Only silence filled the scene.

Everyone was dumbfounded. Their eyes widened in disbelief.

Nobody expected a great martial artist like Augustus to crash into the water with one strike.

He was a grandmaster, for God's sake! His presence was like a divine being to ordinary martial artists.

A flick of a finger could take a life, and a simple attack could defeat a divine-level martial artist!

Under normal circumstances, a top-tier skilled martial artist like him should be invincible. He could crush everything effortlessly.

What the hell was going on, then? The revered Augustus was defeated on their first encounter. How the hell was that possible?

After a brief silence, the area around Shinefield Lake erupted into a frenzy.

"Oh my God! Am I seeing things? Augustus Kline was sent into the water?"

"No! That's not possible! A grandmaster is like God. How could an ordinary person compare?"

"A grandmaster can only be defeated by another grandmaster. Could that man actually be a