Soul Trigger

Chapter 443 Emotional Friction
According to the Law of the Dead Apostles, "arrogance" belongs to Ji Li's "inner evil" from the perspective of soul psychology.

By devouring and killing the souls of people who possess the corresponding "inner evil", one can increase the evil within.

Or through certain means, one can make the human spirit give birth to the "inner evil" corresponding to the human body, and then kill it, which can achieve a stronger effect than ordinary swallowing.

The former is like a simple hunting behavior, while the latter is more like a special ritual based on this hunting behavior.

However, the ordinary operations of these dead apostles became a little different when they fell on Ji Li's side because of the curse of the other world and the ascension agreement.

In the high-speed vehicle, Ji Li was surrounded by some souvenirs bought from shopping malls and tourist attractions. He was sitting in the back seat, with a slightly warm seal from the other world on his wrist, and was browsing his attribute panel.

[Arrogance index: 88].

This is what he gained in the past few days, a total of 88 points.

Due to his instinctive feeling, the label of "arrogance" in the attribute panel was a little unintuitive. Under the influence of his thinking, the name of this value gradually became "arrogance index".

Currently, Ji Li's cognitive index has reached a considerable level, which can be used to improve some abilities. However, due to the existence of the "barrel effect", he is temporarily unable to fully elevate his realm and directly become a true echo-level immortal.

So while waiting for the tombstone to arrive in Shulong and before starting Ji Li's spy journey to the Tower of Babel, during this period of time, in addition to familiarizing himself with the social structure of Shulong, he was also figuring out how to gain more arrogance index.

Unlike the cognitive index, the arrogance index, which is an inner evil, is not so easy to obtain.

Although the progress was not smooth, he also figured out some mechanisms:
At present, his "arrogant" attitude may trigger emotional fluctuations in others.

In this situation, after provoking other people's emotional fluctuations, the curse of the other world will give certain feedback and obtain the [Arrogance Index].

The amount of feedback depends on how intense the other person's emotional reaction is.

Ji Li called this reaction "emotional friction."

After wandering around Mirage City and Yuanling Palace these days, Ji Li came to the conclusion that the higher the social status, the stronger the personal ability, or the higher the birth position, the greater the amount of arrogance and friction that can erupt.

Because of the other party's social status, they developed an arrogant mood in their hearts.

When Ji Li faces such people with arrogance, the emotional friction that naturally erupts between them will become greater.

But when they know that Ji Li is Ling's heir, that is, the "little prince", this emotional friction will often disappear instantly.

Because the social status/personal abilities/family background that they are proud of are far inferior to Ji Li's status and position, the arrogance in their hearts will naturally disappear when facing Ji Li.

This triggering method was named "direct triggering" by Ji Li.

The corresponding one is the "indirect trigger", that is, the sentence "Let him send it to me" when he woke up that morning, which aroused the emotions of the housekeeper.

In the butler's opinion, Ji Li's words were a great offense to King Yuanling, and were in great conflict with the image of King Yuanling in his mind, which indirectly triggered "emotional friction".

These are the two triggering methods summarized by Ji Li at present.

In summary, people who have the same "arrogance" as him are more likely to have intense emotional friction.

Theoretically, Ji Li could also increase his Pride value by using the normal hunting method of Dead Apostles, but it is not suitable for him to do this at the moment, because no matter where he goes now, King Yuanling will send people to watch him openly or secretly to protect his safety.

And if you insist, there is no suitable target.

In the past few days, Ji Li has triggered many emotional frictions, but only twice did he gain a considerable amount of arrogance index.

One time he went out to the Forbidden City, which is the imperial palace.

When the butler led him in, he praised the magnificence of the Forbidden City, but Ji Li blurted out, "It feels just so-so, about the same as Silla."

This directly attracted the attention of the butler and countless Forbidden City guards around him, as well as the surprised looks of many tourists.

What do you mean? A father is not as good as his son, right?
The housekeeper quickly pulled him aside and talked to him about Shulong's terrible influence in the Asian cultural circle. Only then did Ji Li realize that what he said just now was quite wrong.

So I added:
"It is the best in the world, a miracle like the work of nature."

The Forbidden City guards' clenched fists finally relaxed.

The overall style of the Forbidden City is dark, with clear black and white. It does not have a sense of splendor, but it is full of solemnity and dull majesty.

It covers a large area as a whole. It is not only the core landmark building of Mirage City, but also the office space for most officials deep inside. Some places are tourist attractions with many tourists.

There are many similar places in Mirage City, which makes the city of Mirage City seem somewhat conflicting and complicated.

Another emotional friction was aroused in Prince Yuanling's Palace.

After going to sweep the grave of Ji Li's previous life's biological mother with the child's father, they happened to meet Ji Li's adopted "sister" Ji Ruoxi who was practicing swordsmanship.

King Yuanling casually asked Ji Li how she was at using the knife. Ji Li took a few glances and blurted out:

"You are just a show-off. Your marksmanship is only slightly better than yours."

The marksmanship here, of course, refers to the accuracy of his firearms, which Ji Li is well aware of. Ji Ruoxi, who grew up in Yuanling Palace, would also know this.

The result was that before King Yuanling could say anything, Ji Ruoxi, who was wielding a knife, glared at him and left with the plastic steel practice knife in her hand. That was the last time Ji Li saw Ji Ruoxi after he came to Shulong.

King Yuanling explained to Ji Li speechlessly that the swordsmanship that Ji Ruoxi practiced seemed a bit fancy, but it was actually a spiritual technique.

During the thousands of years of Shulong's history, there have been awakeners of various schools, which is more diverse than Silla. Although it still values ​​the strength of the awakened aura and spiritual core ability, it has also developed other directions, such as the flourishing of spiritual techniques.

Ji Ruoxi's swordsmanship is essentially to guide the spiritual essence through special spiritual essence techniques, thereby causing effective killing power that exceeds the ability of her own spiritual core.

Compared to Silla, Shulong's use of spiritual techniques has become quite systematic.

Ji Ruoxi seemed to be practicing with the sword, but in fact, she was more like practicing the engraving of the spiritual circuit.

There are certain similarities between the two. Both use trajectories and patterns to make spiritual rituals effective, but one is engraved, and the other is triggered by specific flow directions and sword dances.

Therefore, what Ji Li said about Ji Ruoxi's sword dance being a show-off does not apply here.

However, after King Yuanling finished explaining to Ji Li, he no longer had the chance to apologize to his cheap "sister". Ji Ruoxi had already run away in anger, leaving Ji Li with dozens of points of arrogance index. They never met again after that.

King Yuanling was also helpless about this. Ji Li really wanted to talk to Ji Ruoxi to see if he could get more benefits from her and study more triggering methods, but King Yuanling temporarily dissuaded him.

The deceased eldest son Ji Ling and Ji Ruoxi grew up together and had a very good relationship.

In addition to Ji Li's identity as an illegitimate child, which made Ji Ruoxi feel resentful, his return took away Ji Ling's original identity as the heir of Ling. This was also the reason why Ji Ruoxi did not have a good face towards Ji Li.

At the moment, there is a tendency for the relationship to deteriorate, so King Yuanling asked Ji Libie to rush and provoke that guy again.

In that case, Ji Li no longer forced it.

In fact, King Yuanling is also a good candidate, but the few times that Ji Li deliberately acts "arrogantly" in front of King Yuanling are often seen through.

A deliberately arrogant attitude also appears hypocritical and self-righteous.

Ji Li didn't like it and wasn't good at doing it on purpose.

Because "arrogance" is a character trait, it is the contempt for the world and all living things that he once had as "Odin" from Murphy's giant structure.

As a behavior, "arrogance" often only appears in one kind of creature:

fool.

So he just let it go.

However, perhaps because of his status as an "illegitimate child" and past debts, King Yuanling believed that Ji Li was just throwing a tantrum after his several attempts.

So he would use various methods to comfort what he thought was this little temper.

Including but not limited to taking him to visit graves, relax, and tell him stories of the past.

This made Ji Li speechless. Sometimes when he saw him being sentimental, he wanted to slap him.

But it's also true that he didn't feel the fatherly love from his young father. After thinking about it, he just let it go. After all, he was old enough and it was normal for him to not be so open-minded about some things.

In short, from the perspective of father-son relationship, King Yuanling is not suitable for being fleeced.

It is also worth mentioning that after learning that "Ji Li" was used as a sacrifice by the Red Whip Society and gradually became what he is now, King Yuanling showed visible self-blame in front of Ji Li for the first time.

Later, it seemed that he went to the grave of Ji Li's previous life's mother and squatted for a night. He was also a sentimental person.

In this regard, after Ji Li swept the grave of his previous life's biological mother, he had completely fulfilled the promise he had made to his previous life after coming to this world.

He returned to Shulong and his family. So, poor boy, rest in peace in the other world.

By the way, when King Yuanling first saw Ji Li’s information, he didn’t even think that the “handsome boy” in the intelligence would be his child.

After all, Ji Li's current appearance has changed greatly due to his affinity value.

But the arrogance index is currently directly related to whether he can solve the problem of the barrel effect.

The arrogance index he has gained at the moment can only be pushed to the level where he can initially use red electricity when he is in dragon suit.

When he has fully advanced to the point where he can use Mad Fire, it means that his barrel effect has been completely resolved, and it is time for him to be officially promoted to Echo-level Immortal.

The vehicle slowly stopped and arrived at Yuanling Palace. Ji Li got off the car and the hired workers helped him take down the large and small bags.

It was now approaching dusk and some tourists were coming out of the scenic area of ​​Yuanling Palace. When they saw Ji Li's vehicle, their eyes lit up and they immediately surrounded him.

But another group of people ran much faster than them -

Gossip reporter.

(End of this chapter)