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As the voice fell, a sudden chill rose in the cave dwelling, making everyone's hearts tremble. Then, under their horrified gazes, one after another, the Foundation Establishment cultivators exploded into a mist of blood and merged into his Spiritual Soul.
On the other hand, those cultivators who had depleted too much mana from breaking the Formation and had not entered the depths of the cave dwelling, narrowly escaped this calamity.
Seeing the eerie turn of events, how could they dare to hesitate? They scrambled and fled towards the distance.
The Spiritual Soul did not care about the fleeing cultivators, or perhaps, given his current state, he simply had no way to leave the Formation.
In the blink of an eye, the hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators inside the cave dwelling dwindled to only about twenty, and their numbers kept decreasing.
As for Du Zhe, he had long since turned into a mist of blood, completely absorbed by the Spiritual Soul.
