Even with the sa Dissociation Technique, there were levels of mastery, a world of difference.
Limited by the distinction between "Non-attack" and "Mo Ye," the only teachings Ye Xian could impart were the basic principles and concepts, leaving Ji Jue to grow wildly on his own.
And now, in her hands, a technique erged that was perfected to the pinnacle, uniquely her own craftsmanship!
Whether it was the grace of the Superior or the contamination of the Evil Foolish, whether it was spiritual or physical, all were effaced by the overwhelming, irresistible waves.
Segntation, destruction, degradation, and bleaching, everything was returned to its original form!
Including the one before her...
The Heavenly People!
In less than a minute, the entire scene had changed beyond recognition. Hundreds of massive columns, engraved with complex Spiritual Circuits, rose from the ground, once piercing the heavens, now abruptly cut off in the middle.
The sinister light from beyond the heavens pierced through the Boundary mbrane, sweeping across, incinerating all in its path, carving trenches, and leaving a lingering stench of char. Frost and ice spikes entwined, collided, shattered, and dissolved; a layer of slow-falling snow then turned to rain in the burning wind.
The rain fell upon the likeness of a giant erging from the earth, trickling down from its crumbling face as if tears. What remained of the limbs turned to ash and fell back into the mire.
At the very center of the field, the ground suddenly caved in, a depression several tens of ters deep.
And from within the void, transparent blades crisscrossed, forming a cage that pierced the corrupted body of the Evil, nailing it in place.
Around the blades was the vast shadow made manifest.
Encircling and overlooking.
The six-winged, one-footed Black Swan, towering like a wall of iron; both the beginning and the end of the gray rhinoceros, subtly erging from the void, the unicorn that exists between existence and non-existence, ford by converging light... And even the giant whale that provided endless spiritual energy to these many disasters, lavish and inexhaustible.
The phantom of the giant whale enveloped the entire site without fully materializing, yet everything seed long since swallowed into its belly.
This was a collection ford by multiple Heavenly Craft Level creations, a series of artifacts so unique that not even the Taiyi Ring's register had anything like it—The Ominous Sequence!
And at this mont, from within the translucent blades, the sound of friction and struggle was incessant.
So sharp.
"Heavenly People..."
Duan Mu stubbornly tried to lift his head, unwilling to submit to Ye Xian, blood slowly sliding down his face like tears,
"I've already beco... a Heavenly Person..."
"Is this what you call a Heavenly Person?"
Ye Xian looked down from the charred earth below the fissure, "Why be deceived by such a false facade, Duan Mu?"
Empty showcases of power and hollow cores; besides a slight increase in spiritual capacity and total energy, nothing more... At best, it was all just a facade.
She could even guess its principle...
Using the allure of a superior Evil entity to forcibly elevate his own soul, he brought a once unattainable view within his sight.
But at what cost?
His foundations were destroyed, the grand edifice unseen, now like a prefab steel house lifted by a crane, suspended mid-air, with only height remaining.
Not even a castle in the sky.
A gust of wind could render it teetering, and a storm of thunder and rain caused it to wobble dangerously.
Even the Circle Realm and Ti Wedge he accomplished had inherent flaws!
Ye Xian couldn't believe he hadn't noticed all this.
He must have known.
But, he didn't want to believe...
"The Union system born from extraction and focused on Integration falls short due to its complexity and lacks the essence of change. The fellow who denied your prospects back then wasn't spouting nonsense after all."
Ye Xian sighed softly, "Why are you so persistently misguided?
"I'm not wrong!"
Duan Mu's eyes widened as he roared, as if a raw nerve had been struck, he scread, "We... We are not wrong..."
"The Union system, obsessed with quantitative increase, without realizing that sotis, the more you add, the farther away you beco. Your stagnation is not due to your limited talent; rather, you have completely exhausted that path."
Ye Xian removed her glasses, carefully wiped the dust off them, and suddenly asked, "Do you know about the 'mother machine effect'?"
Duan Mu stiffened, silent, not understanding why she suddenly brought this up.
"... No matter how exquisite a component, it cannot exceed the precision of the machine that created it. This phenonon exists in today's industrial manufacturing."
Ye Xian declared firmly, "And that is the fatal weakness of your Union system."
Even seemingly promising, the realms beyond were so limiting. Skillfully utilized, they could be considered convenient thods, but that's as far as they would go.
The related theories were too closed and narrow, inherently limited, causing the level of workmanship to be diocre, naturally constrained by the craftsman's skill.
Though most craftsn were far from reaching their limits, and most likely never would throughout their lives, it was precisely because of determined craftsn like Duan Mu, who poured a lifeti of effort into this path, that the flaws once found by the Heavenly Furnace were laid bare!
"How uninteresting it must be for a craftsman to only create things that are inferior to himself..." Ye Xian put her glasses back on and asked out of the blue, "Would you like to see what truly defeated you, Duan Mu?"
At that mont, she slowly lifted her palm.
Revealing the artifact within.
The intricately revolving Ghost Work Ball!
In Duan Mu's gaze, it floated in mid-air, silently rotating, its outer shell-like disguise and the locks of Dissociation peeling away, shackles unbound.
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