Chapter 164 Time For High Profile

In the courtyard, five disciples were drinking and playing a game of "guess-finger". When they saw Austin enter the yard, they all stood up, stupefied, and stared at him with their mouths agape.

With a plethora of thoughts surging through their minds, they whispered anxiously among themselves.

"But I heard he was stuck in the outer range of Grand Desolation Mountains and wouldn't come back."

"What should we do now?" ...... ......

The outer disciples quietly exchanged ideas, careful not to raise their voices. Their palms were sweaty and their eyes were averted.

One of them was slinking toward the gates, prepared to slip away the moment he saw an opportunity.

However, the outer disciples didn't know that Austin had a strong spiritual sense with which he could observe everything within a four-hundred-meter radius. From the very beginning, Austin was aware of everything they did and said, and their concealment meant nothing to him.

Austin looked at the disciples in front of him in displeasure. Anxiety grew in his heart when he thought of Evan, who was nowhere to be seen. If these outer disciples dared to misuse his sacred compound like this, they would certainly have dared to do something to Evan, too.

"If I remember correctly, this compound is mine. I rented it. Will someone please explain to me what all this is about?" Austin asked.

The expression on his face was cold as ice and his tone was even colder. The vital energy force in his body was surging and billowing with rage.

His strong spiritual power swept the yard, exerting great pressure on everyone there. The disciples facing him found it hard to breathe.

Numerous strands of vital energy grew concentrated in Austin's hands, ready to charge an attack.

Finding out that his courtyard was occupied and that his friend was missing had lit a spark of anger in Austin's heart.

He was in an uncontrolled state of destructive madness.

And once someone drove him to this state, he wouldn't spare them until he got his revenge.

The five outer disciples were merely at the sixth level of the Energy Gathering Realm. They weren't able to stay calm and composed in front of Austin's overwhelming demeanor. In the face of his rising anger, they began trembling in fear.

"I guess none of you is going to open your mouth? You, then! Yes, you! Tell me what's going on here!"

Austin suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed to one of the outer disciples.

The outer disciple was already terrified. His teeth were clattering and his body was shaking.

Unable to form a complete sentence, he yelled in horror, "It - it's none of my business!

.. Oh! Marvin! Marvin and Billy! They sent us here!"

stuttered one of the horrified outer disciples. He was so scared that he couldn't even form a complete sentence.

"I see. Are you one of Marvin's men? Or are you with Billy?"

"Both of them are in the same force now, sir. Billy has honored Marvin as his boss."

Then it all made sense. Austin nodded his head.

"And it was all their fault. Marvin explicitly asked us to do this. He even said that you were stuck in the habitat of level-three demonic and diabolic beasts and would never come back alive, so we all assumed that you were dead.

And because of Evan's friendship with you, he became a target of Marvin and Billy too. Marvin commanded us to pick on him all day long with various reasons. Later, when they were tired of playing with him, they chased him out of this compound and made us occupy it."

Everything seemed to align with Austin's guess now.

In the valley where the celestial energy ginseng grew, Austin had hidden in a remote corner and hadn't been spotted by Marvin. So, Marvin must have assumed that Austin had died under the attack of the demonic and diabolic beasts.

After returning here, Marvin had taken out his anger on Evan and sent the outer disciples to take over Austin's compound.

After connecting all the pieces, Austin thought to himself, 'It seems to be the right time to display my strength. These people are snobbish and their respect comes only from fear. It's only when they are afraid of me that they will respect me. And I have to do this for Evan's sake, too. If I don't punish Marvin and Billy, other people will bully Evan the next time I'm not around.

And more importantly, I think I now have enough strength to protect myself and my friends!'