Soul Trigger

Chapter 41: Bone-piercing Frost Scars
Ji Li came to the display case of the soul space and saw that there was one more thing in the small compartment where the personality fragments were stored.

It was a black tennis ball, like a toy for pet dogs to throw, with a layer of ice chips floating on it. This should be what the "brain stem" looked like in the soul space:
[Personality Fragment: Hypothermia]

[Soul Quality: Incomplete]

[Features: Low temperature. Allows the spirit essence to have cold properties.]

【Cannot be materialized.】

[Do you want to consume a certain amount of cognitive points to fuse the faceless bone with hypothermia? ]

"This is the source of the ridiculous low temperature..."

Although the analyzed characteristics were mediocre, with the experience of the qualitative change after the last fusion of the shadow rabbit's foot, Ji Li integrated hypothermia into the faceless bone without much hesitation, and this time it cost a full 8 points of cognitive index.

As an extreme chill spread throughout Ji Li's body, the fusion was completed.

The overall appearance of the faceless bone has not changed much, but the flame-shaped cracks in the eye sockets are covered with a layer of clear lens. Ji Li checked the current state of the faceless bone:
Personality Entity: Faceless Bone

[Soul quality: inferior]

[Enhanced state: single spiral]

[Features: Willpower Amplification Level 2, Affinity Amplification, Afterimage Steps, Bone-piercing Frost Scars. ]

In addition to a new feature called [Bone Frost Marks], his attribute panel has also changed:
Name: Ji Li

Soul Core: Odin (codename V1)

Personality Relic: Faceless Bone (In stock)

Will: 22.6
Super sense: 8 (+0.5)

Creation: 2 (+0.6)

Affinity: 7.8
Although it was only a little bit, the attributes of creativity and super sense were actually improved.

Ji Li sensed it and realized that the capacity of the Soul Well had increased very slightly, and at the same time the sensing range of the Soul Trigger had also expanded a little bit.

"Super sense affects the sensing ability of the Soul Trigger, while creativity involves the spiritual capacity of the Soul Well..." Ji Li understood.

After entering the evil spirit stage, Ji Li's appearance also changed accordingly.

First, there were more clear ice crystals in the flame-shaped cracks at the eye sockets, and symmetrical ice crystal cracks on the shoulder bone armor, like some kind of patterns.

As he injected spiritual essence into these cracks, a thin layer of ice covered his entire body, emitting a chilling chill.

After another attempt, all the ice was transferred to Ji Li's claws, turning into a pair of huge ice claws.

He clenched his fist and the ice crystals wrapped around his fist.

As the experiment progressed, Ji Li basically figured out how to use this Bone-piercing Frost Mark:
When activated with spiritual essence, it can form very hard ice crystals.

There is currently an upper limit to the total amount of ice crystals that can be formed, which seems to be related to the total amount of his spiritual essence. Either a very thin layer covers the entire body, or all of them gather in one place to strengthen the attack.

The mass and hardness of this ice crystal exceeds the range of 12%-18% of the faceless bone. If it turns into a blade-shaped ice crystal, its sharpness will exceed the value of Ji Li's original bone claw by 14-20%.

As for blunt weapons, such as fists and feet, the overall improvement in offensive power is similar to that of claws.

Ji Li tried to turn it into a weapon of a specific shape, but after the ice crystal left the body, the spiritual essence on it would quickly disappear. It could be thrown as a flying knife at medium and short distances, but it could not be condensed into a weapon that could be held alone.

The ultimate limit is to condense a pair of twelve-centimeter sleeve arrows or fist swords in both hands, depending on whether it is condensed on the back of the hand or under the wrist.

In addition to the improvement in physical attack, this thing seemed to have some kind of reaction with the Wrathful Black Bone. One was that it might be due to the slight increase in the basic value. When Ji Li fully activated the Wrathful Black Bone, he could release two skulls.

Second, if the Wrathful Black Bones and the Biting Frost Marks are activated at the same time, the black smoke of the Wrathful Black Bones will turn into black ice mist.

Activating these two abilities at the same time will consume Ji Li's spiritual essence in a voracious manner, and perhaps there is hope for the future.

All in all, Frost Mark didn't bring the same qualitative change in offensiveness as Shadow Step, but it had many different uses. The current benefits were already considerable, enough to satisfy Ji Li.

After removing the decimal point, he now has 17 points of cognitive index left. He is unable to continue strengthening the faceless bone, so he exits the soul space.

After trying it again in the real world and confirming that he could use Biting Frost in human form, he nodded with satisfaction, peeled an apple for himself with his ice blade sleeve arrow, chilled it, and took a bite.

“The needle doesn’t poke.”

……

Reflected world.

In the gray-white space, rats moved back and forth, each holding something in their mouths, constantly filling in the gaps in a building.

The gap was gradually being filled as solid matter was absorbed.

At this moment, the entire reflected world suddenly shook slightly, and the white ash on the buildings fell down, soaking the rats into white backs.

The wall that had just been partially filled suddenly cracked open:

"Shit, what's going on?!"

A mouse stood up.

Could it be that the boy has started causing trouble outside?
The mice have been here for a day and a night, and they seem to be unaware of what is happening outside.

No, I can't spare the time right now, the rat swarm must stay here to continue to stabilize the seal, but we still have to see what that kid is up to...

In the real world, a mouse crawled out of the kitchen waste disposal area in the cafeteria and stuffed some of the brains that had flowed out back into its head:

"…We are all civilized people, why did you step on the rat to death? Can't you use some other method? This corpse is too difficult to control…"

The mouse paced unsteadily, closed his eyes for a moment and shook his head for a moment, then ran across the campus into the administration building and went straight up to the sixth floor.

"What's going on... there seems to be a small-scale spiritual fluctuation in the school today... did something go wrong in the physical examination?"

Fortunately, these spiritual fluctuations were all positive, which made it feel relieved.

After looking around for a while, he carefully entered an open office.

After trying for many days, this guy didn't find himself. Mouse felt that under today's unusual circumstances, he needed to be bolder.

This seemed to be a newly cleaned office. The floor was clean and there were some nice furniture. A TV was playing the classic cartoon story of Tom and Jerry, and there was half an apple on the coffee table.

Where is that kid? Wasn't the sensation just now here?
In an instant, it felt a needle-like warning from the soul trigger and jumped away suddenly.

But a crystal clear ice blade pierced into its foothold, and the coldness that spread instantly froze its entire body.

"Brother Jerry, you peek at me every day. When you didn't show up today, I thought you were taken away by the cat."

The shadow enveloped the shivering mouse.

It shook its fur and barely raised its head, but was instantly covered by a crystal clear ice box.

Damn, I was cheated by this guy!
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