The Supreme God of Martial Arts
Chapter 48 An Unexpected, Deadly Assassination

As the fears of the tragic, cruel battle began to disappear, a glint ofeagerness shone in the eyes of the six teammates.

Naturally, they were excited to obtain the earth spirit fruit!

Eliminating the two evil apes meant the precious earth spirit fruit wouldbe easy to get.

"The earth spirit fruit should be about a mile from here, hidden. If thesteward gets there ahead of us, all our efforts will have been fornaught! So, we need to get a move on it and pick some!" remindedAustin, looking at the other five bruised and tired people.

Mindy was applying medicine to William and George's injuries.

Ralf took a cyan colored bottle out, tipped it, allowing a pill to spill out,and popped it in his mouth before he sat on the ground and crossedhis legs. Closing his eyes, he utilized his vital energy to hasten the pill'sabsorption.

After that, he skillfully reset his fractured bone which had been brokenby the female evil ape.

Realizing his comrades were hurt seriously, Austin shook his head. Heasked,” Do you need my help?”

"No! Thanks anyway!" stated Mindy with a small smile of gratitude athis kind offer.

Since she, William and George knew each other a long time and wantedto be part of the Beast Mountain trials, they had formed the huntingteam.

Some disciples opted to form groups of five, six, while others includedover a dozen members.

But, Mindy's team was made up of only three members. What madetheir team mightier than the ones that had twelve members even, wasthat the base level of their vital energy was powerful.

Originally, it was the trio who launched the Evil Ape Hunting Team.After hearing about it, Ralf, Marvin and Austin joined them.

William and George glanced up at Austin, the gratitude in their eyessilently thanking him. As a salute, Austin nodded in return.

Austin believed that these three were genuinely sincere in how theydealt with him.

While everyone else was busily tending wounds, Marvin retrieved hisjade fan. He strolled casually, as if there was no rush.

"Oh yeah, that's right! The evil apes should have beast cores. Austin,since you made the greatest contribution to killing the apes, it's onlyfair for you to take the cores," suggested Marvin out of the blue.

The rest of the group members nodded in agreement with him.Mulling it over, Austin determined, “Although beast core from a diabolicbeast is second grade and not a big deal in comparison to the earthspirit fruit, they are worth a small fortune.’

After he'd thought it over and determined he could add a little morefunds for his cultivating resources, Austin accepted Marvin's offer.

So, he went over to the evil ape corpses, drew his sword, and stabbedthe ape in its bloody head

A brilliant flash of light shone where his sword sliced into the beast andout tumbled a crystal beast core from its head.

Just as Austin bent to retrieve the cores, several loud ear-piercingscreams filled the quiet air, and Mindy shouted loudly,” What the hellare you doing, Marvin?

Startled, Austin jerked his head around to replace out what was going on.The sight he saw stunned him.

The scene before him was grim, as Marvin stood over the lifeless formof George, and Marvin was casually retrieving the silver trident he hadthrust deeply into George.

No sooner had Marvin recovered his silver trident before he lunged atMindy, hacking at her fiercely with deadly blows.

Glancing in the direction of the two others on the field, Austin noticedRalf first. Although he was still sitting cross-legged, his frame wasslumped forward, and his head touched the ground. Blood oozed froma horrible gash in his back.

Lying facedown on the ground, near where Mindy had been tendingher wounds, he saw William, his head matted with blood and pieces ofbrain.

In a blink of an eye, the three injured people were massacred. It wasclear that Marvin was the assailant

"Austin! Help me! He wants to snatch all the earth spirit fruit himself!"Mindy yelled as she gasped and tried to evade Marvin's assault.

Under Marvin's full force, Mindy immediately felt inferior. Clothesdisheveled, hair sticking on her head, and panting, Mindy desperatelycontinued to defend herself.

As he advanced on Mindy, Marvin saw that the torn clothes clung toher form due to the sweat and while she heaved deeply, desperate tofill her lung with air, he saw how her well-shaped figure stood out.Even with the grime and sweat, Mindy was very attractive.

Marvin involuntarily licked his lips and gulped, swallowing his saliva.Then, he smiled lasciviously, and in a husky tone he said,” If I had thechance to meet you again, I'd choose to meet you in my bed. Such ashame..."

Out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed Austin rushing at him, andMarvin pulled all the vital energy from within, drawing a powerfulenergy force.

The faint aura of his vital energy was visible to the naked eye, andAustin could see it was wrapped around the silver trident that Marvinclutched.

All at once, the silver trident transformed into a silver dragon andbaring its teeth and claws, it pounced at Mindy.

Just before the silver dragon fell on Mindy, the vital energy blewtowards Mindy with such force that her clothes were whipped up, andhair blown into a wild mess which made her look wanton and sexy.Marvin struck with his full force.

As Mindy felt the great power of silver trident bearing down on her, sheknew it would be impossible to repel his powerful attack with herstrength alone.

She sighed deeply while in her heart she contemplated the situation,“Maybe, this was the wrong time to have established a team to slay theevil apes.

Greedy Marvin, has decided to rob the rest of us of the rewards. What ajerk!" Mindy glared furiously at Marvin as she thought.

While she glowered, she waved her hand, and a brocade handkerchiefwith seven brightly glowing colors appeared, and she infused it with hervital energy, before giving it a gentle shake.

A dazzling flash of white light shot from the brocade handkerchief, andinstantly shrouded Mindy.

Afterward, it formed itself into a flexible cover made up of red, orange,yellow, green, blue, indigo, and colorful violet lights circulating.

It circled like countless, small rainbows, all intertwined, giving it a ratherbeautiful mesmerizing appeal.

Simultaneously, Marvin's silver trident struck the colorful coverenveloping Mindy, but, it was ineffective, and bounced off like it hadcollided with a rubber wall.

The shield of seven lights curved inwards, and sprang back, causingMarvin to stumble back a few steps.

"She was using a secret weapon!" seethed Marvin under his breathObviously, it hadn't crossed Marvin's mind that Mindy would have sucha powerful secret weapon to be able to defend against attacks, and hebelieved Mindy would be dead after he struck her once with his fullforce.

He speculated that because of the power of the secret weapon, itwould take a lot more energy to kill Mindy.

It was apparent that even with a secret weapon, he didn't think much ofMindy's might.

As soon as he turned, Marvin saw Austin.

Seeing how fast and nimbly Austin moved, Marvin decided to kill himfirst.

"Run Austin! He's too strong for you!" warned Mindy anxiously. Duringthe hunting expedition, she had good feeling about Austin.

Austin was slightly surprised as Mindy pulled secret, defensive weaponout.

“What's going on? Suddenly, everyone has secret weapons? When didthey become all the rage?’ wondered Austin.

Looking into Marvin's murderous eyes, a small grin formed on Austin’slips.

"You become so greedy at the thought of riches that forgetrighteousness, and slaughter the disciples from the same sect. Aren'tyou afraid that the sect will hunt you down?" demanded Austin angrily.Marvin's actions disgusted Austin.

"Ha-ha-ha! Hunted by my sect?"

questioned Marvin laughing in an exaggerated and delirious manner,like someone had told a hilarious joke.

"Boy, are you that naive? Do you genuinely believe that anyone fromthe sect would bother to investigate deaths during the Beast Mountaintrials?

Where there are masses gathered, there are deaths. In fact, the sectaccepted this as part of the trials a long time ago!" said Marvinmockingly.

What he said was true. Almost half of the disciples participating in thetrials every year perished at the hands of their peers.

Killing others to rob them of their winnings was a frequent occurrence,while the sect hunting the murderers down never happened.

It seemed the sects just accepted this as how things were.

"Hey, it's impressive how skillfully you escaped before. But, I don't thinkyou will be able to get away this time!"

As Marvin spoke, he slipped into a position that blocked the valley'sentrance

Austin knew his ability to move wasn't bad, but his base level of vitalenergy was rather too low compared to Marvin's.