Then, Austin managed to dodge and overcome the Thunderstroke Doom again and again.
However, he also recognized that as he underwent the dooms, the succeeding ones were becoming
more difficult and more aggressive.
The bolts of lightning became extremely powerful and fast. It would be pretty devastating if one would
make contact with them.
Fortunately, Austin had been proficient in several advanced laws—time, space, reincarnation, and
causality. By using the energy of these laws, Austin's movement became so swift that the thunderbolts
had no chance of hitting him or knowing where he would appear next.
At the same time, some of these laws also enabled him to forcefully jump time back in order to fully
dodge the dooms.
Moreover, he found out that once the Reincarnation Token was activated to teleport him, it could also
make him avoid detection for a short time.
Therefore, Austin managed to brush off the Thunderstroke Dooms that came his way.
As he had hoped and planned, the rest of the Thunderstroke Dooms came one after another at a rapid
rate.
In this way, he had avoided more than sixty Thunderstroke Dooms in total in the next few days.
During this period, the Divine Sword Mountain was always filled with dark clouds that contained flashes
of lightning and thunders.
At the same time,
several figures had suddenly started appearing around the mountain.
These figures were shrouded in strong light, and they also released powerful energy of the laws of
space and time.
If one would look at them, it would be impossible to recognize them or know their identities.
One could only actually see rapidly moving blurry images.
Without gaining any attention,
they quietly invaded and ascended the Divine Sword Mountain.
Each figure's bodily movement skill was extremely brilliant. They constantly traveled through space and
time, traversing at lightning speed.
Just a few moments later,
they managed to approach the upper area of the mountain.
"Look, it's that guy. He really is here.
It seems like he is undergoing the Thunderstroke Doom to become a full-fledged genuine divine god!"
one of them informed the others through his spiritual sense.
"It's just as I've told you.
This guy had the audacity and even made the Divine Sword Mountain his haven.
It's all because the five sword spirits are going to protect him at any cost."
"I see. The five sword spirits are really on the same side with this guy.
If this continues, the entire Divine Sword Mountain will definitely fall into his hands sooner or later.
This can't be. We have to immediately do something to prevent that from happening!'
The tall and blurry figures continued to communicate in secret as they fixed their gaze upon Austin who
was still dodging the Thunderstroke Doom at the top of the mountain.
"Of course. That's why we are here. We will act according to what we have planned.
We need to separate the five sword spirits first. We cannot let them gather together or we'll have
trouble dealing with them.
Each of them has the same combat prowess as us, and if they worked together, it would be much more
dangerous.
Once they joined hands, each of them could summon a humongous sword with unimaginable power. It
was as if they could form an array made up of sword aura and sword intent.
Thus, it is imperative that we prevent them from sticking together.
That is our best course of action if we want to successfully deal with them,"
one of the governing gods explained.
"Okay then, just abide by the original plan and things should go smoothly.
We cannot give them a chance for a counterattack. We should suppress all of these five old men in one
go!
If it's necessary, don't hesitate to kill them all!"
The rest of them nodded repeatedly as the fiery determination could be seen in their eyes.
Soon after,
a large number of young people appeared at the foot of the Divine Sword Mountain.
In just a glance, it could be recognized that these young people had outstanding talents and excellent
temperament.
"I'm Calvert Zhuo. I'm here to climb the Divine Sword Mountain!"
"I'm Ogden Liu. I'm also here to climb the mountain!"
These young people walked towards the mountain without any hesitation and started climbing.
"Sword cultivators?"
The five sword spirits on the Divine Sword Mountain were a bit surprised by the sudden surge of
people who wanted to ascend the mountain.
"All these young people wanted to climb the mountain?"
They knew that the Divine Sword Mountain was indeed famous for sword cultivators.
In fact, from time to time, some sword cultivators, who even came from thousands of miles away, would
venture here just to climb the mountain.
However, they didn't expect that a lot of people would suddenly gather all at once.
It was known that if people wanted to ascend the famous Divine Sword Mountain, they had to pass the
test to be given by the sword spirits first.
Since the five sword spirits themselves would facilitate the test, it was expected to be rather
challenging.
And only when they passed all the tests could they get the qualifications to climb to the top of the
sacred mountain.
Each of the tests was hard enough, thus it was extremely difficult to overcome all of them.
True enough, it was a very wearisome task.
In fact, since ancient times, only a few people could successfully pass all the tests given by the sword
spirits.
However, every person who made it through had surely become famous in the Sword Cosmos and
attracted the attention of millions of people.
Therefore, many young people really aspired to climb the mountain to take the opportunity and test
their skills and luck. If everything went well, this would be their fastest route to fame.
Soon enough, the large group of young people began to proceed and climbed the road to the top.
Then, the old man in white appeared on the mountain road and said in a loud voice,
"Halt!
For all of you who wanted to continue climbing the mountain, you have to take and pass my test first."
"Yes, sir. We are more than willing to accept whatever test that you will give us!"
the young men exclaimed at the same time and showed their determination.
Immediately after, the old man in white began the test for the group of young people.
The tests that were given were fair for every swordsman.
As long as they had the ability to pass the tests of the five sword spirits, every aspiring swordsman
would certainly be acknowledged by the Divine Sword Mountain, and they could freely enter and exit
the mountain at any time.
"Sir, we are here to climb the mountain and take the tests of the Divine Sword Mountain!"
After a while, another group of young men appeared around the Divine Sword Mountain and they were
claiming the intention of ascending the mountain.
In just a few moments, the Divine Sword Mountain became very lively due to the number of young
people that suddenly arrived.
A few moments after,
some of the young people from earlier had already passed the test of the old man in white.
The more common situation was that most of the takers of the exam would fail and they were forced to
get off the mountain.
Unexpectedly, when the young people who failed the test started leaving,
another group of young people showed up at the foot of the mountain. It was the third group on the
same day.
It seemed that all of these young people had reached an agreement in advance that they would come
to the Divine Sword Mountain and take the test at the same time.
As time passed by,
some of the excellent young people from the first batch had just successfully finished the test given by
the second sword spirit. They continued climbing the mountain towards the third examiner.
Surprisingly, about half a day later,
two young men passed the third test and were able to continue going further up the mountain.
At this point, the five sword spirits were actually separated from each other because they had to take
care of the young people who had been taking the tests at the same time.
Each of them had become rather busy to oversee and conduct the tests.
Meanwhile, around the Divine Sword Mountain
the figures, who were wrapped in law power and turned invisible, were now preparing to move.
"All right, it's time.
We will sneak up the mountain.
All of us will be divided into five groups. Then, each group shall attack the sword spirit assigned to
them.
They might be exceptionally strong, but I believe that as long as we move very discreetly and we
execute our plan swiftly,
even the powerful five sword spirits would fall into our hands in one decisive blow.
After that, the Divine Sword Mountain will be under our control.
More importantly, that bastard will have nowhere to escape,"
one of the governing gods recounted, letting out a devilish grin and a vicious killing intent.
"What are you waiting for?
Let's get started!
It's an opportunity of a lifetime that we cannot miss!"
Fully determined, they began to use their bodily movement skills to climb up the mountain and sneakily
hunt the five sword spirits.
On the other hand, the five sword spirits had no idea of what was going to happen as they were pretty
preoccupied with facilitating the tests for the young people.
Actually, every young man who had appeared in the Divine Sword Mountain today was carefully
selected.
All of them were rather talented.
It could also be said that these groups of young people basically represented the most remarkable
young talents in the entire Sword Cosmos nowadays.
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