Before Brent's Space Ring could hit the ground, Austin had already caught sight of it from the corner of his eyes. He quickly unleashed a vital energy force, grabbed the Space Ring and pulled it into his own Space Ring. Now the enemy's weapon became his property.
"No!" Lu cried at the top of his voice.
"Austin, you bloody bastard! You will have a painful death for killing so many of our men!"
Lu was now burning with hatred. His eyes turned red as if blood was about to spurt to his foe.
In his fury, Lu activated his level ten surge intent. Huge tides of great power were instantly formed from his fist, shaking the air in the entire area. They rushed towards the gnome with a thundering sound.
The little beast dared not to meet such waves of strength. He used his Space Teleportation and fled, vanishing into thin air.
The next instant, he reappeared beside Austin.
Having killed a cultivator at the medium stage of Master Realm, Austin certainly would not fear Lu, who had only reached the preliminary stage of Master Realm.
Using his spiritual sense, Austin broke into Lu's Soul Sea. Soon enough, a spiritual demon materialized in Lu's conscious mind, together with twenty Spiritual Sense Flying Spears.
The gnome also unleashed two to three spiritual beast claws into Lu's Soul Sea.
Under Austin and the gnome's coordination, Lu's spiritual soul had no way to withstand the attacks. Punches, stabs, and bites rained on his spiritual soul relentlessly, creating invisible but painful wounds.
The fiercest attack came from the spiritual demon––who clung onto Lu's spiritual soul––biting, beating, and slamming it like it was torturing its prey.
The pain and pressing attacks caused Lu to lose his balance in the air. He flung his arms around his head and was forced into a passive fetal position. After a few seconds, he couldn't stand straight anymore and started writhing with pain.
His relatively weak spiritual sense had made matters worse. Although he had reached the preliminary stage of Master Realm, his spiritual sense was still quite average––sometimes even weaker than some other cultivators of his level.
Austin and the gnome had obviously hit Lu's soft spot. The spiritual attacks from both Austin and the gnome were at least equal to those from two Astral Realm cultivators. There was no way that Lu could resist such kind of massive attacks with his weak spiritual sense.
Austin seized the chance to lunge at Lu. Before Lu could even see it clearly, Austin had already channeled all of his seven hundred thousand pounds of physical strength into his fist and struck it violently at him. This was the last straw for Lu, a Master Realm cultivator. It only took Austin several punches to smash Lu's body into pieces of flesh and bones, which eventually fell to the ground lifelessly.
Right after Austin ultimately defeated Lu, he sucked out the latter's Space Ring with spiritual sense and put it in his own.
After all, the collection of a Master Realm cultivator was likely to be of suitable value. Austin thought there could be some surprises in it.
At this point, the stronghold of the Sky Sect had also suffered a heavy setback, with nearly eighty percent of its disciples killed by the hundreds of corpse demons driven by blood lust.
Those who were still alive were demoralized by the defeat and desperate to escape.
Through the burning fires and black smoke, one could see that the spots where the pavilions, terraces, and open halls once stood were now one mass of flame. It smelled death everywhere, like the fire that kept raging skyward was the only living thing left.
The whole place was ruined, and everything that involved the stronghold was totally wiped out today.
The wind had carried the sound and smell of the tragic incident to the nearby places. Many cultivators in the Daylight City had sensed the turmoil, and they all became alarmed.
Weak or strong, most of them sent out their spiritual sense, reaching to the stronghold and investigating the situation inside.
The castellan of the city had also dispatched several armies that rushed over the place.
Austin knew that the longer they stayed, the more perilous their situation would become.
Without any hesitation, he summoned all the corpse demons back to the corpse nourishing bag. Together with the gnome, he left the remains of the stronghold as quickly as he could.
Before he left, however, he had not forgotten to do one last thing.
He found a broken wall, and on its remaining part, he wrote, "This was all Austin's doing.". . .
News traveled fast. Within a few days, talks about Austin's rooting up the Sky Sect stronghold in the Daylight City spread around the whole Heavenly Dragon Holy Kingdom. The fact that Austin was a young man, who had merely refined at the premium stage of the Sky Realm, shocked most of them.
Soon, Austin's name was spoken throughout the whole kingdom, and the young lad instantly became infamous.
People at the headquarters of the Sky Sect were all in wrath hearing the news. The angry voice of the sect's leader and the many elders thundered throughout the headquarters. Many tables, chairs, and other objects at sight were thrown, knocked over, or simply reduced to dust under their fists.
From that day on, Austin's name was put on the main hit list of the Sky Sect. He became their sworn enemy.
What was more, the Sky Sect had sent out every last of the Ten Prominent Disciples of Punishment Branch to hunt Austin down.
It consisted only of Master Realm masters, with its weakest one cultivating at the medium stage of Master Realm.
Each of them was really a talented cultivator, who was even able to easily match and kill people with higher levels than themselves. Killing was almost a routine for those men.
It was rather fair to say that they were of the first ranks among the young men in the Sky Sect. By sending them to hunt Austin, the Sky Sect's determination of taking their revenge was thus evident.
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