Soul Trigger

Chapter 223 Cooperation (II)

The man named Zhang Yi ignored them and suddenly pulled out the large sword disguised by the magic mirror fragments behind Ji Li. He took it in his hand and took a look, reflecting a pair of pale eyes:

"Yuuga Senpachi?"

Ji Li bowed: "Hi."

He raised the large sword with both hands and held it forward: "It's okay, please accept it."

Ji Li: "Hai."

man:"……"

He curled the corners of his mouth, as if he was too lazy to say anything more to the soldier, and left quietly.

After making sure that the man's attention had completely left him, Ji Li ignored the strange looks from others, put away the etiquette he had just learned, and left the place at a steady pace.

The peak overlord is much stronger than the one killed before.

"Inukai Jōichi, Inukai Shinya's elder brother." The overlapping voices of men and women in Hujinzhu echoed in his ears.

"You came back in a hurry because I killed your brother?"

"Ignore him. But what happened to you just now?"

"What's going on?"

"Hai, hai, hai...are you an idiot?" Lord Huojin's voice sounded somewhat speechless.

"If I say anything else, my accent will be exposed. That guy looks like he's in a high position. The leader next to him is terrified. Do you think Yuya Senba, a small soldier, can remain silent?"

“…But it’s suspicious.”

"I don't need to remind you which is more serious, being suspicious or being exposed on the spot."

"Okay." Lord Huojin said reluctantly, "But besides 'OK', can't you say something short?"

"I said 'Greek Rakada.'

"Fine……"

Of course there is nothing wrong with Ji Li’s response.

But if a person only says "OK" in front of him, he would indeed think that this person has some mental problems.

This is probably the feeling that Huojinzhu feels powerless to complain about:
"Be careful, there is a strong man approaching."

A yellow light passed by, and Ji Li saw the guard standing in the pavilion next to him half-bow in a certain direction, and he also instantly performed the same courtesy.

The next moment, a huge yellow eye floated past the pavilion without even looking at what was going on inside.

"Arakawa..."

A black figure jumped out from some dark corner and performed the same etiquette.

A ninja.

Ji Li couldn't help but glance at the other person. Are you going to jump out and perform the gift?

After Arakawa had completely left, Ji Li and the other two withdrew their bodies together, glancing at the guy standing guard intently and the ninja who had returned to the shadows:
"It really looks like the real deal..."

"The Hellhound clan has a strict hierarchy and order. If you don't show courtesy, you will suffer." Lord Huojin sneered.

"It sounds like you used to enjoy it."

"The weak should bow down to the strong. This is an eternal truth. If you want to constantly improve yourself, then become a strong person."

“Is this the spirit of craftsmanship?”

“This is the spirit of craftsmanship.”

"But in international politics, the Black Sun House seems to be a dog of the Kaiton Federation. I'm afraid it is also restricted everywhere in the awakened world. So, do you have to kneel down and behave yourself when you see their president and the boss of the official organization?"

Huo Jinzhu was silent for a moment, and only spoke again after Ji Li had walked past two attics:
"Don't be complacent, it's just that your status is not good enough for this round."

"So what will be your status in the next round?"

"…You seem very keen on destroying the good relationship between us."

"No, I just want to know how tough you can be on this topic."

"Are you really not afraid of waiting for me to come out? How about letting you have a taste first?"

"I am terribly frightened."

Lord Huojin was completely silent.

As we gradually moved away from the restricted area, there were fewer samurai sentries along the way and fewer ninjas crawling in dark corners.

Ji Li tried to walk directly out of Inuzuka Castle, but was stopped by a ninja as soon as he left the core area:
"From the Fourth Division?"

"Hay."

"…Currently the core area has been sealed off. No one is allowed to leave unless they have a wartime pass."

"Hay."

"…You are the third seat of the Fourth Division, please don't do this."

"Hay."

The ninja left with a strange look on his face, and Ji Li turned around and walked back:

"Is this Yuya Senba still an official?"

Huo Jinzhu's voice came: "I have warned you not to think about going out with this face. This disguise cannot fool the 'ghost'. Act according to the plan. In addition..."

"You'd better avoid people and walk away."

According to the plan the two made when they left the forbidden area, they would either free Lord Huojin's physical body or break the core of the "miraculous" super-large spiritual circuit.

These two things are in the same place, located in the core area of ​​Inuzuka Castle, in the area where the Yuuya family belongs.

The city was indeed magnificent. The huge Black Sun Castle had intricate divisions of different sizes inside, and these blocks were divided among the eight major families and various administrative function areas.

The overall design is of ancient Japanese style, but it also includes modern designs and various electrical convenience systems, combining the ancient and modern.

Following the guidance of Lord Huojin, Ji Li quickly approached the destination and entered the territory of the Yuya family.

After passing through several buildings, entering an elevator, and crossing a cherry blossom garden, Ji Li pushed the door and walked into the core area of ​​Yuya's house.

A huge ancient Japanese-style tower.

The small tower was mostly a looped structure with each floor being a large room covered with tatami. The structural design was a bit strange, and there was no sign of any ninja or samurai.

According to Lord Huojin, almost no one comes to this place, and for some reason there are no guards, because this place is very special -

"Princess of Death?"

"The little princess of the Yuya family and Yuya Xun's former residence are taboo places."

"Is the princess haunting here?"

"There is no ghost here, that's not important." Lord Huojin said:
"Because there are no guards here and everyone is afraid of this place, the core of 'Ghost Axe' and my body are placed here. It is the safest place for the Hellhound Clan."

As Ji Li walked up, he saw a special room.

Along the way, the rooms on the floors we saw either had their doors closed, or looked a bit desolate, or were just simple Japanese-style rooms with a set of armor and some swords.

This floor in front of me, only one flight of stairs away from the top floor, is very different——

This is a large room with extremely gorgeous and bright decoration and colors. It has a design that combines modern and ancient styles, and is equipped with beds and various daily necessities.

In the center of the room, six ancient paintings stood somewhat irrationally.

It is said to be an ancient painting, but in fact it is just that the style looks like an ancient painting, with a strong Asian cultural flavor.

Each painting depicts a woman with long light green hair that is curled in various directions, giving her a somewhat unruly and messy look.

Each painting has a different posture and expression, showing joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. There are also two paintings that show one being "crazy" and the other one expressionless, and these two paintings are located right in the middle of all the paintings.

However, from Ji Li's unique level of appreciation, these things may look different:
"Why are there six pieces of paper of the aunt in the room of the princess of the Yuya family?"

Huo Jinzhu was choked by the second half of his sentence. After several breaths, he said gloomily:

"That's not the aunt...that's the princess of the Yuya family - Yuya Xun." "Is this princess aging prematurely?"

"…The style of the painting is like this. And that's not a piece of paper, it's an ancient painting."

"This is just a piece of paper. Oil painting is called a painting."

"?" Lord Huojin's computer crashed after hearing this.

There is no way, some of the cultural gaps in Murphy's megastructures are quite serious, and most of the artworks that can be preserved are oil paintings and sculptures.

You can't expect someone whose "Creativity" level barely breaks through 10 to have much artistic appreciation ability.

On the other side, the stacked bookshelves were filled with all kinds of comic books and covered with dust. Ji Lixin said that the princess had a wide range of interests when she was alive.

He did not stay here for long. After speaking to Lord Huo Jin for a few minutes, he continued to go up to the top floor.

There is nothing here, it looks empty.

Before Ji Li could say anything, the fragment of the magic mirror in his pocket projected a small stream of spiritual energy that shot out and hit the wooden floor.

The next moment, the sound of mechanisms moving came from all directions -

The walls cracked, the floors separated, and the space changed and combined like an elevator, rising, sinking, and expanding.

The entire top floor was constantly changing with an ingenious mechanical structure. Ji Li saw a large number of gears, mechanical expansions, and circuits moving and changing under the action of the slide rails.

I also saw that the shelves filled with comic books were moving, and it seemed that the entire floor was changing.

At the same time, he also felt that his position was constantly descending and the space around him was becoming wider.

As a wave of spiritual energy came from the front, the entire space completely stopped changing, and Ji Li also felt that his horizontal level had dropped by more than ten or twenty meters.

It seemed that he had followed the changes in the space inside the tower and returned to the first floor, the largest floor in the building. However, everything before him was completely different.

This is a space constructed entirely of metal. Some wooden boards and metal are connected together, providing some decoration for the cold, technological feel. Lights shine through the gaps, illuminating the entire space in front of you.

The door behind him turned into an open mechanical door at some point, and it was pitch black in the back, with no exit in sight.

A huge figure several meters tall stood in the center of the entire space.

It was a figure covered in heavy armor.

Its entire body is composed of dark green and dark red, and its face is covered with a neatly cut helmet and visor. It looks like a mechanical structure, but it has a pair of huge ghost horns on top.

The red and green colors, which give it a strong sense of collision, interweave to create a ferocious appearance on its body, and there are all kinds of ferocious spikes protruding from its body.

It has a long tail swung behind it, six limbs and four hands, each with short and thick claws. One pair of hands is half-clasped and placed on the waist, while the other pair has one hand free and one hand holding a complex and heavy sword, with the scabbard on its back.

In addition to the huge armored humanoid figure, there are also large areas of densely packed spiritual circuits spreading out from the soles of its feet.

The spiritual essence circuit was extremely thick, extending to the end of the entire room, and flowing in it was a green spiritual essence that even Ji Li felt frightened -

"uncanny workmanship".

Ji Li took a quick glance and was impressed by its complex structure and exquisite craftsmanship.

Unless we study here for a year, it will be impossible to destroy it through technical means... Ji Li made this judgment in his mind.

But Lord Huojin didn't care about these spiritual circuits. Instead, he suddenly became excited, and the magic mirror fragments flashed green light and flew out of Ji Li's pocket:
"my body……"

The next moment, Ji Li suddenly grabbed the fragment and rolled on the ground -

bass--! ! !
A silver line flashed in the air, tearing the air apart, and then turned into a piece of interwoven silk threads.

It was a slashing blow transformed from the ultimate sword light, which instantly cut dense knife marks on the ground!
Ji Li grabbed the fragment of the magic mirror and stood up on the spot. His eyes swept across the rapidly recovering spiritual circuits and locked onto a figure.

A young man in red clothes and long hair walked slowly out from behind the dark mechanical door, the long sword in his hand flashing a silver light:

"Elder Ogi, Patriarch...if either of these two catches you first, they won't kill you."

He stopped far away from Ji Li and talked to himself, raising his pair of gray eyes:

"Because you are a strange person who escaped from the Gate of Flesh and Blood, the family will want to get you and study the secrets of you..."

"But I'm different."

He said, turning his wrist:
"I will kill you for Shenya."

Ji Li grabbed the hilt of the knife:

"You let me go on purpose..."

The visitor sneered:
"My name is Inukai Jōichi. When I return to the other world, I will chew as much as I want..."

boom! ! ! !

The violent blade light instantly tore through the area where Inukai Jōichi was standing.

Ji Li, who revealed his true form, made a knife flower, and the blade in his hand was surrounded by black air:
"You want me to chew your name, too?"

A roar struggled out from the dark sword wave, and Inukai Jōichi looked at Ji Li with a look of intense surprise and suspicion:

"Your soul well should have been destroyed by Lord Arakawa..."

"Then you think too highly of him."

Jiu Ni returned to the sheath instantly, and the wrist sheath device began to grind and operate. Sparks continuously burst out from the gaps in the sword guard, accumulating power for grinding the steel blade.

Inukai Jōichi suddenly appeared in front of him:

"Die!!!"

Poof! ! ! !

Ji Li pulled out Jiu Ni with a bang and collided with the terrifying silver light that was overwhelming. Amidst the violent sparks was a crazy collision of silver and black spiritual essence.

As for the Lord of Huojin, he had already broken away from the magic mirror fragments and rushed towards his physical body at the moment when Ji Li was fighting with the opponent, but he suddenly collided with a rising green light and screamed:

“Supernatural craftsmanship… You modified Supernatural craftsmanship!?”

Amid the violent collision of silver and black, Inukai Jōichi revealed a cold smile:

"Master Huojin, you should just go back to the seal obediently..."

The next moment, the entire ceiling suddenly opened.

Different from what Ji Li thought, this was indeed a floor, but the entire tower had been retracted underground during the previous changes in the mechanism, leaving only the floor where the few people were currently located still on the ground.

At this moment, the entire sky of Inuzuka Castle was exposed to the strong yellow light. A figure descended from the sky, and the aura of the immortal spread in all directions. Several spiritual barriers rose into the sky to seal off this place.

The Master of the Eyes - Arakawa.

He glanced at the Huojin Master struggling in the green light below, and rushed towards it while saying coldly:

"My barrier can only hold off Elder Oki and Patriarch Inukai for five minutes."

"five minutes?"

A ferocious smile instantly broke out on Inukai Jōichi's face:

"Silver Shadow, cut the atmosphere!!!"

The violent sword blade tornado wrapped Ji Li in it. Ji Li instantly moved the blade in his hand, blocking and colliding with the thousands of sword blades frantically.

For a while, the sound of clinking was endless, and the blade in his hand kept blasting out sparks like a waterfall, and the sword body and wrist left afterimages.

It was not until half a while later that Ji Li finally cleared the last of the spiritual sword energy, and his body suddenly slid back, leaving dense sword marks all over the ground in all directions.

A silver figure floated in the air, with six silver blades suspended around him in a spiral.

After being liberated, the evil spirit Inukai Jōichi was wrapped in silver armor all over his body. His face armor was smooth and flawless, and a ball of pure white flame burned in the position of his left eye:

"One minute, just one minute, I can kill this bastard..."

"Suffer death!!!"

The six sword blades suddenly soared up, turning into sword lights that were dozens of meters long and shot towards Ji Li head-on.

At that moment, Inukai Jōichi's eyes suddenly trembled:
He saw the other party stabbed the blade into his abdomen -

A powerful black gas rose into the sky.

(End of this chapter)