6kv Chapter 1580 - 810: The Locus of the Lost Crossing—The Shift Between Being and Nonbeing
Chapter 1580 - 810: The Locus of the Lost Crossing—The Shift Between Being and Nonbeing
What, am I not a good student?!
Ji Jue stared blankly, feeling an unprecedented shock: Wait, am I actually not?
Impossible, right?!
Thinking back carefully, although I was a bit more diligent in the Spiritual Defense Class, caused more troubles, attracted bigger complications, ignored advice more frequently, was embarrassingly lazy, picked strange things from the streets, stirred up the situation to chaos, and made things troublesome... But wasn't everything else pretty good?!
The Carrion Eater said nothing, merely looked over, with a half-smile.
Ji Jue felt increasingly guilty under the gaze.
In the end, she didn't say anything else, staying to the point, tapping the stack of papers on the table, and slowly spoke: "Honestly, given your age and the time you've had, achieving such abundant results is truly remarkable.
Even compared to all previous cases of Ember Chosen Ones from past years, you are among the most exceptional. You can certainly be compared to... the 'certain someone' your teacher doesn't wish to mention, and in some areas, may even surpass them."
Ji Jue nodded repeatedly, grinning from ear to ear.
Excited, eager, delighted to hear.
Hey, how did you know I passed the Federation civil service exam in just half a month?
"...But here lies the problem as well."
The Carrion Eater changed tone, looking at him: "You've learned too much, too scattered, and too chaotic, Ji Jue. You've accumulated too much, and your foundation is too deep.
Thinking too much, wanting too many things, yet struggling to balance and achieve completeness; changing too quickly, overthinking, yet unable to stabilize or settle down; pursuing truth while abandoning falsity, yet struggling to discern, leading to breadth without depth."
"You are a good student, Ji Jue, but you've learned so well that you can effortlessly replicate everything."
She sighed and commented: "It's always hard to separate the essence from the waste, the strengths and weaknesses of your lineage are almost entirely manifested in you."
The Fluid Alchemy of Mercury, the Ye's Nine Types inheritance.
The Spiritual Essence Refining and Dissociation Technique taught by Ye Xian, half forcefully inserted by Jian Yuan and half self-taught Mutated Transformation by Ji Jue, the blessing from Ember, and the secrets instilled by Zhi Fu...
Each path is grand and correct, each direction meticulously built by countless predecessors.
A singular focus, a singular effort, even choosing just one path is a daunting task. No matter how extraordinarily talented, no matter how superior the material, how is it possible to traverse two different rivers and climb two different mountains simultaneously?
Just don't compartmentalize!
Regrettably, Ji Jue's talents are so astounding that he truly achieved it.
It's because he achieved it that problems arise!
Ji Jue pondered for a long time and solemnly asked: "Are you saying the Three-phase Alchemy isn't sufficient to solve my troubles?"
"The Three Phases Flow is indeed a path, and it's a novel and excellent method... By endowing fluidity, solidity, and gaseous properties to matter and spirit, resolving most conflicts and contradictions within their cycles.
Just like how a larger wilderness accommodates the existence of different species, you encompass theories originally incompatible within a broader framework and proposition.
Even further, you've developed some new things."
The Carrion Eater mused, unsure whether it was admiration or lamentation: "These are strengths, but also weaknesses. Arrogance is every craftsman's original sin, self-infliction is likewise the consequence."
The craftsman's penchant for novelty is inevitable, presumption is equally interminable.
For Ji Jue today, none of these issues are actually issues, not even considered inconveniences, because they are all within his problem-solving realm.
As long as Ji Jue remains alive, he instinctively keeps building and incorporating everything he can use, constantly adding more complexities.
Bigger! More! Lovelier! Better!
Ultimately, everything he creates will grow too vast for him to control, too plentiful to manage, so beautiful it dazzles him, too good to relinquish.
In the end, when he tries his utmost but can't advance a single step further, when all efforts fail to break the shackles, the time for downfall will be upon him.
Then, everything he created will utterly collapse in massive chaos and turmoil!
In a sense, he is a perfect match with Non-Attack.
Ten fingers rebirth the myriad phenomena of the world.
As long as Ji Jue is alive, he will instinctively transform everything into his own path. But ten fingers ultimately have limits.
This isn't a defect.
It's not even rare, such cases of self-destruction are numerous, so common that many craftsmen take it for granted, indifferent.
There are even more who realized their own limitations and the bounds of their abilities far earlier, never reaching such a level.
Limited capability, unable to create wonders.
Yet when this power is infinitely amplified by Ji Jue's talent, skill, obsession, and achievement, what is born is an utterly terrifying disaster.
"Your issue never lies with theory but with yourself."
The elder sighed, gazing at him with deep compassion: "Your lineage... achieves through persistence, but is equally prone to demise through persistence.
Sometimes, even oneself cannot grasp how terrifying their obsession truly is, how far the place they are chasing is."
"Heavenly Furnace's persistence lies in change, yet cannot change, Jian Yuan's persistence lies in completeness, yet cannot complete, Ye Xian's persistence lies in truth, yet cannot be true.