As soon as Austin entered the Grand Desolation Mountain, he faced all kinds of dreadful diabolic beasts and had to cope with all sorts of people including some notorious ones.
And the outer mountain of the Grand Desolation Mountain was the place where all the disciples from five sects toughened themselves.
Just as Austin entered the Grand Desolation Mountain, he was already in danger.
Three level-one diabolic beasts called ice snake attacked him.
Such a diabolic beast was common in the outer ring of the Grand Desolation Mountain. It was an ice-element beast with chilly poison hidden in its ice. If the victim wasn't given an antidote within half a day, the chilly poison would freeze the blood in his body until he died.
Most of the time, the ice snakes would camouflage like tree beard on the tree branches and people wouldn't know the difference.
Once they attacked, it was difficult to prevent it.
Although the ice snakes were level-one diabolic beasts, many powerful cultivators fell to its trap because of carelessness.
Fortunately, Austin had a strong spiritual sense and found the three ice snakes as soon as they moved.
He waved his long sword and cut the three snakes into several parts.
However, Austin also got scared. The ice snake might not be powerful, but it had lightning speed and could appear from nowhere. If he reacted slowly, the consequence would be unimaginable.
After being attacked by the ice snakes, Austin became more cautious. As expected, the Grand Desolation Mountain was much more dangerous than the Beast Mountain, and he couldn't break into it randomly.
Austin took out a map under his arm and put it on the ground to check it carefully.
He bought this map at a price of one hundred vital energy crystals from the market at the entrance of the mountain. It had a general diagram of the Grand Desolation Mountain.
The dangerous area was marked with red. It was where the powerful high-level diabolic beasts lived.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtSoon, Austin found his destination on the map. It was ten miles away in the southeast.
That was the place where the red stripe diabolic leopards appeared frequently.
It was the first task that Austin got from the hard mission room. If he managed to kill a level-three red stripe diabolic leopard, he would be rewarded with two thousand vital energy crystals.
However, Austin also learned from the map that there were many diabolic beasts which he could easily defeat on the way. Of course, he wouldn't let them go. Besides, he came to toughen himself and could get a lot of spoils from them as well.
Half a day had passed, Austin bent and hid in a jungle, looking at something in front of him cautiously.
He had met four level-two one-horned diabolic wolves.
The level-two one-horned diabolic wolf had the strength equal to that of a cultivator at level seven of the Energy Gathering Realm.
If Austin met one diabolic wolf, he was confident that he could kill it easily with his current strength.
But if the four attacked him simultaneously, he would have a hard time finishing them off.
However, after thinking for a while, Austin decided to act despite the danger.
He reminded himself why came here—to toughen himself and to promote his strength. There was no way he should shrink back at the challenges at hand.
Only if he could overcome his own limits could he toughen his will. It was indispensable to have tenacious stamina on the road to be a powerful man.
So there was no reason for him to give up.
After making up his mind, Austin jumped out from his hideout and started the Wind-commanding Skill. He quickly approached the four one-horned diabolic wolves.
Austin wanted to sneakily attack to quickly kill one, but as soon as he moved, the four one-horned diabolic wolves sensed him and turned their heads at the same time. Now, four pairs of bloody eyes stared back at Austin.
It appeared that the diabolic beast's innate sense was stronger than the human's.
As soon as the four diabolic wolves found Austin, they grinned and rushed to him without hesitation.
Austin intended to kill them, so they were. The human and beast were natural enemies.
When the battle started, Austin calmed down and sped up, trying to attack the four diabolic wolves.
The four diabolic wolves were as fast as the wind. There were indistinct arcs flashing on the sharp horns on their heads. When they ran, they divided into two groups—one on the left and the other on the right. They surrounded Austin, and in the blink of an eye, they leaped towards him.
Apparently, the four diabolic wolves had rich fighting experience. They simultaneously attacked left and right, with a perfect distance between each other.
Austin hurriedly leaned to one side and tried to attack with his long sword using the Cloud Swordsmanship.
But the beasts were quick. They jumped at the same time and rushed towards Austin from four different directions.
They had surrounded Austin tightly, giving him nowhere else to go.
Bastards! Austin got furious. He didn't expect that the four diabolic wolves were so clever and knew how to jointly attack the enemy.
Swoosh, he stabbed with the sword twice and forced two diabolic wolves back.
He leaned his body to avoid another wolf's attack.
But the fourth diabolic wolf found the right time and rapidly bit Austin's shoulder with its big ferocious mouth full of sharp teeth.
Austin felt an electric shock all over his body and couldn't help trembling. He hurried to summon his vital energy to deal with it.
Before the wolf could tear his flesh apart, he punched it away.
With a miserable scream, the diabolic wolf rolled on the ground.
But the diabolic wolf had rough skin and hard meat. Its bone was as tough as iron. And even Austin's punch couldn't hurt it enough.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmAs the diabolic wolf rolled on the ground, its ferocious nature was aroused. It howled and tried to rush over again.
Austin raised his leg and hit that wolf's stomach. After kicking it, he waved his long sword and forced another wolf back.
The four diabolic wolves certainly wouldn't give up fighting Austin.
He surprisingly found that the Cloud Swordsmanship he had mastered to a Major Achievement Stage could do nothing to these four diabolic wolves.
His only chance was with the bodily movement of Wind-commanding Skill. By using it, he could still manage to cope with them without being torn into pieces.
As he battled with the four diabolic wolves, Austin suddenly felt a little restless. He had sensed that he was being watched by someone.
He felt chilly sensation run on his backbone. His face turned pale. He released his spiritual sense to immediately cover a range of four hundred meters around him.
Unexpectedly, he found more than ten figures hiding behind the thorn bushes.
The figures looked familiar.
Billy was one of them.
It was a group of young disciples led by Billy. They were the outer disciples of the Sun Sect and Billy's followers.
Instantly, Austin knew what was going on. Billy was unwilling after being defeated by him and came to avenge when he was out of the Sun Sect.
At this time, Billy probably wanted to kill him when most of his vital energy was consumed after he fought against these four diabolic wolves.
He was the enemy who watched behind when Austin was battling with others so that he could gain the last profit.
As expected, Billy was so narrow-minded. Just because he was defeated on the competition, he would resort to such a despicable act.
Austin sneered after he knew it was Billy and felt relieved because he was confident that he could defeat him and his group easily.
But for now, he needed to focus on defeating the four one-horned diabolic wolves. He would deal with Billy's group later.