Chapter 769
Chapter 769 - 755: From Beginning to End
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"Simply for the sake of a lawyer, or rather, an imitation lawyer who lacks complete abilities and characteristics, such a high price... is unnecessary..."
The excessively expensive life-points, like water droplets, shatter directly onto the ground, traces left behind might even disappear into thin air over time.
If an onlooker witnessed this, Lu Ping’an’s actions would not be considered opulent but completely extravagant and wasteful, akin to burning banknotes in a fire.
".....I know what I am doing now, a ’profession’ worth a few hundreds, that would allow many unfortunate ones stuck at the bottleneck to advance a half step further, is a significant purchase even if they have to sell their pots and pans. For me, it’s just like water flowing over the container, it’s hard to say how much is left..."
After contemplating, Lu Ping’an decided to ignore all advice and continued his "money-burning" spree.
".....This downward stream of water, in the end, some part of it accumulates in my body, becoming my ’accumulation’. This has always been my fatal weakness."
𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
Lu Ping’an’s growth was too rapid, and he is lacking too much in terms of knowledge and abilities.
The same second-tier runner, under normal circumstances, ought to have a set of combat methods, fighting skills, several years of combat experience and not to mention a corresponding combination of abnormal abilities. Even a core second-tier in a professional module would have seven or eight abnormal abilities, at least three to four.
As for Lu Ping’an’s second-tier runner.... well, aside from the initial Surge bestowed by the profession, he has nothing else.
He needs to revise, he needs to hone, he needs to settle, but there’s simply no time.
Consequently, aside from his flame skill and axe techniques, which he had truly accumulated, his other professions seem rather hollow.
"As long as I can use it."
Previously, indeed, as long as he could use it was sufficient. But now, to erect skyscrapers on this shell, to support even taller architectural complexes or even a city, it’s clearly inadequate.
Lu Ping’an had already sensed that when he was deciphering a "Fourth-tier Decree profession", masses of "knowledge" and "core skills" were also being unpacked.
Pollution will not vanish into thin air. Even if Lu Ping’an cannot digest it, transforming it into his own tools and modules, it will still remain sedimented in his body and soul.
"Ordinary people can’t play like you do, it’s dangerous...."
If there were pollution wristbands on Lu Ping’an’s hands right now, they would probably explode without a light.
After a normal professional fails to advance, they need to rest for a very long time to suppress the boiling pollution.
However, now he unexpectedly finds that after "swallowing" it, based on the basic rule of "similar pollutants erode each other, the stronger engulfing the weaker", these fragmented items have been incorporated into his professional system.
Although the fusion rate is low...but with a large quantity, and the fourth-tier crushing Lu Ping’an’s second-tier quality, Lu Ping’an truly felt a large amount of "fat (undigested nutrition)" appearing in his basic profession.
Most fundamentally, Lu Ping’an obtained them under the name of "knowledge", naturally, he learned how to use them and the logic of understanding.
Originally, he didn’t understand many professional knowledge, couldn’t comprehend, and felt contradictions in his profession. Now suddenly with a "flash of inspiration", he just learned it.
This is not a professional progression, but a professional sedimentation, just like a clerk at the same position, one just started working while the other has been working for thirty years, naturally, their work ability is at different levels.
In a sense, this is the bad habit of treating "golden steak" as "ordinary steak", but for the current Lu Ping’an, it is indeed very nourishing.
"...I need more accumulation to find the Law that suits me best."
Lu Ping’an rejected Big Cat’s persuasion with a single sentence.
We won’t even mention how important a suitable Law is for oneself, just looking at the purchase and sales prices of this library, one could see its extraordinariness.
For most "common professions", the library gives a bottom price, and the purchase amount is extremely limited. If you are too slow, they will all be gone, while those self-made Decree professions can basically increase by half of the purchase price, some even double.... The Life Bank has never lost money, it only offers high prices because those things are worth more than the purchase price.
Right now, Lu Ping’an, he didn’t purchase a single standard fourth-tier, he selected all those self-made Decrees, attempting to comprehend others’ professions, and also... life.
Whether its past experiences, those high-tiered individuals who bloomed, exploded, and met their ends before Lu Ping’an, or the Decree-level "professions" flowing from his hands now, all of it let Lu Ping’an understand that a professionnel’s core Decree will inevitably run through the course of the professionnel’s career.
In a certain sense, it is an accumulation of a professional’s past experiences, is his expectations for the future, is his world view and values, is the way he wishes the world would change...
"...Chris, can you tell me about the Mother Goddess cult?"
Despite the numerous times the big cat had tried to convince Lu Ping’an, he was never intrigued. This time, however, he was the one who initiated the inquiry.
But the big cat he asked didn’t show any pleasure. After a moment of silence, she responded:
"You noticed?"
"You didn’t hide it... no, you couldn’t hide it, could you? A curse, a malicious intent, yielding a professional..."
Lu Ping’an calmly recounted his "understanding".
"...A profession denotes an individual’s position in society. Once an individual gains awareness and objectives, desires and needs, his personal ideological curse becomes the command, the law of his ’profession’..."
A decree evolves along with a professional’s growth, born from a curse.
If it ended there, it would not matter much. Many decree-level old stagers have experienced this.
"...laws and commands are not the end. Making everyone obey these laws or when the laws become the natural order in a region, ubiquitous in his country, they naturally turn into the ’rules’ of his country..."
This is the key.
A decree is not the end. It is an immature form of rule, a beginning of worldly principles.
Lu Ping’an’s cautious and substantial investment was not merely for a fourth-tier status.
"...The rules are not the end either. A person’s or a country’s rules always have limitations. Hence, the approval from a higher authority, the acknowledgment of the world is needed, becoming a universally accepted ’principle’..."
While conversing and writing, Lu Ping’an recorded his "thoughts," and some points could be earned from selling them.
"...Chris, if my guess is right, the core idea of your Mother Goddess cult is actually derived from your initial decree..."
Only by considering this choice as an integral part of one’s life can one dedicate his life to it, pushing it to the extreme.
Lu Ping’an became increasingly convinced that the fourth-tier is a crucial crossroads where, for the first time, a professional can choose his own future, free from the "module."
It will determine the future direction.
If you take the wrong path, it doesn’t mean you’ll gain nothing. But what you originally wanted, what you potentially could have gained, will be forever out of reach.
So, which direction has the farthest reach?
Everyone’s situation is different, so what is the most suitable direction for Lu Ping’an?
With too many choices, it is impossible to choose. Lu Ping’an’s constant accumulation also embodies his decision-making process. Eventually, he found an "answer."
"There’s Chris’s existing template. Analysis of that would reveal the answer, wouldn’t it?"
Chris has gone far enough. Her experiences, her life, her rules, her decrees, her curse.... This pathway to heaven would be the perfect nutritional supplement for Lu Ping’an, wouldn’t it?
As this thought flashed past, Lu Ping’an immediately seized upon it and made it a reality.
This time, however, Chris didn’t respond directly.
After a long silence, she said something seemingly out of context.
"Where did you find out? Do you have any proof?" It seemed she didn’t want to talk? Perhaps she hesitated?
"There are many, but the two most notable ones are the ’Black Holy Grail Profession’ you provided and your ascension ritual."
’The beginning’ and ’the present’, huh... Hehe, as expected, you are my ’future’, perhaps my ’end point’."
— End of Chapter 769 —