Chapter 30 The So-called Supreme Goodness (Thanks to the Leader of the Blade of Destruction)
In the afternoon, at two o'clock.

Still in the northern mountain area, in the desolate coastal area, the car led by Professor Ye stopped at a desolate factory. Several factories were scattered within the high walls, and a low office building was covered with green plants. Amid the sound of the waves, it was quiet and silent.

It doesn't look like it has been in disrepair for a long time. After passing through the mottled high walls, the park inside is so quiet that there is no one in sight. There are no security guards, no cleaners, and no workers, but it is spotless and even the green plants are trimmed neatly.

Simple and straightforward, every place is in its place, and there is no cumbersome item that transcends or hinders everything that is well organized.

"Is this your business?" Ji Jue followed behind and looked around.

"Tianping Chamber of Commerce gave it to me when I was planning to settle down in Yacheng more than a decade ago." Ye Xian walked in front and said calmly, "This is my workshop. Most of the work related to alchemy is done here. You can move around freely in Building A and Building B. You can use the equipment when you need it. You must clean it up after use. Area C is the one with a warning sign on the door. Don't go in above the third floor of the office building."

"Okay." Ji Jue nodded obediently, following the advice and keeping it in mind. He didn't ask what would happen if he got into trouble. Anyway, the result might not be anything other than death or a life worse than death.

When he was a freshman in college and working as a handyman in a project team, he was nearly beheaded because of a stupid teammate who accidentally hit a knife. After that, Ji Jue learned the safe production process by heart and obtained the certificate of a project safety officer.

"I'll go prepare the things I'll need next."

She casually pushed open the door of the hall and pointed to the spacious hall which was decorated as warmly as a living room, and Ye Chun who was lying on the sofa watching TV and eating potato chips happily: "Just get to know her."

"Aunt? Don't you have something to do this afternoon?"

Ye Chun was shocked. He jumped up from the sofa and hurriedly packed up his happy water and potato chips. When he saw Ji Jue, he was stunned for a moment, and then again, and became more and more terrified:

"Isn't it just a tag of your second work? Why did you chase me here?!"

"..."

Professor Ye sighed, really troubled by the overly abstract interaction between the two. "The time has been moved up a little. Ji Jue will officially start working in the workshop from today. He will be an apprentice under your jurisdiction. Please introduce him to the specific situation and popularize common sense. I don't need to teach you how to train him, right?"

"Huh? So fast?" Ye Chun couldn't believe it.

"By the way, he was involved in a vicious incident a few days ago. After being eroded by spiritual essence, he has awakened on his own."

"Huh?! So fast?!" Ye Chun was even more shocked.

"Also, both your and his papers are not up to standard. They should be sent back for re-do." Professor Ye walked up the stairs. "Submit them before next month."

"Eh?!! This..." Ye Chun hadn't finished speaking when he saw the look from Professor Ye on the stairs. He paused for a moment and forced out a docile and flattering smile: "This is great, I like it very much!"

Professor Ye withdrew his gaze and went upstairs.

In the silent hall, only Ji Jue and Ye Chun were left, looking at each other.

The messy hair and makeup made her look rather sloppy. She didn't have the dazzling feeling she had in school at all. Instead, she looked more down-to-earth.

Ye Chun's eyes were obviously even more surprised, as if he saw a sow with wings flying in the sky. He walked around Ji Jue three or four times with the happy water that had not been thrown away yet, unable to believe it.

"You actually awakened on your own? That's amazing!"

Ji Jue was at a loss: "Is it awesome?"

"Well, out of 100, you can probably get around 90."

Ye Chun grinned and patted his shoulder sympathetically: "It was very cool, but last month there was a pervert who came from nowhere and directly triggered the destiny summons. He was a real monster... In comparison, you are just average!"

“…Yes, indeed.”

Ji Jue nodded, it was hard not to agree, then picked up her potato chips and another can of happy water, sat down and ate without any hesitation. On the contrary, Ye Chun next to him came up, full of curiosity, blinking his big eyes: "It is said that people who awaken on their own have special spiritual abilities. What is your ability?"

Ji Jue lowered his voice and pretended to be mysterious: "I'll tell you in secret, I can let the phone talk to me."

Ye Chun was immediately surprised: "What a coincidence, I can do it too!"

"Then you are also a chosen one who awakened on your own. That's amazing."

So the two of them looked at each other, raised their heads and burst into laughter.

Soon, Ye Chun pulled out a small blackboard from the corner and pretended to be Professor Ye. He picked up the chalk and said, "My aunt asked me to give you some common sense. How much do you know about the Chosen One?"

"Report to the teacher."

Ji Jue raised his hand: "Basically equivalent to nothing."

"Eh? Ji Jue's foundation is really poor." Ye Chun sighed with a teacher's face and tapped the blackboard: "Then let's start with the awakening type of the Chosen One."

As he spoke, he wrote three lines on the blackboard.

[Inheritance from a higher level], [Autonomous awakening], [Summary of destiny].

"Autonomous awakening is just like you. Perhaps it was eroded, or it could be caused by a disaster or something else. By chance, the soul touched the essence of the Supreme Good, and then was able to ascend and become the Chosen One. Because of different situations, the innate abilities are also varied, some are strong and some are weak. The weak ones can talk to the phone, and the strong ones can make the telephone pole talk to you. Anyway, the upper limit is very high, and the lower limit is also very low."

"The higher level inheritance is to use various special items from the Twelve Supreme Goods through fixed rituals, or simply use methods such as alchemy, contracts, and organ transplants to forcibly infect the user's soul, and ultimately stimulate awakening and qualitative change. For those who use this method, the camp is generally fixed on the Supreme Good pointed to by the ritual, and the abilities are almost the same. The lower limit is relatively guaranteed, but the upper limit generally depends on luck.

The only benefit is that as long as you are willing to spend money, you can create the Chosen Ones in large quantities."

"How much?" Ji Jue couldn't help but raise his hand to ask, full of curiosity.

"Hmm, let me think about it." Ye Chun thought for a moment and replied, "A safe and trouble-free upper-level summoning secret ritual would cost between 6 million and 10 million federal coins, right?

It is said that it can be done with the help of a superior matrix and divine craftsmanship, but the price is sky-high. Basically, favors are more important than money, and you may have to work hard for your whole life to pay it back.

Some are actually cheaper and less sophisticated, but the success rate is… hard to describe.”

"Okay, I took the liberty."

Poor Ji Jue lowered his head in shame: "By the way, senior sister, you..."

"Not."

Ye Chun shook his head: "My aunt has connections. She asked for my opinion when I graduated. A whole set of procedures and ceremonies have been prepared. It is said that there is a chance to directly borrow the [Mountain Light] of the Security Bureau.

However, I always feel that doing research every day is not suitable for me, and I don’t seem to have a natural talent for fighting and killing. It would be safer for me to be an ordinary person.

I don't have any interest in research, which doesn't meet Yu Jin's requirements. I'd rather just be my aunt's assistant.

However, I still have that set of stuff. I originally thought that my aunt would give it to you, but I didn't expect... you would save money and do it yourself, and you chose a major that matches your major like Ember."

Ji Jue couldn't help wiping his sweat: "I already owe Professor Ye a lot of favors, so I shouldn't owe him more money..."

He can’t pay off his student loan in a short time, let alone anything else.

"…Let's continue talking about the setting."

Ji Jue finally had the chance to ask the question he had been thinking about for a long time: "What exactly is the so-called Chosen One? Is there really such a 'God' who chose me?"

"Maybe. I don't know. But there are not just one, but at least twelve."

Ye Chun replied: "Chosen by Heaven, on the one hand, it means that the Chosen Ones themselves are difficult to be born and difficult to appear in large quantities. On the other hand, some people also say that the moment the Chosen Ones wake up, they have been entrusted with the destiny.

The Chosen Ones are those chosen by the ‘Greater Good’.”

As she spoke, she kept writing on the blackboard, and in one breath, she wrote down the name that Ji Jue had heard several times before - [Twelve Supreme Virtues].

Ascension, Tianyuan, Large Group, White Deer, Vortex, Heart Pivot, Ether, Eternity's Gate, Embers, Mirror, Entropy, Ruins.

"This is the source of the Chosen One's power. It comes in twelve different directions, or what we call the Twelve Supreme Goods."

Ye Chun explained solemnly: "They are not living beings, nor are they gods, but a magnificent tapestry woven together by countless events in the past and future, extending to the beginning of the past and ending at the end of destruction.

In a sense, everything they make up is the world we know.

[Transformation] represents transcendence and truth; [Tianyuan] represents order and governance; [White Deer] represents wildness and chaos; [Vortex] represents the birth, aging, illness and death of all life; [The Swarm] represents struggle and destruction; [Heart Pivot] represents thinking and desire; [Ether] represents observation and recording; [Gate of Eternity] represents space and time; [Mirror] represents illusion and nothingness; [Ember] represents creation and renewal; [Entropy] represents energy and explosion; [Ruins] represents matter and eternity.

“As a newcomer, you must remember the symbols and emblems they represent, and stay away from any tapestries and symbols other than these twelve.

——Besides the highest good, everything else is evil and foolish!”

Ji Jue asked curiously: "If it gets contaminated accidentally..."

"It will become evil."

Ye Chun smiled: "If you are lucky, you will die easily. If you are unlucky, you will live a tormented life. Perhaps turning into some kind of inhuman deformed species will allow you to live forever in eternal pain.

So, you must remember it... Of course, it doesn't matter if you can't remember it. After a long time, you will naturally get used to it. Just don't touch those messy and weird things. "

Ji Jue almost lay on the blackboard, staring at it and memorizing it, and was puzzled again: "You just said that the big group represents struggle and destruction, but... the big group is also the best?
What’s good about this?”

"Yeah, why not?"

Ye Chun said as a matter of course: "War and fighting are also part of the world, although ugly or brutal, but that's how it is. If the group is not considered good, then the white deer that controls wildness, instinct, freedom and resistance should also be expelled from it? Doesn't Tianyuan, which represents rule and order, also symbolize tyranny and control?

The Supreme Good is eternal, transcending the mundane world, and it does not change or waver because of people’s likes and dislikes.”

(End of this chapter)