Chapter 4437 The Heavenly Vow

After being tortured by Austin, the governing god of the Long Sword Sect hunched over. His spiritual soul was damaged to the point where it was leaking some of its essence.

All of a sudden, something happened.

Puff! Puff! Puff!

One by one, Austin's puppet strings began to explode, causing him to gasp.

Yet, he saw that the spiritual soul of the governing god had suffered from losing its divine essence.

'Oh no! Even though the Puppet Strings is a unique secret skill of the spiritual race, the strongest creature it can control is a semi-governing god. It can't exert enough power to subdue a governing god.

I guess it makes sense. After all, every secret skill in the world has limited power. There will be a peak.

Once any secret skill reaches a certain level, no matter how hard you cultivate it, you can't increase its power.'

At realizing this, Austin sighed and slumped his shoulders.

He knew that he had already cultivated the Puppet Strings to its strongest level.

Controlling a semi-governing god was

as far as the secret skill could go.

And this wasn't the first time he had caught governing gods and tested the Puppet Strings on them.

Without exception, all the tests had failed.

"All right."

Austin concentrated his mind and drew all the remaining puppet strings back into his Soul Sea.

Seeing as it wasn't helping, he also removed the Soul-cleansing Skill.

Immediately, the governing god stood straighter. The pain inflicted on his spiritual soul was gone. He felt light-headed as he gasped for breath. His feet staggered as he tried to walk and almost collapsed in the void.

Whoosh!

Once he had collected himself,

he tried to get as far away from Austin as possible. From a distance, he stared at Austin in horror.

He swore that the torture Austin had just posed on him was worse than anything he had suffered in his life.

He had come so close to his spiritual soul being controlled by somebody else

and there was no worse fate for a warrior.

Now, Austin had managed to worm a sense of fear deep into his heart.

For the rest of his life, he would avoid being Austin's enemy.

From now on, every time he met Austin, he would actively try to avoid him.

The only person that seemed relieved by the outcome was the supreme grandmaster of the Long Sword Sect. He sighed when he saw that the governing god was safe.

"Young man, does this mean you don't believe me and

odded their heads.

"Well, young man, here we go. We're going to make a Heavenly Vow right now.

Then you will believe us,"

the supreme grandmaster said to Austin.

"Go ahead. Try it,"

Austin said in a noncommittal tone. Now, he wasn't as tense as before.

"Let's make the vow together,"

the supreme grandmaster of the Long Sword Sect said.

"I swear in the name of the heaven.

I promise that from now on, the Long Sword Sect will submit to Austin and obey all of Austin's orders. If I act against my vow, the heaven can punish me,"

the eight senior leaders, including the supreme grandmaster, vowed in unison.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

As they made the vow, the entire Sword Cosmos trembled at their feet. Faint, endless laws were called to them as if they had some kind of telepathy.

Then streaks of strange, black runes that resembled black flowers appeared above the heads of the eight senior leaders of the Long Sword Sect and identified their auras.

'Whoa. It looks like a type of unfathomable spell.

Once a vow is made, it's engraved in space and time and it leaves marks on almost all the laws. If a vow is violated, all the laws that exist will punish that person.

Then they can no longer cultivate or use any law!'

Austin thought after using his spiritual sense to examine the effects of the vow.

Everyone knew that laws were one of the most important kinds of core fighting power in the realm of governing gods.

If a governing god couldn't use laws, it would mean that he had lost more than half of his fighting power.

That would make them even inferior to a semi-governing god.