If not for Austin's order, Hudson would have killed Alia on the spot, to vent the frustration he had endured for years, being toyed with by Donna and beaten into a sorry retreat by Bill Daoist and Chuck!
Unfortunately, the mark of Heavenly Path was on Austin, not him.
However, to Hudson's surprise, Alia showed no fear in the face of his threat, her expression remaining as impassive as ever.
Suppressing the killing intent in his heart, he said impatiently, "Alia, you can't escape. Within the boundaries of Sunshine Mansion, no one can help you, not even Miles, the Mansion Master, whom we can kill at will... If not for Austin's need for your cooperation, you would be dead the mont you showed your faces..."
Hudson's voice faltered as a sudden chill surged through him!
It was a chill emanating from his other projections!
Alia, still calm in front of him, slowly opened her mouth, "When we ca to Sunshine Mansion, we never thought of escaping. It's just that over the years, we've co to understand that we can't fight against an entire state governnt, at least not on our own. So, we sought out Miles, not because we wanted him to fight you alongside us."
"What we wanted was for him to stop those who have nothing to do with this matter."
"Although we don't know how Miles did it, it seems he was prepared. From now on, even within Sunshine Mansion, you are isolated and without help!"
As Alia finished speaking, Hudson's eyes widened!
Just as Alia had said, he received news from his other projections.
This ti, the Blackwood people did not run!
They chose to attack!
"Damn it!"
Hudson glared at Alia and Isaac in front of him. He knew that even he couldn't kill Isaac in a short ti. The most important thing now was to return to Kylin Mountain!
Unfortunately, a murderous aura descended!
Although the sky remained unchanged, vines suddenly sprouted out of thin air. A green light emanated from Alia, and a powerful suppressive force, a life force Hudson had never seen before, emanated from her!
It was just as Alia had said, she never seed to have thought of escaping. The vines around her spread towards the other Competent Force practitioners, surrounding them!
Her voice was terrifyingly calm.
"Six Basic Mastery projections. Two of you died in my Glory City. Now, that power is distributed among the rest of you. You are fewer in number, your overall strength more concentrated."
"But in fact, at this stage, you are at your most vulnerable. Because in a hundred years, only Brody has achieved Basic Mastery, which ans there are five of you left!"
"Your technique and talent are terrifying, but you also have many weaknesses. You can transform into thousands. Given enough ti, even the entire world wouldn't be able to suppress you. But the more projections you have, the more you'll find yourself in a predicant."
"Once your powerful projections die, their power will be evenly distributed among the rest."
At this mont, Hudson felt nothing but panic!
As if his weakness had been exploited, he could only watch as the psychic powers Alia unleashed ford vines that covered the sky. Alia didn't have a domain, but her Celestial Botanical Technique turned the entire sky into a chaotic web. From the outside, it looked as if a green sphere had ford in the sky!
Thunderclouds gathered and struck the green sphere. This was Heavenly Retribution.
Alia's voice grew more and more mocking, "You are not as strong as we imagined! As long as we kill your powerful projections, your power will be divided. One Basic Mastery, how many Competent Force practitioners can it create? Ten? Twenty?"
"And if your projections are left with only Competent Force, they won't pose a threat. We have plenty of ways to deal with you!"
"Isaac, hold him back!"
...
A grand formation rose on Kylin Mountain!
The grand formation here had once been shattered from within. It was unclear if Austin had developed a psychological shadow, but this ti, the formation had layer upon layer, a thousand layers in total.
Outside the grand formation, a figure appeared.
It was Nathan, carrying his coffin!
Within the formation, Austin and his many projections gathered, a hundred of them in total. Yet, they dared not venture out!
The scene seed peaceful. In their eyes, Nathan was alone. He was clearly at the Basic Mastery realm, yet there was no sign of any extraordinary phenona. He had only just broken through to Basic Mastery. As long as Austin willed it, he could kill Nathan within half a day. But he...
was afraid.
He had every right to be afraid. Alia's words from afar, transmitted through Hudson's ears, reached his very soul.
At the sa ti, it also reached all the Heavenly Path projections.
Austin could clearly sense that at this mont, all the weaker Heavenly Path projections were restless and excited. These weaklings sensed an opportunity...
If not for the restriction in the Heavenly Path projections' souls that prevented them from killing or harming each other, he would have loved to kill all the other projections as a sacrifice to heaven!
Besides the drawbacks Alia ntioned, this was the biggest drawback of the Heavenly Path. But it was also sothing that had to be done. Otherwise, after he projected himself, he would be putting on a show of killing himself.
"Why are you hiding?"
Even after more than a hundred years, seeing the many Heavenly Path projections cowering within the grand formation, Nathan still couldn't suppress the rage in his heart. He looked at the many projections and roared, "Are you afraid? Why are you afraid?!"
"Who the hell allowed you to be afraid?!"
"Back then, my children died at your hands one by one because we were weak. In our eyes, the Heavenly Path was an insurmountable chasm!"
"You bastards, show the deanor of the strong! Our Blackwood children should not die at the hands of cowardly waste!"
"Get out here, you bastards!"
But the Heavenly Path projections continued to cower. Austin's eyes flickered!
How could he dare to go out? He didn't believe that Nathan would co looking for him alone. Every single one of his Basic Mastery projections was facing a predicant, even his Competent Force projections were no exception. He suddenly understood. For the past hundred years, he had been searching for traces of the Blackwood people.
But for the past hundred years, the Blackwood people had been searching for a way to kill him.
He thought his real opponents were those people in the grand hall. He was wrong. It turned out that danger had been approaching him step by step with each passing day!
Austin just wanted to escape now, but not like how the Blackwood people had escaped back then.
He glanced at the projections around him. Once they were dead, he wouldn't seek revenge for them. He just wanted to slowly break through to Advanced Mastery and beco the true embodint of the Heavenly Path, never to have anything to do with those Blackwood lunatics again!
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