Austin knew that even if Marvin didn't have strong vital energy, he couldn't easily break the latter's
defense.
Furthermore, Marvin had a low-grade fairy weapon so Austin would have no chance to win if they ever
fight.
"Runaway? But why should I? I had a hard time fighting those evil apes, so I won't be that silly to
escape.
Do you know why I am here?"
Austin asked with a sly smile.
Suddenly, Marvin felt like something hit his brain.
Like there was an invisible needle pricking his brain and the pain was unbearable.
While he was distracted by the sudden pain, Austin said sarcastically, "You're not strong enough to stop
me!"
With that, Austin moved toward the valley.
Marvin was shocked and angry at the same time. He shouted, "If you dare to enter the valley, you're
dead!"
When Marvin recovered from the pain, Austin had already been several hundred feet away from him
and was moving toward the valley with incredible speed.
Marvin was furious and went all out to go after Austin.
Austin was clear he was no match for Marvin for now so it would be best to avoid any unnecessary
fight with him. Besides, his only purpose for coming to the Beast Mountain was to get the earth spirit
fruits.
That was why he had taken out the Spiritual Sense Flying Needle to disturb Marvin's mind before
rushing toward the valley.
As he went deeper the valley, Austin found the road was getting narrower. Brambles, swamps and
jagged rocks of grotesque shapes were everywhere.
The view was also not clear because of the mist around.
The mist made the countless towering old trees along the valley look like giants looking down on him.
Austin rushed forward as swiftly as a giant bird skimming over.
'Fuck! How can he move so fast?'
Despite using the Wind-commanding skill, Austin was surprised to see Marvin catching up to him at a
fast pace.
Austin just realized that the Wind-commanding Skill had a weakness. Although it could make him agile,
it had no advantage in speed when it came to the long-distance running.
After all, such long-distance running required a lot of vital energy.
If a person didn't have enough vital energy, even if he was agile, his vital energy would dry out and his
speed would decrease gradually.
Marvin seemed to have found out that too. He said with a smirk, "Let's see how far you could run!"
He then activated his vital energy and transformed into a faint shadow chasing Austin.
In no time, the distance between them was only several hundred meters.
At his current speed, Austin felt that his vital energy was almost at its limit. Eventually, he wouldn't be
able to hold on for a long time.
On the contrary, Marvin still looked energetic. He kept on sneering at Austin to distract him and was
almost about to catch up with the latter.
After passing over a thicket of brambles that rose above the head, Austin saw a vast marsh lake,
billowing with turbid bubbles and emanating the miasma.
In the middle of the marsh lake, there was a small piece of flat space on which several green plants
grew.
There were more than twenty soft-glowing white round fruits on the green plants. They seemed to be
sensitive.
Although Austin had never seen them before, he knew that these should be the earth spirit fruits.
His heart jumped wildly with excitement.
Floating over the marsh lake, Austin stopped beside the earth spirit fruit trees.
"The earth spirit fruits!"
Marvin had caught up with Austin and found the earth spirit fruits too. He was so excited that he cried
out.
Of course, Austin wouldn't give up his chance to others.
He quickly acted and used both his hands and his feet to break off the fruit-bearing branches and put
them into the Space Ring without even looking at them.
"How dare you!"
Marvin shouted angrily.
He stamped his feet and rushed toward the land in the middle of the marsh lake, like an arrow off a
string.
Without a word, Marvin threw his silver trident at Austin.
Like a silver dragon, the trident whizzed and rushed toward Austin from behind.
As he was picking the earth spirit fruits, Austin summoned his spiritual sense so he could tell Marvin's
every move.
"Fuck! Why are you making this hard?"
Austin cursed in a loud voice. He then moved quickly to dodge the silver trident wrapped in mighty vital
energy.
But he didn't stop picking the earth spirit fruits.
With a loud bang, the silver trident whizzed and struck the ground.
The impact left a large hole in the ground.
The silver trident had gone deep into the ground that it couldn't be seen now.
"Wow! That was close!" Austin said in amazement.
Just after a few minutes, Austin had managed to put all the earth spirit fruits into his Space Ring.
Just then, Marvin came up behind him.
Marvin grew angry and anxious when he saw that Austin had gathered all the earth spirit fruits. His vital
energy gushed from his body and rushed toward Austin like a hawk.
"That's what I've been waiting for!"
Despite sensing the violent vital energy coming from Marvin, Austin was feeling ecstatic. Since he had
gotten all the earth spirit fruits, he was in an unusually good mood.
"Now it's my turn!"
Austin shouted. He controlled his spiritual sense and then summoned the Spiritual Sense Flying
Needle.
Marvin was in the middle of attacking when his brain suddenly throbbed with pain.
Although his vital energy level was higher than Austin, his spiritual sense ability was still in the primary
stage.
Austin's spiritual sense level was higher than that of the high-level cultivator at vital energy Earth
Realm. Now that his spiritual sense had broken into Marvin's Soul Sea, he could do whatever he
wanted. Marvin's mind became his little playground.
Since the spiritual sense was invisible, Austin was at the advantage. Marvin was unable to see it,
hence there was no way he could dodge it.
When his Soul Sea was attacked, Marvin felt a sharp pain in his head.
Marvin felt as if he was being intoxicated. Everything around him started to blur and he couldn't stand
still. He was almost losing his consciousness.
Austin, on the other hand, only wanted to get away from there. Now that he got all the earth spirit fruits,
he didn't want to get into a fight with Marvin or anyone.
He cast the Spiritual Sense Flying Needle on Marvin to distract him and then ran towards the exit of the
valley without looking back.
However, Austin may have underestimated Marvin. The latter couldn't easily be distracted like that and
he knew how to get himself back. Instead of fighting back the pain brought by Austin's Spiritual Sense
Flying Needle, he tried to calm himself down and he gradually recovered his consciousness.
"Austin, I swear I will hunt you down and kill you myself!"
Marvin shouted. His voice echoed in the valley.
Suddenly, Marvin's body was covered in silver light and he ran in the direction that Austin went.
Sensing Marvin's incredible speed, Austin's face suddenly turned pale as if all the blood in his body
was drained.
He summoned more vital energy and activated the Wind-commanding Skill to its full potential.
However, since he had been running for a long time, his vital energy was almost at its limit.
The Wind-commanding Skill required a great amount of vital energy. But since Austin had only reached
level five of the Energy Gathering Realm in vital energy cultivation, there could be a chance that he
could not use the skill effectively this time.
Marvin, on the other hand, had already reached level eight of the same realm.
And because of the difference in their realms, only a few hours, Marvin was already catching up to
Austin.
"Do you seriously think you can run away from me just like that, Austin? Don't waste your time running
because you can never escape me! Do you know what I will do if I catch you?
I'll slice off your flesh piece by piece! I'll make you regret coming into this world!"
Marvin threatened.
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