It's a very strange feeling - even when I kept switching between the big and small accounts and keeping various characters online at the same time, I never had a strong sense of my inner world.
At this moment, Jiuyuan can clearly feel the existence of "himself".
Even if the inaction changes touch his soul self, it will not have any effect.
He just felt the prick of the needle, that was all.
"So that's how it is... you're treating other people's souls like plasticine and kneading them into shape?"
Jiuyuan looked at the real person whose arm was bitten off by the vengeful spirit and then grew back, "Then you really picked the wrong target."
Without waiting for him to speak, the vengeful spirits actively pushed him into the gate of Hades.
Jiuyuan, who was still standing outside the door, shook his wrist that had just been touched, and Ruyue walked forward considerately and wiped his wrist for him.
"Then I'll go down first." Jiuyuan looked at Gojo Satoru and Kisaragi, nodded, and jumped into the Gate of Hades.
This is a gray-white sandy land, the land is sunken and uneven, and sand will fly up when you step on it. Surrounding it is a bamboo forest of different heights. The bamboo is almost dark green in color, some of them are straight up to the sky, and some are not even as high as a person's waist.
When Jiuyuan fell down, he saw Xia Youjie confronting Noseso.
"What a wolf, the real person." Seeing the real person being eaten to pieces, Nose said honestly, "Doesn't the transformation by inaction work?"
Xia Yujie wanted to turn around, but he couldn't turn his back on the enemy, so he had to continue staring at him.
The real person's body began to regenerate, the broken limbs began to swell, and new limbs were regenerated in just a few seconds.
"...Unfortunately, your attacks don't work on me." A subtle sly look gradually appeared on that pretty face. He looked at Jiu Yuan and said, "Although I can't do anything to your soul, your attacks can't hurt me either. There's no point in continuing to fight me."
Jiuyuan: "Whether it is meaningful or not is not up to you to decide."
The vengeful spirits swarmed and surrounded them. Xia Youjie understood what was going on. He stepped aside and reunited with Jiu Yuan.
"A combination of evil thoughts? It doesn't seem to be a cursed spirit... but it doesn't look like a monster either." Nosoko held his chin up, "Is this your ability?"
Real person: "... related to soul manipulation?"
No one answered him.
Jiu Yuan said nothing. There were about a dozen vengeful spirits surrounding them. In his silence, they began to split up. Each vengeful spirit after splitting up began to slowly grow larger, as if trying to build a natural wall. In the dark vengeful spirits, a black dome was formed, enveloping all the people present.
Dozens of bone spurs suddenly rose from the ground. The real person in the center of the bone spurs avoided it by transforming, but was bitten by a skeleton hound that suddenly appeared in the air and tried to drag it to the ground.
The transformation of inaction is naturally useless against a creature that only has bones. He can only rely on the transformation of his body to fight back again.
As for Kagome Takeshi, Kuen gave him a pair of cursed double swords as a weapon.
The evil spirits surrounding him served as a protection, preventing him from being attacked by real people.
Noose's fighting was not very active, especially when Jiuyuan brought out a large number of skeleton soldiers and hunting dogs for cover, his movements were also restricted a lot.
The other two——
"It's a pity that your method can only delay me, but cannot eliminate me."
While dodging, the real person also did not forget to make a few sarcastic remarks. In the back and forth with Jiuyuan, he found that the other party had no way to deal with him.
"Really?"
Kuen raised his hands and tried to do what he did last time in the woods of Yahara.
He first raised his index finger, forming a perfect L-shape with his thumb, as if making a shooting gesture, and selected the real person in the air who turned his arms into wings to dodge.
The demonic power that had condensed into a physical form was released at this moment, directly penetrating the opponent's body.
Real person: “!”
The flying flesh and blood fell to the ground, and the real person, feeling the severe damage, began to quickly try to recover with cursed power.
The feeling of having your soul pierced is not pleasant, and the burning sensation from the wound in your chest still remains. Even if you start to repair your body in time, this deep-seated pain will not end with the healing of the wound.
"Now you still think I can't hurt you?"
Jiuyuan put down his hand. The previous attack did not consume much energy, but the effect was extremely gratifying.
It seems that only by attacking with demonic power yourself can you directly affect the opponent's soul.
Nosuo's expression was not very good either. To him, the real person was one of the necessary pieces of his plan. If it was damaged like this, all his previous arrangements would be wasted.
"What a shame." He didn't know who he was talking to. He looked at the real person next to him and said, "Do you need my help? You look really fierce, real person."
He looked at the boy standing on the other side of the bone spur and said, "You are resistant to the real person's spells and can directly touch the soul - you are not a human, right?"
Just as he finished speaking, a bone spur pierced him, but he blocked it with his curse spirit. Throwing the pierced curse spirit aside as trash, he continued, "You are neither a human nor a curse spirit, but you are mixed among humans - what is your purpose?"
"The human soul is not that strong." The real person stared at Jiuyuan who had just pierced him.
"If you are planning to sow discord, I suggest you stop." Jiuyuan also looked at them openly.
The bone spurs on the ground branched out again, and although the noose dodged it, the real person was hit in the shoulder again by the arrow transformed by Kuen's demonic power.
As long as he covers the bone spurs with demonic power, the densely packed bone spurs on the ground will have the same effect on him.
The growth of bone spurs blocked his movement, and what followed was like trying to catch a turtle in a jar.
Kaguru used cursed spirits and noose to fight back, and the opponent used similar tactics. They avoided the other side of the battlefield and began to move towards the edge of the barrier. Kaguru used cursed tools to block the opponent's attack, and the noose had already covered the edge of the evil spirit barrier with one hand.
The vibration of the cursed power attracted Jiuyuan's attention, but after discovering that the noose could not destroy his vengeful spirit barrier, Jiuyuan had a new idea.
When Masato saw Geto and the others at the edge of the barrier, he quickly crossed the obstacle and tried to catch Geto's spirit. However, Hisaen had already condensed his demonic power into a thread and hid it in the body of the vengeful spirit that was entangled with Geto.
Just within a few inches, this line of demonic power penetrated the real person's body directly——
The next second, highly concentrated demonic power expanded in his body like tree roots, completely severing the essence of his soul from the inside, cutting it into millions of pieces like a broken mirror.
"Damn it." Nozomi wanted to take advantage of this extremely short time to subdue the real person. Realizing this, Xia Yujie immediately turned around and grabbed the knife to force a distance between him.
Then, a dry brown hair penetrated between them, and then the hair rolled back like a countercurrent, and actually directly entangled the noose in it. He immediately summoned the curse spirit to try to destroy it, but it had no effect.
At the last moment when the hair closed, he saw that the boy had walked to the fragments of the real person——
Balls of black flames enveloped the remains of the real person, leaving black marks on the ground.
Removal completed.
Jiuyuan just summoned the ugly woman from Huangquan and asked her to lock the noose directly with her hair.
And a few vengeful spirits were sent in to completely fill up the hair prison.
Although the noose was suppressed by several vengeful spirits, these vengeful spirits were considerate of Xia Yujie's body and would not cause any substantial harm to him.
"Are you planning to lock me up like this?"
However, considering that he still had to separate the noose from Geto's body and could not let him return to the real world, he felt that this matter was not very related to his expertise, and it would be more appropriate to ask for help directly from the staff of Hell.
As long as we remove the noose completely and send him to hell for trial, all the trouble will be over.
Thinking of this, Jiuyuan withdrew the evil spirit barrier and said to the noose: "In fact, we can keep you here forever..."
Zuo Suo: "Oh? This idea is a bit too naive. You think that as long as I'm not here, everything will be..."
"Or do you think you have the ability to keep me locked up here forever?" He sneered and pinched a vengeful spirit with his hand, but the vengeful spirit passed through Liu's body.
"Oh, because this is hell, and all I have to do is put you in hell."
Jiuyuan said directly, "... Could it be that you haven't realized that we have come to a space outside the human world?"
Nose: “…”
Seeing the other party's silence, Jiuyuan smiled and said, "...You don't think this is someone's territory, do you?"
Nose: “…”
In fact, he really believed that!
Before being teleported into the gate of Hades, he stayed briefly for one second in the folded space of the Ruzuki Station. It was this brief feeling that made him instantly believe that this was a realm.
Although after the fight, he felt the flow of power that did not seem to be cursed energy, he began to suspect that he was taken to another place, perhaps not a realm... maybe some other special space.
but--
Nose: "... Hell? Are you kidding?"
Jiuyuan looked at the nearby scenery leisurely and said, "No, this is hell."
The system, which had been silent until now, suddenly spoke:
[System: Master, we are very close to the gate of hell. Not far ahead is the gate guarded by the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons...]
Jiuyuan Wuqing repeated: "Yes, in front is the gate to hell guarded by the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons."
As he spoke, Noose felt that the closed cage he was in seemed to be moving.
Jiuyuan put his hands in his pockets, nodded to Xia Youjie, and asked him to follow. Then he walked in front and led the way while saying: "I remember that you have changed bodies many times, which means that you should have gone through reincarnation several times at least... But looking at your current situation, you must have used some special means to successfully avoid reincarnation, right?"
"If I sent you to hell, which hell would you go to?"
Nose: “!”
However, before they reached the gate of hell, they ran into another group of people.
With horns on their heads, they were clearly ghosts from hell. Two or three of them were holding scrolls in their hands, seemingly working. The leader was a one-horned male ghost in black.
After seeing them, one of the ghosts put down the scroll and said, "Who are you? Why are you hanging around the gate of hell——"
The ghost next to him suddenly pulled him back.
At this moment, they happened to meet the eyes of the one-horned male ghost who was leading the group.
The latter looked at Jiu Yuan, nodded kindly, and said: "Long time no see--"
"Although I heard that you went to EU Hell some time ago, I think it's about time for you to come back here... Is this boy next to you a friend?"
Jiuyuan: “…”
Wait, does he know this ghost?
The last time Lilith showed up, the system popped up to explain. Why did she start pretending to be dead this time?
Jiuyuan: "Do we know each other?"
The ghost soldier next to him said: "I am so sorry, this is Lord Gui Deng, the assistant officer of King Yanmo——"
As a result, the demon soldier beside him punched him on the back of the head and said, "Idiot! You can't say disrespect!" Then he pulled him down and apologized, "Sorry... Lord Jiuyuan, he came a short time ago."
Jiuyuan recalled the last time he saw a demon at the shrine who acted as if he had seen a monster...
It seems to be the same expression.
Seeing Jiuyuan's reaction, the ghost named Guizu who had just greeted him showed an expression of "I understand".
"So that's how it is... I roughly know what the situation is. I'll tell you the details later." After saying that, he looked at the noose that Jiuyuan had trapped in the hair of the ugly woman in the underworld.
"…What is this?"
Kuen: "...Uh, a fugitive?"