The Supreme God of Martial Arts

"Oh really? They want to unify the Violet Orchid Empire? Such arrogance! If that is true, then why did the five major sects and the royal court keep themselves in the background?" Austin asked, confused about the whole situation. In the Violet Orchid Empire, the royal court and the five major sects were the most powerful entities and by rights, they would never sit back and watch the arrogant Ghost Sect try to do anything with the Empire, even if it was, in their words, unifying it. The Ghost Sect would have faced quite a lot of resistance, especially from the five major sects, who would never let their enemy becthe tyrant.

About a hundred years ago, an epic war had broken out between the Ghost Sect and all the other sects inside the Violet Orchid Empire. Led by these five major sects, the warriors of the latter team firmly believed that the Ghost Sect had been completely eliminated.

However, the truth was that sdisciples of the Ghost Sect had survived the war and had been lurking in the dark since then, hoping to one day regain their power.

Austin had long known about this, but he had never thought that these disciples hiding in the darkness would be so ambitious.

The war they had faced a century ago had wreaked havoc on the Ghost Sect. How could they be so confident and ambitious to claim that they were trying to unify the Violet Orchid Empire today? They were just a group of careerists busy trying to stir up unrest.

"Austin, where have you been all these days? You sound like you know nothing about the situation here.

The imperial capital city and the mountain gates of the five major sects have been besieged by disciples from the Ghost Sect. No one in or out! How can the imperial royal court and the sects offer any assistance? They can't help each other because they are unable to fend even for themselves." Mindy sighed, shaking her head.

"What? The disciples from the Ghost Sect have besieged the imperial capital city and the mountain gates of five major sects? How is that even possible? How can the Ghost Sect be powerful enough to do that?" Austin was greatly surprised.

This meant that the Ghost Sect disciples lurking in the shadows had built up enough forces to besiege the entire empire at once and had unprecedented strength now.

"Yes. Actually, the Ghost Sect's sudden emergence surprised everyone greatly.

The five major sects were supposed to stand together and annihilate those disciples. But the plan went south.

And yet those disciples were just a tip of the iceberg. Pretty soon, more and more disciples and master figures emerged.

Combined, their strength was even greater than that of the Imperial Capital Court! No one could do anything." Mindy explained.

"Hmm. No doubt the remnants of the Ghost Sect have secretly recruited more and more people. That is the only way they could have developed the Ghost Sect into such a powerful force.

| have been in the outer ranges of the Grand Desolation Mountain for stime. So | had no idea of what was going on in the Violet Orchid Empire." Austin told her.

"Okay..." Now Mindy understood why Austin didn't know anything.

"Clan leader, disciples from the Ghost Sect have surrounded our courtyard.

They are saying we will suffer extermination and the entire family will die if we don't bend down in front of them within half an hour." Suddenly, a young man burst into the hall and reported. He was so scared that his face looked pale and bloodless.

Mindy exchanged a look with Zachary and they all rose to their feet.

"Mindy, should we fight or surrender? It's up to you now." The young man asked.

Mindy was in the highest position in the family now, and Zachary acted as adviser to her, helping her in major decisions of the family.

"Austin, what do you say?" Zachary asked Austin.

"First, let's go outside and have a look," Austin replied.

The idea that the Ghost Sect had becso big in the Violet Orchid Empire now really interested Austin and he wanted to see their strength in person.

Austin, Mindy, and Zachary went to the courtyard gate, followed by a dozen young and middle-aged men of the family.

Austin gestured to the guards to open the gate.

He then took the lead and walked outside without hesitation, intrigued about what he would see.

Hundreds of figures were standing outside, led by a middle-aged man clad in black.

He spoke just as the gate of the courtyard opened.

"Have you all decided yet? Whoever's in charge of the family, bend your knees and join the Ghost Sect, or die.

No more lingering. You have almost run out of your time." The voice that left the throat of the man in black was quite cold and overbearing. After he had completed his sentence, he threw his head back and sneered at the Zhang family, condescending.

"Austin, this man is extremely powerful." Mindy whispered to Austin.

A cold laugh escaped Austin's lips. "He is a nobody! Just a man at the preliminary stage of the Mysterious Realm." Austin needed just a glimpse to know the man's cultivation base which was only at the preliminary stage of the Mysterious Realm.

A man with such a strength did not even deserve Austin's glance, but he was invincible in the eyes of the warriors of Valley Town.

Mindy's cultivation base was at the premium stage of the Earth Realm and she was already the strongest cultivator within the entire town.

It was no wonder that the Ghost Sect could sweep away the entire Valley Town with a single disciple at the preliminary stage of the Mysterious Realm.

"Austin, look! These men, they are so terrifying!" Mindy burst into a sudden scream.

"Ha! Don't be so afraid. These are only corpse soldiers refined by corpses." The moment Austin stepped out of the gate, he instantly saw that almost half of the troop of the Ghost Sect was comprised of corpse soldiers.

There were two corpse generals among them too.

"Corpse soldiers?" Mindy and Zachary were stunned.

"Correct. These corpse soldiers were refined from the carcasses of numerous warriors. They aren't that hard to beat, but try not to get infected from the poisonous corpse miasma.

| recognize them because | have encountered them before." Austin explained.

"You are going too far! Your ignorance of my counsel will be paid by annihilation of your family. Today is your doomsday." Seeing Austin continue whispering with Mindy and Zachary and ignoring his words, the leader of the troop was furious.

His anger blazed forth as he felt his majesty was being provoked.

He had decided that the Zhang family was as vulnerable as a rabbit in Valley Town, and now, his wrath was making up his mind to exterminate this entire family from existence, making an example out of them for their discourtesy.

Without even a word, more than fifty corpse soldiers dashed towards the gate as he waved his hand.

"Everyone! Pull back and keep away from them. Don't engage. Letdeal with them." Austin knew that these corpse soldiers were not strong, but the warriors at the Earth Realm might be no match for them.

Moreover, these corpse soldiers were quite poisonous, and the consequences would be too ghastly to contemplate if they infected the family.

"Austin, lethelp you! All the others retreat back to the courtyard." Mindy was never going to let Austin fight alone, so she shouted.

"Ha ha, just stand there and watch me." Austin knew what she was thinking and gave her the hint of a smile.

Then he took out a small pouch and shook it slightly.

Twenty figures flew out from the pouch.

"Corpse generals! Who the hell are you? How can you command so many corpse generals!" These corpse generals immediately sent the middle-aged man in black from the Ghost Sect in deep shock.