Just as Austin and Violet got out of the cave, they found themselves under the siege of ten powerful
corpse generals. In the face of these powerful enemies, Austin decided that flight was the best option.
He summoned a Grand Pagoda to attack the one blocking their way. Then he used his Eagle Wings to
fly into the sky.
That corpse general, pounded by the fierce vital energy force of the Grand Pagoda, was thrown about
three meters away and the land shook when it fell down and a hole about a hundred centimeters in
depth was drilled into the ground.
However, being extremely tough and brutal, the corpse general, still surprisingly intact, climbed out of
the pit right away without the least bit of delay. With several thundering and echoing roars leaving its
throat, its bloody eyes fixed themselves on Austin, who had escaped into the air already.
Howls of anger continued long after he had disappeared. ...
Also, several corpse generals, enveloped in thick, black corpse miasma, jumped at the place where
Austin had been standing just a second ago. They had come in from all directions, and it would have
been the most horrific and dreadful nightmare for anyone who witnessed the whole thing.
This had been a narrow escape. If Austin had reacted just a second later, he would not have survived
the attack by the corpse generals.
Austin flapped the wings and took a look at the hideous heads of the corpse from the sky. Some sort of
fear that still lingered inside him picked pace when he saw those roaring monsters. He was lucky to
have gotten the Eagle Wings, the Secret Weapon that had helped him get away this time, from
Steward Meng. It would have been unbearable to imagine what would have happened otherwise.
'Never mind. This is the best situation I can be in right now. I can't equal those corpse generals in
strength anyway, and those four cultivators in the distance seem to be in premium stage of Earth
Realm. There is also some aura of eccentricity around them. They must be practicing some dangerous
and heretical methods. I should just get the hell out of here.
Of all the stratagems, retreat is the best at present.'
Austin thought to himself. Then he infused vital energy force into the wings on his back and gave them
even more power to flap swiftly and dynamically. Not long after, the wings took Austin far away from
this area.
Those four cultivators from the Ghost Sect were stunned to see the intruder suddenly fly up into the sky
with the eagle wings that had appeared out of nowhere.
Formidable as the corpse generals were, they could do nothing about targets in the air.
In vexation, one of them made a difficult decision.
"All right. We'll just have to see what the Ghost-devouring Flag can do right now. Although it's not
finished yet, we have no other choice if we want to stop him."
Determined, he summoned the Ghost-devouring Flag, which, at first was just a very small, regular flag
in his palm. But with merely a flick of his finger, it shot towards Austin like a shooting star.
Austin noticed the threat of that attack with his spiritual sense right away.
Having easily calculated the path and speed of the approaching object, he dodged it without any effort.
However, Bang!
After a sudden and huge noise, a cloud of thick and dark fog blew up and all of a sudden, blotted out
the sky and covered up the earth, dimming the sun itself and deafening the world.
The fog spread out rapidly and very soon, Austin was engulfed in it.
All the lights seemed to have vanished without a trace and Austin was trapped in an abyss of endless
darkness.
Then the screams, shouts, and roars of devils, demons, and ghosts started to echo in the space
around him, conveying the most negative of emotions possible—enmity, hatred, evil, hopelessness,
bloodlust and what not.
Suddenly thrown into such a dark world, Austin felt as if his spiritual soul had gotten drunk and
confused and was trying to detach from his body.
Thanks to his strong spiritual senses and sturdy spiritual soul, he came to himself quickly after a very
short daze.
In retrospect, he was very grateful for his luck. If his spiritual soul had left his body, he would have died
and become a ghost that drifted alone aimlessly.
He recalled what had happened and identified where things went wrong. The dark fog must have come
from the explosion of that thing he had dodged.
While Austin was trying to figure it out, countless ghosts and evil spirits started having a go at him,
shrieking endlessly.
He had to stay away from them!
Austin had accumulated some experience in dealing with those creatures in his lifetime. Vital energy
force could not hurt those spirits, because they were basically dead already.
Spiritual sense, however, could function well in tackling them.
In no time, Austin released a Spiritual Sense Flying Needle!
Boom ...
Most of the ghosts and evil spirits were blasted into pieced by the Spiritual Sense Flying Needle, but
one of them, which looked exceedingly powerful, seemed to be almost intact. All the needle had done
was to faintly soften up its outline.
It must belong to a higher rank of them.
The Spiritual Sense Flying Needle soon cleared up a space for Austin but the number of ghosts
seemed to be soaring at an incredible speed, almost exponentially. Millions of them came forward one
after the other. No matter how strong his spiritual sense was, it was impossible to withstand their
incessant attacks, since his spiritual sense power was doomed to run out sometime.
'Damn! How did I get myself into this?' Austin cursed.
"Master, the current situation is worrying. Let me give you a hand."
Violet sensed the danger he was in and came flying out of the Illusion Bead to help him.
She frowned at the screaming ghosts and spirits that kept drawing near, and used her spiritual sense to
attack. Since she hadn't practiced any spiritual sense skills, her attack was a straightforward swipe at
the enemies. It seemed to be intimidating and overwhelming, but it could not last long.
Compared to the Spiritual Sense Flying Needle Austin was throwing forward, Violet's way of attack was
much slower and weaker.
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