The Supreme God of Martial Arts novel Chapter 159

Austin was in no hurry. He ambled along to cherish the verdant scenery around him.

As he passed by a thick emerald-hued bush, a figure in pink flashed past him to swiftly dive and take cover behind the dense foliage.

Behind him, Raymond was close on the heels of Austin as he scrambled to ambush Austin with his gang. About half an hour later, Raymond was watching from afar to see Austin still unhurried and leisurely strolling about. With a diabolical plan cooking in his mind, Raymond flashed a wicked smile.

"Hurry up. Walk faster and go ahead so that you can take that guy by surprise," Raymond ordered bossily. As soon as he waved his hand, all his men obediently got into two groups and parted their ways to follow two different paths into the forest.

Dozens of men sneaked through the closely packed trees, scurrying at a fast pace, in order to reach the ghat in time. Some moments later, they had finally caught up with Austin and then, overtook him.

Austin heard the leaves rustle around him. His lips curled into a wry smile as he murmured to himself, "Finally! You caught up with me. It's good that I didn't have to waste much time in waiting for you."

This was the part of the ghat where the trees became sparse and the overarching sky was all too visible. On that naked patch, Austin paused as if to rest for a while.

Raymond's men by then were walking some distance ahead of Austin. They all had a plan, which they were only too eager to put in motion. They started to position themselves strategically at a treacherous ghat lying in wait for Austin.

As minutes ticked by and it clocked to about half an hour, they began to fidget, wondering why they hadn't seen Austin in a long period of time.

'Did this guy spot something out of turn and go back?' Raymond spoke sotto voce. An idea struck him and so he promptly barked an instruction, "one of you go and take a look at what on earth is that guy up to."

Again, minutes passed by and all waited mouse-like for the dispatched man to get back. On his return, he reported, "Sir, he was resting on an exposed stretch of the forest. He was simply lying there and staring at the sky."

"Why wait here? Go. Let's walk back then!"

Raymond ordered again. He was unwilling to waste any more time in waiting, as he was getting impatient to see Austin cruelly tortured.

At his end, Austin retrieved a small cloth bag from his space ring and then, further pulled out an array flag from the bag.

"Well, this is the chance to see how mighty this Four-sided and Eight Trigrams Array is."

After Fanny's grandfather had gifted this Four-sided and Eight Trigrams Array to him, Austin had been devoting time to studying it in details.

There was a manual on this that had come as part of the gift by Fanny's grandfather. Careful as usual, Austin had saved the manual with the array in the bag.

The manual said that one of the array flags was known as the main flag, which was central to deploying the whole thing. It instructed that the main flag should be refined so as to deploy the Four-sided and Eight Trigrams Array along with the rest of the array flags.

Poring over the manual once again to make sure that he did it right, Austin got refining the main flag post-haste.

Austin's plan was simple, namely to deploy the array against Raymond and his men as well as figure out how mighty the Four-sided and Eight Trigrams Array really was.

Coincidentally, some of Raymond's men had reached the Earth Realm. This was a golden chance for trying to gauge how powerful the array in his possession was. Austin was trying to check whether the array was really effective in fighting cultivators who were below the medium stage of the Earth Realm as Fanny's grandfather had told him.

With the array flag out of his space ring, Austin not wasting a second, flung the array flags in one direction, one after another.

The array flags were now supposed to trigger the vital energy of that area and spark off ripples of energy. After that, the flags would be integrated into that area and dissipated.

After all the array flags were cast out by Austin, the only effect was a faint dull boom. The space over the naked stretch land looked a little distorted, and then streaks of evanescent light started interweaving beams with each other. On ground level, the source of the lights, the array flags stood firm and strong.

All array flags had landed in the vicinity of each other and had been successful in creating a prism of wispy colours. As they overlapped and jumbled into each other, they created a complex mesh of lights.

When the last of the lights laced into a complex and obscure trajectory, Austin could feel a sudden increase in the vital energy. It seemed that it was flowing unhindered on the spot he had chosen.