Chapter 35

"My aunt is busy with military projects recently and doesn't have time to take care of you for now, but the materials and textbooks are all ready. You can study on your own."

Early the next morning, when Ji Jue rushed to Professor Ye's workshop, what he saw were various materials and classics filling three cabinets, and even the warehouse at the very back of the factory building that Ye Chun had opened, and the scrap piled up like a mountain inside!

Heaven knows how many years it hadn't been cleaned up.

The various objects of all sizes inside couldn't even fit on the shelves, and various boxes were piled up to the ceiling on the floor.

Including but not limited to various inexplicable machinery, parts, a bronze giant tree three times as tall as Ji Jue, hundreds of swords that looked like they could kill ten Ji Jues without dulling the edge, strange pottery jars that would seep blood from the cracks, ferocious masks whose eyeballs seemed to move, incomplete armor, copper statues that had already melted into a puddle, and various fragments whose numbers were completely uncountable...

Just walking two steps inside, Ji Jue was choked by the dust.

Ye Chun, who was gloating on the side, said: "Aunt said, you can use anything inside to practice at will. If there's anything you don't understand, look up the information yourself. If you have questions, if she has time, she will come back between 5:00 and 6:00 in the afternoon, and you can ask her.

Don't worry, although they are all scrap and leftovers, they are all things that have been processed and completely detoxified, just right for a newcomer like you to practice with.

According to Aunt's words, whenever you can finish using this pile of things, you will be able to stand on your own."

But this scale was a bit too exaggerated!

Ji Jue held his breath and poked his head in to take a look, and was shocked by the terrifying quantity that was enough to drown himself ten or twenty times. At this scale, he was afraid he would have to spend his whole life in here, right?

The first hurdle blocking Ji Jue was that bronze giant book he saw yesterday.

It wasn't thick, and after removing the cover and back cover, there were only twelve pages left... the totem emblems of the Twelve Virtues!

All relevant materials and indexes were in the cabinet.

The first step of Ji Jue's alchemy learning was to re-engrave these twelve Virtues' emblems on any material within a month.

This not only meant that he had to start from scratch to have a basic grasp of the Twelve Virtues, but also required him to reach the standard for various materials, various spiritual quality engraving methods, and all basic techniques.

Yesterday was EASY MODE, learning to sing, dance, and RAP; today was hell difficulty, going to fight the Salary King!

He couldn't live like this.

"Something's not right. Doesn't the book say that beginners are advised to start with basic runes and spiritual quality circuit engraving?" Ji Jue flipped through the book all morning with a gray face before he felt something was wrong.

How did the difficulty suddenly go up?

He immediately started to have a headache: "If this goes on, I won't be able to finish even if I work until I die, right?"

"Hey, young people nowadays, one by one, they are all lazy..."

Ye Chun, who was lying on the sofa watching the fun, shook her head pretentiously, sighing with the air of an old person: "How could I have had such conditions back then?

You shouldn't be in bliss and not know it, little Ji! Almost all apprentices outside are working for loans and paying to learn. In some places, you have to work hard for your master just to learn how to stir-fry. Someone like you who doesn't spend a penny, has things to learn, has a job, and has so many free leftovers to practice with, is already pretty good!"

Ji Jue only wanted to roll his eyes when he heard this: "I understand the logic, but can you stop acting like a senior?"

"Don't you know that an elder sister is like a mother? Rounded up, aren't I half an elder to you?"

Ye Chun got up in a rage, hugging a cat pillow and stroking it, "I know, you've become a Chosen One, you have a bright future, and you have an aunt who thinks highly of you, but you don't even want to call me senior sister... Go, get the potato chips next to the refrigerator for sister!"

Ji Jue rolled his eyes and took two bags of potato chips, sharing half without any politeness, and incidentally took a chilled happy water from the refrigerator. After a hard drink, he turned and walked back to the center of the workshop.

That huge furnace that was still operating silently, thousands of spiritual quality circuits extending from the furnace seemed like a giant net, overlapping, converging, and gathering under his feet.

This was the tool he used to practice.

There are countless ways to process materials and objects in alchemy. Flame and temperature are just the most common ones, and also the ones with the widest range of applications.

Under high temperature, the physical properties of most materials will be stimulated, and the spiritual quality affinity will also be further improved, making it more suitable for alchemical operations.

For a beginner like Ji Jue, he actually didn't deserve such a high-end model at all. But apart from the simple probe from yesterday that could only be used for entry and didn't help much with skill improvement, there was only this high-end set that Professor Ye usually used in the whole workshop.

It was so high-end that Ji Jue couldn't understand most of the functions inside at all and didn't dare to touch them. Even though most settings wouldn't be open to apprentices who hadn't been verified by spiritual quality, the basic functions alone were enough for Ji Jue to ponder for a few months.

A master-level high-temperature reaction kettle was simply too extravagant for a newcomer like him. And what was even more extravagant were the scrap, leftovers, and trash that Professor Ye had already processed in advance.

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Even if it was trash, it was trash left over by a master. Even if it was scrapped, most of it was because the strength or function didn't meet the requirements or there was some flaw, and it was decisively destroyed and abandoned.

After carefully studying the classics, Ji Jue sadly discovered: if this 'trash' thrown in the warehouse were really in good condition and put on the market, a poor guy like him would probably have to sell his blood and kidneys to get a set.

But looking on the bright side, when he really got lucky and became a master in the future, wouldn't selling any scrap be enough for him to eat and drink for many years?

Thinking of this, he was full of motivation again.

Thinking of the student loans, thinking of the shitty employment environment in Yacheng these years, thinking of the prices, thinking of the white-cut chicken the little sheep had to eat every day, he already couldn't wait to lie on the furnace for twenty-four hours.

With such good conditions and such an extravagant configuration, if he didn't work hard, he would really be struck by heaven's punishment!

Boom!

After a muffled sound, Ye Chun raised her head from the sofa, looked at Ji Jue's gray face, sighed, and took back her gaze, not surprised at all.

Just this afternoon, he had already scrapped it dozens of times.

An alchemist's work is a delicate job, and the consumption of spiritual quality is not serious, but unfortunately, a pure newbie like Ji Jue failed so many times in a few hours, and the whole person was almost drained.

Gritting his teeth, he put on his fireproof suit, took the pliers to pinch the copper piece out of the furnace, and after it cooled down, he found the problem... it was actually exactly the same as most of his failures.

Spiritual quality conflict.

Using spiritual quality to simulate circuits in metal and engrave Virtues' emblems is a technical job.

After losing the absolutely isolated theoretical environment of the crystal ball yesterday, in practice, there would be problems everywhere. Every detail is a pit, and if you are not careful, you will lose everything.

Self-will, spiritual quality control, and even emotional fluctuations must be within range, and one must maintain absolute stability and focus. More importantly, one must know how to handle changes in material properties and different situations.

This is a purely time-consuming experience job, and there is no shortcut.

"If only I could extract it."

Ji Jue lay on the sofa, sighing wearily.

"Huh?" Ye Chun was puzzled.

"I mean, if only I could extract other spiritual quality or impurities before the spiritual quality conflict," Ji Jue said: "If that were the case, it wouldn't be so troublesome."

"... Why don't you listen to what kind of pig talk you are saying?" Ye Chun didn't know whether she should laugh or not.

"Is it very difficult?"

"..."

Ye Chun sighed, climbed up, picked up the small blackboard again, adjusted her flat glasses, and said seriously: "First of all, you have to understand that spiritual quality is a very complex and changeable thing. Although the properties are generally the same, there are almost hundreds of major classifications, and the gap between each type is sometimes bigger than that between humans and pigs.

The absolutely pure spiritual quality in theory that does not have conflicts almost all comes from Time Sand, which is not something you can covet at your current level.

Secondly, even absolutely pure spiritual quality will show different changes after physical property interference and processing.

It's like you have prepared the paint and are using a brush to paint on the canvas. Before you put the pen down, you must understand the consequences of the fusion of different colors and brushstrokes, rather than regretting it after finishing the painting and wanting to peel off every drop of turpentine and every molecule of pigment from the canvas.

The control required to extract spiritual quality after it has fused with materials is outrageous. It cannot be said that there is absolutely no theoretical possibility, but it is completely a dream to actually operate it.

Such an incredible thing, even the contemporary Grandmaster, Lord Tianlu, may not be able to do it."

Before putting down the small blackboard, she finally concluded: "Rather than coveting this, it is more realistic to dream that everyone in the Federation gives you a dollar, and you will become rich overnight."

"Is it... so outrageous?"

Ji Jue was dumbfounded, trying hard to remain calm.

It wasn't that he was surprised by the difficulty, but that he was horrified by the discovery just now... If it were so difficult to strip the reacting spiritual quality from the carrier, then, after he had been eroded by dragon blood, he could still return to his original appearance, wouldn't it be as outrageous as time flowing backward?

He slowly lowered his head and looked at the watch. The watch was still ticking, as if it would never end.

Being able to accurately strip away all the sin-tainted structures and parts just as he was about to become sin-tainted, and without any sequelae, allowing him to return to his original state... what kind of thing was it?

No wonder Sister Wen's expression was like seeing a ghost after discovering that he could reverse sin-tainting!

I'm afraid it would have been more acceptable for him to say that he could really turn back time.

Having encountered such an outrageous thing, Sister Wen didn't crush him without thinking to study him well; she was truly merciful and had a bodhisattva heart!

Ji Jue couldn't help but want to set up a longevity tablet for her at home.

It's just...

He lowered his head and stared at the time, the more he looked, the more he felt that this watch was not simple, and it might be even more awesome PLUS than he had originally and currently thought.

Then the question came, just this watch was so awesome, how outrageous should its creator be?

After thinking about it for a long time, he finally gathered his courage, peeking at Ye Chun's expression, and while brushing his phone, pretended to be casual and asked curiously: "Senior sister, do you know about the Heavenly Track?"

"I know."

Ye Chun nodded without thinking.

When she spoke, she was still crunching on potato chips, her mouth bulging, just like a hamster.

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A hamster that was enough to scare Ji Jue until his heart and lungs stopped.