Austin broke the robust man's arm with a punch and then hit his chest with another. His motion was
quick and fluid, and gave his rival no time to react.
"You..."
The man gasped, unable to finish, as he coughed up blood mixed with pieces of his internal organs. He
lowered his head and realized that his chest had a crater-like dent. Immediately, his eyes were filled
with astonishment and horror. Clearly he wasn't expecting such a vicious attack.
When his gaze then moved to Austin, fear clouded his senses. He moved his lips but no sound came
from his throat.
The man fell like a toppled scarecrow. He was still twitching in pain and blood spilled from the corner of
his mouth. With time, his eyes turned empty and life disappeared from him.
All of this happened in no time at all. The tables had turned so quickly that the audience had trouble
adjusting to the fact that the man who had been jumping on Austin moments ago was now lying on the
ground knocked out by two punches.
An eerie silence followed.
Everyone was trying hard to grapple with the events that had transpired.
The robust man was at medium stage of the Mysterious Realm, yet he had been killed by Austin in just
one second!
This was not an equal fight at all. Austin had wielded his fists just twice and the man was now dead!
In fact, the news that Austin had crippled Blood Wolf Ancestor's right arm with merely one punch hadn't
reached the residents in the Royal Palace yet. None of them knew that Austin had improved his martial
arts cultivation by a significant margin after returning from the Mysterious Nether World.
Besides, Austin had only used his bodily movement skill and his physical strength to kill the robust
man. Nobody could tell at what stage Austin's cultivation base actually was because he hadn't used
any vital energy at all!
Quite naturally, for these people, it was all too incredible that Austin could kill a cultivator at medium
stage of the Mysterious Realm so easily.
Every cultivator at medium stage of the Mysterious Realm was qualified to be a superior elder of any
sect in the Violet Orchid Empire. However, Austin, who hadn't even turned 20 yet, had killed a cultivator
of that level without batting an eyelid.
Even Soren, who had been grumpy all this while, was dumbfounded. After a while, he snapped out of
his astonishment and shouted furiously at Austin, "You... You killed him. You brute!"
"Yes I did. Do you want to avenge him? I know you are a part of the ten sworn brothers. Now that
you've come here together to give me trouble, I must send all of you to hell to join your dear brother!"
Austin sneered coldly. He outstretched his right arm and a long sword appeared out of the blue. Golden
flames danced around it like fairies.
He put down his feet heavily and employed the Wind-commanding Skill. Like a ghost, he glided in the
air to appear in front of the nine cultivators the next moment.
Despite the fact that he was outnumbered one to nine, Austin wasn't afraid. To everyone's surprise, he
took the initiative to attack.
The audience fell into a turmoil. They had thought that Austin would be defenseless in the face of ten
potent cultivators at the Mysterious Realm. Everyone expected that he would be humiliated and
demolished by Soren and his nine companions.
However, this development was not anticipated at all.
"Let's attack simultaneously to kill this bastard! Spare no efforts!"
Soren instructed his companions in a loud voice. He felt danger was just around the corner upon
seeing the flaming sword in Austin's hand, so he decided they must go all out on Austin.
His eight companions had come to terms with the fact that Austin wasn't as weak as they had
expected. He was in fact unfathomable in their eyes now.
They were even more astonished when they saw how agile Austin's bodily movement skill was.
Alarmed by Austin's attack, his nine rivals summoned their vital energy to their maximum possible
capacity. Strong vibrations of their vital energy spread through the air. They employed all of their skills
and charged at Austin in sync. Their attacks were imposing and formidable.
The audience felt their hearts miss a beat when they saw the nine sworn brothers' violent attacks. They
couldn't help but imagine what would happen if they were the target of such attacks. It didn't take long
for them to reach the conclusion that they'd be dead in seconds.
Glee flashed through the bystanders' eyes as they stared at Austin. Nobody believed that he could
survive the combined attacks from nine cultivators at the Mysterious Realm.
"You think this is enough to kill me? It can't even put a scratch on me!"
Austin was leisurely, almost over confident.
Austin was now at the medium stage of the Sky Realm, and his body had been stronger than ever.
Even if he stayed still and defended himself merely with his body, his rivals wouldn't be able to cause
him any damage.
He made the nine cultivators look like kids. No matter how hard his rivals tried to hurt him, they had no
way of matching Austin's capabilities.
Austin injected his vital energy into the sword. The flames around the sword grew more intense now
that it was replenished by vital energy. A strong wave of strength radiated from the sword.
Austin then slashed the sword in the air. The huge reverberations from the sword made all the nine
cultivators topple backwards.
"W-what? What happened?" Everyone gasped.
Soren and the other eight cultivators were forced back by the strong power of Austin's sword radiance.
All of them looked astounded as if they had just seen pigs fly.
"W-what's the level of your cultivation base of vital energy? T-that's impossible!"
The nine cultivators who were fighting Austin now noticed that Austin wasn't at the medium stage of the
Mysterious Realm as they had heard. His level was beyond what they had ever fought.
"You notice it now, huh? Well, I guess better late than never!" Austin mocked.
If Soren had known that Austin was already a cultivator of the Sky Realm, he wouldn't have challenged
Austin in the first place.
Austin continued to summon his vital energy from his body. His vigorous, golden vital energy vibrated in
the air and then flowed into his sword to make it as formidable as possible.
Zoom!
The flames on his sword raged, and the temperature rose dramatically. Suddenly, it became too hot to
handle.
Like a snake that darted toward its prey, the flaming sword flew and stabbed one of the cultivators. As it
cut through the space, it left behind fire in its wake.
Seeing how terrifying Austin's attack was, the cultivator couldn't help but to shiver in fear. He had no
courage to fight back at all and instead shuffled his feet backwards in indecision.
Thanks to his proficiency in bodily movement skill, he managed to safely move some distance away
and narrowly avoided the sword.
Before he could sigh with relief, Austin's sword had already extended its range of attack. In fact, it was
the fire that it emanated that extended from the sword and reached the man.
The flame hit the man's chest eerily, the hisses of the fire echoing.
It penetrated his body and came out the other side.
With a scream of pain, the raging blaze engulfed the man.
After that, Austin turned to the other cultivators and attacked them employing the same method of
attack. The flaming sword in his hand was quite like a furious dragon.
Those cultivators employed all of their skills to defend themselves in vain. Austin's sword radiance
complemented by the flames from his sword cut through his enemies like paper.
Austin looked in no mood to show mercy.
Finally, he pulled his sword out from Soren's chest. The fire spread around the latter's body burning his
flesh. The smell of scorched flesh wafted in the air.
Soren widened his eyes in shock as he stared at Austin. Numerous expressions went through his head
primary of them being doubt as well as regret at being so foolhardy.
His body fell and was eventually swallowed by the fire.
The whole audience was shocked in silence.
Even the residents of the Austin Palace such as Mike and Evan were taken aback by Austin's show of
strength. The other cultivators living in the Royal Palace would have obviously been flabbergasted.
The fight lasted for less than a quarter. Austin had proved his worth again by killing ten cultivators at
the Mysterious Realm in such a short period of time!
Some cultivators who had discussed about the rules of the Royal Palace were shut into silence.
After seeing Austin killing those cultivators at Mysterious Realm so easily, they now understood how
ridiculous it was to uphold the status quo of older residents bullying the newer ones.
In the world of martial arts, the cultivators' strength was the only thing that spoke!
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