The Supreme God of Martial Arts

After Austin had destroyed the Cyan Sect's location in the Full Moon City, all members of the Cyan Sect had been out searching for Austin throughout the Elite Holy Kingdom using all of the means at their disposal.

But Austin had already returned the way which he had cand he arrived at the Heavenly Dragon Holy Kingdom unscathed.

Since he was no longer in the Elite Holy Kingdom, it was unsurprising that nobody from the Cyan Sect could find him.

And thus the Cyan Sect was placed in a truly embarrassing position. The elders lost their tempers and could not wait to find out how Austin could have successfully escaped without leaving a trace.

Soon they traced it back to Tessa and they discovered that Tessa was like an elder sister to Austin. So it was likely Tessa who had helped Austin.

Although Tessa explained to the elders again and again that she had only met Austin once and knew nothing about Austin, the elders of the Cyan Sect seemed not to believe what she had said and demanded that she find Austin in a short tand bring him back to them. If she could not finish this task, she would be torturing to death.

Luckily, with the secret help of a steward, Tessa was able to run away and escape from the Cyan Sect and cto the Heavenly Dragon Holy Kingdom. After suffering a lot, she had finally found a chance to join the Iron Lady Mercenary Team.

But to her surprise, she met up with Austin again on the Sunset Mountain. What a coincidence! On hearing Tessa relate what had happened, Austin finally knew how Tessa had beca member of the Iron Lady Mercenary Team.

Austin felt sorry for Tessa, because it was he that got her in trouble. Because of him she was forced to leave her hometown and now lived a rootless life.

About fifteen minutes later, Austin and Tessa had finally reached the Crystal Mine Mountain.

It was a small mountain, round and delicate, shaded by trees. The mountain was so round that it looked like a bowl had been placed upside-down on the ground. Dense spiritual energy gathered in the form of clouds of purple mist, covering the sky above the whole peak.

Climbing to the top of the mountain, both Austin and Tessa felt a suddenly soothing and calming fresh breath enter their lungs.

"If there is superior vital energy crystal inside the mountain, then the place with the densest purple mist would be where the divine vital energy crystal is hidden. So we'd better head for the densest purple mist.

Let's go! I'll take you there!" Austin unleashed his spiritual sense and found that the Sky Sect, the Song Clan and its three leaders were following sdistance behind him.

And further out there were more people hurriedly converging on the location of the peak. From the swift and fierce movement of several of these people, Austin realized that they were quite powerful. It would be hard for him to beat them.

So in this case, the most important thing was to seize the tto get ahead of those men.

He had to locate and mine the divine vital energy crystal as far as possible before those people arrived. Once those powerful men chere, he would have to flee at once.

So without hesitation, Austin grasped Tessa's right hand. With his toes barely touching the ground, Austin headed for the peak where the densest purple mist was focused, with Tessa in tow, like a flash of lightning.

Suddenly Tessa felt like she was a bird, flying in the sky. She had never before moved so fast that all her weight was lifted from her limbs.

Tessa was completely stunned by what Austin had just done. She said to herself, 'l can't see into Austin's soul, but he is so talented in many aspects, especially in the bodily movement skill. His movement is so rapid that even those cultivators with the Imperial Realm cultivation base can't reach such a speed. Not to mention those common cultivators of the Sky Realm.’ At the stime, Tessa had turned a fiery shade of scarlet. She was in her mid-20s, but she had never been treated like this before, with her hand held firmly by a man.

So when Austin impertinently took her hand without her permission, she was quite surprised and enticed.

But deep in her heart, Tessa didn't care to blAustin. Actually she felt a bit joyful instead of being angry, because this was the first tthat her hand was being held by a man. She felt light headed, but not from the speed at which they traveled.

While Tessa was lost in this train of thoughts, Austin paid no attention to what she was thinking. He was focused on the task ahead of them. In the blink of an eye, he and Tessa landed on an open hillside of the mountain.

The purple mist was the densest at the slope above them. Obviously it was the place where the spiritual energy was gathered the most.

"The superior vital energy crystal must be somewhere under the slope," he said.

Austin stamped the ground with his foot.

"Austin, are we going to dig into the ground of the slope? That will take us much energy and time," Tessa said while wrinkling her nose.

She did not relish the thought of getting her hands dirty.

"Tessa, take a few steps backward, will you?" Austin said to Tessa, looking intently at the ground.

On hearing what Austin had said, Tessa hurried to comply.

Then Austin stretched out his hand and an object appeared, floating above his palm.

"The Purple Vital Stone!" Tessa called out in surprise.

Shocked by what she saw, Tessa covered her mouth gently with her hand.

Tessa knew that the Purple Vital Stone had belonged to Susan, the elder who was stationed in the Full Moon City on behalf of the Cyan Sect. Tessa had not expected that Susan's magic weapon would be in the hands of Austin, because Susan had cherished it a lot.

The moment Austin patted his waist with his hand, the ancient evil ape appeared in a flash.

Austin extracted his vital energy and funneled it into the Purple Vital Stone in his palm. All of a sudden, the Purple Vital Stone grew tically bigger and bigger and then turned into a mountain which was over 30 meters high and over 10 meters wide, floating in the sky.

Austin issued an order to the ancient evil ape. Then the beast looked up and howled, striking its two fists on its breast.

Austin stretched his hands, unleashing the power of 400, 000 pounds from his body.

"Smash!" At the stime, the Purple Vital Stone plummeted from the air. Austin threw a full punch and the ancient evil ape unleashed its power with its millstone-shaped fists. All of them aimed at the starget simultaneously.

These three horrible forces; from the Purple Vital Stone, Austin's fists, and the ancient evil ape's fists jointly exploded on the sground.

A mighty roar spread out in all directions.

The whole peak shook so sharply that Tessa fell down and hugged the ground, fearing for her life. It felt like a magnitude 10 earthquake! With a large rumbling sound, the ground of the slope collapsed and formed a hole as big as a plot of several acres. Around the hole were cracks, a few meters wide, running off in all directions like glass fracturing.

Discovering the mess on the ground, Tessa was stunned and stood by mutely.

"Tessa, you'd better go up and find a shelter for yourself. I'll go and check what is going on down there," Austin said to Tessa.

In this case, it was best not to bring Tessa down to the hole in the ground with him, because nobody knew exactly what the condition of the hole in the ground was. In case of any danger, he would have to pay more attention to keeping Tessa safe, which would make the situation worse.

Tessa clearly understood why Austin had said so, so she quickly obeyed and drifted higher where she was out of harm's way.

Austin jumped into the hole in the ground, a small speck falling into the abyss.

The hole was over ten meters deep, so it took Austin quite a while to land at the bottom of the hole, where he found...

"Superior vital energy crystals!"