At the thought of Austin, Humphrey couldn't help gritting his teeth in resentment.
Even though he was itching to take Austin out, he felt powerless against the mind power Austin had
unleashed.
The attack of mind power was difficult to dodge and strong enough to cause great damage to the
chaotic sky-devouring beast.
"In a word, I am still too weak.
Had I been strong enough, I would have devoured Austin and his attacks would have been useless
against me,"
Humphrey murmured to himself.
That left him with only one thing to do, and that was to get the chaotic sky-devouring beast to grow up
faster.
"Once I have the body of an adult chaotic sky-devouring beast, I will no longer fear that brat,"
Humphrey growled.
"From now on, every race and force in the Sea of Chaos will have to turn in double the cultivation
resources they used to.
Anyone who dares to disobey me will be slaughtered!"
Humphrey ordered.
Humphrey's image soon appeared on every tablet in the headquarters of every force and race in the
Sea of Chaos. The image announced to all the new policy loud and clear.
"What? He wants us to double the resources we turn in?
How are we going to get so much?"
Despair filled them all at this new edict.
The amount was already overwhelming enough with them barely managing it in time. How were they
going to double that?
It was going to be impossible.
"Master Humphrey, we are out of cultivation resources and we can't afford to turn in more.
I hope you can show us some mercy and dismiss this recent edict.
We will be indebted to you if you do. We will swear our unwavering loyalty and serve under your
command for the rest of our lives,"
the chief of the mountain race pleaded as he knelt down towards the direction where Humphrey stood.
"Are you telling me the mountain race has dared to disobey me? In that case, I see no need for you to
continue to exist."
Humphrey's indifferent tone spread throughout the entire Sea of Chaos.
The words terrified the chief of the mountain race.
"Master Humphrey, please don't be upset. I was wrong to say what I did. We are, of course, going to
follow your orders and hand in the required cultivation resources on time,"
he begged in a panic with his face still on the ground.
There was fear in his tone over what Humphrey would do to their race.
The worry had him regretting his previous words.
"It's too late for that."
Humphrey's impassive voice rang out again.
An enormous mouth appeared in the universe community where the mountain race lived.
It produced a terrifying force that enveloped them all.
None of them survived.
A prosperous race was wiped out with no warning, leaving no survivors behind.
The mouth followed that by swallowing the Mountain Universe Community itself, leaving a vacuum of
empty space.
This ruthless show of brutality scared the rest into submission.
No one dared to disobey Humphrey's orders now.
This was how Humphrey had always ruled the Sea of Chaos.
"Yes, sir!"
After a momentary silence, submissive voices echoed their agreement in the Sea of Chaos.
Humphrey's face turned into grim satisfaction.
Austin sat cross-legged in a small world of the Fallen Divine Valley.
With his eyes closed, he remained motionless as the wood floated in front of him.
Unaware of what was going on elsewhere, he lay in a state of meditation.
A message sent by his statue master appeared in his Soul Sea.
Austin's focus was on comprehending the mystery of the mind power and nothing else.
Time passed slowly.
Before he knew it, a hundred years had passed.
"Mind power is indeed one of the most mysterious and difficult energies.
It is because it's made of the thoughts of living beings.
Every creature has hundreds of thousands of thoughts every second of every day.
If one cultivates thoughts, they would produce mind power.
Mind power is profound, complicated, and obscure.
So it's impossible to resist its attack."
After a hundred years of meditation, Austin had a deeper understanding of this special power.
Without him realizing it, another hundred years had passed.
Austin still sat the same way in the same place.
That was how he stayed for the next four hundred years.
One day, he suddenly opened his eyes.
"I see. I have comprehended all the secrets of the mind power in this piece of wood!"
He gushed and burst into laughter.
Austin had mastered all the laws of mind power contained in the wood.
Now, his mind power was a thousand times stronger than before.
That meant Austin could end a governing god with his mind power in a heartbeat.
Now he was strong enough to take out the governing gods.
Austin stood up. "I wonder how powerful Humphrey is now.
With my current mind power, I guess I would not have to run away from him like before,"
he said to himself, feeling more confident.
It was finally time for Austin to leave the small world he had been in seclusion in for more than six
hundred years.
"First, I need to go visit my wives and my son."
It only took him a few steps to reach the small world where the Flame Holy Land was located.
As soon as he set foot in the small world,
he released his spiritual sense in search of his son.
He then saw a little boy about five or six years old, strolling around with a few bottles of divine pills in
his hands. He threw the pills into his mouth one by one as if they were candy.
Needless to ask, it was Austin's son, Julian.
"It looks like my boy has no worries and is living a carefree life."
Austin chuckled as he looked at what his son was doing.
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