Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 248 Second Killing

The three injured people healed their wounds with the help of the magic spiritual herbs Darren gavethem. Not only had they been healed, but their strength had been improved as well.

Billy lay on the ground, motionless like an abandoned dog left to die. Crippling fear rose from thebottom of his heart, spreading through his limbs like poison.

"Please," Billy begged, his voice trembling. "Please don't kill me.” He would have wept if he had theenergy to do so, but he was so drained that he could barely keep his eyes open.

"Remember what you made us feel when you tried to kill us? Well, have a taste of your medicine.Are you enjoying it so far? If Darren hadn't come along to help us, you would have shown no mercyand killed us. So what makes you think that we'll let you go?" Norris asked with a bitter smile on hisface. His bones had been broken by Billy and there was no way he would forget how that felt like.The cold anger that took hold of his heart grew more intense as he looked at the personresponsible for putting him through so much pain. He then extended his hand and grabbed ahandful of Billy's flesh, ripping it apart like a piece of meat for the long-awaited dinner.

Billy screamed in pain. Quite desperately, he grabbed Darren's leg to beg for mercy.

But Darren remained unfazed. He was usually generous, but Billy was a man who didn't deserve anymercy. He answered Billy's pleas with an icy smile.

One after another, the three took turns to torture Billy within an inch of his life. Even when Billy lostconsciousness, they managed to wake him and continue the torment. They did not let any secondgo to waste.

"I think we have hurt him enough. Should we kill him now, Darren?"

"Not yet. We may replace ourselves needing a dead dog. So let's keep him breathing for now. We needto focus on getting through the test,” Darren casually replied as he looked at the pitch-black cavern.An extremely horrible odor was coming from it, as though it was from an existence akin to a beast."Take him over there."

Without further ado, they flew over and stopped in front of the cavern. As for the endless magicalherbs, they had all been rendered immobile by Darren's breath, so there was no real harm anymore."Wait for me here. I will go in and have a look," Darren said.

"Take care, Darren. The thing inside the cavern is very powerful.”

Although they knew how powerful Darren had grown over time, they couldn't deny that the energycoming from the cavern felt so powerful and overwhelming. They wondered if Darren could actuallydefeat it with his own strength, but they decided to just believe in his capacity. The concern in theirvoices didn't go unnoticed by Darren.

"Trust me, I will be fine," Darren reassured with a smile. With a flash, Darren's figure disappeared andflew into the pitch-black cavern.

"Darren is a true genius. He managed to improve his strength to a level we can only look up towithin such a short time."

"I agree. Even Billy didn't stand a chance against him. That meant his strength had surpassed Billy'sa lot, and he could very well pass this test with flying colors."

Bowen only listened quietly as he stared into the darkness. His eyes flashed with alarming concern,but he chose to keep his mouth shut. Could he have been concerned about Darren's well-being, orwas he more concerned about the fact that he might not be able to reach Darren's level no matterhow hard he trained?

BANG!

A fiery figure was thrown out of the cavern while they were waiting for Darren to come back. Thefigure flew so fast that it passed them in a split second and landed somewhere afar. It was just ahaze lost in the wind. Nobody could see what it really was.

"This is... Wait, what just happened? Something flew out of the cavern due to a force so powerful wecouldn't even see it with our naked eyes!"

They had a gut feeling that the power alone could smash ten strong cultivators at the advancedstage of the Wonder Realm.

SWOOSH!

A ghostly figure appeared beside the three.

The figure was charred and ragged. They could barely identify its appearance.

"Fuck, there's such a powerful being in that cavern,” the charred figure grumbled.

"Darren!" Bowen exclaimed in shock. "You... You got thrown out of that cavern like you were nothingbut a bag of herbs! What the hell is in there? How could it be so powerful?"

"I don't know what it is, but its strength should be equivalent to that of a strong cultivator at the toplevel of the advanced stage of the Wonder Realm,” Darren said in a low voice, his face solemn.

The other three gasped. If what Darren said was true, the strength of that creature was beyond theirimagination. However, what surprised them more was that even though Darren had been struck outof the cavern with such force, he was intact and mostly unharmed. How strong was his body towithstand an attack like that?

"Darren you are too powerful! We are small, rotten potatoes compared to you.”

They shook their heads. They could hardly believe Darren had become so strong. They could onlylook up to him now. His cultivation talent was a miracle for them.

"Humans, you are far from going through the second round, so piss off and continue yourcultivation!"

A giant man made of stones with a height of hundreds of feet bellowed as he strode out of thecavern. His whole body was covered with fire.

"Who are you?" one of them blurted out, unable to stop himself from asking.

"I come from the ancient Stone Clan, and I am the guardian of the second space. I want to remindyou something, tiny humans. You may have a ghost of chance to beat me if five of you worktogether. But now that one of your teammates is already useless, you will never beat me. Cultivatehere for three years and then piss off,"

he said in a voice that sounded like stones scraping against each other.

"Ha ha, you are just a pile of stones. I can kill you in a second with my real strength!" Darrensneered, getting to his feet.

He thought there must be some reason why there were five people in a group. He understood thatnow.

The guardian made of stones was at the top level of the advanced stage of the Wonder Realm.Normally, a man could reach the advanced stage of the Wonder Realm after three years ofcultivation, so five cultivators with such strength could kill the guardian if they worked togetherclosely.

Simply out, going through the second space required teamwork. But how could the space guardianexpect that he would meet an extremely powerful cultivator like Darren?

"You are talking big, human. I have guarded the second space for countless years, yet nobody haskilled me alone in such a short time. You are too arrogant for your own good.”

The stone guardian was formed by the spiritual intent of the ancient Stone Clan so he could neverdie. Even if he did, he would only get resurrected to face new challengers in the very same spot. Itwas an endless cycle.

And like he said, nobody had been able to face him alone so far. What remained in his memory wasthe two talented cultivators who had gone through the test after the other three teammates diedfrom conflict.

After those two, nobody had been able to pass through.

"Let's see, then. I will go through the test alone,” Darren replied. With a light roar, he drew out hissword and cut open Billy's throat first, rendering him useless.

"Darren, are you sure you want to fight it alone?"

Currently, Bowen, Quinn and Norris were at the top level of the middle stage of the Wonder Realm,but they were well aware that they wouldn't be much help to Darren. Still, they needed to ask ifDarren really wanted to go through this test alone. Even though their combined strength wasn'tmuch, there must be something they could do, like a split second distraction that could change thecourse of the battle. If they could tip the scales in their favor even by just a millimeter, they wouldnot hesitate to do it.

In the Ancient Void Battlefield, three years ran like ten days outside. They had three years for goingthrough each of the first nine realms, so it was around three months outside of the Ancient VoidBattlefield. That meant they would not be teleported back to the outside world if they succeeded ingoing into the tenth round in three months’ time.

"Fight him?" Darren glanced at the stony guardian with a smirk. "No, I won't fight him. I will kill himin a second.

You step back as far as possible!" He let out a battle cry, his surging blade and sword intent hushingout of him like all the pores in his body had been opened. He aimed it towards the stone guardian.Feeling Darren's horrible breath smothering the air, Bowen and the other two all flew back as fast asthey could to avoid accidental injuries that they might sustain from watching the fight. They had nodoubt that they would be cut into pieces if they so much as touch a wisp of the powerful blade andsword intent that Darren was wielding right now.

"Cocky human, you will pay the price for your words.” The guardian acknowledged that Darren'ssword intent was powerful, but he believed that it was not powerful enough to damage him.

"We'll see about that.” Darren dashed towards the stony guardian at full speed, exercising his Bladeand Sword Domain skill on the way.

It was at this point that the guardian felt Darren's strength for what it truly was. The smug look in hiseyes was immediately replaced by fear, realizing that Darren's sword intent and blade intent weren'tthe only weapon he had.

"Domain..You have mastered the domain skill!"

Darren's face split into a cruel smile. "You should have realized it sooner. Now die!" Darren wasinvincible in his domain. He struck the guardian continuously and he didn't stop until the guardianwas nothing but a pile of smoking rubble on the ground. The fire had died out.

And with that, the stony guardian was killed in a second, just like what Darren promised.