Soul Trigger

Chapter 220: Blade of the Heart (Part )
Ji Li flicked the dagger into his right hand, raised it and rubbed it across his burnt head.

With his left hand, he caught the opponent's ninja sword, and lifted the scabbard on the opponent's back and grabbed it in his hand:
"Ok?"

As the opponent was completely dead, Ji Li felt that the ninja sword in his hand was rapidly weakening, and soon it became a broken sword full of gaps and spots, and the scabbard quickly turned into broken wood: -
[Personality Fragment: Grind Me to Ashes and Destroy My Self]

[Soul quality: complete]

[Features: Sharpening. Every collision accumulates and sharpens the spiritual essence, purifying the spiritual essence and the blade to make it stronger.]
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Another ego?
The other party's burst of spiritual essence just now flashed through his mind, and Ji Li realized a key point -

If the large spiritual circuits in Inuzuka Castle suppressed the ability of spiritual essence to interfere with reality, then why were these ninjas still able to launch spiritual essence external attacks, while their own mycelium external attacks remained motionless?
How does this spiritual circuit determine that I am the one who needs to be restricted?
Before Ji Li could take a closer look, a cold male voice came from the side, and Ji Li instantly raised the mottled ninja sword in his hand——

"ignorance!"

Ouch!
Amidst flying sparks, a huge broad-bladed sword pierced through the grille door, brushed past Ji Li's tilted face, and nailed into the wall in front of him with unparalleled power.

He kicked the knife back without changing his expression, and the man shouted angrily:
"Well done!"

As Ji Li turned around, a ninja with a completely different appearance caught the huge sword, stomped on it, and flew towards Ji Li:

"My name is Yuya Senba! Others are not allowed to interfere!!!"

What kind of salt and pepper Chinese is this!?

The man was running very fast, with a standing collar on his neck and short hair that shot up backwards and upwards like steel needles.

The attire he wears has a long hem, and modern materials are used to construct armor with a strong cultural style. He looks more like a samurai than a ninja.

The huge sword with violent spiritual essence slammed fiercely on the dagger raised by Ji Li. The dagger finally couldn't bear the weight and disintegrated into pieces all over the sky.

Peak level six!

Ji Li used the broken knife he had just seized to block the opponent's attack. As a violent force came from in front of him, Ji Li's body flew backwards and instantly smashed the entire wall.

He quickly stood up and raised the blade in his hand, only to see that the thing had been completely broken.

The other broken blade was not far in front of him, gradually turning into spiritual essence.

Don't fight hard.

Ji Li turned around and fled towards the corridor outside. The warrior named Yuya Senba was extremely fast. He held the big knife in his hand, laughing loudly and sticking to Ji Li tightly.

The two fought and fled, and soon they completely left the outer area of ​​the forbidden area:

"Why did you run away! Why don't you let me learn from Jian Xiu Daixi (master of swordsmanship) about his strength!!"

"Idiot..."

Ji Li automatically translated his Chinese in his mind and wrote down two words. At the same time, he dodged the blade of Yuya Senba by moving sideways, and quickly distanced himself with a step.

At this moment, the two of them had arrived at an open hall. At the front of the hall stood a shrine, shrouded in thick green light.

Although Yuya Senba was yelling all the way, looking like a martial arts madman, the other party was obviously consciously forcing Ji Li into the depths of the forbidden area.

But at the same time, this guy didn't hold back at all.

Ji Li deliberately revealed a few flaws to the opponent along the way, but this guy was not vague at all. He would kill Ji Li directly if he could. It seems that the Hell Gate Clan’s idea of ​​forcing him into the forbidden area is not absolute.

The "Heart Sword" awakener at the peak of the sixth level has fast speed, strong attack, and strong spiritual fluctuations. When he cannot use mycelium, it is difficult to fight him without suitable weapons.

As for this ninja sword... Ji Li glanced at the broken blade in his hand.

Ji Li didn't know whether the thing in his hand was a weapon or a fragment of his personality.

But after realizing its fragile state, he did not fight against Yuya Senba anymore. At this moment, the weapon was actually absorbing his spiritual essence and gradually recovered to its perfect state, although it was still in tatters.

The moment he confirmed this, thinking of his previous guess, Ji Li suddenly reached out and grabbed something from the obelisk, pulled it out suddenly and swung it backwards -

Yuya Senba's wild face, which was close at hand, was instantly shocked. He looked at a majestic black crescent moon pressing towards him, and was horrified:
"(Japanese) Heart Sword?! How is this possible!?"

Then, he suddenly raised the blade with expanded spiritual essence and desperately resisted the terrible black wave.
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[The human spirit is extremely shocked by your behavior]

[Your soul core is throbbing, and your connection with this world is deepening.]

【Cognitive Index +9】
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Ji Li, whose curse was burning in the inner world, opened the fusion outside the soul space.

The situation is urgent right now. After the other world's curse and ascension protocol were updated a long time ago, simple operations can be performed outside the soul space. In this case, there is naturally no need to be separated from reality.

The large spiritual circuit in Inuzuka Castle blocks not simple spiritual means of reality interference, but all means of reality interference other than the "Blade of the Heart" system.

So Ji Li’s mycelium cannot be used, but the ninja’s “heart sword” can cut through the sword wave.

The dragon man's sword successfully cut out the sword wave, which also confirmed two conjectures in Ji Li's mind:
First, the "Blade of Heart" system is indeed not affected by the ban.

Second, the little dragon’s sword does belong to the “Blade of the Heart” system, but its origin remains in doubt.

After making this clear, what Ji Li had to do was very simple.

Whether it is "Grind Me to Ashes" or "Countercurrent Thunder", they are both blades of the heart and also fragments of personality.

Then it’s just a matter of making it your own.

Ji Li directly merged "Countercurrent Thunder·Self" and "Grind Me into Ashes·Self", and raised the blade in his hand again——

At this moment, the originally broken sword has completely changed. It has a completely black scabbard and the handle is wrapped in a simple tangle. Ji Li pulled it out directly.

A sharp sword was unsheathed, but the turning point between the tip and the blade was a sharp blunt angle, not an arc:
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[Personality Entity: Heart Blade: Embers of Destruction]

[Soul quality: complete]

[Features: Sharpening. Every collision accumulates and sharpens the spiritual essence, purifying the spiritual essence and the blade to make it stronger.]
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He turned his head and glanced at Yuuga Senpachi who was still struggling in the violent sword wave released by the Little Dragon Blade. Veins bulged on the other party's face, and the wooden floor under his feet had completely exploded. The thick-bladed katana in his hand was shaking wildly, wafting with powerful spiritual energy as he struggled to resist.

After all, it is something that can kill the giants in the world with one blow. Although it was a hasty slash just now and may not be able to kill the opponent, it can still delay some time.

Ji Li directly consumed the cognitive index to strengthen the "Blade of Heart: Ashes of Countercurrent".

He hardly felt any changes on his body, except that the blade in his hand flashed a layer of silver light, and the "sharpening" reached the "second level of sharpening", and the cognitive index only consumed a few points.

Ji Li continued to improve, constantly injecting cognitive index into it, and the level of sharpening jumped rapidly, and soon reached level ten.

He now has a lot of cognitive indexes, even though he almost went all in on the Desperate last time, but he has accumulated dozens of points along the way. Finally, as the "sharpening" characteristic suddenly disappeared for a moment and turned into a new characteristic, Ji Li stopped -
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……

characteristic:
Steel blade grinding, each collision accumulates the sharpness of the steel blade, extremely purifies the spiritual essence and the steel blade, making it greatly strengthened, and combined with the special scabbard, it can concentrate on grinding.
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The feature was changed to steel blade grinding, but the overall description did not seem to be improved much.

As for the special scabbard combination, Ji Li glanced at himself and discovered that a black mechanical structure had appeared on his wrist at some point.

A black metal scabbard extended from the mechanical structure and was raised high into the sky from behind his elbow.

The blade itself did not change much. As Ji Li inserted the blade into it, sparks instantly splashed out from the scabbard like a waterfall, and there was a dense grinding sound -

"Blood, thirst, explosion! Boil, blood of mad fangs!!!"

As a roar came from the ear, blood-colored spiritual fluctuations erupted not far away, and the black knife wave that Ji Li slashed with the little dragon blade finally broke apart -

"(Japanese) I never thought you could use the power of the Heart Sword... That's right, after all, we underestimated you, the swordsman master, for being able to use a small dagger so skillfully..."

Yuya Senba's voice echoed in the hall. He raised the blade wrapped in a bloody storm in his hand. His hair grew long and red, spiking densely behind his head. His eyes were also filled with a red storm:

"(Japanese) Arakawa's order is to drive you into the core forbidden area of ​​'Huojin Lord'... But I will disobey his order and fight you to death!!!"

The howling wind spread to the entire hall. Yuya Senba stomped on the ground, grabbed the violent scarlet wind blade in his hand and slashed towards Ji Li.

Scarlet waves tore through the air, as if their unrivaled force was about to tear the entire building apart.

Ji Li placed his hand on the hilt of the knife, trying to pour all of the spirit of the desperate man into it, watching the violent blade wave coming towards him.

The scabbard, which had been making dense noises, finally stopped rubbing, and suddenly popped out of Ji Li's hand with violent sparks and dark spiritual essence, and suddenly lifted up.

A terrifying blade wave with a black background and white edges tore through the entire blood-colored storm. The broad and violent spiritual essence completely enveloped Yuya Senba, instantly shattering the spiritual essence on the sword in his hand, and swept through the entire hall with his body.

boom--! ! ! !

The violent sound waves and sonic booms turned into shock waves that spread layer by layer to both sides of the blade wave. A huge ravine rolled all the way from Ji Li's position to the front, and even the ceiling above was cut with a huge crack.

Then, dense and thick hyphae grew out of the ravine and whipped wildly around. The surging and exploding black ice spread rapidly from both sides of the crack, rising up into a huge glacier!

"(Japanese) Power beyond expectations."

Ji Li slowly withdrew his move and made a sword flower.

In the constant friction just now, the "steel blade grinding" directly amplified the power of his spiritual essence several times, and directly produced an effect that was even more terrifying than the dragon man's blade he had just casually chopped off.

And if it is in the evil spirit state, this kind of terrible destructive power may only be achieved by entering into super-speed splitting.

The disadvantage is that the pre-swing is too long, but the accumulated friction of the steel blade can make up for it during the attack.

Ji Li glanced at the figure lying in the mess not far away, and rubbed the blade in the snap of the scabbard. A touch of orange-red like a branding iron flowed across the blade.

While walking towards the fallen Yuya Senpachi.

At this moment, the knife-wielding madman's clothes were all torn to pieces, and huge marks of destruction obliquely covered his entire body and face. They were covered with mycelium and black frost condensed on the edges. He looked extremely miserable.

As for his knife, it was thrown aside, covered with cracks.

"(Japanese) So... you can... speak Japanese..."

What surprised Ji Li was that this guy's first sentence was this.

Ji Li directly picked up the opponent's broad-bladed sword and weighed it in his hand, but he did not see any panel pop up in front of him, and immediately some guesses came to his mind.

"You don't seem to care that you're going to die soon?"

"...To die...in battle is the honor of a warrior!"

He roared with all his strength, and Ji Li shook his head, gently tossed the opponent's sword, and held it in his hand like a javelin:
"What is 'Huojinzhu'?"

"A warrior...will not go against honor!"

It means don't say it.

“What is your glory?”

Yuya Senba shut up immediately. Ji Li shook his head and threw the javelin directly, which pierced his heart instantly.

A smile appeared on the face of the knife-wielding madman, and he turned his head and died.

Ji Li shook his head, walked quickly forward and grabbed the handle of the large sword, and was about to pull it out, but found that there was still no panel in front of him. He immediately stabbed the opponent's heart with the knife, and the sound of a bursting heart was heard.

But the personality fragment panel still did not appear.

Ji Li seemed to realize something, and suddenly raised his head, his eyes passing through the wall that he had blown up -

In the back room, there is a small shrine.

But at this moment it has shattered into pieces, and the original green light is gradually dissipating in the air.

Then, as he quickly retreated, it drilled into his scabbard.

Ji Li suddenly felt a violent spiritual essence flowing into it, and it actually melted directly into it. The Heart Blade panel suddenly appeared in his retina:——
[Personality Entity: Heart Blade: Embers of Destruction]

[Soul quality: complete]

[Features: Steel blade grinding, each collision accumulates the sharpness of the steel blade, extremely purifies the spiritual essence and the steel blade, making it greatly strengthened, and combined with the special scabbard, it can concentrate on grinding.

Resonance Mantra, calling for the resonance of the Heart Blade, releasing the burst of spiritual power]
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A liberating motto?

Ji Li instantly realized that the green light had unlocked some power for his Heart Blade, but because it was not his Heart Blade, Ji Li himself did not feel any difference except for the changes on the panel.

However, the appearance of the Heart Blade has changed slightly. The patterns on the handle and scabbard have become more complicated, as if they have converged into the pattern shape of some creature.

At this time, Yuya Senba, who was supposed to be "dead", suddenly sat up, his eyes emitting a light green light, and a male and female voice came out of his mouth:

"I will help you to liberate you, and you will spare the lives of my people from the Yuya family. How about that?"

Ji Li retreated violently, his eyes solemn, and he had already entered a battle state:
"Lord Huojin..."

(End of this chapter)