"So you no longer need any further improvement in constructing dreamscapes."
A trace of desolation flashed through Han Tianyi's eyes.
As a master of illusions, he still hoped to teach his disciple more illusion techniques. This was the path he had pursued his entire life.
Of course, that did not mean he had nothing left to teach.
There was still plenty he could teach Jiang Xia, such as the art of turning illusion into reality, the cultivation and application of soul power and spiritual power, and so on.
It was just that illusions could no longer be the core of his future teaching.
Before taking a disciple, he had imagined how he would teach them illusions, how to pass on his signature techniques so his disciple could learn them more easily, and what to do at each stage...
But once he actually began teaching a disciple, he realized he had overthought things.
Illusions had been eliminated outright!
The sense of loss in his heart passed in a flash, and Han Tianyi quickly adjusted.
"In that case, during your upcoming cultivation, I'll do my best to teach you the art of turning illusion into reality!"
Jiang Xia nodded repeatedly, delighted.
He had been looking forward to this technique for a long time. If he could master it, his strength would rise rapidly, and everything within Broken Dream would have a chance of connecting with reality!
To walk this path of turning illusion into reality, he had already spent three full years exploring the realm of illusion.
Now that he was learning the art of turning illusion into reality, his accumulated efforts would erupt, sending his combat strength in reality soaring from zero to a terrifying level.
Especially now that he had mastered the method of stacking dreamscapes, he truly wanted to see what effect his three stacked layers of dreams would have in reality once they were truly made real.
Of course, stacking three layers was only possible within the Spirit Ascension Platform.
Without the Spirit Ascension Platform, he could only stack two layers on his own.
This was clearly another restriction.
But Jiang Xia would not let this restriction hold him back forever.
"Teacher, my Broken Dream needs illusory spaces, and each illusory space needs a corresponding Soul Spirit to carry it. But I want to use my Martial Soul to develop my own illusory spaces and reduce my reliance on outside ones."
To put it plainly, he wanted to learn the technology for constructing illusory spaces.
Han Tianyi naturally understood what he meant and nodded. "I'll help you contact experts in that field."
"Speaking of which, Heavenly Phoenix Douluo's disciple is very interested in the Spirit Ascension Platform's technology. She also seems to want to establish an illusory space. She should be about to join the corresponding project to study it. You can ask her."
Gu Yue?
Jiang Xia naturally knew this.
By telling him to keep interacting with Gu Yue, Han Tianyi was clearly also trying to bring the two of them closer.
Jiang Xia was utterly speechless about this.
Han Tianyi merely thought Jiang Xia lacked motivation because Gu Yue looked so plain.
He changed the subject. "There's no rush with illusory spaces. You can use Soul Spirits to carry them for now. If you really don't have enough layers of illusory spaces, it won't be too late to learn then."
"I'll teach you the art of turning illusion into reality first. It'll probably take you several years to learn this technique."
Han Tianyi did not suggest that Jiang Xia might be unable to learn it.
Over the past few years, Jiang Xia's learning ability had already been preliminarily proven, and Han Tianyi would not doubt it.
Honestly, Jiang Xia could reproduce every ability he had mastered within Broken Dream.
That was already astonishing.
He could simulate every soul tool and every rare metal he understood.
This would make learning the art of turning illusion into reality extremely convenient for Jiang Xia.
He did not need any equipment. He only needed to experiment within his own Broken Dream to gradually master it.
The month-long winter break soon ended.
Over the winter break, Jiang Xia studied the techniques for turning illusion into reality for a term.
This technology was indeed troublesome. It encompassed various fields, each requiring mastery of complex core arrays.
All modern soul technology was built on the foundation of soul arrays.
The core arrays of soul tools were developed into various types of soul arrays, then applied to technology.
Behind every technology lay countless stacked core arrays.
Its difficulty was no less than that of making Battle Armor and mechas.
According to Han Tianyi, to truly master the art of turning illusion into reality, one first had to be both a rank-five mecha designer and a rank-five mecha manufacturer.
This was the basic threshold, the starting point for understanding the corresponding technology.
And this technology itself also underwent successive advancements.
After all, the intensity of turning illusion into reality would also affect the arrays' operation. Some arrays were too crude to withstand the force of illusion connecting with reality.
Jiang Xia's secondary profession ranks naturally did not meet the requirements.
But he could start learning first.
Han Tianyi was also taking this opportunity to teach him mecha design and mecha manufacturing.
He merely could no longer teach illusions; it was not that he had nothing to teach.
In just one month, Jiang Xia benefited greatly.
He returned to Class Zero.
When Jiang Xia saw Gu Yue, he went straight up to ask her about the technology for creating illusory spaces.
"You're interested in this technology too?" Gu Yue asked curiously.
If not for creating the Myriad Beast Platform, she would not have joined this project either.
This technology was extremely complicated, and more importantly, it had very little significance for cultivation.
Jiang Xia nodded. "I've already asked my teacher to go through the procedures with the Spirit Pagoda. I might be studying alongside you from now on."
Gu Yue had no objections and nodded in agreement.
Everyone in Class Zero gathered again.
Before Wu Zhangkong could say anything, Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi stepped out first.
"Do you two need something?" Wu Zhangkong frowned, unsure what these two students intended to do.
Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi exchanged a look.
Wang Jinxi took a deep breath and said, "Teacher Wu, we discovered something serious over winter break."
"What is it?"
"There's a problem with our Martial Soul Fusion Skill," Wang Jinxi said gravely.
At those words, Jiang Xia's gaze shifted slightly.
He naturally knew about this, but he had not expected it to be delayed for a while.
"What do you mean?"
"It should be because Wulin's bloodline affected me, causing my Bone Dragon King to evolve slightly. But my Bone Dragon King's evolution actually lowered its compatibility with Zhang Yangzi's Dark Demon Eagle."
"We tried using our Martial Soul Fusion Skill during winter break, but it failed."
A bitter smile appeared on Wang Jinxi's face as he spoke.
He had thought cultivating alongside Tang Wulin was a fortuitous opportunity.
He had never expected it to become a difficult choice.
Over this winter break, the two of them had discussed it more than once.
They had also reached an answer.
"Before, Jiang Xia's amplification strengthened both of our darkness attributes at the same time, improving our compatibility too, so we didn't notice. But when we returned to our clans and tried fusing our Martial Souls again, without his enhancement, our compatibility dropped. Combined with the evolutionary changes to my Martial Soul, that left us unable to use our Martial Soul Fusion Skill anymore."
"But as I cultivated over this past month, my Martial Soul gradually regressed to its original state, and we could use our Martial Soul Fusion Skill again."
After hearing Wang Jinxi's account, Wu Zhangkong breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, their Martial Soul Fusion Skill had returned.