Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 29 Entering the Dream (Please continue reading)

Luo Qing never expected that a sip of wine from three hundred years ago would remind him of the time in his previous life when he went to a ruthless alchemist to test medicine because he was poor.

How can alcohol taste so bad?

Looking at the solidified, jelly-like green liquid in the wine glass, even though Luo Qing had stabilized his Dao heart, he didn't have the courage to take a second sip.

Luo Ji was the same; this sip of wine made him feel as if he saw his deceased ex-girlfriend. He gagged repeatedly and almost died from the wine.

This barrel of wine almost accomplished what ETO struggled to achieve despite its best efforts.

"I'm sure this isn't alcohol poisoning." Luo Ji lay pale on the sofa, his eyes vacant.

Luo Qing was in much better condition than him. He endured the rotten metallic taste in his mouth that even his spiritual energy couldn't cleanse, and said, "I should have realized when I saw that the wine was green—copper ion solution is also green! Three hundred years have passed, and even if this wine barrel is sealed very well, the wine should have reacted with the copper label inside!"

There is indeed a large brass label on the inner wall of the barrel, which was a common practice in barrel casting at the time, with the label placed on the inner wall rather than the outer wall. Brass is chemically relatively stable, but ultimately not as stable as elemental gold, and it will inevitably react with the liquor over time.

But Luo Ji was unaware of this, and he turned his head with difficulty to look at Luo Qing.

"How did you know there was copper in the barrel? How could a physics professor tell that?"

Luo Qing replied, "I scanned it with my divine sense... I've scanned many substances with my divine sense, and the reflectivity of elemental copper is different from other materials."

"Human radar." Luo Ji gave Luo Qing a thumbs up, then started gagging.

Luo Ji's condition only slightly improved after he vomited bile that was almost the same color as the wine. However, after the vomiting stopped, diarrhea started again, and Zhuang Yan hurriedly helped Luo Ji to the toilet.

Hypatia quickly took the child away.

This girl is like an NPC; besides acting as a bridge for Zhizi's communication, she just stares at the tiny Luozhen Star.

With things having come to this point, their plan to drink until they dropped was abandoned. Luo Ji, who had just recovered from a serious illness, was now being tricked by this barrel of green wine and had to rest early.

Luo Ji rested.

Luo Qing arrived alone in front of the transparent glass cabinet filled with all kinds of famous wines.

He picked up a bottle of cognac that, according to the label, was 41 years old, uncorked it with his fingertips, gently swirled the bottle, and poured himself half a glass.

He smacked his lips.

The alcohol content of Earth's liquor is generally higher than that of the previous life, but it always feels like it lacks something compared to the spiritual liquor of the previous life. However, with its mellow taste, those drunkards who claim to be practicing liquor cultivation would probably pay a high price for it.

late at night.

The pine needles fell into the fireplace with a soft crackling sound.

Luo Qing also opened her eyes.

After tossing and turning most of the night, I finally fell asleep.

The Nascent Soul cultivator sat cross-legged with a faint smile on his face. The hem of his plain white robe dangled in the moonlight, shimmering like silver.

No matter how hard the Trisolarans tried to imagine, they probably couldn't have conceived of Luo Qing's method of "entering dreams." The methods of cultivators are ever-changing. In the end, the Trisolarans suffered from a lack of imagination.

"The evil cultivator's soul-searching technique is too domineering. Even cultivators cannot resist it, and mortals will only have their minds shattered. I can neither use it nor know how to use it, so I will use the dream-entering technique instead."

Luo Qing flicked his finger towards the void, and an invisible breeze began to slowly circulate. A divine thought had already crossed the partition wall and was heading towards Luo Ji's bedroom.

Zhi Zi seemed to have noticed the abnormal air fluctuations and instantly came to Luo Qing's room to monitor it. Luo Qing thought to himself, "What a perceptive beast!" He continued to relax his body, as if he had entered a meditative state.

Zhi Zi was already very familiar with Luo Qing's meditation posture. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, Zhi Zi circled around a few times and then quickly flew out of the window.

For Zhizi, being too close to Luo Qing is never safe.

Outside the window, the lake steamed into thick fog, and the distant pine forests and mountains were no longer visible. In the dead of night, it seemed that only this last light remained in the world.

Master bedroom.

The temporary master of Eden is now fast asleep in bed, his lips pale and his brow furrowed, seemingly still recovering from the previous wine attack.

Zhuang Yan was still awake, having been busy until midnight dealing with Luo Ji's alcohol poisoning. Now, Zhuang Yan, still in her pajamas and half-asleep, was tidying up Luo Ji's toothbrush cup. The branches and tender grass that had grown in the room due to the earlier influence of the Green Wood Technique hadn't been cleared away yet.

In the crib next to her, little Zhenxing was curled up under a reindeer fur blanket and fast asleep.

Luo Qing's illusory divine sense silently observed everything in the room.

'The Great Void Transformation Dream Guide'

The illusory image of the divine sense gave a soft shout, and its palms formed a complex hand seal, which then transformed into silver threads that intertwined into a spider web and imprinted onto the sleeping person's body.

'Successfully entered the dream!'

In Luo Ji's dream, Luo Qing's figure gradually solidified.

"I need to hurry up and find Brother Luo Ji's main consciousness and communicate with him. Does a mere Zhi Zi think he can stop me from breaking through the barrier? Hmph, what a joke."

The dream scene looked familiar. It was a dream of Eden.

"Did you dream about your home?"

Luo Qing was somewhat surprised to see the familiar Garden of Eden. The distant scenery was very blurry, the snow-capped mountains and lakes had disappeared, and the grasslands stretched into nothingness. Obviously, Luo Ji's dream rendering range was limited, and the dream was limited to the buildings in Garden of Eden themselves.

Even in his previous life, Luo Qing rarely tried to enter dreams. He only learned about this technique thanks to his humiliating experience of being reversed into a dream by the Holy Maiden of the Hehuan Sect in his previous life.

He was a little clumsy at first when moving around in the dream, but he quickly got the hang of it and began searching the room.

Where is Brother Luo Ji?

The living room was empty, with dozens of identical barrels of sunken wine still on the table. It seemed that the wine had indeed caused him great psychological trauma, to the point that it appeared in his dreams.

Besides that, there seemed to be no one else.

Where are they?

Luo Qing began to take the initiative to reinforce the dream.

Snow-capped mountains were created, lakes were extended, and Luo Qing's divine sense skillfully wove the remaining dreamscape. The coniferous forest was illuminated, and distant spruce trees soared into the clouds. He began a thorough search of the entire dreamscape.

Strengthening the dream is a last resort, as dreams are highly changeable. Once the scene changes, all the previous efforts will be in vain.

'Where did you go?'

Luo Qing searched almost the entire dream of Eden, looking for Luo Ji's favorite places in reality, such as the lakeside and the foot of the snow-capped mountain, but unfortunately he couldn't find him.

In this dream, there wasn't even Zhuang Yan or the child.

This was the first time he had ever seen a dream without anyone in it.

'No, it's not that there's no one there, it's that I haven't found the right place.'

With a thought, Luo Qing reappeared in the living room.

This time, he thought of an answer and stepped towards a corner upstairs.

Luo Ji's Bookstore.

Despite being called a bookstore, it actually has very few books; the number of books is even less than the number of wines on the wine shelf.

The bookstore in the dream had even fewer books, and the only bookcase had transformed into a solid concrete wall that reached straight to the ceiling.

Thus, in the gap of this dream, Luo Qing found Luo Ji, who was facing the wall in deep thought.
"Brother Luo Ji?"

"Luo Qing, what are you doing here?" Luo Ji in the dream was obviously a little surprised.

"Come see you. How's it going? Did you get any results breaking through the wall?" Luo Qing waved his hand, and the concrete wall in front of Logic crumbled, along with the entire dream. The two of them sat together on the endless grassland.

"No, if I could find the answer, I wouldn't be hiding behind the wall, spacing out."

Luo Qing comforted Luo Ji in his dream: "Actually, you can tell me about your past experiences and your speculations."

Luo Ji shook his head: "No, there are Zhi Zis who can eavesdrop, I can't say."

Luo Qing said, "This is your dream, without Zhi Zi."

Luo Ji clearly didn't believe it.

Clearly, no matter how surreal the changes in a dream may be, the dreamer has a complete set of self-consistent logic. It is very difficult and dangerous to make the person in the dream realize that they are dreaming.

However, on the other hand, dreamers have very low sanity levels and are very easily guided.

Therefore, Luo Qing had to change the subject: "Brother Luo Ji, we used to work together at Tsinghua University, but we've never been in touch. I don't even know what your research area was back then?"

Luo Ji said, "Brother Qing, I'm just an academic slacker. How can I compare to you? You're a treasure at the university, a rising star in the physics world. Me? I used to be an astronomy researcher, or to put it bluntly, someone who cheated out of sponsorships. My results are just commonplace."

Luo Qing comforted her, "Don't say that. Everyone has their own place. Maybe the direction you were researching wasn't right for you?"

Luo Ji said, "Indeed, astronomy is too rigorous, so I changed my research direction and switched to sociology. Compared to the rigorous and rigid astronomy, sociology is much more relaxed."

Shifting from astronomy to sociological research?
Luo Qing exclaimed in surprise, "That sounds like quite a leap."

Luo Ji said, "You're not the only one who's said that, but my thinking is actually quite simple: sociology is a big melting pot, and for an academic layabout like me, this kind of environment is actually more suitable."

Luo Qing vaguely grasped a key piece of information: "Not just me? Who else has said that?"

Luo Ji said, "Teacher Ye."

Luo Qing felt as if her mind had exploded.

(End of this chapter)