[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-above-destiny":3,"chapter-above-destiny-above-destiny-chapter-37":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},2225722,4117,"Chapter 37: The Call of the Grind","above-destiny-chapter-37",37,"\u003Cp>Having crossed the countless torments he had anticipated so easily, Ji Jue scrutinized his results and couldn't help but beam with joy. While excited, he also couldn't help but feel regret and pity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even for Ji Jue's ability, such a creation could be called unbelievable and a fantasy, but compared to Professor Ye's operation in the experience just now, it could only be said to be full of mistakes and a poor imitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't even in the same league; he was left so far behind he couldn't even see the exhaust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But so what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ugly things are also cute, and small things are also very powerful!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the spiritual quality absorption after the fragments self-destructed just now, he not only experienced the process and reasons for the previous fifty-one failures with his own soul and perception, but also personally experienced Professor Ye's terrifying technique that was like nature's creation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if he had turned into a true creator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All changes rose from the furnace... he only needed to reach out to take them at will, and with a flip of his palm, he could recreate the universe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sudden realization was so intoxicating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But more importantly, it was a precious experience that was even more thorough than hand-in-hand teaching. In just this short moment, it was as if a lighthouse had suddenly risen in the long night, pointing out the road and direction for Ji Jue, who was still spinning in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All he had to do was to move forward while this memory of the light was still fresh in his heart, and run with all his might!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once again, he picked up the fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without feeling sorry for the work he had just completed, Ji Jue extracted the spare spiritual quality storage from his watch and began engraving again! And with his other hand, he directly flipped the bronze giant book next to the operation table to the back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking advantage of the fact that the realization hadn't dissipated and the memory was still clear, this time he wanted to try engraving the emblem and totem of another of the Twelve Virtues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Virtue that governs the birth and annihilation of all energy, silence and explosion, elements and storms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——【Entropy】!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that, it continued until 12:30 at night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst Ye Chun's words like \"It's already enough, it's already very good, many big shots now aren't as good as you,\" \"Stop grinding, for your mother's sake,\" and so on, Ji Jue, still wanting more, looked back three times for every step he took, rode on the Little Niu Ma, and left the workshop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over five hours of overtime felt like the harvest was even greater than the practice for so long before, even dozens or hundreds of times greater. Before that sliver of vivid realization completely faded, Ji Jue had tried his best to retain some insights and more experience from failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, he still couldn't completely depict the totem of Entropy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the middle, he felt several times that he was just one step away, but later on, the harder he tried, the more wrong the direction seemed to be, with a sense of clumsiness like trying to paint a tiger but ending up with a dog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew that if he kept grinding, he might not get that much harvest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After completely digesting the experience package from Professor Ye, he hummed a tune, whistled, bought a bowl of stir-fried noodles at a street stall, and then set off on the road home without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hurry up and wash up and sleep, get up tomorrow and keep grinding!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grass!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the dark, in the distance, in the minivan that was faintly following in the traffic, the middle-aged man Qi Qin, who was holding a video camera, stood frozen in place, watching Ji Jue return home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unbelievable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell are you doing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Running to the professor's factory to tighten screws until the middle of the night—anyone else would have relaxed and had some fun by now! Damn it, you're a college student, not going to bars, not flirting with girls, not ranking up—fine, but you could at least hurry up and call the big sister behind you and ask her out to HAPPY!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My camera is ready, and you're showing me a ghost of a work-study program?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this what everyone came to see?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man who had been suffering behind Ji Jue for a whole day felt terrible. This was completely unreasonable—the little girl selling stir-fried noodles had such big breasts, and he didn't even look at her! Even when she was shaking and wanting to earn two more yuan from him, he wouldn't even add an egg!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are you even human?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, can't be anxious. Patience leads to results, lurking leads to catching big news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Qin took a deep breath, soothing his irritable mood. It was hard to wait until the light in Ji Jue's room finally went out before he got out of the car to pee, went to the bathroom, and bought a bowl of instant noodles to eat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alright, finally quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least he could get a good night's sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He closed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the same late night, there were people who couldn't sleep all night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm hanging—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the quiet factory area, after washing up, Ye Chun was originally still wrapping her head to dry her hair, yawning and cleaning up the workshop. As a result, when she reached out to pick up the fragments on the table, she couldn't help but freeze in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Struck by lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Chun dared to swear that she had never opened her eyes this wide in her life!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That irregular fragment, under Ji Jue's destruction, had already shown a faint crack, but at this moment, a faint, pure white phantom light was overflowing on it. After the lights were turned off, it shone dimly in the moonlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what made her even more unbelievable was that on it... on that area less than the size of a palm, someone had used a maddening level of effort and an obsessive-compulsive level that could be hospitalized immediately to carve over twenty Virtues' emblems!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them were Ascension\u002FTransformation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she came to check this afternoon, Ji Jue was still a pure novice who had just come into contact with the furnace and didn't know how to use anything. As a result, in four or five hours, he had trampled the progress that other apprentices had to suffer through day and night for years under his feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what was even more terrifying was...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the wisps of traces on it, she actually vaguely distinguished her aunt's style from her early years?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially the last few totem emblems, the arc at the end of the finishing touch was completely her aunt's special signature... even if you were learning by copying, there was no need to learn this too, right?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did you come here to learn?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forgery?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aunt, come home quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She suppressed the urge to scream and dialed the phone: \"There's a pervert!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Normal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After understanding what had happened, on the other end of the phone, there was a long silence, but in the end, it was just a calm evaluation, as if she wasn't surprised at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Ye said: \"Just let him continue, don't worry about the rest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The phone hung up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Ye Chun remained in the silence, facing the fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long time, she turned her head, looked at her tiny reflection in the glass, dropped the fragments, and finally couldn't help but sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn, monster.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Holy crap?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the same night, in the old bedroom, Ji Jue, who had just closed his eyes, suddenly bounced up from the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He finally discovered something that didn't seem quite right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the day, he was too focused on the growth of alchemy, so much so that he almost didn't notice...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the moonlight, he raised his right hand, brought it to his eyes, and carefully and solemnly distinguished it, looking at the [1] on the watch face that was faintly stained with gold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He narrowed his eyes, unbelievable: \"This crappy progress bar, is it moving?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If his memory was correct, in the morning, there was almost no other color on this [1], and now, at the very top corner, it seemed that some pure gold that could not be ignored had appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had to say it, it was like some slow-downloading software with a blue icon suddenly started moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it was still at a speed of 1Kb, 2Kb, at least it was no longer \"resource unresponsive\" or \"not open for download according to relevant laws\"...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From 0% to 1%, he had once again achieved a great breakthrough from zero to one!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiny and weak, but so conspicuous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yie!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue couldn't help but cheer: \"Yay!!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be that his progress in alchemy drove the growth of his ability? But that's not right either. When he started alchemy the day before yesterday, this watch really didn't have any movement at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lay back on the bed, carefully recalling everything that happened today, and finally, the scene that appeared before his eyes was the scene when he reached out to extract the remaining essences and spiritual qualities from the self-destructing fragments!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, all the essences were eaten by his ability!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, big brother, are you serious?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sensed the emblem operating lightly in his soul, unable to understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only by absorbing the essences of alchemical items can it grow?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How come this crappy ability is like a character in some card-drawing mobile game? Brushing dungeons and fighting monsters is useless; you have to feed it other equipment and characters as dog food to level up?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it possible that after reaching full level, you have to eat a few more of the same characters to break through?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don't give me equipment probability damage when strengthening +11, +12 in the end, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue was almost desperate about the world where you have to pay to get stronger. He suddenly wanted to hit the wall. Didn't they say real legends aren't like this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But inexplicably... what appeared before his eyes was the entire warehouse that had made him desperate at the time during the day, and even the waste and trash pile that was so exaggerated in scale that it was enough to bury a dozen of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he remembered correctly, Professor Ye seemed to say that those useless things were all thrown to him for practice, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Ji Jue, all sleepiness gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he looked back in the direction of the workshop, burning flames had already ignited in his eyes, as if he had seen countless young ladies wearing very little cloth, flirting with him and inviting him to come and play quickly...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What trash pile?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's experience points that have already been washed clean!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one word remained in his brain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——【Grind】!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From that day on, the nightmare of the stalker finally arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person had only closed his eyes after finishing the report at two in the morning, and then, at five-thirty the next morning, he discovered... that grandson Ji Jue had gone out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't even change his clothes, didn't wash his hair, just washed his face and brushed his teeth, and bought a bun at the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, straight to the factory!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That look of scrambling, afraid that if he was late he wouldn't be able to grab free eggs, made Qi Qin feel that his worldview had been devastated—no, what are you doing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Big brother, you should sleep a little longer, okay? If you don't sleep, I have to sleep too!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Getting up so early and running to the factory, what are you trying to do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even bought coffee, just so impatient to be a beast of burden?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the wind, came the sound of going away...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Making the desperate middle-aged man stand still on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was laughing wildly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The throttle of the little motorcycle was twisted to the end, Ji Jue grinned, galloping in the morning light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new day, a new beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can happily tighten screws again! ===== CHAPTER 38 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",2052,"2026-06-17T22:07:39.404Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","f2b1dc499d821fbbc2a5ae4601d4f5bc6ec8e9e723cceb9ba4b4bda47e9b2618","above-destiny-chapter-38","above-destiny-chapter-36",461,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fabove-the-heavenly-fate-cover.jpg"]