Chapter 335: I have an illness

It can only be said that whenever something has to do with Ji Jue, everyone has to be prepared to open the door to the absurd.

From a nobody to the artisan chief of this generation, it was only a matter of a few days. And from an ember newcomer to a rising star of the new generation of the Association, it was only a matter of two papers.

Even in this process, Ji Jue found time to get the new Coastal Industry on the right track, standing firm in the wilderness.

The momentum was so fierce and the success so rapid that it was truly unexpected.

Then... just when everyone thought he would strike while the iron was hot and charge forward, Ji Jue suddenly had no news again.

Diving again.

Disappearing from the Association's sight.

In the Taiyi Ring, many factions that were watching, vigilant, or preparing to win over were all a bit unable to react for a while. Clearly, the skills were still in their hands and hadn't been thrown yet, but suddenly the target was lost...

This feeling is like the murderer who revealed his true colors in the Stormy Villa suddenly disappearing.

While relieved, there was also a creepy feeling.

Always afraid that he would suddenly pop out from some corner and bare his teeth at them.

Too scary!

And Ji Jue's side slowed down the rhythm.

No rush.

A resume isn't brushed in a day. If you get the Golden Ribbon this year, then prepare to fight for next year's Golden Ribbon. After getting three Golden Ribbons, you can consider impacting the Master level.

After all, that admission ticket had long been held in his own hands.

Fluid Alchemy is Ji Jue's best stepping stone.

In this process, he plans to gradually research and transform the theories in Fluid Alchemy—peeling the cocoon to turn many peripherals or applications into modern alchemy, serving as stepping stones to raise his status step by step.

By the day he finally reshapes Fluid Alchemy, thoroughly integrates it into the scope of modern alchemy, opens a new door, and establishes a new system, even if the Taiyi Ring doesn't recognize it, he will be an undisputed Master.

He didn't even necessarily have to use Fluid Alchemy... besides the 'Stagnant Rot Tips' he had scammed from Elder Jian Yuan, he was also clutching the Sword Type Nine in his other hand!

Anyway, the inheritance has been passed down. As for what it has become, Ye Xian doesn't care. Even if Ji Jue wants to replace Ye with Ji after achieving Master status in the future, she doesn't care.

However, Ji Jue could never do such a heartless thing.

In Ji Jue's view, such an important inheritance as the Elephant Sword Nine Types must eventually be returned to the Ye family.

But when he looked around blankly and searched everywhere, he found... who the hell is he supposed to return it to?

The salted fish senior sister?!

Oh no, encountering such an epic piece of rotten wood, he suddenly realized the terrifying pressure of the same style as his Master... Wait, could this also be something his Master anticipated?

Thinking to the end, helpless, he could only leave future matters for the future.

The top priority is to seize the rising period, strive to cross from five to six as soon as possible, or even cross from six to seven, break through metamorphosis, and step into the rebirth stage!

Alas, compared to the former, the latter is not much simpler.

The beautiful chickens Ji Jue had already stolen; the shortcuts he could take, he had walked almost all of them; the fierce ingredients he could stuff, he had already stuffed completely.

From then on, the cruelty of the embers is reserved for him...

Furnace Blood was passed in one day relying on the Tower of Myriad Transformations, and after Undying Firewood was completed by exhausting his mind to stack quantity, the Heaven-Given Spirit waiting behind had already sneered.

Next, you kid are going to suffer some old crimes!

The embers are generous, the creation is infinite, allowing Ji Jue, this kind of dog-thing, to scroll to death like a fish in water, making people hate him. And the embers are cruel, not pitying the mediocre...

I'm sorry, the mediocre here has two meanings.

One refers to the mediocre, fools, rubble, and dust that cannot be compared with geniuses, scholars, and good materials. And the other meaning is the Chosen Ones who are as small and humble as dust compared to the high and pure supreme goodness...

No matter how big an ant is, it is still an ant. No matter how heavy dust is, it is still dust.

The Chosen Ones who embark on this path take themselves as materials and sacrifices, throwing themselves into the furnace of the world, hoping that the Furnace of Heaven's Mandate will forge them into a transcendent appearance.

And this means... the crimes that should be suffered, not a single bit will be less.

Have classes, eat bitterness.

Things that should be in life, no matter how long they are delayed, cannot be escaped.

And Ji Jue's three-piece metamorphosis set is undoubtedly the representative of the essence and true marrow of the embers.

【Furnace Blood】 lies in sincerity, cannot be achieved without one-in-ten-thousand determination, and cannot be reached without unyielding, resilient artisans. Under the acceleration of the Tower of Myriad Transformations, Ji Jue got it done.

Raising the lower limit, controlling the heat, and turning the artisan's own blood into material.

【Undying Firewood】 lies in breadth and quantity, interfering with the world and changing the world, cannot be completed without good materials that pioneer brand-new patterns and changes from scratch. Ji Jue relied on the integration of Haizhou and the rise of the Sea Tide, acting as a pawn and mascot, taking a free ride to achieve it.

While further raising the lower limit, it enhances control and precision, comprehensively improves the body and soul, and significantly improves load-bearing capacity. After the firewood and fire are sufficient, even the artisan's body is enough to compare to ordinary materials, and can be operated arbitrarily.

And 【Heaven-Given Spirit】... lies in specialization and precision.

The first two test the Chosen One's obsession, sincerity, influence, and results, while the last one doesn't look at anything else, only at the artisan's most essential ability and attainments.

To complete it, there are no fancy operations, only looking at results and limits.

And making waste and mortal things is useless, only wasting time.

What the embers want is an achievement comparable to a Heavenly Artisan!

Simply put, just build a Heavenly Artisan!

If one isn't enough, build a few more. As long as the achievement is high enough, this blessing will be completed quickly. Unlike the long accumulation and transformation of the first two, it is a qualitative leap detonated after accumulation reaches the limit.

One night or even one moment is enough to achieve it.

Well, as long as you can produce a Heavenly Artisan...

Then, the problem comes. If I can produce a Heavenly Artisan, how can I still be at the metamorphosis stage? But if I want to break through the metamorphosis stage, I must produce a Heavenly Artisan...

Thus, a straight line becomes a two-headed block.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you can't produce a Heavenly Artisan. As long as you can propose an epoch-making theory, make a bull-and-forced achievement, or discover a brand-new field, the embers will recognize it.

Alas, for thousands of years, artisans have already scrolled everything that can be scrolled.

No way, the first-mover advantage in academia is too obvious.

In the early days, not to mention ancient alchemy, the early stage of modern alchemy was the golden age for everyone to run horses and circle land—proposing a hypothesis based on current development and getting it verified, or achieving a breakthrough in a discipline, was much simpler than it is now.

It is harder to go further from a hundred feet.

You are already standing on the shoulders of giants. Where else is there a place to stand?

Thus, there are not many choices left for Ji Jue.

Although he is much stronger than others who have no way to start and can't even find a direction, alas, what he can find are directions that would raise Ye Xian's blood pressure...

For example, the Doomsday Express in Ji Jue's pocket.

The crystallization of Heaven Track creation, one of the few Heaven Track expresses still running in the world, is right in front of Ji Jue. Although it just escaped the predicament of being scrapped, as long as Ji Jue can thoroughly repair it and return it to its peak level, the embers will definitely not be stingy with rewards...

But compared to this difficulty, it's not as good as producing a Heavenly Artisan himself!

With the volume of the Doomsday Express in its complete state, from the engine to the accessories to the carriage, there might be several composite Heavenly Artisans. Let alone technology, he can't even find the materials!

It's almost extinct.

Ji Jue has been pondering the Myriad Phenomena Engine for several months, but he hasn't dared to start stitching and mending. The technology is not enough, the materials are not there, is he supposed to rely on dreams...

Thus, only one path is left for Ji Jue.

—Elephant Sword Nine Types.

Then, he started to get stuck, stuck to the point of pain, dying.

Panying's entry is so silky and swift. Although it still requires a lot of time to temper and grind in the later stage, this grinding work really cannot be saved. Even if Ji Jue does nothing but liver it, at the current level, it will take more than seven years to complete.

And the study of Chunjun has already been frustrated before even entering.

He can't even enter the door.

Clearly, the theory has been memorized by heart, but there are too many places that are difficult to understand and clarify. Having swallowed the basics whole, problems started to appear when he tried to use them.

SNAP!

In Ji Jue's hand, the crooked, translucent sword blade shattered silently the moment it left the furnace, turning into powder and falling down, with a large amount of essence dissipating.

Failure!

"Isis—Batch 7, Test Specimen No. 211 failed. Unknown cause, suspected insufficient extraction."

After throwing down the cracked sword hilt, Ji Jue reached out and probed into the furnace again, gripping the second test specimen from the scorching residual heat, and pulled it out.

Before he could even pull it out, it shattered in the furnace.

The Mechanical God's induction was blank, and there was no reaction at all.

"Test Specimen No. 212 failed. Unknown cause," Ji Jue sighed: "According to differential testing and trial and error, the purification part can be temporarily ruled out."

Then, the third one...

When Ji Jue carefully pulled out this sword blank, he actually found that the sword body could remain complete, but immediately after, he saw countless fine cracks spreading across the sword spine, and he didn't even know when.

Before leaving the furnace, it had already shattered.

"Physical property contradiction, material ratio problem."

Ji Jue sighed, and under the Dissociation Technique, it vanished into thin air.

A mosquito is meat no matter how small.

He reached out again... then a shrill scream erupted from the furnace, wailing and shouting like madness. The incomplete sword blade covered in blood streaks squirmed, opened its mouth, and chose people to devour.

Hmm, this one is even heavier.

SNAP!

Completely crushed by Ji Jue.

Failure, failure, failure, failure, failure...

The seventh batch, a furnace of thirty test specimens, thirty different attempts, all failed... not even half a close success.

Although it is unrealistic to expect to build a Chunjun with these ordinary materials, it is at most an attempt and sampling before production. However, more than 240 consecutive failures made Ji Jue break his defense.

Is my talent really that bad?

Chunjun, one of the Elephant Sword Nine Types.

According to the Elephant-Containing Chapter—its brilliance is like a lotus flower just emerging. Looking at its blade, it is as brilliant as the movement of stars; looking at its light, it is as vast as water overflowing a pond; looking at its break, it is as rocky as broken stones; looking at its talent, it is as brilliant as melting ice...

Simply put, it is awesome and shining PLUS, epic +18 equipment, incredibly powerful.

It combines the two supreme essences of 'Ascension' and 'Ether', and its spiritual change is the best of the nine types.

The Sword Discussion says: Holding it can purify the soul, make flying arrows motionless, prevent distracting thoughts, make the heart like still water, sense life and death, understand changes, avoid death calamities, chase away disasters, enter and exit yin and yang, and have infinite wonderful uses...

In human language, it means that with this sword, you can accelerate self-perception, maintain a constant sage time, ignore the erosion and temptation of many heart pivots, maintain your own rationality, and strengthen intuition, improve sensing, and be able to get instinctive warnings or sense murderous intent, avoiding falling into traps or being ambushed.

As for 'entering and exiting yin and yang', it refers to instantly turning oneself from matter into spiritual quality, or even further, hiding existence, lifting locks, and turning into nothingness...

And as for its "infinite marvelous uses," that was even more ridiculous. In the records of the sword, some said that in a moment of crisis, the Pure Might transformed into a white horse to carry its user across the sea; others said that before a natural disaster arrived, the Pure Might would chirp incessantly at night, and the user, sensing impending doom, would hurriedly move their whole family to escape the catastrophe; there were even stories of a sword artisan who lived a lonely life until one day the Pure Might transformed into a beautiful woman to keep him company, and from then on he lived a happy life, and so on...

Every time Ji Jue reads this part, he can't help but sneer three times.

It's just the fantasy of a sword artisan before he dies!

It's not just the records of the Sword Discussion, even the passes and processes recorded in the Elephant-Containing Chapter appear in many different contradictory situations besides the basics.

It's as if everyone's casting method is different.

Completely bullshit!

But if it were completely bullshit, he would just read it as a bullshit novel. But unfortunately, there are examples he has witnessed with his own eyes...

When Ji Jue was puzzled and asked his Master for advice, Ye Xian directly took out the Ghost Work and placed it on the table.

This is the best proof.

The spiritual intelligence of Ghost Work was compiled using part of Chunjun's secret transmission!

Among the nine types, the title of first in spiritual change has never been a delusion.

As for encountering difficulties, encountering difficulties is correct, just do it. Think about it yourself.

The question is here, the answer has already been made by someone, and there is more than one.

If you can't pass this level, you still want to learn pure spiritual quality refining?

What kind of dream are you having?

That's not a problem with the "Elephant Sword Discussion", that's your own problem... But, but why! I, I, I am the Ember's own choice...

Ji Jue squatted on the ground, looking at the fragments all over the floor, and began to be unable to bear it.

Am I really not suitable for this bowl of rice?

Not right, right?

After breaking his defense, Ji Jue was so angry that he circled the fragments, and only after specifically caring about Young Master Lou's learning progress did he regain some confidence in the greeting of the Chaocheng elegant words that kept pouring in.

Started summarizing and analyzing.

"Chunjun, Chunjun..."

Ji Jue supported his chin, glancing at the fragments before him, helpless.

It's not a way to grind like this. Although it's possible to catch a dead mouse with a blind cat, don't test specimens consume materials and money?

No matter how much the cost is omitted, the cost of a sword blank is over 60,000. Every time one shatters, Ji Jue's heart shatters with it. By now, it can't be put together at all.

It's not the heat, the materials are fine, the operation is normal, so the problem lies in Ji Jue's own understanding and consciousness.

But he also has the blessing of ascension, and the Dissociation Technique hasn't shattered fewer related items, only ether... ether...

Ji Jue gritted his teeth, couldn't help but recall the beginning...

At the beginning, ether didn't come either, right!

I can understand that the heart pivot didn't come, after all, my heart is pure, without any dirty thoughts; I can also understand that the mirror didn't come, after all, I am open and honest, treat people with sincerity, and never cover up...

But why didn't you come, ether!

It's not like I'm not gossipy enough, right?

But closing the door to build a car is meaningless after all. After seven consecutive failures, exhaustion is impossible. At this time, you should find a professional to ask.

"Memo updated, schedule arranged."

Ji Jue looked up and said: "Remember to remind me tomorrow, call Tong Zhiwu tomorrow, is anyone home in the afternoon? Haven't seen Old Grandpa for a long time, I want to visit."

"Okay."

Isis's voice came, "Schedule updated, there is another reminder—sleep protection and nightmare analysis will start later tonight."

"..."

Ji Jue paused and hesitated: "Starting tonight?"

"No time to lose, sir."

Isis opened the furnace door for him again, "Please rest assured, this is absolutely isolated from the outside world, I will definitely monitor your condition carefully."

"... That's exactly what I'm worried about!"

"Would I harm you?" Isis comforted: "If you are afraid of the dark, I can also tell you a few vivid and interesting bedtime stories."

"You can do these things?"

Ji Jue was shocked and instantly curious.

"Of course, as your workshop spirit, I must be prepared in every aspect at all times."

Isis answered calmly: "May I ask, Soul Summoning, Cursed Grudge, and Midnight Ring, which one do you like? If you like the Federal style, there is also Mountain Village Old Corpse..."

"Forget it!"

Unfortunately, it was already too late.

Accompanied by the slamming shut of the furnace door, creepy background music echoed around. In the darkness inside the furnace, the vivid storytelling had already begun.

Ji Jue rolled his eyes and fell into a deep sleep at some point.

Once again, falling into the infinite darkness...

The nightmare remained.

Until the early morning of the next day, he opened his eyes from the firelight that felt like a hallucination.

Suddenly sat up.

"Isis."

"I am here."

The flickering starlight rose: "The sleep monitoring process is normal, sir. In the state of absolute isolation from external spiritual quality, no spiritual quality fluctuations were detected."

"I know."

Ji Jue rubbed his face, expressionless.

If there is any ghost in this world that can bypass Isis's monitoring, the Myriad Phenomena Engine's blockade, his own workshop's defense, break through the Association's technical restrictions, enter the furnace that is absolutely isolated from the outside world, and not reveal the slightest sign... then Ji Jue can just wash himself clean and lie down!

Why struggle?

People are playing with you, wait for death.

But if it's not an external reason, then it can only be... Ji Jue's own problem.

"Oh no..."

Ji Jue was stunned, suddenly realized: "I'm sick?!" ===== CHAPTER 336 =====