Soul Trigger

Chapter 222 Cooperation (I)

In an instant, along with the device on the wrist, the entire scabbard and the handle turned into a thick black.

Ji Li casually pulled out the "Ashes of Annihilation" and saw a ring of black gas continuously pouring into the blade, quickly dyeing it completely black.

After a few breaths, the entire black energy stabilized.

Black knife, black blade, black handle.

At this moment, the color of "Ashes of Destruction" has become completely dark. Under the metallic luster, one can clearly see the appearance of the strange beast on the hilt and the guard. At this moment, it has turned into a black dragon with claws.

After it was pulled out, the originally flat blade quickly changed into an undulating jagged shape, and became similar to the Dragon Blade:
-
[Personality Entity: Ash Destroyer Blade - Nine Reversals]

[Soul Quality: Excellent]

[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.

The furious mantra calls upon the resonance of the Cinder Blade, transforms into the Nine-Reverse Dragon, and releases the explosive spiritual power. 】
-
The name changed again, the soul quality became higher, and the motto changed...

The Dragon Man's Blade is indeed not simple, worthy of being the gatekeeper of the Gate of Flesh and Blood.

Ji Li waved his hand casually, and a surging black knife wave swept past the face of Lord Huo Jin, whizzed past, and hit the wall at the end of the hall with a loud bang.

"I thought you were going to turn against me." Lord Huojin patted the body he possessed.

"You're helping me like this just to escape?"

"Look at what you said. Shouldn't people of the same kind help each other?"

"I don't think I'm your kind."

"It's okay. I think I am."

The Lord of Misfortune grinned:

"Now, you should be able to fight against the peak master with the help of the mantra."

If the furious motto of "Nine Ni" can reach the same level as the evil spirit "Despair", or even higher, it is indeed worth a try.

But for Ji Li, the problem with the Heart Blade system is not this:
"Do you have to recite that awkward polio-like poem?"

"Poetry?" Huo Jinzhu was a little unresponsive for a moment, and then laughed:

"That is the call of one's own desires, and the resonance with the Heart Blade. I may not be able to help you with this, after all, you stole the Heart Blade yourself..."

Ji Li held the "Nine-Reverse" sword horizontally in front of him. As the spiritual essence was injected into it, he seemed to sense something, and his eyes were shrouded in darkness:
"No, I don't need to bother."

The next moment, the blade suddenly turned and stabbed into his abdomen fiercely -

The black dragon on the sword's hilt suddenly opened its scarlet eyes, and black air and the black bones of evil spirits rose from Ji Li's body. He raised his left arm, and the black dragon scale armor and sharp claws quickly covered his wrist.

As he clenched his fist, a dark shock wave exploded:

"that's it."

He pulled out the "Nine Nis" without any holes on his clothes.

"This is really novel..."

Huojinzhu propped his face on the ground with one hand and looked at him with a tut-tut look:
"So is it time to help me break the seal now?"

Ji Li slowly put the knife into the sheath. The jagged blade produced dense sparks at the mouth of the sheath, and a crisp sound was heard as the blade hilt hit the blade:
"lead the way."

Lord Huojin suddenly revealed a smile:
"Not here."

"What do you mean?"

"As I said before, the forbidden area is only a part of the core..."

Suddenly, Huo Jinzhu, or Yuya Senba, rolled his eyes and fell straight to the ground.

Then Ji Li saw surging green light surging from all directions outside the hall, constantly converging towards the hall, and turning into a vague human figure in front of Ji Li.

The figure looked like neither man nor woman, with a pair of horns protruding from his forehead. He was tall and had four arms, and a mixture of male and female voices came from his mouth:
"What is sealed here is my soul. You broke the node and caused such great damage that my soul has escaped."

"But my body isn't here."

"The incident seven years ago allowed them to improve the seal and also separate my soul from my body. Although the power comes from the depths of my soul, without the support of the body, the soul will only gradually die."

"I didn't agree to this." Ji Li raised his eyebrows.

"It doesn't matter... If you want to leave the Gate of Hell, you must break the blockade of 'Ghost'. The core of Ghost is in the same place as my body."

"That large ectoplasm circuit?"

"Yes, the ancient battle formation of Inuzuka Castle is a masterpiece of genius. It is a super-large spiritual circuit that has been repaired by the Hellhound Clan since ancient times. It combines multiple features such as protection, sealing, maintenance, and nurturing of human spirits. It is a well-deserved complex masterpiece of a master."

"If you don't do anything, do you think I can get out of this forbidden area?"

"I will consume some of my strength to attract their attention and create the illusion that my soul has escaped. However, this will inevitably lead to the invasion of the forbidden area. You must act immediately."

"Do you think we two look like we can work together perfectly?" Ji Li sneered.

"It's okay. I think we can do it. Before we start, I need to let my soul attach to an object with spatial properties. I'll lend you the pendant to live in."

Without waiting for Ji Li to say anything, Huo Jinzhu rushed towards Ji Li's pendant.

"I reject."

"Nine Reverses" erupted with deep black smoke, and Ji Li suddenly grabbed the hilt of the knife, but Huo Jinzhu sneered:
"You think this thing can stop me?"

"What about this?"

A surging red light emanated from Ji Li's palm, and he suddenly drew his sword and slashed out.

The oncoming Huo Jinzhu didn't take Ji Li seriously at all. He just rushed forward and bumped into the knife light, instantly bursting into a heart-wrenching scream:

"Otherworld energy?!"

The figure was instantly split in half. The moment he recovered with a scream, Ji Li's hand ignited with red matter and pierced through the soul body and grabbed the other person's heart:

"You're the one begging me, not me begging you. You need to understand the situation."

"You... bastard! Do you think I'm lying to you?!"

"It's precisely because I can't say for sure, so how about you just listen to me first?"

“No…wait, you…?! It’s not the energy from the other world, let me go…”

"listen to me?"

"I'm listening! Let me go! You old monster!!!"

“Let go!!!”

As Lord Huojin's shrill screams resounded throughout the forbidden area, the lights in the entire forbidden area flickered violently.

Ji Li only felt a shock wave spreading across his body, and then he saw his wrist transformed into thousands of mechanical structures.

The Lord of Huojin in front of him was a figure covered in dark and knotty biological armor. He had a slender figure, double horns on his head, and green ghost fire burning in his eyes.

The scene flashed by, and the two of them instantly burst into a surge of surging spiritual energy and both retreated.

The shadow of Lord Huojin's soul flickered on and off, and he covered his chest and screamed madly.

The body flickered and jumped in various painful postures, and it took a long time for it to return to normal:
"You are such a bastard..."

"What was that just now?"

"The essence of you and me..."

Lord Huojin floated in the air again:

"Okay, I'll do as you say. Can we leave now?"

"You compromised so quickly."

"After all, I'm not as old as you..." A gritting teeth voice came from Lord Huojin.

Ji Li raised his eyebrows and remembered what the other person said.

"My spirit needs an object with spatial properties to attach itself to, and it must be strong enough. Can I enter your pendant now?"

"Don't mess around in there."

Lord Huojin snorted coldly and got into Ji Li's pendant.

He’s not even older than me… can this guy really “see” my soul?
Ji Li was thinking, could it be that Monsa's respectful attitude towards him at the beginning was because he saw his true nature just now?
He raised his bony palm and took a look, remembering this in his heart.

The current situation is not suitable for delving into these things. It is always good to have a way to control the master of trouble. At this moment, he heard a scream from his chest, and a green light shot out from his obelisk pendant.

"What's wrong with you?"

Huojinzhu's body rolled in the air, and it took him a while to recover. He said angrily:

"What happened to your pendant!?"

"What's going on? It's just a space prop."

"That place is connected to the shadow space! Do you want to kill me?"

"I don't know. I don't understand. It was given to me by a friend."

Ji Lixin said that Bunny Girl's ability seemed to be quite extraordinary:
"So how do you deal with it now?"

"You still have something on you, use that!"

Ji Li took out a silver fragment from his pocket.

The mirror fragments dropped after the magic mirror clone died. For some special reasons, he has been carrying this thing with him.

"You have a lot of good things on you."

Huojinzhu snorted coldly and rushed in suddenly——

This time, nothing went wrong, but Lord Huojin called Ji Li:

"You will stay here until I regain the position of the Yuya family."

"What do you mean?"

"I will provide you with the resources to complete this last reincarnation. Then you must also help me complete this last reincarnation."

"I don't need it." Ji Li directly rejected the other party.

He didn't know what reincarnation was, but obviously, the conflict just now made Lord Huojin realize something.

In addition to escaping, this guy has something else to ask of him, and it sounds like it is a secret related to the "Wheel Turner".

For a 300-year-old veteran, playing hard to get can be said to be a zero-frame operation.

"But I need it. No matter where you come from, what the Yuya family can give you is definitely not inferior to that place."

"You saw my 'superego sword', where do you think I came from?"

Lord Huojin stopped talking.

Ji Li laughed——

Of course he wouldn't say it explicitly, so just let you figure it out on your own.

At this moment, the lens in his pocket suddenly jumped out, and with a flash of green light, it fell into his hand.

The voice of Lord Huojin came from my ear:

"I transformed your fragment into an artificial spiritual tool in a short time. Just consider it a gift. Think carefully about staying in the Black Sun Mansion."

"Psychic props?"

When he first got the magic mirror fragment, Ji Li also learned from the equipment department that this thing could be used as a medium for casting spells, but it could not be made into an artificial psychic prop.

Due to the special spatial properties of it, it could not be placed in the obelisk made by Bunny Girl, so Ji Li carried it with him.

So Lord Huojin helped him refine it in an instant...?
"I think I told you not to move around."

"Haha... this is good stuff. We can change our current plan."

"What do you mean?"

"Inject spiritual essence, and then shine a light on the dead boy lying over there."

Ji Li looked at Yuya Senba who was lying on the ground. He was possessed and revived by Huo Jinzhu, but was still unconscious.

As Ji Li walked over, the appearance of Yuya Senba was reflected in the broken mirror. A touch of green colored glaze shot out from the mirror and lingered around Ji Li.

As mirror-like overlapping images flashed on his body, it seemed that something had changed.

Ji Li looked down at the mirror fragments, and his own appearance was still seen inside.

But when he noticed that the thick and big knuckles of his fingers holding the mirror fragment looked like they were not his own hands at all, he immediately reacted and looked at Yuuga Morihachi's equally thick and big palm.

With the other hand, he touched his beard:

"camouflage?"

"Mirror image disguise, copy the appearance of a person's spirit, temporarily store it in the mirror, and then swap the appearance in the mirror with your appearance in the real world."

"Now, when others see you, you will appear as Gokuya Morihachi. However, the only drawback is that your true appearance is still stored in the mirror world, and the reflection of the mirror will reveal your original appearance."

Ji Li raised his hand and touched the large sword behind him:

"Even the Heart Sword can be imitated? This should be considered a cognitive disguise to some extent."

"Not only the Heart Sword, but even the Spiritual Essence can imitate it."

"Good stuff, thanks."

"Then stay in Black Sun Mansion."

"Do you think there is a clue to the fate now?" With the master of disaster hidden in the fragment of the magic mirror, Ji Li walked towards the direction from which he came from the forbidden land -

Now that we have the appearance of an insider, this is probably a safer and more secretive approach than letting Lord Huojin create chaos.

"But now that you're out of trouble, won't they notice?"

"I will leave some of my strength here, and I will persuade Yuga Morihachi after he wakes up, and continue to create the illusion of a seal. You don't have to worry about this part."

"Also, you'd better not try to leave directly in this form. The disguised spiritual essence is still a disguise after all, and it will be exposed in the blockade of 'Ghost Axe'."

"Really? I thought you couldn't think of it."

"…Don't act stupid."

……

Following the route he came from, Ji Li left the forbidden area and came to the pavilion outside.

At this moment, Inuzuka Castle was shrouded in dusk. All of Yuuga Morihachi's colleagues from the Fourth Division had already withdrawn from the forbidden area. Except for the brother "Mowo Jinmie" and Yuuga Morihachi who were killed by Ji Li, all of them were here.

And because of the conflict between Ji Li and Lord Huo Jin just now, there are already quite a few more people outside the forbidden area.

In addition to the sentries, there were also a few patrolling warriors wearing armor made of the same modern materials as Gokuya Morihachi. They should be artificial psychic props similar to the uniforms of the Special Management Bureau agents, replacing cognitive camouflage.

Ji Li sensed carefully, without going too far, and realized that these people were at least sixth-level awakeners.

A warrior who looked like a leader came forward and scolded Ji Li, saying that he did not obey orders and lacked discipline. When Ji Li was about to reply, he suddenly realized a problem -

Just like Gokuya Morihachi's salt and pepper Chinese, his Japanese also has a salt and pepper accent.

He pondered, and asked the Ascension Protocol to retrieve his memory of Jigokuya Morihachi's pure Japanese accent, and responded with the simplest syllables:
"Hayi (understood)."

The team leader was stunned, with a strange expression:
"Do you understand everything?" (Japanese)

"Hayi (understood)."

His expression became even more strange, and he wondered why this crazy martial arts troublemaker was so obedient today.

"…Where's Oki Nakayoshi?"

This is the ninja whose heart sword is "Grind Me Jinmie":
"Greek Rakada (don't know)."

"..."

The team leader looked at Ji Li's serious expression and became more and more puzzled:
"…Were you frightened by the Lord of Misfortune?"

"Hay."

The leader thought for a moment, reached out and held Ji Li's arm to sense his spiritual essence, and then waved his hand speechlessly:
"Go and rest."

Just as Ji Li was about to blend into the crowd and leave, a voice came from above -

"stop."

A man covered in bloodshot clothes floated down, and the leaders nearby instantly changed their expressions and bowed:
"Master, Master..."

(End of this chapter)