The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

"Then let me tell you, a teleportation portal is a third-order spell, while a teleportation portal that can cross worlds is a fourth-order spell. What do you think?" the Great Sage suddenly said.

Xue Dinglu's brain overloaded in an instant, and he realized something was wrong.

Although the old undead was a legendary-level being, his primary profession was paladin. While paladins are considered to be half-magic casters, the old undead's magical level was definitely not legendary-level; it was probably only heroic-level, which is equivalent to the second tier.

He had risked his life against the Lich King and knew how troublesome a third-tier spellcaster was. In terms of magical skill, the old undead was not even one-tenth as accomplished as the Lich King.

How did he open the portal?

Seeing that Xue Dinglu seemed to have thought of a problem, the Great Sage tapped Xue Dinglu's head three times with his staff, seemingly finally satisfied: "So, the portal is not that undead general's ability at all, but yours. He just discovered that you have this ability and then used it."

"Huh?" A question mark appeared above Xue's head.

What kind of tile is this?

“After all, your consciousness space is quite magical. I haven’t been able to fully grasp the power of this spacetime, and can only make simple use of it.” The Great Sage stopped being a riddle-maker at this moment and said, “In fact, perhaps before that undead general came, you had already been noticed by the world’s consciousness, which is why you have this space.”

"Me?" Xue pointed to himself.

“Yes, maybe you have a mission you have to complete, who knows?” The Great Sage started tapping and tinkering with the system he had built again.

He previously created a translation module while coding, and now I wonder what other new ideas he has to upgrade his system.

"You go to sleep first, and I'll add some other functions for you," the Great Sage said.

"Oh."

In the consciousness space, only the old man remained, typing away at the system, seemingly building something...

……

Xue's Law is dreaming again.

A familiar dream, swarms of insects covering the sky, and the short-haired girl who died in front of me.

This scene repeated itself more than ten times, until he became numb to it.

Suddenly, the scene changed, and Xue's Law saw... the universe!

He was in a spaceship, and he saw a blue-green planet.

"I'm sorry, you are the last survivor on this planet. We will now carry out an extermination of this planet. Take one last look at your home planet."

The boy in the picture stares intently at his planet, and then, in the next moment, light pierces through the planet, and the entire planet begins to disintegrate, collapse, and break into countless fragments...

The video ends here.

Then, he entered another dream.

It was a world ravaged by plague. The Great Sage was probably in his forties at the time. He began to gather the few survivors on this plague-stricken planet and teach them how to deal with the plague.

The next dream was of a world of ice and snow. The Great Sage must have been over a hundred years old by then. Xue Dinglu saw him leading the survivors to build a city-state, creating one of the few shelters amidst the frigid winds...

One dream after another flashed before his eyes, but the more he knew, the more confused Xue Dinglu felt.

He could see through the old man more and more.

These dreams completely shattered his previous impression that the old man was an "avenger." In the subsequent dreams, the old man was always rescuing survivors in extremely harsh environments.

Just then, the dream shattered completely.

Xue felt as if his consciousness had been pulled into an endless abyss.

"Help……"

A sudden sound rang out in my dream.

"?"

Xue Luding was puzzled, but his thinking ability in the dream was only in a state of light sleep, half-awake and half-asleep.

"Help……"

As the dream faded, Xue Dinglu felt as if he had entered a warm embrace.

The embrace was as warm as a mother's, and Xue Dinglu's consciousness completely fell into a deep sleep.

"Help me...my child..."

That ethereal voice spoke at the end.

……

Jingle Bell!

When the alarm clock rang, Xue Dinglu sprang to his feet and checked his phone; it was three in the morning.

He felt refreshed, as if he had just taken a long shower and put on new underwear, and no longer felt the fatigue he had felt before.

"What are you doing waking up at three o'clock?" asked the Great Sage of the Consciousness Space.

"You tapped my head three times, weren't you telling me to get up at three to discuss something?" Xue Dinglu asked the Great Sage in astonishment, his pupils dilating in shock.

"I'm sorry, I just have a habit of tapping the heads of my stupid students," the great sage replied nonchalantly.

Xue's Law: "..."

His head started to hurt again, a throbbing pain that seemed to pierce his very soul.

I think I dreamed a lot yesterday...

The dream began to gradually come back to him. He remembered seeing other memories of Old Deng: his home planet had exploded, and then all that followed were memories of him rescuing other survivors...

And finally, that inexplicable voice...

Xue finally realized something was wrong, and he decided to discuss these matters with Old Deng.

Upon arriving in the consciousness space, Old Deng seemed to be building a door, which looked to be almost finished.

"Huh? I'm still busy here, don't cause trouble, go away! Go away!" The Great Sage began to shoo people away with a look of disdain.

"No, I have something important to discuss with you right now." Xue Luding looked at the Great Sage who was still repairing the gate and sat down on the ground without caring at all.

"explain."

"I had a dream where someone kept asking me for help," Xue Dinglue said, but he couldn't make out the face of the person asking for help. The voice seemed to be a female synthesized voice, and he had no clue what it was.

In the past, this might have truly been just a dream, but now that he has entered the ranks of the extraordinary, he naturally wouldn't consider it merely a dream.

It was more like someone was asking him for help through his abilities.

"Hmm? Explain in detail." The Great Sage's hands did not stop, and he began to listen attentively.

Xue Dinglu recounted his feelings at that time in detail, without any reservations. After all, he had already seen a lot of Old Deng's memories, so there was no need for him to hide anything.

However, as he listened, the Great Sage stopped what he was doing, and his expression gradually became serious: "You, tell me in detail, if that voice were a person, what kind of person do you think it would be?"

"What kind of person?" Xue Dinglu recalled the feeling in his dream, feeling only warmth and peace, and couldn't help but say, "She's a woman who could become my mother..."

Chapter 33 The Great Sage's Past

After saying that, Xue covered his mouth.

The silence in the space of consciousness was terrifying.

"Just pretend you didn't hear those shameful words," he immediately tried to save face.

"No, that's fine. Your first instinct is never wrong. Sure enough, it proved my guess." The Great Sage's expression was very serious, as if he didn't care at all how embarrassing Xue's words were.

"What guess?"

"Something might be wrong with your world." The great sage began circling Xue's Law repeatedly, stroking his beard incessantly.

"My World?" Old Deng's spinning made Xue Lude a little dizzy, so he simply got up and joined the old man in spinning around the half-built system.

“Your feeling is correct. There’s nothing shameful about feeling like a mother. If I’m not mistaken, it’s the consciousness of your world asking you for help.” The Great Sage’s circling movements quickened, as if he were thinking faster.

"What problems could there be in my world? Three world wars?" Xue Dinglu watched as the old man's spinning speed increased, and he quickened his pace as well.

“I don’t know, there’s too little information, but this guess is definitely right. Your world is calling for help, something terrible has probably happened.” The Great Sage stopped circling, causing Xue Dinglu to bump into his back.

"What do we do next?" Xue Dinglu's expression also turned serious.

"We can only wait. You continue with your normal schedule while I continue to refine the system. Tomorrow night, after you go to sleep, you must stay awake and control yourself. We'll figure out a solution based on the information we receive later." The sage's words reassured Xue Dinglu considerably.

At the very least, this old man's knowledge and vision are far superior to that of this eighteen-year-old youth, and if he wasn't mistaken, in yesterday's dream, this old man was from an interstellar civilization.

Since things have come to this, let's proceed according to plan.

……

The next day, Xue Lude looked at the 96% first-order result displayed on the panel and felt an unparalleled sense of pleasure.

Perhaps in another day, he will reach Tier 2, which is Hero level.

He began to tour Chiba Prefecture like a normal tourist.

I went to the aquarium and watched the orca show. For some reason, the orca seemed particularly friendly to me and kept spitting water at me.

In addition, I saw a sea tiger... uh, a tiger shark. The tiger shark was staring at him through the glass.

They also visited places that preserve Edo-era architecture and customs, continuing their originally planned trip.

However, what Xue Dinglu didn't realize was that after he left the hotel, a figure had been following him.

The Great Sage, who was still building the new module, seemed to have discovered it, but he did not make a fuss.

That night, Xue Daolu returned to the hotel and sorted through his photos.

The old man has been building this module for a long time, and it's still not finished.

This made Xue Dinglu curious, so he took another look at the situation in the consciousness space.

"Wait a minute, old man, you seem to have changed a bit?" Xue Lude asked the Great Sage.

It wasn't his imagination; the old man was starting to become transparent.

Through the white-robed body, Xue Luding could vaguely see the display panel behind him, as if a normal person had suddenly become a projection with 80% transparency.

Perhaps it wasn't a change that happened today, but rather that the old man had been becoming transparent all along, only to become so transparent that light could pass through him today, which is why Xue's Law discovered it.

"Is there?" The old man looked at his arm as if he couldn't see it. "This is normal, don't worry about it."

Xue Dinglu rubbed his eyes, certain that he hadn't misread it.

The old man did indeed become transparent, as if he had turned into a holographic projection.