Feeling the pain in his left chest, Lanny glared at Austin. At the same time, he regretted continuing to
fight with Austin. Since he was familiar with the courtyard and his bodily movement skill was almost on
par with Austin's, he probably could have managed to escape before using up all his vital energy.
However, he had been so set on killing Austin that he hadn't been thinking clearly.
The look of regret on Lanny's face didn't go unnoticed by Austin.
"You know you made the wrong decision, don't you, old guy? Well, there's no coming back from it now.
You should remember it in your next life.
Now it's time for you to die," Austin said coldly.
Then, he charged at Lanny again.
Austin and Lanny fought for a while before Austin's Violet Royal Sword slit Lanny's neck. Lanny had
used up all his vital energy force.
His eyes bulged out of their sockets and blood gushed out from his mouth as he shot Austin a look of
pure hatred.
As he slowly slid onto the ground, vital force disappeared from his body bit by bit until his body became
cold.
Austin sheathed his Violet Royal Sword with a look of satisfaction on his face.
This was the first time he had defeated a cultivator at the peak of the preliminary stage of Earth Realm.
Austin had correctly estimated his own strength.
Now, he thought that at least few cultivators at the preliminary stage of Earth Realm would have to
come together to defeat him.
At the level that Austin was on, he could even go up against a cultivator at the medium stage of Earth
Realm. . . .
"Austin," Mindy called.
Moments after Lanny was defeated, Mindy arrived at the scene with Violet.
Mindy had become friendly to Violet after fighting by her side just now. Although she knew that Violet
was a level three demonic fox, she thought of her as a good sister.
Austin was puzzled to see four bleeding heads in Mindy's hand.
"Austin, did you really kill Lanny?" Mindy asked Austin, her voice bursting with excitement. She was
overjoyed to see Lanny's cold body.
Now that Lanny was dead, the Li Clan of Valley Town could be wiped out completely.
Violet looked at Austin with pride and excitement on her face. She'd become Austin's servant only half
a year ago. When she'd first met Austin, he had been a cultivator at level five of the Energy Gathering
Realm, which meant that he was as weak as an ant compared to the cultivators at the Earth Realm.
If Austin hadn't secretly attacked Violet with his Spiritual Sense Flying Needle, which had resulted in
Violet being hurt by her own spiritual sense, it would have been impossible for Austin to subdue Violet.
However, in just half a year, Austin had managed to improve his cultivation base at a speed that was
beyond anything she had ever imagined. He had already broken through the preliminary stage of Earth
Realm now.
Thinking about this, Violet could not help but shake her head. She started to respect and admire her
master from the bottom of her heart as she knew that he was stronger than her in both spiritual sense
force and cultivation base.
Violet knew she didn't have the strength to fight against her master, not that she would ever want to.
She had a lot to benefit from being his servant.
After all, to reach such a high level in the martial arts field, Austin must have great potential in the
cultivation base.
Becoming Austin's servant was probably the luckiest thing that had happened to Violet.
As she thought about this, there was a glint of admiration in her eyes.
"You killed all the other cultivators of the Li Clan?" Austin asked.
Austin knew that all the cultivators except Lanny were at low levels of the Energy Gathering Realm, but
there had been more than a hundred of them in the courtyard.
Although both Mindy and Violet were at the preliminary stage of Earth Realm, it wouldn't have been
easy for them to kill all the cultivators in such a short time. But looking at their expressions now, it
seemed that they'd been able to do just that.
"Well, we killed two-thirds of them, but the rest fled during the fight. It was fortunate that I had Violet
with me. If I'd tried to fight them alone, I wouldn't have been able to handle it in such a short time,"
Mindy answered.
Violet laughed and gazed at Austin charmingly.
Austin glanced at her wildly attractive face and then quickly turned away, blushing.
"Who are these people?" Austin asked, pointing to the heads in Mindy's hands.
He knew Mindy must have some special reason for carrying these heads around.
"Hmph! These people used to work for the Zhang Clan. This one, the one with the white face, was the
head of all the servants in our clan. The other three were our guards. They're the ones who took a lofty
bribe to betray our clan. That night, they helped the Li Clan cultivators and secretly attacked the Zhang
Clan from the inside.
They're a key reason why the Li Clan were able to launch a surprise attack on the Zhang Clan.
Therefore, I'm going to take their heads back to honor the people of our clan who died that night so that
they can finally rest in heaven.
I'm going to take Lanny's head as well," Mindy said with tears in her eyes.
Austin nodded in understanding.
Mindy walked over to Lanny's body and cut his head off, then carried it along with the other heads in
her hand.
Now that Mindy had aroused her dragon feminine constitution, she looked beautiful with snow-white
skin, a pretty face, a slim body, a slim waist, and long legs.
But now, such a beautiful girl was holding six bloody heads. Under the moonlight, she looked like a
demon.
"I just interrogated one of the people from Li Clan, and it turns out that the leader of Zhang Clan is still
alive. He is imprisoned in a dungeon somewhere along with some key members of Zhang Clan.
But the location of the dungeon is a secret and concealed in a place that only the principal members of
the Li Clan know about.
I tried asking someone else from the Li Clan but he didn't know anything about it.
That's why I came here in a hurry, I actually wanted to ask Lanny about it.
But I was too late," Mindy explained excitedly.
She'd been overjoyed to find out that more than one member of her clan was still alive.
"If that's true, then we can't delay any longer. Let's split up and look for the dungeon," Austin replied.
The three of them started to look for the dungeon in the courtyard.
The huge courtyard of the Li Clan was empty as everyone had either escaped or been killed.
It was reasonable for them to have run away. After all, it was frightening for anyone in Valley Town to
face three cultivators at the level of Earth Realm. Although the Li Clan was the strongest clan in Valley
Town, it was difficult for them to fight against three cultivators at the level of Earth Realm at the same
time.
So at the beginning of the fight, the smarter members of the Li Clan had fled the courtyard. The fate of
the Li Clan wasn't as important to them as their lives were.
Of course, the others hadn't shared the same sentiment. They had valued their clan over their own
lives. Unfortunately, despite their courage and loyalty to their clan, they hadn't been strong enough to
defeat three cultivators at the level of Earth Realm. All of the clan members who had stayed had been
killed.
Austin used his bodily movement skill and quickly ran through the courtyard. Then, using his spiritual
sense, he looked for the entrance of the dungeon.
After a while, he sensed something abnormal under a flagstone beside a pond in the backyard. There
was an entrance there.
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