A Most Vivid History Lesson

Before Cheng Shi even opened his eyes, he heard Hu Wei speaking.

His voice was low and tinged with disappointment and frustration, as if the Experiment in this Experiment Field were not what he was looking for.

"Whispering Tree... Conjugate Experiment of Void and Reality..."

"Alas, this is not the place the Blind Man prophesied. Although we have found the Experiment Field, we have come to the wrong place."

Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow and slowly opened his eyes.

His gaze automatically bypassed the three teammates standing in front of him and was directly drawn to a towering tree with lush foliage in the distance.

Whispering Tree?

This looks a bit like... Gasmella's... World Tree?

Cheng Shi showed no embarrassment at being "late," but instead looked around the Experiment Field with curiosity.

When he first arrived at the Void Experiment Ground of the Tower of Reason, every scene there was the most novel information to him.

Especially since this place seems to be related to the World Tree that exists in Gasmella!

This made him even more curious.

Cheng Shi looked around and found that he was standing on a suspended walkway that connected the giant wall and the central platform.

And these walkways, like iron chains suspended in the air, are countless and densely packed within this enormous cylindrical space.

Like chains, they imprisoned this Vitality and verdant giant tree in the center.

The giant tree's lush foliage, like a vast sky, covered the entire roof of the Experiment Field. Along each of the slightly thicker branches, dozens of Scholar stood at the edge of the platform, busy at work.

They paused to observe, spoke in hushed tones, recorded data, or frowned in deep thought.

The voice of Truth filled every corner, and the thirst for knowledge echoed clearly in the vast space.

This is the Void Experiment Ground of the Tower of Reason, and the place where countless Scholar tirelessly study [them]!

"Let's go, since we're here, we should at least go and take a look."

Hu Wei gave Cheng Shi a meaningful look, neither pointing out his "late arrival" nor urging him to "go first," and instead led the way to the central area where the giant tree was growing.

This Cheng Shi didn't have any other thoughts, or rather, he didn't have time to have any other thoughts.

He was keeping a close eye on everything around him, eager to write down every word spoken by every Scholar he passed, and to review it later in his notes.

This is all intelligence, and it's intelligence that players at his current level can't access!

He swore that throughout his entire student life before the arrival of the "Faith Game," he had never been more serious or focused than he was today!

The same applies to Yan Chun.

But his actions were more pragmatic than Cheng Shi's.

He pulled out a voice recorder from his personal storage space, found a strangely shaped tablet, and began frantically recording.

The Scholar were passing by looked at them but did not show much doubt. Some even nodded to Hu Wei in a friendly manner.

It was as if he really was a member of this Experiment Field.

Hu Wei is Scholar of the Void Energy School who is currently employed.

Having witnessed all of this, Cheng Shi raised his assessment of Hu Wei's "chaotic" methods to an even higher level.

Even if someone were to call him a "chaotic" person at this moment, Cheng Shi probably wouldn't doubt it at all.

It seems that Chaos really likes him.

I just don't know what the [war] is thinking.

If a child you raised is faithfully carrying out someone else's will, shouldn't everyone who finds out about this go to a paternity testing center to find out the truth?

Can Faith be verified?

Maybe?

Cheng Shi chuckled at his own thoughts. He followed closely behind the three people and headed towards the giant tree.

"The Conjugate Experiment of Void and Reality is the most proud Experiment of the Void Energy Department of the Tower of Reason. It is a wonderful idea that carries forward the theory of 'Void-Reality Convergence' and pushes the dimension of life into the Void!"

The Void-Reality Convergence and coexist.

The Grand Scholar of the department borrowed the will of "Birth" to unite Yin-Yang, and planted a seed in the gap between reality and illusion.

Then, the Divine Power of [Prosperity] was used to continuously catalyze it, allowing it to grow both in reality and sprout new buds in the Void.

But its roots are always deeply embedded in the space between reality and illusion!

Through continuous Experiment and cultivation in this way, many years later, they finally cultivated a wondrous plant that could take root between reality and illusion, absorbing both the real and the unreal, and growing with identical trunks in both reality and Void:

Conjugate Whisper!

What you see before you is its reflection in the Void.

And the real-world tree, as you all probably know, is the World Tree of Gasmella!

By this time, everyone had arrived at the Whispering Tree. They looked up and saw that the tree's crown stretched across the sky and its trunk was like a pillar of heaven and earth. For a moment, they could not think of anything other than marveling at the wonders of creation.

It's so spectacular, it's almost frightening.

"So the World Tree is called Conjugate Whisper..."

Yan Chun couldn't help but speak again. His gaze toward the giant tree was filled with fanaticism. He seemed to have brought his "Scholar identity" into the scene, as if everything in the Experiment before him had been created by his own hands.

Cheng Shi was also surprised, because he never knew that the World Tree actually had a mirror Avatar in the Void!

"I know that the World Tree in the real city of Gasmella had grown into a city dome that blocked out the sky in the later stages of Civilization, almost exactly the same as it is now."

Does this mean that the Experiment in the Void Energy Department have already succeeded?

"Success?

No, no, no, they are far from successful.

Judging by the size of the Whispering Tree before us, it may only be three hundred years old.

According to the historical records I know, this giant tree has been growing for over five hundred years.

Mature Whispering Tree are terrifying creatures that blot out the sky, whether in the Void Experiment Ground or in Gasmella.

Its roots can be seen in every Void Rift near Gasmella, and its canopy has become almost the new sky of Gasmella!

For most of the time in this Experiment, the Scholar were tending to it, hoping to wait until it would flower and bear fruit.

However, the growth cycle of this giant tree is extremely long.

The Tower of Reason was planted at the beginning of the civil war in the Isle of Hope, and it was not until the end of the Civilization Era that it finally blossomed its first flower.

The Scholar finally saw it bear fruit, but by then the "Twilight Church" from underground had already invaded Gasmella.

As the saying goes, "The tallest tree in the forest is bound to be felled by the wind," let alone such a conspicuous, towering giant tree!

Amid the Scholar's weeping and the citizens' wails, amidst rivers of blood and raging flames, the Believer of Chaos broke through the gates of Gasmella and arrived at the foot of the Wall of True Knowledge.

With the results of their Experiment, which they had been working on for over five hundred years, within reach, the Scholar of the Void Energy Department were unwilling to destroy the culmination of the efforts of more than a dozen generations.

Thus, the high wall originally intended to destroy true knowledge lost its effectiveness for the first time.

The iron cavalry of the [Twilight Church] scaled the high walls and arrived beneath the giant tree, taking away the sole fruit borne by the Whispering Tree amidst the gazing eyes of countless Scholar who died with their eyes wide open...

And then they burned this giant tree, which was almost a legendary landmark, to the ground.

The flames reached the sky and burned for over a month.

Thick smoke billowed forward, and the shadows that stretched out indicated the direction in which the Tower of Reason collapsed!

I have read the history of that period countless times, and every Historian and recorder who has written footnotes to the past has given a strikingly similar assessment of that great fire that could be seen throughout the Isle of Hope.

They said:

Civilization was born in fire, but it also perished in fire.

The flames of Conjugate Whisper blaze simultaneously in reality and illusion, like a new sun descending upon the Surface of the Isle of Hope, extinguishing all Civilization and Order...

It was roasted to a crisp.

This Experiment Field, which has been maintained for hundreds of years, is like a loom built with misfortune and bad luck, tirelessly weaving a garment for the [Twilight Church]...

The most beautiful clothes.