A terrible battle broke out almost instantly.
The terrifying fighting energy that was released in this battle was almost too much for this small world
to bear.
The members of the Xi'men Clan retreated to a far corner of the ancestral land for fear of being
involved.
The weaker creatures would be doomed even if they were present in the same area as a battle of this
intensity.
"Austin, you are bullying our Xi'men Clan!"
the patriarch of the Xi'men Clan roared, making his way over, a sharp golden sword in his hand.
Streaks of golden laws of swordsmanship shot out from his body, causing him to look like a golden
statue.
But he was no match for Austin, who, with a single backhanded sword strike, sent him flying
backwards.
"Patriarch! Let me help you!"
A different governing god rushed to the patriarch's side, the long sword in his hand growing with each
step he took. When it had grown to a size even larger than a divine mountain, he sent it smashing
towards Austin.
"You can't even protect yourself!"
Austin sneered and met the attack head on.
It took him just two moves
to cut off the governing god's head with his sword.
He then punched the governing god's body and smashed it into pieces.
"I'll fight you to the death!"
the governing god snarled as he reconstructed his physical body and reappeared not far away from
where Austin stood. His eyes glinted fervently.
"You aren't qualified to fight me,"
Austin said, his voice dripping disdain.
He then swung his sword horizontally.
The boundless great cosmos force and the sea-like energy of swordsmanship were added to the
sword, shaking the ancestral land, and causing it to tremble and whine.
Before long, the sword had cut the governing god into two pieces,
his internal organs scattering into the void.
Austin used his secret skills,
including the secret spiritual soul skill, the swordsmanship skill, the secret reincarnation skills, the Mind
Sword Skill, and the Ultimate Mind Sword Skill, to launch a further attack.
"Aaaaaahh!"
the governing god roared in horror at what Austin had done.
Boom!
Austin was like an indestructible, murderous demon, punching at the broken limbs of the governing god
and turning them into blood mist.
He then stretched out his large hand, enlarging it and trying
to grab the governing god's spiritual soul.
"What a cruel man you are, Austin!"
The spiritual soul of the governing god was shocked and angry. He turned into a ball of divine light and
fled into the distance.
But Austin was much faster than him.
And after everything that had happened, how could he let him go so easily?
So Austin's hand flew across the air.
The great cosmos force, the energy of swordsmanship, and the law of reincarnation were added to his
five fingers, completely freezing space and time.
The governing god felt like he had fallen into a swamp and it was difficult to move.
"You can't escape!" Austin said coldly.
He stretched his fingers and five streaks of divine light flew out, turning into five dragons that caught up
with the spiritual soul of the governing god, grabbed it, and then shrank back.
Austin suppressed one governing god of the Xi'men Clan just like this.
The seven other governing gods gasped in shock.
Austin was too fast.
And his secret skills were terrifying to say the least.
They had no way of saving the dead governing god.
"We are no match for him!
Let's ask the tombstones of our ancestors for help!"
the patriarch of the Xi'men Can shouted to the others, his teeth gritted in frustration.
"Okay!
We need to kill him!"
The other governing gods nodded in agreement.
"Dear ancestors! A strong enemy has invaded our Xi'men Clan today, and we are in a dire situation.
Please help us kill Austin and protect our Xi'men Clan from disaster!"
The patriarch and the six other governing gods of the Xi'men Clan simultaneously knelt down in the
void, collectively speaking in a low hum that echoed throughout the small world.
Then something happened.
Tombstones soundlessly appeared around Austin, surrounding him as they towered into the heights of
the sky.
These tombstones were majestic but were enveloped in a sinister, terrifying aura.
There were countless tombstones filling the void,
all of them targeting Austin.
"Oh?"
Austin was surprised.
"All the ancestors of the Xi'men Clan are here, Austin. If you want our clan to submit to you, you should
first ask our ancestors if they agree!"
the patriarch of the Xi'men Clan grinned.
This was the Xi'men Clan's trump card.
When an ancestor of the Xi'men Clan died, they would use a secret skill to seal their remaining energy
and the most powerful secret skill they had ever learnt into a tombstone. This way, they could guard
their ancestral land after they died.
If the Xi'men Clan were to face a critical situation that was a matter of life and death,
the patriarch could then chant spells to summon these tombstones and activate them all to fight
external enemies.
This was an army with terrifying fighting power.
Even Austin frowned at this.
The numerous tombstones in front of him exuded strange auras, which seemed to be more difficult to
deal with than the seven governing gods of the Xi'men Clan.
"Well, this is horrible!
I didn't expect the Xi'men Clan to own such a trump card!
No wonder they are a super clan with a long history!"
Many powerful cultivators in the Sword Cosmos were whispering fervently among themselves. They
agreed that these tombstones looked terrifying to say the least.
"Dear ancestors, please show your great power and kill Austin!"
the patriarch and the six governing gods of the Xi'men Clan roared in one voice.
They had barely finished speaking when
all the tombstones began to shake violently.
The tombstones began to glow, blood red words showing up on them. The smell of blood pervaded the
air, and blood light soared into the sky.
What was stranger was that the faint outline of a face appeared on each tombstone, their eyes fixed on
Austin.
Boom!
In the starry sky of the Xi'men World was violent wind of space and time, lightning flashing and thunder
roaring.
All the tombstones were simultaneously activated, all so powerful that they could shake the sky.
In the next moment,
all the tombstones began to rush at Austin.
"You're a group of dead people. What can you do to me?"
Austin roared at them.
"You think you can defeat me with the help of these dead people?"
he continued sneeringly.
Austin took a step forward, long sword in hand.
His body emitted a dazzling sword radiance, various kinds of laws enveloping him.
He used his bodily movement skill, while also activating the Shadowless Movement, the secret
reincarnation skills, and the Reincarnation Token, all of them cooperating with each other.
Austin's movements thus became unpredictable, as if he was no longer in this space and time.
Before long,
Austin and his two avatars appeared simultaneously,
and all three of them rushed in three different directions.
The battle erupted.
Austin fought the tombstones head-on,
without the least intention of retreating.
Each tombstone contained the energy and the most powerful secret skill of an ancestor of the Xi'men
Clan.
The biggest advantage of these tombstones was their large number that helped them besiege and
attack Austin together.
But Austin's fighting power was too terrifying.
Boom!
It wasn't long before his sword cut into a tombstone.
The face on the tombstone let out a sigh, and then, slowly disappeared from the world.
This meant that the last traces of vital energy and the spiritual soul mark of this ancestor of the Xi'men
Clan were completely gone.
Austin was so powerful that a dazzling sword radiance shone all over his body.
And his courage and unbeatable power enabled him to break each of these tombstones in succession.
The tombstones were terrifying,
but not more than Austin's fighting power.
"The Xi'men Clan is so mediocre! You even push these dead guys out to face my attacks? How
ridiculous!"
Austin shouted.
His words stunned the patriarch and the other six governing gods of the Xi'men Clan.
They turned beet red, because they knew that Austin was right.
Every time Austin broke a tombstone, everything that one of their ancestors left behind would be
completely destroyed and would disappear, wiped off the face of the earth.
The patriarch and the other six governing gods of the Xi'men Clan were suddenly overcome by sorrow
and guilt. They felt they were unfilial descendants who had hurt their ancestors in ways they couldn't
repair.
"Enough!"
At this moment, a voice rang out from the depths of the Xi'men Clan's ancestral land.
The voice seemed to resonate with some sort of magic power, causing all the tombstones to stop
moving.
A figure then slowly walked out of the depths of the ancestral land.
"What's going on?
Does the Xi'men Clan also have a supreme grandmaster who's living in seclusion, just like the Flying
Immortal Sword Sect?"
The powerful cultivators of the Sword Cosmos stared at the figure in surprise.
"This is..." they mouthed, but nothing else came out.
All the creatures were struck dumb, unable to believe what they were seeing.
The creature that had walked out of the depths of the ancestral land of the Xi'men Clan turned out to be
an exceedingly beautiful girl!
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