Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 186 The Two Armies Confront Each Other

A huge number of demonic monsters covered the sky. Down on the ground, the human martialartists released their combined auras which were as powerful as the demonic monsters’.

Because Darren and Bruce were hiding among the demonic monsters, they were affected by thehumans’ aura as well. An unnerving feeling washed over them and they almost couldn't breathe.Several level one and level two demonic monsters beside them dropped to the ground and startedvomiting blood. The weaker demonic monsters who could fly also started falling down.

Darren used his demonic internal force to resist the strong aura and make himself immune to itseffects. Up ahead, below the black mountains, he saw people who were dressed very differently. Hewas surprised to discover that he was able to distinctly detect two strong sources even from thatdistance. It was coming from two young men who looked no more than thirty.

“They might be two of the first one hundred martial artists on the Talent Roll!" Thinking of thispossibility, Darren couldn't help but feel surprised.

"North Monster King! Are you really going to break the agreement and continue this attack on us? *One of the humans bellowed, emitting a strong aura.

"Humph! You went into my territory. Tell me why I can't kill you all. As for the agreement, I havenever heard of it,” replied the demonic monster who stood at the very front of the rest of thedemonic monsters, also emitting an even stronger aura.

"North Monster King, you demonic monsters lost a fight against us many years ago and had signedan agreement. We can come here as we want. It's you who broke the agreement. Aren't you afraidof suffering another defeat against our army? If you really want to get on our bad side and makeyour people suffer, I hope you know what you're going against!" An old martial artist spoke for thehuman side.

"Divine Crane Fighter, who is that old bastard? His aura is no weaker than mine. And he seems toknow much,” the North Monster King asked while glaring at the old martial artist.

"My king, the old man is probably an elder of the Heavenly Palace Sect. He should be a powerfulcultivator of the Wonder Realm. He might even be very close to the Grand Realm.” The Divine CraneFighter was very familiar with different forces of the human martial artists. His informers were allover the south of the human territory.

"According to what you know, if I were to fight him, how will it end?" The North Monster King hadno idea how powerful the martial artist was. Before anything else, he wanted to know as much as hecould about the old man.

"You are a level nine king, and you have also mastered the inheritance skill. Therefore, if you start afight with him, of course you will win," the Divine Crane Fighter answered. The North Monster Kingwas pleased to hear the delightful information. However, the Divine Crane Fighter added, "But wecan't overlook the fact that there are a few good martial artists over there aside from that oldgeezer. I'm detecting a few strong sources of the aura. If we were to engage in a fight with them,the most likely outcome would be nobody wins and both sides suffer equal losses. And if we fightfor a very long time, we will ruin the Dragon King's big plan. The result will not be desirable.”Hearing this, the North Monster King fell silent. He had expected that the human trespassers wouldbe weaklings. He could kill them and eat them. What he didn't expect was that there would be agreat number of strong martial artists among them. He couldn't start a fight because he wouldn'twant to make the Dragon King angry.

Even though Darren was far from where North Monster King and the Divine Crane Fighter stood, hestill clearly heard what the two said. But right now was not the time for him to think much, he couldsense that Bruce wouldn't be able to hold out for much longer.

'We can't stay here anymore. As soon as Bruce turns back to his human form, we'll both be killedThere's no doubt about it, * Darren anxiously thought.

After contemplating for a short moment, he walked up to Bruce and quietly whispered behind hisear. He then slapped Bruce's back, and Bruce fell down to the ground with blood coming out of hismouth.

"What happened?" The commotion drew several demonic monsters’ attentions, including the levelsix demonic monster who brought them there.

"What's going on?" The patterns on the demonic monster's face incessantly changed colors, anindication that he was about to get very angry.

"My Lord, he wasn't able to endure the aura of the human martial artists and fainted,” Darren calmlysaid.

The level six demonic monster guffawed. Several of the other powerful demonic monsters also burstinto a chorus of howling laughter. It was normal for weaker demonic monsters to throw up bloodwhen faced with such a strong aura, but fainting was too excessive. “Just how weak was thatdemonic monster?’ they all thought.

"Get out of here!" The level six demonic monster was flustered. He really wanted to kill the stupidape himself. But right now, the real enemy was in front of them, and the North Monster King waspresent, so he refrained himself from doing so.

"Yes, sir," Darren shakily said, pretending to be afraid of the demonic monster, and dragged Bruceto the end of the line.

"My king, do we fight or not?" the Divine Crane Fighter asked.

Before the North Monster King could answer, the powerful monsters behind him started to shoutand yell; the thirst for blood, evident in their eyes. They were desperately hungry for a fight.

"We will not fight,” the North Monster King calmly responded. The fighters collectively let outindignant sighs, disappointed at the king's decision.

"Then, are we retreating, my king? If we retreat, what about the Holy Cave? There are so manystrong human martial artists, so there must be some extremely rare treasures in the Holy Cave. Evenif those treasures are of no use to us, I don't want the humans to get a hold of them,” the DivineCrane Fighter appealed.

"We will not retreat either,” the North Monster King announced, the corners of his lips lifting into asmirk.

The Divine Crane Fighter's broke into an impish grin as he came to understand the North MonsterKing's plan.

"You want to strand them here and see what happens next. That's a brilliant idea, my king."Meanwhile, on the other side, a small number of strong martial artists stood beside the old man."Elder Star, what do you think? There are so many of them here, some of them are quite powerful.We can't enter the Fire Cave. Are we just going to stay put?” one of them asked.

The old martial artist pondered over the question for a short moment before answering, "Mydisciples have entered the Fire Cave. I don't know whether they are dead or not. I believe many ofyour relatives also got into the Fire Cave, am I correct? We certainly can't retreat, so we'll have towait here and see. Besides, I heard that a Holy Lord of the Holy Land also got in. The only thing wecan do right now is to wait."

"Elder Star, what if the North Monster King commands his people to attack us? Though we canprotect ourselves, there are a great deal of cultivators among us who are still below the WonderRealm. They will surely die if a fight breaks out. It's not worth it," a cultivator who was at the middlestage of the Wonder Realm apprehensively said.

"Bah!" Elder Star dismissively exclaimed. "If the North Monster King dared to start a fight, he will bebreaking the agreement that was signed years ago. We can use this chance to kill them all. Do youreally think he would dare to do so? If he starts the fight, even if I don't tell my sect the news, thetop leader of the demonic monsters won't let him off so easily.”

Silence fell over the rest of the martial artists. After a few moments, one of them curiously prodded,"Can you tell us what the agreement was, Elder Star? Is it really so powerful that the North MonsterKing wouldn't dare break it?"

"The agreement was enacted shortly after we, the Heavenly Palace Sect, won the war against thedemonic monsters years ago. You don't need to know the details,” the old man indifferentlyanswered.

He was very powerful and he was also an important man of the Heavenly Palace Sect, so the othersdidn't risk asking more questions.

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to both the two conflicting sides, something was happening under theirnoses.

Darren dragged Bruce, who was pretending to be unconscious, as he slowly trudged towards theend of the demonic monster army. They were both still demonic monsters in appearance, thus theywouldn't be able to cross to the human side. The best course of action they could take was to getout in secret.

However, right before they got to a spot where the demonic monsters wouldn't see them, Bruce'sbloodline force started acting up.

His whole body began to convulse and his face contorted in pain. His body was shrinking at a rapidpace.

"Damn it! Come on Bruce, hold it just a little bit longer!" Darren grew more and more agitated andhis pace quickened with every step he took.

Within a few seconds, the bloodline force had completely worn off; Bruce appeared as a humanonce again.

All of it was seen by a demonic monster who was standing by the edge of the monster army. Theworst part was that the demonic monster was a level five demonic monster. Darren and Bruce werenow completely exposed.

"You two!" the demonic monster roared out as it opened its red bloody mouth.