The Supreme God

"Austin, do you think Humphrey has improved much lately?"

the sky-devouring dog asked worriedly the moment it saw Austin.

"He has the body of a chaotic sky-devouring beast, and as time goes on his strength increases as well.

He will be serious trouble to deal with in the future,"

the tiger sighed, already exhausted just by the thought of it.

"You're right. Once the chaotic sky-devouring beast has grown into an adult, he's going to be extremely fierce.

My guess is he will swallow the entire Sea of Chaos in one gulp and just disappear, never to show up again,"

the big black bull said, sighing as well. It seemed to be filled with sadness.

"We need to find a way to take him down together.

If we don't, it won't be long before he makes his way to the Fallen Divine Valley to harass us and cause us hassle.

The twelve of us are definitely no match for him.

Unless our master shows up to fight Humphrey.

But if our master reveals himself to take action, it would only throw things out of control and cause more issues.

I'm sure that our master's enemies will find him and then things would get real troublesome,"

said the colorful rooster, shaking its head dejectedly.

The twelve zodiac animals all already felt defeated and demoralized.

"I'm sorry, sirs. I brought this trouble to the Fallen Divine Valley. It's my fault,"

Austin apologized, guilt consuming him now.

He knew Humphrey had made the Fallen Divine Valley his target because of him. He was the one Humphrey wanted, the reason he had come here.

"Don't do that to yourself, Austin. Humphrey would have targeted the Fallen Divine Valley sooner or later, with or without your presence.

It's not your fault. There's nothing for you to be sorry for.

All you should be thinking about is a way to kill him,"

the black bull said, trying to ease Austin's mind.

"Right now, we don't really have a way to kill him.

That chaotic sky-devouring beast, is still in its infancy, but we can't do anything to him.

I'm scared to even imagine what it would be like when the chaotic sky-devouring beast grows into an adult. It would most likely be impossible for us to kill Humphrey then,"

the tiger said slowly, looking off into the distance.

zodiac animals all fell into a silent contemplation for

"Humphrey!

it! Some way, somehow, I

teeth and clenched fists. He had a great challenge ahead of him and he was determined to overcome

but I must go now. I'm going to cultivate in

a quiet spot within the Fallen Divine Valley, opened up a small world

this was to study that piece of wood and learn all he could

retrieved the piece of wood and let

wood puppet race and the supreme grandmaster

were both quite eager to get their hands on this piece

seems. There's probably some

it carefully and see what

can comprehend

was around. He was preparing himself

releasing his spiritual sense and focused all his attention on the wood floating before him, examining

slowly in

day, two days, three

two

One year, two years...

of time and the speed at which it operated all faded during

realized it, and ten

the small world, he meditated

and cross-legged, still as a rock, focused like an old monk deep in mediation, searching for

and neither did

passed as a few minutes would have outside of

wood. Is there really nothing more mysterious to it?" Austin asked

the small world, a lone sound among nothing

suddenly opened his eyes and stared intensely at the wooden slab in front of

had spent more than a hundred years in meditation,

certain this is not just any ordinary

masters had been longing for it for ages. How could it just be ordinary wood

of the equation, I refuse to

yet fully comprehended it. There has to

suppose I'll just have to

again only for his

himself in meditation a second

time flowed on by and dust fell onto his unmoving,

in a

one hundred

snapped out of it and

think I sensed something;

it could be nothing

the hell is this

been completely stationary, like a dead tree, but now suddenly spoke, his face twisted in a frown of

floating in front of him

hundred years; a man and a piece of wood,