Until the massive body of the worm tore apart internally, unfolding grotesque wings that lingered between reality and illusion, akin to a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. The pollution level soared dramatically once again!

In response to the sudden attack, it completed its evolution!

Countless scales sprinkled down from the wings, falling onto the Saint's shadow like seeds, then each scale rooted deeply and entangled the core.

The immense Saint's shadow swiftly dissolved, shattered, and became unresponsive.

Ji Jue helplessly pressed the self-destruction device.

Blazing light surged into the sky, evaporating all seawater within a hundred miles, with dazzling radiance from the atmosphere swinging like a long tail.

The ocean evaporated, the seabed cracked, and destruction spread persistently in waves, endless and infinite.

Having learned from the previous failures where fusion bombs only created light effects, Ji Jue deliberately set up a chain of self-destruction this time, converting all of the Saint's shadow energy into intense heat.

Amid the day-long burning and devastation, the present world had sunk into Hell.

Huge clouds of smoke rose, covering most of the sky, and the numerous dead fish and shrimp in the boiling ocean emitted a horrifying stench. Plague germinated from the decay, while cracks appeared on the surface.

As the temperature gradually decreased, in the burning hell, darkness surged, and the Nether Sea Worm, transforming once again, reformed.

Complete failure!

"You died."

After time reversed, the examiner's voice rang out: "No need for me to remind you of the cause of death—suffocation. But you did find a good method for destroying the present world, congratulations.

Anyway, the only notable part of your performance was the self-destruction."

Not hiding his schadenfreude at all.

"Indeed, the Mo faction excels at harnessing remnants' subtlety, but its essence lies in control and operation. The potential is high, but once control is lost, the weaknesses are terrifyingly low."

A Mercury Shadow without spiritual flow is just an empty shell. Even under your control, how much can you achieve?

You took the wrong path."

The examiner commented calmly: "[10] points."

Ji Jue panted for a while before he finally awoke from the suffocating sensation of lack of oxygen, got up, then collapsed to the ground, unable to muster any strength: "How many for a full score?"

"100."

"Not this low, right?" Ji Jue angrily.

"9 points for the recognition of the former Saint, and 1 point for the effect of your final self-destruction."

The examiner sneered: "Alchemy isn't engineering, creating works isn't about building gigantic robots. Even Atlas of the Empire wouldn't heap so many blessings onto something.

Without coordination or stable structure, the more blessings, the more cumbersome they become, interfering with each other, even unable to coexist."

Know this, even Heavenly People incorporate only twelve blessings into their souls.

Borrowing external forces is indeed the right way for remnants, but remember one crucial point: don't use powers you can't control.

Remember, 'overestimation' and 'self-destruction' usually both appear in a craftsman's obituary.

And those two terms are something you can't even aspire to now."

The examiner spoke leisurely: "Do you know why small workshops like to use excessive materials? To cover their weaknesses, just like you.

When in poverty, doing addition is the simplest, but when abundant, subtraction must be ingrained into your instincts."

'Appropriate,' these four words, are the highest praise for a craftsman."

"It's easy to say!"

Ji Jue glared: "How to be appropriate? You can go ahead and explain!

"Sorry, I'm just working for the association, and no one regards me as a craftsman."

The examiner just smiled oddly, seeing through Ji Jue's attempt to provoke him: "Besides, I'm not your teacher, you have to figure out the problems yourself."

Dammit...

Ji Jue clicked his tongue but then caught the implied meaning.

'Teacher'?!

Instantly, memories of the numerous failures by Ye Xian surfaced in Ji Jue's mind. He had dismantled countless of them, and no one knew better than Ji Jue about his teacher.

The prerequisite for the dissociation technique is insight, followed by understanding and analysis, and finally finding the weak points and contradictions within the blessed creation structure, through one's spiritual interference, breaking it with a single strike.

Ji Jue's foundation in Spiritual Circuits came from daily dissociation practice in Ye Xian's works.

He never understood why so many creations were discarded just because of slight discrepancies in the material properties or unstable construction of Spiritual Circuits.

Even Ji Jue thought they were flawless and naturally formed.

But from this angle...

Perhaps, Professor Ye's standard was that any creation that couldn't withstand a round of dissociation was considered trash?!

Comparing this standard to his own exam creations...

Ji Jue broke into a cold sweat.

For Professor Ye, his student's naming works 'ex-wife' and 'stepmother' were probably less embarrassing than his fool of a kid wielding defective gadgets as king among bratty children...

Shit, time for Spiritual Defense Class!

To avoid Ye Chun, that lazy dog, sneering from the side and handing him a belt, Ji Jue could only grit his teeth, temporarily abandoning unrealistic thoughts, and started grounding his work, rebuilding the basics of the Saint's shadow, while also refining his basic skills.

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