Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 249 The Space Of Blades And Swords

"Roar!" The sound of the cave resonated and echoed far beyond the distance. Slowly, each brickstarted to melt, one by one, as if it were a volcano. What did the cave hide however?

Surprising all four of them, the cave before Darren collapsed, and a light gate appeared. They closedtheir eyes because the light was too bright, and slowly one by one they reopened their eyes as theyadjusted to the light of the gate.

Swiftly, Bowen, Norris and Quinn flew over to Darren. Seeing the intensely impressive scene, theywere deeply overwhelmed. More than that they wondered how powerful Darren was.

Darren examined the faces of his three astonished companions as he readied himself to go throughthe light gate. He looked around to make sure the space they were about to step in was safe andthen said to his three stunned companions in order to enter the next space with a simple, "Let's go.”Darren called the stunned three to enter the next space.

The three heard Darren, but they moved slowly and awkwardly, nodding as if in a trance, staring atDarren as if he were some kind of monster and not their friend. A multitude of questions circledaround in their heads, perhaps to be answered, and perhaps not. Nevertheless, they were extremelyexcited about this next space Darren was leading them into.

In the distance, there was a slight rattling of stones which they paid no attention to. However, asthey were about to step into the light gate, the stone guardian suddenly came back to life again. Itseemed like he was an impenetrable wall of bricks, and he was very tall with red piercing eyes. Hewas fearful.

Bowen, Norris and Quinn were shocked and paralyzed in their spots with fear. Their faces flushedand their pulses quickened from the veins in their necks, and their hands started sweating as theytried to rub them dry on the clothes. Their eyes widened in horror and they were speechless. "Eh?You must want to die once more!" Unfazed, Darren shouted with his eyebrows furrowed.

"My challenger, you are really powerful," said the stone man to Darren. He seemed to admire hisopponent's strength. In his deep strong and sturdy voice, he said to Darren, "Since you have passedthe test of the second space, this is your reward. I'm certain you will need it.” The stone man's tonewas no longer cold. Slowly, he took off his suit of armor which gradually shrunk as he slowlyapproached Darren.

Surprised by the stone guardian's present, Darren composed himself and addressed the stone manby saying, "Well, thank you for the gift. I like it." Looking at his new suit of armor with pride, heturned around and held it up for his friends to see who were all mesmerized by the entire exchangebetween the stone man and Darren. Then Darren put the armor away.

Subsequently, Darren led the three others towards the next space. However, to his surprise, barringhim the other three were all denied entry. He was puzzled and thought something was seriouslywrong.

He asked the stone man, "Why did this happen? Do you really want to be killed again?" Darrenlooked back and stared at the stone man.

"You can enter the next space because you have passed the test. The truth is you did it alonewithout their help, so they are not qualified to enter the next space unless the three can defeat me,"the stone man explained.

Upon hearing the stone man's explanation, the three others sighed woefully and forced a bittersmile. They found themselves languishing in an abyss of disillusionment about brokering some typeof bargain of entering the next space. Regretfully they were out of ideas, so they retreated back intothe distance and slouched down on some stone rocks as seats.

Then the stone guardian also pointed out that even if Darren helped the three others to defeat himone more time, they were still not qualified as passing the test. The only way for them to be allowedto enter the next space was they personally killed the stone man without Darren's help. As if readingthe disappointment in their minds, the stone man assertively announced, "Those are the rules hereand there is no use changing them."

Disheartened, but nonetheless proud of his friend, Bowen said encouragingly, "Darren, you shouldgo first. Don't worry about us.”

"That's right, Darren. I hope you can reach the eleventh space. We are not as powerful as you, so wecan do nothing to help you, but rather, we will drag you down. So you just go ahead,” Norrisechoed as he tried to hide the distress in his voice and the disappointment in his heart.

Looking intensely at the three, Darren thought to himself, 'So be it." He felt he had no other choice.However, this little voice inside of him did not want to abandon his warrior friends, so he shouted tothem, "Well, don't give up! I believe you can make it. Bowen, your talents are no less than mine.Have faith in yourself.” With these words, Darren stepped into the light gate and disappeared.

The words Darren said to Bowen were more than encouraging. Apart from the ability to assimilate,Bowen's talents were extremely close to those of Darren's

Suddenly, Bowen felt a strange warmth engulf him; inside him, a flood of emotion surging high.Inwardly, he had sworn to himself that he must pass the test in the second space.

"Let's go to hunt more magic herbs!" Bowen cried out and set out first.

Upon arriving in the third space, Darren killed the defenders and promoted his realm all the way. Injust the last three months, he had cut his way through the eighth space. He was proud of his effort,but knew he still had a long way to go and that nothing could distract him.

"Whew! Finally here I am," Darren sighed as he finally reached the ninth space.

The view was quite different from those of the other spaces. Before this, Darren could obtainnothing but magic herbs good for his cultivation base or some martial skills occasionally, thoughbeing of little use to him.

While in the ninth space, a river flowed before Darren's eyes, and it had distinct views on bothbanks, for there were endless blades and swords. He found this so extraordinary.

It seemed that the blades and swords were inserted into each side with no end.

“What does this mean?’ Darren thought to himself, quite puzzled at the image before him.

Since he practiced blade and sword skills, he thought his cultivation must have something to dowith the blades and swords in this space.

Outside the space

The guardian of the Ancient Void Battlefield was observing Darren's behavior all the time.

Seeing Darren breaking through the spaces one by one and killing many powerful defendersincredibly fast, the guardian's face lit up with an unprecedented excitement.

"Will he be the first genius to break through the Ancient Void Battlefield?" the guardian murmuredto himself. However, he shook his head immediately and sighed, "The defender of the thirteenthspace is too dreadful for him to..."

Observing for a while, Darren didn't replace anything special. Therefore, he flew down to the riverintending to see it clearly.

'It is the blade and sword intent!"

Darren was startled. Upon touching the water, two strong forces of intent crashed into him. Hefound out that the river was formed by immeasurable blade and sword intent.

“The intent here is even stronger than mine, at least having reached the primary level of thepremium blade and sword intent, * Darren then thought to himself, deeply shocked. He could feelhis heart tense up because his blade intent and sword intent were weaker than the intent in theriver.

However, none of these were critical issues. What really mattered was that he hadn't found histarget. It was infeasible for him to attack the river ceaselessly.

The blade and sword intent in the river aggressively assaulted Darren. With all his might, hewithstood the attack while flying overhead. According to his experience, he knew that each spacemust have a defender. If he found the defender, he would get a chance to pass the test in thisspace.

Bang!

The river started to become even more restless as countless waves darted into Darren.

It was overwhelming and Darren felt bad as if he was resisting thousands of blades and swords. Hehad never suffered such bloodcurdling blade and sword intent before. It was even worse thanfighting another self. After all, his blade and sword intent at that time was much weaker than that oftoday.

"Oh!" Darren said as he smiled wryly. He painfully bore the endless abuse and harassment from theblade and sword intent. He felt his heart beating wildly with sheer terror.

Then he tried to shoot his own blade and sword intent. However, it drowned in the river without anyreaction.

'lt seems that this space is designed based on the challenger's martial skill so that the challenger willfail to bring all his strength into play, * Darren thought to himself. Finally, he realized that he hadperceived the mystery of the space.

"Roar!"

Darren snarled all of a sudden. The demon core ran quickly inside his body driven by the demonicinternal force. Immediately, Darren displayed the demonic transformation skill. Instantly, he lookedlike a Demon God.

Rumble!

Beforehand, in the former tests, Darren had improved his skills to the limits within his realm. Now,his surging demonic internal force collided with the blade and sword intent from the river.

Their powers were almost equivalent, shaking heaven and earth.

However, this didn't mean that Darren's demonic internal force was stronger than his blade andsword intent. Actually, they were both powerful, but Darren's blade intent and sword intent weresuppressed here. What was worse, he couldn't replace the target.

That was why up till now Darren hadn't released the Blade and Sword Domain. He knew clearly thateven the domain couldn't afford to resist the endless blade and sword intent from the river.

Driven by a crazed blood-lust, he let out a resounding "Roar!"

His eyes turned scarlet as he once again ejected an internal demonic force. Then the blade andsword intent was bombarded to be scattered around, fiercely devastating the earth.

Rocks flew in all directions as the firmament quivered. Out of those, an extraordinary figure stoodimmovably firm, shocking heaven and earth.

Thunder!

Then there was the all too familiar sound of resounding bone chilling thunder! All at once theblades and swords along the river started flying high and formed two huge swirls in the sky.Amazed and bewildered, Darren looked up as lightning sparked in the middle of the two largeswirls, which almost seemed to burn the extraordinary figure into ashes.