Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 219 A Girl In Purple

Darren puffed up his chest and put on a ferocious expression on his face. However, it was all forshow; he was just bluffing and had no real intention of fighting the woman. After all, it would betroublesome if the fight attracted other strong cultivators towards them. “Once this woman and Iengaged in a fight, other strong warriors in this Holy Land might discover me. If that happens, I'mgoing to have to give up on rescuing Elder Thomas, * he thought.

Meanwhile, the woman did not dare make a move against Darren as she sensed that he waspowerful. 'If Holy Lord replaces out that I am cheating on him, I'll be as good as dead, * she considered."What do you want to know, young man?" The woman's voice suddenly became gentle and thefierce look in her eyes had now vanished.

Darren immediately became suspicious of the woman's sudden change in attitude. Because he wasnot sure what this woman's relation to the Holy Lord's son he had killed before, he decided it wasbest if he was not too forward with his intentions of rescuing Elder Thomas. 'She looks pretty young,so I don't think she's that man's mother. She may be a concubine of the Holy Lord of the Blade HolyLand, perhaps?*

"Did you know that the Holy Lord's son was killed?" He raised his brows and looked intently at thewoman.

"Young man, everyone knows that that bastard is dead. Come on, I don't think you would gothrough all that just to ask me that." The woman gave him a lopsided smirk and looked at himthrough half-lidded eyes.

Judging by her response, Darren speculated that she was probably the mistress of the Holy Lord."You talk too much. I heard that you have captured an Elder who was involved in the death of theHoly Lord's son. Do you know where he is?" Darren responded, ignoring her flirtatious advances.The woman pouted. "Humph! Why so cold?" She approached Darren and slightly licked her lipswhile maintaining eye contact. "Don’t you think I'm pretty?”

A pleasant scent soon filled Darren's nose, and as he stared into her eyes, he suddenly found herappealing.

Darren felt a sensation in his head.

At the same time, he felt like his face was burning and he could not move a single inch of his body.It was like someone had cast a spell on him. He watched as the glamorous woman approached, hisheart beating out of control.

"Please don't tell others what you saw in this room. I can give you whatever you want, includingmyself.” The woman continued making advances at Darren, fluttering her eyes at him as she spoke.Her voice was absolutely hypnotic. It seemed to carry some kind of magic, making it hard for peopleto refuse her requests.

"Something is wrong," Darren murmured. He shook his head to snap himself out of the trance thatthe woman seemed to have put him in.

He then immediately hit the woman across the face, making her stagger backwards and fall to theground.

With blood spilling from her mouth, she got up and burst into tears. She looked at Darrenpathetically and cried out in between sobs, "I was so nice to you, but you repay me by treating melike this.”

Her shoulders trembled as she sobbed. She looked like an innocent maiden who had been bullied.As Darren watched the woman's trembling features, an overwhelming feeling of sympathy floodedinside of him. To his astonishment, he even had an urge to pull her into his arms to comfort her.With a pitiful look on her face, she staggered towards Darren and a warm scent from her bodywafted through his nose.

"How could you be so ruthless to hurt me?" Her enchanting voice reached Darren's ears.

"She's perfect. She's the type of woman that every man dreams of," Darren muttered as he stared atthe woman and then immediately closed his eyes shut.

The next minute, he was waving his blade towards the woman.

The woman let out a shrill scream as the blade hit her, blood covering her body. "Please don't killme, sir! Please fall in love with me!" she begged.

"Nothing is perfect. You're not real. Go to hell!" Darren unleashed his tremendous Spirit Power.

He was about to give her one final blow, when suddenly, the woman who was covered in bloodvanished and what appeared before him was a stunning girl dressed in purple garments. She staredat Darren, wide-eye in disbelief.

"You were able to break my skill of enticement! You have such amazing Spirit Power!" the girl inpurple exclaimed, her eyebrows were furrowed and her lips were downturned into a frown.

It was only then that Darren realized that he had been trapped in an illusion since he entered theroom. “That woman with the luscious curves doesn't exist.

What I heard and what I saw were mere illusions. They weren't real. But that dead young man wasdefinitely real." He turned to look at the dead body then back to the girl. “And this girl killed him.""The enticement skill you used was amazing. Looks like you have a strong Spirit Power too," Darrensaid as he glanced at the girl in purple. He had awakened his level 18 Spirit Power, but because hedid not release it sooner, it took him so long to become aware that he was stuck in an illusion. Hesurmised that the girl's Spirit Power was as powerful as his or possibly even more powerful than his."I'm Callie. May I have the honor to be friends with you?" The girl in purple smiled faintly as shemade her way towards Darren.

"Go away!" Darren shouted at her.

He immediately unleashed his blade intent and aimed it at Callie, making her step back to avoidbeing hit.

"What are you doing, mister? We both possess a strong Spirit Power, so I'd like to makeacquaintance with you. You're so rude," Callie hissed.

"I advise you to stop attempting to fool me with your little tricks. I'm sure you have a third move toyour enticement skill. You already pissed me off when you made a move against me with that skill.So, no, I wouldn't like to get acquainted with you. Got it?" Darren glowered at Callie.

He fell for the trick earlier because he was not using his Spirit Power. However, now that he foundout that the girl had a strong Spirit Power, he stayed in a state of alert. Just then, when Callie spoketo him, he detected that she was using another spiritual secret skill to trick him. He immediatelyunleashed his Spirit Power to counter the skill.

"You're really something," Callie remarked with a sneer. She was done pretending to be nice to him."Who the hell are you? Do you know the answer to the question I asked that woman?" Darrenasked, poised like he was ready to battle her at any time.

"Yes, I do.” She grinned impishly and went on, "But I won't tell you.”

"Go to hell!" Darren snapped. He did not have the patience to show mercy to someone whopossessed an incredibly strong Spirit Power and who might try taking his life again. Even though shelooked gorgeous, he would not hesitate to take her down.

SWOOSH!

Darren waved both the blade and the sword at the same time. A tremendous wave of blade andsword intents shot towards Callie.

The naughty look on her face suddenly turned into a displeased one. "Seriously? You're going to killme?"

She then waved her hand and a small golden bell materialized in her hand.

Just as the blade intent and sword intent were about to hit her, the bell rang and an invisible wallemerged in front of her. As the blade and sword intents collided with the wall, mysterious runesglowed on the wall.

The collision between two forces caused the palace to tremble. However, Callie remained unscathedas the blade and sword intents Darren had unleashed completely dissipated into thin air.

'What's going on?* Darren was taken aback by what he had just witnessed. 'l activated my SpiritPower, but I still wasn't able to harm Callie. That golden bell contains a strong force of a rulecultivator.’

He had a feeling that he had seen the glowing runes somewhere else before. After thinking about itfor a while, he suddenly recalled that those runes were the exact same ones that he saw in the caveback in the Barren Wasteland where the bronze coffin was.

'She must know some powerful rule cultivator, or she couldn't have had such a valuable treasure.’Darren's scowl deepened. He was starting to get on edge.

"Aww, did you get angry? Come on, kill me if you can. I'm right here," Callie said, deliberately tryingto provoke him now.

"Do you really think that I can't end you?" Darren coldly said.

He then started to transform. Layers of scales appeared on his skin, covering his entire body. Hegave off a violent, furious aura.

He was ready to use his most powerful skill to take Callie down.

"What? What's going on?" Callie's face suddenly dropped. The ferocious vibe Darren exuded left hercowering in fear and panic.

However, within the next minute, she immediately calmed down and a sneer reappeared on herface. "After I recall the restriction, someone else will come and take care of you. Humph! See ya!"As Callie started casting her spell, the runes around the room glowed brightly and then faded away.She lifted the defense restriction that she had put up around the chamber. It was what preventedDarren from being exposed even if he exerted powerful blade and sword intent. Now that she hadwithdrawn the restriction, people from the outside were now able to sense the aggressive powerthat Darren had released.

"Who had the nerve to stir up trouble in the Blade Holy Land?"

A loud booming voice pierced through Darren's ears.

An invincible blade intent suddenly came dashing towards Darren.

“Crap! He's a blade cultivator at the advanced stage of Wonder Realm.’ Darren clenched his jaw, notquite pleased by the additional setback. He turned around and saw Callie slowly fading away. Shegave him a smile before vanishing completely.