Chapter 00023: The Supreme Goodness Reigns (Thank you to the Alcohol Crazed Hairdryer and the Feathered Sister Faction Leader)
# The Supreme Goodness Reigns (Thank you to the Alcohol-Crazed Hairdryer and the Feathered Sister Faction Leader)
Chapter 23
Novel: Above Destiny
Chapter 23: The Supreme Goodness Reigns (Thank you to the Alcohol-Crazed Hairdryer and the Feathered Sister Faction Leader)
Once vibrant and tumultuous, the power of dragon blood at this moment inexplicably came to a halt.
In a mere blink of an eye, it was enough to bring him to utter ruin!
Boom!
As Minerva's iron fist came crashing down once more, the storm of destruction swept everything away, even suppressing the unfinished dragon blood, shattering his skull into pieces.
From above, it smashed directly into his chest.
Lawrence roared, the exposed bones of his arms shimmering with intricate scales, fortifying against Wenwen's punch.
His shattered wings, with eyes now wide open, turned to face the enormous tree.
And there, he saw Ji Jue, awake and entangled in roots, smiling as he raised his middle finger.
“Surprised? Unexpected?”
He asked lightly, “I told you I knew you. Many kind-hearted people brought me back!”
Thus, Ji Jue opened his mouth and suddenly bit down on the nearby roots.
The giant tree trembled, countless tentacle-like branches quivering, revealing signs of withering.
“What the hell are you doing?” Lawrence's voice trembled, disbelief and even greater fear than from Minerva's attacks crept in, “Stop! Stop now!”
The Spiral Planting Technique!
His progress in the Spiral Planting Technique had actually ceased?!
No, it was not just stopping... there was an unprecedented void that had formed inside him, greedily swallowing what should have rightfully been his, plundering the dragon blood that should be flowing to his heart!
What was happening? What was going on? How was he doing this?
“Stop!!!”
Lawrence roared.
Ji Jue, deaf to his pleas, spread his arms wide open.
His eyes widened, filled with a deep crimson.
Those lingering pains and despair now surged through his body, igniting a hunger and frenzy.
As the host for the Spiral Planting Technique, he was embracing the invasive thirst for blood.
Even more, under the sway of countless twisted essences, he had turned the tables, continually seizing control from Lawrence!
Damn your calamity, damn your precious talent, damn everything!
Life is about survival; if there's food, you eat, if there's filth, you deal with it—who cares about twisted essences? I just want to eat, eat, eat!
Thus, he gulped down the dragon blood, as if consuming scorching magma, and those pains and despair seemed to drift away, and he didn’t care at all.
Lawrence bellowed, trying to rush in, blood and flesh sprouting like thorns, striving to interrupt him, but crystalline pillars shot up from the earth, placing Ji Jue safely behind them.
At this moment, the roles of attack and defense had changed.
Amidst the roars and screams, Lawrence's body expanded further, madly launching attacks without any prior ease or joy.
It was as if something inside him was sucking away at his life and blood, like a straw extracting every drop.
Now, the host and the recipient had become intertwined through the Spiral Planting Technique.
Indivisible.
Once Ji Jue wrenched control back, the formerly one-way flow of the blood began to struggle, pulling and tugging, both fighting for what the Spiral Planting Technique had drawn forth from the dragon blood.
However, on Ji Jue's side, the suction grew larger and larger!
From the encroaching dragon blood, Ji Jue howled.
His eyes elongated, taking on a beastly appearance as scales started to faintly emerge on his limbs, then shed, as though undergoing a genetic mutation.
“Stop it, Ji Jue!”
Wenwen turned back, shouting, “You’re not the chosen one yet! If you absorb too much, you will completely mutate! Stop!”
But Ji Jue no longer cared.
He even quickened his pace.
Inside his body, the pain and resentment left by countless souls surged like a tidal wave, driving him to exact revenge on the true culprit before him!
Ravage! Crush! Tear apart! Torture!
In the end, to shreds!
“Am I not busy? What’s the rush?!” Ji Jue gritted his teeth, suppressing the savage impulses in his soul, tilting his head to gaze at the empty night sky.
And beyond the dim stars, there were those vague outlines, those enormous figures seemingly observing him.
They were watching him.
“Chosen ones, right? You’ve watched for so many years, what are you waiting for?”
Ji Jue beckoned, shouting to them, “Come on, choose! Do whatever the hell you want to choose!”
“—Who asked you to pick for me?!”
Amidst the booming sounds, Minerva’s expression changed.
Even under the pressure of the matrix, her emotional fluctuations had dropped to the lowest point, stark as iron.
Yet even now, she remained perplexed and bewildered.
Could it be that the chosen ones were merely for you to pick from? Did you think it was like buying cabbage at the market? You can’t just say pick and it’s done! Even if you are a spontaneous awakener with talent and potential, you can’t just wave your hand and...
In that instant, she froze in place.
Because the heavens split apart.
Not just above the hospital, nor just within this bounding realm, not even just in the northern district.
From where the waves reached through the towering mountains, the entire Cliff City, for a thousand miles, all the stars disappeared, as if departing the stage with the lifting of a curtain.
What took their place was a vast radiance invisible to ordinary eyes.
Solemn and cold outlines began to appear, seeming to be the ultimate authority formed from the gathering of countless phenomena and changes in the mundane world!
All-encompassing, formless entities, towering and majestic parapets, crowns woven from bones and blood, deer heads with giant horns hanging with wolf carcasses, swirling vortices formed from countless lives, blood-weeping suns, ever-changing flames and lightning...
“Transformation, Celestial Origin, Great Mass, White Deer, Spiral, Eternal Gate, Entropy, Embers, Wasteland...”
Twelve Supreme Goodnesses, reigning over the nine!
From this fleeting glimpse, Wenwen was almost frozen in place, doubting her own eyes.
The signs of destiny appeared so abruptly, like blessings conferred by stars, and those countless chosen ones who had pursued their lives but seldom received attention from the supreme weavings, now filled the night sky, occupying every inch of space!
They packed into the night, rapidly expanding, squeezing and pushing against each other, no longer retaining their former elegance and nobility, but instead, resembling customers at a supermarket sale, waving money to grab hold of a single precious item, rushing to receive blessings for themselves… Shut up, and just take my money!
In the span of a single blink, all collision and struggle vanished without a trace.
As if the victor had already been decided!
Other glorious sights faded away, filling the night sky were stars burning brightly, shining forth dazzling light, as if the entire firmament had transformed into a colossal furnace.
When the brilliant stars burned out, the magnificent furnace toppled, and flickering afterglow flowed forth, transforming into a descending cascade that completely engulfed Ji Jue.
It was as if his very soul had ignited.
Such a revelation...
—Supreme Goodness: 【Embers】!
From unprecedented pain and completeness, Ji Jue's once dim and unclear talent now bathed in the afterglow of countless stars, welcoming the final transformation.
In the void, emblems took shape, a blazing orange-red light swirling continuously, intricate patterns emerging, resembling overlapped gears and levers, the silhouette of some complex machinery… Even Ji Jue struggled to distinguish clearly.
【The Chosen Ceremony, Complete!】
【Identity change registration starting, Chosen One Ji Jue, login complete】
【Essence storage, qualifications open, error, error, error...
Please proceed to the central station as soon as possible to complete the official employee registration!】
…
Numbers in his wristwatch leapt about chaotically as dozens of pop-up windows appeared, dazzling his eyes.
But those messy things were no longer of concern.
From the burning embers, Ji Jue grinned, raising his head toward the dazed Lawrence.
“Hello there.”
He nodded politely, “There are so many friends who wanted me to greet you… However, after much thought, it seems more convenient if they come to say it themselves.”
“Are you ready?”
Ji Jue raised his hand, finally asking — to receive the pain and despair you created yourself!
At that moment, a torrent of crimson essence gushed forth from Ji Jue's body like a waterfall!
Inside the silent bounded realm, suddenly, the sound of waves erupted! Countless cries of sorrow and wails echoed from every crack, every corner.
Steel scraping, engines roaring, within the ruins, previously silent machinery suddenly whirred back to life.
From the collapsed parking lot, mountains of broken electric cars and motorcycles, over to the parking area with still intact vehicles, and inside the hospital where mobile phones lay on the ground and computers were turned off…
Every extinguished screen flickered back to life, radiating a blood-like crimson, as the motors surged wildly, shaking intensely.
The remnants of the lost, their resentment and pain, now surged again within Ji Jue's soul, spilling into countless machines, waking them anew!
But it was still not enough!
Far from enough!
Even if he were to exhaust every drop of his essence in an instant, he still could not express the enormous scale of the outcome.
From the burning pain, Ji Jue lifted his hand, grabbed a sharp shard of crystal, and stabbed it into his neck!
Blood flowed freely, bursting forth!
The wristwatch, filled with immense distorted essence, trembled suddenly, familiar pop-ups materializing.
【Detecting that employee Ji Jue is facing life-threatening danger, error, error, error, error!】
【Standard Emergency Survival Protocol activated — during the protocol's effectiveness, Chosen One abilities will experience a qualitative transformation by one stage — dual qualitative transformation completed!】
On the wristwatch, the numbers showing essence storage began to jump erratically, plummeting to the bottom in an instant but quickly soared back up with a vast supply of external essence filling it back again.
In the fierce workings, it was as if the machine’s core burned a fiery red, sizzling like hot steel.
But at this moment, countless piercing sounds of steel reverberated throughout the bounded realm.
The earth trembled.
For the tide of machinery emerged from the ruins, flowing forth!
(End of this chapter)