After Austin returned to the queen's palace, the old priest reported his conversation with Austin in detail to the queen.
Once she heard the good news that the seal could be destroyed, the queen was suddenly thrilled and let out a sigh of relief. She
had always longed for the day when she could finally be free from this palace which becher prison.
So the queen instantly changed her attitude towards Austin. She began to treat Austin and his friends as distinguished guests in
the palace as if she never tried to kill him in the first place. In order to show her apologies for her previous rudeness, the queen
held a banquet in honor of them.
While they enjoyed the delicacies laid before them, Austin started to converse with the queen and got to know her and her race
even better. And just as he had previously thought, they were not human beings at all. Instead, they belonged to the evil shadow
race.
The evil shadow race was a special race which had a very long history. Back then, the evil shadow race did not have many
members as compared with other races, but everybody knew of their existence. That was because there were countless powerful
members in the evil shadow race. Their capabilities were known far and wide.
Austin finally understood why the queen and her people were sealed in this small alternate dimension in the first place.
It turned out that they incurred the wrath of an extrpowerful creature a thousand years ago.
Driven by the rage, the formidable enemy decided to slaughter one-by-one all the members of the evil shadow race and erased
them from existence.
To avoid their total annihilation, the former leader of the evil shadow race found the small alternate dimension which was the
perfect hiding place which can fit all of them. The former leader's cultivation base was already at the Emperor Realm. So he was
powerful enough to seal smembers of his race into the small alternate dimension. It was like a Noah's Ark in order for their
race to continue existing.
As tflew by, the remaining members of the evil shadow race had lived in the small alternate dimension for a thousand years,
unable to even get out and see a glimpse of the outside world.
Austin sighed deeply and pitied the evil shadow race after he found out the pain and suffering that they all have to go through in
order to survive.
He could never imagine that the evil shadow race who lived in the small alternate dimension were actually sealed by the former
elderly leader. But then again, he had no other choice back then. It was either perish or stay hidden in this dimension.
Since a thousand years had already passed, the evil shadow race's enemy might have already died.
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But even if the enemy was still alive, he might have already forget his hatred for the evil shadow race. It had been a long time
after all. No one could possibly bear such hatred for someone for so long.
So all the members of the evil shadow race were quite desperate to leave the small alternate dimension. They wished to finally be
free of this place which used to be a safe haven but had turned into a prison.
But more than anything, the evil shadow race found it extremely difficult to cultivate in the small alternate dimension.
The energy contained in this small alternate dimension, which also powered the entire dimension and kept it stable, repelled
against the cultivation of the evil shadow race. It was as if it couldn't handle such high energy cultivation.
What they needed for cultivation was the evil energy. Although the small alternate dimension was full of spiritual energy, only a
minimal amount of evil energy existed here.
Confined in the small alternate dimension, the power of the evil shadow race slowly faded. And because they couldn't cultivate
properly, the once mighty and feared race had been reduced to a pitiful group of people.
They were desperate to go to the outside world and find a place rich in evil energy. That was why the evil shadow race wanted to
leave the small alternate dimension more than anything. The evil energy was as important as food itself for their race. To not have
it meant starvation and weakening of their body.
Austin was like a ray of sunshine for them. He gave the evil shadow race hope to leave the small alternate dimension earlier
because he mastered the Unearthly Fire. They needed the power of the Unearthly Fire to break the seal.
After the queen's explanation, Austin finally saw the bigger picture of everything.
However, Austin was amazed that Emma and Debby were actually the princesses of the evil shadow race.
It took Austin quite a while to wrap his head around everything that had just happened. The Xian Clan in the Water City where
Emma and Debby lived were actually not humans, instead they all belonged to the evil shadow race.
Back then, the former leader of the evil shadow race also sealed the blood power of several other members of his race. He turned
them into human after he sealed more members in the small alternate dimension. The members of the evil shadow race whose
blood power were sealed were responsible for guarding and protecting the small alternate dimension's entrance, which was called
the Xian Clan's Shrine.
After their blood power was sealed, their appearances looked just like the normal human. The seal acted as a camouflage so that
they could live normally among humans.
They were able to get married and produce off-springs with normal humans. Their numbers grew and later on becthe Xian
Clan of the Water City, all the while guarding the entrance of the small alternate dimension.
Only a few days have passed since the queen activated the blood power of all the members of the Xian Clan members after they
had entered the small alternate dimension.
After she ran a test on all the people, the queen discovered that Emma and Debby's blood were ninety percent pure.
The purity of their blood was even higher than that of the queen, who was just seventy percent pure.
This was the reason why the queen proclaimed Emma and Debby as the princesses of the evil shadow race.
Their blood purity were almost an exact match as the members of the evil shadow race during the ancient times. Once Emma and
Debby grasped the cultivation method of the evil shadow race, they would be able to becas powerful as their ancestors or
they would even surpass them.
Austin was utterly shocked after he heard this piece of information. Who would have thought that the two ladies were actually so
powerful?
Back then, Emma and Debby used to cultivate the way humans did. They did not exactly exhibit any cultivating talents and had
just reached the level of the Imperial Realm. There was nothing special about them.
After their blood power was activated, they were suddenly praised and considered as geniuses with promising future by the
members of the evil shadow race. It was such an jaw-dropping turn of events.
Surprised as Austin was, he also felt happy for Emma and Debby.
After the banquet, the queen gracefully led Austin and his men towards a fancy villa where they could stay to freshen up and rest.
Priest Callum said that he still needed a few more days in order to get everything ready. Once his preparations were complete, he
would ask Austin to help him break the seal with the power of the Unearthly Fire.
The villa was situated in an elegant and secluded bamboo forest.
The bamboo along with its shadow rippled in the breeze. Such a serene and peaceful environment was the perfect place to find
rest and, far away from prying eyes of the outside world.
In the middle of the bamboo forest there laid a row of fancy houses. They were simple but still fancy and elegant.
These houses served as Austin and his people's accommodations for the next few days while they wait for the preparations to be
completed.
Austin, Violet, the Sect Supremo and the gnseparately selected a room for themselves and then began to squat and cultivate,
restfully waiting for the day to break the seal. They just thought of this turn of events as a blessing and a tfor rest.
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Austin cultivated the Golden Sun Scripture for half of the day. During this process, he had not only consolidated his cultivation base
at the preliminary stage of Tribulation Realm, but was also able to enrich the intensity of his vital energy.
He had a feeling that if he did the normal process, it would have taken him over an entire year before he could fully consolidate the
preliminary stage of the Tribulation Realm.
It was all thanks to the Refined Vital Energy Liquid that Austin was able to shorten his consolidation period to just a few days.
Austin suddenly remembered that another secret weapon had been added to his array of arsenals.
The Invincible Bow!
Austin had already refined the Invincible Bow.
But the Invincible Bow had ten restrictions in total. Due to his low cultivation base of the vital energy back then, Austin was only
able to break the first restriction of the Invincible Bow. There were still nine left. It would definitely take time, patience, and tons of
concentration to break them all.
Now, since Austin had made a breakthrough and beca cultivator at the Tribulation Realm, he wanted to give it a shot to break
the second restriction of the Invincible Bow.
So he took out the Invincible Bow from his Space Ring.
The purple colored Invincible Bow was as tall as a man. It was covered with pristine patterns and colorful lights hovered around its
body, from which its destructive power could be felt.
Austin squatted with the bow in his hands as the vital energy force in his body was being transferred to the purple bow. At the
stime, Austin also released his spiritual sense to enter the bow.
About four hours later, Austin had finally succeeded.
The second restriction of the Invincible Bow was finally broken down. It took longer than expected.
Austin was still clueless about the power of the present Invincible Bow. He planned to find out and experiment with it when he got
the chance.
All of a sudden, he turned his head as he felt something. 'l wonder why she wanted to seein secret, '
Austin murmured to himself. He then returned the bow inside his Space Ring and left his room. After several leaps, Austin landed at
a flat vacant area deep inside the bamboo forest.
With decorous manners and a graceful posture, a belle awaited Austin's arrival. She looked at Austin with a complex expression.