"That's good to hear,"
Austin said, smiling.
He never wanted to hurt these wood puppets anyway.
Instead, he planned to use the Puppet Strings to control them and force them to reveal their methods of
cultivating mind power.
But the puppets were unexpectedly and doggedly avoiding all his attempts.
They even brought their spiritual souls to the point of explosion in order to fight back.
"Austin, you've just come to this supreme universe, but you've already offended two great races.
The wood puppet race and the face race are relatively powerful.
And each race is guarded by governing gods.
We will be in big trouble soon,"
the gnome said, frowning.
"Either way, we will stand by your side as we fight them together,"
Asa assured him as he patted Austin's shoulder.
The gnome was always cautious.
On the contrary, the Eight Stone Saints were bellicose, never afraid of getting into trouble.
"Don't worry. It's going to be okay,"
Austin said with a smile.
Little did they know that something bad was coming their way!
In the distance,
the thump-thump-thump indicated that an army was making its way towards them.
One could tell that the army was not coming to do good.
"It's the face race,"
Asa said, his voice serious as he raised the huge stone stick in his hand. His eyes brimmed with
fighting spirit.
Although he had now become a genuine premium-grade divine god,
he still preferred to use his previous weapon.
However, he had already refined this stone stick again and turned it into a supreme divine weapon.
"Austin, we are going to face the consequences of the trouble you have stirred up.
You are still the same as before. Wherever you go, trouble follows you!"
the gnome said bitterly, shaking his head.
The army of the face race had taken less than a minute to reach them.
One of them reflecting the strength of an ordinary divine god stepped out of the crowd and said,
"Look!
It's them! They just helped the wood puppet race fight us!"
He was the leader of the face race that Austin had banished earlier.
"How is this possible?
You are the Eight Stone Saints and the gnome!
Is this guy with you?"
Another one of them floated forward and recognized the Eight Stone Saints and the gnome.
The leader of this army was a genuine premium-grade divine god.
Thus, the leader had recognized the Eight Stone Saints and the gnome since they were at the same
level.
What was more, in the past one hundred years or so, the Eight Stone Saints and the gnome had made
a name in this supreme universe.
"That's right!
He is our friend,"
Asa said.
"What do you want? Do you want to fight our friend?"
Asa continued, waving the stone stick in his hand threateningly.
"Humph!
This brat attacked us for no reason.
He obviously wants to bully the face race.
Did you really think that we would not fight back after the insult we suffered?"
the leader said sharply.
Another face floated forward and said coldly,
"He must give us an acceptable explanation!
We won't let him go that easily otherwise."
This was also a genuine divine god.
There were more than a dozen genuine premium-grade divine gods in this army, all of them marching
with a determination to handle Austin.
"Oh?
Do you want me to give you an explanation?
Pray tell me, what kind of explanation do you want?"
Austin sneered.
Austin was strong enough that he was not afraid of even governing gods. Even if a dozen of them were
to challenge him, he would be alright.
These genuine divine gods were no different to him.
"That's right! Fight if you want to, but cut the crap!"
Conor chimed in.
"Fight? Cool! The face race has never been afraid of the Eight Stone Saints!"
The two genuine divine gods of the face race were furious.
"Move!"
Thirteen genuine divine gods of the face race rushed forward, each of them easily passing through the
void at an astonishing speed.
The Eight Stone Saints grew excited at this sight, waving the stone sticks, ready to meet their attack.
"This is exactly what I want!
Let's have a good fight!" they said.
But Austin smiled and shook his head.
"Guys, we don't need to waste our time and energy in this fight,"
he said, stretching out a hand and waving gently.
A strong energy of space and time immediately began to surge forward,
sealing off the space in the vicinity.
The members of the army began to feel their bodies grow heavy and found it difficult to move.
Austin had already achieved much in the laws of space and time.
On the other hand, the most powerful ones in this army were mere genuine premium-grade divine
gods, their power nowhere near Austin's.
As a result, they looked really weak before him.
This was why none of them could withstand it when Austin made use of energy from the laws of space
and time.
"What is going on?!"
The genuine premium-grade divine gods of the Face Race cried out, shocked.
They had truly underestimated Austin,
thinking that he was just a young human, and that his strength was limited.
But it turned out that despite his young age, he was so strong. He was able to easily freeze the army of
the face race.
"This is horrible!"
"I can't move!"
Every one of them was panic stricken, as if magically frozen in the air. They could neither move forward
nor retreat.
"Could it be... Who is he?
How is he so young yet so powerful?"
These genuine premium-grade divine gods were amazed as an idea sprang up in their minds.
They began to suspect that the young man in front of them might be a governing god.
But was it possible for someone to become a governing god at such a young age?
"Listen, I have no grudge against your race.
But you'd better not provoke me.
Otherwise, you will be responsible for the consequences, not me.
I won't be so good tempered next time,"
Austin said calmly.
He then stretched out a hand and it quickly grew in size, blotting out the sky and the sun. He took the
whole army of the face race into his hand and threw them far into the distance.
The densely packed army soon found themselves in the void, far from where they had been just
moments ago.
The gnome and the Eight Stone Saints were stunned, unable to believe what they had just seen.
"Austin, this is amazing! How strong you have become!
I have met a lot of semi-governing gods, but they are way weaker than you!"
Asa said to Austin, shocked. He was the first to recover.
"You are freakishly strong! So abnormally powerful! And your strength is far beyond your realm!"
"I heard that the higher the level is, the more difficult it will be to fight someone who is stronger than
him. Especially when one becomes a semi-governing god and governing god, it would be almost
impossible for them to challenge someone who is stronger than them.
But why doesn't it apply to you, Austin?"
"Austin, I really admire you!
The combat power you just displayed is probably equivalent to that of a governing god!"
The Eight Stone Saints surrounded Austin and began to fervently shower praises on him.
"What a freak! No wonder he was bold enough to simultaneously provoke two great races the moment
he came to this supreme universe,"
the gnome sighed to himself, shaking his head.
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