The Supreme God of Martial Arts

Finally, faced with a truth or death situation, the Blood Wolf Team spilled the beans pretty quickly, with no details to spare.

"All right, all right! It was Raymond!" the man blurted out. "Raymond from the Flaming Sun Valley hired us to kill you!" There was a brief moment of silence as Austin took in the news.

"Hang on, WHAT? Raymond? From the Flaming Sun Valley?" Austin was utterly confused. Of course he had heard about the Flaming Sun Valley. It was touted to be the second strongest among all the five sects in Violet Orchid Empire. In fact, people said it was even more powerful than Sun Sect! That was exactly why he was confused, though! As someone who was merely an outer disciple of the Sun Sect, why would someone from a more powerful sect want him dead? Yet here they were, even willing to pay others to kill him? As far as he could remember, Austin hadn't had any associations with the Flaming Sun Valley ever in the past.

‘Hang on a second!" something suddenly struck Austin. The name Raymond sounded a little familiar to him.

He began to search the depths of his mind, and sure enough, it wasn't long before the revolting face of an arrogant man came to him.

"Ah! It was this guy! The bastard!" Austin recalled everything clearly. It had happened the day he had gone to dine in the Lotus Tavern in Peace Town, together with Evan and Denali.

Right on the main street outside the tavern, he had taught a young ruffian a good lesson. The punk had a loyal attendant with him called Weaver. This Weaver guy and all the others were calling their master ‘Raymond’.

Austin had never expected that he was from the Flaming Sun Valley.

"Tell me! Who exactly is this Raymond? What's his position in the Flaming Sun Valley?" Austin asked with his eyebrows furrowed. It would have been a costly affair to arrange murder.

He was surprised that the ruffian could have afforded it and that he had born a grudge against him since that time. It really was unexpected that he would go so far as to hire the Blood Wolf Team to hunt him down.

"He is the grandson of Flaming Sun Valley's leader," the man from the Blood Wolf Team answered. Things made a lot more sense now, as the man continued, "and he offered us fifty thousand vital energy crystals in exchange for bringing him your head!" The grandson of Flaming Sun Valley's leader! So that was why he had been so angry.

A person with that sort of background never would have tolerated eating humble pie! Fifty thousand vital energy crystals were a very heavy investment and it was obvious only a very high profile person could have afforded that. It seemed that this Raymond character was rather generous, but also hated Austin bitterly.

"Well, well! | never thought that | have offended Flaming Sun Valley's baby boy. Luck be a lady!" Austin sighed, inwardly laughing at his own self. "Looks like | am a fish in troubled waters right now! All is well though." Austin shook his head. . .

"Now," he turned his attention towards the man once again, "let's talk about that celestial energy ginseng. Tell me more about it," he asked and the man complied.

"It happened several days ago. A cultivator accidentally discovered it in an area haunted by level 3 diabolic beasts. At that time, it was being guarded by a level 4 red blood magical python, | can't say for sure what's up right now," the man from the Blood Wolf Team told him. "According to some cultivators who have thoroughly studied the spiritual plants, this celestial energy ginseng keeps on growing and evolving all by itself. Every once in a hundred years, it would make a sort of breakthrough, with one more halo surrounding it.

It is said that a ninth halo was being formed just as the ginseng was found. Once this stage of its cultivation has finished, it would have absorbed an enormous amount of vital energy from this world. Its value would also increase over time. People say its vital energy is of better quality than the usual one.

There's a high possibility that numerous cultivators are keeping a close watch on it as we speak, waiting for it to finish its final refining stage. Once the ninth halo is completely formed, they're sure to scramble for it. They will fight against each other because it is extremely valuable." Austin was quite amazed by his words. "Wow! | never knew that a ginseng could make breakthroughs just like a cultivator! It is truly a rare and invaluable thing! Most mysterious indeed!" he thought inwardly.

"Alright." Escaping from his ruminations, Austin fixed his eyes on the Blood Wolf Team with a stern look. "I am going to spare your life this time, if you just get out of my face. But if you dare to offend me again, | won't show you any mercy at all!" Austin had totally pinned down the man in front of him, and his opponent could no longer gather even a half level blade intent now. Austin also believed that this fight was going to cast a shadow over him forever, which would prevent him from entering into a higher refinement level in the future. He could try as hard as he liked and as long as he wished, it was going to be of no use.

Thus, there wasn't any possibility that the man could pose any threat to him.

With that in mind, he decided not to kill him.

Austin then turned on his heels without so much as a look at him. However, he had hardly taken just a few steps before his spiritual sense perceived something. The man was secretly and softly drawing out a cylindrical thing from under his clothes.

Austin frowned at once. From what he could sense, it felt like a signal shell.

It looked like the man wasn't going to give up on the idea of killing him so soon.

Austin turned back swiftly and made a lunge. He was back in front of the man in the blink of an eye, before the man could even grab the signal shell properly.

"You asked for it this time!" As soon as Austin finished speaking, his arm flung forwards and struck the man right in his stomach. It was such a powerful punch that even the air around seemed to shake with its force.

The signal shell was flung into the air instantly, and so was the man from the Blood Wolf Team. He spat blood out of his mouth as his internal organs ruptured and the bones in his chest got smashed into pieces. He seemed to have been punched by an army all together. He couldn't even feel it as he died instantly. Flying through the air, his body hit the ground 50 feet away like a sack of potatoes. And there he lay motionless and lifeless with his eyes still open, gazing out from the hole his corpse had made when it had fallen on the ground.

Austin's punch was strong enough to beat a level 3 violent ape, a creature famously known for its strength, to a pulp.

And this time, its target was a mere weakling of a human body. Even though the man was a cultivator who had refined himself all the way to the Energy Gathering Realm, his flesh was still vulnerable. And compared to the tough skins of demonic or diabolic beasts, his skin and flesh were like butter.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you!