Chapter 1630 Confronting The Dead Men (Part One)
From where he was standing, Austin could see the old man pacing on the furthest hill. He looked like
an ant, scurrying this way and that, climbing towards the top of the hill. Austin activated the Dragon
Lightness, and a few secondster, hended at the bottom of the hill, below the old man.
The hill looked like a bowl which had been ced upside-down on the ground. It was wide and tall with
fallen trees and shallow holes in the ground to trip over. Austin was cognizant of these as he
meandered up the hill.
The old man, who he recognized as the owner of a stall, was already halfway up the hill. His eyes were
trained on the ground and he was murmuring something. It appeared he was searching for something
among the sand at his feet.
"What are you doing, old man?" Austin asked as he reached him.
The old man startled and spun to look at Austin who was standing casually with his hands behind his
back.
"It''s you, brat! Why are you here?"
The old man cast Austin an annoyed nce. Then he resumed searching for a treasure or something
Austin couldn''t even imagine.
"You recognized me? How?" Austin asked with his eye wide open in surprise. He paused to look down
at his body.
From what he could see, he was still disguised. He had changed his looks using the human-skin mask
and was pretending to be a middle-aged man that looked nothing like himself. This was a clever and
advanced trick and the old man shouldn''t have been able to identify him so easily.
The only exnation there could be was that the old man was a powerful cultivator.
''He must be very advanced. Not even a master of the Divine Bridge Realm could have recognized me
so quickly, '' Austin thought.
"Your little trick won''t fool me,"
the old manmented, rolling his eyes at Austin as he stood straight again.
Finally, he bent down again and picked up something from the ground. Austin moved to the side to see
what it was but the old man ignored him. He knelt and Austin saw that the object in his hand was a
stone. Without a sound, the old man began painting on the ground with it.
Austin watched as the painting unfolded but it was difficult to determine what it was of. There were
many lines and dots and none of them seemed to connect.
Atst, the painting was finished and Austin had a chance to observe it closer. It appeared that the old
man had created a depiction of Purple Immortal''s graveyard.
The dots that Austin had seen were plentiful. He slowly counted eighty one of them.
There were eighty one tombs in the graveyard and each dot must have represented one of them.
The old man stood and pressed his fingers together in thought. He began murmuring again and his
eyes were fixated on something in the distance that Austin couldn''t see.
After a while, he started running towards to the other side of the hill. Austin still had no idea what he
was doing.
After watching him for several minutes, Austin had deduced that this mysterious, old man was not a
regr stall owner; he was special and Austin needed to know why. So, he tailed after the old man.
Momentster, Austin caught up with him. He was surprised that the old man could move so fast. He
stopped next to him and looked down at a ck cliff with withered grass.
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Wind whistled around the cliff and blew with it the smell of death. Austin felt a chill run up and down his
spine.
The old man appearedpletely unfazed by the creepiness of the ce. He muttered something
again and flipped up his sleeve. Immediately, the withered grass shot back into the ground and a tomb
was revealed.
"I see! There you are!"
The old manughed happily and pped his hands together with joy. He turned to face Austin.
"Brat, the masters from the major sects and ns are going to break into Purple Immortal''s tomb.
You might as well join them and steal some treasures for yourself. Stop following me," he said firmly.
Austin felt like the old man was scolding him but he didn''t care. He wanted to know what the old man''s
mission was.
Meanwhile, violent explosions were shaking the Purple Immortal''s tomb. The surroundings, including
the enormous mountains were trembling from the force.
The graveyard was spread out over arge area. There were eighty one tombs there and the distance
between each tomb was exactly the same.
While the powerful cultivators were bing nervous, Austin and the old man were too far away from
the tomb to hear the explosions or feel the ground tremble.
Austin waited impatiently for the old man to do something. They were alone on the hill but that didn''t
mean they would be forever. Sooner orter people searching for ways to get into thest tomb would
find here.
"Old man, what are you thinking? Are you nning to fight me? You will have to if you want me to
leave. This hill isn''t your property, and you have no right to kick me out,"
Austin said assertively but he still took a step backward.
''This mysterious, old man might be a top master, '' he thought. ''I can''t risk him getting the jump on me.''
"You''re assuming wrong. I''m not interested in fighting a brat. I have more important things to deal with.
But I don''t want you to follow me. I''m going to a dangerous ce. If youe with me, you might lose
your life there. Now leave if you don''t want to die down there,"
the old man responded as he gave Austin a nce filled with warning.
He didn''t wait for Austin to answer or leave before he turned back to face the tomb. The old man took
out an old dagger and held it on top of his palm. As he pointed at the weapon with his other hand, it
transformed into a light and hit the tombstone.
The tombstone emitted brilliant, white light and released a wave of energy, causing all the dirt and
debris that had been on it to fall away.
''Wow. It looks like there was a powerful array in the tombstone, '' Austin realized.
He stood silently as the old man''s dagger continued to pummel the tombstone.