After hearing Cassius’ words, Jared didn’t press further. He could always ask Trystan for the details.
“Mr. Pruitt, how should we deal with this guy? I’ll leave it to you.” Jared turned to Trystan.
Cassius was Trystan’s junior and had injured many Soul Demon Sect’s disciples. It was up to Trystan to decide how to deal with Cassius.
Trystan approached Cassius, who immediately fell to his knees, tears streaming down his face. “Trystan, please, spare me! Gustave and Rainier urged me to do this. You’re our master’s favorite among us, while I’m the least favored. My abilities are the weakest, my talent the poorest. If not for relentless and grueling training, I would never have reached these heights in my life. I see my mistake now! I beg you, please spare me this time…”
Cassius’ face was a portrait of despair, his cries echoing with genuine regret as he wept uncontrollably.
As Trystan observed Cassius, a whirlwind of emotions washed over him, his eyes brimming with an overwhelming sympathy.
Just when Trystan was caught in his moment of hesitation, a flicker of ruthlessness gleamed in Cassius’ gaze. In an instant, his entire body began to swell as spiritual energy surged violently through his meridians.
He was actually planning to self-destruct. Given his level of power, the explosion could potentially annihilate the entire Soul Demon Sect.
“He’s going to self-destruct!” Jared’s pupils contracted in surprise. He hadn’t expected Cassius to be this resolute, going as far as to self-destruct.
Looks like his earlier act of kneeling and begging for mercy was nothing but a facade!
Trystan was taken aback, flustered and alarmed. He realized he was powerless to prevent an Ultimate Realm cultivator from self- destructing, and if Cassius succeeded, the Soul Demon Sect would be utterly annihilated.
However, as Jared charged toward Cassius, a streak of light suddenly shot out from within Cassius’ body. To Trystan’s surprise, Cassius wasn’t attempting to self-destruct at all. Instead, he was planning to abandon his physical form, allowing his soul to escape and seize the opportunity to flee.
As long as his spirit remained intact, he could potentially reshape his body. After all, he and Trystan were from the same sect-if Trystan could reconstruct his physical form, Cassius
would surely have the same capability.
Moreover, Gustave and Rainier would be there to assist him-he just needed to make it back to them. Once Cassius’s divine soul detached from his body, it vanished in an instant.. Meanwhile, his physical form swelled like a balloon, culminating in an ear-splitting explosion.
Boom!
The self-destruction of an Ultimate Realm cultivator was undeniably formidable. However, with the divine soul absent, only the physical body remained to explode, significantly diminishing the blast’s intensity.
In an instant, as the explosion erupted, Jared swiftly conjured a protective shield, successfully deflecting the shockwave. But as the echoes of the blast faded, it became clear that Cassius’s spirit had vanished without a trace.
“D*mn it, this guy is too cunning! He actually managed to escape!” Jared cursed.
Afterwards, he glanced at the remaining disciples of Blood Bone Sect. With a swift, decisive strike, he eliminated these disciples in one fell swoop.
“Mr. Chance, it’s all my fault. My indecisiveness gave him the chance to escape!” Trystan expressed his guilt.
“Mr. Pruitt, don’t blame yourself. No one could have foreseen that he would turn out to be so treacherous. You should focus on tending to your disciples; I’ll prepare some medicinal pills to treat their injuries,” Jared reassured him. He recognized that Cassius’s escape was partially his own oversight.
The immediate priority was to heal the many wounded disciples of the Soul Demon Sect. With little time to spare, Jared needed to act swiftly and efficiently.
Trystan hurriedly nodded, then promptly took care of all the severely injured disciples.
Jared tended to the wounded disciples, concocting medicine for them.
It took Jared an entire day to treat all the injured disciples. As long as they took their medicine on schedule, they would recover in no time.
