novelraw Chapter 1347 - 678: Mad Dog Unleashed
Chapter 1347 - 678: Mad Dog Unleashed
BOOM!!!
The steel hand had already embedded into the stone surface, clenching tightly, with its five fingers contracting—under the impact of Jing Zhen, cracks suddenly spread from the point of penetration by the fingertips.
Even though the massive stone sphere remained unharmed, internally, there appeared a vast number of gaps and cracks on the originally extremely stable spiritual structure...
Unlike before, when everything was forcibly annihilated in one fell swoop, this time it took several times more effort and energy just to barely maintain the power at a "just right" level.
It was not disintegration but separation.
It nearly brought the gathered 'Dust' to the brink of collapse!
After all, it was a temporary creation achieved by using the workshop's internal environment, not thoroughly integrated during the casting in the Melting Furnace. Though the colleague excelled at spirit transformation, it lacked cohesion!
The violent impact of Jing Zhen subtly turned silent in Ji Jue's hand, stretching out continuously, neither completely breaking down the structure of the stone sphere nor giving the opponent a chance to regroup and heal.
Forcing the opponent's state to linger in the stage of 'nearly gathered but not, nearly scattered but not.'
On the stone sphere, the stunned old stone surface seemed to wake up, realizing too late as fear and grimace didn't even have time to emerge.
Endless silver light flowed from Ji Jue's hand, drove in through the fissures made by Jing Zhen, penetrating deep into the stone sphere, then spreading and eroding everywhere, filling everything!
First, it aimed to read the entire framework, then to analyze the individual functions, and finally, to assimilate the entire stone sphere...
It directly began reverse engineering the entire inheritance of the stone sphere and Dust in front of the opponent, analyzing, understanding, and considering the meaning and principles behind every change from the outside in!
It was practically insane.
The constrained stone surface gradually twisted into a mocking sneer—not knowing your limits!
Better a single word of true inheritance than a million volumes of false teachings—no matter how much reverse analysis is done, it's just superficial; no amount of conjecture and attempts can get the key to the core of the inheritance, not even an entry!
But Ji Jue didn't care.
Doesn't matter what; record everything first, see as much as you can, learn as much as you can. Then... directly flip to the end and see the answers!
At the moment when Isis completed the assimilation, Ji Jue's five fingers withdrew mercilessly.
Dissociation Technique·Jing Zhen!
BOOM!
Everything that Isis assimilated, along with everything within the stone sphere, turned to dust; even until this moment, Isis was still continually recording all changes, and finally, Ji Jue reached out and snatched, devouring all the Superior Essence in one gulp!
Countless illusion lights appeared before his eyes, endless fragments and shattered memories and records, like a torrent, completely engulfing Ji Jue.
Ignoring the convulsive pain from consciousness overload, Ji Jue didn't neglect or overlook a single bit, retaining everything. Then, he pulled a notebook out of his pocket and slapped it against his forehead.
Completely preserving this segment of memory for slow analysis later.
Finally, he looked back at the workshop, no longer hiding his excitement and desire.
It's on fire!
Are these opponents? They're all teaching materials!
"Isis."
Ji Jue raised his hand, wiping away a trace of blood that trickled from his nose, unconcerned: "We need to speed up, switch people—"
[Understood].
The rebirth form manifested, within the spine, the Matrix Holy Relics·Isis radiated fiercely, fully taking over everything.
Then immediately after, Three-phase Alchemy was fully unleashed!
Streams of shining light erupted from Ji Jue's spine, spreading like wings, encompassing everything around into the interference scope of Non-Attack.
The mechanical body seemed to reverse gravity, rising from the darkness, floating in the workshop, merely the repulsion induced by pure material interference was enough to erase the constraints and entanglements of gravity.
Silver radiance surged, spread, split in layers, continually expanding, and in an instant, boundless silver light, like countless hands, penetrated in all directions unreservedly.
Penetrated into the workshop, leaving no traces hidden.
The invasion begins!
The sound of breaking, like firecrackers, was unending, under the impacts and bursts of continuous Dissociation Techniques, every defense shattered on cue, rapidly spreading, penetrating the whole scene!
Ignoring the workshop's angry counterattack, merely after reading the entire operational status of the workshop, Ji Jue's eyes looked towards the upper right direction.
The workshop core, lock-in complete!
Endless silver radiance contracted again, and Ji Jue's hand rose, reaching in that direction—Zanlu, explode!
Amid the thunderous roar, Ji Jue's arm disintegrated, followed closely by countless parts gathering from all directions, reassembling again.
As the flame light and storm spread, the wall already had a large through crack appearing, pouring out viscous black liquid like bleeding.
"Sorry, Great Craftsman."
Ji Jue turned back and said: "Suddenly remembered something, I'm off first oh!"
A sound of breaking the air burst out, engine boosting, Ji Jue led the charge, dashing out!
Leaving Yellow Beard at the scene dumbfounded.
At a complete loss, utterly confused.
Is that right?
What just happened?
Something just passed by, didn't it?
Why did the guy who was just idly messing around suddenly become bloodthirsty and crazed like he was on drugs?
It's like a mad dog let loose!
In just a blink, the roaring sound erupted continuously, and straight through piercing holes appeared one after another in the ancient castle.
It was like a red-hot iron ball was thrown into a bottle, pushing against the workshop's suppression and counterattack, firing on all cylinders, charging straight ahead!
Started with Zanlu, bombarding wildly, whatever could be left was all dissociated by Jing Zhen. Meanwhile, through Mercury, Isis was continually interfering with and deciphering the workshop's operations, hindering its functioning.
Even under the blockade of the workshop, unable to interfere with the overall situation, yet it was like a deadly blood clot, step by step, passing through the artery, closing in on the heart!
In less than half a minute, the final iron wall disintegrated under the directed explosion of Jing Zhen, Ji Jue penetrated the core, even faster than the veterinary who had been drilling and damaging.
What he saw were countless veins and pipelines entangled like roots, and in the very center, a bizarre Melting Furnace resembling a heart.
Connecting the top dome above, and the foundation below, amidst the countless tangled cables, the Melting Furnace pumped and pulsed like a living thing, delivering a massive amount of spiritual matter and bizarre liquid...
"It's already completely mutated."
Ji Jue's movements paused for a moment, and he sighed lightly.
To be honest, he had never seen what a mutated workshop actually looked like.
Either there was nothing left but fragmented Kalami, or Grandmasters like Jian Yuan, so arrogant that they didn't even disdain the Great Evil and instead turned it to their advantage...
At this moment, when the mutated Dust appeared in front of him, he suddenly felt the craftsman's mutation was not even on the surface. When you perceive anomalies on the exterior, the mutation has already, gone deep into the marrow!
During the pumping and pacing of the bizarre heart, stone faces embedded on its surface wailed loudly, lamented, cried, or cursed.
Craftsmen, they all were once craftsmen!
But now, do they still count as remnants of the past?
Even when retaining their original consciousness, soul, and even instincts to the greatest extent, after being stripped of excess limbs and functions as if they were tools and forcibly aggregated into one, how much of their former utility remains in the stone faces today?
However, for the initiator behind the scenes, it's probably something insignificant, right?
Tools are just tools, as long as they can be used, and parts are just parts, replace them if they break...
Just by looking at the scene before him, Ji Jue already understood the true purpose of the Dust Workshop, even the projects they were studying...
Completely remedy the defects and shortcomings of the Dust series, so there would be no sticking between aggregation and dispersion, making the aggregation completely one, and the dispersion infinitely transformative!
With this, there would no longer be a need to fear techniques like the Dissociation Technique, and even further, allow the legacy to ascend to a higher level!
Frankly speaking, everything before him indeed looks like a good method.
Useful and effective!
Treating the head for a headache, treating the foot for a footache, fixing what doesn't work where it doesn't work... Since they were loose, they strengthened aggregation, and since the Dust's Spirituality was insufficient, they strengthened Spirituality, strengthened it again!
Since transformations easily fell into fixed patterns, being rigid, why not directly fuse the craftsmen into it?!
Thus, all the craftsmen of the Dust series, just like Dust itself, dispersed, gathering... Stripped of all irrelevant things, completely here, integrated into one!
Disregarding the opposition between Ember and Zhi Fu, from a result-oriented perspective— Dust's biggest mistake was probably letting some information slip, traces that caught Jiang Tongguang's attention.
If they could succeed because of this, if the theory could be completed because of this, then Dust would surely advance further, and after washing away the past, they might be able to dominate for hundreds of years again!
It's just a pity...
"The path has gone completely wrong, Belzuna Grandmaster."
Ji Jue couldn't help but sigh, shaking his head and commenting.
"How dare you!!!"
The masks abruptly turned into the visage of an old man, glaring and reprimanding sternly: "The mongrel taught by Ye Xian, who would dare come and show off here after donning the skin of the Punishment Team! We have united as one, your damn Dissociation Technique will not continue to run rampant!"
"Whether it's audacity or rampant, let's set that aside for now..."
Ji Jue tilted his head, puzzled and asked: "What kind of Unite as One is this? Where is the [One]? Where is the [Whole]? You wanted both sides, and in the end, isn't this not relying on either side?"
If you are the [One], then why come out to speak with your face? Aren't you one among the many? Aren't you still the one forcibly annexing and tying everyone together?
Since we're talking about the [Whole], where is the whole? Once everyone turns into identical parts and stone faces, how is it different from something cut from the same mold?
Ji Jue shook his head: "Even if you're going to overthink it, this isn't how to do it, right?"
"Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit!!!" Belzuna sneered: "Are you trying to bring out that proper discourse again? Is your position clean?! Why can't you tolerate me!"
"Huh? I didn't critique you."
Ji Jue shrugged innocently, and sincerely suggested: "My thought is, either don't do it, or do it to the extreme— you've already annexed everyone, why not clone yourself a few hundred times, forcibly overwrite them completely? Then everyone is you, changing one to many, aggregation and dispersion at will, wouldn't that be wonderful?
Or, the other way around, erase everyone's consciousness completely, fully assimilate them, turn them into auxiliary parts and tools according to different functions, wouldn't that change all into one?
Now, the craftsmen have turned into tools, but the tools aren't tools, and craftsmen aren't craftsmen, it's truly unsightly..."
Dead silence, amidst the brief dead silence, Belzuna was stunned.
Huh?