Chapter 274 : Chapter 274

Chapter 274: Wisdom's Enlightenment, Futility and the Value of the Meditation Method

Lucianne's arrival did not affect me in any way.

As soon as she arrived here, she started to get busy, seeming to be looking for a breakthrough in the Fool's Village secret realm and its related mission.

And Big Sis Bai and I were still very leisurely cultivating the Meditation Method here.

When we were bored, it was a good way to relax by playing with the Fool's Dream here.

The techniques that the Fool's Dream mastered, as learned from the information before, such as planting, potions, etc., did exist.

Otherwise, there would not be so many transcendent plants here, and the mixed fruit juice "Fool's Dream Drink" also used transcendent techniques.

These were all special skills different from those of the Witch Academy, but it didn't stop me from learning and mastering them.

And I would also deliberately collect the seeds here, especially those fruits needed for the Fool's Dream Drink.

I collected some of them.

The taste of the Fool's Dream Drink was indeed great, and its effect was also very powerful.

It temporarily increased affinity and gave oneself the "vision" to see the flow of energy.

It can be said that this was one of the important means to obtain revelations at the beginning.

As time passed, which was today, not only Lucianne came here, but other guests also came to the Fool's Village, suddenly making this once unfrequented secret realm lively.

This abnormality had to make me wonder what was happening in the academy outside.

Could it be that the news of the Fool's Village secret realm had spread again in the outside world?

This was not good news for me, but after seeing the "seed of destiny" in the bodies of all the students who came in, I was relieved.

Alright, the script has started to intervene here.

Although I was a little unwilling, since the script was interfering, it meant one thing, and that was that the value of this place was higher than I had expected.

Besides… the script was not invincible.

In the last exchange competition that involved so many Children of Destiny, I still overwhelmed them.

What's more, this was just an internal competition within the Witch Academy at this moment?

Of the people who came in, some I didn't know, and some looked familiar, although some were not Children of Destiny.

But this was enough to show one thing, and that was that the Witch Academy's guts were bigger than I had expected.

Did they snatch all the Children of Destiny from those small academies?

Some of the students still had the characteristics of their original academies, and the newcomers from the Beast Academy were particularly obvious.

The banquet began as scheduled.

Perhaps because so many people had come at once, this banquet was a bit more lavish than the one I had attended.

But it's okay, I didn't care.

I even hoped that they could hold it on a grander scale.

The grander the banquet ritual, the more obvious the revelations obtained.

At the banquet, I just held the Fool's Dream Drink and quietly observed in a corner to see if there were any new revelations.

And this time, the target of my focused observation had changed to the Fool's Dream itself.

And even so, I was still approached by the few who had come to the Fool's Village secret realm this time.

They implicitly expressed their hope for cooperation.

I didn't refuse directly, but I also didn't reveal any intelligence to them.

After learning that it was the script that was at work, I had already dismissed the idea of actively telling them the intelligence.

Of course, I would still give some basic hints.

“You should try the specialty Fool's Dream Drink here. Its taste is really good. I'm preparing to collect some of the seeds of these fruits and bring them back to the academy to try to plant them.”

I held up my cup and said to them with a smile.

“If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. And… take this cup of strange-tasting and hallucinogenic juice away from me.”

“As you wish. What does it have to do with me if you don't drink the juice.”

I shook my head and no longer paid attention to the other party, turning to share the Fool's Dream Drink with the person next to me.

In my opinion, they were too impatient.

If they really wanted to obtain intelligence, perhaps the memories that were woven into stories in the village chief's house could provide a lot of useful things, but Yuhu would not take the initiative to mention them.

However, Yuhu had promised to let me see these stories.

But after borrowing them, I understood what Yuhu meant by "as long as I don't find them boring."

The Fool's Dream didn't know any descriptive techniques.

They could only be straightforward and narrate, and many of the processes were constantly repeated.

I gave up after just flipping through a few of them, and finally borrowed a few to symbolically pass the time.

This banquet yielded some new revelations, but I still didn't know what these revelations implied.

Perhaps only when I truly reached that level would I understand what they meant.

The next day, a new guest came to the Fool's Village secret realm.

Among these guests, I finally found a familiar figure, Tan Han.

Since the Children of Destiny had gathered here, how could Tan Han, the biggest one, be absent?

But when I met Tan Han, I only chatted with her for a few words and that was it.

After all, from another perspective, every "guest" who came in was in a competitive relationship.

But before they came in, they had all learned about the Fool's Village secret realm and its associated Wisdom's Enlightenment mission.

They knew that this was a mission that had been delayed for hundreds of years.

Although they might be very clear that they might not be able to solve it, they still had to show the spirit of a newborn calf not being afraid of a tiger.

Tan Han and the others' arrival contributed another banquet to me, and the harvest was fruitful.

For the rest of the time, I was still cultivating the Meditation Method.

I believe that after many fruitless efforts, they will also begin to pay attention to the cultivation of the Meditation Method.

But before they realize this, they still need to suffer a little.

“Yang Yuehan, have you been in this secret realm all this time you've been missing?”

After meeting me again, Tan Han still couldn't help but ask.

“Naturally.”

“Are you cultivating the Meditation Method?”

“Yes.”

I could clearly feel that Tan Han was also in some kind of dilemma at this moment, so she was trying to find a breakthrough from me.

But she was much more reserved than before.

Even when she was talking to me, she was just beating around the bush.

The old her would not have spoken to me like this.

And my words also revealed the importance of the Meditation Method.

Even if the goal was not to solve the mission, it was still very worthwhile to spend a long time here cultivating the Meditation Method.

But their impatience prevented them from realizing this.

With their arrival, the number of times the Fool's Dream in the Fool's Village were attacked by nightmares also increased.

I also participated in their ritual of returning the sloughed skin of the Fool's Dream to the ancestral land, and the ritual of welcoming the birth of a new Fool's Dream was the same.

In this respect, although I showed the same sadness or joy as those Fool's Dream, I was essentially just a heartless recorder.

I called the revelations I obtained from here "revelations of life and death," because they were different from other revelations.

As for their use… I still didn't know.

Time passed day by day, until Big Sis Bai's Advanced Meditation Method had reached a bottleneck.

At this point, the Advanced Meditation Method had come to an end.

“Big Sis Bai, do you have any feelings after completing the Advanced Meditation Method? Or any revelations?”

I asked curiously.

“Feelings… I just feel that everything seems to have come to an end. Unlike the sluggish feeling after completing the primary or advanced Meditation Method, this time it was like hitting a wall. But in the end, if this feeling can be considered an enlightenment, then the Advanced Meditation Method is indeed the last step.”

Bai Yu also described it to me truthfully at this moment.

“The last step…”

This was very similar to my prediction, because after reaching the Advanced Meditation Method, the runes were already very compact, with no room for improvement, only room for horizontal development.

But at this moment, there was no meaning in increasing the breadth of the Meditation Method.

So there must be something wrong.

Even though my Meditation Method was not fully cultivated, my thoughts were more active, and my focus quickly shifted to the Meditation Method spellbook itself.

Was there really such a strange spellbook as the Meditation Method in this world?

A spellbook that could only be used once and then thrown away.

This did not conform to the definition of a spellbook.

Plus, what I had learned about the "promotion" of spellbooks, no matter what spellbook it was, it had completely different power or effects in the hands of people of different strengths.

If the spell effect of the Meditation Method spellbook was defined by me as improving thinking and enlightening wisdom, then this should be a spell effect, not a permanent improvement of oneself.

And was there anything that could be continuously improved through cultivation?

Naturally, but it wouldn't be a spellbook.

Cultivating a spellbook improved the spellbook itself, which was the promotion of the spellbook, not the user's own improvement.

This concept needed to be clarified.

If one cultivated and practiced something, but it was the user who improved, was there really such a thing?

Yes… for example, something I hadn't had time to get in touch with yet, physical arts.

What were physical arts?

They were a combat technique.

So either the Meditation Method was a technique that was just disguised as a spellbook, or the Meditation Method was really a spellbook, it just lacked a very important thing, a thing that defined it as a spellbook.

Something that took improving thinking and enlightening wisdom as a spell effect.

At this moment, I already had a glimmer of understanding.

The Meditation Method was still missing something very important, and it was no longer something that could be changed by casually modifying the internal structure and runes of the spellbook.

Even if I used the exhaustive enumeration method until the end of my life, it would not have a qualitative change.

Having figured this out, I was no longer confused.

I only had one thought in my mind now, and that was to cultivate the Meditation Method to its so-called end, and personally experience the revelation brought by completion.

Big Sis Bai's description for me was ultimately someone else's description.

Only after personally experiencing it would I understand what the Meditation Method was still lacking.

“Yang Yuehan…”

Just as I was about to continue with my plan, a voice interrupted me.

“Hmm… Lucianne, what can I do for you?”

I looked at the girl in front of me.

Compared to the first day I met her in the Fool's Village, she looked a little tired and haggard at this moment.

“These days, these days! Do you just hang around here and meditate! Do you have any self-awareness as the number one newcomer in the exchange competition!”

At this moment, her face was full of anger, as if the emotions that had been suppressed for a long time were finally vented in front of the right person.

“Then what should I do?”

I was confused by the other party's sudden words and replied casually.

“That's better than doing nothing. You've fallen, Yang Yuehan. I don't understand how I lost to a guy like you back then. Now I understand, you're just a guy who relies on a spellbook to show off!”

“Please vent your emotions elsewhere, not here. You're scaring these Fool's Dream. What does it have to do with me if you're driven crazy by the mission?”

“What relationship… you ask me what relationship? I've always considered you my rival. You're here at ease. Do you know how bad your reputation is outside the academy! I'm even ashamed to have lost to you.”

At this moment, I was comforting the Fool's Dream next to me.

At the same time, Lucianne's behavior also attracted the attention of others.

“You keep saying you're ashamed of me, as if you live for me. How can you be sure that I'm not working hard? You just open your mouth and deny my achievements?”

“Then tell me what you've worked hard on? Cultivating that Meditation Method? That thing is a waste of time, and it's not even as good as the Witch Meditation Method for improving mental power.”

“So, this is the gap between us. If your mentality collapses, you can quit. Don't go crazy here.”

I said unceremoniously, turned around, and also signaled Big Sis Bai not to make a move.

In the end, Lucianne seemed to be intimidated by Bai Yu's murderous gaze and left.

“Do you need me to teach her a lesson?”

Bai Yu asked at this moment.

“No need, just treat it as an interlude in our boring life. It seems that many people have opinions about my behavior.”

I shook my head and said, my gaze sweeping towards those who had deliberately come to watch the show.

“Then how will you respond to their confusion?”

Bai Yu also asked with a smile at this moment, because she knew that this kind of thing would not affect me.

She was just angry that that person had spoken to Little Han in such a tone.

“I have no obligation to explain to them what my behavior means. Some people always think that strength can solve all troubles. Since they have this idea, why didn't they just go to the Beast Academy in the first place?”

After this outburst, Lucianne seemed to have calmed down.

And the other people who were watching the show also understood my current situation.

It can be said that Lucianne had become their mouthpiece, asking all their questions.

But the answer they got made them even more confused.

Was there really a mission in this world that could be completed just by playing and sleeping?

But they wouldn't think that the other party was a fool.

But more people still wanted to get intelligence from me.

They thought that I would have such a performance because I must have information that they didn't know.

The information gap was like this.

Both sides looked at each other as if they were looking at a fool.

But there was always only one fool.

After Lucianne had vented and calmed down, she herself also understood that she seemed to have been used by others.

Thinking back to the few who had contacted her before, provoking her emotions, targeting her, and finally being used, this feeling of powerlessness really made her feel even more uncomfortable.

But she did not regret being a pawn, because she really wanted to shout out this grievance.

She was not called here by Teacher Ji Niang, but was tricked here by those guys who were also tricked into the Witch Academy.

She learned that Yang Yuehan, the number one in the Witch Academy, had given up the theory monthly exam for this mission and secret realm.

Since this secret realm was so important, the idea of wanting a piece of the pie was the primary motivation for most people to come here.

But after coming here and wasting so many days, they also realized their mistake.

This place was completely different from what they had imagined.

Plus the contrast between their own efforts and Yang Yuehan's at this moment, Lucianne was thus pushed out.

Lucianne was very self-aware.

It was the same in the Wizard Academy before, and she was also being used here.

She knew very well that she couldn't play with those guys, and she also knew that this was not a secret realm that could be conquered by relying on strength.

After all, even the spellbooks had been exchanged away at this moment, so… she was preparing to leave here.

She felt that wasting time here was the biggest mistake she had made.

But after seeing Lucianne go, not long after, another guest came to me.

Tan Han.

“Actually, I'm very curious why you came here. This is not a place you should come to. Following the trend without thinking, Tan Han, this is not like your style.”

“It was Teacher Lina who said it. At first, I was just curious and was going to come and see what you had encountered.”

“And then? You've already seen it, but you've still wasted so many days here. What have you gained?”

I asked with a smile.

“The Meditation Method, it's very important, isn't it?”

At this moment, Tan Han gave such a nonsensical question.

“That's right, it's very important.”

I nodded and said.

Although the gap between the Meditation Method and the Primary Meditation Method was not small, it could still inspire thinking, enlighten wisdom, and develop thinking.

But unfortunately, the Fool's Dream could not use this spellbook for wisdom's enlightenment.

This was not a shortcut.

The Fool's Dream needed external forces to change, and for their own efforts, Yuhu was already carrying the burden for all the Fool's Dream.

Had she not tried to use the Meditation Method?

She had tried before, but they all failed.

It was precisely because of the continuous failures and continuous attempts that she had the current method of coexisting and reincarnating with the nightmare.

These were all stories that Yuhu had recorded in her storybooks, and the suffering she had eaten in reality was even more than the stories.

She had been trying this for hundreds of years.

“Very important… then isn't that enough?”

Tan Han shook her head and said, “I can feel that it seems to be different from the Witch Meditation Method, and… I believe in the judgment of fate.”

“Fate…”

I didn't say anything more.

The other party had the "Spirit Eye," and the "fate" she saw seemed to be the predetermined script, the convergence of destiny.

But I was a little surprised that Tan Han could be so open-minded.

She didn't even seem as eager as those guys to complete the so-called mission.

“Actually, it's just that I've been too tense before, and now I'm just relaxing a little. I also like the atmosphere here. On the contrary, our arrival has caused trouble here, and… also brought the nightmare. The nightmare is also a part of the mission hint, right?”

“Yes, if there's nothing else, please leave. I'm going to meditate.”

“Thank you, I do have to go. In a few days, after I finish reading the books I brought, I'll probably be leaving.”

“Mm.”

I nodded and did not express any more opinions.

Tan Han's last words were actually to show that she had no intention of competing with me.

This was an unequal competition.

Tan Han would naturally not participate in it.

To do something knowing it was impossible was what a fool would do.

Tan Han was very clear that she had listened to Lina's words to come here, mainly to see what level the only person in the Witch Academy she considered a rival had reached.

Another reason was to settle down the theoretical knowledge she had recently learned.

Actually, she also had the idea of fighting with Little Han again, but because of the special mechanism of this secret realm, this idea could only be left unsettled.

And at this moment, I had also returned to a normal and leisurely time, waiting for me to cultivate the Advanced Meditation Method to completion and obtain the final "revelation."