The Supreme God of Martial Arts

"I'll go and check where this transmission channel leads to." The gnbroke the silence he maintained while sensing the situation on the other end of the transmission tunnel.

Then, the gndisappeared from the current space after he was done speaking.

Austin recognized the gnome's teleportation ability when it cto spatial force. He was confident that the gnwas capable of handling any situations on the other end of the transmission tunnel even if there was any danger or difficulties on the way.

The space where the gnhad disappeared, stirred after a short while. It whirled like a vortex and then broke into fragments.

When it becsteady again, the gnappeared in the middle of the whirlpool.

"It's a stable transmission tunnel. Boy, cand check it yourself," the gnuttered and invited Austin to see for himself.

Austin nodded in approval and followed.

He walked towards the gnand slipped into the transmission tunnel without any hesitation. Like what the gnsaid, Austin clearly sensed a stable, strong force pushing him forward as soon as he stepped into that space.

The gnfollowed Austin and activated its space teleportation ability to reinforce the transmission force in the tunnel.

Austin felt the surge of transmission force around him as if he had been wrapped in a ball.

The strong transmission force lasted for a while before Austin felt the gradual decrease of force and the steady airflow around him.

The space becstable as Austin had cto another space.

What Austin saw was a secret room about several square meters in size. All its walls, as well as its floor, were paved with thick and hard marbles.

Initially, Austin could not see anything in the room.

When his eyes got used to the dim light, he saw a meditation cushion in the middle of the floor.

A smooth and sparkling round blue stone, in the size of a fist, was embedded in the cushion. Judging from its appearance, Austin could not tell what material the stone was made from. Its blue luster was beautiful against the dusk in the secret room.

Both Austin and the gncould not help but settle their eyes on the strange yet enchanting blue stone.

With the help of their spiritual senses, they both felt a fluctuation of spiritual souls from the blue stone.

To their surprise, the fluctuation of the spiritual souls seemed very familiar to them.

It somehow reminded them of Jim, and it was indeed his spiritual souls who were oscillating.

'How could it be possible?’ Austin wondered in utmost surprise.

He was confident that he had refined Jim's spiritual souls.

'How could it be possible for Jim's spiritual souls to fluctuate in this blue stone? What's with this whole thing?' Austin continuously thought in disbelief.

He was both stunned and puzzled to feel the presence of Jim's spiritual souls after refining them.

To figure it out, Austin launched his spiritual sense toward the round blue stone without any hesitation.

Austin sensed a weak spiritual sense from the faint fluctuation of Jim's spiritual souls.

Therefore, Austin grew confident that there would be no problem in dealing with Jim's spiritual souls with his current spiritual sense.

"That's bold of you, boy! Who are you? It's so brave of you to step into my secret room without an invitation! That's also rude and intrusive. Do you know what will happen to you?" A voice echoed in the entire room the moment Austin's spiritual sense touched the blue stone.

The unexpected voice coming from right inside the blue stone sounded fierce and full of rage.

Suddenly, an illusory blurry image floated from the blue stone.

The vague image constantly changed before finally forming into a picture of a person.

It was the image of Jim, exactly! "Oh? It's you, Austin.

Haven't my real body taken over your body yet? Tell me, why did you chere to my secret room? How did you get here?" Jim's image recognized Austin and asked in fury.

'Real body?’ Both Austin and the gnfelt surprised at such a strange expression, but they soon realized what it meant.

This image in front of them was just a shadow of Jim's real body.

Since he was just a shadow of Jim, his spiritual soul energy was too weak compared to that of his real body.

As far as Austin was concerned, the spiritual souls of this shadow were no more than one-hundredth of Jim's real body.

So, Austin and the gnfelt no fear with their sudden encounter with Jim's shadow. In a reposing and amusing attitude, they stared at the shadow from head to foot as if observing something interesting.

"That's too rude of you, two shameful beasts! How dare you look atthat way! Didn't you hear me? Answer my questions!" In all honesty, the shadow already felt a trace of fear in his heart. But he remained calm in the presence of his enemies.

He thought that his real body had gone to take Austin's flesh body as planned. But Austin was right here in front of him, intact and unharmed as usual.

What did that mean then? Since he hadn't been able to sense his real body for a long time, would that mean that his real body was gone for good? The shadow suddenly realized what could have happened to his real body. Assuming a composed expression on his face, he secretly sank his mind back into the round blue stone.

He tried to connect to his real body once again, but he felt nothing.

Not a trace of his real body could be sensed in the whole domain of the Illusory Palace. Even the entire city did not have anyone or anything alive.

The entire Illusory Palace and the city were doomed! 'What the hell? Why can't | connect with my real body? What happened to my real body?" The shadow felt more scared and worried as he gave careful thought to his situation.

"My real body, what happened to you? Where are you?" After several attempts, the shadow finally cried out in fluster.

"Well, it's useless to find your real body, poor shadow.

He has been refined byinto, well, nothing. Not a bit of him is left now; all his souls have been eliminated.

It surprised me, however, that the old guy has left a shadow of him in this world. This secret room is indeed the right place for hiding.

What a coincidence! | think | must do you a favor of sending you to see your real body. | don't like being troubled by you in the future," Austin said in a jesting and sarcastic tone, yet his stern face indicated that he was not joking at all.

Since he had killed the old guy, he didn't want to spare his shadow neither. There might be a chance that the shadow would make sbig trouble for him in avenging his real body.

"You're a liar. Do you think I'll believe you? You're so weak. My real body can kill you as easily as tramping an ant to death. You can't kill my real body!" The shadow shouted sadly at the top of his voice.

Although he refused to believe what Austin had said, the fact was he was unable to get in touch with his real body no matter how hard he had tried.

He could not feel anything within the whole domain of the city. It was as if everything had been eliminated and the entire palace had turned into a ghost town.

The shadow was fully aware that his real body would never leave the city no matter what happened.

The only reasonable explanation would be that his real body had no longer existed in this world! Enraged and frightened at that fact, the shadow suddenly moved and darted directly towards Austin's Soul Sea.

"Since my real body was unable to snatch your body, letdo it for him. Your flesh body is mine!" With a thrilling roar, the shadow slipped into Austin's Soul Sea at fleeting speed, trying to take control of the latter's physical body and take it as his new home.

"Well, that's wonderful. I've been waiting for this moment for a long time." Austin's spiritual souls in his Soul Sea murmured in a measured tone. Crossing his arms before his chest, he surveyed the shadow of the old guy from top to bottom with a sneering expression, his eyes full of raging, wicked fires.

"Go to hell, you suckling!" yelled the enraged shadow.

He aimed at Austin's spiritual souls and pounced at his target all of a sudden.

With an expected blaring noise, a spiritual sense chain--thicker than a grown-up's arm--suddenly appeared before the shadow.

The chain wounded and coiled around the shadow to bind him up tightly.

Austin immediately murmured a spell to initiate the Soul-transforming Skill. In just the blink of an eye, Jim's shadow was transformed into nothing.

All the spiritual souls energy the shadow possessed had now been absorbed by Austin and been part of his spiritual sense power.

Since Jim's shadow had been refined, all Austin paid attention to was the round blue stone left in the room.

Like a crystal, it flashed lustrous light. Behind that light were sveins that could be vaguely spotted. The stone was mystical and enigmatic, and Austin thought it was more mysterious than it seemed.

Austin focused on directing a strand of his spiritual sense into the inside of the blue stone.

To his surprise, however, his spiritual sense was blocked off by a mysterious unseen force as soon as it touched the surface of the blue stone. He couldn't get inside with his spiritual sense! Austin felt stunned, wondering what the whole thing was about. The stone was indeed baffling yet mystifying at the stime.

He observed the round blue stone again carefully. Somehow, it reminded him of the Purple Vital Stone, a divine weapon he had obtained before.

In Austin's opinion, however, that blue stone was much more mysterious than the Purple Vital Stone.

The stone seemed to have been cultivated by somebody, as skind of restriction had been applied to it to block access of unauthorized spiritual sense.

It was evident that the blue stone was cultivated by Jim! In that case, Austin didn't think he should leave anything that belonged to the old guy. He decided to refine the stone to his own possession.

"Refine!" Austin roared while directing continuous tremendous spiritual sense power from his Soul Sea towards the blue stone. Seething forces surrounded the stone and stroke its surface like billowing waves.

The confrontation of two kinds of forces lasted for a little while.

With the crashing of those forces also cthe colliding noises that blared in the small secret room.

Suddenly, several explosions were heard in a row, as if something was perpetually broken.

With the mighty power of his spiritual sense, Austin had broken the spiritual sense restriction applied to the blue stone.

Without any obstacles, Austin's spiritual sense poured into the stone like a surging body of water.

Austin found a mark of spiritual sense inside the stone. It was obviously left by Jim after he had cultivated the stone.

He wiped out the mark and left his own spiritual sense mark on the sposition where Jim had left his.

As soon as Austin sealed his own mark on the stone, he felt as if it was entirely under his control.

To his surprise, a strange feeling suddenly gushed in his mind.

It was so strange and overwhelming that he felt utterly stunned.