Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 291 Seven-holy Fruit

"That's all I wanted to say. Could you do me this favor?" Grand Blood Refiner asked as he sigheddeeply.

Darren remained silent for a few moments and then replied, "Sir, I cannot do it."

"It looks like you still don't believe me.” Grand Blood Refiner was bitterly disappointed. He went on,"I see. Well then, you may leave.”

"Sir, you have misunderstood my words," Darren said, getting on his feet. "What I meant was thatwe don't have the abilities to help you replace the Primitive Stones containing the Life Rule right now.""That's right, sir! I definitely want to help you, but our strength is nowhere enough to help you replacethe Primitive Stones. On top of that, we are not familiar with the surroundings either. We will mostlikely get lost in this place. There is nothing we can do for you, sir,” Tom said, also getting up fromthe stone chair. He was moved by what Grand Blood Refiner had said.

"Oh! I mistook your words!" A look of joy spread across his face and he continued, "You don't needto worry about your current strength. If you are able to replace enough Seven-holy Fruits, you can getrid of the repressive power of the Raksa Sea. After that, it will become easier for you to fight."Grand Blood Refiner took out two white fruits and said, "I already have two fruits. But this is notenough to have any significant effect on the repressive power. Commit to your mind what the fruitlooks like and collect as many as you can.”

He looked at them for a few seconds and then nodded as he continued, "I can't be here for toolong. If you two are willing to help me, you may take these two fruits with you. When you replace thePrimitive Stones, send out your spiritual sense. When I sense it, I will come to you. Thank you foryour help.” Saying so, he withdrew his domain. The next moment, he turned into Robb.

Darren and Tom took the fruits from his hands and promised that they would try their best to collectmore fruits. After that, the Grand Blood Refiner left in a hurry.

"Alas, I didn't expect that Grand Blood Refiner had suffered a lot as well.” Tom fumed, seething withanger.

Darren slightly shook his head at Tom's naivety. With a faint smile on his lips, he said, "Tom, howinnocent you are to believe everything he said.”

"Huh?" Tom turned to Darren with a look of surprise on his face. "Are you saying he was lying to us?That sounds highly unlikely. It would have been a piece of cake for him to kill us right away. Why didhe have to say all those things to us?"

"He mentioned that his power is restrained in here, and that he can't replace the Primitive Stones byhimself. We would have been no use to him if he kill us. Since he really wants to get his hands onthe Primitive Stones, he need our help. He have to leave us alive," Darren explained.

"So, you're saying that he is using us to his own ends?" Tom asked. Darren nodded in response. Tomgritted his teeth and then wondered out loud, "Why do you think he asked us for help and notanyone else? It seemed to me that he was mainly asking for your help! It's strange.” Tom suddenlyrealized that the whole situation was weird.

"I don't know. But I do know that even if what he said was all true, he still wouldn't be the sameperson he was when we get the Primitive Stones. It will be difficult to foretell, seeing that we don'tknow what kind of person he is right now. You should keep in mind that several superior talentshave died because of him,” Darren replied.

"You are right. We can't be too careful.” Tom nodded in agreement with a serious look on his face."I was too naive to believe all that crap,” Tom admitted with a bitter smile on his face.

"That's okay. That trait is both your advantage and disadvantage. If not, you wouldn't have got somany good friends," Darren said with a wink. "Let's go, Tom. We should replace the Primitive Stonesnow. We can decide whether we should give them to the Grand Blood Refiner later. I have spacetreasures. I can keep the Primitive Stones in my Space Ring. So even if he gives chase, he won't beable to get the stones unless I'm willing to give him." Darren's face broke into a smile and he walkedinto the forest.

Tom followed him.

They walked for a while. "Shush!"

Darren turned around and gestured for Tom to keep quiet.

"What is it?" Tom walked up to him and asked in a whisper.

"It's the border mutant.” There was a large plot of land in front of them. Two strange double-headedmen were taking a nap under a big tree. As Darren took a better look at the tree, he saw that therewere numerous white fruits hanging on its branches.

"So many Seven-holy Fruits!” Tom felt giddy with excitement and couldn't keep his voice down."Who's there?!" The noise awoke the two-headed man. They had particularly acute senses and couldperceive even the slightest movement.

"Huh? Doesn't look like anyone is around. You are alarmed all the time," said the other two-headedman, waking up from his sleep. He leaned forward and listened carefully, but found nothing out ofplace. He said, "It's probably just some damned human beings; you are overreacting to them. It issuch a dead boring job to guard this damn tree.”

Hearing that, the other man let his guard down and echoed, "True. I heard that our leader got hishands on a nice woman. He must be having fun somewhere, and in the meantime, we are stuck inthis damn place, staring blankly at a big dull tree. I'm pretty sure that our leader did it on purpose totorture us."

Darren and Tom hid silently in the bush as they carefully listened to their conversation.

"Darren, let's move now. Once we get the Seven-holy Fruit, we can regain our cultivation base andkill those two-headed men easily.” Tom stood close to Darren and used his spiritual sense totelepathically rely his message to Darren.

"No, we can't risk it. These two seem pretty strong. They are at level five of the Mysterious Realm. Ifwe get into a fight with them now, it will attract the other's attention,” Darren calmly analyzed.Darren's current strength was only at the third level of the Mysterious Realm. After putting a lot ofeffort into his practice, Tom had finally improved his strength and was now at the first level of theMysterious Realm.

If they fought the two-headed men at the moment, they were virtually doomed.

"You are right," Tom agreed. "So, what do we do?"

"I have an idea,” Darren suggested. "I'm fast. I can lure them away from the tree. When they are outof the way, you go and pick as many Seven-holy Fruits as you can. After you absorb the fruits andget your strength back, come and help me kill them. What do you think?"

"Sounds like a good plan. But, be careful and hang in there till I come. I will get to you as soon as Irecover my strength.”

They quickly nodded to each other and went in different directions.

Darren bolted through the bush and wielded his sword towards the men. Tom stayed put andwaited for the right timing.

The two-headed men looked at him in surprise. One of them said, "A human? You go and kill thatbastard. I will stay here and guard the tree!”

Darren staggered and thought, “Shit! They are not as dumb as I expected them to be. The two headsare really doing them some good.’ Tom snorted. The men were not that stupid after all. One of themchased after Darren, and the other one stayed put.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Darren ran through the bushes. Since only one of them was chasing after him, he didn't know whatto do next.

He knew that Tom would not dare to pick the Seven-holy Fruits with the other one watching overthe tree. The only thing he could do now was to lure the two-headed man away, so that they wouldnot send out an alarm.

"You bastard, stop right there!" The two-headed man was strong and he was also quite fast.

When they were a fine distance away from the tree, Darren slowed down on purpose and waited forthe man to catch up with him.

"Domain!" When the two-headed man was about to catch him, without hesitation, Darren used hisBlade and Sword Domain.

In the blink of an eye, the intense power of the blade and sword intent settled over the two-headedman. He was totally dumbfounded, trembling in sheer terror. The mutant wanted to run, but hecouldn't move a muscle. He felt as though there were numerous blades and swords pressed againsthis body.

Since Darren's Blade and Sword Domain was restrained at the moment, it was way less powerfulthan it usually was. Darren couldn't kill him with one blow, so he decided to nicely frighten him first.Seeing that the two-headed man was in a complete panic, Darren split himself into eight avatarsand attacked him from all directions.

Bang!

With a look of terror on his face, the two-headed man randomly lunged his fist at Darren's avatars.In a split second, four avatars broke down into pieces.

Darren tried his best to turn on the Blade and Sword Domain and undergo the demonictransformation. When the two-headed man continued to panic, Darren directed his sword towardsthe man’s head.

With a loud thud, Darren's sword reached the man's head.

"Shit! You were messing with me,” the two-headed man said as he was paralyzed with shock.

"Too late.” Darren's cold voice echoed through his ears. But before the mutant could struggle, histwo heads fell to the ground.

"Real battle does not rely only on brute force; you should use your brains as well. You had two, butstill lost.” Darren's voice was as cold as ice. He kicked the man’s heads out of the way. The man lyingon the ground could not hear those words anymore.