Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 114 New Friends

Once Darren had dashed through the door with Elsa in his arms, he had escaped the forbidden area.Exhausted, he fainted and fell to the ground.

A couple of minutes later, he woke up.

He studied his surroundings alertly and caught sight of beautiful flowers and tender grass. In thedistance, there were countless towering mountains covered with vegetation. Various diabolic beastsflew in the sky. It was peaceful, pleasant scenery.

Darren took a breath. Having stayed in the forbidden area filled with suffocating tension anddarkness, he suddenly fell quite in love with this place, greedily inhaling its fresh air.

Looking down at Elsa in his arms, his mind finally set at ease at the sight of her sleeping with aserene expression.

'Oh, crap!" he thought to himself, his eyes widening as he realized something. “The spiritual energyin the Holy Land is denser than in any other place. Even when I breathe, some spiritual energyenters my body! Because of this, I will enter the Mysterious Realm in advance!"

The thought made him uneasy. If he made a breakthrough, there was no way he could survive that!“Even if I control myself and try not to take in spiritual energy, I will break into the Mysterious Realmin ten days. The only way I'll survive it is to suppress sword intent in the process of thebreakthrough.’

That was the only way he could think of. But suppressing sword intent was no easy task.

"Come on, guys, go get it!"

A loud voice reached his ears.

Darren was instantly on alert and turned around. The only thing in sight was a beast dashing at himquickly.

'Oh? That's a diabolic beast, not just any beast!" Darren thought.

He got a clearer view as it came close to him. It turned out to be a diabolic boar. He began to senseits strength and found that it was considerable. “It is supposed to be a level eight or nine diabolicbeast. But it's covered in blood! It obviously got seriously injured, ' he assumed.

The boar growled loudly.

Its red eyes flashed as it ran desperately forward. But when it spotted one of the people who wastrying to catch it, it changed the direction and came at Darren.

"I planned to leave you be, but now you leave me no choice!” Darren said.

With this, he slit the boar's neck with his blade in a flash.

He had decided to use blade more frequently before he could unleash blade intent which could beon par with the sword intent he mastered. He had made up his mind not to resort to sword intentunless he was in grave danger.

"Well done. That was really impressive!" A loud voice remarked from behind him.

Moments later, two young men who had witnessed Darren slaying the boar ran towards him. Theystood in front of Darren with evident admiration in their eyes.

Darren checked the two strangers’ power secretly and knew they were at the first stage of theMysterious Realm. The two could be considered strong cultivators outside the Holy Land. Butcompared to the majority of the population of the Holy Land, they were weak.

"Thank you for helping us. As for this diabolic boar..." one of the men said with a hesitantexpression, his eyes fixed on the dead diabolic beast.

"You can take it if you want. I just killed it to protect myself,” Darren replied as if he read the youngman’s mind.

"Thank you very much. If it weren't for you, we couldn't have gotten it,” the man responded with asmile before walking to the dead diabolic beast to deal with it.

"Hello, I'm Steven Lu. This is my friend, Stephan Wu,” the young man said, reaching out his hand."I'm Darren Chu,” Darren replied and shook hands with him.

But there was one thing he couldn't figure out. 'It is almost impossible for these young men tocause such a serious damage to the boar. How did they do that?" he wondered.

"Humph! Are you two idiots? Even without him, we could have slain that diabolic beast! Why didyou thank him? Where is your pride?"

A teenager made his way to the three slowly.

"Mr. Han, I was thanking him for helping us. Without him, we couldn't have gotten the boar,” Stevensaid, trying to break the tense atmosphere.

Henry Han snorted and gave Darren a sidelong glare.

"Don’t get mad, Darren. This is Henry Han, and he is a respected rule cultivator, so he is a little aloof.Don't take it personally,” Steven whispered to Darren, looking embarrassed.

As far as Darren observed, Steven was a kind, easygoing person who could be a trusted friend. ForSteven's sake, he decided not to give Henry a hard time. Besides, he was never a mean guy whowould let slightly aggressive remarks get to him easily.

He was interested in Henry. This teenager was the second rule cultivator he had met. “Perhaps hetook some credit for Steven and Stephan being able to hurt the diabolic beast, * Darren thought."Buddy, it seems like your friend's fainted. What happened to her?" It was only now that Stevennoticed the bewitching maiden lying on the ground beside Darren.

"She's fine. She will wake up soon," Darren replied, glancing at Elsa.

"I don't think so. Let Mr. Han check on her. He can help heal her,” Steven proposed. It was apparentthat he was a keen guy.

Steven reminded Darren of Shaun. 'l really wonder how Shaun is doing. Thanks to his help, Imanaged to save Elsa. If our paths cross one day, I need to show him my thanks, * Darren thought."Who do you think you are? You think you can make up my mind for me? What makes you think Iwill do as you say?" Henry snapped. He was just at the eighth stage of the Primary Realm, but hewas aggressive and arrogant.

"You're way too perky, brat. You'd better behave yourself. We paid you, remember?" huffed Stephanas he jumped to his feet glaring at Henry. He had been squatting on the ground, busy with thediabolic beast's body.

It had cost Stephan and Steven a lot to invite Henry to be their helper. He was, after all, a rulecultivator of the Medicine Pavilion.

"Stop barking at me like that. My task is to help you catch diabolic beasts. Following your orders isnot my duty. You'd better keep that in mind," Henry sneered, unruffled by Stephan’s fury.

"You..." Stephan faltered, pointing at Henry. He was too irked to say another word.

"Get a problem with that? Are you pissed off? You can give it a shot if you want to hit me. Righthere, why don't you give it a shot!" Henry challenged, pointing at his head.

"Come on, Stephan, let it go. Mr. Han has helped us with diabolic beasts for long. Perhaps he is alittle tired,” Steven mediated.

"Steven, you're always so nice to other people. Fine. I will stay out of this.” Stephan squatted downto continue his work.

"Hey bastard, I can help you save her, but you need to pay me twenty superior spiritual herbs. Whatdo you think? Can you afford that?" Henry said scornfully as he went up to Darren.

"Seriously? You're blackmailing him with that amount of herbs!" Stephan snarled at Henryindignantly.

"It's none of your business,” Henry snapped flatly. Stephan shook his head and didn't say anotherword.

"Considering she is a pretty girl, I will show you some mercy. Five superior spiritual herbs will do. Butthere is one thing we need to agree on. If I touch some of her private parts, you can't yell at me.What do you say? Ha-ha!" Henry said, staring at the unconscious Elsa with his lewd eyes.

"Go away!" Darren shouted menacingly, his face turning dark.

At the sight of his rapidly fierce expression, Henry grew so afraid that he stepped back.

"Damn it! You dare to talk to me this way?" Henry cursed, coming back to Darren.

Steven advanced forward and reached his hand to stop Henry from reaching Darren. He said, "Don'tget angry. Darren was worried about his friend, so he got carried away and offended you. Pleasedon't take it personally.”

"Screw you! Who the hell are you? I will teach you a lesson when I come back to Lotus City!" Henrybarked angrily.

He walked past Steven, pointed at Darren as he demanded, "Get down on your kneels andapologize to me, or you will be in a lot of trouble.”

But what happened next took him by great surprise!

He was struck by a stinging slap in the face, leaving a red welt.

"I'd like to see what you can do to me," Darren sneered.

"You dare to hit me? I'm a disciple of the Medicine Pavilion. How dare you?" Henry said with astunned expression.

"If you don't get out of here, I will kill you,” Darren said in a cold tone, blade internal force gushingout from his body.

Henry was only at the Primary Realm. The strong blade internal force Darren had released scaredthe hell out of him. Face turning pale, he collapsed on the ground.

The next second, he rolled his eyes and an invisible flying dagger shot towards Darren.

"What's this? Looks like he cast some spell, * Darren thought.

Steven and Stephan didn't notice the flying dagger, but Darren could clearly see it.

'He has used the Wind Rule to dispatch the dagger. That's why it managed to achieve abnormallyhigh velocity!" he analyzed.

Darren gathered his Spirit Power to control the flying dagger.

"Swoosh!"

The dagger turned around and came at Henry. It flew past his cheek and chopped off his ear.

'If I had better control of that dagger, he would be much worse off, * Darren snickered to himself.Henry clutched the side of his head where his ear had been cut off. He was so astonished that hewas numb to the pain coming from his wound. He stared at Darren in disbelief.

After a long pause, he cried out in disbelief, "You manipulated my wind dagger. Are you a..."

"Get lost!" Darren interrupted him sharply before he could finish his sentence.

Henry bolted away. All the blood had drained from his face!