"I love it. Thank you for your gift," the little boy said to Austin with a beaming smile.
The boy slipped the jade bracelet in his right arm.
By then, the suppressing power possessed by the bracelet had been long gone.
"What's your name, boy?" Austin asked.
Austin was shocked yet amused by the little boy who suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
The nine men in black robes and the top masters, including the leader of the Heavenly Palace, stared at the boy with skepticism.
"Uhm... My name?" the little boy responded, scratching his head awkwardly.
I-I don't know. I forgot..."
he continued while shaking his head.
"What?"
Austin was speechless. He could not believe that someone would not remember his own name. 'Is this boy all right? How could he forget his own name?' he thought to himself.
"What! Give me my magic treasure back, you little rascal!"
the leader of the black-robed men shouted after seeing the bracelet on the boy's wrist.
The jade bracelet was a precious treasure of the underworld, which he had gotten from Ervin.
If he lost it, Ervin would not let him go.
"What? Uh-uh. This is a gift for me. It's mine!"
The little boy hid behind Austin and stuck his tongue out at the leader of the men in long black robes.
"Young man, give it to me now if you don't want to die!" the man in black said in rebuttal.
As he stepped forward to threaten the boy, his eyes turned red and his body released a tremendous corpse miasma.
"Shame on you! Trying to lay a hand on a child," Austin scoffed.
'Although the boy is a little mysterious, he could get easily killed by any one of these masters in a heartbeat. I must protect him, ' Austin thought.
Austin then unleashed the six deities inside his body. They glowed brightly and emitted immense energy enough to withstand the horrible corpse miasma.
"Kill both of them!"
the leader of the men in black robes ordered coldly.
All the men in pitch black robes charged forward at the same time. They each held a sickle that grew bigger as they waved them towards Austin and the little kid.
"Now!" the leader of the Heavenly Palace commanded. Secretly, he was afraid that Austin's valuable treasures would fall into the hands of the men of the underworld.
Unwilling to fall behind, he and the other top-notch masters da
the boy shouted as he got angry.
Without notice, a blood mist came out of his forehead, and he emanated an extremely powerful aura, which shook the whole universe!
Then, the fog of blood spread and came at the nine men in black robes and the dozen cultivators.
The masters were all terrified of the blood mist.
What happened next left Austin dumbfounded.
Over twenty top-notch masters were all thrown out. Their faces turned pale and they coughed up blood.
The chief among the black-robed men lost his hand as it exploded due to blood mist.
Instantly, half of his body also blew up to pieces!
He had sustained the most serious injuries since he was the first one who attempted to make a move against the little boy.
Even though he was incapacitated, the man in the black robe managed to recall an old legend of the universe.
"When he wakes up, his avatars would have lived for a long time," he murmured. "Run!" he shouted at his companions sternly, looking appalled.
He turned around and ran away sprightly.
The other eight men in black robes followed suit.
The leader of the Heavenly Palace and all the other masters were all injured that fresh blood seeped from their mouths.
They looked at each other in panic. After seeing that the nine black-robed men had fled, they felt an alarming sense of fright towards the little boy.
"Let's go!" the leader of the Heavenly Palace said hysterically.
He quickly ran for his life.
The other masters looked at the little boy and Austin, and then retreated as well.