After dispatching Maodou to find the other three members of the hunting party, Zheng Qing and Jiang Yu stayed within the hastily erected Guardian Formation. They discussed their battle plan for when the party regrouped in low voices while testing whether different spells, talismans, and Potions worked the same way in the Illusory Dream Realm as they did in the real world.
This was an indispensable procedure for any hunting party entering unfamiliar hunting grounds.
After a series of tests, they confirmed that in the Illusory Dream Realm, magic involving illusions and the mind was greatly amplified, such as the Chaos Spell and Sleep Spell. Everyday and support spells showed almost no significant change, such as spells for laundry, cooking, cleaning, and waking up. Spells such as lightning spells, surveillance spells, directional spells, and communication spells, however, were drastically weakened.
Jiang Yu guessed that this might be related to the incomplete laws of the Illusory Dream Realm, its weak World Origin and capacity to withstand force, its strong influence from dreams, and its lack of causal logic.
For instance, in dreams, one could often be racing across a wilderness one second and battling a storm at sea the next, with no flaw in the transition whatsoever. Wizards caught up in it could barely sense anything unusual. But spells could not fake it. Faced with such scene changes, it was not hard to understand why surveillance, direction-finding, and communication spells would fail.
Zheng Qing also briefly tested a lightning spell.
A single "Yin Qi Lei" could easily summon a bolt of lightning as thick as a bowl in the real world, enough to kill a Minotaur. Yet in the Illusory Dream Realm, even after Zheng Qing mobilized all his magic and exerted every ounce of strength, he could only draw forth