As soon as he stepped out of the secret room, Austin sent a message to Warner and Emmet.
Receiving Austin's message, Warner and Emmet were elated. They rushed forward and stopped in front of him with faces glowing.
"Master, you have completed your cultivation!" they gushed in chorus.
"Yes I have. How's everything going in the Sword Cosmos? Anything exciting recently?"
Austin asked.
He had spent over a year in seclusion and had no idea what had transpired over such a long period.
"Master, everything is going well. Nothing major has happened.
There would sometimes be some small-scale conflicts among the people of the four major forces, but there is nothing to be concerned about.
As a matter of fact, our sect is developing well.
We have established bases in most of the Sword Cosmos.
Except for the four major forces, everyone else in the Sword Cosmos is willing to befriend us and cooperate with us,"
Emmet reported happily.
"Well, nothing has happened so far because the four major forces have been waiting for me,"
Austin chuckled with a slight sneer.
"You are right, master.
During this past year, I spotted a good number of scouts from the four major forces around the Ethereal World. I am certain that they took orders to keep an eye out for you.
The four major forces are definitely going to great lengths to deal with you,"
Emmet added.
"You have nothing to worry about me.
I've grown stronger. I was not afraid of the four major forces before and there is no reason for me to be afraid of them now,"
Austin said with a confident smile as he puffed out his chest.
"Well, I'm going back to the Divine Sword Mountain. As always, keep everything around here in order,"
Austin said, stretching his arms.
"We will, master. Take care of yourself!"
Warner and Emmet said in unison.
"Don't worry about me. I'll be fine," Austin reassured, nodding at them.
Austin then strode towards the exit of the Ethereal World, bound for the Divine Sword Mountain.
Since he regarded the Ethereal World as his base,
he hadn't been to the Divine Sword Mountain for a long time.
During that last period of cultivation in seclusion, he had made great progress in the law of reincarnation.
Because of that, he could move faster than before especially as he traveled through the void.
Not long after, the Divine Sword Mountain came into view.
"Humph! Such morons. The four major forces' people were still monitoring the Divine Sword Mountain. How desperate are they?"
Austin briefly stopped in his tracks and looked at the mountain in front of him.
It seemed that there was nothing going on in the Divine Sword Mountain itself.
But thanks to his powerful spiritual sense, Austin spotted at least ten semi-governing gods lurking behind its boulders.
Each of them was well cloaked, obviously utilizing some brilliant secret skills to become invisible.
Even ordinary governing gods had a hard time sensing them.
But at Austin's level, his spiritual sense was much stronger, way beyond that of any ordinary governing god.
He could easily spot them without any difficulty.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Two beams of sharp light shot out from his eyes, aimed at the void around the Divine Sword Mountain.
A large piece of space collapsed into ashes in an instant, sending out clouds of dust in the air.
"Oh, shit! It's Austin!"
At the sight of Austin, the semi-governing gods hiding in the dark, scampered in all directions, scared out of their wits. Some of them were almost crushed by the falling boulders of rock from the mountain.
They attempted to make their escape.
However, as soon as Austin caught sight of them, they froze and couldn't move a muscle as if they were being controlled by some unseen force.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Austin immediately unleashed a myriad of red strings that appeared and rained down on the trapped semi-governing gods.
A moment later, the same semi-governing gods stopped struggling and walked up to Austin as if nothing happened.
"Greetings, master!"
They bowed to him with much respect.
Austin merely sneered and asked them about their backgrounds.
It turned out that those semi-governing gods were from the four major forces. Their task was to keep a close watch on Austin and look out when he would return to the Divine Sword Mountain.
"Now that you all work for me, continue to stay here like before.
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