[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-above-destiny":3,"chapter-above-destiny-above-destiny-chapter-35":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Above the Heavenly Fate",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2225720,4117,"Chapter 35: The Life of a Trash Picker","above-destiny-chapter-35",35,"\u003Cp>\"My aunt is busy with military projects recently and doesn't have time to manage you for now, but the materials and textbooks are all ready. You can study on your own.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Early the next morning, when Ji Jue rushed to Professor Ye's workshop, what he saw were three cabinets full of various materials and classics, and even the warehouse at the very back of the factory that Ye Chun had opened, and the mountain of waste piled up inside!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heaven knows how many years it hadn't been cleaned up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were all kinds of objects, big and small, that couldn't even fit on the shelves; various boxes were piled up to the ceiling on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including but not limited to various mechanical parts of unknown meaning, a bronze giant tree three times as tall as Ji Jue, hundreds of swords and blades that looked like they could kill ten Ji Jues without dulling, strange pottery jars that would seep blood from their cracks, ferocious masks with eyeballs that seemed to move, incomplete armor, bronze statues that had melted into a puddle, and various fragments in numbers too numerous to count...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just by walking two steps inside, Ji Jue was choked out by the dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Chun, who was gloating on the side, said: \"Aunt said that you can use anything inside for practice. If you don't understand something, look up the information yourself. If you have any questions, if she has time, she will come back between five and six o'clock in the afternoon, and you can ask her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't worry, although they are all scrapped items and leftovers, they have all been processed and are completely harmless. They are just right for a newcomer like you to practice with.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to my aunt, whenever you can finish using this pile of things, you'll be about ready to stand on your own.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this scale was just too exaggerated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue held his breath and poked his head in to take a look, and was shocked by the terrifying quantity that was enough to drown him ten or twenty times. At this scale, he was afraid he would have to spend his whole life in here, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first hurdle in front of Ji Jue was that bronze book he saw yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't thick; after removing the cover and back cover, only twelve pages remained... twelve emblems and totems of the Virtues!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The relevant materials and indexes were all in the cabinet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first step in Ji Jue's alchemy learning was to re-engrave these twelve Virtues' emblems on any material within a month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This not only meant that he had to have a basic grasp of the Twelve Virtues from scratch, but also required him to reach the standard for various materials, various spiritual quality engraving methods, and all basic techniques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yesterday was EASY MODE, learning to sing, dance, and rap; today was hell difficulty, going to dry the Cinder King!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life couldn't go on like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Something's not right. Doesn't the book say that beginners are advised to start with the engraving of basic runes and spiritual quality circuits?\" Ji Jue, covered in dust, flipped through the book for a whole morning before feeling that something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did the difficulty suddenly go up?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately started to have a headache: \"If it goes on like this, I won't be able to finish even if I work until I die, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, young people nowadays, all of them are lazy...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Chun, who was lying on the sofa watching the fun, shook her head in a pretentious manner, sighing with the air of an old person: \"Where did I have such conditions back then?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't be ungrateful for your blessings, Little Ji! Almost all apprentices outside are working for loans and paying to learn. In some places, you have to work for the master's star just to learn how to stir-fry. Someone like you who doesn't spend a cent, has things to learn, has a job, and has so many free leftovers to practice with, is already doing pretty well!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue wanted to roll his eyes: \"I understand the logic, but can you stop acting like a senior?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't you know that an elder sister is like a mother? Rounding up, am I not half an elder to you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Chun got up in a rage, hugging a cat pillow and stroking it, \"I know, you've become a Chosen One, you have a bright future, and you have my aunt who thinks highly of you, but you don't even want to call me Senior Sister... Go, get the potato chips next to the refrigerator for sister!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue rolled his eyes and took two bags of potato chips, sharing half without any hesitation, and incidentally took an iced happy water from the refrigerator. After taking a big gulp, he turned and walked back to the center of the workshop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That huge furnace that was still silently operating, thousands of spiritual quality circuits extending from the furnace, seemed like a giant net overlapping and converging under his feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the tool he used for practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were countless ways to process materials and objects in alchemy. Flame and temperature were just the most common and widely applied ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most materials would have their physical properties stimulated under high temperatures, and their spiritual quality affinity would be further improved, making them more suitable for alchemical operations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a beginner like Ji Jue, he actually didn't deserve such a high-end model, but aside from the simple probe set from yesterday that could only be used for entry and didn't help much with skill improvement, the only thing in the entire workshop was this high-end set that Professor Ye usually used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was so high-end that Ji Jue couldn't understand most of the functions inside and didn't dare to touch them. Even if most of the settings weren't open to apprentices who hadn't passed the spiritual quality verification, the basic functions alone were enough for Ji Jue to ponder for a few months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A master-level high-temperature reaction kettle was simply too luxurious for a novice like him. And what was even more luxurious were the scrapped items, leftovers, and trash that Professor Ye had already processed in advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WWW▲?????▲￠o\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it was trash, it was trash left over by a master. Even if it was scrapped, most of it was because the strength or function didn't meet the requirements or some flaw appeared, and it was decisively destroyed and discarded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After carefully studying the classics, Ji Jue sadly discovered: these 'trash' items thrown in the warehouse, if they were really sold on the market in perfect condition, a poor person like him would probably have to sell his blood and kidneys just to get a set.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But looking on the bright side, if he was lucky enough to become a master in the future, wouldn't selling any piece of trash be enough to eat and drink for many years?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, he was full of motivation again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of the student loans, thinking of the shitty employment environment in Yacheng these years, thinking of the prices, thinking of the white-cut chicken the little scooter had to eat every day, he couldn't wait to lie on the furnace twenty-four hours a day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With such good conditions and such a luxurious configuration, if he didn't work hard, he would really be struck by heaven's punishment!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a muffled sound, Ye Chun raised her head from the sofa, looked at Ji Jue's dusty appearance, sighed, and then took her gaze back, not surprised at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just this afternoon, he had already scrapped it dozens of times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An alchemist's work is a delicate job, and the consumption of spiritual quality is not serious, but unfortunately, a pure novice like Ji Jue failed so many times in a few hours that he was almost drained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gritting his teeth, he put on his fireproof suit, took the tongs, and pinched that copper piece out of the furnace. After it cooled down, he discovered the problem... it was actually exactly the same as most of his failures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spiritual quality conflict.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using spiritual quality to simulate circuits in metal and engrave the Virtues' emblems is a technical job.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After losing the theoretically isolated environment of the crystal ball from yesterday, in actual practice, there would be all kinds of problems. Every detail was a pit, and if you weren't careful, the whole game would be lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One's own will, control of spiritual quality, and even emotional fluctuations must be within range, and one must maintain absolute stability and focus. More importantly, one must know how to handle the changes in the physical properties of materials and different situations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a job of pure experience that requires grinding, and there are no shortcuts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If only I could extract it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue lay on the sofa, sighing wearily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh?\" Ye Chun was puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I mean, if only I could extract other spiritual qualities or impurities before the spiritual quality conflict,\" Ji Jue said: \"If that were the case, it wouldn't be so troublesome.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Why don't you listen to what kind of pig talk you're saying?\" Ye Chun didn't know whether to laugh or not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is it very difficult?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Chun sighed, climbed up, picked up the small blackboard again, adjusted her flat glasses, and said seriously: \"First of all, you have to understand that spiritual quality is a very complex and changeable thing. Although the properties are generally the same, there are almost hundreds of major classifications, and the gap between each one is sometimes bigger than that between humans and pigs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The absolutely pure spiritual quality in theory that doesn't have conflicts almost all comes from Time Sand, which is not something you can covet at your current level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secondly, even absolutely pure spiritual quality will show different changes after physical property interference and processing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's like you've mixed the paint and are using a brush to paint on the canvas. Before you put the brush down, you must understand the consequences of the fusion of different colors and brushstrokes, rather than regretting it after you've finished painting and wanting to peel off every drop of turpentine and every molecule of pigment from the canvas.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The control required to extract spiritual quality after it has fused with materials is so outrageous that I can't say it's completely theoretically impossible, but it's a dream to actually operate it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such an unbelievable thing, even the contemporary Grandmaster, Heavenly Furnace, might not be able to do it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before putting down the small blackboard, she finally concluded: \"Instead of coveting this, it's more realistic to dream that everyone in the Federation gives you a dollar, and you'll be rich overnight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is it... that outrageous?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue was dumbfounded, trying hard to remain calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't the difficulty that shocked him, but the discovery just now... If it was so difficult to peel the reacting spiritual quality away from the carrier, then, after he was eroded by dragon blood, he could still return to his original state—wasn't that as outrageous as time flowing backward?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slowly lowered his head and looked at the watch. The watch was still ticking, as if it would never end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be able to precisely strip away all the corruption structures and parts right after he was about to become corrupted, and to restore him to his original state without any lingering side effects... what on earth is it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder Sister Wen's expression was like she had seen a ghost after discovering he could reverse the corruption!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He might as well have said that he could really turn back time; that would have been easier for people to accept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meeting such an outrageous thing, Sister Wen actually didn't crush him without hesitation to study him properly—it was truly great compassion, a Bodhisattva's heart!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue couldn't help but want to set up a longevity tablet for her at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lowered his head and stared at the time, the more he looked, the more he felt that this watch was not simple, and it might be even more awesome PLUS than he had originally and currently thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the question arises, if this watch alone is so awesome, how outrageous must its creator be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After thinking about it for a long time, he finally gathered his courage, peeking at Ye Chun's expression from the corner of his eye, and while brushing his phone, pretended to be casual and asked curiously: \"Senior Sister, do you know about the Heavenly Track?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Chun nodded without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While speaking, she was still chewing on potato chips, her mouth full, just like a hamster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.ttkдn.co\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hamster that was enough to scare Ji Jue to the point of heart and lung failure. ===== CHAPTER 36 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",2155,"2026-06-17T22:07:39.404Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","b4aa6d62c4b97693ffc3aef1ffac7975f830aa95e6bb4bccf60eb4632735366d","above-destiny-chapter-36","above-destiny-chapter-34",461,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fabove-the-heavenly-fate-cover.jpg"]