Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 145 Assimilation Of The Spiritual Energy

From the moment he touched it, Darren began to assimilate the spiritual energy stored in thecardiac cores.

As the demonic monster's cardiac core contained an enormous amount of spiritual energy, Darren'sabsorption speed was insufficient to assimilate all the spiritual energy quickly. Moreover, he had toleave a little spiritual energy in the core to retain its shape, or else it would crumble, and his planwould be exposed.

Once Darren had almost absorbed all the spiritual energy contained in the first cardiac core, hepretended to be greatly surprised and shouted, "It's impossible! This is a genuine cardiac core of ademonic monster!"

Jack sneered when he saw Darren's surprised expression. "Such an ignorant buffoon,” Jack snorted.With a feigned look of embarrassment, Darren gabbled, "I have to examine each core. How couldyou kill so many demonic monsters? I don't believe that you are so powerful. There must be somediabolic beasts’ cardiac cores mixed with the monster cores!"

Darren's exclamation surprised Jack. Being weak was one thing, but being ignorant? Jack's opinionof Darren fell more. I just killed several demonic monsters. Does my strength frighten you?" hewondered

"This is my strength. This is how strong I am. Does that frighten you?" Inflated with pride, Jacklooked forward to seeing Darren's stunned expression when he completed checking all the cores.Ignoring Jack's words, Darren threw the demonic monster's cardiac core from which he hadassimilated almost all its spiritual energy back into Jack's bag. Darren smiled as he said, "Watchclosely. I have returned the demonic monster's cardiac core!”

Darren picked up another cardiac core and pretended to observe it carefully. However, he wasassimilating its spiritual energy as quickly as he could. Jack stood by Darren's side, unaware of whatDarren was doing. For Jack, he wished Darren could waste all of his time checking the cores. By thenhe would win out directly because Darren would have no more time to get the cores. Then he wouldchallenge Darren first and kill him with one blow!

One by one, Darren placed his hand on each cardiac core. Each time, he absorbed almost all thespiritual energy in each demonic monster's cardiac core. He was extremely careful not to assimilateall the spiritual energy in a cardiac core as he wanted the cores to retain their shape. Then, hetossed them back in Jack's bag.

Forty-five minutes passed before Darren had assimilated the spiritual energy from around fiftycardiac cores.

Now, he felt as though his elixir field was about to burst. There had been no time for him totransform the spiritual energy into demonic internal force and sword intent.

'I have assimilated spiritual energy from a majority of his cardiac cores. He has about a dozen left.This will reduce his credits greatly, * Darren thought.

"Incredible! All the cardiac cores belong to demonic monsters. Well, there is no need for me tocheck anymore. You are right, Jack," Darren said, pretending to be very upset.

"Ha-ha-ha, now you know my strength, don't you? I will beat you to death in the upcoming fight!"Jack's contempt for Darren grew more. 'If Darren is really a powerful man, why would he be sostunned at how many demonic monster's cardiac cores I was able to collect? His strength is farinferior to mine!" Jack concluded.

Jack was quite confident that he would be the winner of the hunting competition. He was sure thathe would win the next round in the competition as well.

"You have only one hour left. I suggest you cherish it because it will be the last hour of your life!" Amurderous look shone in Jack's eyes as he spoke to Darren. After that, he turned and walked away.Darren smiled as Jack began to stroll around.

"Darren, what should we do?"

All the outer disciples of the Holy Land looked worried and depressed. They had lost confidence intheir performance during the hunting competition.

"You need to wait for me here. I will get some demonic monster's cardiac cores. Remember what Isaid—do not run around.” Darren looked calm—there was no sign of panic or confusion on his face.Then he flew in the direction where Jack had come from. He was sure there would be manymonsters in that area.

"Alas! Darren's spirit of persistence is worthy of praise. However, I don't believe we will be able towin the competition.”

"Right, I never expected Jack would kill so many demonic monsters. He must be terribly powerful.”All the outer disciples of the Holy Land sighed as they gazed at Darren's receding figure.

Darren released his spiritual sense to explore the space around him. Simultaneously, he exercisedhis Shadow Lightness skill to move forward at high speed. With the improvement in his talent,Darren's scope of detection had expanded to the space within a ten-mile radius of his location.After traveling for a few miles, Darren sensed something in a cavern. Filled with joy, he headedtoward the den, like an arrow.

“There are so many level one demonic monsters living here. Jack must have acquired the cardiaccores here! I wonder how many I can hunt and kill in half an hour."

Without hesitation, Darren rushed into the cavern.

Upon entering, Darren found many corpses of bats, each the size of a calf, piled one on top of theother like a small hill.

"Ha! Wonderful! This is home to at least hundreds of level one demonic monsters like the bats!"Armed with the blade and sword in his hands, Darren rushed into the depth of the cave.

The demonic monster bats in the cavern sensed Darren's presence and flew out to attack him. In theblink of an eye, the once quiet cave turned into a chaotic mess as the bats and Darren beganfighting.

"Profound Nine Sword Skills!"

"Grand Thirteen Blade Skills!"

Darren released numerous blade and sword intents at the giant bats.

As the bats outnumbered Darren significantly, he felt challenged.

After a dozen attacks, Darren had only killed a few demonic monster bats.

“Luckily, the abundant spiritual energy inside my body is inexhaustible and will continue to supportmy sword intent and blade intent.

As my talent has been improved, I should take advantage of the time to practice my blade intent.’With that thought, Darren put away his sword and attacked the demonic monster bats with only hisblade.

Meanwhile, he lost no time in comprehending the formulas of the Spectral Chop.

Shortly after, Darren had comprehended the second level of the formulas.

"Ha-ha, talent matters a lot. It's quite easy to comprehend the second level of the formulas of theSpectral Blade Skill as my talent has been improved by two levels. Now, I have reached thebeginning stage of my blade intent,” Daren muttered with excitement.

A little while later, he focused his mind and began to read the moves of the Spectral Chop stored inhis memory.

"The first move, Cracking Attack!"

Darren started to practice the first move while battling the giant bats.

An hour elapsed quickly.

Darren had killed over thirty giant bats.

“These giant bats are much weaker than other level one demonic monsters. Otherwise, Jack wouldn'thave been able to kill so many. But he must have fought them until he ran out of strength, * Darrenrationalized.

As there was not much time left, Darren decided to practice the Cracking Attack for the last time!His blade dashed against the depth of the cavern.

"Boom!"

Darren was surprised as tremendous blade intent rampaged through the cavern.

'lt turned out that the moves of the Spectral Blade Skill should be matched with its formulas! Thisstroke is three times more powerful than before!" Darren was exhilarated.

One blow had helped Darren to kill at least five giant bats.

Fantastic! This should be called supernatural martial skill. My blade intent might become morepowerful than my sword intent if I can comprehend more levels of the formulas and moves.’

This was the advantage of the supernatural martial skill!

"No more delays. Die!" Darren shouted.

This time Darren dispatched both sword and blade intent. His strength was more powerful thanbefore—a simple blow had killed over twenty giant bats.

Of course, Darren took every chance to assimilate the bats’ talent. Although his talent improved ashe absorbed theirs, Darren was still far from level five of the Earth Degree.

Time was running out. Darren collected all the demonic monster's cardiac cores and rushed out ofthe cavern. He needed to get back to where the disciples of the Holy Land had gathered.

Soon, Darren reached the spot where he had left before.

"Put them away. We will be teleported back soon,” Darren said in a flat voice.

"How is this possible?"

Seeing that Darren had collected over sixty demonic monster's cardiac cores, the disciples werestunned. Their mouths opened in surprise.

“Darren's strength is far beyond our imagination. How could he kill so many demonic monsters insuch a short time without any sign of fatigue? Is he more powerful than Jack?" Those discipleslooked at each other, speechless, pondering silently!