The Supreme God

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.

how mighty this Four-sided and Eight Trigrams

Array to him, Austin had been devoting

come as part of the gift by Fanny's grandfather. Careful as usual, Austin had saved the manual

deploying the whole thing. It instructed that the main flag

again to make sure that he did it right,

to deploy the array against Raymond and his men as well as figure out how mighty the

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

space ring, Austin not wasting a second, flung the array flags in one

to trigger the vital energy of that area and spark off ripples

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

prism of wispy colours. As they overlapped and

sudden increase in the vital energy. It seemed that it was flowing unhindered on

the sky above, faint lines of light flickered into quietly becoming nigh invisible. If one

widened in great surprise as he saw that the array

beam of lights joined at a tip of the main flag clearly outlining the movement trajectory, energy distribution and assault laws of the array on the vacant land. Austin felt confident as he studied these parameters. What brought him further confidence was that he could trigger at will various assaults of

of my surroundings. How wonderful this thing

his eyes that were too focused on the array, smitten

you successfully deployed the array? Why do I feel that some changes

was hiding inside a thorn bush beside the vacant land, as she had planned to attack their opponents

array has been successfully deployed. Violet, can you also sense

some changes. Master, I admit that my power of spiritual sense is not as mighty as yours, but it certainly

present, my mental power is stronger than all the cultivators at the Earth Realm, but

because illusions are performed by exerting mental power," Violet replied.

come," Austin suddenly whispered