Infinite: Start as a ghost

Coral Island broke free from Jiang Jiu's clutches: "It's still far from perfect; it's just a few new discoveries."

"What did you find?" Jiang Jiu asked hurriedly.

“Your blood seems to exist beyond life itself,” Coral Island said. “I tried to mix it with the blood of other animals, but in the end, they all transformed into the same structure as your blood.”

"No animal can escape this outcome."

"The blood of humans, animals, Shinigami, Hollows, and even the Fullbringer you brought last time is the same. We're just one step away from confirming it's Quincy blood."

"However, I don't think the outcome will change."

Jiang Jiu frowned: "Is it just about confirming compatibility?"

"It's not integration, it's assimilation," Coral Island said solemnly. "These are two completely different concepts!"

"If you put ice in water, the ice will melt into water; this is melting."

"But your situation is like throwing a stone into water, and it turns into water!"

"I have never seen such domineering blood."

"Most importantly, there is no spiritual energy in your blood."

"I still... don't quite understand?" There were some parts that Jiang Jiu didn't quite grasp.

“Okay, let me be clearer.” Coral Island continued, “Fullbringers, humans, and animals are physical beings, right?”

Jiang Jiu nodded...

"I can understand that your blood can assimilate their blood, but I can only say that your blood is domineering."

"However, Hollows and Shinigami are spiritual beings, and their blood is also composed of spiritual particles."

"And your blood transformed their spiritual blood into physical blood, do you understand?"

Jiang Jiu was stunned: "This...this..."

"In other words, a portion of the spiritual particles have vanished into thin air!" Coral Island said solemnly. "I don't know the reason yet, but this is the current situation."

Jiang Jiu lowered her head, seemingly lost in thought.

Coral Island laughed and said, "Don't think about that for now. Tell me, do you want to enter the inner world?"

Jiang Jiu nodded...

“I can help you with that,” Coral Island said. “I happen to know the relevant Ghost Path techniques, but I’ll need a few of them to help me.”

"Why are you helping me?" Jiang Jiu asked. "You should know that you are just a hostage."

"Is that so? Just hostages?" Coral Island glanced at Jiang Jiu, then at the others, and chuckled softly, "You're really not being frank."

Jiang Jiu looked at her expressionlessly.

Coral Island said, "Although you seem ambitious, I know exactly what you're after."

"Having spent this much time together, I've come to understand you quite well."

"Beneath your seemingly strong exterior lies a fragile heart, young man."

Chapter 179 Inner World

"Can you please stop saying these things?" Jiang Jiu sighed. "After all, I'm the one who kidnapped you."

“Alright, Mr. Kidnapper.” Coral Island chuckled, “If you do one more experiment for me, I’ll help you enter your inner world.”

"What kind of help?" Jiang Jiu asked.

Coral Island pulled Jiang Jiu in front of the machine: "Can you still control this blood that has left the body?"

Jiang Jiu didn't even try, and immediately shook her head: "No..."

"No?" Coral Island asked curiously, "I remember when you first met me you said you wanted to know why you could control others, right?"

"If you can't control blood outside your body, how do you control outsiders?"

"Those people aren't the tissues inside your body either."

Jiang Jiu was taken aback; he had never considered this question before: "I don't know."

At this point, Jiang Jiu began to seriously consider the issue.

But he laughed shortly afterward: "What are you thinking? It's precisely because we don't know that Coral Island is conducting research."

Seeing that he couldn't answer, Coral Island could only sigh helplessly: "Forget it, it seems I'll have to figure it out myself."

As she spoke, she smiled faintly and said, "But it's good. After being sealed for more than a thousand years, I've become so bored that I'm almost wasting my life. The thing you asked me to do will help pass the time."

In short, he would go from being coerced by Jiang Jiu to being asked by Jiang Jiu to help him. This would drastically change the nature of the situation, and their positions would shift from enemies to friends, or at least to partners.

Jiang Jiu did not object and acquiesced to everything.

At least, Coral Island has shifted from a passive to an active position, which is of great benefit to him.

Jiang Jiu called everyone aside.

Coral Island said to everyone, "I will use the art of demonic arts to send Mr. Oni into his inner world, but my sealing technique is not strong, and I need your assistance."

Tenbei asked, "How do I provide assistance?"

"Amagai, Enryu, Kibune, Ichinose, Koga, that makes five of us."

“You each need to restrain his legs, hands and head.”

Coral Island said, "I'll be in charge of holding down his torso!"

"A pentagram array centered on you?" Yanlong asked. "Why won't you let me infuse you with spiritual pressure? Is it really necessary to go through all this trouble?"

“No,” Coral Island said. “I can’t handle too much spiritual pressure, and I can’t suppress it by myself.”

"So," Yanlong asked, "you want us to suppress him physically?"

“That’s right,” Coral Island laughed. “The torso is both the strongest and the weakest part.”

"With your limbs and head suppressed, the torso is the weakest area, and vice versa."

"I suggest that Tenbei and Yanlong suppress the legs, Ichinose and Kifune suppress the hands, and Gang suppress the head."

None of them had any objections to this.

Koga had just regained his memories, but Coral Island had already explained the cause and effect, so although he still found it difficult to accept emotionally, he still followed Coral Island's arrangements.

"I'm starting to draw the magic circle, Mr. Ghost, you can lie down now," Coral Island said.

"Huh??" Jiang Jiu: "Excuse me?"

"Go lie down there." Coral Island had a mischievous look on its face. "If you really don't want to, you can lie down."

"Uh……"

"are you serious?"

Coral Island: "What else?"

Jiang Jiu hesitated...

After a few minutes, having mentally prepared himself, he reluctantly lay down on the ground, muttering the four words "Breath of insects, breath of flowers, breath of love, breath of burning."

In about five minutes, the magic array was set up, and the six people sat cross-legged in their assigned places.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Coral Island seemed to have gained weight, making it difficult for Jiang Jiu to breathe.

"Huff... Hah... Cough cough cough." Jiang Jiu: "Be gentle, you're crushing me."

"Be gentle?" Coral Island's smile widened. "You mean... I'm heavy?"

"Ah...no...ah..." Jiang Jiu screamed in agony.

Coral Island's eyes were fixed intently, and he kept chanting, "The Forty-Eighth Layer of Binding Spells, Profound and Heavy."

In an instant, Jiang Jiu let out a blood-curdling scream.

"Is it heavy enough now, Mr. Ghost?" Coral Island said with a smile.

"You...ah..."

"Alright, enough joking around," Coral Island said seriously. "This is to better suppress your torso and prevent you from moving around."

As she spoke, she added another layer of insurance for the other five people.

"Binding Spell Number Seventy-Five Iron Pillars..."

Five enormous iron pillars crashed down on Jiang Jiu's head and limbs, rendering him unable to move.

"Enough...enough...hurry up...start..." Jiang Jiu kept wailing.

Coral Island laughed even harder, and Yanlong, seeing Jiang Jiu's miserable state, also laughed along with Coral Island.

After a burst of laughter, Coral Island officially began the procedures.

“The joints of my heart are different, black and white; the tide is bright, and the moon is shrouded in darkness.”

“His mind was filled with a bright, clear light, a mysterious and profound understanding, and a pure and clear radiance of wisdom.”

"Binding Path Number Eighty-Six: Heart-Binding Mystic Array..."

As the chanting ended, the pentagram array emitted bursts of light.

Jiang Jiu's consciousness was plunged into boundless darkness.

Chapter 180 The Mysterious Intruder

Darkness, boundless darkness—that was Jiang Jiu's first impression.

Then, suddenly, his world came into color.

Mountains, grass, and trees.

Animals, plants, and inanimate objects.

Gale, thick earth, ocean, thunder, sun and moon, stars.

All of this is so familiar, so beautiful.

This place is filled with the breath of nature.