So familiar,

just like his former self.

The earth burning, ashes falling like rain.

Flames rushing, carrying Hell, bearing more pain, passing through the desolate world into the sea of tears, never to be seen again.

But what did he really amount to?

Amidst the many suffering people, there wasn't necessarily a need for one more Ji Jue, amongst all those innocent dead there wasn't necessarily a necessity for one less person like himself.

From beginning to end, he was just lucky.

He just happened to be lucky, loved by the best person in the world, by... her.

Thus, there was no need for a special title, nor to be summarized by a grandiose name.

Because of this, he felt such regret and shame.

"Sorry, Director Qian."

He self-mockingly sighed, "I am indeed not a good doctor."

In that instant, the Bone Knife extended out from within his flesh into his fingertips, the translucent blade no longer merciful, fully sharp.

Pointed at Jian Yuan's face.

But then, before he could react, it turned around.

Stabbed down!

Thrust into the heart, it twisted!

"Call me whatever you want, Jian Yuan."

Amidst Craftsman Grandmaster You Sui's astonished expression, Ji Jue calmly smiled, "Anything goes."

He harbored no great love, nor did he possess any real compassion.

Falsely benevolent, indecisive, cold, simply harboring resentment and anger, possessing only trivial cleverness that wouldn't hold up anywhere. Unable to be a messenger of justice, unfit to be a compassionate healer, far from an unyielding warrior...

"I am your enemy, Jian Yuan."

With contempt, he raised his eyes, glancing at Jian Yuan, telling him, "That's all!"

In that instant, the Bone Knife was pulled out from his chest cavity.

Then, like an endless crimson torrent, it burst forth, spreading, meandering, scattering in all directions, splattering, one drop out of millions landing on Jian Yuan's face.

Like a snowflake from an avalanche, like muddy water popping out from a violent flood.

A drop amidst the blood debt.

So minuscule, insignificant.

Yet sufficient to determine the turn of events!

In that instant, with the streaming of fresh blood, Merciful Blade wailed, Ji Jue's breathing completely weakened, life slipping away, irrevocable, with death arriving as scheduled.

Following this, came a change that Jian Yuan never imagined.

Suddenly initiated!

When he felt the strange moment, Jian Yuan instinctively stretched out his hand, summoning all his power, without any further care or cherish, seeking to crush Ji Jue into oblivion.

But immediately after, the heavens and earth violently shook.

Steel roared.

A massive tidal wave of spiritual essence incoming like a scream, forming a vast flood, powerfully sweeping over, striking Jian Yuan's body, causing him to stagger back repeatedly.

An engine transformed!

In disbelief, he raised his head, looking towards Ji Jue.

Or perhaps, behind Ji Jue, a strand of crimson slowly fell onto the surface of the engine, evaporating from the fierce heat. The engine, bound by countless chains, suddenly vibrated, spewing thick smoke and fierce flames, roaring in rage.

It was as if awakening from a deep slumber, hearing a call that had been absent for two hundred years...

Thus, the departed spirit once again opened its eyes.

Countless chains, in an instant, crumbled under the backlash from the engine.

The key crafted by Jian Yuan was immediately ejected, twisted into a lump.

At this moment, the central core, combining the entire power of the artificial Sky Rail, fiercely retaliated against its controller. It was as if... it had been endowed with life and a soul!

—[Mechanical Descent]!

"I've always relied on this, on that, on others, completely forgetting that I have a descent move from the heavens..."

Ji Jue leaned against the engine, chuckling at himself.

In that instant, as life faded, the familiar pop-up reappeared before his eyes.

[Life-threatening danger detected, standard emergency survival protocol activated—during protocol's effective time, Chosen One's abilities will undergo an upward Double Transformation—Double Transformation complete!]

No longer a Summoning, under the protocol's elevation, [Mechanical Descent] in its Transformation Stage took effect.

As had happened in Jici Hospital, only this time the subject of the ability was no longer electric cars worth merely hundreds to thousands.

But rather the massive entity close at hand...

Truly, endowing the engine with life!

The furiously operating engine did not resist his abilities at all, on the contrary, as if it had been waiting for God knows how long, it actively initiated all internal spiritual sequences and verifications.

Eagerly waiting.

All he needed was to take out the key...

Just that!

Countless spiritual structures overlapped in an instant, verification completed, and the moment all was done, a grand and towering screech burst forth, soaring into the sky.

Loud and lofty echoes sounded, akin to the whistle of a train as it prepares to depart, announcing to all directions.

Under the transformation of Mechanical Descent after the Double Transformation, the ecstatic engine spirit devoured all the spiritual material within the artificial Sky Rail, operating in overload.

The Mutated material that originally permeated every part and component under the manipulation of the Sky Rail was extracted, cries of steel resounding incessantly; in the burning ruins, shards of iron and debris flew from all directions, landing on the engine, mending its flaws.

It was like time reversed!

And along with the calls of the train whistle, doors suddenly and without warning burst open in the void.

Unhesitatingly, emptying all reserves from the warehouse.

In the director's excited howling, steel frameworks, Transmission shafts, piping wires, devices...countless parts flooded down like rain, coming in waves.

The once extinguished beast roared back to life, regenerating its internal organs and limbs at a visible speed, sprouting flesh anew!

The massive beast arose from the ruins.

Yet, in front of the rising clouds of smoke, Ji Jue calmly sat on the steps.

He bowed his head, curiously examining the wound on his chest, reaching out, fiddling with the shattered heart, scrutinizing it carefully, his confusion growing.

Where is the Great Calamity? Where is the Superior?

He couldn't help but burst out laughing.

It was nothing more than a cavity filled with blood, what vanity and void could there be?

Thus, pulling out a blood-stained watch from beneath his heart, in front of Jian Yuan, he wore it on his wrist: "No need for the Craftsman Grandmaster to worry or bother, I'll choose what's in this blood myself!"

No need for tomorrow, Jian Yuan.

Nor waiting for any great disaster to emerge...

Right now, the adversary you crave stands before you!

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