Enter through the main gate, exit through the main gate.

The person is still the same, but also seems different.

Every former apprentice has an irrepressible smile on their face, standing tall and proud, basking in the sunlight, showing off the badge on their chest.

From now on, we are craftsmen.

Transformed, reborn!

It's like swallowing a Golden Core, "I control my destiny, not the heavens!"

From now on, we are considered significant individuals.

Moreover, we are the elite, the elite among the elite!

Not only that, we can ride high on the apprentices and lord it over them, and those who sold short all these years, we can start reclaiming from today!

At the thought of this, the almost brand new workspace master craftsmen couldn't help but laugh till they could hardly stand straight.

Including Ji Jue.

Although he didn't think there was anything remarkable about being a craftsman, craftsmen are indeed remarkable.

Being praised and welcomed highly may be exaggerated, but looking down on nobles and lords is no problem at all.

In the future, even if Xu Chaoxian smiles and praises him for being young and promising, waiting for a handshake, he can just keep his hands in his pockets and ignore him.

Governor? Who?

How many materials can he produce, how much Heavenly Artisan work does he have?

Out of the way!

When taking photos, he stood in the most prominent position at the front row, hands on his hips, feeling triumphant for a while.

But after the ceremony, he disappeared.

Like he vanished.

The high-level association members who waited outside to capture him and refine him at once, were left with nothing, unable to grab even a hint of heat.

He chased after the figure that left first, looking around, searching, pursuing.

In the afternoon sun, birds took off from the wide streets along the coast.

A figure on the bench gazed at the shimmering waves in the distance.

Calm and serene.

[Hey, congratulations, kid!]

The ghost tool hanging next to the thermos flickered twice: [What a difference today, do you want a few more auspicious words from me?]

"Teacher!"

Ji Jue's eyebrows danced with excitement as he showed his badge, barely able to contain his joy: "I got the top spot!"

"I know."

Ye Xian nodded, uncharacteristically not dampening the excitement: "Today is your big day. Why did you run out?"

"It's either some committee member or some secretary, too many flies, they just follow the scent, either trying to ride the wave or bluffing big, what's the use of wasting time?"

Ji Jue looked around curiously, unable to wait: "Where's the senior sister? Didn't she come?"

He had even prepared his lines and actions.

Just in time for the afternoon's shimmering sea, he could jump like a tiger, lie on the beach, and look up at Ye Chunzhen's disinterested expression with an evil grin:

——Hey, how did you know I got the top spot and became a craftsman?

But she didn't come.

Tsk.

Can foretell, huh?

"Knowing she'd get smacked in the face by you, how could she show up? Besides, you know what she's been like recently." Ye Xian shook his head, sighing helplessly.

Watching his niece transform day by day from an elite graduate student to a gradually clearer-eyed lazy worm, as a mentor, Ye Xian could only accept reality.

Even holding a small whip and hanging her up for a beating couldn't change the inert nature of a salted fish, ingrained like the rolled dog in Ji Jue's heart.

Old habits die hard.

Let her be.

Sometimes she felt it was karma for too many misdeeds—a niece and a student, the two she taught with the most heart, almost ruining her reputation in the educational world.

Yet she had no way to clean house.

Exhausted.

"That guy just told me..."

Ye Xian gestured to the side, indicating he should sit down, and then slowly said: "You're doing well, but there are always young ones pushing the old waves."

"That guy?"

Ji Jue was stunned: "Who?"

Ye Xian gave him a puzzled glance, then immediately realized and responded: "My former teacher."

"Huh?"

Ji Jue was bewildered, growing more confused, trying to discern the teacher's expression, seeing neither gloom nor impatience, but becoming even more puzzled.

Didn't we break away to establish ourselves?

Logically, wouldn't they have turned against each other?

In an apprenticeship like Ember, breaking away often led to drawn swords and fighting to the death; it was already courteous if they didn't shun each other.

But now it seems, the relationship was still quite good?

Only, for some reason, his heart suddenly tightened.

Baffling.

Frightening himself...

"Did that person... come too?" He wasn't sure how to address it, coughing for a while before asking awkwardly: "That elder, I haven't heard you talk about them much."

Ye Xian looked at him, a rare trace of pity appearing in her enlightened expression: "The one who got the fastest registered craftsman qualification before you."

"Huh?" Ji Jue was dazed.

"Many call him the Master of the World, with the honorific 'Heavenly Furnace.'

"Ah!"

"But later on, I couldn't stand him, so I left."

"What?!

Ji Jue's brain began to overload, his vision darkening.

"Besides, haven't you already met him..."

Like seeing a hapless child who fell into a ditch and couldn't climb out, Ye Xian rarely smiled, gloating: "With your mind, you probably already guessed it, right?"

She paused, asking: "Or are you unwilling to face reality."

Ji Jue opened his mouth, wanting to speak, but no sound came out.

Because he was paralyzed.

His whole body was numb!

"No, I... he... he..."

He stammered for a long time, wanting to gesture, to speak, but his mind was blank.

Being played for a long time, he finally understood.

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