Soul Trigger

Chapter 571 The Pioneers and Odin

Chapter 571 The Pioneers and Odin
"This is the first time I've seen you so out of control."

Philine's words echoed in his ears, and the coldness of her fingers reminded Ji Li, causing him to quickly calm down and return his attention to Philine herself:

Are you alright? How are you feeling now?

"It's okay, you can let go of me now."

As Ji Li released her, Fei Lin gently pulled her fingers away from Ji Li's cheek:
"So, you were also guided by him... I had my suspicions when I saw your current demonic transformation, and your appearance after the outburst of your personality shadow, and sure enough..."

Ji Li neither confirmed nor denied, but instead questioned:
“These factors do indeed make him resemble me, but why are you so certain that I am not him?”

Philin's reaction just now was filled with absolute certainty, as if he was certain that no matter how many elements Ji Li had in common with that "Pioneer", the Pioneer could never have been Ji Li before his reincarnation.

"Because it's real."

Film touched his face:

"Your demonization, the outburst of your shadow personality, these things are all products of your cognitive manifestation."

Cognition can be something from memory, something you believe you are powerful about, or it can simply be a vision transformed from subconscious emotions.

But in any case, the power of spirituality is to transform emotions from the abstract into the concrete.

"But he's different. His power has been real from the beginning. Although he taught me everything about spiritual matter, he never actually used it."

His body was composed of technology not belonging to this world, and our world today, although far more advanced than when I awoke in Europe, is still at least several hundred years, perhaps even a thousand years, behind.

So, that was indeed me, still in my final ascension form, and with an extraordinary understanding of spiritual matter...

Ji Li sorted through the clues in her mind.

High above, in the Supreme Matrix, he encountered Grey Fox, the founder of the World Tree, after Grey Fox's "failed" ascension.

He also remembered fragments of his conversation with Gray Fox, in which they mentioned a newly discovered name, which he named "Spiritual Essence" because of his hasty attitude.

Therefore, I am the creator god.

Ji Li mentally slapped himself. He should stop thinking nonsense at times like this, as it would affect the logical framework deduction of the Ascension Agreement.

From that fragment of memory, we can learn that:

If this "spiritual essence" is indeed the same as that "spiritual essence," that is, the spiritual essence that one has named, then it is indeed the spiritual essence of the current world.

Given this premise, it makes sense that he later became familiar with the essence of "spiritual matter" and used this as a basis to teach Philin, whom he encountered.

There is only one doubt: he did successfully ascend to the highest heavens, that is, into the Supreme Matrix.

When he faced the founder of the World Tree in the Supreme Matrix, he had already replaced his body with a more powerful prosthetic body. The one that left the deepest impression on him was the one that carried a black hole engine as its energy source.

If coming to this world is something that happened after I had been high in the sky, then why am I a cybernetic suit from when I failed to ascend?

This is what Ji Li can't understand; apart from that, everything else has a relatively coherent rationality.

After a moment's thought, his gaze lingered on the logical framework generated by the Ascension Protocol, and he decided to direct this doubt towards another question:
Why did I come into this world?
If there is an explanation for the mystery surrounding the "old" nature of one's prosthetic body, then it is related to why one came into this world in the first place.

What exactly happened during his ascension? What happened after his encounter with the founder of the World Tree high in the sky?
A glint of light flashed in Ji Li's eyes, and the Trinity resonated deeply within his soul, vibrating at a high frequency—

His own sense of existence was being challenged by these questions, and the moment the question "Who am I?" popped into his head, this shock was amplified to the extreme, even felt by Philin beside him:

"Black goat?!"

She pulled Ji Lilou in and embraced him with her ample body.

Slender fingers gently cupped the back of his head, and a large amount of grayish-white mist seeped from the sutures, enveloping him:

"Take a deep breath. Awakening memories may indeed make you doubt your own existence. Don't let this doubt run rampant, or your Trinity will collapse!"

Emotions are carried by consciousness, the human soul.

When the soul begins to doubt its own existence, emotions will gradually become empty.

An empty emotion is no longer an emotion, but nothingness.

Nothingness makes room for negative emotions, which will corrupt the human spirit or cause the soul to disappear.

The final result is either malignant transformation or brain death.

Ji Li's empty pupils suddenly regained their light, and he took a deep breath like a drowning person who had been deprived of air for a long time, letting the overflowing oxygen fill his entire lungs.

After slowly exhaling, I saw that Film's face was now blindfolded again:

"Thank you, but actually I'm not that fragile."

"Don't be stubborn."

Feilin gently pressed Ji Li's head down, letting the grayish-white mist wash his face before carefully releasing him.

“You broke free very quickly. When I encountered this situation before, I didn’t recover as quickly as you.”

"So, I'm not that fragile."

Ji Li steadied himself again. With his willpower-driven four-dimensional attributes and at least three hundred years of memories, he was not so easily drawn into the so-called "nothingness."
"But you sound like you've become a self-taught doctor after a long illness, yet I didn't see anything like that in your memory just now."

"Because I fast-forwarded it for you." Da Lei sat in the empty chair, raising his hand to support his chin:

"Don't pry into other people's secrets, especially when they are most vulnerable."

"So you've already seen me at my most vulnerable, so it's time to return the favor?"

“But you are not that fragile, that’s what you said yourself.”

Da Lei refused Ji Li's request, not wanting him to push his luck. Ji Li could only temporarily abandon his idea of going back to Fei Lin's memories to see the "Pioneers" scenes.

"So, what exactly was the Pioneer? Where did he go afterward?"

After fully recovering, Ji Li returned to the main topic.

Philin is a three-times wheel user, and she is currently on her third wheel.

According to Philin's explanation at this moment, she only found a few fragmented memories during the first rotation, which were not enough to piece together a complete picture.

The second cycle, the one involving the camera spirit and the one guided by the pioneers, was also fragmented in memory, but I could recall a lot, including a great deal of knowledge and experience, as well as many complete events.

The third reincarnation is this one, and the memories are very complete.

In this life, Felin successfully underwent reincarnation and regained his memories from the second cycle, but was severely injured in his entanglement with the Tower of Babel and lost them again. This is Felin's account.

Before absorbing the red fragment, the part about the pioneers only involves meeting the other party, receiving guidance and teachings, and embarking on the path of reincarnation again.

After that, where the Pioneers went and what they were going to do were just fragmented images in Philin's mind, impossible to piece together.

The scene of the three people on screen together came from the Dragon Stone Fragment.

In response, Film said:
"There weren't as many images of him as I had imagined."

Ji Li frowned:

"Why?"

"Aren't you curious that just a few spiritual circuits can corrupt and drive my power fragments, turning them into summoning tools?"

Felin's power is indeed terrifying; Ji Li had already briefly experienced this when facing Shu.

To harness the power of Felin, one needs to reach the level of an Immortal at the Netherworld level to even begin to use it.

A stone dragon, a man-made prop for communicating with spirits, is indeed very strange.

After pointing this out to Ji Li, Fei Lin provided an answer:

"The person who made that stone dragon did not have the ability to directly control my power."

He used a special spiritual circuit technique, using my power as the energy source and another spiritual power as the output, to create this stone dragon core.

My power comes from the fragments of time, while another power comes from the unfamiliar memories he inserted into my fragments of time.

The two memories, under the influence of the spirit circuit technology, coexisted and drove each other in a clever way, ultimately transforming into the stone dragon, a tool for communicating with spirits.

Ji Li frowned:

"So, there are other people's memories inside, which have disrupted your original memories?"

"We can't do that yet," Felin denied.

"However, I have more memories of other people than memories that originally belonged to me."

Although his eyes were covered, Ji Li could sense that Fei Lin's expression was somewhat strange:
"But in any case, there is indeed more information to share about the Pioneer, if you really believe he has something to do with your Wheel."

The scene of the three of them on screen was exactly as Ji Li had imagined. The Pioneer was the leader, and his status was higher than that of Felin and the man named Baron Ludwig. "He was giving orders to me and the Baron. He had a plan and wanted us to accomplish something."

The specific details are vague because they are fragmented, but I can sense my emotions at that time.

He was powerful, high above, and commanding respect, but I was very worried. At that time, I was afraid, afraid of what he was about to do.

At the same time, I could also sense a feeling of fear. It emanated from the baron; he was terrified of the pioneers.

And there is another force, or rather, a trace of it, that comes from the pioneers.

I couldn't hear his words clearly, but I could sense a hint of fear in them—"

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Ji Li frantically denied it in his heart:
You're definitely overthinking it, or else it wouldn't be me.

This is a joke. He hasn't felt fear since his 196th birthday.

He might be surprised, astonished, or even momentarily flustered, but he would never be afraid.

Old Ji has always considered himself a fearless person.

"In other words, the only clue to finding the existence of that pioneer is 'Baron Ludwig'."

Phil nodded: "That's how it seems on the surface, and I'm quite concerned about it too. The only information we have so far, besides his name, is that he's from White Island."

"If we want to investigate, we should be able to get results quickly by using your status as the heir of the Ling family."

The White Islander, Europe, and his future goal of heading to the Tower of Babel are not at all contradictory, but rather very close.

This involves his memory problems and a huge mystery about his past, which seems to give him another reason to go to White Island.

In any case, let's ask my father to help us check the situation first. There are also people from White Island in the diplomatic corps, so maybe we can investigate that as well.

After thinking for a moment, Ji Li said:

Is that all?

Film changed her sitting posture:
"Yes."

Ji Li immediately narrowed his eyes:
"Really?"

There's no point in lying to you.

She was lying. Ji Li keenly sensed it.

Fei Lin rarely concealed anything from Ji Li. If he didn't want Ji Li to know something, he would use roundabout language to tell him the facts that he couldn't tell him for the time being, or that he didn't want to tell him.

Just like when Ji Li pressed her about her memories.

However, this time Ji Li sensed that Da Lei's emotions and spiritual qualities had fluctuated significantly, so he concluded that the other party was lying.

If someone who never lies suddenly starts lying, she will definitely reveal something unusual.

After speaking, Felin realized she had been exposed and turned her head slightly away.
"These are the only important memories."

She forced herself not to recall those flashbacks, but they kept appearing in her mind:
A gift, a blessing, girlish joy and delight, and intense anticipation.

How could she possibly reveal these subtle, elder-like reverences for the pioneers to Ji Li?

Would you tell your subordinates how you used to pull your grandfather's beard and cling to your grandmother's legs when you were a child?
Therefore, faced with Ji Li's impending further questioning, she chose to change the subject.

Just as Ji Li sensed that Da Lei seemed a little "shy," his soul trigger suddenly throbbed.

Sensing the sudden change in Fei Lin's aura, Ji Li raised an eyebrow.

Her black starry dress turned crimson, and the originally highly reflective blindfold became a very restrictive eye mask.

Red and black restraints were also found on the neck, wrists, and other areas.

The hem of the dress transformed into flower petals, then burned and drifted away like flames—

This is a completely different spiritual force from the spiritual energy of the film time.

"This is?"

"Although it was somewhat unexpected, thanks to you, I not only successfully integrated my original memories, but also the memories that the creator of the Stone Dragon had incorporated into it."

Having fully understood and processed the emotions within those memories, that power now belongs to me.

The crimson liquid sphere wrapped and enveloped in Felin's hand. Although it was far less than her original time essence, it was still a kind of growth.

"Congratulations! What about mine?"

"Of course."

As Fei Lin approached Ji Li, a strong floral fragrance emanated from her body, emanating from the red spiritual energy, which was refreshing and invigorating.

A series of precise flows of spiritual energy appeared before Ji Li's eyes; these were some kind of spiritual energy trajectories recorded by film.

Once they were fully combined, they appeared before his eyes like layers of intricately calculated formulas:
Spiritual circuit.

"This is the circuit used by the craftsman who modified my time fragment. In the process of understanding that emotion, I recorded the trajectory of its spiritual changes."

The logic frames flashed, and with Ji Li's high adaptability to spiritual circuits and rich experience with them as a Dead Apostle, those trajectories quickly transformed into real spiritual circuits in his eyes:

This is a modified fragment of the Great Thunder Time Domain, which was used to create the complete set of spiritual energy circuits for the stone dragon. Even the technologically restricted parts were analyzed.

nice one.

Ji Li smiled:

I really want to kiss you.

Film peeks out:

"If you don't mind, could you help me stabilize the absorption of the fragments?"

Ji Li looked at Da Lei's Da Lei:

“If it’s about creating intense emotional fluctuations, I have a better idea.”

Phil looked at him:
"This is a corpse."

Ji Li recalled the scene of Fei Lin crawling out of the pile of dead bodies, so shortly after the third reincarnation, he was switched back to the body of the second reincarnation?
Or did the third reincarnation preserve the physical body...? Ji Li said:
"It does not matter, I do not mind."

"……no."

Fei Lin explicitly rejected Ji Li.

pity.

Oh well, anyway, the cool girl is almost here.

This trip was full of unexpected events, but there were truly a lot of unexpected events.

Ten minutes later, Ji Li secretly left the Red Heart Laboratory.

Baron Ludwig…

……

Yan Xiyu sneezed.

"Captain, are you alright?"

"I am fine."

Yan Xiyu rubbed his nose and declined the tissue offered by his partner, Luo Yi.