After leaving the headquarters of Magic Hand Sect, Austin activated his spiritual sense to check the current situation.
He saw that the Ten Prominent Disciples of Punishment Branch from the Sky Sect, Xavier, Winnie and Isis were closely behind him.
Winnie and Isis were inside the beautiful sedan, activating it to move towards his direction.
Austin surmised that the sedan was ssort of flying magic treasure.
Upon seeing this, he realized that he was definitely in trouble.
On his own, he stood no chance in defeating thirteen powerful cultivators in a fight. He had to outrun them.
He activated the Thunderbolt Movement Skill to help him move as fast as he could. There was a sizzling sound of thunder radiance
as he advanced forward like a flash.
Since they were in the sky, the speed of the bodily movement skill one exerted depended on the vital energy cultivation base.
The Thunderbolt Movement Skill Austin exhibited was already quite fast. However, he was just at the preliminary stage of Imperial
Realm
while twelve of the thirteen cultivators who were pursuing him were at the Master Realm.
It was impossible for Austin to get rid of them because they were just too fast.
The distance between him and the thirteen warriors kept decreasing.
Noticing that his enemies were already close to approaching him, Austin knew that the only way for him to throw them off was to
hide in the City.
‘But if | used the City now, they would discover it, ' he contemplated.
He activated his spiritual sense to help him discern his surroundings.
A few seconds later, a smile crossed his face.
‘There is a big river in front of a mountain ahead of me.
This is my chance, ' he frantically thought.
He picked up his pace and flew towards the river.
He arrived above the river within a few moments.
He then cdown and stood in the middle of the water.
He communicated with the City he was carrying and the teleportation power transferred him into it.
The City grew smaller and smaller until it was finally as small as a grain of sand. It fell into the water and joined the gravel bed.
Since the water in the river moved quickly, the grains of sand moved down along the current.
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The City kept moving downstream.
Barely missing Austin, the thirteen people landed on the ground near the river.
"That cunning brat. He hid again like the last time," Isis furiously growled, gnashing her teeth.
She had met Austin face-to-face twice in the headquarters of Magic Hand Sect without recognizing him.
She couldn't help but flare up at the thought.
The thirteen cultivators immediately released their spiritual senses to search for Austin in the river.
However, no matter how hard they searched in the river, they found no sign of their enemy.
"That brat must have hidden inside a magic treasure like last time.
Let's split up and scour the vicinity carefully.
He can't have gone too far,"
the lanky leader of the Prominent Disciples of Punishment Branch suggested, trying hard to control his anger.
The rest took his advice. Swent upstream and swent downstream.
One of them even split the water with his powerful vital energy force so that he could check the bottom of the river.
What they didn't know was that they were doomed to fail to track Austin down.
The reason was simple: the City could avoid being detected by spiritual sense.
There was no way the Master Realm cultivators would be able to sense it.
Half a day later, the group still had not found any clues.
They were overwhelmed with rage.
It was the second tthey let Austin get away.
"Stay here. | don't believe that he'll hide in here for the rest of his life!"
The Prominent Disciples of Punishment Branch were all outraged.
They were the ones who were tasked to hunt down Austin.
They initially did not understand why the elders of Sky Sect had sent all of them to pursue a weak cultivator who was just at the
premium stage of Sky Realm.
But now, they had failed at their task more than once.
The ten were boiling with anger. . . .
Austin turned up on a street after he had transported into the City.
At this point, he was becoming more and more miserable.
He had been on the run for the past few days
and he was growing sick of it.
He assumed that the underlying reason for his current situation was that he was too weak.
Every the cacross the Master Realm warriors, he had to run away in order to prevent himself from getting killed because
he was too weak to fight them.
He realized the importance of strength again.
"What a world. You have to be strong to survive," he scoffed.
He decided to concentrate on cultivation to enhance his strength.
He started by analysing his general strength.
'It is hard to improve my spiritual sense in such a short amount of time.
But ever since | got the Fire Stela, I've been progressing in the Golden Sun Scripture significantly quicker than | did before."
He planned to spend more ton cultivating his vital energy and trying to break into the Master Realm as soon as possible.
He was also aware that he could becmore powerful in a short tby refining his body strength.
He got three Magical Beast Elixirs from the the was at Holy Tomb of the Veritable Demon Sect.
By now, he still had two pills left.
Once he took one Magical Beast Elixir, he could practice the Beast Energy-extracting Skill for a month before the effect wore off.
After ruminating for a while, Austin worked out two plans.
The first one was to find a place full of diabolic beasts.
Of course, those beasts should be above level eight. The higher their level, the faster it would be for him to increase his physical
strength.
The other plan was to practice the Golden Sun Scripture more and make a breakthrough.
‘There are nine stages of Golden Sun Scripture.
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| have finished the first stage and refined one light sphere inside my elixir field.
It's not enough. | need to work harder on it, ' he decided.
Having made up his mind, Austin began practicing the Golden Sun Scripture.
Violet and the gngot out of the Illusion Bead and each found a place to cultivate.
They were both able to communicate with Austin through spiritual sense.
Hence even though they were inside the bead the whole time, they knew what had recently happened to their friend.
After coming to know about what he had been through, the two had also becaware of the importance of power.
It was because they becacquainted with Austin that they started to be keen on cultivation. . .
Austin walked to an empty spot on the street and sat cross-legged.
As soon as he closed his eyes, he started to cultivate the Golden Sun Scripture.
The vital energy force started flowing in his energy meridians.
A few moments later, Austin put on a surprised expression.
As he activated his Golden Sun Scripture, he felt that something was going on with the Fire Stela inside his elixir field.
Out of curiosity, he activated his spiritual sense to check the Fire Stela.
He was alarmed to find out that the stela could refine different things.
It was in the process of refining the five dragons with different colours. Each dragon was the size of an adult's arm.
Austin had met the five dragons formed by the essence of waste elixirs at the Abandoned Elixir Cellar of the Magic Hand Sect
before. They then had been trapped inside the Fire Stela.
"The stela is refining the five dragons!" he exclaimed in surprise.
Although the five dragons tried to put up a fight against the stela, the latter overpowered them and refined them little by little.
Soon, a substantial amount of elixir essences gushed out from the stela and flowed out of his elixir field, coursing into him.
The vital energy rapidly flowed through his energy meridians, faster and faster.
The cultivation of the Golden Sun Scripture had also quickened.
It seemed like the Fire Stela was releasing a mysterious power that was causing the Golden Sun Scripture to act out inside Austin's
body.
It grew out of control
and soon, the Golden Sun Scripture was running inside his body ten times faster than usual.