At the sight of this, the Jade Firmament Sect True Person left behind to guard the place turned grim. His thoughts shifted, and he once again prepared to use the soul-searching art on Zhang Jin, determined to see just what secrets he knew.
Yet just as he mobilized his true essence, the aura around Zhang Jin began to undergo a drastic transformation.
Zhang Jin's Spiritual Connection cultivation, flimsy as paper, was infamous throughout the sect. Even some Rogue Cultivators who had attained the Spiritual Connection Realm on their own could suppress him with ease.
But here and now, right before his eyes, the aura of this publicly acknowledged weakest Spiritual Connection cultivator surged explosively.
In the span of a single breath, it had already reached the Late-Spiritual Connection Realm.
"There's something strange about him!"
Seeing this, the Jade Firmament Sect True Person's mind turned. He acted decisively, intending to use the soul-searching art to plunge the man's soul back into a stupor and suppress him once more.
Yet this very action nearly cost him his life.
With his current True Person cultivation, if he had directly attacked Zhang Jin's body with offensive spells, he might not have been able to kill him on the spot, but he could certainly have halted the growth of his aura or suppressed him.
But damned if it wasn't precisely because he wanted both to suppress Zhang Jin and extract the information from his mind through this move that his soul-searching art rammed headfirst into an iron plate.
The instant the technique touched Zhang Jin's soul, the Jade Firmament Sect True Person felt his mind seize up, and a sensation of uncontrollable falling swept through his entire body.
"Not good!"
Fortunately, this True Person possessed profound Dao arts and reacted quickly. Before Zhang Jin's soul