To the onlookers' surprise, the blood-red shadow behind the old man in the blue shirt was slowly
moving.
A rich scent of blood emanated from its tall, blood-red body.
"Boy, you're dead meat," the old man in the blue robes shouted ferociously at Austin.
Before his voice had died away, the tall, bloody body charged at Austin. When it attacked Austin with its
millstone-sized palms, lightning and thunder wheeled like crows and then struck out at him.
Austin was ready for the battle.
He fought back against the lightning with his Brutal Blast Fist.
"Bang!"
The earth seemed to shake slightly, and at the moment of impact time seemed to stop.
Then, like a fierce hurricane which swept everything away, the vital-energy-force blast wave spread
outwards in a circle, while the air mushroomed up and exploded with a tremendous force. All of the
spectators were hurled backwards.
Austin was almost thrown from his feet. His right hand, which had been used as the Brutal Blast Fist,
was trembling convulsively. There was a constant burning on the skin of his right arm, making the skin
numb and blood oozed out from small fissures which had formed in his flesh.
After being flung backwards more than 20 meters, Austin still stood proud, but blood spread out from
the corner of his mouth.
Upon casting the Lightning Blood Demon skill, the old man's attack had increased by at least 30 to 40
percent.
When a martial arts expert of the Imperial Realm stage, with such high-ranking martial arts, produced
such a powerful attack, it was really dreadful to witness.
Austin was shocked.
"Bang!"
As Austin had retreated, a deep explosion was heard inside the tall, bloody body.
The bloody figure had responded by taking two steps back, due to the effects of Austin's eight-in-one
explosive power.
"Hum!" The old man could hardly believe what he was seeing.
Noticing that Austin had suffered only superficial injuries, while the Lightning Blood Demon was beaten
back, the old man in the blue shirt was enraged. With his hands clasped, a magnificent vital energy
force surged out from him again and passed into the body of the Lightning Blood Demon.
The tall, bloody red body of the Lightning Blood Demon swelled up even more, muscles rippled across
its flesh, and it once again rushed at Austin.
"Whoosh!"
Along its metacarpus, a strong vital energy force was frantically condensing. A bloody red fist appeared
enshrouded in front of Austin. Readying for a great attack.
When Austin looked at the tall, bloody body and the looming punch with its horrible fluctuations, his
expression became grave. A bright golden light suddenly spread out from the pores of his skin, and
flowed along his arms, as if forming a peculiar golden skin.
Then, Austin's arms, covered by the golden skin, began to rapidly deform. Within a moment, his arms
had turned into two massive, golden claws similar to a lion's.
"Roar!"
A deep and powerful roar of the great cat faintly sounded from the two stout, golden claws, and a
savage aura suddenly spread across the valley.
At this moment, Austin appeared very strange. He still had a human body, but his two human arms had
been replaced by the two strong, golden, lion-like claws.
Austin suddenly felt effused with power.
Then he looked up at the tall, bloody body of the Lightning Blood Demon. With a cold smile, he
instantly sprang at the bloody fist with the two ferocious golden claws outstretched.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!" "Bang!" The sounds of violence echoed through the valley.
The tall bloody body and the short thin human body beat at each other more than ten times.
The violent fluctuations of the vital energy forces were decimating the ground. Five or six meter deep
pits and two or three meter wide cracks were appearing continuously. The whole of the valley floor was
littered with dust and rocks.
The men from the Thunder Sect had retreated far away to avoid injury from falling debris.
The tall and short figures continued confronting each other, but the short figure was beaten back again
and again.
"Boom."
Finally, in the last moment of battle, Austin's small body was ousted again and he hit the ground with a
tremendous force. A stream of blood was running out of his mouth now.
"I'm hurt!" Austin said in surprise.
He slowly picked himself up from the ground and shook his head helplessly. He knew that he was in a
terrible state at the moment. In this fierce battle, his vital energy and blood were constantly surging,
and there were a mass of bloody stains on his clothes. In places, the flesh was exposed as his skin
peeled back.
Austin had rarely suffered such serious injuries!
However his opponent was a master of the Imperial Realm, whose martial arts was extremely powerful
after all.
In this fight, Austin was being beaten black and blue.
Rarely had he been hit so hard!
The other members of the Thunder Sect, including the old man in the blue shirt, looked at him with
admiration. They were all shocked by Austin's gutsy performance.
Although the young man, who looked less than 20 years old, had such incredible strength, he was only
at the medium stage of the Sky Realm.
But still, while only having a cultivation base of the medium stage of the Sky Realm, he dared battle
against an experienced master of the Imperial Realm. Everyone realized then that this young man's
fighting power could not be underestimated.
"Aha, today, I know that a master of the Imperial Realm is really quite powerful.
I will fight you again, some other day," Austin said calmly.
After a moment of silence, Austin's laughter suddenly rang out, while at the same time, he reached out
and wiped away the bloodstains from his mouth.
"Well, boy, you'll have no chance for that. I told you that you'd die today," the old man said coldly.
With his hands locked together, a vital energy force was once again passed to the Lightning Blood
Demon. Driven by the vital energy force, the bloody powers of the tall body burst forth as it rushed at
Austin again. Its momentum was even stronger this time.
"Really? But I still wanted to say: If I want to go, no one can stop me!"
Austin said confidently.
He smiled gently, while handling a small black bag in his trembling hands. As he opened it, there was a
loud roar.
"Aww!"
The whole valley was shaken by the roar of the beast.
The valley was decimated by sand and stones being hurled about, while trees were broken and
uprooted by a bestial force.
A huge figure ten meters tall now stood on the ground in the valley. It cast a large shadow in the
dimming light.
It was the evil ape.
The evil ape stared at the Lightning Blood Demon, which was rushing towards Austin. Then it bent its
knees and stormed like a juggernaut at the Lightning Blood Demon. The projection of the old man's
skill was instantly plowed down.
"Aha, I don't want to play with you now," Austin said teasingly.
Seeing the evil ape grappling with the Lightning Blood Demon's tall crimson body, he laughed and
turned around. Then he flew out of the valley.
At the same time he sent an instruction to the evil ape telling it to retreat at the proper time.
Although the evil ape could withstand the attacks of the old man in the blue shirt, Austin did not want to
continue, because, beside the young man in black, there was also an old man in a yellow shirt who had
made no move yet.
Austin knew that the old man in the yellow shirt was also a master at the Imperial Realm. Since the evil
ape had appeared, the old man in the yellow shirt would certainly attack him soon. And then two
masters of the Imperial Realm would fight against him together. He was not sure if the evil ape could
deal with that.
Although demons and beasts could generally outperform human warriors of the same strength by virtue
of their inherent physical strength, the two old men from the Thunder Sect most certainly possessed
abundant practical experience. Moreover, this was a two-on-one situation, so the evil ape had little
chance to win.
What's more, Austin knew that he had already been seriously injured. What he needed to do was to
find a place where he could recover from his injuries first.
Sure enough, as soon as Austin left the valley, the old man in blue shouted, "Shape, let's fight together.
This beast is powerful."
The old man in the yellow shirt stepped forward to attack the evil ape.
However, after the evil ape had punished the Lightning Blood Demon with a few punches, it stepped
back and ran from the valley with a thunderous lope, leaving behind a trail of huge footprint shaped pits
several meters deep.
The old man in the blue shirt and the old man in the yellow shirt looked at each other.
"Let it go. Even if we fight together, we may not be able to defeat it in a short time.
We still have our other business to attend to. We don't have much time to waste on that boy," the old
man in the yellow shirt said.
The old man in the blue shirt thought for a moment and nodded his head gloomily, though he was
unwilling to relinquish the fight.
"The nine tail demon fox was very rare, and we missed it.
But, you are right. Let's hurry up and go meet with the third elder," the young man in black said with
great reluctance.
He stared in the direction Austin had vanished with cold eyes.
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