Soul Trigger

Chapter 80: The Gate of Flesh and Blood

Before it could say anything else, a huge, pitch-black ice claw appeared on its head and pressed it hard against the wall.

As the black ice essence blasted a small glacier on the wall, dust and ice chips flew everywhere, and building fragments fell with a rumble.

The huge golem struggled and roared, its hollow face glowing with a surging red light.

The group of golems around suddenly moved, rushing towards Ji Li one after another.

Some golems further away released red lasers, bombarding Ji Li densely.

He pressed the huge golem to the ground with his backhand and kicked it into the wall. Black ice spirit shot out with the movement and froze it temporarily.

Then the four-meter-tall body slammed on the ground, and the altar burst into large cracks and sank instantly. The [Dark Ice Storm] had turned into a stream of light and soared into the air, avoiding the scarlet lasers.

Then it swooped down like a giant dragon, sweeping the outer golems into a splattering mixture of flesh, blood, and stone.

The soul trigger was excited, Ji Li twisted his head, and his devil-like head suddenly opened, and a dark fan-shaped breath spurted out, freezing the large area of ​​the golem on the side that was about to gather red light into a black ice sculpture.

Then he stomped on the ground to avoid the group of golems that were rushing over from the other side. His huge tail suddenly grew longer, like a gust of wind, tearing the ice sculptures into pieces.

"No--!!!!"

The huge golem broke through the ice and slammed into Ji Li with heavy steps.

The collision between the two created a powerful wave of air.

The nearest golems were immediately blown away, leaving dense cracks on the ground.

This giant golem was quite powerful. Ji Li, who was in the state of [Dark Ice Storm], was unable to move it, so he simply opened his mouth wide -

Along with a deafening roar, the terrifying frost nova expanded layer by layer with the sound waves, and countless golems were frozen in place and struggled hard.

The joints of the giant golem were also sealed by black ice. Just as it was about to break free, Ji Li suddenly shut his mouth, and dense ice chips exploded from between the black ice teeth and fell headfirst into the giant golem.

boom! ! !
A wave of cold air exploded, and the giant golem retreated:

"No...you are not a human spirit, you are not a human! What on earth are you?!"

It suddenly stepped on the ground and made a small hole behind it to steady itself. The black ice demon stepped on the ground and fan-shaped frost spikes spread out, tearing countless frozen stone statues into pieces.

After witnessing all this, it could no longer hold back and let out an angry roar. An extreme red light lit up in the hole on its face and shot towards Ji Li like a laser.

The latter suddenly turned his head, the frost marks on his chest brightened, and the spiritual essence gathered in his mouth, transforming into a dark and thick column of ice vapor that sprayed back towards the red light.

There was a burst of fine explosions, and two energy columns, one red and one black, collided with each other. The terrifying spiritual fluctuations made the few remaining golems nearby retreat in panic.

The horrible low temperature and extreme high temperature caused their body surfaces to change drastically, and they exploded into balls of blood out of thin air.

The Ascension Protocol mobilized the remaining black ice essence in Ji Li's body. He continued to mobilize the magic patterns and moved forward step by step towards the huge golem. Every step he took left a small pit with condensed ice.

The lines on their bodies became brighter and brighter, the icicles became thicker and thicker, and with the crackling sound, Ji Li was getting closer and closer.

The huge golem was retreating step by step, and the red light bursting from its head was getting smaller and weaker.

Finally, under the unwilling roar, the intersection of the two energy pillars finally exploded with a dazzling white light, and the terrible ice storm and heat wave burst at the same time, sweeping across the entire altar -

boom--! ! ! !

After a few seconds, the rising icy air gradually dissipated, revealing the figures of Ji Li and the giant golem.

The former's body surface was covered with dense cracks, and less than a quarter of the black ice spiritual essence stored in the frost marks remained.

The giant golem collapsed in the corner, its body covered with cracks, and pieces of stone kept falling off its surface, revealing the bright red flesh inside:
"…You…are not human…"

The stone statue let out a low laugh, as if it suddenly understood something:
“…Wheel-Turner…You are a Wheel-Turner…I didn’t expect a Wheel-Turner to come here…Hahahaha…”

After checking his current condition, Ji Li walked in front of it:
"what do you?"

"…I am…the guardian of the 'Gate'…"

Its voice became harder, and its hollow head turned to Ji Li:
"... Wheel Spinner, you win. The 'Gate'... now has a new owner. It's yours..."

door?
"What it is?"

However, the huge stone statue said to itself:

"…All that's left of the Weaver here is its remains. It's inside."

"The use of the gate is yours now, but you'll have to remember how to use it and the Weaver... or relearn it."

"...The instructions for using this relic... are also in there..."

"As long as you can get...recognition...you can control..."

"The entire cluster—"

The hollow face flashed red, and the stone statue suddenly exploded into flesh and blood all over the ground, which gathered into a small river that washed over Ji Li's ankles and was gradually frozen by the low temperature he emitted.

"…Shit, what Riddler?!"

Ji Li stood up, but slightly relaxed his tense nerves——

He had been on guard against the previous strange phenomenon that seemed to be covered by the other world.

It seems that what he saw before was just a flickering phenomenon, but it has not reached the level of covering the other world.

Could it be caused by the "door" this guy mentioned?
At this moment, he felt a breath of the other world coming from the blood river under his feet. A red light instantly shot towards him and was pinched by Ji Li.

It was a small red crystal. At the same time, the curse seal of the other world lit up red:

[New observable information fragments detected, binary encoder-in operation...]

[Ascension Protocol: Updated some decoding information, please enter the soul space to view]

Fragments again! ?
Before Ji Li could be surprised, a loud rumbling sound came from the wall at the end of the altar.

Following the huge bloody symbol, a large crack appeared on the entire wall, which slowly opened to both sides, revealing the space behind it.

An extremely huge door of flesh and blood.

There are densely packed human organs and bones on it, breathing and beating like living things.

"This damn thing... is it the secret hidden under Aries College?"

Ji Li walked in. Inside was a large square secret room with a ceiling that reached the sky and the ground was paved with the same ruins brick walls as the outside.

At the end of the secret room is the bloody door. Some flesh and blood tissues drilled out from the door like tree roots and drilled into the cracks between the bricks.

There is a side door on the left side of the secret room. It is very dark inside, but some spiritual essence can be seen flowing on the wall of the inner space.

It is the ectoplasm circuit.

At the other end of the secret room, there lay a figure that Ji Li was very familiar with, or rather, a "hand" shadow.

Henson.

It lay quietly in the corner. Because it was torn in half by Ji Li, only half of the big hand was left, and it was twitching slightly from time to time.

The whole appearance is really a giant arm covered with barnacles and eyes, with a snake-like tail extending from the back.

On the ground next to Henson, there were also densely packed spiritual circuits engraved.

Ji Li walked forward cautiously and kicked him. Henson twitched but still didn't move much, as if he couldn't move due to serious injuries.

Only then did he feel relieved and looked around Henson. In the shadow behind the big hand, he saw densely packed corpses.

After searching for a while, Ji Li found a lot of personal belongings and even three mobile phones, but only one of them could be turned on and it was running out of battery.

After checking the various contents in the mobile phone, Ji Li confirmed that these people were all members of the Red Whip Society.

Or to be more precise, these people were followers of the Soul Eater, and somehow they were fed to Henson by him.

The information inside was very mixed, with a lot of content about communications between this person and the Spirit Eater, but very little about this "door".

"The 'weaver' mentioned by the golem must be Henson."

"Henson can travel through the entire Lingbo Prison Cluster. In other words, with Henson, in a sense, we are one step closer to controlling the entire Lingbo Prison Cluster?"

"But it says that using the Gate and Henson method requires me to recall, or relearn..."

Ji Li only learned about the so-called Wheel Turner from Monsa, and Shan Street had no information about it.

But his previous conversation with Monsa, combined with the words of the golem, allowed him to roughly deduce:

The so-called Wheel-Turner is probably a Death Apostle-level evil being that, in order to become stronger, undergoes a "reincarnation" every 99 years and becomes a Wheel-Turner.

The wheel-turner may have a human appearance, and this reincarnation is supposed to clear the memory.

Because after the golem identified itself as the "Wheel-Turner", it said something like "Looking back".

Ji Li is not a wheel-turner, so he can only focus on the last four words: "relearn".

He glanced at the spiritual circuit on the ground, then checked around Henson, and saw a broken spiritual circuit on the half of Henson's palm.

Through the comparison of the ascension protocol, it was found that the spiritual circuit on Henson's palm and the spiritual circuit on the ground showed signs of complete overlap.

Ji Li touched his chin thoughtfully:
"…Relearning, does that mean learning this spiritual circuit and regaining control of Weaver Henson…"

However, the spiritual circuit is not a tattoo. It is not easy to reversely deduce it based on research results without any auxiliary data or information.

You have to know that Ji Li only learned the basics of Li Zhanxiang's spiritual circuit with the help of the Ascension Protocol and Brother Shi's nanny-like tutorial.

However, there is another room inside. Ji Li left Henson first and stepped into the dark side room. He saw a black shadow sitting inside. The walls on all sides were covered with indistinguishable spiritual circuits.

The black shadow was wearing a suit of scale armor, and its head seemed to be that of a wild beast with horns. It sat cross-legged in the shadows with a tail hanging behind it.

The whole body was motionless, as if dead.

But the moment Ji Li stepped in, the soul trigger suddenly felt a terrible throbbing -

Danger! !! !!

In an instant, a crescent of red light shot out and instantly swept across Ji Li's body, which had barely dodged.

A piece of black ice shoulder armor fell to the ground, and a darker color than black ice corroded his entire body along the cut surface!

Ji Li had no choice but to give up this part of the polluted spiritual essence. He quickly jumped back with half of his upper body destroyed, and looked at the figure inside with his whole body tense.

What kind of heaven-defying spiritual essence is this… ?
Only now did he finally see the other person's appearance clearly:
The figure had a divine dragon head, dragon beard and dragon horns, was wearing black scale armor, and held a pitch-black long sword in his hand.

It has a dragon head and a dragon tail, and a human body. It is not human, but it does not emit any abnormal evil spiritual qualities, but rather a dead aura.

After Ji Li left the room, he put away his knife and went in to sit cross-legged, like a corpse.

　It's a bit late today, mainly because I'm a bit busy at work during the day
　　
　
(End of this chapter)