novelraw Chapter 1333 671: When a Craftsman Ponders, the Old Dog Laughs
Chapter 1333 671: When a Craftsman Ponders, the Old Dog Laughs
Bottleneck.
This word is overly understated, always making people think that the current predicament is temporary, a narrow path that needs encouragement and effort.
But the key point is that the word bottleneck itself is a result-oriented term.
If you can get through it and move forward calmly, looking back, you'll feel it was just a bottleneck, some frost and wind.
But for those who cannot get past it, it's an iron-walled fortress, a cage of despair.
Exhausting all your strength to struggle fiercely, yet still unable to surpass this absolute barrier.
Ji Jue has felt this stagnation and confusion more than once, but he has too many references. Even though there is currently no solution, with the insights of Fluid Alchemy and the experience brought by the edge of transformation, he can always grasp the right direction. By systematically sorting out and reviewing, he can always find the solution.
But not this time.
Because there are no precedents!
The construction and design of the Giant Que project were born from the Nine Forms but have already departed from the framework of the Nine Forms. The cycle and combination of Three-phase Alchemy are no longer within the scope of Fluid Alchemy, and insights from Fluid Alchemy cannot solve his problem.
It's not even that it can't solve the problem.
Ji Jue doesn't even know where the problem is!
Departing from the scope of the Nine Forms, referencing the construction and essence of the Giant Que, opening another path based on this for upward exploration — once you have the foundation, it's naturally not difficult. All the way naturally... the design is basically completed, but the key is, it completely does not reach the level Ji Jue wants!
Setting a tough challenge for oneself, finding answers for oneself.
The result only passed with sixty points.
Holding the almost full-score foundation of the Nine Forms accumulated over generations and the infinitely potent Three-phase Alchemy, yet the combination only resulted in a sturdy and stable ship's hull at most?
Ji Jue has thought it over countless times, overturned and started anew repeatedly, yet always ends up on the same path... Even though this path seems perfect from all angles, perfection itself is the biggest problem!
Before thinking something is completely perfect, perhaps first ask: Who are you?
The Heavenly Furnace, maybe!
When the craftsman ponders, the old dog laughs.
If Ji Jue really had this capability, how could he let its dog's head still hang on its neck?
He would've pulled it down and smashed it!
So, the problem lies within himself...
"Sir, pardon my frankness," Isis said, "I don't think there is any problem with the design."
"Then it only indicates one thing."
Ji Jue laughed at himself: "It's that my 'talent' is insufficient."
In this matter, Isis is of no help, even though her application of Three-phase Alchemy is far more skillful than Ji Jue, her operations are even more meticulous and extensive...
But as much as it succeeds, it fails like this.
As the Matrix Holy Artifact·Non-Attack, she's born from it, and at the same time, confined within this scope unless executing Ji Jue's command, otherwise, any outward exploration will return to the origin under this essence's attraction, returning to the self.
In short, creating anything feels like herself, doing anything is herself.
For her, this is the optimal solution.
This innate assimilation, in the fictional simulation of the Tower of Transformation, has created a flourishing flower covering the entire present world, but the brighter the blooming, the more the myriad forms decline.
Pure in one perspective, then lost in entirety.
She has no human hesitation and confusion and will never change or deny herself.
This purity always makes Ji Jue feel pity and also envy.
"Still not right."
For the countless time, Ji Jue tore up the half-drawn foundational structure, his vision turned dark, his head ached—a return to the old path again!
Not right, still not right!
Clearly, on this foundation, he can continue, but he's unable to find the direction!
Everything seems right, yet somewhere feels wrong, but it's unclear what's right. Everything seems good, yet somewhere feels bad, yet unable to articulate where is truly good.
Strength without proper utilization.
Even though he instinctively feels this is not the limit, that it can be better, yet doesn't know how to take that crucial step forward!
Exerting eighty percent of strength, sixty percent, even just forty percent...
This stifling feeling almost makes him vomit blood.
The improvement brought by the Heavenly Movement is still slowly increasing, but the pace is painfully slow, which means all his busy efforts amount to futile labor!
Just like getting up at four in the morning, working hard for three hours, only to laboriously make a sushi roll and post a VLOG to show off, making a fool of oneself.
At this point, there's only one solution left...
Ji Jue took a deep breath, his tiger-like body trembled, then with a move reminiscent of a mighty tiger landing and a lonely swan upon sand, he rushed into Ye Xian's study.
He cried out loudly:
"——Teacher, save me!"
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"Huh, I see."
Ye Xian glanced at the numerous designs Ji Jue presented with both hands without looking carefully, after hearing the crux, he clearly understood.
Unfortunately, there was no intention to provide guidance.
Instead, filled with mockery.
"This fundamentally doesn't even count as a bottleneck, Ji Jue?"
Ye Xian questioned: "What exactly have you considered a bottleneck? It's merely a temporary hindrance at best."
It's like seeing a rich young master who, never lifted a finger to do chores, after eating a vegetarian meal once, is moved to tears feeling poor people live such a damned bitter life, thinking his family is impoverished now...
What kind of bottleneck is this?
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