It was like writing a novel.
When you're stuck, or your inspiration dries up, no matter how hard you try, you can't squeeze out a single word.
But when your mind opens up and inspiration flows, ideas will pop up one after another like mushrooms after rain. In that situation, it's easy to write three, four, or even five chapters.
Lin Chuan was currently in that state of open-minded, flowing inspiration.
Playing role-playing and fairy tale stage plays with his Spirit Beasts.
Watching Guoguo and Sakura, Little Red Riding Hood battling the Big Bad Wolf, fighting so fiercely in this Dream Amusement Park that even the very essence of the world seemed to be wearing away. Even the introverted Wan Wan was completely caught up in the fun, playing the role of the grandmother from the Little Red Riding Hood script, while also breaking character to add various strange settings.
They were completely immersed, even more so than just playing with the facilities in the Dream Amusement Park before.
Seeing this scene, Lin Chuan suddenly had an idea.
It was about transforming the intermediate Illusion Attribute Meditation, Dream Amusement Park, into his own exclusive advanced Meditation.
Before this, Lin Chuan hadn't had any good ideas.
He didn't know what to transform the amusement park into.
He was still thinking about what kind of paradise would be shared by him, the Beast Master, and his Spirit Beasts.
Now, Lin Chuan had thought of it.
If there was one thing, one concept, that he, Guoguo, Sakura, Wan Wan, and even White Snow, who was still asleep, all jointly liked.
Then there was only one answer.
Fairy tales!
So, he would transform the Dream Amusement Park into a Fairy Tale Paradise, a Fairy Tale Castle, or even a Fairy Tale Wonderland like Alice in Wonderland.
Playing Bai Xue Princess today, thumbelina tomorrow, and then Sleeping Beauty, the Little Mermaid, and the Wonderland from Alice in Wonderland the day after. Occasionally, there would be a large-scale stage play of a hero fighting a dragon. Just imagining it made Lin Chuan extremely excited.
Not only would their acting skills rapidly improve, but the depth of their contract and their synchronization would also increase at an even faster rate.
By then, he and his Spirit Beasts would achieve 100% resonance, and any skill would have several times the amplification effect. Combination Skills and Secret Skills would be effortless. At least, people like Zhou Tianque and Feng Yingge would probably not be able to withstand a single blow from him.
Going a step further, he could realize the idea he had been conceiving before.
Through illusion, project the Fairy Tale Wonderland into reality, forming an environmental field effect, a skill led by him, the Beast Master.
Undoubtedly, that would be his Lin Chuan's unique ultimate Secret Skill.
Guoguo and Sakura had fought enough. In the dream, neither could truly defeat the other, so today's spar was a draw.
Lin Chuan gathered the three Spirit Beasts and told them his new idea.
On the spot, Lin Chuan received unanimous support from Guoguo, Sakura, and Wan Wan.
Especially Wan Wan, she was the most excited, after all, fairy tales were her favorite literary genre.
Fairy Tale Paradise, Fairy Tale Castle, Fairy Tale Wonderland!!
Wan Wan couldn't wait to start working immediately.
She wanted to smash this Dream Amusement Park right away and start building.
However, this was a huge project, not something that could be completed in a day or two.
It was like programming and writing code.
To construct a new Meditation dream space was like creating a large 3A game. Every brick, every tree, every scene within it required Lin Chuan and his Spirit Beasts to unify their thoughts and will, using Illusion Attribute energy to weave and create.
It wasn't time to officially start creating the exclusive Meditation yet. He would wait until his travels were over and he returned to the Sixth Academy.
After all, without a long-term safe and stable environment, undertaking such a large-scale project could easily lead to problems.
Of course, he wasn't doing nothing now either.
He could practice first by transforming a mini fairy tale area.
After discussion, Lin Chuan decided to build a small wooden house to practice first.
Building things in a dream was similar to, yet different from, reality.
Overall, it was like playing certain farming simulation or building games.
Wan Wan provided the design plan.
Because she was so excited and looking forward to this, Wan Wan's work efficiency directly increased tenfold.
In less than 10 minutes, she produced dozens of design plans and projected them in 3D using illusion.
It must be said that Wan Wan's designs for the small wooden house were all very exquisite and beautiful. They not only incorporated elements of the Star Rock Federation style but also many characteristics of other human nations, while also having a fresh, fairy tale cartoon style. It was the kind of style that children would love at first sight and adults would also find interesting.
Unfortunately, all these design plans were rejected by Lin Chuan.
Because the construction difficulty was too high. Even in a dream, it couldn't be built with just 3 hours of Meditation.
Lin Chuan had Wan Wan revise it again and again, finally getting an extremely simple 5-square-meter small wooden house design.
With this design, Lin Chuan and his Spirit Beasts immediately began working.
Their will and thoughts unified, they used Illusion Attribute energy to construct it.
To describe it in simple terms, it was visualization.
The Beast Master and the Spirit Beasts synchronized their thoughts and will, visualized an object, and then filled and infused it with Illusion Attribute energy.
They tried twice and both failed.
This 5-square-meter small wooden house was still too complex.
Visualizing the entire small wooden house was easy.
But when visualizing specific details, their thoughts easily became chaotic, or even conflicted.
The main reason was that Lin Chuan and the Spirit Beasts' synchronization was not high enough. If their will reached 90% as one, it would be very easy to do.
Two failures did not make Lin Chuan give up.
It was like a grand, difficult-to-achieve goal, divided into countless small goals, achieved step by step.
Since the 5-square-meter small wooden house could not be built, they would further subdivide and refine it.
First, build a wooden board! Build a wooden stake!
This time, it went smoothly.
Lin Chuan and the three Spirit Beasts jointly visualized an exquisitely patterned wooden board, and then filled it with Illusion Attribute energy.
An exquisitely patterned wooden board was thus created in the dream.
This wooden board, like the amusement facilities in the Dream Amusement Park—bumper cars, Ferris wheel, carousel—would exist indefinitely unless destroyed by Lin Chuan's subjective will. If not destroyed by subjective will, it would automatically recover.
One, two, three...
Wooden boards, wooden stakes, nails.
After three sessions, a total of 9 hours of Meditation transformation.
The small wooden house was finally built.
There was still a slight difference from Wan Wan's design.
How to put it?
It was clearly built according to the design, but why did it look stranger the more he looked at it?
"Guoguo, did you install this wooden board crookedly?"
Lin Chuan hesitated, looking at Guoguo.
Guoguo wore a red safety helmet with a hollowed-out top, revealing the flower on her head.
Hearing Lin Chuan's words, Guoguo's emerald green eyes drifted, looking sideways.
"Sakura, why is there a cherry blossom pattern here?"
Lin Chuan looked up, gazing at the upper right corner of the wooden house, where there was a cherry blossom pattern made of small nails.
Sakura silently turned her face away.
Finally, Lin Chuan's gaze fell on Wan Wan, and then he looked at the plaque hanging on the small wooden house: Wan Wan's Little Study.
"Wan Wan, as the supervisor, aren't you going to say something?"
Wan Wan hesitated, wanting to speak but then looking up at the sky.
Lin Chuan sighed. He had merely been too tired from leading the visualization of the building materials and had taken a short break, entrusting the final construction of the small wooden house to the three Spirit Beasts, and they had pulled such a stunt on him.
He had thought that with Wan Wan as the supervisor, no accidents could occur, but he hadn't expected Wan Wan to also slip in some private goods.
Never mind, at least the small wooden house was built.
Exclusive Meditation, Dream Amusement Park · Modified, Fairy Tale Paradise.
Phase One Project.
Officially completed!
...
Just as Lin Chuan's Phase One Project was completed.
Lin Chuan, who was lying in bed with his eyes closed to rest his mental energy, received a phone call from Qian Gu Lidai.
As Lin Chuan expected.
Qian Gu Lidai's call was to inform him that the Chi Gu Family had agreed to his exchange request.
A certain high-ranking member of the Chi Gu Family stated that they would arrange for three talented Beast Masters of his age to have an exchange and spar with him.
Furthermore, they even proactively proposed a wager.
If he, Lin Chuan, won the sparring exchange battle.
For each person he defeated, he would receive 100 points of family contribution from within the Chi Gu Family. If he won all 3 battles, he would receive 500 points.
These contribution points could be exchanged for anything on the Chi Gu Family's internal resource platform.
Whether it was skill manuals, Spirit Beast materials, or special unique cultivation methods, anything was possible.
And if he, Lin Chuan, ultimately lost, for example, with a score of 2 to 1.
The 100 Chi Gu Family contribution points obtained from the winning match would still be valid and could be used to exchange for the Chi Gu Family's internal resources.
As for the price of losing.
He, Lin Chuan, wouldn't need to pay anything tangible.
That high-ranking member of the Chi Gu Family stated that as long as Lin Chuan, upon completion of this journey, returned to the Xingyan Federation Sixth Academy and wrote his travel report, he should clearly state the circumstances of this sparring defeat, and it would be best to also write down the names of the young Chi Gu Family geniuses who defeated him.
The above was the entire content of Qian Gu Lidai's call.
As long as he, Lin Chuan, agreed.
Then, the official exchange challenge match could be arranged for tomorrow.
Good heavens, knowing he couldn't be squeezed for much, they were eyeing the Sixth Academy behind him?
The Eight Great Academies of the Star Rock Federation annually recruited a small number of foreign students from other countries.
These foreign students were often princes or princesses of certain vassal states, or the descendants of important figures, carrying greater political significance.
Occasionally, the Eight Great Academies would also recruit a few talented young Beast Masters from non-vassal states, which, of course, also served political purposes.
The conditions proposed by the Chi Gu Family were clearly for this purpose.
If he, Lin Chuan, lost, and he wrote about it in his subsequent travel report.
Then, the young geniuses who defeated him this time might receive invitations for international study from the Sixth Academy.
This... really put a lot of pressure on him.
There was some pressure, but Lin Chuan wasn't flustered.
With the current strength of his entire team, especially with Wan Wan breaking through to the second stage and learning the Combination Skill Five Elements Spirit Shield.
Lin Chuan felt that there should be very few people of his age who could defeat him. Even Zhou Tianque and Feng Yingge, Lin Chuan now had the confidence to win against them.
After only half a minute of thought, Lin Chuan agreed to the Chi Gu Family's wager conditions.
The Chi Gu Family gave Lin Chuan one day to rest and prepare.
The next day, at dawn.
The Chi Gu Family sent someone to pick up Lin Chuan. It was a small sedan that didn't look ostentatious or conspicuous from the outside, and Qian Gu Lidai was sitting in the back seat.
Half an hour later, the sedan arrived at a small mountain.
On top of the small mountain was a very magnificent shrine.
Even from the foot of the mountain, one could see a giant nine-tailed Spirit Fox statue situated there, with clouds of incense smoke rising around the giant nine-tailed Spirit Fox statue.
That was the Chi Gu Family's He Dao Shrine.
The time was 7 AM.
He Dao Shrine was bustling with people, many ordinary mortals coming to make offerings, worship gods, and pray for blessings.
Lin Chuan followed Qian Gu Lidai up the mountain.
When they passed through a fork in the road with a torii gate, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed. The ordinary mortals disappeared, and the surroundings were no longer a small mountain; the magnificent He Dao Shrine was gone.
A grassland appeared before Lin Chuan's eyes.
From time to time, he could see fox-like Spirit Beasts chasing and playing in the wilderness.
In the distance, there were also forests, lakes, and faintly visible small villages with ancient architectural styles.
"This is the true Huye Plain, also the internal base of the Chi Gu Family."
Qian Gu Lidai introduced.
Lin Chuan was still looking around, admiring the beautiful scenery.
This was a secret realm.
It couldn't compare to the Silver Mountain Range's inner world at the Sixth Academy, but it was still a top-tier secret realm in terms of environmental conditions, truly worthy of being one of the Dongyang Ten Families.
Qian Gu Lidai took Lin Chuan for a brief tour, introducing some non-secret places to Lin Chuan.
"The Elder's arrangement is one match per day, for three consecutive days."
"After the previous matches, information about your Spirit Beasts, Mr. Lin Chuan, will inevitably be exposed to us, which is disadvantageous to you."
"Therefore, the match rules and venue environment will be chosen and decided by you, Mr. Lin Chuan."
White Snow was still asleep, and Little Tail couldn't possibly participate.
"3+1, wild battle, random venue."
Lin Chuan said.
Qian Gu Lidai nodded slightly, made a call and communicated with someone for a while, and then she summoned two giant fox Spirit Beasts, Wind Chasing Foxes.
Riding the Wind Chasing Foxes.
One person, one mount, Qian Gu Lidai brought Lin Chuan to a clearing in the forest.
A short-haired boy, dressed very casually in a shirt and jeans, with a silver necklace around his neck, but exuding a natural confidence, was waiting there.
"You're Lin Chuan, right?"
The boy spoke first.
He didn't use the respectful term "Mr." for Lin Chuan like Qian Gu Lidai did, but used a natural, peer-to-peer address for Lin Chuan.
"My name is Qian Gu Shu. Sister Lidai has told me about you."
"Like you, I am also an Illusionist."】}