Chapter 80: Look Down (Thanks to Ning Ricardo for the Alliance Leader)

Just like that, slowly, cautiously, taking three steps and retreating two, Ji Jue moved to the edge of the defense field, tentatively poked a foot in, then two feet in, and finally... the whole person, along with the car, went in.

No reaction.

The darkness, towering like a cliff, wriggled, slowly opening from the center, clearing the way for him, even making people feel that if it were smarter, it would have to pull a banner to welcome the owner home...

Without any twists and turns, without any wind and waves, he came in!

Not just Ji Jue, even the two figures who quietly touched up behind were stunned in place.

Looking at each other.

What the hell?

"Could it be that too many people broke in before, and it’s out of power now?" Another person asked softly.

In the moment of reaction, they walked toward the center with their heads held high, and then... screamed and fled in embarrassment amidst the siege of thunder and fire.

Immediately after, the darkness wriggled, took a bite, and ate them all clean.

No sound.

In the deepest part of the darkness, the heavy door was riddled with holes and fell toward the sky.

Broken wreckage was scattered in the equally tragic hall. It was as if it had been hit by a hurricane. I don't know how many traces of explosions, faintly distinguishing the charred charcoal of blood and corpses.

"This is too iron-headed, right?"

Ji Jue smelled the strange burnt smell in the air, restraining his urge to gasp: someone just used their face to scout the grass?

This is the workshop center, and it is the sage’s workshop...

Sensing the residual spiritual quality circuits looming in the air, Ji Jue could almost feel what exaggerated traps and defenses the previous intruders had triggered.

Four hundred years later, after the security power of the center had faded, it was still enough to crush him hundreds of times.

Just entering the main gate was enough to make Ji Jue want to retreat.

After all, a dignified sage, crushing them, Awakened who hadn't even reached the Rebirth stage, was simply like playing. If defense was really needed, then it must have been set up according to the degree of equality with herself...

To expand the scope of the workshop and control the entire Rift, she had almost removed everything that could be sacrificed and omitted, leaving only the degree of having nothing to do.

To this extent, I don't understand what she is thinking at all!

After walking into the center, the ghost work ball, which had been fishing and watching the show, didn't dare to continue fishing, disintegrated from Ji Jue’s arms, and emitted a faint blue light that vaguely covered them, helping them shield from the workshop’s supervision and detection.

Ji Jue’s permission was completely enough to enter the main gate, but God knows what management rules were inside. If it didn't match and triggered some ghost thing, it would be over.

[Stealth engineering begins—] The mechanical dull voice sounded: [Element collection finished, analysis sequence loading, loading complete, spiritual quality vision activated]

It was impossible to distinguish how earth-shattering complex changes occurred within the ghost work ball in an instant. In the interweaving of several blessings, the general outline and structure of the workshop center had appeared in Ji Jue’s eyes, and then, it was directly equipped with the effect formed by the blessings from Ascension and Aether.

Spiritual quality vision—can observe all changes, flows, and trends of spiritual quality with the naked eye and perception, just like putting dye into clear water, clear as fire...

There was no time to teach Ji Jue what colors and symbols represented what Shangshan and what spiritual quality qualitative change. The analysis explanation written in a thick book was smashed into Ji Jue’s soul like a brick, forcibly memorized, making his vision go black.

When he opened his eyes again, the world had become completely different.

All movements were collected in his eyes.

"Come, let me see—"

Ji Jue grinned and made the sound that every Awakened of the Aether path would make, and then... he felt he was blind.

Light!

There was too much strong light, flashing brightly, so dazzling, as if thousands of flashbangs had suddenly exploded in an instant. The excessive amount of information and impact turned into an iron hammer, smashing on his forehead. Fortunately, with the operation and shielding of the ghost work ball, the light was quickly reduced to a faint level.

Then, as if the curtain was pulled open, the colorful colors hidden behind the fierce light finally revealed themselves.

Although it looked like a hall-like building from the outside, the internal space was unimaginably huge, and it was constantly changing and expanding.

As if a living thing, changing infinitely.

At this moment, it was like semi-transparent glass, with the brilliance of spiritual quality and Shangshan flashing everywhere.

Through the obstruction of the walls, one could see the fierce flashes that covered every part of the center, whether it was the natural fluctuation during the operation of the circuit or the destruction and resistance from the intruders.

Ji Jue couldn't help but gasp several times.

"You guys really have your own skills!"

It was as if he was a safety officer who went to the construction site for the first time, seeing that every scene was so bizarre and wonderful, crazy to the point of being unbearable to look at.

There were those who didn't know how to die and hit the defense measures of the center, those like Young Master Lou who relied on many people and armaments to destructively develop and demolish, those who ran around like headless flies, and those who carried sacks and even wanted to shovel the gilded decorations on the wall into their bags...

It was as if red-hot iron balls had been thrown into the pool suddenly, and the boiling spiritual quality reaction rose one after another, making the deep, quiet pool water show a ferocious appearance in the disturbance.

?￠o

Among them, the most eye-catching... was a spiritual quality torrent that mixed five colors and turned pitch black, looking creepy, constantly changing its own form!

At this moment, in the center, the torrent was raging and spreading, and even preying on other Awakened who broke in. Often after one face-to-face, the other party’s signal disappeared completely, merging into that piece of viscous darkness...

Completely unable to figure out how this evil thing came from!

[Spiritual quality analysis comparison complete—judged as, Dragon Sacrifice Society]

The moment the ghost work ball gave the judgment result, he couldn't help but have his vision go black again.

Holy crap, why is it you again!

Why are you everywhere!

Ji Jue felt cold and trembling, unable to understand how such a big bomb was suddenly thrown into the fish pond. It couldn't be that the old ghost Lawrence finally won the resurrection match, right?!

Especially, when he saw the number after the reference rank marked by the ghost work ball...

Eighth rank?!

What kind of joke are you making?

Crossing the Calling and Transformation, reaching the Rebirth stage, this has already thrown Ji Jue, a white-board newcomer who hasn't even entered the door, three major realms!

No, how did he get in? Didn't they say this game is card-face?

Boom!

In the moment of distraction, a fierce shock erupted, like an invisible wave sweeping past.

The earth shook.

Not just the center and underground, it seemed that the entire Rift had ushered in unprecedented turbulence, making the sound of shattering continuous. On the top dome outside the center, cracks spread rapidly... the spiritual quality sea boiled in the tremor, disturbing the rainbow light.

A faint bell rang.

As if a hallucination, echoing in the ears of every soul.

The huge center also shook violently, the internal structure changed rapidly, like a living maze, expanding again, evolving into infinite structures and changes!

Literally, the world spinning.

Ji Jue almost accidentally fell to the ceiling, but soon, the ceiling also fell under his feet in the rotation. The little cow horse panicked and clung to the original floor, upside down, looking out in horror, beeping loudly.

It was also thanks to Ji Jue’s quick eyes and fast hands that he fished out the Prophet who fell out of the car basket.

"What’s going on?"

He looked around in shock: "I seem to have seen this shot in a horror movie of the old generation."

"Just adaptive changes, not even a defense program."

The Prophet said indifferently: "Fluid alchemy is the skill of adapting matter to essence. Under external stimulation, the center will expand its own domain and change the internal space to maintain its original function.

You can regard the entire center as a living space, constantly in change. All sequences are preparing for the restart.

We don't have much time."

"Then how to go next?" Ji Jue looked around, those constantly rising stairs and doors that appeared and disappeared on the walls: "Do you want to open a blind box?"

"Do you think Mercury would walk with stairs and a map when going home?" The Prophet seemed to laugh: "The center is a lock that is constantly changing. All intruders who haven't mastered its laws and essence will be trapped in infinite changes, and fluid alchemy is the key—Ji Jue, you must learn to look down, not up."

"Huh?"

Ji Jue lowered his head, only seeing the constantly changing patterns on the floor, confused.

"Not looking down, but looking 'down'. Ignore the appearance, don't stay in the physical nature, explore the essence. Looking up is complicated and far away, looking down is to seize the true essence."

The Prophet said slowly: "Type and use are chaotic paths, God and truth are the pure essence—don't be dazzled by those messy application methods and theories. Trace the essence, adjust the essence, control the essence, this is the true essence of fluid alchemy."

Ji Jue froze in place.

Staring blankly at the spiritual quality vision in front of him.

Countless changing lights, rising, falling, dancing, disturbing, calming, the whole world operates like stars, as if invisible hands control everything, descending from the invisible high place, easily controlling everything.

Including himself.

The center, underground, and even the entire Rift, invisible veins seem to be like silk threads, entangled in those invisible ten fingers, with established instructions, just a slight adjustment, triggering infinite changes and extensions.

From one to all.

Invisible fluid interweaves countless turbulence. If you are in it, you will only be confused and lost, but if you want to jump out of it and overlook the overall situation, then you must—[Look down]!

Down.

"...So, no, I'm looking for the road."

Ji Jue whispered in a daze, as if lightning flashed across his brain: "But let the road appear under my feet, right?"

Control the workshop, let all this make way for yourself.

So simple.

But unfortunately, he can't do it.

He is not a sage, and even the realm of the master is far from reachable, it can simply be said to be overestimating his capabilities.

"So, applying it in reverse should also work."

Ji Jue whispered flatly, making the Prophet’s expression stall slightly. The words she originally intended to say couldn't be spoken, and she looked back in astonishment.

For the first time, she sensed this terrifying talent that had never been seen in four hundred years.

Admittedly, Ji Jue, as a white-board newcomer, wanting to control the workshop is simply a daydream.

But he can control himself.

Through fluid alchemy, apply interference to himself, let himself become a part of the center, truly participate in the operation of the center...

Even, truly, merge into it!

For others, it might also be a daydream. But for mechanical descent, it is simply, easy!

Even, just for a moment...

In the blink of an eye, mechanical descent had captured the huge vibration that filled the entire Rift. It was not communication, nor was it for domination, but as a part of the entire workshop, Ji Jue had already relied on the permission from the old furnace to merge into it.

An indescribable terrifying roar exploded in Ji Jue’s skull, like the rolling echo of the world’s operation. Even if it was just the aftermath of the aftermath, it still made him unbearable.

But with the blood seeping from his mouth and nose, Ji Jue’s eyes became brighter and brighter.

From the observation of spiritual quality vision, everything that changed complicatedly suddenly became so clear, and the operation that was difficult to understand also seemed to become a matter of course, straightforward and unmasked.

The operation of countless rooms, shrinking, enlarging, birth and destruction also became clear as fire.

He was like dust, passively operating from the huge Rubik’s cube.

But now, the Rubik’s cube has revealed a mysterious corner to him, revealing the mechanism behind the operation...

Crack!

In the fierce tremor, a crack actually appeared from the rotating wall on the opposite side, revealing the complex structure behind it that was constantly changing, and the narrow passage that was constantly changing and didn't know where it led.

"Hold on, Little An."

Ji Jue couldn't care about wiping the nosebleed, laughed, and twisted the throttle: "We are going to hitch a ride!"

The engine roared.

They sped, rushing toward the darkness!

Sorry, the update is a bit late.

At present, the body temperature still has intermittent changes, but the headache is gone, but after the big symptoms are over, countless small symptoms begin to torture people. It seems that there is no good place in the whole body, it is uncomfortable.

Currently, my body temperature still has some intermittent changes, but the headache is gone. It's just that after the major symptoms ended, countless minor symptoms started to torture me. It feels like there isn't a single good part of my whole body; it's uncomfortable.