Austin wanted to end the battle as soon as possible. So he pushed his advantage and made a dash at the Sky Realm warrior who was darting through the sky. In a flash, Austin had caught up with him and like a shadow launched his attack.
Several quick, loud thuds were heard, followed by grunts of pain.
Again and again! Austin brutally punched his rival, eventually smashing the man's body in a relentless attack. Before the man could even cry out for help, his body was twisted and torn limb from limb, with twisted body parts plummeting to the ground in a bloody shower of guts and gore.
But Austin didn't retract his claws yet. Instead, he turned and lunged at the remaining Mysterious Sky Empire invaders. Although they were all at the medium stage of Sky Realm, Austin killed them swiftly and cleanly, like a lion tearing its prey apart with only a few strikes of its massive claws.
Very soon, all the Sky Realm invaders were wiped out!
And all by Austin alone! He truly was an army of one.
Seeing that Austin had so easily finished off all the Sky Realm masters from the Mysterious Sky Empire in such a short time, their equivalents from the Violet Orchid Empire shuddered. They involuntarily took a step back each time an enemy was shredded, as if they feared that they would be the next targets of Austin's fierce fists.
"Well, problem solved," Austin said after catching his breath. "Your majesty, I think it's time that you go and conduct the war below," he then suggested.
But he was looking at the Sky Realm cultivators from the Violet Orchid Empire when he spoke. They stood aghast, and still dared not move. Obviously, it was to them that Austin was sending a reminder.
Down below, armies from the two empires were still wrestling mightily with each other, and it seemed that the Violet Orchid Empire's forces were currently at a disadvantage. They might lose without help!
However, Austin knew that if these Sky Realm cultivators joined the battle, they could turn the tide very easily. He hoped that his demonstration would galvanize them into action.
What was an army when compared with so many high level cultivators anyway?
Hearing Austin's words, the emperor suddenly snapped to his senses. Using his spiritual power, he evaluated the situation down below and found that it was not pleasing to their side.
"Come on. Time to end this war," he ordered decisively.
With a wave of his hand, Emperor Author led the Sky Realm cultivators into the battle. They swooped down, and like raptors pausing before the final strike, they came to hover mid-air over the battlefield in a flying formation. Then, the whole sky was brightly lit up as they unleashed their powerful vital force against the invaders below with their palms facing downwards.
The army below mainly consisted of soldiers cultivating at the Energy Gathering Realm. Only a few had reached the Earth Realm. While only the generals had attained the Mysterious Realm yet.
Sure enough, an army like this was merely a mass of weak and insignificant insects in the eyes of the Sky Realm cultivators.
It took each of the dozen or so Sky Realm cultivators only one attack to generate a storm of powerful vital energy force, with which to bombard thousands of the Mysterious Sky Empire soldiers. In the face of this merciless onslaught, the army disintegrated almost instantly.
It was fair to say that no soldier on the battlefield could survive this kind of attack. For them, seeing the light of vital energy showering down this powerfully meant a swift meeting with Death.
With the Sky Realm cultivators' assistance, the enemy troops were struck down in no time. Their intervention was the last domino which set the collapse of the invasion in motion. Even the corpse soldiers were defeated and smashed into insignificance at this moment.
Despite the corpse soldiers being made of toughened bones, and being beyond death, as they were already dead, they were simply consumed by the energy blasts and reduced to ashes.
Austin breathed a sigh of relief from where he was watching the tide turning. 'Finally, I can expect the imperial capital city to be safe again, ' he thought contentedly.
He had planned to set up his two fiancees in the Austin Palace, together with Evan and Herbert before he left the capital again. If the city had fallen, this would have greatly inconvenienced him.
Naturally, he would prefer the city to be peaceful and safe in his absence. In fact, this had been his main motivator for rushing back to join the fighting.
If not for the threat to his own property, he would have had no interest in the territorial dispute between the two empires at all.
Sensing that their victory was assured in the war below, Austin then turned his eyes upwards into the sky, where the fiercest and most violent battle was taking place.
Above him, Emperor Kirkland was being harried by the ancient evil ape. Blow after blow rained on his back, shoulders and arms. Big and heavy as millstones, the ancient evil ape's fast fists had restricted Kirkland's mobility, preventing his escape. He couldn't even defend himself, let alone fighting back.
The evil ape was a great primeval beast of prodigious strength. Despite its large size, it was frightfully fast. It threw jabs and punches, decimating the emperor in a smooth and clean attack. It moved so fast that it blurred and Austin could hardly see it clearly in the flurried activities of the fight.
In fact, its punches were so powerful that the very air around it seemed to reverberate and churn with the force of each blow's impact. The space was becoming distorted and the air around its fists was being pushed outwards, forming a vacuum that sucked the Emperor in.
As the assault raged, the stress and violence of the evil ape's attacks batted Kirkland's vital energy aside. Unable to gather enough vital energy to launch a counter attack, he kept retreating, trying to protect himself. Eventually he was forced into a passive fetal position.
Meanwhile, Warren was gradually gaining the upper hand while fighting against the leader of the Ghost Sect.
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