Soul Trigger

Chapter 712 Double Ji Li
After a brief silence, a group of Wilding Hughes pounced out:

"Everyone, attack together! Take him down!!!"

The power of more than a dozen Echo-level Immortals made Ji Li dare not be negligent, and he was about to activate Odin immediately.

But a burst of blue light erupted, and several Wilding Hughes, clad in exoskeletons, blocked their path:
"Pioneer, let's go! Leave this to us!"

Seeing the various pop-up and retractable exoskeletons on these people, Ji Li was completely dumbfounded:
Are these from the timelines where he recruited them into Valhalla? Was he recruited by revealing his identity as a Pioneer?

Before he could react, both sides of Wilding Hughes were already engaged in a chaotic battle, fighting fiercely.

However, the original skin of the Virtins had a large number of people, and even those who had the power of the World Tree were instantly overwhelmed by them.

Taking advantage of the moment when the group was blocked, Ji Li picked up the rice dumpling on the ground and opened the door to escape.

The moment he stepped through the door frame, he heard a voice beside him:
"For the Tower of Babel!"

In a fleeting glimpse, he saw a dozen or so Wilding Hughes, their bodies covered in crimson and exuding the aura of Dead Apostles, suddenly leaping up to help him intercept the others.

What the hell is this? A mere Heart-Pounding Cube, and it has this kind of effect?

It encompasses not only Jiri himself, but also the innkeeper Bertrand Ludwig, the Dead Apostles, and even Odin and the countless futures and possibilities extending from the entire St. Martin's Vault—

With the door locked, Ji Li found himself in a clean, white space, free of the messy timeline-derived entities. He could finally catch his breath and absorb the Rubik's Cube fragments in his hand.

He tossed aside the glowing rice dumpling in his hand, lifted the Rubik's Cube fragment, and the information panel of the Ascension Protocol appeared before his eyes: —
Unknown: Unknown
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"?"

It was not identified as a resting object or a fragment of personality?
Ji Li, refusing to believe it, tried to inject spiritual energy. The Rubik's Cube remnant did respond, releasing spacetime spiritual energy, but it was completely beyond his control and could not exert any power.

It was as if it was just proving to Ji Li that this thing was indeed a remnant of a resting place.

He glanced at Wilding Hughes, who was making "woof woof" sounds as if he wanted to say something, then raised his hand and pulled back the monomolecular capture rope halfway, revealing his mouth and nose.

After catching his breath, the latter struggled to lift his head:

"...You want to absorb the power of the Panic Cube to reverse the current chaos? You can't do that..."

"Can't do it?"

Ji Li scooped him up from the ground:

"You taught me this method, and now you're telling me it can't be done?"

Did I tell you?
Virtin was momentarily stunned, but then, recalling the chaotic scene of countless figures of various skin colors dancing wildly in the room, he immediately understood:

"I see... So, I certainly didn't know how badly the situation had deteriorated, so naturally he couldn't make the best judgment."

"So what kind of good judgment can you make now?"

Veltin silently observed Ji Li, offering no answer but instead giving a dark look to his eyes:

"Dead Apostle, what exactly did you do by disrupting the San Martin vault...?"

"I've answered this question to you over a hundred times in the previous timelines in order to find my past."

Virtin paused, about to ask another question, when Ji Li interrupted him:
"Yes, I am a pioneer."

Wilding opened her mouth, but was interrupted:

“Nothing is impossible. The remains of the gods are my legacy, and I have come to reclaim a part of myself.”

Virtue opened her mouth again, only to be interrupted once more:
"You have seen my true self. Yes, I know this is hard to accept, but the Ludwig family should have been loyal to me, and they betrayed their loyalty."

How would I know why? Our time is precious right now, Mr. 100,000 Whys. You only need to know one thing: if Bertrand Ludwig comes back, most of my colleagues will probably follow him in. That might be the reason why the Dead Apostle version of you appears.

Whoever obtains the remains of God, Birmingham will eventually fall into the hands of the Dead Apostles.

But if I get my hands on it, I'll help you get rid of my dead-agent colleagues, at least eliminating the source of pollution at its closest point.

I have no interest in killing; I only wanted to save people and take what was rightfully mine. But my two colleagues won't be so kind.

Wilting was stunned. Before he could even speak, the other person had already answered all the questions that had been popping into his head: "I need time to process this..."

"We don't have time to wait for you to digest this."

"Besides the curator, the only person who knows this place best is me, the chief curator. That's why you always bring me along on every loop, isn't it? Three minutes, give me three minutes!"

Ji Li looked at him:
"Okay, three minutes."

He remained silent for three minutes, his expression shifting between light and dark.

Clearly, he was struggling with whether or not he should trust Ji Li.

Finally, the image of the three Odins clashing together flashed through Virtin's mind, and he gritted his teeth:

"I need you to tell me how you got to this point."

"Hopefully this will help solve the problem."

Ji Li quickly recounted his journey through the doors and timelines, from destroying the Rubik's Cube to the present.

After hearing this, Virtue said:
"C-914, this should be the only way."

"A universal converter?"

"That's right... Put the fragments of the Heartbreak Cube in your hand into the universal converter and process them into a brand new, complete Heartbreak Cube."

"That doesn't sound very plausible."

Do you know why your access card can travel through time and go to any room you want?

Ji Li paused:
"Because it is a product derived from benzodiazepines, it can break free from the rules of the Panic Cube to some extent."

"Moreover, we need to speed things up. The power of the Heart Cube isn't just complete chaos; its rules allow it to gradually transform the vault into a completely new 'universe,' and at that point, everything will be over..."

The monomolecular threads binding Virtue were completely released, and Ji Li scooped him up and darted into the room.

"Hey, I can walk by myself!"

"Then we need to keep an even closer eye on you."

Veldin: "..."

The door opened, and the universal key card worked without any issues; Ji Li and Virtin successfully entered the room with the universal converter.

The enormous machine sat quietly in the room, seemingly undisturbed by anything else.

"How does it work?"

"Put it in, select refinement, and this fragment, as part of the Heart-Palking Cube's spiritual power, will become a completely independent entity."

Ji Li didn't think too much about it and decided to try it first. If this timeline didn't work, then she would try the next one.

The Panic Cube throws the entire vault into chaos, but it also gives the user, who possesses a master key, endless options for trial and error.

As the hatch closed, Ji Li adjusted the knob to "finishing" and pressed the lever next to it to pull it down.

In an instant, the door they had entered through was violently forced open, and a figure rushed in:
"Stop! If you keep pulling that shot, everything will be over!"

Ji Li suddenly stopped.

Generally speaking, once he's made up his mind, very few people can interrupt him.

The problem is, the person who rushed in was himself.

Another Ji Li, covered in sweat and leaning on his knees, was not in the form of the Gravity Judge, but was wearing the white coat and holding another universal access card, nervously watching the two of them.

(End of this chapter)