"Master is cultivating the complete version of the secret manual. Once he succeeds in mastering it, he
will be much more powerful than we are!"
Warner exclaimed, his eyes sparkling with admiration.
"That's for sure.
In fact, our master is already much stronger than us now.
So once he cultivates the great cosmos force, his combat power will increase by tenfold at least.
Our strength will be nothing compared to the strength of our master,"
a new voice rang out.
Warned turned to the source of the voice and found Emmet come over from the nearby void.
"Emmet, you've recovered already?"
he asked, widening his eyes in surprise. He had thought that Emmet would take much longer to heal,
let alone travel around like this.
"Not completely, but more than half my injuries have healed.
The rest will slowly heal in the future,"
Emmet replied indifferently. His expression and his tone gave the impression that he was just talking
about the weather, and not his life-threatening injuries.
But just like he had said, the wounds on his body, as well as the energy and forces he had lost, had all
been fully replenished.
The remaining injuries were the ones on his spiritual soul; these injuries had no direct cure except the
passage of time. Hence, Emmet was determined to return to normalcy and just let his spiritual soul heal
itself.
Besides, his spiritual soul was not really that seriously injured. It had been forcibly invaded by a large
number of puppet strings, which had taken a toll on him.
When Warner nodded at his words, Emmet continued in a reassuring voice,
"Although our master is young, he is simply invincible.
The two of us must be loyal to him and do our best to serve him whole-heartedly."
"Of course!"
Warner replied in a hurry. He had more or less come to the same conclusion.
This pair, Warner and Emmet, were considered the two most ferocious villains in the Sword Cosmos.
They were cruel and unyielding, and they had never been tamed by anyone in their lives, not even in
the figurative sense. After all, they had no reason to respect —let alone submit to —people who were
less powerful than them.
Therefore, they had never imagined that one day, somebody would actually manage to subdue them.
Since Austin was undeniably more powerful than they were, they had become his loyal slaves. To
them, power was everything. Nevertheless, if the other masters in the Sword Cosmos found out that
the great pair of villains had submitted to Austin, their jaws would drop with shock.
Time passed slowly day by day.
In the area near the eye of the cosmos, Austin was cultivating with the utmost concentration.
As long as he was inside his small world, he could avoid external disturbances. Therefore, he was fully
immersed in his cultivation. His discipline and drive when it came to cultivation was what had made him
become this powerful in the first place. While other people cared about conquest and glory, and used
cultivation as a means to an end, Austin cared most about growing his own power.
All around the eye of the cosmos, millions of threads of incomparably great cosmos force whizzed
towards the small world where Austin was cultivating in seclusion.
The great power of these threads seeped into the small world and was absorbed thoroughly by Austin's
body.
Soon, a vortex of energy materialized in his body and slowly rotated, producing a huge gravitational
force.
The great cosmos force was inevitably attracted to this energy vortex,
causing the energy structure of Austin's body to gradually transform on a fundamental level.
Originally, most of the energy in Austin's body had been chaotic energy.
But now, the amount of cosmos force in his body began to surpass the chaotic energy.
Bit by bit, the great cosmos force were reforming and upgrading Austin's body from head to toe.
With the nourishment of the great cosmos force, Austin's body —from his flesh and bones right down to
every pore and every cell —was enhanced.
Such a transformation was known as a qualitative change, and it was something that most creatures
rarely got the opportunity to achieve.
It was equivalent to a huge leap in the quality of his life.
Austin's body had been abnormally strong to start with, but now, with the help of the great cosmos
force, he was getting even stronger.
Other creatures would not even be able to wrap their heads around how strong Austin was at the
moment.
'Well, I didn't know that this method would not only upgrade the energy in my body, but also refine my
body itself. This is an unexpected harvest,'
Austin thought to himself, feeling pleasantly surprised.
'I wonder how much combat power I will have after absorbing as much of these great cosmos forces as
I can.
Will I have the strength to fight against Humphrey now?'
Right now,
his top priority was to go back to the boundless Sea of Chaos to deal with Humphrey and solve the
crisis there once and for all.
He didn't want the Sea of Chaos to permanently fall into Humphrey's hands.
With these thoughts keeping him motivated, Austin continued to cultivate,
and another year passed.
Austin had been cultivating in seclusion for two years in the small world.
In these two years, the Sword Cosmos had been calm and peaceful.
The four major forces all kept a low profile and didn't cause any problems.
However, this was only how it seemed on the surface.
The truth was, during the past two years, the senior leaders of the four major forces had tried every
means at their disposal to strengthen the monitoring of the Divine Sword Mountain and the Ethereal
World.
They had also relentlessly discussed about how to deal with Austin and his two new slaves, Warner
and Emmet.
Moreover, they had also persuaded many other governing gods who didn't belong to the four major
forces to join hands with them.
All in all, after the battle with Austin in the Ethereal World, the senior leaders of the four major forces
had understood one thing:
with Austin in the picture, there was a strong threat to their iron-grip hold over the Sword Cosmos!
Austin, as well as Warner and Emmet, all had the strength to fight against the four major forces. They
didn't even need an army.
For the longest time, the four major forces had had unquestionable power and influence over the
Sword Cosmos, but now, it was being challenged.
"Austin, along with his slaves, Warner and Emmet, must be destroyed! We must get rid of them all.
Otherwise, we will have to face big trouble in the future.
It will seriously affect our rule," one of the senior leaders of the four major forces said earnestly to the
others.
They were all gathered in a secret space to discuss their future strategy. No matter what differing
opinions they held, they could all agree on one thing: Austin had to be destroyed at any cost.
"So, it is decided then. We must join hands and try our best to get rid of these three bastards,"
a red-faced leader said slowly.
"Humph! I didn't expect that Austin would grow so fast.
He has turned into the biggest threat to our power. He has already become as strong as we are, and in
such a short time,"
an angry governing god, who was as short as a five-year-old child, commented sharply.
It was none other than Rollins from the Long Sword Sect.
Back in the battle at the Ethereal World, he had sustained serious injuries.
The Long Sword Sect had had to spend a lot of money and effort to heal his wounds. He had
eventually recovered under intensive care.
The other governing gods remained silent when they heard what Rollins said.
They all remembered the old days when Austin had first appeared in the Sword Cosmos. Back then, he
had run away from them with his tail between his legs.
They had never imagined that the laughable kid would come back and pose such an enormous threat
to them.
"You have to understand that it's not easy to kill Austin, or even Warner and Emmet.
The power of the pair is simply terrifying once they combine their two swords.
Even if all of us work closely together, I don't think we can defeat them.
It's almost impossible to kill them both.
As for Austin... he can take on more than a dozen of us all at once. How can we ever defeat him?"
another one of the governing gods said, shaking his head helplessly.
The entire room went silent, feeling discouraged and despondent. But all of a sudden, the red-faced
god gasped, as if hit by eureka. His eyes widened in excitement as he rushed to explain,
"I think that Warner and Emmet can only combine their swords under a certain condition.
That is to say, their maximum power can only be unleashed in the eye of the cosmos in the Ethereal
World, especially in the abyss.
Since there is a large amount of great cosmos force in that abyss, the chaotic environment will further
stimulate their power.
Warner and Emmet knew what they were doing. It's only in the abyss that their strength can't be
contended with.
So I think that as long as we fight them outside the abyss, we don't have to be afraid of them at
all!"
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