Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 460 Reward As A Guard (Part Two)

While explaining himself, he handed the ring to the older man to let him have a closer look at thetreasure.

With the ring on his hand, the older man inspected it for a while, then used his Spirit Power to testits spiritual force. After a few moments, he found that the treasure was indeed very useful inresisting a soul attack from rule cultivators.

"He wasn't lying. This thing can even resist about ninety percent of my soul attack. If he uses itwithout being noticed, it would be easy for him to kill someone whose Spirit Power was one levelhigher than him," the older man said honestly while still holding the ring in his hand with extremecaution.

"No way! Why didn't I know that you have such a powerful treasure?" hearing the words from theolder man, Bradley questioned sharply. His eyes widened in shock because he couldn't believe thatwas what really happened.

"You are so ridiculous! Why would I tell you about it? I bet you also have some treasures that cansave your life, and you never told me, huh? What? Do you want to show us what you've got?"Darren retorted back in an equally sharp tone. Bradley immediately fell silent.

"Hahaha, good. Given that explanation, now everything's clear!" At this time, the young masterstood up and clapped his hands. He walked to stand beside Darren and said to him, "You reallyrisked your life to finish the task, and you suffered much. I almost punished you by mistake. To showyou my apology, I will send a reward to your place when we are finished here. I know that you allwant the best for our sect, and that's why you two argued. Kaleb, please don't mind your brother.”Hearing the young master's comforting words towards Darren, Bradley knew that it would beimpossible to make him punish Kaleb. If he kept being stubborn and insisted on Kaleb'spunishment, he would only leave an awful impression on the young master. Most importantly, if hedemanded Kaleb's death without a solid reason right now, he wouldn't even succeed, and Kalebwould also take revenge.

"Thank you, young master.” Sensing that he had triumphed at clearing his name out, Darren cuppedhis hands and bowed slightly to the young master.

"You are welcome." The young master of the Red Inferno Sect nodded his head, then asked, "Didyou clear the scene after you killed the two disciples from the Soul Hunter Sect? It will be bigtrouble for us if they replace out that it's you who killed their disciples.”

"Don’t worry, young master. I was cautious. I cut off their soul connection before killing them. I alsoburned their dead bodies. After that, I used my arcane skill to clear the scene making sure that Ihave left nothing for them to trace. They will never replace out what I have done." As fluent andspontaneous as the words that came out his mouth, Darren mastered the craft of making up lies."Good to know that. You are still careful and prudent after all these years. You have never lost yourskill, after all. I will try to break through in three days, come with me then, as my guard,” the youngmaster of the Red Inferno Sect ordered, patting Darren on his shoulder.

As he was hearing the young master's words, Bradley, who was held silent in a corner, gritting histeeth in hatred. He dreaded his brother so much. The task was to be the young master's guard whenhe was breaking through, and it was offered to Darren and not to him. Knowing that the job itselfwas a big reward, Bradley felt nothing but be extremely wrathful at Darren and wished that he hadnever come back. All of them knew that the moment the young master broke through, the SpiritPower coming out of the Soul-refining Pool, were extremely powerful. It would be a one in a millionchance for the guard to absorb the Spirit Power that the young master couldn't assimilate.

“Damn it! Had he died, this place would have belonged to me!" thought Bradley, who was so pissedright now. If Kaleb had just died and didn’t make it back, the young master would still try to breakthrough though the souls were less. That would mean that the Spirit Power he could have absorbedwould always be much.

"Thank you very much, young master!” Grateful as he was, Darren was also happy that the youngmaster made the decision of appointing him as his guard.

Not only that Darren was pleased that the young master had put his trust on him and chosen him tobe his guard, but he was also plotting a plan in his mind. He thought that the set-up would be anexcellent chance to lay hold of the young master and force his sister's whereabouts out from hismouth.

Though Darren was aware that the young master of the Red Inferno Sect was a very powerful rulecultivator, he also knew that everyone was at his weakest when he was breaking through, no matterhow powerful he was. So it would be easy for Darren to take control of him during that timebecause he would be too enfeebled to fight back.

"You can go now," the young master bid Darren.

"Yes, young master.”

Showing his respects, Darren bowed to the young master one last time before he turned around toleave. Before he left, he winked at Bradley, who had been silently fuming the whole time. Thecorners of Darren's mouth lifted into a dangerous smile, making Bradley's heart skip a beat in fright.He almost started shuddering under that cold smirk.

'That..That smile is so horrifying. What could that smile mean? Bradley thought to himself, as he feltthat there was something unusual on the way his brother acted