He nodded in order to let the gnome know that he understood everything he said. Just by imagining how fast and smooth his cultivation of his vital energy might go with the help of the essence, Austin could hardly wait to try it out.
Having a rather low vital energy cultivation base of the medium stage of Sky Realm, Austin was in dire need of upgrading his level. After all, being superior in strength was the only way that he could survive in this turbulent world.
After coming out of the cave and getting enough light of the sun, Austin took out one of his jade bottles and divided the essence into equivalent three portions. He gave a portion to Tessa, the girl in purple and her servant girl respectively. They all accepted the essence with great pleasure.
As for the gnome and Violet, since they were demonic beasts and they had a different cultivation system from human being, the Earthly Mother Essence would not be of much help to them.
By taking the essence, what they could gain at most was enhancing the strength of their bodies. Unfortunately, the real effect of the Earthly Mother Essence would not be able to show up on them, considering their cultivation process.
So in the end, Austin just gave each of them a small portion.
Austin tapped the pocket that contained the jade bottles lightly. After sharing it with his crew, he still got five bottles of essence left. In silence, he promised to himself that he would make good use of them and never waste them on anything unimportant.
Then, as all of the arrangements had been made up properly, the march went on, towards the external territory of the Sunset Mountain.
While they were on their way, from time to time, they encountered fighters of various realms.
Some of them had climbed up the mountain in order to trap some diabolic beasts to exchange them with elixirs on the market, while some, they had come here to seek for a mighty opponent. Although dangerous, fighting with a strong, prominent diabolic beast would be helpful for their actual refining trial and would be able to propel their cultivation base strength.
Needless to say, there were also fighters from the Sky Sect, the Ghost Puppet Sect and the New Moon Sect.
As for them, their goal as to why they entered the area was very simple: to hunt Austin down.
Not wanting to get into any trouble, whenever he felt their presence nearby, Austin used his spiritual sense to locate their position in order to avoid bumping into them.
Five days later, they were finally able to exit the Sunset Mountain. Shortly after that, they began traveling towards their next destination.
Not long after they were on their way, they discovered a small township ahead. Having accumulated plenty of jades from his past experiences, Austin exchanged some of his jade for several red flood dragon horses.
With each of them mounting a horse, they galloped towards the Dragon City.
Austin had known from the beginning that the girl in purple was from the Veritable Demon Sect.
After the continuous secret investigations on them earlier, Austin had found out their intentions of departing from their sect.
Much to his surprise, they had actually left their sect in order to investigate him. After setting off from the Veritable Demon Sect of the Dragon City, they came all the way up to Sunset Mountain. And that was when they met him.
Although curious about their true intentions as to why they were following him, Austin still did not want to get close to the girl in purple and ask her the true reason. The girl was too obstinate and unruly to give him any information that was important to him.
Originally, he had wanted to get rid of them, but he felt concerned about their safety. After thinking his situation over and over and evaluating the dangerous circumstances the girls were in, he decided to escort them back. Otherwise, deserting them in the mountain full of dangers would leave his conscience unsettled. The Veritable Demon Sect of the Dragon City was still far away, however.
Although the red flood dragon horses Austin bought were high-level diabolic beasts and could almost gallop at the speed of light, it still took them seven long days before they arrived at the Dragon City.
"Hey lecher! Why are we rushing towards the Dragon City? What are you planning? Are you trying to get rid of us?" the girl in purple asked, her manner as haughty as ever.
The moment they reached the Dragon City and they found a place near the Veritable Demon Sect for a respite, the girl in purple had already figured out Austin's true intentions of taking them back to where they came from.
Although the girl was simple-minded and straight-forward, it didn't mean that she was stupid.
After so many days of fighting and overcoming difficulties together, they had begun to understand each other's characters a lot. The girl now surely had acknowledged that Austin was not a man of libertine, and he would have the conscience to leave them behind.
So even if the fact that he gawked at her naked body was still a thing, she knew from her understanding of him now that he did not do it on purpose at the time.
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