Chapter 3022 The Heavenly Fighting Skill

Austin's attention was caught by a pool of blood on the ground.

It was thrumming with energy that seemed to be calling to him, so he released a wisp of his spiritual sense to check on it.

Bang!

To his utter surprise, his spiritual sense lit up in flames before it could even fully grasp the nature of the spilled blood.

The energy surrounding the blood had burnt his spiritual sense to ashes.

Now that piqued his interest even more.

He released another surge of his spiritual sense, this time at a more powerful level, and directed it towards the pool of blood.

Bang!

Another wave of energy blocked his spiritual sense, the clash of the forces sending him flying off his feet.

He landed hard on a corner, hitting the stone wall of the cave.

'What the hell!' For a moment, Austin felt a little helpless at being caught off guard. Twice now.

'It's just a pool of blood. I can't believe it managed to knock me off my feet!'

If nothing else, it only supported his presumption that the broken corpses that lay in front of him must have belonged to very powerful beings.

If the blood they left behind held such a potent energy, even masters of the Divine Realm probably wouldn't stand a chance against these dead warriors.

"These bodies must have belonged to the ancient divine gods!" he murmured to himself.

He became surer of it at every moment that passed.

He had further questions, of course, but right there and then, he could come up with no other reasonable explanation.

What other being could have possibly been more powerful than an ancient divine god?

He braced himself for the task at hand.

He tried various ways to control and absorb the energy contained by the blood, but failed each time. Pretty soon he found himself covered in bruises.

He was exhausted, but still no closer to penetrating the energy barrier of the leftover blood. All he could show for his efforts was a fatal accident where a broken Divine Ruling Chain flew out from one of the corpses and cut Austin's body in half.

Fortunately for him, he had learned the Phoenix Nirvana Skill. He hastily employed the technique and brought himself back from near death.

'Forget it.' He shook his head and dusted himself. 'There seems to be no way to absorb this energy.'

He turned around, intent on continuing on his journey and forgetting this disappointing episode.

He had taken only a few steps before he noticed another thing that made him pause.

"What?! Those are..." Around a crack in the space, countless dots of light were floating about, looking like dozens of fireflies.

Austin kept still as the tiny bright dots flitted past him.

He then opened the Eye of the Ghostdom Ancestor to take a careful look at them.

He could vaguely feel that something eerie was afoot among these balls of light.

"This is quite strange," he murmured to himself.

When he took another closer look at one of the shining dots, he discovered that it contained a very profound original energy.

"Ahh! You brats!" The man grumbled. He seemed to have awakened from the stupor that was his skill exercise upon hearing Austin's warning.

"Just be open and aboveboard! Quit using your dirty little tricks!"

He was roaring angrily as he met his attackers head on.

Meanwhile, the man was not the only one whose attention was caught by Austin's sudden yelling.

All of the eighty-one figures had their eyes fixed on Austin, furious that their plan was foiled by this mere mortal.

As if communicating internally among themselves, the chimeras all turned their heads in perfect coordination, and stared at Austin with wet, murky eyes.

The moment their sight fell on him, Austin felt a heavy pressure bearing down on him.

He felt as if the earth and the sky were trembling, and he had an impending sense that the whole world was about to be destroyed.

Then, his spiritual sense was forced to retreat.

Bang!

In the next instant, Austin saw the space crack shaking violently.

Countless dots of light began to emerge from the crack, emitting more energy pressure.

Crack! Crack!

It was Austin's body, and he could hear it slowly breaking. In a matter of seconds, his body was shattered into various pieces, with endless cracks running through his skin, and blood spurting out here and there.

He realized that he had incurred the wrath of those monstrous figures. He had somehow done something wrong and was about to be killed.

"Fuck! Am I going to die here?" He felt a twinge of regret. Had he known what was coming, he wouldn't have entered that dot of light, and he wouldn't have involved himself in such a disastrous mess.

Bang!

A particularly terrible energy pressure rolled from the space crack and towards Austin. It was heavy and oppressive, and try as he might, it was impossible to escape it.

Austin was turning desperate when suddenly he heard a voice come from his Slave Tower. "What?"

A tiny figure then emerged from the Slave Tower and stood beside Austin.