Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 34 Darren's Goal (Part One)

After Darren stopped transferring the vital energy, he felt much better. But some of his meridianshad been severely injured.

After he rested for a few moments, Darren tried to use the Meridians Refining Scripture to heal thedamaged meridians, but he failed. The two internal forces had broken his meridians, and it wasimpossible for him to fix it.

"Am I going to stay a loser?" Darren was hopeless at the moment.

Darren frowned at the irony of the situation. He could use spiritual energy to improve his talent, butonce he had absorbed it into his body, it would turn into internal force and injure his meridians."Well, maybe I should take a break and solve the problem step by step,” Darren said.

Convinced that a good night's rest would give him a fresh perspective, Darren went to bed early.Although he was hoping to solve the challenge he faced, Darren felt disappointed that he couldneither absorb spiritual energy nor transfer vital energy.

Another night passed. Darren was woken by the sound of someone knocking at his door in the earlymorning hours.

Darren hadn't slept well at night. He wearily rubbed his eyes, stood from his bed, and made his wayto the door. He frowned when he opened the door.

"Darren, I have brought the resources the sect has assigned to you. Come and take them,” a disciplestanding at Darren's door casually said. The frown on Darren's face grew deeper when he noticedthat the disciple had a blank expression on his face. Then, without warning, the disciple threw a pileof spiritual herbs in front of Darren.

"Humph. This is so ridiculous. What rules is the sect following? Why are they always giving a loserlike you so many resources? It is so unfair. What a waste!" Without waiting for Darren to reply, thedisciple continued murmuring to himself, "Every day, someone fights with another member forresources like these as they are rare and precious. But the sect just gives them to you! I'm afraid thatyou will not have the chance to enjoy them.”

After finishing, the disciple cast a disdainful glare at Darren before walking away.

Looking at the pile of invaluable spiritual herbs, Darren forced a bitter smile. These medicines wereuseless to him now.

He felt discouraged at the thought. Nevertheless, Darren pulled himself together, randomly picked aspiritual herb from the ground, and started to absorb its spiritual energy.

The spiritual herb was very precious. It took a person at least twenty hours to absorb energy fromone herb. However, its effect was as good as a person spending half a month practicing skills. So,Darren was tempted to try.

As soon as Darren began, a tremendous amount of spiritual energy flew into his body, turned intointernal force, and tore his meridians apart. The pain was so intense that Darren screamed in agony."Maybe I am doing something wrong. I could absorb spiritual energy from the cardiac core of thelevel eight beast that day. Why do I have to absorb it from the spiritual herb like this?" Darrenwondered. A thought suddenly flashed through Darren's mind. After he grasped that special skilland knew how to acquire spiritual energy from the cardiac core, he was elevated to a higher leveland didn't have to absorb spiritual energy like others.

When he was thinking about that, Darren felt a strange feeling being generated in his brain. In theblink of an eye, the spiritual herb withered on his palm as he absorbed its spiritual energycompletely.

The next few moments were going to be crucial.

Darren held his breath and concentrated all his attention on the task. He started to feel as thoughthe spiritual energy flowing through his body had turned into internal force. He was excited whenhe found that the spiritual energy didn't transfer into vital energy and hurt him again.

Something was different this time!

"I can't believe it! I don't feel any pain!” Darren shouted.

Darren became excited when he found that after he had absorbed the spiritual energy and turned itinto internal force, it worked in harmony with his meridians and didn't damage his body.

"Although I didn't absorb enough energy from the spiritual herb, and the inefficiency of thetransferring process led to the loss of some spiritual energy, they can coexist.” Darren was so thrilledthat he wanted to jump in the air.

But, he wondered whether these two internal forces would stay in harmony if he tried to transferthem at the same time.

When he thought of that, Darren removed his sword from its sheath and threw it at an old treebeyond his front door. After his sword embedded itself in the tree, a thundering sound was heard asthe tree collapsed.

As Darren watched the tree fall, he felt a slight pain in his meridians.

"I feel so much better than before. Probably because the internal force that I transferred from thespiritual energy before, didn't hurt me this time," Darren rationalized.

After that realization, Darren wielded his sword and saber at the same time. He swung themfrantically as he wanted to spend his internal force as quickly as possible. He theorized that once hehad consumed the internal force he had already accumulated, he could acquire new spiritual energythrough assimilation, after which, the internal force would not hurt him again.

Almost an hour passed. By the end of the practice, Darren was soaked in sweat. He was soexhausted from the intense process that he almost passed out. Although he was tired and his legsfelt weak, he was delighted with the result.

"This is so great! Although my meridians were injured after I used all my internal force, I will recoverfrom the injuries in less than a month if I can keep my meridians from further damage,” Darren said.Darren was excited.

In the meantime, he felt that the new internal force was stronger and more powerful than the vitalenergy he had experienced before. Darren also understood that only after combining the internalforces of the blade and sword could he maximize his internal force when attacking his enemy.Darren found that he had become stronger than before!

Feeling empty inside his body, Darren walked inside his house. After picking up the spiritual herbson the ground, he started to absorb their spiritual energy.

After a little while, he had absorbed all the energy from the fifty superior spiritual herbs. Althoughthe internal force was only about one-tenth the quantity of the spiritual energy that he hadabsorbed from the Heaven and the Earth, Darren was still satisfied with the result.