Inside the sacrificial altar...
Noticing that all the cultivators had escaped, Jim became surprisingly calm and stared at Austin and the gnome with a poker face.
"What a grand and perfect Sacrifice Array I had set. But you ruined it.
If you hadn't messed up my plan, I would have had broken the hateful Soul-undermining Spell.
Now, the chosen hour had passed.
Forget it. I have to find another time to start the array again."
Dismay could be heard from Jim's voice.
Soul-undermining Spell?
Hearing that, both Austin and the gnome paused for a second.
'What is Soul-undermining Spell?
Is it the reason why he used the array and gulped down so many spiritual souls?' they thought.
"Ha! I bet you two have never even heard of the Soul-undermining Spell,"
Jim said triumphantly. He was being weirdly calm and collected.
His current expression was placid and his tone was mild, which made him seem like a nice old man. But in reality, he was not.
"Alas. I, Jim, was once the hero in the Prime Martial World. When I was in glory, I could make the Prime Martial World quiver under my feet.
If I was not cursed by the damn old bastard in the war between the two worlds, I would not have been down like this—being stuck as a weird thing that is neither a human nor a soul."
As Jim remembered what had happened to him, his face fell sad.
"Ha-ha. Young man, I intended to start the snatch after I had mitigated the 30% effect of the Soul-undermining Spell with the Sacrifice Array.
Look what you did though! You let them escape my array, so now I have to execute the snatch first.
Then I will choose another time to restart the array.
Young man, you'd better not work against me.
Even if you attack me with the gnome, there is no way you will survive the snatch,"
Jim said coolly.
Hearing that, Austin's heart skipped a beat.
He had thought that the old castellan would never be able to snatch his body, if he destroyed the Sacrifice Array to stop his spiritual soul from recovering.
However, now he realized that it was just his wishful thinking.
When he just battled the old castellan to win some time for the cultivators to run away, Austin had discerned that the old castellan had the ability to snatch his body even if he didn't recover fully!
Because the spiritual sense that was released by the old castellan was too fearsome and powerful!
What was worse, Austin's spiritual soul was suffering from injuries he had acquired during the battle.
And the power of his spiritual sense was definitely weakened.
If the old castellan started the snatch now, Austin had a small chance of winning.
The gnome had also consumed a lot of beast soul energy during the fight.
Now, the gnome was tired and his beast soul energy was almost depleted.
"Your name is Austin, right?
I'll remember you.
It's an honor to be remembered by a cultivator of the Holy Realm, so you should die with no regrets.
After I have defeated your spiritual soul and snatched your body, you will be me, and I will be you.
Because my spiritual soul will integrate your body.
To some extent, you will continue to exist in the world."
As soon as Jim finished his words, the huge shadow which actually was his spiritual soul suddenly condensed into a flash and began shooting at Austin's Soul Sea.
Startled, Austin unleashed 20 Spiritual Sense Spears at the flash.
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