Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 1021 Sneaking In

"What is it?"

asked Darren to the Tiger Cat. He could see the confusion on his face.

"Nothing. I just feel sorry for my master. It seems that he'll never be able to take his revenge,”replied the Tiger Cat with a helpless sigh.

"By the way, Darren, what is your current cultivation level?" the Tiger Cat asked.

"It's about a half-step emperor's strength by now."

"Let me have a go at it,"

said the Tiger Cat, reaching his paw out to Darren. He wanted to witness this power firsthand.Darren subconsciously gathered the Fire and Water Force, and a destructive aura began to flowthrough his palm.

A force suddenly exploded between Darren's palm and the Tiger Cat's paw.

Darren staggered backward.

"You are indeed a half-step emperor. Not bad, Darren." The Tiger Cat withdrew his paw, satisfied.Darren stood still and asked, "So what's your plan?”

"I'll stay in the tomb. You must be cautious about going outside. It hasn't been safe in these parts. Alot of people at the half-step emperor level have died already,” the Tiger Cat reminded in reply."What happened? Why did they die?" Darren frowned.

"It was done by a guy with a strong fiendish aura. His strength is on par with mine at least. But Ican't leave the tomb. My strength will slowly degenerate if I go outside. I can't help you, so youmust take care of yourself.”

"Fiend!" Even before entering the holy emperor's tomb, Darren had already noticed the fiend.

"I'll be going out first, then.”

"Okay."

The Tiger Cat nodded and sent Darren out using a transmission array.

Darren took a breath of fresh air under the clear blue sky. He hadn't been in such a tranquilenvironment in a while, and it put him at ease.

"Here you are at last!" A voice came from Darren's heart.

"Sir, you're awake?"

"I woke up a long time ago. It's just that I was too weak to say anything. I was suppressed by therules of the tomb and was unable to communicate with you," the dragon ancestor said.

"Well. Are you okay now?"

"No. You almost killed me. By the way, where's the old bird?" He was referring to the Grand Crow."I don't know. After he got injured, he said he wanted to heal his wounds. After that, he justdisappeared.”

"Humph, that old bird is no good. It's better to just not contact him. Now, take me to thenorthwest," said the dragon ancestor.

"I'm headed to the eighteen cities, but you're going northwest. What do you want, exactly?" Darrenasked.

"I'm going back to my former lair, of course. I'm gravely injured. It'd be impossible for me to recoverwithout returning to my lair." It was all Darren's fault that he was badly injured, so the dragonancestor was quite annoyed.

"Okay fine, I'll go there.” Of course, Darren could not refuse.

He then flew for ten days and ten nights towards the northwest.

"Here we are." Darren stopped in front of a mountain.

"I don't see the Dragon Lair." Darren checked for a while and found that there was no cave in thismountain.

"It's hidden."

The dragon ancestor's lair was guarded by a powerful hiding array and no one could replace it withouthis help.

The dragon ancestor was trying to open the array when he suddenly hesitated.

"Oh no. This is not good. We have to leave!"

The dragon ancestor was visibly shaken.

"What's the matter?" Darren asked, confused.

"Something is inside. Hurry up,” urged the dragon ancestor anxiously.

Just as the dragon ancestor feared, a howl suddenly ripped out into the area.

A thick black fog suddenly shot up into the sky, and a figure appeared in front of Darren.

"Fiend!" Darren was slightly surprised

but was immediately relieved when he sensed the aura. He had braced himself for the worst. Thisfoe was at least not the first fiend ancestor.

"Get out of my way, or die." Darren could communicate with this fiend.

"Human, you speak our language?” The fiend was startled by Darren's words.

"Humph, who said I was human? I'm at a higher level than you. If you don't want to die, you'd betterget out of here."

Darren released a little demonic internal force as he spoke to intimidate the fiend.

Noticing the pure demonic internal force of Darren, the fiend was frightened and hastily knelt to theground.

"I'm sorry for disturbing you, sir. Please forgive me."

"Get out."

The fiend retreated in a hurry, as did Darren.

'lt seems that the first fiend ancestor has organized many fiend subordinates under him. That onejust now was at least as powerful as a half-step emperor, * Darren thought to himself.

"My lair is being occupied by that group of beasts. How insulting!" the dragon ancestor complained."Sir, how many fiends can you sense in your lair?"

"There are more than a hundred of them, and one of them in particular is very powerful. I guess hemust be at the peak of half-step emperor level. Otherwise, why would I ask you to run away?" saidthe dragon ancestor.

"The peak of half-step emperor level? Is there anyone in there that's beyond half-step emperorlevel?" Darren wanted to know more about the first fiend ancestor.

"None. Alas! Now I can't enter the Dragon Lair, and my body will never recover."

"Why do you have to enter the Dragon Lair to heal yourself, sir?" Darren asked.

"Do you still remember the five-clawed golden dragon I made?”

"Yes, I do." Darren nodded. He recalled meeting an ancient flood dragon that was slain by the tinyfive-clawed golden dragon released by the dragon ancestor. As tiny as that dragon was, it had theaura of a dragon god.

"In my Dragon Lair, I keep one of the scales from a five-clawed golden dragon! I can use it to healmyself."

"I see. Got it." Darren nodded and continued, "In that case, let's go back and kill those fiends so wecan retrieve the scale.”

"Are you sure about this? I just told you there is a powerful fiend in there. You're knocking ondeath's door by going in there," the dragon ancestor roared.

"Not necessarily. I can disguise myself as one of them, sneak in and wait for an opportunity to killthem.” As he spoke, Darren released a bit of demonic internal force into his heart for the dragonancestor to see.

"Hey, that's their aura!" The dragon ancestor was surprised. After a while, he said, "In that case, youcan probably give it a shot.”

"Alright." Darren nodded and turned back.

Before long, Darren arrived at a huge cave under the guidance of the dragon ancestor.

Suddenly, the wind whistled.

As soon as Darren reached the huge cave, many black-scaled fiends appeared one after another."Kneel!"

After Darren merged the demonic internal force with his dragon aura, he couldn't transform into afiend. Nevertheless, he exuded a pure fiendish aura

The crowd of fiends looked at each other in confusion. The man was clearly a human, but he wasletting out a menacing pure fiendish aura that shook them with fear.

A loud thud was suddenly heard.

The fiend that had seen Darren before knelt down first. Seeing someone take the lead, all the otherfiends followed suit.

"Sir," the fiends said in unison.

"Humph!" Darren put on an indifferent and proud look. With his chin high, he strutted straight intothe cave.

Explosions suddenly rang through just as Darren was going to step further into the cave.

A strong fiendish aura rose from the sky, making the earth hazy.

The fiends on the ground trembled with fear as they rose from the ground to greet their superior."The general is back!

Long live the general!"

all the fiends shouted in unison.

"Holy crap!’ Darren's heart skipped a beat. 'Did the first fiend ancestor's body return?'

How was he going to maintain this disguise now? The first fiend ancestor would definitely seethrough it.

Darren turned around and stood directly behind the crowd, making it easier for him to escape.