novelraw Chapter 1350 681: Legacy and Petition
Chapter 1350 681: Legacy and Petition
After everyone else had already made their selections, Ji Jue was still rummaging through the ruins with his mule team, unwilling to leave even a single stone behind.
There was no other way; he was truly poor.
He wouldn't even pass up the exploded fragments, let alone the various scrapped items.
The soul of the scavenger was ablaze!
For a moment, everyone felt a bit sorry, wondering what Ye Xian was teaching his students, to leave the kid so hungry... Ji Jue had already made such a big concession, they couldn't possibly be fighting over the trash.
If the kid likes it, just let him take it!
But...
When they were finally cleaning up the fragments, ensuring there was no residual pollution, Ji Jue suddenly called out: "Hey, Captain, come check this out..."
Right in the deep pit cleared by the many mules, there appeared a collapsed trace, faintly carrying the aura of the Gate of Eternity.
It seemed that when the workshop completely broke apart, something had been sent away.
The setup was too secretive and too well hidden.
But for Ji Jue, the traces left by the Gate of Eternity were almost highlighted in the detection from the Doomsday Special Train, how could he possibly ignore it?
More importantly, there was a strange emblem in the remaining debris deep pit.
As if a square and a triangle were partially overlapping, at first glance, it looked indescribably odd, but the more you looked at it, the more harmonious it felt, as if directly pointing to the essence of alchemy, full of mysteries, making one involuntarily want to ponder deeply, wanting to reach out and...
Just as he raised his hand, Ji Jue drew back as if shocked, covered in sweat.
Too uncanny!
Clearly, there was no spiritual essence or other enticement, only a pattern, but in the eyes of a craftsman, the more you studied it, the more it seemed like there were infinite truths.
It was simply a trap for professionals!
"Elder Anvil?"
The captain squinted his eyes, his expression stern and cold: "It's been hundreds of years... How is this old thing not dead yet?"
Another Craftsman Grandmaster within the depths!
No, compared to that self-important guy Jian Yuan who didn't even deign to integrate the Great Sin Divine Marrow, this one was a true Zhi Fu favorite!
Over four hundred years ago, at the moment Zhi Fu emerged from the chaos, he handed that Great Sin Divine Marrow into the hands of a craftsman... If the Great Evil Company had employee numbers, then in the Corrosive Furnace Core, this one's number would at least be 0002!
But since his emblem appeared in the Dust Workshop, it indicated that the relationship between Dust and the depths was definitely not as simple as originally thought.
There might be even deeper waters involved...
"You've done a great job, Bricklayer."
The captain patted his shoulder, said nothing more, just dug out the iron stone engraved with the emblem and sealed it away.
Ji Jue did not ask much, not even fighting for a reward.
Everyone else pretended not to see it, looking around.
The water was too deep, too chilly, no one wanted to wade in, and who among the hard workers had any desire to take initiative? Let those who want to manage deal with it.
On the way back, no one mentioned what had just happened, as if nothing extraordinary had occurred, merely a simple fishing trip.
Until the ship docked and they parted at the port.
Yellow Beard was the first to pack up the Flame-shaped Sword and turn away.
Then it was Hu Jian.
Finally, the veterinarian, with makeup like a beauty blogger, gave Ji Jue a sweet smile, tiptoeing affectionately to pat his head.
"Not bad, kid, even better than Little Aignu said. Remember to come find me if you ever want to study Life Science."
"Definitely next time."
Ji Jue nodded decisively, without a second thought.
The old lady veterinarian chuckled, holding the dog leash, and left.
Once she was far off, Ji Jue finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He turned to look at the captain.
The captain was still sitting on the deck, smoking his pipe, without any indication.
There was no farewell either.
The part-time job was over.
A healthy workplace relationship should be like this, cooperating as much as possible during work, and outside work, being strangers, not bothering each other.
Even if they met, they would act as if they hadn't seen each other.
Ji Jue smiled, finally nodded farewell.
In the tranquil dock of the early morning, the last mechanical mule carried its large bags into the truck he had rented in advance, and the door closed.
The truck started up, and by the time it returned to the rental company, it was already empty.
And on the driver's seat, aside from the agreed-upon rent, not even a ghostly shadow was there!
This became a strange tale on this remote island, buzzing with various versions, including paranormal, science fiction, suspense, and classic mystery along with the notion of a man cheating... Throughout the entire event, aside from the psyche of the rental owner, no one was harmed.
Including the psyche of the rental owner.
More than five times the rent, paid directly in precious metals, was enough to make anyone laugh till their legs were sore, not to mention ghosts and spirits. Even if Godzilla came to rent a car, it wouldn't matter... The only thing they pondered day and night was, "Sir, will you come again next time?"
At this moment, Ji Jue had already thrown himself into nonstop work!
Four or five consecutive days, piecing bits together endlessly.
Finally, he achieved a great success!
"I declare—"
Ji Jue placed his hands on his hips and laughed wildly up to the sky: "I've freakin' become invincible, hahaha!!!"
After a hasty return to Punabantu, those materials and blessings were handed over to Isis for registration, not even a glance.
Instead, he buried himself in the pile of trash he had brought back.
Going without sleep or food.
This is the biggest gain from this part-time job!
Treasures, treasures, all treasures...
Right now, before his eyes, is a broken Melting Furnace, patched together, stitched and mended, and finally welded and renewed into one piece.
It can hardly be called complete, riddled with one large hole after another, but every structure completed its reconnection once more, even the console was an original assembly cobbled together by Ji Jue with painstaking effort.
Like the original soup and meal!
Though it has changed in taste a bit, who says it can't be eaten or used?
Besides, who would expect a furnace that had already been blown up two or three times to keep working...
As long as the Spirituality remains, that's enough!
After six hours, a well-rested Ji Jue, after bathing, changing clothes, burning incense, and washing his face, came again to the patched Melting Furnace, and then from inside to outside, from top to bottom, checked it carefully once more, and then consumed more than tenfold the materials to reinforce it.
To ensure this furnace can turn once more.
Even just once!
Once is enough...
"—Mechanical Descent!"
Boom!!!
With a deep rumble, the furnace shook, and shook again, in the violent shaking like a tractor, the ancient Flame Light faintly rekindled from the ashes.
Like a candle flickering in the wind.
Illuminating Ji Jue's eyes.
The dead souls pieced together again, in this blessing, felt pain and life, letting out a long moan.
Like a giant whale gradually sinking into the sea, lonely and confused.
[So that's it... I understand.]
The Spirit of Creation nurtured and created by craftsmen of past generations remained silent for a moment, then slowly said: [Please give me your hand]
Ji Jue didn't move but looked at the projection beside him.
Silver Radiance flowed like a gentle hand, pressing on the console, connecting within.
Spiritual quality infusion.
Then, under the guidance of the furnace, the internal casting began once again... It worked unbelievably smoothly, showing no sign of being broken, even surpassing the new items Ji Jue had bought in agility.
From nothing to something, demonstrating the entry and foundation concisely, then through the invested materials, it tirelessly demonstrated the applications and changes in every aspect, finally, within the high pressure where the whole furnace was nearly thoroughly melted and exploded, revealed one after another secrets and craftsmanship...
Even with all efforts, what can be achieved is only so much.
Like a craftsman climbing up from an ICU bed, once again exerting the last bit of warmth, in this brief light before dying, exhausting everything to impart all that he knows.
More unperformable techniques and overly complex theories and expansions have been completed through the communication between Spirits of Creation.
From beginning to end, there was no redundant chatter, like an old man facing imminent death, seeing through everything, defying the commands and shackles engraved in the core, liberating everything.
Just like that, the flame gradually dimmed.
Extinguished.
The furnace became dead silent, shattered, collapsed, turning into ashes that scattered.
Just like dust swirling up and then falling.
Leaving only the final words and a plea:
[In the future, the inheritance of Dust, I leave to you].
"..."
Ji Jue remained silent, for a long time, and nodded slightly.
.
.
A day later, with Isis's organizing and compiling, all the inheritances from Dust Workshop have been laid out before Ji Jue.
Although the core theory and techniques summarizing everything are only a mere hundreds of thousands of words, when everything is unfolded and printed on paper, it nearly stacks up into a small mountain on the table.
A sight to behold.
From classical to present, the accumulation of hundreds and thousands of years, the achievements completed by several, even dozens of generations of craftsmen, are right here.
"Profound and extensive."
Ji Jue flipped through it briefly, admiringly sighing.
Unfortunately, the direction of Dust, and what he researched, is actually not the same path...
The key to Three-phase Alchemy lies in the cycle between fluid, solid, and gas, fundamentally, it's about working on the combination and interference between Spirituality and Materiality.
The focus is on Purification and Integration.
While the field of Dust is inclined towards the connection between [Whole] and [One], emphasizing uniting as one, transforming one into many.
The focus is on Ascension and extraction.
Each has its strengths, bringing Ji Jue plenty of inspiration, indeed using the experiences of others as a guide, but unfortunately, there's not much that complements each other...
Just like how one cannot say that a railway and a Flying Airship are inherently matches just because they are both means of transportation.
From the start, the directions on both sides are completely different.
An entire academic system must be able to harmoniously coexist top-down, the strong correlation leads to the essence lying within the dross.
To discard the dross means to discard the essence.
Nowadays, not every dog is called Heavenly Furnace, it's challenging to have both this and that.
Ji Jue can only take it as a reference, he has seen and eaten much, certainly not to the extent of throwing away his own research for Dust's inheritance, right?
Besides, who said, he painstakingly retrieved this entire inheritance for his own use?