Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 448 Chase

Darren could feel the ring on his finger slightly quiver to block the Spirit Power that the man in theblack robe had released.

The Water Kylin was a legendary ancient beast and was therefore adept at hiding its own aura,making it hard for the man in the black robe to replace as well, even with the use of his Spirit Power.After a while of observation, the man in the black robe did not detect anything unusual. He releaseda flame to burn Ethan and prepared to leave.

"These more than seven hundred souls are quite powerful than I expected. I'm just going to have tocollect the rest on my way back to the sect,” the man in the black robe muttered to himself.Unbeknownst to the man, Darren was close by and had overheard him. The latter was delighted toreplace out where the man was planning to go. All he had to do was follow him so he could replace outwhere the Red Inferno Sect was.

After cleaning up the mess, the man in black robe unhurriedly left. Darren followed closely behindhim.

"Damn it, why haven't I encountered anyone along the way?" The man in the black robe had beenwalking in the barren mountain for a long time and was becoming disgruntled at the lack of anysuitable targets.

"Oh, well. Looks like I have no choice but to take a detour and slaughter a village, then.” The manreleased his Spirit Power to locate any nearby villages, turning around to walk towards anotherdirection as he did so.

Darren knitted his eyebrows together in apprehension. He knew something horrible would happen;the man in black robe would not leave if he had not collected enough souls.

The man in the black robe soon found a village and made his way towards it.

"Hey, there's a man in a black robe over there.”

"He's probably from someplace far away. He must be tired. Zack, fetch a bowl of water for him incase he's thirsty.”

The unsuspecting people working on the farm at the periphery of the village were quick tohospitality, too trusting for their own good.

A boy walked towards the man, carrying a bowl of water. "Hey mister, are you thirsty? Here, you canhave some water," he said.

The man in the black robe blinked at the boy, a bit stunned. He stared down at the boy and said,"How simple and naive you are. Unfortunately though, you're very unlucky."

"What are you talking about, mister? Who's unlucky?" The boy grinned.

"Nothing. Just pray that you'll be luckier in your next life.” He then bent his fingers to form a clawand pierced the boy's skull.

"Ah, you!"

The people on the farm stared at the scene in shock.

"You devil! I will kill you!" A middle-aged man lifted his hoe and rushed towards the man in theblack robe, eyes seething with fury.

Not a second later, the spine-tingling sound of bone breaking was heard.

With only one claw, the man in the black robe had crushed the poor man's skull.

"Ah, I've gotten two more souls now, but I need two hundred and forty more. Hmm, I think thenumber of people in this village is just enough.” The man in black robe licked his lips.

"Ahhh!"

Several men charged at the man in the black robe, spears in hand.

They were martial artists who had been guarding the village. The cultivation base of the strongest ofthem was at the seventh stage of the Primary Realm.

However, just like the previous two people before them, their heads exploded before they even laida scratch on the man in the black robe. They were instantly killed.

Darren was silently seething with rage as he watched people get killed one after another.

"At this rate, the whole village will get killed! Since I'm here, I can't just stand by and turn a blind eyeto all this!"

He could not stand to see more innocent people die any longer.

"Water Kylin, let's stop him!" he said, rushing out without hesitation.

He blasted a dark gold internal force.

The attack created several rifts in the space as it went flying towards the man in the black robe."What the hell?" The man in black robe sensed the oncoming danger. "Enchanted barrier!" he hastilyuttered out.

A layer of dark amber colored halo shrouded over him and a number of runes condensed togetherinto a sword, countering Darren's dark gold internal force.

A violent rumbling broke through the man's enchanted barrier, shattering it on the place where hestood.

However, once the havoc had substantially died down, the man was nowhere to be found.

"Spatial Rule? " Darren widened in shock, taken aback by the fact that the man in the black robeused the power of Spatial Rule to employ a Teleportation Skill.

A figure suddenly appeared a short distance away from Darren. An incredibly powerful Shackle Runeenveloped him, preventing him from moving as the sword made out of runes fired towards him."Hal I've got to say, that was admittedly a good move. But you aren't even a two-star grand warrior.Your sneak attack is too weak to cause even just a tiny scratch on me!" The man in black robesneered, taunting Darren.

A strange shadow claw suddenly came out of nowhere

and roughly smashed the black-robed man's hand.

"What? It's a legendary beast!"

The man in the black robe stepped back as he started to get filled with panic.

"What a powerful legendary beast.” He had pinpointed the Water Kylin's location, but he knew thathe would not be able to shackle the beast, so he tried to flee instead.

Countless ripples appeared in the space where the man in the black robe was standing—he wastrying to escape.

"Water Kylin! Don't let him get away!" Darren then immediately turned himself into a ray of lightand flew towards the man in the black robe.

The Water Kylin obeyed Darren's command at once and ran after the man in the black robe,attacking with his huge claw.

However, though they had already created rifts in the man's space, neither Darren's nor the WaterKylin's efforts to catch the man were successful.

"Damn it! He's gone!" Darren hung in midair, frustrated with the unfavorable turn of events.

The speed of the man in the black robe had become impossibly fast once he used the TeleportationSkill, leaving them no chance to stop him.

"Master, he can't have gotten too far. We could still chase after him," the Water Kylin suggested."But how?" Darren had started to feel helpless and confused.

"Humph. Even Finley who has great knowledge about the space skills can only transport for lessthan a hundred miles using the Teleportation Skill. What more for that man? He does not fully graspthe Spatial Rule and I could tell that he is much weaker than Finley, so I assume he can onlytransport one mile at most, which means he's still nearby,” the Water Kylin stated.

"Well, in that case, we may still have a chance!”

Darren released both of his Spirit Power and spiritual sense to search for the man in the black robe.The Water Kylin also unleashed his mighty divine sense to search in another direction.

At that moment, the frightened people knelt down and kowtowed to Darren and the Water Kylin,looking at them as if they were gods.

"Mighty gods, please save my son, Zack. I beg you."

"Mighty gods, please save the guardian of our village.”

The people incessantly pleaded at Darren and the Water Kylin.

However, Darren was not able to help them for the time being because he was preoccupied withsearching for the man in the black robe. He had searched the area within a hundred miles from thevillage, but to no avail.

"Gee, that guy must be good at using the invisibility skill. 1 should probably use this ring to break hisskill in order to replace him."

With that thought, Darren immediately directed his Spirit Power into the ring. Another function ofthe ring was to break the protective barrier of a rule cultivator.

"I've found him!"

Darren had only found a vague shadow shrouded by a rule power and had not yet confirmed if itreally was the man in the black robe, so he hastily flew towards that location to replace out.

Before leaving, Darren scattered thousands of superior spiritual herbs from the air as compensationfor the villagers. He could not bring the dead back to life. It was the only thing he could do.

The Water Kylin then flew away as well, following after Darren.

In the blink of an eye, Darren had flown dozens of miles away and was nearing the figure.

"It's indeed him!" Darren confirmed that it was indeed the man in the black robe once they reachedcloser.

He then turned himself into a ray of light and flew towards the man at full speed

"Shit. That was close. That legendary beast is so powerful. I would have died if I hadn't used theTeleportation Skill." The man in the black robe was all smug, thinking that he had luckily escapedDarren and the Water Kylin.

However, his expression turned ghastly in the next second—a powerful sword intent and bladeintent were flying towards him.

"Damn it! How could they have detected me so soon! This is impossible!" the man in the black robeexclaimed as he trembled in fear.