The Supreme God of Martial Arts

As expected, Violet knew the answer.

"Teleporting across a short distance? Space Teleportation? Well, this little guy never ceases to surprise me," Austin exclaimed. He was quite impressed.

"Quite a fantastic beast, isn't it? By the way, Master, do you remember the senior we met at the Crystal Cave, who called himself Cuinchy?" Violet suddenly asked.

"Of course! Why?" It didn't take Austin much effort to recall the man and the things that had happened back there. Among all the things, he remembered clearly that the Cuinchy had called himself "an experienced and respected master in the world of thieves." "Well, | want to tell you that Cuinchy had roughly the sskill. According to the gnome, Cuinchy had actually torn the space apart and left the Crystal Cave through the crack.

In other words, he was equipped with a kind of spatial force that helped him control space. Similar to the gift that the gnhas. It is called the teleportation ability. Master, it does seem to be more mysterious and very powerful.

With this kind of ability, one can travel through space, without tearing the space apart. The space will be left unscathed, and the gnome's whereabouts are thus concealed from all." Violet went on to elaborate further about the gnome's ability.

"Ah! That sounds really interesting," Austin said, nodding his head thoughtfully.

It was the first tthat Austin heard about the controlling of space and that sort of things. He was very intrigued by this revelation.

Truly, he found himself yearning for this kind of ability. Whether it was the spatial force or the teleportation ability, he decided that he must do sresearch about them when the chance cfor him and try to acquire either one of those abilities.

"Did the gnjust say that something very interesting is happening up there? Con, let's follow it and join the fun," Austin said.

In fact, what Austin really cared about, was the altar that the gnhad just mentioned.

The moment they stepped into the palace, Austin could sense that the oppression on his spiritual sense had becheavier than when he was outside in the city.

Out there, the range of Austin's spiritual sense had been shrunk to about 4, 000 meters.

But from the the had entered the palace, the range had narrowed down and was no more than 800 meters! This also meant that Austin's spiritual sense had becweaker. Probably weaker than even that of the gnome's, at present! Otherwise, he would have been the first one to sense anything that was happening far away, not the beast! Considering it from another perspective, Austin realized that the little thing had made remarkable progress this time. It was not an exaggeration to say that it had totally transformed itself.

They quickened their steps, and finally cacross the spot after walking for another 1, 300 meters or so.

A huge altar appeared before them, and the most eye-catching thing about it was the hundreds of big pillars standing on it.

It was strange as the altar was covered by a large curtain of greyish fog. The space in the fog seemed to be blocked by many thick black chains. As the fog moved slowly, the chains appeared indistinctly.

The altar was clearly not deserted, for they could hear all kinds of bustling sounds coming from behind those chains. Taking a closer look at it, Austin could see a large number of ghosts and about forty cultivators who were at least at the Imperial Realm level.

"lI was wondering where the soul-consuming fog had gone. It was all over in the city before, and then it vanished. So, here it is, all gathered within that altar," Austin murmured as he studied the environment surrounding them.

Among other things, he found the greyish fog quite familiar, and he recognized it after a few seconds.

Then he turned to look at the men on the altar. "Gee, | know these guys, too," he said.

There was Malick, a strong Master Realm warrior of the Sky Sect. There were three more men who were the leaders of the Flying Fish Sect, Iron Palm Sect and Evergreen Sect respectively. Apart from them, there were sdisciples from those three sects.

"How cthey are here, too?" Violet asked with surprise.

She and Tessa recognized Malick at the stime. After all, he was the one chasing them, not long ago. That was when they ran into this weird city and got trapped. Hiding from that man and his team had brought them to this strange place.

But the strange thing was, Malick and those men from the other three sects didn't notice them at all. Austin had walked close enough to see their faces clearly, but they acted like Austin didn't even exist.

This was due to the many illusion arrays around the altar, which had effect on the people inside, but not on those outside. It was like a one-way glass around that altar.

So even though Austin could see quite clearly the things inside the altar with the help of his spiritual sense, it was not the other way round.

Contrarily, the people caught in the altar could only see the constantly emerging illusions, rather than anyone who had cto them outside the arrays.

Before Austin could figure out what exactly was happening inside the arrays, a voice broke into his Soul Sea.

It was Jim! "Oh look! What we have here! | didn't expect that you'll find us so soon, young man," he said with a hint of sneer in his voice.

"You know, | met a little beast just now. Is it your friend? Ah! Look at your face. | think I've guessed it right. It would be good if you discipline it a little! That will be great help. | hate to say it, but it screwed up my business, and I'm quite unhappy about it." 'What does he mean 'screwed up his things'? Wait! Where is the gnome, and what has it done?’ Austin thought fast.

While Austin was still thinking over Jim's words, something appeared on one of those big pillars on the altar. It was an enormous shadow, which was becoming clearer and clearer as he stared at the stone pillar.

His powerful spiritual sense felt something immediately. The spiritual force from that shadow was familiar.

'This must be the shadow of the castllan of this city!" Soon all of it clicked in place for him.

After all that they had been through, Austin had finally got a chance to meet the lord of this strange and dangerous place.