The Supreme God of Martial Arts

The thought of the approaching victory made Jim quite pleased with himself. He wanted to taste the sweetness of his success so much that he decided to strike while the iron was hot. Before anyone could notice, his shadow vanished from the stone pillar.

When he reappeared, he had silently moved onto the pillar, behind all the cultivators.

Without getting in their knowledge of where he had gone, he stretched out his large hand and swept through the bodies of the three cultivators of the Imperial Realm who were near him. He acted so fast that they could hardly understand a thing or respond.

Almost instantly, the spiritual souls of the three men were dragged out of their Soul Seas. The souls kept reeling and swaggering up in the air until they floated above the altar.

Jim acted quickly and shoveled one of those spiritual souls into his mouth and swallowed it.

He was about to get hold of another one to further fill his hunger for power. Just then, a grey shadow crossed his vision and he paused. The shadow surprised him.

He followed the shadow, and gazed at it when it stopped. It was a little beast, similar to a little dog. The little thing was moving very fast. It quickly jumped and landed between the other two spiritual souls in the air. The next moment, it grabbed hold of them.

What happened next shocked and enraged Jim. The remaining two spiritual souls were gobbled up by the beast! "A gnome?" Furious at the loss of the two spiritual souls, Jim recognized the beast. He had started to take great interest in this kind of creature, and had thoroughly studied about them recently.

Right after the gnhad devoured Jim's trophies, it shook making ripples in the air. The space around it immediately underwent a change.

The gndisappeared from the middle of the ripples in the blink of an eye. It vanished just as fast as it had appeared.

"Space Teleportation! So it is true that the gnomes are talented at space teleporting!" Jim's mind was assessing the sight he had just witnessed. He remembered having read about it in sancient books, but seeing it happen before his eyes made him believe it.

It not only amazed him but also annoyed him. He realized that it was not the right tto sit back and study the creature. A legendary gnhad taken the spiritual souls he had earned and vanished into thin air! He must take back what was his! He quickly unleashed his spiritual sense and searched for the little beast desperately.

Before all of this had happened, the gnhad been traveling with Austin and the others. They were heading in the direction of the altar, getting closer and closer.

They tried as far as possible, but could not speed up much, since there were so many spell formations and traps of delusional space on the way. They needed to be cautious and not do anything in haste.

They marched on carefully. About half an hour later, the gnwho was walking in front suddenly cto a halt. It tilted its head, as if it had sensed something. After analyzing the situation for a while, it turned and conveyed something to Violet, excitedly.

"It says there is an altar ahead of us, and something very interesting seems to be happening there, master. It wants to go first and see what's going on there, if possible." Violet informed Austin about it through their spiritual senses.

"Oh! Did it say what might be happening at that altar?" Austin was surprised to hear about the altar and wanted to know more from Violet or the gnome.

"Well, in fact, you can talk to it directly now, master. Its last breakthrough has made it possible for it to understand you," Violet announced as she kept giggling, covering her lips with her hand. She found it amusing.

"What? You mean, | can communicate with this guy, without your help?" Austin asked, looking dubiously at the gnome, and then at Violet.

"But why didn't it start any conversation withall along the way?" "Err, perhaps because it is not accustomed to talking to you yet. After all, I'm the only one who has been communicating with it, all this time," Violet tried to explain.

"What a picky fellow!" Austin sighed, feeling confused as to how he would make a connection with the gnome, with whom he had never spoken earlier.

"Hey, how are you, bloke?" While Austin was thinking of the right words to start the conversation, a strange voice arose in his Soul Sea. It was like that of a young person.

"Is it you, gnome?" Austin inquired, looking at the little thing in astonishment.

"That's right!" the gnsaid. Austin found it amazing that he could understand its language now.

"I think you need a bit of explanation here, bro," the gncontinued. "Beasts of my kind are a bit different from the other common species of beasts, in sways. One of the major differences is that we cannot speak your language or take the shape of a human until we have made it to the Changeling Stage.

But now, | have possessed the ability to communicate with you through spiritual sense," the gnsaid, pride clear in his voice.

‘Now, this makes sense, ' Austin thought after taking in the information revealed by the gnome.

"We can talk more later, but now | need to go and check what exactly is happening up ahead," the gnsaid before Austin could reply.

As soon as the gnfinished speaking, Austin saw something which Jim got to see a few moments later. The air around the gnsuddenly rippled. Within a second, the little thing disappeared.

It left as if it was sucked into skind of space at the center of the air, like a whirlpool.

"What the hell happened just now?" It was yet another surprise for Austin.

With his powerful spiritual sense, Austin discovered that the gnwasn't leaving by using any magical bodily movement skill at all. If it had, Austin would have been able to find it somewhere within the range of his spiritual sense. But there was no sign of it anywhere, which suggested that it might have simply disappeared from the spot! That left Austin more amazed at the abilities of the gnome! "What was it, Violet?" he asked the fox at once, hoping that she could shed slight on the matter.

He thought she knew more about it, since she had been the one who communicated with the gnmost of the time.

"The gnhad talked about it once. It said that a kind of moving skill has developed in it after this breakthrough. This enables it to teleport to a short distance. So, | think it was Space Teleportation that you just saw."