Study.
Under the bright lamplight.
Aaron laid Dreamseeker Solon's Notes flat on the desk and opened to the first page.
A line of elegant Spirit Realm script immediately appeared on the title page:
[The Dream Realm is indescribable; only the mortal world may imprint a fleeting shadow of its glimpse...]
Rustle!
Aaron turned to the next page and found nothing but a blurry blot of ink upon it.
He flipped through several more pages in succession, only to find the same thing.
"The 'Professor' wouldn't scam me on our first meeting... so I'm reading it wrong?"
Aaron's expression remained calm. A strand of radiance wound around his finger and settled upon the paper.
The blots of ink dissolved beneath the radiance, like countless tiny insects crawling across the page, arranging themselves into all manner of strange mystical symbols and scripts.
"This method of reading requires continual deciphering..."
Aaron felt irritation rising within him. If he continued, it might escalate to the point where he began hearing whispers.
But he did not care. Pure white filled his eyes.
The next instant, Aaron's gaze seemed to pierce straight through the pages and arrive in some unknown region of the Spirit Realm. From the stance of an "observer," he watched "himself" begin a brand-new exploration...
Within the dream, countless bizarre lands, strange and grotesque Spirit Realm creatures, even the ultimate mysteries of the Spirit Realm itself, all seemed to lift a corner of their veil before him...
"Huff... huff..."
Aaron raised his head as though surfacing from water, greedily gulping down fresh air. "This immersive experience is too intense. Even I'm a little dizzy... Extraordinary people whose essence level isn't high enough would probably struggle to dispel its effects... As for ordinary people, studying it carefully would contaminate them!"
Though this Secret Lore