The Supreme God of Martial Arts
Chapter 43 A Conflict With Marvin

After hearing Herbert's news, Austin rushed right over.

On his way there, he had a run in with two monster beasts that werelevel two, and still arrived just when the Evil Ape Hunting Team wasgearing up for some action.

When Austin showed up in front of them, they were all surprised.However, instead of saying anything, they glanced suspiciously atAustin.

They were wary of Austin because his true strength was not known.

It wasn't that long ago that the team had turned away a lot ofunderachievers who wanted to join.

It made no sense to include weaker members when what they neededwere people with real strength.

The consensus was that the only ones qualified to share the earth spiritfruit they would reap were those who showed real strength.

"He's the grunt disciple we met at Beast Mountain!” said Lara.

She was sarcastic when Austin handed the Jade Badge to the mountainkeeper.

Even though she hadn't seen him in a long time, and Austin was tannernow, Lara recognized him immediately.

The grunt disciple?

When Lara referred to him like that, everyone else realized who Austinwas.

As Austin looked at each of them, he was met with sneering, disdainfuland even angry expressions.

The disdain Marvin felt towards Austin wasn't a secret as he saidsarcastically, "Boy! What do you think we're here for? To play somegame? We're going to kill the diabolic beast! The diabolic beast! Doyou even know what that is? Huh? Aren't you afraid those evil apes willfinish you with one bite?"

Marvin glared scornfully at Austin.

"Get out of here! Go fuck yourself and leave us alone!" snapped Williamangrily while he waved his huge palm in Austin's direction, dismissively.Ralf stared at Austin coldly but didn't speak. Mindy and the othersscoffed at Austin too.

Apparently, they all thought Austin was stupid and didn't know whatwas happening.

They were the five strongest outer disciples, so they were insulted thata grunt disciple thought himself good enough to join them.

"You want to join us? Bah! Look at yourself. You are nothing but a gruntdisciple. You are good for nothing but the menial chores. Don't youknow your limits? What a fool you are!" scorned Lara maliciously,frowning contemptuously.

With Austin there, Lara was suddenly grumpy.

"Shut-up!" said Austin callously. As his words were clipped out, hemoved, and was right in front of Lara.

Over time, as Austin came to understand the wind in a moremeaningful way, he had also become much more proficient in wieldingthe Wind-Commanding skill.

"Smack!" echoed the crisp sound, as the slap shocked Lara, stinging herpride as much as her tender cheek. Next, a bright, red mark of Austin'spalm appeared on Lara's flawless skin.

To show his strength in front of the team, Austin slapped Lara so hard.It was also because he really hated Lara mocking him like that.

The rest of the surprised team stood there with their breath caught intheir throats. They were frozen momentarily, as they waited.

"Ow!" screeched Lara as she tenderly placed her hand over herinflamed cheek.

"Marvin! This whelp hit me!" whined Lara indignantly as she cradled hercheek.

With the right half of Lara's face swelled, she looked funny.

Since Marvin had always thought of Lara as his woman, he was fumingto see that a grunt disciple dared to raise a hand and strike his woman,and worse, he did it in front of the team and him!

Marvin's reaction was out of character. He glared menacingly, andthrough gritted teeth seethed, "Whelp! You're going to regret doingthat!”

Folding his jade fan with a snap, Marvin turned it into a short stick.

In the blink of an eye, intense energy rushed from Marvin's body. Asthe power surged, invisible pressure filled the area, and Marvin's whiteclothes shot up, making him appear specter-like

As he felt the strength of Marvin's energy growing, Austin’s face turnedgrim and severe, and his eyes narrowed to slits.

Sensing that the energy coming off Marvin was eighth level in theEnergy Gathering Realm, Austin pondered, “Marvin achieved that levelalready?"

When the other three team members, Mindy, William, and George sawthe force Marvin wielded, they were visibly scared.

Even though they had known Marvin was stronger, they didn't realizejust how much stronger he was until then. Ralf stared at Marvin,transfixed.

Yet, it didn't seem to matter to Austin how strong Marvin was. He wasthere to prove himself, so he wouldn't shrink back.

Besides, even if he wanted to back down, he knew this group wouldn'tlet him get away with what he'd done.

"Ssh..." metal scraping slowly along the leather scabbard rang as Austinunsheathed his sword that was hanging on his waist. He raised theblade and steadily pointed the tip at Marvin as he said in a boredmanner, "I'm sorry, but, I won't regret what I've done.”

The group was so shocked when they saw Austin still presented fearlessand stood there as cool as a cucumber, no matter how intimidatingMarvin was.

It was perplexing to them how brazen this humble grunt disciple wasacting!

While the others found his behavior puzzling, Austin's relaxeddemeanor and indifferent expression irritated Marvin to no end.

As his ire increased, the wind was getting stronger. It whipped in afrenzy around Marvin and lifted leaves and twigs as it whirled violently,like a tornado. The wind around Marvin grew larger and stronger fromthe force of his energy until a two feet area was a swirl of ominouschaos, with an enraged Marvin at its center.

An icy chill tore through the onlookers, and they shivered slightly astheir hair and clothes flapped angrily in the blustering whirlwind.

They suddenly felt sorry for Austin.

What possessed Austin to provoke Marvin like he did? It was obviousthat his fate would be a miserable one.

"No, never mind. You can lament your actions when you get to hell!"shouted Marvin venomously right before forcibly raising his jade fan asif it was a spear.

Driven by Marvin's energy, the long spear transformed into a fiercedragon as it flew at Austin.

The potent force shrouded Austin instantaneously.

It looked like Austin's fate would be that of the dead leaves in theenergy storm, and he would be shredded to bits at any moment.Staring into the eyes of the dragon hurdling at him, Austin remainedmotionless.

Viciously glaring at Austin, Lara knew he was about to die at Marvin'shand. At the thought of that, she couldn't help smiling gleefully."You're going to regret your arrogance, you dolt!"

roared Marvin.

The dragon darted through the sky, swooping down on Austin.However, he still stood steadfast, which stunned everyone.

Could it be that Marvin's aura terrified the grunt disciple so much thathe was frozen to the spot and unable to dodge?

But, right before the dragon impaled him, Austin evaded it, quickly, yetpeculiarly.

Being surrounding by the violent wind caused by Marvin, Austin's bodysuddenly became weightless. He wafted through the air like a lifelessremnant.

Although the dragon was cutthroat, it failed to pierce Austin or evenbrush his clothes.

Marvin threw attack after attack, and each one was stronger and faster.But Austin was faster, and dodged every one of them. Consequently,Marvin's attacks failed, proving to be nothing.

Having defended against all of Marvin's attacks, Austin smiledconfidently as he prepared to take the offense.

"Swish!" cutting through the silence, Austin’s sword slashed as heskillfully wielded it, slicing the air in front of Marvin gracefully.

All five members of the Evil Ape Hunting Team recognized the CloudSwordsmanship, which was the second grade swordsmanship.

Any outer disciple with enough credits could trade this swordsmanshipfor practicing. After all it was not such a rare martial art form.

Even so, Austin's movements were natural, flowed flawlessly, and fullydemonstrated the Cloud Swordsmanship's charm and grace.