Legend of the chosen ones: Beyond Destiny

Chapter 1131 580: Calamity and Catastrophe

The Twelve Superiors, each with their own abilities.

And each unique.

For an internal threshold as high as Ashes, where competition is fierce to the point of suffocation, the most important aspects, undoubtedly, are experience, theory, and accumulation.

Or put simply, inheritance.

While master-apprentice inheritance has its merits, it also cannot avoid the most crucial drawback - teaching the apprentice and starving the master!

The vital secrets, the accumulated records of a school over generations, and countless details and points, all these are painstakingly refined by countless generations of craftsmen over their lifetimes. Why should you expect to learn them just by bowing your head? Are you worthy?

Whether limited by the disciple's dullness or due to the master's selfishness, and for myriad complicated reasons, inevitably arises the phenomenon that makes Ye Xian feel sick.

——Everyone started keeping a hand in reserve.

Teaching half while withholding half, even clutching trivial keys and essentials, continually exploiting the disciple, eating for a lifetime isn't enough, their children and students must continue to eat!

It's embarrassing and shameful.

Even the Ye Family's Nine Forms Inheritance is no different.

That Ye Family, which Ye Xian scoffs at, became a bloated corpse reeking of rot long before its own desire and ambition led to its downfall, no longer presenting any shred of merit.

Even the core inheritance of the Nine Forms has its internal and external differences.

Members with different surnames and collateral branches study a lifetime but can only hover outside the true inheritance, stumbling through life, never achieving prominence.

Just like the Zhanlu in Ji Jue's hand at this moment.

Is it Zhanlu? Yes, but it lacks the true essence.

At best, it's just a very useful Entropy System alchemy creation, indeed profound and worthy of in-depth study, but without the true essence, a life achievement is a far reach.

The eight words "Bound the Wild Calamity, Inner Thunder Pool" in true transmission have blocked countless gifted craftsmen for a lifetime.

At the moment when this gateway is known, the craftsman will realize that their current Zhanlu is merely a semi-finished container.

The true Zhanlu is actually within Ji Jue's heart, that thread of constantly fluctuating, continuously roaming spiritual essence!

This is the true foundation of Zhanlu!

Everything Ji Jue has done before was smooth and effortless because the real crux is not here.

Even if the overall structure was modified treasonously, making vast adjustments to suit his own heart, it's just surface-level adjustments.

The true tempering that Zhanlu needs lies in "Nourishing Disaster and Transforming Form."

With Five Metals Essence and Sun Essence, to establish the foundation of Zhanlu as the container, utilizing the changes between life and death to create that thread of spiritual essence originating from energy transformation.

Then the craftsman needs to capture and consume a Heavenly Calamity that exists in the outside world through Zhanlu, binding its essence within Zhanlu to forge once again.

Making this container of spiritual essence into a Thunder Pool that can embrace calamities.

Repeatedly capturing Heavenly Calamities to nourish the spiritual essence with disaster, gradually sharpening and extracting it, transforming its quality and form until this insignificant thread of spiritual essence becomes a true Heavenly Calamity!

Unleashing like a thunderbolt, shaking heaven and earth!

Retract it, and the clouds disperse, the rain clears, revealing a bright sky!

And it is precisely in this process, requiring continual searches for Heavenly Calamities, capturing the true essence, that it inadvertently mitigates the harm of Ruins, giving rise to the legend and name of the sword of benevolence.

If used well, it can truly benefit the world!

Compared to such secret transmissions, the embedded Blessing Chain isn't the focus because they are all auxiliary, merely enhancing statistics and adding special attacks and counters during use.

Thundering Mightiness, Shaking and Scaring, Earth and Fire Darkness... The Blessing Chains compatible with it are countless; as long as it's from the Entropy System, it's sufficient!

Thus, the real challenge emerges.

Placing bell collars on cats, putting golden hoops on monkeys, capturing calamities to embed into the sword...

So how can one enter the core of the calamity at its most violent, to extract the essence, carefully maintain the stability of the spiritual essence, while ensuring one doesn't get struck dead by a thunderbolt from the calamity?

The answer lies in one's ability, skill, and equipment.

If you have nothing, just rely on luck.

Over thirty percent of Zhanlu craftsmen die at the first step, the remaining sixty percent die at the fifth, sixth, or seventh steps... Playing with fire and getting burned is nothing less than that.

And under the long-standing stinginess of the Ye Family's main line, after the collapse of the Eternal Empire, there was simply no completed Zhanlu, even if there were a few semi-finished products, they were long left to gather dust in the warehouse.

Aside from Death Soldiers and tools, no one used them.

Not being its creator, Zhanlu's spiritual essence doesn't acknowledge you, offering no protection when used, and the Zhanlu born from calamity is inherently restless and violent, prone to explode at any disagreement, perfectly being a Heaven and Earth Same Life hotkey.

And in the records known to Ye Xian, on the few occasions it was used, they were all put to evil use!

It's important to know, starting anything is hard, mid-course is hard, and finishing is hard.

The start of Zhanlu is especially hard in selecting a calamity weak enough not to destroy Zhanlu's spiritual essence, yet pure enough ensuring the essence's growth doesn't become mixed and chaotic.

So, how exactly will Ji Jue choose a Heavenly Calamity of just the right nature and magnitude to match his Zhanlu, and incorporate it into the sword, transforming it into a Thunder Pool that aids in spiritual essence transformation?