Chapter 674 – Dreamweaver World 12

Mo Lan gently pressed 《General Skill Book – Dreamspeak》 against her forehead. The pages instantly transformed into a wisp of flowing light that seeped in through the center of her brow.

She instinctively turned her awareness inward to her mental sea, where she saw that wisp of energy glide like a swimming fish through her vast psychic power, finally coming to rest beside the vortex portal conjured by the Key of Dreams, coalescing into an ethereal book.

At the same time, a tendril of pink energy extended from the vortex portal and enveloped the entire book.

Having experienced “knowledge infusion” before, Mo Lan immediately understood the underlying principle.

This “book” suspended in her mental sea was not a physical object but a knowledge package constructed from psychic energy.

Though it resided within her mental sea, it did not entirely belong to her.

When she looked again at the twisted, flowing script on the boulder at the village entrance, the experience was completely different.

The shapes of the characters were still unfamiliar, but wherever her gaze fell, the corresponding meaning automatically surfaced in her mind: “It is forbidden to harm any plant or beast within the village.”

This understanding did not come through translation or conversion — it was more as though the text itself directly presented its original meaning within her consciousness.

Mo Lan recalled the forum discussions about this prohibition.

The dream citizens of Greenwood Village, whether Forest Wardens or Beast Speakers, all mastered at least one form of plant and animal Transfiguration.

A wildflower by the roadside might be an old person sunbathing; a sparrow on a treetop might be a child at play.

There had once been a reckless adventurer who stepped on a seemingly ordinary mushroom, only to be hunted by Greenwood Village’s dream citizens for quite some time.

The strategy guides therefore particularly emphasized: after entering Greenwood Village, try to walk only on the suspended bridges and vine paths in the trees. When on the grass, don’t touch anything besides the most common woodland grasses.

But at this moment, Mo Lan’s attention was entirely on the “skill book” within her mental sea.

She keenly noticed that when she had comprehended the text just now, the pink dream energy on the book’s surface had rippled with subtle undulations. Through some mysterious resonance, these fluctuations directly mapped the knowledge onto her cognitive level.

Even now, when she wanted to read the prohibition text on the stone, the pink dream energy could guide her to intuitively understand the Dreamspeak rendering.

This was even more convenient than knowledge infusion — it was as though she had truly achieved fluent mastery of Dreamspeak.

Yet the pink dream energy emanating from the Gate of Dreams simultaneously isolated the skill book’s knowledge from her own psychic power.

When she tried probing her psychic power into it to read and digest the knowledge within this “Dreamspeak skill book” — the same way she had digested the “Dream-Eating Tapir knowledge package” — she encountered no resistance.

But when she tried to drag the skill book out of its pink dream energy wrapping, to sever its connection with the Gate of Dreams and make it entirely her own, she discovered that the dream energy which had been gentle just moments ago instantly became impenetrable.

Mo Lan was genuinely curious. If all skill books existed in this form within the mental sea after use, then why could dream adventurers only use their skills in the real world after converting them with a Fruit of Materialization?

She simply opened the adventurer panel and tapped the icon for leaving the Dreamweaver World.

That icon happened to look exactly like the vortex-shaped portal that the Key of Dreams had become in her mental sea.

After tapping the icon, Mo Lan felt herself pass through that gate once more.

At the same time, the Gate of Dreams along with the skill book wrapped in dream energy all reverted back to the form of the Key of Dreams.

“Sina” opened her eyes on the bed. No matter how hard she tried to recall, she could no longer remember how “It is forbidden to harm any plant or beast within the village” was written or pronounced in Dreamspeak on that boulder at Greenwood Village’s entrance. She had lost her knowledge of Dreamspeak.

So that was how it worked — skill books acquired within the dream realm would be sealed inside the Key of Dreams along with the Gate of Dreams upon returning to the real world. No wonder they could no longer be used in reality!

And if one left the Dreamweaver World entirely, Explorers’ Keys of Dreams would be reclaimed by the Dreamweaver World, so skills obtained in the dream realm naturally couldn’t be taken away either.

However, Mo Lan could already use the Book of Cards to create {《General Skill Book – Dreamspeak》}.

She made another {《General Skill Book – Dreamspeak》}, materialized it, and slapped it onto her forehead.

This time, the skill book in her mental sea was no longer entangled and wrapped by the Gate of Dreams’ dream energy, but it also didn’t merge with the Key of Dreams.

Nor could she fluently wield Dreamspeak by relying on the Dreamspeak skill book in her mental sea the way she had inside the dream realm.

The “Dreamspeak skill” seemed to have become a “Dreamspeak encyclopedia” — she had gone from being fluent in Dreamspeak to simply having a “Dreamspeak encyclopedia” she could consult at any time within her mind.

She needed to actively read it to access the knowledge of Dreamspeak.

To Mo Lan, this feeling was somewhat like having a {Knowledge Card} placed inside her mental sea.

It appeared that the dream energy the Gate of Dreams used to envelop the skill book was the key to being able to use skills proficiently without any learning.

This time, Mo Lan’s attempt to read and digest the Dreamspeak knowledge within the skill book using her own psychic power also encountered no resistance.

Once the digestion was complete, the skill book vanished from her mental sea.

The entire process of reading and digesting it had exercised the dormant psychic power in her soul, converting a small portion into active psychic power.

It was nothing like digesting a “knowledge infusion” knowledge package, which not only trained one’s psychic power but also provided additional psychic power from the package itself, yielding a measurable increase in the soul’s total psychic energy.

All things considered, digesting a skill book — beyond the knowledge gained — only had the effect of training one’s own psychic power.

And it was hard to say whether this benefit came from the skill book itself or simply from the act of learning.

After all, psychic power could naturally be trained and activated through continuous study and contemplation.

The gains in psychic power were utterly incomparable to “knowledge infusion” — one could only say it was better than nothing.

No wonder no mage Explorers from Valen had mentioned using the Dreamweaver World’s skill books to train their psychic power.

After all, even if they couldn’t create skill book cards, they could still digest the knowledge within skill books in their mental seas while inside the dream realm.

Nevertheless, this series of experiments gave Mo Lan an inspiration. She gave all of the Book of Cards’ {Knowledge Cards} a minor upgrade.

The new version of {Knowledge Cards} now possessed the same ability as skill books — they could take up residence in the user’s mental sea.

This way, everyone could browse books inside their heads anytime and anywhere, instead of having to pull out cards to look up information.

It was just a pity that the Key of Dreams couldn’t be extracted from the mental sea. Otherwise, Mo Lan would absolutely feed it to the Book of Cards, applying its ability to grant proficient use of skills without study onto {Knowledge Cards}.