Despite the lives of tens of thousands of Os Academy students being at stake, Jekos would rather die than let Bai Yang learn anything about the Divine Temple.
By all rights, it shouldn't have been this way. Even if the founding head of Os Academy had once come from the Divine Temple, so many years had passed. Besides, the Divine Temple wasn't some shameful secret. As pioneers who had spread civilization, Jekos shouldn't have guarded its secrets and sacrificed tens of thousands of students for the sake of an elusive Divine Temple.
Unless the legendary Divine Temple held some unspeakable secret!
As a sorcerer, Jekos was somewhat like the divine path cultivators of Tianyuan Star. His soul was powerful, and the death of his body didn't mean he was truly dead. So when he chose to self-destruct, Bai Yang didn't care. As long as his soul remained, that was enough.
In Bai Yang's eyes, an old man identical to Jekos appeared where Jekos had self-destructed. It was his soul. Using some unknown Secret Method to conceal himself, he was invisible even to ordinary ninth-tier experts, yet he couldn't escape Bai Yang's sight.
With the Secret Method masking him, Jekos's soul tried to flee.
"Do you think you can get away?" Bai Yang said coldly.
With a thought, lightning sprang from the void. Streaks of black thunder flashed into existence, wrapping around Jekos like icy chains. The lightning didn't destroy his soul; Bai Yang still needed to get the information he wanted from it.
"You fiend! You can actually seize someone's soul!" Jekos cried in horror. He hadn't expected Bai Yang to see through his trick of shedding his body like a golden cicada escaping its shell—and now even his soul had been captured.
"All you had to do was tell