Soul Trigger

Chapter 555 Fusion
The girl's body disintegrated, turning into endless golden sand that seeped into Ji Li's soul.

At this moment, he once again accepted the power of "divine intervention" and gained the power of "true vision" to see through everything.

He looked at the Time Domain Dagger in his hand, where the core fragments that constituted the spirit essence of Felin Time were clearly visible, constantly releasing fluctuations in all directions under the impetus of his spirit essence.

How to manipulate, how to drive—all the key points were presented to him like formulas from those fragments, in a tangible way.

Ji Li gripped the dagger tightly, taking all this information into his mind. The feeling of barely controlling the film fragments by relying on his willpower to fly with the big brick quickly faded away.

As everything around him fell silent, the world was shrouded in a grayish-white hue, and time seemed to stand still.

Looking around at the entire Lingbo Prison environment constructed by Shu, the countless spiritual nodes that make up the entire space were clearly imprinted in his eyes, as if they could be shattered with just a light touch.

The same goes for the rotting jackal.

Ji Li raised his palm and pointed it at the other party. Under his control, the power of time reversal enveloped it.

The jackal's swollen body retreated in a grotesque manner, and amidst a series of afterimages, it transformed back into its previously shattered corpse.

The corpse retreated and transformed back into the form of the raider, but since its soul had already dissipated, even if it retreated back to this state, it was just an empty shell.

However, the body still retains the person's past emotions and thoughts, as well as the psychological connections he had with other individuals in this world.

The body remained still for a moment before continuing to retreat under Ji Li's control.

From middle age to youth, from youth to adolescence, from adolescence to childhood, finally becoming an infant and an embryo, and then completely disappearing from Ji Li's sight—

His existence was completely erased; his emotions and thoughts, as well as all his spiritual psychological connections, were wiped out.

Time manipulation is simply a godlike power.

Perhaps in the face of time, even forces like black holes and the universe are nothing more than this.

Ji Li's gaze swept over the princess, who was frozen in a state of collapse, in his arms. He turned his head and saw the angry and extreme expression on Shu's face, as well as the frozen astonishment on the faces of the Rizhao duo.

That astonishment was clearly visible in his eyes, existing within the bodies of the two people he was observing. He could easily touch and shatter that emotion if he wanted to.

He carried the princess to Shu and pinched her paradoxical, smooth cheek, but she didn't react at all.

"Could Da Lei really be a god?"

Shu's soul was filled with endless chaos, and her body was a mixture of various negative and harmful spiritual substances.

There is pain, hatred, despair, and loneliness, as well as a large number of mixed, dark colors.

That was because, under the operation of the divine descent system, she was trapped in the coffin for endless years, which formed an extremely negative emotion towards the entire human spirit cluster, in which no positive color could be seen.

The Rizhao duo were right; it was indeed a collection of destruction, or perhaps it should be referred to as "it."

Because it lacks the emotions that normal human beings should have, all its nature is transformed into hatred towards the entire human spirit community.

The source of this hatred lies in the moment when the Menes imprisoned it in a coffin, making it a "god among men".

A thick, chaotic line connects it to the princess in Ji Li's arms, signifying that the two are essentially one entity.

This is a psychological connection to the soul, an unobservable mystical theory, and cannot even be called a phenomenon.

However, under the Eye of Truth, Ji Li clearly saw this connection.

There was also a line between Ji Li and it, but its color was much darker. After touching that line, he saw curiosity, greed, possession, and destruction.

Facing an existence that cannot be seen through by oneself is also a liberation of the self; this is the emotion Shu felt towards Ji Li.

She wanted to possess Ji Li, and when that possession became impossible, she decisively chose destruction.

No matter how rare and precious Ji Li was, in Shu's eyes he was just a slightly special human spirit.

So what's inside your body?
Ji Li looked at the princess, both curious and puzzled.

If she lent him the power on the canal to escape the control of the "Red Earth" faction...

It is because, as human beings, there is hatred towards the Menes people who exploited and persecuted her, and a sense of gratitude towards Ji Li for releasing her.

So why is he rushing up now and lending me his power again?
With these emotions in mind, Ji Li gazed at the princess's body and soul.

He saw various colors of light contained within her body, representing her human emotions and desires.

It contains curiosity and hope for the world outside the coffin, sadness and loneliness in the face of endless darkness, and a torrent of melancholy and hope when one sees the Dragon Sky for the first time after breaking open the coffin.

Like Shu, she also has two lines on her body.

One was the thick, chaotic thread that connected Shu, and the other was a thin, golden thread that connected Ji Li.

In the stillness of time, Ji Li touched the line and felt endless scenes rushing towards him, rushing into his soul.

He felt as if he were lying in a coffin, as if he were witnessing the scene the princess had seen that night on the canal, or rather, the emotional image of the event in her memory.

The view outside the coffin wasn't the night sky of the Dragon of Slaughter, but an endless rainbow and the towering silhouette of the Death Star.

The intricate mechanical structures perceived by Ji Li emitted sparks and spiritual energy that formed rainbows, illuminating the entire sky like a breathtaking dream.

Freedom and hope.

This hope arose the moment Ji Li released her, and thus this hope was instilled in Ji Li, creating a psychological connection between the two.

Soon the entire sky began to dissolve, and a wisp of chaos was eroding the scene Ji Li was seeing. Hope turned into fear, but the object of that fear was Shu's true form.

Once Shu's true form is completely freed, then under the operation of the Divine Descent system, the "princess," as a human being and the medium of the true form's power, will no longer have any value.

Her very existence will be erased by Shu Jiu, and all her emotions will vanish and cease to exist.

So, she was calling for help from the "rainbow" in her heart.

Ji Li gazed at the princess's golden, flowing eyes, seeing those colors frozen in the time he had stopped, and patted the girl's head.

"In that case, I'll grant you your freedom."

The time-reversing force above the coffin stopped.

He could feel the Time Domain Dagger in his hand trembling. Although time around him had been frozen by Ji Li, this meant that in Ji Li's own perception of time, he would lose control of the fragment in no more than ten to twenty seconds.

Around Shu, cracks in time are slowly emerging as it struggles to break free.

"We need to speed things up."

Soon, the entire Lingbo Prison created by Shu began to change rapidly, and the princess in Shu and Ji Li's arms also began to undergo spiritual changes.

As for the Rizhao duo, Ji Li released them from his control.

They looked around as if waking from a nightmare, staring in horror at everything that had been still, now constantly changing.

But the change was so fast, so fast that afterimages appeared, and they couldn't even see how their surroundings were developing.
"How is this going?!"

Their voices were faint and indistinct, as if the medium of communication in this space had malfunctioned.

Khalid kept looking around, his expression changing repeatedly:

"Time...it's time! Time is accelerating!!!"

Not only was the surrounding Lingbo Hell environment accelerating, but Princess Shuhe herself was also speeding up. The only thing that remained unchanged, besides them, was Ji Li, who stood not far away with his arms raised high.

"Ling Sizi, what have you done?!"

The two were utterly shocked. If the power of time that Ji Li had displayed before time froze was already astonishing, then the accelerated time around them now was a phenomenon that could overturn their worldviews. The world was changing at a speed like the passage of time, and the entire Limbo Prison was changing at a rapid pace.

With the power of True Sight, Ji Li could clearly see everything around him, which not only allowed him to fully master the temporal essence of Felin, but also enabled him to skillfully and flexibly apply it to the surrounding environment.

He can accelerate the entire environment while keeping it completely still.

One year, two years, a hundred years.

As time passed, the coffin and the spiritual circuits above it rapidly decayed until the entire coffin ceased to exist, and Shu's power was completely unleashed.

But in the still yet accelerating time, this liberating force is constantly evolving, and Princess Shuhe's soul and body are also churning and mixing in this evolution.

The Time Domain Dagger in Ji Li's hand trembled violently. As the power in his hand gradually went out of control, the surrounding environment also began to shake.

When his acceleration finally stopped because he could no longer control the Time Domain Dagger, the entire Limbo shattered, and everyone returned to the real world.

Ji Li suddenly collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, his soul trembling wildly as if it were about to leave his body.

The Time Domain Dagger spun out and bounced before hitting the ground.

Shu's body collapsed into his arms, seemingly having completely lost consciousness.

As the two duo looked around, still at a loss, fluctuations of spiritual energy emanated from outside the main hall.

At that moment, a dark gold shimmered in the air, and the coffin remains, accelerated to the point of complete wind erosion, rose up, transforming into a decaying jackal's head that snapped down at Ji Li—

"Ji Li?!"

With a scream, the little old man with gleaming hair led his guards into the hall. Seeing this, he was about to step forward to stop them, but someone was faster than him.

Shu suddenly opened her eyes, her still somewhat bewildered gaze meeting Ji Li's weary eyes. Then, she instantly raised her hand and aimed at the jackal's head that was biting at her.

The enormous head bit down and shattered completely on the crimson-gold light screen, turning into boundless chaos that seeped into Shu's body.

As the golden light in his eyes completely faded, the jackal's last wisp of spiritual essence also dissipated completely.

Shu lowered her hand, turned around, and squatted down in front of Ji Li, gently pressing on his side waist, where the spiritual circuit left by Naf had been:

"what have you done?"

Ji Li grinned:

"Give you freedom."

Shu's pupils contracted, and he trembled slightly.

The scene fell into silence.

The King of Yuanling's expression was uncertain. He was not quite sure what had happened. He left Lingbo Prison after his condition stabilized, but outside, chaos had already broken out.

Then, sensing the outbreak of paradoxical energy in the area, he hurriedly brought his people over.

In his eyes, a strong sense of paradox was rising from the brown-skinned girl, but he could not sense any hostility from her, so he ordered the guards around him to gradually gather around her.

At this moment, Khalid looked at Shu and hesitated before speaking:
"Princess……"

"Don't call me that."

Shu turned around abruptly, startling Khalid so much that he took a step back. The golden light in her eyes had completely turned amber.

She let out a long breath, and the powerful, paradoxical aura receded endlessly, returning to her soul.

She turned to look at Ji Li, her eyes flashing with complex emotions:
"I'm not anymore."

"Then you are Shu?"

Faced with Ji Li's question so close at hand, she remained silent for a few moments:
"You can continue to call me that."

Then he withdrew his hand from Ji Li's waist.

The spiritual circuit rapidly dissipated within Ji Li's body, and he sensed the strange tremor in his soul cease—

The distorted two-dimensional space finally returned to normal values, and he was able to actively control the distortion according to his thoughts, with no further abnormalities.

In addition, golden light burst forth from Ji Li's left eye, and he sensed a familiar power within his body.

That power was far less potent than before, but it was indeed a part of Shu:

The Eye of Truth.

He could also see the flow of spiritual energy in the air, and even the clusters of light on the spirits of individuals.

There wasn't much information around, but it certainly existed.

Shu's power remained in his soul.

"This is?"

Shu turned her head, straightened her hair which Ji Li had ruffled, and looked away slightly:

"Thank you."

"Don't you like it? Then I'll take it back..."

"Do not."

Ji Li blocked the other person's palm:
"like very much."

Shu remained silent for a few breaths, a smile appearing on his lips:

"So, do you like Shu or the princess?"

Ji Li returned the smile:

"Although I really like your thank-you gift, may I like both of them?"

Shu looked away:

"can."

At this moment, she is both Shu and a princess.

Shu is her power, and the princess is his consciousness.

But on a deeper level, she also possesses the consciousness of a princess and Shu.

Under the power of Felin, the coffin was destroyed by accelerated time, and Princess Shuhe, who was originally one but separated by the coffin, was completely merged back together.

So now, she possesses both the power of comfort and the awareness of humanity.

Naturally, the intense hope that arose the moment the coffin was opened, and the hope placed on "Rainbow," were also fully preserved.

Now, hope has been realized, but the coffin has vanished; therefore, she is a truly free paradox.

A free, benevolent god among mortals towards Ji Li.

"So, do you prefer Jin Misha, Yu Ya Xun, Yan Xi Yu, Fei Lin, Qin, Che Li, Mo Li, Hei Xiang, Ji Ruo Xi, or Shu?"

Ji Li: "Huh???"

(End of this chapter)