Chapter 59: Non-Aggression

As soon as Ji Jue spoke, the entire workshop fell into silence.

Not only was Ye Chun dumbfounded, but even Professor Ye was silent for a moment, a trace of shock appearing in her expression, as if a hardcore FPS game lover who felt like they were full of evil suddenly saw a P-game player.

This idea of yours, is it a bit too urbanized?

"... Your suggestion is even wilder than mine." She looked at Ji Jue deeply: "It's just, where did this habit of killing and arson at every turn come from?"

"Ah?"

Ji Jue was also stunned. Didn't you say it's an eye for an eye, and you want to give Kong Qingyan a good look?!

But thinking carefully, Professor Ye didn't seem to make a gesture on her neck, asking him to finish her off... Something's wrong. Is the trend and tendency of his own thinking sliding becoming more and more obvious?

I am a normal person!

How could I finish off everyone who offended me at every turn?

Well, it seems that everyone who offended me has been finished off by me... Unfortunately, there's still Yu Hanguang missing.

"You're right, I'll definitely pay more attention." Ji Jue nodded shamefully.

"I'm not blaming you. Actually, I think it's quite good, at least I don't have to worry about my student being a good person who suffers everywhere. As for style and preferences, that's your own business, and I don't need to point fingers."

Professor Ye accepted the reality that her student might have antisocial tendencies quite calmly, ignored Ji Jue's eyes that wanted to argue several times, and asked again:

"What do you think Kong Qingyan is here for this time?"

"Uh..."

Ji Jue thought for a moment and said tentatively: "After making full preparations, trying to suppress you through the superiority of students?"

"Perhaps that is part of the reason, but it's not enough for her to make such a big fuss and run over from Chaocheng to show off just because she heard I took a student.

Personal honor and disgrace will not be the main reason for a mature artisan's actions. I hope you remember this."

Professor Ye said solemnly: "Alchemy is a precise and complex discipline. Most people spend their whole lives studying changes of a hair's breadth, and emotional impulses are worn away day by day.

As a result, over a long period of time, artisans have almost become profit-seeking creatures who haggle over every ounce, and some have simply lost their priorities and become merchants who only know how to market.

Kong Qingyan is that kind of person, valuing honor more than results, valuing status more than skill. For her, business that can't make a profit is not done, and things that can only make a small profit are not worth the trip."

The professor said decisively: "She came here this time for me."

"Ah?"

Ji Jue was dumbfounded.

"But since that's the case, there should be more actions. But I almost slapped her in the face directly, yet she didn't dare to challenge me.

In other words, just to confirm something? My condition, or the condition of the workshop, or perhaps plotting some results and wanting to achieve some kind of plan, wanting to shield my interference from the beginning."

From her self-analyzing and murmuring, a fine vibration sounded.

From the phone on the table.

Contact: 【Desolate Collection · Chen Xingzhou】

The call was connected. The voice came from the other side, but in the interference that came with the phone, the bystander couldn't hear it clearly at all, only able to see Professor Ye's expression change slightly, as if realizing.

"So that's it, I see. The final payment will be completed within two working days. Happy cooperation."

After the call was hung up, Professor Ye fell into deep thought.

As if considering something.

"Perhaps, this is fate."

She suddenly turned to ask Ji Jue, "How far have you gone with the deconstruction and analysis of the Ancient One's Mouth?"

"Ah?"

Seeing the topic jump so much, Ji Jue was a bit confused. His first reaction was "almost, figured it all out," but after careful consideration, he felt "figured out ninety percent," but even so, it was still an exaggeration.

"Almost, figured out half..."

He hesitated, not daring to say that he had been completely confused and dazzled.

Not only the workload, but the difficulty also exceeded Ji Jue's understanding range by I don't know how much. All he could do was touch the elephant like a blind man, repeatedly guessing and excluding to confirm the effect and function of each part.

He handed over his notes obediently: "The deconstruction of the main body has been figured out."

In human terms, it's probably figured out which part plays a role, and which part looks fancy but actually has no use at all.

Professor Ye took it, put on her glasses, and entered judgment mode.

After about ten minutes of grading, she handed the notes back to Ji Jue, and then his eyes were stung by the many red crosses and corrections on it.

Too many mistakes!

Besides denying many of Ji Jue's guesses, more importantly, she supplemented many aspects he had never imagined.

With a master's experience, looking down at the creation concept of the entire alchemy work from a higher angle.

And more importantly...

When she reached out and gripped the necklace of the Ancient One's Mouth, those complex structures that were like flowers in the fog to Ji Jue were projected from the air.

In an instant, it filled the entire living room, and even the entire living room couldn't contain it, unable to show the more fancy details.

This is a complex structure concentrated in the volume of a thumb, but after expanding the internal structure, it can cover more than half of a stadium.

But most of the time, the complexity is meaningless, making people feel that it is purely for showing off, spending a lot of effort in inexplicable places, sacrificing many functions and structures for beauty.

This made Ji Jue, who was accustomed to the cost-effectiveness concept emphasized by modern alchemy from the foundation, feel very uncomfortable: "Are these alchemy artisans idle all day?"

"Things offered to the Emperor are all like this, etiquette is above all else, better to overdo it than not to be respectful. Just such a small thing requires the time and effort of a large workshop for decades.

Yet at that time, the cattle, horses, and livestock still felt honored."

Professor Ye commented mockingly, not caring at all about the hard work in it.

This kind of hard work used in meaningless places is not hard work, but just the vanity price of pleasing authority and labeling oneself.

After guiding Ji Jue on the structure of the Ancient One's Mouth and waiting for him to finally be able to correctly distinguish the function and reality of each structure, Professor Ye nodded slowly: "That's enough. To be able to do this in a few days of effort, I originally estimated that it would take about a month, but unfortunately, it seems there isn't that much time now."

As she spoke, her five fingers gripped.

The projection all over the sky dissipated without a trace, and immediately after, a soft shattering sound came from her palm.

In the sudden shock, Ji Jue jumped up from the sofa subconsciously, not because of the damage to the Ancient One's Mouth, but because of the spiritual quality fluctuation that erupted from between Professor Ye's five fingers at that moment.

So complex and complicated, changing at a frequency exceeding microseconds, rising or falling, without any rules, impossible to figure out.

And right between her fingers that she spread out again, insignificant debris fell off the Ancient One's Mouth, turning into dust, but it made Ji Jue's ability almost crazy.

Drooling, hungry and thirsty.

Almost, unable to control!

After carefully taking the debris and items, and putting the debris into his pocket, he checked the internal structure of the Ancient One's Mouth for the first time.

But he found that the structure that was originally complex to the point of being outrageous had now disappeared without a trace.

Those spiritual quality circuits associated with other fragments and meaningless decorative structures were easily and completely wiped out by Professor Ye in this short moment!

The streamlined structure is composed according to the standards of modern alchemy, and the volume is even less than one-tenth of the original. But after throwing away the original redundancy, the efficiency is increased several times.

All runes and circuits revolve around the Supreme Good emblem · Vortex in the center. What is preserved in it is the blessing called 【Regeneration】 from the Vortex's gift.

Besides that, everything irrelevant disappeared without a trace.

"What is this?"

Ji Jue felt that he had hallucinations.

They say destruction is easy and construction is difficult, but to preserve the main body and even simplify it while destroying irrelevant parts, the difficulty is sky-high.

Unbelievable!

If he were to do the same work, he might need to borrow the workshop's ultra-micro equipment, purely struggling for several months, to carefully complete such a fine process one by one, stripping away and erasing those irrelevant structures, and it would be difficult to guarantee the effect and result.

How could it be so fast?

It's simply like precision blasting, blowing up everything above the eighth floor and below the eighth floor of a building, and ensuring that after the eighth floor lands, not even a leaf falls from a potted plant, and water and electricity run as usual.

Within this narrow range that requires a microscope to observe, destroy and extract the target, and the rest is not damaged at all.

"It can be considered my unique skill."

Ye Xian smiled rarely: "Stripping impurities, erasing material properties, dismantling structures—based on my own experience, through special operations and methods, freely dissociating and reconstructing the alchemy structure inside the item.

Back then, I relied on this to pass the Red Transformation assessment of the Taiyi Ring.

Its registered name is 'Dissociation Technique'.

Want to learn?"

Ji Jue nodded crazily, his eyes shining like light bulbs.

With such a shocking stunt in front of him, if he didn't wag his tail and flatter, he would probably give himself a few big slaps in his sleep at night, pretending to be a big tail wolf!

At this time, any hesitation is a disrespect to his own IQ and the professor's favor.

Think about that warehouse full of waste. With this hand, is he still worried about not being able to eat dog food in the future?! Where does he need to rack his brains to make the spirituality overload and collapse itself? Isn't it just bragging and showing off, wanting to show off as much as he wants?

Even more exaggerated... In the future, when encountering a Federation coin warrior armed to the teeth like Young Master Lou, wouldn't he be able to reach out his evil little hands directly?

"Very good."

Ye Xian nodded, her expression returning to seriousness: "I'm busy with another project recently and can't get away for the time being. You go and do something for me."

Where to go? Kill whom? Kill how many?

Seeing the golden exclamation mark rising from Professor Ye's head, Ji Jue couldn't hold back at all. At this time, if he didn't click the confirm button, is he still human?

"To be precise, it's to go to a place and help me bring something back."

Professor Ye added: "Location, outside Outside Yacheng, a Rift Realm entrance that is about to emerge in the present world."

The first half of the sentence made Ji Jue's smile stiffen on his face, not knowing whether to cry or laugh. But for the second half, he couldn't care about dropping little pearls.

"The item you need to bring back is a matrix."

Professor Ye said slowly, "A matrix that can be said to be a match made in heaven for you."

"——Its name is 【Non-Aggression】." ===== CHAPTER 60 =====