It was a peaceful day, but Marvin Su's face sank with anger. Five outer disciples were found dead hours after they had been sent to look out for Austin.
All of the outer disciples were sent out in groups of at least four members. Each of them carried signal devices. Once they found out Austin's whereabouts, the first thing they had to do was to send a signal using the device.
Although Austin was powerful, he probably couldn't kill the whole group in one hit.
However, even if that was the case, the outer disciples were still killed one after another.
There were about sixteen outer disciples together with Billy.
The other outer disciples feared to end up with the same fate when they found out about the death of the five outer disciples.
They previously thought that since there were more than ten of them, they would certainly kill Austin.
However, five of them were already dead before they could even find Austin's whereabouts.
If they went on like this, they would probably dwindle in number soon.
Thus, other disciples started to leave secretly in fear of the current situation.
They thought that if they followed the top disciples like Billy and Marvin, they could lead a comfortable life as outer disciples.
Right now, however, it might cost them their lives, and no one wanted that. There would be no comfortable life to enjoy if they were dead.
A while later, about seven to eight disciples had secretly left.
Marvin's eyebrows knitted together tightly in anger as he walked between the leafy branches. "Shit! Damned Billy Tang! All the people together with you are cowards!" he cursed.
Rage consumed him as he hit a tree trunk beside him with one fist, and then the trunk immediately broke into pieces.
Billy couldn't do anything when he saw Marvin got furious. He was angry as well. He thought that he had a good chance to kill Austin in this search since Austin was out of the sect.
However, things didn't turn out like that. As soon as the disciples who secretly left spread the news, Billy would be a laughing stock among the outer disciples.
"Four or five people have died, and seven or eight have left. Billy, you're actually alone now," Marvin said dryly.
Footsteps sounded through the path as another discipl
d, which was almost as tall as a man.
The other one had hideous eyes and eyebrows, and a scar on his face. His cold eyes viciously stared at Austin.
"The Blood Wolf Team?
Are you from the Blood Wolf Team?" Austin asked.
He seemed to have realized something.
He had heard of the Blood Wolf Team. He knew that they were an infamous group made up of independent cultivators. They specialized in evil deeds such as robbery, kidnapping, and the like.
"Why is the Blood Wolf Team looking for me?"
The two unpleasant men across him laughed. "Why? Haha! Don't you know what we do for a living? Someone offered twenty thousand vital energy crystals in exchange for your life!" the grotesque man said.
He must be the one who talked a moment ago.
'Did someone really offer twenty vital energy crystals to ask for my life?' Austin thought. He never expected that.
'Are they from Sun Sect?' he thought again.
He concluded so because the only people he had ever offended were from Sun Sect.
However, they were mainly grunt disciples or outer disciples. None of them could offer such a large sum of vital energy crystals—twenty thousand vital energy crystals were a huge amount!
"Who is it then?" Austin asked.
Once again, the two hideous men just laughed.
"Haha! I am sorry. Our Blood Wolf Team forbids us to disclose whoever hires us. You should know that," the ugly man said.
"You've already talked too much. Let's just kill him and go back," the big, fleshy man cut them off.