After declaring her bravery, Yulan asked the question.
"The power you will master is... bloodline!" I declared.
The concept of bloodline is quite miraculous. It isn't purely a talent of the flesh and blood body, but a "soul talent" that goes deep into the essence of life. If life is soul essence, then it is a soul essence talent. In short, this talent reflects back onto the body based on the essence of life.
One could say the body and flesh are the external expression and manifestation of bloodline power.
I had plenty of experience with this, much like the "Prototype Self-Generated Mana" I derived from my life essence. It also had two other versions.
One was the "Witch version of self-generated mana" that naturally awakens through the Witch bloodline upon promoting to a Transcendent Witch. The other was the semi-finished self-generated mana body talent completed through self-generated mana shaping techniques before promoting to Transcendent.
Bloodline power can carry talents that sit atop life itself, and some talents even reign supreme over the bloodline.
"Bloodline?" Hearing my answer, Yulan recognized the term—she had heard it often during my experiments—but she didn't understand what kind of power a bloodline actually was.
"So, what do we need to do?"
"You just need to feel this power. Leave the rest to me," I said, patting Yulan's little head to reassure them.
The power of [Transcendent Knowledge] from the Holy Relic could similarly replace talent power and be inscribed into the bloodline.
The power of the Holy Relic had allowed me to shape the semi-finished Primal Great Fool's Dream Spell. The authority represented by that transformation spell allowed me to use "life evolution" techniques as a carving knife to inscribe bloodline information for the Fool's Dreams.
Finally, using the "Dreamification" evolved by the Fool's Dreams themselves as the anchor for the bloodline ability, the most basic framework for a bloodline ability was established.
Though it sounded easy, it was incredibly difficult to execute.
"Sister Xiao Han?" Yulan looked at her hands and shook them subconsciously. No fireballs or similar powers appeared. They then instinctively looked at me in my Fool's Dream stance, seemingly curious about what they had just undergone.
It felt as though nothing had changed, yet they could sense that some kind of metamorphosis had occurred within their bodies.
"It's alright. Power comes in many forms; it's not only power if a fireball appears in your hand," I comforted them. Naturally, the Fool's Dreams couldn't master spells or the power to manipulate elements through bloodline power alone.
Their power manifested as... Dreamification.
They had displayed this ability before.
However, the previous Dreamification was merely a trait and characteristic born from my series of operations and the effect of their Dreamification souls.
But now... with the intervention of the Primal Great Fool's Dream Spell and the Holy Relic, it was gradually turning into a true power!
The essence of a Holy Relic is [Transcendent Knowledge]. Transcendent Knowledge itself doesn't possess overwhelming power; even the Great Glacial Throne Technique was just power stimulated by shattered fragments.
It’s like how [Transcendent Knowledge] itself is useless, but a Great Spellbook is very useful. "Knowledge" must be implemented through specific methods or special techniques to exert its power.
Now, I was making the [Holy Relic Transcendent Knowledge] part of the Fool's Dreams themselves, grounding it in their bloodline. In this case, the bloodline acted as... a part of a Great Spellbook.
After all, a bloodline couldn't represent everything about a Fool's Dream, let alone the entire race.
The bloodline only represented a portion of "power."
"Try the Dreamification ability again. Don't just think about turning into a dream; try your best to control the process of that change. Can you do that?" I asked.
"Dreamification?"
The Fool's Dreams were confused by my words, but they still had absolute trust in me. If I asked them to do something, they would do it.
The four little ones quickly began their attempt.
At first, the attempt was smooth, proceeding as naturally as instinct. But that wasn't what I wanted. Under my guidance, the Fool's Dreams continued to try, and they found that Dreamification was becoming difficult.
And that was exactly what I hoped for.
I understood the difficulty of this process. It was like a person trying to bend their arm. Initially, it's simple. But if you go deeper into controlling the contraction of every single muscle to achieve that bend, rather than just sending the thought of "bend the arm," it becomes a different matter entirely.
This metaphor is a very intuitive way to describe talent, perfectly embodying the phrase: "I just know how to do it; if you ask me how it's done, I have no idea."
The Dreamification of the Fool's Dreams was a perception even more difficult than that metaphor.
The transition from reality to dream involved powers that were like a black box, impossible to penetrate.
Seeing the Fool's Dreams so anxious, I, in my Fool's Dream stance, followed along and tried as well.
But I knew that the attempt wasn't the goal, but the means. The goal was to understand the power bestowed upon them by their bloodline through these means!
The process was like an ancient person seeing the steam from a boiling kettle push up the lid, and then developing a modern civilization based on that phenomenon.
The Dreamification trait was like that boiling kettle; the construction of bloodline power was like the entire modern civilization.
It would inevitably require countless people to add to it, to solidify the foundation, to lay the magnificent bricks, and to realize this massive concept bit by bit.
The power of Dreamification also needed to be implemented through specific means, just as steam needed a device called a steam engine to start the Steam Age.
What I needed now was such a "steam engine."
And speaking of the power of dreams... was there anything I was familiar with?
Actually, there was!
The Primitive Dream Realm Domain Order!
The initial Dream Domain was a concept I had completed by relying on Self-Awakened Body Cultivation and a series of Body Cultivation abilities.
Overall, it had a sort of "forced together" aesthetic.
At its core, the order of the Dream Domain itself was structured similarly to the domain orders in reality.
Both were domain concepts born from "energy" and special powers that formed a domain to dominate the outside world.
While there was no energy in the Primitive Dream Realm, there was a massive amount of information.
This information within the dream constructed the bizarre and kaleidoscopic reality of the Primitive Dream Realm, which corresponded to "energy" and "matter" in the real world.
So, it seemed I had found the "steam engine" for Dreamification.
The Dream Domain!
Or rather, the Dream Order. A dream is not reality, after all, so there was no need to force a direct comparison. One should start with what can be achieved—this was a realistic and pragmatic research attitude.
Now, only one problem remained for the Fool's Dreams.
The threshold for a technique like a Dream Domain was incredibly high even for a Transcendent Witch. So, on what basis could the Fool's Dreams turn this ability into the foundation of their bloodline power?
That was a very good question to ask myself.
Because... the power the Fool's Dreams mastered was also the power I mastered!
As one of the three basic components of my Power of Knowledge Domain Order, they should naturally have my "blessing"!
Lest we forget, my domain order was different from that of an ordinary Witch. Its two foundations originated from the Great Spellbooks—the so-called [Transcendent Knowledge]. [Transcendent Knowledge], as an "existence" that could serve as a foundation even within the Primitive Dream Realm, combined with Self-Awakened Body Cultivation—a "soul essence" that could bridge the boundary between reality and the Primitive Dream Realm...
Theoretically, for the Fool's Dreams to master a Dream Domain... no! Even just mastering a Dream Order would be enough.
The level of difficulty for the Fool's Dreams might even be lower than it was for Sister Bai or those Body Cultivation Witch sisters!