The Supreme God of Martial Arts

Owen was beaming with delight and watching Austin struggle brought him special pleasure. "How does it feel, Austin? | am surprised you're still standing even after multiple attacks of my Great Vajra Palm. No sweat! How long will you stand, anyway? You are indeed a worthy opponent. | am very much impressed, although | will have to kill you now." Owen sounded as if he thought he was almighty and was now in charge of whether Austin lived or died. He thought he was completely in control of the situation, as well as everything that was happening in the battle ring.

"It seems like this is the best the Great Vajra Palm can achieve," Austin reassured himself.

It was enough. Austin knew if he kept sustaining Owen's attacks, it was pointless. The entire purpose of the battle was to defeat the other. It was tfor Austin to begin his attacks, otherwise this standoff would never end. Austin, however, couldn't underestimate Owen at any cost for he had cultivated a strong, tough body power.

But Owen wasn't a novice. By the tAustin had cto that decision, he had another blow coming towards him.

Austin was ready. In a trice, he put his Wind-commanding Skill into action and dodged the attack of the Great Vajra Palm deftly.

Jumping to the other end of the battle ring, he crossed his fingers and released his vital energy. Instantly, a stream of vital energy cpouring out of his fingers and began swirling around his hands like golden snakes.

He then gathered the vital energy in his hands and activated his mind control skill. The vital energy following his mind's instructions gradually formed into a nine-layered golden tower.

The golden tower began emanating streaks of blinding light which surrounded the entire battle ring giving it a golden border. The tower was also absorbing the vital energy that Austin had released at the stime.

The tower had now collected so much energy that it began to vibrate. Vital energy winds began flowing out of the tower, wrapping everything in its golden hued blanket.

Austin's mind control skill expertly controlled the tower as he now made it even larger and longer. It then suddenly turned tangible, floating in front of Austin as if waiting for his command. Realizing that the nine-layered tower was in its most powerful stage, he ordered it to attack the Great Vajra Palm.

Objectively, it was a major achievement that Austin was able to make a nine-layered tower. He had already succeeded in cultivating the third step of the Grand Pagoda Summoning Skill, which was also incidentally the highest stage he could achieve.

Although he had cultivated this nine-layered Grand Pagoda, he had never tested its power on anyone. He knew this was the right tto unravel its mystery and see how powerful it was.

The moment the nine-layered Grand Pagoda and the Great Vajra Palm met in the air, the turbulent vital energy waves of the Grand Pagoda turned into violent swirls and the massive impact force vibrated the entire arena.

People began to search for something to hold on to and secured their footings so as to not get blown away by the swirls.

It was not surprising that Austin was able to demonstrate such an expertise in the Grand Pagoda Summoning Skill as he had the cultivation base of the premium stage of the Earth Realm. Moreover, since he had cultivated the Golden Sun Scripture, the volof his vital energy soared up and enabled him to cultivate spowerful and dangerous skills. These skills were extremely tough and harmful, and the other disciples would not have dared to try them.

In the middle of the battle ring, the fight between the nine-layered Grand Pagoda and the Great Vajra Palm continued. At first, the Great Vajra Palm was having the upper hand, empowered by the two elixirs. The power of the Great Vajra Palm was comparable to that of a fighter belonging to the preliminary stage of the Mysterious Realm.

Noting that his Grand Pagoda did not have much potency over the Great Vajra Palm, Austin bit his lower lip in indecision. Suddenly, he began striding towards the middle of the battle ring. Everyone was astonished by this behavior. They had least expected Austin to confront the Great Vajra Palm again after being hit so many times.

"Now, get the hell out of my sight," Austin exclaimed.

Furious at the Great Vajra Palm's stiff resistance, Austin activated his Overlord Body-refining Formula. Instantly, he thrust his fist into the Great Vajra Palm with the force of a 15, 000 pounds.

The fight had gotten tremendously intense now. As he focused and mentally exerted himself, his fists produced a racket of roaring and clattering sounds. The entire stadium began ringing.

All the people watched with enlarged eyes.

Except for the sounds from the battle ring, it was eerily silent. They were all absorbed in the fierceness of the fight that all were in a trance-like state. Having learned that the elixirs could be added to martial arts skill to help strengthen its power was already surprising enough, now the combined attacks of Austin's fists and Grand Pagoda Summoning Skill made them even more astonished.

Not in their wildest dreams had they ever thought that they would see a person as mighty as Austin who had the ability to use his martial arts skill and his own body strength at the stime. In their eyes, Austin was like a superman, who not only had powerful strength, but also the ability to demonstrate his various extraordinary skills at the stime. The fight brought the crowd a new sense of freshness and excitement.

In the battle ring, after receiving the back-to-back hits from the Grand Pagoda Summoning Skill and Austin's 15, 000 pounds punch force, the Great Vajra Palm began weakening.

Gradually, it began shrinking and cowering like a frightened animal. The fight becmore and more interesting as the scale of advantage began shifting towards Austin. The crowd, as the fight rose to its climax, cout of their trance and started cheering again—the blood suddenly pumping fast in their veins.

Contrary to all expectations, Austin was still not defeated. Watching an underdog fight back, the crowd began rooting for him.

"This fellow is indeed impressive. Who would have thought that he would have the ability to demonstrate that golden tower? He must have cultivated his vital energy martial arts skill very well because it is not child's play to make a golden tower. It is called Grand Pagoda and is condensed out of the cultivator's vital energy. The power of that tower is really majestic. This fight is by far the most exciting part of the gthis year." "This combination of body strength and vital energy as well as such martial arts skill? It is indeed something unbelievable! | am beginning to admire this guy Austin." People were blown away by Austin and began to show him the respect he rightly deserved.

"What the hell! Since when did Austin becso strong?" Amongst the awe-struck crowd, there were also people from the Sun Sect. Even the Sect Leader Theon, was gaping at Austin with surprise.

One of the disciples of the Sun Sect cried in wonder, "I can't believe Austin has cultivated the third stage of the Grand Pagoda Summoning Skill. Does that mean that he has reached the Major Achievement Stage?" As one of the most dangerous grade four martial arts skills, the Grand Pagoda Summoning Skill was well-known for the number of the disciples it had killed in the process of the cultivation. In everyone's eyes, practicing Grand Pagoda Summoning Skill was more like a suicide than martial arts skill cultivation.

But who could have guessed that Austin would be so strong as to be able to finish all three stages of the Grand Pagoda Summoning Skill and reach the Major Achievement Stage? Everyone felt they were in a dream, for such and such turn of events could never happen in reality—and yet here it was.

They knew that on the basis of strength, Austin now held a substantial advantage over any one of them. This was not a good sign to the Sun Sect as it brought back sunhappy memories.

All the disciples of the Sun Sect were amazed by Austin's power, but were also frightened at the stime.

Those who had doubts on his skills before, were now watching Austin with admiration and respect.

Only the Sect Leader Theon, upon noting Austin's powerful strength, was regretful about his decisions in the past.

The best disciple he thought could compete in a gof such quality was Braxton. But to his disappointment, Austin had defeated him in the previous round, and that was quite easy. Braxton had just walked on the stage and Austin had beaten him badly to death. Surprisingly, Austin himself, after going through so many rounds, still remained uninjured.

‘Grand Pagoda Summoning Skill? How did | not predict that Austin could cultivate this skill?’ Theon sighed and murmured to himself.

While marveling at Austin's strength, Theon wistfully wished that he had treated him better in the past. He deeply regretted conspiring with the Flaming Sun Valley and the Blood Wolf Team to chase Austin away. If he had chosen to back Austin at the time, he wouldn't be so guilt-ridden now and would have earned a good reputation for himself and popularity for his sect.

"How is this even possible?" From the other side of the battle ring, cthe grey-haired old man's baffled and bewildered voice. The original gloating look that his face had had since long vanished, and was replaced by an astonishing wonder over Austin's strength.