A figure suddenly appeared and grabbed his head.
It's Gou Jun. He's a Spirit Transformation cultivator! This thought flashed through Zhong Ren's mind in an instant.
He realized that Gou Jun had long been hiding near that mountain and had witnessed the entire process of him concealing himself midway up its slope.
The massive boulders collapsing from the mountaintop had also been deliberately caused by Gou Jun.
The other man truly intended to kill him!
"Gou Jun, there is no enmity between us. Why are you trying to kill me?"
"Please spare my soul. There are a great number of spirit stones in my storage ring, all of them accumulated through a lifetime of frugality. I can give you all these spirit stones..."
Zhong Ren's terrified voice rang out, but he received no response.
He suddenly felt a powerful suction force. His soul surged uncontrollably toward Gou Jun's body, ultimately arriving within Gou Jun's sea of consciousness.
Just as he wondered in shock why the other man was doing this, a gigantic black hole abruptly appeared above his head. The irresistible suction force acting upon his soul came from within that black hole.
"No... I don't want to die... Gou Jun..."
His soul was devoured by the black hole, and Zhong Ren's consciousness vanished completely.
Several blood-colored tentacles extended from Song Wen's hand and swept through the air, swallowing all the chunks of flesh and the head blasted from Zhong Ren's body.
When the blood-colored tentacles retracted into Song Wen's body, an additional storage ring appeared in his hand.
Song Wen's figure flickered, and he swiftly departed.
Using the Double-Faced Buddha to conceal his aura, he fled several hundred li before finding an earthen pit and hiding inside.
Song Wen used the same trick again, burying himself beneath the soil.