Soul Trigger

Chapter 190: Dream Stealing (I)

Ji Li felt a force tearing his body and soul apart at the same time——

In other words, it was not a tearing, but a splitting.

It was like the rapid division of cells. As the dense pain surged like a tidal wave, he felt a surge of vitality burst out from deep within his body, exploding with a bang.

In the soul space, the dark grey cocoon that wrapped him was torn apart at some point, and densely packed vengeful spirits and black bones burst out wailing, revealing Ji Li's current appearance:

Compared to the previous "Desperate Man" appearance, his appearance has become more complicated.

His body at this moment has shrunk to about two meters compared to his previous four-meter height, but the spiritual energy on his body surface has become more solid.

The surface of the biomass constructed by mycelium is more densely divided, and the exposure of the bones inside has expanded the area and become more complex.

The cold bone armor and the mycelium surface are intertwined, and you can see the raised joints and bone spurs piercing through the mycelium. A pair of huge bone spikes clustered together, piercing through the biomass surface of the shoulder like shoulder armor.

The legs were transformed into compound joints of human and animal forms, which made him look a little taller than before.

As for the head, the bone mask that previously covered the collapsed spiritual fire core cracked into several pieces, and thick cold black air emanated from it.

Through the cracks in the bone mask, one can see the undulating and collapsing black flame spirit fire core inside.

On the chest, the situation is different from the situation where the mycelium is wrapped around the bones. It is mostly pale bone armor wrapped around the mycelium inside. The layers are cracked and a red light can be seen flowing inside, beating like an engine:

It seemed that the new evil spirit body had separated two cores, one was the collapsed spiritual fire inside the head, and the other was the mycelium core inside the chest.

Of course, this does not mean weakness, it is just a manifestation of cognition.

For the Reflection Walker, the real weakness of a demonized body is often not in its appearance, but in the mutual confrontation and suppression of the spirit core abilities, as well as the weaknesses in its spiritual cognition.

As for Ji Li, the former depends on the enemy. For his main attribute of will, absolute violence is confrontation.

As for the latter, Ji Li thought that he didn't have that kind of thing -

At this age, what mental weaknesses could there be?
As Ji Li Li felt something, he swung out his sharp claws with sharp joints. The shadow under his feet moved spontaneously and followed suit with a slap.

"Nightmare Fission has an additional effect. My shadow creates a brief overlapping attack as I move."

According to the calculations of the Ascension Protocol, this superimposed attack will lead to an increase in the consumption of spiritual essence, but the magnitude is very low.

The attack strength is equivalent to [46%-58%] of the current attack.

Ji Li checked his current panel:
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Name: Ji Li

Soul Core: Odin (codename V1)

Personality Relics: Faceless Bone + Violent Fire + Negative Living Bacteria (In stock)

Willpower: 62.9 (+12)

Super sense: 21.8 (+4)

Creation: 14.1 (+2)

Affinity: 37.4 (+2)

Personality: Despair

[Enhancement level: Secondary split]

[Soul quality: complete]

[Features: All attribute amplification level 1, will amplification level 5, affinity amplification level 6, super sense amplification level 2, nightmare fission level 2, collapse spirit fire level 2, enchantment level 2, soul Mach, sorrow strain level 2]

Special abilities: Super-speed splitting, evil spirit black bone——
First of all, as a personality entity, the "desperate man" has an additional enhanced level of "secondary splitting".

This is similar to the "double helix" that appeared when the "Faceless Bone" was strengthened before, and is a strengthening unit specific to the current personality entity.

Most of the features have been upgraded, including the newly acquired [Nightmare Fission]. The newly added effect should be obtained from [Nightmare Fission Level 2].

However, neither [Soul Mach] nor [All Attributes Amplification] were improved.

Ji Li looked at his cognitive index which was still in the single digits, and realized that his savings were not enough.

Therefore, it is not surprising that these two relatively powerful and most energy-consuming traits have been temporarily filtered out.

After obtaining the red fragment from Monsa and optimizing and improving the soul space, this thing has become quite smart.

The overall increase is similar to every previous promotion, with most of the data within the [20%-30%] range, but the "Desperate" has multiple forms of explosion -

As Ji Li entered the hardened armor mode, the bones and bone armor supporting his entire body grew suddenly, and his physique soared upwards, reaching more than five meters.

It has exceeded its previous normal size and is almost as big as [Dark Ice Storm] who is currently sitting on the bench.

First, the bones and bone armor grow and emerge from the body surface. Then, based on the bones and bone armor, the layers of hyphae wrapped above them enter a hardened state. As the hyphae throughout the body turn from grayish white to dark gray, or even deep black, they reflect a bright luster.

Ji Li also turned into a black and white armored monster. The two pairs of devil horns on his head grew wildly, especially the pair that emerged from the eye sockets, which were extremely thick. The roots occupied the entire eye sockets and pushed forward.

Behind it, a long and thick tail like a battering ram emerged and slammed the ground fiercely. Its body was thick and heavy, and the large amount of mycelium that was raised was ferocious and sharp.

In this state, his speed has decreased, but if he enters the [Soul Mach] state, this little sacrifice of speed is nothing, not to mention that he also has [Super Speed ​​Split]:
As a means of final outbreak, the unique ability of the [Sad Strain], [Super-Speed ​​Splitting], is also divided into two stages:
The first stage is normal splitting: the sad bacteria strain begins to absorb and exhale spiritual essence in large quantities, consumption increases sharply, and enters a state of full burst.

This state will have the best effect if entered in the armor mode with highly concentrated mycelium, and the armor on the whole body will open.

The two cores in the body will also start to operate at high speed, greatly increasing strength, speed, and spiritual output, while releasing the evil spirit black bones.

The intensity roughly corresponds to the previous [Super Speed ​​Splitting].

The second stage is the super-speed splitting, which is a further improvement on the previous [super-speed splitting] state:
After entering this state, Ji Li's spiritual essence will enter a flood-like consumption, the spiritual essence will stop being absorbed and discharged, and it will completely enter a release state, and completely release the vengeful spirit black bones, covering a large area of ​​spiritual essence interference around.

The core of the sad and sinking bacteria in the chest will enter the whole body, and the chest will open and turn into a hollow black hole.

The split in the head is even bigger, and the hardened mycelium and bones throughout the body will completely burst open, revealing the spiritual essence inside that turns from black to red due to the high-speed flow.

At the same time, the body size will further increase, and every move will be able to stir up violent spiritual energy.

Precisely because of the terrible consumption of the super-speed fission state, even if Ji Li's soul well has been upgraded, it only takes five or six seconds to consume it at its peak state.

But if combined with Soul Mach, this time will be extended -

Because of the acceleration of Soul Mach, although it will sacrifice the upper limit of spiritual essence, it will also accelerate Ji Li's spiritual essence recovery speed within a certain period of time.

And because of the increase in the total amount of Soul Wells, the effect of Soul Mach's percentage sacrifice of spiritual essence is stronger than before.

With the sacrifice of 50% of his spiritual essence, even if Ji Li's spiritual essence is completely exhausted, he can recover to the state where he can use the super-speed splitting state within two or three seconds.

In this state, coupled with the overlapping attacks of shadows brought by Nightmare Fission, even a peak Overlord would be in trouble.

As for the final specific effect, it still needs to be tested in actual combat.

Ji Li regained his human form and raised his hand to create a spiritual essence - after multiple promotions, the color of Ji Li's spiritual essence changed from pale white to blue to pure black to the current spiritual essence light color with white edges and black core.

It integrates the high purity brought by high willpower, low temperature, spiritual essence plunder, mycelium proliferation, and a little bit of spatial characteristics.

The color of the psychic substance seems to be based on the different characteristics and awakening auras of different people's spirits, and the types of colors are actually very sensitive in the awakened world.

Han Xiaofu's gold color represents perseverance, strong will, and arrogant arrogance.

The dark purple of Bunny Girl represents the mystery, darkness, and depth of space——

Although it is somewhat inconsistent with her actual appearance, seeing her other appearance in the dream world, it is not surprising that she has spiritual essence of this color.

Yan Xiyu's original orange lightning had violent and decisive extroverted characteristics, but her now "enhanced" red lightning had many more disturbing characteristics of the other world.

Because red is actually the exclusive color of the other world. In the human spirit, it is a rare color and also a warning color:

The spiritual essence related to the color red usually means bad luck, which is a kind of common sense in the world of awakeners.

Time was tight before, and after Yan Xiyu returns to the team this time, he will definitely have to undergo an examination for psychological distortion.

As for the real different colored spiritual essences, apart from the blood-red one in the inner world, Ji Li’s current black core and white edge one is one, and the other is the glass-colored spiritual essence of the magic mirror.

Ji Li gradually withdrew his thoughts.

Ji Li was quite satisfied with this upgrade, as the enhancement was significant and it also made him more confident in facing the threats from the Tower of Babel and the "King" in the future.

We are one step closer to the goal of walking sideways in the future, but it is still unclear how far the life form of this world will eventually evolve...

Ji Li pondered, exited the soul space, and then staggered suddenly——

what happened?

After his consciousness returned to the real world, he felt a strong dizziness and stumbled to sit on the sofa. He felt a strong burden and tearing sensation coming from the depths of his soul. After a while, he came back to his senses and felt the throbbing of the soul trigger:
"...The Well of Souls was not widened enough, so it reached some kind of bottleneck? Or...has the Trinity itself reached a bottleneck?"

Although the promotion of awakened people is not without the barrel effect, according to Ji Li's observation, awakened people often have their own specialties, which just happen to fit the four attributes that Ji Li can check:
Will. The most impressive awakener he has ever seen is Han Xiaofu, because the purer the spiritual essence, the stronger the will.

Super sense. Ji Li didn't pay much attention to this, but people like Yan Jing'er and Li Shuncheng in Yan Xiyu's team seemed to have some specialization in super sense.

One is the official "door opener" - an engineering investigator, and the other is an investigator who specializes in field work. Their soul trigger sensing range must be very large, and they also have a keen sense of danger.

Yan Xiyu's spiritual essence does not feel particularly outstanding, and seems to be of a balanced type.

As for Misa, she should be an awakened person with specialization in super sense and creativity. Magic Mirror also has a similar feeling -

Generally speaking, awakened people who tend to "interfere with reality" should have achievements in super senses, especially creativity.

Take Bunny Girl for example. Ji Li had never seen this girl's spiritual essence dry up, so it was obvious that the depth of her soul well was quite high.

In the video game terminology that Misa loves, this type of person is called a "magician."

Interference with reality naturally means using spiritual matter to interfere with reality, that is, discharging electricity, setting fire, opening space gates, etc.

Corresponding to "interference in reality" is "the integration of soul and flesh", which mainly tends to the strength of the soul and body itself, and often makes achievements in will.

There is generally no absoluteness between the two, only bias.

As for the last "affinity", which gives people a feeling of human catnip, Ji Li has only seen it in himself so far. The specific ability performance is currently the deep exploration and strong adaptability of the hidden abilities of personality relics.

This is Ji Li's analysis of the awakened people around him, using his own ability to observe four attributes. Naturally, other awakened people do not have this kind of attribute panel.

Because the promotion of a normal awakener is also determined by the law of desire born from the awakening aura.

According to the different human spirits, there are actually laws with different levels of abstraction.

There are spider spirits like the one called Qin, which has very pure aura of desire and can directly absorb the desire of others and transform it into spiritual essence.

There are also people like Yan Xiyu who use abstract rules to achieve collective justice and complete promotion through a specific team.

Thinking of this, Ji Li couldn't help but wonder, if it was people like Cool Girl and Qin who had awakened their spiritual light and the law of desire, how could they fall into corruption?

"I'm thinking too far ahead, but what I can be sure of is that I may need some professional Awakener consulting services in my current state..."

After using some supplies from the Special Management Bureau and alleviating the spiritual essence and things related to the Trinity, Ji Li finally felt a lot more comfortable.

He glanced around the room and only turned on one light because Misa was knocked out by two sips of whiskey.

But perhaps because he had just been promoted, even after a busy day, he was basically not sleepy at all.

After browsing the "Crimson Front" forum on Flash Street for a while, Ji Li decided to find a personal spirit to try out his own [Nightmare Fission] ability to enter dreams.

The first one to be affected was naturally the bunny girl who was sleeping soundly at the moment.

Although Ji Li had been in her dream world before, that was a magic mirror technique after all. He was quite curious about what kind of strange dreams Bunny Girl would have under normal circumstances.

In fact, Ji Li was not unfamiliar with dreams.

In Murphy's megastructure, there is already technology that allows lucid dreams by plugging in a plug behind the head.

You can even share your dreams by uploading them to the cyberspace and dream with others “online”.

After all, compared to plugging the back of the head into cyberspace itself, the technology of controlling dreams itself falls into this category.

Looking at Jin Misha, who was lying on the bed with a blush on her cheeks and an unguarded look, Ji Li's eyes flashed with a dark energy -

Following the ability of nightmare fission, Ji Li seemed to be able to sense countless small dots jumping around him.

The distance was somewhat mysterious, and as he carefully explored it with his spiritual essence, he realized that this sensing range was consistent with the sensing range of the soul trigger.

"You can select the souls of people within the soul trigger's sensing range, sneak into their dreams, or make them have nightmares..."

Ji Li immediately chose the dream that was closest to him, which was Bunny Girl’s dream, and entered into it.

As he entered the state of "dream sensing", his inexplicable perception moved closer to the dream and gradually penetrated into it.

The next moment, Ji Li suddenly opened his eyes and saw a magnificent...

Landfill.

The dream world looks a little distorted, and the surrounding environment is like an image generated by a low-level AI, constantly changing in various shapes.

Is this Bunny Girl’s dream?

No matter what Misa is crazy about, it has nothing to do with her, right?
Ji Li walked towards the garbage dump, but heard an impassioned shout:

"Today, I, Lord Dog, will be crowned king!!!"

(End of this chapter)