Ji Jue departed quietly.

To be precise, the entire process was Ji Jue stood up, Ji Jue charged forward, Ji Jue died.

He thoroughly demonstrated the qualities and advantages a young man should have, particularly in the aspect of 'falling asleep instantly', showing remarkable achievements.

From start to finish, Ye Xian made just one move.

She didn't use the Matrix or blessing, didn't deploy forces beyond Ji Jue's power or spiritual essence, and didn't change her tactics, as if she was unaware of the lead layer Ji Jue had put on his chest for defense.

She raised her hand, aiming directly at the center of his body.

Pushed down.

"Dissociation Technique?"

In the midst of the reckless advance, Ji Jue was astonished yet grew increasingly cautious, even willing to spend most of his spiritual essence to enhance the stability of the Spiritual Circuit within him.

If it were a duel based on fundamental skills, there might be a chance...

Boom!

His vision went black.

And then, nothing followed.

In that instant, he encountered not a basic skill duel from the Dissociation Technique, not even a silent spiritual vibration that infiltrates seamlessly, but a more inexplicable and violent impact.

As if, after amplifying the variation frequency of the Dissociation Technique along with the total amount of spiritual essence and output limit by tens to hundreds of times, applying it entirely to the body, consciousness, Matrix, blessing, and even the soul in a massive explosion!

Defense was futile, precaution was useless, even if he had prepared specifically against the Dissociation Technique, it would still be ineffective.

This was no longer an aggressive attack targeting weaknesses...

——It was simply a directed explosion!

The lead layer collapsed instantly, and as it penetrated Ji Jue's body, the originally tranquil and featureless spiritual essence suddenly manifested transformation, under the craftsman's prior manipulation, exploding like fierce flames, sweeping like storm, rushing with the speed of Thunderbolt, and even...an indestructible blade!

"Sword?"

The moment Ji Jue opened his eyes on the cold floor, he instinctively murmured.

As the haze and drowsiness dissipated, amidst the turbulent vision, Ye Xian's face emerged, carrying a faint sense of joy and gratification.

She said, "You're teachable."

Just experiencing it for the first time, he had already grasped the essence of this technique.

From her debut, to fame, and up until today, through the long years, Ye Xian relied on her creations and a hand of Dissociation Technique, killing from Thousand Islands to Central Earth, from Central Earth to the Empire, and then to the Federation, reaching the endless road and settling down locally.

Starting at twenty-four, thirty years of blood and rain.

Benefiting from the excellent average quality and capability of the Embers faction, along the way, it wasn't uncommon for competitors to target and defend against the Dissociation Technique.

In fact, methods to counter the Dissociation Technique were long since discovered, even the thought process matured!

Whether it's reinforcing one's own spiritual structure to passively endure; setting up an external blockade; increasing volume to let the Dissociation Technique's destruction fall short; or even simply putting another layer of spiritual insulating material in the critical part of the creation, isolating intervention...

Methods are always more than difficulties, just brainstorm!

The Embers' little brains never lack shocking wisdom in any sense.

Unfortunately, most of the shocking wisdom tends not to work.

Because under this premise, moving further ahead, lies Ye Xian's Dissociation Technique.

Due to the weakness and decline in skirmishes, craftsmen need trump cards, even needing a trump card behind the trump card, preparation after preparation.

Long before the Dissociation Technique's revelation, Ye Xian had already begun subsequent development.

In a clear mindset, it didn't take much time, using Dissociation Technique as a foundation, combined with Ye Family's legacy, an entirely new skill emerged through Transformation.

Now that defenses are strengthened, then perform a qualitative transformation on the spiritual essence to shred defenses. If volume is increased, then enhance the total amount of spiritual essence to collapse the volume.

Even if the creation possesses a divine force, then during the moment of dissociation, forge a sword from inside the object, damaging the soul, crushing the divine!

If the original Dissociation Technique was picking the lock, then today's advancement is figuring out the opponent's structure and directly pouring explosives into the keyhole.

Lock?

Screw your lock, did you ask the hammer in my hand?

When pure technique is infused with absolute power, advanced skills are thus formed.

"The essence of yang dwells prominently in light; the atmosphere of yin manifests in shaking... assigning extreme opposing characteristics to the spiritual essence, stimulating and transforming, thus reaching the realm of 'jing zhen'."

Ye Xian crossed her hands behind her back, overlooking the lifeless Ji Jue on the ground, with a faint smile: "This is the 'jing zhen' refined from dissociation."

She asked, "Do you want to learn?"

"Yes!"

Ji Jue nodded firmly, without hesitation.

What's with the pretending? If you want it, you want it!

Even if before him lie mountains of blades and seas of flames, he still wants it!

If he misses it due to pretentiousness, from now on, he'd dream every night of losing small pearls, during the day yearn with frustration like hanging on a beam!

Therefore, Ye Xian nodded in satisfaction.

She retrieved an iron-token-like object from her pocket and tossed it into his lap.

"Then go learn."

The iron piece flew through the air, Ji Jue instinctively reached out to catch, avoiding a face smash, the instant it got into his hand cold, he seemed to hear a hovering whiz beside his ear.

Like a sword humming softly.

Ji Jue squinted his eyes, blinking hard, focusing scattered and unfocused vision, landing on it, seeing on the back of the octagonal iron piece, those ancient profound raised yang inscriptions, then flipping over, he saw, amidst complex heraldry surrounding it, the stunningly radiant front.

Is it...an ancient mirror?

No!

Extremely wrong!

Ji Jue instinctively injected some spiritual essence, and then as the ancient mirror swallowed the essence, a beam of azure suddenly appeared in his eyes, revealing an entirely different world.

Everything that was once ordinary suddenly revealed an entirely different scene.

Countless spiritual circuits emerged like stars across the sky, manifesting from behind the material, while right in front of him, Ye Xian seemed to transform into a blazing sun. The outline of the matrix and the glow of blessing within her flickered and nearly blinded him.

Completely obscured from view.

More crucially, amidst the flux of spiritual transformations, weak points on the floor, ceiling, and walls around appeared with unparalleled clarity!

The instinct to scream collided with the shock of gasping for air.

Manifested as violent coughing.

Ji Jue sat up in a jerking motion, disregarding the pain, and was left speechless in shock.

"Wait!"

His hand began to tremble, as if he were holding not an ancient mirror but a red-hot iron:

"Hai Xiang Mirror?!"

Within the inheritance of the Ye Family lies the most profound and core work, "Xiang Sword Theory," comprising two parts—the latter not passed to non-direct descendants, and the former mastered only by the Family Head.

The second part, "Sword Theory," describes the structures, weaknesses, and creation process of countless famed swords from the chaotic era to a hundred years ago. With it, even with just a guide, one could become a master craftsman of their generation.

However, the first part, "Han Xiang," contains core techniques, secret traditions, and theories untouchable by the second part—it is a legacy capable of producing saints. The name Han Xiang derives from the absolute core, the "Upper Yuan Han Xiang Sword Mirror Diagram"!

And based on its theories and divine essence, the creation achieved is the very piece Ji Jue holds in his hand, enclosing all techniques and changes: the 'Hai Xiang Mirror'!

——Heavenly Craft·Han Xiang!

Holding it, one can illuminate and shatter illusions, perceiving all gaps and weaknesses in the flow of heaven and earth.

Just like that fleeting glimpse just now.

Though his spiritual quality is just enough to sustain this moment, Ji Jue can say with certainty that learning the Dissociation Technique is not difficult at all with it at hand.

He could even assert that the Dissociation Technique, and the subsequent landscape shock, were developed with it as an aid.

But its significance extends far beyond that.

Setting aside its power and effect, more importantly, is the symbolism of what it represents.

It is the absolute carrier and embodiment of "Xiang Sword Theory"; in other words...

This is the Ye Family Head's credential, the site of inheritance!

The possessor becomes the master of the Ye Family!

"Is this... a loan, lent to me?" Ji Jue's voice quivered: "Is it appropriate?"

"Loan? Why would it be a loan?"

Ye Xian's first part of the sentence relieved him, but the latter plunged him to the depths: "Anyway, after so many years, whatever should be learned and mastered, I already know it all, it's of no use to me.

So consider it a congratulatory gift for becoming a craftsman."

She said, "It's yours."

"..."

From silence, a thud.

Ji Jue no longer had the strength for a sit-up, laid flat by this heavenly gift, unable to rise.

"No... really?"

His sweat flowed cold, fearing his teacher saw him as a wolf incapable of loyalty, a dog ungrateful for kindness: "Teacher, I honestly have no thoughts or ambition regarding the Ye Family inheritance. You could just teach me at your convenience, there's no nee..."

"Didn't you want to learn?"

Ye Xian questioned: "Without it how could you possibly learn?"

She curled her fingers and flicked the mirror surface, instantly, light surged and transformed, revealing a complex and grand structural projection, changing endlessly.

"The technique of landscape shock, birthed from the recorded landscape shock sword within the Hai Xiang Mirror—commands lightning, maneuvers stars. Destroys fierce evil, fosters stability. Heaven descends in brilliance, Earth responds with spirit. Sun and moon symbolize, mountains and rivers form. Exhausts Yin Yang transformations, dissolves all tangible, obliterates all intangible.

The genuine destruction doesn't target the structure itself, but the internal flow of spiritual quality and divine essence.

Thus, it can 'break any obstacle'."

She suddenly asked: "Can you tell me, without the Hai Xiang Mirror, how would you learn Yin Yang Transformation, how would you spiritualize the sword? How could you harness the true essence of landscape shock?"

"...I could always learn a bit of it, right?"

Ji Jue retreated slightly, hoping against hope.

"Without Han Xiang, it's already barely possible to begin with Dissociation Technique, but reaching the realm of landscape shock—forget it entirely. Moreover, hadn't you prepared for it since the start?

In this world, nothing is eternally unchanging, even gods who control everything eventually perish. The kings who established the world in the chaotic era face a day of extinction, and the Eternal Empire, spanning thousands of years, collapses in an instant, vanishing without a trace—much less one family or surname?"

Ye Xian chuckled disdainfully: "Since you have the capability, passing on this inheritance to you poses no issue. Were you devoid of talent, even if you knelt and begged incessantly, I wouldn't spare you a glance, would I?"

She paused, her expression turning teasing: "Or is it that you deeply feel the grandeur and preciousness of the Ye Family's legacy, and wish to marry in, continuing the family name?"

"Ah?"

Ji Jue was dumbfounded, unsure how to respond: "Do I... need to marry in?"

Though marrying in seemed somewhat undesirable, if it were for Sister Mi Chong, then perhaps...

Bang!

Ye Xian flicked her finger, unleashing a wild wind.

Ji Jue was sent flying.

Amidst screams, he spun through the air executing a seven thousand two hundred degree turn before he landed, becoming a rolling gourd, rolling from one side to the other, nearly shaking his brains apart.

Lingering between life and death.

With a clatter, the Hai Xiang Mirror fell from the sky, landing in front of his face, reflecting his pitiable appearance.

"After enjoying his wild dreams, let him roll up on his own."

Ye Xian walked away, only a distant voice echoing:

"We should also discuss your future..."

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