Chapter 661 – The World of Reality and Illusion

After considering every aspect, Mo Lan felt that this level-six elemental Heart of the Fairy didn’t actually provide her with that great a boost.

The reward was precious, certainly, but it wasn’t a good fit for her.

If this Heart of the Fairy had been level ten or above, or corresponded to a type of magical energy she hadn’t yet mastered, then as long as there was no punishment for failing the task, she wouldn’t even need to look at any other world’s missions—she’d have to pick this one and give it a try.

After seeing Moto World’s invitation, Mo Lan even went searching for higher-level fairyland world invitations that offered a Heart of the Fairy as a reward, but unfortunately couldn’t find a single one.

There were many fairyland worlds, but worlds that offered a Heart of the Fairy as a reward were something you could only stumble upon by chance.

“What a shame that Moto World is only level six, and it’s an elemental Heart of the Fairy at that!”

Mo Lan lamented for quite a while, and only when she saw the invitation from the second world, the Azure Firmament Realm, did her interest perk up again.

The Azure Firmament Realm was a cultivation-type world. In such worlds, magical talent and the locations where magical energy was stored could all be perceived through certain methods. Some worlds called them spirit roots and dantians, others called them spirit foundations and purple palaces—the forms were varied and diverse, but at their core, they were all part of the body.

The Azure Firmament Realm’s task rewards appeared quite unremarkable, and you could only receive the rewards upon completing the task.

However, its task assistance included “Local Identity — White Cloud Village Immortal Seedling.”

This meant that upon accepting the invitation, the world consciousness would bestow a local identity upon her—White Cloud Village Immortal Seedling, which obviously indicated someone with cultivation talent.

Inheriting this identity would not only grant her the identity’s past memories but also its cultivation talent.

In other words, the moment she entered the world, she would gain cultivation talent. Both the identity and cultivation level could be brought out of the world, which was itself part of the task reward.

Mo Lan examined that local identity’s talent: a wind spirit root with ninety-nine percent purity. In terms of strength, it was actually higher than Moto World’s Heart of the Fairy—it just lacked some law-level power. Still, it was an extremely precious talent-type resource.

Moreover, the difficulty of obtaining this reward was much lower than that of a Heart of the Fairy.

Even without completing the task, as long as she survived until the world purged illegally infiltrated otherworldly souls, she could successfully leave the world with the spirit root talent.

The only catch was that the spirit root talent attached to the identity had already merged with her body, so unlike a task-reward spirit root talent, she couldn’t keep it unmerged and trade it away.

As for this world’s task, because of the “Knowledge Infusion — Otherworldly Soul” assistance, the difficulty was somewhat easier than Moto World’s—at least she would know who the enemy was.

The cultivation world’s magical energy was similar to Valen’s, but the magic system was quite different. There, she could not only raise her own magic level but also collect magical knowledge from the cultivation world.

Cultivation world magic was considered one of the more powerful and well-developed magic systems in the universe, which could fully compensate for the fact that her wind-element magic talent was already high enough that a wind spirit root wouldn’t add much.

The one thing Mo Lan hesitated about with the Azure Firmament Realm’s invitation was the clearing of law fragments.

Right now, aside from her own Manifested Gift, she hadn’t come into contact with any other law-level powers, so she had little confidence in clearing law fragments.

As for the last option, Dreamweaver World—it was a reality-illusion type world.

This type of world shared a common trait: the world was divided into two planes, illusory and real, which were both independent of and dependent upon each other.

Objects from the real plane couldn’t appear in the illusory plane, but abilities learned in the real plane could be brought into the illusory plane.

Objects and abilities from the illusory plane required certain conditions to appear in the real plane.

Take Dreamweaver World, for example—its illusory plane was a dream world, and its real plane was the physical world. In Dreamweaver World’s reality, there was only one intelligent species: humans.

Because most magical energy was concentrated in the dream world, the humans of Dreamweaver World had far weaker magical abilities in the physical world than in the dream world.

The Dream-Eating Tapir was a type of magical beast in the physical world. It didn’t harm people, only consumed dreams, but it was enormously powerful. Given the strength that Dreamweaver World’s humans possessed in reality, capturing or killing Dream-Eating Tapirs was extremely difficult.

Yet Dream-Eating Tapirs were symbiotic creatures of the dream world—as long as evil forces continued to spawn within the dream world, Dream-Eating Tapirs would keep being born.

So periodically, Dreamweaver World would issue tasks requesting Explorers to help hunt Dream-Eating Tapirs.

The “Key of Dreams” listed in the task assistance could grant Explorers the same ability as Dreamweaver World’s humans to enter the dream world while sleeping.

Within Dreamweaver World’s dream world, magic came in all varieties imaginable—not only magic similar to Valen’s system, but also techniques resembling those of cultivation worlds.

And the world level was eight.

This meant that in the dream world, Mo Lan could freely practice Witch Magic, mage magic, dragon-tongue magic, and all other types of magic without being suppressed by the world’s level until her magic level reached the fourth tier.

Combined with the Dream Chronodisk that could alter the flow of time in dreams, Mo Lan could save quite a bit of time as well.

Though the dream world was the illusory plane of Dreamweaver World, that didn’t mean it was fake. It was also a world with complete laws—just one that existed in a different form.

After all, Dreamweaver World’s Explorers had all emerged from the dream world.

So Mo Lan could also freely use the Book of Cards to collect materials in the dream world.

Finally, the safety of reality-illusion type worlds was much higher than other worlds of the same level.

Because the real plane’s magical level was generally not high, it was only the illusory plane that could be relatively dangerous.

And death within the illusory plane would only diminish soul energy—in most cases, it wouldn’t cause the body in the real plane to die.

For the humans of Dreamweaver World, dying in reality meant true death, but in the dream world, they had to die ten times before it became permanent.

Moreover, there were certain treasures within the dream world that could increase the number of allowed deaths.

A world like this—forget level eight, even at level nine or ten, Mo Lan would dare to go!

The only thing was that reality-illusion type worlds were relatively rare in the universe, and their world levels were generally not high. Dreamweaver World was already considered the highest-leveled among them.

If there was any downside to Dreamweaver World, it was that upon leaving the world, only things brought from the illusory plane to the real plane using a Fruit of Materialization could be taken away as spoils.

Whether it was magical talent gained in the illusory plane or magical materials obtained there, they all counted as illusory-plane products.

But for Mo Lan, this wasn’t much of a problem, because magical knowledge wasn’t restricted by the boundary between illusory and real planes.

Knowledge could be learned, and it could also be obtained by analyzing materials with the Book of Cards.

The cards created by the Book of Cards drew their knowledge from the illusory plane but weren’t bound by its restrictions, while their energy came from her stored Mana. The final cards also counted as her spoils—usable in the real plane and able to be taken out of Dreamweaver World.