Chapter 177: (Thanks to the Alliance Leader

Can't kill people?

At this moment, Ji Jue held the bone knife in his hand, and instead of any dislike, he couldn't wait to lean in and kiss it twice—oh my, I didn't expect you to be such an understanding little treasure!

It's better that it can't kill!

What era is this? Using a knife to kill people?

Everyone has guns, cannons, how many can you kill with a knife?

Besides, if someone died immediately after one stab, that would be terrible... the dissipated spiritual quality, the collapsing matrix, the blessing returning to the Supreme Good—each one is a chaotic mess to handle, and in the end, less than one-tenth remains.

If they can't die, there's absolutely no need to worry about destroying the materials!

Moreover, the dual interference with flesh and spirit, in Ji Jue's hands, has so many uses. Whether it's cooperating with "Non-Aggression" to apply destruction to dead objects, or using "Dissociation" to disrupt the matrix operation in the opponent's body, or simply stabbing it in to cut off the link and resonance between the blessing and the soul.

And then, it's easier for him to extract it calmly...

Just thinking about it made him drool. He stroked the humming bone knife and exclaimed, "Such a merciful knife, it perfectly matches a Bodhisattva heart like mine!"

"The fate between you and me is truly heaven-made!"

"..."

Ye Xian watched coldly from the side. She knew with her heels what Ji Jue was thinking right now, after all... she was thinking the same thing.

Even a bit more excessively.

After all, Ji Jue is limited by his ability and vision, so he can't play certain high-end operations...

A pearl covered in dust!

She coughed to stop her thoughts and suddenly asked: "Have you named it?"

"How about calling it 'Compassion'?"

Ji Jue didn't hesitate to lift the bone knife and praise it: "Wounding without killing, saving all living beings... it really is a genuine knife of compassion."

Ye Xian nodded in approval.

Only Ye Chun next to them couldn't help but roll her eyes and sigh silently.

Compassion?

What could possibly remain compassionate after falling into the hands of a dog like you!

Being merciful to a "roll-dog" like this is persecution of the vast majority of academic slackers!

Decided, you naturally evil Ember brat, I'm going to pluck your... paper away!

Taking advantage of the two of them performing the drama of "kind teacher and filial student," her little hands, not very clean, quietly reached toward the documents placed next to the table, grabbed them bit by bit, and picked them up.

Then, she heard a light cough from behind that seemed unintentional.

Turning her head, she saw the half of a USB drive that Ji Jue had accidentally brought out of his pocket when he was taking things out.

*Tsk*...

I'll definitely write you as the second author this time!

I'll write you again next time!

In the darkness, the floor rose, the ceiling descended, and lamp after lamp shone down and bloomed.

The routine "beating" spiritual quality defense and offense course began again.

Professor Ye stepped down the stairs step by step, looked at Ji Jue, and noticing his impatient look, immediately understood: "Alright, come on, show off."

She said: "Let me see the new tricks you've researched."

"Teacher, saying that really hurts the student's heart."

Ji Jue sighed. With his left hand, he held the broken pocket watch, and with his right hand, he probed and pulled out a wisp of spiritual light, intact, dancing in his hand like a candle in the wind, then stuffed it back in, and pulled it out again.

A wisp of meager intelligence jumped freely under the control of his ten fingers. In the end, as the matter closed, it disappeared without a trace, returning to Ji Jue's soul, never to be seen again.

But the hallucinatory sound of the second hand turning echoed from his ears, constant as ever.

Making that smiling face even happier: "This is the proud achievement I painstakingly obtained."

In just a few seconds, the extraction and transplantation of intelligence were repeated dozens of times, skillfully and without any hesitation. In just a few days, compared to the clumsy and stiff operations in memory, the difference could not be measured by reason.

It was as if he had changed into a different person.

Even the application of the "Dissociation Technique" had entered a new level.

It's not just spiritual quality manipulation; I'm afraid the blessing has also undergone a qualitative change, right?

"It seems you are indeed very proud."

Professor Ye nodded slowly, as if in approval: To actually have the guts to be glib in front of her... indeed, he had gained something, to the point of being proud and forgetting himself.

But it doesn't matter.

Good material is just like this; it doesn't need too much nagging, watering, or fertilizing. Every time it experiences wind, frost, rain, and snow, there is always growth and harvest.

In other words... no matter how wildly it grows, as long as it is well-educated and corrected, it will definitely be able to curb its arrogance and impatience and recognize reality.

Finally, corrected to be straight!

Isn't that the meaning of being a teacher?

Ye Xian was not offended, but instead... for the first time in a long while, felt a little expectation!

"Come on, let me, as your teacher, learn a thing or two."

She beckoned and urged: "Where is the surprise? Serve it up."

Ji Jue smiled, standing in place, not moving forward.

Instead, he pulled out the bone knife, cut his index finger, and a line of blood dripped from his fingertip into the open jar at his feet. Instantly, amidst the quiet silver-white, a trace of scarlet appeared.

Spiritual quality flowed.

The mercury squirmed like a living thing, rising, winding, and shaking, flowing uncertainly under the guidance of Ji Jue's five fingers.

Ye Xian's eyebrows raised slightly—fluid alchemy, becoming more and more proficient.

Using his own blood as a carrier to carry spiritual quality, merging it into the mercury, thereby implanting new intelligence into the blank mercury and endowing it with a soul.

"Really not bad."

Ye Xian "praised": "To actually learn such a beautiful snake-charming trick in the Rift Realm, you won't have to worry about starving to death if you can't be a craftsman in the future."

Ji Jue's eyelid twitched.

He found the reason why his mouth had become more poisonous and his speech more unpleasant recently!

"Be careful, Teacher, this is not a snake."

He sighed and reminded: "At least, not just..."

In that instant, the mercury winding and flowing on the ground suddenly shot out like lightning!

Like a monster that could change its shape at will, sharp limbs grew out from within, tapping the ground like a catapult, changing directions, transforming invisibly.

As Ji Jue waved his fingers, it changed direction easily, even splitting into two, then four. After bypassing the center, a sharp limb extended from behind in reverse and stabbed out!

*Snap! *

Ye Xian flicked her finger indifferently.

But the mercury mass shattered and exploded at the sound.

"I said it, snake-charming tricks, that's all."

Ji Jue couldn't help but stare, carefully distinguishing, and instantly understood, while feeling a bone-chilling cold... Air?!

Just at the moment she flicked her finger, the air at her fingertips was subjected to the physical property adjustment of the Ember system by her spiritual quality—aggregation, shaping, hardening, strengthening, and then... Mo Xie's matrix applied "repulsion," and a block of air kneaded together flew out with a speed greater than a bullet!

In a short instant, there were too many operations, yet they were smooth and flowing, compressed to the level of instinct.

In the end, it formed a destruction not inferior to a point-blank shot from a shotgun!

That is to say...

From the moment Professor Ye stood within ten steps of him, Ji Jue had already been aimed at by who knows how many gun barrels!

No, it's more exaggerated than that. If spiritual quality were injected to give it more changes and destructive power, with Professor Ye's attainments, she could turn the air into a cannonball like a self-propelled artillery at any time!

Just a little bit of seriousness, and Ji Jue would be left without a corpse!

"In this way, it can at least be considered a little serious, right?" Ye Xian glanced over expressionlessly: "Bring out your real skills, Ji Jue, otherwise, you might have to start class."

"Teacher, what are you saying."

Ji Jue smiled: "I've always been serious."

In that instant, Ye Xian noticed the strong wind rising behind her, from a place close at hand...

The moment she looked back, she couldn't help but stare slightly.

I don't know when, but such a behemoth had appeared behind her, its outline ferocious...

That was a silver-white truck!

In just a short instant, the shattered and scattered mercury re-gathered, revealing a brand-new shape, roaring and crashing down fiercely!

At this moment, Ye Xian finally understood where the mechanical spirit carried in Ji Jue's blood came from! Undoubtedly, it was the tool intelligence he had swiped from some passing truck on the road before he came...

Fluid alchemy is just too convenient for this kid!

Alchemy that makes the appearance tend toward the essence, combined with Ji Jue's ability to endow mechanical intelligence at any time and the skill of extracting and transplanting intelligence at will, can actually form such an exaggerated effect!

Very good, very good.

A good student will always make a teacher excited!

Ye Xian's mouth slowly curled up, and she waved her hand lazily. The moment her fingertips touched the front of the truck, the mercury truck exploded with a bang, turning into silver rain flying all over the sky.

All show and no substance.

Now, it's just a level of fooling people.

More than 100 kilograms of mercury can at most install a shell. Without considering the spiritual quality and thought required to harden it to the level of steel, isn't the reason why a truck has lethality because of its own mass and speed?

Such a simple question, even a fool would consider it. If Ji Jue only had this little trick, where would the urgent expectation and excitement come from?

Conclusion reached: a smokescreen to attract attention.

A jar of mercury is about 100 kilograms, but what constitutes this truck is only 50-something jin, and it doesn't include the purified mercury he ordered.

So what about the rest?

Where is the surprise?!

*Bang! *

Along with the loud noise of the truck collapsing, Ye Xian's other hand raised, five fingers spread, aimed at Ji Jue who was running over. The air hardened, and crystal-like patterns faintly appeared in the air, followed by more cracks in the next instant!

A flash of silver!

From Ji Jue's sleeve, two strands of mercury rolled out like ropes, whipping through the air, their front ends shrinking like blades, instantly crossing and slashing down!

Under the crack, the mercury stagnated, suddenly rolled back, returned to Ji Jue's hand, drew a circular arc through the air, and was waved out again.

Rapid expansion, increase in quantity, increase in weight, hardening!

Under the connection of chain after chain, the mercury at the front had hardened into a hammer, smash!

A loud noise erupted, the barely hardened air barrier shook, and cracks appeared again. And right beside Ye Xian, the mercury that had burst from the truck's front into rain actually re-gathered under the exchange of blood threads and spiritual quality.

It made a high-pitched, sharp truck horn sound, formed a huge wheel, crushed, and then was punched away.

Making Ji Jue's eyes light up.

Finally, he used a move!

And at this moment, through the cracks in the air barrier, he finally saw the smile on Ye Xian's face, as if satisfied, and as if approving, or perhaps, some kind of "finally I can use a little more force" happiness.

As a teacher, you can't be strictly severe all the time.

You always have to be patient and gentle occasionally...

For now, let's not use the Dissociation Technique and play with you!

Five fingers clenched, knuckles rubbed, wind and thunder restarted, the earth shook, the sky swayed, and a punch was pounded out under the strengthening of physical properties, straight toward Ji Jue's face.

The remaining air barrier, the mercury giant hammer, everything shattered at the sound!

A simple punch, in the storm blowing in his face, Ji Jue felt as if he were about to be crushed by a battering ram. His hair flew up, his face twitched, and he felt a chill down his spine.

Without thinking, he raised his arms, overlapping them to block in front of him.

*Boom! *

In that instant, the fist of destruction and the silver light collided head-on, water ripples fluctuated, countless mercury splashed, and then slowly returned, crawling back onto his body along Ji Jue's trouser legs.

Ji Jue slid back, several meters!

Almost unable to stop.

But this time, he wasn't actually knocked away?

Ye Xian looked up and saw the silver light covering Ji Jue, layer upon layer of mercury surging, hardening, and turning into a shell better than steel.

A knock-off youth version of the "Dragon Scale Armor" made by imitating the spiritual quality shaping technique of Young Master Lou had already wrapped his whole body in it!

It's just that the style is completely different...

It's like forcibly welding a layer of iron shell onto a power-assisted exoskeleton used for civil construction, crudely made, with clear welds, pieced together, stitched everywhere, but filled with a certain wild beauty.

"Heh~"

The head of the mercury armor, the welding mask slowly lifted.

From the flowing light, it showed a default expression to the stunned teacher.

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