novelraw Chapter 1304 - 658: Beyond Jing Zhen
Chapter 1304 - 658: Beyond Jing Zhen
Who am I?
Where am I?
What happened?
Ji Jue lay on the ground, his vision turning black, feeling that there wasn't a spot on his body that didn't hurt...
After a long while, he finally caught his breath, reached out to prop himself up, but failed.
After another attempt, he realized his arm seemed positioned incorrectly and after feeling around, found his face was twisted backward to his rear...
Small problem.
With a snap, he untwisted it back, tilted his head, let out all the blood from his ears and water from his brain, skilfully switched to rebirth form, and started repairing.
[Great Break]
From head to heel, almost nowhere was intact.
But fortunately, although it looked somewhat tragic, with some repairs, welding, and connections, two rounds of Three-phase Alchemy, and he was reborn at full health immediately.
Such a wicked healing method, probably only Ember could do it.
A momentary defeat can't depress him; quite the opposite, if Ji Jue truly won, he'd suspect himself to have been hit by the Mirror and Heart Core!
Ah, Heart Core is too wicked!
Our Ember is better.
It's not embarrassing to lose to your own teacher; it's only right. Losing to Old Lou would be like the sky falling.
He's more curious about how he lost.
[Isis, replay records]
So, Ji Jue's pupils lit up, the images of that moment surfaced before his eyes, began repeating and cycling, and when slowed to the extreme, Ji Jue felt it was still not enough, so he simply activated the Ether series blessing in Chun Jun, replaying records, projecting into his consciousness.
Revisiting the changes and scenes of that moment.
Truly, experiencing it firsthand.
In infinitely slowed time, Ji Jue, from a third-person perspective, approached and looked at his Black Flame Hand extending toward his teacher.
The viscous Flame Light swirled around his fingers, flowed and transformed, illuminating Ye Xian's pupils.
Even at that instant, an unexpected touch of excitement and pleasure surfaced on the normally calm expression, making Ji Jue feel chills.
Such eyes, Ji Jue generally used to look at prime specimens on the dissection table.
So Ye Xian raised a finger.
Pointing out towards the Black Flame Hand.
In less than a tenth of a second, the electric spark of Zanlu's transformation shot out, and was instantly consumed, eroded, and assimilated by the Black Flame, having no effect.
Ji Jue's eyelid twitched, not rejoicing in this advantage.
On the contrary, at that moment, the property of the Black Flame had already been comprehended by his teacher.
If truly dealing with an opponent like Ye Xian, one shouldn't openly use such techniques, but rather utilize the Phantom-like, invisible and shapeless traits of the third Spiritual Hand, closing in while seizing the unresponsive moment, and unleash at close range.
At the instant of manifestation, already hitting the opponent!
Only then can the greatest destruction and threat be caused... But the key is, why would Ji Jue do this, to add more spiritual attack and defense lessons for himself?
Only someone with a hole in their head would use deadly force against their teacher in a student-teacher spar.
Besides, succeeding in a sneak attack would be odd.
Truly triggering Ye Xian's instinctive counterattack might instantly turn one into prime specimen...
Just like now.
In that split-second almost akin to non-existence, Ji Jue saw, in the uplifted palm of Ye Xian, a far superior Nine Forms Transformation one by one appearing!
Chixiao, Fish Intestines, Zanlu, Cheng Ying, Chun Jun, Pan Ying, Giant Que...
The nine spiritual transformations completed converged, overlapped, and then before fully erupting, vanished without any warning, perhaps feeling using these items against Ji Jue felt a bit bullying.
Then immediately, a certain aura that made Ji Jue shiver emerged from the palm's heart, two intersecting cracks suddenly appeared, as if unlocking some secret constraints, and immediately... the locks reactivated, the chain tightened.
No, using this and the student would be shattered, unable to scrape up.
In Ye Xian's pupils, the blinding light burst briefly and then dishearteningly dissipated, the sharpness as if needles flashed away, carrying a bit of annoyance and displeasure.
This doesn't work, that doesn't work, none work.
A bit of a bother.
It's almost like seeing a feast before one's eyes and finding out this can't be eaten, too many calories; that can't be eaten, too high in purine; this can't be eaten, not palatable...
In the end, just picks up chopsticks and randomly picks a bit, coping with it.
Thus, Ye Xian's raised palm stretched out toward the Black Flame Hand.
In the slowed time, the piercing of the Black Flame seemed to halt abruptly, shattering something, thrusting in, withering and collapsing, penetrating layer by layer.
But within that short distance of not even twenty centimeters, seemed to have infinite obstacles, invisible barriers layered like Composite Armor, stacked hundreds and thousands of layers, each layer neutralizing the power of the Black Flame completely, until, at the moment the palms touched, the exploding Black Flame had already reached its end.
With a snap of a finger, Mo Ye shaped thousands of layers of material repulsion, isolating the blast and erosion of the Black Flame, no, not just Mo Ye!
Ji Jue's eyes widened, looking at Ye Xian, moving closer, carefully inspecting, perceiving.
Drenched in sweat.
And... [Gan Jiang]?
Within this body, apart from the fully operational Mo Ye Matrix, there was another complete matrix!
Clearly completely irreconcilable matrices, now under the influence of the same consciousness and soul, merged into one!
A 1T hard drive containing 2T of content, a computer with two systems running concurrently and cooperating without interfering, forming an effect greater than 2?
Is this reasonable?
No...
Ji Jue, drenched in sweat, with vision fading, finally realized the clue—no wonder Ye Xian earlier didn't oppose his body transformation plans, and even offered advice with expertise...
His teacher also made his own body into a Matrix Holy Relic!
The level of completion is even higher than Isis by an unknown number of times...
The soul harbors Mo Ye, the body forges Gan Jiang!
At this moment, Gan Jiang and Mo Ye merge.
She had already grasped the Black Flame Hand, completely unaffected by the terrifying erosion and assimilation, and then, nonchalantly launched a counterattack...
Boom!
Visible waves burst forth from the hands of the two, instantly engulfing Ji Jue, where they passed, materiality went chaotic and spiritual properties disintegrated.
Ji Jue was sent flying backward!
At that moment, he finally awoke from the 'nightmare,' gasping in terror.
Even more incredulous.
"Is that... Jing Zhen?"
[Yes, Jing Zhen,] replied Isis, [though the manifestation was different, its principle matches the theory in the database.]
Of course, they matched, that is Jing Zhen!
But the crux is, there's not a trace of Nine Forms' qualitative change here!
How can it be Jing Zhen?
Or could it be...
An upgraded version?!
"Gan Jiang and Mo Ye, huh?" He suddenly understood.
The material integration of Gan Jiang, the material repulsion of Mo Ye, two matrices following the theory of Dissociation Technique, imposing entirely different influences and effects, overlapping together, originating from the same source, the matrix triggers a terrifying storm, material convergence and separation, tumultuous overload!
All transformations melt away at a touch!
And this was with restraint, with the absence of the Nine Forms qualitative change and a restriction on destructive power and scale, otherwise, Ji Jue would be reduced to ashes in minutes!
The entire process was so clear and straightforward, without any concealment or reservation.
Like a demonstration!
A live lesson!
There's no need for additional theoretical guidance, the moment the direction was pointed out, Ji Jue's thoughts were like lightning streaking across, countless theories dispersing and reassembling, extending upwards into another layer.
Opening the door to a brand new realm!
The Dissociation Technique merges with the Nine Forms, transforming into Jing Zhen, within Jing Zhen divides Yin and Yang, resonating with each other, stepping into an entirely new realm. It's just a pity, I don't have such precision...
Hold on!
Since the theory holds, then there's no need to worry about impracticality!
Since the matrix effects of Gan Jiang and Mo Ye, born and repulsive to each other, can be realized, then the clash between the Superior and Great Evil would not...
Ji Jue's eyes lit up, he couldn't help but gesticulate.
Utterly absorbed, wishing he could immediately return to the workshop to try it out.
It took a long time before he came back to his senses.
He saw Ye Xian beside him, with hands behind his back, still with that aloof, indifferent expression, slightly glancing at his surprised look: "Understood?"
"More or less."
Ji Jue nodded, "But, there are still quite a few problems to solve in actually realizing it."
"Then go research it yourself."
"Mm."
"Yet another Heavenly Artisan?" Ye Xian suddenly asked.
"Mm."
Ji Jue nodded again, "But, it's still a bit away from being fully completed."
"Go research it yourself then."
Ye Xian repeated, hands behind his back, walking ahead: "Let's go, since you're here, fulfill your duties as a student and come help out."
"Seriously?"
Ji Jue was momentarily stunned.
Me?
Helping the teacher?
Seriously?
Rather it was he who thought he wasn't worthy, it was Ye Xian who disdained.
No matter if it was Ji Jue or the Heavenly Furnace or any other craftsman, it was the same, her perfectionism didn't allow others to point fingers at her stuff, her stringent demands didn't need those inferior to her to get in the way.
Then, Ji Jue realized he misunderstood.
Because it wasn't about assisting an apprentice at all, but his work as Ye Xian's graduate student...
He didn't even go to the Melting Furnace studio.
Instead, they went directly to the processing center on the second underground level.
Ji Jue skillfully navigated through the equipment, looking toward the center of the processing center, at the hoisting platform, at that entirely gray-black steel giant.
Even when half-kneeling, it was still more than four meters tall.
Compared to it, the large industrial exoskeleton produced by Coastal Industry was but a dwarf, the power and configuration were incomparable, it was an undeniable piece of military armor!
"Is it already completed?"
Ji Jue sighed softly, "So fast!"
Even before he started, Ye Xian was already working on it.
At the time, Ji Jue was still a dogsbody in Ye Xian's research group, doing petty tasks, and now seeing it again, he didn't expect the completion to be so astounding.