Chapter 37

Having so easily crossed the countless torments he had expected, Ji Jue examined his results, and couldn't help but beam with joy. While excited, he also couldn't help but feel regret and pity.

Even for Ji Jue's ability, such a creation could be called incredible and a fantasy, but compared to Professor Ye's operation in the experience just now, it could only be said to be full of mistakes and omissions, like a clumsy imitation.

It wasn't even on the same level, and he was even left so far behind that he couldn't even see the exhaust.

But so what?

Ugly is also cute, small is also very powerful!

In the spiritual quality absorption after the fragments self-destructed just now, he not only experienced the process and reasons for the previous fifty-one failures with his own soul and perception, but also personally experienced Professor Ye's once terrifying technique that was like nature's creation!

It was as if he had turned into a true creator.

All changes rose from the furnace... He only needed to reach out to take them at will, and as long as he turned his palm, he could recreate the universe.

The sudden realization was so intoxicating.

But more importantly, it was a precious experience that was even more thorough than hand-in-hand teaching. In just this short moment, it was as if a lighthouse had suddenly risen in the long night, pointing out the road and direction for Ji Jue, who was still spinning in place.

All he had to do was take advantage of the fact that this memory of light was still fresh in his heart, move forward, use all his strength, and fly forward!

Once again, pick up the fragments.

Without feeling sorry for the work he had just completed, Ji Jue extracted the spare spiritual quality storage from his watch and started engraving again! And the other hand directly turned the copper giant book next to the operation table to the back.

Taking advantage of the fact that the realization hadn't dissipated and the memory was still clear, this time he wanted to try to engrave the emblem and totem of another of the Twelve Virtues.

The Virtue in charge of the birth and annihilation of all energy, silence and explosion, elements and storms.

—【Entropy】!

Just like that, it lasted until 12:30 in the middle of the night.

Amidst Ye Chun's earnest words like 'It's already okay, it's already very okay, now many big shots are not as good as you,' 'Stop grinding, damn it,' etc., Ji Jue left the workshop riding the Little Niu Ma, looking back every three steps, still wanting more.

The harvest of more than five hours of overtime felt even greater than the practice before, even dozens or hundreds of times greater. Before that trace of vivid insight completely dissipated, Ji Jue had tried his best to retain some insights and more experience of failure.

In the end, he still couldn't completely depict the totem of Entropy.

In the middle, he felt several times that he was just one step away, but later, the harder he tried, the more wrong the direction seemed to be, with a clumsy feeling of trying to draw a tiger but ending up with a dog.

He knew that if he continued to grind, maybe there wouldn't be so many gains.

After completely digesting the experience package from Professor Ye, he hummed a song and whistled, bought a bowl of fried rice noodles at a roadside stall, and then without hesitation... embarked on the road home.

Hurry up and wash up to sleep, get up tomorrow and continue grinding!

"Damn!"

And in the dark, in the distance, the middle-aged man Qi Qin, who was holding a video camera in the van that was vaguely following in the traffic, was stunned on the spot, watching Ji Jue return home.

Unbelievable.

What the hell are you doing?

Running to the professor's factory to tighten screws until the middle of the night—anyone should have relaxed and been happy, right? Damn, you're a college student, not going to bars, not flirting with girls, not ranking up—that's fine, but you should at least hurry up and call the big sister behind you and ask her out to HAPPY!

My camera is ready, and you're showing me a ghost of a work-study program?!

Is this what everyone came to see?!

The man who had been suffering behind Ji Jue for a whole day felt terrible. This was simply unreasonable—the little girl selling fried rice noodles had such big breasts, and he didn't even take a look! Even when she was shaking and wanted to earn two more dollars from him, he wouldn't even add an egg!

Are you even human?

Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, don't be anxious. Patience can get results, and squatting can capture big news.

Qi Qin took a deep breath, soothing his irritable mood. It was hard to wait until the light in Ji Jue's room finally went out before he got out of the car to pee, went to the bathroom, and bought a bowl of instant noodles to eat.

Alright, finally quiet.

At least I can have a good sleep.

He closed his eyes.

In the same late night, there were people who couldn't sleep all night.

"I'm hanging—"

In the silent factory area, after washing up, Ye Chun was still wrapping her hair to dry it, yawning and tidying up the workshop. As a result, when she reached out to pick up the fragments on the table, she couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.

As if struck by lightning.

Ye Chun dared to swear that she had never opened her eyes so wide in her life!

That irregular fragment had already shown a faint crack under Ji Jue's devastation, but at this moment, a layer of imperceptible pure white phantom light was overflowing on it. After the lights were turned off, it shone dimly in the moonlight.

And what made her even more unbelievable was that on it... on that place less than the size of a palm, someone had used a frantic degree of effort and a level of obsessive-compulsive disorder that could be admitted to the hospital immediately, and had carved more than twenty Virtues' emblems on it!

All of them were Ascension!

When she came to check this afternoon, Ji Jue was still a pure newbie who had just come into contact with the furnace and didn't know how to use anything. As a result, in four or five hours, he had actually stepped on the progress that other apprentices needed years of suffering day and night to overcome.

And what was even more terrifying was...

Through the traces of silk and thread on it, she actually vaguely distinguished her aunt's style from her early years?

Especially the last few totem emblems, the arc at the end, was completely her aunt's own special signature... Even if you were learning by copying, there was no need to learn this back too, right?!

What did you come here to learn?

Forgery?

"Aunt, come home quickly."

She suppressed the urge to scream and dialed the phone: "There's a pervert!"

"... Normal."

After understanding what happened, on the other end of the phone, there was a long silence, but in the end, it was just a calm evaluation, as if she wasn't surprised at all.

Professor Ye said: "Just let him continue, don't worry about the rest."

The phone hung up.

Only Ye Chun was left in the silence, looking at each other with the fragments.

After a long time, she turned her head, looked at her tiny reflection in the glass, and after dropping the fragments, she couldn't help but sigh softly.

"Damn, monster."

"Holy crap?"

In the same night, in the old bedroom, Ji Jue, who had just closed his eyes, suddenly bounced up from the bed.

He finally found something that didn't seem quite right.

During the day, he was too focused on the growth of alchemy, so much so that he almost didn't notice...

In the moonlight, he raised his right hand, brought it to his eyes, and carefully and solemnly distinguished it, looking at the 【1】 on the watch face that was faintly stained with gold.

He narrowed his eyes, unbelievable: "Does this crappy progress bar have movement?"

If his memory was correct, in the morning, there was almost no other color on top of this 【1】, but now, in the corners at the very top, it seemed that some pure gold that could not be ignored had appeared.

If he had to say it, it was like some slow-downloading software with a blue icon that had suddenly started moving.

Although it was still at a speed of 1Kb, 2Kb, at least it was no longer 'resource unresponsive' or 'not open for download according to relevant laws'...

From 0% to 1%, he had once again achieved a great breakthrough from zero to one!

Small and weak, but so conspicuous.

"Yie!!!"

Ji Jue couldn't help but cheer with his arms raised: "Great!!!!"

But why?

Could it be that his progress in alchemy had driven the growth of his ability? But that's not right either. When he started alchemy the day before yesterday, this watch really didn't have any movement at all.

He lay back on the bed, carefully recalling everything that had happened throughout the day. Finally, the scene that appeared before his eyes was the scene when he reached out to extract the essence and spiritual quality remaining in the self-destructed fragments.

In the end, all the essence was eaten by his ability!

"No, brother, are you serious?!"

He sensed the emblem running lightly in his soul, unable to understand.

Only by absorbing the essence of alchemical items can it grow?

How is this crappy ability like a character in some card-drawing mobile game? It's useless to grind dungeons and fight monsters; you have to feed it other equipment and characters as dog food to level up?

Is it that you have to eat a few more of the same characters to break through after reaching full level?

Don't give me a probability of equipment damage when strengthening to +11, +12 in the end, right?

Ji Jue was almost desperate for a world where you have to pay to become strong. He suddenly wanted to hit the wall. Didn't they say real legends aren't like this?

But inexplicably... what appeared before his eyes was the whole warehouse that made him desperate at the time during the day, and even the scrap pile that was so exaggerated that it was enough to bury a dozen of himself.

If he remembered correctly, Professor Ye seemed to have said that those useless things were thrown to him to practice, right?

At that moment, Ji Jue was wide awake.

When he looked back in the direction of the workshop, burning flames had already ignited in his eyes, as if he had seen countless little sisters dressed in very little cloth inviting him to come and play...

What trash pile?!

That's experience points that have already been washed white!

Only one word remained in his brain.

—【Grind】!

From that day on, the nightmare of the stalker finally arrived.

The man closed his eyes after finishing the report at two o'clock in the morning, and then, at 5:30 the next morning, he discovered... that grandson Ji Jue had gone out!

He didn't even change his clothes, didn't wash his hair, just washed his face and brushed his teeth, and bought a steamed bun at the door.

Then, straight to the factory building!

That appearance of scrambling and fearing that he wouldn't be able to grab a free egg if he was late made Qi Qin feel that his worldview had been devastated—no, what are you doing?

Big brother, you should sleep a little longer, damn it. If you don't sleep, I have to sleep too!

Getting up so early and running to the factory, what are you trying to do?

Even bought coffee, just so impatient to be a cow and horse?!

In the wind, the sound of moving away came...

Leaving the desperate middle-aged man standing on the spot.

He was laughing wildly!

The throttle of the little motorcycle was twisted to the end, Ji Jue grinned, galloping in the morning light of dawn.

A new day, a new beginning.

Can happily tighten screws again!