Chapter 30

“Ah!!!” A wail was heard from the seventh floor.

“How did I fall asleep?”

Xu Tianming had slept till dawn.

Sunlight had hit his face, and the striking ray had jolted him awake.

“I planned to sleep only for five minutes. How did I end up sleeping all night?”

Xu Tianming felt so anxious that he almost cried.

He still had to complete four more bundles of homework.

He had wanted to burn the midnight oil to finish one of them yesterday.

What a sin!

Nevertheless… He seemed to have rested well.

This thought flashed across Xu Tianming’s mind but was quickly extinguished.

“I must be possessed to suddenly have such a thought!

“I have to hurry up and finish my homework. I’m not going to sleep today. I’ll need to stay awake the whole night to complete two bundles of homework and then continue with two more tomorrow. I will then be able to hand in the homework in time the day after tomorrow!”

…

“I really don’t know what skills other tamed beasts have,” the bald crow said helplessly.

Why are Master’s eyes filled with doubt when he looks at me?

“I only know about dream skills.”

Bai Ye was puzzled. “Do you know a lot of dream skills? I only saw two in the soul contract.”

“Oh, maybe it’s because I didn’t engrave and construct the skills,” the bald crow said casually.

Bai Ye frowned. He didn’t quite… understand.

Wouldn’t a skill be considered mastered once it was learned? What did it mean ‘to engrave and construct’ a skill?

Besides, this step was not mentioned in the skill books sold in the market.

The bald crow seemed to have read Bai Ye’s mind.

It said, “Mastering a skill takes time and cannot be done immediately. You’ll also need to construct the Skill Inscription Framework in the Sea of Consciousness. In a certain sense, the body is considered to have picked up the skill thereafter. If one only remembers the skill in one’s head, it does not count. The soul contract is not omnipotent. It judges whether one has learned a skill or not based on the Skill Inscription Framework.”

Bai Ye nodded. So this was it.

However, he had never heard of the Skill Inscription Framework. Perhaps he had not come across it yet.

One-time skill books allowed people to learn skills just by tapping on them once… He was afraid that this also had something to do with this Skill Inscription Framework.

Perhaps they had sealed a Skill Inscription Framework in each skill book, and the Skill Inscription Framework would enter the body once someone tapped the book… A person could thus master the skill in an instant.

Bai Ye guessed that this certainly had to be the mechanism if the Skill Inscription Framework was truly involved…

“You really don’t know about any other Skill Inscription Frameworks?” Bai Ye still didn’t quite believe the bald crow.

“No, I can’t use them anyway. Why would I learn about them?” The bald crow rolled its eyes.

Seeing that it didn’t want to say anything, Bai Ye didn’t press on.

“I remember that, in addition to the skills of various tamed beasts, there are also some general skills. These general skills are not differentiated by beast type. They are typically categorized by clan. You are a bird. You should know some of the general skills of a bird, right?” Bai Ye said.

The bald crow was silent for a moment. It then glanced at Bai Ye with its scarlet eyes.

“I know a bit about them.”

“Teach them then. It’s not convenient for either Xiaowei or you to show yourselves. Under normal circumstances, it is the one who will take part in a fight on my behalf outside.” Bai Ye turned his head and looked at the silly little eagle.

The silly eagle had been squatting on the ground like an old hen. It did not have the aura of a preying bird at all.

It looked dazed and silly, as if it was domesticated livestock.

Bai Ye stroked its supple hair gently. Generally speaking, the fearsomeness of a tamed beast was not comparable to that of a monster.

Although all tamed beasts originated from monsters, monsters lived in the dangerous wilderness from a young age.

Their spirit intellect was definitely different from that of ordinary flying birds.

“This kid has been silly since it was young. You must be patient when you teach it. If it doesn’t work, pull it into your dreams and let it learn all day and night.”

“…”

The bald crow gave Bai Ye a strange look.

Are you the devil?

After studying during the day, it still has to study at night after sleeping?

Even the major clans are not that perverted when they groom their offspring. They will still grant them a little bit of time to relax and rest.

Aren’t you afraid of driving others crazy?

In fact, Bai Ye really didn’t think that way.

Sleeping in a dream was actually not rare.

In human civilization, Beast Tamers meditated and practiced mental strength. Therefore, there had been quite a lot of research on mental strength.

Some mentally powerful presences could sustain a long period of sleeplessness.

If one were to think of the brain as an engine…

Then mental strength would be the coolant and lubricating oil.

It had the effect of protecting and maintaining the brain.

When the brain was active during the day, the engine would heat up and get increasingly hotter. If one did not sleep for a long time, it would cause the engine to overload and become overwhelmed, eventually crashing as a result.

Sleeping at night was necessary to rest and let the engine cool down.

This was also why if one didn’t get a good night’s rest, one’s brain would lack energy the next day. Physically, this would translate to dizziness and muddled thinking.

Nevertheless, some mentally powerful presences could protect the engine with their mental strength and keep it running.

In essence, the brain should be resting instead of learning in dreams.

The learning time was therefore doubled.

Bai Ye was also planning to learn in his dreams.

Getting admitted to the Revolving Starlight University within one year would definitely be a challenging task…

Bai Ye didn’t know the specific requirements either.

However, if he could double the learning time, he would feel doubly assured.

‘Perhaps there’s a deeper study about learning in dreams. The timestream in the dream world seems different from reality. When dreaming, I have the feeling that a long time has passed, but it is in fact a short while. At times, I feel that a short while has passed, but an entire night has actually passed without me knowing it,’ Bai Ye thought.

“Bald one, can your dreams control the timestream?”

“Timestream? I’ll need to have power to control time. How can I possibly do that?” The bald crow shook its head.

Bai Ye felt a little disappointed.

He had seemingly overthought this.

“But I can give Psychological Hints to make the being entering the dream feel that time has slowed down or sped up. This is just an illusion and not a real change in the timestream,” said the bald crow.

“In that case… is it effective when used for learning?” Bai Ye seemed to be deep in thought.

He did not care if time had truly slowed down or sped up. So long as the cat could catch mice, it was a good cat, regardless of whether it was a black or white one.

“Of course it is, but sleeping like this won’t have a resting effect,” said the bald crow.

Bai Ye frowned.

“What’s your record when it comes to changing the timestream?” he asked.

“At present, it’s three times,” the bald crow said unhappily.

It had already guessed what Bai Ye wanted to do.

He wants to get the best deal out of this. He’s not even letting my Nightmare World go.

When did my Nightmare World become a space to help others learn?

Three times.

Bai Ye silently calculated a simple math problem in his mind.

If he were to sleep during the day and learn at night, the learning time would be 1.5 times the normal learning time.

No way.

Bai Ye frowned.

If he were to sleep during the day and self-study at night, he would be purely self-studying.

It might not be as efficient as being taught by the teachers at school during the day.

The learning efficacy would not depend entirely on the time spent.

If he were to sleep during the class and self-study at night, it would also be considered pure self-studying.

This was akin to putting the cart before the horse.

1.5 times the self-studying time and the normal teaching time with the teacher.

“When you become stronger, you’ll be able to control the timestream rate better, right?” Bai Ye asked.

“Yes,” said the bald crow.

“Okay.” Bai Ye glanced at the iron ten-star level of the bald crow.

This breakthrough speed was even more terrifying than Xiaowei’s.

Lord of Eternal Nightmare, Lord of Eternal Nightmare…

He looked out of the windows. The huge 36th Base City…

Tens of millions of people…

And countless beasts.