The Ambrosial Arbor Core swallowed the first surge of Soul Douluo blood and qi. Its charred bark immediately split open, and dark red light spread along the cracks toward its branches and leaves.
Salas's remaining Soul Power was still resisting.
His eighty-ninth-ranked cultivation had accumulated over many years. Even with his physical body dead, the will left behind in his Soul Power had not immediately dispersed.
"Get out!"
Fragments of spiritual intent crashed about within the core.
"I am a Platinum Bishop of the Spirit Hall. If you dare devour me, the Pope will never let you off!"
Ji Yuan drew upon Shi Nian's Remnant Dream Origin and sealed that clump of lingering spiritual consciousness.
Layers of dark red mycelium wrapped around it, stripping away its memories from the outside in.
The cultivation method Salas practiced in the Spirit Temple, the soul skills he had mastered, the various hidden Spirit Hall contacts within Heaven Dou City, and the identities of several deacons were all forcibly imprinted.
"Stop!"
The lingering consciousness tore desperately within the mycelium.
"You can't hide this. The Soul Life Tablet has already recorded my death. Spirit City will send people to investigate at once!"
Ji Yuan ignored him.
The Soul Life Tablet could prove that Salas was dead, but it could not identify the killer.
As long as no corpse or aura remained, all the Spirit Hall could discover was that Salas had left the temple at night.
As for where he had gone, the secret letters Salas brought had already provided the answer.
One of the letters recorded Tang San's identity.
Another explicitly ordered an investigation into Shi Nian's disappearance.
This Platinum Bishop had deliberately avoided his subordinates and infiltrated Shrek Academy's residence with an Isolation Jade Tablet. Even within the Spirit Hall, only that one