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.

to see how mighty this

Trigrams Array to him, Austin had been devoting time to

a manual on this that had come as part of the gift by Fanny's grandfather. Careful as usual, Austin had saved the manual with

whole thing. It instructed that the main flag should be refined so as to deploy the Four-sided and Eight

the manual once again to make sure that he did it right, Austin

array against Raymond and his men as well as figure

was trying to check whether the array was really effective in fighting cultivators who were below the medium stage of the Earth Realm as Fanny's grandfather had told

not wasting a second, flung the array flags in one direction, one after

of that area and spark off ripples of energy. After that, the flags would be integrated

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

the vicinity of each other and had been successful in creating a prism of wispy colours. As they

last of the lights laced into a complex and obscure trajectory, Austin could feel a sudden increase in the vital energy. It seemed that it was flowing unhindered on the

invisible. If one wouldn't concentrate

surprise as he saw

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

mobilize the vital energy of my surroundings. How wonderful this thing

the array sparkled in his eyes that were too focused

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

this moment, Violet was hiding inside a thorn bush beside the vacant land, as she

been successfully deployed. Violet, can you also

some changes. Master, I admit that my power of spiritual sense

present, my mental power is stronger than all the cultivators at the Earth Realm, but only a little weaker than the cultivators at the Mysterious

because illusions are performed by exerting

suddenly whispered to the fox, to shush her into silence. . . .