To reach completion, it's not about performing a lot of fancy operations; it's about the result and the potential.

Moreover, producing waste or mundane objects is of no use at all, it just wastes time.

What Embers desire is an achievement that can rival a Heavenly Artisan!

Simply put, just create a Heavenly Artisan!

If one is not enough, then create several more; as long as the achievement is high enough, this blessing will be swiftly completed. Unlike the long accumulation and transformation of the former two, it is a qualitative change that is triggered once the accumulation reaches its limit.

It can be achieved overnight or even in a moment.

Yes, as long as you can come up with a Heavenly Artisan...

Then here's the problem, if I can come up with a Heavenly Artisan, how would I still be stuck at the Transformation Rank? But to break through the Transformation Rank, you must create a Heavenly Artisan...

Thus, it's a deadlock, no matter how you look at it.

Of course, even if you can't create a Heavenly Artisan, it's okay, as long as you can propose a groundbreaking theory, create impressive results, or discover a brand-new field, Embers will still recognize it.

Unfortunately, for thousands of years, craftsmen have already explored everything there is to explore.

There's nothing to be done, the academic pioneers have an obvious advantage.

In the early days, not to mention Ancient Alchemy, in the initial sprouting of Modern Alchemy, it was the golden age for staking claims—proposing a hypothesis based on current development and having it verified, or achieving a breakthrough in a discipline, even if it's difficult, is much simpler than it is now.

The higher you climb, the harder it is to advance further.

You're already standing on the shoulders of giants, where else is there to stand?

Thus, the choices left to Ji Jue are already scarce.

Although compared to others who can't even start finding a direction, he is far better off, yet the directions he can find are enough to drive Ye Xian's blood pressure up...

Take, for example, the Doomsday Special Train in Ji Jue's pocket.

The crystallization created by the Sky Rail, one of the few still-operational Sky Rail trains of the present time, stands before Ji Jue, even though it just escaped the fate of being scrapped, but as long as Ji Jue can fully repair it and restore it to its peak state, Embers would certainly reward him generously...

But compared to this level of difficulty, it's rather less trouble to create a Heavenly Artisan himself!

The size of the Doomsday Special Train in its complete state, from the engine to the parts and then the body, might consist of several composite-type Heavenly Artisans; not to mention the technology, even the materials are hard to find!

On the brink of despair.

Ji Jue has ruminated over the Wanxiang Engine for several months but hasn't dared to proceed with patchwork or repairs; when technology falls short and materials are unavailable, is he supposed to dream it into existence...

Thus, Ji Jue is left with only one path.

——Xiang Sword Ninth Form.

Then he got stuck, stuck to the point of despair, barely clinging to life.

The entry into Pan Ying is smooth and swift, though the later stages will require a significant amount of time for polishing and grinding, this slow and meticulous work cannot be avoided. Even if Ji Jue does nothing but sheer effort, at his current level, completion would require more than seven years.

And as for Chun Jun's training, he hasn't even gotten started and is already facing setbacks.

He can't even get through the door.

Despite having memorized the theory backward and forward, there are too many areas that are difficult to comprehend and unlock; he barely mastered the basics, and issues arose right from the start.

Splat!

In Ji Jue's hand, the twisted, translucent sword blade silently shattered and turned to powder the moment it came out of the furnace, scattering a large amount of Essence.

Failure!

"Isis—Batch 7, No. 211 casting blank experiment failed, cause unknown, suspected insufficiency in extraction."

Ji Jue, having discarded the cracked sword handle, reached into the furnace once again and gripped the second experiment from the sweltering remnants, drawing it out.

Before he could fully extract it, it shattered within the furnace.

The Mechanical Descent's sense showed a complete blank, not even the slightest response.

"Experiment No. 212 failed, cause unknown," Ji Jue sighed, "Based on difference testing and trial and error, the problem with the Purification part can temporarily be ruled out."

Then, the third one...

As Ji Jue carefully extracted this sword blank, he miraculously found the blade to be intact, yet immediately noticed countless fine cracks covering the sword ridge, origins unknown.

Before it even came out of the furnace, it had already shattered.

"Material property contradictions, material ratio issue,"

Ji Jue sighed, and under the Dissociation Technique, it disintegrated to dust.

A little mosquito is still meat.

He stretched out his hand again... then, a shrill scream rose from the Melting Furnace, cries and howls like madness, the blood-covered incomplete sword blade writhing, opening its jaws, ready to devour.

Ah, this one's even more heavyweight.

Splat!

Crushed by Ji Jue.

Failure, failure, failure, failure, failure...

The seventh batch, a furnace of thirty experimental products, thirty different attempts, all failed... not a single success in sight.

Though it's unrealistic to expect to craft a Chun Jun with these ordinary materials, at most it was a trial run before the actual creation, but failing over two hundred forty times in succession couldn't help but break Ji Jue's defenses.

Is my talent really this poor?

Chun Jun, one of the Xiang Sword Nine Types.

According to the Han Xiang Chapter it is affiliated with—it glows luxuriously like a lotus just bloomed. Observing its point, it glows as dazzlingly as stars in the sky; observing its light, it's as surging as water overflowing a pond; observing its fracture, it's solid as rocky outcrops; observing its talent, it glows radiantly like ice breaking...

In simple terms, it's a flashy and mighty PLUS, an epic-level +18 equipment, incredibly formidable.

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