Chapter 32 Come on, give her the whole job!

The long base is covered with complex structures like circuits, extending from the indentations where the hands are located to the interior of the spherical crystal.

The shape and structure are unprecedented and inexplicably strange.

"Professor, this isn't the kind in novels where you press it and it glows, right?"

It's just like what was said in an old novel, where the magic academy tests one's qualifications, just like installing a light bulb, which flashes brightly.

Ji Jue did not hesitate and put his hands directly on it. Just as he expected, a faint light suddenly appeared from the sphere.

Unfortunately, the brightness was not enough for two watts, and it was almost the same even if a potato was stuck on both sides of the electrode, which made him feel a little frustrated.

Then, he felt that the spiritual essence in his body was actually jumping up and down, as if it had sensed some kind of attraction and had an urge to flow out.

“Don’t resist the movement of spiritual essence. Input it in, step by step, layer by layer. You can go slowly. Take your time.

Its base is called a simple psychic probe, which can help the Chosen One's own psychic essence maintain a stable structure and state inside matter. Using probes to maintain constant psychic essence pathways, runes and imprints inside matter is the foundation of modern alchemy."

Professor Ye said slowly: "Yes, stabilize your own spiritual essence, keep it in a fixed form, keep it in a convergent state, and maintain stability."

As she spoke, wisps of light began to emerge in the crystal ball, like flowing copper light, with a restrained brilliant glow, entering from the spiritual channels of the ten fingers. Ten thin spiritual threads swam smoothly in the crystal, following the guidance, converging in one place, and forming a stable ring.

"Now, you can let go."

As Professor Ye spoke, Ji Jue slowly raised his hands.

In the silence, neither of them spoke, but just stared. The ring formed by Ji Jue's spiritual essence in the crystal ball was slowly spinning, and the faint light gradually dimmed. Ten minutes later, it finally collapsed and dissipated from the center.

"Next, use your spiritual essence to spread it out and fill the entire sphere, keeping it even." Ye Xian suddenly asked, "What can you feel?"

"It seems that inside..." Ji Jue hesitated: "The material inside the crystal ball seems to switch between liquid and solid?"

"It's normal. What's injected into it is high-quality reactive crystals. After the spiritual essence is injected, it will liquefy. Next, you have to control the ratio between the liquid and solid states - mobilize it, guide it, and make it move."

Professor Ye's voice was slow and solemn, and he spoke every word with emphasis, echoing in my ears.

Soon, when Ji Jue let go of his hand again, a golden vortex appeared inside the sphere. It was Ji Jue's spiritual essence that guided the liquefied crystal to begin to rotate and swirl.

Professor Ye pressed the stopwatch and it lasted for thirteen minutes and sixteen seconds before the spiritual essence dissipated and the rotation stopped.

Next, according to Professor Ye's instructions, the crystals inside the sphere were partially liquefied, while others remained solid, forming a standard hexahedron, dodecahedron, prototype, or nested structure.

After some attempts, Ji Jue gradually became excited. He felt that his spiritual essence was extended by the probe, just like a carving knife, shaping various contours.

He even successfully mastered turning, milling, planing, grinding and other techniques without any instruction, and carved a small sheep pattern into the crystal.

Oh my god, there is such a good thing in the world? !
Ji Jue became more and more curious.

Isn't this much simpler and more convenient than CNC machine tools? !

You don’t even need to program, just think about it.

"Is this alchemy?" He murmured subconsciously, "It feels like..."

Quite simple.

This is what he wanted to say, and actually he felt that way. It was not as troublesome and difficult as he had expected, but easy and simple to get started.

No, we can't be careless!
Everything is easy at first and becomes difficult later. Getting started now is just at the kindergarten level, and it may become so difficult that you will bleed.

He was afraid that Professor Ye would tell him: This is running, this is rolling, this is attacking, OK, let's go and kill these ridiculous enemies called the Cinder King Avatar, the Kos Orphan, and Marenia... What's the difference between following an online game where a character dies when they die and finding out that the director is Hidetaka Miyazaki? !

"Very good, keep it up."

Professor Ye had a blank expression on his face as he took out a thick book from the box next to him. Each page was covered with sharp and heavy copper foil. He opened the cover and pointed to the first negative symbol on the top.

Complex and strange, like a vague flame rising upwards.

"Use your spiritual essence to reproduce this symbol in the crystal as accurately as possible. Start from the left, and the first stroke should be from top to bottom. You don't have to stick to the plane. It is three-dimensional. Follow your own feelings. The spiritual essence will complete its structure by itself. What you need to ensure is absolute stability, correct..."

Snapped!
Ji Jue felt like he was electrocuted and subconsciously let go. His mind had lost its stability just now, and as a result, the symbol in the sphere, which had just been completed by one-third, exploded silently and completely dissipated.

He couldn't help but want to slap himself in the face!

You said it was easy, why did you say that? The difficulty immediately increased!
"It's normal to fail, just keep going."

Professor Ye's expression remained calm, without any change: "Don't doubt yourself. What you need is to integrate your own perception and will into the spiritual essence. Don't let the spiritual essence lead you. It is a part of you. Yes, that's it..."

Snapped!
Soon, another mistake happened.

"Come again."

So, soon, another mistake happened, and Ji Jue was sweating profusely, but Professor Ye still reacted and just said, "Continue."

"Keep going."

"You ended up wrong at the last point. The density of your spiritual essence has changed. Think back to how you felt before."

"The spirit essence is not a sword. It is not only a sword, but also the composition of the mark itself. They are a whole. Continue."

"Come on, hold on, and shrink a little more."

……

It happened again and again, with only the crisp sound of time ticking. Ji Jue's face gradually turned pale, his breathing became heavy, and he felt dizzy. However, in his trance, the stability of his spiritual essence increased again. Under the guidance of the probe, it gradually changed and operated inside the crystal bit by bit.

Until, a dreamy light bloomed from under Ji Jue's hands.

When Ji Jue's spiritual essence dissipated, the rune that remained in the crystal began to move like a living thing, releasing soft colors. As it flowed, it was so magnificent that it illuminated Ji Jue's eyes.

He forgot to breathe.

It was as if in an instant, the spiritual essence turned into a bridge, connecting him and the running rune, and some inexplicable understanding emerged in his heart.

The soul is like a flame, burning endlessly, rising continuously, thinking, feeling, and understanding. All the philosophy and essence of the world flow out from this miraculous source and spread to everything.

So, its name is...

——【Upgrade】!
This is the emblem and totem of the Twelve Supreme Beings! Then, everything went dark.

A drop of blood suddenly appeared from the crystal ball, followed by a second drop, and a third drop...

Scarlet blood dripped from the tip of Ji Jue's nose and scattered onto the operating table.

He staggered back a step, trying to hold onto something, but fell on a chair and cushion, gasping violently. After a long time, he came to his senses and stared at the gradually blurry runes in the crystal.

"Professor, have I succeeded?"

Professor Ye didn't say anything.

She stood there, looking down at the crystal, wondering what she was thinking.

He just gently wiped away the blood on it, then reached out and pointed a finger at the crystal, causing the rune that was on the verge of dissipating to suddenly stabilize, even more dazzling than when Ji Jue had just finished writing it.

Shine brightly!

It was as if a searchlight suddenly turned on in front of my eyelids, and countless tiny branches extended from the runes, solemn and brilliant, a hundred times, no, a thousand times, ten thousand times more than before!
That is the absolute gap between the two people in their understanding and comprehension of the way of transformation.

Like a chasm.

"good."

she said suddenly.

Not only was he able to use the spiritual probe after his first contact, he also had an astonishingly high level of control over spiritual essence.

Stability, continuity, precision... To a master, these are all too flawed and too immature, but to an apprentice, they are already perfect.

What if this apprentice is experiencing all of this for the first time?

What if he had no knowledge of alchemy at all?
What if he successfully created the rune mark of the Supreme Good in just half an hour? !
If someone had told her all this yesterday, she would have just scoffed at it. But even after witnessing it with her own eyes today, she still felt that it was completely...

Arabian Nights!

The skillful use of probes, the controllable manipulation of spiritual essence, the development and maintenance of alchemical circuits, the application and mastery of rune imprints... someone actually completed all the contents of regular apprentice training in just half an hour?
It took her a week to complete the introduction to alchemy. Her progress and efficiency were at the forefront of her peers, and even her teachers were amazed.

She thought it was just normal and didn't care, even though the eyes behind her were filled with fear and jealousy.

And now, more than 20 years later, she finally understood the frustration of others of the same period and the surprise in her teacher's heart at that time.

Even... the relief that Ye Chun didn't come along to watch.

If she saw it, it would probably be another devastating blow, right?
"You're fine, Ji Jue."

Ye Xian finally raised her eyes and looked over: "It's better than I thought... Does this have anything to do with your ability?"

"Well, it seems a bit similar, but some parts are a little different."

Ji Jue scratched his head and gestured for a long time without knowing how to describe it. He simply stretched out his hand and pointed to the gantry processing center in the distance: "Probably, it's like this."

[Brother, move! Give me the whole job! ]

The moment the command was issued, the huge CNC machine tool suddenly shook, the power was connected, the program started, and indicator lights suddenly lit up. In the low hum, the machining center happily responded: [OJBK! ]

Then, a harsh friction sound was heard on the workbench!
The strange black gold blade head, which Ji Jue had never seen before, emitted a dazzling light and suddenly fell down, causing the huge titanium alloy octagonal ingot to shake suddenly.

Amid the jets of cutting fluid and coolant, countless strands of metal wires flew out from under the cutter head.

It's like a hot knife cutting through wax!

The difficulty of processing this kind of thing with extremely high hardness, extremely brittleness and poor thermal conductivity was like a nightmare to Ji Jue in the past, but now, he felt as if he had accidentally broken into a barber shop.

At this moment, the barber has held down the unruly ingot, and is ravaging, cutting, and dressing it at will, making it dance lightly in the rotation of the five-axis linkage.

Just like a silly boy who lost himself under the sweet words of the barber!

Fast, too fast.

No assistance is needed, and there is no prior preparation. Just do it. In the hallucinatory and crazy laughter of the machine tool, the ingot is shaped and remade at will, shedding layer after layer of cumbersome coats. Filaments fly, but not a single one can entangle the blade that is so dexterous that it seems to be twitching like crazy.

In just less than four minutes, a bust of Professor Ye emerged from the original ingot and was raised up, facing away through the glass.

It's like looking in a mirror, every hair and wrinkle is flawless.

Even Professor Ye's movements came to a standstill.

Eyes widened.

After a long while, he raised his trembling hands and adjusted his glasses, as if he was suppressing his emotions: "Ji Jue..."

"Ah."

Ji Jue grinned, and raised his proud head high, "How do you feel?"

"……very bad."

Professor Ye let out a long breath, but he didn't punch him in the head after all. "I originally planned to use that custom-made ingot as an engineering prototype for the armored transmission spine, and the program is almost complete."

"Ah this..."

Ji Jue's smile froze on his face.

An awkward silence suddenly fell, and only Ji Jue's head was bent by an invisible force. Several times, he hesitated to speak, but finally mustered up the courage to say, "Um, is it... expensive?"

"It's okay, it's only 260,000 yuan," the professor consoled. "Just deduct it from your salary."

Ji Jue was even more shocked: "Do I still have a salary?!"

Professor Ye finally turned around and looked at him, looking at his shocked expression for a long time, then nodded slowly:

“Originally, there was.”

(End of this chapter)