Soul Trigger

Chapter 147 Ancient Sword
The air in the ruins became a little bit stinging.

Ji Li had seen the symbol of the Tower of Babel at Da Lei's place.

Filin's commission was related to the Tower of Babel, so Ji Li was not surprised to meet this organization hiding behind the Pilgrimage Day. After all, sooner or later he would have a face-to-face encounter with them.

But this first encounter gave him a shocking revelation.

Recalling the opponent's tortoise shell-like defense and the undisturbed black feather storm, the spiritual essence gave him the same feeling as Han Xiaofu, but with some kind of strange resistance.

It was as if his spiritual essence had little impact on others, as if he possessed some kind of inexplicable "personality".

Ji Li weighed the crow specimen in his hand. Since the Soul Trigger did not find any more information in it, he was about to destroy it.

After all, he is a dead apostle, and there may be some inexplicable soul-psychological connection between them, so Ji Li has to treat it with caution.

At the moment when his spiritual essence surged, the powerful malicious spiritual essence rising from the crow specimen completely isolated his spiritual essence:
"Cannot be destroyed?"

Is it because his status exceeds my current spiritual essence, so it is difficult to affect him...

A red light flashed, and a red number jumped for a moment. The crow specimen, along with the exploding spiritual essence, was instantly crushed by him.

At this moment, the aura of this thing was completely gone. Ji Li was relieved and put it into the obelisk.

It should be able to be used as an advanced material for engraving circuits.

After fiddling with this thing for a while, Ji Li suddenly heard footsteps.

Da da da.

Very slow and rhythmic footsteps came from the direction of the Flesh and Blood Gate.

Ji Li suddenly turned his head and saw a hideous headless corpse walking out of the little dragon man's room. He picked up the head that fell on the ground, slowly pressed it back on his neck, then turned around and walked back slowly.

Ji Li: “?”

Buddy, are you still alive?

With a tap of his feet, Ji Li arrived at the door of the little dragon's room with a surge of spiritual energy.

Brother Long was sitting cross-legged again and placing the knife flat on his legs.

Even if killed, will it be resurrected?

He glanced around, his eyes scanning the interior of the room where the little dragon man was.

In the dim room, there were some traces of spiritual essence left, and those traces seemed to be operating along some mysterious tracks.

It seems to be the traces left by the Crow Man when he moved.

……

At night, the sound of wind whistling came from the elevated road in the suburbs. A black shadow was moving quickly through the woods below and stopped on the treetops after a while.

It was a figure wrapped in a black feather cloak, with red spiritual essence emanating from his body.

He took off his cloak, revealing a face full of magic pattern school circuits, with only two deep yellow pupils in his completely black eyes.

"The Lion King is worthy of his reputation. He is indeed a talent in a small country like Silla. Unfortunately, he is too aggressive..."

He touched his chest, where there were three horrific claw marks, and violent golden spiritual essence was raging in the wounds.

"With me away, we 'feathers' have to do the work..."

He was talking to himself when he suddenly froze:
"A tail feather has fallen off, the marking point is..."

He suddenly turned his head, and his gaze pierced through the night sky and rushed towards the direction of Xinnan District in Aurora City.

At the moment when his eyes swept over the night scene of Xinnan District, he felt his spiritual essence become disordered, his nerves collapsed, and a mouthful of dark blood emitting spiritual essence spurted out of his mouth.

"…The essence mark was removed?!"

A strong sense of fear spread from the depths of the soul:

What a scary fellow… Is he an immortal among the human spirits, or an older member of his kind?

His expression changed from gloomy to bright, and then he leaped into the reflected world.

"We shouldn't provoke such a being. Let the people in other seats deal with it..."

……

“It’s actually this method…?!”

In the little dragon's room, Ji Li beheaded the other party with a knife. Amidst the rising spiritual fire, the dragon head suddenly fell to the ground.

Due to the difference in the body shape of the "desperate one", Ji Li is now using the most convenient "incorruptible bone" state, holding a short knife made of black ice in his hand.

That trajectory was left by the Crow Man's dodging and posture.

As long as you maintain a certain speed and follow these landing points, you can avoid the little dragon man's movements by a hair's breadth.

It's like having the answer to a puzzle right in front of you. You can memorize it by heart after copying it a few times, then get a perfect score, and finally behead it.

Ji Li was originally preparing to blow his opponent’s head off with a punch, but he realized that the last move of this set of “answers” ​​could only be accomplished with a knife.

The suspected "Dead Apostle" from the Tower of Babel knows this relic very well.

In other words, this relic had been opened before, or there were similar relics and flesh-and-blood doors in other places.

Ji Li prefers the latter.

But is this really the real solution? Why does it look like skipping class?
He grabbed the dragon head and held it in his hand, glanced at the headless corpse not far away, walked forward and took away the other's knife.

Then he took out a fluorescent stick from the obelisk space and squeezed it, emitting a soft light that illuminated the walls on all sides.

The Loop School, the Path School, the Magic Pattern School...

Various spiritual circuits formed by various schools of thought are displayed on the walls, forming one spiritual circuit after another.

The spiritual fire in Ji Li's eyes suddenly rose——

Masterpiece.

They are all "masterpieces".

With the help of the Ascension Protocol, Ji Li's current practice of the spiritual circuit has reached, if not to the master's level, then he can be considered an expert.

At least he has made some achievements in the path school and the loop school.

And these densely packed spiritual circuits before our eyes were undoubtedly all “rare treasure” level engravings.

From its trend, one can tell the approximate direction of use, whether it is engraved on an appliance, on a person, or both.

"Because of the added barrier element, it is impossible to record it using direct images... But the overclocked computing power under the Ascension Protocol can record my thinking logic by rote memorization, so that I can take it back and study it slowly."

After Ji left the overclocking and barely recorded one of the spiritual circuits, he heard footsteps behind him.

The little dragon stood up and walked towards him step by step. Ji Li knew that the other party was about to be resurrected, so he decisively dropped his head and left the room with the knife he had taken from the other party when he beheaded him.

Turning around, the little dragon picked up the head and sat back down.

Then the spirit essence rose, and a dark long sword appeared in the opponent's hand, but compared with the sword in his hand, it looked very fake. Ji Li looked at the long sword in his hand. In addition to the "corpse wax fluctuation" he learned at the beginning, it was also engraved with dense spiritual circuits that Ji Li could not understand for the time being.

"It looks like a product of some kind of rules. Let's test it first."

He left the ruins and entered the reflected world through the mirror in the activity room. The moment he injected spiritual essence, the shape of the entire knife changed drastically.

The long sword that was originally in the style of Shulong has now turned into a blue-black long sword with a skull on the hilt and burning with raging spiritual fire.

This thing also has the function of changing its properties according to different spiritual qualities.

As a large amount of spiritual essence was injected, Ji Li slashed with his sword:

A broad knife wave several dozen meters long instantly swept across the foggy world in front of them. After a loud bang, it seemed to cut off countless buildings. After a while, there was another loud bang, followed by an earth-shaking roar.

It seems like something was injured by accident.

Ji Li immediately found the mirror he came in through and crawled in.

Before crawling in, he could see a huge figure outside the window crawling towards him, and it seemed that it was missing a leg.

After returning to the activity room, Ji Li played around with the knife to get familiar with the feel of it.

Without the infusion of spiritual essence, it turned back into the Shulong Ancient Sword.

But why does this thing look so mottled? Is it my illusion?
Ji Li was a little confused, and then he saw that the handle of the knife was indeed corroding visibly, and it seemed to be accelerating as if entropy was increasing.

His expression changed, and after trying to inject spiritual essence without success, he threw it into the obelisk.

After entering the obelisk space, the mottled color of the ancient knife quickly stopped.

After doing some more tests, Ji Li came to the conclusion:

Injecting spiritual essence into the sword and exposing it to the air will increase the "corrosion" of the sword.

In other words, this thing is currently a consumable for him.

Ji Li speculated that this thing might be a rule-based item related to the little dragon man in the Lingbo Prison of the ruins, and it would enter a state of dissolution after being taken out of the ruins.

However, it was able to defeat a giant in the reflection world with a single blow, and it was not infused with much spiritual essence. This thing should be a divine object that surpasses the peak overlord.

Han Xiaofu killed the giant in the reflection world with one punch, and he had to scream and explode his spiritual essence.

After playing with the obelisk on his chest that he had traded with Rabbit, Ji Li sincerely thanked his good brother for always bringing him surprises.

Bring some kimchi to that guy tomorrow.

Thinking of this, Ji Li picked up his buzzing private cell phone.

It is already late at night, and there are some unread messages on the social software called "Talkao".

This software is mainly used for casual chatting with some real-world interpersonal relationships and some awakened people with whom one has a good relationship.

But there are only a few people on it, because it is Ji Lijian’s new account and the original owner’s is not used.

There were a few messages from Bunny Girl, mostly nonsense, mainly complaining about how she was watching a TV series in the ward and was very angry about the plot.

Ji Li replied to her: I will come over to buff you tomorrow, do you want to eat any kimchi?

What I didn’t expect was that the other party replied immediately:
[Okay, Old Ji, how about I teach you how to make kimchi? Every Silla person knows how to do it.]

【No time to learn】

Ji Li didn't want to talk about kimchi, so he exited the chat window and clicked on the message sent by Student Council President Che Li. It was about some interesting things that happened in school recently, as well as some organized study notes.

This girl would send him messages on it when she had nothing to do, mostly just chatting. But after all, she was an ordinary person, and in order not to embarrass the girl, Ji Li's chats with her were basically to the point.

Finally, there is the account of Yan Xiyu, who I just added today, and there is also a message:
【We are already friends, come and chat! 】

Putting aside his personal cell phone, Ji Li picked up Shanjie's cell phone and started to do business. Without considering whether it was late at night, he directly dialed Feilin's number -

I had a direct confrontation with the people from the Tower of Babel. It was a serious matter, so it would be best to contact Da Lei.

After ringing for a long time, a sweet voice came from the other side. It was the multi-legged maid who answered the black box.

After Ji Li informed the other party of the situation, the black box was silent for a while and then said:
"It's a pity, for the master went out not long ago."

"Not long ago? Can't she only leave Flash Street once a week?"

"It's like this under normal circumstances, but this time it seems to be an exception. The owner didn't reveal the specific details of her departure, but when she comes back, I will tell her everything immediately."

"I see."

Ji Li hung up the phone.

He had just keenly inquired about the time node and realized that the time when Da Lei left was close to the time when he and Yan Xiyu parted, with a difference of about half an hour.

He always felt that something had happened, so he picked up the mobile phone of the Special Management Bureau and entered the mobile hidden network. Except for a few riots in the Lingxu Prison that occurred tonight, nothing else happened.

Then I turned on the filter, set the time to between 7 o'clock tonight and now, and entered various branch intelligence networks of the hidden network.

The so-called branch intelligence network refers to various intelligence channels in the private sector that are monitored by the hidden network, which are mainly distributed in various industries.

There is not much content, only a few pieces, one of which is the TV station’s reporter channel.

After the permissions check, Ji Li connected to a reporter's on-site photography.

That was in the suburbs of Silla. The reporter was speaking very quickly, and the woods not far away were filled with dense traces of spiritual destruction, extending all the way from the reporter's current location to the end of the mountain.

It's like an endless chase.

Looking at the time, this reporter had just turned on the camera five minutes ago. The situation here should not have been monitored by the hidden network leader on duty in other squadrons.

Ji Li personally completed the report on the matter, and soon a night agent took over the investigation and went to the scene.

After doing all this, Ji Li checked the events on Shan Street again and found nothing unusual for the time being, so he made some arrangements for Xiang Yu and his Overlord Group who were frightened tonight.

The dog was quite frightened tonight and insisted on sleeping in the activity room. After arranging for the cleaning and burial of the dog corpses, Ji Li comforted him a little and let him go.

Tie Baojin cried so hard, but actually the Overlord Group didn't lose many dogs, it was mainly because Xiang Yu was very sad.

"Why are you crying so much? I'll just help you get revenge."

"Wow, you are so nice to me, can I come to sleep on your bed... I'm sorry!!!"

Ji Li put his evil claws back into the bed.

The next day, as soon as Ji Li entered the Special Management Bureau's Operations Planning Room, he saw Yan Xiyu hanging up the phone and walking towards the door with a serious face.

After seeing Ji Li, she grabbed his wrist and walked towards the main building of the Special Management Bureau:

"There is a situation."

Ji Li frowned:
"The results of Pei Taiyu's spiritual inquiry are out?"

"It has nothing to do with Pei Taiyu for now. Let's put the questioning aside for now. There is an emergency now."

Cool girl walked quickly and told Ji Li:
"If nothing unexpected happens, you may get a temporary promotion."
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