The Supreme God of Martial Arts novel Chapter 217

Everyone present was shocked when Austin was able to withstand Timothy's all-out blow. A single punch from Austin had ensured Timothy's exit from the arena. Everyone had thought that Timothy would win beyond any doubt. It felt like everyone's brains had frozen at the unexpected outcome of the fight.

The pin-drop silence went on for a long time.

A cultivator who was at the Earth Realm had been thrown out of the field by just one punch from a cultivator of the Energy Gathering Realm! How was that even possible?

After what felt like a long time, the murmurs began and then grew into full-blown discussions and arguments as people seemed to find their tongues after the shock. They were loud enough to bring down the sky.

And all these were because of what they had just witnessed! A miracle indeed that a cultivator of the Energy Gathering Realm had skipped a realm and beaten a cultivator of the Earth Realm!

Austin's cultivation base was also at the Earth Realm. But he had used the Magical Aura-changing Skill from Violet and concealed the fluctuations in his vital energy. He was also adept at managing it in battle, only showing enough vital energy force as justified the ninth level of the Energy Gathering Realm. This had made sure that nobody present had any idea about his actual strength, not even those belonging to the highest level of the Sun Sect like Sect Leader Theon and the six Elders.

Austin hid his actual cultivation base because of a few concerns that he had had. Firstly, he wanted to keep a low profile here. His experience from three years ago had helped him understand that people who excelled would become targets of unwarranted attack, just like how the highest tree in the forest bore the brunt of the strongest winds.

Plus, he didn't want his enemies to know what his actual cultivation base was, especially Jaime, who was one of the Elders in the sect. Austin had the feeling that Jaime was the one behind the secret attack three years ago. Bryan and Roger, two others belonging to the Earth Realm, might have been the other two attackers.

He was only recently promoted to outer disciple again, which had probably attracted the attention of his opponents. He wondered if he performed exceptionally well, his enemies would swarm around him again, and might be afraid of his fast growth and thus would kill him one more time.

Even though his cultivation base was at the preliminary stage of Earth Realm, he felt like he was not strong enough to avenge himself.

Roger and Bryan could be easy to tackle with. Jaime's cultivation base was the lowest among the Elders. But still he was at the premium stage of the Earth Realm.

Moreover, according to gossip, some of the Elders in the Sun Sect had already reached the Mysterious Realm.

The five sects of the Violet Orchid Empire seemed to get along well with each other. But the truth was, they had actually been fighting secretly all the time. All these major factions were intentionally concealing their real strength.

A major example was how the Sun Sect had always maintained that only their Sect Leader, Theon, was at the Mysterious Realm.

But everyone knew that as one of the five major sects, the Sun Sect couldn't rely solely on only one cultivator at the Mysterious Realm to support it.

So, it was taken as an unspoken truth that most of the six Elders of the Sun Sect had already reached the Mysterious Realm.

Some even went as far to speculate that there was a former Elder in the Sun Sect whose cultivation base was the strongest of the whole Sect.