The Supreme God of Martial Arts

Earthy yellow law runes were released by the old ruler and spread in all directions.

Wherever the runes passed by, the space around them would becdistorted.

With the old ruler in his hand, the yellow runes covered the surface of Austin's body. He then went straight into the array that was

set up around the ancient temple and passed through without any scathe.

'The Layne's Ruler is indeed amazing. | can't believe it can outdo arrays at this kind of level, '

Austin thought, satisfied with its performance.

"How could this be?!"

A loud voice full of shock cfrom inside the old temple.

Austin walked up to the temple and kicked the door open without any hesitation. Then, he slowly entered through the wide-open

doors.

If he hadn't taken out Layne's Ruler in time, he might have been wounded by the surrounding array.

With that, he didn't bother playing nice.

"Who on earth are you? How did you break in?

Aren't you afraid of being punished by our ancestor? You're making a huge mistake here, brat," an old man in his fifties shouted at

Austin with a stern face.

He was dressed in a long robe with visible patterns of the eight diagrams on it. He strode towards the entrance and stopped a few

feet away from Austin. A group of young men with murderous expressions on their faces followed the elder and stayed behind him.

They scattered and formed a line to prevent Austin from barging in further.

Austin unleashed his spiritual sense and found out that they were all mortals. Therefore, he didn't even bother to cast them a

second glance.

In his mind, he knew that these people could do him no harm.

Austin looked around and calculated that the temple occupied about forty square meters. It wasn't much of a big temple compared

to what he had in mind.

Moreover, he saw that there were three halls inside it. A tall statue which was placed on a table at the main hall caught his

attention—a scary-looking deity that had three heads and six arms with wings.

'Is that... Elliot?!"

At first glance, Austin already recognized the ferocious-looking deity.

As a matter of fact, there were only a few temples in the Brilliant Kingdom that were devoted to worshipping Elliot because of his

frightening appearance. Only sminority groups which were rumored to be the offspring of Elliot built temples to worship him.

These people mostly lived in the southwestern part of Brilliant Kingdom.

Austin couldn't believe that he would run into one of this temples in the wilderness, and Elliot's statue would be there at the center

of the hall.

On both sides of the statue stood many statues of other deities. Each of them had a vicious appearance that would naturally scare

people away.

These deities had eight arms, nine toes, and with bodies made of bronze. From afar, these statues glittered coldly.

With the aid of his spiritual sense, Austin perceived that there were eighty-two statues inside the temple.

Apparently, in addition to Elliot, all of the other statues were his loyal followers.

Rumors had it that Elliot once led eighty-one members of his tribe to fight against Emperor Haidar, but was miserably defeated in

the end. He died at Emperor Haidar's hands, and all of his men were either put to death or just vanished in thin air.

"Master, this guy sneaked into the temple at this hour. There's no doubt that he's a thief.

| don't think we should waste ttalking to him. We should go get him and beat him up first," one of the young men suggested to

the elder as he looked at Austin from head to toe.

"He's right. For the past six months, our temple has becreally popular. More and more people are starting to chere.

This brat might have heard of it and decided to sneak in to steal valuable things.

We should give him a beating first before we send him to the police station!" another young man followed, as he glared at Austin

with belittling eyes.

Without waiting for the elder's decision, about five men stepped forward and attacked Austin at the stin an attempt to

capture him.

However, when they touched Austin's body, a powerful force csurging out and blew them away.

"Be careful! This guy knows martial arts!"

the elder warned his students as he was shocked by Austin's display of strength.

"Young man, which sect or martial arts family are you from? Why did you cand disturb our temple in the dead of night? What

do you want?"

the old man asked Austin in a polite tone.

"So, are you Ford's master?"

Austin asked with a straight face as he looked directly into the eyes of the old man.

"Pardon me?"

the old man was surprised and quite confused.

"Master, | guess he's talking about that newcomer,"

a young man beside the elder reminded him.

"Right, Ford! | took him as my student about three months ago,"

the elder replied.

"Why would you mention him? Do you know him?" the elder continued.

"Your student is a bad man. | guess you are no good person,"

Austin answered with a sneer as he put his hands behind his back.

"Shut up! How dare you be rude to my master, you little brat!

In case you don't know, people even on the far side of the Peace County know my master. They refer to him as the great Master

Keith!" a fat man yelled angrily.

The other young fellows also felt irritated by Austin's remarks.

"Well, it looks like you are seeking strouble, young lad," the elder said as a malicious look flashed across his eyes.

He was wise enough to discern what Austin's true intention was.

"Humph! No matter who you are, you have to pay the price for stirring trouble in my place!"

the elder bellowed in anger.

Then, he looked back and winked at his disciples.

They quickly understood what the elder meant and hurriedly performed the Spirit-possessing Skill.

"...I sincerely appreciate your arrival!"

four men murmured schants at the stime.

As soon as they finished chanting, Austin noticed that several statues began to light up.

In an instant, the temple was filled with dark red lights and fog made from evil aura spread out.

Austin perceived that red smoke-like figures emerged from the glowing statues and entered into the bodies of the young men.

'It turns out that I'm right. The evil energy that they obtain using the Spirit-possessing Skill is hidden inside these statues, ' Austin

concluded.

Austin felt the overwhelming evil energy hovering over the glowing statues as he released his spiritual sense.

Just then, the four young men raised their heads simultaneously—their eyes turned dark red as they stared fiercely at Austin.

They stomped on the ground and rapidly pounced on Austin at the stime.

When they were quickly approaching, Austin hit their heads with his right hand.

As they got hit, the young men died on the spot as their heads were smashed open.

Austin didn't bother to spare their lives for he sensed that an evil spiritual soul mark had already been implanted inside them.

When they employed the Spirit-possessing Skill, the spiritual soul mark was activated and interacted with the eighty-two statues.

The evil energy inside the statues then entered inside their bodies.

This was how the Spirit-possessing Skill worked.

The more surprising thing was, Austin found out that the evil spiritual soul mark had already rooted in their spiritual souls, thus it

couldn't be erased anymore.

It meant that if he let them live, they would gradually becmore evil and would eventually hurt more people.

"How dare you lay a hand on my men?!

Let's perform the Spirit-possessing Skill all at once and take out this brat!"

the elder yelled in fury.

He and the rest of the young men began to perform the Spirit-possessing Skill.

Then, the elder ran and kneeled in front of Elliot's statue.

"Almighty Elliot, please lendyour strength to vanquish this person who dares to defile your temple and your disciples!" he

shouted as he bowed down to the statue.

After a few seconds, Elliot's statue began shaking violently and emitted golden lights.

‘Seriously? This old man can conjure Elliot's strength?"

Austin was quite surprised that a wrinkle was formed on his forehead.

After all, legends said that Elliot was remarkably powerful.

Even Emperor Haidar thought highly of him and referred to him as the God of War.

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