Left without a choice, Austin had to accept the challenge.
He cooked up a few moves, aimed at them, and managed to beat back the tiger, the black bull, and the
rooster despite they working together to fight him.
"Nice! You've become so powerful!"
The twelve zodiac animals could not help but praise him.
Everyone knew that the strength of each of them was at the level of governing gods.
In other words, even if three governing gods joined hands, they still wouldn't be a match for Austin.
"Hey, brat. Your fighting power is incredible. It's hard to believe that you're only a semi-governing god!"
The tiger sighed and smiled in satisfaction.
"Wait, I'll join you!
Let the four of us fight him together!" the rat exclaimed all of a sudden.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Before Austin could even agree, the four zodiac animals had already besieged him.
"Oh, all right then."
Austin scratched his head and chuckled as he faced them.
With his current strength, dealing with these governing gods was not a problem for him at all.
Boom!
None of them backed down. It definitely was a fierce battle.
Even so, it was merely a piece of cake for Austin to fight against four of the zodiac animals all at the
same time.
He didn't even break a sweat defeating all four of them with his amazing bodily movement skills
coupled with a punch from his left hand and his right hand brandishing his sword.
"Ack! Forget it! There's no need for this anymore since the four of us obviously aren't a match for this
kid."
The rooster, as impatient as it was, felt discouraged after a few moves and just stopped fighting.
"Ha-ha! You surprise me every damn time, kid.
You really are something!"
The sky-devouring dog shook its head and burst out laughing.
It knew that Austin was powerful, but seeing his current fighting strength astounded it.
"All right, I'm coming too.
Let's do this!"
The snake couldn't bear just watching from the sidelines and rushed over to join the other four. Its tail
constantly enlarged and rumbled towards Austin.
"Sure, come on!"
After talking to the snake, the black bull then shifted its gaze to Austin and said, "Hey, brat. We'll be
testing how strong you are now no matter what happens today, you hear me?!"
Right then, the tiger, the black bull, the big rooster, and the rat went with the snake and charged at the
young man.
"I guess the longer we fight, the more opponents I have to grapple with!"
Austin smiled bitterly. He had no choice but to accept the challenge.
He knew that all twelve of the zodiac animals could be insanely stubborn at some point, so he couldn't
avoid fighting them as they wished.
Boom! Smack! Thud!
The moment Austin moved, an intense battle broke out once again.
Knowing how powerful Austin was, the five zodiac animals fought without reservations and used all
kinds of rare and brilliant secret skills to attack him.
"Sirs, take it easy.
You don't need to go all out!" Austin shouted with his hands raised as though asking for a time out.
"Humph! Cut the crap.
If we don't go all out, how can you be willing to fight with all your strength?
Enough talking. Show us your real fighting power, you brat!" the tiger roared.
Austin sighed into a chuckle.
He then yelled back, "Well, if you insist, I won't restrain myself either."
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A large amount of great cosmos force started gushing out of Austin's body. His level of swordsmanship
even intensified, and immense bright sword radiance also spurted from every pore of his body.
At the same time, he used all kinds of original chaotic laws—especially the law of reincarnation, which
made his figure seem like he had entered the cycle of space and time since he looked all blurry.
Therefore, although there were five of them, none of the zodiac animals could accurately locate him.
They had an extremely hard time trying to beat the young man.
In the end, Austin yet again came out victorious.
"Ha-ha! Nice one, brat!"
The sky-devouring dog was even more surprised to see the young man take down five of its
companions.
It seemed to be having fun watching Austin defeat the other zodiac animals.
"You guys, just admit defeat this time! You've always been very arrogant.
See? Now you finally know there's always someone stronger than you," the sky-devouring dog added.
"Ugh. That's enough, you shameless dog. What do you even mean?
Why do you always aim at us?
Tch. Aren't you dogs the arrogant ones?" the black bull roared at the sky-devouring dog with its big
eyes wide open.
"Tss. Hush now!
Let's just fight, six against one!" the rabbit blurted out.
"Hey, no way!"
Austin felt a headache.
It wasn't in his expectations that the twelve zodiac animals would welcome him this way as soon as he
returned to the Fallen Divine Valley.
The six zodiac animals had already surrounded Austin and were ready to attack even before he could
say a word.
'Guess I'm just gonna have to play along until they're all satisfied, huh?'
Austin thought to himself as he prepared to make a move.
Boom! Smack! Thud!
The six zodiac animals made sure that they used all their best secret martial arts skills to besiege and
attack Austin.
Meanwhile, Austin didn't waste any second and faced the challenge with the same spirit they had.
He found that the fighting power of these zodiac animals was much stronger than that of the governing
gods in the Sea of Chaos, and they were almost at the same level as the governing gods in the Sword
Cosmos. It wasn't a waste of his time trying to fight them all.
When the battle concluded, the result didn't surprise them anymore.
After all, Austin took down the six of them with a literally minimal effort.
"Hold up, hold up! What about me? I'm also curious about how strong you can be!
I'm gonna join in on the fun!" the horse among the twelve zodiac animals called out and rushed over to
the battleground.
Now, Austin faced seven of them.
However, it still wasn't enough to overmatch him.
"This is getting out of hand. I'm coming too!"
The pig immediately joined the seven others.
"Ack, I knew it."
Austin shook his head with a bitter smile and continued to fight.
After a few strikes, the battle ended with another victory for Austin.
The rest of the zodiac animals then continued joining the fight one by one.
However, none of them was a match for the young man.
"Austin, you brat! Show me what you've got!"
Eventually, even the sky-devouring dog got involved. It swiftly went for Austin with a roar.
"You too, sir?!
Are you serious?"
Austin replied with a bitter face.
"Tch. Cut the crap.
Let's fight!" the sky devouring dog yelled.
"Yes, sir!"
Austin made a move right away.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Everyone put in their best efforts. The space and time were billowing, and the endless energy spread in
all directions.
The battle had become so wild and intense.
An hour later, the result began to show itself.
The twelve zodiac animals were all forced to step back, screaming.
"How is that possible, Austin? You've made such tremendous progress in the past hundred years!
It's amazing that you can easily defeat all twelve of us!"
"Hey, brat. Why do I feel like you haven't used your full strength yet? It seems that you can still deal
with a lot more governing gods than just the twelve of us!"
"What on earth have you encountered in the past years that made you this powerful?!"
"Hey, kid. I must admit, you're far stronger than me now!"
Each of the twelve zodiac animals expressed their shock and told the young man how impressed they
were by his astonishing progress.
Austin effortlessly defeated twelve governing gods at the same time all by himself. Of course, even the
twelve zodiac animals were amazed at his fighting power.
After all, he was merely a semi-governing god at such a young age.
"Ha-ha! I'm glad I didn't overestimate you!
See? It was wise of me to bring you back to the Fallen Divine Valley in the first place!"
The sky-devouring dog burst into roaring laughter.
"You shameless dog! Don't talk nonsense!
Even if you didn't bring Austin back that time, I would've done so later.
Do you think my judgment on people will be inferior to yours?"
The tiger raised its brow and bellowed at the sky-devouring dog, sounding sullen.
"Ugh, you bastards!
Do you two really need to bicker over who gets the credit?" The black bull called out both of them and
shot them an icy glare.
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