Austin was running when suddenly, he stopped and felt a force restraining his steps. He heard some clinking sounds like that of chains.
Austin immediately realized that something was wrong.
He used the spiritual sense to figure out what was making his steps heavier. He saw a long and heavy iron chain in his Soul Sea. 'When did it get here?' Austin wondered. The black, ghastly and bloodcurdling iron chain shone with a dark red light. Its aura screamed grief, despair, and certain gloom.
It was the spiritual sense martial arts skill!
Austin was knowledgeable of this martial arts skill. At first glance, he recognized that the thick and black iron chain in his Soul Sea was controlled by the spiritual sense power. It belonged to a kind of spiritual sense martial arts skill.
The chunky iron chain appeared clearly, and metallic clicking sounds followed its movement. It charged towards spiritual figure that hid in Austin's Soul Sea, trying to clasp it and make it burst.
Austin could feel that the spiritual sense power controlling the chain was not very powerful. It was even weaker than the spiritual sense power he possessed now.
Yet, even with its weak spiritual sense power, it emanated an aura of misery and anguish. It screamed total destruction in form. Just by looking at it, it emitted negative emotions that made people feel desperate, sad, and resentful. The dreadful feelings just came continuously to affect and erode Austin's emotions and sanity.
When the spiritual figure was affected by these negative emotions, it would lose its sanity and even turn violent. At last, it would lose itself and easily be caught by the black chain.
Such spiritual sense martial arts skill was indeed mysterious and uncanny. Although the spiritual sense attached to the black chain was not very strong, it would cause significant harm to Austin if he would not drive it out of the Soul Sea in time.
Austin didn't dare to treat it lightly and summoned one of his weapons. In an instant, a Spiritual Sense Flying Needle condensed and came into shape in his Soul Sea. It came fast at the black iron chain which was attacking his spiritual figure.
Clank!
With a crisp metallic sound ringing out, the chain was broken.
At the same time, the tomb owner's face registered shock. 'How did this guy have the spiritual sense power? More unbelievably, he did not only have the spiritual sense power, but he also understood the spiritual sense martial arts skill!' He furiously wondered.
In normal cases, only a martial arts practitioner who had reached the Mysterious Realm could master the primary spiritual sense power and form the Soul Sea.
The spiritual sense-related marital arts skill was uncommon, and only a few practitioners can master it.
lp of the spiritual sense power, Austin found that these men were not only strong in their cultivation base, but they were also surely faster than him.
It seemed that it was not easy for Austin and Fanny to entirely flee from the brawl.
Austin tried to figure out why they were after him.
He slowed down and advanced at the speed of what an ordinary warrior at the Energy Gathering Realm usually went.
After a while, five figures came into his view like lightning.
"Austin, is that you?"
A familiar voice came through loud and clear.
"Steward Zhu!"
It turned out that one of the five men was the steward of the Sun Sect---Murray!
"Steward Zhu, what are you doing here?"
Austin immediately dashed to him and greeted.
Murray was very close to his heart, who was his teacher who treated him like his own son. At the sight of him, Austin felt safe and reassured.
At the same time, Austin was surprised to find that there were two Elders of the Sun Sect in the group.
The Elders were the second highest in command at the Sun Sect, after the Sect Leader.
The ordinary disciples of the Sun Sect seldom had the chance to meet the Elders. Unless it was for significant events such as services or anniversaries, it was really rare to see them on normal occasions.
The Elders of the Sun Sect were generally at the premium stage of Earth Realm. And it was said that some Elders might have already made a breakthrough and entered the Mysterious Realm.
The Sun Sect publicly declared that the Sect Leader, Theon, was the only one who had reached the Mysterious Realm. However, words on the ground had it that besides Theon, there were more than one Mysterious Realm masters in the sect. If it were not for this, the Sun Sect would not have become one of the five most prominent sects in the Violet Orchid Empire.