COMING OF THE MARTIAL GOD, VOLUME 2 - Season 8 Episode 48

In the process of gathering around Jake, some of the disciples belonging to the Imperial Realm could not stand the force of the collective souls and their spiritual souls became detached from their Soul Sea. Needless to say, they were all swallowed by Jim and became a part of his dainty feast. Having absorbed so many spiritual souls, Jim’s strength had upgraded multifold. He had become extremely tough now and it would be almost impossible to vanquish him.

After all of the disciples who had the ability to break through the attacks of those souls had gathered at his side, Jake ordered them to strike back at Jim. “Strike!” he exclaimed.

Jake pointed to the pillar next to him and commanded the disciples to attack it. All of the cultivators concentrated their vital energy at their hands and began striking at the pillar with all their might. They were at the edge of life and death and none of them could afford to conceal their true capability. Altogether, they were made up of four fighters from the Master Realm and over ninety from the Imperial Realm. All of them unfolded their vital energy force and demonstrated it at the highest state. Like a platoon, they struck simultaneously at the pillar.
The massive, enormous vital energy waves that formed from the united force of all the disciples shot out and charged towards the pillar. Progressively, as it pierced through the air, the collisions generated heat and wrapped the vital energy waves in a golden hued blanket.

The waves hit straight on the pillar and generated an earsplitting sound. The impact was so loud that for a moment, people went numb, and were unable to hear a single thing except a constant shrill, piercing sound.

The pillar began to wobble as if a deadly earthquake had struck. The cracking began to appear. Countless fracture marks began showing up on the wall of the pillar, and they spread from the point of impact.

“The pillar is not indestructible after all.

We can break it with one more blow!

Let’s strike it once more,” Jake cried with passion. It was true. Like a frightened and exhausted animal, the pillar was now on the verge of destruction.

One blow would turn it into a heap of rubble.

Working as a team, the disciples carried out the second strike at the same time.

As the second strike reached the pillar, it hit the pillar so hard that the vibrant sound of the impact was heard all around the palace.

With a resounding bang, the pillar imploded and collapsed. Its fall created clouds of dust and blanketed the air.

“It broke!” one of the disciples cried excitedly. Their first success boosted their confidence and morale.

Since the pillar had been destroyed, there was no place the black chains could find support and sustain themselves. They began to shrink and at last, fell to the ground and dispersed into the thin air.

Jake’s instincts about the black chains were right. The chains were really supported by the pillar that once the pillar was broken, they could no longer exist.

They were filled with renewed hope of getting out of the place alive. They beamed with anticipation.

“Don’t stop!

Keep striking other pillars to eliminate the black chains. The more black chains we destroy, the more hope we obtain to escape from this hell!” Jake said, fusing inspiration into every disciple.

His words were invigorating enough to brace all the cultivators up.

Now that the plan had been laid out, they knew the way to take out those black chains. In a few minutes, another pillar was destroyed.

Such a turn of events was not a good sign for Jim.

He raged with unadulterated hate at Jake. “Jake, how could you have incited these people here to go against me and destroy the Sacrifice Array that I spent so many years in completing? I trained you for so many years and this is what you pay back in return? You are so disappointing a disciple!”

Jim’s shadow drifted between the pillars as he barked. He was so furious that his face contorted from his intolerable hate.

However, Jake was not one to be deceived or provoked. He laughed dryly at him. “Old thing, you think you can cheat me? How ironic of you to have the cheek to mention about cultivating us!

I am afraid that it was just fate that me and my two fellow brothers got lost and entered into your palace by accident and became your disciples. You have always had the intention of killing us one day. It is just that you needed help building your palace before. Besides, as our spiritual souls had not cultivated enough to satisfy you, you did not lay hands on us.

Actually, we were like prisoners, like pigs that are kept in the pen. You fed us and caged us, only to have us get fat and provide you meat. All you cared about were our spiritual souls and not us. You are an ugly, heartless devil!”

By this moment, Jake revealed Jim’s cruel character and let his inner feelings out. The relationship between Jim and Jake of a master and disciple had completely fractured.

Jake’s words irked Jim even more. Grinding his words through his teeth in fury, he started barking. “No matter what I was up to, it was I who nurtured you and turned you into excellent fighter now.

Don’t forget that you were merely in the premium stage of Imperial Realm when you first came to my place.

If I didn’t provide you with cultivation resources and taught you the cultivation skills, how do you think you would have had the chance of upgrading to the Master Realm?

You ruined my palace when you were supposed to pay back to my kindness and favor.

All three of you, you are even worse than dogs. Even dogs know to fawn over their owners in gratitude of food. I am not letting you slip through my fingers. You deserve to be cut into pieces.

You silly bastard, you think that by destroying those two pillars you can stop my entire Sacrifice Array? That is foolish of you!

Let me see how many pillars you can destroy. To tell you the truth, I have hundreds of these pillars that you have just destroyed. You can go on and continue as long as you like. When you have spent all of your energy, that is the time when I enjoy consuming your spiritual souls,” Jim taunted.

After saying that, Jim pointed to the altar. Upon receiving his orders, the souls that were drifting in the white mist began to float around and surrounded the disciples. As they moved towards the disciples, along with their movement, the white mist stirred around and formed clouds of mist that gave them a hazy, mysterious aura.

In the fight with those souls earlier, the warriors had found the souls to be furious, aggressive creatures. They knew when to strike forward and when to retreat almost like they were intellectual human beings.

But now, after receiving Jim’s command, all of the souls began engaging themselves in a crazy, irrational suicide act. They were like killing machines without brain and thought. All of them rushed towards the cultivators with the only goal of killing them.

Each time those in front were extinguished, the ones behind them would immediately replace the spot and take over the attacks. There were five souls constantly attacking them at the same time and the strike carried on.

The souls, like a group of well-trained, disciplined army of special force, did not make the fight easy for the disciples. Starting on the back foot, the disciples found it difficult to deal with the attacks that the souls were relentlessly sending at them.

In a few minutes, more than ten Imperial Realm fighters were walloped to death and were being detached from their spiritual souls. Needless to say, Jim engulfed all the spiritual souls.

In the meantime, the black chains began attacking too. Their whipping got more and more violent every minute.

For the disciples, their chances of surviving looked bleak. They were clearly panicking and were fumbling to block the attacks with their weapons.

“Everyone, hold on! Keep attacking the pillars!” Jake shouted out to gather everyone’s strength together.

The remaining fighters had become numb from the intense fights, and had almost accepted their fate. With renewed passion, they charged at the pillar with all their might. Every time they destroyed a pillar, the black chains that tangled around disappeared.

Every time the black chains disappeared, the overwhelming pressure and tension in their heart eased a bit.

Sure enough, attacking the pillars was a way out for them as it could weaken the strength of the sacrifice array.

Even so, it was not an easy task for them because of the numerous quantity of the pillars. Given the circumstances, fighting both the souls and the black chains with their skills was not an ideal tactic and would not be much of a help. The mortality rate of the disciples was still on the rise.

Occasionally during the fight, there were fighters of the Imperial Realm being knocked out by the blow of the chains and swiftly dealt with by Jim after their spiritual souls were detached from their Soul Seas.

In just about ten minutes, there were already about thirty Imperial Realm cultivators who were put to death.

The shadow of Jim, as it continued to devour the spiritual souls of those cultivators, began to grow large in size and its spiritual sense became much more condensed than ever before.

Progressively, as the accumulation of the spiritual souls inside him grew, the fake, bleary shadow vibrated and gradually turned into an almost real, tangible human body.

A quite opposite state of events was being experienced by every one as the quantity of the fighters of the Imperial Realm continued to decline. As a consequence, more strikes were needed for them to destroy a pillar together and they started to feel the exhaustion.

The consumption of the vital energy in a day had already exceeded its limit. There was just simply no way they could demonstrate their best capabilities at the moment.

Sensing the smell of imminent success, Jim became relaxed and cocky. “Hah-hah, how do you feel now? The result is imminent. No matter how hard you try to fight it, it is useless.

Why don’t you just drop your meaningless resistance and begin to do your final prayers before your death? Instead of struggling in vain, you should consider to relax and compose yourself before I eat your spiritual souls.

As for my three dear disciples, letting you die earlier is too mean and heartless of a deed for me. Don’t worry! I will keep you for the last, until you have said farewell to each of your friends and watched them die. Then finally, it would be your turn. Before all the others are devoured by me, you three are safe and sound.”

Noting that he now held a substantial advantage over them, Jim laughed out loud. His vaunting laughter resonated around the entire place.

After he had absorbed the spiritual souls of more than a hundred fighters of the Imperial Realm, his body’s strength had increased to a great extent and he felt he could no longer feel the wounds he had gotten before.

He came to the conclusion that the victory of his sacrifice array was beyond inevitable.

He thought that once he had succeeded to eliminate all the fighters of the Imperial Realm and absorbed their spiritual souls, the spiritual souls would provide him with sufficient, strong vital energy. That would put him in a superior position to confront the remaining two fighters of the Master Realm.