Chapter 178: Surprise (Thanks to the Alliance Leader

How should one describe this work of Ji Jue's?

At this moment, with Ye Xian's years of experience and vision, she was actually speechless for a moment...

If you say it's worthless, this operation of directly shaping mercury through intelligence implantation is truly brilliant, simplifying the complex, and the cost-performance ratio is maxed out.

The spiritual quality Ji Jue needs to consume is just the hardening and toughness enhancement of partial parts.

Not to mention the enhancement of the whole by fluid alchemy, in this kind of temporary application away from workshop assistance, it is indeed much more flexible than modern alchemy.

As long as the essence is high enough, fluid alchemy can compensate for the lack of a carrier to a certain extent, and Ji Jue has something unreasonable like "Spirit Firstness."

If you say it's brilliant, this crudely made appearance, the completely makeshift spiritual quality power source, and many designs that can't be talked about in terms of ergonomics—if it comes to output, it can't compare to military power armor at all. Defense relies entirely on external steel plates, fire control relies entirely on hands, radar relies entirely on eyes... wait, Ji Jue's ability acts on machinery, and then, through techniques, extracts intelligence. It is by no means water without a source or a tree without roots.

In other words, he really used items common on the street at home to make such a thing!

Full-coverage motorcycle helmet, welding mask, ten-year-old old-model load-bearing auxiliary exoskeleton, external motors at the joints to enhance output, and steel plates welded directly onto it...

No need to look, it's all trash.

But the problem is, being able to piece such a pile of trash together, squeeze out the last bit of functional effect, and make it into such a thing that can move and be used.

Besides "makeshift," it's still "makeshift." Makeshift here, makeshift there, he actually managed to finish it.

What kind of "Heaven-Chosen Trash Picker" is this?!

Could it be that he was stifled by dealing with waste in the warehouse every day?

For a moment, Ye Xian didn't know whether to feel regret or pity.

There wasn't a shred of shame. Looking at this dog's smug look, he might have been preparing for this lesson for who knows how long.

But what for?

Vainly added a little defense and attack? Can this stitched monster that hasn't even been overall adapted really exert the ability of the paper data?

If it can't move its legs, it's just a living coffin.

What is the purpose...

In that instant, accompanied by a roar, the knock-off youth version armor ran over with thick smoke, like a meteorite, raising a terrifying wind pressure almost like a truck.

So what?

Ye Xian calmly set up her stance, falling into a long-lost difficult choice—should she just dismantle this thing with one punch? Or throw it? Throwing technique? Or conversely, weld the gaps shut, letting the student go from being clever to being trapped by his own cleverness?

But at that moment, she finally saw it.

Waving toward her...

—Four hands!

Left, right, upper left, lower right...

In an instant, the folding joints on the shoulders and back opened, and then, arms as dexterous as insect limbs swung out, without the slightest dullness or hesitation of a mechanical object, but instead, they were more agile than limbs!

Making Ye Xian's eyes light up.

Not bad.

Although it's just two more limbs, for a matrix like "Non-Aggression" that focuses on operation, it's simply a breakthrough-level growth. Moreover, with "Mechanical God Descent," there's no need to worry about not being able to control it or being distracted.

In an instant, exponential breakthrough and growth!

Pity, useless.

The original order of magnitude was too low.

Even after the breakthrough and growth, for Ye Xian, it was almost equal to nothing.

Furthermore—

*Boom! *

Just a momentary crossing, mercury exploded, and on Ji Jue's shoulder, that six-axis industrial mechanical arm dismantled from some old machine tool was instantly broken at the waist and disintegrated.

All kinds of operations could no longer be performed.

Ji Jue staggered, feeling the sharp pain in his waist.

At the moment of passing, besides raising his arm and elbowing to instantly smash a mechanical arm, Ye Xian's other hand pointed like a knife and had already poked at Ji Jue's waist.

After cleanly tearing the armor plate on his waist, it left an unbearable sharp pain on his waist and spine.

Shaking instantly, almost falling, but in the noise of the spiritual quality furnace turning wildly, the mercury armor shimmered, and it actually turned around while speeding, leg armor reinforced, swept.

The motor structure exploded from the buffer, but this force poured out from the rotation without reservation.

Useless.

Ye Xian was like a phantom, stepping back lightly, missing by a hair, and immediately after, Ji Jue's arm and the mechanical arm behind him swept over.

Grapple!

A little brain, but not much...

—What's the use of having more hands?!

It doesn't have the effect of "Non-Aggression," it's just a showpiece!

It's okay to bully children, but when it comes to the real thing, it's still far behind!

*Bang! *

Ji Jue's sweeping left hand shook violently, only feeling that it was grabbed by something better than steel, restrained—it was Professor Ye's right hand. And then, sharp pain in the back, Ye Xian's other left hand had already joined like a knife, uprooting the mechanical arm installed on the back!

And then, the palm knocked down, like a hammer, hitting the joint of Ji Jue's right arm, breaking his original movement with the force of a broken bamboo. Ji Jue was about to counterattack, but his face suddenly felt cold, only to find that the palm of Professor Ye's left hand was already far away from his face.

Straightforward, pushed out!

Thunder erupted.

Block! Block! Block! Block it! Block it!

Instantly, fluid alchemy strengthened, toughness, hardness, and elasticity maxed out!

Immediately after, he heard the sound of cracking endlessly, mercury vibrating and splashing like rain. The 【√】 welding mask that was still smirking shattered at the sound.

And just as Professor Ye's palm was about to push onto Ji Jue's chin, completely breaking his center of gravity and stance, and knocking him to the ground, it was finally grabbed by Ji Jue's right hand, dangerously!

Sharp friction erupted.

It was like an iron nail scratching across glass, echoing in bursts.

Professor Ye sneered.

While Ji Jue and she were restraining each other's arms, both of them had used the same technique—Dissociation Technique!

At the same time, it landed in the empty space.

Ji Jue's arm still had mercury armor blocking it, while Professor Ye's wrist was still shrouded in the repulsive force field of the Mo Xie matrix.

It's a pity that this kind of hard power competition only existed for an instant.

Ji Jue hadn't even touched any method to break through Mo Xie's repulsion, and the hardened mercury armor was torn apart by Professor Ye like a hot knife through butter. The spiritual quality circuit and the Supreme Good emblem all collapsed. Under Professor Ye's cracking, it couldn't even last a second.

Armor exploded.

The spiritual quality impact drove straight in, about to pour into Ji Jue's body, completely disintegrating the possibility of final resistance.

But in that instant, Ji Jue finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Ye Xian's face changed suddenly.

Without warning, she tilted her head, and a wisp of faintly pale hair at her temple moved without wind and floated up.

And Ji Jue had already flown out amidst the loud noise!

No holding back, no hesitation, ruthlessly dealing a heavy hand.

First, he used the Dissociation Technique to interfere with the matrix, instantly cutting off the link between the blessing and the soul, and then, his hands, strengthened by physical properties, advanced along the center line, clenched into fists.

Just a slight shake of his shoulders, and within this dimension, an unimaginable terrifying power erupted.

Pushed out!

First flying backward, then rolling, and finally sliding. After finally stopping, Ji Jue, who was almost suffocating, was already lying on the ground, sliding to the edge of the field.

Almost hitting the wall.

Completely unable to get up.

All over his body, there wasn't a place that didn't hurt, and his lungs were almost unable to contract and expand freely.

But even so, a smile couldn't help but appear on his flushed and rapidly pale face.

So proud.

Coughing, he asked, "Teacher, does this count as... a surprise?"

In the short silence, Professor Ye stood in place, maintaining her original posture, for a long time, finally, she let out a long breath.

As if lonely.

Actually being scared by a student during class?

If she hadn't reacted and forcibly turned her palm into a fist at the last moment, she would have habitually entered the material processing flow...

"It counts, how could it not count."

She looked back and answered seriously: "There is no better surprise than this."

Her gaze lowered, looking at Ji Jue's hands.

And right under his right hand, in the shadow cast by the five fingers, something seemed to move slightly, and then, it lifted, passed through his flesh and limbs, and went upward.

Semi-transparent five fingers, spread and clenched, stretching freely.

That was a hand...

—A third hand!

From the beginning, the changes in fluid alchemy, the armor, the four hands, all were disguises, all were props and traps to attract attention. The varied attacks and ideas were just to make herself believe that there were no other means besides this.

Just at the moment of going all out to completely take down Ji Jue, this spiritual quality hand, which had been enduring from the beginning until now, finally pierced out, launching a sneak attack.

Slashing toward her face!

Regrettably, it was still a move short, or rather, from the beginning, he didn't count on this genuine "hand" to win the victory. At most, it was just a counterattack like a fish dying and the net breaking.

Pity, after all, he was constrained by the identities of both sides and didn't dare to adopt a more hidden and poisonous sneak attack method. Otherwise... she could now more justifiably give him two more punches to let him learn a lesson.

If he wasn't dead yet.

"Well done."

Professor Ye reached out and pulled him up from the ground. Under the workshop floor, a wheelchair naturally rose to support him.

"Learned in the Rift Realm?"

"Yes."

Ji Jue nodded, "When the 'Soul-Calling Bell' was forming the Sage's afterimage, I suddenly had an insight, copied it, didn't expect it to really work.

It can be considered a further application of 'Non-Aggression'."

Further application?

More than that!

Professor Ye's right hand behind her back clenched slightly, and her left hand rested on Ji Jue's shoulder, focusing on the examination—naturally, she saw two completely different blessings.

While becoming more solid, a wisp of flickering spiritual quality light appeared on the blessing of "Hand-Made Creation," as if plated with a layer of magnificent crystal change, while "Spirit Firstness" was like being shrouded in spiritual quality fire, the imaging becoming clearer and more complex.

In just a few days, it had already completed a thorough qualitative change!

In the Rift Realm, he successively performed various operations on patients, reshaped and created ghost fetuses, endowed the Sage's afterimage with a vessel, and finally relied on the "Compassion Bone Knife" to complete the spiritual-flesh separation of patients with incurable diseases.

Devoted heart and soul, absolutely without leaving any retreat, in practice and training, "Hand-Made Creation" broke through the previous bottleneck, completed the specialized control of spiritual quality operation, and "Spirit Firstness"'s assistance and blessing to spiritual quality and will also went up a level in the feedback and blessing of metamorphosis.

So much so that he could complete such an incredible achievement.

Perfectly adapted, carrying the matrix of "Non-Aggression" and all the power of the blessing... a spiritual quality hand!

Its inspiration source and reference, undoubtedly, was the Sage's afterimage manifested in spiritual quality, imitating the posture of mercury with ten thousand wings, ten thousand eyes, and ten thousand hands.

It's just a pity that the Sage's invisible hand that holds the operation of all things in heaven and earth, in Ji Jue's hands, exhausted all his abilities, and could only be reproduced as a tangible hand through spiritual quality as a foundation.

Different from the power that previously had to be manifested as an auxiliary only in the furnace refining, now the existence of this tangible hand alone is enough to increase all the power of "Non-Aggression" by one-third, or even more!

Not to mention the many strategies added during contingency...

Although compared to the original version's unfathomable, heaven-made power, the regression is not just a little bit, it can be called a difference between clouds and mud, and it can't be put on the table at all.

But that also depends on who the standard is, what level it is!

Whose technique that can only be gradually realized and mastered at the Rebirth Rank can be directly added at the Invocation Period?! How many prerequisite skills are in the middle?

Were they skipped directly?!

When Ji Jue's level arrives, he will be able to naturally turn the tangible into the intangible, and more than half of the creation of "Non-Aggression" will have fallen into his hands.

The other half can only be anxious. Because being anxious is useless, he still has to wait, see when he is free and in the mood to make up the lesson, if not in the mood, then another day!

"Mercury really loves you." Ye Xian shook her head and sighed with emotion.

"Uh..."

Ji Jue hesitated for a moment, subconsciously looked left and right, confirmed that the workshop interior was completely closed, and there were no eyes peeping, but still habitually lowered his voice: "To tell you the truth, when I summoned the Sage's afterimage, I didn't feel much difficulty. Moreover, Mercury's afterimage seems to have its own spirituality."

Ye Xian's footsteps stalled, she glanced back at him, didn't make a fuss like him, but instead asked:

"Otherwise?" ===== CHAPTER 179 =====