The Supreme God of Martial Arts

Inside the sacrificial altar...

Noticing that all the cultivators had escaped, Jim becsurprisingly calm and stared at Austin and the gnwith a poker face.

"What a grand and perfect Sacrifice Array | had set. But you ruined it.

If you hadn't messed up my plan, | would have had broken the hateful Soul-undermining Spell.

Now, the chosen hour had passed.

Forget it. | have to find another tto start the array again." Dismay could be heard from Jim's voice.

Soul-undermining Spell? Hearing that, both Austin and the gnpaused 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! | 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 PrMartial World. When | was in glory, | could make the PrMartial World quiver under my feet.

If I was not cursed by the damn old bastard in the war between the two worlds, | 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, | intended to start the snatch after | 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 | have to execute the snatch first.

Then | will choose another tto restart the array.

Young man, you'd better not work against me.

Even if you attackwith 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 stfor 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 fearsand 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 gnhad also consumed a lot of beast soul energy during the fight.

Now, the gnwas tired and his beast soul energy was almost depleted.

"Your nis 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 | have defeated your spiritual soul and snatched your body, you will be me, and | will be you.

Because my spiritual soul will integrate your body.

To sextent, 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.

Hurriedly, he built walls around his Soul Sea with all the might he could muster.

At the stime, he dodged and darted around with the Thunderbolt Movement Skill.

"Damn you! How dare you!" The gnflared up! The gnhad spent a year with Austin and they had developed a deep partnership.

Seeing that Austin was trapped in such a dangerous situation, the gnalso released all his power. It was a desperate fight.

His beast soul energy turned into heavy swells breaking toward the flash.

Despite giving it their all, their efforts were not successful.

Jim's spiritual sense was far stronger than Austin's and the gnome's.

The flash he turned into went through the barriers and dodged their attacks, reaching Austin's Soul Sea before Austin could do anything about it.

Suddenly, Jim's spiritual soul appeared in Austin's Soul Sea.

"Ha-ha. Young man, you indeed have great aptitude and potential.

Your cultivation base is just at the medium stage of Sky Realm, but your spiritual sense is much stronger than it should be at your cultivation base level." After he really entered Austin's Soul Sea, Jim had a clearer understanding of how talented Austin was in cultivating his spiritual sense.

"Oh. You also have a Soul-warming Bead in your Soul Sea. It doesn't help you a lot, but it does help.

Wow! You have mastered level 3 of sword potential and earned three streaks of Spiritual Sword Aura. You are a sword cultivator.” Jim commented on Austin's achievements and praised him continuously.

Then he began his snatch.

It was not a real snatch if he just gulped down Austin's spiritual soul.

The real snatch was to melt and absorb all the things in Austin's Soul Sea such as spiritual soul, thoughts, memory, emotion, and aspiration, to njust a few.

Besides, he needed to acquire the control of Austin's body. After all these things had been done, then he would have finished the real snatch.

When a cultivator's spiritual sense was powerful enough, he would naturally have the ability of completing a snatch.

Austin would never easily give in.

The moment Jim pounced on his spiritual soul, Austin clenched his teeth and struggled desperately.

He summoned the three streaks of Spiritual Sword Aura which were defending his spiritual soul to attack. With sstruggles, they emitted beams of sword radiance aiming at Jim.

"Although you have a great potential in sword martial art, defeating you is a piece of cake." With a wave of his hand, Jim bounced off all the streaks of Spiritual Sword Aura.

When he spoke, he was calm.

His movement was neither hurried nor slow, almost peaceful.

At the time, by the virtue of his horribly powerful spiritual sense, Jim was winning this snatch.

Austin was like a sitting duck.

Under Austin's command, the three streaks of Spiritual Sword Aura were directed toward the old man again.

With a wave of his hand, Jim blocked the three streaks of Spiritual Sword Aura again.

Then Austin controlled the three streaks of Spiritual Sword Aura to turn around attacking the old castellan once more.

Jim frowned.

"Young man, you know that you can't hurtwith these streaks of Spiritual Sword Aura, why do you keep attackingwith them? You may as well just quit." In fact, Austin still believed there was a glimmer of hope to defeat the old castellan.

He depended on the thread of the Sword Emperor's will that was hidden somewhere in his Soul Sea! He couldn't give up.

He knew that the spiritual sense contained in the thread of Sword Emperor's will was stronger than his, even if it was just a thread of will that was left centuries ago.

Therefore, Austin continuously gave everything he had to execute his Spiritual Sword Aura to attack the old castellan.

Meanwhile, he unnoticeably sent the beams of sword radiance and streaks of sword aura to the will of the Sword Emperor that hid in his Soul Sea.

He was trying to activate the Sword Emperor's will.