There were about seven days left before the Martial Arts Tournament.
All this time, Austin and Caroline had been cultivating in the courtyard without leaving the prminister's mansion.
Austin was aware that Rodolfo would cafter him once he stepped his foot outside of Belle's grandfather's house. After all,
Rodolfo knew that he had murdered his grandson.
Austin had narrowly escaped death after he was chased by a beast rider of the Vasteras Holy Land who had only reached the
premium stage of Emperor Realm.
He knew that he would be easily defeated if his opponent was Rodolfo who had entered the Divine Bridge Realm.
Therefore, Austin had decided to focus on cultivation and stayed in the prminister's residence.
Austin spent most of his tworking on the Golden Sun Scripture over the next seven days.
He also tried to let the spiritual sense pot absorbed more omnipotent gas in the Omnipotent Pot.
The spiritual sense pot was a spiritual sense weapon. It was made from Austin's spiritual sense and omnipotent gas.
The FlEmperor believed that the spiritual sense of Austin's pot was more powerful than that of an Emperor Realm master of
the premium stage.
Hence, the Spiritual Pot could be one of Austin's trump cards.
In those seven days, after Austin tried for countless of times, the spiritual sense pot fused with a little more omnipotent gas.
Although he had only managed to integrate a dash of omnipotent gas into the pot, the pot still becmore powerful.
Austin had also been keeping Caroline company whenever he had the time.
Since they confirmed that they were in a romantic relationship, they would often make out as any other couples did.
Austin didn't follow the FlEmperor's advice to sleep with her.
After all, they were both not yet ready for that, particularly for Caroline.
Austin wanted to take things slow. He would just let nature take its course when it cto sex.
At last, their much-awaited day for the Martial Arts Tournament finally came.
It was at the crack of dawn when Belle dropped by to see Austin and Caroline.
She then led them to a spacious hall.
Inside the huge hall, there were about fifteen to sixteen young men who were about twenty-five years of age or lesser. All of them
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Belle's father—Samuel was also in the lobby.
There was also an amiable elder with a long beard. He stood still, with his hands clasped behind his back. Austin looked at the
elder, but he couldn't see through his real strength.
When the elder saw Austin step into the lobby, he glanced at him through the corners of his eyes. Instantly, a light flashed across
his eyes.
Austin felt uncomfortable when he suddenly heard a loud ringing in his ears.
As he met the elder's gaze, Austin felt like he could see through him.
‘This elder is way too strong, *
Austin thought in awe.
Belle led both Austin and Caroline to the elder. "This is Austin Lin, Grandpa,"
she introduced, while she pointed at Austin.
'It turns out this elder is Belle's grandfather, the prminister of the Solamnia Kingdom, ' Austin thought.
"I'm Austin Lin. Nice to meet you, sir," Austin greeted and bowed his head to the elder.
Belle had once mentioned to Austin that her grandfather was at the Divine Bridge Realm.
Faced with a Divine Bridge Realm master, Austin was fascinated but slightly scared.
“Um,”
the elder replied with a little nod.
An exasperated voice suddenly startled them. "Have you lost your mind, Belle?
How could you allow an outsider to sign up for the Martial Arts Tournament in the nof our family?
It would be fine withif he was powerful.
But he has just reached the preliminary stage of Semi-holy Realm. It will be impossible for him to stand out in the tournament.
During that time, he will just hold our family members back in the test and embarrass us.
| oppose him joining the tournament on behalf of our family," the middle-aged man said gravely, as he gave Austin a ferocious
look.
He resembled Samuel in appearance.
"Uncle Vincent, Austin saved my life.
You can't take him lightly because of his cultivation base. He is far more powerful than you can imagine.
He will not bring shto our family,"
Belle retorted as she stood in front of Austin.
‘This man is Belle's uncle.
He must be Alvin's father. | destroyed Alvin's elixir field and destroyed his cultivation base, ' Austin thought.
Austin saw the fierceness in Vincent's eyes when he made eye contact with him.
'He looks hostile to me. Did he know | destroyed Alvin's cultivation base?" Austin wondered.
"That's enough, Belle. | don't want our clan to be humiliated. My decision is final. | will never allow a weak stranger to take part in
the Martial Arts Tournament bearing the nof our family,"
Vincent said decidedly.
"Uncle Vincent, this is unfair,"
Belle said with arched eyebrows.
"Vincent, it was my idea to let Austin sign up for the Martial Arts Tournament on behalf of our family,"
Samuel cut in abruptly.
"What's wrong with you, Samuel? Are you out of your mind?
He has just reached the preliminary stage of Semi-holy Realm. If he joins the Martial Arts Tournament, he will only make our family
a laughingstock. He will just bring disgrace to our family,"
Vincent snapped.
Austin was not stupid. He felt Vincent's animosity towards him, and he knew that he just wanted to give him a hard time. 'Shit! Did
he find out what | did to his son?' Austin thought to himself.
"Con, Vincent, don't say that. | don't think it's a bad idea to let this young man join the tournament in the nof our family.
Let's give him a chance. This is just a competition for young men. Even if he doesn't have a good performance in the game, it
doesn't matter, no big deal. Let them charge it to experience. No need to pay so much attention to the results,"
the prminister mediated.
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"Now that father agrees, | have no problem with that.
I'll go and check the tournament site," Vincent snorted.
With a flick of his sleeve, he walked straight towards the entrance of the hall, and he didn't even bother to look back.
'Humph! You old man, you always favor Samuel. Now, you can't blme for turning my back on you and taking side with the
Grand Prince.
Someday, | will take your place and be the prminister of this country, sooner or later.
Austin is a son of a bitch. He destroyed Alvin's cultivation base and left him there to be the diabolic beast's food.
Now that Samuel is supporting that brat, I'll make him pay the price for what that brat did to my son, *
Vincent thought furiously after he left the hall.
It turned out that Vincent had found out what Austin did to his son. Moreover, Alvin ended up as the diabolic beast's chewing food.
"Father, looks like Vincent still hates us,"
Samuel said to the prminister through his spiritual sense with a sigh.
"Don't mind him. Just let him be. He has always been proud and arrogant.
It must be hard for him to take that | appointed you as the leader of our family instead of him.
| hope he will get over this one day,"
the prminister responded.
No one in the hall had overheard the conversation between the father and son.
"All right. Let's go," the prminister said flatly.
He exited the hall and jumped into the air.
The other members of the Xiao Family in the lobby also took their leave and followed the prminister.
Austin and Caroline followed behind the Xiao Family members and flew towards the tournament site.
After a while, they landed on a huge square.
The square was crowded with people. Austin had no idea how many cultivators had signed up for the tournament.
He started looking around keenly and studied the tournament site.