Chapter 105

Accompanied by a passionate shout, Ji Jue pressed his hands down solemnly.

A muffled sound came from the air.

Like a muffled fart.

And there was no movement on the twisted longsword; it just vibrated politely, emitting a faint, strange noise.

You used Disintegration Technique.

Disintegration Technique failed.

The target item took your Disintegration Technique head-on and mocked you.

The strike, brewed for so long, not only had no effect, but his fingers felt the familiar stinging pain and numbness due to the conflict of Ethereal matter.

However, Ji Jue was not discouraged by a momentary failure, because... he was already used to failing!

It had been three whole days; he had been casting Disintegration Technique on this thing, and he hadn't really succeeded once.

But that didn't stop him from being stubborn and continuing.

It was just repetitive practice; it wasn't as troublesome as tightening screws at the factory.

Amidst deep breaths, Ji Jue held his breath and focused, adjusted his state again, pressed his hands toward the twisted longsword, and shouted to boost his morale: "If you're bad, practice more!"

Hum!

The longsword vibrated slightly and glowed with a faint light; this was the faint light caused by the Disintegration Technique finally acting on the internal Ethereal circuits, but unfortunately, the longsword remained unchanged, with no reaction.

The slight light illuminated Ji Jue's pupils, making him feel a bit encouraged.

In the repeated practice, there were always a few times where it seemed like a coincidence or a stroke of luck, allowing the Disintegration Technique to be realized from Ji Jue's hands. The effect was already there, just too weak to be observed by the naked eye.

But even the clumsiest realization is still a realization, just like the accumulation of experience points.

With the help of the "Natural Skill" Blessing, every effect achieved by chance or intentional focus would accumulate into a stepping stone on the path to mastering the technique.

With the increase in proficiency, the success rate of the Disintegration Technique gradually changed from one in ten thousand with no clue at the beginning, to one or two in a hundred now, and it could be achieved occasionally when his inspiration flashed and his feel was excellent.

Even before his hands pressed down, he already had a premonition of success or failure in his heart.

"If you're bad, practice more!!!"

Ji Jue shouted, energized his Ethereal matter, and slammed his hands down. Taking advantage of the feeling he just had, he started a crazy cycle: "I'm fucking practicing! Practice! Practice! Practice! Practice!!!!"

Muffled sounds and the shrill screeching of steel rang out intermittently. Accompanied by the frantic waving of Ji Jue's hands and the high-frequency Ethereal impact, the longsword began to vibrate gradually, finding it harder to resist the straws being piled onto its back.

Until Ji Jue's shout rose in pitch, this time, a faint light actually emerged from between his ten fingers, and a wind suddenly stirred in the silent workshop.

Along with the pressing of his hands, the air actually made a harsh friction sound, and faint electric sparks shot out from his fingertips. That was the ionization reaction in the air under the disturbance of a large amount of Ethereal matter; a large amount of static electricity was released from his hands as the balance was broken.

And in that instant, the vibration and ringing of the longsword finally reached its peak.

The moment his hands touched it, a complex Ethereal matrix appeared on the sword's edge, and then, from the self-excited vibration, cracks appeared!

So striking!

Snap!

A second crack appeared on the sword's spine!

In the dead silence, only Ji Jue's heavy panting remained. Sticky nosebleeds fell from his face, dripping onto the workbench, dotting it.

He staggered back a step, sat down in the chair, and looked at his hands, which were covered in cracks.

On his face, he couldn't hold back a smile.

The second time!

In the countless futile practices and repetitive cycles these days, his Disintegration Technique had worked for the second time!

Although it was a low-end, weakened, monkey-version, and couldn't be compared to Professor Ye's effortless and fluid operation, success is success.

Now, he was finally one step closer to entering the door!

After a long period of panting, Ji Jue waited quietly for his Ethereal matter to recover. He didn't cast it on the longsword again, but spread his hands, revisiting the basic exercises of the Disintegration Technique's introductory skills.

Right now, on his separated hands, a slight amount of Ethereal matter slowly emerged, winding between his five fingers and gathering on his palms, but the nature of the two was completely different.

In his left hand, it was as if he were holding some kind of smooth crystal, occasionally refracting a faint light with the movement of his palm, reflecting the colors around it, quiet and distant.

After the fluctuation and operation of Ethereal matter approached a state of infinite stagnation and stillness, what was formed was this colorless phantom light like a mirror surface.

And in his right hand, what appeared was some kind of ethereal mist. Through the mist, one could only see a blur; various colors appeared and disappeared in complex changes, and in the end, all that remained was a grayness that made everything lose its color.

When the state and fluctuation of Ethereal matter were stimulated without limit and operated to the maximum extent, the disturbance caused to the air and vision made everything become hazy.

And now, with the movement of Ji Jue's mind, the states of extreme motion and extreme stillness in his hands switched and intersected instantly. His fingers trembled uncontrollably for a moment, as if cramping, finding it difficult to maintain such fine control amidst the complex Ethereal operation.

But immediately after, after switching again, another transformation...

In the increasingly fast frequency of switching, the twitching of his ten fingers became more and more obvious, until finally, amidst the cramp-like pain, a muffled sound exploded again.

The Ethereal matter went out of control, dissipated, and escaped Ji Jue's grasp.

Ji Jue was already drenched in sweat, lying powerlessly in the chair, panting heavily.

Vibration and stillness, repulsion and fusion, division and aggregation.

Professor Ye started from the unique characteristics of the Matrix: Gan Jiang and Mo Xie, and based on this theory, made her own Ethereal state intersect and cycle in two phases within an extremely short time.

In the unimaginably high-frequency transformation, bundles of rapidly changing Ethereal matter became invisible scalpels, interfering with the internal structure of the target.

This is the essence of the Disintegration Technique.

It sounds so easy and simple to summarize, but in actual application, it is so complex that Ji Jue cannot imagine.

Making Ethereal matter switch freely between vibration and stillness is just the foundation of the foundation.

After entering the door, there are application techniques specifically built for various types of targets, different "Supreme" Blessings, and different types of opponents.

The frequency, intensity, strength of Ethereal operation, the different qualitative changes of Ethereal matter, the bonuses brought by one's own unique Ethereal attributes and matrix characteristics... every slight change in each item will bring completely different results.

Adjusting one's own Ethereal frequency, destroying key nodes, triggering the resonance of Ethereal circuits, raising its intensity without an upper limit until it reaches the limit of tolerance, causing it to collapse completely.

The entire process only takes the moment of contact, and what it brings is the complete disintegration of the object and target.

This is the Disintegration Technique that made countless craftsmen turn pale at the mention of it in the past!

A technique that looks effortless hides a vast sea of theory, precise and swift analysis and judgment, countless practices and studies, control power that is precise to the point of being outrageous, timing that is perfect to the extreme, and even a flash of inspiration that only a genius can capture in an instant!

It can only be said that as early as the day she built the Disintegration Technique, Professor Ye never thought about its universality, never even considered its future inheritance, and never thought that one day she would go to the trouble of personally cultivating a student as if she had water in her brain. At most, she was just guiding Ji Jue, who was barely acceptable at the time, hoping that he would have the quality and ability of a workshop assistant in the future.

So much so that the Disintegration Technique itself became a special skill that is difficult to copy and reproduce.

Its learning prerequisite is to have the Mo Xie or Gan Jiang matrix, but all the existing two types of matrices and even the production methods in the world are all in Professor Ye's grasp.

Without the special effects of the two, others can't even touch the edge of the Disintegration Technique.

The only exception is the matrix that is also good at Ethereal operation and whose range and effect are better than both—Non-Aggression!

Precisely because of its unique characteristics and the precise operation of absolute control over one's own Ethereal matter, it became possible to replicate the Disintegration Technique. In fact, the inspiration for the Disintegration Technique originated from the fourth-generation Ju Zi, who was known as "Ten fingers of two hands, regenerating all phenomena" in historical fragments!

And in the years of continuous exploration and improvement, in terms of the effect of destruction alone, the Disintegration Technique has long exceeded what was recorded in history and has become Professor Ye's unique skill.

And then, it became a nightmare that the successor of Non-Aggression had to face!

It's hard, it's fucking hard.

The outrageous thing about it is that even though he already has Non-Aggression, has "Natural Skill," and has further lowered the difficulty by splitting the release of the Disintegration Technique from one hand to two hands...

After the effect was shrunk, shrunk, and shrunk again, and the concessions were made to the limit, Ji Jue discovered that his Ethereal control ability was still not enough?!

No, isn't this requirement a bit too outrageous?

Is this really something a newbie like me can learn?!

Compared to this, what's even more miserable is... after realizing that Ji Jue could already skillfully complete the engraving of "Supreme" emblems and most basic Ethereal circuits, Professor Ye forbade Ji Jue from using scrap to practice, but instead let him use it to practice the Disintegration Technique so that he could enter the door as soon as possible.

A whole warehouse of alchemical scrap, the experience points he could see were right in front of him. Just by smelling the scent of the dissipated Ethereal matter, Ji Jue's ability was already hungry and on the verge of losing control.

But for so many days, he hadn't even been able to suck a single bite!

Like a monkey holding a coconut, starving to death but unable to crack it open.

His whole body was written with misery.

Thinking of this, Ji Jue couldn't restrain his grief and indignation anymore, and once again, rolled up his sleeves.

"It's been so many days, I don't believe I can't handle you?"

He stared at the longsword in front of him, gritting his teeth—since he advanced, the progress bar hadn't moved for so many days. He didn't believe he couldn't get this bite of experience into his mouth today!

Even Professor Ye can't stop you, I said so!

"If you're bad, practice more!!!"

A shout full of fighting spirit and determination, but sounding unspeakably stupid, rang out from the workshop again.

"Practice! Practice! Practice! Practice—"

Successive muffled sounds and clanging erupted. Amidst the torrent of Ethereal matter and rapid consumption, Ji Jue felt as if something was about to emerge from his hands and gush out, but no matter what, it was just a line away, untouchable.

Only anger and mania were constantly rising, superimposing, until they could no longer be restrained.

In the harsh sound of air ionization, Ji Jue's hands were raised again, as if he were mentally deranged, roaring hoarsely: "Break for me!!!!"

Snap!