Chapter 106

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

A vague 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 sound.

You used the Dissociation Technique.

The Dissociation Technique failed.

The target object took your Dissociation Technique head-on and mocked you.

The strike, brewed for a long time, not only had no effect, but his fingers felt the familiar stinging pain and numbness due to the conflict of spiritual quality.

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

It had been three whole days; he had been performing the Dissociation Technique on this thing, and he hadn't really succeeded at all.

But this 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 help himself: "If you're bad, practice more!"

Hum!

The longsword vibrated slightly, glowing with a faint light; this was the faint light caused by the Dissociation Technique finally acting on the internal spiritual quality 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 Dissociation 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 blessing of the Artisan's Natural Talent, every effect achieved by coincidence or focused intent would accumulate into a stepping stone on the path to mastering the skill.

Along with the increase in proficiency, the success rate of the Dissociation Technique gradually changed from the one-in-ten-thousand, clueless beginning to the current one-or-two-in-a-hundred, which could be achieved when the inspiration flashed and the 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 spiritual quality, and slammed his hands down; taking advantage of the feel he just had, he began a crazy cycle: "I'll practice, damn it! Practice! Practice! Practice! Practice!!!!"

Muffled thuds and the shrill whistling of steel rang out one after another; accompanied by the crazy waving of Ji Jue's hands, under the high-frequency spiritual quality impact, the longsword also began to vibrate gradually, finding it harder to resist the straws pressing down on its back.

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

Accompanied by the pressing of his hands, the air actually emitted a harsh friction sound, and faint electric light shot out from his fingertips. That was the ionization reaction that appeared in the air under the disturbance of a large amount of spiritual quality; 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 spiritual quality matrix appeared on the sword's edge, and then, amidst the self-excited vibration, cracks appeared!

So striking!

Snap!

A second crack appeared on the sword's spine!

In the deathly silence, only Ji Jue's heavy panting remained; viscous nosebleed fell from his face, dripping onto the operating table, dotting it.

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

On his face, he could no longer hold back a smile.

The second time!

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

Although it was just a low-spec, weakened, shrunken monkey version, completely incomparable to Professor Ye's effortless and flowing operation, success is success.

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

After a long panting, Ji Jue waited quietly for his spiritual quality to recover, not performing it on the longsword again, but spreading his hands to revisit the basic exercises of the Dissociation Technique's introductory skills.

Right at this moment, on his separated hands, a faint spiritual quality 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 smooth crystal, occasionally refracting a faint light with the movement of his palm, reflecting the colors of the surroundings, quiet and distant.

After the fluctuation and operation of spiritual quality reached a state infinitely close to stagnation and stillness, what was formed was such a colorless, illusory light like a mirror surface.

And right in his right hand, what appeared was some kind of ethereal mist; through the mist, one could only see a blur, with various colors changing and disappearing, and in the end, all that remained was a gray darkness that caused everything to lose its color.

When the state and fluctuation of spiritual quality were stimulated without limit and operated to the greatest extent, the disturbance formed to the air and vision made everything become hazy.

And now, accompanied by the movement of Ji Jue's intent, 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, making it difficult to maintain such precise control amidst the complex spiritual quality operation.

But immediately after, following another switch, another conversion...

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

The spiritual quality went out of control, dissipated, and escaped Ji Jue's grasp.

Ji Jue was already drenched in sweat, lying on the chair exhausted, 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 spiritual quality state intersect and cycle between the two in a very short time.

In the unimaginably high-frequency transformation, beams of rapidly changing spiritual quality became invisible scalpels, interfering with the internal structure of the target.

This is the essence of the principle of the Dissociation Technique.

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

Making spiritual quality transform freely between vibration and stillness is just the foundation of the foundation.

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

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

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

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

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

The skill that looks light and breezy hides a vast ocean of theory, precise and swift analysis and judgment, countless practices and studies, precision to the point of being outrageous, timing application that is perfect to the peak, and even flashes of inspiration that only geniuses can capture in an instant!

It can only be said that as early as the day she built the Dissociation 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 he would possess the qualities and abilities of a workshop assistant in the future.

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

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

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

The only exception is the matrix that is also good at spiritual quality operation and whose range and effect are even better than the two—Non-Aggression!

Precisely because of its unique characteristics and precise operation that can be called absolute control over one's own spiritual quality, it became possible to replicate the Dissociation Technique. In fact, the inspiration for the Dissociation Technique originated from the fourth-generation Ju Zi in the historical fragments, known as "Ten fingers of both hands, giving birth to ten thousand phenomena"!

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

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

Hard, it's too damn hard.

The outrageous thing about it is that even with Non-Aggression, with the Artisan's Natural Talent, and even further lowering the difficulty by splitting the release of the Dissociation Technique from one hand into two...

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

No, is this requirement a bit too outrageously high?

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

Compared to this, what's even more miserable is... after noticing that Ji Jue could already skillfully complete the engraving of the Supreme Blessing and most basic spiritual quality circuits, Professor Ye forbade Ji Jue from using scrap to practice, instead turning him to use it to practice the Dissociation Technique, so as to enter the door as soon as possible.

A whole warehouse of alchemical scrap, the experience points visible to the eye, were right within reach; just by smelling the scent of the dissipated spiritual quality, Ji Jue's ability was already becoming hungry and out of control.

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

It's like a monkey holding a coconut, starving to madness but unable to smash it open.

His whole body was written with discomfort.

Thinking of this, Ji Jue could no longer restrain his grief and indignation, 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 leveling up, the progress bar hadn't moved for so many days; he didn't believe he couldn't get this mouthful of experience pack into his mouth today!

Even Professor Ye couldn't stop you, I said it!

"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 thuds and ringing sounds erupted; amidst the torrent and rapid consumption of spiritual quality, Ji Jue felt as if something was about to emerge from his hands and burst out, but no matter what, it was always just a line away, untouchable.

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

Amidst 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!