Soul Trigger

Chapter 277 Promotion and Hives

"The characteristics have changed... Is it because of the gaze just now?"

Ji Li drew out his Heart Blade and saw that its entire appearance was very different from before.

If it was a continuation of the appearance of Jiu Ni before, with the shape becoming a sword blade instead of a long sword, at this moment it has basically completely deviated from the appearance of Jiu Ni.

All the barbs of the dragon pattern disappeared, replaced by a deep black crystal-like texture.

Those crystals were neatly intertwined to form a sharp black sword, which gave off a sense of fragmentation.

This big sword is not the door panel big sword that Ji Li made using mycelium, nor is it the heavy blade in the Nine Reverses Liberation form that was pulled out from the body in the Furious Proverbs mode.

The shape is a standard cross-shaped Western broadsword. Considering Ji Li's size and strength, he can wield it as a one-handed sword.

However, the hilt of the black crystal sword, where the cross shape was supposed to be, was hollowed out and turned into a circle of broken crystals.

It was like a circle of spikes converging towards the hollow space.

As Ji Li pressed the soul trigger, a blood-colored electric current spread out, and a flash of blood-colored spiritual energy gathered in the hollow part of the hilt, and a beating feeling like a heart could be felt.

Then the spiritual essence continued to flow out, and the entire sword instantly and slowly breathed red light.

It was as if it had life, flashing with light at the same frequency as breathing, and then the sword sections popped out neatly one by one, and disintegrated instantly as Ji Li swung it.

In the hurricane, the lengthened blood-red sword turned into a dragon-like sword whip!

Ji Li was delighted to see the prey, and as he swung his sword, a powerful bright red electric light lingered and exploded.

As a combat master, he had played with quite a few weapons in his previous life.

However, this larger and more powerful cutting whip was a type he had never played with before. What impressed him most was that the equipment department once sent him something similar.

It was envisioned that the thing sent by the Equipment Department could achieve the effect of using both high-frequency sword blade and sword whip in mechanized hand-to-hand combat.

During combat, the breakthrough "modular switching one-piece molding" technology can be used to disperse the blades that make up the whip.

The scattered blades will turn into floating guns, launching short and intensive fire strikes.

However, this fancy weapon, apart from being used by Ji Li as a floating cannon in the first actual combat, the blade and whip forms were completely useless and were not as useful as his high-frequency wrist knife.

But in this world, some things may be uncertain...

Ji Li shook his hand casually, and the ruby ​​sword blades instantly scattered all over the sky, transforming into small blood-colored crystal monsters one after another, spewing out endless bright red lightning.

The sword in Ji Li's hand grew endlessly, and in an instant it was like a sky full of red clouds gathering together, transforming into a dense bright red thunder field.

"I just don't know how it differs from Yan Xiyu's lightning before."

As the millions of bright reds returned to Ji Li's heart blade, the sword body that was breathing red light gradually returned to the appearance of black crystal.

Ji Li opened the panel and checked the characteristics that had become [Corruption Positive Electricity], but he directly expanded it——

"After the Soul Museum was updated, new functions were optimized?"
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Corruption Storm: Use emotions to ignite spiritual essence, creating highly contagious corruption thunder. When using corruption thunder, your affinity attribute is greatly manifested.

Reproductive Characteristics: The Thunder of Corruption has the biological reproduction and infection characteristics of a short lifespan. Every time a mental object is infected, the affinity is slightly increased.

Corruption Followers: The higher the affinity, the negative effects of the Corruption Thunder on the environment and souls will evolve and be enhanced to varying degrees, and the proliferation of the Corruption Thunder will be enhanced.

Elemental Undead: Possesses the ability to resonate with worldly matter. After becoming evil, the resonance amplitude increases. It can move with electric current. When moving in the thunder of corruption, your affinity will be increased.

Electricity Accumulator: The Well of Souls can store electrical energy, which can be converted into ectoplasm for use.

Natural Interference: Corruption Thunder is a natural phenomenon that gains additional affinity bonuses on thunderstorm days. In the natural environment interfered by Corruption Thunder, the corresponding reality interference ability is enhanced.
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After these characteristics were integrated into "Sword Master" by Ji Li, they were all condensed into the names of the original personality relics, and no longer appeared in large sections in his trait columns, which made it a lot clearer.

The original text here should be Yan Xiyu's Negative Justice, but after it became [Corrupt Positive Electricity], a lot of changes occurred.

Ji Li looked at it for a long time, but only saw two words:
Affinity, affinity, and affinity.

By the way, I took a look at my own attributes and found that in the characteristics column, the original [Affinity Amplification] had changed at some point and had become [Affinity Specialization] with a level of one.

And his affinity attribute at this moment has become 93.4.

Obviously, the changes in [Corrupt Positive Electricity] also further enhanced its affinity attributes.

"So, it can be considered as the second type?"

Ji Li sensed it and found that the uncomfortable swelling feeling deep in his soul had subsided a lot. His ideas, coupled with the existence of the curse of the other world, should have been successful.

In addition to the various intense special abilities mentioned above, he now has the ability of [Yan Mo Jin Mie (Steel Blade Grinding)], which can continuously sharpen his own spiritual essence in the collision of spiritual essence in battle.

In a battle, you can continuously purify your spiritual essence, making it stronger and stronger.

Now with the existence of [Corrupt Positive Electricity], it should be strengthened in group battles, and can further directly enhance its own spiritual strength through affinity characteristics.

In addition to [Rage Mantra], there is another newly acquired mantra. However, after [Negative Justice] becomes [Corruption Positive], the name of the mantra has also changed accordingly -

【Proverbs on Injustice】.

Justice becomes injustice if this is really a gift given by the cool girl, rather than a product of the extraction of subconsciousness and spiritual essence by the curse in the other world.

Now that it has been modified like this, if this guy knew it, he would probably be mad at me.

In the [Corruption Positive Electricity] state, the prefix name of Jiu Ni [Amber Destroyer] will also change:
[Scarlet Sword·Nine Reversals].

But overall, the result of this 1+1 heart sword should be greater than two.

As for the specific strength, judging from the data analyzed by the Ascension Protocol, the [Scarlet Sword] is slightly weaker than the [Ashes of Annihilation] which is half of the [Yan Mo Jin Mie]'s state.

However, like the Cinder Blade, it has the ability to continuously strengthen itself during use.

Moreover, the feature of [Power Accumulator] can significantly alleviate the battery life problem.

Almost every time there was a big battle, Ji Li would end up with his spiritual essence exhausted, unlike Yan Xiyu, Tuzi Niu'er and the others, who basically still had some spiritual essence left as long as it wasn't a life-and-death fight.

The rabbit girl was even more outrageous. She was beaten to death, but she kept using her "door-opening" ability, and there was still enough spiritual essence left to open a window to the dimension.

As for more lethal tests, since there were no experimental subjects in the Soul Museum, he could only use some special effects at random. More changes and special points would have to be known by observing the actual performance.

I just don't know if the other eight-type masters are in a similar situation as me.

So far, the eight types of masters he had encountered were not too strong, strictly speaking, and the Immortals were unpredictable.

The main reason was that when he was in the Black Sun Palace, Dianpo kicked one immortal at a time and could easily tear open the space of the inner world and throw people in for a day trip, which left a deep psychological impression on him.

This caused the scenes of encountering immortals that he imagined in his mind to become somewhat ridiculous.

The essence of his soul also means that Ji Li will not be suppressed by the spiritual pressure of people whose souls are younger than his.

But the sense of threat he felt in the Black Sun Palace at that time would not be affected. Funny as it was, with his current Trinity strength, he admitted that he was still some distance away.

After seeing Ku Niu'er's "gift", Ji Li looked at Che Li's again. After the trait named [Leader] was integrated into himself, the name did not change.

Just this ability description [Choose and lock an emotion, and spread it to your herd. ]

It still left him a little confused.

After trying to activate this trait, he found that the so-called "herd" definition seemed to be related to the various derivatives he created.

Including but not limited to products such as black ice rats and black ice spiders, the effective range is within the perception range of one's own soul trigger.

After activating the ability, all derivatives within the effective range will enter a strange state.

After trying to use the black ice seal to create a black ice rat, Ji Li finally understood the specific usage:

Lock on a mental and emotional state of your own. When you release the [Leader] ability, the "herd" will begin to forcibly "act" this mental and emotional state and gain a corresponding increase in spiritual essence.

This psychological and emotional state was extracted from his memories. But after trying it, Ji Li found that this extraction could not obtain a specific emotional state, such as "anger", "calmness", "courage" and so on.

The emotional states he extracted can only be divided into two types: "negative" and "positive".

Negative emotional states include anger, irritability, contempt, etc., while positive ones include fearlessness and calmness.

The specific effect is that positive emotional states make his derivatives act more methodically and become smarter.

While having a certain degree of autonomy, some of its own abilities will be enhanced and it will be able to better execute his orders.

For example, the black ice spiders and rats' ability to produce black ice will be improved.

Negative emotions will make the derivatives act more violently. Although there is no problem in executing the orders, they are unable to issue more detailed orders.

The black ice they create increases its corrosiveness to spiritual essence.

This is a relatively special auxiliary ability, provided that one's own "herd" can keep up with one's own strengthening rhythm.

However, if the Special Management Bureau starts to form its own direct troops, then this ability may be of great use.

Moreover, compared with these derivatives, the human spirit is a more complex creature, and perhaps the abilities of the "leader" will be more different.

As for that other world, there are still some theories about it.

Judging from the mutations caused by the cool girl and her abilities, this connection to the other world was not in vain.

As for the unknown attention... Ji Li felt that he had already received a lot of attention in the other world, so one more would not be too much, and since it was a gift sent to his doorstep, he would accept it with a smile.

The "other world" seems to be a space outside the triple dimension, like some special spiritual dimension.

Although the danger level was quite high, the gains were good. Considering the thing he saw that looked like a spaceship, Ji Li estimated that he would have to go again after his "emotion" value was high enough.

Of course, in the process of accumulating "emotions", my own trinity must also go a step further. Now, in addition to conquering the world, it seems that there is another goal that must be achieved...

But "emotions" need to be accumulated. He is not an "expert in picking up girls", so it is a bit difficult for him to take the initiative.

Like the first time I ate kimchi pot with Rabbit, it made me feel sick.

So just let it be.

Finally, his eyes fell on the last unfamiliar trait name:

【Nest transmission】

As Ji Li triggered the soul trigger, he used this trait.

He only felt a sharp pain in the depths of his soul, and instantly sank into it——

If [Communication with Other Worlds] is to "rocket his soul into space", then [Hive Transmission] is to drill his ability directly into the core of the earth.

In an instant, he saw a scene like fireworks exploding in his mind, and when he took a quick glance, it was actually the rain of fireworks when the Predator King died!

Is the fireworks rain related to this ability?
He looked carefully and found that the rain of fireworks was a little blurry, but it looked like a map in general.

Ji Li thought about it, withdrew from the soul space and the Lingbi, and jumped out of the window. At the same time, a trace of mycelium burst out from his hand and stuck to the top of the building, quickly pulling him to the roof.

Then [Hive Transmission] instantly unfolded——

An entire map appeared in his mind, exactly the image of the fireworks.

He could basically see everything, including the height difference and the distance, except that there was no real three-dimensional map.

At the same time, Ji Li also felt the violent consumption of spiritual essence in his body. He spread out his mycelium all over the sky and drilled into the school's power grid system at an extremely fast speed along the building.

The blue electric current is continuously transmitted along the hyphae, and when it reaches the body, it quickly turns into bright red electric current and turns into spiritual essence and flows into the body.

The frantic consumption of spiritual essence was temporarily relieved, but it was still decreasing steadily.

Ji Li was surprised at the terrifying speed of spiritual essence consumption, and hurried to check the light spots in these images.

At this moment, there are two of them in the same position as him, and they should be the two that the black box gave to him.

There is one two blocks away from Aries College, three five blocks away, and in the entire Xinnan District, including the one owned by Ji Li, there are a total of thirteen.

Although its existence can be clearly sensed, its specific location is rather vague.

At the same time, some of the personality relics continued to emit some strange whispers——

[When will I become a famous musician? The night wind is so cold tonight... But I don't know why, there are more people coming to watch my concert tonight. Is it my illusion? ]

[I really like that girl... Should I confess my feelings to her? ]

[I must take this piece of land. If I can’t take it... my house, my property, everything I have will be gone...]

[Damn this stinky man, his mouth is stinky and greasy, he has few hairs on his head, and he is impotent, he can’t do it after three or four times… But am I too proud tonight? Forget it, I will make it completely after a few more orders…]

Are they all psychological activities of different people’s spirits?
"…What does this mean?"

Ji Li was a little confused.

In addition to these, there are many things that he cannot perceive at all.

Obviously, the spirits of those people whose voices he could hear should have picked up those personality relics.

After using the alien communication to enter the "other world", Ji Li considered that the King of Predators was contaminated by the strange creatures in it, and there might be some clues about the fireworks-like explosion.

But now it seems that the ability granted by this beetle is to directly sense the personality relics that exist after the explosion, and even the people who come into contact with the personality relics.

This is somewhat inconsistent with his guess.

There is too little information, and further research is needed to understand the specific situation.

Anyway, if we want to collect these personality relics and prevent the possible confusion, it becomes much simpler -

You have to know that these things are likely to be contaminated, and if ordinary people pick them up, they may even be corrupted into something evil.

However, even if it continued to absorb electricity, Ji Li's detection range would only extend to three district-level administrative plots at most.

If the range is expanded further, his spiritual essence would not be enough even in this situation.

Just when he was about to narrow the scope and take a closer look at the situation in Xinnan District, he discovered that when this ability was triggered, there seemed to be another perception mode.

He immediately switched away, and now the spots of light in his head disappeared, leaving only two spots of light in front of him——

[The bureau's operation seems to have been successful, but the losses seem to be severe... I wonder how the commander is doing? ]

[If he is injured, I will buy flowers and visit him first. If he is fine, I will give him the watch I bought before and wish him a smooth operation...]

[But what should I say? As a subordinate... It seems that Chief Yan has a good relationship with him. Should I be more restrained? ]

[What should I do? I really want to see him. Should I call him now to express my condolences...]

Ji Li's mouth twitched suddenly:
Jasmine?!
And he touched another light spot, which was also heavyweight:

[For some reason, Mr. Black Goat's scent is even more alluring.]

[But what is he doing on the rooftop? I should go ask him...]

[No, I can’t help it... Just let me take a breath...]

At the same time, Ji Li could feel the aura of the black box appearing in the building under his feet and approaching him quickly.
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PS: Happy New Year to everyone!

The fever is better now, but I still cough a lot and feel dizzy. I slept several times today, so there is only one update.
(End of this chapter)