novelraw Chapter 1313 663: A Watch for Everyone
Chapter 1313 663: A Watch for Everyone
It didn't even take half an hour, and without giving Lou Feng a chance to exploit the situation and show attitude, Ji Jue pushed through the door directly from Punabantu and arrived at New Spring's residence.
The Flying Airship requires more than a day's voyage, but with the Sky Rail, it's crossed in an instant — the convenience is truly exaggerated. As long as there's a teleport point on the map and a beacon is set, then the distance becomes almost non-existent.
However, it's different from the Star Core Association's teleportation method.
For a long time, the impression the Star Core Association gave to the outside world was just being stingy and miserly, nothing more.
Although both are space teleportation, to maximize cost-effectiveness and save effort, the Star Core Association's teleportation service usually relies on Earth Veins, simply put, treating Earth Veins like optical fibers, saving over ninety percent of the effort to achieve teleportation.
The disadvantage is that it's easily restricted and targeted, but the advantage is the same.
As long as there are shortcomings, difficulties, or limitations, it remains your good neighbor and partner, perhaps this is also their survival strategy.
After all, the Chosen Ones of the Gate of Eternity are just so incredibly rare... so rare that selecting one in ten thousand isn't enough, and the training cycle is too long, so long that a Chosen One with the same talent in the same time might be riding the waves on the paths of Ascension or the Ruins, reaching transcendence, while in the field of the Gate of Eternity, they might still be spinning around in the Transformation Rank.
This is the natural defect of the Gate of Eternity.
Or one could say, the defect of the Gate of Eternity itself...
"For example, you're a construction superintendent, and upon arriving at the site, you find that the foundation of the building is backfilled with garbage pits, sea sand is used for mortar, saline-alkaline water for construction, the rebar is generally insufficient, and the construction environment has no safety measures at all. Moreover, several renovation companies modified the layout multiple times, all ending in unfinished projects.
The redesigned plans were finally drawn up two hundred years ago, only to be half-burned in a fire... and people from the other company still come up with ways to drill holes in your load-bearing wall every day..."
Back then, Ye Xian asked when discussing this matter, "So, is your choice to stay at this site and continue suffering, waiting for a promotion?"
Without needing to hear him finish, Ji Jue already felt his hair stand on end, not daring to speak.
Why not grab the bucket and run away already!
But he already signed the employment contract, and running isn't an option, so what else can he do but manage...
Looking at it this way, it's truly not easy that the Sky Rail, as the former operator of the Star Core Association, can still leave two or three big and small dogs behind!
Not to mention, in Ji Jue's previous memories of the Doomsday Special Train, the scene he saw, that dark sun imprisoned in the deepest part of the Sky Rail...
Just thinking about it makes Ji Jue's head bald.
Why does it feel like life is getting worse even when it's getting better?
Solving one thing just makes several others pop up.
Even if he pretends not to see, there are things that won't disappear just because they're ignored.
The longer you mix outside, the more overboard your identity becomes.
With the left hand the Non-Attack Matrix destroys the Eternal Empire, and the right hand the Emperor's Hand makes the Eternal great again.
With the left foot stepping on the Hanging Elephant Mirror, inheriting the swordsmith's legacy, and stepping on the right foot to start being unconventional.
With a Sky Rail work badge hanging around the neck, wearing the vest of the Evil Cult, a hole from the Evil Demon on the chest, and a circle of Wolf Blood Oath beside it...
With Ember before the eyes and Zhi Fu chasing from behind.
Everything just got connected!
Calculating all the chaotic debts and responsibilities hanging on the body, if Ji Jue's mental strength were any weaker, he might have lain down long ago, waiting for death to relieve the debts.
Only, all this time, who knows if the president is doing well.
With a sigh of regret, Ji Jue couldn't help but become vigilant — damn, feels like I've been PUA'd by the dog boss! Actually starting to want to go to work...
Amidst the wild thoughts, he had already charged in, pushed the door, and entered.
Then froze on the spot...
"Who the hell are you?!"
At this moment, in Lou Feng's workshop, under the encirclement of countless Spiritual Illusion Lights, a gaunt figure suddenly turned around and looked straight over 180 degrees.
Skinny and bony, scruffed beard, disheveled hair, sunken cheeks, bloodshot eyes.
Seeing Ji Jue's shocked expression, he immediately flew into a rage, raising hands at zero frames:
"You son of a——"
——smack!
The Spiritual Hand appeared out of thin air, interrupting the spell, clutching Lou Feng's dog mouth.
"That's enough, don't take advantage indefinitely."
Without waiting for Lou Feng to act up, Ji Jue reached into his back pocket and pulled out a long, slender package, a meter in length, switching attention: "Look what dad brought you!
Some specialty from the White Country, nourishing!"
Lou Feng gave him a sidelong glance, snorted disdainfully, not bothering to argue, casually tearing open the package, keen to see what Ji Jue could take out to fool people.
"What's this... damn!"
His hand trembled for a moment, frozen in place, instinctively widening his eyes, incredulous: "What's this?"
From the unwrapped box, a surge of bloodlight erupted.
An entire piece of natural Light Binding Crystal, with astonishing quality!
A natural, exceptional Spiritual Conductor and container, unsure of what's used inside to catalyze it, rage, resentment, suffering, and despair have entirely solidified into substance, and even if left alone, it could attract countless wandering ghosts, transforming into supreme Evil Spirits...
For others, it might just be rare material, but for craftsmen like the Lou Family who specialize in Spiritual Shaping and related techniques, it's an invaluable treasure that could serve as a Heavenly Artisan's main material!
Especially the essence of resentment inside...
Streams of blood color meander, faintly outlining the contour of a baby, squirming as if in fetal movement, opening its eyes, glancing at the outside world.
Hungry and ferocious, preying on people.
Pure indeed!
Too pure!
Lou Feng's little hand trembled once, then trembled again: "What kind of trouble have you caused again?!"
Ji Jue rolled his eyes.
After all, he's the young master—why is he so clueless!
Still asking about the origins?
Could this thing even have a clean origin?
Actually, it's quite clean... The Light Binding Crystal was snatched by Ji Jue from the Federation Military Base, and the resentful evil fetus inside was catalyzed by the resentment and despair of dying Federation Heavenly People.
It can be said to be a legitimate Federation product, without any nasty foreign impurities!
To ensure nothing could be detected, before coming here, Ji Jue specifically used You Sui's Corruption Alchemy five, six, seven, eight times to make sure the little buddy could be safely used without worries.
In the end, unexpectedly, his kind heart was ultimately betrayed.
He actually suspected this thing had an unclean origin?
What a joke!
Could anything on me have a clean origin!
"Just say if you want it or not!"
Ji Jue made a gesture to withdraw, and immediately saw that the Light Binding Crystal disappeared like magic. Who knows where it was stuffed away.
Rarely scrounged something from Ji Jue, Lou Feng couldn't help but let out a light snort, considering it as interest.
His complexion also looked a lot rosier.
"Alright, come on, take a look."
Originally intending to show Ji Jue a pleasant face, but when it came to discussing the work inside the workshop, Lou Feng couldn't show even an ounce of good face—this damn thing, he truly delivers the goods, and really teaches the techniques, but when it comes to not acting like a human, he truly doesn't act like one!
He really handles him like a research graduate in a project team.
After throwing over a topic, theory, direction, and technique, he vanishes from the world, disappearing completely, and when results come out, his name goes first on the paper as the first author... damn, thinking about this made Lou Feng's teeth itch with anger.
"Why aren't you dead yet!"
"Yes, I'm delighted to see you too."
Ji Jue smiled, walked forward, and looked at the product on the platform ahead, the achievement he had asked for—a wristwatch that seemed utterly mundane.
And Lou Feng seemed to blank out, subconsciously shifting his gaze to Ji Jue's wrist.
That watch which appeared equally mundane.
Wait a minute...
This damn thing demanded such detailed requirements, could it be...
"Yeah, it's about the same."
Ji Jue noticed his gaze, did not dodge nor hide, revealing the wristwatch on his wrist, especially showing the golden-filled majority of the [9] on the dial!
Lou Feng's pupils instantly contracted, stunned, even more shocked than when he saw the Light Binding Crystal earlier.
"You..."
"Rebirth Rank is almost complete."
Ji Jue did not hide his progress, picked up the watch on the table, carefully scrutinized it—the watch was merely a carrier, the external structure could be modified at any time, the inner mechanism was the real key.
It truly succeeded?
Within a structure smaller than Peacekeeping Cat's motherboard, perfectly integrating the shards of Fly King's Spirit with the entire complex mechanism, as if crafted by nature!
As for the effect...
Ji Jue casually strapped it onto his right hand, injected spiritual energy, and the color on the dial began to change, unlike the one holding Sky Rail's authority, the watch on the right hand was noticeably slower.
Soon, the meter's [9] faintly lit up, simultaneously, the golden-red font flowed continuously.
Unfortunately, still unable to be as precise as his own model, unable to be as exact down to the smallest detail, only able to roughly divide into ten stages.
As for the golden-red color on the dial...
That is the Ascenders' own Superior aura and Corruption index!
This is the brand-new product that Ji Jue asked Lou Feng to design and complete, to be precise, it is a Chosen One rank status indicator based on reference to his own watch, utilizing the Fly King's traits and spiritual energy, supplemented by Lou Family's Spiritual Shaping!
Having experienced the convenience and directness of a table brother, how could Ji Jue, as a craftsman, never have considered this idea? Just the presence of Fly King helped him to piece together the final puzzle.
Just like this, after releasing the theory and tool, under Lou Feng's night and day research and implementation, the product was finally delivered.
From now on, the days of everyone having a watch are coming damn close!
Bear in mind, Chosen Ones have relative awareness of their own situation, but there is inevitably a gap between perception and reality, not to mention illusions and misunderstandings.
Yet professional equipment is all in the hands of major organizations and institutions, too cutting-edge, purchasing is completely uneconomic, whereas using by session is inconvenient, still involves exposure risks of intelligence and status.
And on this track, other small creations do exist, but none can match Fly King's sensitivity and simplicity.
Spirit Detecting Paper can only display vague states, and it's disposable. Round Light Mirror is too cumbersome to carry, its main function is detecting consciousness and curses. Ranking Needle can only provide feedback on major rank and specific grade, not as sensitive, and likewise unable to inspect the Chosen Ones' Corruption index.
Just like now.
Ji Jue unfurled his mind, the dial's color instantly turned scarlet, then again brilliant gold... sadly, after a few plays, the internal fragmented spirituality seemed to break from his play and entirely lost response.
"You damn—"
Lou Feng was furious.
Although the principle and production have been connected, and achieved mass production, yet the first batch of products that he painstakingly crafted, didn't even have time to shine before being ruined by Ji Jue.
Damn you what are you stirring up!