Soul Trigger

Chapter 714 Gravitational Leap
In an instant, the sound of spacetime exploding came from all around, and the whole world turned gray.

Ji Li looked up in astonishment and found that Virtin was frozen in place, and time had completely stopped except for him and Clementine.

"I...I feel like something's not right...!!!"

Clementine's screams echoed through the space, her shrill cries constantly assaulting the surroundings. The ever-flowing spatial energy poured into her body, then burst out in a chaotic manner, impacting Ji Li.

The Gravity Judge's outer shell shattered instantly, then turned gray and remained permanently frozen in its destroyed state.

It possesses a terrifying power capable of triggering infinite timelines, which the Gravity Judge simply cannot contend with!

The decree is activated.

The phantom of Valhalla flickered in black and white as Odin tore through his body and emerged, bracing himself against the frenzied impact of the spacetime spirits to hold Clementine in his palm.

Amidst a series of shattering parts, Ji Li's vision was filled with damage reports on his head-up monitor. This body had never been damaged so rapidly in this world.

"Calm down! Control it! This power is turning you into a Dead Apostle, but the rate of transformation can't keep up with the speed at which these spiritual substances are rushing towards you!"

"I don't know... It hurts so much, it hurts so much!!!"

"Release it, just like you normally release spiritual energy, just increase the output!"

"I...don't know what to do!!"

With a crisp pop, azure cracks appeared on Clementine's surface—

Time was running out; her soul began to completely crumble...

Odin's enormous claws grabbed Clementine's wrist, lifted it to the side, and pulled hard.

The deadly restraint and external spiritual pressure surged in instantly. Clementine collapsed while fighting back with her infinitely enhanced soul instincts, and spiritual energy erupted from her palm like a geyser.

That was the spiritual power of black hair and azure spacetime intertwined, surging towards the end of space like the energy tide of a supernova explosion.

The violent force surged forward, almost instantly altering the spiritual ecosystem before him. Ji Li witnessed countless rooms representing different timelines being shattered in an instant, and it also awakened another entity within him—

"A black goat? What's going on?!"

"Film?!"

The awakening of Felin was like sending charcoal in snowy weather. Ji Li turned his head and saw a pocket watch spontaneously jump out of the dragon ring, revealing Felin's figure.

Without Ji Li needing to say anything more, she, who also possessed the power to control space and time, instantly understood the situation and quickly placed her hand on Clementine's body:

"Let her go, give her to me."

The power of the Rubik's Cube instantly began to flow backward.

The endless tides collapsed toward the film, and the power of spacetime itself was affected by another force of spacetime, causing it to flow backward.

As if the rewind button had been pressed, everything quickly returned to the moment before Clementine lost control, with the light and shadow shifting.

High-temperature steam hissed out from Odin's opened mask, and Ji Li was finally able to relax and utilize the energy throughout his body. In less than half a minute, Odin had consumed more than half of his energy.

The power of the Heart-Pounding Cube was greater than he had imagined.

He lowered his head; Clementine's thoughts had drifted into a daze.

“What did she do? Her soul is now like the master of this power, those spiritual elements are searching for their way back to their own vessels… but someone as fragile as her shouldn’t be the master of these powers at all, right? On the contrary…”

Phil paused, finding it strange.

Under Fei Lin's control, the situation eased, and Ji Li had time to quickly explain the current situation to Fei Lin.

But for some reason, Felin seemed a little distracted:
“I understand the situation… but this girl gives me a strange feeling…”

"What do you mean?"

"Perhaps it's because we both possess the power of spacetime, but the power of these Panic Cubes feels very much like mine..."

"Is the Heart-Pounding Rubik's Cube a fragment of your timeline?"

But Felin shook his head:
“I don’t know. They feel familiar, but I can’t find their source. And there’s a subtle feeling about this girl’s soul… Perhaps in my past, in the social connections of the underworld, she and I have some kind of relationship…”

Clementine is just a high school student and part-time nun at an evangelical church school. Are you talking about a past life connection? Is she also a Chakravartin?
"It's almost over. Prepare for the impact. The power of the spacetime backlash should not be underestimated...!"

"Wait, are you draining the entire vault of its spacetime essence?"

"Don't overestimate me, I can't do that either!"

Everything returned to one, and the vast amount of spacetime spiritual energy shrank into Philin's hands.

Ji Li felt a deafening roar in his ears, as if billions of tons of pressure were crashing down on every inch of his body. The ground rumbled and collapsed, almost knocking him down in his Odin form.

The energy torrents of spacetime surged wildly through his body, causing the head-up display to flicker and distort almost instantly. At the same time, the black hole engine in his chest went mad and erratically, its power constantly leaking out.

In the flickering darkness, binary data flowed continuously, transforming into the most primitive code and appearing before Ji Li's eyes:
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An unusual gravitational wave was detected.

An abnormal spatial folding phenomenon was detected.

The black hole engine is unstable. We are reassessing the hardware, retrieving anomaly logs, and re-uploading the matrix operating system...

……

……

……

The operating system has been restarted, permissions have been reset, and some hardware functions of the Black Hole Engine will be unlocked and re-launched...
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Once the light from his head's nerve cells reconnected, emitting a deep blue glow, Odin rumbled as he rose to his feet:

Back online?

The data kept flashing before his eyes, and it seemed that his Odin had undergone some changes, but it wouldn't end anytime soon.

Film's voice came from the side:
"You really always manage to surprise me..."

Ji Li turned her head to look, and her figure appeared as a hazy, distorted shape, as if she were about to disappear at any moment.

The Clementine in Ji Li's possession was in the same state:
"Film?"

"Such a massive amount of spiritual energy is too much for even me to consume all at once. I need to return to my pocket watch for a second digestion."

"There's still quite a bit of spacetime spiritual energy left in the vault. I'll temporarily modify the spiritual environment here to make it favorable for your next move."

"How is she?"

"Not too good, but don't worry. Being in my domain will help her recover and absorb new power, fully transforming her into a Dead Apostle. Compared to her, I'm more worried about your situation now. Some spacetime ethereal energy seems to have seeped into your body."

Ji Li glanced at the Ascension Protocol panel, which was still resetting something, and helped up the bewildered Virtin beside him:

"Don't worry, I'm fine. I'm leaving her in your care. You absorbed such a huge amount of spiritual energy, so it seems your digestion process went very smoothly. But haven't you been sleeping a little too soundly lately?"

Felin sighed:

"It wasn't going smoothly... but do you really want to hear it now?"

Odin motor grinding:

"Let's talk after this is over."

Phil nodded, and with Clementine, slipped into the pocket watch, only to be suddenly stopped by Ji Li:

"and many more."

"what happened?"

“I am a pioneer.”

Felin paused, her expression hidden behind the blindfold, but Ji Li could sense her gaze:
"...Let's talk about it after you get the remains of the god."

After speaking, the two figures swiftly retreated into the pocket watch, landing in Ji Li's palm. "Heh, are they shy?"

Ji Li casually tossed the object in his hand back into the Dragon Ring.

"In the end what happened?"

Wilting stared blankly at the enormous object before him.

In his eyes, it was as if Ji Li had turned on the universal converter, and he clearly saw a girl wearing a strange nun's habit inside.

The girl disappeared in the next second, and the surrounding spiritual energy fluctuations became even more chaotic, but they were calmer than before.

The Dead Apostle before them had transformed into the large mechanical form they had seen before.

Just then, countless small pressure relief chambers sprang up from Odin's body, spraying out large amounts of steaming coolant, giving Virtin a refreshing fumigation:

"...What are you doing? Cough cough...It's so hot!"

"I'm sorry, my body is undergoing some changes, it should be almost healed now... no, it's already healed."

On Ji Li's head-up display, the words "Ascension Protocol" finally stopped popping up endlessly:
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Odin T4-002's permissions have been reset, and re-registration is complete. The Black Hole Engine has added the re-released module features:
Black Hole Propulsion System: Now back online.

Ultra-negative pressure chamber: Now back online.

Gravitational wave sensor array: Now back online.

Wormhole coating: Now back online.

……

The above-mentioned hardware functions were re-launched by retrieving and injecting new software, completing permission allocation, and unlocking the new integrated modules of the Black Hole Engine:

Gravitational jump generator: Now online.
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"Gravitational jump..."

A sudden burst of blue light emanated from the nerve cells in Odin's head. Ji Li slowly raised his hand and lifted Wilting, who was currently standing next to him like a little chick. A honeycomb-like electronic coating washed over Odin's body.

"Hold your breath and concentrate, we're about to get moving."

"Get moving? Where to?"

"Save people, then end it all."

"Wait, have you solved the time-space problem...?"

"Don't throw up on me later."

"What……"

The next moment, Veldine heard Odin's electric, booming laughter.

The ground exploded, bursting at faster-than-light speed.

He fell silent instantly, his pupils contracting.

With his heart pounding and nerves trembling, his vision and thoughts stretched and extended, the scene before him receding rapidly, plunging him headlong into a gravitational abyss—

Black hole jump.

Odin laughed wildly, carrying the Velting in his hand as he traversed through endless wormholes, instantly passing through countless timelines within the vault.

If the vault were viewed from a three-dimensional perspective at this moment, it would resemble an infinitely stacked Rubik's Cube with countless layers. Ji Li would then use wormholes to travel freely and directly through this infinite Rubik's Cube.

He no longer needs the universal key card. With the aid of gravitational jump, he can travel through countless rooms in a very short time, which is equivalent to traveling through countless timelines and having a panoramic view of the whole situation.

Under the calculations of the Ascension Protocol, he was even able to derive the formula for the number of these timelines superimposed and multiplied at this moment, and then completely end this process through Felin's pocket watch, causing each timeline to collapse and be condensed back into one.

But before that, he must choose the future for everyone—

In the pale room, Che Li glided towards the far end of the room, stepping on the endlessly spreading black ice, with the Sixth Star Lord's dragon flames billowing behind her.

"Got you!"

This is the timeline immediately following the explosion of the Heart-Piercing Cube. Chari and the Sixth Star Lord were still in the chase after escaping from the Black Old Man's containment chamber when the Cube exploded.

Still recovering from her serious injuries, Che Li gritted her teeth, about to turn and risk her life to escape, when a ferocious figure flashed past, instantly smashing her formidable enemy into a bloody mess—

"...?"

Chari blinked, only to see a rain of blood and flesh still falling from the sky, a huge black hole, and a terrifying spiritual pressure lingering in the spot.

Her pupils suddenly contracted:

She had seen this kind of thing in Silla, at Ji Li's last moment...

……

In the corridor, Jasmine was still trying to reunite with Che Li, just as the spacetime spirit energy had just erupted.

But at the end of this corridor, she will encounter Bertrand Ludwig, the museum owner from a future timeline, and be discovered by him, who has access to the vault, and then die.

Just as she was stunned by the figure of the owner behind the door and was frantically thinking of a solution, a black hole burst out from the side of the corridor.

Before the museum owner, Bertrand Ludwig, could even speak, he was kicked into the black hole by a huge figure.

When his vision blurred and he tried to find the person who attacked him, he only saw an unfamiliar environment and a black hole that was gradually closing in.

Jasmine stood there, stunned, staring blankly at the unclosed black hole—

She knows this too.

Jasmine, Che Li, those desperate Class D personnel.

Ji Li kept traversing the timeline rooms, gradually piecing together an ending that satisfied him the most.

Finally, he arrived at the room completely shrouded in shadow, which was also the deepest part of the vault.

Dragged along by him in a frenzied assault, Virtin suddenly collapsed to his knees and began vomiting violently.

Neither his soul nor his body could withstand this level of leap; he felt as if his stomach was about to vomit.

Ji Li ignored him and Odin strode forward with heavy steps.

There, three forces of shadow intertwined and clashed, with the sleeping Jin Misha in the center.

Not far away, a white-haired, red-eyed girl was being chased by the shadows.

She saw the black hole erupting, saw Virtin vomiting, and naturally saw Odin walking towards her, almost causing her heart and lungs to stop.

The black hole erupted, and the light flickered.

The chaotic shadow beside her was punched into the newly erupted black hole and thrown into some unknown corner.

"Ji Li...? Or... a Dead Apostle?"

Bai Misha stared at the scene before her, too afraid to move.

Ji Li turned his head. Although he didn't know why this guy could move while Mi Sha herself couldn't, it didn't stop him from greeting her in the way they were most familiar with:

"Call Dad."

Bai Misha froze, then her vision blurred rapidly, and she rushed out with tears welling in her eyes:

"husband!!!!"

Virtin wiped his mouth; his eyes were also brimming with tears as he vomited.

"...What's the situation now...?"
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