"It's all right. You don't have to worry.
I can handle a few governing gods myself,"
Austin said with a faint smile.
"What?
What did you just say? I can't believe what I'm hearing from you, boy."
The Eight Stone Saints were a little surprised that Austin seemed to take this lightly.
"Austin, aren't you being a bit too arrogant?
You're just a semi-governing god right now.
Of course, it would be difficult for you to deal with a governing god, let alone multiple of them at the
same time.
There is still a large gap between the strength of a semi-governing god and a governing god. Even you
should know that.
Don't be too rash or you might regret it."
The gnome also warned the young man beside him.
"Go away! What are you still doing here?
Mind your own business!"
the face shouted at Austin in an annoyed and smug tone.
"I don't really have enough time to waste with you."
Austin just shook his head and made his move.
With a wave of his hand, a strong gust of the laws of space and time were released, instantly drowning
all the members of the face race.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The very next moment, all the faces were forcefully teleported away.
Not a single one of them was left.
Even those ordinary divine gods experienced the same. Although they desperately struggled, their
efforts were futile.
In the end, all of the faces disappeared from the wilderness. They were transferred to another area.
Austin had no choice but to do it since he didn't want to hurt them.
This was because he had a very good impression of the face that he had once met in the Sea of
Chaos.
That face had helped him at one of the most critical moments before, so he had a feeling that he owed
something to their race.
"They're all gone?"
At this moment, only the members of the wood puppet race were left in the wilderness. Because of this,
they were all struck dumb and in disbelief of what had just happened.
"Sir, why did you help us?"
one of the wood puppets approached Austin cautiously and asked.
It was just an ordinary divine god, who also happened to be the leader of this group of wood puppets.
With what Austin had done, the wood puppet was completely shocked by his incredible power.
"I actually want to know something about the wood puppet race,"
Austin stared at the wood puppet and answered straightforwardly.
"You want to know something from us?"
Hearing this, the wood puppet immediately became alert.
The wood puppet race was indeed very mysterious.
In particular, they had an extremely abnormal recovery ability and huge vitality, which were very rare
characteristics.
Therefore, many powerful cultivators from the other races wanted to study the physical composition
and structure of the wood puppet race.
They were hoping to find and eventually get a hold of their secret.
"I'm sorry sir, but I don't think I can help you.
Everyone, let's go."
The wood puppet instantly became wary of Austin's true intentions for helping them. Thus, he quickly
waved his hand and wanted to leave with his group as soon as possible.
"Well, of course, he would be on high alert."
Austin sighed and shook his head lightly.
"I'm afraid you can't leave,"
Austin said with a grin on his face.
"You leave me no choice."
Austin then stretched out his hand, which continuously grew bigger, and rushed towards the wood
puppets with great momentum.
All sorts of laws were released from his enormous hand, completely blocking off the space and time in
their surroundings.
The members of the wood puppet race were panic-stricken as soon as they found out that they couldn't
move even an inch.
Then, with a flip of his hand, Austin grabbed all the wood puppets and held them in his palm as if he
was just uprooting a bunch of weeds beside the road.
Unfortunately for these wood puppets, as much as they struggled, none of them could escape from
Austin's grasp.
Immediately after, Austin transferred all the wood puppets into a human world inside his body.
"Whoa! That's awesome!"
Both the Eight Stone Saints and the gnome were shocked by the display of Austin's skills.
"But Austin, you seem to have offended both the face race and the wood puppet race by doing this.
If the governing gods of those races hunted you down, things would become troublesome,"
Asa said, a little worried about the young man.
"I told you. You don't have to worry about that.
I can handle those governing gods. Everything will just be fine.
I won't do anything that I wouldn't be able to handle,"
Austin said in a reassuring tone.
"Hey, brat. How come you're getting better and better at bragging?
How can you easily say that you're going to deal with those governing gods?"
the gnome asked while pouting and letting out a deep sigh.
"Well, let's go find a quiet place for now,"
Austin suggested.
A few moments later, they arrived at a certain void.
Then, without further ado,
Austin created a small world with just his skills and power.
"Austin, that's incredible!
You could now create a small world by yourself?"
The Eight Stone Saints were flabbergasted as they saw with their own eyes how Austin effortlessly
created a small world in the chaotic void. Right now, they had got nothing but praise for him.
"All of you, come out!"
Then, all the members of the wood puppet race eventually appeared in front of Austin.
"Where are we?
Brat, let us go before it's too late!"
The leader of the wood puppet race's group was extremely anxious at this point.
All of the members of the wood puppet race possessed fear and worry in their eyes.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
However, Austin didn't even take the time to respond to them. He instantly concentrated his mind and
unleashed numerous puppet strings from his Soul Sea. These red strings surged out and immediately
engulfed the wood puppets.
He wanted to subdue these wood puppets so that he could learn their secret.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The red strings continued to pour and invade the Soul Sea of the wood puppets to attack their spiritual
souls.
"Watch out for those strings!"
The leader of the wood puppets easily perceived that the red strings were extremely dangerous.
"Strike back!"
one of the wooden puppets roared furiously.
Then, soon after,
Austin found that streaks of mind power were swiftly attacking and destroying the inside of his body.
And the mind power attacks couldn't be dodged.
Soon enough, he felt a dull pain from within his body.
A steady flow of mind power was obliterating Austin's body.
Every member of the wood puppet race unleashed their mind power to resist Austin.
However, Austin was too powerful to be overcome by this skill.
Besides, his physical body was almost indestructible.
Although the strikes made by this mind power inflicted pain, they couldn't really cause him real harm.
His body would already regenerate before they could even start destroying it.
"Mind power attacks are really something. I can't believe that I wasn't able to dodge it."
Austin shook his head as he smiled bitterly.
From this point, he just ignored the mind power attacks from the wood puppets and kept activating the
Puppet Strings to subdue and enslave his opponents.
The red puppet strings tightly entangled the spiritual souls of the wood puppets, piercing deep within
them.
"Argh!"
As they experienced searing pain, the wood puppets screamed and continued to struggle desperately.
At the same time, they continued to strike back and exerted their mind power attacks towards Austin.
For a brief moment, the two sides were in a stalemate.
Then, all of a sudden, something unexpected happened.
Boom!
The spiritual soul of one of the wood puppets exploded on the spot and turned into wisps of cyan
smoke.
"Everyone, follow his lead and self-destruct!"
a wood puppet shouted and ordered the others.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In an instant, the wood puppets exploded one after another.
After blasting off their own spiritual souls, their remains became feeble and their eyes turned dull.
"What? They would rather die than be enslaved? I can't believe that they just committed suicide!"
Austin was stunned at the scene that he witnessed.
He didn't mean to kill these wood puppets because he knew that they could be of some use for him.
"Oh well, what's done is done."
Upon seeing this, Austin had no other choice but to give up.
He took back all of the puppet strings and saw that no one among the wood puppets remained.
"Austin, these wood puppets are only dead for the time being.
They can still come back to life once they are taken to their maternal tree.
Therefore, they can't be really considered as dead already.
They still have the chance to be reborn,"
the gnome informed.
"Really?"
Austin was utterly surprised.
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