Chapter 424: Lies and Jokes

Authentic!

More than just authentic? It's completely authentic!

The slaps of the Hand of Non-Offense plus the spiritual quality impact of Dissociation Technique · Scene Shock, even the emperor of the Eternal Empire back then hadn't eaten such pure goods, but it's cheap for you.

After slapping her, Ji Jue was still in shock; he had been touched on the butt by such a Mind-Pivot Chosen without a sound, and he was scared to death.

If it weren't for the uncertainty of whether the other party would run away, and what other moves they had, Ji Jue might have revealed his true form under stress!

It's just that such a hard Mind-Pivot was truly unprecedented.

The resilience of consciousness, the stability of the spirit body, were completely beyond Ji Jue's expectations. Even after eating so many piercings of Chunjun and impacts of Scene Shock, she could still maintain integrity. Even if she was on the verge of disintegration every time, she could quickly reorganize and mend, just like tearing the soul into countless pieces and being able to piece it back together.

Too unreasonable; ordinary people would have gone crazy long ago, but who could determine the other party's sanity?

From beginning to end, her eyes were cold, and her malice was deep.

"Really... underestimated you..."

In the broken spirit body, a hoarse voice came, vibrating and collapsing as it reorganized, and immediately after, that star spirit body constructed from split soul structures expanded and exploded.

The darkness contained within gushed out, turning into shadows, raging and undulating.

It was like a compressed file unfolding.

In the most decisive and cruel way, she untied the shackles of this spirit-split, turning her own soul fragments into weapons, breaking through the workshop's shackles, raging and echoing.

Regrettably, no matter what, she couldn't cross the mercury walls that had risen rapidly from Coastal Industry.

Since Ye Xian's inspiration, Ji Jue had been innovating on the path of solid alchemy, gradually filling it with progress in fluid alchemy, and had completely developed it into one of the most important application techniques in his fluid alchemy today.

Now, the mercury curtains, thin as paper, had become an absolute wall blocking all spiritual quality spread, completing the thorough blockade inside and outside the workshop.

All the desire poison and delirium spread by the opponent were intercepted.

But immediately after, Ji Jue heard the buzzing sound.

From far to near...

Outside Xinquan, countless moths rose and fell, gathering from all directions.

"It really is you."

Ji Jue's smile gradually darkened, Panying in his hand vibrated endlessly, the emblem of bacteria and scars lit up, and wisps of crimson flowed.

Before his eyes, countless illusions emerged, and the anger in his heart seemed to be stirred up, rising endlessly.

Like real flames, burning the soul, endlessly eroding his reason. In an instant, anger quickly turned into fear, countless worries emerged from his heart, Xinquan, innocent people, the workshop, Isis, himself, and immediately after, fear turned into desire, gazing at that broken face, but feeling it was so beautiful, beyond compare, his heart beating like a deer, breathing rapidly.

Anger, fear, anxiety, love, desire.

Countless emotions and desires tossed and turned in the blink of an eye, but Ji Jue's movements didn't stop for half a second, his consciousness increasingly clear.

In his eyes, pitch-black fire surged silently.

All emotions were swallowed and burned by the shadow of Chunjun, thrown into the hole, not even leaving fly ash; what remained was only pure and straightforward consciousness, reaching the conclusion————kill her, at any cost, by any means!

In his other hand, the spiritual quality blade of Chunjun reappeared.

Ji Jue moved forward without hesitation, breaking into that darkness, Panying roared, Chunjun clanged, two crimson and clear illusory lights slashed out.

Countless spiritual quality swords had already descended like a rainstorm under the workshop's catalysis, annihilating all illusions; in the shadows, Mind-Pivot's spirit body was constantly re-gathering and changing.

Ji Jue moved forward without a second thought, plunging into that darkness; Panying whistled mournfully, Chunjun rang out clearly, and two streaks of crimson and limpid illusory light intersected as they slashed out.

Burning Desire!

But immediately after, under Chunjun, it was torn apart!

After the broken figure re-gathered, it turned into a strange man with a face full of scars; the spiritual quality sword appeared, slashed, tit-for-tat, but immediately after, the weapon in his hand was slashed and broken by Chunjun, but the opponent's reaction speed was extremely fast, leaning back violently, narrowly dodging this strike, the broken sword in his hand used attack as defense, hitting and deflecting, not colliding head-on with Chunjun, purely relying on sword vibration and deflection defense, as if dancing, a sword master from nowhere.

And amidst the wriggling shadows, the outline of the strange old man reappeared, constantly restraining with his gaze, and a ferocious woman in red condensed from the darkness, opened her mouth, roared, and set off another round of spiritual quality frenzy.

One figure after another appeared and manifested continuously.

Those were the personality fragments and spirit body echoes created by Mind-Pivot!

Amidst this violent counterattack, Ji Jue had already fallen into siege.

Unfortunately, it was useless!

Even wanted to laugh a little...

Do you want to figure out where you are, friend? You're playing this set in my workshop?!

Don't know the height of heaven and earth!

Separated by a long distance, Ji Jue glanced at the projection of the gloomy old man, without hesitation, threw the Panying in his hand!

The sword blade broke through the air, roaring, galloping, but the gloomy old man smiled indifferently, splitting from the middle, dodging the rotating sword blade, and looked at Ji Jue again; the Mind-Pivot interference of the five aggregates chaotic began again, double!

It's just a pity, immediately after, he heard...

The roaring from behind.

Boom!!!!

The wall shattered suddenly, and the violent steel giant had already broken through the wall; Little Niu Ma's eyes were red, the Dragon Mountain armor transformation was complete, dragon blood was raging, and flames were spraying from the gaps in his body.

He raised his hand and caught the Panying thrown by Ji Jue, and immediately after, dragon blood catalyzed, spiritual quality infused———the violent flame light far surpassing the flesh blessing metal and the chain activation of immovable as a mountain, endlessly catalyzing the fierce power contained within.

The violent flame light far surpassing the dozens of times of the flame light in Ji Jue's hand sprayed from the blood blade of Panying.

And immediately after, full engine start——

No need to care about the so-called G-force, as long as the skeleton can withstand it, the speed will climb and explode without limit.

Flame meteor, galloping out.

There was no need to care about so-called G-force; as long as the frame could withstand it, speed would climb and erupt without limit.

Mind-Pivot was furious, the traces of the girl appeared for a moment, glanced at it, and exerted all her strength to control, but Little Niu Ma's consciousness and soul had already been controlled by mechanical descent, in the boiling dragon blood, hunger appeared, swallowing everything that came.

Instead, at this crucial moment, it exposed a gap.

Snap!

The sword blade in Ji Jue's hand shot out, in an instant, crossing dozens of meters, piercing the opponent's spirit body, wedging into the wall, and immediately after, spiritual quality swords appeared from the void, crisscrossing, completely turning her into a hedgehog.

The tide of shadows dancing violently dissipated suddenly, disappearing without a trace.

The sound of breaking was endless!

The snakes, insects, and moths hidden in the crevices all exploded; in fact, a resident in Xinquan who was ignorant and didn't know what happened was covered by mercury spraying out from the pipe, turning into a statue.

Wasted so much time, finally found all the fulcrums and retreats that her spirit-split descent relied on through the spiritual quality fluctuations when the other party counterattacked.

Cut off completely!

And immediately after, under the layers of blockade of the workshop, spiritual quality circuits spread, just like a cage, completely completing the shackles!

In fact, even suicide was impossible.

Outside Xinquan, countless moths gathering together were like headless flies, losing organization, scattering...

In the brief dead silence, only Ji Jue's footsteps remained.

Moving forward step by step, lowering his eyes, overlooking the prey in the sword cage, examining expressionlessly, suddenly, smiling.

"Looks like, there's no need for me to say more."

Ji Jue bent down, asking harmoniously: "Ember and Stagnant Rot, which one do you like? It doesn't matter if you like both, I have many ways to entertain you here."

"Is that so? Then as you like."

Under Chunjun's blockade, that face showed contempt, mocking and asking: "It doesn't matter what you do, artisan, I admit I lost this round.

However, I only lost this spirit-split, but what about you?"

She paused, her smile dark: "Is there no one important to you in this world?"

The trouble of Mind-Pivot lies in its eeriness and concealment.

Subtly exerting influence, weaving a network of thousands of threads, netting the prey into the bag; by the time it is discovered, it is already deeply rooted, and even, unknowingly becoming a plaything and puppet.

It's disgusting here; once stuck, it's like getting shit on you, and shaking it off will splash everyone around you.

For this, Ji Jue had long expected, and even, was not surprised at all.

"Important people? Yes, of course there are."

He nodded frankly: "Not only are there, but there are many."

In the dead silence, that face seemed stunned, the mockery stiffened for a moment, and then, only then did he see the darkness and ferocity overflowing from that smiling face.

"So, don't worry, I will definitely dig you out, cut the weeds and remove the roots, cut off all troubles, and ensure that not a single wisp of your spiritual quality will appear in this world."

Ji Jue reached out, stroking her cheek, gently and carefully, examining the material before him, "Don't worry, I have enough means to find you, let you understand the consequences of angering an artisan, and understand what you did wrong.

However, before that..."

He paused, and finally smiled: "As a treat, I have a gift to give you."

Boom!

At that moment, on the floor beneath his feet, one deep trench after another appeared out of thin air, winding and twisting, connecting to each other, forming a huge and complex outline; under Chunjun's brush, a gorgeous sacrificial field was completed in an instant.

And immediately after, one blood-stained iron box after another was moved into place under the transport of mercury hands, and then, scarlet sticky colors spread from the trenches; in just a few seconds, the painting of blood appeared before the girl's eyes.

Making her fall into a daze.

Sacrifice?!

——This is a sacrifice aimed at the Great Sin!

At this moment, she could feel the resentment, pain, and despair wrapped around those sixteen huge iron boxes, and even, in the faint spiritual quality fluctuations

—This was a sacrifice aimed at the Great Sin!

At this moment, she could feel the resentment, pain, and despair entwined above those sixteen massive iron crates; even in the waning spiritual quality fluctuations, they were filled with wailing and crying.

The resentment was deep, the despair bone-deep, and it was difficult to find release!

All of them were—they were all carefully concocted sacrifices!

"Did you recognize them?"

Amidst the surrounding wails and bitter hatred, Ji Jue remained unstained, his aura of supreme goodness pure and peaceful; yet when he smiled, it was all the more hair-raising: "To tell you the truth, it was actually a bit difficult to scrape together enough sacrifices on such short notice, but fortunately, my foundation is still sufficient; there were at least some materials kept in the warehouse.

They don't usually come in handy, but they couldn't be more appropriate for entertaining guests."

That face within the shackles turned rapidly gloomy and ferocious, especially... when she discovered that her position was not that of a sacrifice, but of the sacrificial master receiving the gift!

"Ha, a rising star of the dignified Association, actually having close dealings with the Great Sin in secret; truly, one cannot judge a person by their appearance..."

"Then feel free to go and tell them."

Ji Jue grinned, not caring in the slightest: "Look, who among everyone would believe you?"

Who would believe it?

The Association? Or the Anquan Bureau? Or Ji Jue's friends and customers.

You still don't understand artisans well enough, nor do you understand me...

Otherwise, let alone whether it would be possible to report me successfully, you probably wouldn't even have the confidence to live long enough to make the report!

Snap!

A crisp sound of finger-snapping rang out.

Immediately following, one after another, the emblems, runes, and totems of the Great Sin lit up along with the surging flow of spiritual quality; amidst a magnificent, thunderous roar, darkness erupted like a tidal wave!

In Ji Jue's hand, Chunjun was held in reverse.

Suddenly, he thrust it downward!

And then, what followed was earth-shattering thunder.

Boom!!!!

The essence of the Great Sin, which in the past was difficult for those who worshiped sin to reach even with a thousand hardships, actually manifested from the altar; in the diffusing darkness, the blood-red color within the secret ritual instantly dissipated, replaced by a bizarre, giant eye existing between the virtual and the real!

The scarlet pupil slowly opened, and it had already occupied the entire land of the workshop.

It stared coldly at all its prey, waiting for the offering of sacrifices.

The shadow of the Great Sin manifested from the mortal world.

—Ether Eye!

Immediately following, bursts of ear-piercing wails rang out from the iron crates; sixteen tortured materials and souls filled with evil sin vanished into thin air in an instant, and streams of gray-black spiritual quality converged out of thin air, intertwining with each other, and finally, gradually radiated a shifting, bizarre rainbow light under the gaze of that giant eye.

The essence of the Great Sin, which did not know how many evil thoughts, evil ideas, and evil beliefs it had fused, gradually emerged from within, and in the end, turned into a colorful pitch-black!

Wen Su's expression changed, her spiritual body vibrated, wanting to trigger self-destruction, but it was already too late.

A hand grabbed her hair roughly, pulling her head up, forcing her to stare at that pupil that was gradually locking onto her.

Forcing her to receive this gift and blessing from the Ether Eye!

And while at it, adding some heavy ingredients for her...

"You must remember—"

Ji Jue leaned over and whispered in her ear: "The good things between us have only just begun!"

The darkness surged like a tide, rising and winding, converging into a beam, and sinking entirely into that spiritual body!

The spiritual body shook violently, instinctively shrieking and roaring; it was so pleasant to the ear.

Never had there been such a rich gift, such a generous bestowal; merely sixteen sacrifices had already triggered the Great Sin to bestow its favor.

Countless despair and madness gathered and overflowed, turning into the essence of the Ether Eye lineage, like a black hole, barging into her soul, raging, spreading, and wantonly eroding her soul and consciousness, forcibly trying to transform her into the shape most suitable for itself!

Screaming, roaring, and wailing, in the end, turned into dull, hollow moaning.

The fragile spiritual body, having experienced repeated destruction, simply could not withstand such massive power... it was on the verge of bursting.

But, it didn't matter!

The Ether Eye didn't mind.

The Great Sin did not speak, just blindly stuffing it in; I'm stuffing it until it bursts, and the overflowing massive favor flowed backward along the resonance and connection between this spiritual body and the self, toward the main body somewhere unknown!

Even before there was time to sever this link, the realization of poison, the delirium of distortion, the desire for self-destruction, and the despair of emptiness had already gushed out!

At this moment, right in front of Wen Wen, the dull girl's face suddenly twisted.

Ugh—

Blood continuously wound its way out from her mouth and nose, followed by violent choking and coughing; then, what gushed out from her eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and pores was actually darkness as viscous as ink.

She subconsciously staggered back a step.

Wanting to sever the link.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Because it wasn't just Ji Jue...

At the very moment the flaw appeared, Wen Wen lunged forward, without any hesitation or mercy.

The Minerva's Spear, which had been waiting for a long time, struck decisively!

Injuring the soul with objects, piercing through the spirit!

"That's enough, A-Su."

Wen Wen's eyes drooped as she looked at her, with pity and also loathing.

She had the heart for pity and warmth, but there was no room left for it.

Everything had long since become unrecognizable; Wen Wen, the person before her, was no longer the child who needed her protection.

"I once thought you would be an exception, the next exception like me," she said softly. "But in the end, you are no different from them."

"Sister..."

Wen Su was dazed, as if unable to believe it, her eyes blurred with tears.

But in the brief silence, that expression gradually twisted. From the sorrow, an uncontrollable mockery and joy emerged.

Even with the entanglement and erosion of many pains, she could not help but choke and cough, laughing out loud.

She was overjoyed.

It was as if she had heard the funniest joke in the world.