The Supreme God of Martial Arts

"What do you think, lad?" Elliot's tone was dulcet and oozing with persuasion.

"Do you want to becmore powerful and dominate the three thousand big and small worlds?

| can make those ambitions ctrue once you join us."

A vague aura emerged from the magnificent god statue and drifted towards Austin.

In the next moment, the suspicious aura had penetrated into his Soul Sea.

His mind was thrown off its course, and he fell into a trance.

He started to regard Elliot's words with favor.

"Well, if what you say is true... Dominion over the three thousand big and small worlds doesn't sound so bad."

In his mind appeared a picture of himself standing at the top of the power hierarchy of all the worlds, with every creature accepting

and worshiping his every command.

Then out of nowhere, Austin felt a nagging urge to kneel down in front of Elliot's statue and proclaim him as his supreme.

Then the spiritual tree in his Soul Sea began to shake violently, pulling Austin out of the extravagant fantasy that was clouding his

brain. He sobered up immediately.

"How brilliant the illusory skill is!" he exclaimed.

'What the hell is this?’

He saw a tiny, almost transparent worm drifting inconspicuously in his Soul Sea.

Had it not been for his strong spiritual sense and the spiritual tree, he would have never noticed it.

It latched on next to Austin's spiritual soul and did a slow wriggling motion.

Creepy crimson tendrils crawled out if its body and tried to wrap themselves around Austin's spiritual soul.

'Well, it appears that the delusions | just experienced were because of this little parasite.

What kind of secret technique is this, | wonder.

It seems similar to the Puppet Strings of the spiritual race.

It's quite powerful.

To think that | got tricked by this method!

Ordinary creatures wouldn't be able to shake free of it if they were in my place.’

Austin took a moment to wonder at the worm, because it did deserve scredit for having been able to sway his thinking. Then

he summoned the red threads out of his spiritual tree's trunk.

They were countless in number and densely packed, and they surrounded the worm in the blink of an eye.

The worm appeared to be thrown into panic at being cornered; it darted here and there in an attempt to escape, severing many of

the red threads.

It had nowhere to run, and was soon under Austin's control.

"Hum? How could you find that?" the voice boomed from the statue of Elliot.

"You're quite a special lad!

Your fighting power has proven to be quite impressive, and now you've even managed to break free of my little trick.

I've gained more confidence in you, lad.

I'm serious. | think you're very talented.

As long as you cto my sect and becmy disciple, I'm sure | can cultivate you into a great master."

"Ha-ha, so you say quite a lot of things just to try to convinceto worship you blindly!"

Austin's voice took on a mocking tone as he sneered at the statue.

"You're so desperate to grab at the chance to return to this cosmos from the boundless Sea of Chaos.

Admit it, the one who truly wants to rule the three thousand big and small worlds is none other than you!

And | will be nothing more than a tool you will take advantage of.

| know exactly what you're up to."

"Insolence!" Elliot's statue raged.

"You should consider it a great honor to even have the opportunity to talk to me! Do you forget who | am?

It seems you really don't know what's good for you. No matter, whether you accept or reject my offer is immaterial because I've

decided on you!"

Bang!

A blow cfrom the giant with three heads and six arms. Austin dodged it effortlessly.

"What are you waiting for?" the statue bellowed to the others. "Let's get this bastard and make use of him!"

All of a sudden, the statues that stood in the great halls of the old temple began to shine and tremble repeatedly.

Then ghost-like figures started to emerge from the statues, their forms akin to wisps of smoke.

All in there were eighty-one of them, and they let out a terrifying roar before charging at Austin like a ghost army.

They were, in fact, remnants of the souls that Elliot's loyal followers had left behind in the temple.

They seemed to have lain in wait for hundreds of years, and now they appeared ready for combat.

Being attacked by so many all at once posed a great challenge to Austin.

He could just barely handle the giant and now he had to deal with eighty-one more evil spirits.

His skin tingled with the prospect of the impending fight.

He had a nagging apprehension that he might not be able to handle them all.

His thoughts were a mess, and he couldn't help letting out a sigh.

'The ancient plEarth can't be underestimated at all! No wonder it was well-known as the birthplace of the divine gods.

Who would have expected that outside the barren wasteland, such terrifying remnant souls lay hidden in a shrine on srandom

mountain?

If an ordinary creature accidentally broke into the temple and offended these evil spirits, they would surely disappear from

existence without any ceremony whatsoever."

He collected his reason to brace for the battle ahead, and thankfully a divine skill cto minds.

He had learned it when he entered the Earth not long ago—the moves of the Heavenly Fighting Skill.

Having decided, he wasted no more time.

"The first move, the Sky-Piercing Skill!" Austin raised his right hand as he roared, and a silver spear immediately appeared on his

palm.

There were all sorts of weapons tucked away in his Space Ring, and they were all of good quality. Finding a decent spear from his

arsenal was only a piece of cake.

Once he activated the divine skill, the infinite law power in this world immediately turned into runes that bound themselves to his

weapon. Whoosh! He shot the spear forward.

There wasn't much pomp to the move, no tic surging of waves of energy.

The spear simply flew towards one of the attacking figures.

"You brat!" the figure snarled as it stepped back in alarm, trying to dodge the trajectory of the spear. "This is one of the three

moves of the Heavenly Fighting Skill! How the hell did you cby it? What is your relationship with the divine general of Queen

Siobhan?"

The ghost-like entity had barely finished spitting out his rants before the silver spear hit its mark, piercing through his wispy form.

"Nooooo!" the figure screamed as the spear planted its blade into the earth behind him.

Then the shadowy figure dissolved into nothing.

It happened so fast that the other figures had no tto react, much less save their comrade.

"Brother!" they roared.

Austin, meanwhile, was feeling giddy and excited as the spear flew back into his grip. "As expected, it is indeed the fighting skill of

the divine gods!"

As things stood, it seemed like he was going to enjoy this battle after all.

"The second move, Sky-collapsing Skill!"

This time, a terrifying aura fell as he threw his spear once again.

All over the shrine, a series of explosions went off simultaneously.

It was as thousands of grenades were falling from the sky nonstop.

"Damn it! Everybody, retreat!" Elliot's statue hollered in panic. "We are all currently in the state of remnant souls! He is using the

three moves of the Heavenly Fighting Skill; it's one of the most powerful techniques in divine fights, and can be extremely

destructive to remnant souls!" It was a little too late for them, however.

The explosions were going off everywhere, and soon the evil spirits had nowhere left to run.

Their figures were blasted off to nothing, one after the other.

"Ha-ha! Are you guys feeling good?" Austin called out jovially.

"Ha! You're nothing more than broken souls from ancient times. How dare you wreak havoc and bully others? | will make you all

disappear!"

"All of you," cElliot's desperate command. "Go all out and activate the array to get rid of this bastard!"

He and the few remaining figures then burst into flames that exuded a horrible energy.

In a matter of seconds, the array of the ancient temple was completely activated.

A violent vibration thrummed through the air, and it gathered around Austin.

It was a powerful teleportation force, and it wrapped around him before throwing him out of the vicinity of the shrine.

His body slammed into the ground, and before he could get back up on his feet, the temple disappeared from sight.

There was nothing but a vacant patch of land before him.

Austin picked himself up and dusted his pants, and huffed in annoyance. "Humph! Those bastards actually escaped!"

He eyed the area where the temple once stood with cold eyes.

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