“And if I refuse?” Jared asked. There was a sinister glint in Toyotomi’s eyes as he replied, “If you refuse, I will kill you and destroy your soul so you can never reincarnate! As for your friends, they will become sacrifices on the altar. I will sacrifice them to the heavens in exchange for a physical body.”
The atmosphere in the shrine changed instantly as the front door was slammed shut. Flaxseed and the others quickly put up their fighting stances and prepared themselves for combat.
“Relax, Mr. Flaxseed! This is just a remnant of a soul! We have nothing to be afraid of! I’ll absorb his strength and destroy this shrine! I’m surprised you have the audacity to call yourself a deity. Just how shameless can you get? If this is how the deities are in Jetroina, then I might consider absorbing them all and having the Jetroinians adore me instead!” Jared said calmly.
Jared had gotten a lot stronger after becoming. a Martial Arts Saint, and that made him a lot more confident. How dare he insult our shrines and deities like that?
Infuriated, Hiroichi shouted, “You insolent b*stard! I’ll kill you!” As soon as he spoke, Jared waved his arm without even looking at him. The next thing Hiroichi knew, an intense burst of aura was surging rapidly toward him.
Hiroichi’s face went pale when he saw that, but it was too late for him to do anything about it. Just like that, the powerful burst of aura sent him flying out of the shrine in a single hit.
He coughed up a huge mouthful of blood as his body crashed into a stone pillar outside. What the… Jared was able to severely injure Hiroichi with an effortless wave of his hand! Ryosuke swallowed nervously at the thought of that. Having witnessed Jared’s strength, he became even more of his loyal follower.
“Shut up! Dogs like you have no business interrupting me when I’m talking!” Jared said while glaring at Hiroichi. He then flashed Toyotomi a faint smile as he continued, “Your dog was annoying me with its incessant. barking, so I had to teach it a lesson. You wouldn’t mind, would you?”
“You’re pushing your luck far too much, Chanaean!” Toyotomi was on the verge of exploding with rage at that point. His blood was boiling with anger, and the look in his eyes was as cold as ice. His clothes even began billowing in the wind as he charged up his aura.
The entire shrine was then plunged into pitch- black darkness as the shrill cries of spirits echoed all around them. Yuri was so scared that she quickly hid behind Ryosuke.
Flaxseed whipped out a few charms, bit his finger, and drew some symbols on them. He then pasted the charms on everyone’s bodies, which made the creepy voices disappear instantly and dispelled the black fog around them.
Everyone else around them without the charms, however, could still see the fog and hear the scary voices. That was because the black fog contained a sinister power.
“For hundreds of years, no Chanaean has ever dared speak to me like that! Since you had the audacity to insult us, then I shall destroy your soul as punishment! You will not be able to reincarnate ever again!” Toyotomi shouted as he slowly pointed at Jared and clenched his fist.
The next thing everyone knew, the air in the shrine began to vibrate as a gigantic palm reached out to grab Jared. The gigantic palm then went right through Jared’s body and yanked his soul out.
Jared’s soul could be seen floating in the air while his physical body remained seated and motionless. Both Ryosuke and Yuri went wide-eyed with shock when they saw that.
Neither of them was expecting someone as powerful as Jared to have his soul removed so easily. There’s no way his body will survive without its soul!
