Unlike the others, Wu Pifu was certain that he was dreaming.
No matter how real this dream was, even if he could not spot a single flaw, its illusory quality was so obvious that he had known he was dreaming from the very first moment.
This was actually because his essence was gradually approaching perfection.
For mortals, constrained by the limits of their senses, it was often impossible to distinguish reality from illusion. They could only identify the difference by finding flaws in the illusion. There was even a famous logical thought experiment about this: a person could not tell whether they were a brain in a vat.
But an Ascendant Body could not be deceived by such reality and illusion. Its own perfect cycle made it self-contained. Even the infinite cycle at the root could not contain it or reduce its dimensionality. Ordinary reality and illusion could be seen through at a glance. This was not because reality and illusion contained flaws, but because of its essence.
At this very moment, Wu Pifu was not yet an Ascendant Body. However, whether due to the effects of the perfect closed loop of spacetime created during his past temporal rewind, or simply because his strength was too great and his essence had begun to gradually perfect itself, he had already become unlike an ordinary mortal. Reality and illusion at this level could not possibly deceive him.
But...
"...This Hellbell really has some tricks. It actually managed to make me dream?"
Wu Pifu muttered.
One had to know that, with his current strength and spiritual cultivation, if he did not want to dream, then he would absolutely not dream. And if he wanted to dream, what he dreamed of and how long he dreamed for required only a single thought.
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