Bang!
The instant Ye Zhen cast the Soul Binding Technique and sent a wisp of Soul Power into Abbot Zhaoshi's Innate Soul, an incomparably majestic surge of soul energy erupted violently from within Zhaoshi's soul.
In an instant, it blasted Abbot Zhaoshi's Innate Soul to pieces. Zhaoshi's soul scattered and vanished, while Ye Zhen gained nothing.
This outcome was both beyond Ye Zhen's expectations and perfectly reasonable.
Zhaoshi was the abbot of the Heaven Temple Branch Temple. Even if he was not among its most core personnel, he was still one of its upper ranks and surely knew secrets of the Heaven Temple that others did not.
Ye Zhen had long anticipated that Abbot Zhaoshi's soul might be protected by a powerful expert's Soul Power, which was why he had used the Soul Binding Technique obtained from Mirage Dragon Primordial Spirit Ah Chou.
In Ye Zhen's view, so long as he controlled Abbot Zhaoshi's Innate Soul, he could make Zhaoshi divulge whatever secrets he wanted.
But Ye Zhen had not expected that the moment his soul entered, it would trigger the restriction within Abbot Zhaoshi's Innate Soul and reduce it directly to ashes.
What horrified Ye Zhen was that the Soul Binding Technique he had obtained from Mirage Dragon Primordial Spirit Ah Chou was an exquisite secret art capable of bypassing even Soul Guard placed by Dao Realm experts.
Yet now, it could not bypass the Soul Guard within Abbot Zhaoshi's Innate Soul.
In other words, the Soul Guard within Abbot Zhaoshi's Innate Soul had been bestowed by an existence even more powerful than the Dao Realm.
The only beings more powerful than the Dao Realm were those of Creation Realm—the existences known as gods to ordinary people and common martial artists.
In other words, there were gods within the