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After this experience, the friendship among the group deepened.

Zhao Hao felt that if his system's functions were further improved, it should be able to obtain +XX levels of favorability from the dwarf brother, the witch Carrie, Big Grin, and the little fairy Lulu.

When I returned to the market, it had already closed and many people had left.

Zhao Hao hurriedly took Gou Quan and said goodbye. He had originally thought he would come and go on the same day, but he didn't expect so many things to happen. Fortunately, he had told Uncle Tie beforehand that he was going with a friend to broaden his horizons.

Carrie, the witch, didn't mistreat the two, giving them several bottles of potions. She even offered to brew the potion the fat man needed.

The dwarf gave them his phone number, saying he'd call them sometime. He's a big shot with businesses in the real world!

Big Grin didn't say anything, just told them to look for him when they came to the market again.

Finally, there was the little fairy Lulu, who gave Zhao Hao the method to summon herself.

Although she's a bit of a scatterbrain, she is, after all, a nature spirit, and among extraordinary intelligent beings, she is considered a relatively high-level existence, possessing many incredible abilities.

The reason I was kidnapped is simply because I'm... naive!

Summoning Lulu is simple; all you need to do is prepare a certain amount of sweets as offerings, then chant a spell and consume spiritual energy to summon her.

She can provide services such as answering questions or taking care of plants.

That's all the service we offer, so don't get any ideas!

She also gave Zhao Hao and Gou Quan a lot of her homemade honey, which could restore spiritual energy and nourish the body. It was an excellent tonic!

Zhao Hao also gained an additional benefit: Fate Points.

Mission: Rescue the little fairy +50, kill +26, he has now accumulated another 430 Fate Points!

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In the evening, Little Soft lurked in the corner of the house. It didn't need to rest or sleep, making it the best guard.

Besides that, there's also the paper shikigami Dahuang created by Zhao Hao through paper cutting!

He used chaos magic as his foundation and attempted to combine the paper doll and paper horse techniques taught by Uncle Iron with the paper shikigami of the young barrier master. The two had many similarities and could complement each other's strengths.

Now it has achieved some success; the yellow dog can exist for a much longer period of time and has a considerable degree of autonomy.

As for Orange, how could Old Man Orange possibly do such hard labor?

It was fast asleep in its cat bed, holding the treasure-hunting mouse, Laibao!

Zhao Hao lay on the bed, his breathing extremely even, seemingly asleep.

A transparent square psionic barrier enveloped the entire bed, and outside the barrier, directly above Zhao Hao's face, was a bowl of water.

If Zhao Hao cuts off or destabilizes the spiritual energy supply to the barrier while he is asleep, causing the barrier to disappear, the water bowl will fall down, and he will wake up.

At first, he would wake up more than ten times a night! Now he can stay awake all night! He has made tremendous progress.

Zhao Hao floated in the dream world, surrounded by countless colorful bubbles of all sizes.

Some are clear, some are blurry; some are dark red, dreaming of nightmares; some are pink, dreaming of spring...

Zhao Hao discovered that the color of this dream was the same as the color he sometimes saw when he was observing people's aura.

For example, black and red are definitely bad, very ominous. Blue is more melancholic and indicates hardship. The warmer and brighter the color, the better, indicating that the person has recently had good luck or had a good dream.

Dreams are unpredictable and hard to fathom. Even though Zhao Hao appears in dreams every now and then, it's difficult to obtain any useful information.

However, he recently learned from the fat man that the dream realm is the outermost layer of the psionic sea, and the depths of the dream realm are called the dream world, which is the place where the gods in various myths reside!

In short, this dream is extremely valuable!

He was no longer limited to absorbing free-floating spiritual energy in dreams; he wanted to try to develop more functions.

After all, you still have to have dreams!

This time, he wants to try to create a barrier in his dream!

In theory, one can let their imagination run wild in dreams.

However, infinity is a false proposition, and we still need to test how far we can go.

Zhao Hao's idea was actually quite grand. If he could establish a stable barrier in his dream and fix the dream in place, then he would have a stable dream base! Instead of a dream that would shatter every time he woke up and that he would have to start all over again every time he entered.

Once successful, many subsequent attempts can be made.

Moreover, he had another attempt.

The question is whether or not one can use cards in a dream.

Needless to say, he can use the Universal Fist, Barrier Technique, and Chaos Magic.

But can item cards and equipment cards actually be used?

If it works, is it because the card is working, or is it because my dream is simulating this phenomenon?

These are all very interesting attempts!

For example, try placing that mini torii gate here...

First, Zhao Hao needs to establish a stable, long-term barrier. This cannot be done by simply using his own spiritual energy to temporarily create one.

In the young Onmyoji, Sumikura Toshikami, he hadn't even reached that level of training yet!

However, Sumimura Toshimori has a lot of information in his memories, and Zhao Hao can explore and try on his own based on that information.

Establishing a semi-permanent barrier generally requires some materials as a foundation to sustain the barrier with spiritual energy on its own. These are also called protective objects, or whatever else is used.

Zhao Hao took out a crystal ball.

He looked down at the crystal ball, which was exactly the same as the one he held in his hand when he slept. But was it something he brought from reality? Or was it just something created in a dream?

This is practically Inception!

Ignore that for now, place the crystal ball properly, and use your psionic energy to draw a square centered on the crystal ball. That's the foundation!

This crystal ball is no ordinary item; it has been "consecrated" through spiritual energy and a magical ritual, which Zhao Hao bought from the witch Carrie.

Of course, this thing isn't worth much.

Many so-called magic enthusiasts in the real world will create one, but some consecrate it properly while others just fool themselves. It has no spiritual power at all; it's just a spherical crystal.

However, Carrie reminded Zhao Hao at the time: "I don't care what you're going to use the crystal ball for. But please cover it with an opaque cloth and don't expose it to sunlight."

Zhao Hao had researched the relevant information beforehand, which is why he chose a crystal ball as a protective barrier. He asked, "Is it because sunlight interferes with the energy inside the crystal ball?"

Carrie shook her head and said, "No, it's because sunlight can cause fires!"

(Sunlight shining on a crystal ball will converge to a single point due to the principle of a convex lens, resulting in very high temperatures and potentially causing a fire.)

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Chapter 55 Qixi Festival Date

These days, Zhao Hao works at the shop during the day, practices the paper doll and paper horse technique with Uncle Tie, and gathers all the materials for the magic bean to try refining it.

This thing is like a higher level of paper doll and paper horse technique. To reach an advanced level, you need to summon spirits from the sea of ​​spiritual energy to imbue magic beans with spiritual energy. These spirits are usually ancient generals or protagonists from legendary stories, which turns ordinary magic beans into divine weapon beans.

It's like a lowly soldier being promoted to a high-ranking general; their power is now incomparable, and their intelligence is also very high.

As mentioned before, the psychic ocean is the final spiritual destination of all sentient beings who have ever been born into this world. It is formed by the convergence of all spiritualities.

Legendary figures from past history and stories generally leave a deep mark in the psychic sea because of their own strength, outstanding spirituality, and the stories passed down by later generations.

This is not the general himself, but his spiritual imprint.

According to Uncle Tie, if a person dies, his soul will go to the underworld, where his origin, that is, his soul, will be cleansed. In the East, this is called "drinking Meng Po soup".

The human soul that is cleansed from the three souls, which is the acquired spirituality, will gather in the sea of ​​spiritual energy.

Only those cultivators who have reached the Yin Spirit realm, which is the initial stage of the True Person realm and the Bronze level, can achieve a unity of soul and body without being separated and cleansed after death, allowing everything to start anew.

In Zhao Hao's understanding, a person's spirit, intellect, and soul are composed of the innate, cleansed soul and the acquired spirituality.

The unity of these two is what makes us our true selves.

Once a person dies, their soul is separated into two raw materials in the underworld. The soul is then cleansed and reincarnated, becoming an almost entirely new being. The acquired soul, or spirituality, then converges in the Sea of ​​Spiritual Energy.

Spirituality contains our subconscious, primary memories, temperament, and other things that are acquired later in life.

This is why some people suddenly awaken "memories" of their past lives; they unintentionally connect with the spirituality of their past lives.

The marks left in the sea of ​​psychic energy by those powerful figures in history are their spirituality.

Because they are subconsciously worshipped, praised, and celebrated by most people, they remain immortal in the ocean of psychic energy. They have a bit of a divine or heroic connotation.

But they don't actually have much self-awareness because they are already dead; what remains is only spiritual instinct—subconscious and instinctive reactions.

Because the spiritual lacks a principal celestial soul and terrestrial soul, and only contains a portion of the human soul that is believed, sung, and remembered by all living beings, it merely records spiritual energy information about the past and its characteristics.

If an ordinary person's spirituality is like a drop of water, insignificant in the ocean of psychic energy.

These heroic figures are like small islands, which are relatively stable anchor points in the ocean.

Those stories about divine intervention, summoning figures like Li Yuanba or Lü Bu, fall into this category. More advanced ones, involving specific gods like the Monkey King or Nezha, are another type altogether…

Besides practicing magic and supplementing his knowledge, Zhao Hao has been intensifying his training in barrier techniques these days.

His idea of ​​creating a barrier in his dream has now come true!

Now, every time he dreams, he appears within his own protective barrier.

However, this doesn't mean that the place he appears in each dream is fixed. He discovered that although the bubbles beneath his feet were stabilized by the barrier spell, preventing him from having to start over every time he dreamed, the bubbles would still float and move. It was as if there were tides and ocean currents in this dream.

Zhao Hao also tried using cards in his dream; he placed the [Mini Torii Gate] in his dream!

His current dream is a large island floating in the air, surrounded by a spherical barrier, with a solitary red torii gate on it, twelve meters high, with a wide shimenawa (sacred rope) made of white paper hanging from it.

Zhao Hao tried making items in his dream and succeeded.

Use psionic energy as materials to build a small house in a dream.

The problem is that the psychic energy dissipates quickly. The next time I dream of it, there's another lonely torii gate there.

However, he enjoyed it immensely; new things always captivated him.

August 10th arrived in the blink of an eye. It was Qixi Festival, and Zhao Hao was filled with anticipation.

He woke up in the morning to find a bowl of water right above his head. He reached out and canceled the barrier, catching the bowl of water perfectly.

His barrier technique is now considered to have reached a minor level of mastery, basically surpassing the original level of Sumimura Toshimori. The rest requires more training.

"Signing in on Qixi Festival, August 10, 1978."