novelraw Chapter 1337 673: As It Should Be
Chapter 1337 673: As It Should Be
Ultimately, it's not about effort and sweat, nor is it connected to talent and aptitude.
It's purely because the Embers Three-piece Set is just too powerful!
Too overwhelmingly powerful.
No matter how careless, distracted, or sleepy Ji Jue might be, any material thrown in could still, at the very least, produce something worth sixty points.
During the entire operation process, the control power of Non-Attack was so strong that even if accidents happened, there really wasn't any accident to speak of.
Within the theoretical range, attempting and exploring, striving wholeheartedly to seek one's own failure...
The theory of Three-phase Alchemy, the foundation of Nine Forms, and the control power of Non-Attack, with many aids, lowered the minimum standard to such a high extent that it's more challenging to fail naturally than to succeed naturally!
In order to succeed at failing, one must inevitably seek out and exploit one's own oversights and shortcomings.
Precisely because of this, the few failures instead brought unexpected Spirit Light and supplements to Ji Jue.
It's like starting from scratch to sort through one's own learning, knowledge, feelings, and insights, methodically and step-by-step, to identify and seize any oversight from a perspective never anticipated before, reviewing all of oneself.
In just a few days of exploration, the progress Heavenly Movement provided was many times more than what Ji Jue achieved during the tough and exhausting times in the workshop!
After personally experiencing the method the teacher described, Ji Jue understood that this was essentially a shortcut tailored for himself, leading to the Ascension of All Things Self-transform.
The essence of All Things Self-transform is that amidst the continuous collision of everything and everything in the world, achievements are made naturally, as if by divine creation.
Without craftsmen, the materials within the earth will likewise form earth veins; without controllers, spiritual essence is birthed from thunderbolts and flames…
Much like how people marvel at the natural craftsmanship when seeing stalactites formed over thousands of years in a cave, even without craftsmen, amidst the integration of Spirituality and material, Ascension and Ruins, many mysterious creations and unusual scenes will naturally be born.
As a result, when everyone is intoxicated by the grandeur of such creations, they often overlook... the countless natural failures and abortions following a supposed success.
Materials gathered too late, and the earth veins perished beneath the vibrations of a volcano. Thunderbolts and flames failed to appear, extinguished amid storm and rain.
An earthquake, the caves crumble apart; a tsunami, the magnificent scenery no longer stands.
Success and failure are both part of the cycle of all phenomena.
In terms of Ascension and Ruins, the birth and collapse of earth veins, the nurturing and perishing of spiritual essence, do they count as success or failure?
When bystanders lament the loss of splendor and elegance, do they ever consider that this natural scene, this divine destruction, operates not for the fleeting joy or regret of mere bystanders?
All Things Self-transform has never been called Everything Naturally Completed!
Therefore, the focus has never been on success or failure!
Instead…
"— naturally!"
At the moment of realization, Ji Jue thought, "Both success and failure reside within reason, as natural transformation hence becomes self-success or self-failure!"
Thus, success is natural, and failure is natural as well…
What he could do was merely strive to choose factors leading to success, eliminate the seeds of failure, and direct this transformation in the environment he determined naturally towards where it should go, where he hoped it would go...
And that's why Ye Xian instructed Ji Jue to seek failure.
He no longer lacked the theories and skills leading to success, yet happened to miss the understanding and experience leading to failure.
But wait—
A gleam appeared in Ji Jue's eyes: naturally, inevitably failing… It seems he might indeed have it!
In the silence, he lowered his head and looked at his right hand.
The viscous, surging Black Flame silently appeared, flowing, surging, rising upward.
Chaos of disorder revealed here!
"Oh, so strong…"
Ji Jue's eyes brightened.
Eager to try!
How about… giving it a try?
And then he passed away.
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— Boom!!!!!!
Who am I, where am I, what happened?
Oh, I was courting death, never mind then!
In the spinning of the heavens and earth, Ji Jue opened his eyes.
Almost saw his butt hanging on a tree…
May I ask, when you put two opposing things into a furnace, with natural reactions, what would happen?
They would either mutually annihilate or mutually excite each other.
In the process of mutual excitation, the collision between each other would directly turn the sealed Melting Furnace into an explosive just shy of being carved with tic-tac-toe.
And in the mutual annihilation process, a large amount of spiritual quality and miscellaneous materiality would also be released… it still explodes!
What's even more frightening is…
Isis cast a cold glance.
"Sir…" she slowly said, "I had just tidied up the workshop this morning."
"I'm sorry."
Ji Jue dutifully bowed his head.
"After the explosion in the morning, I cleaned up once more at noon."
"I apologize profusely!" Ji Jue began to sweat.
"I remember having cleaned it once more after the explosion in the afternoon, before dinner."
"Isis, I… I am Ji Jue…"
Ji Jue's expression began to twitch.
"...By the way, the furnace that exploded just now was successfully damaged just after it had been nurtured, and if I'm not mistaken, I believe your loan hasn't been paid off yet?"
Isis delivered the final blow.
Ji Jue couldn't speak, only feeling like he's starting to drop little pearls.
Fortunately, it's not unrepairable. After all, things like the Melting Furnace are over ninety-nine percent consumables. Craftsmen cause such a stir you never know how big the scale will be. They break quickly, but are repaired easily, still it costs money...
Dig it out, dig it out. The money earned from the Sun Dial sits in the account, unable to be spent. Chen Xingzhou encourages him daily to invest. Ji Jue plans to solicit some sponsorship from him!
The unfortunate thing is, though money is earned, when it comes to accounting, the Dragon Head won't budge. Investing in industry shows returns, but investing in craftsmen is like throwing buns at dogs, what's the point?
To avoid accidentally blowing up the workshop, Ji Jue can only hold back his strong work and relocate to continue.
Then... Lou Feng started to suffer endlessly.
Dammit, the Coastal Technology office building shakes nine times in three days, five days in and seventeen furnaces are scrapped, even the cheapest ones. Who can endure this?!
Old Lou kicked the door in, furiously demanding: "Why don't you go to your own Coastal Industry!"
Ji Jue was shocked: "Coastal Industry is my personally founded business!"
"..."
Lou Feng was stunned for a long time, then helplessly smiled, rolling up his sleeves.
Fists hardened.
First, let's just fight!
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Actually, the furnace explosion was entirely within Ji Jue's expectations.
On the contrary, if it doesn't explode, it wouldn't make sense!
The Black Flame of the Demon's Shadow is essentially extreme chaos and disorder. Wanting to use it for alchemy requires reshaping order from it, but as Ji Jue found out through repeated experiments, it's simply impossible!
How can order be reshaped out of pure chaos and disorder?
The Control Power of Non-Attack and the Erosion of Black Flame are both too extreme, yet paradoxically both naturally obvious, representing a possibility of Spirituality and Materiality.
For this reason, Ji Jue saw the possibility of their coexistence.
He referenced the Great Sin Resonance from Mutated Alchemy and changed the sacrificial target from Great Evil to himself, incorporating chaotic disorder as part of the refinement, bringing it into the furnace.
After breaking the extreme Control Power of Non-Attack, he successfully introduced more changes... not holding the lower limit, only fighting for the upper limit!
Abandoning originally extremely stable guidance, in turn, proactively creating an uncontrolled environment, allowing materials to complete the catalysis amidst it, transforming independently.
Bet on luck!
If it fails, it explodes. If successful, it might still explode.
Creating, modifying, and exploding all the while, sometimes even he doesn't know what he might create... it's like a lottery draw, highlighting a thrill!
Carefree and open-mindedly exploring every possibility outside of 'fixed formulas', following instincts, stepping beyond success or failure, observing refinement from another angle.
Ascension, Purification, Extraction, Integration.
Four stages naturally cycling or stagnating, obvious achievements or failures.
Ji Jue was beside himself with joy, immersed within, gradually forgetting his learned knowledge, leaving his former perspective, finding new enjoyment from unimpeded observation.
The blessing of Heavenly Movement radiated fierce light, operating with terrifying efficiency, accelerating progress.
Boom!!!
The Melting Furnace shook, exploding without any warning.
But before that, Ji Jue had already raised his hand.
Non-Attack cycled, Materiality enhanced, Three-phase Alchemy transformed with each other, dissipating the explosive Spiritual Storm again.
It was as if he had foreseen this failure.
In this utterly chaotic and random refinement, Ji Jue gradually discerned some patterns... even neglecting theory and experience, he occasionally could perceive the upcoming changes and phenomena!
No, not foresight and anticipation, but understanding and comprehension!
Because if it keeps transforming like this, it will explode!
If it keeps evolving like this, it will utterly spiral out of control.
And even after it exploded...
Ji Jue reached out once more, pulling a jagged blade from the completely cracked and collapsed furnace—prototype Giant Que!
Failed.
The sword structure is entirely unstable, infusing a bit of spiritual quality probably will cause it to shatter itself.
But at the same time, he's succeeded...
At this moment, Ji Jue smiled, casually waved, the blade resonated, the air quivered, a low humming sound abruptly spread.
Immediately, the whole workshop, every metal and stone creation trembled quickly, even flesh felt spasms and twitches.
Hair strands resonated, teeth quivered.
The resonance between materials received a multiple times amplification beyond original limits!
Minute vibrations spread with a gentle whistle, resonating with all things, rising from the ground, soaring to the sky, encompassing the entire Coastal Technology office building.
The floor swayed, clear sounds of dropping glass beads erupted, pipes trembled, massive boiling echoes spread, glass hummed, cracks silently extended.
In the office, Lou Feng had just lifted his cup of water, watching the tepid waves within.
Blurring its own reflection.
He froze in place.
Unable to bear it, he cursed loudly.
"Ji, won't you ever get enough?!"
Unable to bear it, rolling up his sleeves despite the bruises on his face and the aching pain in his back, he kicks open the basement door, pointing at Ji Jue's nose and yelling angrily: "Day in and day out, what madness are you pursuing?!"
Then, he saw Ji Jue's maniacal smile.
"You're just in time, Old Lou!"
Amid this menacing laughter, he was grabbed!
"Come, I'll show you something incredible!"