"If I'm not mistaken, this is what is happening.
A young man is fighting against the army of the Purple Sword Sect all by himself," the clansman said
hesitantly.
It seemed that he wasn't sure either. It was as if he knew what he saw but found it so confusing and
unbelievable.
After all, it was pretty inconceivable for someone to confront a whole army. Furthermore, he was talking
about the army of the Purple Sword Sect. He felt like the seniors of the Lin Clan would think that he
was crazy for saying such a thing.
In fact, one would even find it suspicious even if he saw it in person.
Upon hearing this report, the seniors of the Lin Clan immediately released their spiritual senses, which
passed the barriers set up by the Purple Sword Sect, to have a look at the situation happening outside
the Red Sword City.
As they witnessed what the scout had said, they were so shocked to see that it was indeed true.
"Anyway, my children are out there. I have to go and pick them up!"
Garth, the leader of the Lin Clan, suddenly exclaimed as he stood and walked out of the hall.
"I'll temporarily leave all of our clan's affairs to you.
Everything will still proceed as we have planned,"
he instructed his clansmen.
"Leader, please calm down. What you're about to do is too risky.
The army of the Purple Sword Sect is still surrounding the area. If you go out like this, we don't know
what might happen to you,"
one of the senior members hurriedly advised, trying to convince Garth to not go out.
"It is my children we're talking about. I have to do this no matter what."
Garth just shook his head and strode out of the hall. Then, he quickly went outside of the city.
Inside the hall, the senior members of the Lin Clan couldn't help but look at each other helplessly.
They knew that above all, their leader treasured his children the most. He would definitely do anything
for them, even if he risked his life.
Especially at this crucial moment, no one could stop him from going out to bring his children back.
"We have no choice. I'll go out with the leader!"
A middle-aged man suddenly stood and also followed Garth out of the city.
"Me too! We need to ensure the safety of our leader!"
In an instant, a dozen senior members of the Lin Clan also went out and followed Garth.
In the end, almost half of the senior members chose to go out of the Red Sword City to accompany
Garth and get his children back.
At the same time, a large number of warriors from the Lin Clan also rushed out and followed closely
behind.
Meanwhile,
just outside the city, the Purple Sword Sect's army was still busy dealing with Austin.
Austin was fighting by himself but he had no problem taking care of them at all.
However, it could be seen that the sheer number of his opponents was overwhelming. The dense
crowd was like a vast sea that could engulf him at any time.
Looking from afar, one would only see countless beams of sword-light, intertwining, and dazzling
continuously.
However, Austin just merely stood in the void, receiving all the attacks thrown at him by the members of
the Purple Sword Sect. He faced hundreds of millions of sharp beams of sword-light, but he didn't even
dodge them. He just deliberately let the sword-light hit his body.
After all, he could just let his five truths of swordsmanship and the world of swordsmanship in his body
to absorb all the massive amount of sword aura and sword intent. With this, he had also gained a lot.
However, about an hour later, he found that the amount of sword aura and sword intent he had been
absorbing had begun to decrease.
Austin realized that it might be because the fighting capacity of the army had also begun to decline.
They had been coming at Austin for quite a while now, so he had already sucked up quite a lot.
As a result, their fighting power had naturally decreased over time.
At this moment, Austin deemed that he could only absorb an insignificant amount of sword aura and
sword intent from his enemies.
'All right.
It would be a waste of time if I still let this battle go on.
I had enough, so it's time to end it,'
Austin thought to himself, letting out a faint grin.
With that, he began to concentrate his mind.
Swoosh! Swoosh!
Then, dense red silk strings suddenly shot out from his Soul Sea.
Among the people of the Purple Sword Sect, who were fighting against Austin, were divine gods that
cultivated strong swordsmanship. It would be a waste if Austin just killed them all.
From the very beginning, he had already planned on subduing a large number of people from the
Sword Cosmos and turn them into his slaves. Thus, he wouldn't let this opportunity slip by.
Currently, Austin had already cultivated the Puppet Strings to a very high level.
Thus, no one in the spiritual race could compare with him in terms of using this skill anymore.
It could even be said that Austin had mastered and cultivated the Puppet Strings to the highest level
that one had ever seen since ancient times.
Such skill had reached an incredible level in the hands of Austin.
At this moment, the red silk strings spread all over the sky, like a bloody rainstorm, and splashed in all
directions.
Austin's goal was very straightforward. He targeted the powerful divine gods from the army of the
Purple Sword Sect.
"What the hell is this?"
"Be careful! There's something odd about these threads!"
All the divine gods screamed one after another.
They felt that the red strings seemed very ominous and they sensed an extremely terrifying aura
coming from them.
However, Austin's spiritual sense was too powerful compared to theirs.
Moreover, his Puppet Strings had reached a tremendously advanced stage that no one of them would
be able to resist these strings.
Even a genuine premium-grade divine god could be easily subdued through this skill.
These sword cultivators from the Sword Cosmos were masters at swordsmanship.
But in terms of spiritual sense, they were no match for Austin.
Furthermore, Austin had also acquired a huge amount of great cosmos force. Therefore, the great
cosmos force of the sword cultivators from the Purple Sword Sect had no effect on him.
Consequently, they had no chance of resisting Austin's Puppet Strings at all. They would inevitably face
the same fate as those other divine gods from the Sea of Chaos that had become his loyal slaves.
Soon after, the relatively weaker divine gods were the first to be subdued. They stopped writhing and
bowed their heads toward Austin.
Eventually, the subdued divine gods started surrounding Austin and helped him fight the rest of the
members of the Purple Sword Sect.
As they were caught off guard, more and more divine gods were subdued and became a part of
Austin's army of slaves.
This way, Austin was able to relax and deal with the rest of his enemies with ease.
"Protect our master!"
"Whoever dared to provoke our master shall face our wrath!"
Hundreds of divine gods gathered around Austin and fought fiercely against their former comrades.
"What the hell's going on? That guy is the enemy of the Purple Sword Sect. Why are you calling him
master? Why are you helping him? Have you gone insane?"
"Argh!
Hey! What were you thinking? Why did you hack me with your sword?!"
"Elder Reggie, don't kill me! Don't you recognize me? I'm the third generation disciple of the Purple
Sword Sect!"
"Damn it! What did that brat do? Why are our own people turning against each other?! This is
horrendous! Something's wrong!"
The remaining members of the army of the Purple Sword Sect were getting more and more confused.
They couldn't understand why the strong masters of their sect suddenly began attacking their own
comrades.
"Shit! What the hell happened?"
Roland's face almost turned pale when he saw the chaotic situation.
A lot of emotions were stirring inside him. He felt anger, frustration, confusion, and fear.
He saw and heard with his own eyes and ears that his companions started referring to Austin as their
master, and began attacking their own people.
"You, brat! What did you do to our warriors?!"
Roland couldn't help but roar and vent his anger.
However, Austin just ignored him and continued subduing the rest of them.
"Retreat! All of you retreat!"
Roland finally issued the order, seeing that the situation would only worsen if it went on and they didn't
do something.
Almost half of the army had already been transformed by Austin into his slaves, and they had dealt
huge damage to the remaining divine gods of the Purple Sword Sect.
The remaining soldiers were trembling and panic-stricken. When they heard Roland's order, they
immediately retreated and pulled themselves far from Austin and their former comrades.
"Brat, I'll ask you again!
What did you do to my men?!"
Roland asked through gritted teeth, giving Austin a menacing glare.
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