Chapter 81

Just like that, slowly, cautiously, taking three steps and retreating two, Ji Jue moved to the edge of the defense field, tentatively poked one foot in, then both feet in, and finally... the whole person, along with the car, went in.

No reaction.

The darkness, towering like a cliff, wriggled, slowly opened from the center, cleared the way for him, and even made people feel that if it were smarter, it would have to pull a banner to welcome the owner home...

Without any twists and turns, without any wind and waves, he came in!

Not only Ji Jue, but even the two figures who quietly touched up from behind were stunned in place.

Looking at each other.

What the hell?

"Could it be that too many people rushed in before, and it's out of power now?" the other person asked softly.

The moment they reacted, they walked toward the hub with their heads held high, and then... they fled in a mess under the siege of thunder and fire, screaming.

Immediately after, the darkness wriggled, wow, and swallowed them all clean.

No more sound.

In the deepest part of the darkness, the heavy door was already riddled with holes and fell down toward the sky.

The broken remains were scattered messily in the equally tragic hall, just like being hit by a hurricane, I don't know how many explosion marks, vaguely able to distinguish the charred remains of blood and corpses.

"Is this too iron-headed?"

Ji Jue smelled the strange burnt smell in the air, restraining his urge to gasp: Someone just took their face to scout the grass?

This is the workshop hub, or the sage's workshop...

Noticing the faint broken spiritual quality circuits in the air, Ji Jue could almost feel how exaggerated the traps and defenses the previous intruders had triggered.

After four hundred years, after the hub's security forces had faded I don't know how many times, it was still enough to crush him hundreds of times.

Just entering the gate, Ji Jue wanted to retreat.

After all, a sage, crushing Chosen Ones like them who hadn't even reached the Rebirth Rank, was just like playing. If defense was really needed, then it must have been set up according to the degree of equality with herself...

In order to expand the scope of the workshop and control the entire Rift Realm, she had already removed everything that could be sacrificed and omitted, only retaining the degree of having it is better than nothing.

To this extent, I don't understand what she is thinking at all!

After walking into the hub, the Ghost Work Ball, which had been fishing and watching the show, didn't dare to continue paddling, disintegrated from Ji Jue's arms, and emitted a faint blue light that vaguely covered them, helping them shield from the workshop's supervision and detection.

Ji Jue's access rights were completely enough to enter the gate, but God knows what management rules were inside. If they didn't match and triggered some ghost thing, it would be over.

【Stealth project started——】 The mechanical and rigid voice rang out: 【Element collection finished, analysis sequence loading, loading finished, spiritual quality vision started】

It was impossible to distinguish how earth-shaking and complex changes occurred inside the Ghost Work Ball in an instant. In the intertwining of several blessings, the general outline and structure of the workshop hub had appeared before Ji Jue's eyes, and then, what was directly loaded was the effect formed by the blessings from Metamorphosis and Ether.

Spiritual Quality Vision——able to observe all changes, flows, and operating trends of spiritual quality directly with the naked eye and perception, just like throwing dye into clear water, clear as fire...

There was no time to teach Ji Jue what colors and symbols represented what Supreme and what spiritual quality qualitative change. The thick book of analysis instructions was smashed into Ji Jue's soul like a brick, forcibly memorized, making his eyes go dark.

When he opened his eyes again, the world had become completely different.

All turmoil was collected in his eyes.

"Come, let me see——"

Ji Jue grinned and made the sound that every Chosen One of the Ether Path would make, and then... he felt like he was blind.

Light!

Too much strong light, flashing brightly, so dazzling, as if thousands of flashbangs had suddenly exploded in an instant, the overly abundant information and impact turned into a hammer, smashing on his forehead. Fortunately, with the operation and shielding of the Ghost Work Ball, the light was quickly reduced to a faint level.

Then, as if the curtain had been pulled open, the colorful colors hidden behind the fierce light finally appeared before his eyes.

Clearly, it only looked like a hall-like building from the outside, but the internal space was unimaginably huge, and it was still constantly changing and expanding.

As if it were a living thing, changing endlessly.

At this moment, it was like translucent glass, flashing with the glow of spiritual quality and Supreme everywhere.

Through the obstruction of the walls, one could see the intense flashes scattered everywhere in the hub, whether it was the natural fluctuations during circuit operation or the destruction and resistance from intruders.

Ji Jue couldn't help but gasp several times.

"You guys really have your own unique skills!"

It was like a safety officer going to work on the construction site for the first time, looking up and seeing that every scene was so bizarre and wonderful, so insane that he couldn't bear to look directly at it.

There were those who didn't know whether they were alive or dead and hit the hub's defense measures, those who relied on many people and armaments to destructively develop and demolish like Young Master Lou, those who ran around like headless flies, and those who carried sacks and even wanted to shovel the gold-plated decorations on the walls into their bags...

It was like a red-hot iron ball being thrown into a pool suddenly, and the boiling spiritual quality reaction rose one after another, making the quiet and deep pool water reveal a ferocious appearance in the disturbance.

? ￠o

Among them, the most eye-catching... was a spiritual quality torrent mixed with five colors and turned into pitch black, which looked creepy and was constantly changing its own form!

At this moment, in the hub, the torrent was raging and spreading, and even preying on other Chosen Ones who had broken in. Often after a face-to-face encounter, the other party's signal disappeared completely, merging into that piece of viscous pitch black...

It was completely unclear how this kind of evil thing came from!

【Spiritual quality analysis comparison finished——judged as, Dragon Sacrifice Society】

The moment the Ghost Work Ball gave the judgment result, he couldn't help but have his eyes go dark again.

Damn, why is it you again!

Why are you everywhere!

Ji Jue felt cold and trembling, not understanding how such a big bomb was suddenly thrown into the fish pond. It couldn't be that the old ghost Lawrence finally won the resurrection match, right?!

Especially when he saw the number behind the reference rank marked by the Ghost Work Ball...

Eighth Stage?!

What kind of dog joke are you making?

Crossing the Invocation and Metamorphosis, arriving at the Rebirth Rank, this had already thrown Ji Jue, a white-board newcomer who hadn't even entered the door, three big realms away!

No, how did he get in? Didn't they say this game was card-face?

Boom!

In the momentary distraction, a fierce shock suddenly erupted, like an invisible wave whistling past.

The earth shook.

Not just the hub and the underground, it was as if the entire Rift Realm had ushered in unprecedented turmoil, making the sound of breaking continue one after another. On the dome outside the hub, cracks spread rapidly... the sea of spiritual quality boiled in the shock, disturbing the rainbow light.

A faint bell rang.

As if it were an illusion, echoing in the ears of every soul.

The vast hub also shook violently, the internal structure changed rapidly, like a living maze, expanding again, evolving into infinite structures and changes!

Literally, the world was spinning.

Ji Jue almost accidentally fell to the ceiling, but soon, the ceiling also fell under his feet in the rotation. Little Niu Ma was panicked and clung to the original floor, upside down, looking out in horror, beeping and screaming.

It was also thanks to Ji Jue's quick eyes and fast hands that he fished the Prophet who had fallen out of the car basket back.

"What's going on?"

He looked around in shock: "I seem to have seen this lens in a horror movie of the old generation."

"Just adaptive changes, not even a defense program."

The Prophet said indifferently: "Fluid Alchemy is the art of adapting matter to essence. Under external stimulation, the hub will expand its own domain and change the internal space to maintain its original function."

"You can regard the entire hub as a living space, and it is constantly in a state of change. All sequences are preparing for the restart."

"We don't have much time."

"Then how to go next?" Ji Jue looked around, those constantly rising stairs and doors that appeared and disappeared on the walls: "Do you want to open a blind box?"

"Do you think Mercury would walk up the stairs with a map when she goes home?" The Prophet seemed to smile: "The hub is a lock that is constantly changing. All intruders who haven't mastered its laws and essence will be trapped in infinite changes, and Fluid Alchemy is the key——Ji Jue, you have to learn to look down, not up."

"Ah?"

Ji Jue lowered his head, only seeing the constantly changing patterns on the floor, confused.

"Not looking down, but looking 'down.' Ignore appearances, don't be stuck on physical properties, seek the essence. Looking up is complicated and distant, looking down is to grasp the true marrow."

"One is form, one is spirit."

The Prophet said slowly: "Form and use are the ways of chaos, spirit and truth are the pure marrow——don't be dazzled by those messy application methods and theories. Trace the essence, adjust the essence, control the essence, this is the true essence of Fluid Alchemy."

Ji Jue froze in place.

Dazed, looking at the spiritual quality vision in front of him.

Countless changing lights, rising, falling, dancing, disturbing, calming, the entire world operates like stars, as if invisible hands control everything, descending from the invisible high place, easily controlling everything.

Including himself.

The hub, the underground, and even the entire Rift Realm, invisible veins are like threads, entangled between those invisible ten fingers, following the predetermined instructions, just a slight adjustment, triggering infinite changes and extensions.

From one to all.

Invisible fluids intertwined into countless turbulent flows. If you are in it, you will only be confused and lost, but if you want to jump out of it and overlook the overall situation, then, you must——【Look down】!

Look down.

"... So, no, I'm looking for the road."

Ji Jue whispered in a daze, as if lightning flashed across his brain suddenly: "But let the road appear under my feet, right?"

Control the workshop, let all this make way for yourself.

So simple.

But unfortunately, he can't do it.

He is not a sage, and he is far from the master's realm, it can be said that he is overestimating his capabilities.

"So, the reverse application should also work."

Ji Jue whispered decisively, making the Prophet's expression slightly stagnant, the words she originally intended to say could no longer be spoken, and she looked back in astonishment.

For the first time, she noticed this terrifying talent that had never been seen in four hundred years.

Admittedly, as a white-board newcomer, Ji Jue wanting to control the workshop is a pipe dream.

But he can control himself.

Through Fluid Alchemy, apply interference to himself, let himself become a part of the hub, truly participate in the operation of the hub...

Even, truly, integrate into it!

For others, it may also be a pipe dream. But for deus ex machina, it is simply, easy!

Even, it only takes a moment...

In a flick of a finger, deus ex machina had already captured the huge vibration that filled the entire Rift Realm. It was not for communication, nor for domination, but as a part of the entire workshop, Ji Jue had already integrated into it by relying on the access rights from the old furnace.

The indescribable terrifying roar exploded in Ji Jue's skull, like the rolling echo of the world's operation. Even if it was just the afterwave of the afterwave, it was enough to make him unable to bear it.

But with the blood seeping from his mouth and nose, Ji Jue's eyes became brighter and brighter.

From the observation of spiritual quality vision, everything that changed complicatedly suddenly became so clear, and the mysterious operation seemed to become logical, straightforward and unmasked.

The operation of countless rooms, shrinking, enlarging, birth and destruction also became clear as fire.

He was like dust, passively operating from within the huge Rubik's cube.

But now, the Rubik's cube had revealed a mysterious corner to him, revealing the mechanism of operation behind it...

Slap!

In the fierce shock, a crack actually emerged from the rotating wall on the opposite side out of thin air, revealing the complex structure that kept changing behind it, and the narrow passage that kept changing and didn't know where it led.

"Hold on tight, Xiao An."

Ji Jue couldn't care about wiping the nosebleed, laughed, and twisted the throttle: "We are going to hitch a ride!"

The engine roared.

They galloped, rushing toward the darkness!

Sorry, the update is a bit late.

My body temperature is still changing intermittently, but the headache is gone, but after the big symptoms ended, countless small symptoms began to torture people, and there was no good place on my whole body, uncomfortable.