COMING OF THE MARTIAL GOD, VOLUME 2 - Season 8 Episode 33

To Austin’s surprise, even though his spiritual sense was quite strong, he still had to pull out all the stops to prevent the overbearing spiritual sense from invading his Soul Sea.

Moreover, he was unsure how long he could hold and keep the mysterious spiritual sense away from his Soul Sea.

A couple of minutes later, Austin’s face turned slightly pale.

After making several attempts in vain, the old man stopped using his spiritual sense to detect Austin.

With astonishment all over his face, he murmured, “He managed to prevent me from prying. What on earth is that kid? How did he get such a powerful spiritual sense?”

‘This is not good. It looks like that kid has mastered a secret skill on how to absorb souls and he keeps refining the ghosts that I have collected over the years. I must stop him immediately!’ he mused.

After contemplating Austin’s powers for a while, he infused his spiritual sense with some instructions into the blue stone ball in front of him.

The second the old man was done, all the soul-consuming fog inside the city moved fast towards the central part of the city.

Austin sensed that the mysterious spiritual sense which had tried to break into his Soul Sea had vanished.

He heaved a long sigh of relief. A dense layer of sweat had settled on his forehead.

However, just as he was beginning to relax, the next moment, his face darkened.

Earlier he had summoned several clouds of soul-consuming fog to refine the souls inside.

However, now the clouds of soul-consuming fog had flown away together with the souls quickly.
‘What’s happening?’ he wondered, confused.

Austin took out all the small flags and threw them into the air, trying to summon back the clouds of soul-consuming fog.

However, it didn’t work. In a blink of an eye, the soul-consuming fog had disappeared from one end of the street.

Austin unleashed his spiritual sense and found out that all the soul-consuming fog close to him were moving towards the center of the city at a rapid speed.

In relation to the formidable spiritual sense, Austin surmised that the three leaders of the city might have discovered that he used the souls to enhance his spiritual sense.

But after recalling how powerful the spiritual sense that was trying to invade his Soul Sea was, he suspected that it was Jim who had done all of that.

‘The three castellans are Master Realm cultivators, but my spiritual sense is more powerful than that of those at the Master Realm. So it can’t be one of them.

Of course, I can’t rule out the possibility that one of the three leaders’ spiritual sense is as strong as mine, ‘ he analyzed.

Austin had planned to make full use of the opportunity to master the Spiritual Sense Liquefaction. But now his plan was interrupted.
Austin was kind of upset.

After some thought, he decided to look for the gates of the city to see if he could get out of there.

He planned to find another time to practice his spiritual sense. Considering that he was close to turning his spiritual sense into liquid, he thought it was a matter of time before he could make it.

Since he had made his decision, he went up to the three girls. Looking at the Tessa, he said, “Tessa.”

“Austin you’re done practicing, right?” Tessa asked.

She had no idea what had happened to Austin and just assumed that he had finished his training.

Over the past few days, Austin had been so immersed in refining the souls that he hadn’t communicated with his companions at all. The three girls just followed him and watched him as he practiced silently.

It was the first time that Austin had taken the initiative to talk to Tessa in the past few days.

“Lecher, you finally stopped practicing.

When can we leave this place?” Dahlia asked.

She was quite relieved to see that Austin was done cultivating.

“Come on, let’s go. We’re going to the outermost part of the city to see if we can get a way out of here,” Austin said.

It delighted the three girls to hear that. They had been eager to leave the strange city as soon as possible.

The four exerted their bodily movement skills and headed for the outermost part of the city.

But as they kept moving, they noticed that all the streets looked exactly the same.

Besides, the streets had a complicated and intricate layout and they just kept going back and forth. They looked like a maze and it was hard for the four to find a way out, even the shrewdest person would get lost there.

They tried several paths which they thought would lead them out of the city. But after walking for four hours, they were still back at the same place. They were at a dead end.

Austin tried experimenting with several techniques but they were unsuccessful. He even attempted to fly but failed. With his strength and skills the most he could do was fly five meters above the ground and every time he would be pulled back to the ground by a strong force.

Tessa, Dahlia and Faye were worse off. Apart from being able to display their bodily movement skills, they had difficulty even just flying two meters above the ground.

Meanwhile, Austin also tried to find some relatively tall buildings on both sides of the street, that he could climb and look over the city to find a way out.

But to his disappointment, the tallest building he could find was three-story, and most of them were two-story. When he reached the top, his sight was limited to only ten streets from where he was standing.

What made it worse was that the city was shrouded in clouds. The clouds moved around, blocking his vision. It was impossible for him to have a panoramic view of the whole city.

Anyway, any cultivator who entered the city would be trapped and feel at a loss.

Luckily for Austin, his spiritual sense had reached a distance of four thousand five hundred meters. He released his spiritual sense and carefully probed the nearby area. Although the speed of his progress was a little slow, it was still better than nothing.

Half a day passed as they slowly but steadily made their way forward. As the four looked far in the distance, a huge imposing city wall appeared within their view.

“Look, the wall is over there. We made it.

We’re going to leave this damn place,”

Dahlia and her maid exclaimed cheerfully.

Austin was also stunned. He didn’t expect that things would go so well; they seemed a bit too simple. It looked as if, after they climbed over the wall, they could actually leave the city.

He wondered if perhaps everything went so well because of his powerful spiritual sense. If other cultivators with weak spiritual sense came to this place, they would get lost in the streets, not to mention find the wall. Austin brooded as they walked towards the wall.

The four were about four or five kilometers away from the wall and so once they passed through a few blocks, they could reach the wall.

As they kept going, Austin activated his spiritual sense and found out that they were exactly three kilometers away from the wall. ‘The last three kilometers to freedom, ‘ he thought.

“Let’s get going!” Austin said to the girls.

He knew that they had been exposed. ‘The cultivator who had tried to figure out my real strength must have known that we are here. I guess he has sent his men to stop us. Perhaps, the people who are guarding the gates may have been ordered and are ready to capture us.

According to the slaves we talked to earlier, the three castellans are the best cultivators here and they are at the Master Realm.

No one can stop me unless the three Master Realm cultivators are there waiting for me, ‘ he pondered.

No one could pose a threat to Austin except the cultivators at or above the Master Realm.

However…

Suddenly out of the blue, countless dark clouds gathered together and enveloped the blocks ahead of them. Caught off guard, they had no idea what was going on.

The four were in the dark, unable to see anything.

“This is not good. Step back!” Austin reminded them loudly.

He had a bad vibe for he had been in such a situation before.

‘These dark clouds look like the ones I saw in the Sunset Mountain which transferred us here, ‘ he recalled.

The second his words reached the girls’ ears, the ground started to spin and tremble violently.
A huge wind blew and shook the ground. Austin and his companions had to gather their vital energy to steady themselves since they felt as if they were hanging upside down.

After a while, everything around became stable and quieted down.

“What’s going on? Why are we back here again?”

Dahlia screamed in shock as she glanced around.

The four were not in the place where they had been.

They stood in the middle of the street and despite the streets looking the same, they recognized that they were in the spot where Austin had refined souls.

There was an inn on the side of the street, and the door was open so they could see what was inside clearly. While Austin was drawing spiritual energy from souls back then, Tessa, Dahlia and Faye always sat in the lobby on the first floor.

They were all familiar with the place.

‘So we’re back to where we started after half a day’s journey! ‘ the four thought dumbfounded.