Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 305 Is There More To The Story

Sensing danger, Darren cast his Blade and Sword Domain and looked around warily.

"Come out!" he barked.

There was a croaky laughter. "At last someone had come. It's been years,” an old gravelly voicewarbled.

The purple mist gradually dissipated and a ragged old man came into view.

The old man’s hair was untidy and long, dragging on the ground. He was gaunt and his skin,corroded by the mist, was unsightly.

"Who are you?" Darren's brows were furrowed into a scowl.

The old man brushed his tangled hair aside and revealed a face as hollow as a skeleton. He lookedat Darren, with a steady stream of muddy tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Who am 1? Ha! Who am 1?" The old man laughed in tears, looking like a madman.

Darren did not know that there was a human being on this island. There were even two other sets ofbleached skeletons right next to the old man. There had apparently been three people stranded onthis island.

"Sir, do you need any help?" Darren asked, eyes still watching the old man vigilantly.

The old man continued to laugh for a while before replying, "Yes, very much. You must have a jadecard with you for teleportation. Give it to me, boy, give it to me!"

At that moment, Darren saw mixed feelings from the old man’s muddy eyes—happiness, sadness,and killing intent.

"Sir, I can cut those chains that are binding you, but I have only one jade card for teleportation. I'mafraid I can't give it to you." Darren tried to explain. A few moments later, he suddenly found himselfconfined to the old man's domain, unable to escape.

"Boy, I've been waiting so long for this day. Do you have a family? I will give them endless giftswhen I get out of here. In return, you may rest here." The old man stared wide-eyed at Darren, hisfestering hands trembling with a mixture of excitement and apprehension.

"There seems to be no need for us to go on talking, sir."

Looking into the old man's expectant and murderous eyes, Darren knew that no matter what hesaid, the old man was determined to kill him for the jade card.

Darren's momentum exploded with a loud rumble.

He simultaneously released the flame blade intent and the ice sword intent, causing the wholedeserted island to tremble. The rumble of the blade intent and the sword intent he released wasalmost powerful enough to pierce the sky.

"Blade intent and sword intent!"

the old man shouted, obviously very surprised and excited at the same time.

Tears started spilling from his eyes once again. It reminded him of another remarkable figure as hestared at Darren.

He then waved his hand and the blade intent and sword intent that were coming his way instantlyfell into pieces and dissipated.

"What?!" Darren's eyes widened in shock, for the old man to have been able to just easily waveaway his attack demonstrated that he was most probably a grand warrior.

With Darren's current realm, he had no chance of defeating a grand warrior, even with the flameblade intent and the ice sword intent.

“This is bad. I still would be no match for him even with my full strength. Even if I use the fusionpower of the blade intent and the sword intent, I won't be able to bring him down because of thegreat gap between my realm and his. What should I do?" Starting to be on edge, Darren racked hisbrain for some countermeasures

'If only Water Kylin were here, * he thought. After all, Water Kylin was now comparable to a three-star grand warrior, and could absolutely defeat the old man. Unfortunately, he had no idea wherethat beast was.

'That beast is always away at the most critical moments. I'll definitely teach him a lesson once hecomes back!" Darren frowned in frustration.

The old man only stared and watched excitedly as Darren grew frustrated.

"The momentum really is like his,” the old man muttered, tears streaming down his face.

"Sir, why don't we have a talk? I'm willing to listen,” Darren hesitantly suggested.

"Ah!" The old man suddenly let out a roar, holding his head as he dropped onto the ground. Hegritted his teeth in agony.

"He's dead. He's dead! Kill the boy! Kill the boy!" the old man suddenly exclaimed as he jerked uphis head, his eyes bloodshot.

The earth began to shake and countless rays of strong forces burst around Darren, making himdizzy.

Boom!

The old man shot a palm shadow across the air. It moved so fast that Darren couldn't avoid it.

He was not able to dodge the attack in time and was hit.

Darren spewed out several mouthfuls of blood. The attack left him severely injured.

“Damn, he's an old madman! I'm going to die like this!" he lamented. Suddenly Darren regaineddetermination, and his expression turned ice cold.

"Blood Dragon Phantom!" Darren directly launched the inheritance skill. Meanwhile, he had quietlyrefined a few Primitive Stones containing the Heavenly Repression Rule.

He then created eight avatars and led them in unleashing overwhelming blade intent and swordintent.

However, their attacks were not able to hurt the old man one bit. After all, their opponent was agrand warrior who was much more powerful than Darren.

At this point, the old man went completely unhinged and started bombarding Darren with all hisstrength. On top of that, his domain also seemed to become stronger.

Darren's avatars were immediately crushed, leaving no chance of integration.

In a grand warrior's domain, he was absolutely invincible as long as his opponent was not muchstronger than he was and didn't have a similarly strong domain to defend against.

Boom!

At the point where his very existence was at stake, Darren mobilized his dark gold internal force tofight back against the old man.

The crazy old man took a step back, amazed by the attack.

"Fighting Stars!" he yelled once he composed himself. The sky suddenly darkened and countlessstars appeared in his domain, making the whole domain assume the appearance of a night sky.The next moment, a series of seemingly soft starlight continuously fell from the sky, crashing intoDarren's dark gold internal force.

The whole domain trembled as the silver starlight met its target.

Multiple silver starlight bounced back and scattered around—it was apparently much weaker thanthe dark gold internal force. However, the silver starlight was endless and Darren, on the other hand,only had very few wisps of dark gold internal force.

After a continuous attack, Darren's dark gold internal force was completely overtaken by the silverstarlight and disappeared.

Darren was filled with horror by the result. He thought that once he launched the dark gold internalforce, the old man would have no choice but to avoid, therefore giving him some time to breathe.Unexpectedly, the old man had such a powerful means to shatter all his dark gold internal force.

It also came down to Darren's low level of blade intent and sword intent, the two intents’ low levelof integration, and his low realm.

If the two kinds of intents had reached the top level or even the extreme and had integrated, theold man would have definitely died.

As the endless silver starlight descended, Darren—once again—felt the threat of death.

The grand warrior was simply too powerful and nearly unmatched.

"Although you follow the same cruel path as my master, you must die, because that is the only way Ican get out.” The old man suddenly sounded sober.

"Sir, let's discuss this. I'd be willing to give you my jade card. Just please don't kill me!" Darren hadno choice but to beg to him.

The old man withdrew his silver starlight and Darren finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The old man gave a chuckle. "No, that's impossible. You must die. If I let you live, you will sufferyears of pain and anguish, just like my master. I might as well kill you now," he somberly said.

"Sir, that should be my choice, not yours. You don't have to do that." Darren's expression grew rigidand his lips curled into a frown.

However, the old man just ignored him. He looked up to the sky and shouted, "Master, Jesse canfinally get out! If I have the chance, I will cut off Mathew's head in your honor!"

Darren's head jerked up in shock upon hearing the old man's words.

"Jesse? Mathew?"

Darren suddenly remembered that the servant who had killed Mathew was Jesse Li.

But judging from the old man's words, things were different. “Is there more to the story?" Darrenwondered. The old man mentioned that his master had chosen the same path as Darren, whichmeant that his master also cultivated both blade and sword. Who was his master?