It's weird to apply for Witch Academy as a boy

Before I even reached the dean's office, I smelled a scent that instantly made me feel more alert. The scent felt somewhat similar to incense. Is this the incense that the dean uses?

I don't know how expensive this will be.

As we emerged, I finally saw what the dean's office looked like.

If this is an office, I would rather believe that this is a laboratory that complies with my understanding of witches.

There is a huge experimental table in the center, with the energy of the earth veins surging, carrying many familiar yet unfamiliar spell structures.

On one side of the office, there are many materials and items packaged in special ways.

There were skeletons that looked like dragon heads hanging from the top like decorations, and there was also a feather burning with a red flame, sealed in a piece of clear crystal.

There are many windows here, like decorative paintings hanging on the wall, but inside they seem to encapsulate a small piece of time.

There were runes flashing in various arrangements on the floor of the office, and I felt more and more familiar with them. They really looked like an alchemical ritual, which turned the entire office into an alchemical ritual!

It seems that the dean is also performing some kind of alchemical method here.

The crystal energy embedded in the ritual nodes on the ground surged, which was the unique magic of the witch.

"Dean, I brought Xiaohan to you." At this moment, Teacher Ji Niang's voice brought me back from my curiosity about everything here.

I immediately restrained myself and looked at the figure still busy in front of me. This person was the dean, and it was the real person, not a clone.

"Oh? Is Xiaohan here? Come here, come to me." Hearing Ji Niang's words, Mei Linde stopped what she was doing and looked at us. Then, she waved at me with a warm smile, motioning me to come over.

"Go ahead." Teacher Ji Niang pushed me from behind and said, "Dean, if there is nothing for me to do, then I will leave first."

"Okay Xi Lan, I know you are very curious. Don't tell anyone what I am saying now. You can stay and listen." Mei Linde looked at Ji Niang and spoke with a smile.

"I understand." Ji Niang also nodded. She had no plans to go back. She was indeed very curious about the situation. After all, having fun was the top priority for a witch. What fun could be more interesting than gossip?

At this moment, with the push from Teacher Ji Niang, I slowly walked towards the dean.

Today, the dean was no longer wearing the same clothes as before, but a deep dark purple robe that looked like the starry sky. The thin clothes that fitted her upper body covered her chest that was about to burst out.

"How about it? Have you figured out what kind of body you want to customize for those foolish dreams?" May Lind said as she came to a wall on one side where there was a painting with an exquisitely decorated frame. But when I looked closely, the scene inside surprised me.

Not to mention that the painting is alive and moving, the painting gives me the feeling that it is really a small world!

And aren’t those floating invisible objects just those foolish dreams?

"I... have almost thought it through..."

"Have you thought about it? What is it? If you haven't thought about it, I can give you some more time. It's just a shell. You don't have to care what it is. It doesn't even have to be a physical shell. After all, they themselves are not living beings. They just want a carrier that exists in reality."

As Dean May Lind spoke, she brought the "painting" to me and showed it to me.

"See... isn't it amazing? This is the dream creature, the one you are familiar with... the foolish dream."

I looked at these things. At this moment, they were no longer the foolish dreams that I knew. Nightmares and foolish dreams came together. At this moment, they were naturally dream creatures.

"Once you decide, I will strip away the part of their nightmares, and you, you understand what you are going to do, right?"

"Well...but after that, how do we deal with the nightmare of the foolish dream?"

"Nightmares are part of foolish dreams. They are indeed troublesome to deal with, but everything depends on human effort. Maybe you can use something."

"Hmm?" I looked at the dean a little confused. My mind couldn't keep up with what the dean said. Is there anything I can use?

"The script is a very unreasonable driving force. If you weren't involved in the creation of the Great Spell Book this time, according to the normal process, I might have used the power of the script to create the Great Spell Book directly."

"The script... can separate foolish dreams from nightmares?" I looked at the dean in surprise, still feeling a little unbelievable.

But I still don’t know how to do it... The script is not something I can manipulate, not to mention that I am just a cannon fodder in the script... Oh no, maybe if things develop further, I might become the final boss?

"It depends on how you operate it. This involves the operation of the script and the deeper principles. You only need to understand two words, that is, segmentation."

"Division means conceptually dividing the same entity into two different entities and severing the connection between them. The development of the script is like a rolling wheel, so we need to prepare for both situations."

"What preparations?" I continued to ask. Although it sounds troublesome at the moment, I will still try my best to get it done.

"First, make the nightmare part you don't want strongly connected to the script, and completely separate the foolish dream part from the script. How to separate is up to you. Don't you want to separate from the script? There is a way to sever your connection with the script once and for all, and even let you experience it in advance..."

"Wait, Dean, are you going to let Xiaohan cut it off in advance..."

"Xi Lan." At this moment, the dean directly called out the name of Teacher Ji Niang, the Extraordinary Witch, and interrupted what Ji Niang wanted to say.

"It seems that your teacher still cares about you very much. Let me say what you haven't finished saying. You should understand the power of the earth veins, right?"

"I only know the name of this power and the simple application of earth vein energy..."

"It doesn't matter. You just need to know that the earth veins are the foundation of a world. The earth veins record all the information in this world and also control the rise and fall of a world. Its existence is no longer just the simple earth vein energy and tributaries. It has become a more abstract existence, and this abstract existence has a branch... the earth vein shackles."

"Earth vein shackles?" I looked at the dean in confusion, expecting her to clear up my confusion.

"You just need to understand that you are also a part of the main world. Do you know why the Witch Academy requires promotion to the extraordinary as a graduation requirement? Because after graduation, most people choose to leave this world. And why our Witch Academy has a rigid rule that only those who reach the extraordinary can leave this world? It is because only after they reach the extraordinary can they have the ability to break the shackles of the earth veins by themselves, so that they can leave this world."

"Leave... the world?" I widened my eyes, yearning for the sea of ​​stars, and the so-called void described by Teacher Ji Niang. Isn't that what I'm pursuing?

I didn’t expect that even leaving this world… has conditions.

"Yes, strictly speaking, after you cut off the shackles of the earth veins, you will no longer be recognized by the main world. The main world will naturally remove you from the script. Unless you insist on interfering with the script, the world consciousness will not pay attention to you."

"World consciousness?" I grasped another key word.

But I also noticed the words "not from this world". I don't know what the consequences will be for people who are not from this world, but there will definitely be a difference. This reminds me of Yisha Yuan. She took the initiative to choose not to be promoted to the extraordinary level, but... this doesn't make sense. It doesn't say that to be promoted to the extraordinary level, one must leave or break the shackles of the earth veins.

"Well, but I won't explain these to you. These have little to do with you at the moment. You can easily learn them later if you want to."

"So you break away from the script in this way, and you enlighten the foolish dream with wisdom. The spell effect will remain on the foolish dream forever, allowing the foolish dream to take the first step towards becoming a life. The world will also sever its ties with you and the foolish dream. But before that, you need to strongly connect the nightmare with the script."

"Then what do I do?"

"It's very simple. Don't you have a lot of luck from the exchange competition? We will transfer the luck to Nightmare, and it will be a deep connection. Then we will push the existence of Nightmare into the script and let it develop on its own. However... the way it works... requires your cooperation. This is a ritual of luck transfer. You should know how to act, right?"

"Acting...acting?"

"Yes, script, script, what does a script need? Acting requires a script. The script itself is a huge screening ceremony. It's good that you understand. I have almost explained the method to you. We will talk about the details later. Do you have any questions?"

"Um... just for these stupid dreams... making such a big fuss... is it worth it?" I raised my head and met the dean's gaze.

"Of course it's worth it. You care too much about other people's eyes. You are already standing in front of me now. Why do you still look at this matter with the eyes of a small person like before?"

"This... I understand..." I thought about it for a while. It's not that I couldn't figure it out, but I thought it through very clearly. I just wanted to know how to do it. Thinking and doing are different. I can't reach the spiritual realm of unity of knowledge and action. Even if I have a magic spell called unity of knowledge and action, I may not be able to do it.

"It's good that you understand. Perhaps you can try the spell book of the unity of knowledge and action. It is not as simple as it seems."

"Yeah." I reacted quickly and nodded heavily. This was a clear signal from the dean.

"Do you have any more questions? If so, I'll allow you one last one, and then we'll move on to the next topic."

"Well... I... I want to know why dream creatures are not considered life? What is the definition of life?"

Chapter 285 Life Interpretation

At this moment, Ji Niang was standing quietly aside. After being spoken to by the dean just now, she had been silent.

Although he seemed calm on the surface, there were huge waves of fear in his heart. Is this something a dean should say to a student?

The dean is not the other person's mother, but she can see that the dean cares about the other person. There can only be one reason, that is, Yang Yuehan played a very important role in the dean's layout of the magic book.

She never regretted tricking Yang Yuehan into the Witch Academy. Even though Yang Yuehan initially appeared at the upper level of the Witch Academy's extraordinary level, which represented the significance of another major event, the dean's unintentional action at this moment might add greater value to it, which is to let those extraordinary witches who believe in their true five senses realize that even the clairvoyance of the floating world level is only the floating world level.

At this time, the dean was also a little surprised by my question.

"Life... I actually wanted to talk to you about this topic as well. Since you brought it up first, let's talk about it first."

"First, let me answer your question. Why are dream creatures not life? The definition of life is defined by life. To be more precise, it is defined by the existence that holds absolute power in the void. Dreams and the void are different. To put it simply, the void does not recognize dream creatures as life, so dream creatures are meaningless in the void."

"Can you imagine such a scene? If dream creatures are living things, and the void acknowledges this, then it means that dream creatures have an original spell sequence. Then, when you use this original spell to fight against others, a scene like this will occur. Your opponent will ask you, where is your summoned creature? Or what have you transformed into?"

"You were forced to say that I summoned a creature from the dream. In your dream, this was simply a joke. At least it seems like a joke now."

Dreams and reality, there is an absolute dividing line between these two existences, do you understand this?"

"Um... I guess I understand..." I hesitated for a moment and nodded.

"Probably... Very good, it's okay if you don't fully understand. Since you have chosen to embark on this path, you cannot establish an absolute concept of cognition for yourself. You have reason to doubt everything. According to my information, what I just told you may be rewritten soon, maybe in the next second, maybe next year, or thousands of years later. In short, don't underestimate the extraordinary development speed."

"Yeah." I nodded to show that I understood. The extraordinary world is also a world of development, just like the world of science and technology. Its essence should be the development and utilization of energy.

Science and technology are constantly exploring the development of energy. Technology is what uses energy, represented by warships, technological creations, and so on.

The same is true for the extraordinary. The use of energy is skill. Alchemy, reality editing, etc. are all representative forms of expression that I have come into contact with now.

What the dean is telling me now is like mathematical formulas and theorems, which may also be overturned at any time.

"Now, let me talk to you about life. In your opinion, what is life? I don't ask you to answer correctly right away. I just want to know your initial definition of life and what is the most essential form of expression of life?"

"Life... is... soul?" I said hesitantly. If it were in my previous life, I would only say that life is the existence combined by a series of technical terms such as the metabolism of organic life forms, etc., but now I have traveled through time, so I believe in the existence of the soul.

So the ultimate expression of life is the soul, and the body?

"Well... at least that's the case for now, but the original Void didn't think so. The explanation of life is also constantly evolving. Every innovation in the definition of life is accompanied by death and rebirth."

"Let me briefly explain to you the development history of the definition of void life. This should have been told to you by your teacher." As the dean spoke, his eyes turned to Ji Niang who was listening with great interest.

Ji Niang also felt the dean's gaze but still pretended to remain calm. At the same time, she was complaining in her heart that she had obviously told Xiao Han too many things in advance, and the content about the history of life development was not what the teacher wanted to talk about. Even if the students taught by other teachers graduated, many people did not know the information in this regard.

Even the extraordinary witches who don't like history cannot retell these stages of history. They have no such concept.

Only an extraordinary witch who has lived long enough and has nothing to do suddenly feels like reading some history would be likely to read this.

"The original void defined life as life energy, which constituted its own original energy. This was the original life. At that time, this statement denied a series of statements such as life was simply the metabolic activity of organic life. The existence of energy life further proved this point of view and denied that life behavior was simply metabolic activity."

"This was the first explanation of life, but the promotion of this statement soon encountered problems. Many cases continued to prove that this seemed to be wrong and tried to overturn this statement. Life energy is not enough to define life."

"And the fatal blow to this statement was the behavior of a certain madman. He created a vast void cleansing called the Mechanical Scourge. You should have guessed it from the name, right? To put it simply, it was a robot, but it was more than just a robot. The madman used life energy as a driving force to endow inorganic matter, metal, stone, and matter with life as he defined it, and invaded the void territory."

"But this behavior is considered a blasphemy against life. No one wants to put themselves, who are also living beings, together with these artificial creations of metal and stone. But the funny thing is that this blasphemous behavior against the old explanation of life does have a positive stimulating effect on the entire void, and it has become a ritual, a new explanation of life overturning the old explanation, a name for it, the ritual of blasphemy against life."

“Having learned the warning of the first desecration of life, a second explanation of life emerged: memory.”

“The essence of life is memory. As long as memory is not destroyed, life will not die. This was the slogan shouted when the new interpretation emerged.”

"But if you think about it carefully, you will find that this explanation is actually a further statement on the explanation of life energy. The statement that memory is life also includes life energy as a part of life. The definition of memory is to permanently exclude the programs, databases, and information of mechanical life from memory."

"The first and second explanations of life are essentially a refinement of the definition of life. Memory persists, and life energy doesn't matter. As long as it exists, it can be life."

"At this point, you should have thought about the explanation of life. What is the most important meaning of this behavior? That's right, it's the resurrection technique. The explanation of life directly leads to the development and prosperity of the resurrection technique. No one is not afraid of death, including the immortal species, except for those who have lived enough." At this point, the dean also made a slight digression, which was also a kind of popular science for me.

"Back to the point, the third interpretation of life overturned the previous two definitions. If the second one proved that life energy is not a necessity of life, then the third one also proved that memory is not a necessity of life."

"Before the third interpretation of life, there was also a symbolic ritual of desecrating life. It can be said that the lunatics in the void are always the natural enemies of those arrogant people. The Zerg Scourge perfectly fits those guys' definition of life."

“Those insects were born ugly and ignorant, but they are indeed life energy and have their own memories, even if the memories of the insects may be somewhat different from the memories in their wishful cognition.”

"At that time, some people tried to use the definition of memory to deny the other party's creation of life, but they were quickly slapped in the face. That's why I call those people arrogant. There is a fine line between madness and genius, and their struggle only further hit their interpretation of life."

"They split into many factions. Some firmly believed in the correctness of this interpretation, while others wanted to deny that those bugs were life. It can be said that that period of time was the darkest moment in the void. Can you imagine that the resurrection technique you relied on was not a real resurrection technique? Would you still dare to use it? That was also the period when the number of life in the entire void declined the fastest."

"The abandonment of the resurrection technique and the crazy devouring army of insects are even more terrifying than the mechanical disaster. They devour everything that can be called a resource, leaving behind a void ruin that is neither worth eating nor worth abandoning."

"I will not go into details and will directly start the third interpretation of life, soul quality."

"The emergence of this theory uses many aspects of argumentation, including but not limited to the analysis of geomancy, world consciousness, and the way the world works."

"In order to find the true explanation of life as quickly as possible, the emergence of this theory led to a large number of worlds in the void becoming victims of analysis. However, it was not uncommon in the void during that dark period, and eventually the deeper essence of life, the soul, was discovered."

"The concept of soul is a new interpretation of life. Quality represents the form of life and also represents the essence. Soul quality as an interpretation of life is the explanation that has been recognized for the longest time. It even makes the void gradually forget the exploration of the interpretation of life and the behavior of blasphemous rituals. These concepts have completely become history of the past."

"During this period, there was another ridiculous thing. That was the Zerg's life leapt again, giving it the essence of soul. Such was the madman's persistence that the Zerg were forced to admit that it was life. It can be said that the second interpretation of life was completely the arrogant self-destruction of that group of people. The existence of the Zerg only created strong external pressure for the third interpretation of life, forcing the birth of the soul theory."

"Soul..." I chewed on this term. This seems to be the widely recognized form of life in my world. "Then... the fourth interpretation of life is the soul?"

"Yes, the fourth interpretation of life is the soul. It can be said that this time, the fourth interpretation of life has a great connection with our witch race, or it can be said that it was promoted by the witch race. The name of the adult who expounded this view was erased, and that person has been promoted to become the pillar of the witch race, the Witch of Truth, codename: Soul."

"There are unofficial records that the lady's name was... Lian... But this is meaningless. The code name of the Witch of Truth is more important than the name. Unfortunately, it is rumored that the Witch of Truth is a homebody witch who randomly chose a witch academy at the border of the void to try her eternal soul project. The explanation of the concept of soul life is currently promoted by the original witch lady, and the first to benefit is all extraordinary witches."

"Soul? Subject?" When I heard these key words, I immediately thought of what Sister Bai said to me. Isn't Sister Bai's subject the soul?

"Yes, the concept of soul has now become a popular choice among the subjects, and it is now gradually becoming the threshold for promotion to a super witch." Having said that, the dean glanced at me meaningfully in a place I didn't notice, and then returned to normal.

"So far, we are in the process of transformation in the void. Generally speaking, the resurrection technique can be used normally, because even the original witch feels that this fourth interpretation of life is like the second interpretation of life in history, which is a perfection of the previous one. But Xiaohan, I hope you don't use the resurrection technique. Can you do it?"

"Well! I'll try my best." I nodded, and I had some thoughts in my mind. After all, I had also promised Sister Bai about this matter, and I would not joke about my own life. Now that the dean had said so, it became even more problematic.

After all, who knows if I am a soul, and the Witch Academy uses the soul version of the resurrection technique?

"So far, the definition of life has been almost completed. The life recognized by our witch race is the soul. So if you want to turn those foolish dreams into real life, research on the soul is necessary. As for the so-called wisdom, aura, cognition, and memory, they have also been improved little by little in the long development of life interpretation."

"This is equivalent to you becoming an extraordinary witch. The essence of life is the soul. You still have to take those foolish dreams and turn them into life to gain a soul."